[yurymik]

Hi Adam! I really enjoy listening to your podcast, but if I may I have some feedback:

* Every time your guest specializes on something low-level - like Rebecca Heineman from most recent episode, David Shayer from last year, and others - you keep saying "yeah, this is a very complicated subject and I don't understand anything about it". Everyone has they own area of expertise, no one knows everything - and that's OK. But when you as a host constantly put yourself down, it leaves a very strange impression on the listener: "well then, invite someone who does".

* When you do a voice over for the interview and queue interviewee responses - the whole sequence feels doctored. It just doesn't sound as a normal conversation, more like out of context clips forced into pre-made narrative. Again, I'm not saying it _is_ out of context, it just feels that way.

Please don't take these two the wrong way, you're doing great job.

Also, I would love to support the show and you seem to have a Patreon account, but prices there are a bit too steep for a casual listener: $6/14.50/36 per month (that's in Canadian dollars). For example, semi-weekly Darknet Diaries has $3/7.50/14.50 tiers.

In the last episode you've announced bonus content with Rebecca, but there's not even an announcement on the Patreon page and it's not clear what tier would allow access to it.

Sorry for the rant, but I hope it provides outside perspective and you might find it useful.

[adamgordonbell]

Hey!

Thanks for listening. The podcast being narrative, I've gotten complaints about the before, but my feelig is there are so many straight interview podcasts out there. If you don't like the narration then there are lots of other alternatives.

Now, it could be that I'm bad at narration. That could totally be true and probably I could improve, but it's a narrative podcast.

All content is available to all patreons. Rebecca bonus episode is not out yet. I should post more details and explanation about how that works but bonus episodes episodes come out on the 15th.

Me not knowing low level stuff is true, so im not sure about that feedback. To me I think admission of my lack of knowledge in an area is good and I'd like to talk about the things I don't know or my vulnerabilities more often.

Again, maybe I do it badly, but I think its good to be ok not knowing something and asking questions about it.