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Ep. 18 - 'Touch Grass' Part 1: The Enshittification Of The Internet
Inner-Strength Check
11/05/23 • 75 min
The core tenet of this podcast is around legitimising the value of the arts, interests, hobbies and leisure in today's increasingly stressful, commodified world.
There's no better example of why this matters more than ever than the absolute dumpster-fire we're faced with in terms of user experiences on social media and like, in 2023.
Join me as we explore exactly how, where and why Big Tech is becoming 'enshittified'.
Timestamps:
[0:00] - Intro/Housekeeping
[1:58] - Hobby Update! (Tabletop RPG, [7:35] Music, [11:55] Video Games)
[13:36] - Topic - Intro, Overview Discussion
[20:35] - The Internet - History, Culture and Changes 1990s - Now
[23:45] - Defining 'Enshittification'
[26:59] - The 'Walled-Garden Ecosystem' Of Big Tech (Facebook, Twitter/X, Google, etc)
[31:00] - Amazon's Trajectory of Enshittifying The Online Marketplace
[33:00] - Regulatory Lobbying, Antitrust, Copyright and IP
[42:43] - 'Social Media Is Doomed To Die' - Runaway Growth & Increased Use of Short-Form Media
[48:00] - IPO, Capital and The Consumer-Facing Burden of Information Synthesis (Thanks, SEO!)
[51:00] - RANDOM CHIRPS OF AGREEMENT FROM BASED COMRADE BIRD OUTSIDE!
[52:00] - User Feedback/Commentary
[54:51] - RIP Reddit - API Changes, The Death of Third-Party Apps & Overall Enshittification
[57:00] - UNEDITED SIGH OF EXISTENTIAL RESIGNATION!
[58:50] - The Reddit Moderator Exodus & Informational Damage Control
[64:00] - Oh Elon - X, Twitter Takeover & A Chronology of Failures, One Year On
[72:00] - Concluding Thoughts
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UPDATE 14/01/2025: - NEW WEBSITE!
LINK:
https://www.innerstrengthcheckpodcast.com/blog/archive-ep-18-touch-grass-aka-the-enshittification-of-the-internet
Ep. 12: Forbidden Lands Campaign Audio-Narration
Inner-Strength Check
07/23/23 • 5 min
Now and then, I'll be dropping some pieces of media here and there from my GM-ing in various RPG campaigns.
This is a little introductory spiel I cooked up with some corny narration, to introduce our TTRPG group to the fantastic Forbidden Lands system.
It's a brief spiel around the lore. Stay tuned for more random bits and pieces of silly content in future!
More Forbidden Lands content to come in future. Travel safe, adventurers.
Official Site:
https://freeleaguepublishing.com/en/games/forbidden-lands/
Ep. 6 - The March 2023 Not-An-Update Anti-Update (Update)
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03/05/23 • 41 min
Say that title three times in quick succession to summon the extradimensional horror of your choosing!
I've seen a lot of apologies and even sentiments of guilt in the everyday language within the content-creator/creative/influencer space lately.
Heck, even people expressing their sincerest apologies for not having gotten pictures up on social media in an arbitrarily 'timely' enough fashion.
Leaving any sort of relative silence or inconsistency in posting content (of any form) onto the Internet seems to becoming a growing source of anxiety from creatives and influencers.
A real-world lack of capacity to feed the hamster-wheel of endless digital consumption is something I'm noticing more in everyday discourse.
Join me as I paradoxically spend 40 minutes butchering silence, to discuss a few things I've noticed about our growing discomfort with it. Both from the perspective of a neurodivergent/mentally-spicy person, and moreover just a human being making and consoom-ing Internet in 2023.
Ep. 3 - Catchup & My Hobby Trajectory.
Inner-Strength Check
07/08/22 • 49 min
Hi All,
Been a while between episodes - a LOT has gone on this year.
I've had a bit of a crisis of confidence in this whole podcasting stuff, so I have avoided it for a while. Plus mental health stuff. Today's episode I do a bit of a catch-up on where I'm at in 2022 around work, hobbies, life etc, before the meat of the episode 'bout halfway through.
