The Short Rant: The Podcast Problem

I am the first person to admit that I don’t like podcasts. Allow me to explain myself.

For some reason, we live in a world where podcasts have become a mainstream form of media, with everyone and their Nan deciding that it is their moral obligation to make a podcast, in order to voice their opinions that no one actually asked for.

It might be cynical to admit, and I’m sure people will label me a killjoy for saying this, but there is a lot to be said for being quiet. The world does not need to know everyone’s opinions on everything, all the time. Thanks to the appearance of podcasts such as the Joe Rogan Experience, and the advent of the cult of Andrew Tate, men have decided that it is a moral imperative for their voice to be heard – as if they were ever silenced in the first place. 

In the name of the humble podcast, people are allowed to voice whatever uneducated, under informed opinion they may have and pass it off as gospel, but in doing so we’re perpetuating a very dangerous culture in which information cannot be scrutinised or else it’s proclaimed to be a crackdown on free speech. 

I am so tired of people making podcasts voicing run-through, hackneyed opinions, thinking that we will all be desperate to hear them. And I am so tired of people using a podcast as a way to spread dangerous and pernicious opinions and misinformation that so easily perforates the minds of the impressionable.

“the mrbrown show: Podcast Studio v4” by mr brown is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.