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Ultrasonic Alarm Call: Blaze Of Glory

By on May 2, 2012 in Comics, Film, Food, Regina, Ultrasonic Alarm Call, Uncategorized

This week on prairie dog‘s “official” (in the most generous sense of the term) podcast, we take a long hard look at DC Comics’ “Before Watchmen” series of “comics”.

Then, special guest, Martin Gourlie of Regina Urban Ecology joins us in our ultra-ritz podcasting chalet to discuss this year’s Jane’s Walk.

Then Aidan recounts his adventures at the German Club’s Spargelfest and gives us a rundown of dinner at Simmer Hotpot Restaurant.

We also take a look at Joss Whedon’s Cabin In The Woods, and Aidan and I wind up totally spoiling it for Martin and Shane. Ha ha. We’re such jerks.

Ultrasonic Alarm Call — Blaze Of Glory: At the table, Aidan Morgan (host), Shane Hnetka, Paul Dechene and guest, Martin Gourlie. Music by the Lazy MKs. Runtime 45 min.

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Ultrasonic Alarm Call: Sadness Is My Boyfriend

By on April 19, 2012 in City Hall, Comics, Film, Ultrasonic Alarm Call, Uncategorized

In this episode of prairie dog magazine’s most audible internet thing, we look at demolition and development around Regina; we ponder the strange, eldritch rituals that were involved in the construction of the downtown plaza; we celebrate the rise of Image comics and Brian K Vaughn’s Saga; and, Aidan for some reason reviews Stallone’s masterpiece, First Blood.

Ultrasonic Alarm Call s02 e02 — Sadness Is My Boyfriend: At the table, Aidan Morgan, Shane Hnetka and Paul Dechene. Music by the Lazy MKs. Runtime 38 minutes of podcastery plus 1 second of bonus hijinks.

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Ultrasonic Alarm Call: Loincloths!

By on March 22, 2012 in Books, Film, Regina, Ultrasonic Alarm Call, Uncategorized

We’re back. With season two of Ultrasonic Alarm Call, prairie dog’s most-hiatused podcast.

This week: adapting the classics. We look at Disney’s megaflop, John Carter, as well as the surprisingly excellent Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. And then we look at Geoff Dyer’s book, Zona, which examines Andrei Tarkovsky’s film, Stalker.

Also, Aidan’s apartment building, the Crescent Annex, is probably going to get torn down (not to be confused with the Crescent Apartments which is definitely getting torn down). But for some reason, we don’t get around to talking about that.

But we do dish on all the rumors about Southland theatre’s dismal future. And we explain Happy Days to Shane, because he’s never seen it. I know! Creepy!

Ultrasonic Alarm Call s02 e01: Loincloths! At the table, Aidan Morgan (host), Shane Hnetka and Paul Dechene. Runtime 41 min. Music by the Lazy MKs.

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Ultrasonic Interview: A Cookie In Derbyland

By on December 4, 2011 in Sports, Ultrasonic Alarm Call, Uncategorized

Frequent Ultrasonic Alarm Call guest, Cookie Madill (aka, Doom Cookie) of the Pile O’ Bones Derby Club is in Toronto at the World Cup Of Roller Derby.

We caught up with her on Friday and got the rundown on what’s going on.

You can find out more about the event here.

Today’s the playoffs, by the way. Team Canada is up against Team England in the first round. Then it’s Team USA versus Team Australia.

If you want to catch some of the derby-tastic action, you can head on over to O’Hanlon’s where they’re showing the games live.

Ultrasonic Minisode – A Cookie In Derbyland by Paul Dechene

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We won’t be posting a new Ultrasonic Alarm Call this week. But come back Dec 12 for a Very Special Holiday episode. Until then, you can get your podcast fix in our episode archive.

UPDATE (3:28pm): The third place game between England and Australia is on right now. I’m watching it in another tab, in fact. It’s 147 England, 66 for Australia. Coming up later this afternoon, the gold medal game between Canada and the USA. You can watch it all live at the Derby News Network.

UPDATE (4:10pm): The 2011 World Cup final between Canada and USA is on now!

UPDATE (5:10pm): Ooooh. It’s halftime. And it’s not going well for Canada. So not well that I can’t type the score. You’ll have to go to DNN (or O’Hanlon’s) yourself.

