AP Lang Has Made Me Petty

In a really intellectual way, AP Lang has made me rather petty.
Let me give you an example. I have installed on my phone a TED talk app. I usually have 10-15 talks downloaded to my phone at a time, on topics from architecture to psychology to video games. Every once in a while, on a long car ride or train ride, I'll pull it out and watch one. The problem is, I've been finding, ever since we did our section on rhetoric, that I'm simply incapable of sitting through a lot of them. It's not a lack of patience or anything like that; when I find one I like I always sit through the entire thing. The problem I'm finding that I have with some talks is rhetorical. Sometimes the person is just a bad speaker, sometimes the person has written a bad speech. Whatever the reason, there are some talks that, no matter the brilliance of the idea, I simply can't get myself to sit through. Learning about rhetoric through AP Lang has opened my eyes to what constitutes a bad speech even more than they were open before.
The problem I'm having is that there are a lot of speeches I get bored with that do more than likely contain brilliant and thoughtful content. Am I missing out on many ideas that could enlighten me and enrich my life? Unfortunately, I'd have to say that I probably am. I have yet to watch a TED talk that didn't contain incredibly interesting observations and ideas, and the ones that I skip over are probably no different.
Now, before it sounds like I'm hating on Lang AP, let me clarify something: I do think that losing those talks is worth it. Because of the work we've been doing in Lang, I feel that I am able to better understand and analyze the other talks that I do sit through, and that alone makes any lost content worth it to me.