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With the Olympics in progress, the Weekday High Interns thought it appropriate to ask people about their own Olympic moments. You know, those times when you experienced monumental triumph?or failure. Also, should dodgeball be an Olympic sport? Elena Degel reports.
The Weekday High Podcast is a production of the Weekday High School Internship Program from KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio.
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With the Olympics in progress, the Weekday High Interns thought it appropriate to ask people about their own Olympic moments. You know, those times when you experienced monumental triumph?or failure. Also, should dodgeball be an Olympic sport? Elena Degel reports. The Weekday High Podcast is a production of the Weekday High School Internship Program from KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio.
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Scott Meyers
Posted on August 19, 2008 at 11:16 AM | Permalink
Review of Show #7: Audio Gold
What makes Weekday's High pieces so appealing is the "FUBU" factor - For Us By Us. All the Weekday's High pieces features raw youth culture.
In this episode, dubbed appropriately as "Audio Gold", producer's/host's Lillian Warner and Bryce Jacobson tap the Olympic craze by cleverly extending the metaphor into real life by going out in public and asking people for their olympic like moments, moments of triumph and failure (which immediately reminded me of the "momentous occasions" from Jordan Jesse GO! podcasts and Bay area cartoonist Keith Knight's Life's Little Victories column - i.e. getting an impossibly large armload of laundry from the washer to the dryer without dropping anything on the floor").
I was super excited to hear what kind of answers the team was able to conjure up, but to be honest, I was disappointed. Only 3 answers were featured. I really thought a whole show could be dedicated to this theme. After checking out the Weekday High website and blog - which deserves major kudos - I learned that the team had trouble eliciting quality responses. Maybe this presented a perfect opportunity for some fiction?
The second half of the episode featured an audio postcard from a youth reporter at the scene of a dodgeball game. The reporter asks Dodgeball fans and participants why they like the game so much. The answers are hilarious and very raw. Anytime you hear the word "hella" you know its authentically youth and West Coast.
Host's Lillian and Bryce are hilarious throughout the episode! They have a great chemistry. They cue up the segments with hilarious skits and dialogue!
I'll definitely be tuning into Weekday High more often, Lillian and Bryce are just too funny not to. Not to mention the product they put together is quality; chaotic, informal, and fun as hell.