FINAL UPDATE: The USA swept the first Roller Derby World Cup, winning the gold medal round against Canada, 336 to 33, it pains me to type. (Read Justice Feelgood Marshall’s game summary at the Derby News Network here.) Earlier in the day, England took third place, beating Australia, 203 to 85.

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Ultrasonic Alarm Call Episode 15: Atlas Napped

By on November 21, 2011 in City Hall, Film, Politics, Regina, Ultrasonic Alarm Call, Uncategorized

This week, the Alarm Call goes ultralite with a slender wafer of audio antics that won’t even occupy a half hour of your time.

In the ultraswank podcasting salon, prairie dog‘s senior political correspondent, Stephen LaRose, is this week’s special guest. He’ll school us all in what happened to the NDP in the provincial election. Guess what? It was bad.

We follow that up with a review of the film adaptation of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. Does it hold up like a bridge built of Reardon Steel or is it a titanic train wreck? Aidan gives us his objective assessment.

Next, a look the 2012 City of Regina budgets. But only a brief look. Because budgets are boring and we know that.

Then finally, Shane’s discovered a new boardgame he thought we might be interested in. It’s called Urban Sprawl and he was right.

Now, are you ready? Boop off!

Ultrasonic Alarm Call No. 15 — Atlas Napped: At the table, Aidan Morgan (host), Shane Hnetka, special guest Stephen LaRose, and me. Music by the Lazy MKs Runtime: 20 min ineffectual blather, 8 min 12 sec grotesque hyperbole.

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Ultrasonic Alarm Call Episode 14: The Art Of Sinking

By on November 7, 2011 in City Hall, Regina, Science, Ultrasonic Alarm Call, Uncategorized

On this episode, we look at things that are taking on water and going under like the Titanic.

In fact, we start with a discussion of that fabled ocean liner as Collette Parks of the Saskatchewan Science Centre visited our ultraswank podcasting module to talk about the Centre’s Titanic exhibit. (It’s on right now!)

Then, we look at the city’s foundering housing situation. Two apartment buildings are slated to be demolished and one of them is Vanda’s! She talks about the perils of renting in Regina.

Later, Stephen Whitworth talks about the sinking fortunes of the provincial NDP.

But take heart. All is not lost to the icy depths. Cookie and Cassie are back to talk again about the True Knit Art Show. Regina’s alternative craft show was such a success this past weekend we could pre-record about how awesome it was.

Ultrasonic Alarm Call 14 — The Art of Sinking: At the table, Cassie Ozog, Cookie Madill, Stephen Whitworth, Carle Steel, Vanda Schmockel, Collette Parks and me as your humble host. Music by the Lazy MKs. Runtime: 48 min raucous conversation, 6 sec gorgeous silence.

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Ultrasonic Alarm Call Bonus Track: Chamber of Commerce At Ideas Fair

By on November 3, 2011 in Regina, Ultrasonic Alarm Call, Uncategorized

We ended off the latest episode of the Ultrasonic Alarm Call, Terror For Blood Town, with a montage of interviews recorded at the city’s Ideas Fair on October 25.

Well, here’s one I didn’t include. It’s with John Hopkins, CEO of the Regina Chamber of Commerce.

At the risk of damaging my leftie bona fides, I found myself nodding along to a lot of what he had to say. He talked about the need for affordable housing, a comprehensive infrastructure strategy and a vital cultural scene — all stuff I’m in total agreement with.

(Of course, he also makes mention of the “importance of transportation infrastructure which includes [public] transit.” I shudder to think what else it includes. I suspect he’d be savvy enough not to suggest more parking around me.)

Hopkins of Chamber of Commerce at Ideas Fair by Paul Dechene

I left the interview out, by the way, because I mention in it that I’m talking to John Hopkins but didn’t mention who he was there to represent so it probably wouldn’t have made any sense sitting out of context like that in the middle of an audio montage.

The other interviews are also worth listening to, by the way. And you can hear them all (six in total) at about the 3/4 mark of lucky Episode 13 of Ultrasonic Alarm Call, which is jam packed full of other awesome stuff. So you should listen to the whole thing. By clicking here. And don’t forget to check out our archive of past episodes.

