not your dad's Cracked
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“I'm still not sure how I feel about the rebirth of Cracked. I grew up in the '70s and was a fan of Mad, Cracked and Crazy magazines. The reincarnation of the brand has nothing at all to do with the previous publication and title; the new owners obviously bought the brand due to name recognition but had no intention of carrying on any tradition. That's fine as far as it goes, because I can't imagine how any of these magazines would succeed today in the same format. They were products of their time, and Mad in particular was past its prime and getting long in the tooth by the time I was a kid.
Anyway, it's a new day for Cracked. The listicle format they promote is a bit off-putting and tiresome, but the writing is occasionally surprisingly good. However, the podcast is mostly two people talking, the publisher and a staffer. They're sort of interesting and not stupid, but how much can you listen to the same two people before it becomes tedious? It loses momentum after a while. But more troubling to me, there is something weird going on with editing, where silence is cut out between words, which I suspect is being done with some computerized editing program for efficiency and to minimize dead air and bandwidth costs (that's a guess, though I have no idea). Or just to annoy people. It's very off-putting and makes conversations sound unnatural and choppy. That's almost enough to put me off entirely...
There is nothing really funny about the podcast, and they make no pretense that their conversations are comedy, so I have no idea why it gets listed in that genre on iTunes. It's more like listening to a phone conversation that's supposed to sound informal, but is obviously scripted to some degree, and I guess that can be worthwhile if the people themselves are interesting enough. And for a while it kind of was, mostly...
But I finally unsubbed when I heard their last episode about political propaganda in Christmas movies, when they reveal themselves to be just as biased, but in a libertarian-leaning way, where they defend the rich and powerful using old and tired arguments. Defending Scrooge is not new, and rehashed political propaganda comes in many forms, sometimes along with some rebranded media property that publishes listlcles and podcasts.”Read full review »
krinklyfig via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
12/17/13
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“some interesting starters but research is lacking and they get political over facts, wong or whatever especially”
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02/24/14
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“Great topics and fantastic commentary.”
TS1175&1 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/10/13
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“Cracked has been dumbing itself down recently, but this seems more like the stuff I liked. It is not, as how one reviewer described, "Aweful".”Read full review »
Sirbriggs via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
09/10/13
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