While I agree that the other shows do a great job of presenting a well prepared message, I think chopping up FTL is counter productive. How is Mark going to sell ads on individual hours of podcasts? If the child porn topic has heavy downloads, can he sell time to fun knobs? If Scott the biggot is a hot topic, can he sell to adameve? He needs a solid and predictable product to present. They present a 3 hour show, not 3 one hour shows.
Would you chop the music out of Dr. G's show? Would you cut interviews from antiwar?
Also, the sample needed to determine hot topics needs to be pretty big to be useful. You'd probably get 14 males 12-25, rating the show. That wouldn't be fair to Dennis and Tom calling to talk about local politics. The highest rated hour would be Whitney going topless.
There are certainly topics that bore me, but I have a button called FF. BTW, FTL is 12 hours/ week; they have commercial breaks.