When we first started, when we were first
in that conference room and then to come here
14 episodes later and say “Wow, look
at all the stuff that we did.”
I think that’s pretty awesome.
This program initially came out of two RTVF
classes that our faculty adviser, Mario Murillo,
taught.
And they were about radio feature production
and podcasting — radio magazine production.
From doing Getting to the Root I’ve learned
that this is really something that I love
doing.
This public affairs longform radio kind of
thing.
I love it.
And I think I’m pretty good at it.
For one I’m not a journalism major, I’m
not a radio major, but I am a history and
social studies education major.
And Nailah and Ben were very helpful with
that, so was Professor Murillo.
Anybody who’s interested in current events,
talking about politics, trying to give a community
a voice, you have to be here, you have to
have your voice heard.
Mario in particular has a background in public
media and community media, which I have a
growing background in as well.
We really wanted to implement some kind of
NPR-style magazine show into WRHU.
I always like to call it a mashup of This
American Life, Radiolab and 60 Minutes put
together.
I got to do a lot of really cool things.
The thing about Getting to the Root is there
isn’t really a program at the station that
was like it.
So I had all these ideas building up that
I never got to do.
So when we started doing this show I just
was doing everything.
I hope it can be an example for people that
hey, you can do really cool creative stuff at the
station and in the school.
I hope people kind of get inspired by that.
