197 - Ghosts From the Internet (feat. Josiah Sutton)
Added 2025-07-09 06:00:17 +0000 UTCJosiah Sutton (Fruitless) joins a lads-less Brian as he revisits the inspiration for his first video essay: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Pulse. Topics include revisiting old work, breadtube, and what we can learn from the ghosts from internet eras long past.
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Fruitless Podcast: A show about history, politics, faith, media, and the internet hosted by Josiah Sutton.
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Fruitless video essays:
Media Referenced in the Episode:
Pulse. Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa. 2001.
“Pulse (2001): How J-Horror Predicted 2020” by Brian Alford. 2020.
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman. Viking Penguin. 1985.
“I Can’t Stop Watching Contagion” by Folding Ideas. March 31st, 2020.
“Massacre on Martin and 3rd” by Jack Saint. October 20th, 2018.
Mike D’Angelo’s Scenic Routes: Pulse. The A.V. Club. April 4th, 2011.
“The Problem With Video Essays” by Philosophy Tube. June 27th, 2025.
TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com
Interstitial: “A Little Ditty” // written and performed by A.J. Ditty
Comments
I love Brian episodes. This was my first listen after a summer-long hiatus from listening. I wrote a whole stage play, and I blame this podcast.
Josh James
2025-09-13 00:12:30 +0000 UTCI really connected with the talk about how exhausting it can be to make something in this weird, horrible attention economy. Because you don't just have to be the writer and the director and the actor, you also have to be the editor and the promoter and the cinematographer and the sound engineer... All I really want is to be locked in a warehouse with a typewriter while Sam Goldwyn yells at me.
Nemo
2025-07-19 16:37:15 +0000 UTC
