I think what makes listeners say that was your introduction which went on too long. After that the interviewer got it right. Was interesting and entertaining to hear about Rick’s childhood..never heard that before.
We did a ChatGPT analysis of the transcript to see the split of the minutes both the host and guest spoke: The total speaking time for each speaker is as follows: Mark: Approximately 11.93 minutes Rick: 36.00 minutes The speaking time as a percentage of the total length of the podcast is as follows: Mark: 24.90% Rick: 75.10%