No Show This Week

There will be no show this week as I am on business in San Francisco. The show will return next week.

Episode 23 - Abandoning The Base

We talk about Brenda Martin's return to Canada, the CIC's "settlement offer" to Macleans Magazine, and the Conservative Party losing it's way and ignoring it's base.

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Episode 22 - Earth Day Can Kiss My ...

We talk about the RCMP raid on Conservative Party HQ, Earth Day, and more on the Human Rights Commissions.

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Episode 21 - Kate McMillan

Kate McMillan, influential and controversial political blogge, owner of the Small Dead Animals blog, joins us for the hour. We talk to her about how SDA came into existence, conservatism, and other political stuff.

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Episode 20 - Of Politics and Lawsuits

Gerry Nicholls, columnist and former vice president of the National Citizens Coalition and a Senior Fellow with the Democracy Institute joins us and talks about the conservative movement in Canada. In the second half-hour we talk to Kathy Shaidle about the lawsuit that has been brought against multiple bloggers.

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Special Time - April 10th

The Al & Mike Show will be airing live at a special time on Thursday. We'll be live at 7:30pm Eastern / 4:30pm Pacific.

Gerry Nicholls will be our guest.

The Studio

Here's a picture of the studio, for those interested:



Al sits on the very right in front of the computer which is facing the camera. The screen is displaying the current time and a countdown to when the show will be live. This same count is displayed on the production computer screen which is just above that computer.

Below that and behind Al's computer is the mixer, which is sitting on-top of the gate and audio compressor. You can see the microphones sitting in their shock-mounts, denoting where Al and I sit. The shock-mounts, which are those circular things, suspend the microphone on springs, so if we do silly things like knock the microphone stands, it mutes any noise you might otherwise hear.

The silver beveled screen in the center-left is Mike's screen.

The laptop on the far left is responsible for the ustream connection. An audio wire runs from the mixer, under the desk, to the line-in on this laptop. The signal heard by ustream, is the same signal being heard by the recorders. Starting next week, this laptop will also recored a backup of the audio. We will also use the minidisc recorder religiously.

We do not do post-production editing on the Al & Mike Show. What you hear on the live stream is what you hear on the MP3, minus the break in the middle where we stop the recorder. We do not require normalization of the levels or anything in the recording, as this is all done in real time with the outboard compressor and gate.