Rounding out the first few initial episodes to give you, the listener, some overall scope on your hosts' lived experience with mental health recovery and fun stuff, is a dive into how I've more recently fallen down into nerd hobby holes I never thought I would.
We dive more into how the hell a weird bogan-nerd-hybrid like me ever went from scoffing at Tabletop RPGs as a hobby ('You mean telling stories with paper and maths?! Gross, yuck, ew no') to that now being a huge aspect of what I enjoy in my non-working life.
As this is a podcast focused on how mental health and other factors intersect with enjoying and growing in non-work interests, we go briefly into how that, executive dysfunction and other factors play into it too - these will be touched on in a more meta level in future episodes.
From here, I do intend on making the podcast less 'me-focused' (although using lived experiences as examples, ofc) and more on the meta of gaming, music, mental health in the community as well as strategies and tips for you guys, too.
Stick around, some in-depth stuff coming in the future, but more casual and fun stuff as well.
If you wanna support the podcast - don't. Donate to a good, charitable cause (and me not slamming $10 house pints til I'm near-chundering) at:
https://www.dryjuly.com/users/brady-irwin
Cheers, and both good fun and mental health to you!
Thanks for listening.
Brady
Ep. 1 - Inside the Computer
Inner-Strength Check
11/15/21 • 66 min
Welcome to Inner-Strength Check, a podcast at the confluence of mental health, hobbies, leisure, society and community.
For today's episode, I decided to give you all a bit of an honest peek behind the GM screen and detail my own mental health recovery/neurodiversity trajectory over time, up to the present day. I felt it important not only to set the tone for the mental health side of things, but for you get a more honest and raw appraisal of your show host.
Coming up next will be Behind The Screen, which is parallel to this episode but will be more involved with discussing how my hobbies and leisure have formed, changed and persist from the past to the present day. From there, we'll expand out much more broadly to look at gaming, mental health and the like on a community and systemic level.
Please do get in touch if you're interested in coming on board as a guest, co-host or even just to game together!
Cheers,
Brady.
LINKS:
Website: https://innerstrengthcheck.com/
Facebook: facebook.com/innerstrengthcheck
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/innerstrengthcheck
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC64bvOhK0Pz02OmnZxuNoNA
Ep. 31 - Luna's Dark Souls, A DM-Interview With A DM.
Inner-Strength Check
12/21/24 • 32 min
Many thanks once again to my friend Luna for sharing wonderful insights and prose about the Dark Souls lore and fandom!
Also featuring a brief content roadmap/update prior to the interview proper.
Link to Blog Post:
Shoutouts:
Music - intro courtesy of Minus Life
Episode Tracks courtesy of Incompetech and Phat Phrog Studios.
If you'd like to be interviewed via video or even, as per today, message, to discuss a lore deep-dive or speak your passions about a subject you're interested in - get in touch!
As always - Peace, Love, and Grindcore. <3
INNERSTRENGTHCHECK - LINKS
Blog: www.innerstrengthcheck.com
Note: ISC Podcast is also available on: Our Youtube Podcast Page, Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Castbox, GoodPods, iHeartRadio, PocketCasts and RadioPublic.
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Ep. 32 [Reviews]: Feral - To Usurp The Thrones and RVVKS - Antithesis of Prosperity
Inner-Strength Check
12/23/24 • 23 min
It's a two-fer!
Hey, my ADHD and smartphone-infested brain knows as well as any of you guys how reading blog articles can feel like a chore at times.
That's why not only have I, your humble host, decided to record said reviews, I've also injected a fair bit of fun into the mix so as to not just be a dry-run read of the website reviews.
