The pod is back for the next time, for the last time. And this time, we are pulling back the curtain! 

The old format was a lot to pull off each week, so we’re brainstorming ways to make it happen consistently.

Join host Luke Baumgarten and the rest of the RANGE crew, Val Osier, Erin Sellers & Aaron Hedge, as they go on a fantastic voyage into the life of the journalistic mind, brainstorming new segment ideas and discussing the unique powers of audio journalism to engage with listeners, inform our community and do atmospheric storytelling — which is to say we talk about podcast stuff we like and how to make it happen with the small, mighty team we have. 

We also discuss a shift we’re trying to make across everything we do at RANGE to get more reader and listener engagement, and more directly let your questions and concerns shape our reporting. Scroll down for more on that. 

Next, we tested out one of our segment ideas, The Fact Check, before concluding with a quick interview with Howl Hall on the Mifepristone Supreme Court case and what it’s been like for Hall, a graduating senior at The Community School to team up with RANGE to produce journalism that is important to him and his classmates. 

This episode is half brainstorm, half experimentation, two-thirds Luke remembers how to edit audio and 3/5ths he learns a new software. We aren’t mathematicians, but that’s like over 2 podcasts for the price (free) of 1.

It turned out … better than expected? We’ll let you be the judge.

LET US KNOW

Seriously: we really want to know what you think of the new ideas and plan. 

• Send us an email (or a voice clip!) at [email protected]
• Leave Luke a voicemail at 509-508-1055. 
• Fill out our survey in the show notes RIGHT HERE. 

We cannot stress this enough: We want your ideas for segments. We want you to ask us questions. We will answer them. We might even turn them into stories. We want to know what you want to know. 

If we know about what you want to know, we'll tell you about it. If we don't know about it, we might report it out!

We're a small team, but we care about the things that you care about. And we're going to do it all. We're going to talk about it all because from here on out, Range is living out loud.

CHAPTERS

• 00:00 Cold Open 
• 00:09 Intro
• 05:18 Segment 1: How do we want to do this thing?
• 08:17 Belated Introductions
• 36:06 Segment 2: Pride mural good-faith fact check
• 43:43 Segment 3: Mifepristone explainer feat. Howl Hall
• 44:52 Segment 3
• 01:06:53 Outro
• 01:07:52 ???