This week we bring you what you might call a podcast within a podcast – a podcast created for the Sound Design course student Shelby Hagerdon.  Shelby is majoring in History at Wayne State with minors in Geospatial Technology, Political Science, and Digital Film Production.  The Sound design course is part of that third minor and addresses the wide range of audio production needed in today’s media environment, including for conventional radio, sound for film production, and podcasting.

For one of her assignments, Shelby created three episodes of a podcast she calls Gilded Cast…discussing and re-enacting historical events and situations from the Guilded Age.  In this pilot episode we’ll hear a recreated dialog of rival inventors Thomas Edison and Nikoli Tesla.