Never Post
Charts & LeisureNever Post
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
Behind the nation’s steering wheel, with Tiktok
Why does the Pope care so much about artificial intelligence?
It's like a telethon, but for not posting
The way AI exists at work is different from a year ago. Can we resist it?
What can you even do once the secret's out?
Questions, queries, and two word graffiti
How the Renault Twingo became the darling of online car culture
How posting through it brings us together
Spoiler: it's bad
It turns out we're on vacation this week
RIP Headphone Users
Trying to find something to eat at the endless content buffet
How a 30 y/o fps became a platform for technological and artistic experimentation
On the increasing prevalence of AI features across dating apps
No, it's not the backrooms
A devoted collectors search, online and (mostly) off
Literally the whole world hates Teams
Inside the panopticon of modern dating
Entering (and exiting) the walled garden of dating apps
On the ins and outs of MrBeast Financial
Questions, queries, and two word graffiti
On the past, present, and future of peer-to-peer file sharing
On the complex nature of virtual gawking
How the algorithm became the new Delia's
If you can’t have the internet, you can at least have chicken kabsa
What stands in the way of developing a shared reality?
What to do when the chips are, quite literally, down
When we can’t go there anymore, can we get away?
What do record searches for SFW content mean when done on Pornhub?
On how to exist online without going mad
On whether it's worth sticking around, or logging off for good
Competing for the Glory of the Internet
Checking in on finances, audience, and upcoming changes
How fraud and ICE came to dominate the headlines in Minnesota
Closing out the year with friends and quizzes
Jeremy Busby, and the tenuous case of internet access from prison
Featuring your feedback
Unless you know what you’re doing
Choose life
On © trolls and cheating boyfriends
Eye of newt, episode of podcast…
Is a generated aesthetic the look of our times?
Your questions and comments make us happy
An episode in three acts
Plus - is that post a vibe, or can I eat it?
What future tech were we promised by childhood media that has yet to arrive?
Plus! A What (?!) Is Going On Here recording LIVE during the Memberdrive Streamweek
RSS Feed Me, Seymour! A Terms & Conditions segment about the ultimate webfeed format
We respond to your comments!
Also! Brainrot, and the future of public media in the US
The whole point of runways is that they end, I guess...
The team chats about how much we each make our devices OUR DEVICES.
So I don’t look back in anger.
With somebody who knows what’s going on here
We respond to your comments!
Immediate and eternal, but not beautiful
Hentai and tariffs and KOSA OH MY!
You’re never alone with Chat by your side
Team screen time stats! Strategies for being informed!
Charts, buttons, and whirring, oh my!
How does the internet help us become ourselves? Why is LinkedIn like that? And also: HANDS OFF!
We respond to your comments!
The 75 Day Hardstyle Challenge, and Threats to Section 230 – also, Typing Tests!
Here's what that means for your weekend
Mad Chat
Mailbag #6
Here’s Looking at You
State of the Pod: 2025
Post-Mortem: 2024
The One Thing You Can Do For Yourself
Leaving Social Media Roundtable
Looks Great!
Don't Panic
Post from the Field: Mike Goes to the Studio in the Rain
Mailbag #5
A Feed to Call One’s Own
Our Dearly Decommissioned
The State of Podcasting Roundtable, Oct. 2024
Where I'm At Right Now
Flashing Eyes In Which My Hopes Rise
XOXO Fest Live
#MemeingTheNews
Mailbag #4
To BRB Or Not To BRB
Life in Plastic, It's Fantastic
Everything Old Embeds Again
The Sound Files of Summer
Mailbag, Episodes 7-10
Who Hires the Hiring Bots?
Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places
Everyone is a Journalish
ICYMI x NP: How Kate Middleton's Disappearance Redefined Monoculture
Car Tok
Mailbag, Episodes 4-6
Switched on Post
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As Per My Last Podcast Episode…
Mailbag, Episodes 1-3
Eternal Return
People in Places
I'm Mad, You're Mad, We're All Mad Here
Episode 0: Independent Media Roundtable
Posting From the American Car [Archive Pull]
July 15, 202623min 39sec
Originally published on April 26th, 2024, enjoy this episode where Mike looks at how the car has become a default setting for vertical, short form video.
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The American Car
- Garlic Naan And Butter Chicken Fountain?! – Tiktok
- David After Dentist – YouTube
- Taco Reacts – Tiktok
- The American Room – Paul Ford, Medium
- It is NOT My day – Tiktok
- forget a rage room, ima just rent out my car so y’all can scream in it – Evelyn, Tiktok
- Shanin Blake – Tiktok
- Dear single parents ~ when I was 18 I got pregnant with my daughter and her dad went to prison right after she was born, so I was on my own. – Shanin Blake, Instagram
- This is our home her name is Nancy 🚐 – Shanin Blake, Instagram
- Good morning! I love living in a mom van!!! – Shanin Blake, Instagram
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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.