Halfrican Jeff Radio Diary
I will begin my explanation by saying that prior to class, I have never listened to NPR. I listen to ESPN radio or 105.7 when Orioles games are on or 97.9 when Ravens games are on. That's about it. That said, it took some poking around for me to find an audio piece I really liked. A lot of the NPR hosts used too much inflection in their voices, just like we were told not to do in class. I did random searches for things I'm interested in and they were either really long, or I just wasn't impressed.
I really liked the radio diary we heard in class about the boy named Josh who had Tourette's Syndrome. But I didn't want to cheat and copy that exact one, so I looked for the other radio diaries and came across the one posted above. It was actually the first one I listened to, about a guy who is half-black, half-white, and how he copes with that, struggles with that. I found myself really wanting to just curl up on my bed and listen to how he feels; he was amazingly easy to relate to. The piece also has a lot of fun music intertwined, isn't too terribly long and Jeff just generally kept my interest the whole time. He reminds me of a friend of mine, so that made me enjoy listening to him even more. I also laughed out loud a few times. Hope you like it!
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