Episode Transcript
Hey, radio friends. You're listening listening to International Feel on one one point five UMFM. Or u m f m dot com. Or maybe it's maybe you're looking back on this episode on international feel dot org. Yep. Deep in the archives. Yeah. But if you're listening live, it's the special Pledge Rama episode. It's Pledge Rama twenty twenty six. So, yeah, it's it's an exciting time of year. It's the one time the one week where UMFM and International Feel, specifically, ask for some listener and community support. Know, the radio station has some costs and equipment that needs to be upgraded and repaired and the day to day things that need funds. Yeah. We'll level with you. Running a radio station isn't getting easier and it's not getting cheaper. No. And for us to sound this good, it Oh, it takes it a lot. They gotta It takes a lot of voice synthesizing machines. Specialized instruments and and all kinds of things like that. We saw Jared walking in and Oh. Think he got intimidated. He Yeah. I think he He's got the new number. But He did kinda kinda stared him. Yeah. Kinda scared him. Stared him down. He was gonna come in. Oh. I think we've got an update. Yeah. Oh. Oh. We have Door's opening. New number coming in, I believe. Got a number? Oh. Why? Drum roll. Drum roll, please. No number. No number. Oh. He's relaying a memo. Yes. It's a memorandum. It's Yeah. Yeah. We can't actually divulge what's the memo's about on the radio. No. Okay. So it's about So yes, it's security related. Oh. And? And we are sitting at The new the new number. What do we what do we add, Jared? We got a two. Seven. Twenty seven dollars. No. Wait. Wait. There's more. He's not done. We'll do it again. You you really you really use that space inefficiently. Come on, Jared. What are we Okay. We are sitting at Twenty seven thousand seven hundred and twenty eight dollars. And twenty cents and twenty cent Oh. Oh. No. He's erasing it again. Oh, he's rewriting it. But the numbers right. Okay. That's all we need to know. Hey. Yeah. Alright. The graphic designer and me. It's a good thing there's no visual part of this. Mind I mind the margin. Yeah. Live radio. It's beautiful. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks for listening. Thanks for Oh, that that is that looks so beautiful. To the listener at home, the numbers are centered on board now. Yeah. It's it's aesthetically pleasing now. Thank you, Jared. Well done. We're doing well. So we're well on our way of a goal of what what's Thirty four thousand? I saw. Yeah. So, yeah, thank you for all the people who have generously donated. And if you're thinking about making a donation, maybe the show will tip the scales in a good way. Yeah. Yeah. And if if you put in a pledge through this show, we're gonna give you some International Feel stickers. Oh, yeah. We've got some stickers hot off the presses. Additionally, umfm, they have you can if you hop on over, umfm dot com, you can check out all the sweet merch that they're giving away. Of course, we've got the buttons, the stickers, magnets. We've got a mug, pins. We've got a shirts. We've got a couple cool shirts. Think there's a hoodie in here. There's a hoodie and a long sleeve. Like, we're we're doing pretty well. There's some cool designs and some cool Bunch of contest to enter as well. Oh, yeah. The golden ticket. Yeah. Do you wanna do you wanna read some of the contests there? Well, I can read the big one because Oh, yeah. If you if you donate two hundred and fifty dollars, you actually get into the golden guest list content. And what's that? And no. It's like includes Side Stage Park, Theater, Times Change, West End Cultural Center, The Handsome Daughter, Real Love, and Jazz Winnipeg. So All the big ones. Tickets and camping to the Folk Fest. Oh, man. Wow. So And there's some really good artists at the Folk Fest this year. Lots of cool artists at Folk Fest this year. Yeah. It's gonna be good. It's gonna be good. And, UMFM has you covered. We've got incentive levels for Yeah. That'll that'll fit fit to your, budget. Yeah. Besides the fact that radio is an incentive as well. Oh, yeah. Just keeping this going. All the great listenings that we're offering. Yeah. Yeah. This goes to making the community what it is. And and actually, some of this money for this year is gonna go towards UMFM putting up a local news desk. How is that? Yeah. The report report the beat on the community. Yeah. That's great. I feel like it's more important now than ever Yeah. That local news and Journalism. Yeah. It's it's vital, and we're we're seeing kind of a clawback of