Why internashional fashists are so interested in Ireland
6/17/20261 hr 19 min
A meandering mentally ill thesis on current online infrastructure
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Hover your anus over Patrick Swayze's facelift, you ancient ramens. Welcome to The Blind Boy Podcast. If this is your first episode, consider going back to an earlier episode to familiarize yourself with the lore of this podcast. And if you're a regular listener, a steaming quaver, a pinpricked Vincent, then you know the craic. We're nearly 500 episodes deep now on this podcast. I don't even know if I'm comfortable calling it-- What the fuck is a podcast? Like, what's a podcast in 2026? First off, the word itself doesn't mean anything anymore. Podcast came about 23 years ago because people owned devices, little MP3 players called iPods, the Apple iPod, and the podcast was a way of going, "You don't just have to listen to music on this. You can physically download a show called a podcast, and then you listen to that once you've downloaded it because this iPod doesn't have any fucking internet on it. It's an MP3 player." iPods were discontinued in 2022, so podcast is in- meaningless. It's like saying roll down the window in the car. When was the last time you rolled down a window? You press a button now. The physical act of rolling down the window no longer exists. Or hang up the phone. Hang it up fucking where? I don't even pick up the phone anymore. I just go, "Hey, Siri, call one of my friends," so I don't do it