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  1. 27 minutes ago, taylorannephoto said:

    It's so interesting how that always happens when certain women guest on the show 🤔

    Also, did they not here her talk about how women DON'T shriek like the way this movie portrayed them?

    I'm sure that they heard her, but also heard her talking about how no man will ever say no to sex under any circumstances and figured she wasn't serious about gender stereotypes.


  2. He was referring to the rotating set of archived episodes that will be available for free in the regular podcast feed. You can download all of the ones available today, and grab the next set when they're rotated several months from now. After a few of these cycles, you'll eventually have all of them.

     

    Alternately, Howl provides the complete archive of all episodes with no ad interruptions.

     

    Is there a way of seeing which ones are available without having to go through each one?


  3. Howl's web site is infuriatingly useless. Can someone who subscribes to Howl explain this to me?

     

    I want to listen to the HGTGM Birdemic episode on my iPod nano. I don't have an iPhone, and my Android phone is on a limited data plan (so no streaming) and has limited storage space (so no downloads, and actually I don't even have enough room to download another app). The iPod Nano is not an iOS device, so I can't use anything that requires an app.

     

    QUESTION: If I sign up for howl.fm, will I be able to download the Birdemic episode and play it on my iPod Nano?

     

    Paul mentioned Dan Carlin's podcasts in the announcement. You can buy all of Dan Carlin's old episodes individually (which I have done). Is there a way to buy individual HDGTM/Earwolf podcasts that doesn't require an iPhone or Android app?

     

    You cannot legally download the podcasts from the Howl site, so no if you don't have iPhone or Android, and don't want to listen from the computer, then you are SOL.


  4. Well as someone that listens to his podcasts on his MP3 player white exercising and swimming, I guess I just can't listen to the older episodes any more, since you can't download them to an mp3 player. Also, where is the $2.91 price coming from? The Howl site says $4.99/month. You know, if I want to just take my laptop swimming with me.

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  5. You've done exactly that. They don't like the paywall, but he specifically says they are working for a way to make this work for BOTH parties. You've chosen to ignore the parts that don't fit your argument. They don't love the paywall idea, fine. But that is not their sole message. Yet it seems to be only part you are interested in. They are working with Earwolf/Midroll to find a mutually beneficial solution. If that solution ends up being HDTGM coming out from behind the paywall, then that's cool. If it ends up being a different solution, then we'll see what the solution is, but I will still be okay with paying to support something that gives me hours of entertainment. Same goes for Professor Blastoff.

     

    You are still not entitled to steal content because you don't want to pay, regardless of what the content creators' intentions were. The content creators are not the only side of the equation, and stealing content in their name is a total red herring argument which has been what this whole conversation is about (and the argument you keep coming back to repeatedly when I point out the problems in your other arguments like the Netflix business model or ad revenue in old episodes).

     

    No, I don't feel entitled to steal content because I don't want to pay. I feel entitled to listen to the content the way that the content creators always intended and continue to want their listeners to experience it.

     

    And I didn't ignore any part of it. I posted the entire thing for everyone to see rather than the one heavily reworded part of a sentence that you chose to use to support your stance. You can do whatever you want. You want to stick up for the suits that have nothing to do with the creation of the content, you're more than welcome to. I'll stick with the creators.


  6. I don't know much about Professor Blastoff, but Paul's message was more along the lines of, "We're trying to work for a solution that is mutually beneficial" and not the way that you are portraying it at all.

     

    "Jason, June and I have always had issues with this paywall, and unfortunately it was sprung on us as well as you without any warning aside from a passing mention in a Howl ad about a year ago. Now we've heard your concerns and we share them, and since this has happened we've been working with Howl and Earwolf to find a better solution, and we have a lot of good ideas which we will share with you very soon. But rest assured the team involved with this switch profusely apologize for the way it was handled. And we want to also apologize to you too because this is not our intention and we want to make the show available in a way that it has always been available, so we're working on a way to make both interests meet and I think we'll have some exciting information for you very shortly about this, so stand by and thank you for your patience." Direct quote from the beginning of this week's HDTGM. Please note: They've always had issues with the idea of a paywall on their content, this is not what they want, they want to make the show available as it has always been. So don't try to cherry pick one section of a sentance and try to twist that into their entire message.

