Even though we have repeatedly made ourselves available to various media outlets to talk about the increasingly popular IMAO Podcast (averaging 716 downloads per day as of July 19, 2005), I read a huge article in today’s Wall Street Journal on how “popular” and profitable X-rated podcasts are becoming.
Podcasting was a curiosity to the mainstream media three months ago when drag queens, wannabe DJs, and Hollywood has-been comedians with recycled NPR shows started posting MP3s online for the iPod crowd. Now the mainstream media heaps high praise on sex talk from husky-voiced overweight women and how condom companies are sponsoring podcasts by “performance artists” who can’t string together a complete sentence without an obscenity.
Thanks for forcing the new genre of porncasting on Americans, mainstream media. The dumb people in the flyover Middle America states really appreciate it.
Here’s a suggestion: Force the IMAO Podcast on the mainstream media. The writer of the WSJ porncast article is Vauhini Vara. Let’s see if Vara would be interested in having all of the IMAO Fans e-mail vauhini.vara@wsj.com to extoll the virtues of the IMAO Podcast because it:
- Is “work safe” comedy
- Appeals to a broad audience
- Lessens flu symptoms
- Sounds totally unlike any other podcast available on iTunes
- Has a growing number of fans (downloads have steadily grown to an average of 700+ per day in a matter of weeks)
- Can be used to clean stubborn stains on upholstered surfaces
- Stars a pretty blond girl that sings
Please e-mail Vauhini Vara at the WSJ <a href=”mailto:THISISSPAMTHISISSPAMenty of action.
UPDATE: If you e-mail the WSJ and Vara blows you off, e-mail us to let us know! If Vara dains you worthy of a reply, e-mail us that too.
We’ll post the best replies/non-replies from IMAO Fans on the blog and talk about it in the podcast.
E-mail us – feedback@IMAOPodcast.com
maybe you could provide some links to these “porncasts” — so I can more fully appreciate how bad they are
I wouldn’t say that mainstream media is completely at fault. Porn has historically been be purveyor of new uses for new technology:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2004-03-09-onlineporn_x.htm
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,661094,00.html
So what if theres sex in podcasts this is american and anyone have the right to produce and distribute porn okay nobodys forcing you to listen to D&D and if you dont like them because they talk about fisting and positions other than what your 1950s puritancal brain cant comprehnd than dont download it you stupid repub religeous zealot facist!!!!!
Wow. In light of the post by “Padam The Master of The Run On Sentence,” let me make it clear that I was in no way DEFENDING said podcasts. WSJ obviously has a problem if they cannot recognize the superiority of the IMAO podcast and properly inform the masses of it’s breathtaking brilliance. Padam, on the other hand, needs to check out “Merriam-Webster’s Guide to Punctuation and Style.”
Padam,
Personally, I’ve listened to a few of the D&D shows (Dawn and Drew Podcast)
A few points.
1. Re-read the post. Did we say that they should be taken off the podosphere?
2. If we’re so puritanical in our beliefs then why is it that even WE know that the bunghole is the butt hole?
3.Thanks for not stereotyping, the Right. Oh wait..
4. Thanks for visiting.
A lefty calling someone a facist? I am so surprised. Puritanical? Oh gracious… I can’t take it. Too many worn out far left talking points cliches …. AAAAGH!!!! It would be amazing if those sheep (the lefties) ever had a coherent thought of their own. I am pretty sure I heard Fatty Moore say something like that … or was it Ward Churchill…. Well you get the idea.
Focus! These aren’t the droids you’re looking for… and one whackjob trolling for attention in our comments section is not the problem.
The problem is the MSM ignoring the IMAO Podcast even though it is steadily increasing in popularity, is work safe funny, and has high production values that are unmatched among podcasters.
And yes, you ARE a whackjob, Padam.
Whew, at least he didn’t call us names using proper spelling and grammer. Now THAT would’ve been an insult.
Appeals to a broad audience
Guys like it, too.
You forgot to mention the fact that IMAO podcasts are good for you. Listening to just one a week makes your teeth brighter and feet less sweaty. This has been proven on laboratory space-monkeys.
Yes, see them shine? [GLEAM]
So, which side of this whole issue is Harvey on?
GEBIV,
We’ve polled Harvey and it turns out he’s slightly In Favor of the podcast.
Harvey hasn’t had time for any porncasts ever since he got his new PornStation Portable.
look, see, my G5 didn’t come with a built-in microphone, because the professional level Macs have optical inputs and outputs for fully digital reproduction in Logic Pro and Final Cut Pro and such.
and I use the mic on my iSight camera.
and I am moving out.
real soon.
…
…
…resist urge to say something about Aquaman…
My e-mail to the WSJ (just sent it off):
Dear Sir or Madame,
I have recently become aware of your apparent bigotry against IMAO.US and would like to express my displeasure.
WWW. IMAO.us podcasts are highly entertaining and I listen to them it almost as much as I listen to porn podcasts on the 2,748 porn sites that I (like most of your readers, I presume) routinely peruse. IMAO is almost as entertaining as porn and is much cheaper.
As a faithful WSJ reader and (not to be redundant) porn fan I demand that you give equal time to IMAO and publish an article on their podcasts as well. Thank for your kind attention to this urgent matter.
Best,
Thanks!
Sort of… I guess.
Tell me about it.
I bust Orrin Hatch for having unlicensed software running his website, and the press sniffs and yawns.
Someone notices that he has a link to a porn site in his website, and everyone goes nuts.
Yeah, I noticed the porn link. And I ignored it. Because I didn’t think it important.
I guess that’s why I’m not in news anymore. I know what information people really need to know and how someone’s a hypocrite in a relevant fashion instead of just porn porn porn.
Blah.