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Podcast The Newsletter

🤪18 Steps for Listening to More Podcasts 🤖Flash Forward's Rose Eveleth 🧠

💌Podcast The Newsletter is your weekly love letter to podcasts and the people who make them.💌

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Lauren Passell
Jul 06, 2020
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Bonjour!

  1. Start listening during your free time, when you cook and clean.

  2. Start listening at 1.2x.

  3. Start listening when you workout!

  4. Listen while you are at the grocery store. You don’t need to listen/talk to the cashier or anyone you encounter.

  5. Start listening at 1.4x.

  6. Turn on easy-listening shows while you fall asleep.

  7. Listen while your husband watches WATCHMEN for the fifth time.

  8. Start listening at 1.6x.

  9. Wake up at 3am every night and listen to a show on 1.7x while you get the coffee maker ready for tomorrow morning. At this point, you are really packing in a lot of podcast into a short amount of time.

  10. Listen during Zoom calls. There are way too many people on those things anyway, and if you have your headphones in they will think you are listening to the conversation. If someone asks you something, perhaps say “how does that make you feel?” ???

  11. Start listening at 1.8x. 

  12. Stop going to Zoom meetings all together, including those scheduled with your friends and family. More pod time!

  13. Stop going t…

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