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Should you censor swear words on your podcast?
The Bugle, a satirical news podcast and audio newspaper for a
visual world,
published its listener survey for 2025.
Among the findings, the show currently bleeps out swear words,
but the survey suggests 53.3% would support removing the f***ing
bleeps.
British Airways has polled a paid sponsorship of Louis Theroux's
podcasts.
Theroux chose, as a guest, the frontman of Bobby Villain,
a punk duo who led anti-Israel chants at the Glastonbury Music
Festival.
The airline says it was politically sensitive.
Earlier this year, Theroux released a television documentary
interviewing both Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank
and members of the Israeli settler movement.
NPR has launched a weekly podcast recommendation newsletter.
It's called PodClub, and it shares highlights from across the NPR
network.
The curated picks are a mix of NPR's well-known shows, like This
American Life,
and newer podcasts, like KQED's Close All Tabs.
You can subscribe or see more recommendation newsletters in our
newsletter.
In the UK, the nominations for the Audio Production Awards have
been revealed.
Sony Music Podcasts, Goalhanger, Fun Kids, Rusty Quill,
and radio stations Fix Radio and Resonance FM
are all nominated for Publisher Network of the Year.
And a Mexican website carries some podcast consumption data from
the country.
It says that 77.4 million people listen to music, podcasts, or
audiobooks
on platforms like Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple, or YouTube Music,
which is 80% of all internet users.
14.3 million have paid subscriptions, two-thirds of those with
Spotify.
It's a Monday, so time for some tech stuff.
How much are you using the new Podcasting 2.0 features?
Transistor has released a podcast score tool.
This podcast gets 8.8 out of 10 because we don't have chapters.
Whatever.
There's a new Apple Watch app out there, but it's not using a
user agent.
Is that you?
We'd love to know.
Justin Wernick has built a CLI app to act as a podcast host
so he can listen to audiobooks or his own audio as a podcast.
OP3's John Spurlock has noticed an increasing number of
automated bots
downloading shows, which he's removing from the OP3 stats.
Lipsyn has reported another big jump in web browsers downloading
its shows.
Perplexity was called out earlier in the year by Cloudflare
for using a generic browser intended to impersonate Google
Chrome on Mac OS.
So perhaps it's them.
And another week, another tool that claims to convert podcasts
to text with AI.
This one's called Harku.
It promises an instant transcript and summary.
And in podcast news, podcasts you love from people you trust.
This Week in Tech is the top-ranked flagship tech podcast from
Twit.tv
with Leo Laporte and friends.
And it announced a partnership with Airwave in September.
Twit is it when it comes to tech shows.
And we thank Airwave for their support this month.
The line was new from Flight Story last week.
The line is the moment between who you are now and the person
you want to be.
And it's hosted by Dr. Kristen Holmes, a renowned performance
expert, coach, and global head of human performance and
principal scientist at WHOOP.
And if you want to love cooking again or just in general, Chef
Over Your Shoulder is the new podcast for you.
You can join professional chefs Jodie O'Malley and Christy Herbstreit
and burn-to-the-bottom-of-the-pan expert Amy Schluter to demystify
the kitchen and bring back the joy of cooking.
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