The Long-Form Rebellion In an age of TikTok, Twitter, and infinite-scroll feeds, I’ve rediscovered something wonderfully anachronistic: podcasts. Not the new 8-minute “snackable” podcasts designed for attention-span-challenged audiences, but the original kind – hour-long, unedited conversations that meander, pause, and sometimes go nowhere in particular. And it’s been revelatory. What Makes Podcasts Different They’re Long A typical podcast episode is 45-90 minutes. That’s an eternity in digital-attention terms. You can’t consume a podcast in the gaps between other activities.