that. Mhmm. And Resources. Yeah. At the community level too. It's it's really nice to see. Yeah. It's it's cool. It's cool. So help us with that initiative by donating today or, you know, until Friday and we've got until Friday we're running right yeah till Friday but I think donate at any time yeah oh you donate but that's kind of the trick but yeah yeah and they've also sold some of the other kind of merchandise from past times on the website dot com. Yeah. FM dot com, the latest edition also courtesy of listener support. Oh, yeah. Pledgerama That's your Item from years past. Your donation dollars at work. So, yeah, if you wanna call us on the phone, the donation line, you can call us at two zero four four seven four six six one zero, or you can go to umfm dot com slash donate. Yeah. We'd make it or you can come to Downey University Center. Yeah. We got people. People here. Yeah. People we've got all sorts of methods. Operators are standing by. Operators are standing by. And yeah. We we accept cash, check, or money order, etransfer, Visa or Mastercard. They also have a pre authorized credit card payment based on your preferred schedule plan. Mhmm. Also, PayPal. So yeah. Yeah. Maybe you wanna break up the donation, over the course of the year. Yep. Yeah. Just installments. That'll work. We'll we'll work with Lots of ways. Yeah. We're we're happy to meet meet you you need to. Happy meet. Yeah. We'll we'll meet you. Also, if you pledge within the hour, we're gonna do some other with the stickers, we've got some international feel exclusive promotions, incentives. For five hundred, we will cut your grass. Mhmm. Eight hundred dollars within the hour, we will, you know, help you move. Help you move. Make you a sing one of his signature sandwiches. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Maybe cut your hair. Yeah. So that's that's part of the sandwich. Yeah. Hair in a sandwich. Yeah. Yeah. Sandwich while we cut your hair. Wow. Oh. I usually don't like to eat when I get a haircut, but I might have to make a Yeah. Could figure something out. That seems pretty dangerous. Yeah. I don't if you want a mouthful of hair. I don't know. Anyways, yeah, we've got a we've got a lot of good incentives going down. UMFM and International Feel exclusives. So, yeah, think about making a donation. We're happy to take your call or email, e transfer, what have you. Yeah. Like, my mom, she just blindly e transferred. She's just shooting off. Yeah. She's like, it happened to make it to Jared and then followed up on and sorted out. But it's found its way. Yeah. We'll work with you. Yeah. Just blindly send your money. Into the wind. I wouldn't recommend that. But Just. Yeah. Just blow it into the wind. Off into the wind. It'll find its way here. Just trust. Just trust. Just trust. It'll find its place. Yeah. Alright. Well, should we cut back to the music? Yeah. We'll play some more music, and we'll we'll check back in. Don't worry. International Feel, PledgeRam edition. Welcome back to International Feel on one zero one point five FM. Hey. Oh, yeah, or international feel dot org. Which one did you say? Internet. Mine. Cut. Cut. Okay. Square one. Okay. All that rehearsal time. I know. I know. I Over and over we went and I tried to go off book, but I I still screwed it up. Who's who's on first? Actually, don't know what? I don't know. What's on second? How is on third? Howie Mandel is on third? Howie Mandel is on third. Famously. Famously. Well, that's, International Feel and UMFM's, annual pledgerama. So I hope you're enjoying. We we were pulling out all the stops this week with all the programming. We're trying to highlight the best and the the brightest and really show what does for the community, which is a lot. It provides, like, so much interesting local programming. It's got it's got it's a wealth. Free content. Come on. Station here has a cool live booth so you can get bands like recording in here. Yeah. Oh, yeah. We've got we're looking to expand our training capabilities. Right. The broadcast landscape is always changing. Equipment's always getting more and more digital. Radio still has like lots of dials and all these kind of things. So equipment's always changing. We always need to upgrade and repair things and it's not cheap. No. It's not for sure. No. That's why this is the time of year where we ask, you know, friends of the the show and the the radio universe out there to, you know, generously just send us what you can if if this station means anything, which, you know, means a lot to to the community and to to me, providing cool, alternative radio, which, you really don't get anywhere else. You know? And if you wanna resist the algorithm, there's not a lot of places where you can find cool programs that isn't just kinda like funneled and targeting you and sort of nefarious things like that. Yeah. International Feel employs proprietary algorithms. Oh, yeah. Our music and They're just the themes for the episodes. They're they're experimental algorithms. We we handpick the algorithms. