This is on Danted Life a Man's Podcast.

I'm your host Kyle Thompson. Let's get into it.

All right, guys, we're keeping the end of year award show theme going.

We are going over the best podcast of 2025.

But before we get to that, I just want to express my gratitude for all of our donors. Again, we talk about this all the time, but I want to continue to express this gratitude because we cannot pull off anything that we do at Undaunted Life, right? We can't pull off these solo shows. We can't pull off the forging table. We can't pull off some of the things that we have to travel to do without guys just like you because we are a donation-based ministry on daunted. Dotta.Life slash donate.

And anything that you guys can give, again, end-of-year giving is going on right now. So on daunted. Dotta.d.life slash donate. You can check out some of the stuff we sent out about the Daily Blade, end-of-year giving. Sneak in some of that end-of-year giving. But we've got the award show. We've done some different things with the award shows.

We've talked about some stuff.

We're going to do our year-in wrap up before too long. but we've got the award show we've done some different things with the award shows we've talked

about some stuff we're going to do our year-in wrap up before too long but basically what we're

going to do is we're going to talk about other shows so basically the entire podcast world and then

we're going to do some awards for my show okay so some of the best things i I guess. So for the other shows, we're going to be

looking at my favorite new podcast of 2025, the best podcast show overall of 2025, and the best

podcast episode overall of 2025. And then with Undaunted Life a Man's podcast, I'm going to go through

my hardest interview to prepare the year, hardest episode

to prepare, most offensive episode, most talked about interview, most talked about episode,

the interview I was most nervous about, the episode I was most nervous about, the audience's

favorite interview, the audience's favorite episode, and then my favorite interview, and then my

favorite episode. So hopefully you all kind of understand, so I've got my interview episodes, but then I've got like my normal solo episodes where I do kind of a big thing and then a quick hitter. So we're going to be going over all that. But before we get to all of that, I just want to kind of give you guys an idea of how you can consume more content. I talk about this every year. And the thing is guys are like, okay, I want to listen to more podcasts. Like, how do I get

those in? Like, how do I avoid wasting time? The very first thing, and this is the easiest thing, and some of you are going to immediately reject it. And I'm telling you, it's the number one thing. You have to listen at two times speed. Okay, so if you're listening to this on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or something like that, there is a way to where you can bump it up. Now, some people are like, well, I can do

1.25 or I can do 1.5. I just can't do two times speed. I promise you, you can. I promise you. The first time you bump up the podcast of two times speed, you're going to be like, this is insane. There's absolutely no way. And after like three or four days, your brain's going to be like, oh, okay, so this is how we have to consume content now. And this is how I always explain it, because I normally talk really fast. But if I were to talk like a normal person, I would talk kind of at this cadence. It's kind of at this speed so you can hear every single word that I'm saying. But if I bumped it up to two times speed, I talked a little bit faster, you're still hearing everything that I'm saying, but your brain's basically attaching itself to the things that you need to get as opposed to all the words. You kind of see what I'm saying? It's kind of the difference between reading every single word of a book and taking your time with every single page and every single da-da-da versus skimming something. Your brain is going to tune on to the things that you

need to hear. And again, if it's an hour-long podcast, if it's at two-time speed, that's only a half hour. So you can literally double the amount of podcasting you're getting in. Also, don't listen to crappy podcasts. I mean that, like, literally. Like, if there are podcasts where it's like, man, I've listened to three or four of these episodes, and I don't think I've gotten anything out of it.

I don't think I've learned anything. I don't think I've gotten anything out of it I don't think I've learned anything

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