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“Baby Karl’s Happy Apocalypse” is a podcast about fighting climate change and social injustice, but with a turn: 56 -year -old dialing, interviewing Dean Varmoners, embodies a happy, curious child’s personality.
Baby Carl’s questions are simple yet. “Why does it say value?” He asked about a cow at Bread and Butter Farm in Shelburn during an episode.
“We have no ice, but this is December!” Baby Carl told Matt Shlen, director of Walden Project, Director of An outdoor education program in Monkton. “what’s up with that?”
Carl’s innocence and innocence provided an accessible entry point to deal with serious subjects, Dean said, “A production manager of North Country Public Radio in Canton, NY He reduced the podcast with Bill Wtech, director of the new Bariyal Project of Middlebury College, which is aimed at spreading consistent agricultural practices.”
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For the first five episodes of the podcast, the second half was released during the second Half 2023, the audio of Baby Carl in Wormont in Vitech and Dean Road-Trip was tripped to interview the partners of the frequent frequent communities. In addition to the bread and butter farm, both visited two external education programs – Walden Project and The New Routes Project – – run by the Wilowel Foundation in Monkaton, as well as the Green Mountain Monastery in Greeceboro. There are about 500 downloads in the podcast so far, according to Vitech. It is available on Spotify, Apple Podcast and other services.
The episodes of about 40-minute include funny reports between Vitech and Baby Carl; Baby Carl’s interview with vermontors advocating stability; And small, satirical songs. “Baby Carl is just a small man, but he asks big questions,” Dean/Baby Carl sings in the theme song.
The show is for adults, but children can enjoy it, also, Witech said. No subject for Baby Carl has been very big: climate change from the conversation Segate from LightHet Better, school shooting, political polarization and threat to American democracy. The child character “removes ego” from conversations, he explained, and encouraged his interviewers to become more weak.
Dean said, “I had a moment of the first day of the interview … When I realized, oh, I am going to meet people as a child,” said Dean. “So you have to remind them, in the voice of the child,” I am going to talk to you now. And I can look like a big man, but I am not. I am just a small man. ”
Baby Carl started as a joke between Dean and her children. The dean will use uninterrupted and a child’s voice, the kind of high-picked tone he can use to talk to a dog. Then Dean had an idea: what if he talks to people outside his family using that voice? He named Carl, he said, because he could not think of “more ridiculous names for a child.” For some listeners, Carl’s sharp voice may be an acquired taste. “This is not for everyone, and it’s fine,” said Dean.
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In 2015, Dean converted the character into a Youtube series, “The Baby Carl Show”. For the video, Dean superimpt his lips on an old picture of a real child, and walks with lips. In an episode, he interviewed Vitech, who was his neighbor at Potsdam at the time, NY had a synergy, and when the Vitech went to Middlebury to work on the new perennial project, he asked Baby Carl to make educational videos about perennial plants.
Vitech shared videos with colleagues, who advised him not to show him to Grant Funder from the Rockfeller Family Fund, he said, because “it was a bit strange,” and that may be “that you are wasting his money.” Three years after making the video, Vitech finally served courage to show him to Grant Funder. He loved them, Vitech said – and encouraged Vitech and Baby Carl to move forward with podcast.
In the first episode, released in the last June, Vitech and Baby Carl talked about how the word “apocalypse” – a scary, dumsde word that is often used in the context of climate change – the Greek word comes from apocalypse, which means exposed, disclosure or revelation. In later episodes, Baby Carl asks his interviewers about their “happy apocalypse”, or a moment when there was a revelation about her life purpose.
Meghan Rigali, Kofounder and Director of the New Route Project, told Baby Carl in episode 2 that her happy apocalypse was being amazed as a child, which was being amazed as a child to grow Brussels sprouts in nature and bring something home for her mother. The unexpected discovery of food in the wild inspired him to dedicate his life to connect people to the earth.
In episode 5, Gayle Vorcellow, sister of Green Mountain Math, said that when she was 7 years old, she was happy and saw a group of nuns sitting in a circle. He thought, when I grow up, I am going to be like him. “It was like an electric bolt,” Versello told Baby Carl. “That was this, and it directed my whole life.”
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Dean stated that Baby Karl’s interview style helps to facilitate emotional conversation; Interviewers feel that it takes an easy time to answer intimate questions when the person is asking them that he is pretending to be a child. “This helps to lead innocence,” Vitech explained. Dean “In these interviews, it was magical in disarray people, as they actually bought it that he was a child.”
In a poignant exchange during Rigali’s episode, Baby Carl asked her how she faced climate change.
“Do you cry?” Baby Carl asked.
“Yes, I do,” Rigali replied. “I cried from deep down inside me, because I can’t be impressed.”
Rigali agreed that Baby Carl made it easy to open. He bought the concept from the beginning, appreciating how a child’s perspective could add levity to the conversation. Dean never broke the character, he said, which made it easy to play with him.
“If I was asked by those questions and had a dialogue with two old men, it would be completely different conversation,” Rigali said. He said, “We can stretched that line of talking about serious issues,” he said, without trapped in “existence anxest”.
Vitech said he expects new perennial partners to continue building the episode characterized by guests. Some Dream Interviewers for Baby Carl: Middlebury College President Laurie Patton, Ripton Environmentalist and Author Bill McKiben, and US Sen Burney Sanders (I-VT.).
“We can all do something to help that bad apocalypse from having a good apocalypse,” Vitech tells Baby Carl in the first episode.
“Help my love!” Baby Carl replied, shaking her pronouns.