Pod-Castaway
Oh hey, didn’t see you there U-Fam, I was a bit busy looking through my portfolio of investments after going on a ten-mile sprint starting at 4 a.m. “Wow, Mason, you’re so successful and nonchalant all the time! How do you do it?” Chill little bro/broette, I’ve just been making a couple of changes ever since I began watching four different “success mindset” podcasts. Those guys seem to have it figured out — you can tell because they showed a McLaren in the video. If you want some tips on how to live like me though, you can subscribe to my daily podcast where I share my secrets to success.
STOP! Has this ever happened to you? Recently, there’s been a new trend of 20-something-year-old hustlers starting “self-help” podcasts where they share insights on how to be successful in different parts of your life. Whether it be financial, relationship, or heaven forbid political knowledge, do not ever listen to the advice being given as it will have the opposite effect of what they push. “But Mason!” I hear you say, “There are some podcasts that genuinely do offer sound financial or other advice that are worth listening to!” You know that’s not who I’m talking about, I’m talking about the podcasts where a group of guys sat down, bought a mic, and told you that buying their $60 monthly course will help you become a multimillionaire in the next six to eight months.
These podcasts have become extremely common over the last few years and only serve to line the pockets of the people within using money from people gullible enough to listen to their advice. Just because the person speaking can show off their rented Lamborghini does not mean that taking their crypto investment advice will go well for you. Perhaps even worse than the crypto-finance podcasts are the relationship/political advice-oriented podcasts. You know the kind I’m talking about, where four guys and four gals get on opposite sides of a table and argue a point ad nauseam while having no actual substance to any claim they’re making. These podcasts are truly a pseudo-intellectual’s daydream and allow anyone with a moderate platform to pedal the worst take on an issue that you’ve ever heard.
Again, there are some great podcasts out there that do offer sound advice on the issues that I’ve mentioned but the main difference is that they base their advice on real-world experience and aren’t trying to sell you “Sigma’s Guide to Manliness 4.” The only thing I can think of to curb this rising trend is to just make podcast microphones cost $50,000 and make having a license necessary to even start one. Hopefully, with small changes and a growing public disdain towards podcasts like these, the sentence, “Dude we should like, start a podcast,” Will never be uttered again. With that being said, be sure to tune into Mason’s Objectively True Opinions, podcast which premiers every Sunday at noon.
By Mason Piva