Gary’s Q&A

Listener question & Gary’s response · Transcript passage

Jordan from the Discord server asks, When you’re making episodes do you start from a clean slate every day (i.e. pick a topic at the start of the day, research, write, record, and publish that night) or do you constantly have several episodes at various states of completion at any given time?

The answer is…..it depends.

Ideally, I know what episodes I’ll be doing days or weeks in advance. Just knowing what the episode will be about is a huge part of the battle.

The actual writing and recording are done the day before an episode airs, but before I start writing, I need to have an idea of what the episode is going to be about and the arc of the episode.

After 1400 unique episodes, I’ve gotten to a point where once I know what the episode is going to be, the actual writing and recording can be done relatively quickly, in a few hours.

There are always a bunch of episodes I’m thinking about and some that I want to do at some point, but I just haven’t figured out how to make the episode make sense yet.