“I listen to the pod for intelligent football conversation, insight, and excellent guests who bring in fresh/different perspectives. Definitely been a solid addition to my Browns podcast rotation.
My biggest negative is that the host is not a trained professional speaker. I say this as constructive criticism as I also speak to crowds for a living. There are a lot of verbal crutches (um, uh, you know, like) that throw off the flow. This is something that is addressed in any professional speaking training. The best way to address these crutches are scripting and prep so that you’re not pausing and thinking about what to say next. I recognize podcast conversational formats, but it’s just too numerous throughout every podcast. There are also weird technical issues that have occurred in multiple pods such as hearing the “3, 2, 1” countdown into the start of the podcast or a long gap of unexplained silence. Feels like an editing issue.
The host does bring good inflection and animation though so I think that certainly adds to the delivery.
Overall, the content is top notch, delivery, both production and performance has room to improve.”
Rufus IV via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
01/02/21