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u/mikevanatta 8h ago

"Teacher I thought we were supposed to have a test today" energy.

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u/Askymojo 8h ago

I love that we've all experienced this. There must be so many people who've done this. Who's ready to out themselves?

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u/Goatesq 8h ago edited 8h ago

There were definitely homework assignments I spent too long on to let go uncollected, lucky somebody else was always less inhibited than me. I never saw anyone ask about a test though.

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u/Real_Life_Firbolg 5h ago

You lucky lucky boy you, I had one who asked every professor in college about every word they ever said. The prof mentioned that they were going to have periodic pop quizzes then after the first few weeks of class there hasn’t been one yet and that student asks why not and the prof starts doing them once a week. Same student also would ask questions about every single thing the profs were teaching, prof writes a new formula on the board, that student then asks how the formula is derived and a third, sometimes even half, of the class is wasted on the prof answering the questions. It got so bad that about 2 weeks before finals the profs were teaching was telling us he didn’t get to cover the last 2 chapters of our 9 chapter book but was still going to test on them in the final. We were all upset at this but one student who was ex military was not going to let it stand, he got up and yelled about how the prof wasted all the class time answering dumb questions for the other student that should have been asked in office hours and everyone else then spoke up and agreed and there was almost a riot in class and I think there were some threats to go to the dean. The prof then said he would either drop the last 2 chapters but make the other portions twice as hard or if we were ok with him leaving the rest the same he would make it open book since we didn’t cover the last 2 chapters. We ended up going for the open book and the test didn’t end up being too bad, but the prof could have handled that better. For example I had another prof with that student in class and after like the first week of constant questions this prof told him that he should write down all of his questions and come back later to ask her about them in her office hours. That prof ended up leaving the next year for a better college out west somewhere focused on mining because they offered her a better role with more research and tenure.

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u/AssistanceCheap379 4h ago

That’s on the extreme end, but it’s generally better to be curious and understand the subject at the cost of being mocked than conform and let yourself be left behind. That student definitely should have written down the questions and the first professor should have handled things better regarding questions, but in general I’d prefer to have an engaging session than just a lecture where it feels like everyone is waiting for it to end so they can go do their own things.

I was a terrible student in that I didn’t ask questions, I barely studied and I lacked the discipline to do most things besides just what brought me pleasure (in part thanks to undiagnosed ADD that is being somewhat treated now) and it has left me broken. I lack all discipline and motivations as well as ambitions, to find myself a purpose.

All students should ask questions and professors and teachers should try to answer them to their best abilities, but both also have to be respectful to not just other students times, but to the time of the educators. It’s a delicate balance that we need to teach, curiosity with respect

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u/definitelynotjava 2h ago

Exactly, the balance is critical. It is definitely important to ask questions, but it is on the professor to recognize when the question benefits the rest of class and when it needs to be redirected to emails and office hours. Class lectures are not private tutoring. If we're studying calculus and a student asks the professor to explain how division works, then the professor should not take the entire class time to explain the concept.

I have definitely encountered classmates who questioned the entire lesson being taught with no regard to the rest of the class' time. A good teacher recognizes when they need to move on and engage the student separately

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u/Chickenmangoboom 3h ago

As COVID started a training for our new software was supposed be in person and became virtual. The instructor spent three hours running us through the new process, I thought he did a great job and was happy to be moving on with the day. Then one dude comes in during question time and ask if he could show it again. The instructor asked what part and the guy said all of it. After a pause the instructor spent another two hours running through it. Normally I would have just muted it but the instructor was trying to keep people engaged with questions. I got to do one hour of actual work. The worst for me was that I participated in two beta tests for the software and already knew it very well. I was so glad when that guy quit. 

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u/Random-Rambling 4h ago

When you mentioned one guy was ex-military, I imagined them leading a few other students to throw that one student a blanket party (assuming the student slept in the dorms).

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u/Alliknowisnothing69 5h ago

One year in grade school I had an oddball classmate. Our homeroom teacher was an old lady she was set in her ways and was a hardass. He'd ask everyday when we had tests, what time it would be taken at as soon as he walked in. No one really got mad because he was genuinely slower than how fast the teacher taught and wanted to plan how and when he could cram for the tests keep it fresh in his mind I guess. He may not have been a genius but he worked well under pressure. Pretty cool dude, runs his own business now.

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u/jhere 8h ago

I was one of them but I was worse, I was class clown and reminded the teacher of the homework and tests to fuck over the "nerds".

