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Seeing media convergence that aligns with your current thinking is always intriguing.
Lately I’ve been regretting that I’ve only seen a few early episodes of 30 Rock thus far. Being big West Wing & Sorkin fans, we chose to follow Studio 60 instead – while we did enjoy the show, we weren’t all that surprised when it got cancelled.
(on a side note, any fan of SNL through the years would really enjoy Live From New York, despite the disappointingly glaring absence of any Eddie Murphy interviews)
(on another side note, any West Wing fan would be positively weirded out by watching The American President, also scripted by Aaron Sorkin. It preceded the West Wing by a few years, and reads like an alternate universe version of the Bartlett administration. Michael J. Fox plays Josh, David Paymer plays Toby, and the actress who plays Nancy McNally plays CJ, and, weirdest of all, Martin Sheen plays Leo.)
Also – yesterday, dreading the possibility of another Red Sox/Yankees armageddon, I took a peek at Wikipedia’s 2004 ALCS entry, as it was just a draining, heart-wrenching marathon for anyone following it. A few things that stand out are the record lengths of some of the game, combined with everything compressed together – Game 4 on Sunday, 5 on Monday afternoon, 6 on Tuesday night, and 7 on Wednesday night. Everyone was completely dazed.
So, that whole convergence thing. In Bill Simmons’ most recent BS Report podcast (iTunes Store link, but it’s a free download), recorded yesterday afternoon, he interviews Seth Meyers to talk about the Red Sox, the Yankees, the 2004 ALCS, and SNL. Good stuff.
Plus, Simmons ends the show with what looks to be one of the last few “Johnny, Are You Worried Yet?” segments, which in my opinion has been reason enough for anyone to figure out the whole Podcast subscription process (to say nothing of [iTunes links] This American Life, The Sound of Young America, and WNYC Radio Lab).
In the “Johnny, Are You Worried Yet?” segments, diehard Boston Sports fan Simmons calls up his friend Johnny (aka JackO), a diehard Yankees fan, and asks him the simple question. A spectacularly gloat-filled feature during the Yanks’ Spring swoon, it transformed into a true example of fandom superstition during the Yanks’ late Summer resurgence, wondering if the segment itself is the reason for the Yankees’ success.
(actually, as of this posting, it looks like the 10/8 episode is currently only available through the subscription, not through any direct downloads yet on either iTunes or ESPN. It should be up soon, though)
Tags: convergence, podcast, red sox, snl, sorkin
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