That's stupid. I read faster than people talk, too, but that doesn't suddenly mean I'm going to stop listening to anyone say anything ever and require it all be provided to me in writing.
Different situations: you aren't making fair comparisons. A podcast requires me to sit in the vicinity of my PC (as I have no MP3 player) and just do nothing else besides listening and devote my attention to it (since English is not my native tongue, I have to listening more carefully than to something in Dutch) , which feels ... unproductive to me, especially since most podcasts last more than 15-20 minutes. To make it worse, I estimate that a quarter of the time is M, J & Z fooling around. Quite funny in itself, but at that moment, I want to hear an analysis of a new game system, for example.
If I could read it, I could do other things in the mean time, like chatting with a friend, listen to music check up on another site if necessary, and so on, because I can decide when I read. Swapping to the podcast window and pausing it to do something else every two minutes is bothersome and disruptive.
Also very important: when a podcast handles different topics, and I'm only intrested in one of them, I'm forced to listen to all of it, or skip & jump around to find it. In an article, I could just skim until I found the paragraph, probably very quickly with CTRL + F.
This is not against the BG podcast, but podcasts in general. The format just isn't useful to me.