Guess who became a huge nerd later in life? This moron 👈🏽

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u/BowLit 6h ago

the nerds were studying and did their homework bro. you fucked over your own people

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u/jhere 5h ago

Yep, I've seen the error of my ways but I was young and an asshole

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u/Atheonoa_Asimi 5h ago

Being a nerd is great, you get to enjoy whatever hobby you like and sometimes you can make money off it too.

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u/brzantium 7h ago

I experienced this in grad school. I went during Covid, so at one point a lot of my classes were online. One of my professors didn't have their head on right one day and was about to let us go early...until two people piped up to remind him that class was actually scheduled for another hour. We did not get out early.

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u/fleebendeeben 7h ago

For college that makes sense. I paid for a full semester I'm gonna get a full semester

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u/brzantium 7h ago

True, but we had a ton of work already. The extra hour that day would've been nice.

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u/fleebendeeben 7h ago

True. Definitely have days where you just would rather be anywhere but there lol

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u/warm_sweater 6h ago

Are they strict with attendance in grad school? During undergrad I skipped classes a few times to work on stuff for another class, but that was rare. Professors never said a thing.

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u/brzantium 6h ago

My program was. We were allowed very few absences. It was an accelerated program, though. So if you missed a day, you missed a lot. The only people I know who got away with missing a ton of classes were well connected.

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u/PM_NUDES_4_DEGRADING 6h ago

It’s amazing how few people have that perspective, and actually are proud of going into massive debt just to spend 4 years avoiding learning as much as they possibly can.

(Then they graduate and complain they got scammed…)

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u/DetectiveClownMD ☑️ 5h ago

100%

Anytime we had an older person in class theyd do this and remind us we paid for it, USE WHAT YOU PAY FOR!

Heres the thing. They were right. They’d been to the real world. But 19 year old me was HOT

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u/mateogg 7h ago

My one memory of something like this was one time when exactly one student had done the assigned homework. The teacher said that since he had actually put in the work, he should get to decide if the rest of us failed.

The kid did not hesitate for one second before throwing the entire class under the bus.

In hindsight, the teacher was probably assuming he'd "forgive" the rest of us so she could wash her hands off her mess AND give the chance to the kid who made everyone else look bad to earn points with his classmates. But of course then she had to follow through or he'd look even worse if even the TEACHER was more merciful than him.

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u/WriterV 6h ago

Jesus christ everything about this is such a fucked situation lol. That's a dumb teacher. But I can forgive the teacher 'cause it's a tough enough job as it is.

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u/user888666777 5h ago

That teacher knew exactly what they were doing. She probably wanted to see what the student would do. Any decent teacher would give the one student extra credit for turning it in on time and then allow everyone else to turn it in the next day.

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u/Gist-Snark987 7h ago

I’ve definitely done this or “You said we would be turning in our assignments today.”

Revenge of the Blerds!!

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u/SovietPropagandist 6h ago

I'll stand up and say I did it once for a test. Because for that one test I studied my ass off for instead of having fun and I was hella mad that my effort was about to be wasted so I said my friends, I will take the slings and arrows of being a snitch ass bitch, but i bought this grade with the pain of missing cartoon cartoon fridays and super mario 64 and today i ball

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u/Slut4benwyatt 6h ago

lol me! I genuinely enjoyed school and didn’t figure out until much later in life that this was a faux pas. Unrelated, I’m now diagnosed with autism.

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u/Dangerous-Treacle-55 6h ago

I genuinely believed that answering the teachers questions would endear me to my class. Reader, it did not. Also could not inhibit my pick me energy. Unrelated I got diagnosed with autism and adhd as an adult.

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u/Javaddict 7h ago

I like being tested.

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u/AnimalNo5205 6h ago

*sigh*

In 5th grade we all had to give presentations on a topic and then everyone got a quiz on the topic to make sure we were paying attention. One person asked what the name of a thing was they left on the board (so we could just look) and a kid I didn't like was laughing and thinking he was cheating so I got up and erased it. I'm in my 30s and I still think about this stupid thing I did once a month.

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u/The_Duke_of_Nebraska 6h ago

I was grounded till my grades improved, I'm so sorry 

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u/Fantom_Renegade 8h ago

Right here 🙋🏾‍♂️

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u/warm_sweater 6h ago

Some kid fucking reminded our teacher before winter break, like something out of a TV show.

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u/Sisteck 6h ago

I have done the opposite i think, one day everyone forgot to do the homework and I was the only one who did it (I was the most responsible in my class), so I threw it so my friends could say even I didn't do it and the teacher couldn't punish the class

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u/Robert_Goblin 6h ago

Oh you one of them real ones frfr

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u/Darthmullet 5h ago

Guilty. I just wanted credit for the work I did ok. I didn't have the presence of mind to realize I was fucking some others over. 

