Listening to podcasts is not true, effective learning!

Yes, if you are listening to good podcasts instead of just driving or walking without any good input, you will gain some generalized impressions that are positive.

But do not fool yourself, or substitute for the real thing, that listening to podcast is true learning.

Unless a person takes notes, highlights key points, writes out what he/she understands (so the he/she formulates and organizes his/her thinking to the level of understanding) and then lays out a program to achieve the results in the nonfiction book/podcast, we are fooling ourselves - which means we are not achieving the benefits (results) we want from our efforts (listening, reading).

How intelligent and life forwarding is it to not completely (to the point it is worth the effort) harvest our efforts to get the results?   Would you run only 20 yards of a 100 yard dash and then quit?

One of the very most valuable things you can do is learn how to learn and then structure, in writing for easy access, what you will do to get the results that are the purpose.

Again, SMART, DIRECTED, EFFECTIVE, PROACTIVE LEARNING BOOKLET. At least follow the small box at the first of the book!
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Tim Ferriss does podcasts but went ahead and made transcripts of them, so that people can actually harvest them more (or simply save time by doing focused reading and thinking instead of “in one ear and out the other”.
Shane Parrish is excellent at podcasts, though you have to join his community to get the transcripts - with invaluable information to mine and harvest!
(Just enter their names in your search engine.)