Honest (constructive) feedback on Gypsy Tales

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I don’t listen to Gypsy Tales often, I love pulp and listen to just about everything they put out.
The first few times listening to Gypsy I couldn’t stand it, too much “fuuuuuuck” and “brooooo”
However I do listen from time to time when there is a guest I want to hear.
He has gotten considerably better each time I listen, the Herlings interview was great and he asks some really good questions.
I say bro and swear plenty in real life and not offended at all by it, but find it uncomfortable to listen to, he has made huge improvements, but still a little more to go.
With a little more polishing, Gypsy tales could be an amazing podcast and right up there with the rest.
Don’t dismiss this guy, The herlings episode is awesome, give it a listen!
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6/28/2022 7:02pm
I listen to it about like you do. He isn’t terrible. I don’t really cuss in my personal life but it doesn’t bother me. What bothers me is he comes off fake at times with how hard he is trying to be one of the bros.
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6/28/2022 7:22pm
Dude, bro, fuck, like, I do Jujitsu fuck bro, fuck dude Bro fuck I do Jiu Jitsu fuck like, like, bro like, I do jujitsu,

Listening to his stuff iS liKe tRyiNg tO rEaD mYsPaCE sPeAK.

So much fuck was only good in the Big Lebowski.

https://youtu.be/gU2ZgaQ_H-Y
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mx510
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6/28/2022 7:35pm
I have enjoyed several of his podcasts, but his latest with Herlings was unlistenable to me. It’s one thing to be a fanboy, but it was over the top.
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mx510 wrote:
I have enjoyed several of his podcasts, but his latest with Herlings was unlistenable to me. It’s one thing to be a fanboy, but it was...
I have enjoyed several of his podcasts, but his latest with Herlings was unlistenable to me. It’s one thing to be a fanboy, but it was over the top.
It gets better as it goes on, it starts a little that way and gets great. That’s my point about the potential of the podcast, as he gets into the zone it definitely improves.
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6/28/2022 8:04pm
I mostly listen to some of his Youtube bits and not to the whole podcasts.
It always seems to me that he talks more than his guests. And I think it should be the other way round.
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6/28/2022 8:11pm
I can’t stand the guy! He just talks and talks and never shut up.
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TooOld4WFO
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6/28/2022 8:22pm Edited Date/Time 6/28/2022 8:31pm
I’m glad somebody else brought this up.
Absolutely the cursing is needless. Adds nothing and is way overused by him.
He absolutely makes way too much effort to draw parallels from his life to the guests he is interviewing.
I have listened a little and find it difficult due to the broing as offered already.
He simply lacks a comparable background so he over does it in other ways possibly trying to measure up or appear to be more equal.

He absolutely needs to let the guest talk more. I am completely uninterested in learning more about the host.

Pings show is an excellent example of a great format. It must be working for him as he is expanding on the original concept.
Bubbas is another great show.

I will not seek out his show and listen to it. Looks like others feel the same way. Yes he has had some very compelling guests on. Makes it more difficult not to listen.

Edit: Great comment about the Jujitsu. He brings this up the few shows I have listened to. This clearly an effort to appear on equal ground with who he is interviewing. Just using the word typically commands a certain level of respect. I now have to doubt how much he actually trains in that discipline. The personal satisfaction of learning that skill should be enough without insuring everyone else knows it.
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6/28/2022 8:26pm
I have my favourite Restaurants to visit, not opposed to trying (and enjoying!) other Restaurants frequently ;-)
To me, Podcasts are the same. Gypsy is a total different flavour, I enjoy his style from time to time.

I guess if Gypsy rubs you wrong, don’t listen?!

