The Unspeakable Podcast with Meghan Daum

No Harm In Asking

Many podcasters have decided that the road to success lies in the discussion of controversial and taboo topics. But does it?

Indeed, Meghan Daum is not afraid to talk about the “unspeakable”, including her own challenges with monetizing her podcast.

In this episode Mike and Eric review "The Unspeakable Podcast" where Meghan conducts candid, free-ranging interviews with artists, entertainers, journalists, scientists, scholars, and anyone else who’s willing to do the “unspeakable” and question prevailing cultural and moral assumptions.

If you choose to name your podcast “The Unspeakable” (or something similar), how controversial must your content be? Can you occasionally stray from this? Is the contentious element clearly obvious to the listener? If you decide to interview two guests at once, do you understand why and how these two guests will both add value to the discussion you’re trying to have? If you have a deeper and longer history with one of the guests, does this imbalance affect the interview? These questions and more are discussed in this podcast which is worth a listen particularly to see how engaged Meghan gets with her guests, and if this interaction could be improved upon.

For this review we will focus on Meghan’s November 1, 2021 episode: Bitter Homes and Gardens: Larry Clarke and Fielding Edlow on Staying Afloat, Staying in Love, and Staying Insured in Hollywood.

This episode can be found here:

https://www.theunspeakablepodcast.com/podcast/episode/2fc511a9/bitter-homes-and-gardens-larry-clarke-and-fielding-edlow-on-staying-afloat-staying-in-love-and-staying-insured-in-hollywood

We also talk about Meghan’s struggles with monetization and how much we enjoyed her very candid self-reflection in this episode:

https://www.theunspeakablepodcast.com/podcast/episode/e5dcaeef/why-this-show-is-a-failure-a-song-of-joy-and-peace