I Made a Podcast Out of a Report I'd Never Read

I had a 40-page report I needed and avoided for a month. I pasted it into a chatbot, asked for a two-host conversational script, and ran it through ElevenLabs. Twenty-five minutes of walk, done.

The trick was refusing the summary. A summary loses the argument; a script keeps it as something you can hear while moving. My attention respects audio, not PDFs.

I cut the appendix and the methodology section. A podcast about everything is a podcast about nothing. Twenty-five minutes of the point beat an hour of faithful coverage.

If a format isn't working for you, change the format. Don't blame your attention span.