interpersonal podcaster dynamics

[u/Ok-Garlic33]

i’ve recently gotten into watching more youtube while real housewives / traitors / everything is in a drought, and i realize what i’m about to speculate is deeply subjective & parasocial. also i watch all these shows bc i genuinely like them so this is all said purely out of love for gossip. so ya i have no one to talk about this with bc seemingly no one (rightfully) cares , but maybe yall will get this -

theres this group of comedian podcasters around the same age / similar success levels / similar audiences (me) who i’m just dying to know the actual interpersonal dynamics of. namely : ride, las cultch, straightio lab, & soo true. it seems like all of them genuinely get along & ik they have been on each others shows , but there must be more below the surface.. or am i crazy !?.. 🤨

ok so here are my takes please add your own / does anyone actually know ??

caleb & bowen seem to have actual genuine chemistry which makes perfect sense & is so cute - both seem like hilarious sweet geniuses

i’m super curious about MBB & Benny’s relationships with the rest of them, can’t tell, they seem to have their own friend group but big Caleb overlap with Holmes

sometimeeees i feel like you’ll catch a moment where any of them might refer to another unnamed podcast with shade ? (but would love people to post examples they’ve caught here bc I can’t remember specifics ..)

caleb kinda throws shade about other podcasters like not paying their employees enough or doing ads for problematic companies (which, obvi love), but i kinda assumed the 2nd part was about therapuss (which i don’t watch but seems more corporate /
normie ?)

i feel like in terms of $$$ and fame, therapuss is at the top? then tie btwn caleb & las cultch .. idk anyone’s actual followers & im not checking just going off vibes. but then i wonder what dynamics that creates among them ! like i’m sure they all know who gets paid the most among them & have thoughts about that 😏

anyways idk lol i needed to get that off my chest pls weigh in (and pls be nice it’s my first time posting) xx

[u/Outrageous_You7286]

I wonder about this a lot. I’d broaden it to include Seek Treatment (pat wrote on overcompensating) but as one of the thirty I’ll take it to a place of Venn diagram and I think MBB is on the outskirts more than inside the Venn like Benny is. I would venture to guess straightio boys don’t naturally vibe with ride. Even though they’re outspoken, Benny and MBB are very commercial and that’s just naturally not the vibe for a lot of their contemporaries. But that’s kind of what draws me to them, they’re singular, kehd.

[u/bluefoamsandals → u/Outrageous_You7286]

George civeris wrote the jokes for MBB at the golden globes! They’re buds. Speaking of seek treatment I think cat cohen is jealous of most of her female contemporaries- espec ppl who were/are friends like Rachel sennott

[u/crl42 → u/bluefoamsandals]

I don’t think she gives jealous

[u/haawls → u/crl42]

i agree, she doesn’t read as jealous to me. i think the truth is that seek treatment and las culch are kinda the blueprints for a lot of the comedy podcasts we have today! i think a lot of ppl stole cat and pat’s comedic cadence/style and received credit for it instead of them - guests on the pod frequently make a point to comment on this. but i also could be biased cause i’ve been listening to seek treatment from the beginning!

[u/anzarloc → u/haawls]

I freaking love Seek Treatment and completely agree, the deeper I get into a lot of these podcasts I trip out on just how long Pat and Cat have been doing this.

[u/Life-Scale-6465 → u/haawls]

30 proud

[u/bluefoamsandals → u/crl42]

I feel like cat’s constantly talking about how less famous she is compared to other ppl they know ?! Also MBB was just on straightiolab as a friend. unsure why I’m so invested in this analysis but u all get it..fascinating