How many people will be speaking? Where will they be when they do? Are they talking to the audience or each other? These are the most basic questions about the shape of your podcast, and different answers to them can yield wildly different results.

On the premiere of (A Podcast About) Making Better Podcasts we dive headfirst into the possibilities of format. And no, it doesn’t have to be an interview.

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Everyone knows that a good podcast has to tell a story, and that a good story has to have a beginning, a middle, and an end… but what exactly does that mean? Something remarkably specific, it turns out, as well as enormously important.

Join David and special guest Michael Shaw Fisher of the Los Angeles Film School for high adventure, the wisdom of the ancients, an old dog, a stolen lottery ticket, and the secret key to not being boring.

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Ears are connected to brains, and there’s nothing brains like better than recognizing things. In today’s episode, we talk about something broadcasters have always known and podcasters need to learn: about how callbacks, running bits, and recurring segments tickle those neurons and keep people coming back.

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