Should I Script My Podcast?

August 11, 2016 3:23 pm

If you’ve ever listened to one of my podcasts, you’ll probably know my answer to that question.

Anyone who has time to sit down and script out a podcast probably has time to write his own blog posts as well. At Shortcut Content, we cut out that step for you.

You can usually tell when a podcast has been scripted from its transcription. We don’t speak in complete thoughts or sentences. So if you see a transcription of a podcast that reads very smoothly, chances are it was scripted. It means that they actually wrote a blog post first and their podcast is just a reading of it.

When we interview our experts, we don’t expect them to have it all written out. We want you to be able to spit that content out in a five-minute period so that we can rearrange the content into a blog post for you.

Now, I don’t think that there’s anything wrong with scripting your podcasts. We just like to skip that step. We take your words from the podcast, transcribe them, and then write them out for people to consume as a blog post.

So the answer to the title question? If you’re an expert on your topic, you don’t need to script out your podcast.