HH #394: Jesse Farrar and Mike Hale, Our Your Kickstarter Sucks Friends
Added 2021-05-04 04:24:09 +0000 UTCThe Boys catch up with JESSE FARRAR and meet his co-host MIKE HALE of the podcast Your Kickstarter Sucks.
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Sam
2021-05-04 22:45:55 +0000 UTCwe love mike and jf
shuronic
2021-05-04 21:52:33 +0000 UTCThis Jesse guy sounds like a real sick freak. I’d like to get to know this The Dogboner gentleman though.
Wesley Bair
2021-05-04 15:40:00 +0000 UTCHayes' prospector voice sounds like Paul Bearer.
Eric McKay
2021-05-04 15:36:03 +0000 UTCI don’t know why I find the dynamic between these four so funny but goddamnit I really do.
Deirdre Bouquet
2021-05-04 14:25:02 +0000 UTCUseless robots, minimalist shoes, and "offensive" card games up to the friggin' Pope's stinky eyeballs! (Ewww!) That's crowdfunding in a nutshell, but it's also our modern world - a vast creativity desert, populated almost exclusively by scammers and dummies, practically coded to prey upon our pathological consumerism, permanently on the precipice of collapsing onto itself. Plus, there's a shitload of USB cables everywhere.But it's not all bad. Most concepts springing from the twin Idea Hells of Kickstarter and IndieGoGo are so obviously stupid that they'll never go into production -- saving valuable landfill space -- and many of them are laugh-out-loud funny. Well, they're the kind of funny that makes you do that ashamed chuckle you do when you're listening to a podcast in public. Sort of a stifled "Hfff" sound, where you clear your throat right afterwards and hope nobody noticed it. Hfffffffuhhhahem. I'm normal. As much as it sucks, sometimes you do need to buy stuff though. Occasionally you may even just want something, which is also fine within reason. And bombarded as we all are every day by hyper-targeted ads, we'll all eventually find ourselves getting pitched an idea that sounds like it might be exactly what we're looking for...if only they can just raise a little money. If you've read this far, that might sound pretty daunting. But the savvy shopper can avoid disaster with a few simple tips.Crowdfunding websites aren't stores, so you can't buy stuff there. Consider your pledges donations for potential rewards, and don't expect refunds.Check existing retailers for the product you want to buy. If it's a good enough idea, it's probably already for sale -- cheaper, and you can get it sooner.You have enough USB cables.Finally, and most importantly, listen to Your Kickstarter Sucks. Mike and JF will tell you all about the nasty garbage you're missing out on, so there's no need to put yourself through the slog of browsing the sites, and they'll help steer you clear of the really tempting stuff you ultimately don't need (how many times to you expect your USB cable to be shot at anyway?) And hey, if you Hfffffffuhhhahem a little bit while you're at it, well, I don't know. That's probably good. See
Alex f_c
2021-05-04 06:41:37 +0000 UTCWow I’ve been waiting for this since jesse’s appearance on handbook. May need to listen before bed. I hope they talk about what they buy at the store
Do_rand
2021-05-04 04:28:50 +0000 UTCTit for tat.
Leo E
2021-05-04 04:25:17 +0000 UTC
