It’s Metro MAN!!!!

Ladies and Gentlemen…I was on the radio. Yes…THE radio. South African radio. It was a wonderful local station here in George that covers around 300 square miles. The host for the hour, Phil De Vries, gave me conservative numbers and told me that my voice was being broadcast to at LEAST 20,000 eager and listening ears! :)Weren’t those listeners lucky!?

But in all seriousness, I was on the radio! It was for the “No More Poverty” Hour hosted by Phil De Vries, who is the Director of Eden Leadership Foundation and his wife runs the Life Community Center here in George. He hosts this program once a week, having a radio background from when he lived in Pennsylvania. The show is centered around poverty, as the name suggests and last night, he tailored the discussion towards my degree in Intercultural Studies. It was pretty intimidating but super awesome at the same time.

Here’s a few of the questions we touched on:

“Everybody has been shaped or mightily influenced by their heritage and environment. Please talk about your life from the beginning until adulthood.”

“Having observed our community for a short while, what is your perception of this area and your concept of the potential here?”

“Recognizing that this program is about dealing with poverty, give us a glimpse of what you would stimulate in order to eradicate poverty.”

“Let’s do an analysis between a first world environment like the USA and the predominantly third world environment of South Africa.”

Pretty loaded questions right?! I was actually surprised at how fast the hour went! We played three songs in between our discussion time, but I think Phil and I could have gone much deeper into our discussions surrounding poverty and the political climate of George, South Africa, and the world! I mean, there’s only so much world problem solving you can do in a one hour radio program, right?! I also got the opportunity to plus Out of Africa Missions, Azusa Pacific University and Fuller Theological Seminary, some of the things that are closest to my heart!

They’re working on getting me a CD copy of the discussion to bring back with me and add to my reel…that apparently I just started! I always get roped into doing fun and interesting things while I am here in South Africa and last night was no different! I’ll keep you posted on how to listen to my discussion when I get back! Also – apparently, I have a voice for radio, because their producer, Metro Man (what a DJ/producer name, right?!) asked me to do some radio spots for them. So I finished the night by recording, “You’re listening to the Top 20. Less Yada Yada. We rock the spot in a BIG way!”. I also got my friend Desire (who roped me into this in the first place) to do one with me and Phil. It went a lil’ something like this:

Desire: “Look, It’s Superman!!”

Karen: “No – it’s Spiderman!!”

Phil: “No!! It’s METRO MAN!!!!!!”