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&lt;br /&gt;</description><enclosure length="0" type="audio/mpeg" url="http://ia601208.us.archive.org/6/items/CaraRosenbaumIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.38CaraRosenbaumIsTotallyAwesome.mp3"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>aaronnam@gmail.com (Aaron Nam)</author><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Original post: http://ytawesome.com/post/33456531582/cara-rosenbaum-is-totally-awesome http://ia601208.us.archive.org/6/items/CaraRosenbaumIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.38CaraRosenbaumIsTotallyAwesome.mp3</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Aaron Nam</itunes:author><itunes:summary>Original post: http://ytawesome.com/post/33456531582/cara-rosenbaum-is-totally-awesome http://ia601208.us.archive.org/6/items/CaraRosenbaumIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.38CaraRosenbaumIsTotallyAwesome.mp3</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>YTA,you,are,totally,awesome,Aaron,Nam,Brown,University</itunes:keywords></item><item><title>Mark Sonnenblick is Totally Awesome</title><link>http://namosaur.blogspot.com/2012/09/mark-sonnenblick-is-totally-awesome.html</link><category>Aaron</category><category>Aaron Nam</category><category>awesome</category><category>independents</category><category>Mark</category><category>musical</category><category>Nam</category><category>sonnenblick</category><category>the</category><category>the independents</category><category>totally</category><category>you're</category><category>you're totally awesome</category><category>YTA</category><pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 01:07:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058533725930809878.post-8020717713147458682</guid><description>&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="30" src="http://archive.org/embed/MarkSonnenblickIsTotallyAwesome" width="500"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="https://ia701509.us.archive.org/11/items/MarkSonnenblickIsTotallyAwesome/MarkSonnenblick.mp3"&gt;https://ia701509.us.archive.org/11/items/MarkSonnenblickIsTotallyAwesome/MarkSonnenblick.mp3&lt;/a&gt;</description><enclosure length="0" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://ia701509.us.archive.org/11/items/MarkSonnenblickIsTotallyAwesome/MarkSonnenblick.mp3"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>aaronnam@gmail.com (Aaron Nam)</author><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>https://ia701509.us.archive.org/11/items/MarkSonnenblickIsTotallyAwesome/MarkSonnenblick.mp3</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Aaron Nam</itunes:author><itunes:summary>https://ia701509.us.archive.org/11/items/MarkSonnenblickIsTotallyAwesome/MarkSonnenblick.mp3</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>YTA,you,are,totally,awesome,Aaron,Nam,Brown,University</itunes:keywords></item><item><title>Jasmine Lee is Totally Awesome</title><link>http://namosaur.blogspot.com/2012/09/jasmine-lee-is-totally-awesome_3.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 3 Sep 2012 07:00:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058533725930809878.post-2230452533597241761</guid><description>&lt;span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;Head over to &lt;a href="http://ytawesome.com/"&gt;YTAwesome.com&lt;/a&gt; for the full post!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;a data-mce-href="http://ia601201.us.archive.org/5/items/JasmineLeeIsTotallyAwesome/Jasmine.mp3" href="http://ia601201.us.archive.org/5/items/JasmineLeeIsTotallyAwesome/Jasmine.mp3" style="color: #007bff;"&gt;http://ia601201.us.archive.org/5/items/JasmineLeeIsTotallyAwesome/Jasmine.mp3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>aaronnam@gmail.com (Aaron Nam)</author><enclosure length="9461259" type="audio/mpeg" url="http://ia601201.us.archive.org/5/items/JasmineLeeIsTotallyAwesome/Jasmine.mp3"/><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Head over to YTAwesome.com for the full post! http://ia601201.us.archive.org/5/items/JasmineLeeIsTotallyAwesome/Jasmine.mp3</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Aaron Nam</itunes:author><itunes:summary>Head over to YTAwesome.com for the full post! http://ia601201.us.archive.org/5/items/JasmineLeeIsTotallyAwesome/Jasmine.mp3</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>YTA,you,are,totally,awesome,Aaron,Nam,Brown,University</itunes:keywords></item><item><title>Adi Kamdar is Totally Awesome</title><link>http://namosaur.blogspot.com/2012/08/adi-kamdar-is-totally-awesome.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2012 23:03:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058533725930809878.post-8777064253247733662</guid><description>&lt;b&gt;Head to &lt;a href="http://ytawesome.com/post/30290892140/adi-kamdar-is-totally-awesome"&gt;http://ytawesome.com/post/30290892140/adi-kamdar-is-totally-awesome&lt;/a&gt; for the post.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ia600701.us.archive.org/16/items/AdiKamdarIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.36AdiKamdarIsTotallyAwesome.mp3"&gt;http://ia600701.us.archive.org/16/items/AdiKamdarIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.36AdiKamdarIsTotallyAwesome.mp3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>aaronnam@gmail.com (Aaron Nam)</author><enclosure length="9753204" type="audio/mpeg" url="http://ia600701.us.archive.org/16/items/AdiKamdarIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.36AdiKamdarIsTotallyAwesome.mp3"/><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Head to http://ytawesome.com/post/30290892140/adi-kamdar-is-totally-awesome for the post. http://ia600701.us.archive.org/16/items/AdiKamdarIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.36AdiKamdarIsTotallyAwesome.mp3</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Aaron Nam</itunes:author><itunes:summary>Head to http://ytawesome.com/post/30290892140/adi-kamdar-is-totally-awesome for the post. http://ia600701.us.archive.org/16/items/AdiKamdarIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.36AdiKamdarIsTotallyAwesome.mp3</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>YTA,you,are,totally,awesome,Aaron,Nam,Brown,University</itunes:keywords></item><item><title>Halsey Niles is Totally Awesome</title><link>http://namosaur.blogspot.com/2012/08/halsey-niles-is-totally-awesome.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:29:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058533725930809878.post-2335048635639309762</guid><description>&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Post is here:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://ytawesome.com/post/29808633498/halsey-niles-is-totally-awesome" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-out; color: #fcb310; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 23px; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 24px;"&gt;Halsey Niles is Totally Awesome&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;a href="http://ia601200.us.archive.org/32/items/HalseyNilesIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.35HalseyNilesIsTotallyAwesome.mp3" style="color: #fcb310;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;http://ia601200.us.archive.org/32/items/HalseyNilesIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.35HalseyNilesIsTotallyAwesome.mp3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>aaronnam@gmail.com (Aaron Nam)</author><enclosure length="19003268" type="audio/mpeg" url="http://ia601200.us.archive.org/32/items/HalseyNilesIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.35HalseyNilesIsTotallyAwesome.mp3"/><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Post is here:&amp;nbsp;Halsey Niles is Totally Awesome http://ia601200.us.archive.org/32/items/HalseyNilesIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.35HalseyNilesIsTotallyAwesome.mp3</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Aaron Nam</itunes:author><itunes:summary>Post is here:&amp;nbsp;Halsey Niles is Totally Awesome http://ia601200.us.archive.org/32/items/HalseyNilesIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.35HalseyNilesIsTotallyAwesome.mp3</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>YTA,you,are,totally,awesome,Aaron,Nam,Brown,University</itunes:keywords></item><item><title>Adam Weinrib is Still Totally Awesome</title><link>http://namosaur.blogspot.com/2012/08/adam-weinrib-is-still-totally-awesome.html</link><category>30 for 30</category><category>Aaron</category><category>Adam</category><category>Adam Weinrib</category><category>comedian</category><category>espn</category><category>fallon</category><category>Nam</category><category>triple threat tv</category><category>you're totally awesome</category><category>YTA</category><pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 02:42:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058533725930809878.post-8041107806921060197</guid><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;strong style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Why he's awesome: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Comedian and overall just a lovable man&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Comedian and YTA's first-ever guest, Adam Weinrib, joined me for our first phone guest. We learned that he remains faithful to the YTA podcast despite an appearance on the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Fallon_High_School" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;James Fallon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt; show and that he has been writing in&amp;nbsp;Shakespearean&amp;nbsp;prose for his bosses at the sports documentary production company Triple Threat TV (know for their work on ESPN's &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://30for30.espn.com/" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;30 for 30 series&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;). He gets into his plans for his comedy career, reveals his obscure obsession with performing his sets at&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/images/ufw/Chinesecannery_800.jpg" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;fish canneries&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;, and does his best Jack Johnson &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skhxizRYxps&amp;amp;feature=artistob&amp;amp;playnext=1&amp;amp;list=TLPpt3KG_jj34" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Waka Flocka "No Hands" impression&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"&gt;Check out more of his musical impressions online on&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IvFNLP5TFk"&gt;YouTube&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;and if you're in New York, look out for his shows coming to a fish cannery near you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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 p.s. Adam and I got rolling on some sports talk at the end of the podcast, which we decided to cut and make into a separate file. If you're interested in hearing our takes on the Dwight Howard to Los Angeles Lakers trade, head over to ytawesome.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ia701207.us.archive.org/6/items/Yta_ep.33AdamWeinrib/Yta_ep.34AdamWeinrebIsTotallyAwesome.mp3"&gt;http://ia701207.us.archive.org/6/items/Yta_ep.33AdamWeinrib/Yta_ep.34AdamWeinrebIsTotallyAwesome.mp3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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</description><enclosure length="0" type="audio/mpeg" url="http://ia701207.us.archive.org/6/items/Yta_ep.33AdamWeinrib/Yta_ep.34AdamWeinrebIsTotallyAwesome.mp3"/><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/_IvFNLP5TFk/default.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>aaronnam@gmail.com (Aaron Nam)</author><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Why he's awesome: Comedian and overall just a lovable man&amp;nbsp; Comedian and YTA's first-ever guest, Adam Weinrib, joined me for our first phone guest. We learned that he remains faithful to the YTA podcast despite an appearance on the James Fallon show and that he has been writing in&amp;nbsp;Shakespearean&amp;nbsp;prose for his bosses at the sports documentary production company Triple Threat TV (know for their work on ESPN's 30 for 30 series). He gets into his plans for his comedy career, reveals his obscure obsession with performing his sets at&amp;nbsp;fish canneries, and does his best Jack Johnson Waka Flocka "No Hands" impression. Check out more of his musical impressions online on&amp;nbsp;YouTube,&amp;nbsp;and if you're in New York, look out for his shows coming to a fish cannery near you. p.s. Adam and I got rolling on some sports talk at the end of the podcast, which we decided to cut and make into a separate file. If you're interested in hearing our takes on the Dwight Howard to Los Angeles Lakers trade, head over to ytawesome.com http://ia701207.us.archive.org/6/items/Yta_ep.33AdamWeinrib/Yta_ep.34AdamWeinrebIsTotallyAwesome.mp3</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Aaron Nam</itunes:author><itunes:summary>Why he's awesome: Comedian and overall just a lovable man&amp;nbsp; Comedian and YTA's first-ever guest, Adam Weinrib, joined me for our first phone guest. We learned that he remains faithful to the YTA podcast despite an appearance on the James Fallon show and that he has been writing in&amp;nbsp;Shakespearean&amp;nbsp;prose for his bosses at the sports documentary production company Triple Threat TV (know for their work on ESPN's 30 for 30 series). He gets into his plans for his comedy career, reveals his obscure obsession with performing his sets at&amp;nbsp;fish canneries, and does his best Jack Johnson Waka Flocka "No Hands" impression. Check out more of his musical impressions online on&amp;nbsp;YouTube,&amp;nbsp;and if you're in New York, look out for his shows coming to a fish cannery near you. p.s. Adam and I got rolling on some sports talk at the end of the podcast, which we decided to cut and make into a separate file. If you're interested in hearing our takes on the Dwight Howard to Los Angeles Lakers trade, head over to ytawesome.com http://ia701207.us.archive.org/6/items/Yta_ep.33AdamWeinrib/Yta_ep.34AdamWeinrebIsTotallyAwesome.mp3</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>YTA,you,are,totally,awesome,Aaron,Nam,Brown,University</itunes:keywords></item><item><title>And We're Back!</title><link>http://namosaur.blogspot.com/2012/08/and-were-back.html</link><category>Aaron Nam</category><category>back</category><category>you're totally awesome</category><category>YTA</category><pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2012 19:53:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058533725930809878.post-5170906592482844167</guid><description>I hope everyone's been having a great summer, and you've all gotten to take some time for yourselves. Sorry for the long hiatus, but YTA is coming back at you with the full force of a thousand pandas. Unfortunately we won't be having any more video interviews, so you'll just have to imagine how beautiful all our guests are (just picture &lt;a href="http://medalheads.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/6a00e553c23b498833014e8a36085b970d-800wi.jpg"&gt;Ryan Lochte&lt;/a&gt; but 10x prettier). All interviews will have been conducted over the phone, so please excuse any choppiness.&lt;br /&gt;
