Keeping It 101: A Killjoy's Introduction to Religion Podcast · Profs. Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst and Megan Goodwin

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Megan Goodwin: "Thinking religion is only important if it's only important to you is such a Protestant take on religion."

1. Keeping It 101: A Killjoy's Introduction to Religion Podcast shares a roundtable from the Amplified audio blog series "Sustaining Conversation," in which scholarly podcasters answer who their audience is. 2. Megan Goodwin, a scholar of American religions, race, gender and politics, joins Sally Chivers of Trent University (Wrinkle Radio), Charisse Lepre (Critical and Curious) and Mary Elizabeth Luca of the University of Toronto (Critical Technology Podcast), with Hannah McGregor of Simon Fraser University hosting. 3. The central question is who each host imagined as their listener when they started and whether that audience has changed. 4. Sally Chivers describes "narrowcast" audiences, which allow dialogue in a way broadcast audiences do not, and says the Critical Technology Podcast first aimed at scholars, then students, partly to build a peer-reviewed publication record. 5. Chivers says Wrinkle Radio imagined midlife listeners who "don't think aging applies to them yet," but it reached undergraduates and people in their eighties and nineties, and her mother met a listener at a Calgary co-op. 6. Charisse Lepre says Critical and Curious began as a class she and Robert Thompson couldn't schedule, built on Fast and Furious, Keanu Reeves and Romeo and Juliet remakes, and advises students that "if you try to talk to everyone, you won't talk to anyone." 7. Lepre's new show SNL 101 serves educators who want sketches for class, runs 30 minutes with a one-hour turnaround, and taught her the value of timely content. 8. Megan Goodwin says Keeping It 101 launched in January 2020 expecting about five listeners, then grew as remote teaching created demand, with audiences on every continent except Antarctica, including UK religious education teachers, social workers, health care workers and screenwriters. 9. Goodwin says her real imagined listener is co-host Elise Morgenstein, that "the jokes working is how you get people to care about the facts," and that listeners such as Jorge Rodriguez and Jacob Erickson pushed back on the show's definition of theology. 10. Suited to academics, aspiring podcasters, and scholarship-curious listeners.

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