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Kids Turned the Comment Section of an NPR Podcast Into a Group Chat

Summary by The Verge
Middle schoolers, likely blocked from other apps and social networks, apparently turned the Spotify comment section under an episode of NPR's Wild Card into an impromptu group chat. In a new episode of This American Life, host Ira Glass digs into how the kids landed there and why. But it mostly boils down to kids getting creative to work around the restrictions placed on them. When Glass asked one of the kids why they picked this particular podc…

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Teens too young for the networks found an unlikely refuge: podcast comments on Spotify. And NPR understood it a little late.

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BizToc broke the news on Friday, September 25, 2026.
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