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May
23
2013
Just sold all my silver to buy myself a birthday present
And paid extra for shipping so it will be here by my birthday, May 25. I got an RE-20 microphone, the best broadcast mic in the world. Oooohhhhh I love that retro 60s charm! I used to have one a long time ago, they are pretty damn stunning. MEW!
Silver was at a low price for selling. The guy at the silver store was grinning at me. Urgh. I am powerless over microphones. But the first step is admitting have a problem…..
–Michael W. Dean
May
22
2013
Time to rely on the individual and not the “experts”
America’s Bubble Economy Is Going To Become An Economic Black Hole
Keynesian economics, and central planning….what a dangerous mix. While most Americans are focused on celebrity gossip or the latest “scandal” in D.C. the federal reserve has quietly continued it’s policy of pumping more fiat cash into the system (also know as quantitative easing). While this may have the short-term effect of stimulating the stock market and giving the illusion of economic stability, the center cannot hold. Read More »
May
21
2013
Libertarian gets 8 stitches after fight with progressive
Breaking news in the fight against injustice, and a great example of when words go too far and logical fallacies prevail in seemingly civil discussions, Michael W. Dean, co-host of the Freedom Feens radio show, ended up with 8 stitches after fighting over politics with a progressive.
But here’s what you should know: you should always read an article before reacting to the headline and you should certainly read an article before you forward a link to all your friends. You should also certainly read an article before you comment on it on some social network, basing your comment only on the title and the image.
Michael did get into a verbal fight with a progressive, but it did not end in fisticuffs. And a few days after that fight, Michael did have a procedure done to remove a cyst that resulted in 8 stitches. But there was no connection between the two. So the headline “Libertarian gets 8 stitches after fight with progressive” is accurate, but misleading. Bad Quaker Ben Stone says that this is an example of the following logical fallacies:
–Non-sequitur
–Fallacy of relevance
–Fallacy of composition
–Cherry picking
–Bait-and-switch.
For more on identifying logical fallacies and defusing them when they’re used on you (which often happens with progressives, and conservatives, when they are confronted with libertarian ideas), check out Ben Stone’s Bad Quaker episode where he debunks some progressive’s arguments with Michael on radio.
Please forward this link to all your friends.
May
20
2013
Bad Quaker vs. the Progressive
Here, Bad Quaker Ben Stone does a great audio lesson picking apart Michael Dean’s radio interview with a statist. It’s really good for learning to recognize logical fallacies. Worms.
May
15
2013
Drone worship.
Photo credit, Crazy Rich.
I want to keep this short, the level of obsession over drones in our culture nowadays has reached absolutely insane levels. If there was a giant solar flare or nuclear war I would imagine that some people would install inoperative drones in churches and worship them as the ultimate achievement of our species. Drape their wings in gold chains, burn incense around them and offer up their first born to them. “Oh sacred reaper of the wicked, take mercy on our bodies for we no not what it is thou wants!” To channel Alex Jones for a moment, I know it’s trendy and hip to be scared shitless of these things but, and this goes doubly for people in the libertarian community, stop being scared of drones! Read More »
May
15
2013
Adam Kokesh and Scott Horton’s Shouting Room, and Ron Paul’s Free-Market Gynecology Clinic
Crazy Rich and I have been coming up with ideas for “visualizing LibPar” (libertarian paradise). Above is a detailed close up (note homeless Obama begging for spare change for hookers and beers, with “at least I’m doing honest work now!” sign).
Maybe this is FeenPar (Feens Libertarian Paradise.)
Below is the whole panorama. Click on it, get the big image, download it (it’s huge!) and scroll around and zoom in and out. It’s got a lot of fun Feens inside jokes in it, and some stuff you don’t have to be a Feens listener to dig. Groovy visual work on this by Crazy Rich.
And we dig Adam and Scott, the shouting room is a nod to them, done with love.
–Michael W. Dean.
addendum: I figured out what town that LibPar photo is from. …..downtown Ogden, Utah. Look at the banner at the top of their town website:
May
11
2013
May 11th: A guide to the Feens on radio, and you
OK, first of all, dig the cool Feens animated gif! ^ Old schooly, yo! It’s Windows 3.1-tastic! Box Fresh Gifs, what ho!
