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A report on podcast ad effectiveness sparks a debate about the medium’s evolution from niche “edutainment” to mainstream, ad-driven entertainment. The hosts argue that “algorithmification” has broken our ability to discover new things, using the wild theories surrounding a real interstellar comet as a case study in lost curiosity.
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Chapters:
(00:00) Hello world!
(01:04) Andrew introduces a “Top 15 Podcasts by Ad Performance” list
(03:35) The hosts realize something about top-performing shows
(10:10) Andrew criticizes how ad-driven models and algorithms force creators into narrow niches
(13:24) Modern algorithms kill the human chaos element of discovery
(19:26) The conversation pivots to aliens and the strange discovery of interstellar comet 3I/Atlas
