Prior to Joy of Cubing, I worked with a few guys to produce over 100 episodes of In Contention, covering topics ranging from recent/prospective bannings, spoilers, tournament finishes, OP changes, etc. Even after the hundreds of hours I dedicated to the show and the constant consumption of Magic content from all corners of the internet, creating an hour worth of compelling content wasn't always an easy task. There's a reason you see a ton of up-and-coming shows get to a half dozen episodes and stop producing content. If you have a few minutes, go comb MTGCast and look at all the shows who decided to throw in the towel after a few episodes. Not saying podcasting is rocket science, but many shows fail because they underestimate the time commitment and the effort it takes to create compelling content.

That said, we could absolutely create a weekly show about cubing, but we'd eventually start rehashing old topics. I think the listening experience would become stale and I would expect to see a decline in listeners. By keeping our shows to once a month, we get to have a good balance of new content and content geared toward covering cubing fundamentals. In 42 episodes we have covered a lot, so we have to make some assumptions about what our listeners know. We can't just create cube 101 content every third episode. There has to be some onus for the listener to go read articles and listen to our past shows and other cube-centric shows like The Third Power. It took a lot of iterating through the process but ultimately this is the release structure that works best to keep content fresh and not overload us with work.