Two podcasts one good one not.

The good one is an All Songs Considered interview with Paul McCartney. They wanted to know how he writes songs. He tells us. Stories about being Paul McCartney writing songs. It's intelligent, modest, interesting, curious, and he's someone we know, so we care about his story. 

And The Americans podcast continues to be unusable. So sad because it's such an excellent TV show. I'd like to know what the writers and actors of the show think about the story and the characters. Instead they tend to drift into their own personal idiosyncrasies without stories, and we don't know them so I pretty much always skip out about five or ten minutes into it, wishing they'd get serious and talk about the work they're doing right now that is so well-done and interesting. 

Simple equation. We know the characters they play, not the actors. So let's talk about the spy family and the FBI guy who lives across the street. The actors? We only know them as people who play the parts.

The art of podcasting is pure story-telling. If we know you then your personal anecdotes are interesting. If not, no problem, just tell stories about things we care about.. To the extent that you do, your podcast is worth listening to.