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Ultrasonic Alarm Call Episode 13: Terror For Blood Town

By on October 31, 2011 in City Hall, Film, Regina, Ultrasonic Alarm Call, Uncategorized

Be afraid! Because this is a Very Special Halloween episode of Ultrasonic Alarm Call, prairie dog‘s most sanity shattering podcast.

We begin our chilling audio adventure with an examination of the recently exhumed and reanimated lecture series, Chicken & Wine, and learn a terrible truth about nasal irrigation.

From there, we brave the existential horror that is the City of Regina’s Ideas Fair. Oh, the many mind-blistering mysteries we unearth about our city’s future!

And as if that’s not enough, Shane finishes off his 31 Days Of Monstrous Horror…. with an axe! Then we ask, what film was so terrifying, so gut-manglingly demented that even our Maestro of the Macabre Movie wouldn’t dare include it in his series of sinister cinema? Listen in to find out.

We end things off with a cavalcade of very pleasant interviews with several of the agreeable folk who partook of the Ideas Fair festivities. It’s so amiable and uplifting, it’s almost nausea inducing.

Ultrasonic Alarm Call 13 – Terror For Blood Town: At the table, Carle Steel, Shane Hnetka and me as your guest host. Music by the Lazy MKs. Runtime: 40 min bone-chilling dread, 7 min 30 sec mild jitters.

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Ultrasonic Alarm Call 12: The End…

By on October 13, 2011 in Art, City Hall, Film, Regina, Ultrasonic Alarm Call, Uncategorized

… but not of the Ultrasonic Alarm Call. We trudge onwards.

No, in this episode, we shoehorn several topics into the theme of endings.

We’re having a look at the end of condominium conversions (for now), the end (maybe) of the walking strategy downtown (or maybe that’s a product of my paranoid imagination), the end of analog film in Regina’s theatres (and the beginning of UltraAVX awesomeness), the Last Mountain Distillery in Lumsden, the latest True Knit Art Show (meaning, Cassie and Cookie are back in our ultraswank recording studio and have pretty much taken over things), and, finally, the sad passing of Steve Jobs.

Ultrasonic Alarm Call 12 — The End: At the table, Aidan Morgan (host), Shane Hnetka, Cookie Madill, Elan Morgan, Cassie Ozog and me. Music by the Lazy MKs. Runtime: 40 min inane chatter, 2 min 18 sec of Cookie laughing.

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Ultrasonic Alarm Call Episode 11: Regina Goes Boom!

By on October 11, 2011 in Architecture, City Hall, Regina, Ultrasonic Alarm Call, Uncategorized

This week’s episode isn’t merely a podcast, it’s our submission to the Design Regina process.

The city is out to revamp its Official Community Plan and we’re getting involved. But instead of just filling in the little “Citizen Circle” workbook the city sent us, we recorded our discussions and we’ll be sending in this mp3 as well.

What’s with that look of trepidation, city? It’s not like council is ever going to see more than a point-form summary of what’s offered up by the Citizen Circles, anyway. Don’t worry. Carle’s crazy ideas about how the city should take over parking again, our hand wringing about heritage buildings being demolished, our shared rage about how unaffordable housing has recently become, our discussion of where the zombie apocalypse will begin and what it has to say about good urban form, all of that will wind up as nothing more than a few bowdlerized remarks in a list of hundreds.

But you know who I pity? It’s the poor intern who’s going to have to slog through all those Citizen Circle submissions. At least when they get to ours, they’ll get to listen to some awesome intro and outro music by the Lazy MKs.

Ultrasonic Alarm Call Episode 11 — Regina Goes Boom: At the table, Carle Steel, Vanda Schmockel, Cassie Ozog, Karen Meagher and me as host. Bonus interview with Cookie Madill. Music by the Lazy MKs. Runtime: 45 min 53 sec.

To download, click on the radio above. And when you’ve finished with this, you might want to check out last week’s episode, Signal To Noise, which is a companion piece to the feature on the paranormal in the current issue of prairie dog.

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Ultrasonic Alarm Call Episode 10: Signal To Noise

By on October 4, 2011 in Film, Science, TV, Ultrasonic Alarm Call, Uncategorized

What is orgonite and how can it help with that chem trails problem? Why are crop circles so darned pretty? Do dogs have auras? How can Archangel Michael help out with the lotto?

