2841 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b 31 Aug 2023 \ on: Daily discussion thread
Peter McCormack kills the general audience bitcoin podcasting game for the same reasons Rogan does: he doesn’t need to put himself on the same level as his guests and he’s willing to be and sound stupid in the pursuit of helping his audience learn more from his guests. He’s also not interrogating his guests or jockeying for the moral high ground. He’s trying to harmonize with them and have good time.
Was there a particular pod that made this top of mind for you?
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I was listening to his recent pod with Lyn Alden this morning.
I was thinking to myself "why is this so pleasant to listen to in spite of Peter getting quite a bit of hate?"
When people attempt to grade podcasters, they make the mistake of placing the host in a vacuum and comparing them to other hosts in a vacuum. It's like judging the evolutionary fitness of a grizzly bear in outer space.
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That's a good way of putting it. It's at the interface between the people, what they become together.
I have my gripes w/ Peter (e.g., the 30 minutes preamble blathering on some of his episodes drives me crazy; as does his penchant to interrupt, esp with stupid jokes) but I think in a decade, if the btc experiment is successful the way many of us hope it will be, Peter will be considered one of the giants who made it happen. Not just bc of the pod, but the soccer team, the pub, the wider cultural propagation that doesn't look like religion.
He's a gem. Wish we we had more of him.
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Do people send hate Pete's way? News to me. It must be the angry droves on Twitter that don't actually listen to his content. I think he does a great job and manages to hit a very wide variety of topics.
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