Re: Jugglers On Juggling UPDATE

On 2008-06-18, Reeses2150 <reeses2150@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

After listening to Luke's podcast, I almost had to stop listening, and I
hate being confrontational, but I have to point it out, Pola is a bad
co-host to Luke and the reason why I almost stopped listening.

I think you've got this backwards.

I think Luke is a poor co-host to Pola. Pola rocks! I'd be far more
interested in listening to Pola for an hour than Luke.

but I listened to a few episodes, and she seems to not only bicker about
things that don't matter ("Luke, the topic of the podcast is supposed to
be TRICKS for non-juggling audiences, the point about facing and looking
at the audience is PERFORMANCE." followed by them arguing about it for a
minute or so), but also sidetrack the podcast in the beginning.

Hello? Mr Pot? I've got a Mr Kettle on line 2 who wants to have a work
about your dark colour.

A specific topic being talked about each episode. I've already
decided to do episodes for Juggling Forums, Juggling Videos, Prop Choices,
Finding Time To Practice, Juggling Podcasts, and Conventions.

While I think you've made the right decision to focus your podcasts,
I look at that list of topics and think they're a total yawnfest. Can't
you come up with something more interesting to talk about? A topic
which hasn't been covered over and over again by a million web pages
and almost every other podcast?

How about delving into the history of juggling a bit? How about
picking the oldest juggler at a fest and talking to them about
what juggling was like when they learnt? How about talking about
how non-juggling activities influence your juggling? Hell, even
talking about your experiences of making JoJ would be more interesting
than yet another discussion about Prop Choices.

I won't try to stretch topics to make episodes last longer than 20
minutes, if I have a short episode, it's a short episode.

This is the best decision you have ever made. *ever* Do try to stick
to it. Personally I'd aim for a 15 minute average, but if the topic is
genuinely interesting let it run to 20. Short is sweet.

I'm planning out almost every sentence of each podcast and will release
the planned text file with the episode.

Please don't write a script! It's very hard to make reading from a script
sound natural - but *do* plan what you want to talk about, in what order,
and try not to get sidetracked.

But (and this is a hugely important bit) once you've done the edit,
listen back to it *as if you were a listener* - if it's not good enough,
redit.

I'd like to see "season 3" be the season where you strive for quality.

Each episode will be a video episode that I'll host primarily on youtube,
and also have available for download on iTunes.

So I'm assuming you won't be making an audio only version. That's a
shame. I (and many other people) have more opportunities in my day
to listen to audio than I do to sit down and watch video.

And I'll try to have a nicer background per episode and hopefully more
live guests.

Guests are good.

The best podcasts that I listen to are primarily interview based.

One last thing before I go - I'd like to encourage you to make season 3
a series of "occasional podcasts" which come out when they're ready.
There's no rush, release them when they're ready. Don't just throw
something together and let the quality suffer because of some artificial
notion of "it's got to be released on monday!"

Slowly slowy catchy quality-monkey.

-Paul
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