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The default podcast spends its first minute on framing and stays generic. The customize field fixes that — these go in the Audio Overview prompt box.
Kills the warm-up minute and the both-sides framing. The single most repeated community fix for Audio Overviews.
Skip all introductions and scene-setting. Go straight into [topic]. Prioritize concrete examples, numbers and mechanisms over general framing. Keep it tight — this is a briefing for someone who already knows why the subject matters.
Makes the hosts engage the strongest objections instead of narrating agreement. Good for anything you have to defend later.
Assume the listener is a skeptical expert who has read these sources and disagrees with parts of them. The hosts should raise the strongest objections in their steelman form and answer them with specifics from the sources — not smooth them over.
The episode gets dramatically more useful when it's for one person in one situation instead of a general audience.
The listener is a [role — e.g. first-year med student] preparing for [situation — e.g. an anatomy final in three days]. Cover only what that person needs, define terms on first use, and end with the three things they should remember tomorrow.
Turns the podcast into retrieval practice: one host quizzes the other on the most testable points.
Structure the episode as rapid question-and-answer: one host quizzes the other on the most testable points in the sources. After each answer, one sentence on why it matters. No opening banter.