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When Do You Quit Listening?
I was listening to a podcast during my morning workout; it was a Federalist episode with Mary Katherine Ham interviewing a guy that filmed a documentary about Elvis. It sounded interesting but maybe 10-15 minutes into the podcast the filmmaker went on a tirade about the “.0000001 percent” controlling the country and, IIRC, politicians selling out the country and I had to delete it and go on to the next podcast in line on my phone.
Maybe this guy had a lot of other good stuff to say but Howard Zinn-ish tirades just completely shut me down. I don’t want to hear anything else after that. Am I too sensitive? Should I grit my teeth and hope I can make it out of the morass? I’ve reached a point where life seems too short to spend time listening to what I regard as pompous fools.
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Tyler Cowen was once asked how he can read so many books, and he said ‘simple: I stop reading when I feel like it.” Or words to that effect.
There are more than enough podcasts to fill an entire day. You can’t listen to them all which means that there is an opprtunity cost to listening to one over the other. So if the one you are listening to stops being interesting or educational, just stop and move on to the next one.
Exactly. It took me too long to come to that realization, but I’m glad I finally did.
I’ve gone both ways on this. Sometimes I feel like there are so many podcasts, and other times I feel like we’re in a drought.
I was just in a webinar (a word which I loathe) (and I’m not sure if you’re really “in” a webinar, or “at” a webinar, or how to properly refer to your attendance), and it was yet another situation where the actual content could probably have been communicated in 10 minutes, but I had to endure 60 minutes of happy promo talk and manufactured excitement.
I so hate these things.
My tether seems to be getting shorter by the day.
It doesn’t matter whose podcast, audiobook, book, article, or video it is, if I’m not learning something new, I’ll fast forward to the end and move right on.
I used to feel a little guilty, but now, as my son would say to me when I played the feelings card, “Watch me not caring”.
I love the three martini lunch podcast, but it was better when it was always ten minutes or under. Now it averages 15-20, and occasionally hits 24 or so.
IMO, that’s the best part of the Substandard. It’s not a policy podcast.
The whole point of that podcast is that the listener is hanging out with three buddies busting on each other, talking about their weekend and what’s going on in pop culture.
The short ones are good, but I listen while I work, so I like to set it and forget it. The more I have to browse for the next selection the less work I get done.