Our conversation got started with this e-mail:
From: Don Darue
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 5:03 AM
To: localcrew
Subject: Mmmm that smell
I get out of the shower this morning and…Mmmm…that bacon smell…oh that smell..thought of you [guys]. Just thought I’d share.
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Behold the beauty of bacon . . .
So, my friend who sent this could use your input, Bacon Strippers. Hayseed Don Darue, the sire of our beloved outlaw-country-hick-stomping-feral-slamgrass-blue-cactus-concoction-whiskey-soaked roots radio show, The Risky Biscuit Hayseed Hoot, is setting up shop online and considering names for his new website. More from our exchange:
—–Original Message—–
From: Don Darue
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 8:48 AM
To: localcrew
Subject: Re: Daily wisdom
Buenos Tuesday to you as well. I am working on getting this new site finalized this week. The problem right now is . . . releasing hootradio.com to [the new provider]. Bastards. I am thinking of just forgetting that name and coming up with another..
some thoughts:
feralradio.com (I really like using the word feral) (of course I like using riparian, too…look where that has gotten me)
Any ideas or suggestions
Dondo
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localcrew wrote:
I have a personal affinity for feralradio. Not sure if you noticed, but the Bacon Strip guys were described by one commenter as “feral nerds.” I really like that term. I think it describes a lot of Hoot listeners. One of those Feral Nerds is fond of saying: “Get up, Jacob! Day’s a’breakin’ Or, coffee’s cooking and bread’s a bakin’ Ride out, Cowboy, Come n’ git it. Get it while it’s hot, or I’ll throw ‘er out n’ spit in the skillet!”
RBHH . . . don’t like acronyms. They can lead to surprise results. Someone can be doing a search for Religion-Based Homosexual Housing, Rehoboth Beach Horticultural Hour, or Republican Breed: Heroes and Heroines and end up on your site. While this may ultimately be a good thing (along the lines of placing ones hands on the radio and being healed), it could also be not so great. In the end, I think the sites that get passed around are the ones with names that are easy and enjoyable to share. Personally, I spend far more time than I need to visiting and talking about TeamBaconStrip simply because it makes me giggle a little every time I mention it. Appropriate use of the word “feral” is always welcome, and produces a not-dissimilar result, so I tend to favor that . . .
But I’ll think about this a bit more. Maybe even tap the brainpower of The Bacon Strip to see if they have some tasty ideas for ya. You OK with me putting a little post up there to solicit some input from the crew? Nothing keeps it homegrown like letting your community be a part of the action.
—–Original Message—–
From: Don Darue
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 9:26 AM
To: localcrew
Subject: RE: Daily wisdom
Truth be told..I really favor the feral choices, too. RBHH was suggeted by a “computer guy”
And besides, that Religion Based Homosexual Housing is just a side project….
Absolutely post it with the Bacon Strippers…
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Feralradio.com is good.
nevadensis.com
Spitune.com
Tengallonradio.com
saddlesoreradio.com
Glad Hayseed Don is thinking of dudes in soiled bike shorts in the shower…
-M
The Dark Knight show with the Real Bruce Wayne on kkbb 99.9 in Bako Cali, used to call his listeners, “my little wiskerbiscuits.”
His schtick was sounding like X-tian Slater in Pump up the volume. Remember when the chick took her big sweater off and had NOTHING ON UINDERNEATH IT!!!
-M
I need to see that movie again. I seem to remember a certain dissonance resulting from Christian Slater blaring Soundgarden . . . how could I have forgotten the gratuitous booby shot?
time minus 8 hours, 54 minutes till Hayseed Hoot hours! thanks for keeping the Hoot alive and kickin’. can’t wait to get my freak on with deviant twang, Don. otherwise, things are, on occasion, a little… predictable.
see you in the grabens,
Japhy rider
So I wake up and turn on my radio Saturday am to catch my favorite none XM show and it is canned. Where is my feral radio? What happened. The station is playing late 70’s muzak and freaking me out. I am thinking it is just a filler or an ad for the regular radio times. But, NO! It continues, it goes on and on and begins to put me to sleep like some terrible monotone voice announcing the days assignment.
Have you been asked to leave the airwaves? What can I do to get you back? Oh, and by the way if you ever find a tape of the lead in to the old radio program Tundra Topics back on KFAR in Fairbanks, Alaska (a program that got mesages out to the villages from those in the “city”) that started with “Half dog, half wolf, welcome to the Nag….” you will find what a real hoot we had back in the early ’60’s in the remote areas of Alaska.
Thanks for the many hours of pleasurable listening and hope to hear more in the future,
Bropie
i’m not well versed on satellite radio, but a user of the web w.r.t. regular listening and recon on new sounds. very sorry to hear your connection to the Hoot was severed. padding around the kitchen on a Saturday morn, rocking the Hayseed Hoot, and frying up plate of bacon is very much a part of life in the Great Basin.
in leu of THSH, check out the Some Day Coming Down podcast at http://warningsignrecords.com/podcasts.html
Paul M. Davis does a super rad job of getting real good sounds to a real big audience. heck, my liberal use of “deviant twang” is a direct quote from the earliest episodes.
Japhy rider