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Soap Miner advertised a whipped tallow cream made with grass-fed beef tallow, jojoba oil, arrowroot powder, and vitamin E, alongside its tallow soaps. David Bennett said a bar lasts his family of four about a month and offered a 10% discount with the code bitcoin.
Curry says listeners’ agents could send boosts or donations directly to creators and payment splits, but app developers may still be excluded from the money flow. Jones sees no clear revenue model for apps under current advertising and contract arrangements, while Curry points to programmable payments such as L402 as a possible route.
The hosts thank supporters for PayPal donations, including contributions from $5 to $30, and True Fans and Lightning contributions denominated in sats. Curry says listener donations help keep the machines running.
SF routes Wavlake song payments through LNbits: a Wavlake track costs 210 sats, with 90% going to the original artist and a 5% kickback to the radio. Regular library requests cost 21 sats as an anti-spam fee, with longer tracks priced higher.
SF lets guest DJs register their own pages and Lightning wallets, and can stream live sessions through an RTMP server. Live donations accumulate until a session ends, then go to participating DJs who provide Lightning addresses; the radio also pays copyright collection agencies.
SF said the radio hopes to add a Creative Commons Zero and public-domain lane containing about 350,000 songs, bringing its catalog close to one million pieces. SF also asked musicians to use Wavlake and invited donations of music and equipment.
Freedom Tech Friday runs weekly, and Q said Freedom.tech uses AI to monitor hundreds of sources for its daily news desk. The host reported a 6,006-sat boost from Late Stage Huddl and an 83,448-sat boost from Gabriel Brown.
Adam Curry says RSS remains a low-overhead transport format for podcast episodes, transcripts and chapters, with processing handled on the listener’s side. He expects creators to fund storage and delivery through value for value, direct payment or other options rather than assuming advertising will pay the bills.
Adam Curry says 40% of Podcasting 2.0’s value-for-value revenue arrives after the show’s newsletter goes out. He expects agents to filter email, manage subscriptions and eventually let one agent request information directly from another, reducing reliance on newsletters and separate apps.
A listener, Seth Goldstein, sent 1,202 sats and said voice assistants misread his Philadelphia accent; he prefers a Roku or Fire TV stick to a smart TV that stops receiving updates. Cridland says Pocket Casts is available on Apple TV and Android TV outside the US and recommends Walmart’s $30 Onn streamer.
James Cridland says the Podnews Weekly Review is hosted and sponsored by Buzzsprout and invites listeners to become power supporters. Support starts at $5 per month, and the show reported 25 power supporters.
Matt Long said downloads of his weekday Matt Long Show rose after his first No Agenda appearance and stayed elevated; he airs on Hill Country Patriot FM at 104.3 and 102.1. He printed nine pieces of listener-created show art.
Matt Long organizes the Fredericksburg No Agenda meetup at Bar 1776 and performs as Benjamin Franklin at public events. Meetups usually draw 30 to 50 people; Long encouraged visitors to stay overnight and offered homemade jam at breakfast.
Adam Curry said October 29 will be his final No Agenda episode after more than 19 years. Since becoming a Christian three and a half years ago, Curry has found the show's cynical format harder to sustain and plans to focus on ministry, Godcaster, and other Christian projects.
David Bennett argued that value-for-value podcasting is held back by user friction, not by the model itself: listeners often will not act even when apps make payment easy. He expects value-for-value and advertising to coexist, and said podcast apps still lack useful alerts for boosts to older episodes.