Get Me On This American Life

Uploading biweekly podcasts featuring conventions, ex-boyfriends and other seemingly innocuous subjects in order to teach myself how to make a good radio program. The goal: to eventually produce something so magnificent that it is featured on This American Life. The awesome goal: to meet Ira Glass. The ultimate goal: to have a job at NPR/PRI. Working from the bottom up.

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?

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