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Pods Like Us Chronicles — Episode Show Notes

Host: Martin "Marv" Quibell

Episode Summary

Marv opens with a look at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing (kicking off Saturday 22 August 2026), including a robot smashing Usain Bolt's 100m record and a musing on what happens when you put an LLM inside a humanoid robot. Then it's on to the week's podcast industry news: audiobook/podcast crossover, YouTube's changing definition of a "view," Spotify's new ad and skip-ahead features, AI's growing role in podcast discovery (and its occasional gaslighting), a tribute to John C. Dvorak, and more.

In This Episode

Industry Reads

• Frank Racioppi's Forbes piece on the audiobook/podcast listener overlap, and Noiser's audio drama adaptations ...