The Radiolab of Travel Podcasts - The Armchair Explorer

2021-03-10

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Aaron Millar's Armchair Explorer Podcast will delight Radiolab fans who love to travel! (Millar is pronounced like Americans pronounce "Miller.") In this podcast, you'll learn: Aaron Millar's origins How Millar took the leap of faith of becoming a writer and then a podcaster Why and how Millar integrates music in his podcast Why Steven Dubner, the host of the Freakanomics podcast, heavily edits his podcast - and why Millar does it. Difference between video and audio st...

Aaron Millar's Armchair Explorer Podcast will delight Radiolab fans who love to travel!

(Millar is pronounced like Americans pronounce "Miller.")

In this podcast, you'll learn:

Aaron Millar's origins
How Millar took the leap of faith of becoming a writer and then a podcaster
Why and how Millar integrates music in his podcast
Why Steven Dubner, the host of the Freakanomics podcast, heavily edits his podcast - and why Millar does it.
Difference between video and audio storytelling
What telling someone about Bob Dylan lyrics says about you
The power of pacing & pauses
How long it takes Millar to produce a 30-minute podcast
How can you find the courage to make a radical career shift?
What is FOPO?
Dolly Parton's wise saying
One of the joys of travel

I listen to most podcasts at 1.3 to 2.0 times faster than normal so I can be productive and efficient at cramming information into my skull.

If you also do that, do me a favor and take a break from that habit on this particular podcast episode.

Why?

Because speeding up music ruins it. I spend many hours integrating music for your listening pleasure. Besides, I edited out 60% of my one-hour interview. Therefore, in a sense, it's already sped up!

As a bonus, I'm Beta Testing a new segment called...

Question of the Week!

To debut the question, I have a question about viruses, especially the Coronavirus.