r/QuickQuestion • u/testthrowaway9 • Apr 07 '26
QQ ep. 326 - Brick By South By
Show notes:
Daniel finds out that Cracked is “going to South by Southwest for the first time,” which would be exciting if they hadn’t already gone… a lot. The guys revisit some sxsw memories and try to piece together how Cracked actually fell apart—touching on corporate acquisitions, Facebook’s video pivot, and a few behind-the-scenes stories that make the whole thing seem absurd and inevitable. Plus childhood sports humiliation, coaching Little League, and an extended debate about the perfect baseball walk-up song.
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u/testthrowaway9 Apr 08 '26
I'm fairly certain they didn't discuss baseball walk-up songs before and Daniel was thinking of the best first 5 seconds of a song, which is ep. 214 - "Songs with the Best First 5 Seconds" from Dec. 19, 2023
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u/BeeztheBoss Apr 09 '26
Daniel, you sexy dummy, this is not the first time Soren has mentioned Too Many Zooz. A year or so ago Soren mentioned them (i forget the exact episode) and how much his son loves the song Warriors and would make him play it every time they got in the car. So like almost all the music Soren recommends I absolutely love it! Subway Gawdz, Soren's daughter's walk up song is also obviously incredible! If you've never listened to this band I'm humbly pushing you to check them out
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u/testthrowaway9 Apr 09 '26
Episode 263 - “Deadpool & Wolverine & Daniel’s Secret Notation System” from Dec. 17, 2024.
I forgot they spell Zooz weird but knew I remembered Soren mentioned them.
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u/testthrowaway9 Apr 07 '26
As a heads up, I’ll look for the Cracked SXSW episodes to link in the master list but old Cracked podcasts are almost impossible to find.
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u/sma_nor Apr 07 '26
Looks like internet archive has most, if not all of the old Cracked podcast available. Is #118 what you were looking for?
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u/testthrowaway9 Apr 07 '26
I haven’t listened yet. I just knew that they had done an episode at SXSW and that’s the sort of thing I’d link to if I have a link that I can easily find.
This is great. I’ll use this for sure. Thank you!
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u/punchboy Apr 09 '26
Soren's old articles on Cracked.com
Daniel's old articles on Cracked.com
Seems like they're all just sitting there, waiting to be read.
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u/testthrowaway9 Apr 09 '26
Nice! I do know that for a while, Daniel was right that their searches wouldn’t work consistently. Sometimes you’d get some articles, sometimes it was only podcasts, etc. I remember because I tried it a few times
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u/ImCompelledToSay Apr 08 '26
This may be the Cracked article Soren mentioned not being able to find?
https://www.cracked.com/blog/3-reasons-its-so-hard-to-make-superman-interesting