TIMESTAMPS:
[0:32] This one's for Lindon. You're welcome, bro <3 //
[2:30] Featured Track - 'Born With Sewn Shut Eyes', by Awful Noise (Bandcamp link here). //
[5:28] Speaking of awful - my terrible Svenska accent and even more butchered apology in said language! (Featuring Mac The Swedish Plumber. Thanks Rob.)//
[6:00] Feral - To Usurp The Thrones LP Review.//
[6:26] RANDOM GRATUITOUS SIMPSONS REFERENCE! OMG, SO ORIGINAL IN 2024!.//
[9:26] Your narrator apparently has a mild cerebral aneurysm.//
[11:55] When The Drums Are So Nice, You Say It Twice.//
[14:55] Review Outro - A Street Fighter Challenger Appears!//
[15:11] RVVKVS - Antithesis of Prosperity LP Review.//
[16:38] C-3PO butts in to take a swipe at my pseudo-intellectual pretentiousness. Thanks, Threepio.//
[17:40] Oh, you thought the Swedish impersonation was bad? Oh, cuzzy...//
[20:33] Narrator Does Dad Joke, Crickets Ensue.//
[21:58] 'ThAt's WhAt ShE SaiD'//
[22:21] Outro + Important Message From The Imperial Security Bureau.
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Links to written blog versions, containing all relevant artist links, profiles, more info on the albums as well as reviews in question:
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FERAL:
https://innerstrengthcheck.com/2024/10/18/ep-29-review-feral-to-usurp-the-thrones-lp/
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RVVKVS:
https://innerstrengthcheck.com/2024/11/21/ep-31-review-rvvkvs-antithesis-of-prosperity/
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Both albums absolutely slay. Take my word for it.
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As always - Peace, Love and Grindcore xoxo - Brady.
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www.innerstrengthcheck.com
Ep. 23 [Interview] with Matt Pike and Coady Willis of High On Fire
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05/03/24 • 25 min
A first-time for me for sure... not one, but two incredible musicians from a much-beloved band of mine in the same interview - stoner metal legends High On Fire!
Matt Pike (Vocals/Guitars) Coady Willis (Drums) and I discuss their recently-released 13th studio LP 'Cometh The Storm', out now via MNRK Records.
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In the chat, we discuss Coady's arrival into the band, the songwriting and inter-band dynamics as a power-trio and of course both international touring (hint) and the process of recording their latest smasher of an LP. -
Iconic U.S. rock band, High on Fire, released its' new LP, Cometh the Storm, on April 19 via MNRK Heavy. The GRAMMY Award-winning group, celebrating its 25th anniversary, recorded 'Cometh the Storm' at GodCity Studio in Salem, Massachusetts with producer Kurt Ballou.
The 11-song effort -- the band's ninth studio album -- marks the release of the first new High on Fire music since 2018's Electric Messiah.
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Ep. 10 - [Interview] Elissa Jewell, Owner of Deadlifts and Death Metal/Directional Strength.
Inner-Strength Check
07/02/23 • 82 min
[Content Warning - Discussions involving mental illness, eating disorder. See below for relevant resources. Also, lots of swear-words!] Musolegion:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/musolegion
Deadlifts And Death Metal:
FB:
https://www.facebook.com/deadliftsanddeathmetal
IG:
@deadlifts.n.deathmetal
Web:
https://directionalstrength.com/ddm/
Welcome to my first ever audio podcast interview!
Deadlifts and Death Metal is a local staple of the Melbourne heavy music scene, augmenting the metal community's love of sensory modulation through lifting and riffing.
We run through a mutual Q and A format, and take things both from my perspective as a neurospicy social worker, and Elissa's framework as a trainer/business entrepeneur.
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Approx. Timestamps by Topic:
1-6 Mins - Intro, Content Disclaimer.
12-18 mins - Elissa’s Lived Experience with Gym Culture and Eating Disorder. Cognitive Distortions/Perfectionism and Nutrition.
25 mins - How Metal Entered the Fitness Process + Vibe Attracts Your Tribe - Metalhead/Music-Lover Clientele DLDNM
27 mins - Back to You, Brady - Social Work, Boundaries, Neurodiversity’s Impact on My Role + Discussing Our Work History.
33 mins - [insert Bill Hicks Marketing skit here] - Our Journeys Around Marketing/Impact on Career.
