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One Year Later: Reflecting on Project 2028 and Where We are Going · Project 2028

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hello and welcome to this episode of project
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2028 today is our anniversary episode we've been
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officially doing this podcast for one year this
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is also the mark of a new season So I hope you
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enjoyed our new intro music. Today we are going
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to be focusing on nothing political. We are going
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to be talking about things that have happened
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in the past year, things that we hope to happen
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in the future, and where we're going as a podcast
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in general. We're also going to talk a little
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bit about ourselves, the three of us, Ryan, Luchana,
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and myself. And yeah, it's just going to be a
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good, fun, short... episode, and I hope you enjoy.
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Okay, the first thing that we are going to take
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a look at is what has happened with our podcast
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in the past year, and I think one of the main
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things that we really have changed from is not
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only the overly scripted version of our podcast
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that you can see. That took way too long to produce.
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Yeah, that you can see in our original trailer,
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which apparently we're looking right now. It
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might not be up. It's on Apple Podcasts, but
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not Spotify. Thank God it's not up. If anyone
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really wants to walk down memory lane. It is
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quite a trip. And I remember our first couple
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episodes, we would go and we would sit for like
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three hours. And we would get one episode done
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and it would be torture. We would pause. We would
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like pre -edit everything. So now we just, you
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know, if there's something we want to take out,
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do it in post. And we used to stop our audio
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recording, go back, revisit, or like... undo
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whatever we just said and record over it that
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was chaos it took way too long way too long we
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were editing out so much that we probably didn't
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need to edit out there was no flow it was heavily
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no reliant and i even think like this was happening
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honestly pretty pretty recently i think our past
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i don't know seven episodes about have been pretty
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good um a lot more banter a lot more um like
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just Engagement from us. Yeah. On that respect.
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But really before that, it was quite the show.
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But that's kind of the best part about this.
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We get to learn. We get to discover a better
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way to do things. And this is definitely a better
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format for us. So over the year, we have had
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a lot of different topics we've discussed about.
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And a lot of super important events have happened.
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And so Lutron is just going to take you through
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a couple of them. Okay, so I think one of the
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things that worked really well for us was that
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we started on an election year, which gave us
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something to start off with, to be building towards,
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which helped with a lot of... content towards
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the start so we definitely talked a ton about
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that we had stuff about like vice president candidates
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then we talked about all the debates um we talked
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about project 2025 a ton i'm trying to think
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there were the a couple attempted assassinations
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um we talked a lot about those then we had some
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Oh, my gosh. We had three different episodes
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on the Democratic National Convention. And then
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we had our first debate on gun violence. Which
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we have not followed yet, even though, you know,
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I think we should. This debate was quite something.
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Yeah, I really liked it. Then this one was actually,
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I think, my favorite episode. Or, like, my favorite
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gimmick, I guess, that we did. We've done, like,
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a couple little games, predictions. Mine was
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the election prediction. I loved that. um that
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was fun we talked a bit about like the israel
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palestine um russia ukraine conflicts as they
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developed over the year and then when the election
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happened i think we did honestly a pretty good
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job at covering that right up until the day it
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happened we actually all watched the election
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together not only that we participated in our
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one and definitely only instagram live that night
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oh it's quite memorable it was definitely memorable
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maybe for a thousand instagram followers we'll
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do another one yeah that's get us to a thousand
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that's quite the goal um Yeah, I mean, it's kind
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of crazy. I've thought about it just a bit from,
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you know, where we've gone. Sorry if my voice
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sounds bad, by the way. Just got my wisdom teeth
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removed. Oh, yeah. I'm all swollen. I look like
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a chipmunk if you're listening to audio, which
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you are. You know, I think, especially the thing
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that was, you know, it's kind of been where we've
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been going. And I will kind of mention this to
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the more, not more opinionated, but more banter.
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Because, look, you can get your news, I think.
