Diving into creating the Egyptian Streets Podcast for the first time, I had only done a few audio interviews before for college: producing, editing, and more importantly hosting a podcast was a completely new experience for me. While I was supported by a wonderful team who often co-hosted episodes with me and helped with planning, I was the main point of reference on podcasts on the team, and the producer who set the entire podcast up. The most intimidating part of starting the podcast was everyone I was going to be interviewing. Our lineup for the first season was people I chose, people I admired, and people whom I thought were incredibly hard to get a hold of, but we somehow managed to reach. I’m 21 years old, this is my first professional journalism job, and I definitely did not expect to be talking with greats like Bassem Youssef, who I watched with my family as a kid , or Rosaline El Bay, who starred in my favorite television series ‘Ramy’. The entire podcast has been recorded on Zoom, which, I think, is less intimidating than in-person interviews.. Over the…
