Now that Kmele has injured himself on a mic stand, and far be it from me to kick a man while he's down, at the risk of seeming awfully insensitive, he is showing his staggering incompetence in audio on a number of fronts!
I'm joking, sir. You'll always be my favorite. (heart emojis)
Thank god it isn’t me. I’ve switched devices out in the summer sun where I can barely read the screen and this was driving me insane. I can’t finish the pod. It’s awful.
Ironic that on many episodes Kmele either doesn’t show up or he’s “multitasking” and not participating in the discussion, but on a podcast where he’s actually being interesting his mic cuts out every 10 seconds.
Think of all that happened on those missing seconds on the Epstein tapes. Now imagine what dark deep state shenanigans are afoot every time Kmele's mic cuts out!
"The Craig Mahoney Theory". Hahahahahaha. I love that Matt recognized it as such. And I also hope my name and this entire issue never, ever, are ever connected or ever go further than that again.
Kmele continues to have mic cutouts going back a few years. Why Michael and Matt never point this out, is it white privilege? Kmele sounds like RFK Junior.
I wanted to give a little shout out to “The Battered Bastards of Baseball.” I could give two squirts about baseball and this is still one of the best documentaries I’ve ever seen. 10/10 would reccomend.
Have never watched a baseball game and for some reason I was drawn to it after watching the trailer Matt recommended and shared your comment. Man, that was something else. Loved it.
Yeah, it's kind of crazy that one of cinema's all-time great tough guys got his start as a Disney kid in the '60s. Walt loved him, to the point that one of the last notes Walt scrawled as he lay dying in a hospital bed in December 1966 was just "Kurt Russell". If you get a chance, go look up the television special about the opening of the Haunted Mansion in Disneyland, where a young Kurt guides you through the attraction. As big a Disney guy as I may be, though, Kurt's best work was definitely with John Carpenter (from the 1979 Elvis TV movie to Escape From New York, The Thing, and Big Trouble In Little China is an insane run). However, my all-time favorite Kurt Russell movie is the 2009 Yankees World Series Championship video, where he's shown repeatedly in the stands at Yankee Stadium, sitting next to stepdaughter Kate Hudson who was banging A-Rod at the time.
Anyway, my favorite story involving Kurt Russell, Walt Disney, and baseball, copied and pasted from Disney historian Phil Gramlich on Facebook:
Kurt Russell was just a 13 year old kid, acting in his first Disney film, “Follow Me Boys”, in the spring of 1964. He was also a star baseball player, even at that age, and he and his family already had aspirations of him playing in the big leagues some day. In those days, the movie was being filmed at Disney’s Golden Oak Ranch, which was nowhere near the fields where Kurt’s baseball games were held. His parents didn’t want him missing any games, so they signed a deal with Walt Disney that would allow him to leave the set, by helicopter, every day at 3:00pm.
One Friday afternoon, filming was running late. Director Norman Tokar wanted to get a few more shots before losing Kurt for the day. ‘Just three more shots’, he commanded. Kurt reminded him that he had to leave…it was actually the day of the championship game for his 13 year old All Star tournament and he absolutely could not be late. The director kept pushing it. 2:45pm came and went, and Kurt kept anxiously looking at his mom on set, trying to figure out what the heck to do. At 2:59pm, he heard the blades of the helicopter spring to life: “See ya Monday!” Kurt shook the director’s hand and he and his mom ran off to their waiting ride to the field. Kurt got the game winning hit that night to win the title.
All weekend, Kurt was sweating it. He had a contract with Walt that said he could leave the set at at 3 o’clock sharp, but he was nervous that Walt would hear that he had disobeyed the director’s wishes and he’d be fired. Baseball was his true love but he loved acting too and his dad was spending a lot of money on those helicopter rides.
Kurt got to set that Monday morning, went to makeup and wardrobe, and was on his way to class in the little schoolhouse on set when he noticed Walt about 100 feet away and walking straight at him. He figured he’d better go take his tongue lashing or firing like a man, so he walked straight to him and did not try to avoid him. When he got closer, he noticed that Walt had a huge smile on his face. He laughed as he playfully hit Kurt on the shoulder, ‘I hear you got the game-winning hit the other night! Way to go!’
