I know people who spend all their working life with some podcast going over the topics of the day ad nauseum in their airpods. Then they get in the car and the podcast is still playing. Still playing while at the gym. Still playing cooking dinner. I know a few people who have to hear podcasts playing on their phone to be able to sleep now.
If its about current events usually its "lets take something that can be succinctly digested in three paragraphs from reuters and stretch it into 45 monetized minutes". I find podcasts are a lot of noise and not a lost of signal for the most part. It makes sense given the incentive structures.
