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Re: Ep 199: The Cult, Ads for Shoes, Garry Shandling

sealfur — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:05:16 -0000

Thanks, Chuckles73. That is an interesting take on television advertising.

Do you know if that's worked for them? I mean, has television advertising been as useful as their brochures?

Re: Ep 198: Beauty plus Geek, Marc Fennell

Bolden — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:08:02 -0000

That's ok, it's just that that is the first time I've wished for chapters in the podcast so I could skip to the next chapter after about 3 minutes of that interview. I stuck with it in the hope that you'd get where you obviously wanted to go, but sadly (and I guess probably as 'Jade' was in the studio) you didn't.

I don't think you hit on any of the points above... well, maybe you did ask but they either didn't understand or didn't answer (perhaps quite cleverly) those direct questions.

No, I actually loved the Marc Fennell interview, did enough to get me interested and set the IQ2 to tape it, we'll see what comes of it.

PS - I loved the apology for the 6 in the studio... I only heard 3 (and a cracking smell line from Brett! Gold!)

Re: Ep 198: Beauty plus Geek, Marc Fennell

sealfur — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:50:25 -0000

I'm sorry you didn't like it, Bolden. We've had a lot of positive feedback about that interview. Although, I'll admit, none from anybody calling themselves "lame@getfucked.com".

We hoped to get across information about how aware contestants are about what they're going through with these shows. I haven't had a chance to listen back to the episode so I don't know if we succeeded.

We hear a lot about manipulation of characters in Reality/Extreme Gameshows but on Boxcutters we've never spoken to anyone who has actually spent several weeks in a house with no outside stimulus.

If the contestants feel that they have grown and learnt something from the experience, then does it really lack moral value?

The concept of the show, especially in the US, is largely exploitative. What compels someone to put themselves up for that sort of exploitation?

I would hope that there is a difference between what the Corin and Jenna said on our show and what they would say on breakfast radio.

Or maybe I've misunderstood you. Maybe you loved our interview with Corin and Jenna but hated the one with Marc Fennell from Hungry Beast.

Re: Ep 192: Southland, Quotes, Crap TV, Letters

sealfur — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:38:34 -0000

I've missed the crunchy granola suite.

Re: Ep 191: James Talia, Torchwood, Hosts of things

sealfur — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:14:36 -0000

I am going to look at Warehouse 13 if only because I've heard all the science is accurate (and that's a rarity). Sometimes the Mai-Tai network produce good work but I have to say I was originally sceptical about another X-Files cc.

Re: Pitch Yourself a Crumpler Beanbag

sealfur — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:23:15 -0000

The prize is a delightfully comfortable Crumpler Bean Bag. Other than that there is nothing that ties the two concepts together. It's a prize, but what a wondeful prize.

Re: Ep 189: Psychoville, Leafbusters, MasterChef Postmortem

sealfur — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:06:15 -0000

It's interesting that you think M*A*S*H should be on a never-ending loop. I was recently discussing it with a friend of mine and it's a really interesting case for a TV sitcom.

I think it's worth discussing, for sure. Stay tuned.

Re: Ep 188: Human Giant, Pink and Penguins

sealfur — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:43:47 -0000

But there is no...

Re: Ep 185: Peter Lane, Sue Taylor, TV That Kills

sealfur — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:50:45 -0000

Just a little clarification. The mortgage monster I was talking about was the Wizard Mortgage Beast. It's no longer used but I found a couple of references: http://web.archive.org/web/20050204091011/http:...
and http://www.bandt.com.au/news/4b/0c026c4b.asp

Re: Ep 184: Better Off Ted, Monkey, Squiz

sealfur — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:35:48 -0000

We knew we were going to disturb some people's routines with the unusually early episode. You could just go to bed now or stay up, listen to the episode and then listen to some old episodes to get you through to after midnight.