In regard to Epstein, if it’s no big deal that the tapes were edited then why don’t they also just release the unedited version? They must have it, considering that the tapes were only edited 2 months ago. You guys claim that they just brightened it up and made it clearer, but 3 minutes were taken out of the tape. You guys seriously don’t even find that a little bit odd? Are we really idiots for not just giving a pass to a tape that wouldn’t hold up in court?
Let the economy keep getting worse and not working, this is just going to blow up. Matt has his finger on why better than the other 2. He at least has not called people idiots for believing.
I would watch the shit out of the Goonies/National Treasure/ JFK movie mashup that Moynihan came up with in this episode with Chunk sliding down a pole into that PA mine (with the retirement docs) to open an ancient artifact holding the Epstein files written on the back of a copy of the Constitution. In order to get the JFK files, they have to play an organ made of George Washington's bones.
Kmele....please correct your audio issue. Multiple occasions where you cut in and out. Not just this pod but prior ones as well. Please please please. Thank you for your attention 😛
Kmele still needs to fix his mic I think. It keeps cutting in and out. This has been going on for months 😩.
I came here to say this very thing. Fix that shit.
Considering he is the baby of the podcast and a real tech lover he should be able to sort out a microphone!
It's like listening to someone with the hiccups, in this case digital
Now that Kmele has injured himself on a mic stand, and far be it from me to kick a man while he's down, at the risk of seeming awfully insensitive, he is showing his staggering incompetence in audio on a number of fronts!
I'm joking, sir. You'll always be my favorite. (heart emojis)
ok, glad it wasn’t just me. I was wondering if my AirPods were crapping out on me
I thought Kmele had chronic hiccupitis.
Just dropped by to comment the same. It's super distracting.
It’s BAD
I had to stop listening. It’s too much.
Also stopped listening. Fix that shit Melly
Kmele deserves a mic that doesn’t feel the need to censor strong, melanated voices. LET HIM SPEAK!
Amen
His new microphone is making my old eye twitch.
Practically unlistenable because of this!
Were they all in the same room when they recorded? I'm trying to figure out how Matt and MM didn't notice.
Of course Kmele could also be recording with one mic and communicating with another. OR it's not the mic but the recording software.
At any rate he's got some troubleshooting to do.
I might be wrong but I get the feeling they mostly record remotely now as it seems to be noteworthy when they are together.
Racist bluetooth only drops out on The Black Man
Thank god it isn’t me. I’ve switched devices out in the summer sun where I can barely read the screen and this was driving me insane. I can’t finish the pod. It’s awful.
Hopefully our comments will provide the impetus to get it sorted out.
Second episode in a row!
Marin county estate, private planes, backstage passes, 5 star Hotels, Realistic Mic from Radio Shack circa 1986....
He’s so far in debt for the Apple Vision Pro that a new mic just isn’t in the budget this year
Perhaps a pair of paper cups and string would be an economical compromise. No chance of digital glitches either?
Ironic that on many episodes Kmele either doesn’t show up or he’s “multitasking” and not participating in the discussion, but on a podcast where he’s actually being interesting his mic cuts out every 10 seconds.
Think of all that happened on those missing seconds on the Epstein tapes. Now imagine what dark deep state shenanigans are afoot every time Kmele's mic cuts out!
"The Craig Mahoney Theory". Hahahahahaha. I love that Matt recognized it as such. And I also hope my name and this entire issue never, ever, are ever connected or ever go further than that again.
Kmele continues to have mic cutouts going back a few years. Why Michael and Matt never point this out, is it white privilege? Kmele sounds like RFK Junior.
But Botswana is fairly stable and is relatively high income for its respective continent, so it’s not like Spain at all.
I was about to say this
I wanted to give a little shout out to “The Battered Bastards of Baseball.” I could give two squirts about baseball and this is still one of the best documentaries I’ve ever seen. 10/10 would reccomend.
Have never watched a baseball game and for some reason I was drawn to it after watching the trailer Matt recommended and shared your comment. Man, that was something else. Loved it.
Agreed!
The Mossad is surreptitiously targeting Kmele’s audio feed.
OMG the sound issues are excruciating.
Yeah this Kmele mic thing is bad. A little help guys…
Fix Kuhmelee’s audio or I will denounce all three of you as the wreckers and bourgeois capitalists that you really are.
