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Podcast: The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum
Episode: Where We Go Next (Meghan interviewed!) - Podcaster Michael Callahan turns the tables on your host
Description: This week, something a little different: Meghan is the interview subject! In a special end-of-summer episode, The Unspeakable pairs up with Michael Callahan and his podcast Where We Go Next. In a conversation that Michael posted earlier this month, he and Meghan talk about how to avoid audience capture in the "heterodox space,"Â how the term "community" got tacked onto nearly everything, and how the concept of the "literary citizen" replaced the role of the working writer or even public intellectual. They vent their shared frustration with the marketing demands of algorithms, particularly the YouTube algorithm and its clickbait t...