We answer all these questions and more in this week’s Ultrasonic episode as we recap our roadtrip to beautiful Fort Qu’appelle for the Extraordinary Fair, a paranormal symposium.

We have interviews with a ghost hunter, a crop circle researcher and an angel channeller! And we drink Manhattans! It’s 100% pure fun!

(And if you want even more paranormal thrills, be sure to check out the next issue of prairie dog, which will be hitting newsstands and countertops city wide later this week. We have more on the paranormal fair and we have an interview with someone very amazing.)

Also in this episode, Shane and Aidan have seen Drive. Did they like it? Does a Chevy Malibu have a soul? Can it learn to love? I imagine it must. Why else would people keep them as pets? And what about the Emmys? They’re long over but why did they suck so hard? Aidan has a few ideas.

Ultrasonic Alarm Call Episode 10 — Signal To Noise: At the table, Aidan Morgan (host), Vanda Schmockel, Shane Hnetka, and me. Music by the always excellent Lazy MKs. Runtime 31 min of free-ranging mockery, 11 min 28 sec guilt.o download this episode for your later listening enjoyment, click on the radio above or on the little down arrow in the player window.

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Ultrasonic Alarm Call Episode 09: The Truth Is A Lie

By on September 12, 2011 in Books, City Hall, Comics, Ultrasonic Alarm Call, Uncategorized

This week, on prairie dog‘s most podcasty audio entertainment, we take a tour of Harbour Landing and wonder, what does this town have against pedestrians?

Also, we look at Shane and ask, why is he looking so haggard? Does it have anything to do with DC Comic’s reboot?

Then, another installment of Shit We Haven’t Seen. Did you know sci-fi superstar Orson Scott Card rewrote Hamlet for a modern audience? Did you know Hamlet is all about the evil gay agenda? Well, that’s what Card says. Aidan responds.

Also, we announce the winners of last episode’s big contest and get another update on Capital Pointe.

Ultrasonic Alarm Call Episode 09 — The Truth Is A Lie: At the table, Aidan Morgan (host), Shane Hnetka and me. Music by the Lazy MKs. Runtime: 30 min fusty ruminations, 7 min 31 sec frantic tirades.

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Ultrasonic Alarm Call Episode 08: Don’t Eat The Salmon, Moose

By on September 2, 2011 in City Hall, Comics, Food, Music, Ultrasonic Alarm Call, Uncategorized

This week, Aidan was waylaid by zombies and Shane was busy astral projecting, so joining me in the Ultrasonic Alarm Call’s ultraswank podcasting module was Cookie Madill and, on guest hosting duties, Stephen Whitworth.

On the agenda: Does Regina hate renters? We go to city hall to find out. Does Regina hate pop music and joy? We listen to a couple tracks off the new Library Voices’ CD, Summer of Lust, then wonder how that could be possible.

Then, does Regina hate Superman’s new costume? And, is Whitworth weirdly obsessed with that question? I’m guessing yes on both counts.

That’s a lot of hate for one podcast. Fortunately, Ultrasonic Alarm Call is all about love and we balance all that hate with two installments of Cooking With Cookie! What does roller derby’s culinary terror have in store for us this week? Listen to find out.

Plus, we have another giveaway which we’re calling New Contest, Old Prize! This time, we have an audio riddle for you to solve! Listen close and win some swag!

Ultrasonic Alarm Call Episode 08: Don’t Eat The Salmon, Moose! At the table, Stephen Whitworth (host), Cookie Madill and me. Runtime 47 min essential listening, 36 sec incoherent blubbering. Music by the Lazy MKs.

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Ultrasonic Alarm Call Episode 07: Death Comes At Midnight

By on August 17, 2011 in Architecture, City Hall, Film, News, Politics, Ultrasonic Alarm Call, Uncategorized

Oh sure, by now everybody’s probably sick to death of reading about the 13th Avenue Safeway expansion. But what about hearing about it?

Because that’s where episode seven of the Ultrasonic Alarm Call kicks off. Do we like the new design? Do bears shit in toilets? Listen to find out the answer to at least one of those questions.

From there, we look at the province’s proud, new housing policy. Does it stink? Like bear shit in a toilet? And what about that public art that’s straddling the airport road? What is it exactly and why isn’t it bigger?