36 mins - Fitness Marketing - ‘Criers are Buyers!’ and Impacts on Engagement In Training.
39 mins - Reverse Motivational Interviewing - Cognitive Dissonance as Sales Tactics.
40 mins - Metal as Authenticity, Community Barrier-Breaking and Inclusion At The Gym.
44 mins - Normie Gym-Goer Attitudes To Metal, + Powerlifting and Metal
46 mins - Elissa’s Trifecta - Beer, Deadlifting and Death Metal (in Balance!)
46 mins - ALERT ALERT ALERT NSFW! NSFW! Fast Forward A Minute! NOT FAMILY FRIENDLY LOL.
48 mins - K.I.S.S. - Exercise as An Accessible, Evidence Based Treatment + Sensory Modulation.
50 mins - Brady’s Observations About DLNDM Training As A Client + Halal Snack Packs (Uhh Highly Sensitive People) As Metalheads And Gym-Lovers
53 mins - Elissa’s Metal Journey (Acid Bath Age 11!) + Brady’s Journey - It’s Not A Phase Mum!
1hr - The Emotional Adaptability of Metal In Fitness.
‘Metal Is Evil’ As Outdated Conservative Shtick.
[scene missing, brain-fart LOL]
1hr 10min - Future Plans for DLNDM - Lifting Retreats? Metal Choirs and Beer Brewery Mobility Workshops?!
Metalhead Q&A - Questions from Musolegion Admin Team For Elissa.
[FREE Deliberately Not-Redacted ADHD Trying To Find Stuff Moment!]
Elissa’s Changed Relationship To Body Image Via Weights & Metal, Q+A.
1hr 20min - Questions For Brady - Neurodivergent Clients, Communication and Safe Space.
Resources:
If you feel you require support with anything discussed here, please refer to some helpful eating disorder resources.
Psychological Support:
National Helpline:
https://butterfly.org.au/get-support/helpline/
Find A Psychologist/Psychiatrist:
If you're in Australia, consider a Mental Health Care Plan through your GP, and be aware you can get on the front-foot by searching the APS Find A Psychologist search engine for local clinicians specialising in this treatment modality.
Please make sure you check for Medicare accreditation to be able to access the rebate if finances are a concern.
Link:
https://psychology.org.au/find-a-psychologist
Did you know you can also do the same for psychiatrists?
Link:
https://www.yourhealthinmind.org/find-a-psychiatrist
Self-Help CBT:
https://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/Resources/Looking-After-Yourself/Disordered-Eating
Ep. 19 [Review] Afterbirth - 'In But Not Of' LP
Inner-Strength Check
11/17/23 • 19 min
A supergroup of brutal death metal luminaries, New York's Afterbirth have absolutely hit it out of the park with this one. In a time where 'progressive' death metal is starting to coagulate into a similar-sounding theme, these guys have deliberately chosen their own brutal, mesmerising path.
A unique and truly envelope-pushing LP, 'In But Not Of' is truly one of my favourite heavy albums of 2023.
If you claim to like progressive extreme metal, this is a must-listen. Seriously.
The album is out now via Willowtip Records and all major streaming platforms.
LINKS:
- Instagram: @afterbirthofficial (www.instagram.com/afterbirthofficial)
- Twitter: @afterbirthband (www.twitter.com/afterbirthband)
- Bandcamp profile: www.afterbirth.bandcamp.com
- Facebook:
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How many episodes does Inner-Strength Check have?
Inner-Strength Check currently has 36 episodes available.
What topics does Inner-Strength Check cover?
The podcast is about Leisure, Hobbies and Podcasts.
What is the most popular episode on Inner-Strength Check?
The episode title 'Ep. 28 [Gig Review] FROTH AND FURY FEST 2024 @ Hart's Mill, Adelaide, Sat 9th Nov 2024.' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Inner-Strength Check?
The average episode length on Inner-Strength Check is 45 minutes.
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Episodes of Inner-Strength Check are typically released every 19 days, 1 hour.
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The first episode of Inner-Strength Check was released on Nov 15, 2021.
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