Behind the Series: The Stoop
Radiotopia Presents: We're Doing the Wiz
Radiotopia
4.3 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Behind the Series is a short-run series about the shows previously featured on this very podcast: Showcase from Radiotopia. This week, we revisit The Stoop.
A warm, funny, and intimate podcast that tells stories about the black diaspora, The Stoop has had an interesting run with Radiotopia. After landing as a top ten finalist in Radiotopia’s 2016 Podquest search, The Stoop launched a year later as an independent podcast, released a four-episode run on Showcase in 2018, and returned three years later as the newest network show to join Radiotopia. As The Stoop moves into this next stage with the network, producers Hana Baba and Leila Day reflect on what they’ve learned and what they’re still discovering: from producing stories that balance journalism ethos and the personal to what they hope they’re answering for their intended audience.
Behind the Series is hosted, written, and produced by Mark Pagán. Executive producers are Audrey Mardavich and Julie Shapiro. Music from JD Samson and Blue Dot Sessions.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Radiotopia Presents from PRX's Radiotopia. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi everyone. In today's episode we'll be talking about the showcase series from 2018, Theop you'll be able to catch on even if you haven't |
| 0:16.2 | listened to the series yet or if it's been a while but you know if you want the full |
| 0:21.0 | scoop or a refresher we recommend you go back and find the series in the feed and give it a listen. |
| 0:27.0 | Thanks. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm often saying to hosts that I work with, like if you can show me that you're working through something or show some sort of vulnerability about this process, it's really going to make listeners like understand your story a little bit better because |
| 0:45.9 | sometimes you want that all-knowing host and sometimes you want that host that you're like, |
| 0:50.8 | yeah, that's me too. That's me too. |
| 0:52.6 | This is behind the series, a short run series about the shows featured on this very |
| 1:00.4 | podcast. Showcase from Radiotopia. You might think I like using the words, |
| 1:05.8 | shows, series, podcasts, but those are the things we are here to talk about. |
| 1:11.7 | These four episodes are leading up to some exciting |
| 1:15.3 | announcements about the future of showcase. I'm Mark Pagan, the host and |
| 1:20.9 | creator of the podcast Other Men Need Help, |
| 1:24.8 | and a producer here at Radiotopia. |
| 1:29.6 | My show that I mentioned Other Men Need Help |
| 1:32.2 | was created in 2017. It's totally independent and |
| 1:37.2 | obviously I love making it. It's the kind of podcast I really wanted to hear and I was really jazzed to talk to the creators of the stoop |
| 1:46.4 | the subject of today's episode because I felt a bit of a kinship between our shows. |
| 1:56.4 | I'll get to why in a few. But first some context. |
| 2:05.5 | In the history of showcase, the stoop was a little different. It didn't originate with Showcase. The stoop landed on radio topia's radar in 2016 when it got into the top 10 finalists out of over |
| 2:10.9 | 1500 entries for the network's Podquest Search. |
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