Podcasts and Streamers

I am now wayyyy older than ya'll (29) but used to lurk here 10 years ago so I wanted some advice! He's 15 and watches Amouranth on Kick and a bunch of other streamers all day (even when at school lol) what should we do, is this normal for teens these days?

I have been watching streamer on twitch playing games

I do some streaming myself on a very very small scale But a question came to me

How do those streamers not get bored playing the same game, hours and hours on end, day after day ?

These people are fucking weird. Hasan saying that streaming is soul crushing when it comes to socializing and normal jobs besides retail and customer service aren’t is out of touch. Try working at a fucking warehouse. Try taking the bus 1 hour to get to work, lift heavy shit all day as fast as possible, get grilled by management for being slightly slower, take an hour bus back home, and be too physically exhausted and too poor to even want to socialize. Dude streams for 9 hours because he wants to, not because he has to. He could easily stream for half that time and make high 6 figures at least. He could honestly retire and invest his money and simply live off of that if it weren’t for his laziness. How can a literal gigachad, who has porn stars like Mia Malkova getting wet just at the sight of him, drives $100k car, lives in a $3 million home, and is a nepobaby, be such a miserable crybaby. The only advantage he doesn’t have in life is being a descendent of an Ottoman Prince.

Then there is Ludwig. I don’t know much about him but he seems kinda spineless. Dude legit got mad over a comment that had like 0 likes vaguely threatening him. Go work at retail in any major city in this country. Online threats are nothing compared to face to face threats. Hell what’s even worse than a face to face threat is when they actually attack you. If you defend yourself, some places will even try to fire you through some bullshit method. Ludwig could’ve at least stood on business and taken a side of the Daliban-Hasmas conflict that he idiotically stumbled himself into.

Let’s not forget Vaush. I don’t care if he likes loli but the dude is too terminally online regarding the comments he’s made about CP, pedophilia, etc. Dude was out here saying that a strip club of 14-17 year olds would be the most popular. Bro, people can already bang underage girls in several countries however it doesn’t actually happen quite that often because it is a giant taboo to do so. Vaush trying to explain his loli addiction was so humorous. Dude is a massive hypocrite. I’m not saying Vaush is a pedo but if I had a daughter, I would feel more comfortable letting an idiot like Sneako babysit over Vaush. I also recently saw the video of him and Destiny talking about the poppy situation from 5 years back. Destiny should’ve slayed his career when he had the chance.

Hunter Avallone. Recording yourself getting shot at is a little too content brained but I respect it so you get a pass. Still fucking weird tho.

Lastly and just for fun, the guy that jerked it to QTCinderella. I don’t remember his name but that’s not important. Forgetting morals for a second, why would you even use your pc for streaming to jerk it? Right or wrong, I’m not above jerking it to female friends once in a blue moon or blue ball. With that said, when you have to put in your credit card info to access deepfake porn of your friend, it’s time to seek Christ. You could take Vaush with you to church but for obvious reasons, it can’t be a Catholic Church.

These guys make too much money to be this stupid but they still act dumb. I don’t get it.

Ive been bedridden for days with medical complications upon complications. My friends cant be online all the time but distractable really has been getting me through each day. Thanks mark, bob, and wade for still making episodes. Without yall i would have sunk into a hole i couldnt crawl back out of.

Update. Its cancer

Hi all, I just wanted to jump on here as we are in the midst of promo season and there are still some gaps between new content drops to shout out a few podcasts that I enjoy listening and re-listening to that help keep the obsession alive day-to-day while we wait for more info. I have notated on each one if the hosts have a specific couple preference just in case some people aren’t a huge fan of certain couples.

1. (What a Barb! A Polin Podcast) These ladies have been doing the most since the info droughts of the past 2 years so if you want deep dives, behind-the-scenes, filming leaks crumbs and general clowning and theorizing then this is the podcast for you! (This is a Polin fan podcast)

2. (Between the Scandal Sheets) Another wonderful podcast by some amazing users in this sub. It is a more conversational informal style but absolutely hilarious discussion of the themes, theories, and additional official content released regarding S3! (This is a Polin fan podcast)

3. (Bridgerton Bros) a comedy commentary podcast with two hilarious gentlemen who do many others podcasts on different shows. This podcast is absolutely hilarious as well. Their takes are great! This podcast is more from the perspective of non-obsessive fans and it’s interesting to see their takes.

