Now, industry eyerolling at the thought of listening faster has existed since the majority of audio storytelling moved from terrestrial radio—where there’s no skipping, scrubbing forward or backward, and certainly no way to speed things up—to podcasting.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
Somebody is in the kitchen scrubbing your cast-iron pan with dish soap.
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Laura L. Davis,
Nashville Tennessean,
31 Oct. 2025
Catherine Corless, a local historian in Tuam, spent years combing through death certificates and church records from the former home, eventually documenting 796 children who died there.
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Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
7 Nov. 2025
By Wednesday morning, law enforcement officers and workers in protective clothing were combing the area in search of the missing animals.
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