I’m not native English speaker so just to be sure: I mean those shows where “random” (in quotes because I suppose not that many apply and the producers still have to do some vetting), not professional entertainers, just normal people go to TV and answer knowledge questions in some gamified way.

People get nervous when speaking in front of audiences, right? I know that while in TV, the audience is not present, but the person realizes they are being seen, so some nervousness is in place right?

How are they not just dying from being nervous? Is there some kind of coach or a program that prepares them for it? Or do they have twice or three times as many contestants and we only see those that made it without fainting? 🙃 Or is is tons of rehearsals?

I’ve never been in TV or even saw how such a set would look/feel like from the perspective of the contestant. Is it that the set actually does not feel like a big deal? I imagine annoying lights and weird people in the shadows (some of them of authorities) looking towards the set with serious professional looks on their face.

    • netvor@lemmy.worldOP
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      5 days ago

      As a huge Tim (as in Hello Internet listener) and always thought I would want to listen to Cortex but never got around, there was always this little fear of what if I did not like it and it would spoil my perfect parasocial relationship with Grey :D So I ended up just re-listening Hello Internet over and over. (Re-listening HI is kind of my safety blanket now :D)

      Ironically, I was not aware about Grey leaving and I only noticed Cortex again because of Technology Connections and Simone Giertz interviews, which were obvious “must listen” for me (and they were great!), but it’s not enough for long term sub.

      I’ll check out Upgrade and Connected though.

        • netvor@lemmy.worldOP
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          5 days ago

          (I’m in the middle of #22, “16-hour Search for Wallpaper” now.)

          I tried not to let he end of HI sour it for me and I think I’m still holding up. After all, it’s not unlike Grey to quit like this, in “rip the band-aid off” way, and as Tim although I don’t completely resonate with it, I do feel like Grey has been transparent about this aspect of his personality, it’s also common topic of discussion on HI. Also I vaguely recall Grey mentioning something about some sort of immunity problem with someone in his close vicinity (his wife, I assume) which made me realize that the COVID time was indeed very different for different people; we don’t know what he was going through. (I’m trying not to speculate here.)

          Also ironically, in a “selfish” sense, the end came in handy, because just before few of the last episodes, I gathered the confidence to file the whole podcast on MusicBrainz, thinking that adding new episodes is going to be a long-term commitment that I’m going to eventually fall back on. Little did I know that I only had to add one or two more episodes. Also my safety blanket has a finite size now there’s no question about waiting for the next episode, it’s just 136 -> 1 :D

          Anyway, I don’t mind in the end. Grey is just being Grey. It’s OK to fall in and out (and maybe back in again) of favor. After all it’s not a real relationship. Many of his ideas have influenced me greatly in my life philosophy (often on the basis that I had similar feelings about things, just never words to describe them), some of them I had to revise and abandon, but many still hold, and that’s good.

          Anyway, nice chat!