The podcast I subscribed to is called \u201cStrangers\u201d on Apple Podcasts. This podcast\u2019s title caught my attention because we do not usually associate ourselves in our daily lives with strangers let alone having interactions with them. As I looked more into it, this podcast is a weekly narrative where each episode will feature a fascinating story about various people whom we can pass by every day on the street. The podcast description is for the listeners to put themselves in a stranger\u2019s shoes and experience the connections we make, the kindnesses we encounter, the heartbreaks we suffer, and those self-discovery moments in which we find out who we really are. This week, the podcast featured a Greek-American named David Terry and his upbringing. The podcast is presented in a way where it was very easy to follow along for me. The narrator, Lea Thau, starts off by introducing the backstory to the spotlight of this week: David Terry. A specific quote that Lea Thau said to peak my interest was, \u201cWe all tend towards this dogmatic outlook, even if we\u2019re non-religious…true open-mindedness is what David showed when he allowed his actual encounters with actual people to change his actual point of view and David did it without rejecting the people whom he loved who had raised him in the faith.\u201d This quote was really successful in that the narrator was able to give a brief overview into the journey of David Terry\u2019s self-discovery throughout his life in which we are about to listen to. During Lea Thau\u2019s introduction, the podcast also played a piece of soft and calming music to ease the listeners into the story. In addition, the narrator describes the setting in which we are going into the main spotlight of this podcast: David Terry. After the introduction, the podcast shifts to a brief three-second pause in which to let the listeners know that the story is starting. I was caught off guard, however, when I heard the person himself: David Terry, begin to talk about his childhood. I thought it was a great idea for the podcast\u2019s main feature to go through his\/her own life. This allows me to better see myself in that person\u2019s perspective which is the whole series\u2019s objective. The fact that this podcast is not necessarily an interview, and it is more of David Terry narrating his own story in which he has control over what is important for the listeners to know. David Terry\u2019s journey through self-discovery was rather interesting. He grew up in a Catholic family and he talked about how he had to learn English as a second language because he moved here from Greece when he was in fifth grade. As he struggled to communicate with fellow students, he was bullied and his faith kept him going. I really liked the way he told his story here because he did not make it sound very superficial but he talked about how the church was the only place he could find common ground with people. Fast forward to college, he was surprised when he started to meet people who feel uncomfortable when he attempts to talk about his religion with them. He begins to put himself in other people\u2019s shoes and see how other people\u2019s upbringings brought them to where they are today. As the story ended, Lea Thau picks it back up and summarizes and offers her own reaction. It felt different for the narrator to give her own thoughts into these topics but I thoroughly enjoyed it. This makes the podcast much more interesting to listen to as opposed to a narrator simply making bland statements. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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