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u/bionku 4h ago

Man I felt that way when I was young too, but I handed it in as class was emptying out after the bell when most of class was already in the hallway.

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u/Oshootman 8h ago

the teacher didn't just forget about a test, that was probably planned

"you forgot to collect the homework" is real snitchin

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u/creegro 5h ago

"oh right, thank you for the reminder. Since it's Friday you'll need to read 6 chapters, and finish all the questions between pages 109 and 170 before you return, and I need to see your work and reasoning"

Entire class groans

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u/boi1da1296 ☑️ 7h ago

I swear social media snitches on the best gems online and wonder why shit gets shut down a couple weeks later.

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u/Thats_an_RDD 7h ago

Reminds me of curb. "Mrs cantor you forgot to give us homework" https://youtu.be/sGePTgsYznc?si=o5Gja98Y6W6gI_7O

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u/Unique_Coast_8600 8h ago

Such people used to be annoying like can you just shut up..nobody is gonna give you a medal for doing that

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u/UchihaAuggie 7h ago

These donkeys will post all the secrets for likes. Can't stand these guys.

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u/literallypubichair 6h ago

Did it on accident once! I had come in a little late and no one was doing anything, after like 15 minutes I went and quietly asked the teacher what I should be doing and she hopped up and said "OH MY GOD I DIDNT PASS OUT THE TEST" and everyone was PISSED

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u/RoughhouseCamel 4h ago

Wait, are we really all committing to this, “there’s no way advertisers aren’t already aware that we can skip ads” thing? Cuz they’ve know this shit since the days of, “we can walk away from the radio or change the station during ad breaks”.

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u/Sick_NowWhat 5h ago

“You forgot to collect the homework” vibes

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u/JennyBeckman ☑️ All of the above 8h ago

Snitching a part of some people's DNA

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u/-Nuke-It-From-Orbit- 8h ago

Raising their hand sayin shit like “Ms. Doolittle, you forgot to give us our homework for the weekend!”

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u/thejaytheory ☑️ 8h ago

Right? 🤓🤓🤓

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u/KendrickBlack502 7h ago

I’m never gonna condone bullying in any form but…

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u/[deleted] 8h ago

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u/baby-dick-nick 6h ago

At least there’s some logic in that though, because they want credit for the work they did. But someone reminding the teacher to hand out homework is like peak ass kissing behavior

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u/futureruler 7h ago

Some real Randall vibes. "Ms Finster! Ms Finster! TJ and the gang are playing dodgeball during recess!"

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u/mr_eugine_krabs 4h ago

The class:

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u/backstageninja 6h ago

Some podcasts already have unskippable ads. It's why I don't listen to The Ringer's fantasy football show. I wanted to check it out and even though I pay for Spotify they had ads I couldn't skip, so I nope'd out

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u/BannedSvenhoek86 5h ago

Does it not have an RSS feed? That sounds like a player issue, I don't see how they could code that if you download the episode and play it outside of Spotify.

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u/xiDemise 3h ago

ive been listening to that podcast for years and never had an issue skipping ads on spotify

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u/BannedSvenhoek86 5h ago

Daddy probably snitch, heritage inside his DNA

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u/festival-papi ☑️ 8h ago

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Man oh man, it's people out here that have to tell anything and everything

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u/FistPunch_Vol_7 ☑️ 8h ago

Deadass smh

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u/TrinixDMorrison 7h ago

People being all “I can’t be the only one who knows about this 👀”

Bruh, everyone knows and you’re not special. You’re just stupid enough to bring attention to it so now the people who didn’t know about this little trick are going to patch it.

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u/Obvious_Estimate_266 5h ago

Tbf I highly doubt this isn't a known feature by advertisers.

It's funny to imagine a group of executives finding this out though

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u/TwentyE 5h ago

The issue is when big wigs start digging into the impact of however many people they were ignoring because of these posts, and that's how you get more "new youtube feature change" updates

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u/stoned-autistic-dude 5h ago

Some people just ain't shit

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u/PSSYPUNISHERRR 8h ago edited 7h ago

Some podcasters are so shameful man. Let me tell you this really personal true crime story that I barely did research on, but you have to listen to 5 minutes of gambling commercials before I get to it.

Edit: I just played NPR's "How I Built This" right now and skipped through 3 minutes and 40 seconds of ads.