4. (Bridgerton with Mary and Blake) a podcast with a married couple. Also first time viewers so you get fresh takes. Love getting to see Bridgerton from the eyes of people who are not obsessive fans.

5. (Buzz of the Ton) another fantastic more conversational podcast between five different lovely ladies. I love their theories on this podcast and their genuine and enthusiastic appreciation for Luke N. (This is a Polin fan podcast)

6. (The Official Bridgerton Podcast) great interviews with cast members, production team and crew. Hopefully they will stop naming it Queen Charlotte soon. 😂

Obviously, this is not an all encompassing list so if you have any podcasts that you enjoy please leave them down below I’m always looking for new listening material for work.

I analyzed the impact by:

1. Calculate base revenue rate without any streamers/mkting actions

2. Calculate revenue after the streamer played and subtract the base rate

3. Do the same for wishlists and convert it to potential revenue (multiply by conversion rate and revenue / sale)

I analyzed examples of NorthernLion and AliensRock playing my game (The Ouroboros King, a chess roguelike), they generated 1.5-3k$/ youtube video in revenue (after steam's cut).

That is about 0.01-0.04$/ view.

To estimate the value a streamer will generate just multiply the estimated views you'll get by your value/view (could be different than mine).

I think it'd be cool if other devs do a similar analysis and share their value/ view.

Relatively new to the fly fishing scene (less than a year). I’ve been primarily been nymph fishing for trout and been quite successful. However, with spring around the corner I’d like to learn how to efficiently cast and catch fish using streamers for smallies. Just looking for any words of wisdom on an easy or efficient way to start using streamers. Thanks, tight lines.

This is specifically to address this bit from the video:

"The ICJ is the UN's highest court. It's the world court basically, and after hearing South Africa's case against Israel, they ended up ruling that Israel is plausibly committing genocide. They fell short of calling for a ceasefire, but they did order with near unanimous approval that Israel must halt any actions in Gaza that could constitute genocide, which according to the ICJ they are currently plausibly undertaking."

To break it down, slightly:

they ended up ruling that Israel is plausibly committing genocide

That's not true.

In short - Plausibility is divided into two classifications: rights and claims. The plausibility of rights is the verification of whether the rights claimed by the applicant are based on International Law, that is, the plausibility of the rights. While the plausibility of claims verifies whether the defendant’s conduct violates the plausibly claimed rights, that is, it is the plausibility of the claims. In the ICJ for the plausibility check, a two-step test needs to be fulfilled.

A bit of background

The concept of "plausibility" in the context of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) plays a critical role in the issuance of provisional measures (Article 41 of the ICJ's Statute and Article 290 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea). This principle has emerged as a fundamental threshold that must be met for the Court or Tribunal to exercise its power to grant interim relief. In essence, "plausibility" requires that the rights being asserted by a party requesting such measures are grounded in a reasonable basis in fact and law, indicating a likelihood that these rights exist and warrant protection pending the final decision.

This threshold is intended to filter out claims that are clearly without legal basis, however it is not entirely clear what the threshold is (e.g. a few years ago Ukraine's case against Russia was denied on plausibility alone, which is also the only such instance). Basically, plausibility exists for the Court to focus its resources on disputes where there is a tangible legal question about issues (rights) it can adjudicate.

The application of the plausibility standard does have some challenges - e.g. it is not uniform. The threshold for plausibility is not the same as a full-fledged analysis of the merits (of the claims). The initial ruling by ICJ is mostly about a preliminary examination of the existence and potential violation of the rights claimed (in this case "the right of Palestinians to be protected from any violations that fall under the genocide convention"). In cases where the evidence raises to a likelihood/possibility of a right being violated or prejudiced to a high enough "certainty", the Court can issue an order for protective measures without delving into a substantive evaluation of underlying legal and factual merits.

