Friends! A new Never Post for you on this fine, late summer day. It's a fun one: * Mike talks with Know Your Meme Editor-in-Chief Don Caldwell about the prevalence and decline of the Laser Eyes Meme, and the ever shifting place of internet memes in presidential election season
September 11, 2024[Lit only by the ghostly haze of the moon, you see the mist-covered silhouette of a centuries-old graveyard. Passing through the wrought iron gate, you can clearly hear the wet chrk and slap of a shovel plunging into the earth. Someone is digging. And sure enough, at the base of
September 05, 2024
Never Posters! Hot on the heels of those extended segments published earlier today, a new episode for you! This one? Extremely special! A recording of our first ever live show, performed on stage at XOXO Fest 2024. We hope you enjoy! Listen wherever you get your pods, in the member
August 28, 2024
As you're reading this, Mike, Hans, Jason, and I (Georgia) are in Portland preparing for our liveshow at XOXO Fest on Friday! So hooray to the lucky ducks who are able to attend this historic and sure-to-be life-altering event — we'll be performing at Revolution Hall on
August 22, 2024
Happy Wednesday to you all! Here, thankfully, is a new episode of Never Post for you! This week, Hans talks with Lia Haberman of the newsletter ICYMI about the ostensible death of the hashtag; Georgia talks with media scholar Whitney Phillips about catching breaking news via internet memes. Also: Hit
August 14, 2024
BEFORE I GET INTO ANYTHING ELSE, a reminder to you all that it is profoundly easy to become an elite member of our paid subscriber list, where you shall reap in the delights of extended segments! No ads on our episodes! An AI version of my own voice helping you
August 09, 2024
What do we do? We respond to your comments! Listen in your podcatcher, here on the website or the member only feed for an AD-FREE EXPERIENCE. See you next week, with a new episode! -- ☎️ Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail 🗣️ Drop us a voice
August 07, 2024
Y'all! A new episode on this fine Wednesday for you. In this one, contributing producer Victoria Dominguez attempts to understand the practice of digitally resurrecting deceased loved ones using artificial intelligence. Also: home movies. Listen on the website, if you aren't already, and wherever you get
July 31, 2024No dramatic intro today because…I can’t believe I’m saying this…but there’s more Charli XCX news. Like….like there’s so much……When I tell you it took quite a lot of restraint from me to not make this week’s newsletter *only* about Charli news…
July 25, 2024
Friends! Listeners! Lookers-on! A new – that's right – Never Post for you on this fine day! In this ep, Mike chats with EX Research about their new report which goes deep on Roblox, the massively multiplayer online game played by HALF of all American teenagers. Georgia takes a look
July 17, 2024[Our narrator stands before a table in the library, dressed in safety goggles, a rubber apron, and rubber gloves. She holds two vials of strange liquid in each hand. On the left, a pitch black, foaming potion that bubbles and squelches. On the right, a lime green, dare I say
July 12, 2024
Hello! Just in time for your holiday needs, a new episode! Mike talks with unsung internet pillar DylanPDX, steward of vxTwitter and others, who single-handedly does what Big Social doesn’t want - keeping your embeds working. Senior producer Hans gets the ambrosia from Tallulah Trezevant, an antiquities scholar who
July 03, 2024[We find our narrator standing by the book shelf, reading intently from a large, thick book titled “Rich Husbands: How To Find Them, Woo Them, and Get Rid Of Them Discreetly.” Noticing you enter, she glances up and hurriedly slams the book shut, though not before making sure that her
June 27, 2024
Howdy, Never Posters! What we have here for you is our Summer Vacation Special: an episode-long staff round-table about music, streaming, and music library management, with special guest Meghal Janardan. You can listen on the website (if you're not already), and wherever you get your pods. Members: there
June 19, 2024
Friends! Great news: I lied! I said we would be back in the main feed on June 19th with a Summer Vacation special and that, very plainly, is not true. Here, for you, we have the third ever Never Post Mailbag ep. We hope you enjoy, have a great Friday
June 14, 2024[Lights up on a glamorous, moody library. Old, leather-bound books crowd the shelves. Somewhere in the corner, a gramophone plays an unidentifiable jazz tune. Outside it’s raining, but in this room all is warm, lamp-lit, and smelling of woodsmoke. A stag, a five-pointer, is mounted proudly over the mantle,
June 13, 2024
