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Have you ever noticed that some of our favorite podcasts follow a certain path on every show? For example, one of my favorite tech podcasts follows a very predictable pattern. There’s a small preshow banter, followed by any announcements or housecleaning issues. Next they go into follow up, then they get to the News or Featured Topics of the week. Finally, they have a Q&A segment, and possibly some post credit banter. Strangely, this format is also done by the majority of long form tech podcasts, and at least one comedy podcast co-hosted by someone who also appears on these same tech podcasts. Go figure. I say all of this to say that this didn’t come along by accident. One podcast started this format, and a co-host or a guest on that show liked it, and used it on their podcast, and so on. It’s easy and predictable. Also, because a lot of these particular podcasts are produced on Macs, they can embed chapter marks in their podcasts so that the listener can scrub through things they don’t care about. Using