I miss the days when podcasts were all unmonetizable works of art (like the "old web").
As much as I like the improvements to production values, along with professionalization has come a sort of optimization for audience acquisition that drives all the worst parts of journalism.
The new, highly produced podcasts with engaging narratives of dubious truth value are so popular that they drown out (or worse crowd out) the niche mostly amateur content. Even if it's all still there, I don't know where to find it. ☹
@brainwane Nifty, thanks for the suggestions! Y'all seem like a fun couple 🙂
That podcast roulette thing sounds cool, but it seems it only has 10 entries in the feed and the feed hasn't been updated in a few years.