podcast
Original: podcast on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman with glasses: Whenever a big election is coming I just want to listen to election coverage all day, even when there's basically no news that matters.
Panel 2:
Woman with glasses (continued): It's a waste of time. Also, it puts money into the hands of media sites willing to create scandals from nothing, or to relentlessly cover pointless aspects of candidates' day to day lives.
Panel 3:
Man: Maybe stop listening?
Woman with glasses: I have a better idea.
Panel 4:
Woman (holding up a yellowed scroll covered in scribbled numbers and equations): I have a computer-generated podcast called "Noise about elections." It plays 24 hours a day, nonsensical gibberish, occasionally broken up by the names of candidates, polling data, or the word "narrative."
Panel 5:
Man (looking distressed): This is the end of civil society.
Panel 6:
Woman (hunched over her phone, scribbled equations behind her): Shhh! It's talking about polls!
Votey:
Text reads: Please, someone make this so I don't have to hunt for podcasts.
Woman with glasses: Whenever a big election is coming I just want to listen to election coverage all day, even when there's basically no news that matters.
Panel 2:
Woman with glasses (continued): It's a waste of time. Also, it puts money into the hands of media sites willing to create scandals from nothing, or to relentlessly cover pointless aspects of candidates' day to day lives.
Panel 3:
Man: Maybe stop listening?
Woman with glasses: I have a better idea.
Panel 4:
Woman (holding up a yellowed scroll covered in scribbled numbers and equations): I have a computer-generated podcast called "Noise about elections." It plays 24 hours a day, nonsensical gibberish, occasionally broken up by the names of candidates, polling data, or the word "narrative."
Panel 5:
Man (looking distressed): This is the end of civil society.
Panel 6:
Woman (hunched over her phone, scribbled equations behind her): Shhh! It's talking about polls!
Votey:
Text reads: Please, someone make this so I don't have to hunt for podcasts.
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. A woman with glasses tells a man that whenever an election is coming, she wants to listen to election coverage all day even when there's no real news, which wastes time and funds media sites that invent scandals or obsess over candidates' trivial daily lives. The man suggests, "Maybe stop listening?" She replies, "I have a better idea," and holds up a yellowed scroll covered in scribbled numbers: she has a computer-generated podcast called "Noise About Elections" that plays nonsensical gibberish 24 hours a day, occasionally broken up by candidate names, polling data, or the word "narrative." The man looks horrified and says, "This is the end of civil society," while she hunches over her phone shushing him: "Shhh! It's talking about polls!" Votey (aftercomic): a plain hand-lettered note reading, "Please, someone make this so I don't have to hunt for podcasts."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.