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, there's a there's a lot of things that this radio station provides to the community and just listeners out there, you know, some cool stuff. So, yeah, if you're feeling feeling like you wanna donate, you can give us a call. Two zero four four seven four six six one zero or umfm dot com slash donate. Lots of great incentive packages. Absolutely. Lots of great merchandise, cool cool graphics adorning the merchandise. It is a very cool logo this year. Yeah. Cool logos. We've got yeah. Draw draws into some cool I do like the one zero one point five donation. Oh, read it out. Let's hear it. What do you get for one zero one point? An entry into a draw for the Festival Express. Oh. So I mean, if you guys love festivals, which every Manitoban does, this complete with camping for five this summer, hottest out of town festivals including, listen to this, prairie wind, fire and water, trout forest, whoop and holler, and harvest moon. And that's the that's the whole It's basically your summer planned. Yeah. Right there. And how many people? Five. Five. Five. In camping. That's a good guest list. That's a party. That that tent is gonna be rocking. Wow. So that was, for one hundred and one dollars and fifty cents. Additionally, for a hundred and fifty dollars, that you get, one entry into the golden guest list draw, which is, you know, people are asking. People are saying, what's the deal with the golden guest list? So it's a free Is it really golden? It Is it a golden ticket? I'm getting to that. So it's a free entry for you and one guest valid for twelve shows at your venue of choice from May fifteenth to April thirtieth twenty twenty seven. It's pretty crazy. Twelve shows. Any shows you want. Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah. So that's cool. So that's a hundred and fifty dollars. And a festival in Calgary. Oh, yes. Passes to the twenty twenty six Sled Island. Oh, no way. You get to travel. That's a cool one. If that was this this year? Twenty twenty six. Think the guest curator is was it clipping? Oh, that's who's doing it this year? I think so. Could be interesting. There we Could be good. Bit of a wild act. Kinda cool. Kinda cool. So if you're interested in that, you know, think about donating. Give us a call. Operators are standing by. Two zero four four seven four six six one zero. U m f m dot com slash donate. Should we read out what we're we're seeing? Yeah. Oh, and the number on the board. We're checking the board. What are we sitting at? We're currently at Oh, the big reveal? Twenty seven thousand seven hundred and twenty eight dollars twenty cents. Classic. Yeah. That is We got an oversized number. Yeah. We hired a a timpani player just for today. Those funds are coming out of our own pocket. Don't worry. That's not from the pledges. So, yeah, I hope you're enjoying the program. It's a little different tonight because we're, you know, we're reaching out and just kind of like pledging our love for this radio station that keeps us well, they're they're keeping us here. Keeps us warm and safe. Yeah. Yeah. I I couldn't I couldn't imagine the world that we would be forced to face if we didn't have the beautiful shelter this this radio station. Don't know. Shelter us physically and creatively. Yeah. I I would probably be up to no good if I weren't here every Wednesday from nine to ten. I would probably be Maybe More so. In a train, a rail yard, maybe hopping trains or something. Derailing them, maybe? Derailing them with throwing pennies on the tracks. Yeah. I'd I'd probably be a Pennies and rocks at trains. Yeah. I'd be a nuisance. Yeah. Mean, usually No No No. To no good. And, yeah, you would have no one to report to with all your nightlife corresponding. I don't I don't think there would be a nightlife. With UMFM? Nightlife. It would all be over. Yeah. Shut down. Yep. Yep. Remember to get your magic glow sticks from International Feel. Yeah. Yeah. The ones that don't stain your clothes. Those are the ones that are good for the environment. Yep. Better for the environment. Yep. So, yeah, this is we're just trying to imagine a world without UMFM. It's