What this thing is

Podcasts are mostly bad. Whenever I set out to find new ones I end up in a very scary part of iTunes where sad men make jokes with themselves into webcast mics. And since you can’t scan a podcast like you can a website or book, it’s easy to lose valuable listening minutes.

But some podcasts are good.

Writing about podcasts is also pretty bad. Most of it is just Serial recaps and Mystery Show explainers (the only podcasts your editor cares about come from This American Life alumni). This is kind of magical. Podcasts can feel secret and undiscussed, not like a cool band — because podcasts have never ever been cool — but like that spot of the late-2000s internet nobody else knows about that you love.

While it is good that there is one tiny node of culture that we’re not forced to analyse from eight different lenses in order to participate in ~the discourse~, it would also be cool to read good writing about podcasts.

I want to read about podcasts that have fucked you up. I want to read about hosts that live alongside you in your brain. I want to read about shows that you hate as much as I hate Marc Maron. I want to read about that weird experience you had interacting with a podcast host. If it is something you feel strongly about and you can relate it to podcasts, send it to me, even if it is just an idea.

This is going to be an email thing (emails are good again, just like podcasts) but also a blog, so you can link people.

I can’t pay you but I promise to let you see my edits and to care. I know that’s not the same.

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