WEBVTT 00:00:13.160 --> 00:00:14.839 Hello everybody and welcome to the Messenger 00:00:14.839 --> 00:00:17.820 podcast. My name is Zach and I am going to be 00:00:17.820 --> 00:00:21.140 your podcast editor for the Messenger. And so 00:00:21.140 --> 00:00:23.660 currently right now we don't really have a host, 00:00:23.899 --> 00:00:26.300 so I am stepping in to be your current host. 00:00:26.559 --> 00:00:28.820 And this may be a permanent thing or we may find 00:00:28.820 --> 00:00:31.039 another host, so you'll just have to bear with 00:00:31.039 --> 00:00:34.500 me for now. So sorry about that. So since I am 00:00:34.500 --> 00:00:37.320 in charge of this wonderful podcast, a part of, 00:00:37.320 --> 00:00:39.640 you know, the entirety of the messenger at Johnson 00:00:39.640 --> 00:00:42.420 County Community College, I'm going to be focusing 00:00:42.420 --> 00:00:45.640 on, you know, kind of creating this cool and 00:00:45.640 --> 00:00:49.200 like safe, fun environment for guests to come 00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:51.600 on and, you know, talk about current events at 00:00:51.600 --> 00:00:54.039 Johnson County Community College or kind of just 00:00:54.039 --> 00:00:56.399 things, you know, going on in their life or just, 00:00:56.460 --> 00:00:58.679 you know, kind of this general podcast. It's 00:00:58.679 --> 00:01:02.189 going to be a very. laid back podcast. It's not 00:01:02.189 --> 00:01:04.209 going to be all news in your face. It's going 00:01:04.209 --> 00:01:07.310 to be a lot just like life events. It's just 00:01:07.310 --> 00:01:09.629 going to be us kind of just talking and being 00:01:09.629 --> 00:01:11.950 ourselves, which, you know, is the things I look 00:01:11.950 --> 00:01:14.030 for in a podcast, which is why I want to do this 00:01:14.030 --> 00:01:17.189 for other people. So that's kind of why I wanted 00:01:17.189 --> 00:01:19.450 to be like a part of the messenger is because, 00:01:19.530 --> 00:01:22.569 you know, I've recently discovered that I love 00:01:22.569 --> 00:01:26.480 to. edit and like record these podcasts. Um, 00:01:26.780 --> 00:01:29.239 and, you know, being given this opportunity has 00:01:29.239 --> 00:01:31.859 been such an amazing chance to, you know, showcase 00:01:31.859 --> 00:01:34.739 that off to a bunch of more people, especially, 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:38.219 you know, my, my peers at Johnson County. So, 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:40.200 you know, it's going to be such a cool experience 00:01:40.200 --> 00:01:42.459 to be a part of this thing and, you know, being 00:01:42.459 --> 00:01:46.359 the one creating it for now, um, it's just, it's 00:01:46.359 --> 00:01:48.560 such a fun experience and I'm very excited to 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:51.319 get to know. a lot more people around the community 00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:54.620 and, you know, get to like work with them. And 00:01:54.620 --> 00:01:57.480 it's going to be so cool. So hopefully as you, 00:01:57.519 --> 00:01:59.439 you know, listen to this podcast, as episodes 00:01:59.439 --> 00:02:01.599 come out, hopefully I'm trying to reach for about 00:02:01.599 --> 00:02:04.299 two episodes, one smaller episode at the beginning 00:02:04.299 --> 00:02:06.400 of the week, and then one full episode, probably 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:08.439 at the end of the week, just so that, you know, 00:02:08.439 --> 00:02:13.419 you have more, more news or more, more. knowing 00:02:13.419 --> 00:02:15.719 of what's going on you know i don't want it to 00:02:15.719 --> 00:02:17.620 be like a weekly thing because then you never 00:02:17.620 --> 00:02:19.300 know what's going to happen and you know something 00:02:19.300 --> 00:02:22.419 major could happen within two days after uploading 00:02:22.419 --> 00:02:24.620 a full episode and then we know we wouldn't be 00:02:24.620 --> 00:02:26.639 able to talk about it until the next week so 00:02:26.639 --> 00:02:28.900 that's why i want to create like two episodes 00:02:28.900 --> 00:02:33.000 total for you guys And so a fun little fact about 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:35.979 me, my favorite side hobby, and you'll hear this 00:02:35.979 --> 00:02:39.139 later. I'm asking everybody this question. My 00:02:39.139 --> 00:02:42.240 favorite side hobby is collecting Funko Pops 00:02:42.240 --> 00:02:45.919 is something that I have been doing for a couple 00:02:45.919 --> 00:02:48.719 of years now. I have a lot of Spider -Man ones 00:02:48.719 --> 00:02:51.849 specifically. A lot of One Piece ones, which 00:02:51.849 --> 00:02:54.210 you'll probably hear me mention about a quadrillion 00:02:54.210 --> 00:02:57.210 times because that is my favorite show. But that's 00:02:57.210 --> 00:02:59.710 besides the point. So yeah, just kind of collecting 00:02:59.710 --> 00:03:01.889 these figures is something that I've been doing 00:03:01.889 --> 00:03:04.490 for a couple years now. Maybe even more than 00:03:04.490 --> 00:03:06.110 a couple years. Honestly, I don't even know. 00:03:06.150 --> 00:03:08.189 I don't keep track. I just kind of buy them as 00:03:08.189 --> 00:03:12.240 I go. All righty, so I'm going to go ahead and 00:03:12.240 --> 00:03:14.680 get into these interviews for you guys, and you're 00:03:14.680 --> 00:03:16.939 going to be able to meet the crew and meet everybody 00:03:16.939 --> 00:03:19.919 who's behind this awesome project here at JCCC. 00:03:20.060 --> 00:03:22.780 All righty, and now I'm joined by Zan. Zan, would 00:03:22.780 --> 00:03:25.400 you like to introduce yourself? Hi, well, I am 00:03:25.400 --> 00:03:29.180 Zan. I am the video producer or editor, whatever 00:03:29.180 --> 00:03:31.979 we call it these days, but I am in charge of 00:03:31.979 --> 00:03:35.860 overall video making here at The Messenger. Yeah. 00:03:36.280 --> 00:03:38.439 Yeah, and we couldn't figure out what to call 00:03:38.439 --> 00:03:41.080 it because in a different world, in the actual, 00:03:41.139 --> 00:03:43.520 like, video world, those things mean very different 00:03:43.520 --> 00:03:46.520 things. Yes, editor in, like, editing papers 00:03:46.520 --> 00:03:48.759 or news, it means very different things than 00:03:48.759 --> 00:03:51.500 video editing, and that's just editing for videos, 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:54.580 a very just niche field of the whole video as 00:03:54.580 --> 00:03:57.319 a whole. So it really confused me for a second 00:03:57.319 --> 00:04:00.159 when it felt downgraded from a position because 00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:02.479 producer is the top and then editor is, like, 00:04:02.479 --> 00:04:05.419 a subcategory at the bottom. Yeah, no, it's... 00:04:05.949 --> 00:04:08.969 Yeah, especially with this, you know, just kind 00:04:08.969 --> 00:04:12.189 of starting up. We don't really have, like, it's 00:04:12.189 --> 00:04:14.330 harder to figure out what, like, our exact positions 00:04:14.330 --> 00:04:17.629 are. Because, like, I am the podcast editor, 00:04:17.769 --> 00:04:20.470 but, like, also I might be producing it now, 00:04:20.550 --> 00:04:24.279 too. So, again, it... It's just kind of something 00:04:24.279 --> 00:04:26.160 we have to go along with until we, you know, 00:04:26.160 --> 00:04:27.899 eventually get through and we're like, okay, 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:30.319 this is what we're doing. Because right now we're 00:04:30.319 --> 00:04:32.079 just starting and we have a pretty small team. 00:04:32.720 --> 00:04:34.439 You know, and hopefully we'll get more members 00:04:34.439 --> 00:04:36.120 and, you know, things will make more sense eventually 00:04:36.120 --> 00:04:38.420 as we go down the line. So, Zan, I have some 00:04:38.420 --> 00:04:41.180 questions for you. My first question for you 00:04:41.180 --> 00:04:44.259 is going to be, what are your plans for what 00:04:44.259 --> 00:04:48.279 you want to give to the JCCC community? I want 00:04:48.279 --> 00:04:51.699 to just give a... visual representation for every 00:04:51.699 --> 00:04:55.740 story and every story like kind of comes to life 00:04:55.740 --> 00:04:58.959 with video you can actually see the issue or 00:04:58.959 --> 00:05:01.199 what needs to be brought to the table like you 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:02.800 can read something and it might not have much 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:04.740 impact but if you can actually see what's going 00:05:04.740 --> 00:05:07.759 on it kind of pulls at your heartstrings or give 00:05:07.759 --> 00:05:10.560 you that emotional connection with it or a person 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:13.439 or an event it really just helps you connect 00:05:13.439 --> 00:05:15.620 with what's going on in the world oh yeah no 00:05:15.620 --> 00:05:19.769 that makes total sense I mean I for the longest 00:05:19.769 --> 00:05:22.149 time, preferred watching videos over listening 00:05:22.149 --> 00:05:26.410 to podcasts, which is really ironic. But, I mean, 00:05:26.430 --> 00:05:31.370 videos are just so much more compelling because, 00:05:31.589 --> 00:05:33.250 well, it depends on the video, of course. But, 00:05:33.310 --> 00:05:35.709 you know, a lot of them are life -changing. I 00:05:35.709 --> 00:05:37.600 mean, because you can see pretty much... anything 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:39.899 from the world and it would just be on your little 00:05:39.899 --> 00:05:42.519 tiny screen instead of you know just words which 00:05:42.519 --> 00:05:45.040 you know words are important obviously audio 00:05:45.040 --> 00:05:47.420 is just as important don't get me wrong you can 00:05:47.420 --> 00:05:49.860 see an image but it depends on the audio behind 00:05:49.860 --> 00:05:52.319 it that really can impact your feelings towards 00:05:52.319 --> 00:05:54.560 it if you have an upbeat song it can make you 00:05:54.560 --> 00:05:57.560 feel more happy or distraught depending on the 00:05:57.560 --> 00:06:00.319 film like if the video is like people fighting 00:06:00.319 --> 00:06:01.779 and there's a happy song in the background it 00:06:01.779 --> 00:06:04.160 doesn't really work so audio is just as important 00:06:04.160 --> 00:06:06.829 so oh yeah Yeah, we kind of work hand in hand. 00:06:07.769 --> 00:06:10.730 All righty. So my next question, why did you 00:06:10.730 --> 00:06:13.269 want to be part of the messenger? I wanted to 00:06:13.269 --> 00:06:16.129 just actually get a feel or like a step into 00:06:16.129 --> 00:06:18.430 the video world because I've loved video and 00:06:18.430 --> 00:06:20.769 creating things all my life, but I haven't had 00:06:20.769 --> 00:06:23.649 an actual job in it. I've had internships before, 00:06:23.769 --> 00:06:26.769 but they never really let me do things by myself 00:06:26.769 --> 00:06:31.410 or get a full feel for the video world itself. 