How to Edit a Podcast

With my internship with In The Record Store, I get to edit a fairly large number of podcast episodes. Since I already know how to edit things pretty intuitively, what I'm learning is really my own process for this kind of thing.
Starting out, I spent way too much time simply listening to the podcast, and when the episodes can max out around an hour and a half, that can take a lot of time. I've gotten way better at eyeballing where conversation threads start and end by looking at the waveforms, and speeding up the playback always helps.

But what's interesting about this internship is this is the first time, interning or otherwise that I'm having a creative input on someone else's content. Editing a podcast, while most of the time you make people simply sound better, you have the power to potentially change what a person is saying by cutting things. There's a fine line to walk here, and I hope Vince and I are able to agree with each other from the get-go.