Methodology & Sourcing
Everything on Podstash comes from what was said on a podcast. There are no editorial “best of” lists and no invented recommendations. Every entry traces back to a moment in an episode, with the words that were used.
What counts as a mention
A mention is a single instance of a product, book or supplement being named or discussed on an episode. Each one is captured with three things: the verbatim quote, the timestamp it was said, and the source episode. We do not attribute quotes to a named speaker. The transcripts carry no speaker labels, so we show what was said and where, and you can go and hear who said it for yourself.
Where the data comes from
New episodes of the shows we cover are checked daily. Each is transcribed from the podcast’s own publicly-published audio, and the transcript is processed to identify every distinct product or item mentioned. Nothing here is second-hand: every entry is tied to the primary source, the episode itself, and never to another site’s summary of it.
How we keep it accurate
- Quotes are verbatim substrings of the transcript, never paraphrased or reworded, and are capped in length so we only ever show a short excerpt, never a full transcript.
- Every quote is checked before it appears. One we are not sure of stays hidden until we have listened to the audio and settled it.
- Automatic transcription mishears names. A misheard product name is corrected in the quote only once we have confirmed the spelling against the audio; the rest of the quote stays as it was spoken.
- The sentiment (positive, negative or neutral) is recorded as it was expressed. We include criticism as well as praise.
- Occasionally a speaker describes a product without naming it, or gets its name slightly wrong. Where we have filed such a quote under the product we believe it refers to, the quote carries an Our Identification note saying what was said. That identification is ours, not the speaker’s.
What we include, and what we leave out
We include organic recommendations, positive and negative, across products, books, supplements, apps and gear. Sponsor reads are left out. Places, practices, companies and people are not listed. We don’t recommend anything ourselves. We report what was said, where and when. We don’t catalogue the podcasts themselves, and we exclude things that merely appear inside a story being retold (a prop in an anecdote is not a recommendation), which are recorded but not shown.
How “across your shows” is calculated
On the compare pages, an item counts as consensus when it’s mentioned on two or more of the selected shows.
Freshness & corrections
The catalogue updates as new episodes publish, and each page carries its own dates. If you spot something wrong, a misheard name or a quote on the wrong product, tell us and we’ll fix it against the source.
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