To be fair I watched Friendcast for the boys adventures irl and gaming news, and that's what the podcast mostly is to this day. Sure there's the usual politics I don't agree with but it doesn't bother me much.
More power to you. I envy your capacity to enjoy it; because I don't understand how people find Pat and Woolie's autopilot podcasts listenable or enthralling.
In the last year, I experimented with putting the first few Friendcast episodes on as background noise, and alternated between them and recent CSBs. I would routinely catch myself paying attention to the Friendcast for the simple reason that, with four guys discussing a topic of interest common to all of them, each was in a position of trying to contribute something pertinent to the conversation - even if it was ball-busting banter between friends. That simple practice will pique your ears as a listener.
Contrast that with whatever the fuck Castle Super Beast is supposed to be, where Woolie articulates himself as though he has frontal lobe dementia; constantly struggling to summon the words, then laughing nervously as punctuation to all the nothing he ended up saying between reading docket topics in a monotone more befitting of a remedial child. Despite having done this for ten years, now, Woolie manages to be mindful of his enunciation only
some of the time; and this is just one quality which contributes to him coming across as a black retard. As with fighting games, doing something for that long and only managing to get
worse at it means you have wasted your life.
Pat is an insult to the audience from a different direction; with the years of generally refusing to leave his Twitch paypig-funded house having cost him whatever remaining capacity to pretend to be a grounded human being he had. Even when he insists on ignoring the podcast topic to congratulate himself for acquiring presumably relatable status symbols such as a wife, dog, or car, there is nonetheless this pathological absence of consideration for the audience (if it was an episode where his dog was barking nonstop, I would have to fast-forward until it subsided, or skip to the next episode, altogether). I may have been imagining things, but there seemed to be entire episodes where Woolie was audibly resisting the compulsion to tell Pat to just fuck off if he doesn't want to be there, or even try - Which makes the podcast even more pathetic: Our two co-hosts are someone who can't manage to do as good a job as they think they are, and someone who, apparently, considers everything to do with the podcast that isn't the money to be beneath him.
The only time I found myself tuning in to what Pat was saying was whenever it became clear that Pat never actually has anything to
say - Even before Pat was literally phoning in his podcast appearances, he was constantly defaulting to the flanderized Mind Goblin Asshole Pat persona, for the simple reason that he believes it to be the single hoop he needs to jump through in order to collect his half of the sponsor cash that week. But behind this facade is the
real Pat; who occasionally comes through in the form of a blustering, insufferable faggot who gets punched at conventions and is incapable of forming or sustaining friendships built on connections stronger than professional convenience. At the end of the day, Pat is incapable of being pleasant company, even when it's limited to having to
look at him. To me, Pat has always seemed to be a more prosperous specimen of whatever species he and Cyraxx are.
