Why internashional fashists are so interested in Ireland
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hover your anus over Patrick Swayze's facelift, you ancient raimonds. Welcome to the Blind Boy Podcast. If this is your first episode, consider going back to an earlier episode to familiarise yourself with the lore of this podcast. And if you're a regular listener, a steaming quiva, a pinpricked Vincent, then you know the crack. 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. Podcasts 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 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 anymore. Shut up.
How has the definition of a podcast evolved over time?
My fucking God. She's ratting me out. Oh, my God.
Seriously. She's right. I don't have any fucking friends, but for fuck... What was I talking about? So anyway, I can't say her fucking name. I don't pick up the phone anymore. I scream it into the ether. And before you know it, I'm speaking to a human being. But I still say, I'm going to hang up the phone when I'm speaking to that person. Or in Ireland, when we say goodbye to someone on the phone in Ireland, we don't just say goodbye. We go, alright, alright, I'll chat to you later. Alright, goodbye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye. See you later, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye. Which we do that because when you're speaking to someone on the phone, you're not physically with them. So by going by machine gunning a person with goodbyes, you're trying to recreate the experience of physically being beside them and walking away.
Anyway, look, the word podcast is as meaningless as hang up the phone because iPods don't exist anymore. I recently found that the actual article for the word podcasting was kind. The Guardian article from 2004. You click in it and at the top it says, this article is more than 22 years old. You look at the opening paragraph and there it is. the word podcasting as it was written for the first time ever. It's an article called Audible Revolution. The first line is, online radio is booming thanks to iPods and cheap audio software. And then it says, but what do we call it? Audio blogging? Guerrilla media? Podcasting? And it's a weird feeling seeing it. It's like looking at a cave painting. An early hominid's scribbles of a 2D horse.
Or handprints spat in blood on a bit of sandstone. But yeah, the word podcasting means fuck all. It's vestigial. It's like my ma ringing me up. If I do an interview on the radio and my ma goes, I heard you on the wireless. Because she's old enough to remember people marvelling at the fact that a radio could receive signals without any wires. Why am I talking about this? I've lost my train of thought. I'm still embarrassed about Siri.
What historical context is provided regarding podcasts and technology?
Siri telling you all that I don't have any fucking friends. Fuck me. Look, we're almost 500 episodes deep into this thing that I've been doing every single week that I adore doing, which we call a podcast. But the word podcast doesn't mean anything anymore. And if you're to look at the most popular podcasts in the world today, they take the form of short video clips. Short video clips on TikTok or Instagram Reels. 30-40 second clips of two people having a chat. They're little clips of something longer. But for a lot of these podcasts that are huge. listeners aren't actually tuning in to the full, long podcast. Instead, they're being consumed as these short video clips.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:32
2
How has the definition of a podcast evolved over time?
1:32–4:13
3
What historical context is provided regarding podcasts and technology?
4:13–19:21
4
How do current social media trends affect content consumption?
19:21–28:39
5
What is the significance of storytelling in the podcast format?
28:39–1:18:52
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