American Student Radio

This is our last episode of the 2018-2019 school year. We know, the school year actually ended just over a week ago. Maybe we’re huge procrastinators, or maybe we’re just prolonging the inevitable goodbye. That’s our theme this week: Goodbye. It’s fitting that this week’s episode features pieces from three of us seniors -- or, I guess, *recent graduates* -- as we say goodbye to our time as students at IU. You’ll hear from Emily Miles, Pealer Bryniarski, and host Sheila Raghavendran, plus contributing senior Naomi Farahan.

Directions take us where we need to go. Yet direction is such a versatile word. Whether it’s a physical place we’re going or an emotional journey, our directions in life can shape who we are as well as our next step in life. Max Sandefer is your guide for this episode, featuring pieces from Pealer Bryniarski, Emily Miles and Thanmayee Maddipati.

Host Sophia Muston walks us through the ASR moral alignment chart, including memes, skunks demons and so much more. Producing this episode: Kat Spence, James Keys, Emily Miles, Sophia Muston, Jack Bassett, Sheila Raghavendran, Max Sandefer, and Pealer Bryniarski

We at ASR want to welcome you to spring! Here in the Midwest, it’s muggy and loud and perfect for some radio shorts about heat. We have pieces about the season, cooking, warm memories and the microwave oven. Also! A production staff game of hot seat.

We grow attached, and we separate. Our minds, our bodies, resentment, possessions, loved ones and love itself. Here's a little trip through all of that with guides Pealer Bryniarski and Noura Ahmed.

Buckle up. Host James Keys is about to take us on a metaphysical ride. We’re going to dig deep into truths, lies, self-identity, and all things imposter. In this episode: Sophia Muston's game of BS, Emily Miles's interview with Jesus at Drag Queen Story Hour, Jack Bassett's trip to the barber shop, James's reflection on memories of his dad, and Noura Ahmed's dive into the reality unseen on one woman's Instagram.

Kat Spence hosts this episode all about Cheddar, Moolah, Benjamins, Fat stacks, Cake and Buckaroos. That’s right. This episode is all about money, money, money -- and the power structures that accompany.

Put on your rose-tinted glasses, because we are talking about love. In this episode, we're exploring ideas about romantic love, self love, and so much more.

We promise this is not just 30 minutes of awkward silence. This week, we have a couple fiction pieces from Jack Bassett and Pealer Bryniarski, a tampon vox pop from Sheila Raghavendran, and two perspectives on awkward comedy -- one from new producer Max Sandefer and the other from ASR alum Carter Barrett.

ASR 2.0 turns three years old today! In celebration, we bring you some of our favorite pieces ever: Naked Man Crash, Matt Tries to Talk to the Dead, Of the Blood, Mindful Madness, and Dinuguan.

We have sounds so warm, you might think you’re wearing earmuffs. Just a few days from the winter solstice, this is the time of celebration and togetherness, burning fires and harvesting frosty pine trees. Also of gift-giving, chilly air, scary stories and grandmas.

This episode, we turn the mic on ourselves and invite a couple new producers to join us in the old art on the personal essay. We have stories about the struggle for peace and mindfulness, a few moments on top of Mount Sneffels, the loss of a dear friend, a siblinghood of secrets, and more.

This episode is all about flavor. Through food, wine and coffee, we explore the friendship, controversy and exploitation that can hide in our taste buds.

In this episode, we get a little scary. From murder and death to spirits and hauntings, we have your Halloween needs covered.

This week, six of our producers set out to record and edit four stories in 24 hours or less. The result was pumpkins, politics, an ASMR broadcast gone awry, and an exclusive interview.

In this episode, we explore togetherness as music, as love, as skin. In doing so, we take a trip into the archives and bring together ASR's generations of producers.

In our first episode of the semester, we're getting specific.

What do you get when you put four graduating audio producers in a voicing booth? Probably something like this. Thanks Emily Miles for remixing our final tracking session!

In our last show of the spring 2018 semester, ASR presents 16 pieces in 28 minutes. Each is only a minute long, including campus controversies, a roommate intervention, dispatches from abroad and a performance art piece about hummus.

Each year, ASR producers team up to find, report and produce a piece in 24 hours. This year, inspired by fortune cookies, two groups headed out and came back with stories from the great outdoors and the insides of clothing racks.

On this episode, our producers do something that we were told to avoid at all costs: talk to strangers. You’ll hear stories about dead zoo animals, a vox pop about favorite body parts, the sounds of the Irish countryside, and complicated issues of race and heritage -- all ideas that were pitched by strangers.

