I feel I need to comment on an annoying trend with podcasts...
For the last couple of years I've been getting invitations to be interviewed on podcasts only to be told by the podcaster that I'll have to pay a $20 fee to be interviewed. Excuse me? What the fuck! These fucks are expecting me to pay them to be interviewed for THEIR show! The fact is they are lucky I'm not asking to be paid to do the interview. You think any of those Hollywood assholes would pay a podcaster to be on their podcast? Fuck no! So why would these fucktards think they can expect a fee from me?
I've been running podcasts for over 20 years and I would never insult a prospective guest by daring to ask them to pay me for the chance to be on my show. Who the fuck am I? Hell no! If anything I've felt blessed to have these extraordinary people do me the honor of taking time from their work to grace my show with their presence...and for free so I'm doubly blessed. I've built relationships with these people over the years. They help me by giving me content and I help them with free promotion and a format to talk in a relaxed and friendly venue. That is FAR better than being a greedy bastard using artistic people to fill his pockets at THEIR expense.
One last thing, don't "invite" me and ask to be paid because you will get paid by me ripping you a new asshole and calling you the asshole you are.
This shit is as bad as the complete losers I've dealt with in podcasting who have invited me, wasted my time doing an interview, and then not posting it and deleting it. Then these fuckers have acted like I'm the asshole because I got mad about it...Hello Michael J... Nope, podcasters should be respectful of their guests...Period. And it goes both ways...So remember that!