podcasts could have been so good but they decided to make the main genres True Crime and Men Talking. shut up shut up the public yearns for audio dramas
i do appreciate how tumblr LOVES podcasts that aren't what most people think of when they think "podcast." you people love strange and terrible things happening to queer & confused characters, and i respect that
Ooh this reminds me of something we talked abt at my folklore class at uni this year. Because most people didn't have TV's but there were more radios (well in the 50-60s mostly tavern owners and village priests owned them, but in the 70s most houses owned one) a TON of people would huddle around the radio, and , in my professor's words, wait with baited breath for the drama, or the book reading to start bc "they lived in the middle of nowhere! That was their only window to the outside world!"
... I had a punchline locked and loaded, but as i was writing this i forgot it, but man i love the fact that humans are so unchanging
