The Lure of Podcasts

Originally posted on October 15th, 2019.

I could sit here and listen to a podcast where people discuss AI or ancient civilization but the more I listen the more I understand how science and God are connected which traditionally goes against some moral coding, so I will continue to listen. Listening to passionate people along with an occasional expert rant about intense futuristic ideas is a lucid form of entertainment. A place where like minded people talk opposite one another, brazenly, about things they’ve learned while speaking with others who have extraordinary experiences. These “schizovert” interviews teach modern culture through uncut conversation dubbing entertainment the new knowledge. 

My favorite podcasts use sense of humor and friendship to entice me to listen and to be a part of the conversation. As I am listening from afar, I become a phantom guest on the show, blurting out my responses to talk of biotech warfare pollution or elitist substratum smut. Normally in real life I would get a muddled response but here I get to be invisible and unheard. If I were there in real life I’m afraid the hosts body would become more baffling than the words we speak because at first I don’t look him in the eye so his face becomes obscured by my imagination. It’s as if the face reaches out to me by waving from the brow to get my attention but I don’t dare look. Instead I imagine they are decrepit while the body becomes as small as their head and their head, from the corner of my eye, moves like a fly cleaning it’s multiple eyes with its legs, and so now I must look. Their face returns to normal and I begin to see beauty as my words become more memorable and meaningful and their words become more tolerable. I can then fly away to places more desirable rather than remain pinned to a wall as if captured by language only to be let loose from the web of our creation. 

Where there is an audience to capture and a villain to silence there will be stories to embellish in sharing. Since I don’t have many enemies and even less of an audience there will be no podcast where someone loses their head over my insecurities.