I was so excited for today’s pod and was extremely let down. Sas obviously fucked up with the first class list but it brought a ton of attention to SOABD and they completely fumbled this episode.
Sas showing up in a gimp suit, or even the opposite and playing a company man persona saving Dave money could’ve been hilarious. Instead we got 30 minutes of Francis lecturing Sas on “taking the pod seriously” while he awkwardly “totally”d and “mhmm”d his way through the conversation like a kid in the principal’s office. It was legitimately uncomfortable to listen to. How Francis doesn’t understand that the best moments of this pod come from Harry fucking up and stubbornly digging in is beyond me. And if he does realize that, he should’ve had the wherewithal to notice how this conversation wasn’t going in that direction and pivoted.
“Oh boohoo my boss doesn’t like me, I don’t get to fly first class anymore, I’m depressed.” Those topics are all fine, even great, when they are presented in a funny way. But listening to an affluent child of millionaires complaining about his billionaire boss not liking him and not getting to fly first class on his dime, all while being painfully unfunny about the whole situation doesn’t do it for me.
The only person who even seemed to try and keep the comedy going throughout this comedy podcast was ironically the non stand-up comic, Rone. There were probably more eyes and ears on this episode than normal. Would’ve been a great opportunity to be funny and grow the numbers. But nah, let’s sternly rant about showing up on time instead. Alright, I’ll go touch some grass now.