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The Michael Vary show is on the air.

It's easy to think these are the worst of times, but actually, in many ways, we are living through a golden era.

You know, when you stop and think about the fact that, you know, when I was a kid,

if you were a fan of gun smoke, for instance, you might occasionally get a gun smoke rerun.

Or if you were a super fan of Johnny Carson, you might occasionally get a Johnny Carson show

that would air outside the usual time when you watched it or maybe

there would be a brief interview.

But then, all of a sudden, this golden era of the ability to get really granular, to really geek out

on subjects that you care about and learn everything there is to know about it.

Well, that was true of YouTube where people could put up videos.

But then we entered the podcast era.

The people who do what I do were scared to death of the podcast

because they would replace them. And I was asked by people in the business of media,

are you worried about podcasts? And I said, no. If you're ever worried that someone else's

content is going to replace you, your content's not very good. Make it use that as a challenge i love the fact that

there are people who indulge they're absolutely crazed uh insane fanaticism of various things

and they make podcasts about them and they build up the crime podcasts, which are mostly a female demographic, which is interesting.

It's true of crime, sports, military, so many things.

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