So, Kevin Loker and I have started up a new weekly podcast called HeyTalkTo.Me.
We had toiled with just goofing around on the radio before with this thing called "Our Perspective," but we wanted to try out something that, well, actually had a purpose.
What we're doing now with HeyTalkTo.Me is creating a dialogue about national trends and issues through the lens of local events. Our first show looked at the voter turnout at Mitchell's recent local election, and specifically, it looked at what motivates people in our town to come out to vote. We talked with Superintendent Joe Graves, got his opinion, and the part that I think is the most cool, we went out and talked to people on the street. As you may have guess from the name, our goal for HeyTalkTo.Me to be honest and casual.
For our next show, we want to focus on motives for and against underage drinking, specifically in Mitchell. As you may have read in The Daily Republic, Karen Allen recently helped out with a survey that gave statistics specifically on our community, and the numbers were pretty crazy. In addition, a recent study from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration ranks South Dakota high up on the list of binge and underage drinking (and neighboring North Dakota ranked first).
We want to get Karen Allen's opinion on the matter, but we'd also like to get the opinion of underage kids in the community. And of course, this will all be anonymous. We're not looking for names, and we're not looking to report anyone, we just want some opinions.
If you have a minute or two, please take the time to respond to one of the question sets below, one of which is aimed at those who do or have drank underage, and the other aimed at those who haven't.
The questions are pretty open, so feel free to say as much or as little as you want, and please speak honestly.
Underage Drinking Set
1. What motivates you to drink?
2. Do you feel pressured to do so?
3. Why do you think some people choose not to drink?
Non-drinking Set
1. What motivates you not to drink?
2. Do you feel pressured not to?
3. Why do you think some people choose to drink?
Again, I stress that everything we'll be anonymous. We plan to read a few answers on the podcast, but no names or personal information will be given away.
Please send any responses to mail@heytalkto.me, and if you're interested, look for the podcast up on the website (www.heytalkto.me) towards the end of the week!
Thanks :)
Devon
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Sunday, June 14, 2009
Monday, June 8, 2009
Winning The Lottery Would Suck
Congratulations to Neal Wanless for winning his 232.1 million dollars. He is one of the luckiest people in the world right now. I am definitely jealous. You can check out a local story from the Daily Republic here.
There are a couple things I am not jealous of though. When you actually look at it, Neal will only be taking away 88.5 million dollars from the 232.1 million that he 'won'. While 88.5 million is still an unimaginably enormous amount of money, it is only 38.1% of the original amount of money that he 'won'. What is that crap? You just won a lot of money! But we are even going to give you half of it! .....What?
That's fine, whatever, he is still a very lucky guy, now with a lot of money. I was reading this other article from the Daily Republic about how big lottery winners are isolated and their life will never be the same. It says that the winner has to become a different person, figure out how they are going to use and protect their money and find a way to stay in contact with their friends and other relationships they have. This doesn't sound like as much fun to me as just spending all that money however you want.
All in all, I think winning the lottery probably isn't as easy as it should be or seems. But I think, if given the chance, I would take that much money. If anyone has a lot of money that they just want to get rid of, it's to much of a burden for them, I will take it from you. Neal, if you don't want that burden on your shoulders, I would lift it from you and carry it myself. Let me know if ever need to get rid of it.
Also, make sure you check out the podcast if you haven't, we had a great interview with Superintendent Joe Graves about the local elections here in Mitchell. You can find that at HeyTalkTo.Me. Also look around either Thursday or Friday for another episode. Should be a good time.
There are a couple things I am not jealous of though. When you actually look at it, Neal will only be taking away 88.5 million dollars from the 232.1 million that he 'won'. While 88.5 million is still an unimaginably enormous amount of money, it is only 38.1% of the original amount of money that he 'won'. What is that crap? You just won a lot of money! But we are even going to give you half of it! .....What?
That's fine, whatever, he is still a very lucky guy, now with a lot of money. I was reading this other article from the Daily Republic about how big lottery winners are isolated and their life will never be the same. It says that the winner has to become a different person, figure out how they are going to use and protect their money and find a way to stay in contact with their friends and other relationships they have. This doesn't sound like as much fun to me as just spending all that money however you want.
All in all, I think winning the lottery probably isn't as easy as it should be or seems. But I think, if given the chance, I would take that much money. If anyone has a lot of money that they just want to get rid of, it's to much of a burden for them, I will take it from you. Neal, if you don't want that burden on your shoulders, I would lift it from you and carry it myself. Let me know if ever need to get rid of it.
Also, make sure you check out the podcast if you haven't, we had a great interview with Superintendent Joe Graves about the local elections here in Mitchell. You can find that at HeyTalkTo.Me. Also look around either Thursday or Friday for another episode. Should be a good time.
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