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two people who could've texted instead, broadcasting to nobody for ninety glorious minutes
means a digital audio program, usually episodic and conversational, that you download or stream and listen to whenever you like.
from A blend coined in the early 2000s: "iPod" (Apple's music player) fused with "broadcast." A British journalist is widely credited with proposing it in print around 2004, and the word stuck even as iPods faded — the "pod" now floats free of any actual device, like a barnacle outliving its ship.
name origincoined from iPod plus broadcast in 2004
completion ratemost listeners quit before the halfway mark
sheer volumeover five million shows, most fewer than ten episodes
the equipmenta microphone purchase precedes most podfade deaths
word of yearpodcast won New Oxford American's 2005 title