It's a common mistake that newcomers to the language make. You assume empty is an empty string check when it's really a falsy check that is equivalent to: (!isset($var) || !$var)
It's simply that the podcaster provides something valuable to you with their podcast and you're expected to return an equal amount of value back to them in whatever form you choose. It could be a Paypal payment, cool artwork for the show, topic research for the show, or whatever value you can contribute back.
Check out value4value.info for a more detailed explanation
Apple runs the Internet's defacto index of podcasts, due to iTunes popularizing podcasting, and provides an API that many/most podcast applications use to find podcasts. When they delist a podcast from their index, it's like Google delisting a website from their index.
I was hoping they would do more than just put ChatGPT into Bing.
For instance, the question about travel should generate a result of suggested places that includes photos and links to more information. The result should be easily skimmable to let the user narrow in on things that are interesting and skip over things that are not.
Instead, it just generates a text essay in a chat bubble that you have to read through each time.
