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NEW Episode 690 · Season 1 Oct 9, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min

690. It’s Show Business, Baby!

Podcasting started as a niche-nerd pursuit. Now it’s a $9 billion industry. Is that a lot? The strange economics of this thing we do.

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