Studio or Comfy Chair to Podcast from?

the answer is probably both, but it depends on the type of Podcast you are trying to record. With a single presented Podcast - with occasional Skype or Facetime interviews, you are better off in a smaller space that you have sound treated, with soft furnishings and if possible some foam acoustic tiles.

Tiles are cheap to buy, lightweight and easy to put up temporarily onto a sheet of mdf or permanently by sticking directly to a wall.

Traditional acoustic treatment usually involved RW3 a slab-based Rockwool but you need to have more construction skills and the product is quite heavy and an irritant to skin.

If you are producing a Podcast with a couple of guests, first of all try not to have more than 3 people total in a discussion otherwise it gets confusing for the listener. Go for a comfy chair, plenty of soft furnishings and gather everyone around a single good quality omnidirectional microphone.

If you have the technical skills the very best and most professional way would be to have everyone on an individual microphone, connected to a mixer and then record to your computer, but you can get fairly good results just by finding a nice quiet room full of soft furnishings.

You can still opt to temporarily hang some of those acoustic tiles on the wall - they will really help with the intelligibility and clarity of your Podcast. Next time I will be talking about what the Queen of England has to do with making great Podcasts.