    I also reached out to the Professor Blastoff crew on Twitter to hear their thoughts, and Kyle Dunnigan said that they have already asked Earwolf to remove their content from the paywall, and to stay tuned.


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    'Greed.' You call giving us free content for, what? 7 years? Then announcing 2 years ago that things are going behind a paywall, finally doing it (I think more than a year later than they said they were doing to do it) but still keeping all current things free and 6 months back free....is greedy? And, as they already pointed out, they take down episodes when asked to. So, maybe at some point some of the creators will say (like Jeff Garlin did) remove my stuff. But to call this 'greed', is just baffling.

     

    It's simple, the hosts did not do this for money, do not want money for it, and are upset that their fans are being charged for it. However the higher ups don't care about what the content creators want, and are doing this anyways, because they want more money. Hence: greed. Less baffling yet?


  8. Because you have access to their budget, I'm sure, and you know how much the hosts make, how much the engineers make, and how much all the other Earwolf employees that perform various behind-the-scenes tasks make. Additionally, I promise you that Netflix has an exponentially higher base of subscribers, which gives them the capital to make their original series. Additionally, it took them 14 years to make one of these series (well after they were dominating the market financially and had plenty of revenue to expend on such a venture).

     

    There are plenty of other differentiators on why the Netflix model is different, but you seem to be content to do whatever mental gymnastics possible to justify your position that it's okay to steal content if you don't like paying for it, so I'll spare you the lesson, which will almost certainly fall on deaf ears.

     

    You can say whatever you want. The hosts made nothing. They made these free, with the expectation that the podcasts are free, and are unhappy that people are now being charged for it, and are "looking into alternatives" which quite frankly I hope means taking their intellectual property and finding a less greedy place to release it from. Hey, I wasn't the one that brought up the Netflix model as a comparison to begin with, so don't try lecturing me that it's not the same.


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    Because it often provides an easy explanation for why things aren't always exactly how you want them to be.

     

    Even easier economics lesson, taking advantage of the example provided. This is half the price of Netflix. The shows on Netflix cost hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars to make per episode. A podcast costs maybe a hundred bucks, covered by donations and ads. We are obviously getting crap value for our money. (Again, my issue here isn't the cost, it's the greed and going against the content creators' wishes, but don't try to make this sound like some great value.)

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    I was talking about the original poster, not you. But again man, why so fucking aggressive for no reason? Yeah, they solicited donations to keep shows free...they didn't get enough donations to keep shows free. That was the entire implication of all that. 'Help us keep the shows free by donating...' if we they didn't get enough donations, then the shows wouldn't be free anymore. They didn't get enough but the new shows, and 6 months of shows ARE STILL FREE. And the original shows were free for YEARS.

     

    Seriously, take the 2 minutes to listen to the beginning of the new HDTGM episode, and you will hear Paul say exactly what I have been. This is not what they want. They fought against it, and are continuing to fight to find a better solution because this is not what they signed on for. So while I'm being accused of being entitled for "acting like I know what the content creators want", there you go, they just told you themselves. But hey, at least the poor corporation has you there to protect their feelings.

     

    As for buying a smart phone and accessories for it, no, I'm not going to spend money so that I can spend more money to listen to something I can listen to for free, and also, iPods and Androids are notorious for not liking to go swimming.


  11. Yes it is entitled.

     

    The "people that wanted it to be free" had their expectations met, every episode was released for free. Now a very large archive is going behind a paywall. Do you think Jerry Seinfield would feel betrayed that his show was no longer free if it went up on netflix? I imagine for each and every podcast there was some sort of agreement that earwolf owns the rights to the show.

     

    You act like Earwolf is some evil corporation trying to destroy your podcasts but I don't think anybody is getting rich of howl or anything, but there is a desire to make podcasting a more financially viable medium. If you don't want to pay for howl, don't buy howl but don't think you're justified in pirating the paywalled content.

