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DTG 'Quick' Update about some future plans (Patreon)

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2022-07-13 10:58:21
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Hey everyone,

Just sharing some behind-the-scenes planning as we discuss:

- Some new formatting ideas

- Our release schedule

- An upcoming guru right-to-reply

- Our next tech guru

- Chris' productivity routine

Thoughts, comments, and complaints all welcome!

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DTG 'quick' Update

We discuss: - Some new formatting ideas - Our release schedule - An upcoming guru right-to-reply - Our next tech guru - Chris' own productivity routine

Comments

Tom McCool

Shorter? Better? Doesn’t sound fun.

Arabella Holzapfel

After the first few minutes, I was all set to comment that a transition to "shorter, punchier" episodes will be a good thing, and I look forward to that, and then click Post and be done. I still think that, but I'm a tad angry about some of the things you've said about Robert Wright. In part because of his appearance on DTG, I'm now "in a para-social relationship" with Robert Wright, and I think you have mischaracterized him in at least a couple of ways. You rightly pointed out that he has said the invasion of Ukraine is wrong and that Putin is responsible, unequivocally. You then went on to say that when he has expressed cognitive empathy for Putin's situation, Bob said "Putin had no choice" but to invade. Bob has never said anything like that! His expression of cognitive empathy toward Putin has been to provide context that has been lacking in much of the media coverage and punditry (in the US). The latter have portrayed Putin as "a madman" and the invasion of Ukraine as "out of the blue." The second way in which I think you've mischaracterized Bob is that he has not expressed cognitive empathy toward the other leaders or nations involved. Maybe he has, maybe he hasn't, but the viewpoints of those leaders/nations are much more "available" and my guess is that Bob hasn't felt that there's a gap that needs filling on "that side."

Kat

I think it's great, but you do realize you took 1/2 hour to tell us you plan to produce shorter episodes? It was enjoyable to listen to anyway.

brianshmrian

What about doing "reaction" videos where you comment on content while you're watching it for the first time? That could save you a lot of time since you would get the listening and analysis done all at once. Though, maybe this would take away too much, since it _is_ nice how you're able to pull together multiple clips to illustrate a point in your normal content. Hmm... Or are reaction videos exactly what you're talking about when you say you don't want to be twitch/youtube streamers?

Donkey

Oh no, the end of long form podcasts signify the end of western civilization.

Andy First

Some pushback I guess: Do Dave Rubin-esque dickheads (and yes ofc I agree that they’re annoying and ultimately do harm especially to the collective media environment) not deserve money if they also happen to create a platform with good functionality worth using? I guess I just don’t like the idea that people with very different politics from me (and I’d say my politics are pretty close to Chris’s) should be outcast from making money. Seems like a bad precedent to me which would only serve ultimately to benefit powerful people who set the status quo. Just my 2 cents.

Scott Stacey

30min to primarily say you'll be doing 45min episodes, good luck 😊 A thought I've had is I quite enjoy your intros which provide 'hot takes' and 'state of the gurus' content (similar to how you got riffing in this), and so spliting that to a stand-alone episode would make sense to deliver shorter but more frequent content. It would require the discipline of not doing 60min intros for the specific guru eps though, so again, a challenge!

Kit McLean

I like Scott's approach - a regular fortnightly guru update, patreon shout out, review of reviews, then leave the decoding content pure. No preamble, just straight into the guru decoding. Another thought is, you seem to self sabotage... try to NOT pick content to decode that will lead to a double guru decode. Freidman/Haide was great, but so much work. Why not just pick another episode for Lex that didn't include Haide? If you want to do Haide, add him to the list, rather than having him as an interesting clingon.

Tim Tripp

The length was never an issue for me because it seems more thorough. However, time is a precious resource. Bob is great but I feel he does gloss over certain facts such as former Eastern Bloc countries being afraid of Russia. Was NATO to say no to these desperate smaller countries so as not to offend Russia? I think don’t think so. I look forward to Bob’s right of reply.

SHOUNAK SARKAR

Hey guys, shorter episodes sound good to me! Although 40 minutes might be too short to really cover a guru properly and expose their rhetorical techniques. 2 hours is probably the optimal time. I personally still enjoy the longer (3 hours+) episodes, but have to break it up over 2-3 days to listen fully and take it al in. Regarding Bob, I like him but I feel that his ideological anti-war stances lead him to look at everything geopolitical through that lens. Extending charity to a bloodthirsty dictator like Putin is just stupid, as if Russia was a normal democracy instead, why exactly should they feel threatened by NATO? In fact, their war against Ukraine has done way more to unite NATO countries and attract more members, than the pre-war status quo would have. Anyways, at least he is not a propagandist like Greenwald, Taibbi, or Dore though.