The BIG News

Happy New Year everyone!

Okay, so you’re probably a little tired of me talking about “THE BIG NEWS”, right? Hinting at it, telling you to listen to a certain online radio station to catch it, blah-blah-blah…

Well, here it is:

Brutally Honest is moving to ShockNet Radio!

That’s the announcement! Brutally Honest, the online audio commentary show, is RETURNING to online radio!

The new show starts on January 19^th over at ShockNetRadio.com and will air every Saturday night at 7pm Eastern time. Right now it will only be on for a half an hour, but, just like I did before, I will eventually get things going to where I’ll be up to a full hour.

I’ve got quite a lot of ideas bouncing through my head about what I’ll be doing for the show and trying to find ways to make them happen once I get started with everything. “Government Out of Control” will be back, only now with a trial format, and you the listeners will be the jury in our unique “Kangaroo Court of Public Opinion”. There will be more on that in the weeks to come. I’m also looking into having the occasional guests pop in to give their unique perspectives of things. Some of you who used to listen to the original Talk Liberty broadcasts can recall when I interviewed writers and government officials and entertainers, and hopefully I’ll be able to bring that into the new show.

Now, this is a GREAT time for me to bring the show back to online radio, and especially to ShockNet Radio, because this is a station that is on almost 24-7 (there are some times when the producers take it down for regular maintenance). So when there’s nothing scheduled for that time period there’s rock music from the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, some 90’s, and even one or two from the Y2K’s. This isn’t just some modest operation; RJ Evans and his wife literally built a full-blown broadcasting studio in their home, and they have pictures of the whole thing up on the ShockNet website.

Plus, RJ has been trying to get the BIG players of digital satellite radio to pick up ShockNet for a while now. Once that happens, then we’re talking some SERIOUS credibility, because standard terrestrial radio as it is right now has become SO diluted by corporations and FuCCu Regulations that it is really nothing more than just empty filler between the commercial segments. Digital satellite radio isn’t really the future, but it is the precursor to REAL Internet-everywhere radio.

Oh, and speaking of FuCCu Regulations… in the previous incarnation of my show I held back from saying certain words. Back then it didn’t feel right. That was then and this is now. So YES, you WILL be hearing the occasional F-bomb and BS and MF’er from me. I won’t be firing them off like Eddie Murphy did back when he was really funny, but I won’t be restraining myself either when the situation calls for it, or in trying to be inventive about using such words (i.e. fuster-cluck).

And now a few nuggets of bad news.

First, this won’t be a LIVE show. You’ll notice that the show is called “Brutally Honest on ShockNet” and not “Brutally Honest – LIVE (version 2)”. As much as I would LOVE to do live streaming audio, it’s just not possible with the setup we have over at ShockNet Radio unless I were to actually FLY out to Oklahoma and broadcast from the ShockNet Studios. So the stuff that I’ll be doing will be pre-recorded during the week and then will air that Saturday.

Second, I’m sorry, but there won’t be any transcripts to this new show. I know some of the Brutally Honest supporters have really enjoyed the fact that they can read (or skim through) the transcripts at their leisure, but I can’t afford to do that anymore. You guys HAVE to hear ShockNet Radio to catch my show! I put a lot of work into doing these programs, from the opening message all the way to the “end of recording” clip, and it’s really not fair to me or to RJ to waste all that time and effort and then have people skip the shows and just read the transcripts.

Third, having said that, I’m somewhat hesitant to put the audio archive of the show up in a podcast, but I’m still going to do that. The details on that part of the deal will be posted later on. They won’t be in Real Audio format anymore, though. It’s a neat program, but MP3 format is the coin of trade in podcasting, so that’s the format I’ll be using from now on. Also, the archives will be a week behind, because I really DO want you guys to listen to ShockNet Radio first and foremost.

The Brutally Honest blog site will still play an important role for my show, because this is where you’ll get to send in your feedback on the things I talk about. Every week I’ll post the subjects I talk about on the show in the blog site for you to give your views on. When I do the “Government Out of Control” series, the blog site will be the jury room where you the listeners can decide whether or not those in government are guilty, and then the results will be announced and posted later on.

Oh, and I’ll STILL be doing the weekly column. That hasn’t changed, although I think I found a good home for the archives, so those will be moved over soon. And I’ll still be doing the News Pundit Report segment for the American Heathen show as well. There’s quite a bit of stuff on my plate for 2008, but then again that’s been about par for me anyway.

The Brutally Honest website will be up with all-new material on January 13^th. “Brutally Honest on ShockNet Radio” will debut on January 19^th. And if you haven’t been listening to ShockNet Radio of late, here’s a little something I whipped up that has been airing for a couple of weeks now.

[Brutally Honest Teaser Promo]
(MP3 format - click on link to listen)

Welcome to 2008!