Their initial recording was 8-10 hours long. Their audio engineer delivered a first cut of approximately 5 hours and 44 minutes. Gilbert and Rosenthal then spent about 12 hours listening at normal speed, making 600 cuts to reduce it to 5 hours and 9 minutes.”We force ourselves to listen at 1x and walk around while we’re listening, to basically become bored, and then figure out which parts are bothering us the most on the second or third listen,” Gilbert explains.
The hosts are conscious of their audience and make a concerted effort to bridge the gap between experts and the general public. “We are making the episode for people who don’t know what a movement is, but we want the watch nerds to respect our work,” Gilbert explains. “We want the watch nerds to listen and be like, ‘Yep, they got it right,’ but we want it at the level understandable by the smart general public.”