The Variety Podcasting Brunch at SXSW featured a live-taping of the podcast Awards Circuit, with Sean Evans, host of “Hot Ones”; Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal, the hosts of “Good Mythical Morning“; and Marques Brownlee, host of “Waveform Podcast” in a panel discussion about how they are trailblazing storytelling and fan engagement across popular talk shows and podcasts.
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00:00My point is that we learn to invite celebrities into that environment where
00:05we're legitimately giving each other shit or connecting with each other and
00:10sharing it with that one mythical beast on the other side of the lens and I
00:16think that's what they're tapping into.
00:18Well I think it helps, you know, you can tell when someone has watched the show
00:24obviously if they are already a fan it makes a huge difference and then the
00:29fans really pick up on that. I mean some of the best, you know, Post Malone has
00:32been on twice and the first time he showed up, you know, we had heard that he
00:38was a fan but you always hear that because there are people say that
00:41they're a fan. That's just so you're just like well I'll take that with a grain of
00:44salt but when he showed up and he was calling out people behind the scenes
00:47producers by name who maybe been on the show a few times really oh actually he
00:51is a fan he was like yeah I watch it before I go to bed every night and so
00:55then it was just like it was like three friends hanging out and so those are the
01:01those are the best interactions when it's somebody who really understands the
01:05ethos of the show and our friendship.