r/audiodramas

I have a serialized show (Vaso & Vibes: A Nursing Thriller Podcast) and each season is a different storyline, though it weaves in key subjects and aspects from the prior season (I just got started two months ago, for perspective). I am thinking of having guests on after a plot plays out and a season effectively wraps up. Like some of my friends in nursing or medicine or just my friends to discuss the season. This would serve to maintain my episode uploading schedule while I create content for the upcoming season. Has anyone else done this? If so, did the diversity of changing up the podcast style have a positive, negative, or indifferent impact on your audience response or stats?