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Surprised that more truckers haven't discovered podcasts.

Next time you're on a road trip, stop at a good-sized truck stop and spend some time looking at the technology and radio aisle. These are folks who use a lot of technology, of many flavors.

I recall that when audiobooks started to become a big thing, truckers, for kinda obvious reasons, were a good chunk of the audience for them.

I'm a Bay Area car commuter who is ADDICTED to audiobooks. I also started listening to them when doing chores and walking the dog!

I expect truckers run into the same problem I do.

It's difficult to have enough good content, it takes time and energy to discover the good podcasts and some percent of serendipity is required to keep it interesting.

When I got a phone that could play mp3s about 13 years ago I switched to podcasts and never listened to radio again.

Now I listen at 1.6x speed to fit even more in, BBC, NPR, tech, revisionist history, west wing weekly...

Makes you realise how terrible broadcast media is: and here's the news for the 10th time, 80% repeats, 10% things that haven't happened yet, 10% grown adults moving a sphere around a field

I know about a dozen truckers, more than half listen to podcasts. Not sure why you would say this. NPR is popular, but nowhere near a majority market imho.

Point was: Article made it seem like radio in general and NPR in particular are the only options for truckers.

Where on earth did that comment come from? How stupid do you think truckers are? The article didn't mention podcasts.

News flash: Truckers also enjoy 21st century technology.

I hope you can take a step back and realize how rude your comment is.

Is it possible that the comment is actually a dig at the quality of the article?

I wouldn't assume it to be a rude comment.

It sounds very rude, there's no other way to read it when someone says "newsflash" or "how stupid do you think they are". No where did the parent imply truckers don't use 21st century technology, they just mentioned another option that hadn't been discussed in the article.

I see this here all the time, someone leaves a very rude comment and then they or someone else argues that it might not have been intended as being rude, but there are certain words and phrases that, any time you use them, you should be aware that they will always be interpreted as a rude remark. "newsflash" is one of them. "How stupid do you think... is" is another. Words have meanings and when you use them you should understand how someone else is going to read those words. That comment was intentionally rude, for absolutely no good reason.

If you read his other comments it's clear that he's not doing a bit. That is just who he is.

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