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And your facts from anyone. And you can get them
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better than us. You can get them more factual
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than us. You can get them quicker, much quicker
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than we can. So basically don't listen to our
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podcast is what Ryan's saying. Find a better,
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more reputable source. No, there are much better
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and more reputable sources. What Ryan's trying
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to say is we realize what's appealing about us
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as we are young. teenagers we are the youth of
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america and we are super interested in this and
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our opinion is what makes our podcast more valuable
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to you guys and so by leaning more heavily into
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that we are not only doing a better service to
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you guys as you know spend sitting and listening
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for the hour But we're also doing a better job
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for us in expressing our values and opinions
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and beliefs to other people and trying to not
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convince you, but to provide a better understanding
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as to where the youth of America are sitting.
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Obviously, we don't speak for majority, but we're,
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you know, ourselves. people share our beliefs
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and our values, or maybe they don't and they
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don't know anything about what's happening, which
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is another important reason to have people like
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us speaking out about topics because it makes
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the space a little more welcoming by having someone
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your age also talk about things that you, you
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know, want to get into. I also think we have,
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I think we definitely have some similar, I'd
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say we have similar values. And politics, but
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differences of opinions on matters, which I think
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helps educate people on a wider range of perspectives.
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I think one of my favorite things about our podcast
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is that it helps people to think critically because
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we provide facts and then also opinions on both
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sides. Yeah. Especially in the future. I mean,
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I think we share differing policy objectives.
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I think underlying, we all have... relatively
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comparable principles, but I think the policy
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differences and just the pros and cons that we
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talk about more selectively than the other person
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or whatever, it's going to give you the information
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as ideally someone who wants to learn a bit.
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They'll help them at least make a choice. We
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try to keep everything factual as much as we
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can. Obviously, there's slip -ups sometimes,
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data that's not sourced correctly or whatever,
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but I think we've done a pretty good job so far,
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and I think... We're only trying to get better
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at it when it comes to that thing. But is there
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anything else we want to talk about before I
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do a quick segue into production quality? I guess
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enough about us. Let's talk about some of you
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guys. So we have had, you know, people listening
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from over 150 different cities throughout the
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U .S. and other places, including Evanston, Chicago,
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St. Louis, Lombard. Ryan's family representing
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us from Canada. By the way, quite fun. They show
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you exact location where it's downloaded. I'm
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not sure how much I trust it, but one of our
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episodes, I looked, was downloaded inside the
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GRU, which is the Russian Domestic Intelligence
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Agency. It tells you that much? Yeah, I'm not
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sure how much I trust it though. Wow. I think
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it's like triangular. So I'm not sure what it
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how to get it Maybe office three cell towers.
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We've even gone international. We've had yes
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very we've had downloads from Tanzania Tanzania
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so from Africa from Central America Panama many
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from China Yeah, I gotta love the bots. Um, we've
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had some from Italy And, of course, other places,
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which is super exciting for us. It just means
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we're kind of, you know. Expanding. Expanding
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a little bit. And, you know, it might just be
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you guys traveling. But it's nice to know that
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you're taking us with you. And you're spending
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your vacation or even your work business trip
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on, you know. At least. Listening to us. Listening
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to children talk about politics. We have downloads
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in every continent except Antarctica. Well, we
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got to corner them next. But a way that we can
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spread this even more is through production quality.
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Hopefully, as we talked about earlier, the trailer,
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the first episode, frankly, was horrible. It
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was really bad. Audio quality was bad. It was
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scripted. It was just bad. It was a learning
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experience. I think Ryan wrote the script. It
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was a learning experience and it was horrible.
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I wrote a beautiful script that got vetoed. I
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don't remember any of this. It was bad. But it
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was really bad. And the audio quality is horrible.
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And hopefully what you're listening to right
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now is pretty good. We have mics that are of
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moderate expense on ourselves. Maybe in the future
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we can get even better mics, better quality mics.
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I want, like, the standee mics that all the,
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like, Instagram podcasts. You know, production
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quality -wise, I think we're only getting better.
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I've became quite a master of both Riverside,
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which is our online production software, and
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GarageBand and Logic, along with Elle, who has
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also edits probably the other half of the podcast.
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You know, the software has gotten better. It's
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getting better. It's getting updates. And we
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are hopefully getting better. So that was kind
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of just a... A little rant on production quality.
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I guess it's time to talk about us a little bit.
