The Subtext: Netflix is Boring Because of Our Short Atten—

No Small Endeavor with Lee C. Camp

Lee Camp

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 555 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Are our shrinking attention spans rewriting the rules of storytelling? This week on The Subtext, we dig into the claim that streaming platforms like Netflix are deliberately dumbing down storytelling to accommodate distracted viewers. What is being lost when stories are engineered for half-watching? Are we shaping content around distraction, or training ourselves to expect it? And in a world where story is increasingly reduced to “content,” what does it mean to tell something true, meaningful, and worth paying attention to? Things we mentioned in this episode: Trust Me on Netflix Waiting for God by Simone Weil Jefferson Fisher on Diary of a CEO Follow The Subtext: Instagram | Threads | X | YouTube | TikTok Follow Lee: Instagram | Twitter | Lee's Newsletter Follow Savannah: Instagram | Substack Join our Email List: nosmallendeavor.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, Lee, welcome to our show.
0:02.2	Hello, Savannah, and greetings unto thee.
0:04.8	Greetings unto thee, too.
0:06.8	Is that how you greeted people when you were growing up?
0:09.5	What sayest thou, therefore, unto these things?
0:13.0	Jesus, Lord?
0:16.0	Oh, thank God that that's not how he was talking.
0:20.0	I would be like, I'm out.
0:21.2	I need some slang.
0:22.7	I need some slang.
0:24.9	Lee, what's the latest?
0:26.1	What's the greatest?
0:27.8	I don't know much.
0:29.4	Not a whole lot.
0:31.3	How was St. Louis?
0:33.1	St. Louis was lovely.
0:35.3	Yes, we did a little one-night run up to St. Louis with Audrey Asad and for Nosewandaver, and it was just lovely.
0:44.6	A lot of fine folks here in St. Louis that were very hospitable to us.
0:47.8	And there are some music, I'm guessing, with Audrey.
0:50.3	Yes, yes. She performed four songs. Did you get to do anything to you?
0:53.2	I sang one song with her, yes.
0:56.6	She had rewritten the, had written new lyrics to the old hymn, sweet hour of prayer.
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