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Past Due with Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle

Ana and Mike Don’t Quit

Past Due with Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle

Ana Marie Cox, Open Mike Eagle, and Andrew Steven

Arts, Society & Culture, Business, Performing Arts

4.66.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle kick off the year with a conversation about survival in a collapsing media economy. They get into dry January, capitalism, self-promotion, YouTube pivots, and what it means to keep showing up even when the numbers don’t add up. Plus: the upside of YouTube thumbnails, the reality of reporting on a shoestring, and why, in a world that wants you to give up, persistence might be the most radical act of all. Support the show: patreon.com/pastdue Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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1:02.0

Uh, let's see. So Mike, hey. Hello. We haven't actually like caught up in like a sustained way it's true yeah we talk like

1:15.5

10 to 20 minutes before and after these these tapings but we don't you know we haven't gotten a chance

1:21.1

to really get into it yeah you know yeah so holiday updates like any any, any... Oh, God.

1:30.6

I feel like I've survived the holidays and now I never want to think about them until they come up again.

1:36.3

Okay. I'm willing to like, let's not think about them again. I got through too.

1:39.8

I'll just, there, there we go. Done. Next question.

1:45.5

Are you a person that thinks of the new year as a time to do resolutions or to like reset, renew any kind of like restarts?

1:59.4

Are you a new year as a time to like make some resolutions or

2:03.1

in most ways no okay but the last few years and especially this year big on the dry January

2:12.6

real big we can talk about that oh I bet we can yeah let's talk about that I have, I bet we can. Yeah. Let's talk about that.

2:18.6

I have many thoughts about dry January.

2:20.7

Yeah.

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