After six months of working toward it, this weekend, May 11th and 12th, IT BEGINS!!!!!! Freedom Feens are syndicated for radio on Genesis Communications Network. You can listen live on selected radio stations or on the GCN streaming feed, Noon-2 PM Central, time every Saturday and Sunday. (That’s 10 AM-Noon West Coast, 11 AM-1 PM Mountain time, and 1 PM-3 PM East Coast time.) CALL-IN NUMBER (during parts of the show where we take calls, we’ll let you know) is 1-800-259-9231. (The old Alex Jones number.) You can also listen live on the LRN feed.
Our first show, we have two guest segments, Cody Wilson (the printable gun guy), and Ben Stone. BUT…..We won’t be taking calls on our first show 5/11/2013. We will be taking calls on Sunday and most shows after that, but usually for only part of the show (probably second hour, maybe only the second half of the second hour). We will announce the number on-air when we take calls.
You can text chat to the Feens live during shows at this link.
All live shows are released after they air, as podcasts, on our RSS feed. The Feens also do a non-live podcast show, mid week, every week. Usually around Wednesday, on the same feed.
STATIONS THAT PLAY THE FEENS:
WZFG 1100 AM. Fargo, North Dakota / Moorhead, Minnesota. Saturday 2-4 PM. 50,000 watts. Coverage map. Listen link.
KTGO 1090 AM. Tioga, North Dakota. Saturday 3-5 PM. 1,100 watts. Coverage map. Listen link.
WPBQ 1240 AM. Jackson, MS. Sundays live Noon-2 PM. 880 watts. Coverage map.
More coming daily, and there may be a few of the 500+ GCN affiliate stations that pick up the Feens automatically, we won’t know for a few weeks or so. This blog post will not be updated, updating list of Feens stations here.
If you are a dedicated Feen, and have cold calling experience and a lot of time on your hands and want to help the Feens get on more stations more quickly, send a resume to the Feens.
May
09
2013
Listening to the Freedom Feens on Radioooooooooo!!!!!!!!
After six months of working toward it, this weekend, May 11th and 12th, IT BEGINS!!!!!! Freedom Feens are syndicated for radio on Genesis Communications Network. You can listen live on selected radio stations or on the GCN streaming feed, Noon-2 PM Central, time every Saturday and Sunday. (That’s 10 AM-Noon West Coast, 11 AM-1 PM Mountain time, and 1 PM-3 PM East Coast time.) CALL-IN NUMBER (during parts of the show where we take calls, we’ll let you know) is 1-800-259-9231. (The old Alex Jones number.)
You can text chat to the Feens live during shows at this link.
OUR 24/7 Freedom Feens STREAMING FEED plays a random loop of all previous shows. Bookmark it!
All live shows are released after they air, as podcasts, on our RSS feed. The Feens also do a non-live podcast show, mid week, every week. Usually around Wednesday, on the same feed.
If you like torrents, check out our free torrent club.
STATIONS THAT PLAY THE FEENS:
WZFG 1100 AM. Fargo, North Dakota / Moorhead, Minnesota. Saturday 2-4 PM. 50,000 watts. Coverage map. Listen link.
KTGO 1090 AM. Tioga, North Dakota. Saturday 3-5 PM. 1,100 watts. Coverage map. Listen link.
WPBQ 1240 AM. Jackson, MS. Sundays live Noon-2 PM. 880 watts. Coverage map.
More coming daily, and there may be a few of the 500+ GCN affiliate stations that pick up the Feens automatically, we won’t know for a few weeks or so. This blog post will not be updated, updating list of Feens stations here.
If you are a dedicated Feen, and have cold calling experience and a lot of time on your hands and want to help the Feens get on more stations more quickly, send a resume to the Feens.
May
02
2013
Entrek Force Recon, for most of your slicing and chopping needs.
Still life, fighting knife, pistol with creamy ivory-polymer grips, receptacles and 2 coins.