00:06:31.930 --> 00:06:35.889 Yeah, no, that's real. Yeah, no, that makes sense. 00:06:36.069 --> 00:06:38.009 I mean, it's going to be a lot of fun working 00:06:38.009 --> 00:06:40.430 with you and everybody else. Well, I hope so. 00:06:40.610 --> 00:06:44.389 I mean, I hope so. Yes, I do. Yeah, no, I'm excited 00:06:44.389 --> 00:06:48.649 to get to know everybody a lot more. You know, 00:06:48.689 --> 00:06:51.750 we've already met once as a big group, and so 00:06:51.750 --> 00:06:53.689 far, I mean, everybody seems really cool. So 00:06:53.689 --> 00:06:56.149 I'm just excited to see where this goes. Yeah, 00:06:56.149 --> 00:06:59.540 everyone seems so excited to get started. All 00:06:59.540 --> 00:07:01.279 right, and my last question, this is kind of 00:07:01.279 --> 00:07:03.660 a fun question for you. What is your favorite 00:07:03.660 --> 00:07:07.699 side hobby? I did mention this. Overall, arching, 00:07:07.699 --> 00:07:11.160 I do content creation on the side. I want it 00:07:11.160 --> 00:07:13.160 to be kind of like another job as well, so I 00:07:13.160 --> 00:07:16.100 do YouTube and I do Twitch as well. I will not 00:07:16.100 --> 00:07:18.279 share my username, though. I don't want to get 00:07:18.279 --> 00:07:23.009 doxxed. Yeah, don't get doxxed. Yeah, I've always 00:07:23.009 --> 00:07:25.009 dreamed of being a content creator. I feel like 00:07:25.009 --> 00:07:27.990 most people at least once think about it and 00:07:27.990 --> 00:07:31.910 doing that. Yeah, I started when I was 12. I 00:07:31.910 --> 00:07:34.089 can say that now because you're not supposed 00:07:34.089 --> 00:07:36.370 to be on YouTube at 12, but I can say that now. 00:07:36.709 --> 00:07:40.930 My channel is seven years old as of October 30th. 00:07:41.600 --> 00:07:44.639 I feel really old, and I've been streaming for 00:07:44.639 --> 00:07:47.439 four years, about to be four years. On YouTube 00:07:47.439 --> 00:07:49.879 or Twitch? Twitch, yeah. Okay, that's fun. Four 00:07:49.879 --> 00:07:53.689 years will be December 16th. How many followers 00:07:53.689 --> 00:07:57.170 do you have? Oh, boy. Currently, I have 209. 00:07:57.410 --> 00:08:00.129 Okay, yeah. That's fun. How many average viewers 00:08:00.129 --> 00:08:03.550 do you get? Oh, I keep that hidden. It's a very 00:08:03.550 --> 00:08:06.310 good tip if you're starting out streaming. Hide 00:08:06.310 --> 00:08:08.290 the viewer count because your attitude will change 00:08:08.290 --> 00:08:10.490 if you have no viewers versus one viewer. So 00:08:10.490 --> 00:08:12.470 I try to pretend like I have a bunch of people 00:08:12.470 --> 00:08:13.910 watching me even though I'm not. Maybe you do. 00:08:14.350 --> 00:08:17.310 You never know. That's the fun thing. No, I've 00:08:17.310 --> 00:08:20.490 heard about people doing that. If I started streaming, 00:08:20.649 --> 00:08:26.360 that's probably what I would do. Obviously, it's 00:08:26.360 --> 00:08:27.500 something that you don't need to pay attention 00:08:27.500 --> 00:08:30.480 to, especially when you're just trying to be 00:08:30.480 --> 00:08:33.340 yourself and just have fun with whatever game 00:08:33.340 --> 00:08:36.779 or whatever you're doing. It's just not an important 00:08:36.779 --> 00:08:39.159 thing, really. No, it doesn't really matter. 00:08:40.009 --> 00:08:41.929 Just being myself and playing with friends, I 00:08:41.929 --> 00:08:43.610 got to the point where Twitch does pay me. Not 00:08:43.610 --> 00:08:45.950 a lot, but they do pay me. So that's also something 00:08:45.950 --> 00:08:47.690 to look forward to. Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah. 00:08:47.870 --> 00:08:50.129 All righty. Well, I think that is it. Thank you 00:08:50.129 --> 00:08:51.830 so much for joining me, Zan. Yeah, of course. 00:08:52.669 --> 00:08:55.009 I'll be seeing you around, obviously, and maybe 00:08:55.009 --> 00:08:56.889 we'll get you back on this podcast. Maybe I'll 00:08:56.889 --> 00:08:59.850 return. Depends how busy I'll be next time we 00:08:59.850 --> 00:09:02.580 see each other. Oh, yeah. All righty, now I'm 00:09:02.580 --> 00:09:04.559 joined by Elizabeth. Elizabeth, would you like 00:09:04.559 --> 00:09:06.940 to introduce yourself? Yes, my name's Elizabeth 00:09:06.940 --> 00:09:09.500 Taylor, and I'm the new editor -in -chief for 00:09:09.500 --> 00:09:12.200 The Messenger. And then, so my first question 00:09:12.200 --> 00:09:14.320 for you is, what do you plan to offer to the 00:09:14.320 --> 00:09:17.580 JCCC community? Yeah, I want The Messenger to 00:09:17.580 --> 00:09:20.629 be like... just a hub of information, whether 00:09:20.629 --> 00:09:23.509 it's events going on around campus, news around 00:09:23.509 --> 00:09:26.129 campus, we're going to offer sports information, 00:09:26.529 --> 00:09:29.889 lifestyle opinion, just everything in between. 00:09:30.009 --> 00:09:32.909 And our social media, I want to be just a like 00:09:32.909 --> 00:09:35.409 branch off of that. Like I want it to just be 00:09:35.409 --> 00:09:37.129 continued everywhere we are on the internet. 00:09:37.370 --> 00:09:40.440 No, that's, that's fair. I mean. It was really 00:09:40.440 --> 00:09:42.879 cool getting to meet everybody and what everybody's 00:09:42.879 --> 00:09:44.600 going to be doing separately, but all for the 00:09:44.600 --> 00:09:49.700 same thing. It's so cool. It's not like a word 00:09:49.700 --> 00:09:52.120 that I can think of that describes how cool that 00:09:52.120 --> 00:09:55.080 is to be a part of this big project. Because 00:09:55.080 --> 00:09:56.879 this is kind of like my first time doing this. 00:09:58.779 --> 00:10:02.620 I'm excited to get to know everybody a little 00:10:02.620 --> 00:10:05.679 better, which is why this podcast is also awesome 00:10:05.679 --> 00:10:08.039 because I get to meet everybody again and get 00:10:08.039 --> 00:10:10.200 to know them a little more. Yeah, I know it's 00:10:10.200 --> 00:10:13.360 been me and Mike just kind of doing our own thing 00:10:13.360 --> 00:10:15.019 the past couple weeks. And now that there's a 00:10:15.019 --> 00:10:17.360 team, it's like, wow, this is actually the thing 00:10:17.360 --> 00:10:18.799 we're doing. I know, this is happening. It's 00:10:18.799 --> 00:10:23.700 happening. And our launch date is, okay. So my 00:10:23.700 --> 00:10:26.360 next question for you is, why did you want to 00:10:26.360 --> 00:10:29.100 be part of the Messenger? In high school, I was 00:10:29.100 --> 00:10:32.279 really involved in journalism. And so when I 00:10:32.279 --> 00:10:34.299 came here, I kind of wanted to find my place 00:10:34.299 --> 00:10:38.240 and all that at JCCC. And so when this opportunity 00:10:38.240 --> 00:10:41.840 arose, honestly, so this opportunity came to 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:46.100 me from a professor. So she emailed me, I think, 00:10:46.100 --> 00:10:48.360 like five days before the application was due. 00:10:48.440 --> 00:10:51.690 And then I was like. I didn't check my email 00:10:51.690 --> 00:10:54.049 on Canvas because I just assumed it would come 00:10:54.049 --> 00:10:56.309 in my regular email inbox. And then the day it 00:10:56.309 --> 00:10:59.210 was due, I checked my Canvas email. And there 00:10:59.210 --> 00:11:02.190 it was. And I was like, I think I have to do 00:11:02.190 --> 00:11:04.370 this, even though it's literally due in six hours. 