I spend hundreds of hours each year running, working, commuting and “getting stuff done” with podcasts. I thought that this was something new, it isn’t…

“Thus arose the tradition of lectors, who sat perched on an elevated platform in the cigar factory, reading to the workers. It started in Cuba and was brought to the United States more particularly to Key West in 1865 when thousands of Cuban cigar workers emigrated to Florida to escape Spanish oppression.”

Tobacco factory Lectors, 1910