Oh my, yes! That IS an aspect of podfic that I've noticed and loved and forgot to mention--the subversiveness of it. I'm a gray-haired woman riding a bike around Portland, and it just tickles the shit out of me to be listening to something nobody would suspect me of.

Though, because I'm so very auditory, I can't do actual thinky-work and listen to stories (or even music) at the same time, because I think in sounds and they don't mix, so sadly, no direct sticking-it-to-the-man at work for me.

But non-thinky visual work (knitting, for instance) and non-thinky physical work (bike, housework, gardening) are perfect settings for story-listening.