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.

Hello and welcome back to practical stoicism. I'm your host, Tanner Campbell, and here's your

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thing or if you don't have the money to do so, I get it. I have been there. Sometimes getting

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