Plausibility is a judicial safeguard within the provisional measures framework of how these cases work. There is a very good summary of the case by the German Judge (see ). I implore you to read the whole thing.

Paragraph 6 in particular paints an accurate picture of the case:

It is regrettable how much the Parties talked past each other during the oral proceedings. South Africa hardly mentioned the attack of 7 October 2023 and the ensuing massacre; Israel barely mentioned the United Nations reports on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. South Africa hardly mentioned the efforts by Israel to evacuate the civilian population from areas of hostilities; Israel did not satisfactorily address highly problematic forms of speech by some of its officials, including members of its military.

He specifically highlights the difficulties and ambiguities related to the standard of plausibility as exercised by ICJ:

The jurisprudence of the Court is not entirely clear as to what “plausibility” entails.

Finally, the reason he voted in favour is specifically targeted at addressing the statement by high ranking officials as acts of "“[d]irect and public incitement to commit genocide”:

It is true that some of these statements can be read as referring exclusively to Hamas and other armed groups in the Gaza Strip. However, these statements are at least highly ambiguous in their use of dehumanizing and indiscriminate language against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as a group. Since they were made by high-ranking officials, who thereby also addressed soldiers involved in hostilities in the Gaza Strip, I cannot plausibly exclude that such statements contribute to a potential failure by Israel to prevent and punish acts of public and direct incitement to genocide.

If the author of the video was more honest, he might say something to the effect of:

"The ICJ determined that a genocide can occur and the court has jurisdiction to evaluate the case, but there is insufficient evidence to indicate that the current military operation is genocidal based on the facts presented thus far. The court asked Israel to ensure that genocidal acts do not happen, and especially in light of the inflammatory and ambiguous statements made by high-ranking government officials that can be reasonably interpreted by their subordinates as acts of incitement to commit genocide."

I hope, this is helpful.

EDIT: Added a bit more, based on popular request, clarified language and fixed a few grammatic errors.

A couple of people linked to the following blog post in , and I will directly quote the end without omitting too much as to make the whole thing unintelligible.

Judge Sebutinde essentially finds that allegations of genocidal intent are implausible, even while taking into account the relevant statements of Israeli officials. Judge ad hoc Barak does the same. The opinion of Judge Nolte I think should be read carefully; it is quite interesting how he finds that the only plausible possible violation was that of the duty to prevent and punish direct and public incitement to genocide. This should be read in light of the Court’s carefully ambiguous finding in para. 54 of the order that ‘the facts and circumstances mentioned above are sufficient to concludethat at least some of the rights claimed by South Africa and for which it is seeking protection are  plausible. This is the case with respect to the right of the Palestinians in Gaza to be protected fromacts of genocide and related prohibited acts identified in Article III, and the right of South Africa to seek Israel’s compliance with the latter’s obligations under the Convention. ‘At least some of the rights’ is a somewhat caveated formulation that does not appear in the GvM PM order (para. 56). All of this supports the prediction that, absent extraordinary factual developments, on the evidence as it exists today it will be highly unlikely for a majority of the Court to infer genocidal intent on the merits of this case.

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Recommend me podcasts or videos that analyse his books in depth , thank u in advance

I am so bummed my favorite Cubs podcast is no longer. Brett Taylor posted on Bleacher Nation the Athletic is getting out of regional podcast business.

Any suggestions on other options out there. I am not crazy about Cap and Gordon’s yelling at each other and the NBC replacement underwhelmed me after they went on thier own. Some times the CHGO ones are ok…

Honestly I don’t know why this has got me so fired up but I thought I would share my frustration with the internet!

I listen to a lot of guitar podcasts and it has really become hard to find any of them that talk about Mayer in a good light without an underlying tone of sarcasm.

I was recently listening to an episode of “60 Cycle Hum” and they where talking about Johns pedal boards for the solo tour. They then go on a tangent about how they are not Mayer fans and don’t understand why people are.

They then continue with all the usual splutter about how they have only heard Your body is a wonderland etc and it really got me thinking. John is probably one of very few “Guitar Heros” left out there that can still sell out stadiums and who has one of the best selling signature model guitars to have ever been released. Shouldn’t guitar podcasts be doing more to at least LISTEN to some of his more “guitar” based stuff whether that be studio or live before talking him down?

