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Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q came out, there was some sort of disdain with online, and there was a distinction between print and online, and I think if you're smart, that distinction no longer exists. But in the podcast world, it sounds to me like, at least from what I hear from other people, it still does. Will it always, because of this, what you describe and how you built, 99% invisible, do you think?
A I don't, I think it exists a little less now than it used to. So I think for a while, I only know this from my personal experience. So when people ask me what I do, I have a hard time talking about it in person. I basically engineered my life of talking to people and talking on the radio because I have a hard time talking to people in real life. And so, and so, um, I'll say, you know, I'm a journalist or I'm a public radio producer. I still say that in the past year or so, I've been saying I'm a podcaster, and that's something about five years ago, that would have killed me to say out loud. There's something about it that I think is already changing, and I think, like, I think we owe a lot to Serial in that effect. I mean, that was just the biggest show. It didn't matter that it was podcast. It was just the biggest show in town. I don't think that there's this notion that it's risky to go into podcasting, that it's lesser than I think it feels like the most exciting thing. I think it's equivalent to the kind of the startup world where, you know, you could have had a, you know, a great job at IBM or something, but there's something amazing about doing something on your own and, and working like crazy at it and building your own thing. And I think that people across all media respect that and across the world at large too.
AI assessment note: “I don't, I think it exists a little less now than it used to.”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.30
Q Roman, you were at Public Radio here in, in the Bay Area, and they made this shift, and did the shift kind of, was it conscious, did it happen to you, or did you happen to it?
A I would say mostly it happened to me. 99% invisible started as a little four and a half minute drop in that KLW in San Francisco would put in their morning edition. And I did about four or five episodes. I had a Tumblr page, which just had a, you know, like where you could stream them, uh, and listen to them. And I would send them to my friends and say, you should listen to my new little show. It's four minutes long. You'll like it. And they were like, I'm not going to listen to you. Fucking Tumblr. And they're like, you should put it as a podcast. And so I did, you know, I did it that way. Is it just a distribution tool? And it really found an audience in the design and architecture world pretty quickly. I mean, I knew that it could occupy that space well because no one was doing the types of stories I liked. You know, I had this notion, I guess, that it would be out in the world, the larger than just being on KLW. And this was, you know, I just celebrated our fifth anniversary. So this was before the, the recent sort of groundswell of support for podcasting.
AI assessment note: “I would say mostly it happened to me. 99% invisible started as a little”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.30
Q came out, there was some sort of disdain with online, and there was a distinction between print and online, and I think if you're smart, that distinction no longer exists. But in the podcast world, it sounds to me like, at least from what I hear from other people, it still does. Will it always, because of this, what you describe and how you built, 99% invisible, do you think?
A I don't, I think it exists a little less now than it used to. So I think for a while, I only know this from my personal experience. So when people ask me what I do, I have a hard time talking about it in person. I basically engineered my life of talking to people and talking on the radio because I have a hard time talking to people in real life. And so, and so, um, I'll say, you know, I'm a journalist or I'm a public radio producer. I still say that in the past year or so, I've been saying I'm a podcaster, and that's something about five years ago, that would have killed me to say out loud. There's something about it that I think is already changing, and I think, like, I think we owe a lot to Serial in that effect. I mean, that was just the biggest show. It didn't matter that it was podcast. It was just the biggest show in town. I don't think that there's this notion that it's risky to go into podcasting, that it's lesser than I think it feels like the most exciting thing. I think it's equivalent to the kind of the startup world where, you know, you could have had a, you know, a great job at IBM or something, but there's something amazing about doing something on your own and, and working like crazy at it and building your own thing. And I think that people across all media respect that and across the world at large too.
AI assessment note: “I don't, I think it exists a little less now than it used to.”
