By Raven Bautista, staff writer
There is too much time that I have during this pandemic. There isn’t really much to do apart from be on my computer or sleeping. I’ve heard that podcasts are a good time killer if you need something to listen to. However, I’ve never been interested in trying podcasts since I thought they were boring and I would most likely fall asleep midway through. But I decided that I will give it a try in hopes that I would have a new hobby to help my pandemic boredom.
I decided to try out 3 podcasts based on my interests, informal topics, and something that I never was strong in. For my first podcast, “Trash Taste”, talks about their thoughts on anime and what Japan has to offer. I loved their views on anime and that they give very controversial perspectives that allowed me to expand on what I watch. Listening to it was great cause I already understood what was happening as well as keeping me in the whole time.
My second podcast, Freakonomics, talks about the socioeconomics of everyday things. It very odd general topics they talked about, but that was what kept me interested. The strange topics were always different and had scientific reasons to back it up making it a bit confusing, but nonetheless a great podcast to listen to while drinking coffee in the morning. This one also kept me interested with its unique stories and
Then my last podcast, “Cross and Hoop”, made by Galileo Student Hanen Su that gives his take on what basketball is as of right now, was very insightful in basketball events that allowed me to picture what a certain player or basketball team was like. Since basketball isn’t a thing I am into, it was somewhat hard to understand, but I kept listening to give myself a picture in my mind to know who the person is or was like in the podcaster’s eyes. However, it never pulled me in fully since I still don’t understand what is happening as well as never liking basketball.
In the end, I never got really ingrained in any of them. What I did like about it was how informal it was which made me have different views on what people think of topics. However, most of them were very fast so I would have to mainly focus on it to understand what is happening over having it as background audio to listen to. I also lost interest midway through the podcast. Maybe because I was doing other things on top of it, but I did see it as a replacement for books. Would I listen to podcasts more often? Maybe, but only if the topic interests me.
