What would people think about you if all they knew was your podcast playlist?
I just discovered podcasts last year. Yeah, I know, just a tad behind the curve right? My daily walks were getting tedious and my once motivating music was not taking my mind off the laborious task at hand. Then my son suggested I try listening to podcasts since it helped him while running.
Brilliant! I discovered a whole other world. Listening to the speakers took my mind off the plodding steps and the miles whizzed past. Whizzed may be a slight exaggeration, but it helped a lot.
Today, as I was scrolling through my list, trying to find something to pique my interest, when I really looked at my podcast list and wondered if I died, quickly changed that to lost my phone. If I lost my phone and someone I didn’t know found it, how would they judge me by my podcasts?
Some of these I haven’t listened to yet, but I have: Stuff You Should Know (I laugh a lot on this one and get some weird looks), Proverbs 31, Joel Olsteen, Joyce Meyer, The Way I Heard it, Movie Crush, This American Life, Losing 100 pounds and Hardcore History, but I also have Serial, Unobscured, Criminal, and My Favorite Murder. So we have Pop culture, humor, religion, and murder. Would they think I was some overweight psycho trying to find redemption? A religious fanatic looking for ways to commit the perfect murder? An overweight criminal who is also a religious leader? A religious leader counseling an overweight psycho? Or as Mike Rowe says, am I just a curious mind with a short attention span? In actuality, I guess I’m an overweight (though not 100 lbs) woman, looking for encouragement, laughter, information and to satisfy my curiosity, horrific fascination and disbelief of what man is capable of inflicting on his fellow man.
The best thing about any podcast is that it engages you and pulls you in. Whether walking the same route for the 115th time, plugging through 8 hours of data entry or driving from Idaho to Colorado, the story takes your mind off the tedious seconds ticking by on the clock and makes you think, laugh, disagree, agree, cringe in horror…it makes you feel!
So what does your playlist say about you?