Gary’s Q&A

Listener question & Gary’s response · Transcript passage

Preston Smith asked, How do we suggest new topics? How far in advance does the “idea list” go? How do you decide if a topic is too obscure to tackle?

Preston, that is really easy. However, you can communicate with me, works. You can send a message on Facebook, or make a post in the Facebook group, or you can send me a Tweet on Twitter, or you can send me a message on Instagram, or you post something on the Discord server, or you can send me an email.

Any and all of these are ways that people have given me suggestions for future episodes.

As for the list, the list was originally 100 ideas that I came up with before I ever published the first episode. Since then, I have added to the list as I have come up with new ideas and taken things off the list as I do them. As of this moment, there are currently 867 episode ideas on the list. They are in no particular order. Some may never get recorded or they might be merged into other episodes.

If you are a supporter on Patreon, you have access to the actual document of future episodes, and you can make suggestions right in the document itself.

As far as what is too obscure, I guess that is a judgment call. I get a lot of suggestions from people that are really just facts. They aren’t the sort of thing you can develop an entire episode around. Whatever it is, it needs to be something that has an interesting story around it. So long as it is interesting, it really doesn’t matter how obscure it is.