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We'll be hearing from recent grads who have been mixing it up across the world in a variety of fields. &amp;nbsp;Adventurous souls taking their talents abroad? Check. Startup founders? Yup. Grad students who didn't get enough in undergrad? Uhuh. Teachers, artists, actors, bankers, and consultants? Yeah, them too. People taking some well deserved time for themselves? Of course.&lt;br /&gt;
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Also, we'll get a chance to catch up with some of our past guests and hear how their various endeavors have been going. If there's anyone you'd like to hear from, let me know, and I'll try my best to get them on. (Full disclosure: I live in the same building as &lt;a href="http://www.upscalehype.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/nubeo-black-mamba-kobe-bryant-1.jpg"&gt;Kobe&lt;/a&gt;.) (Full disclosure part 2: &lt;a href="http://distilleryimage7.s3.amazonaws.com/da9581e2cdd911e18ea922000a1cfdc8_7.jpg"&gt;Kobe&lt;/a&gt; is my dog's name.)&lt;br /&gt;
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Again, you're all totally awesome, and I hope these recordings remind everyone how incredible you and the people around us are. Enjoy the podcast!&lt;br /&gt;
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Aaron</description><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUp1oXOjIAydadAEC5iXyNipWIQ3X8WysEI__1SzibctgfBGCTtV8whJ0zS_NhGPEAMuqQQuY8oEgOEwRkUqytvGnsdAZn-8EltBjFcqhnXKTBtAR1SOBIzKJTnjsUPVVepDRYc9oplSt1/s72-c/whos_awesome_youre_awesome-s750x600-47798.jpeg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>aaronnam@gmail.com (Aaron Nam)</author></item><item><title>Jessica Bendit is Totally Awesome</title><link>http://namosaur.blogspot.com/2012/05/jessica-bendit-is-totally-awesome.html</link><category>Aaron</category><category>Aaron Nam</category><category>brown</category><category>Brown university</category><category>Episode</category><category>Jess Bendit</category><category>namosaur</category><category>Podcast</category><category>SPACE</category><category>Swearer Center</category><category>you're totally awesome</category><category>YTA</category><pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 11:32:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058533725930809878.post-3617689802109188677</guid><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Coordinator of &lt;a href="http://swearercenter.brown.edu/programs/prison-based-programs"&gt;Space in Prisons for the Arts and Creative Expression (SPACE) &lt;/a&gt;Jess Bendit stopped by the "studio" to talk about the program and drop some life insights. We learned about the prison's no-nonsense correction officers; what draws Jess into social justice work; and how Christopher Nolan nailed it with &lt;a href="http://youtu.be/K4GAQtGtd_0"&gt;this scene&lt;/a&gt; from the &lt;i&gt;Dark Knight&lt;/i&gt;. She told us how the prison system is, in some ways, a form of slavery and how, on her most radical days, she likes to think of herself as a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_abolition_movement"&gt;prison abolitionist&lt;/a&gt;. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Head over to SPACE's &lt;a href="http://swearercenter.brown.edu/programs/prison-based-programs"&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;if you have further inquiries for Ms. Bendit or if you would like to find out more about the program. Also, read up on some of her thoughts on prisons and SPACE in more detail &lt;a href="http://students.brown.edu/College_Hill_Independent/?p=5510"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;That's our girl coordinating at SPACE's most recent &lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/218337391614972/"&gt;gallery opening&lt;/a&gt;. She's charming and radical, so hit play and catch up with the totally awesome &lt;i&gt;Jess Bendit&lt;/i&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Guest: &lt;/b&gt;Jessica Bendit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Why She's Awesome: &lt;/b&gt;Coordinator of &lt;a href="http://swearercenter.brown.edu/programs/prison-based-programs"&gt;Space in Prisons for the Arts and Creative Expression (SPACE)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Audio:&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ia701209.us.archive.org/35/items/JessBenditIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.32JessBendit.mp3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;http://ia701209.us.archive.org/35/items/JessBenditIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.32JessBendit.mp3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="30" src="http://archive.org/embed/JessBenditIsTotallyAwesome" width="500"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/F94zBoFaYXA/default.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>aaronnam@gmail.com (Aaron Nam)</author></item><item><title>Mathew Reiss is Totally Awesome</title><link>http://namosaur.blogspot.com/2012/05/mathew-reiss-is-totally-awesome.html</link><category>Aaron</category><category>Aaron Nam</category><category>brown</category><category>Brown university</category><category>computer science</category><category>Episode</category><category>Mathew Reiss</category><category>Matt</category><category>namosaur</category><category>Podcast</category><category>Pokemon</category><category>Pokemon Brown</category><category>sri</category><category>Video Game</category><category>you're totally awesome</category><category>YTA</category><pubDate>Tue, 8 May 2012 09:57:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058533725930809878.post-1097259007469762721</guid><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Co-developer of &lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/PokemonBrown"&gt;Pokemon: Brown University edition&lt;/a&gt; Mathew Reiss stopped by the "studio" to update us on the status of his and &lt;span style="color: #0000ee;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1609216864"&gt;Sri S&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0000ee; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;a href="http://namosaur.blogspot.com/2012/04/sri-sritharan-is-totally-awesome.html"&gt;ritharan's&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;game. We learned about how a final project from Brown's legendary CS15 course led to Matt's massive undertaking; which Brown celebrities and buildings will be included in the game; and when Matt's once childhood dream&amp;nbsp;of creating video games became a reality.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Keep tabs on the official launch date of &lt;a href="http://namosaur.blogspot.com/2012/04/sri-sritharan-is-totally-awesome.html"&gt;Pokemon Brown&lt;/a&gt;. Sri and Matt are targeting a &lt;i&gt;senior week release&lt;/i&gt; (and are almost killing themselves to meet their self-imposed deadline).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;The Facebook page will be updated with photos and news in the meantime.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;If you'd like to share your thoughts, you can email them at&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:pokemonbrownuniversity@gmail.com"&gt;pokemonbrownuniversity@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;That's our man in Pokemon-pixelated form. Click play and catch up with the totally awesome, &lt;i&gt;Mathew Reis&lt;/i&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Guest: &lt;/b&gt;Mathew Reis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Why he's awesome: &lt;/b&gt;Co-developer of &lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/PokemonBrown"&gt;Pokemon Brown&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(with&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0000ee;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1609216864"&gt;Sri S&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0000ee; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;a href="http://namosaur.blogspot.com/2012/04/sri-sritharan-is-totally-awesome.html"&gt;ritharan's&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Audio:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ia701202.us.archive.org/0/items/MathewReissIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.30MathewReiss.mp3"&gt;http://ia701202.us.archive.org/0/items/MathewReissIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.30MathewReiss.mp3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="30" src="http://archive.org/embed/MathewReissIsTotallyAwesome" width="500"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/GSlBmp4s5iw/default.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">2</thr:total><author>aaronnam@gmail.com (Aaron Nam)</author></item><item><title>Stephen Poletto is Totally Awesome</title><link>http://namosaur.blogspot.com/2012/05/stephen-poletto-is-totally-awesome.html</link><category>Aaron</category><category>Aaron Nam</category><category>app</category><category>apple</category><category>Brown university</category><category>computer science</category><category>Dropbox</category><category>entrepreneur</category><category>Episode</category><category>iphone</category><category>namosaur</category><category>Podcast</category><category>Square Quotes</category><category>Startups</category><category>Stephen Poletto</category><category>you're totally awesome</category><category>YTA</category><pubDate>Sun, 6 May 2012 10:16:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058533725930809878.post-5422731685014991324</guid><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;iPhone App developer and computer science programmer entrepreneur &lt;a href="http://www.astaticvoid.com/"&gt;Stephen Poletto&lt;/a&gt; dropped by the "studio" to tell us about his various creations, including his newest app&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://squarequote.it/"&gt;SquareQuote&lt;/a&gt;. We learned about the advantages of jumping in and creating an app/program; his extremely positive experience working for Apple and affecting millions of people the past two years; and his&amp;nbsp;insomnia-tic/obsessive personality that played into his love for computer science&amp;nbsp;programming.&amp;nbsp;He shared his favorite &lt;a href="http://ih1.redbubble.net/image.9754233.0333/flat,550x550,075,f.jpg"&gt;quote &lt;/a&gt;and why he's excited to join &lt;a href="https://www.dropbox.com/"&gt;Dropbox's &lt;/a&gt;team next year.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Be on the look out for&amp;nbsp;
&lt;a href="https://squarequote.it/"&gt;SquareQuote's&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;official release, but in the mean time, check out his last iPhone app &lt;a href="http://billr.me/"&gt;Billr&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;("The quickest way to split a bill and calculate the tip at restauratns and bars."). Also, if you'll be in San Francisco next year, make sure and keep tabs on this guy while he hacks away at Dropbox (they'&lt;i&gt;re lucky to have him).&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;That's our man hacking away. Want some of his entrepreneurial spirit to rub off on you? Click play and catch up with the totally awesome, &lt;i&gt;Stephen Poletto&lt;/i&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Guest: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.astaticvoid.com/"&gt;Stephen Poletto&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Why he's awesome: &lt;/b&gt;iPhone App Developer and Entrepreneur&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Audio:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ia601204.us.archive.org/20/items/StephenPolettoIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.32StephenPoletto.mp3"&gt;http://ia601204.us.archive.org/20/items/StephenPolettoIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.32StephenPoletto.mp3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="30" src="http://archive.org/embed/StephenPolettoIsTotallyAwesome" width="500"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/Wu4k1RwfqaE/default.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>aaronnam@gmail.com (Aaron Nam)</author><enclosure length="7613253" type="audio/mpeg" url="http://ia601204.us.archive.org/20/items/StephenPolettoIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.32StephenPoletto.mp3"/><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>iPhone App developer and computer science programmer entrepreneur Stephen Poletto dropped by the "studio" to tell us about his various creations, including his newest app&amp;nbsp;SquareQuote. We learned about the advantages of jumping in and creating an app/program; his extremely positive experience working for Apple and affecting millions of people the past two years; and his&amp;nbsp;insomnia-tic/obsessive personality that played into his love for computer science&amp;nbsp;programming.&amp;nbsp;He shared his favorite quote and why he's excited to join Dropbox's team next year.&amp;nbsp; Be on the look out for&amp;nbsp; SquareQuote's&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;official release, but in the mean time, check out his last iPhone app Billr&amp;nbsp;("The quickest way to split a bill and calculate the tip at restauratns and bars."). Also, if you'll be in San Francisco next year, make sure and keep tabs on this guy while he hacks away at Dropbox (they're lucky to have him). That's our man hacking away. Want some of his entrepreneurial spirit to rub off on you? Click play and catch up with the totally awesome, Stephen Poletto! Guest: Stephen Poletto Why he's awesome: iPhone App Developer and Entrepreneur Audio:http://ia601204.us.archive.org/20/items/StephenPolettoIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.32StephenPoletto.mp3</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Aaron Nam</itunes:author><itunes:summary>iPhone App developer and computer science programmer entrepreneur Stephen Poletto dropped by the "studio" to tell us about his various creations, including his newest app&amp;nbsp;SquareQuote. We learned about the advantages of jumping in and creating an app/program; his extremely positive experience working for Apple and affecting millions of people the past two years; and his&amp;nbsp;insomnia-tic/obsessive personality that played into his love for computer science&amp;nbsp;programming.