Books, Beards, Booze

Books, Beards, and Booze combine three of my favorite things on our lovely spinning rock. Who doesn’t love sinking into a warm tub of dispersed bath bomb, paperback and wine glass in hand? And who loves beards? EVERYONE. Just ask all the women I dated in my twenties. Apparently, keeping a beard was nigh a priority! As for the booze, look around you. Need I say more? So, as this horrible timeline slowly disappates into the void, sit back and take a listen to these three maestros of musings and random geekery chatter endlessly about your favorite genre of hobby with a few other odds and bits tossed in for extra flavor. 5 stars out of 5. Would totally eat here again and the service was fantastic!

I listened to two guys offer what amounted to lazy coverage of what sounded like the reading of a Wikipedia article on the genre of Cyberpunk. I don’t know the age of these hosts, but if I had to guess I would say that they’re young enough to think people want to listen to them chatter from a place of ignorance and young enough to assume that no one will care about their ineptitude. If they are older then more’s the shame. Also, whenever a white person, like the two hosts, makes a smarmy, critical, dismissive remark about, “White guys writing white guys” I immediately assume that they’re pandering and clumsily engaging in a sort of verbal self flagellation to demonstrate their virtue. Nothing can be more absurd or a greater justification for never listening to such people’s opinions ever again. I’m sure these guys would be the same people to criticize those same white writers for being tone deaf or insincere if they had tried to write characters with more diverse perspectives, and it’s this kind of contradiction which always seems to be at the heart of performative white self loathing. It’s annoying, pointless, and incredibly stupid, and it’s embarrassing to listen to such people doing this. So, half of one episode totally killed my interest in the entire podcast. Remarkable.

You don’t like books? Ya dumb. You don’t like booze? Ya boring. You don’t like beards? Ya scared. Be a person and listen to this podcast.

Just listened to the first episode, can’t wait to see how the podcast develops and grows. Bob and Derek bring out the best elements of a two host podcast by being interesting personalities that play off each other while discussing and going through the topics of the episode. It feels like you get to be right in the chair next to them. As far as the content of the podcast if you enjoy Dead Robot’s Society, you’ll definitely enjoy listening along. Derek and Bob are knowledgeable about the subjects they discuss but overview them as to not make you feel lost following along. I hope in the future to see more of their personal content discussed on the show as the episode I listened to primarily focused on other authors and those author’s published works.