Podcasts Are Fraudcasts

When a man hosts a podcast,

He is trying to reach an audience.

 

What is the audience composed of?

 

Distracted,

And conditioned

Humans.

 

What is the host?

 

A distracted,

Conditioned human.

 

He opens with intro music.

Tells the audience to “like”

Or “subscribe.”

He may thank his “sponsor.”

And advertise his sponsor’s useless product.

 

After his opening charades are over,

He says blah, blah, blah,

Accompanied by a few jokes and laughs.

 

The audience

Hears blah, blah, blah.

They may call in say bleeh, bleeh, bleeh.

They may also make a joke.

The host and the audience member may laugh together.

 

The elephant goes on the radio

And makes an elephant sound.

The audience that is listening

Hears the elephant sound,

And make the same elephant sound in response.

 

A bird

Goes on the radio

And chirps.

The audience that is listening

Chirps back.

 

The host goes home.

And resumes his life

The same way as he did yesterday.

 

The audience

Turns off the radio

And lives its life

The same way as it did yesterday.

 

What is the host saying

That is of any relevance to anyone?

 

In fact,

The more relevance his words have,

The less he will be heard.

 

Because the audience

Is composed of elephants and birds,

Making elephant sounds and chirps.

 

When they turn on the radio,

They are expecting to hear

Elephant sounds

And chirping.

 

If they hear something besides

Elephant sounds and chirping,

They do not understand.

 

Because they have no framework

For anything other

Than elephant sounds and chirping.

 

That is all they have ever heard.

That is all they know.

 

All that can happen

Is that they nod their head

Say “Very nice elephant sound,”

Say “Very nice chirping,”

And go home.

 

If, as the host leaves the house,

His child asked him,

“Daddy, where are you going?”

 

The most honest answer

Is one that he would never think to give.

“I am going to say a bunch of useless,

But nice-sounding nonsense

To a bunch of people

Who are interested in entertainment.”

 

Who is being transformed?

Who is going anywhere?

Who is actually getting somewhere?

 

Everyone in this world

Is simply walking around a giant cul-de-sac.

 

And the experts,

Podcasters,

And all of society’s minions

Are providing Background Music

As they themselves

And the audience they serve

Walk around the cul-de-sac together.

 

What is wrong with entertainment?

 

Nothing.

 

But if one’s entire life,

Is nothing but an entertainment,

Or a salivating for one . . .

This is not a life.

 

No one in this world

Is talking to anyone.

 

Because there is no one

Who has the mouth

To speak Truth.

 

And there is no one

Who has the ears

To listen to Truth.

 

Truth

Is not spirituality.

 

Truth

Is not self-help.

 

Truth

Is Truth.

 

Truth

Has no need

For the audience

To understand.

 

It speaks

Because it does.

 

Understand this:

The more Relevant,

The more True,

The more Genuine,

The more Artful something is . . .

The less of an audience

It will attract.

 

The world

Is but a closed chamber

Of cackling birds.

 

Lips are moving.

Sounds are emanating.

But nothing is being said.

And no one is there to hear them.

 

It is No One

Talking

To No One.

 

Namaste.