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Obviously, most of you listening know one of
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us, or maybe you've met one of the others. And
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if you haven't met any of us, hi, welcome. But
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I guess we should talk a little bit about ourselves.
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So, LaTrona, do you want to start us off? Sure,
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I would love to. I'm Luchana. I know Ryan and
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Elle from middle school. We all went to the same
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middle school. And I don't really know what I'm
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supposed to say. It happens to be on your screen.
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Okay. I am passionate about social justice and
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politics. I work with... I work with women in
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prison to help them learn life skills. So I'm
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really passionate about making sure that education
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about politics is accessible to all, which is
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why I really love our podcast because it makes
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it more reachable for younger people. Outside
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of the podcast, I row and I ride horses, and
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I really like reading. running, and baking. And
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I would have to say that my favorite episode...
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What is my favorite episode? We can get back.
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Will needs to come back to me on that one. That'll
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be the last thing we share when we go through.
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Yeah. If you don't know me, I'm Ryan. Sorry.
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I am 15. I met them at school. As Lutron said,
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I was in middle school. I talked with Elle occasionally
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about politics. I talked with a few people about
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politics, and we'll talk about how the podcast
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came to be a bit later. But that's how we all
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kind of met. I got into politics, man, it's been
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a while. From a young age, to say the least.
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I was mainly originally interested in economic
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stuff and economics podcasts that I listened
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to. Planet Money, shout out. Politics kind of
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just came into the mix. I've been alive only
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for so long, so I only have such an extent of
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politics that really stretches back to the start
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of the Trump administration when I started getting
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into it. So that's kind of where my knowledge
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started. I got into it just from... How old were
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you at the start of the Trump administration?
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Six. You were six? Yeah. Ryan, that's insane.
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I don't think you know what the average six -year
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-old is doing, but it's not... Very vague ideas.
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They don't know general various things. They're,
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like, playing with worms and, like, eating rocks.
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Look, I was not, like, in the... What kind of
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six -year -olds are you meeting? Really invested
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at that point. But that was, you know, the time
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in which, you know, I started getting... It just
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kind of shaped the way I think about stuff. I
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joined a podcast. This was an idea that we floated
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around. It was kind of just a joking idea. Like,
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oh, we argue so much, this should be a podcast.
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You know, favorite episode? Is that for later?
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I have my favorite. Shit, go ahead. I thought
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it was really fun. Go ahead. I thought, I like
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debate. I really do. And I think it, I thought
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the debate episode was super fun. I enjoyed it.
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You know, I, that's kind of it. I mean, like,
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I thought it was a really great episode. You
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know, it got a few views and, like, it's one
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of our better episodes. It's not the best, but
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it's one of the better ones. I think. Rightly
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so, because I think debate's very interesting.
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Ryan, what about your hobbies? You do not talk
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any bit about your hobbies. Hobbies? I didn't
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even see that, man. Biking, exercise. I read
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a lot about politics, local politics, national
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level politics. I am very interested in legal
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precedent. I read a lot about that kind of thing
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when it comes to... Looking either online or
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getting little journals about legal opinions.
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I find that stuff immensely interesting. It's
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where a lot of my reading time is spent. Other
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than that, swimming takes up a lot of my time.
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I like to just kind of maintain a healthy life
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with a lot of... exercise, but you're also getting
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in some intellectual rigor. I know it's taking
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a while. I don't really have much else to say.
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I kind of wine -sided. I forgot the whole hobbies
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thing, but that's the extent of it. I'll jump
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in here. Okay. Hi, I'm Elle. My hobbies consist
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of, gosh, okay, I like to sew. I like to read.
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Anything really artsy -crafty is kind of something
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I'm super into. I play tennis. I like to go on
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walks with my dog and, or by myself. You know,
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one or the other. I like to hang out with my
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friends and my family. And I like a good board
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game. Okay, I'm 15. I'm the oldest of the three
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of us. As Ryan said, or Luchana said, we all
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met at middle school. Although the three of us
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weren't really friends until the start of the
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podcast. I was friends with Luchana. Um, we were
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in book club together. We kind of started our
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school's book club and I had joined. Um, and
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that's how we kind of started our friendship.
