Blindboy Podcast

onrail

Don't think there's a discussion thread specific to the Blindboy Podcast on here? It definitely warrants something.

I was never really a fan of Blindboy in the past - mostly because, from a FF/FG centre-right conservative viewpoint I just judged him at face value - a stoner leftie with a gimmick.

But frankly, this podcast is wonderful. The content is varied and genuinely interesting. He discusses a wide variety of topics in a measured, intelligent and reflective way. The bizarre is intertwined with thoughtful discussion.


This week's 'Irish Salad' discussion for example. Bang on the money.

Ye cuuuuuu'uuuuuuuuu**s

Cienciano

I listened to a few weeks ago, then he had one episode on art that I found unbelievably boring. Then 2 on disco and something else after that that wasn't good. I really enjoyed it up to that. He kept mentioning how he was getting amazing feedback about the shows I hated, so I figured it'd be more of that so I unsubscribed.

briany

onrail wrote: »

This week's 'Irish Salad' discussion for example. Bang on the money.

I've been 'treated' to one before. Cold cuts of ham, chicken and corn beef, along with cheese, cut boiled eggs and tayto. It's not that any of these on their own can't be nice, but basically what you have here is a platter of ingredients for different sandwiches, not stuff that should be eaten together. Just in terms of texture, having to eat boiled egg alongside a slimy cold cut of ham is blech to me.

onrail

Don't know if it was bull**** or not, but that story about the alarm clock is one of the best I've heard in ages - had me howling with laughter on the way to work!

Should have kept it simple and left it there though; he completely lost me with the version he spewed to Channel 4. Far too 'out-there'

Cienciano

I resubscribed a couple of weeks ago, I love the rambling podcasts. But he said he wants to go back to the "disco" type ones where he has one subject! The rambling ones are 10 times better imho.

Baggly

There was a good discussion around Blindboy in general on AH. The podcast came up regularly in the discussion as its BB's current and most 'visible' work.

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057808360

I really enjoyed the first 10 or so pods that he did, but found his requests for patronage (albeit as humble and inobtrusive as he could make them) a bit annoying.

Must download a few more of the recent ones and see how the pod is shaping up.

If you compare the evolution of them there is a big change from the first to when i stopped listening - id imagine it has kept evolving?

Cienciano

Pter wrote: »

There was a good discussion around Blindboy in general on AH. The podcast came up regularly in the discussion as its BB's current and most 'visible' work.

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057808360

I really enjoyed the first 10 or so pods that he did, but found his requests for patronage (albeit as humble and inobtrusive as he could make them) a bit annoying.

Must download a few more of the recent ones and see how the pod is shaping up.

If you compare the evolution of them there is a big change from the first to when i stopped listening - id imagine it has kept evolving?

The last one was good. Give that a listen and see what you think. Forget about the LGBTlive one, I deleted that about 40 minutes in nothing new or entertaining for me.
I enjoy his ramblings, the bit that annoys me is when he starts going on about how he's a "creative" person and he needs to do things to keep him in flow for his creative work because he's an artist. That's one bit that makes me want to unsubscribe. And the poxy unconscious mind. I think he mentions that at least once an episode. All that comes across as really pretentious imho. That's the reason I don't like his more focused podcasts, he's trying to teach you some shíte he comes across as a bit pretentious arse to me. His art one and his disco ones are examples. The problem is, he seems to get good feedback from them so he'll go back to that format, so what do I know! His ramblings and unfocused episodes are great though.

He mentioned he listens to Bill Burr, I definitely noticed a few similarities between the 2. " yee cúnts" is one, bill regularly says stuff like that about his listeners.

