Users choose which podcasts they want to listen to and manually curate them into a listening experience on their own terms. They can pause, stop, remind, skip, etc. which is a way of scripting over content to suit their needs.
Compare this to traditional radio which is engineered to reach the maximum general audience and provide listeners to advertisers. All content is fixed and the songs play on repeat.
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Clubhouse Is the next Evolution of Podcasts
Clubhouse can be thought of as the next stage in the evolution of audio. It started with radio (passive consumption of centralized content) followed by podcasts (programmable radio with decentralized content creation) and now Clubhouse (centralized audio-only conversations where anyone can spontaneously be a creator or listener).