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And we would talk about, um, women's related,
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uh, issues. And then Ryan and I became friends
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when I had to help him set up his binder in sixth
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grade. Yeah, the first time I came to the school.
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Yeah, I was also brand new. And, and they had,
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of course, me help the other new kid because...
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Who better to do it? And we did not get along
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very well. I remember you not being very nice.
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I'm not sure. I'm not in seventh. And then we
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became friends in, like, the seventh grade. And
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Ryan would talk my ear off about politics. And
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I said, hey, this is kind of interesting. And
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I would like to be able to. you know, kind of
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argue with him a little bit. I love a good argument.
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And so that's when I really started to get into
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politics and educate myself. I would also have
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to give a little bit of credit to my grandma.
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So this is shout out number two she's getting
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in the past two episodes. And she really has
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educated me about the history of politics and
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kind of past, present. She's always been super
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politically active and so I really appreciate
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her insight um my favorite episode I guess I
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have two my first one would be my solo episode
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um running as political and opinion I just really
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love that one it's one of the first super opinionated
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episodes we did or I guess it was just me um
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and I you know did the whole thing I edited it
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wrote the notes produced it and it was super
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fun and I really enjoyed getting to express one
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of my um, opinions and something that I kind
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of do believe strongly about. Um, and I guess
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my other favorite episode would have to be, um,
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maybe episode, season two, episode 16, where
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we talked about, um, the guitar air. Craft, the
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Golden Dome, and yet another Ten Commandments
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book, along other things. That episode was just
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super interesting. We had really good banter.
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I think we all kind of brought new things to
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the table, and it was a super good episode. Luchana,
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pedaling back over to you. I think I'd have to
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agree with you on that episode. I think our two
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most recent ones are my favorite. I honestly
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think my favorite is always going to be the newest
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one just because I think we truly improve so
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much every time with the topics we're discussing,
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the depth we're getting, the opinions we're bringing,
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kind of the flow of it. What a political answer.
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I mean, that is incredible. That was a great
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response. Man. That was wonderful. That's something
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you'd see on a debate stage. Yeah, that was a
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very PR trained response. Thank you. I also,
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kind of similar to what Elle said, I loved the
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one I did about the brain dead woman just because
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I thought it was so similar to how Elle's was
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her first time. Oh, like the segment? Really
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getting to be political and opinionated. I also
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love getting to be opinionated because I have
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a lot to say. Yeah. No, and I think it's super
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fun when we get to kind of share. a little bit
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of insight into our personal values and beliefs
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that we've been doing recently um obviously you
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know it kind of like we said earlier it brings
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the whole idea that we have valuable opinions
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and we're also young back into the narrative
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a little bit than what we had been doing previously
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um okay and the last thing we're going to talk
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about is the process of how we create this episode
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um we're gonna take you through each step maybe
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talk about who does what um a little bit of you
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know Ryan talking about editing formats and all
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that jazz I'm not that's I'm not like you're
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not gonna man you're going it's hard it's hard
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no you're going to and that's okay because that's
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why we value you that's why we appreciate having
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you with us on this team No, we value you for
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your wonderful personality. Yeah, of course,
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yes. We value you because you're the only person
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who wants to talk about finance. Yeah, we value
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the male energy you bring to the table. Okay,
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okay. Do you want to start? No, you can start.
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We'll kind of talk about the things that we each
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do. The first thing we all kind of do, we just
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talk about ideas. We have to get together every
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two weeks. Ideally, we don't always, as you know.
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So we try to just get ideas down. A lot of it's
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just current event stuff that you're going to
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see, whether from the main political sources
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of news, New York Times, Politico, whatever.
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We try to screenshot some articles, send some
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ideas around, see what we all want to talk about,
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have some ideas. And occasionally, maybe we'll
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have an idea to do a special episode, whether
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it's talking about, say, the future of the Democratic
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Party, which was just purely about one thing.
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or a debate episode, of which we've had one so
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far, but maybe more in the future. If you have
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any topic ideas, please let us know. You're talking
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to the wrong side of the mic, by the way. Sorry,
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I was getting a swig of water. Then, second step.
