Why do young content creators scream into their mics and blowout all the sound? When you need to reply to an important email, do you do it on your phone or wait until you get to a computer? What is the internet “megadungeon”? What about Poster’s Disease? Why does nobody use hashtags anymore, and who ruined the Laser Eyes Meme? Is it right to create an AI or generate photos of your departed parent?

These questions and much, much more are covered by Neverpo.st, a podcast, nay, an “audio magazine”, that covers the “internet.”

Okay, that’s a lot of scare quotes, let me explain.

The show is produced by experienced sound people including one of my fav YouTubers of yore Mike Rugnetta of Ideas Channel. Each episode opens with a short news-reading then moves on to two segments separated by short interstitials which tickle that ASMR section of your brain. It can be things like binaural recordings of the state fair, meditative ambient music, or a person walking on gravel. I used to listen to the show on long walks around Osaka Castle, and every time an interstitial comes on I get transported back to that place. It has a real power to create a “space” in your mind when you are listening to it. Finally, the show often ends with some amazing poetry. The topics are broad and every ep is different, but they all sound great. This is why “audio magazine.”

“Internet” is… well, it is impossible to cover the entire internet. Neverpost tends to be on the cultural side rather than the technical. Internet aesthetics, nostalgia, meme culture… these types of topics. But they are still very much grounded in the issues of the day. Take this short clip from their most recent episode:

chadkoh · Neverpost Clip from DON'T PANIC

I find Neverpost a relaxing “read” at the end of the week. It is very discursive, hyper-reflective, nerdy, neurotic, and possibly obsessive… so right up my alley 😄 The hosts are all younger than me and American, so theirs is a different Internet than the one I experience, but also one that I can recognize. It makes me think about generational experiences of media… the kind of question that could be a segment on the show! Anyways, I enjoy the show and wanted to recommend it. Everyone involved is very cool AND it is worker-owned independent media! (listen to Episode 0)