Laura Smyth
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Podcast Appearances
I feel like there's a lot of heaviness in podcasting.
And I think we love the American podcast.
where they can really take a lot of time and be silly, just silly, silly, silly, silly, silly.
There's so many podcasters like Caleb, like, or just people that just hard funny.
And I don't know, someone broke it down to me about podcasts that actually they can, in America, have hour and a half, two hour podcasts because that's the length of the commute where they're like 35, 40 minutes, snap, snap, snap.
And apparently it's linked to commute time that,
In England, we don't necessarily engage beyond that.
So we just wanted to call it Stupid Pod where it was about like Seinfeld, a show about nothing, where we just wanted to be really silly, replicate how we talk anyway, because we talk about meeting on the...
We talked about meeting on the comedy calls, but actually where we really became good mates was we were in a group chat with all the other people on the calls, but actually then we just started WhatsAppping and we would just leave voice notes that just got... They got a bit... Ridiculous, didn't they?
Where we'd like... We mostly leave... We always sign off a podcast, we leave... We finish our voice notes by just going, all right, then I'll love you, man.
And I don't know why we do it.
And one of the first voice notes where we'd only known each other for a couple of weeks, she left this long rambling voice note about how terrible everything was and then burst into tears, then kept crying.
I was like, I don't know this woman.
And then she ended the voice note with...