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Agreed and I think the high production podcasts are definitely hitting a bit of a bubble. But my favorite podcasts are ones that always have different guests and I think that category has a lot of growing to do. The expertise required for the guests is only the one they already have. For example a nutritionist just has to come on and talk about nutrtion. Something they do for daily anyway.

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For me personally, producing a 20-25 minute interview/conversation podcast on some topic hits the sweet spot for my own podcasts. It's not a lot of work to record, some light editing/automated intro/outro/posting, get a transcription done, post that with some show notes on a blog. Done. It's no more than a few hours of actual work.

Frankly, the biggest job is scheduling the guests which is one reason I tend to do the recordings mostly at events.

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