I finished my brother's interview podcast with his guest on the topic of making axes. The name of the guest is Liam Hoffman who is a 19 year old professional axe smith (if you want to read more about it click this link: http://voiceofsimeon.posthaven.com/editing-a-podcast).
Before I edited my brother's podcast it was about 16 minutes long. And when I finished it it was about 13 minutes long, which means I edited out about 3 minutes! It now sounds like he knows what he is talking about because he does not sound like he needs to think up what to say.
Most of what was edited out was the "uh"s and "um''s and long pauses. I also cut out a part where my brother was talking to Liam when getting ready for the official part of the recording.
What was most annoying about the recording was that on Liam's side of the recording, there was a background scratching noise. I could not get it out. If I tried deleting it, I would delete also what Liam was saying.
I have tried using the paintbrush selection tool in Audition to get out the scratching noise, but I don't know how to use it correctly.
I had to leave the sound in.
My brother might give me another podcast for me to work on, and this will probably be longer than the first one.