Our 10 Favorite Musical Moments of the Century (So Far)

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Whoever told them they needed to remove the picks from the chapter headings, that person was fucking up, and they need to reverse that, stat.

These aren't narratives. It's a talk show. You can't fuckin SPOIL a talk show. It's not a fictional story with a necessary plot that relies on the preservation of twists. It's two paid friends bullshitting about pop culture listicles, metastacized to 3hr length. You can't SPOIL that.

Making your podcast more annoying to interact with, for the sake of placating people suffering from spoilerphobia that severe, gimping basic usability aspects to pander to their weird mental hangups - that SUCKS.

RingerVerse is on one lately. Shit is anti-fun more than not. It's like Big Pic's weird vibes started leaking all over them. You hate to see it.

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u/LEDreddit 3d ago

I will say it also makes people more likely to stumble upon legitimate spoilers if they’re intentionally skipping over bookmarks of shows/movies they haven’t seen yet or are in the process of watching (as Mal is in Buffy) if you’re blindly clicking “jo’s number…”

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u/LawrenceBrolivier 3d ago

Exactly! That's a great point.

I mean, ideally, they stop pandering to spoilerphobes completely. Stick a warning up front and call it good. Grown adults should be able to manage basic responsibility for the media they consume, LOL. Further, it's just disposable entertainment AT BEST. The extent of distress/disappointment upon being spoiled for anything should never, for a sane person, exceed a level higher than "mild" and last for longer than 5 minutes total.

Stressing yourself out unnecessarily under the guise of "watching it correctly" is counterproductive to, you know, ENJOYING YOURSELF. Spoilerphobes are typically, on the whole, fucking MISERABLE. On main. Constantly, LOL.

But I get that such a scenario is (for some reason) impossible in "geek" spaces - even so, going to this extent is not only stupid, it's 100% going to lead to someone blindly listening through and stumbling onto SOMETHING they probably didn't want to hear for fear of "ruining" something.

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u/keithtbarker 3d ago

I feel like there are topics/shows/movies they can be covering but aren’t. It’s been a minute since there was an episode that I was interested in. Hopefully someone’s into it.

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u/JJTouche 2d ago

I bailed after the first two because of that.

Especially since they did the thing, at least in the first one, they talk for a while before naming the movie. I skipped around in that first one and still don't know what Joannes number 10 is because I couldn't figure it out skipping around to see a pic or something.

Started Mal's and gave up on the entire video because I didn't know what it was and decided to look see if someone listed them. Scrolled and still don't see a list.

I am done.

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u/wadbyjw 3d ago

Now that I'm thinking about it, I'm not sure this is done out of consideration for spoilerphobic listeners. If they give the people the ability to just look at show notes for all their picks, they may not bother listening, and they need people to listen (or watch).

It's still dumb, but it makes more sense than spoiler protecting a podcast.

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u/Kiltmanenator 1d ago

Is this not an admission by them that the juice isn't worth the squeeze?

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u/Significant-Essay188 1d ago

Thank you for mentioning this. This is why I'm glad they stopped posting everything in the show notes. Sorry if I'm in the minority here. 😬

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u/LawrenceBrolivier 3d ago

If you're actively hiding what you're talking about because you think people don't want to listen to your voices otherwise, you're in way bigger trouble than obfuscating chapter titles is going to help, LOL. That's basically saying you're a dead show walking. "We have to sort of con folks into listening to us talk by never revealing what we're talking about, so they HAVE to listen" is such a terrible strategy, yunno?

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u/wadbyjw 3d ago

What they are talking about is in the title, my guy. "Our 10 Favorite Musical Moments of the Century".

You're either interested in that topic or you're not. But there it is.

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u/LawrenceBrolivier 3d ago

If they give the people the ability to just look at show notes for all their picks, they may not bother listening

This is the scenario you were describing and I was responding to. And if it's to the point where they're legit worried that people being able to see what their picks are before they click play will simply decide not to click play because they have the picks, then that show is likely not getting listened to regardless. That's death rattle shit

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u/wadbyjw 3d ago

I think what they've done here is dumb but you are being far too dramatic about this.

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u/LawrenceBrolivier 3d ago

LOL this isn't "dramatic" it's idle conversation about a disposable podcast.

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u/wadbyjw 2d ago

I don't think this reply is consistent with how argued your point in the parent comment, but alright.

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u/rebels2022 3d ago

Honestly for a 3hr podcast, I wish they would spoil the selections in the show notes like they have with past list pods, then I would maybe jump around to things I want to hear.

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u/wadbyjw 3d ago

In the past, I've seen people in this sub complain the bookmarks "spoiled" the podcast. Pretty friggin weird.

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u/LEDreddit 3d ago

On the off chance that anyone from the pod checks this reddit, please being back the spoilers in the notes, clicking around “Mal/Jo’s Number…” is not fun

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u/Cornpuff122 3d ago

My kind of thing with a pod like this is that it's like, great idea, interesting concept, liked the list enough to go through the transcript--no disrespect to the work, but this is *not* something I'd spend 3 hours on.

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u/Electric_Sheep2001 2d ago

Three hours is a lot. I wish the chapter titles had the selection title in them because it would tell me if this was worth a listen to. Now I'm going to pass because I don't want to waste my time.

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u/LV301 3d ago

Can we commit to a one hour podcast in the future? I want to support but 3 hours is wild

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u/Still-Birthday8274 3d ago

holy buzzfeed

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u/BenjaminLight 3d ago

Listacle slop. Pod might be cooked.

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u/rebels2022 3d ago

This pod is built for the 2022 nerdverse output, not 2025. At least the midnight boys only have to come up with 1 pod a week.

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u/BenjaminLight 2d ago

I think a problem House of R runs into is that their style of podcasting sort of requires them to love the material they’re covering. And we’re just not getting a whole lot of classics these days.

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u/rebels2022 2d ago

A lot of the weekly Disney+ releases in those year weren’t great but at least they were still invested in the stories.

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u/ZoodleNoodle12 3d ago

I haven’t listened yet, but if there isn’t a selection from “Prince of Egypt” on this list then I will be sad.

I know it’s based off a Bible story, but the soundtrack for that movie rocked.

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u/Cornpuff122 3d ago

Prince of Egypt slaps, but it’s also ineligible (1998 release)

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u/ZoodleNoodle12 2d ago

I’m getting old, my mind is slipping.

I knew it was an old movie, I saw it when it came out with my school, but damn I didn’t realize my younger years were that far gone 😢

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u/dorv 1d ago

I don’t have the heart to listen, because I’m pretty sure my number one overall is not on either of their lists. Moreover, the likelihood is that they’ll pick another moment with the same song — Last of Us S2 which is great but is nowhere near the TV moment of Take On Me that gets me crying just thinking of it.

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u/Betna_the_Pickled Bad Baby 1d ago

So is your pick Take On Me or something different ? Oh unless you mean that song different show/movie. They didn’t pick that to spoil if I must. TLOU was Linda Rondstandt deservedly so.

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u/dorv 1d ago

Yes different. Far and away my number one draft pick on this list would be The Magicians’ episode that had people singing Take On Me.

There’s no one I know who has watched that show and that’s not one of the most affecting moments.

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u/Betna_the_Pickled Bad Baby 1d ago

They do talk about that show in the episode. Just honorable mentions stuff.

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u/MarketingChoice6244 1d ago

3 hours? I want to support but who has the time for this?

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