After the case study presentations, I was really interested in "A Life Well Wasted" so I went and listened to all of his complete episodes. I really enjoyed all of them. I grew up playing video games but I am definitely not an expert. This podcast really reaches a wide range of audiences. The one that stuck out to me the most was the episode "Why Game?" where Robert interviews the game designer who creates these realistic, beautiful games, but also lives like a farmer, away from the influence of technology. At one point that designer talks about how he makes a living. I think this really spoke to me at this point in my life because I am about to graduate and trying to figure out how I will be making a living. It turns out that this game developer was afraid of the coming years because his benefactor was a man who chooses a game creator to fund for two years and this creator's two years were almost up.
I was really intrigued by Robert's style of podcast because he will talk about his own experiences with that week's certain theme, but mostly the show is interviews with interesting game creators, collectors, or just fans. It is odd that he only made six full episodes. And you can hear how that was not his intention at all when he started. Even the last episode he says something about how he is moving, but will continue the show. And then he just disappeared. So now I have started listening to Radiolab.
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