The Pink Hair Podcast Challenge

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Is anyone interested in seeing me with pink hair?  Yeah, I thought you might be.

Well, this is your chance.

If a certain task is accomplished within a certain time frame by the good people of Cyberspace, I will not only dye my hair pink, but I will appear in public…with pink hair.  Some of my friends are already having way too much fun with this, and have manipulated a picture of me to illustrate what this might look like; scroll down for that disturbing image…

Here’s the story.

I am convinced that one of the best-kept secrets in Cyberspace is the REAP Team’s podcast.  Every two weeks we post a new episode, and our past podcasts have covered topics including Eating Disorders, Getting Over Your Ex, Being Fake, Labeling Others, Bullying, Chastity, Super Mario Brothers, Instant Messaging, Deer Hunting, Drugs, and Unplanned Pregnancy.

Episodes in the very near future will deal with the topics of Freedom, Self-Image, Second Chances, Stewardship, A Little Person’s Story, and Jokes.

These podcasts are awesomely inspirational and feature real-life stories of some of the most amazing people who have ever lived, but as of 8/25/08 we only have about 50 REAP Team podcast subscribers.  I want more people to hear these podcasts…

So, I have decided (with the permission of my wife and kids) that if 1000 people are subscribed to the REAP Team podcast by the date of December 8, 2008 I will dye my hair pink in time for a public appearance at the REAP Team Benefit Concert (featuring Karl Zimmerman and Pete Buncher) on December 12, 2008 at DeSmet Jesuit High School.

Call me crazy, but it’s for the kids…and for the Lord…and promises to be humiliating…

If you are one of those crazy kids on Facebook, you can join a group devoted to this challenge.

If you have iTunes, you can subscribe to the podcast by going here and clicking the SUBSCRIBE button.

Or you can subscribe to the podcast through FeedBurner.

I just hope that you give a listen to the REAP Team’s podcasts.   And let me know what you think of them.  And imagine me with pink hair.  I might just might look like this.

a disturbing image

 

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Paul Masek is the coordinator of the REAP Team, a Catholic youth retreat ministry which is a division of the Archdiocesan Office of Youth Ministry. He is married to Lisa, and they have four kids - Jacob, Audrey, Kyle, and Dominic. The Masek family are members of Holy Trinity Parish in St. Ann. You can contact Paul at paul@reapteam.org.