Recess Therapy's Julian Shapiro-Barnum is skeptical of kids becoming social media stars
Endless Thread
WBUR
4.2 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The point of Julian Shapiro-Barnum's Recess Therapy, a video series where he interviews kids about life's bigger questions, was never to make the kids social media superstars. But that's exactly what happened when he posted a video that went mega-viral in the summer of 2022.
Endless Thread host Ben Brock Johnson talks to Julian about making the internet a fun space for kids and adults, Julian's multi-parent upbringing, and the wisdom of children.
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| 0:00.0 | W-B-U-R Podcasts, Boston. Oh man, you guys, before we get started today, I just want to say I love endless thread |
| 0:18.0 | listeners so much because when we dig deep into tunnel content, you dig deeper. |
| 0:26.0 | Thank you to everyone who has written us and there have been a lot of you |
| 0:30.1 | about Colin Furs, the Yituber in the UK. |
| 0:33.0 | Will we do an episode on Colin in the future after the two tunnel episodes we recently put together? |
| 0:40.0 | Maybe, but right now we're going to take a little tunnel recess. |
| 0:45.0 | Julian, it's so nice to talk to you again. |
| 0:54.0 | Oh my gosh, what a pleasure to talk to you again. |
| 0:57.0 | Meet Julian. |
| 0:58.0 | How's New York? |
| 0:59.0 | Fantastic, beautiful. |
| 1:01.0 | I actually don't think I've seen the sun in four days. Oh man. Right? But I don't need that actually. |
| 1:07.0 | You don't need the sun. No. Forget the sun. That's not important to me. I have my son lamp. |
| 1:14.0 | Oh, yeah. We need those at this time of year. |
| 1:17.0 | I don't actually have one of those. I just have a sunny disposition. position. |
| 1:27.0 | Julian is a comedian, but he's also... The host and creator of the online kids show Recess Therapy. |
| 1:30.0 | Can you define online kids show? |
| 1:33.2 | Like how do you think about that? |
| 1:34.8 | Well, honestly that isn't the most accurate description of it because it is a show that features |
| 1:39.8 | children that is honestly aimed at kind of an all-ages audience but my show is one where I interview |
| 1:47.3 | children about all sorts of interesting things. |
| 1:50.6 | What do you think about gas prices? |
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