TL;DL (Too Long; Didn't Listen) is a curated archive of AI-powered podcast summaries. New podcasts and episodes are added regularly. Each episode includes a concise summary and the full transcript. If there's a podcast you'd like to see here, send a request.

All summaries and transcripts are cached for 365 days, so episodes are always available for quick reference.

Summary Templates

Each episode is available in three different summary styles depending on the type of content:

• Key Takeaways & Practical Steps — Craft and professional development podcasts. Includes an overview, key insights, actionable steps, and notable quotes.
• Narrative Summary — Story-driven and interview podcasts. Captures the arc of the conversation with flowing narrative and main themes.
• ELI5 (Explain Like I'm 5) — Technical and complex topics. Breaks down complex concepts using everyday analogies and simple language.

A Note for Podcast Creators

Attribution matters. Every episode page prominently displays the podcast name, creator names, and both a “Listen on Apple Podcasts” link and a “Website” link to the official podcast website. My hope is that TL;DL helps expand a podcast's audience by making the content more accessible. Summaries should bring people to a podcast, not replace the experience of listening—most podcasts have transcripts available already, after all.

That said, if you'd prefer to opt out, please reach out at elezea.com/contact and I'll add your podcast to the blocklist.

RSS Feeds

Subscribe to new episode summaries via the global RSS feed. The feed includes the latest 50 episodes with their summaries.

You can filter the global feed by topic using the tag parameter. For example:

• /feed?tag=technology — Technology episodes only
• /feed?tag=music — Music episodes only
• /feed?tag=business — Business episodes only

See the home page's “Filter by topic” dropdown for the full list of available tags.

Each podcast also has its own dedicated feed, scoped to that podcast's episodes only. Visit any podcast page and append /feed to the URL:

• /podcasts/1088864895/feed — All summarized episodes from a specific podcast

The podcast ID is visible in the URL when you browse to any podcast's page. RSS readers that support autodiscovery will detect the feed automatically.

Technology

TL;DL is built entirely on Cloudflare's edge platform:

• Cloudflare Workers — Serverless compute at the edge
• Workers KV — Global key-value storage
• Cloudflare Queues — Background job processing
• Durable Objects — Strongly consistent coordination
• Cloudflare Access — Zero Trust authentication

Transcription powered by OpenAI's gpt-4o-mini-transcribe model. Summarization and tagging by GPT-5.4.

Credits

TL;DL was created by Rian van der Merwe.