I can be such a giant nerd. I like learning about all sorts of things. I definitely have a touch of curiosity about the world around me. I can get drawn into learning about things I don’t even really care about. When I get drawn into something I care about though, I want to binge and become a glutton of information. Because of how easy it is to binge on, I am grateful for the current rise of the long format podcase content.
I grew up in a world where television was the place to go for documentaries. We were stuck with 30 minute and 60 minute shows. This let us get a little info about a lot of things. There were no real shows to go deep on anything though. We would learn a little, and get all curious, then it was time for another show. I watched so much of the History Channel growing up, it was the best we had for this kind of informative show. There were other things and I enjoyed them too. I am glad we as a society have moved past that to the podcast though.
Podcasts are the place for nerds like me. Podcasts have so few restrictions and that’s what makes them awesome. Podcasts can go as long as the producer wants them to. That means the content is what dictates length, not the timeslot allotted by a network. This means we can go deep. I am currently listening to a 3 hour podcast about sleep science. This kind of thing was never going to happen on television.
These long podcasts lets me be myself and be the nerd that I am. Anything that facilitates this is awesome. The deeper and weirder I can go, the happy I will be.