Invisible Voice Episode 6 – Discussion Post

May 11, 2012 by TheDougem 0 Comments

For a number of reasons I won’t get into now, it’s been difficult for me to get post production done for the Invisible Voice – HOWEVER!

It’s been running actively the past five weeks and the team has been doing a great job thus far. Here at the halfway point of the show, I figure it’s a good time to get on my own butt and at the very least remind you guys that the show exists.

The show broadcasts every friday from 4 to 5pm pacific time.

To Listen to the Show:

  1. Go to KSDT’s official web page and click the ‘play’ button.
  2. Make sure it’s at least 4pm pacific time on Friday

To Comment on the Show:

  1. Click the little box just under the right side of the page header. Chat room!
  2. Comment on this blog topic
  3. Fire emails off to my alias at a certain email provider run by a company whose name rhymes with boogle

To list to the archive before I do post production:

  1. Go to KSDT’s downloads page
  2. Scroll down to the entries that begin with ‘G_man’
  3. You’ve found them! Download at your leisure
  4. Keep in mind that some weeks there’s overlap with prior and later shows
Topics for today:
  • Obama’s ‘evolution’ on gay marriage
  • Mitt Romney’s brutal hair massacre
  • Thoughts on Ron Paul (?)
  • Whatever topic we aimlessly drift into

Today’s show is a two hour show since we got blessings bestowed upon us by the scheduling gods. We’ll take full advantage of the time. Please comment and share!

Also, as a programming note – due to scheduling conflicts and college just being mean about devouring one’s time, Cody has stepped down as a formal cohost. This slot has been filled by both Tom and Austin as of show three.

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Invisible Voice Episode 1 – From 4/6/2012

April 10, 2012 by TheDougem 24 Comments

This took way longer than anticipated for me to post owing to illness and distractions, but it’s finally here:

Invisible Voice (Audio only) Ep1 – 4/6/12

Timeline:

4:20 — GOP nomination
27:40 — Break begins
30:32 — Break ends
32:43 — VP nomination
40:41 — Obamacare and the Constitution

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This was a fun episode. THERE ARE AUDIO QUALITY ISSUES, I KNOW. I did what I could to muffle the really bad audio peaks, and I do advise that everyone not listen with the volume turned as high as it can go.

Ideally the typical episode will be longer then this (a full hour rather than 50 minutes!)

Some goofy things were said (apparently Newt Gingrich may want a moonbase to drill for oil) but I feel it all went great. We discussed the overall GOP nomination process, our views on the last few candidates, some of their positions, went into possible VP contenders, and closed with a discussion of Obamacare and a few of the constitutional problems it bumps into.

Pardon continued roughness around the edges as we go forwards – we’ll get better as time goes on, we promise! And of course, you are all welcome to listen live at KSDT’s website from 4pm to 5pm on Fridays, pacific time, and we’re looking into an appropriate way to at the very least toss emails back and forth with you the audience.

Please visit The California Review as well as the UCSD College Republicans, as they’re helping support the show!

So what did you think?

Note: The bulk of viewers (at least via SkepticConservative.com as of 4:30pm Pacific) are from out-of-country. I remain amazed by and very thankful for my international audience!

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Music Video Featuring Videos from Occupy 2011

April 6, 2012 by TheDougem 1 Comment

An interesting thing happened back in November – I got a message in my inbox asking if I would be alright with the potential use of my footage in an upcoming music video. I agreed, and recently got a message sharing this:

My footage didn’t make it in – but honestly, that’s fine. I was admitedly a little concerned that this would wind up being something glorifying anarchy – but watch the whole thing, take note of the images we see. Happy protesters, mad protesters, people caught in the middle, calm police, rough housing police, calm protesters, protesters destroying things and being violent. It’s a broad swath of the humanity at play in the Occupy movement and the Arab Spring in the fall of 2011. That and the song -is- good.

These folks were polite enough to approach and ask for permission – and at the end credited ALL contributions! No matter where they’re coming from, these folks deserve a shoutout and respect! Also – the fact that all footage was taken from citizen journalists and folks on the ground like me? Very cool, very awesome, and worthy of applause.

So what do you think? Thought provoking commentary on humanity, or sappy hippy style unicorns and rainbows?

ALSO! There’s a podcast today. On KSDT! Click the tab up above labelled ‘The Invisible Voice’ for more information!

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Announcing: The Invisible Voice

April 1, 2012 by TheDougem 5 Comments

WHAT’S THIS? ANOTHER CONTENT DROUGHT??


I know, I’m a terrible person.

This should help me start on the path of redemption, however.

I am running a one hour friday afternoon broadcast from 4pm to 5pm on KSDT, UCSD’s campus radio station (that isn’t really a radio station). I’ve been spending the past month getting mentally ready and psyched, and as usual – utterly burying myself in the news and reading several books. The first broadcast will be this friday! And turn-around on the show -should- be very quick.

This show is meant to appeal to a broader audience – it will be a lot like Skeptic Conservative but this time, with a pair of co-hosts and a sprinkling of professional production – and a broader reach!

Yet another step on my path towards becoming a better broadcaster. Since the show is an hour shorter then anticipated (I wanted a two hour slot), Skeptic Conservative -will- continue and it’s possible – depending upon how my colleagues feel – that either we see a few fresh faces on the podcast OR we’ll do a side supplemental show to the primary internet stream.

