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Comment Time shifting (Score 2) 48

I don't blink when a three or four hour pod comes through my feed. I listen to about 200 podcasts. My average listening speed is 2.5x. So that turns a 4 hour podcast into a 1.6 hour podcast. Very doable. Then if I decide I've had enough of an episode for now but still want to listen to the rest I can simply start another pod episode. And here is the thing that is different from other media: I can go right back to where I paused without having to hunt for it. My queue isn't bloated with platform recommendations. I don't have to type in anything to find the paused episode. It's just sitting there in my queue waiting for me. When I do hit play it won't make me listen to an ad before it restarts.

But other than Dan Carlin or Dan Cummings I don't see a lot of pods going past the two hour mark. And they totally make it worth it because they are covering one topic in depth. Most pods break things up into different aspects of a topic for digestability, I'm thinking of Planet Money making a T-shirt). But Dan is a captivating story teller. And Dan is fractalizing the current story and the background of how we got here. So it makes sense that it's all in one package.

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