[graypegg]

I actually find my favourite podcasts are the ones that take the fact I’m not retaining 100% of the content into account!

Adam Regusea’s podcast [0] I think is a great example. He’ll leave pauses in and (because of the listener-questions format) will reiterate context pretty often. (“So, [name], you asked if it’s good to [verb]… while when I [verb]…”)

[0] https://feeds.megaphone.fm/adamraguseapodcast (RSS podcast feed, not HTML)

[blamazon]

Agreed, Adam Ragusea's podcast is great. I think it comes from his background in public radio production. To that end I like NPR podcasts a lot. They're good about using music, audio cues, different performers etc to separate information into digestible chunks.

On the other end of that scale are very information-dense podcasts that have transcripts. I like those a lot because I find I can read the transcript after listening (or vice versa) and I get more information retention than either just listening or just reading.

My example for this is Alie Ward's 'Ologies' wherein she interviews doctors and scientists about their work, there are many excellent transcripts available [0], including this one: [1]

[0]: https://www.alieward.com/ologies-extras

[1]: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5998d8226f4ca3396027a...

Bonus example, Gastropod:

https://gastropod.com/transcript-the-big-apple-episode/