1) Ever watched someone lay down vinyl (or whatever it is) floor tile a a commercial space? Like kitchen or server room in an office? They apply just the right amount of glue to the tile, and do so so quickly. The economy of movement. It’s amazing.
2) Ever watched roofers remove old asphalt shingles? Ever watch a team put on new ones?
3) Every watch wood plank flooring guys install a floor? Finding the right length pieces, and putting it them in place. Nailing them down. Just expertise at work. It’s just stunning how much faster they are than anything I could do.
4) How about physical therapist who is trying to diagnose what’s going on in a hand? Doing it old school, by touch? Feeling the muscles and bones to identify where stuff is going on? Not x-rays or MRIs. Just knowledge of what’s where and what does what and everything? So incredible cool.
5) Honestly, a great school teacher who knows where to stand or move in a class to head off a disruptive student. Knowing when to move, and when to place a hand on a shoulder. Stuff that the other students don’t understand.
6) Just watch someone who can actually type. Who can use the backspace key in the flow of typing. the fingers fly across the keyboard and this string of letters keeps appearing on the screen.
1) Titles and descriptions are not the same thing. Titles can be evocative, or unique. If titles are merely descriptive, it is not clear when mentioning the work whether you are sharing the title, or merely describing the work. “You should listen to baseball and nonsense.” “You should subscribe to baseball and nonsense.” That is different than a title that leads with an article.
So, where is line between evocative and descriptive? I think that The Poscast is a very good title.
2) Let’s look at Micheal Shur’s oeuvre. The Office. Parks and Rec. The Good Place. Let’s just say that these title don’t exactly…ummmm….show any creativity. They are all the setting. Great. Just great, man.
However, they do demonstrate that a good title is relatively short. Perhaps punchy. Perhaps three syllables. Guess what. “The Poscast” is *also* three syllables. It’s easy to punch. But “Baseball and Nonsense”? 5? The A-Team. Golden Girls. “Everything, Everywhere, All at Once” works because it is intentionally awkward and too long. If you are going to “[A] and [B]” as a google title, you don’t want longer words in there.
3) We see this issue addressed in publishing, both popular and academic. A short punchy title, a colon (:) and then the description. The Poscast: Baseball, Other Sports and Nonsense. That approach recognizes the competing imperatives.
In summary: Keep “The Poscast.” Add a subtitle, if you need to, Mike.
changing the name implies that you guys want more random people to listen to this (what?), but would also allow for a swath of listeners to say “I still call it the PosCast” and I would definitely be suckered into buying that shirt tbh
IMHO Joe, you are the heart of the Poscast, the standard, the play by play guy, whereas Mike is the color commentator. I listen for you and enjoy (usually) the extra that Mike throws in (though some of his takes are hard for me to tolerate). Inasmuch as Mike makes an interesting point that it's odd to have the podcast named after only one of the people in it, I think it's a deserving nod to the heart of the show. Again, just my opinion - hopefully the poll will bear out the will of the people
what will happen to the p-p-p-p-p-p-p-postcaaaast intro song?? how can you be so blasé about this (I'm sorry i have a very intense opinion on this matter)
PLEASE leave the Poscast name alone. It's perfect. It's sports and nonsense already. No need to rename it...
Expertise.
1) Ever watched someone lay down vinyl (or whatever it is) floor tile a a commercial space? Like kitchen or server room in an office? They apply just the right amount of glue to the tile, and do so so quickly. The economy of movement. It’s amazing.
2) Ever watched roofers remove old asphalt shingles? Ever watch a team put on new ones?
3) Every watch wood plank flooring guys install a floor? Finding the right length pieces, and putting it them in place. Nailing them down. Just expertise at work. It’s just stunning how much faster they are than anything I could do.
4) How about physical therapist who is trying to diagnose what’s going on in a hand? Doing it old school, by touch? Feeling the muscles and bones to identify where stuff is going on? Not x-rays or MRIs. Just knowledge of what’s where and what does what and everything? So incredible cool.
5) Honestly, a great school teacher who knows where to stand or move in a class to head off a disruptive student. Knowing when to move, and when to place a hand on a shoulder. Stuff that the other students don’t understand.
6) Just watch someone who can actually type. Who can use the backspace key in the flow of typing. the fingers fly across the keyboard and this string of letters keeps appearing on the screen.
Expertise is all around us. It’s all amazing.
Titles.
1) Titles and descriptions are not the same thing. Titles can be evocative, or unique. If titles are merely descriptive, it is not clear when mentioning the work whether you are sharing the title, or merely describing the work. “You should listen to baseball and nonsense.” “You should subscribe to baseball and nonsense.” That is different than a title that leads with an article.
So, where is line between evocative and descriptive? I think that The Poscast is a very good title.
2) Let’s look at Micheal Shur’s oeuvre. The Office. Parks and Rec. The Good Place. Let’s just say that these title don’t exactly…ummmm….show any creativity. They are all the setting. Great. Just great, man.
However, they do demonstrate that a good title is relatively short. Perhaps punchy. Perhaps three syllables. Guess what. “The Poscast” is *also* three syllables. It’s easy to punch. But “Baseball and Nonsense”? 5? The A-Team. Golden Girls. “Everything, Everywhere, All at Once” works because it is intentionally awkward and too long. If you are going to “[A] and [B]” as a google title, you don’t want longer words in there.
3) We see this issue addressed in publishing, both popular and academic. A short punchy title, a colon (:) and then the description. The Poscast: Baseball, Other Sports and Nonsense. That approach recognizes the competing imperatives.
In summary: Keep “The Poscast.” Add a subtitle, if you need to, Mike.
changing the name implies that you guys want more random people to listen to this (what?), but would also allow for a swath of listeners to say “I still call it the PosCast” and I would definitely be suckered into buying that shirt tbh
IMHO Joe, you are the heart of the Poscast, the standard, the play by play guy, whereas Mike is the color commentator. I listen for you and enjoy (usually) the extra that Mike throws in (though some of his takes are hard for me to tolerate). Inasmuch as Mike makes an interesting point that it's odd to have the podcast named after only one of the people in it, I think it's a deserving nod to the heart of the show. Again, just my opinion - hopefully the poll will bear out the will of the people
My only suggestion would be to include the additional modifier "other" - Sports and Other Nonsense, as it's all nonsense isn't it?
Baseball and Nonsense is fine if you want to change it
ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND
what will happen to the p-p-p-p-p-p-p-postcaaaast intro song?? how can you be so blasé about this (I'm sorry i have a very intense opinion on this matter)
Apparently