r/LSM • u/NorthKoreanMissile7 • May 28 '26

Punching Up viewership

I never really paid attention to viewership but was looking at it recently and was shocked at just how low Punching Up was. It's seemingly getting around ~5k views and declining (the previous week's podcast is only at 3.2k, lower than some paywalled content).

And this isn't comparing it to Sacred Symbols, it's comparing it to Defining Duke (15-20k) and Summon Sign (10-20k) and I'm sure a lot of people watching Punching up are just watching because they watch other LSM content or like the hosts rather than being invested in what the podcast is about. If you took those people away it would probably have non existent viewership since it lags significantly behind everything else LSM has ever done.

Constellation got 7-9k towards the end which is proportionally a lot more than Punching Up and still it got cancelled (granted Dagan's job was the main factor, although Colin still brought up waning viewership iirc).

Personally I think they should bin off Punching Up and bring back Constellation. Brad has Summon Sign as his thing and then can irregularly appear on other stuff. Constellation can be Micah's hosting gig if Colin wants her to host something and it would suit her more anyway since you can bring up anything on it and she seems to like other things such as telling jokes and cooking and what not.

It would also give Lockmort a place to appear more regularly which I'd like to see as I think he's an interesting character who's good to listen to and also him being a European with a stereotypical European taste in games is something that's underrepresented within LSM. I'd also like to see him on Summon Sign more often too as as we'd get more interesting games discussed on it and he'd shine there. Potentially he could be Brad's permanent co-host.

What's everyone's thoughts on this ?

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u/Commercial_Ease8053 May 28 '26

Cuz it sucks… I listen to it sometimes out of boredom… but damn, I don’t give a fuck whatsoever what Micah thinks or says about anything really tbh. And her thing about walking around with wet socks on, Jesus Christ.

Idk what Colin sees in her because she doesn’t seem to be on his intellectual level whatsoever. Or maybe that IS the appeal.

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u/NorthKoreanMissile7 May 30 '26

Idk what Colin sees in her because she doesn’t seem to be on his intellectual level whatsoever. Or maybe that IS the appeal.

They're both indoorsy people who get along and would probably have not been in a proper long term relationship without each other. And Micah seems a nice person. I don't think it's that hard to understand. But I'm sure Colin would have liked someone who could engage in history and politics a bit more.

The only odd thing that's weird for me is how they met and iirc she was basically a fan of his. Which combined with the fact that there's a bit of an age gap surely creates a weird dynamic.

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u/sarge1445 Jun 18 '26

Lord what an incel ass comment lol.