KBIA Story

I listened to all four stories on the class home page, and I found all four to be interesting, relevant stories.  Although I find the idea of Neuticles a bit ridiculous, I'm not an "extreme pet owner, I suppose some people are obsessed enough with their animals to purchase the product.  Obviously, the Adderall story was especially relevant to the Columbia community and students, but I think it is also relevant to parents of students.  The Mario Manzini story and the Yoking story are both interesting for Columbia residents since they both relate to living in Columbia, though the Yoking story is aimed more at the rural areas surrounding Columbia. 

As far as the actual technical "stuff," I thought the natural sound in two of the stories was very distinctive and added layers of information to each story.  In Yoking, I thought the sounds of church music during the services made the listener feel like they were sitting in the pews with the reporter.  Likewise, in the Neuticles story, dogs barking reminds the listener (or at least for me) the dogs are alive, barking.  I realize that sounds a bit silly, but when I hear about a dog owner purchasing prosthetic testicles for their dog, I don't jump on the compassion train.  Hearing the presumably soon-to-be neutered dogs barking made me consider the actual procedure and its effects on a living, breathing animal, I guess.