&amp;nbsp;He shared his favorite quote and why he's excited to join Dropbox's team next year.&amp;nbsp; Be on the look out for&amp;nbsp; SquareQuote's&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;official release, but in the mean time, check out his last iPhone app Billr&amp;nbsp;("The quickest way to split a bill and calculate the tip at restauratns and bars."). Also, if you'll be in San Francisco next year, make sure and keep tabs on this guy while he hacks away at Dropbox (they're lucky to have him). That's our man hacking away. Want some of his entrepreneurial spirit to rub off on you? Click play and catch up with the totally awesome, Stephen Poletto! Guest: Stephen Poletto Why he's awesome: iPhone App Developer and Entrepreneur Audio:http://ia601204.us.archive.org/20/items/StephenPolettoIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.32StephenPoletto.mp3</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>YTA,you,are,totally,awesome,Aaron,Nam,Brown,University</itunes:keywords></item><item><title>Lee Saper is Totally Awesome</title><link>http://namosaur.blogspot.com/2012/05/lee-saper-is-totally-awesome.html</link><category>Aaron</category><category>Aaron Nam</category><category>astrobiology</category><category>Brown university</category><category>Episode</category><category>geology</category><category>Lee</category><category>mars</category><category>namosaur</category><category>nasa</category><category>Podcast</category><category>rover</category><category>Saper</category><category>you're totally awesome</category><category>YTA</category><pubDate>Thu, 3 May 2012 00:45:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058533725930809878.post-6958970972614170864</guid><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Mars expert Lee Saper joined YTA to catch us up on his latest thesis research on our neighbor planet. We learned about the role he played in helping determine where the the next &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Science_Laboratory"&gt;Mars rover &lt;/a&gt;will (not) land;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;that while rivers and lakes are cool, the real possibility of finding remnants of life on Mars is in researching the subsurface;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;and how a trip to Iceland turned him into a planetary geologist. He told us about the marriage of sustainability and space, and how we as a human race are already on Mars.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;That's our boy above making contact with our extraterrestrial neighbors. Hit play and let him educate you on all things Mars. Without further ado, the totally awesome, &lt;i&gt;Lee Saper&lt;/i&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Guest: &lt;/b&gt;Lee Saper&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Why He's Awesome: &lt;/b&gt;Mars Expert&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Audio:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://ia601202.us.archive.org/6/items/LeeSaperIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.29LeeSaper.mp3" style="font-size: x-small; font-style: italic;"&gt;http://ia601202.us.archive.org/6/items/LeeSaperIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.29LeeSaper.mp3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="30" src="http://archive.org/embed/LeeSaperIsTotallyAwesome" width="500"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/UUn9_aRdWxY/default.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>aaronnam@gmail.com (Aaron Nam)</author><enclosure length="9700541" type="audio/mpeg" url="http://ia601202.us.archive.org/6/items/LeeSaperIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.29LeeSaper.mp3"/><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Mars expert Lee Saper joined YTA to catch us up on his latest thesis research on our neighbor planet. We learned about the role he played in helping determine where the the next Mars rover will (not) land;&amp;nbsp;that while rivers and lakes are cool, the real possibility of finding remnants of life on Mars is in researching the subsurface;&amp;nbsp;and how a trip to Iceland turned him into a planetary geologist. He told us about the marriage of sustainability and space, and how we as a human race are already on Mars. That's our boy above making contact with our extraterrestrial neighbors. Hit play and let him educate you on all things Mars. Without further ado, the totally awesome, Lee Saper! Guest: Lee Saper Why He's Awesome: Mars Expert Audio:&amp;nbsp;http://ia601202.us.archive.org/6/items/LeeSaperIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.29LeeSaper.mp3</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Aaron Nam</itunes:author><itunes:summary>Mars expert Lee Saper joined YTA to catch us up on his latest thesis research on our neighbor planet. We learned about the role he played in helping determine where the the next Mars rover will (not) land;&amp;nbsp;that while rivers and lakes are cool, the real possibility of finding remnants of life on Mars is in researching the subsurface;&amp;nbsp;and how a trip to Iceland turned him into a planetary geologist. He told us about the marriage of sustainability and space, and how we as a human race are already on Mars. That's our boy above making contact with our extraterrestrial neighbors. Hit play and let him educate you on all things Mars. Without further ado, the totally awesome, Lee Saper! Guest: Lee Saper Why He's Awesome: Mars Expert Audio:&amp;nbsp;http://ia601202.us.archive.org/6/items/LeeSaperIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.29LeeSaper.mp3</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>YTA,you,are,totally,awesome,Aaron,Nam,Brown,University</itunes:keywords></item><item><title>Tara Kane Prendergast is Totally Awesome</title><link>http://namosaur.blogspot.com/2012/05/tara-kane-prendergast-is-totally.html</link><category>Aaron</category><category>Aaron Nam</category><category>Brown university</category><category>BRYTE</category><category>c.v. starr fellowship</category><category>commencement speaker</category><category>Episode</category><category>namosaur</category><category>orator</category><category>Podcast</category><category>Refugee</category><category>Tara Kane Prendergast</category><category>you're totally awesome</category><category>YTA</category><pubDate>Tue, 1 May 2012 10:28:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058533725930809878.post-2704071904059557149</guid><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://refugeetutoring.com/"&gt; Brown Refugee Youth Tutoring and Enrichment (BRYTE)&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;volunteer and former head coordinator and&amp;nbsp;Class of 2012's&amp;nbsp;commencement&amp;nbsp;&lt;a data-mce-href="http://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2012/04/orators" href="http://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2012/04/orators"&gt;student orator&lt;/a&gt;, Tara Kane Prendergast blessed YTA's "studio" with her presence to talk about all the amazing service she has provided the community. We found about what exactly BRYTE does and about its history, got a primer on her thesis, and learned where her caring nature came from. We gave a BIG thank you to the people who had a moderately important role in helping her become who she is today--Tara's parents--and got a sneak preview of the high level topics of her commencement speech.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;If you're interested in joining or finding out more about BRYTE, head over to their&amp;nbsp;&lt;a data-mce-href="http://refugeetutoring.com/" href="http://refugeetutoring.com/"&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;. It's an incredible program that Tara really helped develop throughout her time at Brown. Encourage anyone interested to check it out.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;That's our girl above with her girl Alice from the BRYTE program. Hit play and hope that some of her sweet, caring nature rubs off on you. Without further ado, the totally awesome,&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-width: initial;"&gt;&lt;span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"&gt;Tara Kane Prendergast&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why She's Awesome:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;Brown Refugee Youth Tutoring and Enrichment (BRYTE)&amp;nbsp;&lt;a data-mce-href="http://swearercenter.brown.edu/profiles/prendergast.html" href="http://swearercenter.brown.edu/profiles/prendergast.html"&gt;volunteer&lt;/a&gt;, Brown University 2012&amp;nbsp;Commencement&amp;nbsp;&lt;a data-mce-href="http://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2012/04/orators" href="http://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2012/04/orators"&gt;Student Orator&lt;/a&gt;, and&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-width: initial;"&gt;&lt;span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"&gt;personal role model&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-width: initial;"&gt;&lt;span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Audio:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ia601203.us.archive.org/35/items/TaraKanePrendergastIsTotallyAwesome_228/Yta_ep.28TaraKanePrendergast.mp3"&gt;&lt;i&gt;http://ia601203.us.archive.org/35/items/TaraKanePrendergastIsTotallyAwesome_228/Yta_ep.28TaraKanePrendergast.mp3&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="30" src="http://archive.org/embed/TaraKanePrendergastIsTotallyAwesome_228" width="500"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/Sw9VjLwW230/default.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>aaronnam@gmail.com (Aaron Nam)</author><enclosure length="9634294" type="audio/mpeg" url="http://ia601203.us.archive.org/35/items/TaraKanePrendergastIsTotallyAwesome_228/Yta_ep.28TaraKanePrendergast.mp3"/><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Brown Refugee Youth Tutoring and Enrichment (BRYTE)&amp;nbsp;volunteer and former head coordinator and&amp;nbsp;Class of 2012's&amp;nbsp;commencement&amp;nbsp;student orator, Tara Kane Prendergast blessed YTA's "studio" with her presence to talk about all the amazing service she has provided the community. We found about what exactly BRYTE does and about its history, got a primer on her thesis, and learned where her caring nature came from. We gave a BIG thank you to the people who had a moderately important role in helping her become who she is today--Tara's parents--and got a sneak preview of the high level topics of her commencement speech. If you're interested in joining or finding out more about BRYTE, head over to their&amp;nbsp;website. It's an incredible program that Tara really helped develop throughout her time at Brown. Encourage anyone interested to check it out. That's our girl above with her girl Alice from the BRYTE program. Hit play and hope that some of her sweet, caring nature rubs off on you. Without further ado, the totally awesome,&amp;nbsp;Tara Kane Prendergast! Guest:&amp;nbsp;Tara Kane Prendergast Why She's Awesome:&amp;nbsp;Brown Refugee Youth Tutoring and Enrichment (BRYTE)&amp;nbsp;volunteer, Brown University 2012&amp;nbsp;Commencement&amp;nbsp;Student Orator, and&amp;nbsp;personal role model Audio:&amp;nbsp;http://ia601203.us.archive.org/35/items/TaraKanePrendergastIsTotallyAwesome_228/Yta_ep.28TaraKanePrendergast.mp3</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Aaron Nam</itunes:author><itunes:summary>Brown Refugee Youth Tutoring and Enrichment (BRYTE)&amp;nbsp;volunteer and former head coordinator and&amp;nbsp;Class of 2012's&amp;nbsp;commencement&amp;nbsp;student orator, Tara Kane Prendergast blessed YTA's "studio" with her presence to talk about all the amazing service she has provided the community. We found about what exactly BRYTE does and about its history, got a primer on her thesis, and learned where her caring nature came from. We gave a BIG thank you to the people who had a moderately important role in helping her become who she is today--Tara's parents--and got a sneak preview of the high level topics of her commencement speech. If you're interested in joining or finding out more about BRYTE, head over to their&amp;nbsp;website. It's an incredible program that Tara really helped develop throughout her time at Brown. Encourage anyone interested to check it out. That's our girl above with her girl Alice from the BRYTE program. Hit play and hope that some of her sweet, caring nature rubs off on you. Without further ado, the totally awesome,&amp;nbsp;Tara Kane Prendergast! Guest:&amp;nbsp;Tara Kane Prendergast Why She's Awesome:&amp;nbsp;Brown Refugee Youth Tutoring and Enrichment (BRYTE)&amp;nbsp;volunteer, Brown University 2012&amp;nbsp;Commencement&amp;nbsp;Student Orator, and&amp;nbsp;personal role model Audio:&amp;nbsp;http://ia601203.us.archive.org/35/items/TaraKanePrendergastIsTotallyAwesome_228/Yta_ep.28TaraKanePrendergast.mp3</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>YTA,you,are,totally,awesome,Aaron,Nam,Brown,University</itunes:keywords></item><item><title>Jonathan Topaz is Totally Awesome</title><link>http://namosaur.blogspot.com/2012/04/jonathan-topaz-is-totally-awesome.html</link><category>Aaron</category><category>Aaron Nam</category><category>Brown university</category><category>Episode</category><category>Jonathan Topaz</category><category>moth</category><category>Nam</category><category>namosaur</category><category>Podcast</category><category>story slam</category><category>Story tellers</category><category>storyteller</category><category>storytellers</category><category>the</category><category>this american life</category><category>you're totally awesome</category><category>YTA</category><pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:55:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058533725930809878.post-2577168227788199561</guid><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Founder of &lt;a href="http://mygroups.brown.edu/organization/story/about"&gt;Brown's Storytellers&lt;/a&gt;, Jonathan Topaz, joined YTA &amp;nbsp;to "shamelessly promote" the group's upcoming &lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/362328117137161/"&gt;StorySlam&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Full Disclosure: YTA's host will be performing in the Slam. Don't let that deter you from coming.)