S05E08 I Think People Are Dropping Off, I Think People Are Leaving

NEW YORK TIMES POPCAST INTERVIEW WITH BON IVER and ADOLESCENCE EPISODE 1: Reviewed! 

Welcome to another edition of the show. One of us is training for a marathon, taking tumbles while dedicatedly consuming the content required for him to keep the podcast going! While the other one doesn’t even log into Strava to give him kudos. Shameful really. Oh well. At least he’s winning the series so far! So far! What is going on so far anyway? 

SCORES SO FAR THIS SEASON ARE (UNDETERMINED IF YOU DON’T LIKE #POINTSFORDRAWS BUT IF YOU ARE OK WITH #POINTSFORDRAWS WE ARE COOL): 

Jeffrey: 5

Christopher: 3

Justin Vernon spoke to Popcast and boy do I hope Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarell don’t listen to the CCCAH and start throwing shade about not being able to tell the difference between our London-boy voices, geezer: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bon-iver-interview-how-justin-vernon-got-happy-it-took/id120315823?i=1000700888956

Everything is peaceful love but everything is also loving the Sable EP which was the first few songs from the new album and didn’t include the new single “Everything Is Peaceful Love”! Justin told us the story behind these three songs, so we listened:

https://open.spotify.com/album/2Cwxsws0uZcu61gliYLOEm?si=Bekjcy0lTn6d7bBTltVVZA

Justin Vernon was also interviewed by Amanda Petrusich late last year and that was a very good conversation. Lowest of keys, maybe I should have pitched this one lol: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/bon-iver-is-searching-for-the-truth

One person on Reddit sort of gets my weird (oh the woes of the parasocial superfan!) takeaways from some aspects of this album roll out: https://www.reddit.com/r/boniver/comments/1jqmbgj/anyone_else_confused_by_the_ethos_of_the_new_album/

Adolescence Episode 1 can be watched here: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81763204

The Newsagents did a good interview with the writer of Adolescence. The clickbaity title they use that is just so cringe is “Creator Jack Thorne REVEALS The DEEP TRUTH Behind 'Adolescence'!” like lol goodness me, calm down lads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBvC_-XaTTc

Stephen Graham did an interview with the SAG-AFTRA Foundation about Adolescence and it was super insightful! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B5DXCR-344

From incel experts like William Costello to psychologists like Dr. Kirk Honda live reacting to scenes, every one has a take on Adolescence! Some (like the aforementioned!) are more insightful than others. Considering the first wave of praise has, inevitably, given rise to waves of backlash, let’s include at least one *slightly* more critical bit of content for balance. Here are the Bring Your Own Blockbuster boys describing how “almost” perfect the series is. Not going to lie, my algorithm has been hassling me for days to check out this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=212t6jrbBoE

Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When I pitched my thirty second game this week I had just come up with the idea a few minutes before. And as I was rambling on, I was doing the maths live. That’s right. Equating each season of our pod so far with a Bon Iver album. Very luckily, the vibes were correct, and season 5 equated with SABLE, fABLE. The real highlight was Christopher finally getting what I was going for about 45 minutes later haha.  

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://archive.org/details/pollyanna-1960_202205

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:

https://www.netflix.com/title/81912996

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