Welcome to episode 26 of From the Front Porch, a collection of conversations on books, small business, and life in the South. I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Book Shelf in downtown Thomasville, Georgia, and today I'm joined by my husband and frequent

podcast contributor Jordan. We'll be chatting about podcasts, road trips, and

audio books and why the written word might be the better choice for visual

learners like me. Let's get started. Hey Jordan, hey how's it going?

Good. Welcome to our front porch. Glad to be here. We're actually out on the front porch tonight.

I know, we're going to give this a shot and see if the noise is too bad.

Like that.

There is a car.

So today we're going to be talking about audio books and podcasts, something that you

care quite a bit about now that you are a commuter.

Yeah, so I remember being maybe in college and having to take a test.

And the test had to do with how you learn things.

And some people learn by audio, by hearing things.

Some people are auditory learners.

Some people are visual learners and some people actually have to learn by doing.

They actually have to physically do something in order to learn and as I recall I turned out to be somewhat of an auditory learner

which is also interesting because I'm an extrovert so I like my preferred method of communication is face to face

and to be able to you know kind of go back and forth talk things out and in college you really enjoyed lectures.

Yes, yes.

I loved that.

I loved anything where you can communicate and kind of talk about things as opposed to simply,

you know, go read this book and, you know, come to class and

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