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;. We learned how&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/fashion/16moth.html?pagewanted=all" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;storytelling&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;uniquely manages to be informally impactful, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;about his affinity for self-deprecation&amp;nbsp;and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;death&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;, and how completely bombing a line can lead to an even better story in the future&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;He&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;explains the concept of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;3Dimensionality as it pertains to storytellers and how he plans to continue telling his stories&amp;nbsp;after Brown.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Don't miss the upcoming&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/362328117137161/"&gt;StorySlam&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;8pm Friday (4/27) and Saturday (4/28) in &lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=151+Thayer+Street,+Providence,+RI&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ll=41.825545,-71.400356&amp;amp;spn=0.000778,0.000932&amp;amp;sll=41.824261,-71.400189&amp;amp;sspn=0.01244,0.014913&amp;amp;t=h&amp;amp;hnear=151+Thayer+St,+Providence,+Rhode+Island+02912&amp;amp;z=20"&gt;Kassar Fox&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;Auditorium &lt;/b&gt;(&lt;i&gt;It's Mr. Topaz's last one!&lt;/i&gt;).&amp;nbsp;If you're interested in joining the group, head over to their meetings every Tuesday at 8pm on the 3rd floor of JWW, and if you're interested in hearing more stories, be sure to check out &lt;a href="http://themoth.org/"&gt;the Moth&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Show runners Kate Doyle and Andrew Favaloro stopped by the "studio" to talk about their new show &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/NothingProductive"&gt;Nothing Productive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;. We learned about everything that goes into putting on a TV show about&amp;nbsp;dysfunctional&amp;nbsp;student groups and how a physics Ph.D candidate has the time to fill a hard drive with TV shows. "Disclaimer: The antics of the characters in &lt;i&gt;Nothing Productive&lt;/i&gt; are not based on any person or people in particular."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;That's the poster for their show. They're usually busy behind the scenes, so click play and see &amp;nbsp;them on the other side of the camera. Without further ado, the totally awesome&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Kate Doyle and are Andrew Favaloro&lt;/i&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Guest:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;Kate Doyle and are Andrew Favaloro&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white;" /&gt;&lt;b style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Why He's Awesome:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"&gt;TV show writer, director, executive producer, and everything else&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Audio:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="30" src="http://archive.org/embed/KateDoyleAndAndrewAreTotallyAwesome" width="500"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ia601203.us.archive.org/18/items/KateDoyleAndAndrewAreTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.25KateDoyleAndAndrew.mp3"&gt;http://ia601203.us.archive.org/18/items/KateDoyleAndAndrewAreTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.25KateDoyleAndAndrew.mp3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;</description><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/7bc6N2aGVpE/default.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>aaronnam@gmail.com (Aaron Nam)</author><enclosure length="6448191" type="audio/mpeg" url="http://ia601203.us.archive.org/18/items/KateDoyleAndAndrewAreTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.25KateDoyleAndAndrew.mp3"/><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Show runners Kate Doyle and Andrew Favaloro stopped by the "studio" to talk about their new show Nothing Productive. We learned about everything that goes into putting on a TV show about&amp;nbsp;dysfunctional&amp;nbsp;student groups and how a physics Ph.D candidate has the time to fill a hard drive with TV shows. "Disclaimer: The antics of the characters in Nothing Productive are not based on any person or people in particular." Check out Nothing Productive's&amp;nbsp;pilot, which is online to view for free, and be on the lookout for episodes 2-5.&amp;nbsp; That's the poster for their show. They're usually busy behind the scenes, so click play and see &amp;nbsp;them on the other side of the camera. Without further ado, the totally awesome&amp;nbsp;Kate Doyle and are Andrew Favaloro! Guest:&amp;nbsp;Kate Doyle and are Andrew Favaloro&amp;nbsp;Why He's Awesome:&amp;nbsp;TV show writer, director, executive producer, and everything else Audio:http://ia601203.us.archive.org/18/items/KateDoyleAndAndrewAreTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.25KateDoyleAndAndrew.mp3</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Aaron Nam</itunes:author><itunes:summary>Show runners Kate Doyle and Andrew Favaloro stopped by the "studio" to talk about their new show Nothing Productive. We learned about everything that goes into putting on a TV show about&amp;nbsp;dysfunctional&amp;nbsp;student groups and how a physics Ph.D candidate has the time to fill a hard drive with TV shows. "Disclaimer: The antics of the characters in Nothing Productive are not based on any person or people in particular." Check out Nothing Productive's&amp;nbsp;pilot, which is online to view for free, and be on the lookout for episodes 2-5.&amp;nbsp; That's the poster for their show. They're usually busy behind the scenes, so click play and see &amp;nbsp;them on the other side of the camera. Without further ado, the totally awesome&amp;nbsp;Kate Doyle and are Andrew Favaloro! Guest:&amp;nbsp;Kate Doyle and are Andrew Favaloro&amp;nbsp;Why He's Awesome:&amp;nbsp;TV show writer, director, executive producer, and everything else Audio:http://ia601203.us.archive.org/18/items/KateDoyleAndAndrewAreTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.25KateDoyleAndAndrew.mp3</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>YTA,you,are,totally,awesome,Aaron,Nam,Brown,University</itunes:keywords></item><item><title>Sri Sritharan is Totally Awesome</title><link>http://namosaur.blogspot.com/2012/04/sri-sritharan-is-totally-awesome.html</link><category>Aaron</category><category>Aaron Nam</category><category>badmaash</category><category>Brown university</category><category>Episode</category><category>fusion</category><category>Indian Dance</category><category>Nam</category><category>namosaur</category><category>Podcast</category><category>sri</category><category>you're totally awesome</category><category>YTA</category><pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:53:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058533725930809878.post-8370253000974541788</guid><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Co-captain of Brown's South Asian fusion dance team,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Badmaash_Dance_Company"&gt;Brown Badmaash Dance Company&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;Srihari (&lt;i&gt;Sri&lt;/i&gt;) Sritharan&amp;nbsp;joined YTA to talk about their upcoming show. We learned what exactly South Asian fusion dance and music is, how a failed tryout for Brown's baseball team&amp;nbsp;serendipitously led to his Badmaash tryout, and how his love for all things South Asian also led to the birth of &lt;a href="http://soundcloud.com/dj-srimix"&gt;DJ Srimix&lt;/a&gt;. He explains how he hopes not to overextend himself in grad school (&lt;i&gt;Ph.D in&amp;nbsp;Neuroscience&amp;nbsp;at&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;UPenn next year--nbd)&lt;/i&gt;, and why it'll be a challenge.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Don't miss &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/brownbadmaash?ob=0&amp;amp;feature=results_main"&gt;Badmaash's&lt;/a&gt; upcoming show &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/250661265033269/"&gt;Hit the Floor&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;this Saturday 4/28 at 7pm in Solomon 101. Tickets will be sold&amp;nbsp;all week from 11-3pm in JWW or the Main Green (weather permitting) for $5. Tickets can also be bought for $7 at the door. Also, head over to his &lt;a href="http://soundcloud.com/dj-srimix"&gt;soundcloud page&lt;/a&gt; and check out all of his South Asian fusion mashups.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Guest:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;Srihari Sritharan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white;" /&gt;&lt;b style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Why He's Awesome: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"&gt;South Asian fusion dancer, Mash-up DJ, and Neuroscientist&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Audio:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ia601205.us.archive.org/19/items/SriIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.24Sri.mp3"&gt;&lt;b&gt;h&lt;/b&gt;ttp://ia601205.us.archive.org/19/items/SriIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.24Sri.mp3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="30" src="http://archive.org/embed/SriIsTotallyAwesome" width="500"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/GPqDOgH-Ep0/default.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>aaronnam@gmail.com (Aaron Nam)</author><enclosure length="6781096" type="audio/mpeg" url="http://ia601205.us.archive.org/19/items/SriIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.24Sri.mp3"/><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Co-captain of Brown's South Asian fusion dance team,&amp;nbsp;Brown Badmaash Dance Company,&amp;nbsp;Srihari (Sri) Sritharan&amp;nbsp;joined YTA to talk about their upcoming show. We learned what exactly South Asian fusion dance and music is, how a failed tryout for Brown's baseball team&amp;nbsp;serendipitously led to his Badmaash tryout, and how his love for all things South Asian also led to the birth of DJ Srimix. He explains how he hopes not to overextend himself in grad school (Ph.D in&amp;nbsp;Neuroscience&amp;nbsp;at&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;UPenn next year--nbd), and why it'll be a challenge. Don't miss Badmaash's upcoming show Hit the Floor&amp;nbsp;this Saturday 4/28 at 7pm in Solomon 101. Tickets will be sold&amp;nbsp;all week from 11-3pm in JWW or the Main Green (weather permitting) for $5. Tickets can also be bought for $7 at the door. Also, head over to his soundcloud page and check out all of his South Asian fusion mashups.&amp;nbsp; He'll hit you with his dance moves and sick mixes. Click play and catch up with the totally awesome, Sri Sritharan! Guest:&amp;nbsp;Srihari SritharanWhy He's Awesome: South Asian fusion dancer, Mash-up DJ, and Neuroscientist&amp;nbsp; Audio:&amp;nbsp;http://ia601205.us.archive.org/19/items/SriIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.24Sri.mp3</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Aaron Nam</itunes:author><itunes:summary>Co-captain of Brown's South Asian fusion dance team,&amp;nbsp;Brown Badmaash Dance Company,&amp;nbsp;Srihari (Sri) Sritharan&amp;nbsp;joined YTA to talk about their upcoming show. We learned what exactly South Asian fusion dance and music is, how a failed tryout for Brown's baseball team&amp;nbsp;serendipitously led to his Badmaash tryout, and how his love for all things South Asian also led to the birth of DJ Srimix. He explains how he hopes not to overextend himself in grad school (Ph.D in&amp;nbsp;Neuroscience&amp;nbsp;at&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;UPenn next year--nbd), and why it'll be a challenge. Don't miss Badmaash's upcoming show Hit the Floor&amp;nbsp;this Saturday 4/28 at 7pm in Solomon 101. Tickets will be sold&amp;nbsp;all week from 11-3pm in JWW or the Main Green (weather permitting) for $5. Tickets can also be bought for $7 at the door. Also, head over to his soundcloud page and check out all of his South Asian fusion mashups.&amp;nbsp; He'll hit you with his dance moves and sick mixes. Click play and catch up with the totally awesome, Sri Sritharan! Guest:&amp;nbsp;Srihari SritharanWhy He's Awesome: South Asian fusion dancer, Mash-up DJ, and Neuroscientist&amp;nbsp; Audio:&amp;nbsp;http://ia601205.us.archive.org/19/items/SriIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.24Sri.mp3</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>YTA,you,are,totally,awesome,Aaron,Nam,Brown,University</itunes:keywords></item><item><title>Sean Lyness is Totally Awesome</title><link>http://namosaur.blogspot.com/2012/04/sean-lyness-is-totally-awesome.html</link><category>Aaron</category><category>Aaron Nam</category><category>band</category><category>Episode</category><category>flash epic</category><category>Nam</category><category>namosaur</category><category>Podcast</category><category>sean lyness</category><category>you're totally awesome</category><category>YTA</category><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:13:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058533725930809878.post-147432729950283524</guid><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Musical guest &lt;a href="http://sundayjamming.wordpress.com/"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Flash Epic&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; aka Sean Lyness dropped by the YTA "studio" last week. We learned how a late night subway ride led to the name Flash Epic; his why he's a &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16u0wwCfoJ4"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Clash&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; baby; and about his first hit,&amp;nbsp;Kopfschmerz (&lt;i&gt;unfortunately never recorded)&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;He plays us a track off his upcoming album (~&lt;i&gt;10:27 mark)&lt;/i&gt; and tells us about recording on a budget (&lt;i&gt;actually&amp;nbsp;in his closet)&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Be on the look out for his next album &lt;i&gt;Tenses&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;in May, and check out his last album &lt;a href="http://sundayjamming.wordpress.com/download-my-album-wanderlust/"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Wanderlust&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Also, don't miss his weekly &lt;a href="http://sundayjamming.wordpress.com/"&gt;Sunday Jam&lt;/a&gt; that he posts every week.