April 14th

Thursday, April 14th

Today I figured out a lot of logistics for the actual interviews for my podcast. I began the day by meeting Mrs. Brackett at Lovett at 8:30. We met because we needed to figure out how to record a phone call. Although I set up the software the other day that allows me to record the audio of Skype, it is a whole different process for phone calls. It took us a while to figure it out, because the cord that we got for the purpose of recording phone calls was not working. However, the best solution we found was to have the call on speaker phone, and use the Snowball Microphone to record me speaking and the person on the phone speaking. That worked, but the sound was still a little unclear.

So, after working on a few more things at school with my interview questions, when I got home I tested out using a bluetooth speaker instead of just the speaker of my phone. It ended up working much better than the phone speaker, so I'm excited to record phone calls that way.

After figuring all of that out, I finalized my questions that I am going to ask Blakely Mattern tomorrow. I am Skypeing with her at 1:00pm, and I am extremely excited to hear what she has to say. I'm asking her about the wage discrimination lawsuit, pay inequity in the NWSL, about her experience playing soccer overseas in Holland, and much more. I'm so excited for my first interview!