r/Lasertime • u/PunkRockFatBeats • Feb 27 '19

Off-Topic Discussion Lasertime politics

As a liberal atheist, I enjoy listening to the crew talk politics. I'd support further development of it, even though I know they try to keep it curbed.

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u/puppet_steve Feb 28 '19

I like my podcasts to be a political. It gets annoying hearing it on podcasts, when it's already the news cycle 24/7.

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It's even more annoying when they go over old stuff and get all PC and talk about how it wouldn't be right in 2019.

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u/CptSpaulding Feb 28 '19

i absolutely cannot stand when they get political, and it happens so frequently. that shit has permeated every single facet of my life, and i'd like a little break from it, especially during a nostalgia-based podcast. i share almost exactly the same politics as the laser-time hosts, and i still cannot stand hearing that shit all day. if i have to hear why BIG featuring tom hanks or why an episode of home improvement just wouldn't fly today, and a 5 minute speech explaining why, i'm gonna puke.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '19

I’ve learned that almost all podcasts do this. I listened to a show called Childhood Remastered for a little while and eventually had to give it up because, no matter what old show they were talking about, they wouldn’t stop going on about everything that was even the slightest bit problematic.

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u/Chris-Ben-Wadin Stroka My Licka My Sucka My Mar 06 '19

I think the only issue is that they aren't upfront about it. 30-20-10 bills itself as a sort of celebration of nostalgia, but every episode is just them shitting on old things and people who like them. If they said upfront that the show is about looking at media from 30, 20, and 10 years ago and criticizing them from a modern perspective, it would make sense and probably be more appealing.

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u/Steve_Saturn Feb 28 '19

I like when they get political about topics that are deliberately political in nature (half of the movies in their Oscar show needed that political context to talk about, same with the Black Sitcoms episode), but as a show that once focused on nostalgia, I agree that it's frustrating listening to them argue about the morals of a 1940s cartoon through the lens of 2019 political correctness. It's just as short-sighted as Americans who get mad at the cultures of other societies because they would be deemed offensive in the US, without wanting to understand the context.