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 each podcast only twice before reviewing it.
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, so you'll have to count that in when you listen to my subsequent reviews, 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
July 11--OS 50 - Hammurabi's Code of Laws
July 12--OS 51 - The New Order
July 13--OS 52 - Theogony of Dunnu and the Education of Scribes
July 14--Bonus 3 - Lament for Ur
July 15--OS 61 - The Conqueror's Triumph and Death
July 16--OS 66 Enter the Arena
July 17--OS 70 - Mighty Monsters of Mitanni
July 18--OS 73 - Corruption in Nuzi
July 20--OS 74 - A New Dawn for Babylon
July 21--OS 77 - Idrimi's Adventure and Tudhaliya's Invasion
July 22--OS 82 - Suppiluliuma Irritates Egypt
July 23--OS 86 The Battle of Kadesh
July 24--OS 91 A Muddy Mesopotamian Mess
July 25--OS 95 Hattusili Secures His Legacy
July 26--OS 96 Fall of the Hittite Empire
July 28--Elamite 4 - Elamite Religion
July 29--Canaan 3 - The City of Ugarit
July 30--Canaan 8 - The Feast of Baal
July 31--Industry 2 - The Stuff of Life
August 1--An Overview of Bronze Age Mesopotamia
August 2--OS 98 - Nabu-Kudurri-Usur
August 3--OS 99 - The Legend of Nebuchadnezzar
August 4--OS 100 - The Babylonian Theodicy
August 5--OS 102 - A Bit More About Tiglath Pileser
August 6--OS 103 - The Babylonian Aristotle, Esagil-Kin-Apli
August 9--OS 105 Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad
August 11--OS 109 - Israel's Numbers Problem
August 12--OS 112 - Israel's Conquest and Integration in Canaan
August 13--OS 114 - Israel's Judges and Defeats
August 14--OS 115 - The Place of Faith in Biblical History
August 16--OS 117 - Israel's First King
August 18--OS 121 - Israel's Favorite King
August 19--OS 123 - Israel's Great High Priest
August 20--OS 125 - Israel's Divided Kingdoms
August 21--OS 127 - Isreal's First Historical King
August 22--OS 129 - Israelite and Phonecian Prosperity
August 23--OS 130 Israel Runs Out of Names
August 24--Oldest Stories is Now a Book!
August 25--OS 132 Judah Ascends
August 26--The Book of Job in a Near Eastern Context
August 27--Isaiah 55
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