Never Post

22 minutes 1 second
Burnt Toast Audio Says “🖕 Your Levels” [Archive Pull]
Originally published on March 27th, 2024, enjoy this episode where Georgia and guest producer Luis López wonder why there is so much audio online that seems to sound bad on purpose, and decide to give this practice a name: burnt toast audio.
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Burnt Toast Audio
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Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.
Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia
11 June 2026, 5:00 pm
27 minutes 13 seconds
Did The Feed Ruin Taste?
Georgia talks to New Yorker staff writer Kyle Chayka about the state of personal taste on our algorithmic feeds. When popularity reigns supreme and it feels like everything is an ad online, how do we trust our own personal taste?
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Did The Feed Ruin Taste?
- Wired - Geese’s popularity is a psyop
- Vulture - The entire feed is fake
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Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.
Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia
3 June 2026, 4:00 pm
55 minutes 29 seconds
Why Does Everything Run Doom?
Mike talks with two game designers, a nuclear physicist and sound artist about how the iconic videogame became what it is today: something that runs on every piece of technology (and increasingly: biology) known to man
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Everything Plays Doom
- Xaser Acheron on Doomwiki and Github
- Bijan Stephen’s Website and Bsky
- John Matter’s Website and Bsky
- Matthew Gantt on Instagram and Diagnostics, his record on OMR
- Doom Guy: Life in First Person, by John Romero
- Master of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture, by David Kushner
- Next Generation Magazine, 30 Jun 1997
- Compute! Magazine Issue 163
- Computer Gaming World Issue 116Computer Gaming World Issue 116
- Doom Editing Utilities, Doomwiki
- Other uses for DOOM engine, Usenetarchives
- Zfootball, Doomhockey, Hellshots, Gallery Experience, MyHouse.wad
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Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.
I got a tattoo of God. You can’t see it
but it’s everywhere. If I seem out of it,
do the math. I was put on earth.
And then you were, making up your feet
as you went along. New thinspo clanks the spank
bank. New emoticon makes a Holocene.

Excerpt of Money Bin by Michael Robbins

Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia
28 May 2026, 5:00 pm
31 minutes 16 seconds
Computer Says Kiss
Georgia chats with Sydney Bradley of Business Insider about dating app Bumble’s termination of the swipe, and the dating app market’s overall pivot to AI
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News Links
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Swipe No More
- Find Sydney:
- Business Insider
- Twitter
- Her coverage on new dating apps
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Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.
Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia
21 May 2026, 4:00 pm
21 minutes 52 seconds
The Internet Is A Megadungeon [Archive Pull]
Originally published on March 27th, 2024, enjoy Mike's conversation with Gabriele de Seta and Paolo Berti about how the “megadungeon” is a productive model for understanding the internet.
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Megadungeons
- Megadungeon: A Model for Media Complexity, Magazen
- Megadungeon: New Digital Volumetries in Art and Media, YT Playlist
- paranom.asia, Gabriele de Seta
- unive.it, Paolo Berti
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Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.
14 May 2026, 4:53 pm
45 minutes 40 seconds
Hunting for Trash in Disneyland
Contributing producer Rose Witmer and her sister Maggie explore the nature of collecting — specifically, collecting Disney branded enamel pins — in an age where social media dominates hobbies across the board, and clicking "purchase" is easier than hunting for something IRL.
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Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.
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7 May 2026, 4:22 pm
35 minutes 6 seconds
How Hard Is It To Stop Using American Tech?
Mike talks with the German Federal Center for Digital Sovereignty’s Head of Open Source Product & Delivery about Digital Sovereignty and the process of divesting the German state from American technology products.
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News Links
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ZenDis, and Digital Sovereignty
- https://www.zendis.de/
- https://www.opendesk.eu/en
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Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.
Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia
1 May 2026, 3:52 pm
33 minutes 18 seconds
Why No One Wants to Hard Launch Their Man
Georgia speaks to writer, researcher, and academic Carolina Bandinelli about embarrassing boyfriends and the online culture of cynicism, shame, and blame that has spread throughout the modern dating scene.
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- Vogue — Is Having A Boyfriend Embarrassing Now?
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- Her website
- Her study on dating apps and marketized love
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Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.
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Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia
23 April 2026, 7:06 pm
24 minutes 55 seconds
Georgia Gets Banned From Hinge Forever [Archive Pull]
Originally published on May 22nd, 2024 in our episode Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places, enjoy Georgia's segment where she investigates the walled garden of dating apps, and pays dearly as a result.
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Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.
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Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia
15 April 2026, 6:01 pm
31 minutes 12 seconds
Should You Trust MrBeast With Your Money?
Business and finance journalist Kit Pulliam examines MrBeast Financial, a soon-to-be-launched financial services platform spearheaded by MrBeast — A.K.A Jimmy Donaldson — himself. But what does it mean for this one, rich (is he rich?) YouTuber to own a bank (is it a bank?)? And how did he get to this position?
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Find Kit Pulliam
- Business Insider
Find Alexandria Degree
- AskDegree
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Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.
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Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia
10 April 2026, 5:14 pm
1 hour 2 minutes
Mailbag #12: We're Not Built For This
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Never Post's producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our contributing producer is Meghal Janardan. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show's host is Mike Rugnetta.

Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure.
7 April 2026, 4:53 pm
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