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Naval Ravikant on Time [audio]

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Re: Naval Ravikant on Time [audio]

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Post by jgill »

birken wrote: post #14
blizkreeg wrote: post #2

Loved the interview and good questions overall. I like the candidness with which Naval speaks. A friendly suggestion to the interviewer: please keep the uhms and yeahs when the other person is speaking to a minimum or none. It's distracting and spoils the listening experience, especially when it's audio only. I also heard a phone buzz at one point :) That said, great score on getting Naval on Outliers.

I'm always bothered by un-edited podcasts. It isn't hard. I have a tiny little podcast with few listeners and still edit them all. For an hour long podcast I can easily cut out 5 minutes worth of pauses, "ummm"s, "you know"s, talking over each other and mis-talking. Makes the podcast sound so much smoother. Probably takes me somewhere between 2-3 hours to edit a 1 hour podcast. Yes, that is a lot, but if 100 people l…

What's your podcast by the way?

Re: Naval Ravikant on Time [audio]

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Post by blizkreeg »

atom-morgan wrote: post #18
birken wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm always bothered by un-edited podcasts. It isn't hard. I have a tiny little podcast with few listeners and still edit them all. For an hour long podcast I can easily cut out 5 minutes worth of pauses, "ummm"s, "you know"s, talking over each other and mis-talking. Makes the podcast sound so much smoother. Probably takes me somewhere between 2-3 hours to edit a 1 hour podcast. Yes, that is a lot, but if 100 people l…

The Joe Rogan Experience is probably my favorite podcast and the unedited nature of it is one big plus. I think people over-exaggerate uhs and umms. If it's every other word, yeah. Otherwise, it's not THAT big of a deal in most cases.

did you listen to this one?

Re: Naval Ravikant on Time [audio]

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Post by birken »

atom-morgan wrote: post #18
birken wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm always bothered by un-edited podcasts. It isn't hard. I have a tiny little podcast with few listeners and still edit them all. For an hour long podcast I can easily cut out 5 minutes worth of pauses, "ummm"s, "you know"s, talking over each other and mis-talking. Makes the podcast sound so much smoother. Probably takes me somewhere between 2-3 hours to edit a 1 hour podcast. Yes, that is a lot, but if 100 people l…

The Joe Rogan Experience is probably my favorite podcast and the unedited nature of it is one big plus. I think people over-exaggerate uhs and umms. If it's every other word, yeah. Otherwise, it's not THAT big of a deal in most cases.

Some need it more than others. The local news is live and doesn't need editing because the people doing the broadcast are pros. Joe Rogan is an absolute pro who has been an actor, comedian, game show host, UFC commentator in addition to being an excellent and experienced radio host. He makes a 3-hour unedited podcast seem easy, where for me I don't think I could do 10 minutes smoothly even if I had it all planned out.

I don't know if Joe Rogan always records in a sound studio, but in my experience having a good mic is like 75% of the battle, and being in the same room as your guest also helps minimize the interjections. In addition of course to having an extremely experienced and professional host to keep the flow.

For my particular podcast my co-host and I always record remotely, but each of us record our sound locally and then I edit the streams together after the fact. You wont find many top tier podcasts that don't do this because the audio dump from skype/hangouts puts a very low ceiling on your sound quality and if you don't have separate streams then editing becomes much harder.

Still though I don't want to make it sound like it is hard. It isn't. Two microphones, a couple of hours of editing in Audacity (free, open source) and you get a very good sounding podcast. You don't need a sound studio or a degree in audio engineering.

Re: Naval Ravikant on Time [audio]

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Post by rajjalan »

blizkreeg wrote: post #2

Loved the interview and good questions overall. I like the candidness with which Naval speaks. A friendly suggestion to the interviewer: please keep the uhms and yeahs when the other person is speaking to a minimum or none. It's distracting and spoils the listening experience, especially when it's audio only. I also heard a phone buzz at one point :) That said, great score on getting Naval on Outliers.

Agree regarding the uhms and yeahs being distracting. And agree with other poster that it should have been edited out. But as a note - I think, that is something cultural. It was an adjustment I had to make when I migrated to US. Growing up in India, it gave impression that you are paying attention, at-least in my circles.

Re: Naval Ravikant on Time [audio]

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Post by EGO_DEATH »

Love Naval. Great mentor.

Suggest more people with similar values & vibe. Don't have to be currently among the living neither. Found this site thanks to him, and he has been adding a great deal of value to me ever since I first heard of him. Grateful to say the least.

Re: Naval Ravikant on Time [audio]

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Post by justboxing »

rajjalan wrote: post #24
blizkreeg wrote: post #2

Loved the interview and good questions overall. I like the candidness with which Naval speaks. A friendly suggestion to the interviewer: please keep the uhms and yeahs when the other person is speaking to a minimum or none. It's distracting and spoils the listening experience, especially when it's audio only. I also heard a phone buzz at one point :) That said, great score on getting Naval on Outliers.

Agree regarding the uhms and yeahs being distracting. And agree with other poster that it should have been edited out. But as a note - I think, that is something cultural. It was an adjustment I had to make when I migrated to US. Growing up in India, it gave impression that you are paying attention, at-least in my circles.

> I think, that is something cultural.

Yep, I think so too. Indian here also, living in US. Other phrases our peeps utter, similiar to 'uhms' are 'you know' and 'yaa?'. A couple of off-shore peeps I was dealing with were doing this in every other sentence and it was very distracting on our conference calls.

Re: Naval Ravikant on Time [audio]

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Post by BenderV »

henrik_w wrote: post #28

Related: Naval Ravikant interviewed by Shane Parrish (long podcast episode): https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2017/02/naval-ravikant-read...

One of the most insightful podcast ! I'm sharing you my personal notes on it: https://gist.github.com/BenderV/44901bac756ff3b8279d018eb1e2...
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