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Running from Myself
From 826NYC | 17:51
Louis struggles to reconcile bad choices he's made in the past.
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For most of his high school career, Louis lived in a way that he later came to regret. This piece is his investigation into why he did what he did, what made him stop, and, most importantly, if he's really changed for good. Louis tells his story in a straight-forward and engaging manner, often using conversations and interviews conducted with various figures in his life.
Different, Not Disabled: The Perception of My Mind
From WHJE | 05:47
Aspergers, in my opinion, has always been misunderstood due to it being a medical "condition." When you listen to this, I ask that you go in with an open mind, and try to imagine the best you can. I promise I'll try my best to explain what it is like to be...well, me.
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Aspergers, in my opinion, has always been misunderstood due to it being a medical "condition." People look in and try to explain something from what they see, and the behaviors they observe from the outside.
I've thought of many reasons as to what Aspergers is in a medical field, reaching concepts and ideas ranging as far as: "The mind's tendency to drop below correct brainwave frequencies and drop into a hyper-focused state."
But even my own theories fail to portray what it's like. As the cliché goes, "don't judge a book by its cover." That is all that is achieved by these studies. With information people obtained from face value, trying to figure out kids with conditions such as mine becomes a goal of trying to figure out English with algebra.
So, taking a bound away from logic, I've gone and explored my own mind, and what I found is something that can't be told, it needs to be experienced. When you listen to this, I ask that you go in with an open mind, and try to imagine the best you can. I promise I'll try my best to explain what it is like to be... well, me.
My Name Is Ryan
From Blunt Youth Radio Project | Part of the Incarcerated Youth Speak Out series | 04:53
Weed, cocaine, morphine, oxycontin, crack, Ryan has tried them all. Once he developed a tolerance for one, he just moved on to the next. Now he's incarcerated, serving time for six drug charges, and slowly discovering the benefits of sobriety. But staying clean is still a daily challenge.
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Ryan has tried just about every drug you can think of, and maybe even some you can't. Now incarcerated at Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland, Maine, trying to face up to a drug-free life.
Joey's Phone Call Home
From Blunt Youth Radio Project | Part of the Incarcerated Youth Speak Out series | 05:05
Joey, an incarcerated teen, calls home.
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Listen to Joey, an inmate at the Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland, ME, call home to talk to his mother and sister.
A Picture of Freedom from Behind Bars
From Blunt Youth Radio Project | Part of the Incarcerated Youth Speak Out series | 02:22
Incarcerated youth producer, Tyler, interviewed his fellow inmates about their definition of freedom and what they would do with freedom if they had it.
In this lively vox-pop, incarcerated youth producer, Tyler, captures the sounds of young people longing to enjoy the freedom of the simple things in life, walking around without someone watching over them, going to the beach to look at girls, opening the window, just chillin'...
This piece originally aired on Blunt at WMPG in Portland, ME.
My Sentence
From Blunt Youth Radio Project | Part of the Incarcerated Youth Speak Out series | 04:08
An experimental look at what it's like to be committed to the Long Creek Youth Development Center.
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Tyler appears in court in shackles and mitts. His mother is teary-eyed. He is committed to LCYDC He doesn't know what to do.
Sue Finch, a teacher at LCYDC describes the institution's program.
Another inmate, Mark, talks about the effect of the program on his family. Does it always work?
This piece originally aired on the Blunt episode, "Law & Order", at WMPG in Portland, ME.
Ghetto Life 101
From Sound Portraits | 31:06
The audio diaries of LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman, two young boys living in one of the most notorious public housing projects in America.
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In March, 1993, LeAlan Jones, thirteen, and Lloyd Newman, fourteen, collaborated with public radio producer David Isay to create the radio documentary Ghetto Life 101, their audio diaries of life on Chicago's South Side. The boys taped for ten days, walking listeners through their daily lives: to school, to an overpass to throw rocks at cars, to a bus ride that takes them out of the ghetto, and to friends and family members in the community.
The candor in Jones and Newman's diaries brought listeners face to face with a portrait of poverty and danger and their effects on childhood in one of Chicago's worst housing projects. Like Vietnam War veterans in the bodies of young boys, Jones and Newman described the bitter truth about the sounds of machine guns at night and the effects of a thriving drug world on a community.
Ghetto Life 101 became one of the most acclaimed programs in public radio history, winning almost all of the major awards in American broadcasting, including: the Sigma Delta Chi Award, the Ohio State Award, the Livingston Award, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Awards for Excellence in Documentary Radio and Special Achievement in Radio Programming, and others. Ghetto Life 101 was also awarded the Prix Italia, Europe's oldest and most prestigious broadcasting award. It has been translated into a dozen languages and has been broadcast worldwide.
A study guide, for teachers who want to share Ghetto Life 101 with their class, is available at: http://soundportraits.org/data/ghetto_life_study_guide.pdf