The SSC podcast is the audiobook version of Scott Alexander's blogs. You can find it on its official website.
Since the podcast was started on October 11, 2017, there has been 1,168 episodes (excluding Open Thread and Meetup posts) with around 4,663,927 words read, for a total duration of 513h 36min.
The longest article turned into an episode was around 32,949 words long, and the average length 3,993 words (median: 3,032 words). The longest episode was 3h 12min long, and the average episode is around 26min long (median: 20min). The average time between the publication of a new article and its podcast episode is 7 days (median: 2 days).
On average over 10 years, per year there were 117 episodes (median: 118, max: 189, min: 27) saying around 466,393 words (median: 470,827, max: 740,963, min: 79,579), with the longest episode each year being 20,215 words on average (median: 19,529).
The average total output was around 51h 21min long (median: 50h 59min, max: 88h 35min, min: 9h 24min). The average longest episode was 2h 10min long (median: 2h 2min).
Article length, in words
Longest article, in words
Episode duration, in minutes
Longest episode, in minutes
Reading speed, in words per minute
This measures the delays between an article being published and the episode being out. To avoid penalizing doing episodes on old articles, only articles published by Scott after the start of the podcast are counted. (This is why there's an empty gap on timescales shorter than a year in 2020-2021, when the blog was offline and the podcast only released episodes for old articles.)
Typical delay, in days
Longest delay, in days
Total words read per year
Total episode duration per year, in hours
Episodes released against blog posts published, per year
On average over 37 quarters, per quarter there were 32 episodes (median: 31, max: 58, min: 2) saying around 126,052 words (median: 108,971, max: 268,698, min: 15,411), with the longest episode each quarter being 14,257 words on average (median: 12,838).
The average total output was around 13h 52min long (median: 13h 3min, max: 31h 2min, min: 1h 28min). The average longest episode was 1h 30min long (median: 1h 20min).
Article length, in words
Longest article, in words
Episode duration, in minutes
Longest episode, in minutes
Reading speed, in words per minute
This measures the delays between an article being published and the episode being out. To avoid penalizing doing episodes on old articles, only articles published by Scott after the start of the podcast are counted. (This is why there's an empty gap on timescales shorter than a year in 2020-2021, when the blog was offline and the podcast only released episodes for old articles.)
Typical delay, in days
Longest delay, in days
Total words read per quarter
Total episode duration per quarter, in hours
Episodes released against blog posts published, per quarter
On average over 107 months, per month there were 11 episodes (median: 11, max: 22, min: 2) saying around 43,588 words (median: 39,226, max: 109,149, min: 7,834), with the longest episode each month being 10,271 words on average (median: 8,989).
The average total output was around 4h 47min long (median: 4h 11min, max: 11h 59min, min: 53min). The average longest episode was 1h 5min long (median: 55min).
Article length, in words
Longest article, in words
Episode duration, in minutes
Longest episode, in minutes
Reading speed, in words per minute
This measures the delays between an article being published and the episode being out. To avoid penalizing doing episodes on old articles, only articles published by Scott after the start of the podcast are counted. (This is why there's an empty gap on timescales shorter than a year in 2020-2021, when the blog was offline and the podcast only released episodes for old articles.)
Typical delay, in days
Longest delay, in days
Total words read per month
Total episode duration per month, in hours
Episodes released against blog posts published, per month