1) I think it’s crucial to note that podcasts are not fly on the wall conversations but rather a performance of fly on the wall conversations. Applied to the scene idea (which I think is very smart) there’s in element of fantasy here. The listener gets to feel as if not only they are in the scene, but they are having a conversation where nobody says um or looks at their phone or forgets someone’s name.
I don’t think there’s very much redeemable about clipping, no matter how it’s done. The only good part imo is you can signal certain in crowd things with a turn of phrase or an aesthetic choice or whatever. But the actual substance of say 99% of podcast clips is slop. The only ones that work are comedy clips
Yeah great take on the fantasy, though I do wonder what changes when IRL becomes a bigger part of these businesses (Acquired or All In or Dwarkesh come to mind)
Clipping I flip back and forth on. Agree that 99% of clips are garbage, but I’m hopeful that once the volume arbitrage is over more people will just treat them as their own top of funnel editorial product with an aesthetic, packaging etc (Dwarkesh once again comes to mind with his high production history edits)
This is great—
Though I do have two pushbacks
1) I think it’s crucial to note that podcasts are not fly on the wall conversations but rather a performance of fly on the wall conversations. Applied to the scene idea (which I think is very smart) there’s in element of fantasy here. The listener gets to feel as if not only they are in the scene, but they are having a conversation where nobody says um or looks at their phone or forgets someone’s name.
I don’t think there’s very much redeemable about clipping, no matter how it’s done. The only good part imo is you can signal certain in crowd things with a turn of phrase or an aesthetic choice or whatever. But the actual substance of say 99% of podcast clips is slop. The only ones that work are comedy clips
Let’s goooo was hoping you’d weigh in here
Yeah great take on the fantasy, though I do wonder what changes when IRL becomes a bigger part of these businesses (Acquired or All In or Dwarkesh come to mind)
Clipping I flip back and forth on. Agree that 99% of clips are garbage, but I’m hopeful that once the volume arbitrage is over more people will just treat them as their own top of funnel editorial product with an aesthetic, packaging etc (Dwarkesh once again comes to mind with his high production history edits)
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