How Algorithms Are Making Podcasts Boring
Aug 21, 2026 · 14 min · 9 segments
Send us Fan Mail We want podcasts to stay weird! We're talking about how algorithms, growth advice, and an obsession with polish are making brands…
Aug 21, 2026 · 14 min · 9 segments
Send us Fan Mail We want podcasts to stay weird! We're talking about how algorithms, growth advice, and an obsession with polish are making brands…
Kevin FinnHostJordan BlairHost
I'm kind of on the fence about it, because I think there's value in some of the stuff anyway.
I mean, it's just the reality of the world that we're gonna live in for the next, you know, probably the rest of our lives.
Like, a, a lot of the stuff that's gonna be created, either as productivity tools or entertainment content or anything else, anywhere, everything, is going to have some sort of AI touches on it.
I, I get that there's a lot of garbage and so as soon as you get a whiff of it, you're like, "Oh, is this whole thing garbage?" And that, like, turns you off.
I'm mad that they used AI here." It's the, I'm going on LinkedIn, somebody's like, "Let me share this personal thing with you." It's a video where somebody's sitting in their car talking to the camera going, "Let me tell you this, like, intimate thing that just happened," and it feels really just impromptu.
This is, like, ChatGPT 4.0 level, like, script," and you just had to put something out.
And then you read it, and you kind of pretended it was this authentic thing, and all it really was was just, like, I needed content to toss out to the world.
So in my mind, this is the same as, like, all these brands in the last few years have rebranded.
But all these brands have rebranded these interesting fonts or these interesting logos that they created a long time ago.
And they kinda all become very minimalist, sans serif fonts, very blocky, all caps, and they just look the same.
Every one of 'em by itself, you look at it and you go, "I see a lot here that I like." But then when you see them all together, you go, "Oh, back when people used to draw these logos, they drew stuff that was interesting.
I'm kind of on the fence about it, because I think there's value in some of the stuff anyway.
I mean, it's just the reality of the world that we're gonna live in for the next, you know, probably the rest of our lives.
Like, a, a lot of the stuff that's gonna be created, either as productivity tools or entertainment content or anything else, anywhere, everything, is going to have some sort of AI touches on it.
I, I get that there's a lot of garbage and so as soon as you get a whiff of it, you're like, "Oh, is this whole thing garbage?" And that, like, turns you off.
I'm mad that they used AI here." It's the, I'm going on LinkedIn, somebody's like, "Let me share this personal thing with you." It's a video where somebody's sitting in their car talking to the camera going, "Let me tell you this, like, intimate thing that just happened," and it feels really just impromptu.
This is, like, ChatGPT 4.0 level, like, script," and you just had to put something out.
And then you read it, and you kind of pretended it was this authentic thing, and all it really was was just, like, I needed content to toss out to the world.
So in my mind, this is the same as, like, all these brands in the last few years have rebranded.
But all these brands have rebranded these interesting fonts or these interesting logos that they created a long time ago.
And they kinda all become very minimalist, sans serif fonts, very blocky, all caps, and they just look the same.
Every one of 'em by itself, you look at it and you go, "I see a lot here that I like." But then when you see them all together, you go, "Oh, back when people used to draw these logos, they drew stuff that was interesting.
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