porque era unight.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another edition of, oh what's this thing called? A podcast.

Why is it called a podcast? Because there used to be things called iPods. But iPods

no longer exist, do they? Everybody's got their music in their phones, so iPods came

and went, but podcasts remain, and it's like a, I don't know, it's like a strange sort of

reference to a world that no longer exists. The podcast, many years hence, people will say,

Daddy, why is it called a podcast? I don't know, young in, they'll still be saying young in

the future, no doubt. Speaking of the future, I ate too much split pea soup the other night,

and we ate late, and I lay in bed. I had so much gas that I was waking myself up, so, and that's

pretty bad, because normally a little, a little natural gas is not a problem for this guy, but man,

so anyway, I was lying there not sleeping, and it occurred to me that there are a couple things

that no one will ever do again, I think, at least not on the large scale. Things that are very common.

I don't think anyone's going to learn to type anymore. I don't know why you would. I took a

typing class in high school, and for years, typing was something that was very

front and center in my consciousness. I learned to touch type, not looking at the keyboard, and

I got okay at it, and then as I became a writer and was doing graduate school, and just writing,

writing, writing, writing all the time, I got better and better at touch typing, and you know,

didn't need to look down at all, and now it's second nature, I don't even think about it, but for

10 or 15 or 20 years, I thought about it, like every fucking day I thought about it.

Man, if I had spent the time and energy learning to play piano that I learned to type, I'd be

fucking showpan at this point. Then anyway, no one's going to learn to type anymore.

I'm right now transcribing some journals that I found from way back in the day, my first trip to

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