https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne22B4CFl3s
Another 10 minute episode. These podcasts get very few views, so I can understand getting frustrated and losing interest. But just stop making them if you don’t want to put the work in. Don’t half ass it.
And Tony seems really interested in maximising views and whatnot. On Talking About Tapes aka Hack the Movies, he’s always talking about episodes that did well and episodes that didn’t do well and the difference in views is marginal. But he’s constantly trying to…whatever…take advantage of the “algorithm”, whatever that means. This is why he always has the dreadful Crystal Quin in his videos now and she’s almost always in a “sexy” costume.
What about cats? Maybe putting some cats in the video would help with views.
He has absolutely no interest in just creating good “content”. He’s not interested in the “art”, he’s all about the money. And on that basis, what money is there? He’s getting $9,500/year from these videos. That’s good spare money but he has a whole fucking team of people working on these videos. He has a set that he either rents out or is allowed to use for free because he works at Screenwave. And he makes these videos constantly. Like three a week. There’s a lot of work involved. And for $10,000/year? Not worth it. Not from a financial point. Doing it for fun, fine, but that doesn’t seem to be the motivation here.
1:15 – Tony says that they intended to record an episode of this after work but Johanna forgot about it and just went home.
It reminds me of a time when, for whatever reason, at some shit job that I had, I thought that it was 5:00 but it was actually 4:00. So I just said goodbye to people and left the job, as usual. Some people gave a slightly strange look but nothing happened. If this was in the US, I probably would have gotten fired. You get fired for wearing the colour socks in the US. There’s absolutely no workers’ rights.
2:00 – Tony mentions that they won’t be doing video versions of the podcast often because there are other shows that use this set. This takes place on the new podcast set at Screenwave, by the way.
That’s true. There’s the dreadful Cinemassacre Podcast, of course. There’s also something called PegWarmers featuring Ryan and that guy from the GI Joe podcast that Tony did recently. Have I uploaded that review yet? No. I am in the zone. So much backlogged “content”. I don’t know if I’ll actually upload that review, though. I mostly just talk about how these guys are all giant nerds. And there’s a podcast with Ryan and Mike, “Talking About Games” or something.
Anyway, it got me thinking. Screenwave seems to be broadening their scope away from just Jimmy, and this is a smart move. Jimmy is AWFUL. That podcast is fucking unwatchable. Jimmy is the laziest guy on earth.
Screenwave should just straight up drop Jimmy. He’s a liability at this point. He’s been phoning this shit in for YEARS and Screenwave has taken the blame for this. It would be real justice if Screenwave decided to drop his autistic ass and then Jimmy would have to make videos by himself. Then everybody would see that the problem has been Jimmy all along.
So they’re showing the paltry crap that they bought at this Astronomicon nerd convention. This is so low effort.
Oh, by the way, Johanna is chewing gum. She mentions this fact at 4:45, but I had a hunch that this was the case from earlier on, what with the chewing. I mean…does anybody need to be told not to chew gum while recording a podcast?
Tony is just showing Godzilla comics from “the 90s” like this is fucking…antique shit. These comics are worth nothing.
6:15 – Godzilla blind bags. This is just trash. I wouldn’t want this stuff as a kid. I certainly wouldn’t buy this as an adult.
10:30 – Tony ends this pointless podcast with, “Continue being a fan”. It’s off-putting. And he comes off as delusional.