Dane Cardiel

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On Friction-Maxxing and Glimmers of Hope We go long with the BBC’s Thomas Germain about his upcoming show “The Interface”; a new digital drop sifts through slop; and hurry, CBC is taking your pitches!

If you don't subscribe to the FREE @goodtape.com newsletter, now's a great time. This week we preview the new BBC podcast 'The Interface,' cohosted by @karenhao.bsky.social, @nickywoolf.bsky.social & Thomas Germain. I talked to Germain about how every story is a tech story when you think about it.

Nicole Byer is the Real Deal You might call her a triple threat. But this comedian, actor, and media phenom says she’s just being herself.

It’s our most requested article so far: @briwellen.bsky.social profiles our illustrious cover star, Nicole Byer.

Delightful, sharp, and candid as ever, Nicole shares the story of her rise to podcast queendom, which started with an edible at LAX and spawned a multiverse of comedy shows.

Battle of the Bandwidth As video podcasts grow exponentially, corporate platforms compete for the upload crown.

The inter-corporate struggle for dominance in video podcasting wages on. Now that the cameras are rolling on creators, will YouTube or Spotify emerge as the video podcast platform of choice? And where does that leave audio-first shows?

Opheli Garcia Lawler explore in "Battle of the Bandwidth":

The magazine you should be reading if you care about podcasting’s future.

The Threat Issue ships November 7. Pre-order now at goodtape.com/shop.

Brother, i gotta put that lil guy in my hand

Oh crap my lav mic for front facing videos just arrived in the mail 😩

Nobody Wants the Future Anymore As AI comes for podcasting (and everything else), humans are equipping listeners with research, nuance, and ways to fight back.

Got a new piece in @goodtape.com on some of the best journos & podcasters covering AI right now: like @bcmerchant.bsky.social @parismarx.com @404media.co @edzitron.com & more. Check it ouuuut....

Cashing in on Podcast Communities Community myth-making is a joint venture.

Community businesses have been steadily on the rise in podcasting for the last 5 years. I made up this framework last week to spotlight the key ingredients to any successful podcast community—which ideally involves participation from both the hosts and the fans.

Read Jesse Hassenger's "Hard Harry Rides Again" for Good Tape below, a look at Pump Up The Volume as "a definitive statement of Podcast Idealism."

The Shining, At Last by Emma Lehman Why podcasting was the perfect medium to finally tell the real story of maligned Hollywood icon Shelley Duvall.

Celebrating Shelley Duvall on her birthday today, a year after her passing, with our feature from The Celebrity Issue.

"I used AI to make a Studio Ghibl-"

Off The Record Creating real-time dialogues between podcast executives, creatives, and brands on hyper-relevant topics to evolve the medium.

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The Power Of In-Person Discussion to Promote and Advance Podcasting as an Essential Part of the Greater Media Landscape Off The Record offers direction and intention to the industry’s growing identity crisis

Off The Record is a community-centered media business facilitating real-time dialogues between podcast executives, creatives, and brands across hyper-relevant topics to evolve the medium.

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After organizing informal podcast coffee meetups and happy hours in Brooklyn and LA for the last two years, it's time to formalize this effort under a bold new brand through @goodtape.com

I'm pleased to introduce Off The Record.

Once again, a lot more senior people needed to go to jail for a very long time for Iran-Contra, Bush-era torture, & all the other previously unpunished, wildly illegal & unconstitutional executive branch crimes that have led us inexorably to this utterly shameful, horrifying moment as a country.

iHeart Podcast Awards starts now #SXSW

A box full of Good Tape, a newspaper-style magazine about the podcast industry

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Yeah!! Grateful to have these available for the festival!

An honor to be a guest of the Study Hall podcast, in conversation with @danielspielberger.bsky.social.

📥 Freelance media and entertainment editors, be sure to listen toward the end of the episode and get in touch if interested!

Sucks when people take your stuff and use it to make their stuff and don’t pay for it, eh?

"Call your Senators" - Senators

The scents in rotation right now are Boy Smells’ Woodphoria and Le Labo’s The Matcha 26, but I’m missing whatever this would be

I feel like I could fuck with a musky/woody cologne inspired by Count Orlok, call it Noseferatu

"The Society Podcasts" by Shane Reiner-Roth | Good Tape How peering into the mundane lives of the rich and famous has long been a favorite American pastime.

From 19th-century society pages to today’s celebrity podcasts, our obsession with the lives of the elite runs deep. @everyverything.bsky.social traces the evolution of this cultural fixation and how podcasts add a new layer of intimacy to an old tradition.

Ultimately, the shows we make in podcasting needs to be greater than the sum of its parts. Audiences might be drawn initially to a show with a public figure or celebrity, but what compels them to stay? And what compels a media buyer to invest?

Overtime Is Expanding Its ‘Athlete Talk Shows’ Concept The series, which feature hosts like Heisman winner Travis Hunter, epitomize the video evolution of podcasting.

I enjoyed talking to @adweek.bsky.social about Overtime’s evolving business model.

The point of all of this The most illiterate men alive were gassing themselves up because the computer had gotten some small degree better at producing dog shit that had the general production values of a circa 2004 video game cutscene. Delighting in the approach of a spiritually and culturally dead future devoid of art and meaning. You do have to admit that a new Narcos season starring Brad Pitt and Mr. Beast and Travis Kelce sounds pretty sick though. There's only one flaw I can see in this supposed AI-generated future of seven fingered bikini babes with death behind their eyes and photorealistic Family Guy pornos: I don’t understand where they think their personalized sense of aesthetics they plan to input into the computer is going to come from down the line when all human artists have been driven out of business. If you want something perfectly tailored 1:1 to your own taste meant solely for you to experience alone you can already do that just by sitting there and thinking about

My thoughts on using "AI" to write.

Published another feature from “The Celebrity Issue” today at GoodTape.com.

I think my partner got ours from a Lithuanian vendor on Etsy, just takes a few weeks to get to you