Was life better or worse BI?

Was life better B what? What are these whimsical Welsh wallies on about now? Well, for the uninformed, ‘BI’ = Before Internet! You’d have to be over thirty (or possibly even as old as Morgan and Rhianydd) to remember such halcyon days: days when if you wanted to find something out you had to … look in a book!; days when if you wanted to buy cinema tickets you had to … go and queue up!; days when if you had to drive somewhere you had to… (gasps)...read a bloody map!We had patience! We had resourcefulness! We had critical thinking skills!Think of what we miss out on now that we have the answers at our fingertips: whole nights in the pub arguing whether it was ‘Robert thingummy’ or ‘Al whatshisname’ in ‘that film’, and wait a minute ‘is he still alive anyway?’. Or the joys of waiting for the bus in the rain, wondering whether it would even turn up, with no way of finding out…Hmmm. Maybe life BI wasn’t all it’s cracked up to be after all. So yes, this week Morgan and Rhianydd debate the pros and cons of t’interweb, what we’ve lost and what we’ve gained. And what we would have done with it if it had been a thing in 1987 (nothing good in Rhianydd’s case, it turns out).And no, the irony of the fact that we can only do this podcasting lark because of the world-wide-net, or whatever the young people are calling it these days, isn’t entirely lost on us. There’s a pungent Wenglish Word of the Week, and if we can’t think of a cultural moment, we’ll just pop on chatgpt to help us out. No one will notice. Follow Morgan James @morganjamesofficialMusic by James Biebrach