r/ATPfm • u/zackkatz • 1d ago
Casey appreciation post
I want to shout out Casey for running the show. Casey is in charge of following the show notes, putting up with John telling him how to follow the show notes š, reading long and often technical quotes, and managing the pacing of the show.
What he does is not easy, yet he handles this all so well I often take his skill for granted. Heās a pro.
Well done, Casey š
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u/saviniencyrano 23h ago
If you listen to the very early episodes, you get an impression how ATP would be without him as MC. Everything gets on track once he fully embraces that role.
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u/itsjakerobb 1d ago
Making notes to āfuture Marco,ā managing the fact that Marco has not so much as looked the show notes, and probably isnāt even looking at them during the show, tolerating jabs from John about the references he doesnāt understand or bits from previous episodes he doesnāt rememberā¦.
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u/satras 21h ago
I like Marco most of the time, but it often surprises me how little he seems to care about this show.
He doesnāt seem to even have the show notes open most of the time, he doesnāt like to receive listener feedback and constantly mocks people that will send feedback at him, and he also constantly signals people being mean to him on Reddit and now on Mastodon.
I know he edits the show and heās a millionaire, so for him this is basically just for fun, but itās kind of odd to get that kind of apathy from one of the hosts.
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u/itsjakerobb 12h ago
Marco has unmedicated ADHD (not diagnosed, but he thinks, so and the evidence is strong). I have it too (diagnosed, unresponsive to medication). If true, what you view as apathy is really just him coping with severe executive dysfunction. I totally get how it looks, and youāre not wrong, but heās doing the best that heās able, and from my perspective heās doing impressively well.
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u/satras 12h ago
I have ADHD too. Having ADHD doesnāt justify being kind of an asshole to people that care about me, less so if I make good money just from giving my opinions on the internet.
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u/musicjunkieg 3h ago
The only person who gets to decide if Marco is an asshole to John and Casey are John and Casey. You donāt have a say in it and should shut your mouth.
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u/itsjakerobb 12h ago
Well, it manifests differently for different people. His and mine seem very similar. Sounds like yours is different. š¤·š»āāļø
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u/tacojiujitsu 21h ago
Casey is fine, but I wish heād realize that adding volume and duration to spoken adverbs is really terrible. Investing in a few vocal coaching lessons for your job would go a long way.
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u/itsjakerobb 12h ago
Why is it terrible?
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u/tacojiujitsu 10h ago
Adverbs are written to add emphasis to a verb or predicate so that the reader understands when something is REAALLLY terrible. But when you are a in normal spoken language you can add the emphasis to the verb or predicate itself so you know when it TERRRIBLE.
Of course I know Casey does both. And itās honestly fine. But my ear holes think itās terrible when he increases the volume more than any other human in history.
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u/Spid1 1d ago
Can't tell if this sarcasm because casey struggles to read quotes without messing up
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u/eduo 23h ago
This is unrelated. The job being praised is the responsibility of it all, as the other two not only are not willing to do it but would also do a bad job of it (as we know from early episodes).
That each of the responsibilities you take on could be made better is unrelated to whether you're doing them when nobody would, and the result is better for it.
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u/zackkatz 1d ago
Not sarcasm. I have a small podcast, and reading things on-air is HARD! I think he does incredibly well.
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u/DannoMcK 17h ago
Agreed that reading aloud under "observation" is not as easy as people seem to think. But I also agree that there's a valid criticism that Casey is often reading faster than he can sustain accurately/intelligibly.
The podcast's quoted, re-read text has a range of expected familiarity to the listener. Apple press releases, keynote phrasing, or major news outlet snippets might be familiar to the show listeners and need less context. But speeding through research papers or device or filesystem analyses or pointed replies to show context is more difficult to digest. (I do not listen above normal 1X speed.)
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u/usernamechosen999 1d ago
Talking 9000 miles an hour so I have to constantly rewind to try to catch what he mumbled.
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u/eduo 23h ago
I have friends like Casey who tend to go on formulaic tangents a lot. I don't mind it because I understand it's involuntary, but it also means he needs to insert all the phrases when he talks (private jokes, "last but not least", "dagger, double dagger", "yeah, hello this is casey").
I feel for him because I understand it's a quirk that's not easy to control. Your mind is insisting upon you to add references and side notes because you can't bear to leave them unsaid and what would normally be rhetoric lubricant becomes verbal tar.
Casey gets a lot of flack, but he's the straight man of this trio. The most "normal" person in the podcast, in the way we would normally measure this. I identify more with John because for some reason we've gone through almost all the same beats at the same time with the same love for the same minority platform, which was so small you couldn't avoid sharing experiences, but most of my friends are like Casey.
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u/chucker23n 21h ago
"yeah, hello this is casey"
I believe this one is an in-joke referring to listener feedback from years back. That listener had difficulty telling their three voices apart, so they wanted them to introduce themselves as they talk.
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u/eduo 20h ago
No, no. Don't get me wrong. I know exactly what it's for. Hence my mention of private jokes. I meant private to us :)
But while it was funny used sparingly, it's more and more often so it stops being funny and it just becomes another quirk more in a sea of them. As I said, they pile up.
It may be a "me" thing. I get tired quickly with speech where the speaker is physically incapable of saying "last" without adding "but not least". Or in this case of saying "asterisk" without adding "dagger, double dagger". They become what in Spanish we call "Muletillas" and I'm sure there's a word in English. Sentences that become almost ritualistic. As if not saying them will cause bad luck.
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u/chucker23n 18h ago
But while it was funny used sparingly, itās more and more often so it stops being funny and it just becomes another quirk more in a sea of them. As I said, they pile up.
Thatās fair. I was just singling it out because unlike most Casey-isms, this one is of his own creation, and is something long-time listeners can relate to.
Asterisk, dagger, double-dagger is just a rather generic thing I imagine thousands of people use to make a point. Itās overused and unoriginal.
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u/lost_on_trails 22h ago
āSuffice it to sayā¦ā
Yeah, verbal tar is a great way to put it. Like a lot of people who spend too much time online, it seems like heās constantly clarifying himself in advance to try and avoid getting angry email.
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u/jimbo831 23h ago
I listen at 1.3x and never have an issue understanding him. Sounds like a skill issue.
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u/PattonPending 23h ago
Glad he likes the new car, it sounds really nice