How Professional Podcasters Prepare to Interview Guests 

So many videos on podcasting are such drivel and just seem to be repeats of other videos, just to get viewer numbers. This actually had solid points on what I was looking for. Structure, flow.

there were some serious gems in this that I dont think a lot of people mention. Thank you Chris!! 🙌🏿🙌🏿

Thanks for sharing you guys

I do a pre chat and I know personally 99 percent of those I interview each week with my co host as well.

3:48 - 4:21 intros 4:30 - 6:22 Give room to breath

3:48 - 4:21 intros My #1 piece of advice really - I still now hate the intro to a podcast. It's always weird; it's always awkward, especially if you record a pre-recorded preroll. So if you do the foreplay for the episode off camera, and then you meet the guest and you've spent 5 minutes with them going like hey mate, here am I, random internet from the internet, and I'm going to talk to you about this thing and now I need you to be comfortable with me, and you try and make some shit jokes or whatever and like get them to like open up a little bit and then you're like 3 2 1 Robert Plowman welcome to the show, and then you're in and you're like - fuck! So I always have the first thing that I say is always written out. The first question that I have is almost always written out. If it's a Michael Malice, or a Johnyon Yousef, like my buddies, I'm sweet. I can just say like what are you wearing that for, or what have you been doing today, or whatever comes to mind, but just getting yourself into that is a good part of conversation craft. 4:30 - 6:22 Give room to breath I would also, I think it's a good idea to give the guest room to breathe, and this is something that I've only learned since being a guest on more shows that, have you ever seen someone do a 2k time trial on a skiier (wrong), on a rowing urg? So the way that they actually start the momentum off is they do a bunch of little fast strokes, so they like pull pull pull pulll pul. Like it's like this sort of cadence where they build up to the long ones, and I actually think y'know a couple of kind of dumb back and forth questions, and then a big fat one that the guest can sink their teeth into about 2 minutes in. Like let them speak, let them stop, let them speak, let them stop, and then just let them go with like so Robert, let's say that someone that's listening has never heard of behavioral genetics before. How do you describe what behavioral genetics is? It doesn't have to be that basic. It can be something really complex. That's a really like kind of a bit of a like a cringe opener. It's just so obvious. But just give the guest something, cause they're nervous as well. Even if they're super confident, you just want to get them into the flow. My vocal coach taught me about this. You want to get the larynx moving up and down. You want to get the facial muscles moving nicely, and that's when after a little while you can get like, you can start to move more quickly backward and forward. And that's when after a little while you can start to move more quickly backward and forward, but you don't want to do that straight off the bat I don't think. So yeah that's some things man. A bit of structure work out what works for you, give the guests something easy to get started on, maybe have a little bit of a back and forth in the beginning, and then just give them room to breathe, and then you can start to come back in, and then you can start to have a discussion.

Darn, I’ll have to give up my last meat: chicken! IKNEW IT! Growing my own fruit and veggies EVEN H20! I should leave here, no one should be allowed to handle my life but me!