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Upgrade

Upgrade looks at how technology shapes our lives, from the devices in our hands and pockets to the streaming services that keep us entertained. Hosted by Jason Snell and Myke Hurley.

Technology en-US

637

episodes over 12.0 years, from to . Released weekly.

Total listening time

42d 14h

across 637 timed episodes

Typical episode

1h 34m

mean 1h 36m

Usual gap

7 days

longest 14 days

Favourite release day

Monday

555 of 637 episodes

Usual release time

20:30 UTC

46 of 637 episodes

Longest weekly streak

299 weeks

637 days with a release

Feed size

3.0 MB

4.9 KB per episode

Audio published

57.2 GB

≈133 kbps average

Release calendar

Episodes published per day. Busiest day: 1 episodes on 2026-09-14.

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Episodes published per month
Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total
2026 445449452 41
2025 445445445445 52
2024 544544445445 52
2023 544454544644 53
2022 544454454544 52
2021 445554455554 55
2020 445445455554 54
2019 444544545445 52
2018 544544544545 53
2017 544454544544 52
2016 454454454454 52
2015 445545454454 53
2014 3445 16

What time of day episodes land

Every episode placed on the hour it went out in, read on Relay's own clock rather than ours. Most often 20:00 UTC.

Table view
Episodes published per hour of the day
HourEpisodes
00:00–00:59 12
01:00–01:59 1
02:00–02:59 3
03:00–03:59 3
04:00–04:59 1
05:00–05:59 1
07:00–07:59 1
09:00–09:59 2
11:00–11:59 1
12:00–12:59 4
13:00–13:59 4
14:00–14:59 6
15:00–15:59 10
16:00–16:59 28
17:00–17:59 20
18:00–18:59 48
19:00–19:59 123
20:00–20:59 147
21:00–21:59 111
22:00–22:59 77
23:00–23:59 34

Episode length over time

Each dot is one episode; the line is a rolling median over 51 episodes. Episodes are 13% longer than when the show started.

Table view
Median episode length per year
YearMedian length Episodes
2026 1h 39m 41
2025 1h 41m 52
2024 1h 38m 52
2023 1h 35m 53
2022 1h 37m 52
2021 1h 33m 55
2020 1h 36m 54
2019 1h 29m 52
2018 1h 34m 53
2017 1h 36m 52
2016 1h 26m 52
2015 1h 34m 53
2014 1h 23m 16

How long is an episode?

637 episodes binned into 10-minute lengths. Half run under 1h 34m.

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Episode count per length band
LengthEpisodes
— – 10m 00s 0
10m 00s – 20m 00s 0
20m 00s – 30m 00s 1
30m 00s – 40m 00s 5
40m 00s – 50m 00s 0
50m 00s – 1h 00m 1
1h 00m – 1h 10m 10
1h 10m – 1h 20m 57
1h 20m – 1h 30m 160
1h 30m – 1h 40m 183
1h 40m – 1h 50m 114
1h 50m – 2h 00m 53
2h 00m – 2h 10m 24
2h 10m – 2h 20m 18
2h 20m and over 11

Feed size over time

One point for each version of the XML we have seen. A feed usually climbs as episodes are added; a line that flattens or falls means the host is trimming older episodes out of it. Only one version so far — a feed does not carry its own past sizes, so the history starts the first time we downloaded this one and grows every time it changes.

Versions and downloads
Feed size at each recorded change
SeenSizeFingerprint Download
3.0 MB 2b007d9580e5 XML

Where the audio comes from

An episode passes through 5 domains before it reaches a listener. The last one is where the file itself lives; the others sit in front of it. Read from the enclosure URLs — feedwrapped never requests the audio, because that would count as a download the publisher did not get. via follows the CNAME chain; network is the reverse DNS name, which describes the machines our lookup reached rather than where the show is made; AS is the autonomous system the routing table puts those machines in, asked of Team Cymru the way mtr -z asks. No addresses are shown.

  1. www.podtrac.com network eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com AS AS16509 Amazon.com, Inc. 637 episodes
  2. mgln.ai AS AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc. 91 episodes
  3. traffic.libsyn.com AS AS20326 TeraSwitch Networks Inc. 637 episodes · origin
  4. clrtpod.com network us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com AS AS16509 Amazon.com, Inc. 61 episodes
  5. pscrb.fm network compute-1.amazonaws.com AS AS14618 Amazon.com, Inc. 60 episodes

Latest episodes

The 25 most recent of 637.

  1. 637: My Job Is to Eat the Marshmallow

    · 1h 38m · E637

  2. 636: Opening a Book Backward

    · 1h 51m · E636

  3. 635: The 2026 September Event Draft

    · 1h 53m · E635

  4. 634: Crime River

    · 1h 18m · E634

  5. 633: iPhone Tippy-Top

    · 1h 39m · E633

  6. 632: [Redacted Apple Information]

    · 1h 22m · E632

  7. 631: Nessie Beneath the Waves

    · 1h 38m · E631

  8. 630: Repeat 600 Times

    · 2h 10m · E630

  9. 629: Jony Ive Loves a Handle

    · 1h 23m · E629

  10. 628: Conspiracy to Steal Trade Secrets

    · 1h 37m · E628

  11. 627: Do Not Use, Do Not Turn Off

    · 1h 29m · E627

  12. 626: Unprecedented Weirdness

    · 1h 27m · E626

  13. 624: The Memory Guys

    · 1h 55m · E624

  14. 622: It's Doing It!

    · 1h 45m · E622

  15. 620: Sweating the Details

    · 1h 28m · E620

  16. 618: The WWDC Keynote Draft 2026

    · 1h 28m · E618

  17. 617: Image Playgrounds Is My Roman Empire

    · 1h 36m · E617

  18. 616: Outmoded But Not Vintage

    · 1h 49m · E616

  19. 615: But in Citrus!

    · 1h 53m · E615

  20. 614: $100 Billion Is the Floor

    · 1h 45m · E614

  21. 613: I Know I Picked Too Many iPods

    · 1h 36m · E613

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