Voice of Youth

Every week we take a different word or phrase of teen slang and define it as only youth can. This week’s word – Beef.

In this next hour – writer, editor, and director Pete Alton gives us the skinny on the scandalous beef between rappers...

A famous actor advises one of our producers to squash the beef...

A non-violence activist tells about her work squashing Middle East beef...

And of course, our hosts give you an earful of sagas and situations, questions and comments, all about beef.

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Bread, defined as money. Listen as youth determine the three things money is supposed to be, and the times it’s not.

Silly side jobs, last-ditch loans, a coming market crash...all these things are touched on as you hear short stories from the streets, a visit to a paycheck advance place, a long-distance call with an economic anthropologist...

Three hosts, three acts, Voice of Youth, the bread show.

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Imagine if you will a living room, in the afternoon. On the television, in the background, beautiful people, caught up in decadent drama, sobbing in soft focus, soap opera style. In that room, in the foreground, everyday people erupting with real aggression, fighting and crying, police and paperwork.

A strange image but the strong one we were left with after two weeks of exploring the electoral process

An exploration less like a civics lesson and more like a Twilight Zone-type adventure, getting caught between two tangential but very separate universes: the multi-million dollar election cycle choosing representatives for people, many of them, caught in a cycle of violence and poverty their representatives seem utterly unrelated and untouched by.

Coming up, a tale of two cycles, told with melancholy and the frustration of futility, in a collection of conversations and reflections.

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Election 2006: Who had _, got _, and went _.

Want to fill in the blanks? This show translates the mid-term election headlines into the words said among youth. On the way our hosts must drive towards the core of the questions: what is politics and why should I care?

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The focus of this show?

Violenc – and domestic violence in particular...so as you can imagine the show is not for the faint of heart...

so strap yourself in, because you’re about to hear the rapper that put the M in Mysogynist – that’s right Eminem, the rapper who many songs like this one coming up, a lurid fantasy about killing his ex-wife.

Remember the album of this song sold 19 million copies worldwide, so as you listen to this brief excerpt, just imagine how many young minds have taken in the following lyrics...

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