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Episode: 2819
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Title: HPR2819: Reply to Knightwise - podcasts
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2819/hpr2819.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-19 17:15:40
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This is HPR Episode 2819 entitled Reply to Nightwine, Podcasts and in part of the series, Podcast
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Recommendations.
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It is hosted by AYUKA and in about 8 minutes long and carry a clean flag.
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The summary is, I provide a slightly different new on Podcasts to have recently given by
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ITWine.
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This episode of HPR is brought to you by archive.org.
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At Universal Access to All Knowledge, by heading over to archive.org forward slash donate.
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Hello, this is AYUKA, welcoming you to Hacker Public Radio at another exciting episode.
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In this particular little recording, I want to reply to our friend, Nightwise, he did a very
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interesting show recently, as number 2798, and it was like, should podcasters be pirates?
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And it was interesting, it did take me back, I do remember listening to the Daily Source
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Code way back in the day, Adam Curry.
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And I think what Nightwise, as I heard it, at least, was saying is things were so much
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better when podcasting was kind of an outlaw or pirate activity, not done by the big corporations
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and not with tremendous production values, you know, it did just so much better when it
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was like a hobby or something that people do on the side.
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And I can understand where he's coming from, I mean, obviously, Hacker Public Radio is
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a community activity.
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So it's pretty clear that Hacker Public Radio fits the model of what Nightwise was talking
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about.
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And I certainly do listen to a lot of podcasts that are, you know, produced by individuals
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who just have something to say.
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And I think that's great.
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But, you know, is it really bad that there are also corporations producing podcasts?
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I don't think so because I think Nightwise has got a hold of the wrong problem.
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I don't think the problem is whether it's corporations or individuals that are doing
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things.
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To me, the key factor with podcasts is it breaks the broadcast model.
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Podcasting is what you have when you have media that is produced for the lowest common
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denominator.
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And that can be pretty bad.
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You know, there's a famous expression by Newton Minow, FCC Commissioner, from some decades
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back in the United States where he referred to television as a vast wasteland.
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And certainly that was all stuff that was produced by corporations and, you know, it was aimed
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at the widest possible audience.
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And so you would play it safe, you know, never say anything that might be controversial,
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never show anything that might offend somebody.
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And you know, fine, I guess, you know, let's contrast that model with, you know, I just heard
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the last of the shows that I did about the YouTube channels I subscribed to.
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Now, some of those channels are definitely produced by, you know, corporations.
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There are some good production values on some of them.
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Others are produced by individuals.
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But to me, the real thing is that it replaces broadcasting with what I think can best be
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called narrow casting.
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And narrow casting means I don't need a massive audience because it's not going to cost me
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a ton of money to produce this.
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I just need to reach people who share my interest.
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And in terms of podcasting, I think that's more significant than what kind of production
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values something has.
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Now, by and large, you're probably going to find that a lot of the interesting podcasts,
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the quirky ones are probably done by individuals.
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I just that I don't think that's the key factor here.
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I think of the podcasts that I listened to.
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Some of them definitely would fit that model.
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I just finished a close to 200 episode podcast called The History of Rome.
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It was done by a guy who just decided, hey, I want to do this thing.
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And it was fascinating.
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I enjoyed it thoroughly.
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But there are other ones that I listened to.
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And I think, for instance, one of the ones that comes to my mind is Science Friday.
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Now Science Friday is a radio program produced by American public radio here in the United
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States.
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You know, it's on Friday afternoons.
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And I really am not in a position to just drop what I'm doing and listen to the radio
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when it comes on.
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So to me, the fact that they have taken that and put it out as a podcast means that I
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have an opportunity to listen to that.
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And I'll probably end up listening to it on a Saturday.
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Because they'll do the program.
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It'll show up in my RSS feed Friday evening.
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I'll throw it onto my MP3 player and then Saturday I can listen to it while I'm doing
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the laundry or whatever it is I'm doing on Saturday.
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Another one that comes to mind is a BBC program.
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And this is called the Infinite Monkey Cage.
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You know, BBC Radio is originally airs on BBC Radio.
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Then it gets put out as a podcast.
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So it has all the production values of BBC Radio.
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Is there a huge audience for that sort of thing?
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Well, I guess there's enough in England for the BBC to put it on.
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But, you know, I have not noticed that there's an immense audience for science-oriented programs.
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But I like them.
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Apparently, I'm enough of an audience that people like me are enough of an audience
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that they can put that stuff out there and get by.
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So I think the thing that I love about podcasting and YouTube videos and all of these things
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is it's an opportunity to say, I don't care what everyone else is doing, right?
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I have never watched Game of Thrones.
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I really don't care about Game of Thrones.
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Everyone in the world apparently is transfixed by Game of Thrones.
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And that's all they want to talk about.
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Now, I don't care.
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But if you listen to any of those shows about the YouTube channels that I follow,
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you know, I have my own interests.
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And they are not mass interests in any sense.
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They're much narrower.
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You know, history, science, things like that that I happen to be interested in.
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So this is just kind of my two cents on the whole thing about what's important about podcasting.
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Of course, I love hearing from night wise.
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And, you know, one of the things that I think is good is that Hacker Public Radio gives us a chance
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to have this kind of a conversation in a way.
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And I really do appreciate that.
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So this is Ahuka signing off and reminding you, as always, to support FreeSoftware.
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Bye-bye.
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