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Colo moto
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6/28/2022 8:41pm
I honestly can’t figure out how this dude has such a big podcast. Is he someones son or knows the right people? As far as i can tell he’s just an annoying aussie with big glasses. Not saying he’s any better or worse than stew or mathes but at least those guys have some insight I occasionally want to hear. In the end i do end up listening to about as much of his stuff as the others but only because of his guests. If an old lady had a podcast with the same guests i would probably listen to her just as much.
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6/28/2022 8:50pm
He’s got a lot of good but he eats more ass than Liberace and takes pride in it. He can’t take the smile off his face as he’s kissing those asses. It’s just a little too much for me.
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6/28/2022 9:04pm
I listen if he has a guest on I am very interested and haven't heard before (like Herlings), but the broing down is over the top along with his constant bragging about how successful he is, how hard he works, and his Jiu Jitsu over and over and over. I could care less about the cussing, but I would put him very low on my priority list of listens because of those things.
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6/28/2022 9:12pm
As a fellow Aussie that also lives in the same area I wish I liked it more, I cant stand it. It gets old hearing about his Jiu jitsu over and over again.

I also thought it was pretty piss weak of Gypsy tales, when Mathes invited him on to have a constructive conversation to bury the beef between them and he held back massively. To only continue to talk shit about him with his guests after the episode.

I could care less, but all the new podcast basically shit on Mathes for what ever reason and basically copy everything he does and paint it as 'different' .
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6/28/2022 9:28pm
He's a classic FIGJAM. Look it up....
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6/28/2022 9:33pm
I like the shows.
Yes, he talks more than I'd like, rather than the guests. Yes, he talks about his martial arts slightly too much, maybe for credibility, maybe because it's the closest he gets to something a rider is talking about. Maybe he simply likes martial arts. I think he talks about it only slightly too much.
He cusses a lot, but that doesn't really bother me.
The thing is, he has good guests, asks good questions, and many times gets the guests talking about things that they normally wouldn't.
And he loves our sport.
And he rides.
I'm good with it.
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6/28/2022 9:42pm Edited Date/Time 6/28/2022 10:00pm
I like both Gypsy Tales and Pulp, I'm just a moto nerd and love any content they put out. I'm also using a bro or fuck here and there but Gypsy is kinda over the top sometimes. It's even more annoying than Steve Matthes telling us how he was a mechanic back then at least 5 times per show.
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6/28/2022 9:47pm
Im a fan of his podcast and vlogs. They are a top level production and set the bar high for others. My dislikes are some of the guests he has had on as well as him being a total fan boy in some of them. Sometimes he needs to stop trying to relate to some of the guests.
Beside those things he gets some really good people and most of the non moto guests are also very good
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6/28/2022 10:07pm
As a fellow Aussie that also lives in the same area I wish I liked it more, I cant stand it. It gets old hearing about...
As a fellow Aussie that also lives in the same area I wish I liked it more, I cant stand it. It gets old hearing about his Jiu jitsu over and over again.

I also thought it was pretty piss weak of Gypsy tales, when Mathes invited him on to have a constructive conversation to bury the beef between them and he held back massively. To only continue to talk shit about him with his guests after the episode.

I could care less, but all the new podcast basically shit on Mathes for what ever reason and basically copy everything he does and paint it as 'different' .
I actually think both Matthes and jas have been a bit dickish to each over there little beef with shots over social and on each shows
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6/28/2022 10:18pm
crazy to think how many subscribers Gypsy has compared to the rest....

Pulp MX has 29.8k Subscribers
The Whisky Throttle Show has 19.8k Subscribers
Swap Moto Live has 67.4k Subscribers

GypsyTales has 98.4K subscribers... I dont understant how many comments i see about improving his show yet he seems to be putting out the numbers for views and people who are wanting to come onto the show.
I think a lot of the conversations he has and the whole "bro" things is what comforts the people he is interviwing and makes it more of a relaxed vibe. which ends up leading to us getting to hear the stories some atheltes/people might not always share within a normal interview.

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6/28/2022 10:29pm
I enjoy the guy, no one is perfect.
The target audience for his YouTube views prob isn’t the crusty old fucks that hang around vitalmx
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6/28/2022 11:14pm
Great content. He asks good questions. And gets real answers. The moto forums are all full of haters who gonna hate. Herlings ain't gonna call into Plump Pulp.

If you want to enjoy fun video-podcast-moto-content 3x a week for just $5 a month, ad free!, try The Main Event Moto podcast on Patreon. There is no other place where everyone has a voice that is heard during the show, and the chat is always live, and on fire. The Main Event Discord Channel is like a family from around the world.

