Podcast stats

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 1,062 episodes (excluding Open Thread and Meetup posts) with around 4,116,975 words read, for a total duration of 458h 44min.

The longest article turned into an episode was around 26,568 words long, and the average length 3,877 words (median: 2,984 words). The longest episode was 3h 12min long, and the average episode is around 25min long (median: 20min). The average time between the publication of a new article and its podcast episode is 5 days (median: 2 days).

Yearly

On average over 9 years, per year there were 118 episodes (median: 121, max: 189, min: 27) saying around 457,442 words (median: 417,131, max: 738,885, min: 79,567), with the longest episode each year being 19,368 words on average (median: 18,357).

The average total output was around 50h 57min long (median: 50h 35min, max: 88h 35min, min: 9h 24min). The average longest episode was 2h 3min long (median: 1h 53min).

Word Stats

Episode Stats

Podcast Delay Stats

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.)

Cumulative Stats

Quarterly

On average over 32 quarters, per quarter there were 33 episodes (median: 32, max: 58, min: 6) saying around 128,655 words (median: 113,525, max: 268,208, min: 15,540), with the longest episode each quarter being 13,818 words on average (median: 12,843).

The average total output was around 14h 19min long (median: 13h 18min, max: 31h 2min, min: 1h 42min). The average longest episode was 1h 27min long (median: 1h 19min).

Word Stats

Episode Stats

Podcast Delay Stats

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.)

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Monthly

On average over 94 months, per month there were 11 episodes (median: 11, max: 22, min: 2) saying around 43,798 words (median: 38,612, max: 108,896, min: 4,857), with the longest episode each month being 9,766 words on average (median: 8,381).

The average total output was around 4h 52min long (median: 4h 13min, max: 11h 59min, min: 30min). The average longest episode was 1h 2min long (median: 55min).

Word Stats

Episode Stats

Podcast Delay Stats

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.)

Cumulative Stats

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