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Everybody Has a Podcast (Except You) by Justin McElroy & Travis McElroy & Griffin McElroy | 253 pages I'll admit, I didn't expect this to be a how-to podcast book. I've followed the McElroys for a while now (their Adventure Zone podcast was one of the first live-play TTRPG podcasts I listened to), and I know they've been in the podcasting space for forever, but I kind of assumed this would be more like a memoir or a satirical type of book. I got it from the library and pulled it off the shelf on a whim, so I admittedly didn't spend a ton of time thoroughly looking through it before grabbing it and checking it out. Like many how-to books about a technical topic, I think this book is going to age both well and poorly depending on what topic we're discussing. Written in 2021, the book already has some dated references to things like podcast hosting platforms and production tools and fundraising techniques that will naturally get outdated year over year. But it also has some "evergreen" advice for prospective podcasters about how to conceptualize the show, the general checklist of items in the production process, etc. The brothers are also very funny, so the book was filled with humorous asides and commentary that made the read a breeze. If I had one complaint about the book, it would be that most of the advice was very clearly geared toward podcasts like theirs (i.e., unscripted, off-the-cuff, very little research, and mostly for pure entertainment purposes). They even say at several points that they don't know how to (or aren't good at) making other kinds of podcast content and then just kind of guess at what might be needed for those more involved topics, so it was a little disappointing to read a book ostensibly about podcasting in general but having it then really be mostly about "how to make an entertainment podcast." That said, this was a fun read and for anyone thinking about starting a podcast, and covers a lot of the stuff a newer podcaster might not think about before they dive in. |
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