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Moments of Truth: A Podcast You're Not Listening to But Should Be

 I'll be honest: I don't listen to a lot of podcasts. I tune them out. I can't do audiobooks, either, for the same reason. A half hour will pass and I'll realize I didn't actually hear a word of what was just said, unless I do nothing but sit and listen, and when I do that, I'm not doing anything else and it just feels...weird. 

I've also talked about my disdain for the current state of fandom and popular culture. It frankly disgusts me overall. It's negativist, insulting of anyone who doesn't go along with the negative bent of it, and focused entirely on going with what the crowd tells you to think. If the general tenor of social media appears to hate Star Wars, man, you'd better goddamn hate Star Wars or you're a pariah. Worse, if you stand up for it, if you call people out on their hate, they make you the one out to be "toxic." 

Yeah, at some point in time, liking things became toxic, and negativity became healthy. That's just, in my opinion, obnoxious. 

It's for the same reason I generally don't watch YouTube videos. They're just full of ranty people telling me how to think, what to enjoy, how to have the right kind of fun, and intellectualizing their hatred of, well, pretty much everything. If someone uses a YouTube video to back up an argument they've made, I run away from it faster than a lit professor downgrading a paper for using Wikipedia as a source. 

There are, however, exceptions to the rule, and my colleague and friend Bill Coffin's podcast, Moments of Truth, is one of those exceptions. 


Moments of Truth describes itself thus:

If you grew up on science fiction, swords & sorcery, superheroes and a million other pop culture distractions - and maybe remember a time when it wasn’t cool to like any of those things - then this is the podcast for you. Moments of Truth is about celebrating the things we love and why they affect us. It's about the positive side of geek culture, with no toxicity, gatekeeping or punching down. Everybody’s got something they geek out about. Everybody’s got a reason why it matters to them. And everybody's welcome.

What I love about this podcast is that it focuses on the positive in fandom. It also casts a wide net. On this one you'll see everything from Ghostbusters to the Sopranos, Atari to Atomic Blonde, Aliens to Lemony Snicket and way beyond. They've already got well over 40 episodes up, so you've got plenty of listening to keep you occupied. Bill, with his co-hosts Joe, Chris, and Tom, bring a bit of joy into fandom with every episode, and that's something we sorely need right now. 

Check it out. You won't be disappointed. 

In addition to its main website and Apple (both linked above), it's also available on Spotify and Stitcher


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