After a brief hiatus, we're back with a brand new show format. Join us as we dive into the history of the recording industry and how it evolved into everyone's AI lean-back listening slop bucket, Spotify.

Books referenced:
- "Dirty Little Secrets of the Record Business: Why So Much Music You Hear Sucks" by Hank Bordowitz (2007)
- "Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist" by Liz Pelly (2025)

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On our final episode of the old format, we visit our old home. In a dusty corner of Reddit, some tired millennials are posting the stupidest shit you'll ever read. Join us as we discover that time does in fact move in a linear fashion, work makes you tired, and orange man is indeed still bad.

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After some soul-searching, Dave and Briar have decided to end the Hater Arc with a final Your Podcast Sucks episode where we hate on our own show. Join us as we discuss why the we put out a handful of stinkers and where we're going from here.

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Support the show and check out our bonus episodes on Patreon:
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Business inquiries, viewer questions, whatever else (email):
dave@superdespairworld.com
briar@superdespairworld.com

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In the wake of Orange Man (who is bad, btw) having another weird one about student visas, we reflect on the state of Higher Education and its impending downfall. Have the chuds won the culture war? Only this episode holds the definitive answer.

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This episode is jam packed with goodies. Join us on the spiritual successor episode to "Goober Eats" where we talk about the treatlerite phenomenon in the age of tariffs and rising delivery slave app prices.

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[Something got weird with the podcast feed app, so I'm reuploading this one. If you only use the podcast apps and not YouTube, enjoy this formerly lost episode.]

This week, we kick off the bleak and spooky month of October by telling it like it is: Times are bad, people are pretty stressed about what's to come, but so long as we remember Henry Ford is burning in Hell, there's no need to give up!

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Some lil' stinkers over at the University of Zurich unleashed a legion of AI bots on the unsuspecting gentlesirs of r/ChangeMyView. We discuss the implications as Briar fervently defends the Reddit army from verbal abuse.

Link to the study: https://retractionwatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/ExtendedAbstract-Zurich-AI-Reddit.pdf

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We uncover the origins of a breakthrough "study" about AI habits in 2025. We also peer into the demented minds of tech CEOs through the lens of one of the worst TED Talks ever.

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We're on bluesky now:
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Support the show and check out our bonus episodes on Patreon:
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• Walker
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• Nick Ziegler