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Do kids today even understand why podcasts are called podcasts?

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Well, you see, kids, almost twenty years ago Apple produced a portable audio player called \u2013 wait, I need to go back further.

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Okay, so in the 20th century, the new inventions of radio and television were known as broadcast\u00a0media \u2013 no, wait, that\u2019s not really the start either \u2013

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Broadcasting originally refers to throwing, or casting, handfuls of seeds onto prepared ground, typically used with grain crops, which, uh \u2013

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\u2013 the Agrucultural Revoution, which begain circa 10,000 BC in the Levant, was when humans began preserving seeds for replanting \u2013

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