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State of the Union: Shownotes for Creepy Sleepy Show #50 / One-year Anniversary

Posted by DHP
May 24, 2006
 
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Creepy Sleepy Show #50 is our one-year anniversary spectacular!

As many of you know, Doq and I started the Creepy Sleepy Show as a small college radio show in Spearfish, South Dakota. Though this is a fairly progressive little college town, Spearfish is still firmly entrenched in Red State territory. Our initial mission was to simply bring an alternative political message to the area.

As a 100-watt transmitter doesn’t reach terribly far, we had little pretense that the show would revolutionize the political system. But, we felt that if one disenfranchised 16-year-old kid heard the show and dug our vibe, our efforts were worth while. In many ways, both Doq and I subscribe to some Jeffersonian philosophies; particularly idea of a participatory democracy that requires citizen input to the political process. Even if no-one heard the show, we would both have slept better at night. From 2004-2005 we interviewed a few South Dakota senators, covered the whirlwind 2004 presidential election live, discussed campus politics, “gave away” a trip to Cuba, and were repeatedly threatened with “permanent” bands from KBHU.

The podcast had an interesting birth. In the spring of 2005, radio personality, professor, friend and mentor Dave Diamond had decided to resurrect his legendary radio show, The Diamond Mine, as a podcast. He also agreed to host the Creepy Sleepy Show as the show made the transition from FM radio to podcasting. While the site was being constructed, Doq and I plotted our first show. We produced the first show in a hot, cramped and occasionally haunted apartment with one microphone, a cheap mixer, and no headphones. It was great!

Creepy Sleepy Show #1 was produced several weeks before we had an RSS feed. Shows 1-4 were saved at the lowest possible bit-rate, then cut up into two separate 10 meg files; Show 1a and 1b, respectively. We then sent the shows through Open Podcast. A few weeks after the Diamond Mine launched, Doq and I interviewed South Dakota senator Tim Johnson. Later, Eric and Cory of Vox Monitor were kind enough to feature one of our promos in a production contest. If memory serves me, we tied with very kick ass Kick Ass podcast, and lost out to the My Marilyn podcast.

Doq moved to Missoula in August 2005 to pursue his academic career. His brother Derek (aka, McRaspy) stepped up and joined the show as co-host. Cody Winchester, Josh Wolff, Hugh Tweedy, Josh Cooke, Will Prentice all helped flesh out an ever-rotating cast. In February 2006 bid our friends at the Diamond Mine goodbye, and launched Creepy Sleepy. Our home was constructed by Webmonster, who contributed hours of his life, many line of code pro bono. A month later, Creepy Sleepy joined PodShow. A year of podcasting has wrought interviews with Iraq war vets, discussions on race in podcasting, a Christmas celebration, many bowls of Abortion Bits Cereal, and rudeness during press conferences with Governors. We have thusly proven ourselves to be throughly offensive bastards.

Creepy Sleepy will never be the most popular podcast in the world, nor will we be the most influential; to strive for popularity would be missing the point. We do this because love the medium, and because we feel it is our responsibility to express our discontent. We believe that dissent is the first step towards liberation. So: thanks for subscribing, we sincerely appreciate it. Here’s the show:

A one-stone jump is never bad,

DHP

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