00:11:04.669 --> 00:11:08.070 But I did it. And here we are. That was kind 00:11:08.070 --> 00:11:11.250 of me with turning in the application for this, 00:11:11.269 --> 00:11:14.549 for the podcast editor. I was like. I wanted 00:11:14.549 --> 00:11:17.509 to do it, obviously. That's why I'm here. But 00:11:17.509 --> 00:11:19.610 I was just, I guess I was nervous, you know. 00:11:19.669 --> 00:11:23.070 Right. Because this is the first, you know, not 00:11:23.070 --> 00:11:28.470 fast food job I've had. So, you know, it's, again, 00:11:28.529 --> 00:11:30.649 really cool to get to know everybody and get 00:11:30.649 --> 00:11:33.070 to work on something that we all, like, have 00:11:33.070 --> 00:11:36.289 this shared interest for. Oh, yeah. So my last 00:11:36.289 --> 00:11:38.490 and final question for you is, what is your favorite 00:11:38.490 --> 00:11:43.409 side hobby? Side hobby. Honestly, it's not really 00:11:43.409 --> 00:11:47.250 a hobby. It's one of my other jobs. I'm a teacher 00:11:47.250 --> 00:11:49.590 for Johnson County Parks and Rec, and so I do 00:11:49.590 --> 00:11:52.870 after -school programs. Like I said, it's my 00:11:52.870 --> 00:11:55.750 job. It's not a hobby, but I love anything to 00:11:55.750 --> 00:11:58.629 do with kids. Getting to go there every day, 00:11:58.669 --> 00:12:01.509 it's very fulfilling and fun. When I get to hang 00:12:01.509 --> 00:12:03.750 out with my cousins, I love doing that. Anything 00:12:03.750 --> 00:12:07.149 where I can interact with kids, it's the highlight 00:12:07.149 --> 00:12:10.370 of my day. Yeah, so do you do fun? like activities 00:12:10.370 --> 00:12:13.210 for them or like, cause I, I've, I've heard of 00:12:13.210 --> 00:12:15.809 it obviously, but I've never like known anything 00:12:15.809 --> 00:12:18.009 about it. So like, what, what do you kind of 00:12:18.009 --> 00:12:20.429 do there? Yeah. So they, they get out of school 00:12:20.429 --> 00:12:22.429 like four and then we were with them from four 00:12:22.429 --> 00:12:24.450 to six. So we have about two hours that we have 00:12:24.450 --> 00:12:27.190 to kind of structure. And so my favorite thing 00:12:27.190 --> 00:12:29.450 to do is go to the gym with them and we like 00:12:29.450 --> 00:12:33.090 play dodgeball and tag and it's so fun. That's 00:12:33.090 --> 00:12:36.649 awesome. Do you have like, like events that go 00:12:36.649 --> 00:12:39.950 on there for them? Sometimes. We have, like, 00:12:40.070 --> 00:12:42.850 JCPRD -sponsored events. Like, we'll go on field 00:12:42.850 --> 00:12:46.409 trips and stuff, but mostly, like, it's up to 00:12:46.409 --> 00:12:49.029 us to kind of make the weeks fun or themed or 00:12:49.029 --> 00:12:51.149 whatever. So, like, a couple weeks ago, we had, 00:12:51.169 --> 00:12:53.230 like, a fall fun week, and there was, like, a 00:12:53.230 --> 00:12:54.929 different activity each day. That's awesome. 00:12:55.070 --> 00:12:58.409 Yeah. No, no. That's really cool to hear. You 00:12:58.409 --> 00:13:00.250 know, creating that, like, fun space for kids 00:13:00.250 --> 00:13:03.210 is also just, like... My mom had a daycare for, 00:13:03.250 --> 00:13:05.779 like... I don't even know, 10 years or something 00:13:05.779 --> 00:13:08.779 like that. So I am also pretty familiar with 00:13:08.779 --> 00:13:10.259 like working with kids because I helped around 00:13:10.259 --> 00:13:12.580 with that. But, you know, it's really cool to 00:13:12.580 --> 00:13:17.299 like help people literally grow up. It is a different 00:13:17.299 --> 00:13:20.179 feeling, like unlike anything else. Absolutely. 00:13:20.620 --> 00:13:22.679 All right. Well, thank you so much, Elizabeth. 00:13:23.639 --> 00:13:26.519 You know. I'll be seeing you a lot more, obviously. 00:13:26.740 --> 00:13:29.779 Yeah. And maybe we'll get you back on the podcast 00:13:29.779 --> 00:13:31.840 sometime to answer some more questions or, you 00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:34.799 know, just kind of chit -chat. Yeah. Awesome. 00:13:34.940 --> 00:13:37.279 Thank you so much. Thank you. Alrighty, I am 00:13:37.279 --> 00:13:39.159 now joined by Aubrey. Aubrey, would you like 00:13:39.159 --> 00:13:41.360 to introduce yourself? Yes, hello everybody. 00:13:41.580 --> 00:13:45.019 My name is Aubrey, and I am the new copy editor 00:13:45.019 --> 00:13:48.440 for The Messenger. Awesome. Alrighty, so my first 00:13:48.440 --> 00:13:50.159 question for you is going to be, what do you 00:13:50.159 --> 00:13:52.879 plan to offer to the JCCC community? That is 00:13:52.879 --> 00:13:56.000 such a good question. So when I joined The Messenger, 00:13:56.360 --> 00:14:01.860 my whole goal was kind of to... I guess make 00:14:01.860 --> 00:14:05.059 sure that all the writing and copy, if you will, 00:14:05.220 --> 00:14:07.899 that the messenger is going to put out there 00:14:07.899 --> 00:14:13.179 has, I guess, diversity and that we showcase 00:14:13.179 --> 00:14:16.940 a bunch of different groups and people all across 00:14:16.940 --> 00:14:20.820 campus. I think there are so many different people 00:14:20.820 --> 00:14:23.220 that, you know, you don't even cross paths with 00:14:23.220 --> 00:14:28.419 because campus is so big. I just think it's important 00:14:28.419 --> 00:14:31.299 that everyone learns about the different people 00:14:31.299 --> 00:14:34.919 around JCCC, and I think it's going to be a really 00:14:34.919 --> 00:14:40.200 cool opportunity to write about different people's 00:14:40.200 --> 00:14:43.960 stories and adventures and lives. And, yeah, 00:14:44.059 --> 00:14:46.559 I'm just super excited to get started. Yeah, 00:14:46.600 --> 00:14:49.139 no, I'm excited to get to know everybody because 00:14:49.139 --> 00:14:52.539 our team is, we've already met once, and, you 00:14:52.539 --> 00:14:55.480 know, everybody's so much fun to work with. For 00:14:55.480 --> 00:14:58.190 sure. And this is kind of my I mentioned this 00:14:58.190 --> 00:15:00.350 in, I think, Elizabeth's interview. This is my 00:15:00.350 --> 00:15:03.669 like first non like fast food job. So, wow. Yeah. 00:15:03.950 --> 00:15:05.789 Yeah. So it's going to be different, you know, 00:15:05.789 --> 00:15:09.269 getting paid to edit videos. Exactly. Passion. 00:15:09.610 --> 00:15:12.850 Yes. I love it. Awesome. My next question is, 00:15:12.970 --> 00:15:14.870 why did you want to be a part of the messenger? 00:15:15.070 --> 00:15:16.889 And you kind of went over that a little bit, 00:15:16.929 --> 00:15:18.990 but, you know, kind of maybe more in depth. Yes. 00:15:19.070 --> 00:15:23.029 Yes. Well, I've always had an interest in writing 00:15:23.029 --> 00:15:27.059 and journalism and all that. So I was copy editor 00:15:27.059 --> 00:15:30.600 of my high school yearbook last year. I'm a freshman, 00:15:30.759 --> 00:15:36.100 so. But I really enjoyed that position and experience. 00:15:36.460 --> 00:15:42.059 And, you know, I have a lot of interests in general, 00:15:42.080 --> 00:15:45.379 but there really hasn't been a club or organization 00:15:45.379 --> 00:15:50.320 at JCCC that has fully. I guess, fit what I have 00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:53.639 wanted to do. And I thought that this was really 00:15:53.639 --> 00:15:57.220 a good opportunity to meet a lot of cool people 00:15:57.220 --> 00:16:00.019 while also doing something I really love. And 00:16:00.019 --> 00:16:03.399 yeah, like I said, again, I'm just super excited 00:16:03.399 --> 00:16:06.899 to get started. And yeah. Yeah, that seems to 00:16:06.899 --> 00:16:08.940 be like the general consensus from everybody 00:16:08.940 --> 00:16:11.399 here so far is that they're super excited to 00:16:11.399 --> 00:16:14.929 get started and just work with everybody. All 00:16:14.929 --> 00:16:17.450 right. So my last question for you is, what is 00:16:17.450 --> 00:16:21.350 your favorite side hobby? That's a tough one. 00:16:21.690 --> 00:16:27.009 I would say a side hobby that I have. I mean, 00:16:27.029 --> 00:16:29.169 I have a lot of lame ones, like hanging out with 00:16:29.169 --> 00:16:31.730 friends and stuff like that. Nothing wrong with 00:16:31.730 --> 00:16:34.809 that. That's true. That's true. Something that's 00:16:34.809 --> 00:16:37.090 kind of taken up a piece of my life for a while 00:16:37.090 --> 00:16:40.710 has been theater. I have done theater with Spinning 00:16:40.710 --> 00:16:43.830 Tree Theater. It's a local KC theater. It's not 00:16:43.830 --> 00:16:47.549 really one of the big, well -known ones, but 00:16:47.549 --> 00:16:49.710 we're working on that. I saw a production. Maybe 00:16:49.710 --> 00:16:51.590 that's why you look so familiar. Weren't you 00:16:51.590 --> 00:16:55.490 Constance? I was. Oh, my gosh. I saw you're into 00:16:55.490 --> 00:16:57.789 this. or Ride the Cyclone one. Oh my gosh. I 00:16:57.789 --> 00:16:59.529 love that. That was such a good show. That's 00:16:59.529 --> 00:17:00.870 why you look so familiar. I was going to say, 00:17:00.889 --> 00:17:03.690 you look familiar too. Okay. Wow, guys. I'm glad 00:17:03.690 --> 00:17:05.430 we figured that out. Yeah, you heard a revelation. 00:17:05.670 --> 00:17:08.829 Oh my gosh. Yeah, so that's kind of been a big 00:17:08.829 --> 00:17:12.109 part of my life for the past five years or so. 00:17:13.339 --> 00:17:15.859 Just the friendships and experiences have really 00:17:15.859 --> 00:17:19.200 shaped me as a person, and I'm so, so grateful 00:17:19.200 --> 00:17:22.059 that I've had that in my life. But also journalism, 00:17:22.460 --> 00:17:25.960 huh? So, yeah. Yeah, I know. I mean, I also do 00:17:25.960 --> 00:17:29.000 theater. I do the theater here at JCCC. Yes. 00:17:29.359 --> 00:17:32.539 And we just finished up our first weekend of 00:17:32.539 --> 00:17:35.039 shows. Oh, wow. So next week is our last week 00:17:35.039 --> 00:17:38.019 for our current show, Idiot's Delight. Or Idiot's 00:17:38.019 --> 00:17:40.259 Delights. I don't know if it's plural or not. 00:17:41.500 --> 00:17:46.279 But yeah, no, so it's a fun atmosphere that theaters 00:17:46.279 --> 00:17:49.339 have. For sure. I mean, it's pretty much unlike 00:17:49.339 --> 00:17:51.519 any other atmosphere I've ever been in. I mean, 00:17:51.539 --> 00:17:57.079 everybody is so talented. Yes, yes. It's such 00:17:57.079 --> 00:18:00.180 a fun space to be. It is, yes. Yeah, no, we'll 00:18:00.180 --> 00:18:01.799 have to definitely talk more about theater now 00:18:01.799 --> 00:18:04.720 that I realize that I have seen you before. I 00:18:04.720 --> 00:18:06.900 love that. Alrighty, well, thank you, Avery, 00:18:06.920 --> 00:18:09.220 so much for joining me. Yes, thank you for having 00:18:09.220 --> 00:18:12.009 me. Alrighty, and now I am joined by Noelle. 