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Original Audio from Cortex Episode 108 with CGP Grey and Myke Hurley
Tuesday 4/5/21 - Background Noise for a Wallflower (Podcasts)
The distinction between introvert and extrovert is not as cut and dry as people will have you believe. Like many things in the human experience, it is a spectrum; though I have long described myself as definitively an introvert, the Pandemic Arc showed me that all humans crave human contact to some degree.
Source: K-On (Anime)
When I hang out with friends, I enjoy listening to conversations around me, but my stunted social growth means that I struggle to start and maintain conversations myself. But I am content being the person sitting in the background, chiming in everyone now and then. It is somewhat calming just to chill as 3rd, 5th or even 8th wheel in a hangout session. I recently found that this type of person is referred to as a Wallflower.
Mio (K-On) also enjoys company, but enjoys being in the background
Being able to engage socially all the time is never a given though, and for most days of the week, on the road, in the afternoon after work, late night in bed, I am stuck without the background noise of friends. But luckily for me, there are podcasts.
Podcasts are an interesting long form media that have been perfectly crafted for being played in the background during other tasks. And though I have tried to keep up with various types of podcast, the ones I've actually kept following are podcasts of just... conversation.
A Podcast About Nothing
SuperMega is a small-ish YouTube comedy/gaming channel run by two friends Matt Watson and Ryan Magee, with help from other friends. Their podcast SuperMegaCast is a roughly weekly show where the two just talk about their weeks, tell stories about their lives, childhoods, and just the world at large.
SuperMegaCast's conversations just like talk you'd expect from a couple mates catching up on a Friday afternoon. The two both come from different parts of South Carolina, so they talk about family and friends growing up, and often joke about being raised in the bible belt. They'll talk about the latest movies, issues in politics, what videogames they've been playing, on and off their channel, and just what happened to them in their lives that week.
However, the two rarely miss an opportunity to devolve any topic into silly jokes and toilet humour. Even though their opinions are interesting and occasionally thought provoking, nothing is safe from being followed up by a "Yo Mama" or "Deez Nuts". When I need background noise while sitting down to play a game or draw a picture, they are my first go to.
Although they have amassed more than 200 episodes, I'd recommend to just jump in wherever. Since it's just chatting about whatever the week has given them, you won't be missing out on much context if you've missed episodes.
A Podcast About Something
Nearly on the opposite end of the spectrum is Cortex Podcast. The union of professional podcaster Myke Hurley and Educational YouTuber CGP Grey, Cortex is a higher brow, but still fun podcast about making it work in the digital world. This pair do not work together directly much outside of the podcast, so their conversations revolve around their own technical, mental, and financial issues of a career in online media (and adulting in general).
Myke and Grey have a very fun dynamic, and very importantly for audio media, both have very soothing voices (in my opinion). A lot of the show involves Myke explaining the challenge of driving the industry forward while Grey rants about being being driven forward by a lot of things he doesn't understand. The contrast of someone who is very willing to ride the wave and someone who is experienced, but educationally sceptical, is fun. Grey is also a very philosophical person, and has very interesting takes on balancing life in general, his video on his own channel about sectioning up your life during the pandemic is a must watch.
They are two very different people, but they are both very intelligent. For someone who doesn't work in digital media, some of their conversations go over my head. But when I put on a podcast, I rarely intend to put 100% of my attention in. Listening to a pair of nerds nerd out about nerdy stuff is just what I need when trying to emulate the feeling of being a Wallflower among friends.
Cortex is not a very frequent podcast, but when they do drop an episode, they are a very welcome addition to my background noise quota.
My recommendations:
If you want a relaxed, hang-out sesh type podcast where the hosts are immature, and the topic is never set in stone, watch SuperMegaCast.
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If you want a chill, but intellectual sort of podcast, where two internet nerds geek out about the intricacies of navigating work in digital media, watch Cortex Podcast.
CGP Grey and Myke Hurley are both independent content creators. Each episode, they get together to discuss their working lives.
Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for June 10 2021 - Podcasting by Pinata
In this episode, I play a song by The Royal Arctic Institute; goodbye to long time listener and friend of the show PJ Cabrera; I no longer have the Kasey Kasem dead dog dedication memorized; Tiago Forte and his Buildling a Second Brain method is changing how I work; slow burn is definitely better than big bang; “it’s not an interview it’s a conversation” isn’t a positive to me; Performance Anxiety remains on the cusp of unsubscription for me; cheap coffee from Aldi is better than some expensive coffee to me; bonus content is frequently of zero or negative value to me; podcasts can present a lot of jumping off points.
Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, June 10 2021.
Links mentioned in this episode:
Support this show on Patreon
Royal Arctic Institute at Bandcamp
PJ Cabrera’s LinkedIn
Obsidian, the Markdown Editor
Building a Second Brain Podcast
Tiago Forte
Performance Anxiety Podcast does not appear to have a proper website
Buy Death Wish Coffee at Amazon
George Hrab’s Geologic Podcast
Cortex Podcast
Myke Hurley
CPG Grey
My Keybase account
Subscribe to the shared RSS from my own TTRSS install
Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers
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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for April 29 2021 - 99 Percent Contained
In this episode, I play a song by Tim Foljahn; three yard sales in four weeks is too many; I started listening to the Erasable and Cortex podcasts; I am now all in on Obsidian; I agree that GTD is good and yet I can never make it work for me; am I using the systems to avoid doing the work?; posting your beautiful bullet journal photos makes me less likely to use it; I am using PARA to organize my Obsidian files; Obsidian will replace Evernote in my life unless it fails me; the Cortex guys created the Theme System journal; my life is a mostly contained wildfire.
Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, April 29 2021.
Links mentioned in this episode:
Support this show on Patreon
Tim Foljahn
Listen to “Fuckin’ Up” and the rest of the Rube Goldberg Variations at his website
Tim Foljahn on Performance Anxiety
Erasable Podcast
Pencil Revolution Zine
Cortex Podcast
Myke Hurley
CPG Grey
Obsidian, the Markdown Editor
Death Wish Coffee
Markdown Guide
PARA organzing system
PARA starter kit for Obsidian
Obsidian Sync
Theme System
Buy a Theme System paper journal
Høvel, the ridiculously fancy pencil sharpener
My Keybase account
Subscribe to the shared RSS from my own TTRSS install
Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers
You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don’t forget, you can fly your EGC flag by buying the stuff package. This show as a whole is Creative Commons licensed Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Unported. Bandwidth for this episode is provided by Cachefly.
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In the new episode of Cortex, CGP Grey and Myke Hurley talk about their experience with a prototype Occulus Rift that they describe as “lifechanging.” I think that anyone who’s interested in the future of technology, whether as SF writers or just as interested people, would get a lot from this. It’s a glimpse into a technology horizon that we are, apparently, about to cross.