Fox Hound

Cienciano wrote: »

The last one was good. Give that a listen and see what you think. Forget about the LGBTlive one, I deleted that about 40 minutes in nothing new or entertaining for me.
I enjoy his ramblings, the bit that annoys me is when he starts going on about how he's a "creative" person and he needs to do things to keep him in flow for his creative work because he's an artist. That's one bit that makes me want to unsubscribe. And the poxy unconscious mind. I think he mentions that at least once an episode. All that comes across as really pretentious imho. That's the reason I don't like his more focused podcasts, he's trying to teach you some shíte he comes across as a bit pretentious arse to me. His art one and his disco ones are examples. The problem is, he seems to get good feedback from them so he'll go back to that format, so what do I know! His ramblings and unfocused episodes are great though.

He mentioned he listens to Bill Burr, I definitely noticed a few similarities between the 2. " yee cúnts" is one, bill regularly says stuff like that about his listeners.

But he is creative? he has made a living out of being creative! I don't get what your talking about here?

Baggly

Fox Hound wrote: »

But he is creative? he has made a living out of being creative! I don't get what your talking about here?

Creativity speaks for itself. I do concur he can intellectualise about it a bit too much (and go on about it).

Just be creative. Dont talk about how creative you are being.

Fox Hound

Pter wrote: »

Creativity speaks for itself. I do concur he can intellectualise about it a bit too much (and go on about it).

Just be creative. Dont talk about how creative you are being.

I haven't listened to all his podcasts, but in the podcasts that I have listened to, he merely talks about how he stimulates his creativity and he explains about what helps him to fine tune it, he also talks about how sometimes he struggles, so it could be good food for thought for creative people listening,,,,either way I don't find him being pretentious at all! Probably just very self assured!

Cienciano

Wasn't into that episode either. I mean, the whole thing about "creative" people and artists not being able to earn a living is a load of shíte. BB states David Kitt always does his own thing, doesn't compromise and plays the music that he thinks feels right. That's fine, but not enough people like that music for David Kitt to earn a living in Dublin. It's always been the case.

And others have to live at home with their parents because they can't afford rent because they can't sell their music/stand up/podcast/youtube channel/creating comics is simply they aren't popular enough so tough shíte. You don't get handed a living because you think you're "creative". Everyone on the planet has to compromise where they want to live except about .01% of the population.
10 years ago that person with the youtube channel wouldn't have had the option of even having a youtube channel. It's a tough market to break, it always has and always will be. As for living in Dublin, live fúcking outside Dublin. How many people work a "normal" (non creative) job and commute? The plus side is you can do most of your work at home and just commute when you need to meet people or use studios in Dublin etc?

Rant over, rest of the pod was decent!

troyzer

Anyone else getting flashbacks to this?:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C_HReR_McQ

Terrontress

That most recent Blindboy podcast was fairly poor. Talking about gin distilleries having an agenda to start selling whisky to North Korea is pure rubbish. And while he has a point about DNA being stored and the future benefits of that, he took it too far.

I’ve loved so much that he has done, but that just ended up annoying me.

I like it but a few of the regular phrases really grate on me. The ocarino pause. Ugh. Just play an ad. Podcast hug. Cringe.

Terrontress

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I like it but a few of the regular phrases really grate on me. The ocarino pause. Ugh. Just play an ad. Podcast hug. Cringe.

I get what he means by the podcast hug. It’s just him and a microphone and I’m always listening on earphones, so it can be quite an intimate experience.

Ocarina pause is odd. I rarely get the advert and, when I don’t, he just sounds like a three year old with a recorder. A random succession of notes, blown viciously. Fair enough, it’s just filling time which he has to do to deal with the commercial realities, but he’s always going on about being a multi instrument musician and this isn’t melodic at all.

_feedback_

Terrontress wrote: »

That most recent Blindboy podcast was fairly poor. Talking about gin distilleries having an agenda to start selling whisky to North Korea is pure rubbish. And while he has a point about DNA being stored and the future benefits of that, he took it too far.

In fairness, he did explicitly say that the DNA story was going to go way off the wall and asked that it wouldn't be taken seriously as a view of his. It was just an elaborate story for entertainment really..

