"After the Fact" Bumper Promo 01 - Guest: Ulysses McCloud

Enjoyed your real life production, commentary and interview format -- sounds real professional. Casual, friendly voice. It certainly would play well on NPR. I've asked folks who have submitted similar formats to my submission -- Talk, to please take a moment and listen to it. Would appreciate your feedback as well. Good luck, and my best to you.

...for not mentioning me specifically at 1:57 as you promised. I have been irrevocably injured and damaged as a result.

Otherwise, a great entry. Excellent voice and a very professional, yet loose presentation.

I also like your Best Show video entry. Good Luck!

You have an interesting POV on the world, I just wish it didn't sound like you were trying too hard.

Plus, you don't have to tell people they are mentioned at 1:57 in your entry to get them to listen. When it turns out you lied, you are going to lose people's trust.

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i hate pulling this card, but i will in this case. i have worked as a producer for WNYC's "the leonard lopate show" and "soundcheck with john schaefer," as well as working as a full-time reporter for WBAI, and i think that your show really has potential. i vote yes.

Good job with the flow. Enjoyed the clip.

tippyfig
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Now that's funny. The rest of it I didn't quite, get. But nice attempt and the mixing of the music was pretty spot-on.

Vote for Cereality!

And bonus points for your name! Its a total NPR name. I'm not sure I understand exactly where the 4th wall stuff comes in, do you see it like Larry Sanders style? That's a great idea, if so! I love it when folks fuzz fact and fiction!
Love to hear more. You should do it as a podcast! Let me know if it already is!

Be Baffled By Bafflegab!-->
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"All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy" - Spike Milligan

Would like to have heard more about you in this piece.

Good luck.

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Please listen, then vote and comment if you are willing, to my 2 minutes of funk (sans funk)
http://www.publicradioquest.com/node/805

I like the concept, (no but). It will be a lot of work to have a partially scripted show. I do career segments on a local Atlanta station weekly and it takes gobbs of research and writing for 5 minute segments...writing a whole scripted show...you have your work cut out.

Best of luck.

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This is good, better than a lot of harry shearer's stuff. good luck!
leah

please, won't you listen and comment?
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Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.

This host has a nice NPR Radio Host sound - and the basic set up is good. So he almost had me..

But then I listened to the interview.
I couldn't tell if was "real" or just a mock up.

What concerened me was that in either case the guest was a LOON. But the host just allowed the guest to ramble on, and spew out bits and pieces of non-coherent thoughts.

How is that useful to the listener?!
A good host should have something insightful and USEFUL to say - not just allow guests a forum for their lunacy.

Please see my post on "Talk Star" for more on what makes a good host - IMHO.

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I don't think making false statements on anothers entry about them being mentioned in your spot is nice. You give me a compliment and say that I am mentioned, but what really gets my goat is you have done that to a lot of other entries. So if the latter of your comment is a lie what does that say about your opening statement. Kindly remove your comment from my page please. If you want to promote your piece that is fine but don't lie to do it. That is unethical. Thank you \m/-TA2-\m/

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Well, I can just forget about making it to the next round of this contest... >:(
-Especially- if I have to compete with your entry, Mr. Anderson.. oh, sorry.. Mr. Smith. >:P
And even if I did make it to the next round, I never would be able to handle the lions, and if faced against you, you would just need to have me laugh myself to death, to win.

You have my vote. Emphatically. Your entry was the -best- I have heard so far.
I am very certain I will be culled quickly, but I will be -rooting- for you. I would -dearly- *love* to hear a radio version of 'The Onion' on public radio, and -you- seem to be the man to do it! >:o >:)

- Wayne Powers

"Surly to bed, surly to rise, makes you about average..." Anonymous

P.S. -> Your YouTube 'politicalesque ad' video was a *RIOT* too. If you don't make it in radio, you should give TV a shot. Comedy Central should snap you up in a -second-!

I was completely wollitized -- you captured the kren refraptingly. Stay within your thrune and ballow nefare!

this is a show that i would definitely listen to. this has to be produced!

and engaging. I liked how you allowed your subject to paint his own story and you supplied the frame. You didn't overpower the interview. I know it is "scripted" but sounds natural. I like it. Especially if your guests are this colorful!

So this "partially scripted talk show" thing? Are you familiar with The Kumars @ Number 42? British show couple years back? Hysterical. Absolutely hysterical.

Real celebrities were brought in and "interviewed" by this demented South Asian family played by fabulous improv actors. You just never knew what was going to happen next - and neither did the celebrities - but you knew it was going to be good.

Dogknows all the "real" chat shows are all, essentially, scripted - either before the fact or after the fact - so what the hey. Just go b*lls out and call it what it is and have FUN.

As you CLEARLY did!

Very funny - very, very funny. You and Pete Moore. Oi! *I* am not worthy.

*n*

"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about" - Oscar Wilde

I could listen to you all evening. It's very skillfully done.

Great entry - your humor reminds me of the very brilliant comedy talk radio program The Phil Hendrie Show, which I discovered on AM just before he went off the air for good. I hope you'll keep Ulysses by your side in Round Two and beyond.

-- Linda

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