Taking the world by storm – a history of podcasting 2/2
Irish History Podcast
Fin Dwyer
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In the past decade, podcasting has taken the world by storm. The advent of smartphones and the ground-breaking podcast 'Serial' would see podcasting surge in popularity.
In 2020 alone over a million new shows were launched. But does it have a future? Some are not convinced.
In the second and final part of my series on the history of podcasting I look at how podcasting became so popular and where it’s heading. The show features Blindboy, Jennifer Forde, Sam Bungey, Brian Greene and Sinead the host of Mens Rea.
The final episode of the year will be out next week when we will look at the story of the Irish In the American West.
Contributors to the episode
Brian Greene https://www.briangreene.com/
Blindboy Podcast https://play.acast.com/s/blindboy
Mens Rea https://mensreapod.com/
West Cork https://www.westcorkpodcast.com/
Snugcast https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/snugcast/id1603925189
I mentioned This is the satire podcast from the Onion I mentioned https://podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/a-very-fatal-murder/id1333714430
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| 0:00.0 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats. |
| 0:11.0 | So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's. |
| 0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. |
| 0:20.0 | Imagine you. You in a nice comfy seat with your hands behind your head taking in the views instead of taking on the road, maybe even a nap. |
| 0:33.0 | That's the bliss of getting where you need to go without worrying about driving. |
| 0:38.0 | Book your train journey via avantuouscoast.cozote ukkoe and we'll take you there |
| 0:45.0 | avante west coast feel good travel Do you ever wonder how we will be remembered in history? I don't mean you as an individual but rather the times we're |
| 1:05.1 | living in. It's fun to think about but ultimately it is impossible to |
| 1:10.0 | understand how future generations will view our era. You never know where events |
| 1:15.5 | unfolding around us will lead. What seems significant to us today might just |
| 1:21.0 | Peter out and end up in a historical cul-de-sac, while small, seemingly irrelevant |
| 1:26.4 | events are in fact the start of much bigger trends. |
| 1:30.9 | 2013 was a good example of this. It was forgettable in most respects. There were few |
| 1:37.5 | standout events that year. To be honest looking back I got nostalgic given what the last decade has thrown at us an uneventful year |
| 1:46.3 | seemed like a much better time. But the lack of major events in 2013 is only part of the story of that year. |
| 1:55.0 | While it wasn't dominated by headline-grabbing stories, |
| 1:59.0 | change was nevertheless afoot. |
| 2:02.0 | Behind the headlines, history was in the making. The internet was starting |
| 2:06.8 | to transform everyday life. In the last episode I said you might not be a revolutionary but you are living through a |
| 2:13.9 | revolution and in 2013 this online revolution was really starting to heat up |
| 2:19.7 | smartphones were revolutionizing the way we lived our lives. |
| 2:24.0 | An old world, an old way of doing things was starting to slip away. |
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