Terrontress

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Terrontress wrote: »

That most recent Blindboy podcast was fairly poor. Talking about gin distilleries having an agenda to start selling whisky to North Korea is pure rubbish. And while he has a point about DNA being stored and the future benefits of that, he took it too far.

In fairness, he did explicitly say that the DNA story was going to go way off the wall and asked that it wouldn't be taken seriously as a view of his. It was just an elaborate story for entertainment really..

Only at the very end. He does have a point in that none of us understood how much our google searches were worth to people selling things and we gladly gave all that away. Now we have no idea what our DNA profiles are worth. So some good topics. Then the last ten minutes of the podcast were purely bonkers, and then he says he knows he was talking rubbish and not to take it too seriously, or repeat it. For me, that wasn’t enough to get over what I had just heard.

It’s a good podcast and I think his heart is in the right place. He has confidence and he thinks he can influence people for the better, trying to tackle mental health and social issues instead of just making people laugh. Some of it is quite touching, like the one where he spoke at length about his dead father and recounted some of his dad’s old tales of working in Shannon airport. Those stories were made by that emotional connection, rather than their content.

Cienciano

That Spike Lee interview was great, one of the best yet from Blindboy imho

badboyblast

Cienciano wrote: »

That Spike Lee interview was great, one of the best yet from Blindboy imho

Excellent,

First time I've skipped most of a podcast. I have very little interest in art history. Some volcano is responsible for an art movement yawn

Kingp35

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First time I've skipped most of a podcast. I have very little interest in art history. Some volcano is responsible for an art movement yawn

It was definitely the worst of his podcasts so far imo. It came across as lazy to me, wasn't interesting at all.

Cienciano

Haven't listened yet, but I could tell from the description it would be shíte.

jacksie66

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Housing should be a gibbon

Cienciano

Anyone listen to the cognitive psychology one? Deleted the first one about 20 minutes in, assume part 2 is more of the same.

Kingp35

He has a rant about the Guards and how they treated the Frederick Street protestors first and then it's more of the same.

I find myself disagreeing with Blindboy a lot more lately.

Beersmith

last few months he has been quite hypocritical. He used to say he barely drinks alcohol or plays video games and the reasons why were very high horse like. Now thats all he seems to be doing!

Cienciano

I unsubscribed before and I resubscribed almost straight away. But I reckon I'll give it 2 more episodes before I unsubscribe for good, if it's more shíte I'll finish with it. First 20 or so episodes it was one of the podcasts I'd look forward too most in my playlist, now I'm struggling to listen to more than 20 minutes before I delete it.
Hot takes are good if they take 5 minutes, I don't like a whole show devoted to 1 hot take.

Kingp35

Cienciano wrote: »

I unsubscribed before and I resubscribed almost straight away. But I reckon I'll give it 2 more episodes before I unsubscribe for good, if it's more shíte I'll finish with it. First 20 or so episodes it was one of the podcasts I'd look forward too most in my playlist, now I'm struggling to listen to more than 20 minutes before I delete it.
Hot takes are good if they take 5 minutes, I don't like a whole show devoted to 1 hot take.

I have a very similar opinion. Loved it at the start but it's getting progressively worse. Maybe because at the start it was a bit of fun for him and a way to promote his book but now he sees it as a proper source of income and it has become more self indulgent.

I'll stick with it for now but I turned todays podcast off with 30 mins left.

onrail

Kingp35 wrote: »

I find myself disagreeing with Blindboy a lot more lately.

Yeah, same. But then again that's half the reason I listen. Sometimes it's good to listen to an opinion or viewpoint that's different to yours.

Definitely won't be unsubscribing. Still finding it all pretty mad and interesting!

onrail

onrail wrote: »

Yeah, same. But then again that's half the reason I listen. Sometimes it's good to listen to an opinion or viewpoint that's different to yours.

Definitely won't be unsubscribing. Still finding it all pretty mad and interesting!

