and thank you too for the compliment re: "amazing in-depth content" ... there are often quite a few people involved behind the scenes, in addition to our great

and thank you too for the compliment re: "amazing in-depth content" ... there are often quite a few people involved behind the scenes, in addition to our great guests and experts (including many of our own folks internally)! Huge credit to them too. We do also edit to focus and remove sidebars, and increase info density. Not going to pretend we don't edit -- and I'd argue it's important! Recently, I was listening to an audio book and I had to skip the first two chapters which would have been fine in written form only, but in listening mode I just have less patience. Unless it's a "cult of personality" type show, where you are following because you're into a particular person. But we're more focused on our collective voices, including from network, so I def don't want it to be a cult of personality...