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Audio:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ia601209.us.archive.org/12/items/SeanLynessIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.23SeanLyness.mp3"&gt;http://ia601209.us.archive.org/12/items/SeanLynessIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.23SeanLyness.mp3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="30" src="http://archive.org/embed/SeanLynessIsTotallyAwesome" width="500"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</description><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/5t3lLS2odx8/default.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>aaronnam@gmail.com (Aaron Nam)</author><enclosure length="6032113" type="audio/mpeg" url="http://ia601209.us.archive.org/12/items/SeanLynessIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.23SeanLyness.mp3"/><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Musical guest Flash Epic aka Sean Lyness dropped by the YTA "studio" last week. We learned how a late night subway ride led to the name Flash Epic; his why he's a Clash baby; and about his first hit,&amp;nbsp;Kopfschmerz (unfortunately never recorded).&amp;nbsp;He plays us a track off his upcoming album (~10:27 mark) and tells us about recording on a budget (actually&amp;nbsp;in his closet). Be on the look out for his next album Tenses&amp;nbsp;in May, and check out his last album Wanderlust. Also, don't miss his weekly Sunday Jam that he posts every week.&amp;nbsp; He always willing and ready to play guitar and sing if you've got one on you. Hit play and catch up with the totally awesome,&amp;nbsp;Sean Lyness! Guest:&amp;nbsp;Remy Fernandez-O'BrienWhy He's Awesome:&amp;nbsp;DJ Remyx Audio:&amp;nbsp;http://ia601209.us.archive.org/12/items/SeanLynessIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.23SeanLyness.mp3</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Aaron Nam</itunes:author><itunes:summary>Musical guest Flash Epic aka Sean Lyness dropped by the YTA "studio" last week. We learned how a late night subway ride led to the name Flash Epic; his why he's a Clash baby; and about his first hit,&amp;nbsp;Kopfschmerz (unfortunately never recorded).&amp;nbsp;He plays us a track off his upcoming album (~10:27 mark) and tells us about recording on a budget (actually&amp;nbsp;in his closet). Be on the look out for his next album Tenses&amp;nbsp;in May, and check out his last album Wanderlust. Also, don't miss his weekly Sunday Jam that he posts every week.&amp;nbsp; He always willing and ready to play guitar and sing if you've got one on you. Hit play and catch up with the totally awesome,&amp;nbsp;Sean Lyness! Guest:&amp;nbsp;Remy Fernandez-O'BrienWhy He's Awesome:&amp;nbsp;DJ Remyx Audio:&amp;nbsp;http://ia601209.us.archive.org/12/items/SeanLynessIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.23SeanLyness.mp3</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>YTA,you,are,totally,awesome,Aaron,Nam,Brown,University</itunes:keywords></item><item><title>Remy Fernandez-O'Brien is Totally Awesome</title><link>http://namosaur.blogspot.com/2012/04/remy-fernandez-obrien-is-totally.html</link><category>Aaron</category><category>Aaron Nam</category><category>Episode</category><category>Making Mondays Better</category><category>Nam</category><category>namosaur</category><category>Podcast</category><category>Remy-Fernandez O'brien</category><category>you're totally awesome</category><category>YTA</category><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:21:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058533725930809878.post-3834641597951021472</guid><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;DJ Remyx, Remy Fernandez-O'Brien stopped by the YTA "studio" last week to show off some of his mixing toys. We learned how to ease an audience into music you want them to listen to, about the beauty and obscurity of &lt;i&gt;silent raves&lt;/i&gt;, and how he approaches music and DJing philosophically. He describes the funkiness of the Funk Nights that he's brought back to Brown and autotunes the Beatles with his awesome&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dannyd.com/product_images/e/878/banshee_talkback__05565_zoom.jpg"&gt;talkbox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;You don't want to miss his senior dance show &lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/205572582878650/"&gt;Bursting at the Seams&lt;/a&gt;, going on Wednesday and Thursday nights. (More information on the event's&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/205572582878650/"&gt;Facebook page&lt;/a&gt;). Also, head over to DJ Remyx's &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/TheRemyDance?feature=watch"&gt;YouTube channel&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and check out on his crazy&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIocOZhyG24&amp;amp;context=C4d9f5abADvjVQa1PpcFMnBcj12DVqt5IKGz_sw09SIzNc4EQtkbk="&gt;mashups&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"&gt;Guest:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"&gt;Remy Fernandez-O'Brien&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;" /&gt;&lt;b style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"&gt;Why He's Awesome:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"&gt;DJ Remyx&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"&gt;Audio:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://ia601202.us.archive.org/33/items/RemyFernandez-obrienIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.22RemyFernandez-obrien.mp3"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;http://ia601202.us.archive.org/33/items/RemyFernandez-obrienIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.22RemyFernandez-obrien.mp3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="30" src="http://archive.org/embed/RemyFernandez-obrienIsTotallyAwesome" width="500"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/OOLnSp4PNwo/default.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>aaronnam@gmail.com (Aaron Nam)</author><enclosure length="6900005" type="audio/mpeg" url="http://ia601202.us.archive.org/33/items/RemyFernandez-obrienIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.22RemyFernandez-obrien.mp3"/><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>DJ Remyx, Remy Fernandez-O'Brien stopped by the YTA "studio" last week to show off some of his mixing toys. We learned how to ease an audience into music you want them to listen to, about the beauty and obscurity of silent raves, and how he approaches music and DJing philosophically. He describes the funkiness of the Funk Nights that he's brought back to Brown and autotunes the Beatles with his awesome&amp;nbsp;talkbox.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; You don't want to miss his senior dance show Bursting at the Seams, going on Wednesday and Thursday nights. (More information on the event's&amp;nbsp;Facebook page). Also, head over to DJ Remyx's YouTube channel&amp;nbsp;and check out on his crazy&amp;nbsp;mashups.&amp;nbsp; He's got some crazy moves and is a little soft spoken, so we had to play with the audio a bit . Hit play and catch up with the totally awesome, Remy Fernandez-O'Brien! Guest:&amp;nbsp;Remy Fernandez-O'BrienWhy He's Awesome:&amp;nbsp;DJ RemyxAudio:&amp;nbsp;http://ia601202.us.archive.org/33/items/RemyFernandez-obrienIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.22RemyFernandez-obrien.mp3</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Aaron Nam</itunes:author><itunes:summary>DJ Remyx, Remy Fernandez-O'Brien stopped by the YTA "studio" last week to show off some of his mixing toys. We learned how to ease an audience into music you want them to listen to, about the beauty and obscurity of silent raves, and how he approaches music and DJing philosophically. He describes the funkiness of the Funk Nights that he's brought back to Brown and autotunes the Beatles with his awesome&amp;nbsp;talkbox.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; You don't want to miss his senior dance show Bursting at the Seams, going on Wednesday and Thursday nights. (More information on the event's&amp;nbsp;Facebook page). Also, head over to DJ Remyx's YouTube channel&amp;nbsp;and check out on his crazy&amp;nbsp;mashups.&amp;nbsp; He's got some crazy moves and is a little soft spoken, so we had to play with the audio a bit . Hit play and catch up with the totally awesome, Remy Fernandez-O'Brien! Guest:&amp;nbsp;Remy Fernandez-O'BrienWhy He's Awesome:&amp;nbsp;DJ RemyxAudio:&amp;nbsp;http://ia601202.us.archive.org/33/items/RemyFernandez-obrienIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.22RemyFernandez-obrien.mp3</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>YTA,you,are,totally,awesome,Aaron,Nam,Brown,University</itunes:keywords></item><item><title>Tim Natividad is Totally Awesome</title><link>http://namosaur.blogspot.com/2012/04/tim-natividad-is-totally-awesome.html</link><category>Aaron</category><category>Aaron Nam</category><category>Episode</category><category>Making Mondays Better</category><category>Nam</category><category>namosaur</category><category>Podcast</category><category>Tim Natividad</category><category>you're totally awesome</category><category>YTA</category><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:24:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058533725930809878.post-1594710925289371500</guid><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
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Curator of music blog &lt;a href="http://makingmondaysbetter.com/"&gt;Making Mondays Better&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(MMB), Tim Natividad, stopped by the YTA "studio" to the break down &amp;nbsp;how an email to a few friends evolved into a full-fledged website. We learned of his not-so-secret (&lt;i&gt;and not embarrassing in the slightest) &lt;/i&gt;love for &lt;a href="http://blogmedia.jaludo.com/titter/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/jbiebs.gif"&gt;JBiebs&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(&lt;i&gt;and his Jesus&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.styleite.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/big8.jpg"&gt;leg tattoo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;), about the science that lies behind his playlist curation process, and how he blesses his &lt;a href="http://namosaur.blogspot.com/2012/04/amit-jain-is-totally-awesome.html"&gt;housemates&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;with his renditions of the Lady Gaga's latest tracks. He explains his passion for&lt;i&gt; tech and social&amp;nbsp;entrepreneurship&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;and directs some serious advice towards &lt;i&gt;freshman year Tim&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Head over to&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://makingmondaysbetter.com/"&gt;MMB's&amp;nbsp;website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to check out past playlists and to subscribe to Tim's weekly newsletter (top right). You'll be doing your ears a favor.&lt;br /&gt;
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He's always looking so fresh, so fly. The curator himself lays down some sick rhymes that you don't want to miss (&lt;i&gt;~10:27 mark&lt;/i&gt;), so hit play and catch up with the totally awesome &lt;i&gt;Tim Natividad!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Why He's Awesome: &lt;/b&gt;Curator of music blog&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://makingmondaysbetter.com/"&gt;Making Mondays Better&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Latest Favorite Song:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MFn8L9tIrg"&gt;Man or Muppet&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;from the &lt;i&gt;Muppet Movie&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ia601209.us.archive.org/16/items/TimNatividadIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.21TimNatividad.mp3"&gt;&lt;i&gt;http://ia601209.us.archive.org/16/items/TimNatividadIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.21TimNatividad.mp3&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/E5zk4p97Ll0/default.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>aaronnam@gmail.com (Aaron Nam)</author><enclosure length="8029331" type="audio/mpeg" url="http://ia601209.us.archive.org/16/items/TimNatividadIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.21TimNatividad.mp3"/><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Curator of music blog Making Mondays Better&amp;nbsp;(MMB), Tim Natividad, stopped by the YTA "studio" to the break down &amp;nbsp;how an email to a few friends evolved into a full-fledged website. We learned of his not-so-secret (and not embarrassing in the slightest) love for JBiebs&amp;nbsp;(and his Jesus&amp;nbsp;leg tattoo), about the science that lies behind his playlist curation process, and how he blesses his housemates&amp;nbsp;with his renditions of the Lady Gaga's latest tracks. He explains his passion for tech and social&amp;nbsp;entrepreneurship&amp;nbsp;and directs some serious advice towards freshman year Tim. Head over to&amp;nbsp;MMB's&amp;nbsp;website&amp;nbsp;to check out past playlists and to subscribe to Tim's weekly newsletter (top right). You'll be doing your ears a favor. He's always looking so fresh, so fly. The curator himself lays down some sick rhymes that you don't want to miss (~10:27 mark), so hit play and catch up with the totally awesome Tim Natividad! Guest: Tim Natividad Why He's Awesome: Curator of music blog&amp;nbsp;Making Mondays Better Latest Favorite Song:&amp;nbsp;Man or Muppet&amp;nbsp;from the Muppet Movie Audio:&amp;nbsp; http://ia601209.us.archive.org/16/items/TimNatividadIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.21TimNatividad.mp3</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Aaron Nam</itunes:author><itunes:summary>Curator of music blog Making Mondays Better&amp;nbsp;(MMB), Tim Natividad, stopped by the YTA "studio" to the break down &amp;nbsp;how an email to a few friends evolved into a full-fledged website. We learned of his not-so-secret (and not embarrassing in the slightest) love for JBiebs&amp;nbsp;(and his Jesus&amp;nbsp;leg tattoo), about the science that lies behind his playlist curation process, and how he blesses his housemates&amp;nbsp;with his renditions of the Lady Gaga's latest tracks. He explains his passion for tech and social&amp;nbsp;entrepreneurship&amp;nbsp;and directs some serious advice towards freshman year Tim. Head over to&amp;nbsp;MMB's&amp;nbsp;website&amp;nbsp;to check out past playlists and to subscribe to Tim's weekly newsletter (top right). You'll be doing your ears a favor. He's always looking so fresh, so fly. The curator himself lays down some sick rhymes that you don't want to miss (~10:27 mark), so hit play and catch up with the totally awesome Tim Natividad! Guest: Tim Natividad Why He's Awesome: Curator of music blog&amp;nbsp;Making Mondays Better Latest Favorite Song:&amp;nbsp;Man or Muppet&amp;nbsp;from the Muppet Movie