I freely admit that I enjoy the finer things, when I can afford them. But I find that almost every purchase I make has to be justified down to the Nth degree if it is over $20. As such my “vacations” if you can call them that usually consist of spending time off in various wilderness areas. I hike and spend as much time in the wild as possible, which isn’t as much time as I would like. I don’t hunt, but that’s only because the opportunity has never come up, with the exception of some skunk hunting. Read More »
May
02
2013
Freedom Feens in “The Bible of Talk Radio”
Freedom Feens got a nice show announcement in Talkers Magazine today. Talkers is an industry publication rightly called “The Bible of Talk Radio.” We’re honored to be mentioned there.
Our goal was to be mentioned in Talkers by six months after being on radio. To have it happen ten days before we start on radio is hitting it out of the park in Feen land.
The mention is currently on Talkers’ front page, and is archived here.
Apr
29
2013
The Sorry State of Radio Station Websites, article on GCN by Michael W. Dean
For the past two months, I’ve spent about ten hours a day looking at every talk radio station Website in America, compiling contact info.
I have not only looked at your station’s Website, I’ve looked at several pages of your station’s Website. And I took notes. There are a lot of things wrong with a lot of radio station Websites….
(….read more on Genesis Communications Network site, HERE.)
Apr
24
2013
FIXED Bad Quaker top 50 episodes, featuring Ben Stone. BitTorrent Archive
(We fixed the issues with this, this torrent will download to 100% reliably. Please delete old one (torrent and data) and download this and seed it instead. Thanks and sorry about that, it wasn’t our fault, it happens once in a while, computers are an interesting mix of science and voodoo.)
Help keep Ben Stone’s Bad Quaker shows drone proof! “Bad Quaker top 50 episodes, featuring Ben Stone.” Bittorrent Link here.
Please seed and share!
This is the top 50 episodes, fan-sourced on Ben’s forum by listeners.
If you don’t know how to use BitTorrent, here’s info.
Put together by Freedom Feens, torrenting by Sean DuVally, Freedom Feens torrent master.
Apr
23
2013
Video games and violence, no not violence in video games.
As a slowly reforming cyber-Luddite I freely admit that I used to not be a fan of video games. I can’t help but get the feeling that this is because I was introduced to them back the days of video arcades and crude computer games. Specifically the ones that were impossible to win, I mean literally, they had no final challenge, no “hit here to win game!”
Later on I played other games which were a bit more sophisticated, although they were still a bit of a challenge to win. I think I beat a grand total of five video games before I grew annoyed with the infuriating tech of the time and gave up on them for awhile. Read More »
Apr
16
2013
Feens start date on RADIO is official
Freedom Feens are proud to announce their start on RADIO on via Genesis Communications Network. Start date is official, Saturday May 11th. The Feens will be live on radio Every Saturday and Sunday from Noon – 2 PM Central time.
Now we gotta go get affiliates, but we rock, so that will happen.
Worms.
Apr
14
2013
Making a Franken-Beta Mic for Talk Radio
Most people think that for talk radio, you need to get a $500 RE-20 microphone, because that’s the microphone in most radio stations. The RE-20 is a great sounding mic, but you don’t need it. The reason it’s in most radio stations, other than an “emperor’s new clothes” idea of “that’s the way it’s been done since the 60s”, is that the RE-20 is really forgiving of off-axis talkers. Off-axis means not speaking directly into the front of the mic. Radio stations have a lot of people come into the studio who have never used a microphone, so they have no “microphone technique“, that is, they don’t know how to use a mic.
Read more on Creamy Radio Audio.
Apr
13
2013
A Directory Of Liberty Podcasts
The mainstream media just doesn’t cater to the real liberty folks. For the most part, the only media that you can expect is the same old, warmed over statist talking points. Occasionally, the thought controllers are willing to throw us a bone and give us a tiny bit of liberty with a show like Judge Andrew Napolitano’s “Freedom Watch.” It didn’t really go that far out of the mainstream but now… it has been sent down the memory hole. Too bad. It was a good wake up call for many.
