CB Show #9 – How to Interview Podcast Guests with Zack Attack from Movie Buzz[ed]

Chris explains how to interview podcast guests with fellow podcaster Zack Attack from the Movie Buzz[ed] podcast. Chris and Zack discuss what makes a good podcast, whether or not it is a good idea to interview your personal friends on your podcast and even specifically what you DO NOT want your podcast guests do once they get on your podcast.

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Chris and Mr. Zack Attack explore one guest in particular named Joel from CbShow #8 who wanted to come on the show and tell his “Cancer Faker” story. But Joel has more of a freeform, non-linear storytelling technique, and some of the details of the story became lost in translation from Joel’s brain out onto the show.

Joel and the “Cancer Faker” story from CbShow #8

The “Cancer Faker” story is a true story about a comedian named Joel and his attempt to help a friend who had cancer. In short, Joel married a lady who was diagnosed with cancer just so she could use his employer’s free family airline benefits and fly to Europe so she could get a special treatment for her cancer. The girl even put up a charity website to help raise money for her cancer treatments, and collected thousands of dollars in donations from people across the world. But then come to find out, the lady never had cancer to begin with. She was lying the whole time. And that’s the “Cancer Faker” story, in a nutshell.

Chris and Mr. Attack discuss what could have been done to make the “Cancer Faker” story more entertaining for YOU to listen to, and then Chris invites YOU to send your ideas on how to be a better storyteller to Joel on Twitter @igotvdwheniwas3 or send them to the CbShow Twitter @chrisbrakeshowand we will forward it to him.

Zack and Chris also discuss what goes into prepping a guest for an interview or an appearance on the CbShow, and whether or not it’s a good idea to pre-interview a guest before having them on your podcast. Chris Brake’s main advice to guests who are going to be on a podcast is to just be yourself. Zack Attack advises new guests to remember that comedy podcasts especially are designed to make people laugh, so don’t get offended if the host wants to rip into you a little bit.

Chris and Zack also explore marijuana use and whether or not it’s a good idea for your guest to get totally stoned to the bone right before being interviewed on your show. Chris even gives a heart-warming PSA illustrating the negative consequences of substance abuse.

Zack talks about his own podcast show and explains the format of the Movie Buzz[ed] podcast vs. the common misconception that Movie Buzz[ed] is a spin-off of Mystery Science Theater 3,000 (or MST3K if you’re nasty).

Chris gives a nod to RiffTrax, the MP3 commentary tracks by Mike and the other MST3K stars that you download and play back in sync with your favorite movies and TV shows. Zack says that Movie Buzz[ed] is similar to MST3K and RiffTrax, but not really the same thing at all. You can hear the Movie Buzz[ed]podcast with Zack and Caleb, coming soon to PodOmatic.

And if you like what Chris says about RiffTrax go download a RiffTrax MP3, sync it up with a DVD at home and suddenly films like “Inception,” “Harry Potter,” “Star Wars,” “Lord of the Rings” and“Transformers” just got a whole lot funnier.

This episode also includes a new “Ask Dale J.” segment. Today Dale tells you how it makes him feel to become Uncle Dale, as his sister has just given birth to a new human being. Dale performs animprov Americana blues folk poetry song and explains why he doesn’t like to see pictures of other people’s children.

CbShow #9 – How to Interview Podcast Guests

RE: 10 Reasons Why I Don't Listen To Your Podcast

So there's this guy named Pete DAlessandro and he wrote a blog post called 10 Reasons Why I Don't Listen To Your Podcast in which he outlines 10 reasons he will delete your podcast from his iPhone. Apparently he listens to a lot of podcasts in his car, and one of the reasons he'll delete you is because he can't hear you over the noise of rush hour traffic, honking horns and him screaming out the window at the people he's scattering from the sidewalk while he drives up on it. Some artistic license was taken with that last sentence, but bear with me, there is a point.

One reason Pete says he'll delete your podcast is if you fumble around and waste time trying to call your show's guest while live on the air. There was a point in time when I was worried about breaking some of Pete's 10 Podcast Commandments. That time period has passed, for two reasons.

Reason #1: He said he thinks the Jimmy Pardo podcast called Never Not Funny is a great example of a podcast that can rely on 100% improv and still be funny. 

This is John speaking here, but I want to say that I listened to an episode of that show, and the first 10 minutes were Jimmy giggling like a school girl and talking about nothing at all, particularly nothing funny at all. 

Not to say anything against Jimmy Pardo (at least not in this blog post), because even the Chris Brake Show has a few moments where we're just kind of geeking out and laughing, and it's common for the first 10 minutes of a podcast to be a little unstructured.

Yeah, okay, I get that. But for Pete to say that this Never Not Funny podcast is something to be revered, admired and listened to over any of the other podcasts out there is a bit unsettling.

Reason #2: Because we totally just broke the seventh podcast commandment, which I will now present below:

I deleted one podcast from my iPhone at a red light one day when the host had a guest call in during the middle of the podcast. I get that this was a live recording of an actual conversation. It's a little sloppy, but what really burned me was that the host took a full 30 seconds to answer with: "I saw someone was calling but your name didn't show up on the caller ID and I didn't know if it was going to be you but I guess it is and now we can get started …" No, you could have started 30 seconds ago. But rather than take 30 seconds out of your life to edit out the garbage, you expected me to take 30 seconds to listen to it. Remember that giant podcast queue I have? It just got shorter.

So we wanted to take this opportunity to make a public apology to Pete - please give us another chance, we still haven't broken rule #8 yet.

Here's the super exclusive clip where we totally broke the Petemeister's rules. "That guy in his car is going to delete us!" RE: 10 Reasons Why I Don't Listen To Your Podcast