I wouldn’t worry you’re missing much. The whole reason podcasts are popular is that many people can listen to them and do something else. If you can’t it means

I wouldn’t worry you’re missing much. The whole reason podcasts are popular is that many people can listen to them and do something else. If you can’t it means your brain is doing something else. For me a podcast completely arrests my thought processes in a way that radio chatter or music doesn’t. I listen to a very, very small number of podcasts either that I find valuable enough to listen to despite the trade off. I’ll especially save them for cooking or another task which already half occupies my brain. I take in information dramatically faster by reading. Podcasting is a perfectly viable way to get information or be entertain, but so are books and movies and shows or just looking at things and thinking.