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

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For a copton, I am officially back. I'm married, and here's another piece of news. I have a baby on the way.

Wee! He or she is due to arrive in April, and Ross and I are pleased as punch. Whatever that that saying means. Hopefully it means very pleased.

Also, a few thank yous. Thank you to you for putting our Discord community over 1,000 members.

That is awesome. That happened just this past week. Thank you for keeping us at the top of the

philosophy charts for 18 months now. Thank you for tolerating the somewhat less

than perfect audio of the last two months. I know many probably didn't notice it, but to those

who did, sometimes outsourcing this particular task becomes necessary for me because I have

too many things going on, like getting married or preparing for a new family or as it happens, getting our

book published. That's right, baby. The book has been picked up by a real life publisher, and you're

going to be able to get it in bookstores and online as well. Contracts are signed, things are in motion,

and while there is still a little bit of a waiting process, because

publishers set release dates and not authors, Kai and I are absolutely pumped to get this out

into the world. We worked very hard on it, and we know that you will love it, so more information

on that to come. And let's see, what else? Oh, Australian listeners, listen up. As it turns out,

Sydney is the city with the greatest number of listeners of this show. That means in no other

single city in the whole world, are there more listeners to this podcast than there are in Sydney,

Australia? Because of this, we are planning

to kick off something in Sydney this upcoming year. Now, I cannot tell you exactly what that is

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