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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.

Welcome. Welcome back, Prokaptan. I hope you're well. Before starting today, I have a small confession to make. The last two episodes of this podcast weren't read by me. Instead, they were read by an AI synthesized version of me, which was

trained on hours and hours of my own voice recordings, which is a very easy resource to come

by when you've been podcasting for as many years as I have been. This wasn't a test of any kind or an attempt to dupe anyone.

It was instead a way of delivering on my promise of weekly episodes

in spite of a few weeks of hectic goings-on in my personal family life.

And just in case it's not safe to assume that it's a given, while the voice you heard was

AI synthesized, the words it spoke were planned and written entirely by me. I hope it goes without

saying that I would never use AI to write content for this podcast. And in case it's not safe to assume, this is me you're hearing now.

The real me, not the AI synthesized me. Now, with all of that said, I have a couple of questions for you,

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