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The video used modern social media length dragout techniques that make virtually all modern podcast like media so tiresome to listen to.

"You won't BELIEVE what everyone got wrong"

Here's the trumped up drama from people involved.

Here's an interview

Here's a restatement of the cliffhanger

Oops the author dropped enough info that I can read the Wikipedia article in 30 seconds. End streaming media.

The amount of "good podcasts" that are ultimately a Wikipedia page drawn out over 20-30 minutes is just ridiculous.

"Good tv" like a good john Oliver show or Frontline is chock full of information, further avenues of research if interested, and dense.

Geewhiz podcasts like these seem like the result of YouTube algorithmic game theory result rather than an improvement to the access and organization of info that Wikipedia represented.

I'm cranky this morning, sorry

That's not modern, that's been media since time immemorial. Geraldo spent 2 hours talking about what could be in Al Capone's vault only for them to finally open it up and it was empty. Magazines would print stories in serial format so you had to buy the next issue.

Writing and structuring to fit the length you want/need has been the norm for a century or two at least before social media came about. Hell, there's evidence that Shakespeare padded out a couple of his plays to fit the 4-pages per folio printing techniques of the time so that there weren't blank pages at the end.

Geraldo’s vault! Haven’t thought about that in a good while…

Or the camera in the great pyramid…3 hours of opening a door, entering a tunnel only to find another door.

Veritasium is much better than Shakespeare. If you dropped his videos 500 years ago it would have caused a minor revolution.

This is the same reason I can't watch Dateline, where telling the story linearly and with just the facts would actually take about 3 minutes.

> "Good tv" like a good john Oliver show or Frontline is chock full of information, further avenues of research if interested, and dense.

I have seen John Oliver state errors or misrepresent data/leave out information in favor of the comedy/supporting a particular viewpoint. A good HN thread with people knowledgeable about the subject or in the field about a John Oliver episode will usually be full of more information.

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