Greg Carlwood Introduces In the Weeds Podcast Format
Greg Carlwood introduces a new experimental podcast format titled In the Weeds, designed to curate conspiratorial cultural zeitgeist stories, health tips, and high strangeness. The format aims to be tighter than a livestream but more casual than a standard two-hour interview, featuring ten curated items split between free and plus versions of the show. Carlwood expresses a desire to involve future collaborators such as Gordon White, Chris Knowles, or the War Mode hosts to create a social atmosphere.
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00:00 Well, well, well as Jack Skellington the hero of Halloween Town once said What's this? A new thing with a new intro. Do we like the new intro probably not I can work on it
00:46 But welcome to a new kind of episode that I'm trying out called In the Weeds. Clever, huh? Where I Greg Carlwood wade through whatever it is that's going on out there and share curious clips and compelling threads and we just comb through the conspiratorial cultural zeitgeist as best we can I'm psyched about this. I come across so many weird stories or wild claims and just interesting ideas, little health related things the list really is endless So i am taking my guest curation skills and applying them to just general curation of all sorts of things that are on brand that i bookmarked this month in preparation
01:30 I wouldn't call it a clip show exactly because a lot of the things that i might share are text-based rather than something to play but here's what i'm thinking. It's going to be more casual than a usual THC episode, but tighter than a typical live stream. I'm picking 10 things from my big long list and we'll take the first five for the free show and continue on to another five for the plus show I know i recently reframed plus as something to be thought of in hours and hopefully you'll give me some grace on this first one because i don't know exactly how long it's going to be or how much i can talk about each one of these things myself before wanting to move onto the next one but we're trying it out. And were just gonna see where we land, this is a proof of concept let say once its out there
02:20 Then we'll have a baseline and see what the plus people think, and see if the first half is compelling enough to bring in some new subs for the full 10 items. If it's well liked I think this could be something that I block off the end of every month for And in a perfect world I would even do these with some colleagues Maybe its a good opportunity to get Gordon White or Chris Knowles involved Although Chris is pumping out a ton of stuff A Lucifer's Tech graphic novel? Yes, please. Maybe Miguel Conner or Alex Siqueiros wants to do one with me or people I like a lot but don't really put out the sort of stuff that I build interviews around Like Sam Tripoli or the War Mode guys or even the Gramerica guys! I would love to make this a hang once i set the table with the first one we'll see if it isn't obvious...I'm desperate for male companionship since The Move but all right reign it in boy
03:19 I also wanted to say that when i go to watch something these days, I find so much of it to be draining. So much of it is just different people commenting on the current five things that everyone's talking about and that's what I'm hoping to avoid with this and really all the various kinds of solo shows And I'm sure with this, of course it's hard to avoid current events entirely. But i'm only looking to bring out some of what I consider to be angles and takes that are a bit more off the radar or more interesting than the majority of what I'm hearing about X Y Z So the intro song summed up what I might consider some of the categories pretty well
04:04 But for the sake of it, let me just elaborate. So I want to go out of my way to pepper in stories that are high strangeness related or bizarre encounters things we haven't been able to make as much room for in recent years along with all sorts of threads that I pass by It just seems like the algorithms really know what gets me so lets lean in and I wanna try to bring at least a few positive things We don't actually see that often, maybe not today. But some kind of creative solutions for things or life hacks or something that's just cool and not so dark and heavy I also see so much about new toxic things found in corporate food or some new food scandal we might even see Food Crime Of The Month become a thing
04:57 On the flip side, there's positive health things I see from biohackers or natural living folks and sometimes they're quite esoteric. We'll pepper those in too! I like the idea of an extracurriculars block where i can just talk about the best media I've been consuming books movies tv games... Of course keeping it with things that are on brand Probably more fun to discuss when I have a co-pilot, but still. You know right now all i'm really liking is Fallout It's gory and very dire But somehow they keep it light...I don't know So I also thought about how often lately people ask me whatever happened to so and so Well maybe I do a where are they now thing once in awhile
05:49 It's also common for me to do an interview and then afterwards think, ah I wish I would have said this or that. Or I'll see some new information that is relevant right after I post a new show so maybe it will be common to see some sort of supplemental thing related to one of the monthly episodes one of the monthly interviews Also you know i'm not huge on following disclosure news but we might do a little of that. It's so weird because it's like there is a lot happening in disclosure and nothing happening at the same time, but maybe when a new whistleblower comes out we'll take five minutes to just run through what they're claiming shrug our shoulders and move on these are the sorts of things that I think THC fans would be interested in but don't conform to the two-hour interview format that is largely about a guesswork
06:43 I also thought about a higher side 2020 segment, going back and finding something that guests said in the past that was particularly prophetic or when there are predictions that are made months or years ago and it becomes time to assess those. Well we should make room for those kind of follow-ups and Clip Genie can probably help me find predictions that i forgot about now not all these things are involved today But if I find myself lacking, these are the sort of prompts I would give myself. And I just want to kind of let it come together organically and not box myself in and it's going to take a few episodes to chisel this block of clay into something that people like but we got to start somewhere! I'm just gonna try to have some fun with it and keep it moving It's not complicated...I shouldn't over explain it. I already set up 10 things so lets dive in and see what we've got
