Most of our media are owned by a handful of tech billionaires, but there's one place that still operates like the internet was never invented.

On the new season of the divided dial from On the Media, we're exploring shortwave radio, where prayer and propaganda coexist with news and conspiracy theories, and where an existential battle for the public airwaves is playing out right now.

Listen to On the Media wherever you get your podcasts.

Good morning, Prokaptan. Are you blushing? Have you ever blushed? Have you no modesty? I'm kidding.

But we will be talking about blushing in today's episode. Before that, though, let me share something

exciting with you. Starting in September, we're going to change our Wednesday lineup a bit.

I know, I know, Tanner, how many changes to the lineup can you make in just two weeks?

I hope it's not too frustrating, but zeroing in on what people like and want more of is one of those

data-centric things, and it takes a long time to collect data and make sense of it.

But here's an example of a piece of data we absolutely hated to discover.

Our Wednesday episodes have an average completion rate of 50%.

Ouch.

But our Monday and Tuesday episodes, nearly 100%. We can't really ignore

that data, can we? No, of course not. So Wednesdays are no longer for deep dives. Deep dives instead

will be moved over to our monthly live events, which you can choose to attend or not at

actual stoicism.com. From now on, on Wednesdays, we'll be sharing, drumroll please,

Epictetus's Enchiridion, which feels long overdue. We've also made a change to the mailbag,

which you've probably already heard of, but I record these episodes very far in advance now,

so sometimes I forget what I've already talked about. But instead of mailbag, we're calling it

listener letters, and instead of six questions in an

episode, we're going to reduce it to three, so we can go a bit deeper into exploring the questions

submitted, and the whole listening experience can feel a bit less overwhelming and, let's be

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