JMG on Plant Cunning Podcast

[ecosophia]

For your listening pleasure -- or for your listening displeasure, if you believe everything that mainstream economists like to tell you -- I'm back on the Plant Cunning Podcast with hosts Isaac Hill and A.C., talking about my newly reissued book The Wealth of Nature: Economics as if Survival Mattered. We had a good lively conversation; check it out here. 

(And if you ordered a copy of the new edition of The Wealth of Nature and had trouble with that, thank you for your patience during yet another round of supply-chain problems. Everything should be fixed now.)

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Call me a conspiracy theorist but it happened in the past when companies played with the transfer rate on your cell by throttling it as way to censor. That will make your voice hardly audible.

[ecosophian]

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

I think its applicable in this case. I could hear most of what JMG said.

[(Anonymous)]

LOL, not attribute to malice have you seen the amount of banning and deleting posts, etc? Have you heard the calls for the people to be banned etc.

Let me give you an example of unjustified censor I noticed recently:
https://web.archive.org/web/20211019091216/https://www.linkedin.com/posts/elias-sare-b69a7a64_meanwhile-ireland-what-do-you-think-activity-6855982648670662656-UqKm

I doubt that a company would not use a legal obscure mean of censoring rather than banning someone which can be legally contested. Shadow-banning was done a lot, and is already, and can you fathom that even shadow-banning is not enough for Big Tech, they literally want it deleted. Given that JMG said that he uses his phone for interviews, now a hypothesis is easy to test if this happens a lot in JMG's interviews and the audio in the podcast is bad only for him and not for the guest and the phone quality is good nationwide, and the phone is operational, then...

[mo_drui_mac_de]

If this is true, then why has JMG been able to give so many clearly audible podcast interviews lately, on far more inflammatory and controversial topics than anything related to The Wealth of Nature? Shadow-blocking text posts that contain key words or phrases is easy and happen frequently; listening to every hour long podcast that gets uploaded to screen it for wrongthink is waaay more difficult and time consuming.

[(Anonymous)]

If I recall correctly, JMG uses a landline and does not own a cell phone. The sound quality sounds like a VOIP connection with high latency or packet loss. Over a 100 millisecond ping time.
Just a guess is that the hosts are using a VOIP connection for the show. That would make sense for a podcast.
Assuming there is no congestion with the VOIP server or the hosts internet connection, it is likely something is maxing out the upstream on the user end. Such as sending large files or backing up data to the cloud.
What did JHK say about hupercomplexity and diminishing returns on technology?
It makes a good case for simpler and less resource intensive technologies. Economics, resource inputs, something...something...

[(Anonymous)]

That is a very good observation. That or the service provider decided that the landlines might as well work over VOIP.

[(Anonymous)]

"That or the service provider decided that the landlines might as well work over VOIP."

I can't speak for the US, but in Canada that's standard practice these days.

[(Anonymous)]

JMG once did a call into the our local Green Wizards group via Zoom. He was using his landline and the Zoom servers handled all the rest of it. When it works it is great, when it doesn't well - this podcast is the result. Alas, digitizing the phone network wasn't the smartest idea we ever had either.

[isaac_hill]

Thanks for the info folks, this is the first time this sort of thing has happened, though we've had plenty of glitchy audio. Any advice for how to make sure to have clear audio with landlines in the future?