As someone who hosted and still occasionally hosts a podcast — solely for $$$, to generate content, given how much I hate chatter and love the sound of silence — I’ve gotta say I want to see more guests who are willing to punch in and then punch out like Dana White did with fellow baldo Howie Mandel. This isn’t unique to White. As a noted fool and workaholic, I always read or watched the content associated with the guest (unless they hosted some other podcast; fuck that shit, I’m not getting high on my own supply). But most can get by with simply saying, “look, I wrote something just for you. Let me read it: ‘I really love the work you do. I know a lot of people just say it, but I truly mean that.’” And if you’re a guest cycling through these thumbsucking chats, producing content for simps and paypigs, there’s only so much you can take. Whatever you say after that kind of generic lead-in will be the same ish you said on a million billion other shows. Often, the same guests cycle through a family of related podcasts, so the audience will hear this spiel over and over (fortunately, they’re only half-listening; this is white noise or Muzak that kills the loneliness or makes the shift/drive/day go faster). Someone promoting a new book ought to go on a podcast and say, “I repeat what I said on the last show” rather than doing the work of repetition.
As someone who hosted and still occasionally hosts a podcast — solely for $$$, to generate content, given how much I hate chatter and love the sound of silence — I’ve gotta say I want to see more guests who are willing to punch in and then punch out like Dana White did with fellow baldo Howie Mandel. This isn’t unique to White. As a noted fool and workaholic, I always read or watched the content associated with the guest (unless they hosted some other podcast; fuck that shit, I’m not getting high on my own supply). But most can get by with simply saying, “look, I wrote something just for you. Let me read it: ‘I really love the work you do. I know a lot of people just say it, but I truly mean that.’” And if you’re a guest cycling through these thumbsucking chats, producing content for simps and paypigs, there’s only so much you can take. Whatever you say after that kind of generic lead-in will be the same ish you said on a million billion other shows. Often, the same guests cycle through a family of related podcasts, so the audience will hear this spiel over and over (fortunately, they’re only half-listening; this is white noise or Muzak that kills the loneliness or makes the shift/drive/day go faster). Someone promoting a new book ought to go on a podcast and say, “I repeat what I said on the last show” rather than doing the work of repetition.
@MoustacheClubUS Why exactly did he punch in in the first place? And then why did he punch out?
@SubBeck No idea why he agreed to do the show. He left after hearing the introduction
@MoustacheClubUS Why he would go on this guy's podcast is a mystery to both of us, but did he walk off because the guy was fawning all over him in an embarrassing manner?
@SubBeck That’s what it seemed like at the time. It was fawning but also very vague and generic, like he had no idea what he was saying but was reading off a script
@MoustacheClubUS You are the right man to write a full article about this.
@MoustacheClubUS I think you're right about it being generic and I wish he had pointed that out.