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Week #5 Journal


  1. What is your favorite baseball podcast?
  2. What goes into making a great podcast?
  3. What was your favorite baseball interview to do?
  4. What is your process for creating interview questions?
  5. Who is your favorite baseball player?
  6. Why is he your favorite baseball player?
  7. Who is your favorite baseball team?
  8. Why is that your favorite baseball team?



    Here is my script of interview questions for Nate Jones. He is my friend and co-host of Runners in Scoring Position, a baseball podcast that we run together. This features open-ended and close-ended questions to highlight different interview questions.

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