Silent Host Facilitation: How Visual Agreement Improves Podcast Edits and Guest Video Views

So I listened to a lot of startup video, right? Like people who are just starting their show for the first time, they've got their video running, they've got their audio going and they're starting their shows and they're doing interviews and they're doing it for the first time.

And I get to hear that.

And in it, I'm seeing a pattern of some things that I wanna point out to you that might be something for you to think about.

First is that I know we all wanna be in agreement.

We really wanna, in our normal conversation, we say things like, Yeah.

And yes, definitely.

Like, you know, we want to encourage our guests to continue the conversation, to keep going with what they're doing.

The problem with doing that is if we're doing video, we have a flip going on of the video.

So in other words, sometimes we have our videos side by side in what they call gallery view, and our video will be highlighted every time we say something.

So if our guest is speaking and then we interject and say, yeah, then our video all of a sudden highlights and the eye is drawn across and away from our guest to us.

If we're doing a speaker view and lots of us do it, that's the format that I personally use.

And when we do a speaker view, it means who's ever speaking at that time is getting highlighted.

So if the person is speaking and all of a sudden I go, yes.

then I will interject.

And even though they're still speaking, you're looking at me at that moment.

And then it goes back to them again, right? So it's kind of disruptive on the video.

On the audio side of things, of course, if you're doing two-track recording and everything, it can get cut.

And especially if you're a podetized customer, we're doing all of that for you.

And it's not as distracting in the audio version of it.

But in the video version, it is.

And so I highly recommend and it is actually good podcasting practice for you to just be nodding and to take out those yeses and affirmations that we do when our guest is speaking, that if we truly have something to say, we need to have a more elaborate sentence, something that we're going to comment on and say, I absolutely agree with you and I want you to dive a little bit deeper.

Tell us about this.

So now we're extending that conversation and we're giving that agreement, but we're also asking for more.

That's a great way to do it and interject and bring more to the conversation.

And now there's a good reason for you to have highlighted it.