This week our producers were challenged to use the five senses to their fullest. In this episode we get on a Bloomington bus, explore silence in Peru, try to solve the mystery of beat in the night and more.

For the show producers decided to just listen. Over Thanksgiving Break, we recorded conversations with friends, grandparents, aunts, and parents for what we’re calling American Student Radio’s Thanksgiving Listen.

On this week's show hosted by Jenna Jankowski, we’re exploring the divide between what we imagine in our minds and ill-fated reality. Whether it’s training for the little 500, getting your PHD, going on a tinder date, or grabbing a bite at a food truck, there is no way to predict the outcome.

CIA mind control, odd conspiracy theories, the man behind a popular Bloomington meme page, and so much more in this week’s show, “Unexplained.”

Just lousy with ghosts.

These are stories of attempts to communicate gone awry, but also of people trying to communicate and simply finding it to be damn hard. Stories of language barriers, of meanings hidden or lost-in-translation, of meanings multiplied and far-reaching. You’ll hear from a millennial whose choice to get a tattoo conflicts with her parents, Bloomington community members confronting modern white supremacy, and cross-cultural romance in Morocco.

Angelo Bautista hosts this week's episode of American Student Radio, "In Between." We are neither here, nor there, but somewhere in between. Between two pieces of bread. Between a rock and a hard place. Between the liminal space of high school and college.

This week, our show is all about obsolescence or as some like to call it the obsolete. You’ll hear stories about old media, unicycles, a personal essay, and memories of the old Chocolate Moose.

Emily Miles hosts this week's episode of American Student Radio ,"Up There." We climb up a fire tower, explore the sky, and ask people, just what is up there. Turns out it’s seeds, language and a bunch of stoners.

In our first show of the semester, host Noni Ford explores California as a symbol of dreams, values, and fears.

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Maggie Tully hosts this episode about our relationship to food, consumption and Little 5, and bees.

Pealer Bryniarski hosts this episode examining Bloomington as a city separate from and defined by its identity as a college town.

Senior producer Kacey Ross hosts The Human Body, a show about our bodies, inside and out.

Abbie Gipson hostsThe Call, featuring pieces about the call to service, the last call and phone calls.

Five teams of producers set out, pop open some bottled teas and read the quotes in the caps. From there, they have 24 hours to report and produce a story. Here's what they found.

Sheila Raghavendran talked to folk band Edward + Jane, who stopped in Bloomington for their "As Family We Gather" EP tour. http://www.edwardandjanemusic.com/

Angelo Bautista hosts this episode about dreamers, dreams, and dreams come true.

This week, it's all about blood -- as in that thing in your veins. In cultures and religions, it can spell both life and death. It can mean our identities and the forces that drive us. In this episode you’ll hear about biological blood, fake blood, and blood that makes us friends and strangers to lands we visit and come from.

The world is a confusing, sometimes unexplainable place — maybe believing in some otherworldly force is a source of comfort — or maybe it’s easier to believe in nothing at all. This week, we’re delving into scratch offs, horoscopes, fortune cookies, and so much more.

On today’s show we’re exploring the concept “native.” What does native mean in a national sense? A local sense? What does it mean culturally? And how do people negotiate this identity against the expectations of others?

First-time host Hannah Boomershine takes us through some first experiences - ice skating, going to a protest and trying to talk to the dead.

On Friday, Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. This episode discusses what comes next for the country and for some of the people in it — we the people.

We’ve chosen our favorite pieces from the 11 amazing episodes we’ve produced this semester, and now we’re going to listen to them all over again. Taylor Haggerty hosts this week’s very special end-of-the-semester Best-Of Extravaganza.

Every week we choose a theme and bring you stories around that theme. So today, we’re exploring the root of it--what ties us to places, what connects us to our past, and how we use all this to create our future. Abbie Gipson hosts our show on the root of it all.

When host Abbie Gipson recently went home to Ohio, she talked with her family about what makes them, after three generations, keep making the same family recipes.

For a lot of people, Thanksgiving means food. But not just any food -- it’s a long-held ritual of turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, and cornbread. But for producer Sheila Raghavendran’s family, Thanksgiving dinners are a little more unconventional. In this piece, she brings us into her family’s dining room.

Producer Jessica Smith takes a look at heirloom plants that have their roots not only in the ground but in our past and our future.

At Indiana University, one organization brings together students who share a common love for a particular root vegetable. In our next piece, ASR producer, Angelo Bautista takes us to the roots of Sweet Potato Club.

Sometimes people sample sweet potato pie. Sometimes people collect samples of heirloom seeds. Sometimes people sample other people’s music in their own. Our producer Emily Miles explores sample culture in music.