Podcasting advice from a professional listener

I know this won't pertain to many of my readers, but perhaps it will be forwarded to those who need to hear it.

I listen to a lot of podcasts on a daily basis, and I couldn't be more happy with the free information and entertainment that they provide. 

I start my morning with the New York Times Front Page podcast, which summarizes the front and inside sections of the newspaper for me. 

I listen to a handful of NPR and ESPN podcasts for news and sports, a couple of CNET podcasts for technology news, and a bunch of New Yorker and Slate podcasts for political and cultural analysis.

I listen to book related podcasts from sources like Barnes & Noble, the Times, and Books on the Nightstand.

I get my science news from a handful of Scientific American podcasts,the Times weekly science podcast, TED Talks, and RadioLab, a WNYC podcast that I could not recommend more highly.  

And then there are podcasts like This American Life, Diggnation and The Moth, which serve primarily to entertain. 

In all, there are 38 different podcasts that I listen to on a daily, weekly or monthly basis depending on how often they are released. 

And after hundreds, if not thousands of hours of listening, I have come up with a short list of advice for podcasters everywhere.

Here goes:

What All Podcasters Should Keep in Mind Prior to Recording 

1.  We don't care where you record your podcast or the current weather in that locale.  

2.  We don't care about any glitches or technical snafus that took place prior to recording. 

3.  We don't care about the temperature or any other conditions in the room in which you are recording.

4.  We don't care about how tired, sick or jetlagged your are, especially if you have just finished vacationing somewhere or attending a conference that your listeners would have enjoyed attending as well.

5.  We don't care if you have an advertisement somewhere in your podcast as long as you don't continue to talk about the advertisement after is has run.