Podcasts

I listened to a fictional podcast that was a story about a woman who controlled ghosts with magic. She used them as servants. They walked solid on Halloween. They attacked if she did not prepare. They loved and produced if she had been kind.

Sometimes I wonder if, in another life, I used to listen to these shows. I really enjoy them. The stores are the same as many of the shows that are on TV today. Half the shows are about cops and they are still having the same troubles with crooked people they have today. Some things never change.

It's funny listening to old time radio shows where people use phones and other things that we take for granted. Things worked a bit differently back then on so many levels.

• Phones
• They have to find a phone.
• They can pretend to be somewhere or someone else on the phone.
• There are no phone records of who called whom.
• People are just out of pocket when they are out of reach of a phone.
• You have to call a restaurant or a theater to get hold of someone if they are out.
• People can crank call the police and taunt them.
• Long distance calls.
• There is talk about renting a car at $6 a day.
• People take trips on boats.
• Everyone smokes.
• Police walk beats.
• Cameras
• There are no surveillance cameras.
• Pictures have to be developed.
• There is no video of any kind that isn't a movie in a theater.
• Cameras are not so much rare, but people don't carry one in their pocket.
• Information
• People can hide for years by just telling people a wrong name.
• People read news papers. More, news papers are a primary and nearly the quickest source of news.
• It takes people days of research to look up simple facts that we can Google in 30 seconds now.
• Maps, campuses, pencils, rulers.
• Handwriting, letters, typewriters, printing presses, mail (as in snail mail).
• Going to the bank to get money.
• You could buy dynamite in a hardware store.