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BumRushDaShow

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2. Podcasts require access to the internet
Sun May 10, 2026, 02:23 PM
Sunday

which has a monthly (or some periodic) cost unless you wander around looking for free wifi.

Terrestrial (OTA) radio is "free" and as the GOP continues to strip more and more from the lowest rungs of society, they will not have a way to access internet content due to cost (where a choice has to be made about whether to eat or pay rent and utilities, so forget internet and health insurance), and we will really be left with an even more marginalized segment of the population.

We saw that "digital divide" in stark relief during COVID, when school systems (like here Philly) set up remote learning for the kids and found out that thousands had no internet service at home and no computers.

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