The Boredwalk Podcast Episode 185: Tired and wired, we ruin too easy
Release Date: 09/22/2023
The Boredwalk Podcast Episode 216: Feeling Beachy Keen
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This week Meredith and Tess discuss Boredwalk's forays into "engagement farming" (aka posting entertaining content to social media) and the cranky commenters who don't seem to know how algorithms or just, y'know, existing on the internet work. Meredith then shares a gripe about a shameless Instagram account making money off stealing the work of other actual content creators and passing it off as their own, including herself. They then talk about the weird dissonance of the Delve Deck's growing popularity on TikTok and how it is both gratifying yet still gives Meredith the ick. Tess then reads...
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The Boredwalk Podcast Episode 215: Vexed by the hex
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This week Meredith & Tess indulge in one of their favorite pastimes: complaining about other people! There are of course the usual suspects: your social media trolls, your IRL Karens, your low-level authority figures on a power trip, etc. But there are also the less obviously tiresome twits who think every comedy sketch Boredwalk posts to social media is a documentary, or that every song Taylor Swift and countless other musicians write are 100% autobiographical descriptions of their life experiences, or that creative work more broadly — including the clothes and tools and...
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The Boredwalk Podcast Episode 214: It was the worst of times, and it was... still the worst of times.
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Meredith & Tess talk about the latest weird AI-related internet scam, Meredith's love of roasting her Facebook feed, and how AI broadly speaking is a net negative for society. They then check in with the internet trolls, read a couple nice customer reviews, and react to fan responses to the recent Question of the Day "What about you makes the least sense?" before sharing their own. They wrap up the episode by trading answers to the following questions from the Delve Deck Venting Edition and Delve Deck Joy Edition: "What's been your least favorite age and why?" and "What do you look forward...
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The Boredwalk Podcast Episode 213: Phone calls? Voice memos? Ew, gross.
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This week Tess and Meredith discuss phone calls that could be emails, their shared hatred of voice memos, counterfeiters, and your recent answers to the Question of the Day "What seemed harmless to you as a kid that you now look back on in horror?" (You can find this question and many other interesting ones in our original .) They also share a recent product review and make fun of an Instagram troll before wrapping things up by trading answers to questions from the Delve Deck and editions. If you think the Delve Deck questions and the conversations they sparked sound fun, head over...
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The Boredwalk Podcast Episode 212: Have a cursed day!
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This week Meredith and Tess discuss curses, the social hierarchy of Hell, and social media marketing. Sounds unrelated, but they are strangely connected! This leads to a conversation about luck, skill, circumstance, and the cognitive dissonance of people who confuse the three. Tess shares a fun (and cute!) review from a Boredwalk customer (and their cat), and Meredith reads some enthusiastic comments from Boredwalk's ads, but as we all know you can't appreciate sunshine without a little stormy weather to compare it to. Thankfully the internet has a limitless supply of trolls eager to keep us...
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The Boredwalk Podcast Episode 211: Mo' Meta Blues
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Meredith and Tess discuss the wrecking ball that Meta (aka the parent company of Facebook and Instagram) has thrown through Boredwalk's operations since the start of 2024 due to its persistently broken and volatile ad platform. This leads to a conversation about the things that Boredwalk is being forced to do to survive, including layoffs and testing the shark-infested waters of selling on Amazon. To add insult to economic injury, they react to a recent foul-mouthed email our customer service team received from a person who purchased a counterfeit Boredwalk t-shirt from some obviously shady...
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The Boredwalk Podcast Episode 210: The Matt is back!
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This week Tess was joined — at long, long last — by Boredwalk co-founder Matt, who has been MIA on the podcast since mid-December! Unfortunately it was not for something fun, like defending Earth against alien invaders in a space war. No, the cause of his absence was much less interesting and much more boring. So fair warning — if you have zero interest in hearing him drone on for a few minutes about email and SMS marketing platform migrations and changing product review apps, scrub ahead to minute 4:00! Tess swoops in to save your earballs with a fun customer review, less fun (but...
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The Boredwalk Podcast Episode 209: Culinary cockroaches
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This week Meredith & Tess discuss the proposed TikTok divestment and/or ban working its way through Congress but touch on the equally problematic proliferation of AI-generated deep fake photos and videos. Worse living through technology! This leads into a conversation about the accelerating normalization of general incompetence in the world. Wonderful! Tess reads a recent glowing review of our Delve Deck conversation cards, and chases it with some troll comments to make sure we don't get too high on ourselves. Mission accomplished, Kolton! Speaking of the Delve Deck, our hosts move on to...
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The Boredwalk Podcast Episode 208: Bad vibes only
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Meredith & Tess discuss gross eHarmony ads, Boredwalk's most recent burglary, ineffective law enforcement, and the general bad vibes swirling around Boredwalk for the last several months. They also debate which is more powerful: capitalism or misogyny? Meredith is pretty sure it's misogyny and lays out why, and Tess supports this with some first-hand experiences working on ads for some of the worst companies on the internet. They then check in with the internet troll contingent, and the trolls did not disappoint. Thankfully, Karen left a 5-star review for her new Grievance Journal, which...
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The Boredwalk Podcast Episode 207: Dispatches from the Tortured Small Business Owners Department
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This week Meredith and Gabe discuss the heroes and trolls that alternately praise and vilify Boredwalk on the internet. This leads to an interesting conversation about the cognitive dissonance between the forms of creative work that are deemed acceptable to monetize and those that are not (See: Taylor Swift's forthcoming album The Tortured Poets Department and Boredwalk's Grievance Journal) and how social media platforms pay for themselves in a broader sense (See: running ads for products like Boredwalk's Grievance Journal). Our co-hosts move on to reacting to fan answers to the Question...
info_outlineThis week Boredwalk co-founder Matt chats with Gracie from the Boredwalk content team commiserate about their ADHD and experience of being both exhausted and excitable at the same exact time.
They also chat about anxiety, depression, the struggle of trying to make new friends as an adult using apps, and the best things that have happened to us over the last year, courtesy of our new Delve Deck: Joy Edition. (See, it's not all doom & gloom!)
They also have fun at the expense of some trolls, which is always a good time!
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