Special Report: Age of Audio (2025)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

The mics are on for Shaun Michael Colón’s Age of Audio (2025), a whirlwind 82-minute tour through the origins, growth, and current state of podcasting. Narrated by and featuring Ronald “Big Ron” Young Jr. — host of multiple award-winning shows — the documentary blends his personal journey with a broader look at the voices, tech, and cultural shifts that shaped the medium. Mike is joined by Chris Stachiw (The Kulturecast) and James Cridland (Podnews Daily Newsletter) for a conversation on how Age of Audio captures the podcasting boom, why the history matters, and what the film says about where the medium is headed next.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks.
0:06.8	It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.0	Shut it off.
0:21.6	Turn it off.
0:22.6	Turn it off. My name is Fred Armisen and I'm a comedian.
0:41.6	Are you a big podcast fan?
0:43.6	Uh, no.
0:44.7	Fucking podcasting.
0:45.7	What a shit name that is.
0:47.8	This story will change the way you think about podcasts.
0:52.1	Morning, everybody.
0:53.2	It's Adam Curry here with you. Adam Curry from MTV? The technology of podcasting was invented in 2000. It's really simple syndication. Before anyone was podcasting. Before there was an iPod. I got a call from Apple. Here's another one of the guys that invented podcasting. Steve wants to meet with you. And he says, I want to put podcasting into iTunes.
1:12.7	Is that okay?
1:13.5	I'm like, yeah.
1:15.2	Long before, you know, television, film, radio, the printed word.
1:21.7	We've been communicating with each other in sound.
1:24.1	When you make a radio documentary or you make a podcast, I feel like we're playing with fire.
1:29.3	It's elemental to who we are. I'm a podcast host, and this is a film about audio storytelling.
1:36.2	I know that the world is waiting to find out how cool this is.
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