@Mariano Guerra — You're the first to ask (<3), and no, I haven't talked about it anywhere.
I used to play in bands, and have recorded a few dozen albums (
eg), so I've accumulated a lot of music..
stuff. I have ~hundreds of instruments (and "instruments") packed into every nook and cranny of my office and around my house. So while working on my editing process for the podcast, I also just naturally started making unique intros/outros/stingers for every episode.
I have an Ableton Live project called "Startup Chime" that has roughly a hundred layers, and I just bash on sounds in there for an hour or so each time I do a new episode. I've settled on a core set of samples that I base the sound design on, so that it feels
somewhat tonally consistent across all the episodes. But that's the only consistency I'm really aiming for — I don't have a particular mood or "genre" that the sound design should have. It's just whatever I gravitate toward when prepping an episode. I also don't bother saving a copy of this project or whatever — I just open it up in whatever state it was in when I left it, mess around with what's there until it's similar but different, and then save out a render. Repeat that a few times, and boom: 2-6 sound cues for an episode.