Mainstream television and radio programming have left a gap and it has been filled by independent broadcasters over the internet. If they will not provide… we will create! The market has spoken and the market has delivered. Below is a list of popular podcasts that were suggested in a discussion. If I have left any good ones out that you would like to share, put a link in the comments section.
Bad Quaker Podcast with Ben Stone
The Freedom Feens with Michael W Dean and Neema Vedadi
Anarchy Gumbo Podcast with Michael W Dean
Freedomain Radio with Stefan Molyneux
Porctherapy with Stephanie Murphy
Triple V Vodcast with Mike Shanklin
Police Accountability Report from Cop Block
Hardcore History with Dan Carlin
Declare Your Independence with Ernest hancock
Complete Liberty with Wes Bertrand
The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe
Apr
10
2013
Any feens good at cold calling?
Any Feens fans good at (and have experience with) cold calling and want to make some money doing good work for the Feens and for liberty?
Send an e-mail to talkback@freedomfeens.com
Apr
09
2013
Kyle Bennett’s AMAZING article debunking criticisms of BitCoin
Reprinted without permission from Bad Quaker Dot Com.
“Killer” Criticisms of Bitcoin That Are Really Just Flesh Wounds
by Kyle Bennett on Monday, April 8, 2013 at 11:00pm
Bitcoin is experimental, there’s no doubt about it. As such, it is prone to unknowns, and unknown unknowns, that could theoretically derail the entire project. Some of those unknowns could be fundamental, a flaw in the bitcoin algorithms themselves, or they could be in the current implementation of it.
The ecosystem of trade and exchange around it is even more experimental, with a wild-west feel to it that hasn’t been felt since the early days of the internet. Most of the tools are crude and hastily built; they are incomplete and fragile, and look it. Some have worked fairly well, some have failed in small ways, and a few have failed in big ways.
Yet, bitcoin and it’s associated tools are far from unexamined darts thrown blindly at the wall. The stakes, even now before it matures into a full-fledged currency, are huge. The math has been examined. The math has been tested. The decentralization hypotheses about it have been tested as well. The tools have been exercised far beyond what their creators expected.
Apr
08
2013
The lost art of education
I had a discussion with a friend recently, it got me to thinking what is the most powerful weapon the State has? Is it their military might, their tax system, their welfare system? Those are all serious threats to our liberty, however I believe the most important weapon they have is the public school system. Think about it for a moment, through this system the State indoctrinates generation after generation of children into accepting their myth. Children are now taught that there is no other way to structure modern society, that society would descend into chaos if the State wasn’t there to save us. The god of the State has replaced family, community, and church. Read More »
Apr
05
2013
Freedom Feens Microphones for sale
SOLD! SOLD! SOLD! SOLD! SOLD! SOLD! SOLD! SOLD! SOLD! NOT FOR SALE ANY MORE. SOLD!
Own a piece of Feens history! Now that we’re going to be on RADIOOOOOOOOOOOO! I’m only using dynamic mics, so I’m selling my two condenser mics and one ribbon mic. All are Used. Excellent condition and sound. Owned by Michael Dean of the Freedom Feens, featured on many Feens episodes. Used with pop filter in smokeless room. No smell.
eBay listings:
Very rare MXL prototype for MXL V6 Silicon Valve, is model M3-B. 2 pop filters. Starting bid: $40. Buy it now (with free US Shipping): $200. Listing on eBay.
Nady RSM-4 Dynamic Professional Ribbon Microphone. Starting bid: 99 cents. Buy it now (with free US Shipping): $80. Listing on eBay.
Rode NT1-A Condenser Microphone, with shock mount, gold pop filter. Starting bid: $60. Buy it now (with free US Shipping): $180. Listing on eBay.
Audio test video I made with these mics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCIU0U5p_c4
Apr
02
2013
Count your mouse clicks with MouseCount
This is a little program I designed in 1999 and worked with Austrian programmer Helmut Vogler to get it made. It runs in the system tray, still works on Windows 7, haven’t tried it on 8.
Download it here. Includes uninstaller if you don’t like it, but there’s a lot of simple stupid fun to like. File size is 101 k. Download it HERE.
MouseCount review on PC World.
–Michael W. Dean
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