Comments on: The Return (sort of) of Penn Radio http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/2007/04/02/the-return-sort-of-of-penn-radio/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-return-sort-of-of-penn-radio A journal of geekery, music and joy Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:04:56 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jer http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/2007/04/02/the-return-sort-of-of-penn-radio/#comment-42345 jer Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:56:57 +0000 http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/2007/04/02/the-return-sort-of-of-penn-radio/#comment-42345 The other thing I forgot to mention in the previous comment, is that this particular convention was a Skepticism conference, not a Podcasting conference. Penn's Q&A was pretty open-ended, but the idea is to talk about things that relate to Skepticism. Swoopy pretty much went "you do lots of skeptical stuff, and that's great... but... don't you think you'd be better doing it the way I do?" It ended up taking up a bunch of time that otherwise could have been used to address somewhat more pertinant and entertaining questions. Granted, the topic WAS "skepticism and the Media," but just saying "screw the Media" doesn't really improve the media's take on things. Also, I don't mean to talk bad about Swoopy. I like her podcast, it's just that sometimes the things she does irks me. A lot of people I like irk me sometimes. The other thing I forgot to mention in the previous comment, is that this particular convention was a Skepticism conference, not a Podcasting conference.

Penn’s Q&A was pretty open-ended, but the idea is to talk about things that relate to Skepticism. Swoopy pretty much went “you do lots of skeptical stuff, and that’s great… but… don’t you think you’d be better doing it the way I do?” It ended up taking up a bunch of time that otherwise could have been used to address somewhat more pertinant and entertaining questions.

Granted, the topic WAS “skepticism and the Media,” but just saying “screw the Media” doesn’t really improve the media’s take on things.

Also, I don’t mean to talk bad about Swoopy. I like her podcast, it’s just that sometimes the things she does irks me. A lot of people I like irk me sometimes.

]]> By: dave http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/2007/04/02/the-return-sort-of-of-penn-radio/#comment-42334 dave Tue, 03 Apr 2007 16:22:48 +0000 http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/2007/04/02/the-return-sort-of-of-penn-radio/#comment-42334 Jer, as someone who has done hundreds of interviews, I always cringe when I listen back and wish I had asked more concise questions. I generally feel that way about other interviewers, too. I agree that Swoopy's questions were expansive, but probably not that far outside of baseline. I do think what I heard from Penn was that when pushed on the idea that he might want to present controversial and unmarketable ideas, that he has enough money and the ability to go around the system and present them himself as a gift to the noosphere, rather than a work for hire. He seemed to find that notion unpalatable and backtracked to "I'll do the best I can under circumstances that generate me a check", which I found somewhat disappointing. Jer, as someone who has done hundreds of interviews, I always cringe when I listen back and wish I had asked more concise questions. I generally feel that way about other interviewers, too. I agree that Swoopy’s questions were expansive, but probably not that far outside of baseline. I do think what I heard from Penn was that when pushed on the idea that he might want to present controversial and unmarketable ideas, that he has enough money and the ability to go around the system and present them himself as a gift to the noosphere, rather than a work for hire. He seemed to find that notion unpalatable and backtracked to “I’ll do the best I can under circumstances that generate me a check”, which I found somewhat disappointing.

]]> By: jer http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/2007/04/02/the-return-sort-of-of-penn-radio/#comment-42321 jer Tue, 03 Apr 2007 00:47:24 +0000 http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/2007/04/02/the-return-sort-of-of-penn-radio/#comment-42321 Swoopy's interview style all through her TAM interviews kept really getting on my nerves, as she'd go off on these huge statements that sorta-kinda ended up a question at the very end. Over and over. I suspect he was kind of reacting to that "hardcore investigative journalist" persona she was radiating. It has been a while, but it seems as if he tried to answer several times but she kept pushing, which would annoy me as well. He did seem to react strangely, but I'm not sure sute it was the content of the question rather than the asker/ the way it was asked that put him off. I dunno. Swoopy’s interview style all through her TAM interviews kept really getting on my nerves, as she’d go off on these huge statements that sorta-kinda ended up a question at the very end. Over and over. I suspect he was kind of reacting to that “hardcore investigative journalist” persona she was radiating.

It has been a while, but it seems as if he tried to answer several times but she kept pushing, which would annoy me as well.

He did seem to react strangely, but I’m not sure sute it was the content of the question rather than the asker/ the way it was asked that put him off. I dunno.

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