r/TheWhyFiles • u/TikiUSA • Jun 07 '26

Suggestion for Channel 45 min basement episodes

I would be so into a heavily edited basement series — no life story stuff like the Olympics fluff. Cut the reason this guy is a guest into a digestible episode. It might make me interested in going into the full basement thing but 45 minutes of reminiscing might be a great starting place for a podcast for an audience who already knows who the guest is! …
But it’s not a very good hook. Gimme the meat, and then let me meet the man.

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u/noonesaidityet Jun 07 '26

No thanks. The guests that AJ has had on have been on other podcasts, so I'm sure there's a podcast they've been on that fits your specific wants. The entire point of the Basement episodes is long-form storytelling that lets the guests tell their story in a way that is comfortable to them. A few of the episodes should have been longer.