https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQbU1rjaXHQ
Pam recently promoted this podcast on her latest “What I’ve been doing this month” video. She really seems to enjoy going to these podcasts that nobody cares about.
It’s called Drink a Beer and Play a Game and is hosted by the two biggest frat boy douchebags I’ve ever seen in my life. Why does Pam go to these particular podcasts? It seems like these assholes would be the LAST people she’d want to spend time with.
But let’s check it out. Maybe it will lead to some particularly awkward interactions. Pam isn’t good in social situations at the best of times.
0:00 – She’s sitting in a completely dark room. I don’t know why.
0_15 – The one douchebag does a douchebag intro for Pam and then drinks a beer and Pam says, “Thank you for the invite. I’m always happy to be a…podcast guest.” And then she laughs nervously.
Great start. She just oozes charisma.
Then there’s some awkward discussion about alcohol.
By the way, the other podcast that Pam was on last month was with some woman who does wine tasting. That looked boring as fuck. But yeah, this seems to be what Pam does with her time. She drinks alcohol. It’s a sad existence.
She said that her step-father was an alcoholic. It seems like she didn’t learn anything from this.
But yeah, this beer talk…it’s awful. Nobody has any idea what anyone else is talking about. “I’m drinking this really obscure beer that’s only available in my village in Canada!” “Oh. Well, I’m drinking this really obscure beer that’s only available in Philadelphia.”
“So what does it taste like?” “Beer. It tastes like beer. What does your beer taste like?” “Also beer.”
Good discussion.
4:15 – “So Pam have you been playing anything this past week?”
Do real people consume video games this way? They play a new game every week?
When I was a kid, you would have a handful of games and that’s it. So you’d play those games repeatedly for years. Getting a new game was fairly rare.
This is pretty much how I’ve operated in my adult life too. If not worse. I buy…I don’t know…three games a year? Something like this. Sometimes I’ll download something and play it for a while but I only have a small number of games that I play regularly. And it’s been these same few games for years. Sometimes something new will creep in, sometimes something will leave the rotation but it’s just a few games. I’m not obsessively trying every new game. Who cares about this shit? I’m an adult.
Well…I’m ten minutes in. I kind of had it on in the background as I was doing other things. They’re talking about video games. It’s boring as fuck. And awkward. I think I might be reaching my limit. I’ll try to power through. This is two fucking hours.
12:00 – “I discovered you with the Vampire Masquerade video…because I love that game.”
I’ll bet. This is her most popular video by far because she has her tits out in it. Let me just refresh my memory. How scandalous was this video…
Yeah, she’s wearing lingerie and there’s about nine inches of cleavage.
What a fucking perve. “I discovered you from that video where you were half naked. That’s my favourite game!” Uh huh.
Also, I notice that we only see this guy from the chest up. Can we see your hands, please? I’m starting to get nervous. What exactly are you doing?
19:15 – After asking her to promote her various shit, she gives her Youtube channel, Twitter, and Instagram. So then they have to prompt her. “You have a makeup channel too!” And Pam says, “Oh, yeah. I have a makeup channel too.” She was obviously slightly embarrassed by this channel.
22:45 – One guy asks how Pam appeared in the AVGN video. Pam replies, “They were just wanting to highlight various creators and I’m friends with Erin Plays and she was like…somebody asked if you want to be in this video and I was like ‘sure'”.
Sadly, there was no follow up. Either nobody knew who Erin Plays was or they know about her, don’t care for her work, and didn’t want to mention it.
24:00 – Some guy asks if she ever considered streaming. “I don’t know. I can’t just be entertaining on my own, live, for hours.”
Boy, did she hit the nail on the head. She can’t be entertaining for ten minutes, never mind hours. It’s good to know your weaknesses. I mean, there’s no shame in it. Pam is boring. Big deal. Loads of people are boring. You have to work with what you have. Find the right job for you.
26:15 – The one guy mentions that he recently was listening to Pam’s old podcast Media Mavens. Wow. He’s a trooper. That shit is horrendous.
45:00 – They’re taking questions from Patreon. These are always awful. “What’s your favourite junk food to eat while gaming or just in general.” Pam says “potato chips”.
Oh. That’s interesting. Any particular kind or just the ready salted store brand variety?
She’s just so fucking boring. It’s such a simple question. Has she never eaten a Dorito? Or a Snickers bar? Or I’ll even accept popcorn. Even nuts would be a more interesting answer than “potato chips”. RAISINS would be more interesting. Use the question as a way to educate the people on healthy snacking options.
But if you’re going with potato chips, give us the fucking variety and/or the brand. It’s just…she has no charisma at all.
46:00 – “What’s your favourite flavour, though? That’s the real question.”
Oh. This guy was on top of things. Pam says “Salt and vinegar.” Oh. That’s…the second most boring answer she could have given. So a step in the right direction, I guess.
Do they even have salt and vinegar chips in the US? I remember seeing them once and thinking how odd it was that they’d name a flavour that. Because it sounds so unhealthy.
Here’s a discussion on the topic:
Apparently, they do have salt and vinegar chips in the US.
Back to the video, one guy gives beef jerky as his answer. Yeah. They don’t really sell that in the UK, which is disappointing. You can get some low quality shit with American flags on the bag and it’s like two ounces of tiny bits of some kind of jerked meat and it’s like £5. Fuck that.
At one point, I even considered making my own beef jerky but then I thought, “I’m going to spend £10 on a decent steak and turn it into bad jerky? That would be stupid.” So whatever.
Then he says “nosh”. That’s one thing I don’t miss about the US. Non-Jewish people adopting Yiddish terms.
Then they’re suddenly back to beer talk and now Pam is in a lighted room.
I can’t listen to this any more. I made it about halfway. I’m at 56 minutes. This Jim guy is insufferable. I know he’s just trying to entertaining and I commend him on the effort but it doesn’t work for me.
So another boring podcast with boring Pam aka CannotBeEntertaining. It makes for a boring review. This is why I tend not to review her stuff.