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Just wanna say that there's no such thing as a "video podcast". You can have a video. You can have a podcast. You can have both, but you cannot have a "video podcast". I will die on this hill.
Also this guy actually had a podcast but abandoned it late last year. Presumably because they couldn't monetize it properly. This is exactly the kinda bullshit that we're seeing more and more, and why I'm calling this out.
Please don't support channels like this. Please stop calling it a "video podcast". It's just a video interview.
Weren't they called videocasts at one point?
I don't really think that's a great word either. If you break down "podcast", pod = iPod, obvi, because that's how they were originally played back. "Cast" (as in "broadcast") suggests the method of distribution across the web (RSS).
You don't need to reinvent a new word for every type of video. They're just called videos. If you wanted to be more specific you could call it a "video interview", as I alluded to above.
Language evolves
And I would argue that language "evolution" is fucking stupid if all meaning is stripped from the words, as it has been here. The whole purpose of a language is to create a common understanding of communication. If that definition is eroded to the extent that there is no longer a common understanding, that is not evolution, that is devolution.
It also abused by many to intentionally conflate meanings to fit an agenda.