kind of like, it's a wonderful life, and it's, it's kind of a it's a sad world to imagine. Mhmm. So, again, Pledge Rama twenty twenty six. We're running till Friday, so there's still time. If you're, you know, humming and hon. Hemming and hon? Hem? Hem? Is it hemming or humming? It's hem. You're hemming and hon. I always said humming, but Yeah. It's hemming. Mhmm. Okay. I learned something. International Feel, we're educational. Mhmm. Mhmm. Of the services that UMFM provides. Yeah. I think to shout or to throw it back, I guess, to one of our past episodes, I believe it was the artificial sassafras Oh, yeah. Episode. We had it in HOG. Yeah. We and and I had to look in look into that because I thought it was and HOG. You did research. I Sometimes we do research. There's a lot that goes into these programs. It sounds like we just throw it together like we just gonna just dump it all. That's what we're going before. Yeah. Yeah. It's a stylistic choice. Yeah. We've got a ten page script. The effort it takes to make it sound effortlessly. Yeah. It's a lot of lot of effort to make it sound like garbage. It's true. Our natural inclination is to make it sound perfect. Yes. Well, he's earning his paycheck. Yeah. That's a symphony player. Classy. Yeah. Classy. Got great timing. Yeah. Beautiful. Beautiful work. Well Bringing a tear to my eye. Yeah. Well, you know, it's hard it's hard out there as a timpani player. We gotta we gotta hire them. Yeah. You know, it's not a lot of work for a single timpani player. Yeah. Especially with the media kind of consolidating the way it is. Yeah. Digital. Digital. Digital timpani's. Yeah. That's what we're up against. But, you know, if we all band together, we can face this this this world and this future together. And that's that's what we're trying to do with this radio community. Just, you know, just be a good a light I don't know. Yeah. Try to just like I don't know. Have some fun in this world, you know? Keep these cool things alive. Right? Yeah. For sure. Radio is I mean Yeah. Everybody's moving to digital and podcast and radio still exists and should always still exist. I don't mean to burst your bubble, but this is a digital signal. It's true. It's and we do podcast. We do. You UMFM does straight podcast. Branching onto podcasting. Oh, man. Yeah. Well, let's Do you have a killer domain, u m f m dot com? That's true. That's true. Which is Where you can donate? Yeah. You can donate, and it's been proudly brought to you by donations and listener funds From the past. Yeah. From people like you. Yeah. So, yeah, thank you. Thank you for the people who have generously donated this far. And if you're thinking about it, you still have time. It's until Friday. So hit us up at u m f m dot com slash donate or on the pledge line at two zero four four seven four six six one zero. Sound good? Should we play some more music? Sounds great. Alright. I like it. Here's some music. We're International Feel. We'll be here for another twenty minutes. Hey, everyone. It's your friends at International Feel on one zero one point five UMFM. Umfm dot org. International Feel that work check it out. Yeah, check it out. It's pledgerama time if you didn't know now, you know Thanks for sticking with us and Donating generously let's lots of lots of Before we get out of here, we should update the number. Yeah. Jared Jared came in here, and he set the record straight. Yeah. We've got some updated numbers, so the Calculotron is tallying it up. What are we at? It's been giving out false numbers, but these are these ones are real. Okay. Well, let's check the printout. These numbers are This is up to date. Are we at, Twenty eight thousand eight hundred and seventy eight dollars. Boom. Seventy cents? Seventy cent? Twenty cents? Bail. Oh, it's kinda hard to make up. I think the seven's listed in the line there. Or a two? Oh, yeah. I think it's a two. Okay. It's a two. To the listeners at home. Would could still use some work. We need to send Jared to Calligraphy. Calligraphy school. Yeah. Calculotron needs to learn to print out the numbers. Yeah. We need to update this Calculotron. Yeah. It's still running on a sixties mainframe. Yeah. Windows ninety five. ENIAC computer. Woah. Sorry. I'm going through an old book on computers. Nice. Okay. Well, that explains it. Yeah. So we're, you know, collecting some money so we can update our old computers and and old gear that's, you know, had a long life, but some things, you know, just need to be replaced after time. Yeah. So that's what this pledgeram is all about. Yep. We Yeah. We only do this once a