Why do we have to watch podcasts?

📺 In the sacred list of examples where innovation does not simply replace some existing technology with something faster, better, cheaper but creates an entirely new category of behaviors, is television, a technology that wasn't just radio with pictures.

Now, in some sad regressive trend, recent years have seen the emergence of radio with pictures: podcasts. Can someone please, please, please explain to me why we now have to watch podcasts? 😱

Even I suffer from FOMO when I listen to a "video podcast" on a run: was Dwarkesh smiling? Was Lex smirking?