And speaking of airports, did you hear ours will soon have an endless carwash? It will but you can’t use it. Tune in to find out who can. And to find out what we think about Superman’s new costume — the one appearing in that Zack Snyder turd to follow Sucker Punch film.

All that plus the very first Ultrasonic Alarm Call giveaway!! Listen to the end to find out how you can win some keen rock’n'roll swag.

Ultrasonic Alarm Call Episode 07 – Death Comes At Midnight: At the table, Aidan Morgan (host), Shane Hnetka, Stephen Whitworth and me. Runtime: 9 min of semi-intelligent banter, 31 min of gin-stoked bitching. Music by the Lazy MKs.

UltrasonicAlarmCall-episode07 by Paul Dechene

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Ultrasonic Alarm Call Episode 06: The March Of Time

By on July 25, 2011 in Books, City Hall, Ultrasonic Alarm Call, Uncategorized

This week, a series of city hall updates including some reassuring news about the city square plaza and a look at the waste plan flier the city is distributing around the city. Also, prairie dog is planning to rock the Official Community Plan consultation now that we’ve received our citizen circle package. And you can be involved too. Find out what that’s all about.

And, Shane reviews the new James Bond novel by Jeffrey Deaver, Carte Blanche. Does he love it or does he think it’s a pile of crap like nine tenths of the movies he reviews in the p-dog listings? Listen in to find out.

Plus, Aiden has a review of Some Shit He Hasn’t Seen.

Ultrasonic Alarm Call Episode 06 – The March Of Time: At the table, Aidan Morgan (host), Shane Hnetka and me. Music by the Lazy MKs. Runtime: 33 min 30 sec.

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Prairie Dogs Vs. Engagement Chicken

By on July 8, 2011 in Ultrasonic Alarm Call, Uncategorized

We recorded close to two hours of material for episode five of the Ultrasonic Alarm Call (prairie dog’s best podcast). And to edit that down in a reasonable time I had to blast through a lot of it at one-and-a-half times speed.

Thanks to our guests (Kaeli and Cassie of the True Knit Art Show) that podcast was pretty crazy to begin with. Listening to the episode as though it had been done by actual, engagement-chicken obsessed prairie dogs was completely unhinged.

Below, some clips from episode five as I would have heard them. It’s the essence of the podcast distilled down to six and a half minutes….

UACepisode05-outtakes by Paul Dechene

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Ultrasonic Alarm Call Episode 05: Sins Of The Past

By on July 7, 2011 in City Hall, Music, Ultrasonic Alarm Call, Uncategorized

This week on prairie dog’s most hearted podcast, we open with a quick story about Regina’s Freemasons and schemes gone by. What were the Masons up to back in 1996 when they decided to do battle with the Victoria Park Heritage Conservation District? You’ll have to listen to find out.

After that, Cookie and Cassie from the True Knit Art Show — fresh from roller derby practice (although it might be more accurate to call them “ripe”) — invade the UAC’s ultra-swank podcasting studio and take over the place (in a good way). We discuss their upcoming art/craft show on July 9 at St Paul’s Cathedral (that’s this Saturday, people), roller derby in Regina and local rockers SheKillsMe. They also become obsessed with “engagement chicken” and from there madness rapidly ensues. (Lucky for you, the Admiral Ackbar impressions all wound up on the editing room floor.)

Later, we call up errant dogcaster, Vanda Schmockel, and get her impressions of New York, the Novia Cafe closure and heritage preservation in Regina.

Also, don’t miss a preview of the track “Pirate Ship” off SheKillsMe’s album, As Strong As Legends.

Ultrasonic Alarm Call Episode 05 — Sins of the Past: At the table, Aidan Morgan (host), Elan Morgan, Shane Hnetka, and me. Special guests, Cookie Madill and Cassie Ozog of the True Knit Art Show. Intro and outro music provided by the Lazy MKs. Runtime: 56min 32sec.

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Find more info on the True Knit Art Show here, on Pile O’Bones Roller Derby here and SheKillsMe here.

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Ultrasonic Alarm Call Episode 04: Reboots

By on June 24, 2011 in City Hall, Comics, Ultrasonic Alarm Call, Uncategorized

Turning it off and turning it back on again. It’s the cure-all for our time. And this week, instead of starting from scratch ourselves, we’re looking at two reboots the respective rebooters hope will solve all the world’s problems.

