Why not launching your own podcast for fun ?Spreading better ideas. Listening something than makes you unhappy it’s not the best thing to do.
Personally though I’ve got a bunch of fun stories to tell (what doesn’t kill me makes for one helluva story) and I know a great many people, I haven’t got the gumption to do it lol
I appreciate you sticking to what you threatened lol
I know you’re being funny but that’s not what a furry comic is
Furry stand up comedy doesn’t exactly fit in this community, so I’ll stick to sharing furry comic strips here
Good one ngl
This is incredibly cute and awesome.
2006-rabbit is somewhat right. It’s a lot easier to do propaganda over a handful of radio and TV stations than when anybody can host their own podcast.
Can you imagine the hellscape the USA would be in if media was just 3 major networks? Trump has already shown how willing he is to use his power to control what’s allowed on TV.
The propaganda is heavy controlled via a few companies. Google and Meta, primarily.
I’d argue it’s worse, as now it’s intensely personalized, so everyone gets their own little shard of reality instead of one “averaged” version. That, and even with slants, the old networks did follow journalistic standards to some extent, while modern influencers are under no such obligation.
Yeah 2006-rabbit was right at the time, then the tech evolved again.
Google and Meta aren’t controlling propaganda. They’re just trying to make ad dollars.
Propaganda is something you lose money doing, because you’re spending money (or using influence) to change minds.
You don’t need to spend money to spread propaganda if you own the means of spreading.
You’re still spending money because you employ the people doing the spreading. They could be doing other things, so even if they were slaves there’s an opportunity cost.
It’s worth it though. Capitalist propaganda allows them to keep their wealth.
They do when it’s in their business interest, though. They absolutely spend effort to skew opinions.
That’s not propaganda. That’s advertising. Google and Meta are ad companies.
Serious question; how are advertising and propaganda different, and are they different enough that the distinction matters?
Yes, they’re different enough that the distinction matters.
Advertising is about selling things. The company buying an ad simply wants to sell their product or service. The advertiser simply wants to make money by showing an ad. An advertiser might accept an ad from Palantir one day and one from Amnesty International the next day. Or, in the case of Meta or Google, selling ads for both simultaneously.
Propaganda isn’t about making money. It’s a money-losing venture. The idea is to change people’s minds, typically by deceit. Some people might say that a piece about the dangers of drinking and driving is propaganda, I think most would say it’s an informational message.
There are cases where advertising and propaganda overlap. But, there are also many cases where they don’t. It’s very useful to have two distinct words to describe the two different phenomena.
Subtle Political advertising is most definitely propaganda
yes, but do not discount how easily a huge part of the market was bought out and turned those decentralized broadcasters into free agent propagandists. rogan is the highest profile example but he’s far from the only one, and it takes a lot less to buy smaller personalities
Rogan says a lot of dumb shit, but I don’t think he’s a “free agent propagandist”. I don’t think he’s being paid to say that dumb stuff, at least not directly. I think it’s more that he either believes it or he thinks it makes for podcasts that people will download / stream. I don’t think that a Swedish media giant paid him a huge sum in order to spread propaganda, I think they did it because he had a huge audience and they thought that by making him exclusive to Spotify they could corner the market on podcasts. Luckily they were completely wrong.
The Russia Today / Tenet Media event did show that some right wing podcasters accepted money to knowingly or unknowingly launder Russian propaganda. But, these were much smaller podcasters than Joe Rogan. And, it shows that instead of the major 3 networks being forced to spread American propaganda, in the current media landscape there are so many smaller podcasters that not only can the US government not control the media, they can’t even prevent foreign countries from buying airtime.
IMO the whole podcast space is a free for all. There’s paid-for propaganda, but only some of it is American. Not all the top podcasts that Americans listen to are even American.
When the media was just 3 major networks, they had the power to say no to the government. These days their viewership is so low that they can be controlled by the government.
They never had the power to say no to the government. The government was more restrained in telling them openly and in public what they should say. But, they mostly obeyed in advance, slanting all their stories in a way that was “patriotic” more than it was truthful.
Honestly, anyone still listening to the Nazi propaganda show that is Joe Rogan’s podcast, they deserve this experience.
At least podcasts are still kind of decentralized and we can get good content without being tied to a YouTube account.
If you have an RSS feed setup for the podcast (not all grant this access), then generally the ads aren’t part of it. They are added in whatever program they are generally loaded into like Spotify, apple podcasts, etc. I recently setup Audiobookshelf to self host them and just popped the link for the RSS feed into the “Add” section and listen to it just like anywhere else, but without the ads.
No getting away from the ads though. I hate podcast ads the most.
AntennaPod lets you set a automatic skip at the start and end for each pod and let’s you manually skip every time you want
apple podcasts lets you skip ahead in 30 setting intervals, even through ads
You can customize your forward-skipping amount of time (and hotkeys for AirPods, if you’re into that) in Overcast! I used Apple Podcasts for a while, then like a few years ago (okay it was like a decade now) they updated the UI for their app and I hated it. Switched to Overcast after checking out a few other options and it’s amazing.
Then they updated Overcast and it all went to shit. It was the worst update to an app I’ve ever seen. Apparently to move it into a new engine or something, but then removing the ability to listen to podcasts as they download, and podcasts would randomly just stop and delete themselves. Awful.