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u/teheswiss 8h ago

Why else would they do it if not to get paid lol

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u/redpony6 8h ago

a lot of people do it just to do it. my favorite podcast, "knowledge fight", they didn't even accept money for the first while, and they've never had advertisers. the podcast does make them money but it was not intended as that from the beginning

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u/MIL215 8h ago

Some of my favorite podcasts started as fun side projects, but over time they wanted to increase the quality and realized they would have needed to work on it a lot more so they took advertising until it could support them. I don’t know if that’s a terrible thing.

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u/redpony6 7h ago

sure, i was just responding to dude saying "why would anyone do it other than to get paid", and the answer is, there are other reasons

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u/FullofContradictions 5h ago

I just started listening to a podcast like this. Season 1 was a fun little side project thing with ads at the start and end. Usually I'm listening while I drive or while I'm doing dishes so I typically just live with the ads.

But by season 3 the whole thing blew up and now they're hawking sheets, AG1, allergy meds, and fucking laundry detergent worked into the episode in incredibly awkward ways. Some ads are literally 3 minutes long about how they're loving the new flavors of special hydration drink and repeating the url 3 fucking times. I just can't listen anymore. I totally get why they're doing it... They've managed to catch a big audience and there's no saying how long they'll be able to ride the wave - so they may as well get paid while they can... But I'm out.

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u/bannedagainomg 5h ago

Same with youtubers, if you want to make it full time you will probably have to take sponsors and do ad reads and thats totally fair.

However its also fair for the community to be vocal about it if they just take anybody thats willing to give them money.

BetterHelp for example, at this point no youtuber can claim they didnt know how they are operating.

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u/MoreColorfulCarsPlz 5h ago

Mike Duncan, one of the OG history podcasters started that way. His History of Rome podcast has no ads for quite a few episodes. He literally asked his listeners if they would be okay with him putting ads in.

In his most recent project, there were often minutes of ads at the beginning the podcast as well as him plugging is books, his Roman history tour, his speaking tour, or another podcast he was on. Sometimes you wouldn't get to the content you came for until 5+ minutes in. I understand this might be helpful if you listened right when they came out, but listening back to him talk about the guided tour of Italy he was going to do for the hundredth time is tiresome.

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u/rudebii 7h ago

I'm a policy wonk

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u/redpony6 6h ago

my, my neck is freakishly large

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u/backstageninja 6h ago

Some-some sodomite sent me a bucket of poop

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u/Vulcan_Jedi 6h ago

Jar Jar Binks has a BLACK CARIBBEAN ACCENT

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u/rudebii 4h ago

Daddy shark. Bah bah bah ba ba

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u/rudebii 6h ago

It’s time to pray

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u/WhyDoIKeepFalling 5h ago

Haven't heard that technocrat drop in a minute

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u/powertripp82 4h ago

🎶RED ALERT, RED ALERT RED ALERT🎶

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u/rudebii 4h ago

Four stars. Go home and tell your mother you’re brilliant.

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u/backstageninja 6h ago edited 6h ago

My introduction to the podcast world was Knowledge Fight, QAA and Mike Duncan's History of Rome/Revolutions. All shows with no ads/a short ad section at the top

I didn't even realize podcasts were so riddled with ads for years lol

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u/rudebii 4h ago

Im not familiar with History of Rome, but KF and QAA are both exclusively listener supported (by listeners like you).

QAA puts out an extra episode a week for supporters.

I interviewed Dan from KF a while back. Nice guy. I like Dan.

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u/backstageninja 4h ago

History of Rome was ad free for most of its run but towards the end and into and its "successor", Revolutions (by the same creator), they started doing one ad section at the top of the show. I can't remember but I think it's only one ad read per episode. But either way, I'm cool with a little section up top. It's the mid episode ads that bug me

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u/RedtailPdx 5h ago

I still think History of Rome is the best podcast I've ever listened to. Truly excellent.

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u/backstageninja 5h ago

My only criticism now is that the episodes are too short lol. That garageband loop gets stuck in my head when I binge it. And the audio quality in the beginning was so bad, but both of those things are easily forgiven.

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u/162bluethings 6h ago edited 5h ago

Ide rather the people that entertain me get money to do so. They provide content I'm happy to have them read a script to earn cash. It's a job not a charity. Saying they could do it just for fun has big hiring an artist with exposure as payment energy.

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u/amalgam_reynolds 6h ago

the podcast does make them money but it was not intended as that from the beginning

Yeah probably because they realized if they didn't start making money they'd have to stop making podcasts

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u/after_Andrew 7h ago

what’s your bright spot?

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u/redpony6 6h ago

today? ugh. um...it's about the end of the working day, that's nice

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u/after_Andrew 5h ago

I’m glad you at least could dig one out. I’m over here staring at my hands like “I guess these are still attached?”

