I used to listen to a lot of podcasts, mainly when I was preparing and/or eating a meal.

But most of the podcasts that I followed regularly are either tech or science oriented, and with the arrival of that rapist in the White House, a lot of the podcast time has been turned over to complaining about the latest outrage coming out of Washington.

As I like to severely limit the amount of time that I devote each day to thinking and hearing about that shitstain in the Oval Office, and I certainly don’t want my meals ruined by it, I’ve had to curtail many of those podcasts.

And replace them with good old fashioned radio. You know, that thing that plays music among other things.

As it happens, I’ve had a radio app on my iPhone (and on my iPad) this entire time and I’ve used it from time to time, but lately I’ve been using it more and more. It’s capable of pulling in any radio station on the planet, or so it says. I’ve mainly used it to listen to WRTI, the local Philadelphia classical and jazz station.

It’s called, sensibly enough, RadioApp.

And as I’ve been using it more and more, I decided it was worth exploring some of its additional features. It’s a free app and in its free form it worked fine for me. I listened only to WRTI, but by paying for a subscription, there are some extra features available. Subscriptions are available on a monthly, yearly, and lifetime basis. I did the math and bought a lifetime subscription.

(BTW, the screen captures that you see on this post are all from my iPhone, which I keep in Dark Mode to prevent an occurrence of my ziggies. If you don’t use Dark Mode, the screens are much brighter.)

You can search for stations by region (UK, Pennsylvania, Canada), by call letters (WRTI), by type of music (jazz, but only if the station adds that to their name), and of course frequency (90.1). After finding a station you like you can add it to your list of favorites by tapping the star.

And the app has settings galore:

One of the best features for me is that it lets me send the sound to any of my Apple devices. Normally, I’d listen to podcasts through my AirPods, because I want to hear the spoken words, but with music playing during a meal, I want that coming out of my HomePods. I can even send it to my HomePods in both the dining room and the bedroom so I have the music throughout my house.

And yes, to answer the question I’m sure to receive, there is a version of the app available for that other kind of phone OS. You know, the one with the robotic name.

Oh, and I turned Dark Mode off for a moment to give you an idea of what it looks like in bright mode:

Finally, here’s a slow blues played by two jazz greats, Oscar Peterson and Count Basie.