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Some SYNners joining in on some last minute AusMusic T-shirt day fun!! Donate to @supportact and rep your faves!! 👕🎵❤️
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little over 2 weeks ago, these legends (and plenty not pictured) helped carry me through 24 hours straight of radio. thats right, from noon to noon, i sat behind a mic and yapped with anyone and everyone to help raise money for @synmedia as part of their radiothon. we ended up adding about 2 grand to syn's total, which was more than producers @b____etty @sameerahsen_14, and i thought was possible.

from those 24 hours straight of radio, i learned a lot. i learned that my limit is probably about 20 hours of radio (okay maybe less), that too much bongos can be bad for you, how to dj (kindve), about the magic of the 1 am show, about shoegaze and dreampop and about madame brussels and the chaos of the f1 season. but most of all, i learned that the future of media isn't as bleak as we think it is. i met incredible writers, readers, and music nerds, i did radio with the best personalities on air today and had fun with creative minds that need to be heard to be believed. it was one of the most eye-opening experiences of my life (not literally my eyes were closing for most of it) ... and while itd be hard to do it again, i dont regret doing it in the slightest. in fact, im glad i did. 

i did it... partly for the bit, but mostly bc i love everything that syn is and what it stands for. its amplifying youth voices, its allowing those voices to talk about work that inspires them, and its a space for our local music scene to thrive. 

syn isnt perfect, nor is it pretty, but what it is is an institution that should be protected and kept alive for future generations of media personalities, broadcasters, journalists, pundits, musicians, and musicheads alike. 

if you tuned in, thank you, if you donated, thank you. the radiothon ends tonight at 11:59 pm aest, so if you haven't donated, you still can via syn.org.au/donate 

tell em owen sent ya. x
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