Tweet Me Harder

After almost a year, it's back! I love this podcast and can't wait to see if Kris and David have decided to continue the podcast into this year.

Great chemistry between the hosts, nice production, and an interesting, interactive format. A digressive conversation between two friends which tends toward more and more elaborate embellishment of some random goofy premise. I stayed away from this one for a while because I mistakenly assumed it was about Twitter itself, based only on the title. Don't make the same mistake, Tweet Me Harder is definitely worth a try.

Tweet Me Harder started with a simple premise; two guys making up funny stuff with their twitter legion of twitter followers serving as a springboard for new ideas. And when it sticks to that premise it is one of the most clever and funny podcasts in existence. Unfortunately every few episodes Malki and Straub stray from this path to make multi-episode story arcs. These are all terrible. These episodes start with the two leads spending an inordinate amount of time rying to piece together what turns out to be just the mere premise of the story (i.e. the podcast being bought out by a mid-east conglomerate). Entire episodes have been spent with the main characters working towards this punch-line that anyone capable of speaking the English language would have seen coming from the first minute and a half. And when the protagonists finally get there they’ve already run out of steam and anything funny to say. From the more free flowing shows it is quite clear that Malki and Straub are two very clever and intelligent people, if they could learn to play to that strength during the show’s story arcs (or get rid of them altogether) this would be a 5 star show. But because they insist on dumbing themselves down half of the episodes are absolutely unlistenable.

i stuck in as long as i could desperately hoping i would hear something mildly humorous. no luck. absolutely unbearable.