[TeMPOraL]

If this was meant to be read, I might've agreed, but:

1) This was supposed to be piped through TTS and listened to in the background, and...

2) People like podcasts.

Your typical podcast is much worse than this. It's "blah blah" and "hahaha <interaction>" and "ooh <emoting>" and "<irrelevant anecdote>" and "<turning facts upside down and injecting a lie for humorous effect>", and maybe some of the actual topic mixed in between, and yet for some reason, people love it.

I honestly doubt this specific thing would be useful for me, but I'm not going to assume it's plain dumb, because again, podcasts are worse, and people love it.

[xandrius]

What kind of podcast have you listened to, if any?

They aren't all Joe Rogan.

[TeMPOraL]

Name one that isn't > 90% fluff and human interaction sounds.

[xandrius]

RadioLab, 99% invisible, Revisionist History, Everything is alive.

[dghlsakjg]

Conversations with Tyler Cowen, Complex Systems with patio11 are two off the top of my head that concentrate on useful information, and certainly aren't "> 90% fluff and human interaction sounds".

Unless of course people talking in any capacity is human interaction sounds, in which case, yes, every podcast is > 90% human interaction sounds.

[TeMPOraL]

Thanks. I didn't realize 'patio11 even has a podcast, I'll definitely want to listen to that one.

> Unless of course people talking in any capacity is human interaction sounds, in which case, yes, every podcast is > 90% human interaction sounds.

No, I specifically mean all the thing that is not content - hellos, jokes, emoting, interrupting, exchanging filler commentary, etc. It may add character to the show, but from the POV of efficiently summarizing a topic, it's fundamentally even worse than the enterprisey BS fluff in the example in question.

[dghlsakjg]

There is a whole subcategory of wonkish podcasts, which I consider Patio11 to be the gold standard, where it is just two people having an information dense discussion. They don't tend to make it as far in the charts as the tech bro podcasts, but once you find them, they are GOLD.