Q&complAints #434 : Podcast Idea

What great podcast idea has not yet been done?

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. . .here are my thoughts.

What great podcast idea has not yet been done?

The opening credits of the 2022 Oscar Best Picture nominee, Drive My Car, begin in the 42nd minute.  That is far from the most intriguing thing about the film.  An actress utilizes Korean sign language, which she signs in…cred…i…bly slow.  Put the dad from CODA on quarter speed and we’d still have the [Korean] tortoise and the [American] hare.  Those extremes parallel two factions of fiction writers: plotters and pantsers.  Plotters plan nearly every beat of their story before delving into the actual writing.  Pantsers take more of the Lost approach: start writing with only a half-baked idea—so be it if the plot wanders into smoke monsters, polar bears, and a mysterious number sequence.  In Drive My Car, an unfaithful, married woman “writes” by dictating story ideas to whichever fella accompanies her to climax.  She doesn’t know where the stories are headed, and never remembers them the next morning.  Turning on a microphone prior to sex would simultaneously remedy her sexually amnesia and guarantee millions of podcast downloads!  Obviously, she’s no plotter—an unquestionable pantser.  Or … a pantser-on-the-floor … a pants-off-er … a climaxer?  The terminology options are intriguing. 


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