A Flaw in the Podcast's Design

Welcome to Conversations with, uh, with Conversations with My Night Brain. Yeah, that's the name of the show. Conversations With My Night Brain, with Chris Enns. I'm Chris Enns and this is a conversation I sort of had with my night brain. It's one that, uh, as I've put out a bit of a feeler thing to, uh, a community to see if anybody wants to be a beta tester for being a guest on the show.

Uh, response that I kind of thought would probably happen, and it might be sort of a limitation or a hindrance for the idea that I have for this show is, uh, someone's response was that the things that actually keep them up at night are probably too personal to have out in the world. And, and or combined with maybe thinking that their topic, their, their thing is, or things are not that interesting, more boring.

Probably one of the flaws in my show design, uh, is that the things that keep us up at night often are the things that we don't want to talk to the world about necessarily, which is why they're keeping us up at night. And there's this weird thing where for some people, they seem to like. Breakthrough.

I noticed this a lot with certain bloggers back in the day, but even more so now with on Instagram influencer types and Twitter people's, whatever, where some people seem to sort of, whether it's just maybe the appearance that they do this well, but they seem to transcend the idea that what they talk about in their. Or what happens in their personal life can be shared publicly and the people in their personal life are also a along for the ride and seemingly okay with it.

But I can't imagine that's always the case. And I'm sure we all have horror stories or have heard horror stories of people who've overshared on social media or blogs or podcast or YouTube channel or whatever, and. Their friends or family around them who are drawn into this world that they didn't know they were a part of, or publicly, uh, shamed or otherwise, uh, you know, are similarly, uh, frustrated with them or worse. So that's definitely a hard balance to walk.

Um, I do feel like a podcast, especially if it's a longer form conversation podcast, like what this aims to be. There's a certain amount of like, uh, anonymity in terms of just the length of the show. Someone can't just copy and paste a quick text or it doesn't necessarily come up with a quick Google search, what someone said. Podcasts tend to be, uh, there's obviously exceptions to this, but tend to be more, the content is buried deep.

It's even harder to sort of surface that. It's just the nature of podcast and what it struggles with podcasts is sharing good content from within a show that other people would want to hear, unlike you on YouTube where it's just, you know, it might be a three hour long video, but it's pretty easy to scrub to two minutes and 30 seconds or whatever the timeline is, and see and hear the thing that's funnier, uh, weird or insulting or offensive, or.

But yes, it's definitely good to exercise caution in what you put out onto the internet and the people I would be reaching out to at this point right now are not like living their lives out in public, on the internet, in great, uh, displays of everything going on. And so, um, by that very nature, it's also what makes it them interesting to me to want to talk to because there isn't, as, Public life on display, on the internet.

Um, so it's sort of that catch 22 and of course to anybody considering it who's listening to this right now, uh, whether it's in the future and I've got the show going, or we're talking about just the beta testing idea of the show. Um, just remember that it's not recorded live in the sense that somebody is listening to the recording. And you have ultimate vito power over the show actually ever being published.

And obviously, um, I am very okay with the idea that we might have a conversation, we'll record it, I'll even send it back to you or even before we, I send it back to you, you think, shoot, that is not a good thing for me to, to say publicly in any form. And if that very, the very conversation that we have on about your night brain conversations previously becomes the new thing that you have keeps you up at night. Obviously that's not something I want to do.

So definitely any recording, any conversation that's had around this idea or is it part of a test of this, this podcast, um, you have ultimate veto power and, and even to the point I think at this point anyways, I don't know, we'll see what happens down the road, I guess. But even if something's published and then all of a sudden things start happening that you didn't anticipate, I'm totally fine with pulling an episode. This is not that serious. This is not money.

This is just for interest and hobby and, uh, just keeping up with the, my own podcasting skills and awareness of what it's like to be on this side of the microphone, not just on the editing side. So, again, as you're listening to this, if that interests you, if you wanna be a part of this, uh, just send me a message wherever you can reach me if you know how to reach me, and I'll send you the invite and details and we can get something scheduled.

So this has been a episode of Conversations with My Night Brain, meta Behind the Scenes edition for Thursday, April 13th, 2023. Thanks for listening.