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With ART19, Amazon Music will be getting a veteran team of podcast executives.
Theres Carr, of course, who has served as CEO throughout the companys entire existence.
(Well, semi-exclusive.
With all this in mind, should Amazon Music be a platform of concern for podcast publishers?
(There is, of course, a level of trickiness involved in comparing these numbers against each other.
Best of luck to the checks notes Canadiens?
Sorry, not a hockey household.
Go Whalers, though.
Meanwhile,Edison Research is releasingits second annual Latino Podcast Listener Reporton July 13.
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Thesummer of scam, as it were, never truly ended; it just graduated into every other Tuesday.
Frankly, I find this to be a pleasing development.
Give me a scam story, however, and Ill give you all the time in the world.
(On a separate note, I am a hypocrite.)
They essentially saw their money, collectively worth hundreds of millions of dollars, evaporate overnight.
Instead, lets talk aboutExit Scams crypto-world milieu, which makes for a huge part of its interestingness.
Lets glide over this part.
(On a separate note, I am a degenerate.)
That challenge, though, is something thats very much present in the perspective ofExit Scam.
Of course, Lammer has long developed some experience on the topic.
ForExit Scamspecifically, the team felt it was important to lift the story above insularity.
The strategy, he tells me, was to largely eschew the crypto focus altogether.
The scam itself had little to do with cryptocurrency, he said.
In many ways, it was a classic pre-20th-century Ponzi scheme.
It was just the king of all crypto stories, he said.
There was just so much mystery to it.
It wasnt a major thing on my radar, he said.
I think most people come to these things through their own path.
For some, Lammers positionality might be a contentious one.
People dont exactly say what they mean with this stuff.
A lot of it is weird posturing.
Its a culture that takes place entirely on Twitter and in real time.
WithExit Scam, Lammer is acting upon something that he thinks is much needed in the crypto-related media space.
You cant be writing about round one of the playoffs right now if youre interested in the NBA.
People wanna think about last nights game.
But thats not necessarily the whole story.
Voice acting isnt all sunshine and daisies, of course.
It takes up so much less of me, they say.
I feel like Im completing a puzzle thats already started.
Whats more, the director had decided to interpret the text as being about motherhood, Whitmore laughs.
This was the directors choice that I was not made aware of in advance.
In other spaces, its been more challenging.
Its bigger than you.
Whitmore laughs) as well as a cowgirl in a video game.
I dont think I could do it the other way.
Avi Roque, a trans and non-binary actor and voice artist, had a similar career trajectory.
Roque was taken aback, thinking, Im too masculine in the way I move?
And thats not right?
As a result, acting on stage continued to be unsatisfying to them.
I started to question, why am I doing theater?
A gender-fluid narwal… they say, reflecting.
Is that not everyones dream?
They even once voiced the role of a father.
And that experience can be rather positive.
Upon beginning to transition around 2003, Barnett says she was very, very nervous.
Even years later, working at a coffee shop, she says, I was petrified.
I was sometimes sick with panic because of people staring.
In this context, she isnt on high alert, no longer feeling constantly tasked with proving her womanhood.
And that perception, she says, doesnt phase her.
Theyre popular, and whether Im trans or got a Bristolian accent, it doesnt matter, she says.
Im not there as a female or a male, she adds.
Im just there as Steph.
