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July 2020/Volume 28/Number 11 FOR AND ABOUT SENIOR CITIZENS IN ANTRIM, BENZIE, GRAND TRAVERSE, KALKASKA AND LEELANAU COUNTIES • NMC Podcasting Page 2 • Expert Advice Page 3 • Prime Time Marketplace Page 4 • Senior Marketplace Page 5 • Games & Puzzles Pages 6 • Senior Services Page 7 • Northern Michigan Opens Up Page 8 The sooner you call, the more we can help. Our State. Our Town. 888-247-5701 or hom.org Our Hospe. Serving northern Michigan since 1981 A member of the Care Community NMC Driveways – Podcasting By Kathleen Gest “From the mobile studio at North- find a podcast that you can listen to western Michigan College and the in that time frame. Prefer stories? Department of Extended Education News? Science? Politics? Busi- Services you are listening to NMC ness? Health? Sports? You’ll find a Driveways. Hi, John Plough here.” podcast that fits. And so began a podcasting proj- In his podcast, John shows up at ect on April 20th by John Plough, the person’s driveway he intends to Program Coordinator at NMC’s interview. It takes him about five Extended Education (EES). minutes to logistically set up the “This is my first experience with equipment. He dons gloves and a podcasting. Laura (Matchett, Direc- mask while out of his car. He has tor of EES) and I have been talk- already sanitized the equipment that ing about it since I was hired 11 will go into the other car. What actu- months ago,” John explains. “We ally leaves his car is a long exten- had always had in the back of our sion cord, a tiny camera that is put minds the idea to do a podcast to on their dashboard for still photos focus or spotlight the instructors during the interview, a big heavy for Extended Education. When the microphone and a set of head- pandemic hit, it seemed like a good phones, connected by wires to a opportunity to start one. Especially, large console in his car. when the pandemic began, we felt “Being in a car is a safe way to so disconnected. This was a way interview someone…we are physi- both to connect our community cally separated, but we can still see and, selfishly, it was a way for me each other. From a communication to connect with others.” stand point, that is really helpful,” “I go visit people safely and actu- John points out. ally get to see them. Which is really “As for the title, it sounded fun to powerful, if the rest of your day is me and also is accurate for what we John Plough, Program Coordinator at NMC’s Extended Education (EES). only inside with dogs…the high- were going to do.” lights of my week are when I pull “It turns out a car is really a great end, because I am curious. And is also the art of it. You could have up in a driveway and get to meet little mobile audio studio – in terms then they do the heavy lifting and I photographers taking photos of it, someone for the first time or see an of sound quality – so that was a just get to enjoy it. One of the most visual artists creating a logo and old friend.” bonus,” John acknowledges. “If you fun parts of podcasting is when I different ways to promote it. There The first podcast John ever think about you and I sitting outside get home and put the memory card are lots of ways for us to leverage listened to was in 2005 with Jesse now, and, if this was for a podcast, into my computer, down load all the the talents and the diversity of our Thorn, called Bullseye. Podcasts we would have to consider that there audio files, and then get to listen to community…” started to become popular in late is a wind blowing in the trees, so the the conversation again.” “Obviously as a NMC project, it 2004, although its roots date back sound quality is a little bit muffled. “A surprise was that audio edit- is important we are telling the story to “audioblogging” in the 1980s. We can also hear birds, which is ing is more time consuming than of the work people are doing or the Podcasting is basically the form nice, but in an open environment it video editing, because in video contributions they have made to the of recording and making audio- is more difficult to get great audio editing there is obviously a visual college,” John emphasizes. “But, based “episodes” available over the sound. That’s why radio studios are and you can do things faster than I really am more interested in the Internet. There are 850, 000 active not in people’s backyards.” it actually happened. In audio, you things that happen behind the scene podcasts with 30 million episodes “During the interview, the empha- have to listen to every moment. Sort – like what makes that person ‘them’ in 100 different languages. sis of the conversation is on the of in real time – there is not a way – not just the work they do, but how One reason podcasts are so popu- person I’m interviewing – they to jump ahead and cut any of the are they spending their time when lar is that the format is uniquely are the ones talking. I am not a content.” they are not working or even what situated to fit into busy lives. Any great talker, but I think I am a good “For all of the different things brought them to NMC.” topic you’re interested in, you’ll listener and I enjoy listening,” John you don’t think about in making a You’ll find John’s podcasts at find a podcast dedicated to it. Only admits. “All I have to do is ask a podcast – there is sitting in front https://anchor.fm/nmcdriveways have ten minutes to spare? You’ll question, which is no work on my of a computer editing it, but there Editor / Publisher: Jeffrey Hallberg Contributors : Kathleen Gest & Bob Simpson Prime Time News & Observer [email protected] Prime Time News & Observer is not responsible for unsolicited contributions. Address all inquiries P.O. Box 1071 [email protected] and letters to the editor. Prime Time News & Bellaire, MI 49615 [email protected] Observer welcomes letters to the editor. Letters should be no longer than 200 words. PTNO [email protected] reserves the right to edit letters for grammar and Prime Time News & Observer is published monthly by Forest Home Publications, L.L.C. Phone: 231-631-5651 [email protected] clarity. 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