The stuff about the housing protests pissed me off to be honest. He's claiming the irish government are spinning some yarn to turn the people against each other like its some kind of conspiracy theory, meanwhile he's calling the evictors paramilitary. He usually has the ability to take a step back are be somewhat unbiased but he's completely partisan in this case. He's one step away from calling the media "fake news", saying nobody is backing him therefore he is the truth and they are paid for. He claimed the gardai never put out a statement about the famous eviction, but they did. He asked that question on twitter and someone linked him to it. He obviously completely ignored it. A quick google can find these statements. I had to turn it off once it got the the psychology stuff because I couldn't listen to him immediately after that rant. The funny thing is, I more or less agree with what the housing protesters are trying to do, but its far more nuanced then people are letting on.

Kingp35

More of the same from Blindboy again this week. I turned off after half an hour when he started into part 3 of his CBT discussion.

Cienciano

Kingp35 wrote: »

More of the same from Blindboy again this week. I turned off after half an hour when he started into part 3 of his CBT discussion.

I just read the title and deleted it. Literally didn't listen to a second of it.

_feedback_

I'm unfortunately of a similar way of thinking to a lot of the previous posters. Used to love this podcast, but it has becomes stale recently.

In the last one, before he went in to the CBT discussion (I also turned off at that point), he was rambling about how he didn't enjoy the Rubberbandits for a time around "Horse Outside" and didn't like the audience they were attracting. He spent what felt like 10 minutes going on about it .... again. He has covered that story at least twice in previous podcasts.

Shame.. hope he picks it back up again soon.

Cienciano

I fúcking hate when blindboy goes on about how creative he is, comes across as condescending and arrogant to me. So when his 15 minute build up on having uncomfortable relationships with things (which I agree with) like hash and drink, and he gets to his unconfortable relationship with video games and blamed it on his creativity, I said "fúck it, that's it". Unsubscribed. I can't listen to another word about "creative flow".

He might have to consider being a bit more structured as he's repeating himself

Goodshape

Cienciano wrote: »

Then 2 on disco and something else after that that wasn't good. I really enjoyed it up to that.

Cienciano wrote: »

I can't listen to another word about "creative flow".

Heh – those are among my favourite of his episodes / talking points :P. The disco / music episodes in particular were very good.

Each to their own I guess

I enjoyed the psychology ones personally. I knew about a lot of it already, but there was some new things.

MonkstownHoop

I see he took to Twitter to address people not liking the psychology episodes, saying it was mostly men and that's the issue as men don't want to listen to it because it's too close to home, ffs while I can agree that make mental health is a big problem some of us clearly were just bored and weren't bothered to listen to it.

Cienciano

MonkstownHoop wrote: »

I see he took to Twitter to address people not liking the psychology episodes, saying it was mostly men and that's the issue as men don't want to listen to it because it's too close to home, ffs while I can agree that make mental health is a big problem some of us clearly were just bored and weren't bothered to listen to it.

Yeah, I have no problem with him taking about it before, but these shows were just not interesting to me.

Kingp35

MonkstownHoop wrote: »

I see he took to Twitter to address people not liking the psychology episodes, saying it was mostly men and that's the issue as men don't want to listen to it because it's too close to home, ffs while I can agree that make mental health is a big problem some of us clearly were just bored and weren't bothered to listen to it.

I didn't see that but I like the podcast even less now! I used to agree with a low of what he says but he's come out with an awful lot of rubbish lately.

Arghus

I would have defended Blind Boy to the hilt up until recently, but having listened to his pod a few times I find myself getting a bit tired of him.

There was a long period of time when I thought he did a good job of talking absolute sense and I respected him a lot for it, but lately he seems increasingly fond of his own voice and he lacks precision in what he says - he relies a lot on generalisations when making judgements, not all the time, but enough to be noticable - I think he's getting a bit lazy and beginning to see himself as a bona-fide spokesperson for all sorts of social issues. I don't necessarily disagree with him fundamentally on a lot of them, but I find myself cringing every now and again at his ham-fisted analogies and increasing over-simplification of complex issues and events.

