> the really interesting thing that happened after Serial got big is that I didn't have to describe what a podcast was anymore Maybe you should've. The semant

> the really interesting thing that happened after Serial got big is that I didn't have to describe what a podcast was anymore Maybe you should've. The semantic promiscuity with the use of the "podcast" is on par with the tragedy of "wikis". People calling things "podcasts" that are not available for download because you can only listen by running a specific app like Spotify; things that are just hour-long videos recorded and uploaded to YouTube and not actually available anywhere in podcast format; things that are never actually recorded because they're streamed live and disappear when the thing ends—none of these things are podcasts. I get it. Podcasts are sexy and marketable right now, so wouldn't it be good if we could use that word to describe our show, too—instead of just describing it as a "show"? It's obnoxious to have a word that means a thing and then not know if that's what someone is even talking about when you hear them use the word.