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Paul Grant Truesdell | Founder & CEO
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# The Golden Age of Listening: From Radio to Podcasting

I remember sitting cross-legged on the hardwood floor of our living room, my ear pressed close to the fabric-covered speaker of our Philco radio. The year was 1938, and across America, millions of families just like mine gathered around these wooden boxes each evening as if they were hearths, warming ourselves not with flames but with stories that painted pictures in our minds.

There's a certain magic in listening that has been somewhat lost in our visual age. When I closed my eyes and heard the crackle of footsteps through autumn leaves on "The Shadow," I wasn't seeing some director's vision of what those leaves looked like—I was seeing my own. The rustling was the same sound I heard walking home from school through Mrs. Henderson's yard. The danger felt as real as my own racing heartbeat.

Ecclesiastes had it right all along: "There is nothing new under the sun." What we call podcasting today is just radio reborn in digital form. In the early 2000s, before the term "podcast" was even coined, I was broadcasting audio over the internet using a program called Icecast. Those were the dial-up days, when downloading a large audio file might take hours—streaming was the only practical solution. We were pioneers of sorts, though what we were doing wasn't fundamentally different from what Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre had done decades before.

The term "podcasting" initially described something very specific: downloadable audio content delivered through RSS feeds that could be played on portable devices like the iPod. Today, however, the word