Podcast #569: TV Writing, Relativity, and Boredom

About this episode

The episode discusses pro sports, technology's impact on television, the theory of relativity, and childhood boredom.

We kick off this episode of DXP with a discussion about pro sports and how technology could actually improve the product. We address a voicemail about the use of subtitles when watching TV, which leads to a longer discussion about the quality of recent television more broadly. We spend a fair bit of time responding to a caller's question about last week's brief mention of the theory of relativity, and then conclude by engaging with a TikTok creator's thoughts on childhood boredom.

People in this episode

Host: Drunk Ex-Pastors

Topics covered

• pro sports
• technology
• television quality
• theory of relativity
• childhood boredom

Keywords

• pro sports
• technology
• television
• theory of relativity
• boredom

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: TikTok

Books & works: television

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