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INTRO (MILES EDDY): Teen Attitudes is a new youth media club sponsored by the Intel Computer Clubhouse at the San Luis Valley Boys and Girls Clubs in Alamosa Colorado. My name is Miles Eddy and as the project coordinator, I mentor students to use technology for creative expression and to help them get their work distributed. What follows are some excerpts from the first ever Teen Attitudes poscast.

MILES: I want to know what you think about media and does it represent youth?

MIKIE: I think so. Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't.

GORDON: The media has too much violence. Most of that is just crap like Fox News and stuff.

MILES: Whose opinion do you think is getting out on the media?

GORDON: The government.

MILES: Where do you think there is opportunity to get teen attitudes out?

GORDON: I think that I'll show a whole different perspective of the kids and what they think and what's really important.

CHRIS: I believe that the media is putting too much emphasis on bad stuff than they are good stuff.

MILES: Do you think if teens where running the media, where running news and all that, how do you think it would be different?

CHRIS: Well, if teens where running I think it would be different because teens could put a new outlook on life compared to as the old outlook is from older generations.

MILES: What is the new outlook?

CHRIS: Well, depending on who you are, the newer outlook could be that maybe we?re going in the wrong directions and we should turn around and go in a better direction. Teens have a different point of view on the war. For instance, I personally I don't like war but that's because I have a personal loss that involves war, and I think stuff can be solved without the use of guns or violence. But most teens in my high school believe that their just bad people over there and we should just nuke them.

MILES: Do you feel that?

CHRIS: No! I actually know someone over there. He's a really good man.

There should be like some more women on media and like news and stuff.

JOSH: Hi, I'm Josh Wehe and I'm here with Teen Attitudes at the Alamosa Boys and Girls Club, and we're going to be talking about sex.

Some people, they just do it because they started at a young age, and some people they say it's like a drug and they have to keep doing it because it's addictive.

JOSH: What do you guys think about pre-marital sex?

What is that?

JOSH: It?s sex before marriage.

It depends on your religion whatever you want to do. Like, if you want to do it or not, and if you want to sin then go ahead and sin.

JOSH: OK? So we're considering pre-marital sex as sin?

Like, some people, they don't really believe in religion, but like they just say, like they don't want to do it because they don't want to have kids and break up and have the kids go through a whole bunch of depression because their divorced.

JOSH: Recording from Teen Attitudes in Alamosa Colorado, this is the Alamosa Boys and Girls Club and this is Josh Wehe.

So we're here at Boys and Girls Club and interviewing my good friend Mikie about the State of the Union address. Mikie, what happen in the State of the Union Address?

MIKIE: He was a great speaker, he spoke clearly, but some kids in my class say he didn't write it. But most presidents have speechwriters so they don't mess up.

What do you think about what he said about what's currently going on in the US and with our troops.

Well, I think that ever thing's going good with the Presidency right now. Every president has good and bad things about the presidents, so I still like presidents, I still like George Bush. I like all presidents.

MILES: If you could say anything to the world right now about something important, what would it be.

JOSH: Rescued!

MILES: Rescued? What do you mean?

JOSH: Gods rescued you. I'm a religious person so I believe in that.

MILES: So rescuing of the spirit.

JOSH: From sins, from pornography, from lust, from all that other stuff.

MILES: You want to share that with other people outside the Boys and Girls Club?

JOSH: I'm sharing it through some videos I'm making.

MILES: What do you like best about that whole process?

JOSH: There's a lot of hope in that I can use media. Media is the thing at fault and I want to switch that around and make media more of a hope for people.

MILES: How do you think you can help with that mission of turning media around into something more hopeful?

JOSH: Just create controversial movies and sort of attack the spirit of people and the mind.

MILES: What do you mean attack the spirit of people in media?

JOSH: Just show them that there's hope and that there's always a place and a time and that you can be free from stuff.

MILES: The Teen Attitudes Media Club is open to all Boys and Girls Club members and Mentors. For more information, our phone number is 719-589-5252, and our web site is www.prx.org/group/TeenAttitudes. I'm Miles Eddy.

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