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- Jan 15, 2019
Herzog's book sounds quite strange, a self help book promoting a quite severe way of treating alcoholism. I'll buy it, but I was kind of hoping she'd write something in the vein of Michael Malice and Angela Nagle's books on internet culture.Somewhat random thoughts:
- Jesse is being RETARDED about Israel’s gleeful genocide. Even if they have off-air agreed not to discuss it as part of their blanket “no politics” policy, I doubt that sits well with Katie. As long as I’m bitching about Jesse, the way he talks makes me think he fucked Lorenz. Really disgusting shit.
- Do you think they’re doing what many big podcasts are doing now and selling episodes? I wondered about an episode maybe 9-12 months ago that Katie did with a guy who was launching his PR firm and had some really gay story about his exit from Vice or NY Mag. It seemed like a long-form ad. The Maurer episode this past week too had a whiff of it. Maybe Substack doing paid cross-promotion for that one, since Singal also has a Substack?
- They are both making more money now than they ever dreamed. I agree there’s some tension and they are deliberately taking breaks from each other, but I also think they’ll grit their teeth and try to get through it rather than risk losing their goldmine.
- Note too that Herzog as far as I know still doesn’t have a Substack (or if she does, it’s nothing compared to Jesse’s). She was still doing normal freelance journalism and now has the book…but her income is from this podcast. She’ll practice patience.
I actually think the podcast works in that they're clearly not irl friends. Also Katie shitting on Taylor Lorenz while stopping every few minutes to remind everyone Lorenz is Jessie's friend is fucking hillarious. The show also benefits from Katie doing the editing and deciding what does and doesn't make it in.
I have a suspician that if they went their own ways Katie would do far better than Jessie in an audio or video format. She's better not only at interacting with guests but also in choosing them, Jesse's psa sitch ep was a damp squib, he also gets dominated in convos easily like with Destiny.
Incidentally the Barpod comments section are only just starting to ask questions about Leo Frank, even fucking wikipedia doesn't claim he was innocent, and points out there was a huge amound of evidence against him.
This is a good video about it, but a bit big on the ADL hate though.
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