Everything is relative. I used to wait 3-4 weeks for Moto-World to cover a race. Now it's live and with drones. Anyone who complains about modern moto-information channels, harken back to the old days, and realize how good we have it!!!!
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6/28/2022 11:15pm
I enjoy the guy, no one is perfect.
The target audience for his YouTube views prob isn’t the crusty old fucks that hang around vitalmx
Perfectly stated. And from the EUG! Rock on!
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6/28/2022 11:57pm
I know this is probably a bit radical, but when I listen to podcast interviews, it’s to listen to the interviewee, not the interviewer.
So I don’t really care who the interviewer is as long as they get good content out of the interviewee.

The Herlings interview had good content.
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6/29/2022 12:03am
I swear. People around me swear. But we all know there’s a time and a place for it.

I like to listen to podcasts on my speaker whilst in the shop and sometimes in the kitchen whilst cooking or cleaning and there’s very likely other people around- customers or family.

And that’s when you notice the needless swearing.
And it’s uncomfortable.
Once or twice occasionally nobody around me would bat an eyelid.
But the constant “fuck bro, fuck” becomes uncomfortable.

I don’t listen to him because of it.
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6/29/2022 12:22am
Yup it's annoying but I got past it, what he is very good out all fucks and bros aside is getting riders to talk about the mental side of the sport which is the content I enjoy the most out of any athlete, not many do this in our sport.
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6/29/2022 12:27am
It’s very simple. If you dont like him, the way he talks etc. Don’t listen.

Maybe when Herlings does an interview with Pulp or Ping you can go take a listen ….
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6/29/2022 12:33am Edited Date/Time 6/29/2022 12:50am
In Oz and NZ, and here in the UK also, we swear / curse a lot more than elsewhere and it's not really the same as how it's treated or interpreted in the US, I can watch Big Lez and it's like listening to a normal conversation to me, however for these interviews it's a bit too much even for me.

Purely constructive, maybe calm down on the BJJ a touch also, it almost comes across like that kid who has to keep telling people he trains MMA, although I'm certain it isn't meant that way.

At the end of the day, the audio and production is pretty great and there have been some very interesting and impressive guests and he does get them to open up which is excellent on his part, but just chill - you'll be a cool kid by association, you don't have to force it, which is what it comes across like sometimes. He does have a real talent, so it's got to be worth making some minor tweaks to keep growing and progressing.
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6/29/2022 12:51am
Curious, what is average age of folk complaining about the swearing? It's an Australian culture thing, every cunt our age fucking swears a lot.

I suppose you can't fake personality doing what he does, so he has just gotta be himself.

I don't really dig the way Mathes and the other older guys with podcasts present themselves and talk. I do enjoy their content though!

I think it's generational to be honest.
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6/29/2022 12:51am
It's pretty normal in Oz to say FUCK 7 times in every sentence . i hear you guys, talking bout himself , but we all wanne relate to eachother ... thats how you build conversation for hours. I also had to adjust to his style but he gets his guests to talk bout the stuff behind the curtain and how they really feel bout things. I think it's one of the most honest interviews I ever heard. We def get a lot more stuff to hear that you don't hear on other podcasts. his set-up is top notch and guys...it's free :-) :-) so keep the FUCK going ! You fucking NINJA :-)
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Fangface wrote:
It's pretty normal in Oz to say FUCK 7 times in every sentence . i hear you guys, talking bout himself , but we all wanne...
It's pretty normal in Oz to say FUCK 7 times in every sentence . i hear you guys, talking bout himself , but we all wanne relate to eachother ... thats how you build conversation for hours. I also had to adjust to his style but he gets his guests to talk bout the stuff behind the curtain and how they really feel bout things. I think it's one of the most honest interviews I ever heard. We def get a lot more stuff to hear that you don't hear on other podcasts. his set-up is top notch and guys...it's free :-) :-) so keep the FUCK going ! You fucking NINJA :-)
I suppose you make another point there, it's a conversation. Not a boring blah blah blah how's your bike blah blah blah how's training interview.
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