Enriching Education: 7 in 7

I was recently approached by Christopher, host (with his 6-year-old son) of podcast 7 in 7, an educational podcast for kids. They're looking to get more fans - and his son wants people to submit jokes for the end of the podcast, or submit questions for future podcasts.


I had a chance to ask him a few questions about the podcast, which he also answers in one of his podcasts.

Why did you create the podcast and where did the name come from?

--- I forget exactly how it happened. But it all started when Nathaniel asked me what the first video game ever made was. I think it was the 50th question he asked me that day and I asked him to write it down along with any other questions he had and we would go over it the next day.

If I remember correctly he love the podcast Finn Caspian and we decided to take the questions he wrote down and record it for a podcast (his idea).

In regards to the name. I remember us talking about it at dinner as a family and I came up with 7 questions in 7 minutes. Nathaniel thought that was too long and preferred 7 in 7. The way Nathaniel remember it. The name was his mom’s idea. (I asked my wife and she agrees with me. He came up with it.)

How do we pick topics?

-- Nathaniel picks the topic and questions. Usually by himself but sometimes his mom helps. I gave him a notebook and when I’m too busy to answer his questions right away I ask him to write it down in his notebook so he doesn’t forget. So now when he gets an idea for a topic. He write them down and leaves it on my desk. I then look them over and do any research I might need to do before we record.

It was his idea to make each episode around one topic.

What's your favorite part of doing a podcast with your son?

-- It’s hard to say just one aspect of making these thats my favorite part. I love the time we spend together. I love watching him listen to an episode when we are done. But maybe my favorite part is seeing him try to take on more and more of the production process. Like how he set up the mics, and start the recoding software, how he now know to look at the waveforms to see if he spoke too loudly and his voice might be clipped, and how he's taken over asking the questions sometimes.