I’ve long used podcasts as a way to distract me while travelling for business trips, doing housework at the weekends, shopping, and much more…
This year, I listened to even more podcasts than usual – the increased time I’ve spent walking this year gave me an extra couple of hours a day.
I use the (brilliant) Overcast podcast player, which generates a report of how much time I’ve spent listening to each podcast this year.
And for all the gory detail…
Links to the podcasts in the screenshots:
- The News Agents
- The Rest Is Politics
- Today, Explained
- No Such Thing As A Fish
- The Rest Is Money
- Acquired
- Mixture of Experts
- The News Agents – USA
- The Media Show
- The Rest Is Politics: Leading
- The Daily Show: Ears Edition
- The Crime Agents
- What’s Up Docs?
- Decoder with Nilay Patel
- The Game Business Show
- The 404 Media Podcast
- RHLSTP with Richard Herring
- Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
- The Abundance Agenda
- Political Thinking with Nick Robinson
- Curious Cases
- Full Disclosure with James O’Brien
- The Horne Section Podcast
- Pod Save the UK
- The MonkCast
- Playdate Podcast
- Stratechery
- Get Kafka-Nated
- Hello World
- The Pragmatic Engineer
- Revisionist History
- Smart Talks with IBM
- Play, Watch, Listen
- AI & I
- The Rest Is Science
- The New Yorker Radio Hour
- MIT Technology Review Narrated
- What Now? with Trevor Noah
- CrowdScience
- The Important Thing
It’s perhaps worth pointing out that the order doesn’t necessarily map exactly to my preference – some of the podcasts (such as The News Agents and Today, Explained) have a daily episode, whereas many of the others only publish episodes weekly or even less frequently.
It’d be interesting to see a ranking based on how soon I listen to something after it’s published… I think the order would be very different.
I’ve started collecting the various end-of-year stats that I’m getting under the tag 2025-year-in-review.
Tags: 2025-year-in-review