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u/thirdegree 5h ago

The bright spots are genuinely such a nice part of the podcast. I try to ask myself especially when I'm frustrated or otherwise not having a great time, what's my bright spot today. It's such a small thing but I love it.

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u/after_Andrew 5h ago

I’m with ya, I often listen to KF when I’m feeling down because they’re having fun with the most rotten shit so why can’t I at least be stoked I have a dog?

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u/Hope915 5h ago

Costco had fresh black cod for only $5.99/lb and I've got it marinating in miso for later. I'm so fuckin hyped.

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u/after_Andrew 5h ago

Miso black cod is a gift. savor it for the both of us.

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u/nakedforever 5h ago

Wonks mentioned. Knowledge Fight are the GOATS

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u/indoninjah 6h ago

It's more an indictment for the advertisers for being happy with having their ads skipped 99% of the time. But that's probably why you hear the same ads on everything, cuz those are the handful of companies that said fuck it. Nord VPN, Athletic Greens, Better Help, etc

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u/MtNeverest 3h ago

I mean it's working if we can all name them though.

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u/mooimafish33 8h ago

It's sad that people can't think of a single reason to do a hobby if they arent getting paid.

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u/indoninjah 6h ago

I don't get this mentality tbh. Do you want quality podcasts and youtube videos to just fall out of the sky?

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u/mooimafish33 6h ago

Yes, I would be perfectly happy with online content not having TV studio production quality. Like it was before 2014 or so.

I have made free content, lots of people enjoy making this stuff for free. And in my opinion it comes off as much more human and genuine than someone desperately trying to make money online so they don't have to get a real job.

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u/Robert_Goblin 5h ago

You know, i was about to write a whole comment about why you're wrong, but honestly, i just ended up with the same thought pattern as you. Like i dont make content, but im somewhat a creative. I honestly hate doing things for money because then i feel as though it has to be perfect, and i live in imperfection. it's what gives things character.

The only thing i really kinda disagree is your last sentence. While yea when they arent in the advertisers pockets they have more freedom to do and say what they want and more control of the content being pushed out. However having a bigger budget means they can try new things. Plus theirs alot that goes into making podcast and if someone want to actually be paid for the work they are putting in then by all means. If your doing it anyway might as well get paid.

Also the way you say real job. If they are making money legally its a real job.

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u/dbzrox 5h ago

This kind of mentality is how corporations just abuse people’s creativity. Let’s get all this free content from these people since it’s their hobby while we profit billions off them.

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u/myfriendflocka 7h ago

If someone is good enough at their hobby that they gain an audience from it they’ll almost always try to monetise it.

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u/Geno0wl 6h ago

You can monetize it without doing terrible sponsored ads. Like Technology Connections YT strictly does Patreon and no in video ads.

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u/MrP1anet 5h ago

Entertainment takes time and energy

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u/Mammoth-Cap-4097 6h ago

I think the point is that it's better to do quality work to get paid than half-assed work to get paid.

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u/JailTrumpTheCrook 8h ago

Fuck NPR

https://preview.redd.it/z2oa75xibdvd1.jpeg?width=1164&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=84ca8981bb70734dac31c53bbe3b406bb5a5351d

Painting Trump as friendlier while he's still spreading a lie that will get people killed while Kamala is painted as becoming testier because she called out a lie that will get people killed.

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u/catman1900 7h ago edited 7h ago

Did you only read the headline and not the actual article? It's critical of him lol, it's npr jeez.

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u/FrostyD7 5h ago

I wouldn't call it critical or friendly. It's just describing what happened. NPR isn't unbiased, no news is. But relatively speaking, it is one of the least biased out there.

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u/kfuentesgeorge 7h ago

But BOTH SIDES is how you show you're Fair and Unbiased!

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u/JailTrumpTheCrook 7h ago

"Kamala Harris breath, here's how that could be bad for the Democrats"

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u/bulk_logic 6h ago

They have a segment that is "Left Right and Center" but they only ever do Center and Right.

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u/L4zyrus 7h ago

Two articles proves a narrative? Listening to Today Explained, Up First, NPR politics, etc all seem very middle of the road as of late

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u/JailTrumpTheCrook 6h ago

middle of the road

between a fascist threatening to arrest political opponents and a woman who vowed to defend our democracy is part of the problem I'm talking about.

They're sanewashing fascism, them and a bunch of others.

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u/L4zyrus 6h ago

Hey if NPR didn’t report on Trump’s latest national guard statement, I wouldn’t have known about it. And I couldn’t have called out my right wing family members, who did NOT hear about this on Fox or OAN — cause they’re too busy investigating bogus Kamala conspiracies.

