Gary’s Q&A

Listener question & Gary’s response · Transcript passage

Sevy asks over on the Discord server, “What’s the most and least popular episode by listens? Usually, you do encore episodes that are statistically less listened to. Do you incorporate the data back in to see what the new popularity is?”

The honest answer is that I don’t know. There aren’t wild swings in downloads per episode. They are all pretty much the same. This has held true over the last few years.

The least downloaded episode is probably one of the earlier ones, and one of the most downloaded episodes are a recent ones.

That being said, when people tell me what their favorite episode is, I never get a consistent answer. Different people like different episodes.

One of the fundamental premises of the show is that the topics are somewhat random every day. I don’t want to let individual episode popularity determine what episodes I do in the future.

I’ll just keep doing whatever topics I find interesting.