The only podcasts I listen to are Night Vale, which is more of a performance than a talk show, and Jon's radio show, which not really a podcast either, but the podcast app is a convenient way to consume it.

I've tried podcasts a few times but it's about the same as TED talks or things like that. I'd rather read the iformation than have to listen to it.

Occasionally it's interesting but I don't retain stuff well enough. And a lot of times I find the voices irritating (I can't realy listen to NPR either). I'd rather just be able to read what ever it is I'm trying to learn so I'm not distracted because someone's voice is too quiet or nasally or if I were reading I could skim past to the next part and then go back and read later.

I wihs I could get into podcasts.

I have now totally set myself up to work late tonight, by frittering away my one free hour in the day, but I really feel like what I need to do won't take more than an hour or so. And I just got myself a coffee treat (just decaf, but still) so I think I am fortified for it! Still, though -- why can't I just work straight through the day? Why do I need so many breaks in my life???

I listen to Night Vale, Wait Wait, and Ask Me Another. Almost always while commuting.

Hm. While cleaning is a use case I had not considered, I suppose. But I tend to put on music then.

I am super over people who are slow and need a task explained to them eight times and I'm still not certain if they are doing it right but I am having them do it because I don't have time? But then I worry maybe the issue is like the guy I kept emailing--I was like "I can help with the question you had but I need to know which X these Y are associated with" and he was like "yes, that's part of the number" and I'm like "indeed it is...but you didn't put the number in the spreadsheet you gave me" and he kept insisting he had and finally realized he was thinking of a whole other spreadsheet. And I was right, but now he can't get me the info for another day. (Worse yet this is all drama about stuff that should've been handled like a year ago but now it hasn't been and there's super soon deadline and blah blah blah)

I do like having British sort-of-reality shows and documentaries that I've seen before running in the background at home, like the various Farm series and British Bake Off and Terry Jones and Lucy Worsley, the ones that are very conversational and there's not a plot to follow.

ION, I think the helldepths of summer are over. The next two weeks show highs in the high 80s/low 90s, with the lows in the low 60s, then dipping into the high 50s. Bliss! I think I can turn off some of the fans in the house now. We may even see rain.

It would be catastrophic to try to listen to a podcast or audio book while I drive, it would take far too much concentration.

If I'm the driver, I can only listen to audiobooks I've already read. That way I don't have to concentrate as hard, since I know what's coming. And David Sedaris is downright dangerous to listen to as a driver.

I realized I read by some sort of gestalt method, recognizing the entire word rather than interpreting the collection of letters.

I do this. I kind of...eat the words whole, if that makes any sense.

I have no trouble listening to audiobooks and podcasts on my commute, but it's mostly just cruising.

I listen to podcasts while working too, but oftentimes I couldn't tell you what I just listened to. So I'll just listen to it again. Can't listen to audiobooks while working.

I kind of...eat the words whole, if that makes any sense.

I did one of those college psychology tests where they use Freshmen in psych classes as guinea pigs for the older students. The test was to look at a jumble of five letters and see how long it took to see what the word spelled. I completely wrecked my particular test because I didn't give the tester time to push the stopwatch before I knew what the word was, and then I glanced at the rest of the list and figured them out too. I think he decided to throw my results out. It's fun out on the far end of the Bell Curve.

We listen to: "You Must Remember This," which is on Hollywood history and feels like a film class with a smart professor who also likes gossip. "No Such Thing As A Fish," which has four of the research elves from the QI program discussing facts and being HILARIOUS.

We also listen to WTF and Greg Proops "Smartest Man In The World."