00:18:12.190 --> 00:18:13.549 Noelle, would you like to introduce yourself? 00:18:13.890 --> 00:18:16.509 Yes, of course. Thanks for having me. My name 00:18:16.509 --> 00:18:18.829 is Noelle. I'm the social media production editor. 00:18:19.609 --> 00:18:22.269 And so that basically means I'll be running the 00:18:22.269 --> 00:18:25.029 social media accounts, which go follow those. 00:18:25.529 --> 00:18:28.769 I'll shamelessly plug those here. So our Instagram 00:18:28.769 --> 00:18:33.730 is themessenger .jccc. J -C -C -C. There we go. 00:18:34.450 --> 00:18:38.690 So many C's. So many C's, yes. And then our Twitter 00:18:38.690 --> 00:18:44.589 or X is JCCC the Messenger. Or I'm sorry, JCCC 00:18:44.589 --> 00:18:47.930 Messenger. So go follow those. I need to follow 00:18:47.930 --> 00:18:50.289 them. If you haven't already. Yes, get on that, 00:18:50.289 --> 00:18:53.750 Zach. Shameless plug. Yes. All right. So my first 00:18:53.750 --> 00:18:55.990 question for you is what do you plan to offer 00:18:55.990 --> 00:19:00.099 to the JCCC community? I hope that the messenger 00:19:00.099 --> 00:19:04.420 really like brings people together and kind of 00:19:04.420 --> 00:19:08.960 persuades students to be more involved because 00:19:08.960 --> 00:19:13.440 I feel like that our student body is, you know, 00:19:13.460 --> 00:19:15.759 we're together a lot. Like it's a small campus. 00:19:15.819 --> 00:19:19.519 It's a small community somewhat, you know. Comparatively. 00:19:19.640 --> 00:19:23.140 Yeah, comparatively. Right. But I think that 00:19:23.140 --> 00:19:25.759 like. I went to the basketball game the other 00:19:25.759 --> 00:19:28.339 night and like there was hardly anybody there. 00:19:28.420 --> 00:19:30.519 Like the other team had more fans than we did. 00:19:30.720 --> 00:19:33.799 And like I went to the basketball game because 00:19:33.799 --> 00:19:36.640 of what Professor Humphrey was saying. Like these 00:19:36.640 --> 00:19:39.759 girls are amazing. Like this sister duo, they're 00:19:39.759 --> 00:19:42.900 like beating everybody out. And so like you should 00:19:42.900 --> 00:19:44.920 go to this. And I was like, heck yeah, I'm going 00:19:44.920 --> 00:19:46.920 to be there. And so I think just like getting 00:19:46.920 --> 00:19:52.759 people more informed will hopefully. make them 00:19:52.759 --> 00:19:56.859 more connected to the student body and to the 00:19:56.859 --> 00:19:59.720 school as a whole. Yeah, I totally agree. And, 00:19:59.759 --> 00:20:02.559 you know, that's been kind of the... consensus 00:20:02.559 --> 00:20:04.440 from everybody is that we want to create this 00:20:04.440 --> 00:20:07.220 place for all of like all this information that 00:20:07.220 --> 00:20:09.160 we can just share out of you know things that 00:20:09.160 --> 00:20:11.359 are happening on campus that people have no idea 00:20:11.359 --> 00:20:13.599 that are going on or you know have never heard 00:20:13.599 --> 00:20:15.759 about because I mean I'm be honest I haven't 00:20:15.759 --> 00:20:17.980 heard much about our sports teams until the other 00:20:17.980 --> 00:20:20.359 day so it's gonna be a lot of fun especially 00:20:20.359 --> 00:20:22.759 getting those kind of people like on the podcast 00:20:22.759 --> 00:20:25.900 or on our videos or social media just in general 00:20:25.900 --> 00:20:28.700 it's going to be a lot of fun to bring together 00:20:28.700 --> 00:20:32.079 this community so yeah for sure yeah So my next 00:20:32.079 --> 00:20:34.140 question for you is, why did you want to join 00:20:34.140 --> 00:20:37.119 the messenger? Yeah, I wanted to join the Messenger 00:20:37.119 --> 00:20:40.200 just because the opportunity presented itself 00:20:40.200 --> 00:20:42.599 really well. I wasn't even looking for it. And 00:20:42.599 --> 00:20:44.819 then one of my professors was like, you should 00:20:44.819 --> 00:20:46.839 do this. You would be perfect for this. And I 00:20:46.839 --> 00:20:50.720 was like, totally. Social media is what I want 00:20:50.720 --> 00:20:55.019 to do with my career or an aspect of it. And 00:20:55.019 --> 00:20:58.279 so I was just getting that experience early on 00:20:58.279 --> 00:21:00.920 and being able to put something like this on 00:21:00.920 --> 00:21:02.839 my resume. I mean, that's not the only reason 00:21:02.839 --> 00:21:05.369 I did it, but it's a good resume. That's a good 00:21:05.369 --> 00:21:09.190 reason. Good resume filler. But, yeah, so, yeah, 00:21:09.329 --> 00:21:12.470 I think so. And also just to, like, meet some 00:21:12.470 --> 00:21:15.529 awesome people on our ed board and get to, like, 00:21:15.529 --> 00:21:18.250 collaborate and make something really cool together. 00:21:18.329 --> 00:21:20.490 So I'm excited about it. Yeah, no, everybody's 00:21:20.490 --> 00:21:23.349 really cool, and I'm excited to work with everybody. 00:21:23.509 --> 00:21:26.769 I feel like everybody is as well. And everybody 00:21:26.769 --> 00:21:28.930 I've had on so far, you know, has agreed. They're 00:21:28.930 --> 00:21:32.430 excited to work with everybody. So my last and 00:21:32.430 --> 00:21:35.269 final question for you, it's a fun question for 00:21:35.269 --> 00:21:38.470 you. And what is your favorite side hobby? My 00:21:38.470 --> 00:21:41.230 favorite side hobby? You didn't prepare me for 00:21:41.230 --> 00:21:43.130 this question. I did not. This is a curveball. 00:21:43.490 --> 00:21:49.230 Okay, okay. I sing a lot. So my voice is like 00:21:49.230 --> 00:21:52.029 I'm going through like a cold right now. So my 00:21:52.029 --> 00:21:55.470 voice is not great. My voice is not great right 00:21:55.470 --> 00:21:59.230 now, but I sing. And so I would say that's... 00:21:59.869 --> 00:22:03.210 My favorite side hobby. Yeah. Yeah. What kind 00:22:03.210 --> 00:22:06.329 of music do you sing? I sing mostly, I sing for 00:22:06.329 --> 00:22:09.910 my church. So worship music. Yeah. But. Is it 00:22:09.910 --> 00:22:13.130 paid? It is not paid. It's volunteer. Okay. Yeah. 00:22:13.190 --> 00:22:16.490 But yeah. So mostly worship music, like contemporary. 00:22:16.910 --> 00:22:21.250 Yeah. Yeah. I'm not a rapper or anything. Oh 00:22:21.250 --> 00:22:23.029 yeah. If that's what you're asking. I don't rap. 00:22:23.269 --> 00:22:24.730 But no, those are some of like the most beautiful 00:22:24.730 --> 00:22:28.009 songs I feel like, regardless of like. where 00:22:28.009 --> 00:22:30.329 you stand on that, you know, I feel like gospel 00:22:30.329 --> 00:22:33.109 music is, is meant to be like pretty music and 00:22:33.109 --> 00:22:35.430 it does, it's pretty music. So that's cool. I 00:22:35.430 --> 00:22:38.450 didn't know that about you. Um, I, I also do 00:22:38.450 --> 00:22:43.390 like, I do sing. Um, I did do, um, I've been 00:22:43.390 --> 00:22:46.890 in, I was in choir for like most of my life. 00:22:46.890 --> 00:22:49.349 The only time I have not been in choir has been 00:22:49.349 --> 00:22:52.160 my time at JCCC actually. Because you're in theater, 00:22:52.279 --> 00:22:53.700 right? Yeah, I am in theater. So that makes sense. 00:22:53.880 --> 00:22:59.420 Okay, yeah. But also, I love my old vocal teacher 00:22:59.420 --> 00:23:03.289 really wants me to get into opera. because I 00:23:03.289 --> 00:23:07.349 do think I'd have a voice for opera. Okay. So 00:23:07.349 --> 00:23:09.509 maybe we'll see. We'll see. But yeah, no, that 00:23:09.509 --> 00:23:12.450 is cool. That's a talent though. Like opera is 00:23:12.450 --> 00:23:15.609 not just like, you know. Oh yeah, no. Like anyone 00:23:15.609 --> 00:23:18.390 who can like sing, like if you can sing, that 00:23:18.390 --> 00:23:20.069 doesn't mean that you can do opera. Oh no, it's 00:23:20.069 --> 00:23:22.009 not. Like opera is a whole different ballpark. 00:23:22.329 --> 00:23:25.549 It really is. But yeah, no. Not to toot my own 00:23:25.549 --> 00:23:29.329 horn, but my vocal teacher did say it. I love 00:23:29.329 --> 00:23:31.450 it. Just sharing the information. Yes, passing 00:23:31.450 --> 00:23:34.130 it along for sure. Yeah. Awesome. Well, thank 00:23:34.130 --> 00:23:37.309 you, Noelle, for joining me. And I will be seeing 00:23:37.309 --> 00:23:40.289 you around probably. Yes. Thank you, Zach. Thanks 00:23:40.289 --> 00:23:42.509 for having me. Of course. Maybe we'll get you 00:23:42.509 --> 00:23:44.289 on a future episode too. So we'll see. Great. 00:23:44.430 --> 00:23:47.769 I would love that. Thank you. Alrighty, I am 00:23:47.769 --> 00:23:49.490 now joined by Vaughn. Vaughn, would you like 00:23:49.490 --> 00:23:51.849 to introduce yourself? Yeah, sure. I'm Vaughn. 00:23:51.910 --> 00:23:55.109 I'm the photo editor for The Messenger. Awesome. 00:23:55.410 --> 00:23:57.849 And so my first question for you is, what do 00:23:57.849 --> 00:24:01.269 you plan to bring to the JCCC community? I'm 00:24:01.269 --> 00:24:04.609 definitely hoping to make sure that our articles 00:24:04.609 --> 00:24:06.569 have really strong visuals. I feel like that's 00:24:06.569 --> 00:24:08.670 the first thing that people see when they come 00:24:08.670 --> 00:24:11.269 to our website, and I want it to really pull 00:24:11.269 --> 00:24:13.990 them in and make them feel something. Oh yeah, 00:24:14.109 --> 00:24:17.279 you know... You know, we've known each other 00:24:17.279 --> 00:24:21.839 for about a year now. Yeah. Crazy. We did cabaret 00:24:21.839 --> 00:24:24.579 together. That was fun. So I think that's when 00:24:24.579 --> 00:24:28.339 I met you. Yeah. So, yeah, I walked in the room. 00:24:28.460 --> 00:24:30.599 You saw me. I think you saw me first or something. 