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August 27th, 2026

The last bit about podcasting, honestly, I promise

Different readers provide comments here differently. Some send an email, which is fine, when the comment is substantive and or constructive criticism. I like those. This blog’s spam filters are set pretty tight, so to comment here, a reader has to really, really want to say something. I do not filter for content, unless it is egregiously vile, or dumb. People can disagree with my views, I am fine with that. And I can be persuaded about some issues.

So we got an emailed comment about this podcast business from a reader, in a distant state, who has himself had a couple podcasts. He (“AB”) points out that podcasting can be done with just as much disregard for the business end of it, as this blog has. Podcasting is a simple outlet for many people, just as basic writing here on this simple blog is important for me. His email is below.

And I would add that plenty of financially successful podcasts, now big money makers, many with celebrity authors, started out this way. Like some frustrated observer in a distant city, unable to get through to City Hall about some pedestrian issue, who then launches beautiful broadsides and tirades about the official inadequacies in City Hall. Which then harvests some inside information from disgruntled workers inside City Hall, and then becomes the second and then ongoing subject of subsequent podcasts. With ever growing public attention. And public pressure on City Hall.

This mythical podcaster then finds her- or himself suddenly providing an alternative voice for the other citizens suffering at the hands of City Hall’s corrupt or incompetent or lazy bureaucrats. This “voice” does an end run around the local mainstream media, which is like 98% of establishment media and, therefore, incurious, narrative focused, partisan, and on the side of established power, not with the citizens.

And the rest becomes history, as it is said: Plenty of now famous podcasters got their start in a garage, or in their car, or in a local park, ranting about real issues that the mainstream media outlets refused to touch. They found their voice, found or grew their issues, found and grew their message and audience, and voila, they quit their day job and have a podcast show. Making money from “clicks” on the internet and the rest of that related business churn. Rebel News comes to mind.

The biggest challenge seems to be what to do when it is not an election year, or Donald Trump is not on the ballot, or the news cycle is not on fire. Then the podcaster’s skill is really tested. In the past week I have tried listening to a couple different TimCast IRL, with Tim Pool off the air and on vacation and his gang running the show, and it is unbearable to me. It is like listening to a group of high school boys talk about Big Ideas. Just stupid. Sorry, Tim, sorry guys.

AB: “A few thoughts about your podcast post. I have had a podcast for the past several years and I had one with my wife in the mid 2000s. If you are going ahead and making that your major focus and where you are making it, as Sherlock Holmes once said, your bread and cheese, then you do have to concern yourself with clicks, downloads, sponsors. etc. At that point you also start getting into the audience capture problem where you just perform or take a point of view because that’s what your audience expects.

However, if you are doing the podcast just because you like the medium and don’t care about the stats or getting paid, then it’s a fun hobby. If you do it in the traditional podcast format (no video) then the overhead is almost nothing, just a good microphone and a quiet place to record. Just a few things to think about.”
And there we have it, the last word on this podcasting business, here, anyhow. Thank you, AB.
By Josh • Posted in Fruit of Contemplation • No Comment
October 11th, 2019

PA senate floor scrap is microcosm of GOP vs Dems nationwide

If you pay attention to politics, and why else would you be one of the three readers here on this blog than you are a political junkie, then you know that one hoax after another has been trotted out against the president since he took office, in an effort to blunt his presidency.

If one hoax doesn’t work, like the “Russia collusion” thing that the chief “investigator” himself (Mueller) torpedoed in public, then another one is tried. Latest and greatest hoax is this Ukraine thing where one political party tries to cover up their corruption in the Ukraine by accusing the president of doing something wrong when he literally calls for an investigation into the corruption.

As ridiculous as this is, there is an arrangement that has taken shape in Washington, DC, and across America. Basically one political party is at war and uses anything available to them to advance that war, at any cost, and the other political party is kind of dumbfounded like a deer in the headlights.

One political party is throwing dust up in the air and running around screaming, or allowing ANTIFA Brownshirts to attack peaceful protesters while the city police are illegally told to not protect the peaceful protesters, while the other political party stands there slack-jawed, incredulous that anyone would abuse our governmental system so badly. That the DOJ is AWOL on ANTIFA and anti-civil rights mayors who enable their violence does not help.

If you want to watch all of what is happening in Washington, DC, and Seattle and Portland and Minneapolis and Charlotte, in a nutshell, then watch a fascinating fight on the Pennsylvania senate floor (below) where the Democrats throw the law and senate rules right out the window, and in response the Republicans mill around like a bunch of confused and rattled little school girls while one of them barks repetitively for a very long time about how the Democrats WILL follow the rules and hand over that microphone right now.

Which the Democrats do not do, of course. Instead, they do exactly what they want to do, which is to take control of the senate through lawless chaos and anarchy. They have zero respect or use for the law, or the rules, because at the moment neither suits their purpose. Wait until the rules and the law finally DO suit their purpose, and then watch out! They will bring a hammer and a sickle down on anyone standing up to them.

So, like what happens in DC, the Pennsylvania senate Republicans here are basically standing there flat-footed, dazed, confused, addled, with Jake Corman barking “Point of order! Point of order!”  like a worn out old dog whose angry bark is all it has. He has no bite.

Sad thing to me is that Jake is not a small guy, physically. He should have some confidence to stand up to his political opponents. I wanted to fist fight him a few years ago, but he wouldn’t stoop to it, and now here he is facing off with a real live Democrat insurrection, and he can’t even muster the courage to storm the podium and wrestle back the microphone and control of the senate floor. What a loser!

Jake, you are a weak kneed little girl, because all your career you have had everything handed to you. When you are needed most, you don’t have the strength of character to stand up and fight.

Lawless Democrats, confused, spineless Republicans, just like across America and in DC.

By the way, this lawlessness is exactly how the Communists took control of eastern Europe, because the good guys/better guys were too proper, followed ‘the rules’ even when there were no rules, and thereby failed to assert themselves when their leadership was most needed. The good guys lost.

Here is the amazing video.

[Screen grab] Pathetic and weak career politician Jake Corman barking like an annoying little lap dog at the mean Democrats who have stolen control of his precious senate floor process. Corman is surrounded by a bunch of little school girls dressed like men, who mill about confusedly. This is a snapshot of what is happening Across America as lawless Democrats take control while mystified Republicans stand around and ineffectively say “Hey, you can’t do that, you’re not allowed to do that.”

By Josh • Posted in Government Of the People... • No Comment