Blindboy Podcast

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.

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 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?

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!

Anyone else getting flashbacks to this?:

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

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..

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

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

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'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.

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.

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.

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.

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.