The New Trailer Park Podcast: It's Not A Tease But A Teaser

 When a cook prepares a sumptuous meal, that person offers you a small taste to tease your taste buds. When you're at the movies, you're shown a series of movie trailers called coming attractions. TV commercials often show a trailer for a new show. 

Podcasts also promote themselves via trailers. Sometimes called Episode Zero, these trailers are a valuable tool to market a new podcast or an existing podcast advertising a new season.

Trailers also offer value to the podcaster because they force the podcaster to communicate what's new, exciting, and ear worthy about the podcast.  Want to listen to a superb trailer? Try the trailer to Digital Folklore. It's immersive and creepy, and my lizard brain is craving more. 

 Given how integral trailers are to podcasts and podcast listeners, it's natural, and wildly creative, to develop a podcast that showcases trailers.

Welcome to Trailer Park: The Podcast Trailer Podcast, which is a podcast that showcases podcast trailers. Whether those trailers were made and then abandoned, were made as creative proof, are part of a larger body of work, or were created just for fun, the podcast creators exclaim, "they're welcome here at the park!"

The premise of the show is simple: Submit a podcast trailer to the podcast to be reviewed on the podcast. Why would any aspirational or experienced podcaster do that? Simple. Feedback from professionals is critical to success. The creative process needs the oxygen of collective assessment to survive and thrive.

Have an idea for a podcast? Create a trailer and submit it to Trailer Park and get direction and feedback from the pros.

The co-hosts on Trailer Park are Arielle Nissenblatt and Tim Villegas. The co-hosts boast strong, up-tempo energy, balanced chemistry, and years of expertise.

Tim Villegas has been writing on topics ranging from education and music to productivity. My work regularly appears on Think Inclusive and The Weeklyish and has been featured at Edutopia, The Hechinger Report, and Noodle. 

"After spending 16 years in public education as a special education classroom teacher and district support specialist, my communications habit turned into a full-time career," Says Villegas. "I’m the Director of Communications for MCIE, and the founder of Think Inclusive, the official blog and podcast of MCIE. I’m working on a narrative podcast called Inclusion Stories and a book about my experience as an inclusionist despite teaching in non-inclusive school systems.

Arielle Nissenblatt is famous in podcasting circles. In today's fragmented media world, there are TikTok celebrities, Instagram influencers, and YouTube stars that are unknown outside their media universe. If you've been involved in podcasting in any way over the last few years, you know Arielle Nissenblatt.

"I've been working in the podcast space since early 2017 when I started a podcast recommendation newsletter called EarBuds Podcast Collective,"Arielle notes. "Since then, I've managed podcast studios, worked as an in-app curator, gone to school for audio production, produced several podcasts, run successful marketing and PR campaigns for several dozen shows, have organized podcast communities on Twitter, Discord, and Slack, and much more."

Arielle confesses to "love working in and around audio because it's my favorite way to consume content. I want to help more people find their next favorite podcast."

The first episode played a trailer from a new podcast called Neuroversity, which is about neurodiversity with a purpose to expand our understanding of what that term means, elevate the life experiences of the neurodivergent, and advocate for a more inclusive and informed culture. Neurodiversity (for those, including me, who didn't know) is defined as

the range of differences in individual brain function and behavioral traits, regarded as part of normal variation in the human population, used especially in the context of autistic spectrum disorders.

The trailer, submitted by the host and podcast creator Jessica Kidwell, offers listeners a three-minute sonic spa treatment, with a soothing voice and reassuring tone that sparks listeners' psyches. Listen to Arielle and Tim diagnose the trailer and discuss the podcast. 

In podcasting, it's the discovery process that is critical to success. There are so many podcasts (so many good podcasts) that quality is not a guarantee of download wealth and maximum visibility. That's why trailers can act like Dorothy's ruby slippers, granting an aspirational podcaster's wish for attention, listeners, and luminosity.

So if you're new to the podcasting space, develop a two-to-three minute trailer and submit it to Trailer Park. You can submit or simply learn by listening to others. 

I've always wanted to create a podcast, and I am thinking of a few teaser lines for my trailer. Let me know what you think.

Teaser # 1: "I want the truth. You can't handle the truth!"

Teaser # 2: "There's no crying. There's no crying in podcasting."

What do you think?

While you're thinking, listen to Trailer Park: The Podcast Trailer Podcast and submit your own trailer.