You can ask around and find out what the best practices are.
Ten years ago there weren’t true crime podcast best practices.
But now there is a method and a rhythm and an accepted way to put a true crime podcast together. So you don’t need to dream it from the ground up, you just need to study and learn from what’s already happening in the genre.
So two things…
There’s going to be a new thing that needs best practices to be written into the culture.
If the best practices are already written, don’t waste time by trying to figure them out yourself.