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You're listening to Imaginary Worlds, I'm Eric Balinsky.

This is the second half of my late summer mini-series where I pull the curtain back on this podcast

and talk a little bit about my process.

Every so often people ask me why my episodes aren't longer,

because you know, a lot of other podcasts, the episode can run an hour or an hour and a half.

But as you heard in the last episode, I used to do public radio stories that were five or six minutes long,

and if I got to do a longer piece that was maybe eight or nine minutes,

I sometimes got a call the night before the show aired, saying they're running long,

they've trimmed every other segment of the show, now I've got to lose 90 seconds out of my story.

Which would be painful, because that 90 seconds would be chock full of ideas and clips and tape that are really liked.

And yes, we still use the word tape, even though these are digital audio files.

So now to have a podcast where I can say, yeah, I think this episode should be 18 minutes or 25 minutes.

Feels luxurious to me, but I'm still a public radio guy,

and my instinct is always to trim and trim anything that feels extraneous to the overall flow of the narrative.

So even for this podcast, sometimes stuff ends up on the proverbial cutting room floor that I really liked.

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