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But It’s Free
Dec. 17th, 2021 08:01 amI told my husband about My Favorite Murder, and now he's obsessed with it too. He teaches a class about new religious movements and has a bizarre fascination with New Jersey, so he got hooked on Episode 172, which is about a supposedly Satanic murder at the Devil's Teeth quarry in Springfield, a suburb of Newark (which is itself a suburb of New York).
I also told him about some of the wild shit people say about this podcast, and my husband, who is blessedly innocent of internet ragebait fuckery, was like, "But it's free?"
I was doing some research, and apparently My Favorite Murder is one of the top five highest grossing podcasts in the United States in terms of total revenue from various sources, including ad spots and live shows. (If you're curious, the other top-earning podcasts are right-wing or libertarian.) So apparently My Favorite Murder makes money, but I'm still disinclined to believe that any given podcast is going to have a lasting cultural impact outside of its subculture. And like my husband says, nobody's forcing anyone to listen to a free podcast about murder.
I also told him about some of the wild shit people say about this podcast, and my husband, who is blessedly innocent of internet ragebait fuckery, was like, "But it's free?"
I was doing some research, and apparently My Favorite Murder is one of the top five highest grossing podcasts in the United States in terms of total revenue from various sources, including ad spots and live shows. (If you're curious, the other top-earning podcasts are right-wing or libertarian.) So apparently My Favorite Murder makes money, but I'm still disinclined to believe that any given podcast is going to have a lasting cultural impact outside of its subculture. And like my husband says, nobody's forcing anyone to listen to a free podcast about murder.
