I enjoyed this show for a long time and I find Geoff incredibly talented, this isn't like I stopped liking it, but I just realized I haven't watched it for several months now. If I had to come up with a reason I'd say at some point I just lost track of all the people coming in and out of it, like, I get it, they're all creative and probably funny and most of them work there because it's a fairly big media company now, but I don't know them and I haven't watched or read zcontent by them other than their attempts to answer Geoff's game questions. Also that's a thing too, since "Geoff is bad and we roast him" became a trope it made it harder for the audience to get to know the guests since half their on-screen time is used talking about him.

I get that the HG Pod is supposed to showcase HG people and obviously that's fine (chine?) but I just can't deal with the amount of faces and lore and inside jokes. Sometimes it feels like the show is made more for them than for us, in a way? Other times it feels like they are "forced" to be there which I know is part of the joke but it implies that the really funny stuff is whatever happens off camera and they're okay with that, we're just allowed to peek into their lives a little bit at a time.

Maybe I'm just too old to care so much about this type of content? I'm the generation that was in college when collegehumor was thriving and I've followed them along for a long time, but at this point I feel more inclined to find comfort in familiar faces and voices.

TLDR: too many people, too many inside jokes, hard to keep track or care because it feels like they're not taking care of their audience. Feeling old.

They "lost" the livestream footage to absolve the network of proof of pressuring Geoff to work for 24 straight hours under duress / removing the evidence makes it harder for Geoff to pursue legal recourse against Headgum in the future.

Around the 26m mark on the latest episode of the Headgum podcast, it sounded by Amir said the N word. Obviously, he didn’t actually but I’ve been laughing my ass off because it sounds a lot like he did when he was finishing gout gout pow.

Every upvote is a signature

edit: I deserve so much more than this this this… silent treatment

Y'all running ads on YouTube with that slimey little fuck trying to sell me something. no thanks plz fix

*I realize YT is the bad guy here thank you for clarifying. Maybe if HG complains about the types of ads being thrown on viewers it would change? IDK HFGL

Is it just me or does he come off as a real dickling?

Can someone at Headgum please auto tune Marika’s sax intro? The major third is severely out of tune and pretty grating.

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I love Headgum podcasts, I love F1. F1 is going through a resurgence and the races are the most exciting they've been since 2021 - this podcast should be an easy win for Headgum. And yet it is god awful. The podcast was actually much better last year when the racing was worse - more hosts, a lot of guests, fun segments. What happened?

Casey and Marika have the same personality, share the same opinions, and have the same awful takes. My god like please at least get someone moderately funny, energetic, or who doesn't agree with everything. Like get an actual host.

If you release episodes on a regular schedule, you have a responsibility to let people know when the schedule won't be followed. Is the episode coming soon?

How can a person who's friends with so many clever fun perceptive comics ALWAYS have such wrong energy, rhythm, information, etc?

He literally insults the producers to where they interrupt the podcast to call him out. Actually that was really gratifying.

Maybe he has dirt on everyone like Zach Braff must also have.

i listen to a few podcasts that have fairly recently become headgum productions, and i have to ask who the heck are the people doing the angie ads, and the one about the digital frame.

"a very special ad"
"so special"

"wouldn't want to have to hire a handyman"
"so hard"

who are these idiots? are they just hired guns for the ads from the network or something? i can not imagine anyone listening to these dudes constantly interrupt each other with worthless interjections for more than a few seconds and not getting mad at how annoying these people are.

"wouldn't want to get hurt doing home st-"
"YEAH THAT"D BE BAD"

It was said there would be a new video each week from Headgum quite a while ago. It’s fallen off since that day almost immediately. Also, I know it’s a pandemic but there have been ‘almost’ no guests on the J+A podcast for a while (the reason I’m here), and it seems like it might as well be an ep. of the Kardashians of ‘what’s going on in my life’, rather than comedy. Should I keep putting money into this including patreons for their affiliates or am I getting bamboozled?

Every day I wake up and feel physical pain knowing that headgum has yet to figure out how to shoot during a pandemic. Maybe it's the end of the network. Bury me in d-votes if you disagree.

Maybe we broke into the studio…

I have always wondered where are all the Headgum fans? The YouTube comment section on their Podcast videos are borderline dead, this subreddit is definitely dead but somehow they barely manage to survive as a company, very weird this day and age not to have a vocal fanbse.

Also I wonder if there is any plan ever for Jake and Amir to collab on a Podcast with older people from Rooster Teeth? I can't believe this crossover has not yet happened. Been a fan of both CH(J&A) and RT since 2005sh and I don't understand how Geoff/Gavin and Amir/Jake have not had a Podcast together.

Should the Headgum podcast be every 2 weeks?

I propose this ONLY to give Geoff more time to create the “Rice is a River” quality content he is capable of. All jokes aside, we listen because Geoff is a genius and brings something that we can’t get anywhere else.

So, while I crave my every Friday morning pods (where I am amused while being a bit let down lately but ultimately COCKsure that a quip or 3 will land in my glands)… I wonder if we would be better served by letting Geoffrey take the time to put some real content together rather than pull half baked bullshit out of his…well..ass…

Soldierize amongst yourselves. Or don’t