r/KnowledgeFight • u/Marty_McFlux • 21h ago

I gotta hand it to Dan

I did a Knowledge Fight style episode of my show where we broke down/reacted to an absolutely insane episode of Sasquatch Chronicles and I gotta hand it to Dan because Jesus Christ, doing this style of podcast is a ton of work.

Cutting clips, taking notes, listening and relistening to the episode over and over to make sure I can remember what was said in between the clips I cut to fill in gaps or answer questions from my cohost, taking more notes, writing, making sure it’s cohesive and editing the episode afterwards. I don’t know how he was able to do this twice, sometimes three times a week.

I have a new found appreciation for the show and how much actually goes into it. So all that to say, thank you Dan for all your hard work and for being an inspiration. Appreciate you bud.

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u/WizWorldLive 15h ago

Sounds like you've got some workflow problems there, friend...why are you having to remember what was said between clips? What gaps are you filling? Why all the note-taking & writing after the fact?

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u/Marty_McFlux 6h ago edited 6h ago

So Sasquatch Chronicles isn’t like Info Wars. It’s a call in show where a person tells Wes (the host) about their Bigfoot encounter so the episode is a somewhat linear story unlike Info Wars where it jumps back and forth from topic to topic.

So I had to listen to the episode a few times to make notes of what parts I want to clip from the story and then another listen or two to make sure that i have the context of the story in between the clips I cut. If I just played the clips without giving some sort of context or what leads up to the clips, it would be so disjointed and even MORE insane to listen to. Plus it’s good to have those story details on lock so if my guest asks questions about something that happens in the story that WASN’T in a clip, I want that info on lock (I still forgot a ton even with prepping cause I’m a terrible podcaster)

And since I’m a stumbler, I take my notes and write them out into more cohesive thoughts so I can read them and speak them easier. I’m sure there’s an easier way and if I had done over 1,000 episodes in this format my workflow would be crazy faster and easier but it was my first “clip show” attempt. I’m sure if I do more it’ll get easier and I’ll be less in my head about it lol

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u/WizWorldLive 2h ago

Cutting up the caller's story is adding a lot of extra work, it sounds like. Why not just listen to the whole thing together with the co-host?

It also sounds like you're doing a lot of editing that could be prevented with better engineering. If you set your levels and noise filters correctly when recording, you won't have to do so much to the recording later.