(Seguin) — The Seguin Today Podcast turned six months this week with the release of its latest program. Over the course of the past few episodes, the podcast has joined in community events and has had sit-down chats with its staff, all while developing a show format that remains flexible enough to tell all the stories of Seguin and the surrounding areas.
Jarred Kindles is one of the hosts of the Seguin Today Podcast and is also KWED’s digital media producer. He’s also the voice listeners hear on the news every day at 5 pm.
“I get on the air and do the 5 o’clock news every day,” Kindles said. “There’s a certain pressure there because it’s live, but the biggest difference is that those stories are more immediate. What we’ve been trying to do on the podcast is dig into the deeper stories we cover and tell a more complete narrative take on it than you normally get in the newspaper or on the radio. The biggest appeal of the podcast, I think, is that we include music and sometimes sound effects in the audio. We work really hard to make it feel like you’re experiencing the story as you’re listening to the show.”
This month, one of the longer stories in the episode is about a pair of local girls who show pigs for 4-H and FFA. He said they didn’t need to add many sound effects to that story, or another about the Seguin High School construction class.
“Normally, we try to add in sound effects to help transport you to the setting of the story,” Kindles said. “This month, our stories do that own their own, and we had to kind of embrace the ambient noise of the environments in which we were recording. For example, during the pig story –– we were in the hog barn at the county youth show, and there was pig noise the entire time because it just couldn’t be avoided. So, when you’re listening to the podcast, you’re getting the same authentic experience we had while there, which I think is really cool.”
The Seguin Today Podcast is available on Spotify and is coming soon to iTunes. You can listen by visiting: clicking here or visit www.seguintoday.com for more information.