00:24:30.599 --> 00:24:33.900 We're like, oh, Ron and Zach. Oh, my God. So 00:24:33.900 --> 00:24:36.640 that was awesome to know that we're working together 00:24:36.640 --> 00:24:38.380 now. So that's cool. And I didn't even know you 00:24:38.380 --> 00:24:41.460 were into this. Yeah. I figured it out this year. 00:24:41.819 --> 00:24:45.630 Nice. And my second question for you is, why 00:24:45.630 --> 00:24:48.910 did you want to join The Messenger? I am trying 00:24:48.910 --> 00:24:52.390 to pursue journalism as a career, specifically 00:24:52.390 --> 00:24:55.670 photojournalism, but I'm also taking some news 00:24:55.670 --> 00:24:58.390 writing classes, and I'm hoping to get some writing 00:24:58.390 --> 00:25:01.630 muscles built up. But also, I mean, it's kind 00:25:01.630 --> 00:25:03.109 of sad to me that there hasn't been a student 00:25:03.109 --> 00:25:05.910 publication in a while. So I'm really looking 00:25:05.910 --> 00:25:08.549 forward to building up something that can last 00:25:08.549 --> 00:25:12.880 for not just our graduating year, but... as many 00:25:12.880 --> 00:25:15.900 like forever. Yeah. I know. That's cool. Yeah. 00:25:15.940 --> 00:25:17.940 Student media is really important. No, it is. 00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:21.180 Yeah. I mean, I, again, I was not really, I didn't 00:25:21.180 --> 00:25:23.359 do any of this in like high school or anything. 00:25:23.500 --> 00:25:26.140 So this is my first time like doing student media 00:25:26.140 --> 00:25:29.279 and I mean, yeah, no, it's, it's cool. Like the 00:25:29.279 --> 00:25:31.140 environment's really cool. You know, it's, it's 00:25:31.140 --> 00:25:34.000 different obviously because it's, you know, student 00:25:34.000 --> 00:25:36.319 led and you're not really being bossed around 00:25:36.319 --> 00:25:39.740 too much by, you know, like an adult. So it is 00:25:39.740 --> 00:25:42.599 definitely a different environment. Yeah. Alrighty, 00:25:42.660 --> 00:25:46.579 so my last and final question for you is, what 00:25:46.579 --> 00:25:51.980 is your favorite side hobby? So, everybody calls 00:25:51.980 --> 00:25:55.119 crochet a grandma hobby. I don't think it is. 00:25:55.160 --> 00:25:57.599 I think crocheting is awesome. I like making 00:25:57.599 --> 00:26:00.519 stuff, and especially stuff that I can give to 00:26:00.519 --> 00:26:02.880 people, because I never really keep anything 00:26:02.880 --> 00:26:04.660 that I make for myself, but I like to crochet. 00:26:05.220 --> 00:26:07.339 Right now I'm working on a huge blanket. That's 00:26:07.339 --> 00:26:09.200 awesome. I didn't know that about you. Really? 00:26:09.259 --> 00:26:11.240 No, I didn't. I don't think I did. I feel like 00:26:11.240 --> 00:26:13.480 I carry around my tote bag of yarn all the time. 00:26:13.480 --> 00:26:16.200 Maybe at one point I saw it, but I guess I maybe 00:26:16.200 --> 00:26:19.619 just forgot about it. One of my friends crochets, 00:26:19.900 --> 00:26:24.140 and she made me a dice bag for D &D at one point. 00:26:24.160 --> 00:26:26.839 It was really cool, yeah. She made me a scarf. 00:26:26.980 --> 00:26:29.500 That was really cool, especially in wintertime. 00:26:29.779 --> 00:26:33.420 I think that's an awesome hobby. I wish I could 00:26:33.420 --> 00:26:35.259 crochet, if I'm being honest. Honestly, it is 00:26:35.259 --> 00:26:38.059 not hard. You can definitely learn. Maybe. Maybe. 00:26:38.059 --> 00:26:41.039 Maybe you'll teach me. Yeah. Maybe that'll be 00:26:41.039 --> 00:26:43.539 an episode. Yeah. Crocheting with Vaughn and 00:26:43.539 --> 00:26:46.000 Zach. I think that's it. I'm down. Let's do it. 00:26:46.240 --> 00:26:48.420 All righty. Well, awesome. Thank you so much 00:26:48.420 --> 00:26:49.740 for joining me, Vaughn. Yeah, thank you for having 00:26:49.740 --> 00:26:52.779 me. All righty. I am now joined by Cash. Cash, 00:26:52.859 --> 00:26:55.299 would you like to introduce yourself? Howdy. 00:26:55.779 --> 00:26:59.299 My name is Cash Navarro. I will be both the opinion 00:26:59.299 --> 00:27:02.099 desk editor as well as the life desk editor. 00:27:04.119 --> 00:27:07.339 Yeah. Yeah, no, that's, I mean, you got stuck 00:27:07.339 --> 00:27:11.720 with two of them, so. Alrighty, so my first question 00:27:11.720 --> 00:27:14.279 for you is, what do you plan to offer to the 00:27:14.279 --> 00:27:18.420 JCCC community? Well, I'll start with opinion. 00:27:19.099 --> 00:27:22.619 I am of the firm belief that everybody has an 00:27:22.619 --> 00:27:25.900 opinion. You know, let it be about, like, which 00:27:25.900 --> 00:27:28.799 pie is the best kind of pie. It's key lime, by 00:27:28.799 --> 00:27:33.940 the way. I prefer pecan, but yeah. We'll talk 00:27:33.940 --> 00:27:38.880 about that later. Or, you know, politics. And 00:27:38.880 --> 00:27:42.059 for the past, goodness, year and a half, there 00:27:42.059 --> 00:27:45.339 just haven't been a way for students to express 00:27:45.339 --> 00:27:48.220 themselves in that way. You know, you could go 00:27:48.220 --> 00:27:50.759 walk up to a stranger and yell at them your opinion, 00:27:50.799 --> 00:27:53.680 but, you know, where's the fun in that? When 00:27:53.680 --> 00:27:56.279 you could instead write it down and have it published 00:27:56.279 --> 00:27:58.980 on a website where other people can read it. 00:27:59.839 --> 00:28:03.180 I hope for an opinion section to offer a place 00:28:03.180 --> 00:28:07.200 of actual conversation with each other, you know, 00:28:07.200 --> 00:28:09.619 being able to share our viewpoints, being able 00:28:09.619 --> 00:28:13.160 to share our perspectives, our own personal history. 00:28:14.220 --> 00:28:17.039 As for the life section, it's going to be a bit 00:28:17.039 --> 00:28:21.819 more of like a... Fun section, if you will. Yeah. 00:28:21.940 --> 00:28:25.000 Think of it kind of as if kind of like a new 00:28:25.000 --> 00:28:28.240 section that focuses primarily on events and 00:28:28.240 --> 00:28:34.319 ongoings. So let's say that you just are bored 00:28:34.319 --> 00:28:37.420 and you have nothing to do. Well, we in the live 00:28:37.420 --> 00:28:41.329 section will have a. thing that says, hey, here 00:28:41.329 --> 00:28:44.069 are our upcoming events. Here is an art show. 00:28:44.230 --> 00:28:46.849 Here is something on campus that's fun to do. 00:28:47.210 --> 00:28:50.309 Life section will just be focused on student 00:28:50.309 --> 00:28:54.009 life. Other things that will be in a life section 00:28:54.009 --> 00:28:57.210 are like movie reviews or play and musical reviews. 00:28:57.309 --> 00:29:00.990 They're at the Midwestern Trust Center. So it 00:29:00.990 --> 00:29:04.430 will hopefully just work as a way to help Johnson 00:29:04.430 --> 00:29:07.170 County Community College cultivate a community. 00:29:07.769 --> 00:29:09.930 Yeah. That's, that's awesome. I mean, I was, 00:29:09.930 --> 00:29:12.369 I was getting a little chilly, like little chills. 00:29:12.430 --> 00:29:14.390 I'm not going to lie. I mean, I'm excited to 00:29:14.390 --> 00:29:17.170 see, especially like your, your section, I feel 00:29:17.170 --> 00:29:20.309 like has a lot of like opportunities because, 00:29:20.369 --> 00:29:23.029 you know, I mean, life and opinion, that's, I 00:29:23.029 --> 00:29:26.029 mean, that's, that's broad. So yeah, there's, 00:29:26.029 --> 00:29:28.390 there's so much that we are able to do so much 00:29:28.390 --> 00:29:31.769 that I want to test out doing. It's, I hope. 00:29:32.170 --> 00:29:35.650 for it to be something bigger than what it ever, 00:29:35.910 --> 00:29:38.109 you know, something bigger by the time that I 00:29:38.109 --> 00:29:40.890 leave Johnson County. Oh, yeah. Yeah. No, that's 00:29:40.890 --> 00:29:43.609 awesome. All righty. My second question for you 00:29:43.609 --> 00:29:46.670 is, why did you want to join The Messenger? So 00:29:46.670 --> 00:29:51.609 in high school, I joined as part of their school 00:29:51.609 --> 00:29:55.970 newspaper my senior year. And I had become an 00:29:55.970 --> 00:29:58.150 opinion writer. And I had just done it kind of 00:29:58.150 --> 00:30:01.319 as like an extra. Here's a thing to do, help 00:30:01.319 --> 00:30:05.259 build a resume. But then I wrote what is possibly 00:30:05.259 --> 00:30:08.299 my favorite opinion piece that I've ever made 00:30:08.299 --> 00:30:11.000 and will ever make. It was called Binnifer and 00:30:11.000 --> 00:30:13.960 Me, and it was about Ben Affleck and J. Lo's 00:30:13.960 --> 00:30:17.390 second marriage. It was this absolutely stupid 00:30:17.390 --> 00:30:21.009 one -page written -up thing about that. It was 00:30:21.009 --> 00:30:23.329 about how angry I was that the show Inside Edition 00:30:23.329 --> 00:30:26.609 was no longer playing at its correct time slot 00:30:26.609 --> 00:30:31.789 on KCTV5. And we had submitted it for awards 00:30:31.789 --> 00:30:35.869 and for competition, and it got first. Oh, wow. 00:30:35.970 --> 00:30:38.430 This stupid little article beat out another article 00:30:38.430 --> 00:30:43.130 on, like... guns in schools and a other article 00:30:43.130 --> 00:30:48.829 on uh queer capitalism and you know there was 00:30:48.829 --> 00:30:51.450 just like this sense of pride that i had this 00:30:51.450 --> 00:30:56.019 sense of um oh i can imagine yeah I'll say, like, 00:30:56.059 --> 00:30:58.640 agreed. I wanted to do this, and I wanted it 00:30:58.640 --> 00:31:02.119 to be me. And so, you know, I kept up with that. 00:31:02.240 --> 00:31:05.819 Last semester, I was a part of the CAVMAG experiment. 