Producer Appreciation Weeks: David Escobar

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🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Rounding out our Producer Appreciation Weeks, intern David Escobar and host Melissa Harris-Perry look back at some of the stories he’s produced for The Takeaway: Does The Indian Child Welfare Act Hang in Peril?; An Enduring American Pastime: The State Fair; Working Out the Four-Day Work Week; Healing Trauma Through Nature in Wildcat; How A Doll Became a Queer Icon in M3GAN "David Escobar is a senior at Fordham University, double majoring in Journalism and Digital Technology & Emerging Media. His first memories of public radio started back in his hometown of San Francisco, where he remembers constantly listening to his local NPR-affiliate KQED in the car with his family. David began at WFUV in 2022, anchoring the midday newscasts at the station. Now David hosts the “Fordham Conversations'' public affairs program, where he taps into the Fordham University community to discuss and uncover issues that impact our world. His passion lies in political and cultural issues around the country, especially in New York City. David also regularly hosts WFUV’s “What’s What,” the station’s daily news podcast."

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0:00.0	I'm Melissa Harris Perry and this is The Takeaway. As we've been telling you this month,
0:10.2	the takeaway has been canceled. Canceled by WNYC, the public radio station that's been making
0:17.0	this show for 15 years. But before our final episode on June 2nd, we're taking some
0:24.1	time during these final weeks to highlight some of the best work from our fabulous producers
0:30.6	here on Team Takeaway. And today, we're spotlighting our intern, David Escobar. Hey, David. Hi, Melissa. Great to be on the show
0:41.7	with you. I mean, can we just pause for a second? Listen to that voice, y'all. This kid was born for
0:47.4	radio. I mean, hey, Melissa, I've been trying. I'm actually working two radio jobs right now. Besides being here at the
0:55.9	takeaway for the past nine months, I've been working as a news reporter and host at WFUV, which is the
1:00.8	NPR member station at my college, Fordham University. All right, David, that's a whole lot of work.
1:06.6	But what have you got for us today? Well, Melissa, when I first came to the takeaway, we were in the middle of midterm campaign season,
1:14.8	approaching the official end of summer.
1:16.6	And what's more quintessential of the summer campaign trail than a good old county fair?
1:24.7	I can just smell the funnel cake and the deep fried everything wafting through the air.
1:33.3	But we weren't talking about food now, were we?
1:36.5	Not exactly, Melissa.
1:38.1	As much as I love my funnel cake, we wanted to take a look at how county and state fairs have shaped and molded their communities
1:45.3	in their almost 200-year history, especially since in just two centuries, county fairs have
1:52.3	transformed from simple cattle shows into a multimillion-dollar industry.
1:57.3	So to answer all things county fair related, I talked with Marla Calico, president and CEO of the International Association of Affairs and Expositions.
2:08.5	And I started by asking her about the universal appeal of the county fair.
2:13.9	It is a singular community institution. And the cool thing about it is that the fair represents that
2:21.8	particular community. You could go to, for example, you could go to the Robeson County Fair in a
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