Re:Way fewer people are creating new podcasts these days
by theshrike79 on Monday January 23, 2023 @03:16PM
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Exactly, there's no way you can produce 2+ 2 hour podcasts a week without them being a rambling mess - or you have dedicated script writers and editors and the one reading them is just the voice of other people's text.
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Re:Way fewer people are creating new podcasts these days
by pm3003 on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @04:50AM
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Any podcast should be prepared and scripted to some extent, especially shorter ones. Especially good political comment/talk shows. Unprepared 15-minutes interview podcasts are just as annoying to me as very long one.
This relies on the moderator / podcaster to have sufficient time / manpower to prepare, or sufficient authority to convince guests not to come without any serious preparations.
On the opposite, there's a podcast from the German Newspaper Die Zeit that has made the long rambling its concept. It's called "Alles gesagt?" and consists in a usually unedited interview with two journalists. The interview (in English or German) stops when the guest considers he has nothing more to say or pronounces a magic word. Yuval Noah Harari's interview lasted 10 hours IIRC. It's decently prepared, but that's not the kind of podcast you can listen to regularly.