00:31:06.259 --> 00:31:09.500 I was the deputy editor -in -chief and copy editor 00:31:09.500 --> 00:31:13.140 for that. So I'm no stranger to holding two desks. 00:31:13.460 --> 00:31:15.299 No, that's awesome. That's good. That's good. 00:31:16.160 --> 00:31:18.519 And, yeah, as part of that, I wrote about, like, 00:31:18.519 --> 00:31:21.039 five articles that have yet to be published. 00:31:21.180 --> 00:31:24.549 But, you know, it was fun. It was... laying the 00:31:24.549 --> 00:31:26.809 groundwork for what we're doing here today yeah 00:31:26.809 --> 00:31:30.549 no that's that's awesome i mean yeah i mean i 00:31:30.549 --> 00:31:33.329 i only just got to meet you recently for the 00:31:33.329 --> 00:31:35.470 first time and i mean i'm excited to work with 00:31:35.470 --> 00:31:39.880 you um you know It seems like you know a lot 00:31:39.880 --> 00:31:42.079 about what you're doing, so maybe I'll come to 00:31:42.079 --> 00:31:44.920 you if I ever need any help. Oh, feel free to. 00:31:45.660 --> 00:31:47.700 You'll come to learn fast that I don't know what 00:31:47.700 --> 00:31:50.180 I'm doing, and I'm just kind of lying a lot. 00:31:50.359 --> 00:31:53.039 Oh, yeah, that's fair. Not today, not ever, but, 00:31:53.099 --> 00:31:58.200 you know. Not ever. I never lie. Never. All righty. 00:31:58.460 --> 00:32:01.319 So my last and final question for you is what 00:32:01.319 --> 00:32:04.700 is your favorite side hobby? My favorite side 00:32:04.700 --> 00:32:09.680 hobby? Hmm. So not my main hobby, but my secondary 00:32:09.680 --> 00:32:18.400 hobby. Okay. I have, for maybe the better part 00:32:18.400 --> 00:32:24.420 of five years now, done this thing where I have 00:32:24.420 --> 00:32:30.279 collected both political memorabilia and my favorite 00:32:30.279 --> 00:32:33.779 news and newspaper clippings. I have probably 00:32:33.779 --> 00:32:37.799 a collection of over 500... strange articles 00:32:37.799 --> 00:32:42.960 or fun little fact articles just in a little 00:32:42.960 --> 00:32:45.980 database on my computer, like a file of them. 00:32:46.180 --> 00:32:48.720 Oh, okay. So they're not like physical things 00:32:48.720 --> 00:32:50.700 or do you also get like physical like cutouts 00:32:50.700 --> 00:32:53.119 of stuff? I don't have physical cutouts of newspapers, 00:32:53.240 --> 00:32:56.319 but I do have a lot of physical memorabilia. 00:32:56.380 --> 00:33:01.890 Okay. I got... maybe four years ago, really obsessed 00:33:01.890 --> 00:33:04.670 with making fun of former President of the United 00:33:04.670 --> 00:33:09.670 States, George W. Bush. And I have in my collection 00:33:09.670 --> 00:33:13.269 official posters from him, multiple buttons from 00:33:13.269 --> 00:33:19.369 him. I have, so in 2001, the company that makes 00:33:19.369 --> 00:33:23.349 all the baseball cards made a set of cards that 00:33:23.349 --> 00:33:27.549 were like memorabilia for 9 -11. And they had 00:33:27.549 --> 00:33:29.430 released this two months after the fact, and 00:33:29.430 --> 00:33:31.230 there's like this whole collection of it. And 00:33:31.230 --> 00:33:33.950 I don't actually have any of the cards themselves, 00:33:34.009 --> 00:33:38.430 but instead I had found and obtained an uncut 00:33:38.430 --> 00:33:42.549 sheet of all of the cards. Oh, wow. And it's 00:33:42.549 --> 00:33:46.210 this really strange, terrible thing to own because 00:33:46.210 --> 00:33:50.119 it's like, you know, it's like an... Osama bin 00:33:50.119 --> 00:33:53.019 Laden playing card, more or less. Or like a collector 00:33:53.019 --> 00:33:55.119 card, like a baseball card. And you know, you 00:33:55.119 --> 00:33:57.660 got like your Dick Cheney's and your George Bush, 00:33:57.819 --> 00:34:00.400 your Connie Rice. And it's like, this is awful. 00:34:00.519 --> 00:34:02.700 Why did they make this two months after 9 -11? 00:34:02.839 --> 00:34:04.779 That is insane. And you have like the entire 00:34:04.779 --> 00:34:08.059 uncut sheet of it? Yeah, I have an entire uncut 00:34:08.059 --> 00:34:11.039 sheet of all of them. It's massive. That's awesome. 00:34:11.500 --> 00:34:14.860 I mean, well, to an extent, but like... Because 00:34:14.860 --> 00:34:17.900 I've seen, like, I collect, like, Pokemon cards. 00:34:18.019 --> 00:34:20.780 So I've seen, like, people with, like, uncut 00:34:20.780 --> 00:34:24.980 sheets of, you know, Pokemon cards. And I've 00:34:24.980 --> 00:34:26.980 seen, of course, with, like, baseball cards as 00:34:26.980 --> 00:34:29.300 well. But nothing like that. That is an interesting 00:34:29.300 --> 00:34:32.980 piece you have. Yeah. It's truly awful. And you 00:34:32.980 --> 00:34:35.619 know the worst part? I won it at an auction at, 00:34:35.719 --> 00:34:38.099 like, an elementary school in Parkville, Missouri. 00:34:38.519 --> 00:34:43.349 Oh, geez. Well, that is... Yeah, well, I mean, 00:34:43.369 --> 00:34:45.730 that's a cool, like, side hobby, too, though. 00:34:45.829 --> 00:34:48.570 Like, because, I mean, collecting all that stuff 00:34:48.570 --> 00:34:52.110 over these years, that's been, like, pretty cool 00:34:52.110 --> 00:34:54.409 to see, like, all the history you've gathered. 00:34:54.630 --> 00:34:56.690 Mm -hmm. You know, and the worst part of all 00:34:56.690 --> 00:34:58.969 of it, though, is that none of it's worth anything 00:34:58.969 --> 00:35:01.829 if I were to ever resell it. Yeah. You know, 00:35:01.829 --> 00:35:05.190 I got, like... political buttons and such and 00:35:05.190 --> 00:35:06.889 it's like they're they're worth maybe like two 00:35:06.889 --> 00:35:10.030 three dollars it's sentimental value yeah that's 00:35:10.030 --> 00:35:12.090 that is honestly more important to me sometimes 00:35:12.090 --> 00:35:15.690 than actual value so this is my comfort uh george 00:35:15.690 --> 00:35:18.929 w bush teachers for bush connecticut 2004 pam 00:35:20.460 --> 00:35:22.500 Is that an actual thing you have? Yes, it is 00:35:22.500 --> 00:35:24.800 an actual one. I also was gifted by a friend 00:35:24.800 --> 00:35:28.260 once a framed picture of him, but it had like 00:35:28.260 --> 00:35:30.480 the little rainbow stickers around it and like 00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:32.739 a little unicorn sticker. And then I put it by 00:35:32.739 --> 00:35:34.659 my bedside for years because I didn't know what 00:35:34.659 --> 00:35:36.340 else to do with it. Yeah, I don't know what I'd 00:35:36.340 --> 00:35:40.400 do with it. Yeah. I also have been down to the 00:35:40.400 --> 00:35:42.760 George W. Bush Museum down in Dallas, Texas. 00:35:42.820 --> 00:35:45.559 It's on Bush Street. I've also seen, he became 00:35:45.559 --> 00:35:49.260 a painter. After becoming president, he got really 00:35:49.260 --> 00:35:52.239 into grief and being upset about his presidency. 00:35:52.539 --> 00:35:55.119 And so he got really into painting to get rid 00:35:55.119 --> 00:35:57.579 of that grief. And there's some absolutely wild 00:35:57.579 --> 00:35:59.800 paintings he's made. He's done a self -portrait 00:35:59.800 --> 00:36:02.480 of himself in the shower staring into a mirror. 00:36:04.320 --> 00:36:07.440 He has done, like, portraits of veterans. They 00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:09.519 go around the country, like, the collection of 00:36:09.519 --> 00:36:11.679 them. And they were in Truman, like, two years 00:36:11.679 --> 00:36:16.090 ago. Yeah. Well, that's, I mean. I honestly didn't 00:36:16.090 --> 00:36:18.730 know that much about George W. Bush. So, you 00:36:18.730 --> 00:36:21.349 know, honestly, I might come to you if we ever 00:36:21.349 --> 00:36:23.570 need more information about him. Hopefully we 00:36:23.570 --> 00:36:25.389 never will. Hopefully we never will, though. 00:36:25.429 --> 00:36:29.070 But if we do, I know who to go to. All righty. 00:36:29.070 --> 00:36:30.530 Well, thank you so much, Cass, for joining me. 00:36:30.710 --> 00:36:32.429 You know, maybe we'll get you on a future episode. 00:36:32.590 --> 00:36:35.469 Maybe maybe we'll talk about your George W. Bush 00:36:35.469 --> 00:36:37.710 or maybe we'll talk about something else. I got 00:36:37.710 --> 00:36:41.289 I got opinions on everything. All righty. Thank 00:36:41.289 --> 00:36:44.440 you so much again. Thank you. All righty, I am 00:36:44.440 --> 00:36:46.239 now joined by Audrey. Audrey, would you like 00:36:46.239 --> 00:36:49.260 to introduce yourself? Hi, I'm Audrey Hook. I'm 00:36:49.260 --> 00:36:51.940 the managing editor for The Messenger. Awesome. 00:36:52.079 --> 00:36:54.900 All righty, my first question for you is, what 00:36:54.900 --> 00:36:58.559 do you plan to bring to the JCCC community? So 00:36:58.559 --> 00:37:03.360 as the managing editor, I plan to bring, I really 00:37:03.360 --> 00:37:08.380 want to bring the focus to trustworthy news. 00:37:08.989 --> 00:37:12.969 I really want students to be able to read what 00:37:12.969 --> 00:37:16.449 we have to say, watch videos, listen to podcasts. 00:37:16.690 --> 00:37:18.429 However they get their news, I want them to be 00:37:18.429 --> 00:37:23.090 able to just use this as an actual reliable local 00:37:23.090 --> 00:37:25.789 news source. And so I think that's something 00:37:25.789 --> 00:37:27.489 I'm going to bring to the table is really trying 00:37:27.489 --> 00:37:29.610 to enforce that and make sure that happens. Yeah. 00:37:29.690 --> 00:37:32.630 No, I mean, obviously this goes without saying, 00:37:32.710 --> 00:37:35.730 fake news is terrible. And, you know, you always 00:37:35.730 --> 00:37:37.949 want to have a good trustworthy source. So, I 00:37:37.949 --> 00:37:41.969 mean. to know that we're in the hands of somebody 00:37:41.969 --> 00:37:44.929 who wants that is a good thing. You know, we're 00:37:44.929 --> 00:37:48.150 going to definitely focus on sharing correct 00:37:48.150 --> 00:37:51.119 information. Absolutely. Yeah, that's something 00:37:51.119 --> 00:37:54.039 I just I have always, you know, there's so much, 00:37:54.039 --> 00:37:56.059 as you said, fake news out there. There's so 00:37:56.059 --> 00:37:58.320 much bias and everything like that in the news. 00:37:58.699 --> 00:38:01.039 And so it'd be nice to just have something that's 00:38:01.039 --> 00:38:03.500 like reliable, but, you know, also going to have 00:38:03.500 --> 00:38:05.719 fun, things like that, but can do both hard news, 00:38:05.780 --> 00:38:09.579 soft news. It's local, you know. Exactly. Exactly. 