A Better Way to Research Podcasts
The AI razor strikes again.
If you want to write a serious nonfiction book, you need to do lots of research—and that takes a great deal of time. Even on arcane subjects, you can likely find plenty of valuable existing fodder. I'm talking about other texts, surveys, datasets, academic journals, blog posts, and, increasingly, podcasts.
Five years ago, researching podcasts wasn't terribly efficient. You'd scour the web for ostensibly related episodes on your topic. You'd read canned synopses. Say that you found a promising 45-minute pod. About halfway through, though, no one said anything interesting—or at least relevant to your book. The juice wasn't worth the squeeze, and you couldn't hit rewind on the lost time.
If only there were a way to search audio content like you can search its written counterpart.