For various reasons, I'm changing my system for podcasts. Instead of listening to each podcast through 3 or 4 times, I'm going to try listening to them only twice, and then reviewing them.
The reasons are as follows:
1) This will allow me to get through more podcasts. In the past, I've not been able to review a lot of podcasts since it takes me forever to get all the way through them. (For example, I've been stuck on Mike Duncan's body of work since 2020, instead of branching out to other podcasts.)
2) I don't enjoy listening to podcasts 3 or 4 times through. The first time through I love. The second time through I like it. But by the third time through, I'm beginning to get tired of it.
3) Related to the above point, I get less benefit from the 3rd and 4th listening. I pick up a few things that I missed on the first and second listening, but by the 3rd listening there are diminishing returns.
4) The idea behind listening to a podcast 3 or 4 times is to try to absorb everything. (Sometimes when I listen to podcasts, my mind wanders and I miss stuff. So I want to listen to it lots of times so by the end, I've absorbed everything.) But I've noticed that often times, my mind will wander off at the same point in the podcast each time, even if I listen to it 3 times. (There are some sections that I just have trouble absorbing, for whatever reason.)
Now, this will mean that perhaps moving forward I'll have absorbed each podcast a little less thoroughly than if I had listened to it 3 or 4 times, but I think I'm willing to take that trade-off.
I'll keep track of my progress down below.
1st Listening
June 25, 2025--Episode 12 – Anunnaki 3 Enlil Lord of Wind
June 27, 2025--Episode 16 – Lagash 2 Reform and Corruption in Lagash
June 28, 2025--OS 17 - Sargon Rising
June 29, 2025--OS 19 - Sargon at War
June 30--OS 20 Sargon, the Next Generation
July 1--OS 22 - Slanderous Legends of Naram-Sin
July 2--OS 23 - The Fall of Akkad
July 3--OS 24 - The Rebirth of Sumer
July 4--OS 27 - The Study of Sumer and Ancient Aliens
July 5--OS 28 - The Chamorros of Saipan
July 6--OS 29 - The Enuma Elish
July 7--OS 33 - A Time of Ritual and Law
July 8--OS 39 - The Merchants and Families of Assyria
July 9--OS 41 - Shamshi-Adad and the Upper Mesopotamian Empire
July 10--Bonus 1 - The Slaying of Illuyanka
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