Audio:&amp;nbsp; http://ia601209.us.archive.org/16/items/TimNatividadIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.21TimNatividad.mp3</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>YTA,you,are,totally,awesome,Aaron,Nam,Brown,University</itunes:keywords></item><item><title>Sasha Spielberg is Totally Awesome</title><link>http://namosaur.blogspot.com/2012/04/sasha-spielberg-is-totally-awesome.html</link><category>Aaron</category><category>Aaron Nam</category><category>Accidental Zoo</category><category>brother</category><category>brother/sister</category><category>Episode</category><category>Episode 20</category><category>Nam</category><category>Opposum</category><category>Podcast</category><category>Sasha</category><category>Sasha Spielberg</category><category>sister</category><category>Spielberg</category><category>Theo</category><category>Theo Spielberg</category><category>you're totally awesome</category><category>YTA</category><pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:51:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058533725930809878.post-1397587507943330037</guid><description>&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/40384325?title=0&amp;amp;byline=0&amp;amp;portrait=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Singer/songwriter Sasha Spielberg stopped by the YTA "studio" to talk about life both as Sister from the band&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/12/19/143936333/brother-sister-longing-for-summer"&gt;Brother/Sister&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;as a real sister. We learned how &lt;i&gt;being born&lt;/i&gt; laid the groundwork for the band's formation, discussed the relative hardships (&lt;i&gt;and perks&lt;/i&gt;) of having a cool/band-playing/older &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theo-spielberg/"&gt;brother&lt;/a&gt;, and revealed her secret (&lt;i&gt;no longer&lt;/i&gt;) love for &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hXU6Sv2swA"&gt;&lt;i&gt;silly campy musical tracks&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. She told us how Brother/Sister's tracks are "the music that would be made by two people who grew up sharing a wall" (&lt;i&gt;tried her best not to misquote you, Theo&lt;/i&gt;) and why singing teachers don't always know best.&lt;br /&gt;
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Check out Brother/Sister's &lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/BrotherSister"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; page (&lt;i&gt;you'll like it so "like" it&lt;/i&gt;) and&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://brothersisterband.bandcamp.com/album/the-accidental-zoo"&gt;download&lt;/a&gt; their single "&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wdrpQdLuJM"&gt;Opposum&lt;/a&gt;" off of their EP &lt;i&gt;Accidental Zoo &lt;/i&gt;(&lt;a href="http://t.qkme.me/35klso.jpg"&gt;&lt;i&gt;it's free!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;). Also, heads up for concerts coming your way if you're lucky enough to be in LA or New York in the near future (&lt;i&gt;another point for &lt;a href="http://www.concierge.com/images/destinations/destinationguide/usa+canada/usa/california/losangeles/losangeles/losangeles_002p.jpg"&gt;LA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;
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An appropriately hip album cover for a hip duo. Her wonderful singing voice is only matched by her wonderful personality, so do yourselves a favor and catch up with the totally awesome &lt;i&gt;Sasha Spielberg!&lt;/i&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Guest: &lt;/b&gt;Sasha Spielberg&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Why She's Awesome: &lt;/b&gt;Singer/Songwriter (Sister from &lt;a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/12/19/143936333/brother-sister-longing-for-summer"&gt;Brother/Sister&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Favorite Song to Sing in the Shower: "&lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hXU6Sv2swA"&gt;Popular&lt;/a&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Audio:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="30" src="http://archive.org/embed/SashaSpielbergIsTotallyAwesome" width="500"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ia601202.us.archive.org/30/items/SashaSpielbergIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.20SashaSpielberg.mp3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;http://ia601202.us.archive.org/30/items/SashaSpielbergIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.20SashaSpielberg.mp3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;</description><enclosure length="0" type="audio/mpeg" url="http://ia601202.us.archive.org/30/items/SashaSpielbergIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.20SashaSpielberg.mp3"/><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqLdfo8n-XT714_lvMLEOv7EgZN2QCRmhuV3bxp_D2cDeUqgBgixzP2vlrJHKSJQc1xjcbgB7N1oyIixSxoJMISKXE8BkjhxqAENF8TE0Cy9nkwKTro0IxinNAa2jgf0e437-Tzcsh2ybG/s72-c/sasha.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>aaronnam@gmail.com (Aaron Nam)</author><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Singer/songwriter Sasha Spielberg stopped by the YTA "studio" to talk about life both as Sister from the band&amp;nbsp;Brother/Sister&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;as a real sister. We learned how being born laid the groundwork for the band's formation, discussed the relative hardships (and perks) of having a cool/band-playing/older brother, and revealed her secret (no longer) love for silly campy musical tracks. She told us how Brother/Sister's tracks are "the music that would be made by two people who grew up sharing a wall" (tried her best not to misquote you, Theo) and why singing teachers don't always know best. Check out Brother/Sister's Facebook page (you'll like it so "like" it) and&amp;nbsp;download their single "Opposum" off of their EP Accidental Zoo (it's free!). Also, heads up for concerts coming your way if you're lucky enough to be in LA or New York in the near future (another point for LA). An appropriately hip album cover for a hip duo. Her wonderful singing voice is only matched by her wonderful personality, so do yourselves a favor and catch up with the totally awesome Sasha Spielberg! Guest: Sasha Spielberg Why She's Awesome: Singer/Songwriter (Sister from Brother/Sister) Favorite Song to Sing in the Shower: "Popular" Audio:&amp;nbsp;http://ia601202.us.archive.org/30/items/SashaSpielbergIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.20SashaSpielberg.mp3</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Aaron Nam</itunes:author><itunes:summary>Singer/songwriter Sasha Spielberg stopped by the YTA "studio" to talk about life both as Sister from the band&amp;nbsp;Brother/Sister&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;as a real sister. We learned how being born laid the groundwork for the band's formation, discussed the relative hardships (and perks) of having a cool/band-playing/older brother, and revealed her secret (no longer) love for silly campy musical tracks. She told us how Brother/Sister's tracks are "the music that would be made by two people who grew up sharing a wall" (tried her best not to misquote you, Theo) and why singing teachers don't always know best. Check out Brother/Sister's Facebook page (you'll like it so "like" it) and&amp;nbsp;download their single "Opposum" off of their EP Accidental Zoo (it's free!). Also, heads up for concerts coming your way if you're lucky enough to be in LA or New York in the near future (another point for LA). An appropriately hip album cover for a hip duo. Her wonderful singing voice is only matched by her wonderful personality, so do yourselves a favor and catch up with the totally awesome Sasha Spielberg! Guest: Sasha Spielberg Why She's Awesome: Singer/Songwriter (Sister from Brother/Sister) Favorite Song to Sing in the Shower: "Popular" Audio:&amp;nbsp;http://ia601202.us.archive.org/30/items/SashaSpielbergIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.20SashaSpielberg.mp3</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>YTA,you,are,totally,awesome,Aaron,Nam,Brown,University</itunes:keywords></item><item><title>David Rattner and Michael Schneider are Totally Awesome</title><link>http://namosaur.blogspot.com/2012/04/david-rattner-and-michael-schneider-are.html</link><category>Aaron</category><category>Aaron Nam</category><category>Brown university</category><category>David Rattner</category><category>Episode</category><category>Michael Schneider</category><category>President</category><category>Search Committee</category><category>UCS</category><category>Vice President</category><category>VP</category><category>you're totally awesome</category><category>YTA</category><pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:58:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058533725930809878.post-4096004266588900851</guid><description>&lt;table style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
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We welcomed &lt;a href="http://brownucs.org/"&gt;Undergraduate Council of Students&lt;/a&gt; members David Rattner and Michael Schneider to the the YTA "studios" last week to shine light into life as student government officials. David dropped some info on why, as a member of the &lt;a href="http://brown.edu/initiatives/presidential-search/"&gt;Presidential Search Committee&lt;/a&gt;, he was drawn to our next president, &lt;a href="http://www.browndailyherald.com/from-dean-to-president-paxson-s-rapid-ascent-1.2727866"&gt;Dr. Christina Paxson&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(&lt;i&gt;homeboy may or may not be crushing&lt;/i&gt;), while Michael talked about his hand in turning Grad Center suites from &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sABsZEm9WbI/SJgZ0eNm3iI/AAAAAAAAAYI/6nsgyYtjZsk/s400/Dump_House.jpg"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to &lt;a href="http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/69/1b/3a/marystown.jpg"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;(&lt;i&gt;Real changes detailed&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.browndailyherald.com/campus-housing-to-be-renovated-transformed-1.2699532#.T4cqTKtSQsI"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Yes, I'm jealous of you, class of 2016.)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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They're both running for positions in next year's UCS (David for President and&amp;nbsp;Michael for VP), so try not to get sick of those pretty faces, despite the flood of posters and Facebook profpic changes you'll&amp;nbsp;inevitability&amp;nbsp;be seeing. Brown students, check out their platforms (&lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/354414057929136/"&gt;David here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/129484490514916/?notif_t=plan_user_joined"&gt;Michael here&lt;/a&gt;) and make sure and vote next week on MyCourses--seniors included (&lt;i&gt;I didn't know either...&lt;/i&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;
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Note their great hair and firm handshakes. Also, the fresh flowers in Michael's video (&lt;i&gt;I'm trying...&lt;/i&gt;).&amp;nbsp;Hit play and catch up with the totally awesome &lt;i&gt;David Rattner &lt;/i&gt;and &lt;i&gt;Michael Schneider!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;David Audio:&amp;nbsp;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="30" src="http://archive.org/embed/DavidRattnerIsTotallyAwesome" width="300"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.org/download/DavidRattnerIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.19DavidRattner.mp3"&gt;http://archive.org/download/DavidRattnerIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.19DavidRattner.mp3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Michael Audio:&amp;nbsp;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="30" src="http://archive.org/embed/MichaelSchneiderIsTotallyAwesome" width="300"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.org/download/MichaelSchneiderIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.19MichaelSchneider.mp3"&gt;http://archive.org/download/MichaelSchneiderIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.19MichaelSchneider.mp3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/b&gt;</description><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/KFFBMe3Wb2k/default.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>aaronnam@gmail.com (Aaron Nam)</author><enclosure length="6644632" type="audio/mpeg" url="http://archive.org/download/DavidRattnerIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.19DavidRattner.mp3"/><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>We welcomed Undergraduate Council of Students members David Rattner and Michael Schneider to the the YTA "studios" last week to shine light into life as student government officials. David dropped some info on why, as a member of the Presidential Search Committee, he was drawn to our next president, Dr. Christina Paxson&amp;nbsp;(homeboy may or may not be crushing), while Michael talked about his hand in turning Grad Center suites from this&amp;nbsp;to this.&amp;nbsp;(Real changes detailed&amp;nbsp;here. Yes, I'm jealous of you, class of 2016.) They're both running for positions in next year's UCS (David for President and&amp;nbsp;Michael for VP), so try not to get sick of those pretty faces, despite the flood of posters and Facebook profpic changes you'll&amp;nbsp;inevitability&amp;nbsp;be seeing. Brown students, check out their platforms (David here&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp; Michael here) and make sure and vote next week on MyCourses--seniors included (I didn't know either...). Note their great hair and firm handshakes. Also, the fresh flowers in Michael's video (I'm trying...).&amp;nbsp;Hit play and catch up with the totally awesome David Rattner and Michael Schneider! Guests: David Rattner and Michael Schneider Why They're Awesome: Brown&amp;nbsp;UCS VP and Campus Life Chair David Audio:&amp;nbsp;http://archive.org/download/DavidRattnerIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.19DavidRattner.mp3 Michael Audio:&amp;nbsp;http://archive.org/download/MichaelSchneiderIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.19MichaelSchneider.mp3&amp;nbsp;</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Aaron Nam</itunes:author><itunes:summary>We welcomed Undergraduate Council of Students members David Rattner and Michael Schneider to the the YTA "studios" last week to shine light into life as student government officials. David dropped some info on why, as a member of the Presidential Search Committee, he was drawn to our next president, Dr. Christina Paxson&amp;nbsp;(homeboy may or may not be crushing), while Michael talked about his hand in turning Grad Center suites from this&amp;nbsp;to this.&amp;nbsp;(Real changes detailed&amp;nbsp;here. Yes, I'm jealous of you, class of 2016.) They're both running for positions in next year's UCS (David for President and&amp;nbsp;Michael for VP), so try not to get sick of those pretty faces, despite the flood of posters and Facebook profpic changes you'll&amp;nbsp;inevitability&amp;nbsp;be seeing. Brown students, check out their platforms (David here&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp; Michael here) and make sure and vote next week on MyCourses--seniors included (I didn't know either...). Note their great hair and firm handshakes. Also, the fresh flowers in Michael's video (I'm trying...).&amp;nbsp;Hit play and catch up with the totally awesome David Rattner and Michael Schneider! Guests: David Rattner and Michael Schneider Why They're Awesome: Brown&amp;nbsp;UCS VP and Campus Life Chair David Audio:&amp;nbsp;http://archive.org/download/DavidRattnerIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.19DavidRattner.mp3 Michael Audio:&amp;nbsp;http://archive.org/download/MichaelSchneiderIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.19MichaelSchneider.mp3&amp;nbsp;</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>YTA,you,are,totally,awesome,Aaron,Nam,Brown,University</itunes:keywords></item><item><title>Dan Alexander is Totally Awesome</title><link>http://namosaur.blogspot.com/2012/04/dan-alexander-is-totally-awesome.html</link><category>Aaron</category><category>Aaron Nam</category><category>AP</category><category>associated press</category><category>brown daily herald</category><category>Dan Alexander</category><category>Episode</category><category>Nam</category><category>namosaur</category><category>Podcast</category><category>sports journalism</category><category>you're totally awesome</category><category>YTA</category><pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:39:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058533725930809878.post-7890188663950750535</guid><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
