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Level Up Podcast Covers your Bases, from Movies and Games to Sports and Business Madison Venckus, News Editor to talk about this involvement with The Courier newspaper and the broadcast program at the school… I met with him following that, and we discussed having a podcast through the newspaper.” Where did the name ‘Level Up’ come from? “The idea of the show came up similarly to how I come up with podcast topic ideas. I was writing down a few Level Up Host, Kenneth McKinney Photo by Alison Pfaff ideas for what the name could What be. One of the cool things was inspired the idea of having a podcast? that Jim told me I had free range “I used to make YouTube videos and creative freedom to name the discussing different topics. One podcast whatever I wanted. From channel was dedicated to UFC there I wrote out a few different sports, another one music and an- names. I wanted to come up with other one for video games. I’ve al- a name that wasn’t specific to one ways had a passion for talking about topic so I could talk about sports things I like and also have friends on one end and movies on the oththat do, too. I came up with this er. I think it’s a universal name bethought while talking about it with cause you can level up in business my friends and thought, why not and life, but it also has sort of a take that interest of mine and turn video game reference to it.” it into hub where I can broadcast that and talk about it online. The How do you prepare for whole thing to do with the podcast podcasts? was through (Courier Adviser) Jim “I have basically bullet points Fuller. We met at a new student going into the podcast. I write out orientation group, and he began topics I want to discuss and things
Listen to Kenneth on his podcast “Level Up” on The Courier webside, codcourier.org and on Soundcloud at soundcloud.com/user-201219115.
I want to cover, and my co-host, Sean, does the same. I don’t have a written out script, so I just send my co-host Sean what I have or whoever I’m speaking with that week, and we go from there.” What do you do and don’t enjoy about having the podcast? “What I like about it is I get to have creative freedom. I remember a professor I had last year had said that people who are more creative thinkers can come up with ideas easier when there is full freedom. When you have a paper or an essay that has a little more structure to it, there can be limitations to your creativity. Besides that, the most
stressful thing is converting the file into an MP3 when were done. The only difficult part is small technical difficulties we face.” What can listeners look forward to in the future? “In the future people can look forward to possibly doing an interview with Peter James to talk about business. I don’t know how soon I’ll be able to do that, and it’s not a guarantee because he is super busy. I have to work on his schedule along with reserving equipment but hopefully everything can coincide.”
LEVEL UP PODCAST WITH KENNETH MCKINNEY
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