Would You Try?

I had a random thought while listening to a podcast the other day: would I make any type of interesting guest for someone to have on?

This was a serious thought that I had. Not because I think of myself as any bit interesting outside of my specific focus of work, but overall - would I be able to contribute to a podcast episode that somebody has? This was a really fascinating thought experiment for me!

I know that I write quite a bit on Hive - some of it is pretty bland and dry, other bits of it are a little bit entertaining perhaps, but overall it's mostly just me and my thoughts. I was thinking about expanding myself though, and trying to figure out different ways to get content out there - hobby type of content. Then I was thinking: what type of podcast would I even try to go on?

I don't think I could be interesting enough for a big podcast, with plenty of names out there, but some of the smaller ones? Perhaps, but what the hell would I talk about? I am pretty good at my job and career - but it's not exactly something I am well known for in that community itself. I have some decent local impacts but am I driving big change in the space? Not really, so if that's not the direction, then what would be?

I think it's an interesting bit of self reflection to try and think of things like this. I know that I don't really like to hear myself talk, despite doing it all day every day for work. Can I figure out something to talk about that is not garbage for an hour, two hours to a podcast audience? That's definitely a daunting task but I think that I would like to try it one day.

Podcasts have definitely changed the world in the last 5-7 years. The legacy media doesn't have the stranglehold on information that it used to and it's because of podcasts. Sure there are gigantic ones like Joe Rogan but there are also dozens of smaller ones that I listen to and thoroughly enjoy. It's better than watching a movie for me, in all honesty.

I used to love to comb through the History Channel, Discovery Channel and (when it was actually "learning") the Learning Channel as a kid. I certainly enjoyed anime shows like Dragon Ball but I much preferred to learn more about the world through those educational mediums than I did other things. Listening to podcasts for me is a way for me to keep that old flame alive in my mind.

I wonder if I'm a bit too all-over the place with the bits of information that I have about some topics such as the importance of methylation of vitamin B in the brain, or the exercises that we can do to strengthen our eye muscles depending on the issue we are having. Do any of these things connect? Does any of it make it a worthy episode for a podcast to have on? Certainly all kinds of things that I've been tossing around the old noggin!

I think it's important to just ponder these things. These are the hard questions that I think move brain synapses and try to keep things elastic which is really important for our brains as we get older!

If you had a chance to be a guest on a podcast: would you try?