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Also, we all do our separate research. This is
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kind of important. We do bring different ideas
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to it. We do share notes occasionally for debate
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episodes, obviously. We kind of keep them to
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ourselves. I don't think we had really notes.
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Well, we did. We did. I didn't have any episodes,
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but I did not get any. One of us had notes. I
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was like walking blind into the episode. But,
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you know, it was kind of fun. We all do research.
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Pretty self -explanatory. You guys, somebody
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wanted to talk about reputable sources? I think
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I was just going to say, I think one thing we
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all kind of prioritize is making sure that the
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information we have is like. credible, valid,
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you know, I think that's something that I personally
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want to make sure that, like, all of my facts,
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all my statistics are correct. I know the others
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feel the same, but I think that's something that's
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important. It's almost like a duty if you're,
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like, taking it upon yourself to inform others
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to make sure that you are informed on the correct
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things. Yeah, one of the things that I know I
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do, I actually haven't talked to you guys about
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this, um, I like to find a super conservative
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source and also a super liberal source and kind
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of compare where the different sides are coming
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from as well. It also just kind of, you know,
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provides you a little bit of a middle ground
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as to where both sides are reporting on and where
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you can kind of stay between the lines. No, that
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makes sense. That's kind of our quick process
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research. We formalize all the documents and
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notes. We put it together. We come together.
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Over two different ways. Right now we're in person,
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which is, I would say. I prefer being in person.
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Me too. I like to see all your faces. Obviously
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sometimes we can't get together. So I found this
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amazing software that a lot of like real, really
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professional podcasts use called Riverside. It's
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done a great job. It is an online recorder. Obviously
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it's not as natural. It's not as, you know, like.
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I'm not sure what the word would be to describe
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it, but as it is in person, it's not as flowy,
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you could say. But it does a job, and it does
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it well, I think. You download the audio files,
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it's pretty good. It's basically a Zoom meeting
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that has extra recording features. If you want
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to turn off the Instagram reel. Then, once we
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get on Riverside or in person or whatever, we
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record. There's not much. else than that we turn
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on our mics we connect all the stuff we have
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rode wireless microphones they're pretty good
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actually i you know we all come together and
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then either l or i i personally think that it's
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more like 64a i really i we're gonna we can delegate
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it can we pause and go look right now okay hold
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on we'll be right back we'll get up the podcast
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thing okay so that was very unproductive and
23:52
we ended up just coming to the decision that
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both of us are equal Okay, so after we upload
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an episode, I've recently been doing most of
24:01
the RSS stuff, so that's naming it, writing descriptions,
24:04
putting, well, you've been putting on a cover
24:07
photo. Yeah, I mean, that's, like, you need that
24:10
to upload it to the RSS, so that's table stakes
24:14
stuff. And then, you know, Ryan will go in, edit
24:15
my grammar, my word choice thing, on the occasion.
24:20
Just sweep up whatever. And then we will put
24:23
it out, set it to publish, you know. a day later
24:27
in the morning, the notification will go off.
24:30
Luchana will take a screenshot, put it on the
24:33
Instagram, and... That's pretty much it. I mean,
24:36
there's not much else. Luchana, go through your
24:38
hashtag routine. Yes, can we do the social media
24:39
whole thing? Oh, I have quite the hashtag routine.
24:42
Okay, so I mainly do our Instagram, and this
24:47
basically consists of... Well, first of all,
24:49
I actually do a lot of... We have a business
24:51
profile, so I do a lot of, like, looking into
24:54
our analytics and, like, What audiences we reach,
24:57
what hashtags do the best, what posts do the
25:00
best, what times of day does the best. So for
25:05
hashtags, first of all, there's a couple I always
25:08
do. I always do hashtag teen, hashtag vote, hashtag
25:11
podcast, pod. There's one that's like informed
25:14
teens that I always do. And then a couple others
25:18
I just can't remember off the top of my head,
25:20
plus then some episode -specific ones. So if
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it's like Trump and Elon, hashtag Trump, hashtag
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Elon, hashtag president, LA riots, hashtag immigrant,
25:32
hashtag ICE, so that we can reach people that
25:34
are interested in the topics, not top acts, we're
25:38
talking about. Of course. yeah there's not a
25:43
ton to it i'm not that it's very fun if you guys
25:46
haven't gone and checked out our instagram i
25:48
do recommend lutron has done some one -on -one
25:51
interviews over there with yeah she's done now
25:54
two sets we've uploaded two sets which we need
25:57
to now record some more maybe with microphones
25:59
like It doesn't matter. The audio quality is
26:02
not the reason for the video. The reason for
26:04
the video is to show other young people and their
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opinions. And so those are super interesting.
