Podcasting is simultaneously easy and hard. The easy part is just grabbing a recorder and punching the record button.
The hard part is making your podcast sound good enough for people to come back for more. Few will come back if your content is uninteresting, if you make verbal mistakes throughout your show, and if there's too much noise (hiss, hum, thumps, thuds) in the background. Using a digital recorder is a good start on eliminating hiss and hum. The thumps and thuds are going to need to be taken out.
Verbal flubs (like "uh"), long pauses, shuffling of paper, coughing, sniffling, smacking your lips are also distractions to podcast listeners. If you want listeners to return for your next show, edit out the flubs and extraneous noise. An occasional "uh" may make you sound more natural and like you're not reading a script. But saying it throughout your show sounds unprofessional. Oh, and if you think sounding unprofessional is going to get you listeners, then check out the top 20 podcasts on iTunes. All of them are professionally-produced.
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