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Never Post

Charts & Leisure

A podcast about and for the internet, hosted by Mike Rugnetta

© 2025 Charts & Leisure

A podcast about and for the internet, hosted by Mike Rugnetta

© 2025 Charts & Leisure
67hr 10min
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Our Dearly Decommissioned
Thumbnail for "Announcement: 2026 Never Post Olympiad".
Competing for the Glory of the Internet
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Checking in on finances, audience, and upcoming changes
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How fraud and ICE came to dominate the headlines in Minnesota
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Closing out the year with friends and quizzes
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Jeremy Busby, and the tenuous case of internet access from prison
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Featuring your feedback
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Unless you know what you’re doing
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Choose life
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On © trolls and cheating boyfriends
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Eye of newt, episode of podcast…
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Is a generated aesthetic the look of our times?
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Your questions and comments make us happy
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An episode in three acts
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Plus - is that post a vibe, or can I eat it?
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What future tech were we promised by childhood media that has yet to arrive?
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Plus! A What (?!) Is Going On Here recording LIVE during the Memberdrive Streamweek
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RSS Feed Me, Seymour! A Terms & Conditions segment about the ultimate webfeed format
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We respond to your comments!
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Also! Brainrot, and the future of public media in the US
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The whole point of runways is that they end, I guess...
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The team chats about how much we each make our devices OUR DEVICES.
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So I don’t look back in anger.
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With somebody who knows what’s going on here
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We respond to your comments!
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Immediate and eternal, but not beautiful
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Hentai and tariffs and KOSA OH MY!
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You’re never alone with Chat by your side
Thumbnail for "Roundtable: Is The Internet Driving You To The Brink?".
Team screen time stats! Strategies for being informed!
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Charts, buttons, and whirring, oh my!
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How does the internet help us become ourselves? Why is LinkedIn like that? And also: HANDS OFF!
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We respond to your comments!
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The 75 Day Hardstyle Challenge, and Threats to Section 230 – also, Typing Tests!
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Here's what that means for your weekend
Thumbnail for "F*cking Around, and Finding Out".
Thumbnail for "The Day The Vibes Died".
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Mad Chat
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Mailbag #6
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Here’s Looking at You
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State of the Pod: 2025
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Post-Mortem: 2024
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The One Thing You Can Do For Yourself
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Leaving Social Media Roundtable
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Looks Great!
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Don't Panic
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Post from the Field: Mike Goes to the Studio in the Rain
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Mailbag #5
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A Feed to Call One’s Own
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The State of Podcasting Roundtable, Oct. 2024
Thumbnail for "Where I'm At Right Now".
Where I'm At Right Now
Thumbnail for "Flashing Eyes In Which My Hopes Rise".
Flashing Eyes In Which My Hopes Rise
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XOXO Fest Live
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#MemeingTheNews
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Mailbag #4
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To BRB Or Not To BRB
Thumbnail for "Life in Plastic, It's Fantastic".
Life in Plastic, It's Fantastic
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Everything Old Embeds Again
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The Sound Files of Summer
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Mailbag, Episodes 7-10
Thumbnail for "Who Hires the Hiring Bots?".
Who Hires the Hiring Bots?
Thumbnail for "Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places".
Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places
Thumbnail for "Everyone is a Journalish".
Everyone is a Journalish
Thumbnail for "ICYMI x NP: How Kate Middleton's Disappearance Redefined Monoculture".
ICYMI x NP: How Kate Middleton's Disappearance Redefined Monoculture
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Car Tok
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Mailbag, Episodes 4-6
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Switched on Post
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OO🚫⛔❌ H M🙅💥🕳️ GO🛑🔇💃
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As Per My Last Podcast Episode…
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Mailbag, Episodes 1-3
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Eternal Return
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People in Places
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I'm Mad, You're Mad, We're All Mad Here
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Episode 0: Independent Media Roundtable
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Our Dearly Decommissioned

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October 9, 202451min 42sec

We visit the funeral for CrowdTangle, a social listening app that was used by disinformation and human rights researchers. Mike talks with Dallas Taylor, host of the podcast 20k Hertz, about why podcasts sound the way they do. And also: videogame menu music!

Intro Links

  • Brazil's top court says X paid pending fines to wrong bank – Reuters
  • Musk's X paid $5 million in fines to the wrong bank, Brazil's Supreme Court said - Business Insider
  • After weeks of drama, SF tech CEO gives workers $30,000 to quit – SFGate
  • 159 employees are leaving Automattic as CEO’s fight with WP Engine escalates – TechCrunch
  • How to Delete Your 23andme Data Amid the Company's Turmoil – MSN
  • California enacts laws to protect child influencers' financial security – NBC
  • DoNotPay has to pay $193K for falsely touting untested AI lawyer, FTC says – ArsTechnica 

CrowdTangle, We Barely Knew Thee

Why Do Podcasts Sound Like That, with Dallas Taylor

Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. 

Having been taught by fools, how else could i have ended up but as I am? a man who panics at the sound of his own voice, a blusterer, afraid that within the five pointed maple leaf there lies another name he never knew; ready, always, to be found wrong. 

Excerpt of ON FIRE by Andrew Feld

Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure

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