Podcasts Are the New Xanax
“I could take a bath in Paris while listening to someone in Los Angeles complain about her dating life.”
by Pamela Druckerman
Mar 17, 2017
3 minutes
I’m not an early adopter. I’ll only start wearing new styles of clothing once they’re practically out of date, and I won’t move into a neighborhood until it’s fully saturated with upscale coffee shops. I was the last person I know to download music and to stop paying for long-distance phone calls.
Podcasts were different. I took to them instantly, or at least as soon as I noticed them on my computer. Before long, listening to podcasts was almost medicinal.
This was partly because I’m an expatriate—an American living in Paris.
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