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π Never Post! Flashing Eyes In Which My Hopes Rise
Friends! A new Never Post for you on this fine, late summer day. It's a fun one: * Mike talks with Know Your Meme Editor-in-Chief Don Caldwell about the prevalence and decline of the Laser Eyes Meme, and the ever shifting place of internet memes in presidential election season
September 11, 2024Never News: Get out of my room!!
[Lit only by the ghostly haze of the moon, you see the mist-covered silhouette of a centuries-old graveyard. Passing through the wrought iron gate, you can clearly hear the wet chrk and slap of a shovel plunging into the earth. Someone is digging. And sure enough, at the base of
September 05, 2024New Slow Post: Fruit Roll-Ups
September 04, 2024π Never Post! XOXO Fest Live
Never Posters! Hot on the heels of those extended segments published earlier today, a new episode for you! This one? Extremely special! A recording of our first ever live show, performed on stage at XOXO Fest 2024. We hope you enjoy! Listen wherever you get your pods, in the member
August 28, 2024#MemeingTheNews β Extended Cuts
August 28, 2024NeverNews: Dispatch from XOXO Fest
As you're reading this, Mike, Hans, Jason, and I (Georgia) are in Portland preparing for our liveshow at XOXO Fest on Friday! So hooray to the lucky ducks who are able to attend this historic and sure-to-be life-altering event β we'll be performing at Revolution Hall on
August 22, 2024π Never Post! #MemeingTheNews
Happy Wednesday to you all! Here, thankfully, is a new episode of Never Post for you! This week, Hans talks with Lia Haberman of the newsletter ICYMI about the ostensible death of the hashtag; Georgia talks with media scholar Whitney Phillips about catching breaking news via internet memes. Also: Hit
August 14, 2024Never News: Only Reddit Remains
BEFORE I GET INTO ANYTHING ELSE, a reminder to you all that it is profoundly easy to become an elite member of our paid subscriber list, where you shall reap in the delights of extended segments! No ads on our episodes! An AI version of my own voice helping you
August 09, 2024π Never Post! Mailbag #4
What do we do? We respond to your comments! Listen in your podcatcher, here on the website or the member only feed for an AD-FREE EXPERIENCE. See you next week, with a new episode! -- βοΈ Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail π£οΈ Drop us a voice
August 07, 2024π Never Post! To BRB Or Not To BRB
Y'all! A new episode on this fine Wednesday for you. In this one, contributing producer Victoria Dominguez attempts to understand the practice of digitally resurrecting deceased loved ones using artificial intelligence. Also: home movies. Listen on the website, if you aren't already, and wherever you get
July 31, 2024Never News: It's Charli, baby
No dramatic intro today becauseβ¦I canβt believe Iβm saying thisβ¦but thereβs more Charli XCX news. Likeβ¦.like thereβs so muchβ¦β¦When I tell you it took quite a lot of restraint from me to not make this weekβs newsletter *only* about Charli newsβ¦
July 25, 2024Roblox, with EX Research β Extended Cut
July 25, 2024π Never Post! Life in Plastic, It's Fantastic
Friends! Listeners! Lookers-on! A new β that's right β Never Post for you on this fine day! In this ep, Mike chats with EX Research about their new report which goes deep on Roblox, the massively multiplayer online game played by HALF of all American teenagers. Georgia takes a look
July 17, 2024Never News: Totally Mid Hot Jesus
[Our narrator stands before a table in the library, dressed in safety goggles, a rubber apron, and rubber gloves. She holds two vials of strange liquid in each hand. On the left, a pitch black, foaming potion that bubbles and squelches. On the right, a lime green, dare I say
July 12, 2024vxTwitter, with DylanPDX β Extended Cut
July 10, 2024π Never Post! Everything Old Embeds Again
Hello! Just in time for your holiday needs, a new episode! Mike talks with unsung internet pillar DylanPDX, steward of vxTwitter and others, who single-handedly does what Big Social doesnβt want - keeping your embeds working. Senior producer Hans gets the ambrosia from Tallulah Trezevant, an antiquities scholar who
