Powell’s newest radio renegades are high school students Mitchel Wainscott and Julian Frost, who are finding their audience using two microphones, some iPads and the support of Powell High …
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Powell’s newest radio renegades are high school students Mitchel Wainscott and Julian Frost, who are finding their audience using two microphones, some iPads and the support of Powell High School.
The podcast, “Talk To’em,” hosted by Wainscott and Frost, is new this year, an offshoot of Powell High School’s student newspaper The Prowl. It’s already helped increase engagement, and was started to help The Prowl win a Student News Organization (SNO) award in the multimedia category.
Neither of the boys had serious experience with sound or video editing ahead of the podcast. They’ve just been experimenting with what works, Wainscott said. Right now they use mics that can plug into an iPad and record on Voice Memos. To edit the episodes they use CapCut, a video editor popular on TikTok and Instagram.
Outside of using Voice Memos’ built-in feature that deletes pauses, the students use minimal editing.
They’re trying to let people know what’s going on in the high school and spotlight students in sports, choir, band and other activities, “just give the kids a spotlight … even the kids that aren't in [any activities], if they have an opinion on something, we can put them in if it's in our topic,” Wainscott said.
For students who aren’t involved in extracurriculars it can be hard to know what's going on at Powell High School, Frost added, “you don't know what even happened that week, you're kind of just going to school and leaving, which I have experienced.”
“Talk To’em” covers a variety of topics, Frost said. They usually start with what happened over the weekend or their interests followed by an interview. Their last published episode featured student athletes Dusty Carter and Alexa Richardson, who commented on the trajectory of their football and volleyball seasons.
“I know a lot of people around the school are asking when they're going to be on the podcast,” The Prowl’s Editor-in-Chief Caitlin Belmont said. ”So it's nice to see people wanting to engage more with The Prowl.”
Wainscott had been wanting to step into a school sanctioned podcast since last year when The Prowl first started toying with the idea of a new podcast (there was one several years ago), but missed the deadline to transfer classes. This year he was able to land a spot in the class and build his podcast from scratch — the podcast’s original host moved away and those episodes were never released.
As for a co-host, class adviser Amy Moore stopped Frost in the hallway and convinced him to join Wainscott.
“She's like, ‘Hey, if you're gonna change classes, you might as well come over here and use that voice for a podcast, because Mitchel needs someone,’” Frost remembered Moore saying.
The podcast can be found on YouTube at The Prowl or via a link on The Prowl website: phsprowl.com.