For those who don't recognize my name, I'm the former cohost of Serch Says, and as he would say, I'm the guy who pushed him to enter the world of podcasting. I pushed him 10 years ago. I think he waited too long.
Maybe I'll make another thread if anyone cares to hear more about this, but I was friends with Serch from 2004 or so, until around January of this year, when he and I kinda parted ways. He was mad at me for not being all personally sad for him and his loss of MF DOOM, while I was simultaneously mourning the loss of my wife's uncle. Serch didn't know that, and needn't, but he still went off on me as if I was some horribly uncaring human being. Meanwhile, being his assistant for social media and seeing his messages, I got the impression he had almost no relationship with DOOM, and any of his attempts to reach out were either left unreplied, or forgotten and turned cold (I forget which, maybe both). I haven't completely burned bridges with Serch, but who knows. If he has an account here and notices this, maybe this is the end of my connection to him. He was, or seemed to be, a genuinely good guy to me, and afforded me many opportunities I'd never have had without him in my life. I've met so many of my rap idols, and talked to people I'd never have had access to. I appreciate that, and will forever, but as someone once told me about him, he'll use you until he doesn't need you anymore. Maybe that was my fate, after almost 20 years. Anyway...
I just watched almost this entire episode. I haven't really watched much of his other stuff since parting ways last year, but this is pretty typical, and by that, I mean bad. The microphone thing is something I needed to pound into his head almost every time we recorded. The logo is hard to see with the foam windscreen, but the screw for the XLR connector faces front, so it's pretty simple to just use that as a guide. This seriously sounds like he's using a mic off-camera and this one is just a prop. It's all room noise. Gilbert, on the other hand, sounds great! Gotta love when the guest out-does the host. Audio technicalities aside, like JacquesClouseau said above, the interview will always lean toward some way to connect the guest to Serch. What do they have in common? "Let's talk about me being Jewish!" He really loved when Tom Green penned him as the Hip-Hop Howard Stern, because Stern is one of his idols, and he calls in from time to time. Serch needs to study Stern better, or really, other interviewers who are revered as the best in the industry. (I don't think Stern wins that title.)
For the record: Serch wasn't reading some of your comments on later episodes, but he was definitely seeing them all on that first night when you guys bombarded him. So was I. I was desperately attempting to delete them as fast as they were coming in! I knew it was funny, but I also knew you guys would cross the line and go as deep as you could. I wanted SO BADLY to stop him before he went off. I wanted to cut him off after he "ended" the show, before he addressed you guys. It was embarrassing to me to be involved with that mess. Maybe that was the true beginning of the end for me. It was so cringeworthy, I couldn't take him seriously after that, and felt critical of everything he did thereafter. As his friend, I started searching for you guys behind the scenes. Mostly out of curiosity. I knew you were O&A fans from some of your comments. I'm not super familiar with them, but I knew enough to connect the dots. I found the old forums because the posts were indexed (smart to change that on this iteration), and lurked with another account. When you doxxed him and his daughter, his wife got genuinely scared. To be honest, I got a bit worried, too. I don't have much to hide, but if Serch kept issuing threats—however empty they might have been—maybe I'd be next on your list!
Like I said before, if anyone wants me to, I'll make a thread, or answer questions if anyone is remotely interested.
