Will No One Rid Me of These 3 Hour Podcasts?

Producing good work is hard, and part of what makes it hard is not the production of "raw material" but the cutting down of the bad parts and the distillation of the good parts into a more concentrated form.

When I was in college I took a class where we had to write a weekly one-page summary of that week's readings/research. It was much harder than it would have been had there been no length limit. It's easier to make a three-hour podcast than to make a one-hour podcast.

In the UK, almost every radio station runs these regular news bulletins and they are all indistinguishable from one show to another. Politician/celeb/business person says, blah, blah, blah until it's permanently embedded in your skull and becomes yet another fact that can not be challenged.