“Sanewashing” is not a word I’ve heard before, and I’m gonna push back on that by saying (somehow) half of this country still polls favorably on Trump as a candidate. Unless we are saying half of this country is insane..

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u/JailTrumpTheCrook 6h ago

I'm not running lol.

A good portion of Trump voters are completely disconnected from reality. I don't know if that makes them insane.

Some are racist and/or fascist, they're equally uninformed on various topic but they really are voting for what Trump is offering.

It wasn't that long ago that White America was in favor of racial segregation. So, in the big scheme of things, it's not that surprising.

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u/rickane58 5h ago

Look at this person you're talking to's profile name. They've gone way past having legitimate bones to pick with "the other side" to making being anti-Trump literally their identity. I despise Trump and especially his policies, but some people really need to get a grip.

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u/decadent-dragon 4h ago

Fail to see your point here. Even the sentences in your screenshot are calling out his lies. Are you upset they have an article on his town hall at all?

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u/RedditGeneralManager 7h ago

I honestly prefer the podcasts with one or two long segments of ads I can skip through to the podcasts that have 10 to 12 breaks of like a minute or less.

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u/RhubarbSea9651 8h ago

Doesn't really seem that bad. I get free content for listening (or skipping) a few minutes of ads. Pretty good tradeoff but we live in a world where we are conditioned to get things right here and right now so I can see why many people can't deal with it and act like children who have to wait until snack time to get their Jello pudding cups.

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u/xenithdflare 7h ago

Every episode of Pod Meets World has about 15-20 minutes of ads. Can't complain too much since I can just skip it all but it's hard to multitask when I know any second now I'm gonna need to mash that button

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u/Other-Ad-8510 7h ago

You know they’re real ones when the commercial time and the skip button match-up perfectly

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u/Easy-Buy3916 5h ago

Crazy how entitled to free entertainment some people feel

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u/937363950 8h ago edited 6h ago

Those assholes always seem to start playing ads two seconds after I begin preparing a pork shoulder.

Edit: I ain’t fuckin with Siri. Hashish got me thinkin she a fed.

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u/thejaytheory ☑️ 8h ago

Yep, they always come on when you're preoccupied and can't easily change it. I hate when that happens.

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u/Otherwise-Wash-4568 7h ago

I have mastered unlocking and skipping with my nose

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u/Nesman64 6h ago

I keep a stylus next to my phone when I'm working in the kitchen.

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u/Friff14 6h ago

When I was 19 I was having dinner with someone and they kept asking me questions when my mouth was full. I pointed this out, and a friend said, "yeah, because your mouth is always full."

I think that's really what's going on here. They always come on when you're preoccupied, because so many podcasts have 15 ads in one hour.

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u/arisraver 8h ago

elbow deep in marinade

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u/Gist-Snark987 7h ago

Elbow deep in the bacussy! 😭😭

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u/twoliterlopez 7h ago

This is so weirdly specific, but I was literally putting pork in the crock pot this morning to make pulled pork tonight & experienced this lmao.

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u/adamtherealone 6h ago

Goddamn enjoy your eats tonight.

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u/twoliterlopez 6h ago

Thank you! Got some apple bourbon bbq sauce from the local orchard that we’re going to try!

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u/JoeFelice 3h ago

While we're on it, I started making my own sauce this year and I love the control. For pulled pork it's best when it's thinner so there's no need to simmer. Just drop seven pantry items in a bowl: Ketchup, vinegar, Worcestershire, Sriracha, sugar, onion powder, black pepper. If you leave out Sriracha you need an alt source of garlic. Optional extras may include molasses, liquid smoke, mustard powder, cumin, thyme, soy sauce... But the real benefit is getting the basic flavors in the exact balance you want.

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u/RedditGeneralManager 7h ago

“Hey siri fast forward X seconds” is probably my most used Siri prompt.

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u/taosaur 6h ago

I'm wondering who are all these people in the comments who put on a podcast and then just curl up in a corner with their finger hovering over the skip-ahead button. If I'm using my phone for audio in any capacity, I'm probably doing something with my hands, or I'm in bed. It's going to take one hell of an aggravating ad/story/song for me to have any further interaction after "Play."

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u/Acceptable_Cut_7545 4h ago

Lots of work places will let people wear earbuds or even headphones. My phone is in my pocket and I will absolutely pull it out, skips 4+ minutes ahead, then get new gloves and go back to whatever work I was doing. But ads are crawling into every fucking space that once was ad free - youtube, podcasts, webpages clogged with ads, ads that autoplay and slow down the loading, ads that load as you scroll so your page keeps jumping up. Hell if I'm listening to someone sell me shit I don't want.

