I said yes to every single person who requested to be on the show. The hard part for this style of podcast is finding a constant stream of guests. Often times you have no idea how a person is going to react on a call until you're already in the call and recording the show. In every episode we jumped on a call, spent a few minutes saying hello and went straight into it.
I went with my gut in that anyone volunteering to be on the show will be comfortable having a free form conversation. None of it is scripted but I do usually have a couple of bullet points in front of me to cover a range of general topics.
But, I get where you're coming from and I'm like that too. I'm for sure going to gravitate towards a more engaging host / guest if I had an option choosing between A and B. It's really hard to pull this off because if you only have guests on the show who have a public presence on the podcast / interview / YouTube / etc. scene it'll be much more difficult to find guests as a side project. You may also lose out on some really cool stories. In one episode a couple of guys built and shipped a custom hardware device to remote African villages to help make email more accessible.
I said yes to every single person who requested to be on the show. The hard part for this style of podcast is finding a constant stream of guests. Often times you have no idea how a person is going to react on a call until you're already in the call and recording the show. In every episode we jumped on a call, spent a few minutes saying hello and went straight into it.
I went with my gut in that anyone volunteering to be on the show will be comfortable having a free form conversation. None of it is scripted but I do usually have a couple of bullet points in front of me to cover a range of general topics.
But, I get where you're coming from and I'm like that too. I'm for sure going to gravitate towards a more engaging host / guest if I had an option choosing between A and B. It's really hard to pull this off because if you only have guests on the show who have a public presence on the podcast / interview / YouTube / etc. scene it'll be much more difficult to find guests as a side project. You may also lose out on some really cool stories. In one episode a couple of guys built and shipped a custom hardware device to remote African villages to help make email more accessible.