My two favorite podcasts got together last week in a strange kind of free-for-all — on one side, Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht from Diggnation; on the other, John C. Dvorak and Sebastian Rupley from Cranky Geeks. As usual the digg boys had their requisite six-packs in tow and John and Sebastian spent most of the show marvelling at how many beers these guys were knocking back.
It was really pretty interesting listening to them all together. Anyone who’s familiar with diggnation knows that Kevin and Alex play the straight man/funny man combo just perfectly, and that they have a tendency to ramble on for minutes on whatever happens to interest them. In contrast, the conversations on Cranky Geeks are like machine-gun fire — short, loud and someone usually ends up dead afterwards.
During the first half of the show, you could hear both parties trying to feel their way around each other and get into a good conversational rhythm. Eventually though, it was the Geeks that had to adjust their tempo to give way to the far more boisterous Digg guys. I’m not sure if Kevin and Alex are ever gonna be invited back to Cranky Geeks, coz their style just overpowers everyone else’s. It’s like comparing Entourage with Curb Your Enthusiasm — both exceedingly funny HBO shows, but you laugh out loud a lot more watching the former than the latter.