That was fixed pretty quickly, it’s back to being great. But I’m a little nervous about any app I like aaaaaa
Side note: While checking out other podcast apps, I saw a few others that people really liked, mainly Pocket Casts. Check the tracking info and data collection before you download anything. Pocket Casts is invasive, “Podcast App” is invasive and looks shady as hell, Audible is more invasive, Spotify is a privacy NIGHTMARE holy shit look at all that shit it hoovers up.
oops morning adderall podcast app rant I guess
Spotify has the same option in 15 second intervals. It’s great as long as I’m not in the car or the shower when the ad break hits.
Apple’s is actually a setting for 15 or 30, or even 30 forward and 15 back.
If you have steering wheel audio controls the right/left button skips forward/back.
I was just looking at app permissions and tracking of some podcast apps and Spotify is a nightmare, christ…
I use the xManager version, not sure if that still has all the trackers in it. Either way, I don’t pay for premium and if the worst I have to put up with is a sponsored segment, I can tolerate that for not having to have my podcasts downloaded to my phone.
Podcast Addict lets you customize how many seconds skipping forward or backwards are. I can use the skip track buttons in my car to do this using Android Auto.
+1 for podcast addict, best app by far
In English they’re often transcribed too, so you can just click past the advert.
Ad-free podcasts are the best podcasts.
Yes! Shout out to The Maximum Fun network - they just added ad-free feeds as a perk for supporters this year.
I call it a “perk” because it’s at the $120/year donor level, though. I guess it’s really just a nice perk for people already willing to donate that much, more than a rational paid feature.
But it’s still nice to see the option.
If you don’t mind paying for podcasts you have options. If you don’t want to do that I’m not sure what else you can expect.
Some people can’t afford to pay
Well, for me podcasts are competing with CBC radio. And CBC doesn’t have any ads.
Wired headphones and a 3.5mm headphone jack in 2026? I’m already jealous.
I’m using wired headphones and a 3.5 mm jack in 2026 because I can’t afford wireless headphones.
This is reality if you’re using an mp3 player instead of a phone
Usb-c headphones?
My current phone came with usb-c earbuds. I use them occasionally.
Somewhat related: earbuds for human sized rabbits would be huge.
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Then who are you fucking?
I think it means that some are abstaining.
My wife of fifteen years, if you must know.
She sounds cool, Is your wife single?
Lol no.
I also choose this guys wife.
Is this a queue? I love queues.
Yeah, OP’s wife is a queuetie pie
15?! Do they have child marriage laws in TX?
…not everyone on the internet is in their 20’s.
I think that the joke was “of fifteen years,” was misinterpreted as “my wife, who is fifteen years old.” They aren’t assuming you’re in your 20s.
Yeah, but it just reads: “Child marriage? Sure.”
Your mom, just for starters
i mean “Austin TX comedy” is not really about Texas per se, it’s very specifically a stand-in for Joe Rogan. he was born in NJ.
Idk man, my cousin moved there because libruls — it isn’t lookin good for Texans with brains.
Meanwhile I moved to Austin specifically for the liberals. Got sick of living in the middle of nowhere with nothing but bigots around.
Asexual idiot in Texas, checking in.
This is slightly encouraging. I may end up landing in San Antonio at some point in the next few years
Citation needed
Off-topic but I like your username
Blame twelve year old me for that. I just haven’t bothered changing it after all these years, so it’s my name basically everywhere.
Listen, I love my podcasts. I love Pseudopod. I love WTYP. I love Lions Lead by Donkeys. I love Ballin’ Out Super. I love Hello From The Magic Tavern. I love my Chapo (❤️ Matt Christman, you da real MVP)
But at no point have I made it to the end of an episode and thought “Wow, this crazy mixed-up thing called life is all going to work out.”
This is a loser hobby for dorks and nerds who want a parasocial relationship with the C-lister at the Improv Club. It is a heady mix of adorable geeks and weirdos sharing a slice of their personal passions with you. But it is almost never an optimist-inducing experience.
Have you checked out Trash Future?
I am well versed in the entire Nate Bethea / November Kelly Extended Universe.
Keep a special place in my heart for No Gods No Mayors. Three of the most beautiful women in podcasting are on that show.
Gotta say though, Be Gay, Do Crimes hits better for me.
I’ll admit, I haven’t listened to an episode yet. But only because I can’t fit another podcast into my weekly rotation
Famously optimistic!
You need to listen to The Universe with John Green
This is why I only listen to audio dramas.
Me too! Whatcha listening to?
That rabbit needs to watch… The Rest is Science.
I want to make a podcast BUT NO! The CIA says I have to get famous first! Gotta get big arrested again, only this time for using my penis wrong in a public setting AND in my window, which is why I think Epstein is alive cuz obviously I’m a cop, too. Like, Jesus. I can just hide by talking about ballsacks for twenty minutes before revealing that MKULTRA and Star Gate are the same exact fucking thing; they were old names for our enlightenment program. I told my ROTC cadre that my nonexistent sister got me pregnant because I judged my father’s wrath more of a threat than the United States Military, that’s why I’m forced to do this. But I’m serious about making a podcast. Just gotta jump through some hoops for God, those dicks.
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