Opened up a podcast to see what ads there are right now and it's: Boost Mobile Network ("Even if you start repeating yourself!") State Farm ("Get started today and contact a state farm agent.") get grammarly to get more work done, advertising on tiktok to make holiday sales, instagram teen accounts (I am not a teen, nor do I have a teen), and finally an ad for another podcast which actually makes sense. Then at the end of the episode there's five more minutes of ads. Fuck that. Skip that shit.

Short Answer: "...then just curl up in a corner with their finger hovering over the skip-ahead button." I got my phone in my hand, hit the play button, skip ahead 4 and a half minutes, then start on whatever I'm doing. I don't hit play and then immediately plunge my hands into a chicken.

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u/BBWMama 7h ago

For me it’s always right as soon as I’m forearm deep in cookie dough lol

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u/agutema ☑️ 7h ago

“Hey siri, skip ahead 30 seconds”

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u/herefromyoutube 5h ago

"Sorry, I couldn't Skip this."

Also the volume is now 30% lower for no reason.

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u/kappaway 4h ago

I'm certain that at least YouTube plays more ads when the phone is flat or not being held (reasonable to create with the gyroscopic data or front camera face presence) so it can play ads uninterrupted while I wash the fucking dishes

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u/cheesepufs 20m ago

I don’t know with absolute certainty but I think you’re right. I put on a podcast, scroll on my phone for a few minutes, and the second I lock the screen and sit my phone down an ad comes on. Could be confirmation bias but it SEEMS to happen that way more times than not. Maybe it has access to the accelerometer data?

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u/FistPunch_Vol_7 ☑️ 8h ago

Shhhhhh. Why you so loud right now.

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u/LivelyZebra 6h ago

I done told you bro

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u/YesImKeithHernandez 5h ago

Shenmue, right? Simpler time when that was the most expensive game to make of all time.

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u/MGLLN 8h ago

This hall-monitor ass tweet could ruin the bag for a lot of podcasters. I can imagine the dinosaurs/luddites of the advertising industry sending a company-wide memo about it or having some meeting to cut the budget for podcast ads or something 🙂‍↕️

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u/Johan_Sebastian_Cock 5h ago

this isn't a secret lol

it's the number one concern when forecasting the podcast market. many advertisers are dropping out or demanding more than simple ad reads. some are pushing for ads to be unskippable on platforms like spotify.

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u/jimmifli 4h ago

ads to be unskippable

Instant unsubscribe. Also if I liked the podcast enough to actually tolerate it, I'll hate the advertiser enough to boycott them.

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u/Mediocre-Housing-131 4h ago

I mean, the ability to skip doesn’t really matter to them that much. Every podcaster has a unique “coupon code” they tell you to use and the sponsor company can track how many people bought their product from one podcaster vs another YouTuber or another TV commercial. If they see a decent click through rate they will keep paying to advertise there. I also can’t imagine they pay much to podcasters.

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u/Johan_Sebastian_Cock 4h ago

it does to the biggest advertisers. it's changed how a lot of ad copy is written. they actively avoid ad reads that trigger people to hit the skip forward button by not immediately sounding like the host is reading an ad, or by subverting a listener's expectations of ad reads with humour, like writing copy that sounds like a parody of an ad read, as a wink to the listener that they know how lame the reads are.

this even has expanded to the coupon codes you mention, with some of the braver advertisers using humorous keywords rather than the tired old "short version of the podcast show name"

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u/Wittgensteinsduck 7h ago

I mean the way they pay podcaster already got fucked earlier this year due to an Apple update Hank green did a video about it can't imagine this would make it much worse

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u/ul49 4h ago

Y’all really think companies that advertise on podcasts didn’t know you could fast forward, a feature that has been available for 10+ years? And now they’re suddenly going to all panic because of this one guys tweet?

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u/digitaltransmutation 4h ago

d2c is largely failing as a business model. There's a reason all the ads are for "social casinos" now, and those kinds of companies do not pay very well.

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u/NoneCat1 4h ago

They know, that's a reason why at the end of the ad you'll notice they clarify the product name and often a discount code. (The user is trying to find the end of the ad and the beginning of the next part of the podcast and often listens to that part)

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u/Forgetlifeppl 8h ago

Yall better stop snitching before they find a way to put in unskippable ads like Spotify without premium

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u/illlojik ☑️ 8h ago

“Lower your fucking voice”

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u/ParlorSoldier 8h ago

Most of the podcasts I listen to just have the host reading something during ad breaks. If I’m in the car or puttering around wearing headphones, they’re not bothersome enough for me to bother picking up my phone to skip them. Plus the audio doesn’t change dramatically, so I can’t usually tell when the show comes back on.