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Associated Press journalist Dan Alexander dropped by the "studio" to talk about life as a budding sports journalist. We learned how a&lt;i&gt; 7th grade detention and wise mother &lt;/i&gt;(redundant?)&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;serendipitously&amp;nbsp;led to his interest in sports writing, and why he's&lt;i&gt; "willing to be hungry"&lt;/i&gt; for a couple years to pursue his passion for journalism. He told us about his undying love for all things Ohio State University (not hard to root for a team that manages to replace a legend like Tressel with Urban Meyer) and reveals that he still has to restrain himself from acting like a little kid in the press box when he's covering live games.&lt;br /&gt;
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Although he doesn't get the byline, sources (&lt;i&gt;i.e. my gut and Dan&lt;/i&gt;) have confirmed that these &lt;a href="http://espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=313232507"&gt;ESPN&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=313542507"&gt;articles&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;were written by Mr. Alexander. Also, do yourself a favor and check out the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/content/view/2997/40/"&gt;great feature story&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;he did for the Brown Alumni Magazine on the 1986 NCAA tournament-bound Brown basketball team.&lt;br /&gt;
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That's our boy putting in another late night at the &lt;a href="http://www.browndailyherald.com/"&gt;Brown Daily Herald's&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;headquarters and making sure the campus gets its news. Get lost in his blue eyes while catching up with the totally awesome &lt;i&gt;Dan Alexander!&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Guest:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;Dan Alexander&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Source of Awesomeness: &lt;/b&gt;Sports Journalist for the Associated Press&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Favorite Team:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;Ohio State University anything&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ia601207.us.archive.org/6/items/DanAlexanderIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.18DanAlexander.mp3"&gt;http://ia601207.us.archive.org/6/items/DanAlexanderIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.18DanAlexander.mp3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><enclosure length="0" type="audio/mpeg" url="http://ia601207.us.archive.org/6/items/DanAlexanderIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.18DanAlexander.mp3"/><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmEv0kDlpf3BrW2mQXuY7LFjadSycs3rLMExDqwDyJFRV9s2qtzZh4cltddTbqNUmhk_Fh26wNlBjV6b2ahJl-qps_YMLlMgBEDAqS_QJ7k-LwDV12ocTn-CD3c_EMms0ubdPhNDCiLGWA/s72-c/dan+alexander.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>aaronnam@gmail.com (Aaron Nam)</author><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Associated Press journalist Dan Alexander dropped by the "studio" to talk about life as a budding sports journalist. We learned how a 7th grade detention and wise mother (redundant?)&amp;nbsp;serendipitously&amp;nbsp;led to his interest in sports writing, and why he's "willing to be hungry" for a couple years to pursue his passion for journalism. He told us about his undying love for all things Ohio State University (not hard to root for a team that manages to replace a legend like Tressel with Urban Meyer) and reveals that he still has to restrain himself from acting like a little kid in the press box when he's covering live games. Although he doesn't get the byline, sources (i.e. my gut and Dan) have confirmed that these ESPN&amp;nbsp;articles&amp;nbsp;were written by Mr. Alexander. Also, do yourself a favor and check out the&amp;nbsp;great feature story&amp;nbsp;he did for the Brown Alumni Magazine on the 1986 NCAA tournament-bound Brown basketball team. That's our boy putting in another late night at the Brown Daily Herald's&amp;nbsp;headquarters and making sure the campus gets its news. Get lost in his blue eyes while catching up with the totally awesome Dan Alexander!&amp;nbsp; Guest:&amp;nbsp;Dan Alexander Source of Awesomeness: Sports Journalist for the Associated Press Favorite Team:&amp;nbsp;Ohio State University anything Audio: http://ia601207.us.archive.org/6/items/DanAlexanderIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.18DanAlexander.mp3</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Aaron Nam</itunes:author><itunes:summary>Associated Press journalist Dan Alexander dropped by the "studio" to talk about life as a budding sports journalist. We learned how a 7th grade detention and wise mother (redundant?)&amp;nbsp;serendipitously&amp;nbsp;led to his interest in sports writing, and why he's "willing to be hungry" for a couple years to pursue his passion for journalism. He told us about his undying love for all things Ohio State University (not hard to root for a team that manages to replace a legend like Tressel with Urban Meyer) and reveals that he still has to restrain himself from acting like a little kid in the press box when he's covering live games. Although he doesn't get the byline, sources (i.e. my gut and Dan) have confirmed that these ESPN&amp;nbsp;articles&amp;nbsp;were written by Mr. Alexander. Also, do yourself a favor and check out the&amp;nbsp;great feature story&amp;nbsp;he did for the Brown Alumni Magazine on the 1986 NCAA tournament-bound Brown basketball team. That's our boy putting in another late night at the Brown Daily Herald's&amp;nbsp;headquarters and making sure the campus gets its news. Get lost in his blue eyes while catching up with the totally awesome Dan Alexander!&amp;nbsp; Guest:&amp;nbsp;Dan Alexander Source of Awesomeness: Sports Journalist for the Associated Press Favorite Team:&amp;nbsp;Ohio State University anything Audio: http://ia601207.us.archive.org/6/items/DanAlexanderIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.18DanAlexander.mp3</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>YTA,you,are,totally,awesome,Aaron,Nam,Brown,University</itunes:keywords></item><item><title>Gillian Brassil is Totally Awesome</title><link>http://namosaur.blogspot.com/2012/04/gillian-brasil-is-totally-awesome.html</link><category>Aaron</category><category>Aaron Nam</category><category>brassil</category><category>brown</category><category>brown concert agency</category><category>Brown university</category><category>childish gambino</category><category>Episode</category><category>gillian brassil</category><category>Nam</category><category>Podcast</category><category>spring weekend</category><category>university</category><category>writing fellows</category><category>you're totally awesome</category><category>YTA</category><pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:35:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058533725930809878.post-5471863834045334599</guid><description>&lt;div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;With &lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/263803290370521/"&gt;Spring Weekend&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;a little more than a week away, co-head of Brown University's Concert Agency Gillian Brassil stopped by the "studio"to shed some light into the &lt;a href="http://blogdailyherald.com/2012/03/22/breaking-alright-spring-weekend-is-a-mastermind/"&gt;Spring-Weekend-lineup&lt;/a&gt;-making process. We learned how crafting the lineup involves more &lt;i&gt;game theory &lt;/i&gt;than a dilema amongst prisoners (thanks, Topaz), what obscure &lt;a href="http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/articles2/a97019_funny.jpg"&gt;&lt;i&gt;item&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdWxo3e3Kzk"&gt;Das Racist&lt;/a&gt; asked for before their concert last year, and about life as a fact checker at &lt;i&gt;the &lt;/i&gt;source of&amp;nbsp;men's fashion,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.gq.com/"&gt;GQ&lt;/a&gt;. She explained how her love for concerts is most definitely hereditary and that music will remain a passion and not occupation in the future. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Get pumped for this year's Spring Weekend by listening to these&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://blogdailyherald.com/2012/04/03/techaccino-tuesdays-streaming-spring-weekend/"&gt;tracks&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and make sure and give Gillian a big thank-you hug for all her hard work if you pass her on the street. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;She's outdoorsy too (evidence above). We're rocking the stripes hard, so hit play and catch up with the totally awesome &lt;i&gt;Gillian Brassil!&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Guest:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;Gillian Brassil&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Source of Awesomeness:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;Brown Concert Agency Co-head aka the girl who brought us Childish Gambino&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Favorite Concert:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969);"&gt;I think it might have actually been &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mdgLn5BFRQ"&gt;Hot Chip&lt;/a&gt; at Bonnaroo in 2007, although another special one that comes to mind is The Tallest Man on Earth in a tiny club in Nashville with something like 20 or 30 people there. We made so much eye contact!"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="30" src="http://archive.org/embed/GillianBrasilIsTotallyAwesome" width="500"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;i style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ia601207.us.archive.org/0/items/GillianBrasilIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.18GillianBrasil.mp3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;http://ia601207.us.archive.org/0/items/GillianBrasilIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.18GillianBrasil.mp3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlIcKQe_J0uqcbGx3PSuxCjSQnPIJ7lvoJvrb8NCrtMd0PXzAsoU1EgeHWfUqTtn6DA3XwMQUEGd9wcQUDSdOu9gkV9iqGbV-gEI0kVFGoH_UZRptCNOWOgfN8-81hcEEjLiigkm8EVQJC/s72-c/Gillian.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>aaronnam@gmail.com (Aaron Nam)</author><enclosure length="8320858" type="audio/mpeg" url="http://ia601207.us.archive.org/0/items/GillianBrasilIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.18GillianBrasil.mp3"/><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>With Spring Weekend&amp;nbsp;a little more than a week away, co-head of Brown University's Concert Agency Gillian Brassil stopped by the "studio"to shed some light into the Spring-Weekend-lineup-making process. We learned how crafting the lineup involves more game theory than a dilema amongst prisoners (thanks, Topaz), what obscure item&amp;nbsp;Das Racist asked for before their concert last year, and about life as a fact checker at the source of&amp;nbsp;men's fashion,&amp;nbsp;GQ. She explained how her love for concerts is most definitely hereditary and that music will remain a passion and not occupation in the future. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Get pumped for this year's Spring Weekend by listening to these&amp;nbsp;tracks&amp;nbsp;and make sure and give Gillian a big thank-you hug for all her hard work if you pass her on the street. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; She's outdoorsy too (evidence above). We're rocking the stripes hard, so hit play and catch up with the totally awesome Gillian Brassil!&amp;nbsp; Guest:&amp;nbsp;Gillian Brassil Source of Awesomeness:&amp;nbsp;Brown Concert Agency Co-head aka the girl who brought us Childish Gambino Favorite Concert:&amp;nbsp;"I think it might have actually been Hot Chip at Bonnaroo in 2007, although another special one that comes to mind is The Tallest Man on Earth in a tiny club in Nashville with something like 20 or 30 people there. We made so much eye contact!" Audio:&amp;nbsp; http://ia601207.us.archive.org/0/items/GillianBrasilIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.18GillianBrasil.mp3</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Aaron Nam</itunes:author><itunes:summary>With Spring Weekend&amp;nbsp;a little more than a week away, co-head of Brown University's Concert Agency Gillian Brassil stopped by the "studio"to shed some light into the Spring-Weekend-lineup-making process. We learned how crafting the lineup involves more game theory than a dilema amongst prisoners (thanks, Topaz), what obscure item&amp;nbsp;Das Racist asked for before their concert last year, and about life as a fact checker at the source of&amp;nbsp;men's fashion,&amp;nbsp;GQ. She explained how her love for concerts is most definitely hereditary and that music will remain a passion and not occupation in the future. