Blindboy Podcast

No I mean he literally has advertised alcohol on his podcast using his own voice and says that it's an advertisement with that voice. Telling people to try it. Would you say he's responsible for that, or is that Acast?

I reckon people who have substance abuse issues who naturally warmed to his podcast for the mental health talk would beg to differ on the issue of hypocrisy. He could choose to say no to the advertising from an alcohol company on those grounds, but I guess the money is good 💰💲.

I mean, basically you're saying:

1) It was Acast, how can he be blamed?

And

2) There's nothing wrong with advertising alcohol on a largely mental health based podcast anyway

🤨🙄

It was a few episodes back earlier this year, I haven't caught up to recent episodes yet as I listen to them in order. I only listen when washing the dishes so I'm never up to date.

White Claw is the brand, from memory.

Listening to "13 steps I use to manage anxiety".

Still pushing the White Claw alcohol.

No conflict of interest there.

Good lad, BB.

For those still in denial, do I need to extract the clip to bring you to your senses? 😂 I look forward to the wall of meaningless text.

Who is "in denial" exactly? I was the only person who even entertained your post enough to bother replying to it - and rather than "denial" I essentially said "I am not aware of this and I can not really say more that generalities until I hear it myself". How is that denial?

No need to extract audio. Just mention the title and general time stamp. I flicked through the episode you mentioned using the 15 second jump button. Might have missed any mention of "White Claw" but didn't find it.

Pre-labeling replies as "meaningless text" is pretty crass and just shows you are invested in your own take on the matter to the point you have no interest in hearing anyone else's.

Again I see no conflict between promoting mental health and discussing or even promoting alcohol. Especially someone who speaks coherently on the responsible use of alcohol - and methodologies of noticing unhealthy use. What is the actual problem? Is there one?

In fact if they are an actual active sponsor - fair play to a brand for sponsoring a podcast which won't sit around saying how great the product is - but is actually a podcast saying he "completely reevaluated his relationship with alcohol" because it exacerbated his mental health issues during the pandemic.

God I have no idea? I am not at all privy to his finances :) I hardly know all that much about the guy except that I use his mental health podcasts as a resource to help others sometimes. I do not follow any of his fiction - his twitch out put - or his art podcasts.

Others probably know what a work of fiction for a "best seller" brings in in Ireland - and a podcast on acast with no sponsors. They'd be his main sources of income that I know of? I remember him saying he got a whole 250euro for Horse Outside or similar. There is some income to be had on Twitch but I have never watched him on it really so can't estimate what he is pulling off that. Especially as Bezo's takes 50% of every subscription on that platform.

He did at the start of Covid cancel a show in the UK before the government there offered any compensation for shows cancelled due to Covid. He called it before the government did. The bill he would have been stuck with for doing that would not have been small. I'd say he took quite the hit for it.