Comments for Invisible Ink: The Anti-Gambler

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This piece belongs to the series "Invisible Ink: Series #1"

Produced by Roman Mars

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Summary: Interviews and quirky stories about the dark side of gambling.
 

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Review of Invisible Ink: The Anti-Gambler

An intriguing series of questions about gambling offered here: an essay on the regressive nature of the lottery, for example, or an interview with an addiction specialist, stuff about risk-taking -- all in all, mixed media in a pubrad talk/thinkfest format. Invisible Ink offers itself as a radio zine -- to my ears: a radio equivalent of a blog with the host as filter.

There's good stuff here, but listeners will have to find the host a compelling figure to listen through the full program. Personally, I wanted less host, especially when I learned he had been reading someone else's words for some five minutes without letting me know. Part of hosting is knowing boundaries -- I haven't gotten a sense yet of that happening here.

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Review of Invisible Ink: The Anti-Gambler

First off I want to say that I really like Invisible Ink as a concept, and I'm rating the series as much as the show. I'm just excited that people are making stuff like this, taking time to put the work into it. The Invisible Ink episodes I've heard are crafty, honest, interesting -- whatever tones I can think of to describe the kind of radio (and thought process) I like. And I'm down with the theme of this show because I hate gambling, maybe because I'm just too unlucky. Play this for everyone you know.