First up, the continuing saga of Regina Public Library’s downtown branch. We were just supposed to be getting a revamped central library but the RPL board secretly toggled the on/off switch on that plan and now we’re getting something much bigger and much grander.

Why the change? Why all the secrecy? Who made the Masons cross? Plus! Are animatronics really better than books? We think so and you’ll just have to listen to the podcast to find out why.

In the second half: DC Comics plans to reboot their entire line of funny books. Will the new DC be superpowered or superdumb-as-turds? Plus, what does all this mean for digital publishing and summer movies? And! Are there any parallels between the DC Comics and RPL situations?

As it turns out, yes. And you might call that alarming.

Ultrasonic Alarm Call Episode Four — Reboots: Looking for a good jumping on point? Consider this episode your number one. At the table, Aidan Morgan (host), Shane Hnetka and me. Music, as always, by the very awesome Lazy MKs. Runtime: 35m 11s.

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Ultrasonic Alarm Call Episode 03: Unfortunate Emissions

By on June 3, 2011 in City Hall, Film, Music, Ultrasonic Alarm Call, Uncategorized

What were ought-to-have-been-our-MP Noah Evanchuck and dogcaster Paul Dechene scraping off the street at the Cathedral Village Arts Festival street fair? Did it contribute to Lars Von Triers being declared persona non grata at Cannes? Did it kill Melancholia‘s chances at the Palm D’Or? Did it win Kirsten Dunst a best actress nod?

The theme for this installment of the Ultrasonic Alarm Call, the prairie dog‘s best loved podcast, is Unfortunate Emissions.

Also in this episode, city hall wants you to help design the Regina of the Future and we want to help you hijack the process. Plus, host Aidan Morgan reviews Some Shit We Haven’t Seen: this week’s subject: X-Men: First Class.

If you haven’t listened to any prairie dog podcast before, this is the place to start. It contains twice as much pep and hilarity as our other podcasts but now with 50% less phlegm.

As always, music is provided by the Lazy MKs. They have no gigs coming up I’m aware of but they do have a new album out, Where We Bin. You can pick up a copy at all the finer local record shops and Hi-Fi outlets.

Ultrasonic Alarm Call Episode Three — Unfortunate Emissions: At the table, Aidan Morgan (host), Shane Hnetka, Paul Dechene. Special surprise guest, Young Dashiell. Music by the Lazy MKs. Runtime: 30 min.

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Ultrasonic Alarm Call Episode 02: The Renamed prairie dog Podcast

By on May 13, 2011 in Music, News, Ultrasonic Alarm Call, Uncategorized

Yeah. I don’t know either. I was the one pushing for “Ultrasonic Alarm Call” as the title and now that we’ve gone and used it I have all this naming remorse.

By way of explanation, an ultrasonic alarm call is the noise a prairie dog makes when it’s in distress. See? It kind of makes sense. Especially considering we have an election wrap up in this week’s installment. (But if we change the name again, don’t be surprised.)

Anyway, in this episode, we take a look at the election results and how Saskatchewan’s wonky riding layout skewed things in the Conservative’s favour. We also look at the long form census, the opening of the Creative City Centre project in the downtown, and we examine Regina’s heavy metal scene in some detail. And we have another review of some shit we haven’t seen.

This episode comes with a mature content warning. Moreso than usual, that is. The discussion of heavy metal veers into some dark territory. There’s a lot of nervous laughter and we try to keep it from going off the rails, but, yeesh, Norwegian metal….. it’s just all badness.

Music is once again provided by the Lazy MKs. They’re awesome. Be sure to check out their myspace page and go to their shows. I hear they’re playing the Cathedral Village Arts Festival.

Ultrasonic Alarm Call Episode 02 — Modifications: At the table, Aidan Morgan (host), Vanda Schmockel, Carle Steel, Danny Kresnyak, Elan Morgan and me. Music by the Lazy MKs. Runtime: 42 minutes.

To download click on the link above.

You can also download our other podcasts like episode one or episode zero. And then there are the two, full-length preview episodes. And you can always follow the whole podcasting saga by clicking the podcast tag.

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