Guitar nerds are just as bad as I’ve heard them openly say John is overrated and makes terrible music.

I’m sure a lot of them are just avoiding listening to Slow dancing / Coverd in rain or ANY live performance in the fear they are gonna be proven wrong or maybe it’s a jealousy thing?

I apologise for the long post I just needed to rant!

I love how intelligent and informed these women are with a side of comedy. What else does everyone listen to for recommendations?

There are 4 things you need to do to create a system for getting yourself or your boss on a podcast.

Research Create an Offer Outreach Follow-up Research

At my company we have two products, Blaze, a marketing AI tool for entrepreneurs, and Almanac, a wiki and documentation tool for remote companies. and at the time I was focused on promoting Almanac.

And in terms of podcasts, there were three main categories that were relevant to us: Remote work podcasts, People OPs and HR podcasts and Startup-focused podcasts as we are a startup - these were our ideal customers and cared about our product category the most.

So I started researching podcasts in these three categories and adding them to a database I created in airtable.

Now this database is so clutch for keeping track of not only what podcasts are out there, but also how and when you contact them

I think every business should have a database like this for not only podcasts, but other influential websites and people that you might want to contact and partner with. You can see on mine I also track newsletters, conferences in this database and have other ones for influencers as well.

Once I found a podcast that fit our criteria, I'd start putting their info into the database, including the main focus of the podcast as a topic, if we had a warm intro through our network, the status, an email that I could find, the URL, and any notes that I thought would be helpful.

Most podcasts that have their own website had a contact email or at least a form to submit, and if they didn't I used an email lookup tool to find some way to reach out to them. I exclusively used email for my outreach, because these were all business type podcasts, but if you're trying to reach more consumer or lifestyle podcasts, I could see DMs on social media working too.

There's a couple ways to search for podcasts, the simplest just using the search function in apple podcasts for your category, but I found Spotify's search to be much more useful, so I would use that primarily. I found google podcasts to be useful as well, and lots of podcasts are on youtube now so i'd suggest that. I'm sure TikTok would be a good place to look too but I didn't use it then.

I'd recommend a two-pronged approach when searching: #1 is for topics and #2 is people.

Topics for us were things like "remote work" "asynchronous work" "return to office" "entrepreneurship" "meetings" "work culture", etc.

And for people, I would search for influencers, consultants who have been on multiple podcasts, and other CEOs in this space to see which podcasts they have been on. So I would literally type their name into spotify, filter it to podcasts, and see all the episodes that they have been on.

This would tell me that they accepts guests on their podcasts, because sometimes the more topic focused podcasts do not.

So with a decent amount of work, you can easily find 50 to 100 podcasts that will fit your business. You could outsource this and hire someone to do it for you if you're strapped for time, But i personally liked doing the research and looking into the podcasts and examining their previous episodes and website so that I had a better sense if it was actually worth the time to reach out to them.

Create an Offer

Now before you start reaching out to podcasts, you have to develop an offer, or what it is that you would talk about on their podcasts that would be so valuable to them and their listeners that they'd want to have you on. Unless you are doing something truly innovative or have an incredibly popular brand that everyone loves, you can't just talk about your company. You need something special or unique that will them choose you. Most interview-style podcasts have a huge number of people trying to get on them - so you need an exceptional offer to stand out.

One of the best things that we did at Almanac was to develop and publish our companies philosophy on how remote work should be done. We called it the Modern Work Method, and it explicitly didn't mention our product, it was a set of practices and beliefs as well as templates for how we thought that modern remote teams should work and collaborate together. Now this philosophy was baked into our product, so if you believed what we said, you were probbaly going to like our solution. But you could adopt the modern work method and never use Almanac, that was totally fine by us.

So we used the modern work method as the basis of our offer as to why people should have our CEO on the podcast. Our pitch wasn't: hey listen to our CEO about how great his company is, it was "we believe that the world needs a new way of working, and we've developed this philosophy that we think your listeners would be interested in hearing." That is a much better offer.