00:38:09.699 --> 00:38:11.559 And it's not going to be something that people 00:38:11.559 --> 00:38:13.570 are going to go, oh, you know. the messenger 00:38:13.570 --> 00:38:16.329 said, blah, blah, blah. And now... Maybe eventually. 00:38:16.610 --> 00:38:18.469 Right. And that's, you know, like if we have 00:38:18.469 --> 00:38:20.070 opinion articles, things like that, you know, 00:38:20.070 --> 00:38:22.050 and that's something that once it's established 00:38:22.050 --> 00:38:23.869 that this is an opinion article or something 00:38:23.869 --> 00:38:27.010 that's not like, oh, this is exactual, this is 00:38:27.010 --> 00:38:30.139 actually facts or something like that. You know, 00:38:30.139 --> 00:38:31.719 there's a difference between that and then like, 00:38:31.840 --> 00:38:34.119 hey, you know, the messenger is like super biased 00:38:34.119 --> 00:38:36.739 one way or the other, things like that, or they 00:38:36.739 --> 00:38:38.880 aren't reporting this accurately. Like that's 00:38:38.880 --> 00:38:41.139 something that I really would like to make sure 00:38:41.139 --> 00:38:44.679 that happens. Yeah, no, definitely. I mean, yeah, 00:38:44.760 --> 00:38:48.400 that goes without saying. Yeah. All right. So 00:38:48.400 --> 00:38:51.480 my second question for you is why did you want 00:38:51.480 --> 00:38:56.519 to join the messenger? So I. So kind of going 00:38:56.519 --> 00:38:59.739 back, rewinding here. So what I'm really into 00:38:59.739 --> 00:39:04.039 news -wise is like radio, actually. I grew up 00:39:04.039 --> 00:39:07.519 listening to this specific country radio station 00:39:07.519 --> 00:39:11.699 out of Topeka, Kansas. And I've just always really 00:39:11.699 --> 00:39:13.239 liked it. And that's something I've thought about 00:39:13.239 --> 00:39:15.920 doing is maybe doing radio. And last semester, 00:39:15.980 --> 00:39:19.579 I took both introduction to podcasting and a 00:39:19.579 --> 00:39:22.400 broadcast performance class. And I liked them 00:39:22.400 --> 00:39:26.199 a lot. I learned a lot. And then there was an 00:39:26.199 --> 00:39:27.960 opening for news writing and reporting. There 00:39:27.960 --> 00:39:29.639 was a class going on with that. And I was like, 00:39:29.699 --> 00:39:31.400 huh, that might be interesting to try. I kind 00:39:31.400 --> 00:39:33.800 of really started to like this whole journalism 00:39:33.800 --> 00:39:36.960 aspect of things. And then I took that class, 00:39:37.039 --> 00:39:39.000 really liked the professor, liked, you know, 00:39:39.019 --> 00:39:42.420 the content in there. And then he also is the 00:39:42.420 --> 00:39:46.690 advisor now, Professor Humphrey. these positions 00:39:46.690 --> 00:39:48.630 were opening up that we were going to have the 00:39:48.630 --> 00:39:50.409 messenger come up and I was like man I've kind 00:39:50.409 --> 00:39:52.789 of really started to like this stuff maybe I 00:39:52.789 --> 00:39:54.849 should try my hand at it and see what happens 00:39:54.849 --> 00:39:59.070 you know going ahead and uh you know like I said 00:39:59.070 --> 00:40:01.150 trying my hand and figuring out you know if this 00:40:01.150 --> 00:40:03.409 is something I'd really want to do long term 00:40:03.409 --> 00:40:05.570 or just you know kind of trying things out and 00:40:05.570 --> 00:40:07.309 scoping it out and everything like that yeah 00:40:07.309 --> 00:40:10.139 yeah um I don't know if I've mentioned this in 00:40:10.139 --> 00:40:12.639 any other interview, but I'm in the intro to 00:40:12.639 --> 00:40:15.539 podcasting class right now with Ben Mesner. And 00:40:15.539 --> 00:40:17.480 it's a lot of fun, obviously, as I'm here right 00:40:17.480 --> 00:40:20.960 now. And so he mentioned it one class. He's like, 00:40:21.039 --> 00:40:24.820 hey, this thing, the student -led thing is opening 00:40:24.820 --> 00:40:27.320 up for podcast editors, if any of you are interested. 00:40:27.559 --> 00:40:32.300 And I was like, yeah, maybe. And then I also, 00:40:32.380 --> 00:40:36.219 I'm in a class with Humphrey this semester as 00:40:36.219 --> 00:40:39.090 well, which. He's going to be one of my favorite 00:40:39.090 --> 00:40:42.989 professors. He's awesome. So, you know, when 00:40:42.989 --> 00:40:45.849 I realized that it was him, I was like, OK, I 00:40:45.849 --> 00:40:48.730 feel like I got to do this. Right, right. He's 00:40:48.730 --> 00:40:51.570 very encouraging. And he also is so helpful with 00:40:51.570 --> 00:40:53.170 stuff, too, because he's not like and he has 00:40:53.170 --> 00:40:55.110 the experience with this as well, which is so 00:40:55.110 --> 00:40:59.050 helpful. He's been in the reporting section of. 00:40:59.800 --> 00:41:02.800 you know, like news and stuff for years. Oh yeah. 00:41:02.880 --> 00:41:05.099 Like he's just so knowledgeable and he's so, 00:41:05.159 --> 00:41:07.500 you know, sometimes people that have so much 00:41:07.500 --> 00:41:10.699 knowledge, they almost not, it's like they talk 00:41:10.699 --> 00:41:13.099 like way up here and it's, they're just so smart 00:41:13.099 --> 00:41:14.780 that you're like, oh man, I can't follow along. 00:41:14.860 --> 00:41:18.159 But he is so good at like making, like explaining 00:41:18.159 --> 00:41:19.920 things in a way that like students understand. 00:41:20.059 --> 00:41:22.619 And I love that. Oh yeah. No, he, he's also definitely, 00:41:22.659 --> 00:41:26.079 he never tries to persuade anybody like for their 00:41:26.079 --> 00:41:30.130 opinions. He always likes to, you know, hear 00:41:30.130 --> 00:41:32.349 people out, which is which is a good thing to 00:41:32.349 --> 00:41:35.070 be for a good trait to have as a professor. You 00:41:35.070 --> 00:41:37.110 know, you want to be that good middle ground, 00:41:37.190 --> 00:41:39.570 even if you have differing opinions. You know, 00:41:39.570 --> 00:41:43.449 he he masks it very well if he does. So, yeah, 00:41:44.190 --> 00:41:46.590 he's awesome. So, you know, I'm glad to be working 00:41:46.590 --> 00:41:49.510 with him and, you know, everybody else. So me, 00:41:49.530 --> 00:41:52.070 too. Me, too. Yeah. All right. And so my third 00:41:52.070 --> 00:41:54.150 and last question for you is what is your favorite 00:41:54.150 --> 00:42:00.440 side hobby? Ooh. Good question. I really, okay, 00:42:00.500 --> 00:42:02.699 can I say two essentially? Yeah, you can say 00:42:02.699 --> 00:42:04.619 two. I feel like they kind of sort of go hand 00:42:04.619 --> 00:42:08.000 in hand. So I really love, I love reading. And 00:42:08.000 --> 00:42:10.500 then I have a huge passion for creative writing, 00:42:10.579 --> 00:42:12.780 which is another reason I kind of have kind of 00:42:12.780 --> 00:42:14.940 gone into the journalism stuff too, because I 00:42:14.940 --> 00:42:17.260 feel like it's a way to flex that creative writing 00:42:17.260 --> 00:42:20.900 muscle as well. And, but I also, like, I love 00:42:20.900 --> 00:42:23.099 reading stories. My favorite author right now 00:42:23.099 --> 00:42:26.659 is Kristen Hanna. She's great. Lovely historical 00:42:26.659 --> 00:42:31.769 fiction. And but I also just love writing creative 00:42:31.769 --> 00:42:34.650 stories and things like that as well. So those 00:42:34.650 --> 00:42:38.010 are my my two favorite hobbies outside of this. 00:42:38.130 --> 00:42:41.389 Yeah. Yeah. No, I last time I took a creative 00:42:41.389 --> 00:42:46.550 writing crush, creative writing class was, I 00:42:46.550 --> 00:42:49.929 think, either sophomore or junior year. I think 00:42:49.929 --> 00:42:53.519 it was junior year of high school. And I liked 00:42:53.519 --> 00:42:56.019 it a lot. I love to write. Not so much reading. 00:42:56.880 --> 00:43:00.239 I've just never been a big reader. I don't understand 00:43:00.239 --> 00:43:02.639 why. It might be, like, an attention thing. I 00:43:02.639 --> 00:43:05.940 also cannot focus, like, the words start to, 00:43:06.000 --> 00:43:09.119 like, I guess it's probably dyslexia. So maybe 00:43:09.119 --> 00:43:12.239 I'm just dyslexic. Thanks, Mom. But, you know. 00:43:12.380 --> 00:43:15.179 It happens. Yeah. That's why I love podcasts, 00:43:15.480 --> 00:43:17.840 honestly, because I can retain that information 00:43:17.840 --> 00:43:21.039 better. So that's also kind of why I'm here. 00:43:21.420 --> 00:43:23.780 Very cool. Very cool. That's awesome. Well, I'm 00:43:23.780 --> 00:43:25.920 glad to have you on the team. And I don't know, 00:43:26.039 --> 00:43:28.159 I think we maybe talked about this a little bit. 00:43:28.599 --> 00:43:31.920 little bit outside of here but the since I had 00:43:31.920 --> 00:43:35.099 taken the intro to podcasting class um last semester 00:43:35.099 --> 00:43:38.000 I had also thought about going for yeah I think 00:43:38.000 --> 00:43:40.039 we talked about this over lunch like a week ago 00:43:40.039 --> 00:43:42.059 or something yeah the podcast editor but I'm 00:43:42.059 --> 00:43:44.199 glad you got it because I think it it sounds 00:43:44.199 --> 00:43:45.679 like you've got a real passion for this stuff 00:43:45.679 --> 00:43:47.500 so I think this will be good I'm very excited 00:43:47.500 --> 00:43:50.960 to work on this so you know maybe maybe not two 00:43:50.960 --> 00:43:53.000 episodes a week like I said earlier but you know 00:43:53.800 --> 00:43:56.059 We'll see where this goes. Hopefully we get a 00:43:56.059 --> 00:44:02.199 host. I like hosting, obviously, but editing 00:44:02.199 --> 00:44:05.719 is the fun part to me as well. Right. And it 00:44:05.719 --> 00:44:08.079 would be a lot of work to do both every single 00:44:08.079 --> 00:44:11.500 week. Well, thank you so much, Audrey, for joining 00:44:11.500 --> 00:44:13.340 me. Yeah, no problem. And hopefully we'll get 00:44:13.340 --> 00:44:15.579 you on a future episode. Absolutely. I would 00:44:15.579 --> 00:44:18.159 be absolutely down for that for sure. Well, we'll 00:44:18.159 --> 00:44:20.119 figure something out. Okay, sounds good. Thank 00:44:20.119 --> 00:44:22.940 you. Yeah, no problem. All righty. And lastly, 00:44:23.079 --> 00:44:25.579 I am now joined by Seth. Seth, would you like 00:44:25.579 --> 00:44:28.000 to introduce yourself? Yeah, I'm Seth Lampton. 