July 03, 2024Never News: Skibidi Brainrot
[We find our narrator standing by the book shelf, reading intently from a large, thick book titled βRich Husbands: How To Find Them, Woo Them, and Get Rid Of Them Discreetly.β Noticing you enter, she glances up and hurriedly slams the book shut, though not before making sure that her
June 27, 2024π Never Post! The Sound Files of Summer
Howdy, Never Posters! What we have here for you is our Summer Vacation Special: an episode-long staff round-table about music, streaming, and music library management, with special guest Meghal Janardan. You can listen on the website (if you're not already), and wherever you get your pods. Members: there
June 19, 2024βοΈExtended Segments: AI Aided Hiring and Hilke, Main Characters and Jamie
June 18, 2024π Never Post! Mailbag, Episodes 7-10
Friends! Great news: I lied! I said we would be back in the main feed on June 19th with a Summer Vacation special and that, very plainly, is not true. Here, for you, we have the third ever Never Post Mailbag ep. We hope you enjoy, have a great Friday
June 14, 2024Never News: A Newsletter Of and For the Internet
[Lights up on a glamorous, moody library. Old, leather-bound books crowd the shelves. Somewhere in the corner, a gramophone plays an unidentifiable jazz tune. Outside itβs raining, but in this room all is warm, lamp-lit, and smelling of woodsmoke. A stag, a five-pointer, is mounted proudly over the mantle,
June 13, 2024π Never Post! Who Hires the Hiring Bots?
Hello, all! A new Never Post for your gorgeous ears! This week, Georgia chats with Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter Hilke Schellmann about the job market, and the increasing prevalence of Artificial Intelligence in hiring. Mike then talks with comedian, writer and podcast host Jamie Loftus about her show Sixteenth Minute
June 05, 2024Google SEO Apocalypse, with Luke Plunkett - Extended Cut
June 05, 2024What's Going On Here?
June 01, 2024π Never Post! Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places
Friends! A new episode for you, and it is out! What luck! You can listen on the website, or your podcatcher. Members! An ad free version awaits in your feed. This week, Georgia digs deep into the enshittification of dating apps, and pays dearly as a result. Mike talks to
May 22, 2024New Slow Post: Schnabel Car
May 17, 2024Gossip vs. Conspiracy Theory, with Dr. Joan Donovan - Extended Cut
May 15, 2024π Never Post! NP x ICYMI: Everyone is a Journalish
Friends! Here it is! The second and final installment of our two part collab with Slateβs ICYMI! Listen on their feed, our feed, slate.com, neverpo.st and everywhere you listen to pods. And as always, ad-free cut is waiting for Members in their feed! Mike talks with mis-
May 11, 2024π Never Post! ICYMI x NP: How Kate Middleton's Disappearance Redefined Monoculture
Friends! Hello! This week, we have TWO episodes coming at you - one today and one on Saturday. Both are a collaboration with the incredible team at the Slate Internet Culture Podcast ICYMI. You can listen on our feed, on their feed, on our website, on their website and there
May 08, 2024π Never Post! Car Tok
Friends! Hello! A New Never Post for you today β this week, senior producer Hans Buetow investigates the transit vacuum thatβll be left when Uber and Lyft leave the Twin Cities; Mike looks at how the car has become a default setting for vertical, short form video. Also: PLANES, TRAINSβ¦
April 26, 2024Stream Archive: Never Post Premiere Hangout
April 24, 2024π Never Post! Mailbag, Episodes 4-6
Friends! Here is a new Mailbag ep, where we respond to your comments! Listen in your browser on this page, or find the ep in your podcatcher. As always, an ad-free version awaits Members in their feed π -- βοΈ Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail π£οΈ Drop
April 17, 2024Sound of the Internet - Extended Cut
April 17, 2024New Show - Never Watch: The Net