Another offer that generally works is accomplishments. If you have grown your business to 5 million dollars in revenue in 2 years, people want to hear that story and learn how you did it. Or if you overcame severe anxiety or defeated a eating disorder, people are really attracted to outcomes and want to know how to get those results for themselves.

Outreach

Now before you start reaching out to podcasts, I'm going to share a secret hack that will make you standout 10x better than all the other people pitching podcasts. And that is to include a document in your pitch email that sells you or your CEO.

Here is the one that I created for Adam, and it's purpose is create confidence in the podcast host that Adam would be a great guest. It talks about who he is, what he is great at speaking at, and why they should book him. It's great to load this with whatever social proof you have: Adam had been on a few podcasts before, so we used that. but maybe you have been quotes in the newspaper before, or been named to an influential list, or been a speaker at some conferece. Use whatever you have to sell yourself as a great guest.

and then a best practice that all the podcasts hosts that I reached out to really appreciated was including the basic info that they always need when publishing a podcast: a headshot, bio, and links to social media.

My goal here was to just make it easy for the podcast host to say "yes" and envision how great Adam would be on their podcast.

Now you can write your email. I'm a fan if keeping things pretty simple and straightforward.

I'd ask if they accept guests, suggest my CEO, and them give my pitch for what Adam would talk about. I'd make sure to include a link to the Modern Work Method so that the pitch had some "meat" to it that the host could explore if they wanted.

Here is an example email. and I made sure to link to the document about as well. This works because you can keep the email relatively short, and do some of the selling in the document.

Now some people will recommend to do some sort of fake flattery like "we are such big fans of your podcast," and maybe reference a recent episode, but I did not do that. It didn't seem right and just seems kinda fake, I bet they get that all the time so I stayed away from it.

If I had actually listened to their podcast, or had seen some other content of theirs that I enjoyed, and if it was relevant to my pitch, then I would include that, but that was in maybe 10% of my pitches. A majority of them were cold emails or submitted to the forms on their podcast website.

After I sent a batch of emails, I would go back to my database and update the status field to "reached out" and also put the date in the "Week of" column. This helped me keep track of how many emails I was sending out per week so that I could report back to my CEO on my efforts.

Following Up

Out of the 17 podcasts that i booked for my CEO, I think only 1 did the host reply to the first email. Usually it took two or three emails to get into their inbox at the right time - sometimes they didn't see the first, or just forgot to respond.

I usually followed up once after 7 days, then 14, and then 30 days after my first email. And if the Modern Work Method or Almanac got any good press or was mentioned by an influential person on social media, I'd use that as an excuse as well to reach back to people I hadn't heard from.

I gave myself two weekly goals: adding 15-20 podcasts to my database per week and sending ~40 emails per week, a combination of first time outreach emails, and my second or third followup ones.

And if you have a good offer, and are reaching out to the right podcasts, the replies will start rolling in. And then it's just as much work as the outreach was, to coordinate schedules and get time booked to actually do the podcast.

And I know schedules are busy, and especially for CEOs, but the sooner you book and record a podcast, the sooner you will see the results of all this effort. We had a few podcasts where things had to keep being rescheduled and it just kept pushing back and ultimately the ROI we were going to see on this effort was several months after the first outreach.

So be prepared: this is a long-term playbook that can be very successful, but it's not all going to hit at once or within the quarter that you start it at. This effort resulted in our CEO being interviewed in 17 podcasts that came out within 6-8 months. Anybody who was interested in this space knew who he was and what our company was about because the podcasts and clips were all over social media and in newsletters, multiple times per month, a resounding success.

Have any questions? Let me know

I'm out of the loop, what happened to Chocolate Myers?

I dislike podcasts where its just a conversation between two (or more) hosts. I prefer stuff like Finding cleo, Hunting Warhead, In the Dark, Operation Morning Light, Missing in Alaska (and subsequently Missing on 9/11), Kuper Island… I think you get the idea. Anything with a narrative or story that either follows an investigation or tells a story of an investigation. True crime like Bear Brook and Down the Hill are fair game because its the same story over the span of the season. Shows like Crime Junkie are a no-go for me.