{"id":5013,"date":"2015-09-04T00:38:08","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T00:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=5013"},"modified":"2015-08-25T00:38:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T00:38:52","slug":"tech-why-cant-i-get-into-podcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/09\/04\/tech-why-cant-i-get-into-podcasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech: Why can’t I get into Podcasts?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2026and to a lesser degree, talk radio.<\/em><\/p>\n

I am constantly trying to absorb new information. I read the Times and New Yorker a few times a week, I religiously watch Lynda.com videos almost daily. I read long-form articles from Atlantic, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal and I read non-fiction books about culture, places, science and space. I love learning. It\u2019s all I do when I\u2019m not trying new beers, traveling, working or taking photos.<\/p>\n

Podcasts have this immense value to me. You can listen to spoken word from your favorite bloggers or keep on top of current events via NPR, explore new foods or laugh a bit as many stand up comedians also moonlight as podcasters.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been listening on and off to one podcast since 2005. I was a Keith and the Girl listener in 2005 and listened on my commute to Apple when the iPod and iTunes gained native support for podcasts. I even dabbled in my own podcasting from time to time but podcasting never became this part of me that I live and breathe and the primary issue isn\u2019t free-time. It\u2019s the fact that I can\u2019t absorb spoken word unless I am strictly laying down performing zero activities and then spoken word does work for me.<\/p>\n

I can sort of listen to podcasts while I\u2019m in the car but I have this Pokemon \u201cgotta catch \u2018em all\u201d mentality where my commute to and from work isn\u2019t long enough to listen to most podcasts and then I end up getting behind and when i go to take a longer road-trip, I am 10 episodes behind a podcast and it\u2019s not enough driving time to get through all of them and I simply stop listening and basically unsubscribe.<\/p>\n

At some point, the podcasts turn into this to-do list of unread content and I\u2019m too overwhelmed to slowly work through my backlog or accept defeat and just click play on the most recent episode.<\/p>\n

What is the solution?<\/p>\n

There are probably 20 podcasts that I want to subscribe to and listen to daily. It\u2019s enough content to basically fill one work day per week or 12 hours of driving. I\u2019d have to stop listening to music entirely and take a lot more road trips. The solution for the past 8 years has just been to ignore those podcasts that I want to subscribe to and listen to my 3 songs on the way to work and accept I\u2019ll never know what my favorite bloggers think via spoken word. On longer trips, my GF usually joins me and we spend most of the trips talking instead of listening to music. I assume the same would go for podcasts.<\/p>\n

Another alternative would be to cut my reading time in half which is insane because reading is amazing and I can\u2019t consider narrowing my sources to a few blogs and podcasters and leaving out newspaper, New Yorker and BBC America content.<\/p>\n

Finally, I could listen to these podcasts at work and only hear every 10th or 20th word and the rest gets drowned out by my one-track mind of working and basically nothing else is ingested or absorbed. My GF asks me why I don\u2019t remember her telling me about a specific upcoming event and I ask, \u201cwas I looking at a screen why you were speaking to me? If so, I didn\u2019t hear a word you said.\u201d That\u2019s the same way with podcasts. it\u2019s just background noise.<\/p>\n

Beyond podcasts, I want to listen to NPR but once I start, i\u2019ll quickly get absorbed into the multiple remarkable programs and will suddenly realize I don\u2019t have time and then I\u2019m back to stage 1 again of all or nothing.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t really know what the solution is other than to train my brain to multi-task what I hear and still achieve my current work flow. Any ideas? I\u2019m all ears (unless I\u2019m reading a newspaper).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2026and to a lesser degree, talk radio. I am constantly trying to absorb new information. 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