     

    Seinfeld was an entirely for profit venture. Everyone involved, from the actors to the producers to the corporate executives, did it to make money. It is an entirely different process that has nothing to do with what we're talking about. It is more akin to artists being asked to produce pro bono work for a gallery that will be free to the public in perpetuity. And then after all of his work was submitted and displayed for a little while, someone else took over the gallery and started charging anyone that wanted to come in, but don't worry, we'll still put a couple of them in the windows. You really don't think there would be public outcry?


  12. Professor Blastoff also ended when they had paying opportunities. Who Charted seemed like it was on the brink of ending when Bajillion started up. People whined about them selling out on these forums.

     

    Blastoff ended because they became too busy with the rest of their lives to be able to meet and create a weekly podcast. And it was a struggle for them to do so for a large part of the time that the show was airing. That doesn't change what the show was or what the intention of the creators was. They spoke about the fact that they probably could have kept going with a paid model, but that was not what they wanted for the show or their fans.


  13. You keep repeating this as if it's fact. Do you have record of this "expressed purpose?" I've never heard it before, so I'd be curious to read or hear where you got that information.

     

    Listen to pretty much any podcast. If they ask for donations, or (more often) are doing their ads and they tell you to go to the sites and use the promo codes because that keeps the podcasts free for everyone. Listen to just about any episode of Professor Blastoff and they talked many times about how they happily do them for free because they love bringing content to the fans and find it a great way to interact with their audience, and that is creates more opportunities for them with their comedy. Even when they did live shows they didn't charge for them because they never wanted there to be a paywall between the show and their audience. Maybe it's because that show is so beloved by me, and the fact that they perverted the wishes of the hosts that I am so angry about this BS.


  14. Podcasts are not a right, get over it. If you don't want to pay then don't.

     

    Suggesting people STEAL them instead of pay is crappy. People literally WORK to bring us this entertainment and you are in a friggin tizzy they want to maybe MAKE money? Tell me how many hours you work for totally free? We get 24 free eps PER POD available at any given time.

     

    I will tell you how much I give away for free at my job.....ZIP ZILCH ZERO.

     

    Earwolf has been my #1 source of comedy for over 5 years and I don't want podcasts to be a fad that dies out because they are not profitable.

     

    Not that anyone cares what I think but I have imposed it on you because Earwolf has graciously offered me that platform FREE OF CHARGE.

     

    No, the people that made the podcasts did so with the expressed purpose that their fans be able to listen to them for free. It is the management that are getting greedy and want free money for things that they've already been paid for in terms of both donations and ads.

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  15. I just don't see how this makes sense financially or for the listeners.

     

    I also don't see how this doesn't cause lower ad revenues. I honestly don't see how companies like Audible or Square Space are going to pay the same amount for their ad to run on an episode for 6 months as they do for one that runs for years on end, which is what they used to have here (and I'm sure they're pleased that that was changed after they already paid for it) and which they do with many podcasts and YouTubers elsewhere. Spending their ad money on an Earwolf show suddenly doesn't make as much sense any more.

     

    Also there's the issue of fan donations. For years fans have donated to different shows, tossing in hundreds, if not thousands of dollars a week with the promise of keeping the Earworlf Network and the shows on in free for everyone. One of the biggest ones was Professor Blastoff, where every week they would call out a few people for donating $100 or more. And that's a show that you cannot listen to a single episode of for free any more, even for those that spent their hard earned money on it to keep it free. Again, such a slimy move by the company and the people running it.

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  16. I'm sorry, but this is disgusting. These podcasts were designed to be free, with ads within the podcasts themselves. If you feel like getting greedy, then create new podcasts to charge people money for rather than taking the ones that were designed to be shared free and making people pay to listen to them.

    I have zero doubt that it will be a matter of mere days before these podcasts are being provided for free elsewhere, and I will be listening to them guilt free, as that was the intention of the hosts, engineers, and producers that created them. I hope you make some decent money from your new arrangement, because your listenership is about to crash into the basement.

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