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Listening to Podcasts
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What are podcasts? How can you find ones you'll like? You'll be surprised how much entertainment and information is available through podcasts. Podcast republic is an app to help you find, manage and listen to podcasts. Just what are Podcasts?Anyone who imagines they have something to say, can make and upload podcasts. They are audio files. Normally the authors (podcasters) produce them weekly but sometimes more or less often. They may contain advertisements. With our current technology, it is surprisingly easy to make quality podcasts. There are also many companies that formed podcasting networks. They help produce quality podcasts, get advertising for them, edit them and maintain quality. These generally seem like they are professionally done.
Along with millions of podcasts, come many podcast player programs to help you find, download and play them. I use Podcast Republic, which has both iOS and Android versions. It connects you to over one million different podcasts containing over 500 million episodes. Podcast episodes normally last from 10 minutes to one hour.
Who does them?
Remember, they are competing for an audience. Given there are over 1 million different podcasts, there are plenty that are both entertaining and informative, often with an emphasis on one or the other.
The MarketI don't know what a good podcast can make, but The Joe Rogan Experience is probably the biggest and most lucrative. According to Wikipedia it has 12.8 million subscribers. The 2021 Nielsen ratings showed it had 11 million people listening per episode. To compare that to other news shows, Hannity has 2.94 million, Rachel Maddow 2.2 million and CNN Primetime 0.82 million. Chicago Med was the 10th most watched show of the week of November 7-13, 2022 at 5.9 million or less than half the Joe Rogan Show. However, Sunday night football beat him with 15.8 million.
Clearly, with that large an audience, there are a lot of opportunities for income. Spotify paid him $200 million for a multi-year agreement. If you are good enough, you can make a good income.
Who makes them?Though anyone can make them, many of the best ones are produced by professionals and are very high quality. Some podcast publishers include:
Some Categories of podcasts
This should give you an idea of the diversity available.
What I doI currently subscribe to 13 podcasts. To subscribe I find it on Podcast Republic's search and click the subscribe button. Then when I'm ready to download some podcasts, I open each one and read about their recent episodes. I get a detailed description of the topics covered and people being interviewed. For example, Steven Pinker does a podcast each week. I looked through the descriptions of 8 and chose 3 that seemed like they'd be interesting. Then downloaded those. I repeat that process for each of the podcasts I subscribe to. After I've moved through my list, and downloaded about 15-20 hours of podcasts, I sort the downloads by date with oldest first and start to play them. When one finishes, then the next one begins. My player has buttons to jump forward and back or pause. When I close it, the app reopens to the same spot and I continue listening.
To find new podcasts to listen to, I do an Internet search with terms like:
These normally produce lots of articles with titles like "The 16 Funniest Podcasts of 2022". Some will seem interesting.
My Favorite PodcastsThese three are my favorites. I listen to every Security Now episode and probably half of the EconTalk and Crenshaw episodes. I used to listen to all of EconTalk, but after about 10 years, I'm getting pickier.
Other Podcasts I'm Checking OutI haven't decided I like these and most will probably be discarded fairly quickly. I check out a lot of podcasts, but usually abandon them after a few episodes. Some, I only listen occasionally. Perhaps one will rise into my favorites category. But even if it does, I'll likely only listen to half or fewer of the episodes.
Some Other Popular Ones
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Date: November 2022
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