Adam: I don't think there's any need to edit out anyone's "colorful" language in any of the interviews. Let them say what they want to say!
To clarify I never ask anyone to
not say anything, I just edit out some stuff out. At this point I may stop editing so heavily.
The reason I began is because I got much more feedback from the first two episodes about language than I ever would have expected. The criticisms ranged from: 'you sound unprofessional', to [basically] 'it bums me out please don't do it'. Feedback came from anonymous folks as well as a couple of people whose names I knew and respected. I didn't want something that is such a non-issue to me (Say whatever you want! Who cares?!) to become an impediment to listeners.
When I talked to Garrett he said the same thing happened with early issues of TapeOp, and that some people just stop listening once a curse word enters the conversation. But a podcast isn't print & I have to maintain the continuity of the conversation to make it listenable.
I appreciate that avoiding 'colorful language' in media is important to some people, but some interviewees sound ridiculous being that heavily edited. Since this isn't radio I don't want to ask anyone to censor themselves at all.
I think my position is evolving from "I don't want to alienate anyone" to "If a little cussing stops you from listening to an interview with Dave McNair...well...I hope you catch the next episode."