Guests With Noisy Spouses in the Next Room

It’s very unfortunate when a podcast guest has a spouse in the next room who is coughing, moving stuff around, making noise, dropping things, opening squeaky doors, closing doors, etc. And it’s especially horrendous when the guest is using their onboard computer microphone!

Truth: Most people don’t realize that ANY noise that’s happening around them is going to be picked up by the microphone, and that those noises WILL end up ON the actual podcast episode.

In my most recent experience with this situation I had to interrupt the recording mid-episode and ask the guest to please ask his spouse to not make so much noise in the next room, but the guest didn’t want to / couldn’t find the guts to actually ask the spouse to be more quiet. Hmmm. Luckily the noise didn’t completely ruin the episode audio.

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