I agree with your overall statement, but

> If you can find an LLM+TTS generated podcast with even a FRACTION of the infectious energy as something like Good Job Brain, Radio Lab, or Ask Me Another, then I'll eat my hat.

Come on, we can all see how much faster these things are getting better. In a few years it will be impossible to distinguish them from a real person.

Another few after that video will be the same.

I'm not saying it's a good thing, but clearly it's a thing that will happen.