podcasts

I read it as mostly him taking aim at other new media creatures who think very highly of themselves. There definitely also are people I know who listen to podcasts (which never cover anything beyond 101 level) and never read anything.

I thought it was humorous. I think he's likely disgusted by how much money he makes for doing so little work, was invited to write about "what is this 'pod casting' thing?" for some site and decided write a critical piece about the medium in a self deprecating way.

It's not like he's never worked in his life. He helped unionise a brewery.

If you're super offended just switch to pirating the thing.