I find The Daily to be hit or miss these days. I used to think it respected your time, but most of the time, there’s not that much essential information.
For example, the episode about Alito flying pro-insurrection and anti-separation-of-church-and-state flags at his houses could have been five minutes. “There’s witnesses and photos of them on his flag poles, and he didn’t respond to requests for comment.” Done. (Later on, he said he’s not going to recuse himself from cases in which Trump has an interest, BTW.) I was mad that I spent my dish-putting-away time listening to that.
Also, inevitably, New York Times slant often drifts in to the stories.
But one segment I do appreciate consistently is the Here’s What You Need to Know Today” part near the end of each episode. It’s one or two three sentence stories describing recent events that can generally be agreed upon as being “big news”. That should probably be the whole podcast, really.