How Teenagers Learned to Make Podcasts

Speaker 1
Sure. So between recording part one and part two, I went to the Blue Ridge Mountains for a week. I was in Madison County, Marshall, North Carolina teaching a group of rising ninth graders how to make podcasts. And it was so nourishing and so fun and such a great reminder of everything that being a teenage girl involves the good, the bad, the amazing, but not so amazing. Every part of it was, it was really
Speaker 2
great. That is so cool that you did that. How were they? Like podcast, like do teens listen to podcasts or podcasts cool or podcast dorky or podcasts. I mean, obviously everyone there knew what they were getting into unless, you know, they were dragged by someone to keep the mockupite in the summer. But could you get a general sense, like vibe of what they thought of the medium? Yeah.
Speaker 1
All of the girls I was working with definitely knew what podcasts were. They all listened to podcasts. Some of them are really into comedy podcasts. Others were more into like fictionalized podcasts. One of them was listening to a bunch of like D&D podcasts, which is a whole genre of podcasts that I know is really big that I've never really dove into. But yeah, they really loved it. I think that they also, I was impressed. They listened to a lot of podcasts on Spotify and then they watched a lot of podcasts on YouTube. Like I read all the like Edison research reports that are like Gen Z exclusively does podcast on YouTube. And I was happy to find it was a mix of both. And so it was a little bit of a little bit of everything, but they definitely really love podcasts and really love the form and really just we're excited to create something of their
Speaker 2
own. That's cool. Do they not use the podcast app though, like the Apple one? Yeah.

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