Re: Ep 179: Freeview, Revisiting Old Television, Shame on Henrie Stride and Channel 10

sealfur — Fri, 01 May 2009 02:42:37 -0000

OK. Have a look at http://www.redbubble.com/people/boxcutters. I'll be adding more t-shirts as the weekend continues.

Re: Ep 179: Freeview, Revisiting Old Television, Shame on Henrie Stride and Channel 10

sealfur — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:55:47 -0000

OK. As far as fitted goes, you can get whatever kind of shirt you want. Girly fitted, pie-eater, long sleeve, v-neck, zombie fighter. They have them all there which is also why I'm going to move all the Boxcutters shirts over to Red Bubble.

I'm working on creating a new and improved Superstore of Love over there and I'll put it all in there.

Re: Ep 179: Freeview, Revisiting Old Television, Shame on Henrie Stride and Channel 10

narrelle — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:51:06 -0000

As long as they still have ultra-roomy shirts, I'll be happy.

Re: Ep 179: Freeview, Revisiting Old Television, Shame on Henrie Stride and Channel 10

sealfur — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:45:37 -0000

You asked for it, you got it. At last an angry, man-hating, lesbiany kind of t-shirt.

I've made it on Red-Bubble who seem to be a lot better than cafepress so over the weekend I'll be moving the superstore of love over there.

Re: Facebook Connect does not show User's identity...

giannii — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:16:44 -0000

Still waiting on a answer from Facebook but I will let you know when I hear
something.
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Re: Facebook Connect does not show User's identity...

sealfur — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:17:01 -0000

@knowyourmerch, I think if you're using Disqus and you're worried about how it will look to your customers if you reply as "Facebook User" then maybe you should, even in the interim, use a method other than Facebook Connect for posting your comments.

@Giannii, it would be great if you could give us an update from the dev team to let us know when we could expect this issue to be resolved.

Thanks.

Re: Freeview launches new campaign: More for free but at what cost?

sealfur — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:06:05 -0000

Fantastic, keep them coming. Does anybody think Freeview is fooling anyone?

Re: Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities: The Review

Bob — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:44:47 -0000

I think i said it all just read what i said, you dont know what you're on about because it's fucking great, i just dont dont save my finer English for scum like you.

Re: Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities: The Review

sealfur — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:10:44 -0000

Well, thanks for that in-depth rebuttal. Still, there must be something missing from your argument because I remain unconvinced. Care to give it another try? Anybody else?

Re: Ep 166: Gavin & Stacey, Soap, Dumb Advertising.

facebook-1171048121 — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:09:39 -0000

I tried to say that too, but was having problems logging in - really, what is the likelihood of a television podcast ever mentioning John Updike? Only if they want to kill him, apparently. Josh has been trying to excuse himself, claiming that it was simply because Updike was elderly and had cancer, but I think we all know what's really going on here.

Re: Ep 166: Gavin & Stacey, Soap, Dumb Advertising.

facebook-627372844 — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:48:11 -0000

Update: apparently it's only happening wit Facebook Connect comments. We're looking into it now.

Re: Ep 166: Gavin & Stacey, Soap, Dumb Advertising.

sealfur — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:47:30 -0000

We've had somebody mention problems with the commenting system. Please send us an email if this is happening to you.

Re: Ep 166: Gavin & Stacey, Soap, Dumb Advertising.

Josh — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:45:52 -0000

What are the chances of us even mentioning John Updike in a show about television? This is getting sooooo creepy.

Re: Boxcutters comments get even more social

Bolden — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:48:28 -0000

Aaah, via facebook... yeah, can't do that at work ;) -- have to use my rss feeds to see that! I'll do it from home... thanks.

Re: Boxcutters comments get even more social

sealfur — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:44:04 -0000

When I tried it, I had to log into Facebook connect (using my Facebook login which I'm pretty sure is the email address). Personally I prefer disqus but FBConnect does make it easier for people who want to use commenting as part of their social networks to do that without having to sign up for something new.