Fresh Air
NPR · Society & Culture
YAPP has Smart‑Skip data for 188 episodes of Fresh Air. Recent episodes average 3.5 minutes of ads per 49.2‑minute episode.
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Recent episodes
| Episode | Published | Length | Ad time | Breaks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Investigating the system that protected Sean “Diddy” Combs | 45:32 | 0:19 | 1 | |
| Global power, rivalry, and A.I.; a preview of the U.S./China summit | 46:10 | 0:17 | 2 | |
| Inside the 'modern slavery' where cyber scammers are victims themselves | 46:00 | 0:08 | 1 | |
| Rhiannon Giddens traces the banjo from her ancestors to Beyoncé | 46:48 | 0:09 | 1 | |
| Best Of: Colin Kaepernick / Danielle Brooks | 53:48 | 4:45 | 5 | |
| Looney Tunes animator Chuck Jones / Remembering singer Cassandra Wilson | 51:34 | 5:04 | 6 | |
| The Roy Cohn Playbook, from McCarthyism to Trump | 50:06 | 4:44 | 6 | |
| Is Jared Kushner a 'walking conflict of interest'? | 50:43 | 4:25 | 6 | |
| Actor Danielle Brooks has blessings to count | 49:56 | 4:44 | 6 | |
| Colin Kaepernick is still fighting – for justice and for his football career | 50:19 | 4:46 | 6 | |
| Best Of: Life in the Mojave Desert / Director of ‘The Uprising’ | 53:50 | 4:38 | 5 | |
| Stories of survival & loss at Ground Zero | 51:17 | 5:08 | 6 | |
| How the WNBA became a political prop in the culture wars | 50:54 | 4:52 | 6 | |
| How Sept. 11 changed American life | 51:08 | 4:51 | 6 | |
| Casey Gerald says ruining his reputation saved his life | 50:52 | 5:06 | 7 | |
| Rosanne Cash on the gift her father, Johnny Cash, gave her | 51:09 | 4:43 | 6 | |
| Best Of: ‘Wonder Man’ actor Yahya Abdul-Mateen II / John Coltrane centennial | 53:56 | 4:34 | 5 | |
| Feminist Icon Gloria Steinem | 51:24 | 4:38 | 5 | |
| Filmmaker Paul Greengrass on rage, rebellion and ‘The Uprising’ | 50:04 | 5:15 | 6 | |
| Back-to-school with Big Tech | 50:00 | 3:21 | 7 | |
| A centennial celebration of John Coltrane | 49:36 | 3:05 | 5 | |
| How the government wastes our time | 49:53 | 4:02 | 6 | |
| Riz Ahmed takes on his inner critic | 45:19 | 0:28 | 1 | |
| Dolly Parton | 51:30 | 4:59 | 6 | |
| The story of the world's first super-terrorist | 49:49 | 4:31 | 6 |
Ad load varies by listener. Most podcast advertising is dynamically inserted, so figures reflect ad load as observed by YAPP's processing pipeline at the time each episode was fetched, not what any individual listener hears. Methodology
Listening to Fresh Air with YAPP
Fresh Air runs 4.7 ad breaks in a typical episode, so there is a fair amount between you and what you came for. Across the episodes we have processed, that comes to about 3.5 minutes per episode, or 4.2 minutes for every hour of listening.
YAPP maps each episode before you play it, so you get the show and not the rest of it. Because the ads are stitched in per listener, YAPP matches what you are actually hearing rather than replaying a fixed set of timestamps.
How these numbers are measured
YAPP transcribes each episode, classifies advertising segments, and refines their boundaries using audio fingerprinting. Figures cover the 188 episodes of this show that YAPP has processed. Because most podcast ads are dynamically inserted and vary by listener, these figures reflect what our pipeline observed rather than what every listener hears. Full methodology
Boundaries for 11% of detected segments were refined by audio fingerprinting; the rest rest on transcript timing and are less precise.
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