year. We accept cash, check or money order, e transfer, Visa, Mastercard, credit card payments based on a pre authorized payment plan and PayPal. So, yeah, we we try to make this easy, painless as possible because we know it's hard out there. Yeah. And and, you know, what you wanna do and what's in your heart might not always match up what's in the pocketbook. Any and all donations are great to see and just Yeah. Generous and Whatever way you can. Yeah. You know, we're just trying to raise thirty four thousand dollars this year for to cover operating costs. This represents just fifteen percent of the operating budget for this year, and a hundred percent of those funds raised during pledgerama will go towards replacing our broadcast antenna, which, you know, is pretty important when you're running radio station. Mhmm. Nice clear signal. Yeah. Yeah. So you have the that antenna to thank for it. So, yeah, pledgerama is important. Yeah. We're also looking to put some of this money towards updated training and local news desk. Yes. Which is exciting. Local news, it's only a good thing to have more of it, more more people excited and have an outlet for that. So Yeah. And more ways that just help the community to connect with each other and the going ons, the better. So I'm excited to see what this new development kinda has for this has for the station Yeah. Doors it opens. Well said. Mhmm. So, yeah, if you need any more convincing of, you know, if you're asking, you know what? I like UMFM. I like the programming, but what's in it for me? You can go to u m f m dot com. You can see all the cool incentives we have this year. We've got stickers, magnets, we've got buttons, enamel pins, coffee mugs, a tumbler. We've got a couple designs of shirts. We've got a hoodie, a long sleeve shirt, and any donations of two hundred and seventy five dollars or more, you get a UMFM Bluetooth speaker. That's right. Bluetooth speaker. Can this Bluetooth speaker charge my phone as well? It does. It does. Wow. It actually charges it on its little bamboo throne. Wow. So it's it not only charges, it looks good while it's doing it. And I bet you can listen to UMFM on it. Yeah. It's Through it. You can't. It only plays you. Yeah. It only should. Locked. You're gonna Locked in. Yeah. If you're gonna, you know, donate and get this, where it's We're hand soldering the dial. Yeah. We're kinda limiting it just to UMFM. Yeah. So no. That's not. You can listen. Probably not true. You can listen whatever you want. So yeah. Maybe you're an audiobook aficionado. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You could listen to a nice audiobook on the UMFM Bluetooth speaker. You could take it out to the cabin and scare wolves away with other wolf or big big game calls. Maybe attract with bird sounds. Oh, you could attract with bird sounds and then repel it with, like, t rex sounds or something. Who knows what Larger birds. Yeah. Carnivorous bird sounds. But first, have to donate. Yes. You have to donate, and you can donate, by calling us. We've got operators standing by at two zero four four seven four six six one zero or u m f m dot com slash donate. I think you can email at us too. You can email at us. My my mom just kinda etransferred to a random email, and that person had the was nice enough. Wherewithal to? Yeah. To figure out to pass it along. Jared will do some this is just good. This is just I think he made phone calls which is above and beyond. Eight dollars in chain chain letter. Yeah. Thank you. Thanks, mom. Yeah. Shout out to yeah. Just shout out to everyone who's making, you know, contributions. We can't do this without you. So from the bottom of our hearts, thank you. Yeah. I don't know. We've got a few minutes left. We have time for maybe one more song before we peel on out of here. Yeah. It's it's been a good show, but, yeah, we've got time is running out. So thanks again for all of you who've donated. We've got three minutes left. If you donate within the next three minutes, five hundred dollars or more, we will cut your grass. We will walk your dog. Paint your nails. Paint your nails, make you a sandwich. Yeah. So That's Comb your beard. Comb your beard. You're you guys have just been looking at me this whole time and just like, do I need to comb my beard? I think I'm gonna paint your nails. My dogs need walking. I think all all of that applies to you. My dogs do need walking. Well, maybe we should get back and walk those dogs while we play a song. Sounds good. Alright. International Feel, Plagiarama twenty twenty six. Keep them coming, and we'll be back next week.
