I like to think I am great with technology, but sound media has been an aspect I have never ventured into. I acknowledge its a skill that needs to be acquired, one that can be perfected through practice, but since I have never had a need for a podcast – I never made one. Recently, I found that podcasts can serve as an outlet to express my thoughts on topics I find interesting. I consider myself a deep thinker, but I rarely have an audience to have discussions with. Podcasts might very well be my way out of that problem! So, I decided to start The Emanoid Podcast. The target audience of my podcast is any individual that takes interest in philosophy, psychology, technology, the human condition & proclivities, and the future. The purpose of this podcast is to solve the very issue I expressed earlier – a platform to discuss topics I find interesting, and have my target audience engage with me on these ideas. Here is the Pilot episode of The Emanoid Podcast, the Transcript can be accessed at Pilot – The Emanoid Podcast – Transcript.

Creating the Pilot episode of The Emanoid Podcast was a very time consuming process that was interestingly fun. This was my first time creating a podcast so I had to think about what my content and target audience will be. After deciding on this, I made a recording on a topic surrounding the rights of cyborgs. This recording involved multiple attempts and is miles away from being the quality audio I’d like due to the lack of proper equipment and experience. There were a ton of bloopers I had to edit out as well as merges I did, since certain portions were recorded at different times. I did my best to make the audio sound fluid and professional to a level my newbie self can manage. Audacity was the audio editing tool that made this process achievable – there is still a learning curve I’ll have to overcome using the software though :). After completing the content of the Podcast, I wanted to overlay the audio with soothing non-distracting music. I was able to find a royalty free tune I liked from Pixabay and used Audacity to merge it into the audio. There is still much progress to be done in regards to my audio editing skills. But for a first timer – I do not absolutely hate the work I produced 😂.