Teenagers are always up to something, right? Good or bad the 1.2 billion adolescents roaming this planet all have things going on in their hectic lives. Now more than ever with students using the internet for school, they are globally connected. So what are our future leaders up to?

In my proposed podcast, Teenagers Gone Global, I will be interviewing Teenagers in different countries on topics like school, Covid-19 and life.

Now is the perfect time for a podcast like this because many teenagers are at home on their computers using video conferencing software (Like Zoom), which makes the job of setting up an interview a few continents apart easily. Also, teenagers will have more to say about current events and how it has affected them because of the Covid-19 pandemic. I believe that I would be able to successfully turn this idea into a podcast because of how easily I will be able to find interview participants for this podcast. Some English speaking teenagers I know who would be happy to appear in the podcast can give insights into the countries they live in. Some of which include Australia, Malaysia, Hong Kong, India, The UK, Japan, Turkey and Thailand. That is already a diverse selection of interviewees and it would be a challenge if you had to find teens from all those countries yourself. This idea would be best made as a podcast because most teens have microphones for school conferencing and if it were any other medium like visual, a team would have to travel to the country and would need to bring expensive and heavy video equipment. Travel at the moment is almost 100% unavailable and social distancing would make recording the interview a nightmare. Another possible solution for visual mediums would be over video calls but many more things can and will go wrong. For one, not all global teens have cameras that would look professional or even adequate to be published to a wide audience. If they do then the quality would still need some work due to transmission over possibly slow internet and compression on software like Zoom. The interviewee could also record themselves with their cameras and send it after the interview but speaking from personal experience, they often forget. I could name hundreds of other problems but my point is that just introducing a slightly different medium introduces hundreds of new problems and at that point why wouldn’t you just make it a podcast. People of all ages would be very keen on listening to something like this because it provides perspective and the worldwide scale would be the fun gimmick that draws listeners in. Podcasts as a medium are growing and now people have more time on their hands, launching a podcast will be able to appeal to a wide amount of people.