“Learn Me Something” First Episode 3/1/23

This semester I have been taking a podcasting class. In this class we have to create our own show and release episodes weekly. Before our first week I knew I wanted to use this opportunity to interview people in my life that I would like to know more about and ask questions I have always had. As we began to establish our podcasts on whatever domain we choose, I decided to title my show “Learn Me Something”. The point of it is to share other interests and hobbies outside of people’s main occupation and their goals moving forward. 

For my first episode I decided to interview my roommate Aidan. Going into it I felt that I knew Aidan very well as we have a lot of conversations and have been living together for this year. However, I couldn’t have been more wrong. Even from the five years I’ve known him there was so much I didn’t know about Aidan’s early life. I found it extremely fascinating to learn about all the things that made him the person he is today. Along with learning about his life I was able to learn a lot about the field he wants to work in. We had a decently long conversation about politics and the roles within it. For the most part it was all new to me because I don’t even watch or read the news let alone give any of my time to keep up on politics. 

After our 30 minute banter, I was prepared to begin editing and fine tuning the episode when disaster struck. Apparently the entire time we were talking, the mic we were using was muted, leaving me with 30 minutes of silence. Usually, inconveniences like these would send me into a blind rage, but in this situation I had a sigh of relief because I was video recording the podcast on my phone as well. The game plan from here was simple; export the video to an mp3 then submit the audio files. In my mind this was going to be a breeze, but this was not the case. I went through the most grueling process of splitting up the video into parts because the file size was too large which took hours to complete. Frustrated and fed up, I decided not to do anything of the audio editing I intended to do due to the amount of time it took just to turn the video into separate audio files. By that time I just wanted my assignment turned in to avoid falling behind.