Not only that, podcasts range a lot of different formats. Some are people talking to each other. Some are one person talking about a specific topic. Some are stories like books or movies but are radio dramas etc. I understand maybe not wanting to listen to anything you've found, but it's a bit like saying you don't want to read because it's always about the news. Lots of stuff to listen to/read.

Nobody is forcing you

Look at this fat cat capitalist who can afford a home that doesn’t have Podcast Gnomes in the walls.

One of the hosts from the knowledge fight podcast was called as an expert witness in the defamation case against alex jones where he lost the billion and the guy only knew so much about him because he started a podcast to research alex

Nobody is forcing you to

And I never said otherwise.

I used blanket statements and some flippant hyperbole because I don't like any podcasts I've tried, but I'm aware the medium itself isn't the exact issue. It just lends itself to people filling the silence with banal chatter when there is nothing else to say.

That actually sounds interesting. Didn't even know those existed.

I do.