There’s nothing wrong with listening to audiobooks. But it is still just listening. You don’t listen to a podcast, and say that you are reading a podcast.
There is no difference.

They were a white couple. This isn’t a cultural thing. It is literally just an amalgamation of four different names into one.
I have no idea how this would be spelled, but I can tell you how it was pronounced because I had her clarify it three times out of shock.
School shoe tuh
Say it all at once

It seems like a deliberate attempt to stop people from communicating on a large scale, in real time.