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.