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Get pumped for this year's Spring Weekend by listening to these&amp;nbsp;tracks&amp;nbsp;and make sure and give Gillian a big thank-you hug for all her hard work if you pass her on the street. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; She's outdoorsy too (evidence above). We're rocking the stripes hard, so hit play and catch up with the totally awesome Gillian Brassil!&amp;nbsp; Guest:&amp;nbsp;Gillian Brassil Source of Awesomeness:&amp;nbsp;Brown Concert Agency Co-head aka the girl who brought us Childish Gambino Favorite Concert:&amp;nbsp;"I think it might have actually been Hot Chip at Bonnaroo in 2007, although another special one that comes to mind is The Tallest Man on Earth in a tiny club in Nashville with something like 20 or 30 people there. We made so much eye contact!" Audio:&amp;nbsp; http://ia601207.us.archive.org/0/items/GillianBrasilIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.18GillianBrasil.mp3</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>YTA,you,are,totally,awesome,Aaron,Nam,Brown,University</itunes:keywords></item><item><title>Steph Yin is Totally Awesome</title><link>http://namosaur.blogspot.com/2012/04/steph-yin-is-totally-awesome.html</link><category>Aaron</category><category>Aaron Nam</category><category>Brown university</category><category>environmental studies</category><category>Episode</category><category>Nam</category><category>Podcast</category><category>science</category><category>science writer</category><category>Steph Yin</category><category>writing</category><category>you're totally awesome</category><category>YTA</category><pubDate>Sun, 8 Apr 2012 09:39:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058533725930809878.post-909274908886740327</guid><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;The ever-adventurous &lt;a href="http://inkchromatography.wordpress.com/"&gt;science writer&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;Steph Yin&amp;nbsp;stopped by the "studio" last Wednesday (4/4) to talk about life as a cheerleader of all things science. We learned about living with Sea Gypsies on &lt;a href="http://us.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/pistol7d/pistol7d1108/pistol7d110800003/10290305-sea-gypsies-houses-on-stilts-in-semporna-sabah-borneo-malaysia.jpg"&gt;&lt;i&gt;stilt houses&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the importance and difficulty of &lt;i&gt;evangelizing&amp;nbsp;science&lt;/i&gt;, and &lt;i&gt;eureka moments&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;that can lead science lovers away from academia. She gave a big thank you to her parents (as we all should) and encouraged fellow science lovers to look into life as a science writer.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Follow her beautiful blog,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://inkchromatography.wordpress.com/"&gt;Ink Chromatography&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;and check out some of the awesome science writers over at the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.radiolab.org/about/"&gt;Radio Lab&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;podcast.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;That's our girl above tagging sharks like a boss. All in a days work. Comments? Drop them. Without further ado, the totally awesome &lt;i&gt;Steph Yin!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Favorite Animal:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;"&lt;i&gt;&lt;u&gt;Seahorses&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;. Hands down. What other creature has the head of a horse, the body armor of an armadillo, the tail of a monkey, and the eyes of a reptile (they can move each eye independently of the other!)? Also, they have beautiful courtship dances, mate for life, and the males carry the babies! Plus each seahorse can be identified by a unique "crown" (the equivalent of a human fingerprint)"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="30" src="http://archive.org/embed/StephYinIsTotallyAwesome" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" width="500"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ia701204.us.archive.org/32/items/StephYinIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.16StephYin.mp3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;http://ia701204.us.archive.org/32/items/StephYinIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.16StephYin.mp3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><enclosure length="0" type="audio/mpeg" url="http://ia701204.us.archive.org/32/items/StephYinIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.16StephYin.mp3"/><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkz3QH7r-VELPRXLQdp7DcW-xYLf_jUOb3DrlfQSB1SocArgthKWPFGrDQasRlXCvRJoOO4l-vaKG0npbEraPRwItfGzWOQMCCl3Yi5iiGwD2mxs7QTe-uwZuvO_M3n03lJMBwhQGlCfPS/s72-c/steph+shark.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>aaronnam@gmail.com (Aaron Nam)</author><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>The ever-adventurous science writer&amp;nbsp;Steph Yin&amp;nbsp;stopped by the "studio" last Wednesday (4/4) to talk about life as a cheerleader of all things science. We learned about living with Sea Gypsies on stilt houses, the importance and difficulty of evangelizing&amp;nbsp;science, and eureka moments&amp;nbsp;that can lead science lovers away from academia. She gave a big thank you to her parents (as we all should) and encouraged fellow science lovers to look into life as a science writer.&amp;nbsp; Follow her beautiful blog,&amp;nbsp;Ink Chromatography,&amp;nbsp;and check out some of the awesome science writers over at the&amp;nbsp;Radio Lab&amp;nbsp;podcast.&amp;nbsp; That's our girl above tagging sharks like a boss. All in a days work. Comments? Drop them. Without further ado, the totally awesome Steph Yin! Guest: Steph Yin Source of Awesomeness: Science Writer Favorite Animal:&amp;nbsp;"Seahorses. Hands down. What other creature has the head of a horse, the body armor of an armadillo, the tail of a monkey, and the eyes of a reptile (they can move each eye independently of the other!)? Also, they have beautiful courtship dances, mate for life, and the males carry the babies! Plus each seahorse can be identified by a unique "crown" (the equivalent of a human fingerprint)" Audio: &amp;nbsp;http://ia701204.us.archive.org/32/items/StephYinIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.16StephYin.mp3</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Aaron Nam</itunes:author><itunes:summary>The ever-adventurous science writer&amp;nbsp;Steph Yin&amp;nbsp;stopped by the "studio" last Wednesday (4/4) to talk about life as a cheerleader of all things science. We learned about living with Sea Gypsies on stilt houses, the importance and difficulty of evangelizing&amp;nbsp;science, and eureka moments&amp;nbsp;that can lead science lovers away from academia. She gave a big thank you to her parents (as we all should) and encouraged fellow science lovers to look into life as a science writer.&amp;nbsp; Follow her beautiful blog,&amp;nbsp;Ink Chromatography,&amp;nbsp;and check out some of the awesome science writers over at the&amp;nbsp;Radio Lab&amp;nbsp;podcast.&amp;nbsp; That's our girl above tagging sharks like a boss. All in a days work. Comments? Drop them. Without further ado, the totally awesome Steph Yin! Guest: Steph Yin Source of Awesomeness: Science Writer Favorite Animal:&amp;nbsp;"Seahorses. Hands down. What other creature has the head of a horse, the body armor of an armadillo, the tail of a monkey, and the eyes of a reptile (they can move each eye independently of the other!)? Also, they have beautiful courtship dances, mate for life, and the males carry the babies! Plus each seahorse can be identified by a unique "crown" (the equivalent of a human fingerprint)" Audio: &amp;nbsp;http://ia701204.us.archive.org/32/items/StephYinIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.16StephYin.mp3</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>YTA,you,are,totally,awesome,Aaron,Nam,Brown,University</itunes:keywords></item><item><title>Amit Jain is Totally Awesome</title><link>http://namosaur.blogspot.com/2012/04/amit-jain-is-totally-awesome.html</link><category>Aaron</category><category>Aaron Nam</category><category>Amit Jain</category><category>BFA</category><category>Brown for Financial Aid</category><category>Brown university</category><category>Episode</category><category>Nam</category><category>you're totally awesome</category><category>YTA</category><pubDate>Wed, 4 Apr 2012 21:49:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058533725930809878.post-5928727280977744580</guid><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Community and Brown University campus activist Amit Jain stopped by the "studio" to talk about his newest initiative, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.browndailyherald.com/bfa-boldly-moving-financial-aid-forward-1.2723278#.T3zkJ79WoXR" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Brown for Financial Aid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;(BFA). We learned about how Brown has done a great job with financial aid under Ruth but &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;can't stagnate in its efforts&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;, how Professor Wendy Schiller converted another formerly aspiring biomedical engineer to a political science major, and about Amit's love for &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://learningexch.wordpress.com/about/"&gt;education&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;at all levels. We throw a shout out to our friend and co-founder of BFA, Tim Natividad, and found synergies amongst our &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://namosaur.blogspot.com/2012/04/nabeel-gillani-is-totally-awesome.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;YTA guests&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Head over to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.brownforfinaid.org/learn/" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;BFA's website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt; and sign their petition if their cause resonates with you. They've got videos, pictures, and a beautifully design for you to enjoy. Also, check out their tweets:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.twitter.com/BrownforFinAid" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;@brownforfinaid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;That's our boy doing what he does best as a Minority Peer Counselor with his green notecards in hand. Listen in and drop some comments. Without further ado, the totally awesome &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Amit Jain&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;(Latest) Source of Awesomeness:&lt;/b&gt; Co-founder of Brown for Financial Aid and awesome friend&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;http://archive.org/download/AmitJainIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.15AmitJain.mp3&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;</description><enclosure length="0" type="audio/mpeg" url="http://archive.org/download/AmitJainIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.15AmitJain.mp3"/><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyEh2pNr9DEjhDHDRG_YxXQ21KIoU83DM-8MrJa3rXX__dJV51DkCBLLZhv910qq-DAg4lfK4MN2t2zG-cMbN2JROvXj0zSF8vb9E8b2m2hxetTodChQOqt7u4HwbqJ9rAawkSfoUqT9MA/s72-c/amit+.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>aaronnam@gmail.com (Aaron Nam)</author><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Community and Brown University campus activist Amit Jain stopped by the "studio" to talk about his newest initiative, Brown for Financial Aid&amp;nbsp;(BFA). We learned about how Brown has done a great job with financial aid under Ruth but can't stagnate in its efforts, how Professor Wendy Schiller converted another formerly aspiring biomedical engineer to a political science major, and about Amit's love for education&amp;nbsp;at all levels. We throw a shout out to our friend and co-founder of BFA, Tim Natividad, and found synergies amongst our YTA guests.&amp;nbsp; Head over to BFA's website and sign their petition if their cause resonates with you. They've got videos, pictures, and a beautifully design for you to enjoy. Also, check out their tweets:&amp;nbsp;@brownforfinaid&amp;nbsp; That's our boy doing what he does best as a Minority Peer Counselor with his green notecards in hand. Listen in and drop some comments. Without further ado, the totally awesome Amit Jain! Guest: Amit Jain (Latest) Source of Awesomeness: Co-founder of Brown for Financial Aid and awesome friend Favorite Ice Cream Flavor: &amp;nbsp;"coffee coffee buzzbuzzbuzz" Audio:&amp;nbsp; http://archive.org/download/AmitJainIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.15AmitJain.mp3&amp;nbsp;</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Aaron Nam</itunes:author><itunes:summary>Community and Brown University campus activist Amit Jain stopped by the "studio" to talk about his newest initiative, Brown for Financial Aid&amp;nbsp;(BFA). We learned about how Brown has done a great job with financial aid under Ruth but can't stagnate in its efforts, how Professor Wendy Schiller converted another formerly aspiring biomedical engineer to a political science major, and about Amit's love for education&amp;nbsp;at all levels. We throw a shout out to our friend and co-founder of BFA, Tim Natividad, and found synergies amongst our YTA guests.&amp;nbsp; Head over to BFA's website and sign their petition if their cause resonates with you. They've got videos, pictures, and a beautifully design for you to enjoy. Also, check out their tweets:&amp;nbsp;@brownforfinaid&amp;nbsp; That's our boy doing what he does best as a Minority Peer Counselor with his green notecards in hand. Listen in and drop some comments. Without further ado, the totally awesome Amit Jain! Guest: Amit Jain (Latest) Source of Awesomeness: Co-founder of Brown for Financial Aid and awesome friend Favorite Ice Cream Flavor: &amp;nbsp;"coffee coffee buzzbuzzbuzz" Audio:&amp;nbsp; http://archive.org/download/AmitJainIsTotallyAwesome/Yta_ep.15AmitJain.mp3&amp;nbsp;</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>YTA,you,are,totally,awesome,Aaron,Nam,Brown,University</itunes:keywords></item></channel></rss>