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They're actually really good and I would really
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recommend going to watch them. I think they're
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like five -ish minutes each. Yeah, they're really
26:18
great. Other than that, we haven't been doing
26:21
a lot of real content, which we're going to be
26:24
doing after this. Ryan loves it. I stay away
26:29
from... The Instagram side, I am, to say the
26:33
least, completely, like, I don't know what's
26:36
going on. Ryan's most hands off. I don't think
26:37
you even follow the Instagram. I don't think
26:40
I personally follow the Instagram. Ryan, that's,
26:42
like, anti -podcast. No, I mean, as you can see.
26:48
I'm going to make you go follow it after this.
26:49
Yeah, I'm not particularly engaged on Instagram.
26:53
But you happen to have two Instagram accounts.
26:55
On my photography and my personal one. Oh, yes.
26:58
Ryan's into photography. He did not mention that.
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I have tons of hobbies I didn't say. I was caught
27:01
off guard for a second there. I totally forgot
27:03
about the hobbies part. You build Lego sets.
27:04
I do. I mean, I used to. I have a ton of architecture
27:07
sets upstairs. I build Lego. I love photography.
27:10
I built a piano. Other different things. Anywho.
27:13
Miscellaneous, but. I want to build a Lego friend
27:14
set just for the nostalgia. I have to tell you
27:17
a horror story about that when we end. Anywho.
27:19
Back to. I really do think that that's. maybe
27:22
gonna end us here um yeah we tried to film this
27:26
episode once before not for an anniversary just
27:29
to get to know us and we scrapped it so hopefully
27:31
this one makes it a little farther than that
27:33
one did yeah um we shall see in the edit definitely
27:36
um and over the next couple weeks and the rest
27:40
of the summer if you if our uploading becomes
27:42
a little more sporadic and maybe there's only
27:45
two of the three of us or maybe we're doing more
27:47
solo episodes uh we are doing independently a
27:50
lot of different things this summer um ryan is
27:53
going you want to talk about what we're gonna
27:54
do yes yeah ryan what are you doing what am i
27:58
doing um i am going to the georgian bay uh for
28:01
two weeks uh for a sleepaway camp which can be
28:05
very fun all you're doing is kayaking kayaking
28:08
yes it's gonna be very fun and then i'm going
28:11
with my family to um a canoe in uh Upper northern
28:17
Minnesota, I think, and the Boundary Waters,
28:19
which is also going to be fun. There's a lot
28:22
of camping going on, a lot of being off the grid.
28:24
So, you know, we'll see how that works out. Lou,
28:28
what are you up to? I will be going to some rowing
28:33
camp. I'm going to row at UW -Madison for a week,
28:37
which is going to be really fun. I'm super excited.
28:39
I'm going to travel up east for a while to look
28:43
at some colleges, which I think will be really
28:45
fun. And I coach rowing camps through my high
28:50
school, which is great. And I do training through
28:53
that, but I don't have a ton of big events. What
28:56
about you, Al? My family is doing a couple trips.
28:59
We're going to Canada for the first time. I've
29:03
never been to Canada. Super excited. I get to
29:06
be in Ryan's country of choice. And then we're
29:13
also going to Michigan. And then I'm doing a
29:15
two -week journalist summer program in New York
29:19
with the New York Times, which I'm super excited
29:21
for. And that'll definitely be something super
29:24
interesting. But yeah, so that's what we've got
29:28
going on. That's a little bit about us, a little
29:30
bit about what's happened in the past year. And
29:33
now I'm going to, I guess, throw you over to
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our outro. thank you so much for listening to
29:52
this episode of project 2028 Please recommend
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us to a friend who you think needs a little more
29:59
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30:18
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you so much for listening and have a great rest
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