Welcome to the 9th podcast episode of this side series, the Podcast Spotlight. In this episode, we talk with Chris Tatem, host of the fantastic U.S. based podcast Cross Examined Life as he introduces the following 2 podcasts:
Podcast 1: A Year of Listening
A year of listening is an independent podcast hosted by Colleen K Powell, who describes herself as a day-dreamer, kitchen-dancer, wannabe-writer, and dinner party lover. She has a personal blog where she writes about various things in her life, but for the podcast, it is centered around the tagline of tackling all the topics your mother warned you never to discuss at cocktail parties. The podcast is presented in a simple conversational interview style, and tries to dive into sensitive topics in a sensitive manner.
Podcast 2: Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates
Intelligence Squared U.S. is a non-partisan, non-profit organization whose mission is to restore critical thinking, facts, reason, and civility to American discourse. They provide a forum for balanced and intelligent debate that is widely distributed in various forms: radio programs, podcasts, online broadcasts, televisions, and digital video series.
To date, the organization has conducted 160 debates on far ranging issues with 500 debaters. The debating style is also unique in that it adopts the traditional Oxford-style debate format, where one side proposes and the other side opposes a sharply-framed motion.
Music by Pandrezz: Takin' you for a ride
Once again special thanks to Chris Tatem for taking the time to come on this episode. There was so much to learn just by poking a little deeper into his production process and why he sets up the show the way he does. There is a method behind the magic, and I'm very grateful to Chris for sharing some of it. In fact, he was recently invited to PodCon2 as a speaker, where he presented on the topic of the critical first 60 seconds of your podcast. I'm just lucky to have had a breakdown of that for our show. For that, do check out his fantastic podcast, the Cross Examined Life.
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