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Index Podcastorum Purgatus

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Index Podcastorum Purgatus

(Podcast Queue Purged, with intent)

Dosage	One (1) aggressive unsubscribe session targeting every podcast with more than five unlistened episodes
Frequency	Quarterly
Duration	Permanent practice
Refills	Unlimited — the podcasts will, apparently, continue producing episodes without patient's subscription

Side effects May include the specific grief of unsubscribing from a podcast patient had been planning to 'really get into,' the phantom urge to re-subscribe 'just in case,' and — critically — the observation that the 847-episode backlog patient has been guilted by had been, apparently, content patient was never going to listen to even once.

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The Institute dispenses Index Podcastorum Purgatus for:

Chronic podcast-backlog guilt
The subscribed-but-not-listened accumulation pattern
The specific app-notification anxiety produced by 40+ unlistened episodes across multiple shows

What is this?

Index Podcastorum Purgatus is part of the Institute Pharmacy's formulary of satirical prescriptions. Everything on this slip is fictional except the behavior it addresses. A real pharmacist, handed this slip, would decline to fill it. Patients are invited to fill it themselves.

Patients know it in practice as Podcast Queue Purged, with intent — the Latin is ceremonial; the English form is what they actually execute.

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