HPR1831: Are speed listening and slow background music compatible?

Summary: This is A Shadowy Figure speaking to you from southwest Florida on Hacker Public Radio, Brought to you by And Honest Host Dot Com where you can Get a 15% discount on all shared hosting with the offer code HPR15 thats H P R one five. Better webhosting that honest and fair at An Honest Host Dot Com. Not only do I mention An Honest Host Dot Com out of commitment, but also out of respect. I've listened to the interview by Ken Fallon of the man behind An Honest Host Dot Com Josh Knapp not long ago, and came away with a certain amount of appreciation for what Josh does. Which is basically keeping Hacker Public radio alive, along with the many other things he does. Thanks Josh, you're generosity does not go unnoticed. I've been listening to HPR for about a year now and just recently purchased a Blue Yeti Microphone off of Ebay which turned out to be misrepresented and not in the condition it was claimed. As a side note, the day I received the Blue Yeti in the mail, I found the same microphone brand spanking new on Amazon.com for the same price as the used one I purchased on ebay. At one time I would have been disappointed by such a situation, but if theres anything I've learned from experience, no matter how hard you punch the wall, the train still left at 4 o'clock If I were to devote an emotion to every real or perceived injustice I come across, I wouldn't have time to devote any emotions to the things enjoy. Anyway, My computing background goes all the way back to the original TRS-80. The experience of writing basic for 4 hours to create a pathetic facsimile of the game pong turned me away from computing until the graphical user interface of windows 3.11 came along. I was alright with the direction of where computing was moving along once windows matured, but I never had any love for microsoft products, Mac's were prettier, but a lot more expensive, and had great hardware to boot, but I never caught the mac addiction either. Slackware caught my interest, but wasn't ready for prime time, and red hat was a bit more complicated than I was comfortable with in the mid 90's since 2006 I've been using debian based operating systems exclusively, but still keep a macbook pro and a windows 8.1 laptop nearby for specific tasks I don't want to taint my linux box with. KDE plasma has been my desktop of choice since 2010, and I don't use google, facebook, twitter, or any other corporate tracking devices. Including cell phones. Smoke signals and email are about the best way to get a hold of me, and smoke signals have been notoriously ineffective in the past. Moving alone, My day job includes leadership training, which was a big step up from my old job in one of the most reviled professions known to man, yes that's right, I used to be a used car salesman, (you thought I was going to say lawyer didn't ya?) no, but I date a lawyer, but I try to keep that a secret. So now that I've tainted my reputation for good with the hacker public radio audience, I may as well plow forward and see what other damage to my reputation I can do. You can think of my handle A Shadowy Figure as damage control for all the stupid things I end up doing by mistake. (like buying things of ebay). Anyway, I thought I'd share with the HPR audience my experience as a listener, and what I feel I can do to contribute. I love the mission statement behind HPR, and feel the need to do my part to see to it HPR continues to offer something of value to the hacker community. Like many listeners and contributers to HPR, I listen to dozens of podcasts each week. Many of which belong in their spot of most downloaded podcasts, but I find a certain amount of charm in the grass roots nature of HPR. Much like the Norwegian trend of engaging in slow media content. As mentioned in a recent hpr episode, I actually found myself