Hello, all! A new Never Post for your gorgeous ears! This week, Georgia chats with Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter Hilke Schellmann about the job market, and the increasing prevalence of Artificial Intelligence in hiring. Mike then talks with comedian, writer and podcast host Jamie Loftus about her show Sixteenth Minute
June 05, 2024
Friends! A new episode for you, and it is out! What luck! You can listen on the website, or your podcatcher. Members! An ad free version awaits in your feed. This week, Georgia digs deep into the enshittification of dating apps, and pays dearly as a result. Mike talks to
May 22, 2024
Friends! Here it is! The second and final installment of our two part collab with Slate’s ICYMI! Listen on their feed, our feed, slate.com, neverpo.st and everywhere you listen to pods. And as always, ad-free cut is waiting for Members in their feed! Mike talks with mis-
May 11, 2024
Friends! Hello! This week, we have TWO episodes coming at you - one today and one on Saturday. Both are a collaboration with the incredible team at the Slate Internet Culture Podcast ICYMI. You can listen on our feed, on their feed, on our website, on their website and there
May 08, 2024
Friends! Hello! A New Never Post for you today – this week, senior producer Hans Buetow investigates the transit vacuum that’ll be left when Uber and Lyft leave the Twin Cities; Mike looks at how the car has become a default setting for vertical, short form video. Also: PLANES, TRAINS…
April 26, 2024
Friends! Here is a new Mailbag ep, where we respond to your comments! Listen in your browser on this page, or find the ep in your podcatcher. As always, an ad-free version awaits Members in their feed 😎 -- ☎️ Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail 🗣️ Drop
April 17, 2024
Friends! Hello! A New Never Post for you today – this week, our first Contributing Producer Marie Kilaru discusses the emotional impacts of making and seeing Before and After posts; Charlie Harding of Switched on Pop joins Jason to talk about what pop-musical acts have sounded like the internet. Also: Georgia
April 10, 2024
Hey, all! Please join me, Hans and Jason on Friday, April 12th @ 2pm ET on my personal Twitch acct to chat some about how the show is made. The three of us have worked in audio in some form or another for about 20 years, and as such we all
April 09, 2024
Friends! A new Never Post for your ears, brains, maybe a little bit for your teeth and toes. Listen in the embed on this page and wherever you get your podcasts! As always, an ad free version is awaiting Members in their feed... In this ep, Georgia and guest producer
March 27, 2024
Hans wonders why ‘being informed’ is so exhausting, and if there’s anything he can do about it (short answer: sorta) and a few members of the Never Post team discuss “important emails”. Also: the hunt for Diet Caffeine Free Dr. Pepper continues. Listen at neverpo.st and wherever you
March 13, 2024
We respond to listener comments about independent media co-ops, the disappearance of tween fashion, posting disease, influencer voice, mourning online, and human height throughout history.
March 06, 2024
Georgia talks with Tamara Kneese about how the software of the platform internet works against the social flows of grieving, and mourning. Mike then talks about men who throw ping pong balls into solo cups. ALSO: chill, lo-fi, public domain beats. Listen wherever you get your pods, and on https:
February 28, 2024
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February 17, 2024
Mike talks with sociophonologist Lisa B. Davidson about why influencer voice exists, and with bass player and YouTuber Adam Neely about the people who have been retiring from YouTube.
February 14, 2024
On the disappearance of tween-specific fashion trends, and the epidemic of Posting Disease plaguing social media. Also: a man on a mission. Listen to this, and every other Never Post Episode at https://neverpo.st – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice
January 31, 2024
To kick things off, we had a roundtable conversation with a trio of makers and thinkers, all of whom are creating independent media. They are Gita Jackson (Aftermath), Alex Sujong Laughlin (Defector Media), and Rusty Foster (Today in Tabs). We wanted to talk with Gita, Alex and Rusty about the
January 31, 2024
Audrey Evans filed this Post from the Field from her kitchen in Upstate New York
January 30, 2024
In this episode we start, where we should always start, at Miniature Horses.
January 24, 2024We've been working on this show for about 10 months, so it is very exciting to finally get to publish the trailer. It may be that no one sees this post, right now – well, Hans will see it. Hey, Hans! (Hans is the show's senior producer;
January 17, 2024