00:44:28.019 --> 00:44:31.239 I'm the sports editor at the Messenger here at 00:44:31.239 --> 00:44:34.320 JCCC. Awesome. So my first question for you is, 00:44:34.360 --> 00:44:37.179 what plans do you have to offer to the JCCC community? 00:44:38.440 --> 00:44:41.800 Well, you know, I really would just kind of like 00:44:41.800 --> 00:44:46.719 to offer consistent and reliable sourcing and 00:44:46.719 --> 00:44:50.849 information, you know, for... All things sports 00:44:50.849 --> 00:44:53.730 related, you know, kind of really trying to nail 00:44:53.730 --> 00:44:57.570 the big stuff that's going on in terms of like, 00:44:57.710 --> 00:45:00.610 you know, what are the big rivalries right now? 00:45:00.710 --> 00:45:03.369 You know, what are our standings? Stuff like 00:45:03.369 --> 00:45:07.449 that. Kind of stuff that is really what people 00:45:07.449 --> 00:45:09.429 want to know about the most versus, you know, 00:45:09.449 --> 00:45:12.989 the smaller stuff. You know, that's I'll probably 00:45:12.989 --> 00:45:14.550 do a couple of things here and there with the 00:45:14.550 --> 00:45:16.869 smaller stuff as well. But really kind of just 00:45:16.869 --> 00:45:19.719 focusing on. the big picture stuff. Yeah. No, 00:45:19.800 --> 00:45:23.000 that's, yeah, that's awesome. Cause I, I personally 00:45:23.000 --> 00:45:26.039 have not been very like paying, like I haven't 00:45:26.039 --> 00:45:27.739 paid much attention to our sports teams if I'm 00:45:27.739 --> 00:45:31.360 being honest, um, which I want to now, obviously, 00:45:31.500 --> 00:45:33.099 you know, I'm, I'm trying to get more involved 00:45:33.099 --> 00:45:35.139 in this community, especially now that we're, 00:45:35.139 --> 00:45:37.480 you know, attempting to create a, a more unified 00:45:37.480 --> 00:45:40.519 community with the messenger. So, you know, I'm 00:45:40.519 --> 00:45:42.579 excited to see from, you know, your desk and 00:45:42.579 --> 00:45:44.579 see like what you bring out, you know, I'm excited 00:45:44.579 --> 00:45:47.699 to read and. watch or I don't know if you're 00:45:47.699 --> 00:45:50.059 doing video or whatever mostly writing writing 00:45:50.059 --> 00:45:52.079 yeah so I'm excited to read your articles so 00:45:52.079 --> 00:45:54.539 yeah that's gonna be awesome um so my second 00:45:54.539 --> 00:45:57.039 question for you is why did you want to join 00:45:57.039 --> 00:46:01.099 the messenger really just because I thought it 00:46:01.099 --> 00:46:03.239 would be a good way to kind of get my foot in 00:46:03.239 --> 00:46:06.820 the door in terms of um you know in the in the 00:46:06.820 --> 00:46:10.039 journal in the world of journalism and and writing 00:46:10.039 --> 00:46:13.000 I kind of just gained some experience and stuff 00:46:13.000 --> 00:46:16.150 and really you know put myself out there And 00:46:16.150 --> 00:46:19.590 to be honest, when I first kind of like after 00:46:19.590 --> 00:46:21.590 that first meeting, I was kind of sitting there 00:46:21.590 --> 00:46:24.130 like, what am I getting myself into right now? 00:46:24.190 --> 00:46:28.829 You know, like I kind of just spontaneously started 00:46:28.829 --> 00:46:34.929 talking with with Mr. Humphrey and figuring out, 00:46:35.010 --> 00:46:38.650 you know, things about what was coming up and 00:46:38.650 --> 00:46:40.469 stuff. And I didn't really think about it too 00:46:40.469 --> 00:46:44.900 much. And I think that first meeting is. When 00:46:44.900 --> 00:46:48.780 it hit me, I was like, wow, this is something 00:46:48.780 --> 00:46:53.139 pretty big. Pretty big. We're trying to make 00:46:53.139 --> 00:46:57.019 it pretty big. It kind of loomed over me today, 00:46:57.159 --> 00:47:00.539 actually. It was like, oh, wow, this is going 00:47:00.539 --> 00:47:03.860 to be pretty big, I feel like. We can't really 00:47:03.860 --> 00:47:06.539 say for sure right now, but I'm thinking it's 00:47:06.539 --> 00:47:09.900 going to go pretty well. We have things from 00:47:09.900 --> 00:47:13.239 all the corners of this community. Everyone seems 00:47:13.239 --> 00:47:16.730 to be... really kind of just into it you know 00:47:16.730 --> 00:47:19.269 it's oh yeah everyone's you know walking around 00:47:19.269 --> 00:47:21.590 with confidence from what I've seen so far yeah 00:47:21.590 --> 00:47:24.469 I everybody I've interviewed you know has said 00:47:24.469 --> 00:47:26.670 like they're excited to you know work with everybody 00:47:26.670 --> 00:47:30.230 so I am very happy that the the group that we 00:47:30.230 --> 00:47:33.670 have accumulated is so passionate about this 00:47:33.670 --> 00:47:37.210 so yeah me too yeah all righty and so my last 00:47:37.210 --> 00:47:39.690 question for you is what is your favorite side 00:47:39.690 --> 00:47:45.190 hobby side hobby um I have to be music, specifically 00:47:45.190 --> 00:47:47.510 the drums. I play the drums. I've been playing 00:47:47.510 --> 00:47:50.869 since I was 10. That's awesome. I love the drums. 00:47:51.150 --> 00:47:55.869 Yeah. Really, really great stress reliever. I 00:47:55.869 --> 00:47:59.789 can bet. Yeah. I kind of just do it on my own. 00:47:59.849 --> 00:48:02.789 I have been in a band in the past, like in high 00:48:02.789 --> 00:48:07.190 school and stuff, but I kind of stopped focusing 00:48:07.190 --> 00:48:09.929 on that as much lately. But I still, you know, 00:48:09.929 --> 00:48:13.489 play at least once a week. I would love to, at 00:48:13.489 --> 00:48:18.070 some point, you know, play with a band somewhere 00:48:18.070 --> 00:48:20.110 at some time. Yeah, I believe in you. You can 00:48:20.110 --> 00:48:22.250 do it. Yeah, just for fun, you know. Yeah, no, 00:48:22.329 --> 00:48:25.369 just for fun, you know. I mean, that's a cool 00:48:25.369 --> 00:48:29.630 side, like, thing to do. I mean, if I was going 00:48:29.630 --> 00:48:32.030 to play any instrument, my top three instruments 00:48:32.030 --> 00:48:35.320 have always been, like, saxophones. pianos, and 00:48:35.320 --> 00:48:39.099 probably the drums. Yeah. Which are three fundamentally 00:48:39.099 --> 00:48:41.480 different instruments, but, you know. Well, I 00:48:41.480 --> 00:48:44.320 mean, are you a jazz guy? Kind of, yeah. Yeah? 00:48:44.460 --> 00:48:46.460 I mean, I guess that's true. Yeah, that's true. 00:48:47.139 --> 00:48:51.159 That makes sense now, actually. Do you have, 00:48:51.159 --> 00:48:54.559 like, a soundproof room with your drums, or is 00:48:54.559 --> 00:48:57.159 it, like... I have a... detached garage okay 00:48:57.159 --> 00:49:00.920 um that has soundproofing in it okay so sort 00:49:00.920 --> 00:49:03.179 of yeah yeah okay that's that's cool i didn't 00:49:03.179 --> 00:49:04.760 know if you had like a professional studio or 00:49:04.760 --> 00:49:06.780 something that'd be cool that's the goal too 00:49:06.780 --> 00:49:08.840 yeah you know kind of like this room that we're 00:49:08.840 --> 00:49:10.079 in right now with all these soundproof walls 00:49:10.079 --> 00:49:13.039 it's awesome all righty well thank you seth for 00:49:13.039 --> 00:49:15.320 joining me today um you know i'm excited to work 00:49:15.320 --> 00:49:18.000 with you of course um you know maybe we'll get 00:49:18.000 --> 00:49:19.599 you on a future episode to talk about sports 00:49:19.599 --> 00:49:21.920 you know for sure yeah i'll definitely be back 00:49:21.920 --> 00:49:25.050 yeah i appreciate it you know All righty. Now 00:49:25.050 --> 00:49:26.829 that you've gotten to listen and meet all of 00:49:26.829 --> 00:49:28.650 our new crew members, hopefully you all are just 00:49:28.650 --> 00:49:30.969 as excited as we are, because as you could tell, 00:49:31.030 --> 00:49:34.349 we're all super excited to be creating this awesome 00:49:34.349 --> 00:49:37.630 and, you know, new source of, you know, news 00:49:37.630 --> 00:49:39.829 and entertainment and all things, you know, in 00:49:39.829 --> 00:49:43.809 the JCCC community. And me personally, I am super 00:49:43.809 --> 00:49:45.769 excited to be working and, you know, for now 00:49:45.769 --> 00:49:48.030 hosting all these episodes for this podcast. 00:49:48.809 --> 00:49:50.710 But for now, that's going to be the end of the 00:49:50.710 --> 00:49:52.889 first official episode of the Messenger podcast. 00:49:53.369 --> 00:49:56.969 A working title. Be sure to follow all of our 00:49:56.969 --> 00:50:00.010 social medias. 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