I don’t think anybody else would care, so I’m sharing my achievement with r/podcasts
Today I checked the stats on Pocket Casts, and it turns out I’ve listened to podcasts for 365 days and 10 hours according to Pocket Casts.
That’s 8770 hours of listening time in the 1994 days since my stats started counting - just about five and a half hours a day.
I always listen to podcasts. While I do house chores. While commuting on my bike. While gardening. While running. While falling a sleep. I always have something in my ears.
So far, I’ve worn out the headset jack of six telephones and gone through eight pairs of cheapish in-ears before making the switch to a Bluetooth headset. Two Bluetooth headsets have died in the last year.
Worth it!
Currently I’m subscribed to 123 podcasts, and here are a few of my favorites.
Not sure if this is the best idea, but interested to hear what you have.
For reference, I work in a grain processing plant, where I could be spending 3 hours watching conveyors on my own, but all of a sudden someone could walk in to my area.
I started listening to You’re Wrong About and I am hooked! Thank you random stranger(s) who recommended this podcast because it is really great. I love the speaker’s voices and so far the topics are amazing.
8⁄10 times it works lol
Hi all.
I am looking for some recommendations. I use true crime podcasts to fall asleep. But not all true crime podcasts work for me. Here are the ones that work.
I have also strayed into podcasts that are similar. They include
I think they help me sleep because * These podcasts all follow a rhythm; background, incident, outcome. I find that I can fall asleep to them because I know the rhythm. * The stories are interesting but they are not so interesting that I have to stay awake listen to it to find out what happens. That’s one of the reasons why the great true crime podcast “criminal” is not on my list. It’s too captivating. * It’s not filled with inane chit chat and banter, like my favourite murder. * The hosts even tone and straight delivery is not distracting as I …
I’m not looking for podcasts that just read stories from different mythologies, most of the one’s I’ve found are just reading mythologic stories in like a bedroom story type cadence or retelling mythologic stories in a modern way. I’m looking for a podcast that discusses and analyzes different famous stories.
This book has probably been recommended a hundred times already but I needed to vent and say I’ve been left emotionally traumatized. I am still sobbing from that last chapter with Thetis. This book was incredibly good and beautiful and so, so well written. We all knew what was going to happen but still, it broke my heart into tiny little pieces like it hadn’t been broken in a long time..
I just started getting really into reading so I haven’t devoured many books yet but I plan to, though.
Does anyone have more suggestions with a gay male theme similar to this? Only ones I’ve read are this one and Call Me by Your Name. Suggestions could be in English, Spanish or French! It doesn’t have to be fiction either, open to anything!
When I was 17 I moved away to a new city but because I was still in high school, I didn’t really have trouble with friends and somehow I had gained a bunch of confidence that while working I never felt embarrassed or anxious.
I’ve recently moved to a new town that I absolutely love and started working again but every day I try not to say much because when I do talk I always regret what I say when I’m trying to fall asleep. It feels like extreme pressure on my chest and in my head… even now I’m about to go into work and my head is spinning.
I just want a book either fiction where the character overcomes something similar or a self help book about how to deal with it and move on.
I decided to reread Anne of Green Gables and I discovered that my perspective of the book has changed. As a child, I read it from the perspective of Anne, but as an adult it reads as a story about a woman (Marilla) who adopts a young girl.
What are other books that have a similar perspective shift as you grow older?
Thank you all for your recommendations! I really was not expecting this many responses and I’ve made sure to write them all down. It certainly helped my work day pass by a little faster.
I finished reading “Catch-22” by Joseph Heller two days ago and I absolutely loved every single page of it. It is easily my most favourite book ever. I’m 17, so I don’t know many books that aren’t in my school program. So, could you please suggest me other books (satire, possibly) I could enjoy after such a masterpiece?