[Kbelicius]

> Listening to influencers and celebrities hang out, pretend to be friends and try to be funny just doesn't do it for me.

So basically you don't subscribe to any podcasts out of ignorance. Influencers and celebrities hanging out isn't the only type of podcast.

[peteforde]

I do not choose books over podcasts out of ignorance. I'm just not interested in wading through mountains of garbage to get to what you insist is worth listening to.

I've certainly enjoyed episodes of, for example, This American Life, which friends have recommended to me.

However, our time on this earth is finite so if I am to choose between ephemeral content and things which have made it through an editing process, I will choose books every time. When you encounter people who seem incredibly smart, I all but guarantee that your first thought is never going to be "this person must listen to a lot of podcasts!"

If podcasts make you happy, then I am happy for you.

[Kbelicius]

> I do not choose books over podcasts out of ignorance.

I cannot read minds so I have to go with what you wrote. What you wrote in the post that I replied to is that the reason why you don't listen to podcasts is ignorance. You gave no other reason. This post of yours also gives no other explicit reason besides ignorance.

> I'm just not interested in wading through mountains of garbage to get to what you insist is worth listening to.

Well, there is also a mountain of garbage books so that is not a very good argument for books. Yes, libraries exist so do podcast libraries.

I'm not insisting on anything.

> However, our time on this earth is finite so if I am to choose between ephemeral content and things which have made it through an editing process

Podcasts can cover many of the same topics that books cover so they aren't necessarily ephemeral. Most of the books are also ephemeral. Many podcasts go through editing process.

> When you encounter people who seem incredibly smart, I all but guarantee that your first thought is never going to be "this person must listen to a lot of podcasts!"

It won't be but then again, I never thought "this person must read a lot of books".

> If podcasts make you happy, then I am happy for you.

I don't listen to podcasts. Maybe once in a blue moon as background noise.

[raw_anon_1111]

And it’s easy to “wade through mountains of garbage” to find interesting books?

[peteforde]

Even putting aside the existence of libraries, your question is so bizarre to me that it stops me in my tracks. Are you freaking serious?

(If you are serious, I'm happy to point you to resources.)

[raw_anon_1111]

So you don’t mind wading through the library fig books that you are interested in. But it’d a heavy lift to wade through a podcast directory like the one Apple has had since 2005?