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https://soundcloud.com/john-farabow/bryan-interview2-mixdown Information For my shortened story, I had a conversation with my roommate, asking the question "What is a major argument or debate that you have had with your friends," Hoping to discover what the debate was about, the points he made to push his agenda, and if opinion was altered by the end of the conversation. Process After picking a place with little noise intervention, I sat down with my roommate Bryan to ask him the question, "what is a major argument or debate that you have had with your friends?" After he answered this initial question, I asked him two follow up questions in order to keep the conversation rolling. I asked, "What points did you use to get your message across," a few other questions adding to his answers, and the final question "Was a conclusion about the topic reached?" After collecting his answers, a lot of editing had to be done. I cut out a lot of pauses...
Introduction Hello everyone... I am JT Farabow. I am a freshman who has grown up in High Point for most of my life. Yes, it is kinda weird going to college in the town you've grown up your whole life in, 5 minutes from your grandparents and 10 minutes from your old high school. Luckily, my family moved to Winston Salem, NC in August, and so I guess I haven't been too close to home. I am a Sport Communication major a soccer fanatic. While scrolling through This American Life looking for a podcast to use for this assignment, "Hoaxing Yourself" drew my attention. "Hoaxing Yourself" is a series of podcasts in which people tell stories of lies they told when they were young, that they believed more than anyone else did. In other words: stories of people pulling hoaxes on themselves. Act One is a story told by Joel Lovell, who as a freshman in college had his new friends believe him and his parents had been vegetarians their entire lives. Elements of the Pod...