So every once in a while, no matter how true to themselves one aims to be, we occasionally slum into small doses of commercialism. While having done everything else to jettison all dopamine farm anti-social media (topic of upcoming essay), this is still done by yours truly by having this Patreon page, as well as an extremely rare e-mail list send out. I will slum again today to straight up make a shallow and commercial request and ask you to please go to Death Star iTunes (and/or any of the other podcast aggregates below that might allow for it) and give the podcast a top star rating there if you haven't ever done so to date? Also, if you feel up for it, a nice review.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/novelty-generators-podcast/id825076464?mt=2
The deal with iTunes seems unknown anymore, as apparently Apple is starting the gears moving toward killing it in their last keynote. The podcast there has an old URL which I can’t get to update, as well as an old version of the logo which I also can't get to update. I could mostly care less about if the page there was gone tomorrow, except for the fact that anytime one researches podcast traffic it’s constantly claimed that iTunes is really the vast majority of the marketplace. Which hopefully will be changing more with Spotify getting into the podcast game which has a nicer interface and embedding characteristics.
For the first couple years of the podcast it had 5 reviews which popped up on their own and that never changed until a couple years ago, when I send out my first “please rate and review” the podcast e-mail. Which shot it up toward 30 some reviews. Where it has sat static ever since. It’s low on this priority list to commercialize the podcast in any way, yet it never ceases to amaze me when I see far less superior podcasts which have ever growing reviews and ratings. And these are not from main stream podcasts, but supposedly are “spiritual or psychedelic” when they're actually just mainly, well... commercial. Knowing this has little to nothing to do with the quality of their content but instead because they constantly push audience to do so. The more ratings and reviews a podcast has on various platforms the more visibility the algorithms allow for. Thus it's still a bit of a chafe that their inferior content will be heard by so many more ear holes than my own, so I'm working on finding balance with this.
This is also being asked here because you are a core crew who I know, give a shit the most! Which is always appreciated. Anyway, thank you for listening and this post will self-destruct in 5 seconds.
