'The key', the debate program moderated by journalist José Luis Balbín in which current issues were discussed.
No matter how much they invent, few things are more interesting and cause more pleasure in the viewer than attending a good conversation.
The evidence is endless and goes back to the Platonic dialogues.
We love people who talk a lot of good things, as Gabino Diego's character told the innkeeper Tirso in
Amanece, which is no mean feat
.
As viewers and listeners, we are all that Gabino Diego.
When we like a conversation, we comment in admiration: he speaks a lot of good things.
The best literature and the best cinema are also made of conversations.
The latest manifestation of this eternal passion is conversational
podcasts
(
sic
).
The world of
podcasts
has flirted with many genres: documentaries, fictions, sound essays, monologues, conferences... But in the end, conversation has prevailed.
We always return to the same thing, the filandón, as they say in the towns of León, or the capaco, as they call an eternal palique in my land.
If the speakers are fun, entertaining, intelligent and agile, we don't care what they talk about.
That's why I've always been surprised by the distrust of the
super stingy people
on TV (and also on radio) towards pure conversation.
In principle, it seems good to put chat programs on the grid - in fact, the tertulia is the hegemonic format in Spain for all channels to address any topic, from the heart to politics, including sports and culture. as long as it is boycotted and abbreviated.
Conversation, yes, but with interruptions, music, resources and various distractions.
They maintain that the viewer is incapable of maintaining his attention beyond a few very short minutes and must be beaten with light stimuli and
ticking-tacking
so that he does not fall asleep or start looking at his cell phone.
In the background, a banal nostalgia sighs for the talk shows of yesteryear, and the same is cited by Balbín from
La Clave
, which evokes the “millennialism is going to arrive” of Arrabal, without forgetting Quintero's silences, all converted into memes.
What happens to a conversation is what happens to a novel or to tomatoes: in the past they were better, deeper, tastier.
Today, the usual ones complain, they don't taste like anything.
Don't believe them: those conversations weren't so perfect, nor are the current ones so stupid.
The only thing that is certain is that the talkative drive does not decline.
Life is an eternal after-dinner meal, and we will never get tired of it.
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