Gary’s Q&A

Listener question & Gary’s response · Transcript passage

Jeff Loftus asks, “I assume you track listens on individual episodes. Can you name 1 episode where you’re surprised at the lack of listens and one episode where you’re surprised how many listens it received?”

While I do know the stats for each episode, there isn’t a whole lot of variation in downloads. The growth of the show tends to overwhelm any individual variation in episode topics, so it is hard to separate that from the data. There have only been a few cases where an episode was shared on Reddit or something, and that resulted in a sort term spike, but it is impossible to predict those. One was the episode on Alan Francis, the world’s greatest horseshoe pitcher, and another was the episode on morse code.