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It’s not perfect. There are a lot of problems with audio and the first five minutes are a little slow.It could probably be a lot shorter. And the process bewildered me because writing a radio show is verrrry different from writing an article. But it’s my first self-recorded, self-produced radio show. And I am fucking proud of myself for that.
Backstory: In college, I did a brief article on Don Nurge, a fighter in The Society for Creative Anachronism. An organization approximately 30,000 people strong that stretches over [at least] three countries, the SCA is a group dedicated to recreating pre-1600s European life through arts and battle. This experience mainly consisted of them putting me in a suit of armor and whacking me a couple of times on the head.
But fighting on the top of the Wells Fargo parking garage didn’t quite give me the SCA experience I was looking for. So two and a half years later, I found myself at Great Western War, camping with a bunch of men I’d never met, who Don reccomended I chill out with.
So here’s the story.
My radio voice is not too bad, huh?
I love This American Life. Ira Glass is my hero, Sarah Vowell is my heroine, the podcast is my weekly source of comfort, inspiration and entertainment, the Showtime series is one of my main teaching tools I use in class.
I’m not particularly smart or a terrific writer. But If I get broadcast on This American Life, I’ll know that no matter what, I can die happy. I will immediately consider myself successful. I want this so fucking bad that I’ll do anything to get on the show. Upcoming plans: interviewing my high school boyfriend, recording my first words with my mother in ten years, doing a story on a rap about J.Lo (the landlord, not the bubble butt), and much more. Watch out, bitches.
