![]() Tune in every Wednesday & Friday and don’t forget to Hulk Smash the Follow button! Thank you for your patience as we work to resolve this issue. Note: Imprecise timestamps are an unfortunate side effect of a new ads system. Then in Nerd Out (55:45) friend of the pod, and co-host of Escape Hatch (formerly Dune Pod), Haitch pitches Warrior. I think.On this episode of X-Ray Vision, Jason Concepcion and Rosie Knight open the mailbag! In the Airlock (1:10) Jason and Rosie dive deep (deeep) into your questions, including what fandom they want to explore, consuming content during the strikes, superpower reveals, how watching affects mood, Saw Patrol, and more. After all, they’re called comics for a reason. Even though I sometimes find myself running it in the background just to kind of absorb the giddiness of the whole thing. Not because the folks on it aren’t engaging, and their conversations seemingly a bunch of fun, but because it’s all mostly gibberish to me. Or am just totally out of episodes of other things. I’ve kind of gone to listening to it only if I’m even remotely familiar with the subject matter. I’m sure it’s an absolutely amazing pod for those in the geek world, but it’s just a bit too much for me. My hope is they continue in that fashion for the life of the thing.Įven after listening to a bunch of episodes of this show since its inception, I’m unclear in my own head why I continue. And that’s why, at least from what I’ve seen, they’ve mostly partnered him with a co-host of late, which really adds the conversational energy back to the pod. It saps the personality of a show that thrives on personality. His delivery just isn’t fluid, so listening to really long segments with tons of words and ideas is tough. Those segments, once again, can be very stilted when he’s alone. He tends to read his recaps and, like a lot of new podcasts, has tried to have set segments that he does each week. But, even then, they go into the whole history of the thing and have tons of speculation and spidering background craziness.Ĭoncepcion, without his guest hosts, can be a little stiff. Unless they’re talking for 90 minutes about Hawkeye or something. In fact, I’ve probably only heard of about 5% of what they’re talking about. I have absolutely no clue what’s going on 90% of the time. He has regular guests like Rosie Knight, who might be an even bigger dork than Concepcion, and even some special guests like Jason Mantzoukas. Space alien dark lords and X-Men and Boba Fetts and whatever the hell Venom is. Why?īecause he and his guests just seem so fucking thrilled by everything. So, perhaps a pod that often runs to two hours mostly around esoteric comic series from the 1990s on isn’t something I should probably be listening to. And that’s just the thing: I only care about not at all about comic books. And, honestly, he certainly seems deeply knowledgable and deeply sourced on just about everything he talks about. The aforementioned PSA dudes, who formed Crooked Media (along with their third, white not-straight partner), must have enjoyed him enough to poach him from The Ringer, a network that they were once part of with their podcast Keepin’ It 1600. No offense, two straight, white dudes from Pod Save America. He’s doesn’t just kind of fade into the wallpaper, or sound like the other two dudes he’s podding with. It’s honestly a little jarring at first, but once you’ve kind of figured out what’s going on, you get used to it and it actually becomes an asset in convos. It’s high the way a large chain being dragged behind a truck is high. I’d heard Concepcion as a guest on a bunch of pods on The Ringer and was always entertained by his enthusiasm, sense of humor and just general deep knowledge of pop culture. I’m sure he’d totally talk about orcs and shit too, when or if the time comes. ![]() So, you know, Marvel and DC shows, Star Wars stuff and a whole lot of actual comic book talk. His drug of choice, at least in this forum, is comic books and everything comic book adjacent. ![]() Jason Concepcion, host of X-Ray Vision and late of the The Ringer network is just such a nerd. There are nerds, and then there are nerds.
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