Godspeed Norman@dfwticket @NormsClubhouse @GreatDonovan pic.twitter.com/cVsfQGE7JO

— dave lane (@oldwaver) June 23, 2023

752bro4 said:

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Was really hoping for a "uh Paul in uh Plano" drop during the silence after Norm's farewell.

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I am so fucking angry right now. STOP finding women you see on dating apps on their personal social media profiles, ESPECIALLY if you haven’t connected and there are ZERO identifiers in their profiles. I got these and let my curiosity get the better of me. VIDEOS IN REPLIES. pic.twitter.com/9ouGehAqFS

— post rut clarity🌻 (@quelsee) June 16, 2023

J.P. 03 said:

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Yeah but then I'd have to sort through all the unabridged audio (the voice memos he sent her were the best part). It was bad enough in the 8 minutes they culled down. Can't imagine how much worse going through of those clips one at a time would be.

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J.P. 03 said:

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I'm pretty confident I've never uttered the words "y'all have to check out" and "Work in Progress segment" in the same sentence before, but if you enjoy complete and utter train wrecks, y'all have to check out the Work in Progress segment on yesterday's Top 10 titled "Don't be that person."

They go through a series of messages some dude sent a girl he's never met on Bumble, and it's so painfully awkward that it quickly becomes must-hear radio.

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Rudyjax said:

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Forced retirement?

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MonkeyKnifeFighter said:

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I could see him testplaying a completely new strategy in the podcasting area.
Podcasting is becoming more and more of a factor in everybody's world. Everybody's world.

What if Norm just starts living with a live mic 24/7. Just records every conversation he has. Musings and rantings in the car. Phone calls with 2-way audio. Showerthoughts. Mary at dinner. He then bribes his former interns (all too poor to say decline) to cull down all that audio, chop it up, sort it, group it, and label the heck out of it.

Then they start mass producing podcasts based on similar or compatible topic interests. Since it's Norm, it's likely that most of these things are going to overlap well anyway.

Once the editing team has 90 orso minutes for a cohesive episode, the only work Norm would have to do is simple 2-sentence voiceover transitions. Then the mixers just assemble the episode out of all of these spare parts, with the meat of the content simply being generated out of Norm's everyday life.

Voiceover: "On today's episode, we're talking about the link between personal recreation and baseball."

< Cue audio of him waxing philosophical from 3 weeks ago >

Voiceover: "Now we're going to bring on a guest, Mike Doocy, who shared a conversation with me [that's roughly topically relevant]".

< Play cut-down audio of the phone call from last week >

Voiceover: "Lastly, Mary and I are going to spend the weekend in St. Louis. Here are some things we talked about when planning our trip. If you're heading out to see the Rangers play the Cardinals, consider some of these for your spare time."

< Pulls out Mary dinner at Bob's Steak and Chophouse audio from 2 months ago >

Bam, done, Frankenstein episode. With as close to 0 actual work as possible.

With Norm's network of people he talks to all the time, with a short lead-up he could create weeks of podcasts and a sustainable model to keep plowing ahead.

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