It sent sax – Liberation
They had hated their portrait of der in Liberty – As we know because they talked about it as soon as they could. THE « bald » and the« shaggy », Adrien Ménielle, 45, and Florent Bernard, 33, announced on Wednesday April 30 in a special mini episode that they stopped the adventure of Floodcast, Started at all ten years ago.
We are going to be short, it seems impossible to explain why we loved this podcast to those who have never listened to it, but we are sad. THE Floodcast had become a funny friend, which is impatiently awaited each time, with whom we laugh a lot or we sometimes get angry: shit, they really did not understand the concept of the portrait of Liberty ? And this surprise judgment reminds us that this relationship is obviously unilateral and that we do not master anything.
BRIC, broc, free and kindness mix, beauf humor and progressive engagement, word games and brilliant slimming gimmicks, approximate imitations and improved copy of the improved copy of the improved copy of Big heads, The podcast that has become weekly for a few years had established itself as a cult object with a whole generation – at La Grouche, listeners located in the twenties and the thirties.
Announcing that he would still end the current season – in July -, as well as the organization of three dates in the Pleyel Hall in Paris at the end of June, the two representatives of The Golden Mustache era explain that they simply felt the end of a process. « It’s like the end of a couple, there is sometimes no real reason. »
This is for feelings. But there are reasons and they are understandable. If we caricature a bit, the success of Floodcast is based on a simple balance: the worker impulse of the author and director Florent Bernard, who had the idea of the format, prepares and sets up the programs alone – an hour to almost three hours for the longest, – and the friendship that binds him to the author, designer, humorist and actor Adrien Ménielle, who handles a strangely positive form of black humor which makes it extremely attractive. The love that the public sent him during their closed window tour in 2022 showed it.
In short, under discussion tunes between friends, most guests from the same cultural environment as them, the ass stuck between the world of Youtube, the scene and the cinema, the program asks for work. Increasingly occupied by professional projects, such as the success in theaters of his first feature film We, the Leroy In 2024, Florent Bernard evokes his fear of burnout and explained having several times « Flated for two or three years ». “I am not at the factory, I am aware that it is fun. I stop before becoming the asshole who complains of doing something so cool. ”
They are also happy to put an end to Floodcast before « It becomes shit ». « We have decades of stories of people who stop too late, summarizes Adrien Ménielle. It’s cool to stop now. ” Both are aware « From the presence that a podcast can be in someone’s life »,, « The link between the show and the listening public ». « I’m happy that we stop when everything is fine. I’m a little sorry, apologizes Florent Bernard. But this is a decision that I had to make, if only for the quality of the show. ”
Having always knew how to put a healthy distance between the public and them, recalling for example that it is good to say hello when they are challenged in the street and to avoid making them jokes as if they were friends in real life, Bernard and Ménielle do not end up saying « We love you », « because we are not youtubers and we don’t all know you personal ». A last spike of Adrien Ménielle: “We have recently seen that there are racists with our listeners. You can stop listening to us. Do not come to the Pleyel room elsewhere. There are lots of other things for you. ”
