There are podcasts, and then there are podcasts. We produce a little thing you might be familiar with called EarBurner. Part of the reason we record it in a bar is because we promised ourselves when we started the podcast that we wouldn’t bog down with editing. The ambient noise of the Old Monk makes editing pretty impossible. If someone says something reprehensible or just plain stupid, it stays in the show. Well, except for that one time when the comedian Paul Varghese was a guest. Things got a little out of hand. Mistakes were made. Editing became necessary.
Anyway, there’s the way we do it, and then there’s this new KERA podcast with Seema Yasmin and Lauren Silverman. It is being tested for a possible national rollout by National Public Radio. The first episode of the unnamed show is about the Chicago Tylenol murders of 1982. The women did a lot of reporting for this thing. And the production is topnotch. I can only imagine how many hours of editing went into it.
It’s worth a listen. And every spin will help convince NPR that the show deserves to be picked up.
