Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Talk Tuah Podcast In 2024, podcasts are about as mainstream as media gets. Sure, their audiences are hugely fragmented and largely invisible to one another — the monoculture remains dead and rotting. But the medium is, on the whole, very popular, and individual hosts have become major celebrities with serious cultural and political influence . What started as a loose group of DIY online broadcasters has long since become a full-fledged industry with its own