glad to see intro/outro only. personally, i experience some listener fatigue and distraction with that electronica subscription stuff, content fast paced enough to make it unnecessary.
Oh God, yes!!!
As I mentioned in the “Should we do a podcast?” Thread, designer friend of mine did some work for a friend of hers who started a running podcast - it sucked
I didn’t have the heart to tell her “Your friend is a hack”
To paraphrase Dr. Ian Malcolm “she was so preoccupied with whether or not she could, she didn’t stop to think if she should”
I’m not saying she might not get better*, but she’s got some things to learn … like NOT to use silly drops/samples/sound effect JUST because you figured out how to put them in
That was back in July, I think? She’s done a few more since; maybe I’ll try again? She had Laura Green on recently, who I believe to be the only comic sponsored by Puma? And today she posted one with Laz Lake … I don’t see that going well for her
glad to see intro/outro only. personally, i experience some listener fatigue and distraction with that electronica subscription stuff, content fast paced enough to make it unnecessary.
Oh God, yes!!!
As I mentioned in the “Should we do a podcast?” Thread, designer friend of mine did some work for a friend of hers who started a running podcast - it sucked
I didn’t have the heart to tell her “Your friend is a hack”
To paraphrase Dr. Ian Malcolm “she was so preoccupied with whether or not she could, she didn’t stop to think if she should”
I’m not saying she might not get better*, but she’s got some things to learn … like NOT to use silly drops/samples/sound effect JUST because you figured out how to put them in
That was back in July, I think? She’s done a few more since; maybe I’ll try again? She had Laura Green on recently, who I believe to be the only comic sponsored by Puma? And today she posted one with Laz Lake … I don’t see that going well for her
I remember that post RandMart! I thought this flowed well. My comment is to let rrheisler be rrheisler without criticism on style. he’s mid 30’s - an age group in tri that went ‘poof’!.. disappeared for years. he’s a younger voice and i think a good choice to represent across all ages going forward, good for the sport overall. ewynn contributed in a sage kind of way, both very easy to take and came off well. i liked their talk about dan e too.
And today she posted one with Laz Lake … I don’t see that going well for her
It was about as cringe as I expected it to be - a middle-school “Intro To Journalism” take with someone she’s only vaguely heard of - she had no idea of the Backyard Ultra format, and said “I want to sign up for one”
Opening question “Would you rather know the future or change the past?”
I wanted to dump right there, but in the Spirit of Laz, and the Backyard especially, I had to go to the end
I’m kinda glad I did
Once she finished her bullshit “get to know you” questions (which might be a schtick of hers, I dunno), got out of the way just let Laz talk, it was not that bad
Laz told a haunted house story, which I don’t think had ever been revealed anywhere else, so that was a scoop for her
Out of respect for Eric & Ryan (or Ryan & Eric- who’s getting top bill here?) I will not derail their thread by posting a link
CAVEAT - I am not much of a podcast person. I can read MUCH faster, and I think most podcasts have too much drivel and waste my time. I also think many/most podcasts could deliver the message much more efficiently and entertainingly. I would include these in this category. I really like both of you guys so I really don’t want to be overly critical, but I think this could be greatly improved. Just rambling is not very interesting to me. I know these are hard to do, but under the ST brand these have to be better than the others and I don’t think these are/were. These were not my cup of tea.
CAVEAT - I am not much of a podcast person. I can read MUCH faster, and I think most podcasts have too much drivel and waste my time. I also think many/most podcasts could deliver the message much more efficiently and entertainingly. I would include these in this category. I really like both of you guys so I really don’t want to be overly critical, but I think this could be greatly improved. Just rambling is not very interesting to me. I know these are hard to do, but under the ST brank these have to be better than the others and I don’t think these are/were. These were not my cup of tea.
I listened to both episodes.
Ryan said something in the first, something like “we have a very large rolodex we can call on”. I think this is the thing they need to leverage. There are definitely areas where Ryan and Eric’s experience is interesting, but their own opinions are not enough to fill up an interesting podcast. I think they needed to set the table in episode one. I think they did this quite well.
I think they need to bring in experts in the various fields they plan to explore. A great formula would be : pick a topic, bring an expert and possibly fire up a specific Forum thread to discuss. Or fire up a thread, announce a guest, take questions, do the podcast and follow up discussion in a specific thread. This would be very unique. Nobody has the mechanism to do this like ST does.
For episode 2, and maybe I am just sensitive here, but I heard a strong bias towards IM and a negativity towards the PTO. That sensitivity may come from other actions and comments, and/or having a personal bias myself. But I believe it dilutes the “fiercely independent” mantra. For me, Joe nobody in the triathlon world is ok, for ST, not so much. Very much an opinion there, others may have heard it differently.
Having a forum is a pretty unique situation. You can do things nobody else can. But you also have a forum for criticism which you probably have to be pretty think skinned to handle. I hope the above comments were not just perceived as criticism.
A great formula would be : pick a topic, bring an expert and possibly fire up a specific Forum thread to discuss. Or fire up a thread, announce a guest, take questions, do the podcast and follow up discussion in a specific thread. This would be very unique. Nobody has the mechanism to do this like ST does.
An even further extension would be a live stream where Forum users could comment in real-time
