Moving right along, we arrive at show #3 of Smart Bomb Radio!  Remember, you can subscribe to us through iTunes!

On This Show:

First we hear a song from Omaha Rapper Cumalus as a little appetizer. Then for the main course, a story from Christian Haunton about taking a photograph that ended up on the cover of the magazine Biblical Archeology Review and caused a slew of angry letters about the young woman pictured.  Take a look at the photo above and then give it a listen!

This show features the following music:

Cumalus:
"Long Time Coming"

Gaberdine Swing:
"Jumpin with Symphony Sid" Our Intro
"Fly Me to the Moon"
"Beyond the Sea" Our Outro

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I figure I might as well help you learn as I do.  Here are some things I've learned by show #3.

TIPS #1

1. Audio Consistancy - It's really annoying to keep changing the volume of a podcast, so don't make people do it.  After I listen to the show on my speakers I burn the show to disk and then listen to it in my car.  For some reason I can hear annoying changes in audio in the car better than I can in headphones.  So field test the audio somewhere other than on your computer.
2. If your Starting a New Show - WORK AHEAD!  I cannot stress this enough.  With the exception of shows with very up to the minute comedy or news shows, most programs can be at least 90% finished in advance. Wait until you have several shows ready before you start publishing them.  I waited to get three finished because I did a weekly show, so less for a monthly and more for a daily.  Remember that because this is new it's exciting, but like any other hobby you might not want to do it every single day.  If you are a few weeks ahead on your shows, you can take the time off you need. 
   
3. Take Critisism Well - Everyone can improve.  Your friends and family can save you from putting something really terrible out in front of the whole world.  But you have to listen, and REALLY listen to what they have to say.  Be honest with yourself and decide if the critique is valid.  If it is, change it.  Remember, your goal is to be embarassed by your first couple shows down the line.  Otherwise your not improving at all!
4. Don't Be Afraid to Throw Things Away - I know, that piece took you 8 hours.  It's the only chance you'll get interview so and so.  You have a deadline.  Doesn't matter.  You know if you love a piece or not.  Your trying to make the show you've always wanted on the air.  So if your honest, you can tell if something you've done sucks.  Better to be late than bad.  Here is something that I killed because it was bad.
   

It's a week later and here comes our second show from Smart Bomb Radio!

On This Show:

Ex-professional children's theater actor Chris Wiig shares a couple stories about a cursed tour of Treasure Island where everything that could go wrong, did go wrong.  The two stories from Chris are on this show "A Man of Many Goats" and "The Three Deaths of Israel Hands."

Also a short comedy essay by Will Ross entitled "If I Won the Lottery."

This show features the following music:

Gaberdine Swing:
"Jumpin with Symphony Sid" Our Intro
"Pick Yourself Up"
"Beyond the Sea" Our Outro

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Introducing the debut episode of "Smart Bomb Radio," a talk and storytelling program produced by Will Ross.

On this Show:

Christian Haunton, an instructor at UNO, talks with Will about his experiences in Israel shortly after 9/11.  Part 1 of a 4 part series.

Then a short radio play titled "Smooth Under Pressure" written and performed by Will Ross about air travel gone wrong.

This episode features the following songs performed by Gabardine Swing:

"Jumpin with Symphony Sid"
"Blue Skies"
"Beyond the Sea"

This episode runs 14 minutes.

If you'd like to be on the show, read the post "How to get on the show."

How to Get on the Show

Smart Bomb Radio is designed to be an interactive experience more than just an audio blog of my stuff.  I'm more of the conductor than an actual musician in this little orchestra.  So here is the process and what I am looking for.

Comments ABOUT the show:

Myspace message (smartbombradio) or E-mail to smartbombradio@hotmail.com for text or skype our voicemail at "smartbombradio."  I will read them at the end of the show or play messages.  These may be cut down in length where appropriate (hey, it's not that long of a show, man!)

Comments, Stories, or Other Things that Might be Considered "Show Material."

If sent by text, I myself or someone more appropriate will read them on the air, plain or with other effects, music etc.  What I would really prefer, however, is to hear YOUR voice (I mean, it YOUR story.)  The easiest way to accomplish this is to Skype it to me, but you can also use the sound recorder or other software and email it (10 meg limit on hotmail, so you might have to send multiple files.) 

I would ask that if you want to do some editing, sound effects etc that you send a "Clean Copy" of just your voice just in case I need to edit it for time, or some other such reason.  Please, no music that is not public domain or your own.  If it has music odds are I can't use it due to that pesky RIAA. 

Also, if the piece is essentially an ad for something, it better be really entertaining :) but if you want to add your podcast, blog, website, pizza place, pet psychic, name and information there at the end I will give it out in the attribution after the piece (where I say who you are again IE "That was Sasquatch talking about bigfeet rasicm, his blog is www.sasquatchispersontoo.com.")

Music

While we arn't a music show exactly, we do always need bumper, intro and outtro music, and if you send me something really good I'll probably play it clean on the show at some point.  Obviously, it's got to be yours.  I'll check out any kind of music because eventually I'll use everything.  All music used will be marked on the blog posting, typically mentioned in the intro, and the band names will be coded in the ID3 tags of the MP3 file.  If you have a webiste or a showdate, I can post that too.

Rights

The only rights you give up are the rights to let me use your material on the my podcast and derrivitive works (like a cd of my podcasts, etc.)  You retain ownership.

I hope this answers any questions you might have.