I am very excited to get this project rolling, and I’ll share more information as the week goes by. You all are, of course, invited to listen in to the internet stream on Friday, and I’m still in the midst of figuring out the best way to get folks to participate before, during, and after the show.

In Sum, the major goals of this whole deal are:

  • Coordinate a small team to produce a short show
  • Get practice doing pre and post show meetings
  • Rapid turn around of recorded broadcasts to youtube and the internets
  • More On Air experience with a (used to be) legit station (resume boosters!)
  • Improving my monologuing skills by encouraging my cohosts to throw things at me every time I make a mistake. (Filler words, run on sentences, failing to remember names, mispronunciatons, spoonerisms, and more)
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Half Test, Half Actual Content.

March 6, 2012 by TheDougem 4 Comments

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_2fZaRCya8

TheDougem Drives, where I rant in my car in order to make use of all the damn time I spend driving. Consider this my ‘unplugged’ segments. I’ll probably go off on tangents, I’ll rant, get pumped up, and probably bellow some since usually I’ll be talking about things that piss me off. Don’t turn this up too loud!

In this inaugural rant I discuss Breitbart’s death and the tone of commentary surrounding it as well as the broader political sphere.

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Skeptic Conservative Podcast TONIGHT! (2/29/2012)

February 29, 2012 by TheDougem 2 Comments

Stub topic. Show tonight!

At Blog Talk Radio

Gop primary, freedom of speech, this coming Spring

This topic will expand as the night goes on!

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Hiatus Lifting (Hopefully)

February 26, 2012 by TheDougem 7 Comments

Because I’m a lazy jerk, I recorded a video.

TLDR;

  • Articles resuming monday
  • Podcast this week Friday or sooner
  • Stuff
  • Donation button

I’ll address questions and stuff on that video and here. Now have a ridiculous photo of flufferton. Hope ya’all had a good weekend!

Flufferton channels monorail cat

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Barry Rubin on Egypt – Looming Radicalization Spurring Moderates to Flee

February 16, 2012 by TheDougem 0 Comments

Yet another link I had to share as I continue to wallow in allergies. This time, from Barry Rubin –

PJMedia – Rubin Report: Good-Bye, Middle East! Liberals and Minorities are Fleeing

Some excerpts, emphasis mine:

What’s so terrible about the ideological, agenda-based domination of the mass media and academia is that people don’t ask critical questions that undermine their political positions.

Continue reading →…

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Link of the Day: PJMedia – Our Benevolent Marxist Masters

February 15, 2012 by TheDougem 5 Comments

Because sometimes others say it better. And just because I’m on hiatus doesn’t mean I can’t sprinkle interesting articles and opinions here and there!

Our Benevolent Marxist Masters

A snippet:

 Mr. Lew believes himself in a position to be able to judge how much of their own money the taxed “need,” and should therefore be allowed to keep. Ayn Rand encapsulated this attitude in section 2, chapter 4 of Atlas Shrugged:

Who is the public? What does it hold as its good? There was a time when men believed that “the good” was a concept to be defined by a code of moral values and that no man had the right to seek his good through the violation of the rights of another. If it is now believed that my fellow men may sacrifice me in any manner they please for the sake of whatever they believe to be their own good, if they believe that they may seize my property simply because they need it – well, so does any burglar. There is only this difference: the burglar does not ask me to sanction his act.

Nor does he cloak his burglary in the faux language of “reasonableness” and “fairness” and “moderation” and “balanced approach.”

This is one of the pitfalls on the road of progressivism – or pretty much any totalitarian leaning state. If those deeming what is “right” and “good” operate on a moral code that only -they- define (Man being the ultimate judge of man in lieu of a God or Ideal) this is the kind of mindset that is invited.

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Temporary Hiatus: Midterms, papers, and Illness (Update)

February 14, 2012 by TheDougem 10 Comments

I hate doing this.

It’s been long enough without new content and not only have I been busy, my voice has been savaged by allergies and more recently a nasty bug that’s been circulating around campus.

For the immediate foreseeable future – I’m hoping not any longer then a week (Tuesday the 21st – as if one can schedule these things!)  – I’m going on official hiatus to rest up, de-stress, and declare all out war on my maladies.

HOWEVER! One bit of good news:

That is a fresh Blue Yeti microphone, the first step into studio quality sound recording. SO OF COURSE MY VOICE IS BROKEN.


Update: To celebrate rolling over the 2,000 views milestone, I’m taking the site down the next step of professionalism. I now have a premium theme (headline), an actual domain (skepticconservative.com!) and more freedom with site design. And there should be no ads!

Site design will be evolving in creative ways for the next little while – I’m hopeful that I can find a way to make it friendly for you guys, and to especially make the site easy to navigate whether you’re searching for archives of old articles, podcasts, or even simply the podcast status and schedule.

I will reinstate the old donation button soon. In sum – it’s not cheap getting started as an independent new media journalist, and any kind of support or hand up is not only greatly appreciated but goes a long way towards enabling me to produce better content.  I have to extend thanks to everybody involved, even merely as a reader or listener, for your continued support 🙂

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