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 Em! – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com See what interstitials we need submissions for , like: SEND US YOUR DRAFTS – Intro Links Google has an illegal monopoly on search, judge rules. Here’s what’s next –...
Aug 14, 2024•55 min•Ep. 16
We respond to your comments! -- ☎️ Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail 🗣️ Drop us a voice note via airtable 📧 Email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com 🌐 Leave a comment at neverpo.st See what interstitials we need submissions for , like: SEND US YOUR DRAFTS -- Never Post's producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show's host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Post...
Aug 07, 2024•49 min
Contributing producer Victoria Dominguez attempts to understand the practice of digitally resurrecting deceased loved ones using artificial intelligence. Also: home movies. – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com See what interstitials we need submissions for , like: SEND US YOUR DRAFTS – Intro Links People searching X for updates on California's largest wildfire encounter torrent of porn spam – SF Gate I Work...
Jul 31, 2024•59 min•Ep. 15
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 at Love Island UK – as many people have over the last few weeks – and asks why so much of that looking is preoccupied with plastic surgery. Also: the sound of touching grass. – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com See what interstiti...
Jul 17, 2024•47 min•Ep. 14
Mike talks with unsung internet pillar DylanPDX, steward of vxTwitter and others, who single-handedly does what Big Social doesn’t want - keeping your embeds working. Senior producer Hans gets the ambrosia from Tallulah Trezevant, an antiquities scholar who ran an experiment to see how fast she would get flushed down the alt-right pipeline when expressing an interest in ancient history online. Also! Some of your favorite hidden corners of the internet. Show Notes: Call us at 651 615 5007 to leav...
Jul 03, 2024•58 min•Ep. 13
An episode-long staff round-table about music library management with special guest Meghal Janardan. – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com See what interstitials we need submissions for – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Po...
Jun 19, 2024•46 min•Ep. 12
We respond to you! – LINKS! Angelmamii7 in Limerance Burnt toast about burnt toast HEADPHONE USERS BEWARE – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com See what interstitials we need submissions for – Moss’ Email Hi Never Post! My name is Moss (she/her) and I am trans. Your recent segment on before and after pics got me thinking about the particular variety of before and afters that are shared online in the trans ...
Jun 14, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Georgia chats with Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter Hilke Schellmann about the job market, and the increasing prevalence of Artificial Intelligence in hiring . Mike talks with comedian, writer and podcast host Jamie Loftus about her show Sixteenth Minute (of Fame) , and the curse of becoming an Internet Main Character . Also! Every YouTube video the team watched in the last two weeks. Show Notes: Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a ...
Jun 05, 2024•50 min•Ep. 11
Georgia digs deep into the enshittification of dating apps, and pays dearly as a result. Mike talks to Aftermath co-founder Luke Plunkett about recent, massive changes to Google’s Page Rank algorithm, and the risk of reconfiguring entire industries to pander to search traffic. And also: An AI Voice Clone of Mike is set to *maximum chaos*. Show Notes: Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us...
May 22, 2024•56 min•Ep. 10
The second and final installment of our two part collab with Slate’s ICYMI! Mike talks with mis- and disinformation researcher Joan Donovan about the line between gossip and conspiracy; then ICYMI’s Candice and Rachelle join us to talk about what it feels like swimming in the wide open sea of monocultural event discourse. Also: C-SPAN’s earliest internet memories! Special thanks to Candice, Rachelle, Se’era, Daisy and the whole ICYMI team! Please listen to them on slate.com and wherever you get ...
May 11, 2024•59 min•Ep. 9
This week, we got TWO episodes coming at you - one today and one on Saturday. Both are a collaboration with the incredible team at the Slate Podcast ICYMI . In today's episode, the first of our collaboration, Mike guests on ICYMI, where they break down one of 2024’s biggest internet stories and ask: what's the recipe for a rare monocultural event? It's been more than a month since Kate Middleton announced she'd started preventative chemotherapy treatments following a cancer diagnosis. Which mean...
May 08, 2024•51 min•Ep. 8
Senior producer Hans Buetow investigates the transit vacuum that’ll result 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, TRAINS… BIKES – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Intro Links The House just voted on a potential TikTok ban (again). Now what? – CNN Biden signs a bill that could ban TikTok — after the 20...
Apr 26, 2024•55 min•Ep. 7
😷 -- ❤️🔥 Become a member at https://neverpo.st ☎️ Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail 🗣️ Drop us a voice note via airtable 📧 Email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com -- Never Post's producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show's host is Mike Rugnetta. It’s easier to read the mind of a fox than to guess what a man’s about to say when he returns from t...
Apr 24, 2024•41 min
We respond to your comments! -- ☎️ Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail 🗣️ Drop us a voice note via airtable 📧 Email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com 🌐 Leave a comment at neverpo.st -- Never Post's producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show's host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure....
Apr 17, 2024•54 min
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 reads Franny Choi’s “Unrequited Lovesong for the Panopticon” Join us on Twitch , Friday, April 12th @ 2pm ET to chat about audio production! – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail...
Apr 10, 2024•55 min•Ep. 6
Georgia and guest producer Luis wonder why there is so much audio online that seems to sound bad on purpose; Mike talks to Gabriele de Seta and Paolo Berti about how the “megadungeon” is a productive model for understanding the internet. Also: posts from the field! – ☎️ Call us at `651 615 5007` to leave a voice mail 🎙️ Drop us a voice memo via airtable 📧 Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Intro The House passed a TikTok ban bill. But is the app really a national security threat? –...
Mar 27, 2024•54 min•Ep. 5
Hans wonders why ‘being informed’ is so exhausting, and if there’s anything he can do about it (short answer: sorta) and a few members of the Never Post team discuss “important emails”. Also: the hunt for Diet Caffeine Free Dr. Pepper continues. – ☎️ Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail 🎙️ Drop us a voice memo via airtable 📧 Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Intro Links The Media-Sensational Rise and Fall of “Jim Spanfeller Is a Herb” – Ashley Feinberg, Slate Deadspin’s e...
Mar 13, 2024•56 min•Ep. 4
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. -- This conversation contains a single, brief mention of suicide. -- ☎️ Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail 🗣️ Drop us a voice note via airtable 📧 Email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com 🌐 Leave a comment at neverpo.st -- Nick's thoughts on "Never Post" and the internet: 1. One interpretation of...
Mar 08, 2024•1 hr 6 min
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. - Share the show with a friend! https://www.neverpo.st/ – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable: https://airtable.com/appIvXY8gz5ikRbF0/pagjGcjdYg2alw8cD/form Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Intr...
Feb 28, 2024•49 min•Ep. 3
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. – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable: https://airtable.com/appIvXY8gz5ikRbF0/pagjGcjdYg2alw8cD/form Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Intro Links Never Post Ep 1 Hangout Stream VOD: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2057956412 News Links: https://www.thewrap.com/...
Feb 14, 2024•57 min•Ep. 2
On the disappearance of tween-specific fashion trends, and the epidemic of Posting Disease plaguing social media. Also: a man on a mission. -- Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable - https://airtable.com/appIvXY8gz5ikRbF0/pagjGcjdYg2alw8cD/form Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Become a member at https://www.neverpo.st/#/portal/ – Intro Links Apple Transcripts: https://podnews.net/article/apple-podcasts-transcriptions-faq Ring and the Police...
Feb 01, 2024•49 min•Ep. 1
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 current state of media, and why each of them has decided to strike out beyond the big, legacy media organizations and create something new. You can find Never Post, including all episodes, at neverpo...
Jan 31, 2024•37 min
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