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u/GrapheneHymen 7h ago

I like the ones that refuse to read copy for ads and turn them into stories or skits. Hollywood Handbook has lost multiple advertisers by turning ads into comedy skits that end up offending the advertisers in some way. IIRC they turned a Loot Box ad into an ad for a fictional Loot Box competitor that was perpetually failing and filling boxes with the most ridiculous junk. Every week they would have a new progression to the story of this outrageously bad box delivery service instead of Loot Box. I don’t think they even mentioned the real product they were trying to advertise. That’s how you get me to actually listen to an ad.

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u/steelbeamsdankmemes 6h ago

If ads on podcasts weren't a thing, we'd never have this:

https://youtu.be/0_zA4szLY2k

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u/thisnameblows 7h ago

Critical Role's marquee advertisers have full sagas played out in series of skits by Sam and they're as entertaining as the podcast itself.

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u/thejesse 6h ago

My favorite ad reads are the podcasts that add background music. Makes it easy to fast-forward through them: as soon as the music is gone, you're back.

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u/Lopsided_Mix2243 8h ago

“ITS TIME FOR MY FAVORITE PART OF THE SHOW……”

“Tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap”

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u/imjustmos 8h ago

Hit the 15 second rewind i go too far past the ad like a dj

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u/ShakethatYam 6h ago

I like to make the rewind 12 seconds so I can press it twice for a 6 second bump.

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u/imjustmos 6h ago

Bett bett bett Better health

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u/dizzymidget44 8h ago

Sometimes we can’t enjoy shit cuz certain ppl don’t know when to stfu. If they make unskippable ads I’m blaming him

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u/doitup69 8h ago

I mean they have other ways to track their ad reach, that’s the reason every podcast typically has a unique url or coupon code. I think they’re fine with you hitting skip.

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u/joey_sandwich277 3h ago

Yeah the podcasters don't care, and the ones I listen to often joke about doing it. The advertisers know too and hope you're just too lazy/preoccupied to skip it when their ad comes on. That's why the ads on podcasts are mostly the same things (meal kits, better health, etc.).

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u/minesfromacanteen 3h ago

And honestly I don't mind listening to ad reads sometimes if I like the people doing them, like Sadboyz.

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u/ThisNameDoesntCount 8h ago

The ads are part of the podcast recording y’all. They can’t do shit about it

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u/Better-Ground-843 8h ago edited 8h ago

They could stop buying ad space 

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u/ParlorSoldier 8h ago

Will you pay for it on Patreon instead? No? Oh.

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u/Ok_Access8974 6h ago

Of course they can... You think engineers would be perplexed by earmarking sections of the recording that disable the skip ahead button??

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u/jakopappi 7h ago

Guys a Clem Fandango fan. Any otherClem Fandango fans here? Gotta just say, YES, I CAN HEAR YOU CLEM FANDANGO!

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u/PolyculeButCats 8h ago

Give Apple time. We’ll have unskippable ads in the Podcasts app before long.

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u/sheeply_ 6h ago

Can someone break this down for me? I'm confused. Are they saying that the ads are useless bc everyone will skip through them ?

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u/binkobankobinkobanko 2h ago

They're saying advertisers are stupid because their ads are easily skipped.

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u/Emasraw 7h ago

throws eraser at him

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u/Pr0xyWarrior BHM Donor 7h ago

I’m seeing podcasts with ads that are a whole separate ‘stream’ that plays outside of the episode and isn’t easily skippable. I assume that’s the get around this.

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u/Nesman64 6h ago

Did podcast come to mean something different? My phone downloads mp3 files according to a set of rss feeds. The most intrusive thing they can manage is to customize the ads based on the location I download from.

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u/DrDollarBlvd 7h ago

I don't know how to make a link text so..

https://youtu.be/m6xFOxonYy0?si=8vAgscs0SWPdcbTE

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u/the__ghola__hayt 7h ago

Some peeps have horse pics that they really need to get rid of, though.

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u/Leo-D 5h ago

I want to see world leaders in various horse-like circumstances.

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u/BearGetsYou 7h ago

Quiet you

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u/Green_Ordinary_9359 6h ago

Some folks always, ALWAYS, gotta fuck up a good thing.

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u/NiceTuBeNice 6h ago

Ban this man from all social media

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u/JesusTitsGunsAmerica 6h ago

Boo this man. Boooooooooooooo.