Goodshape

Ah I think he's just one lad from Limerick with a bag on his head though. And he'd be the first to remind you of that in fairness.

Not saying you have to enjoy it! But maybe you're expecting too much from the thing if you're expecting pearls of unquestionable wisdom every time he opens his mouth.

Plenty of it is just silly waffle. Some eejitry. Some pearls of wisdom. And even if he is simplifying a few complex issues, at least he's talking about them. Too many damn US (or even UK) content in my podcast list – great to have someone talking about the issues a little closer to home, even if it's not all 100% totally amazingly on-point all the time.


And I enjoy the eejitry too. Good craic. No harm.

If he was still doing waffly stories about his otter friends, I'm sure that'd be wearing thin 12 months later too. Grand that he's mixing it up a bit.

Utopia Parkway

Cienciano wrote: »

I fúcking hate when blindboy goes on about how creative he is, comes across as condescending and arrogant to me.

He definitely has a big pretentious streak in him. Think it's mostly harmless but you would find yourself rolling your eyes on occasion while listening to him.

New episode is very good. They actually sorted decent sound for a live podcast. Some economist explains the housing crisis amongst other things to my small, obtuse brain.

WindmillWarrior

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New episode is very good. They actually sorted decent sound for a live podcast. Some economist explains the housing crisis amongst other things to my small, obtuse brain.

David Mcwilliams you mean?! Yeah, that was a great podcast

WindmillWarrior

WindmillWarrior wrote: »

David Mcwilliams you mean?! Yeah, that was a great podcast

Never heard of him before

Shoebox1926

Kingp35 wrote: »

More of the same from Blindboy again this week. I turned off after half an hour when he started into part 3 of his CBT discussion.

I love his psychology episodes, ive had anxiety and bouts of deep depression since I was very young and haven't had any support from family or friends, psychotherapy is very expensive and no one in the media talks about mental health besides telling people to 'go talk to someone' or 'think positive' which is really unhelpful for people with bad mental health, particularly if you don't have a supportive network or the means to get counseling from a properly trained professional.
In Blindboys podcasts he breaks psychology down so its understandable. ive noticed my mental health, depression and anxiety issues have slightly improved since listening to his podcasts and thats because he explains things so well, I learned basic coping techniques and gained a deeper understanding of my depression, anxiety and why it plays a part in human behavior. He also mentions his social anxiety and certain behaviors he had which were caused by it, this helped me become aware of my behaviors as many of them were the very same as things he mentioned and as a result of that I stopped doing them, not even consciously, it just made me aware of them, and through explaining what causes these behaviors they just stopped happening organically.
Its been a big help to me as im sure it has been to allot of other people.

The best thing about his podcasts is that he covers such a big range of topics theres something for everyone so I wouldnt write him off because a handful didnt click with you.

diusmr8a504cvk

Didn't realise this had a thread.

I skipped all the CBT episodes.

I'll sound like a prick for this, I enjoyed the David MacWilliams podcast with the exception of the woman who got up at the end and spoke all about her own issues and praised Blindboy. She sounded like she was absolutely flaming from the second she opened her mouth.

Liana Breezy Noblewoman

Liana Breezy Noblewoman wrote: »

Didn't realise this had a thread.

I skipped all the CBT episodes.

I'll sound like a prick for this, I enjoyed the David MacWilliams podcast with the exception of the woman who got up at the end and spoke all about her own issues and praised Blindboy. She sounded like she was absolutely flaming from the second she opened her mouth.

You prick :pac:

diusmr8a504cvk

Blindboy saying that anytime he walks into a cocktail bar now that everyone is drinking Zombies and that now a two zombie limit has been set all because of his influence, followed by an apology to the bartender's of these cocktail bars.

Get your head out of your arse ffs.