My sister just lost her job because her boss said she seemed distracted. Single widowed (during pandemic) mother with two kids under four, working a nine to five job every day. This system sucks
WE WON. Evil (the show) shut down around 1 am. A handful of us walking in a tiny circle cost them the day’s shoot. We were told the producers were pissed They kept the crew there for hours, sitting on the sidewalk. We felt the solidarity. We’ll win this whole thing together
I need some help with this math. I created a podcast that was loved by many - that was a commercial and critical success - only to be told by the company that produced it that both myself and the show were worthless. But that company is now reportedly worth $200 million. How?
It felt like failing even to die. That’s what women take on. After all her accomplishments, her body betraying her felt like failure. And now these fuckers, who have failed upwards their whole lives, are downright chipper at the prospect of controlling bodies like hers
Tarantino just claimed his award in his all male category, by listing the lineage of his all male cinematic inspirations. Then ended by thanking his wife for being pregnant with his spawn
I went through the pandemic alone, with only my dog, who is my best friend. Now he’s dying, just as hope is finally here. I’m living inside I Am Legend and I don’t like it at all
There are kidnapped children sleeping on floors in internment camps in America. We know where they are and we won’t let them out. I feel like I’m losing my mind
They keep saying this is unprecedented. White people are responding to black people gaining power the way they’ve always responded. With brute force. And they’re being protected the way white people have always been protected
I’ve been telling you guys
@Gimletmedia
is toxic for a long time. I’m glad others are speaking out. I know it’s hard. Podcasting didn’t have to be like this. Power and money was given to the wrong, oh so predictable archetypes and they wreaked white male mediocrity accordingly
I’ve been thinking about crowd funding every day. And feel on the verge of doing it. Just wanted to make sure I still had a show in me, that would live up to your guys’ faith. Honestly every time one of these companies waste my time, I feel more emboldened
It’s not that podcasts cost too much to make. Spotify had no interest in making their podcasts profitable. There was no good faith effort. They just bought out the competition, made a few already rich hosts more rich + stopped there. And now they’re going after independent shows
I went through the pandemic alone, with only my dog, who is my best friend. Now he’s dying, just as hope is finally here. I’m living inside I Am Legend and I don’t like it at all
My grandmother lived to be 102 and would sometimes round up to 103, even 104. She took such pride in it. Point is what is this 99 years old nonsense we’re pulling with Betty? She was 17 days away from her birthday. We can give it to her
It feels crazy to be watching tv. It feels crazy to be tweeting. It feels crazy to be doing anything but showing up outside the camps and demanding those children be set free
When Mystery Show ended, my email was shut down and I lost every email I’d ever received about it. Truly this site has been my greatest link to what it felt like to make the show and why I had wanted to make it. Thank you everyone for that. This really does feel so strangely sad
Okay before Twitter deflates, can everyone who has listened to Bone Valley tweet about it so that it can find an audience? I had nothing to do with making it but I’m frustrated by how little coverage it’s gotten. An innocent man’s life literally depends on this show being heard
Breaking News: Spotify lured Joe Rogan with a $200 million deal, double initial reports. It made the company a podcasting giant. But controversy followed, putting the company at the center of a fiery debate about misinformation and free speech.
This island formed so early at Gimlet. Before the company even started to grow. I experienced it. A physical pulling away. For no conceivable reason other than wanting to be separate
Reply All was/is an island at Gimlet. It’s the brand’s biggest show. And it showed in resources and power. When they spoke, the company listened. But they rarely exercised this power beyond the scope of their team. It was a clique.
Actually everyone loved Mystery Show. Women, men, children. I’m pointing this out bc
@mlieber
once tried to weaponize this by calling MS a women’s show
I knew something was off at Gimlet when they cancelled Starlee's podcast after one season... a podcast with a sizable following, especially with women. It's like Gimlet only understood white guys.
.
@Gimletmedia
killed my love for the medium with its capitalist obsession to be acquired. This seems to be the goal of podcasting now. I hope new companies are started that follow a different model and aren’t owned by only white men. Stop giving white men all the money!
Real Time is coming back, unfortunately, sans writers or writing. It has been five months, and it is time to bring people back to work. The writers have important issues that I sympathize with, and hope they are addressed to their satisfaction, but they are not the only people
If you have a secret crush, tell them. Right now. Log off and let it be it be known to them. After that debate tonight, after all of this, what's the point of living in fear. Go for it
I watched something tonight that I’m pretty sure conjured up just the right amount of “wait I could do that in my sleep” for me to start making things for you guys again
No podcast creator should agree to give up ownership of their show to a company at this point. At least until a new, more creator friendly way of doing things is figured out. There are other ways to get your show made. Don’t let them convince you otherwise
Please tell me your thing that got cancelled that you are sad about, no matter how small.
Even the loss of relatively small things in this still totally sucks.
After 22 years I'm leaving Slate to launch a new audio company with Malcolm
@Gladwell
. We'll make Revisionist History, Broken Record, and lots more. Love to friends
@slate
&
@panoply
, the best people in digital media. Thanks to
@oshy
, GHCO and Don Graham for so much support.
These three
#WGAStrong
picketers are still holding the line in Greenpoint at the set of Evil. Across the street IATSE still not crossing.
@WGAEast
pickets have been everywhere in nyc FOR 18 HOURS today.
I guess before this moment passes I’ll just say that
@Gimletmedia
funded Case of the Missing Hit and yet cancelled Mystery Show (and fired me) while I was in the process of working on a missing song case. Here’s a link to two of the songs, along with
@emmy_the_great
’s covers
To celebrate our 25th anniversary, we’ve released some of our favorite episodes for binge-listening. From 2007:
@StarleeKine
asks Phil Collins for advice on writing the perfect break-up song. Listen on
@ApplePodcasts
now.
You know that anecdote about how Nora Ephron knew the identity of Deep Throat and told it for years to everyone she could, every chance she got. But no one took her seriously. Yeah
Mystery Show listeners are the coziest fire on the Internet. I don’t know how that fire ended up burning on Twitter because this place can be such a hellmouth but I’m grateful
i have spent the last half hour reading tweets of people have written about mystery show, a 1 season podcast i absolutely loved that has been dead for 3 years, and this is the kind of thing that gives me hope for twitter.
that being said, someone sign
@StarleeKine
to a new deal.
Absolute lunacy that we can’t feel certain he’ll lose tomorrow, after the shit storm of these four years. He did EVERYTHING wrong and still it will be nightmarishly close