April 12, 2024π Never Post! Switched on Post
Friends! Hello! A New Never Post for you today β this week, our first Contributing Producer Marie Kilaru discusses the emotional impacts of making and seeing Before and After posts; Charlie Harding of Switched on Pop joins Jason to talk about what pop-musical acts have sounded like the internet. Also: Georgia
April 10, 2024Never Post Audio Production Live stream
Hey, all! Please join me, Hans and Jason on Friday, April 12th @ 2pm ET on my personal Twitch acct to chat some about how the show is made. The three of us have worked in audio in some form or another for about 20 years, and as such we all
April 09, 2024Extended Segment: Megadungeons
April 03, 2024π Never Post! β OOπ«ββ H Mπ π₯π³οΈ GOπππ
Friends! A new Never Post for your ears, brains, maybe a little bit for your teeth and toes. Listen in the embed on this page and wherever you get your podcasts! As always, an ad free version is awaiting Members in their feed... In this ep, Georgia and guest producer
March 27, 2024New Post from the Field: Mike Goes to the Studio in the Rain
March 21, 2024Extended Segments: Critical Ignoring, and the Important Emails Roundtable
March 20, 2024π Never Post! As Per My Last Podcast Episode...
Hans wonders why βbeing informedβ is so exhausting, and if thereβs anything he can do about it (short answer: sorta) and a few members of the Never Post team discuss βimportant emailsβ. Also: the hunt for Diet Caffeine Free Dr. Pepper continues. Listen at neverpo.st and wherever you
March 13, 2024π Never Post! Mailbag, Episode 1-3
We respond to listener comments about independent media co-ops, the disappearance of tween fashion, posting disease, influencer voice, mourning online, and human height throughout history.
March 06, 2024Supplemental Segment: Trickshot Content
March 06, 2024π Never Post! Eternal Return
Georgia talks with Tamara Kneese about how the software of the platform internet works against the social flows of grieving, and mourning. Mike then talks about men who throw ping pong balls into solo cups. ALSO: chill, lo-fi, public domain beats. Listen wherever you get your pods, and on https:
February 28, 2024New Slow Post: The Apostolic Nunciature to Kazakhstan
February 23, 2024Extended Segments: Influencer Voice and No Elders on YouTube
February 21, 2024New Post from the Field: Mike, Under a Bridge
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February 17, 2024π Never Post! People in Places
Mike talks with sociophonologist Lisa B. Davidson about why influencer voice exists, and with bass player and YouTuber Adam Neely about the people who have been retiring from YouTube.
February 14, 2024Extended Segment: Posting Disease, with Bijan Stephen
February 07, 2024π Never Post! I'm Mad, You're Mad, We're All Mad Here
On the disappearance of tween-specific fashion trends, and the epidemic of Posting Disease plaguing social media. Also: a man on a mission. Listen to this, and every other Never Post Episode at https://neverpo.st β Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice
January 31, 2024π Never Post! Episode 0: Independent Media Roundtable
To kick things off, we had a roundtable conversation with a trio of makers and thinkers, all of whom are creating independent media. They are Gita Jackson (Aftermath), Alex Sujong Laughlin (Defector Media), and Rusty Foster (Today in Tabs). We wanted to talk with Gita, Alex and Rusty about the
January 31, 2024Bonus Content β New Post from the Field: Audrey Waits for Bread
Audrey Evans filed this Post from the Field from her kitchen in Upstate New York
January 30, 2024Bonus Content β New Slow Post Episode: Miniature Horse
In this episode we start, where we should always start, at Miniature Horses.
January 24, 2024TRAILER: Never Post Is A Podcast About The Internet
We've been working on this show for about 10 months, so it is very exciting to finally get to publish the trailer. It may be that no one sees this post, right now β well, Hans will see it. Hey, Hans! (Hans is the show's senior producer;
January 17, 2024