I used to do that, until I realised that anything I could comprehend at 2.5x wasn&#x27;t new to me, and therefore wasn&#x27;t worth listening to at all. I cut my podcast subs by half  (to a mere 100!) after figuring that out. I&#x27;m now at a lazy 1.4x (entertainment&#x2F;philosophy) - 1.8x (technical).