UFO Podcasts: An entry-way to forgetting

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For a long time I predicted that podcasts were on the way out, a medium that would be dead sooner than later.

Of course I was magnificently wrong.

Podcasts are all over the place. Network news uses them, gossip magazines employ them, celebrities pile them up like precious wines, and, in the UFO community, podcasts have become de rigueur, almost every UFO fanatic I know has a podcast: my pals, Kevin Randle, MJ Banias, and non-pal Greg Bishop, along with Gene Steinberg’s long-lasting “radio show” – The Paracast – which really falls into the podcast category nowadays.

There are many others.

I don’t listen to, can’t listen to UFO podcasts, mostly because of the overuse of “eerie music” and sloppy interventions of ads or announcements, and the untalented gab of hosts….Kevin and MJ excluded, of course.

More importantly, aurality is not a good way to remember things or to provide reference materials to listeners:

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1977-07445-001

https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED222477

Sure, we remember oral slogans and/or pronouncements:

Remember the Alamo

Beware the ides of March

                       

Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!

Et cetera, et cetera

But, if one wants to remember (recall) and/or do research, written text is the only way to go, unless one is taking notes during podcasts they listen to (or during Ted Talks), a rare gesture for most podcast listeners.

For me, podcasts died before I had a chance to be bored by them. But for many, and some reading here, podcasts are their way to enlightenment, foolish enlightenment, but the only way they seem to educate and inform themselves.

N.B. Image atop from https://drawception.com/game/RdwWG9EM7r/in-one-ear-and-out-the-other/

RR