With every new generation, hope for a less stupid world.
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The fact that the Internet could be an immeasurable treasury of the stories is such an idea that you have as a groomed person, and it is accompanied by another assumption: that you can no longer get many things with you, and if you get it, you don’t understand it. Or only half or wrong. Knowing grin of the subsequent generation regularly confirms that you have long been excreted from the check -up and that new knowledge, new contexts, new natural and taboos in the treasury are constantly eliminated; New information that, if you are lucky, appear in a newspaper in the form of a message (these are these things made of paper).
The subsequent generation fluttered unpaid in this treasury, other things also succeed with playful ease: for example, as an old Griesgram, it would have been impossible that something good could arise somewhere in the realm of the public under public law. The young people don’t care at all. You just produce a podcast, even before you plop into the fee meal, you do it as young journalists from the German journalist school in Munich – then, Simsalabim, a little miracle, a podcast like “Wild WEB” actually finds a place on Bavarian radio, and then the young people are researching the greatest network stories.
“The most mysterious song on the Internet”, for example, is such a story that is sometimes passed over to us and which we half understood, half forgotten. In two episodes, the story is minutically tracked: Like an anonymous song by a radio recording cassette from the 80s, nobody, even by a globally acting swarm intelligence, cannot be identified and found again. How a panopticon of humans and stories develop in search of. And how the answer to the puzzle is a few groomed northern German gentlemen who had a band in the 1980s and whose song probably made it into the NDR radio-before they, 40 years later, became famous. The research after the often seen but never quite understood term “Talahon”, which the young people can explain without them, are also without a fed with beer, chips and mezcal: This recently rampant word means a certain clichéd type of youthful difference, and you would never have expected that a originator and a little bit, a little bit, and a little bit of it, is very charming.
The podcasterin speaks to the concerned influencer as well as with the designated pigeon killer. You don’t miss the curious of both parties.
At least as important as the topics are the hosts in every podcast, and André Dér-Hörmeyer and Janne Knödler do such a good job that it hardly feels like work: While otherwise the vanity and perceived importance of media professionals are pouring out, you think a real curiosity means to feel here.
This curiosity can be guided by a critical spirit, but also a transparent emotional approach is not prohibited: In a episode of the current season, Janne Knödler Malte follows the influencer, who has become famous as a pigeon friend and interferes with waving flags into Hessian local politics when one decides to kill a few hundred of these birds by neck.
The podcasterin speaks with both sides, with the concerned, sensitive influencer as well as with the designated pigeon killer. You don’t miss the curious of both parties either. And yet, in a pigeon house, on a roof, she can also be mixed by an old lady who shines into a pigeon with her flashlight in which a bird embryo pulsates. There is an access to a topic that is holistic without being stupid and without pushing the listener into a corner; Open eye, functioning brain, waking heart.
All episodes “Wild Wild Web – Stories from the Internet” can be found in the ARD audio library.