I appreciate Matt's early Gen X culture references, like mentioning the Wonderful World of Disney on Sunday nights.
Yeah, it's kind of crazy that one of cinema's all-time great tough guys got his start as a Disney kid in the '60s. Walt loved him, to the point that one of the last notes Walt scrawled as he lay dying in a hospital bed in December 1966 was just "Kurt Russell". If you get a chance, go look up the television special about the opening of the Haunted Mansion in Disneyland, where a young Kurt guides you through the attraction. As big a Disney guy as I may be, though, Kurt's best work was definitely with John Carpenter (from the 1979 Elvis TV movie to Escape From New York, The Thing, and Big Trouble In Little China is an insane run). However, my all-time favorite Kurt Russell movie is the 2009 Yankees World Series Championship video, where he's shown repeatedly in the stands at Yankee Stadium, sitting next to stepdaughter Kate Hudson who was banging A-Rod at the time.
Anyway, my favorite story involving Kurt Russell, Walt Disney, and baseball, copied and pasted from Disney historian Phil Gramlich on Facebook:
Kurt Russell was just a 13 year old kid, acting in his first Disney film, “Follow Me Boys”, in the spring of 1964. He was also a star baseball player, even at that age, and he and his family already had aspirations of him playing in the big leagues some day. In those days, the movie was being filmed at Disney’s Golden Oak Ranch, which was nowhere near the fields where Kurt’s baseball games were held. His parents didn’t want him missing any games, so they signed a deal with Walt Disney that would allow him to leave the set, by helicopter, every day at 3:00pm.
One Friday afternoon, filming was running late. Director Norman Tokar wanted to get a few more shots before losing Kurt for the day. ‘Just three more shots’, he commanded. Kurt reminded him that he had to leave…it was actually the day of the championship game for his 13 year old All Star tournament and he absolutely could not be late. The director kept pushing it. 2:45pm came and went, and Kurt kept anxiously looking at his mom on set, trying to figure out what the heck to do. At 2:59pm, he heard the blades of the helicopter spring to life: “See ya Monday!” Kurt shook the director’s hand and he and his mom ran off to their waiting ride to the field. Kurt got the game winning hit that night to win the title.
All weekend, Kurt was sweating it. He had a contract with Walt that said he could leave the set at at 3 o’clock sharp, but he was nervous that Walt would hear that he had disobeyed the director’s wishes and he’d be fired. Baseball was his true love but he loved acting too and his dad was spending a lot of money on those helicopter rides.
Kurt got to set that Monday morning, went to makeup and wardrobe, and was on his way to class in the little schoolhouse on set when he noticed Walt about 100 feet away and walking straight at him. He figured he’d better go take his tongue lashing or firing like a man, so he walked straight to him and did not try to avoid him. When he got closer, he noticed that Walt had a huge smile on his face. He laughed as he playfully hit Kurt on the shoulder, ‘I hear you got the game-winning hit the other night! Way to go!’
Excellent story
In regard to Epstein, if it’s no big deal that the tapes were edited then why don’t they also just release the unedited version? They must have it, considering that the tapes were only edited 2 months ago. You guys claim that they just brightened it up and made it clearer, but 3 minutes were taken out of the tape. You guys seriously don’t even find that a little bit odd? Are we really idiots for not just giving a pass to a tape that wouldn’t hold up in court?
Let the economy keep getting worse and not working, this is just going to blow up. Matt has his finger on why better than the other 2. He at least has not called people idiots for believing.
On the Goldi Hahn bit, everyone should go watch Sugarland Express! Spielberg's first feature with Hahn as the co-lead.
Speaking of auto erotic asphyxiation… world’s greatest dad is a GOOD movie. Watch it.
Dark as hell though, but good.
And speaking of Big Trouble in Little China... It's a goddamn CLASSIC. Watch that too!
I would watch the shit out of the Goonies/National Treasure/ JFK movie mashup that Moynihan came up with in this episode with Chunk sliding down a pole into that PA mine (with the retirement docs) to open an ancient artifact holding the Epstein files written on the back of a copy of the Constitution. In order to get the JFK files, they have to play an organ made of George Washington's bones.
Kmele....please correct your audio issue. Multiple occasions where you cut in and out. Not just this pod but prior ones as well. Please please please. Thank you for your attention 😛