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🗓️ 4 October 2018
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Sergeant Furman Camel spent 27 years in a North Carolina Prison. That's as many years as Nelson Mandela spent behind bars. But Camel did his time, as likes to say, in 8 hour shifts.
"I wear this uniform with pride. Everyday that I come in here I'm creased down. My shoes are shined. And I smell good. The uniform is 90% of the job. Looking the part."
In this episode we bring you audio diaries from the prison guards who work at Polk Youth Institution.
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0:00.0 | You're listening to Radio Diaries and this is Nellie Gillis with producers |
0:05.2 | Elisa Scarsay and Micah Hazel. Hey, this is our producer takeover. Sorry Joe. |
0:10.1 | Sorry Joe. Before we start today's show we wanted to let you know that right now is Radio Topia's annual fundraiser. |
0:16.0 | And for the occasion, our team wanted to come and tell you a few of the favorite things that we've heard from the network recently. |
0:22.0 | Micah, you go first. |
0:24.0 | So I recently listened to the Stoop episode, |
0:27.0 | Don't Call Me Ante, which is basically breaking down |
0:30.0 | like the word Ante, I use it all the time, |
0:32.0 | a lot of people of color use it all the time it's like a very endearing term and |
0:37.6 | This episode really just kind of broke down the ways in which it's actually pretty problematic. |
0:45.0 | I think something the show just really does well is it takes these just everyday things |
0:49.3 | in my life or everyday things in black culture and it kind of like flips them on the head a little |
0:53.7 | bit while also just feeling like a very casual like conversation between friends. |
0:58.8 | Awesome. How many people in your life do you call auntie. Oh my God like pretty much anyone who's |
1:05.0 | nice to me. How about you, Elisa? So I recently loved this episode. It was a |
1:11.7 | collaboration between two of my favorite |
1:13.6 | radiotopious shows, Articles of Interest and Wait for it. They did this story |
1:17.6 | about plus-size clothes that was the perfect combo of personal stories and |
1:22.0 | really fascinating fashion history that I had never thought |
1:24.5 | about. |
1:25.5 | I'll never be able to look at those shoulder cutouts on t-shirts the same way. |
1:29.1 | I heard that episode too and I definitely have shoulder cut-out shirts that I don't know whether I'll ever wear again. |
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