Fast forward to 2016 and I found that I was consuming more information from podcasts than from other media formats like TV, YouTube videos, or news websites. To be precise, I spent five-plus hours per day listening to podcasts when I was writing code, commuting to work, working out in the gym, grocery shopping, and so on.
Basically, whenever my hands and eyes were busy but my mind was free, I would listen to podcasts.
Podcasts just make knowledge accessible, like Wikipedia. There are tons of podcasts on the Internet that cover basically every topic!
As of September 2021, there are over 2.6 million publicly accessible RSS-based podcasts and more than 113 million episodes on the Internet.