How do you start a podcast that’s about making a podcast?

For us (Jake, Ryan and Fin), we ‘start’ this podcast almost a year into a what-should-we-make-a-podcast-about? journey. This “episode 1” is actually episode 14, recorded only once we found our proverbial North Star and were able to articulate--for ourselves and listeners--what this show was going to be about.

So what’s it about?

In the end, we found that our podcast wasn’t about making a podcast at all; this podcast became about meeting people outside of our typical ‘circle’, asking them thoughtful questions and listening intently to the answers, and finding out that everyone has a gripping story if you’re willing to hear it.

We hope you enjoy listening to our journey of learning all of this through talking to some incredibly interesting normal people.

Highlights

[2:09] How it took us *a year* to record Episode 1

[4:02] Why Jake wanted to do this in the first place

[6:07] How it started as one thing and ended up as another

[7:46] The Secret Name of the Show

[9:53] Why Holdeman joined Jake’s Show (and why he loves watching Fin eat tacos while recording)

[12:06] Why Fin joined Jake’s Show (beyond eating tacos)

[13:49] Why Jake joined Jake’s Show and what he’s been learning along the journey

[19:23] Why “The Interesting Lives of Normal People”?

[28:45] How we (Holdeman) made the logo

[33:16] What to expect from Season 1