NASHVILLE, TN — Derek Hollis, 38, announced Monday that he intends to listen to every episode of a podcast chronologically from its 2009 debut, a commitment experts estimate will require approximately four years of daily listening and render him permanently seventeen years behind on all current discussions.

Hollis made the decision after discovering the show’s back catalog while searching for “something to put on during his commute.” He is now on Episode 7, which covers a news cycle that ended during the Obama administration.

“I feel like you can’t really understand where they are now without knowing where they came from,” said Hollis, who applied this same logic to a Netflix series in 2021 and never finished Season 1. “Context is everything.”

“He texted me about something the hosts discussed and it was a reference to a story from fourteen years ago. I didn’t have the heart to tell him the show isn’t even good anymore.”

His wife, Renee Hollis, 36, confirmed the development had introduced new friction into the household. “He texted me about something the hosts discussed and it was a reference to a story from fourteen years ago,” she said. “I didn’t have the heart to tell him the show isn’t even good anymore.”

Hollis has already purchased a dedicated pair of headphones for the project and created a spreadsheet to track his progress, which currently shows a completion rate of 0.2 percent.

At press time, Hollis had skipped ahead to a 2023 episode “just to see,” understood none of the references, and returned, humbled, to Episode 8.