Patrick O'Grady was bad enough with pen and ink. He got worse with a keyboard. Now he has a microphone. God help us all.
Radio Free Dogpatch
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Patrick O'Grady was bad enough with pen and ink. He got worse with a keyboard. Now he has a microphone. God help us all.
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11/13/2013
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February 28, 2026
The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful
<p>The Duck! City was smokin' the day after the State of the Union crashed and burned, reaching a high of 72 degrees — which was 18 degrees above average.</p> <p>It's nice to be above average in something. But still, damn.</p> <p>In any event, the roses are budding and so is everything else. The primates who call this desert home may view with alarm the federal knuckles being dragged into the Colorado River Compact, which remains <a href= "https://www.inkstain.net/2026/02/in-which-my-colleagues-and-i-share-thoughts-on-the-future-of-colorado-river-governance/">an insoluable dilemma</a> to its signatories and will join the long list of issues about which His Excremency King Piggy the Sticky-Fingered knows nothing and cares even less.</p> <p>And Your Humble Narrator, who ordinarily yearns to toddle off to someplace toasty about this time of year, finds himself in the awkward position of grumbling about beautiful weather. At home. In February.</p> <p>All of which means — yes, yes, yes — it's time for a Coconut Telegraph edition of Radio Free Dogpatch. Apologies to the late Jimmy Buffett, from whom I <a href= "https://youtu.be/MZH-QtdQ71k?si=gnFWi8eoxuPfYQp7">liberated the headline.</a></p> <p><strong>• Technical notes:</strong> RFD uses the <a href= "https://earthworksaudio.com/products/ethos/">Ethos mic</a> from Earthworks Audio; Audio-Technica <a href= "https://www.audio-technica.com/en-us/ath-m50x">ATH-M50X headphones</a>; <a href= "https://zoomcorp.com/en/us/handheld-recorders/handheld-recorders/h5/"> Zoom H5 Handy Recorder</a>; Rogue Amoeba's <a href= "https://rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/">Audio Hijack</a>; Apple's GarageBand, and <a href="https://auphonic.com/">Auphonic</a> for a quick wash and brushup. The <a href= "https://freesound.org/s/580212/">dog drinking from his dish</a> and the <a href="https://freesound.org/s/216531/">car failing to start</a> come from Freesound. The background music, "Easy Stroll," is from YouTube's audio library. All other barks, bleats, and belches are the work of the thirsty, sunburnt, untraveled Irish-American behind the bar at this non-alcoholic pub.</p>
February 18, 2026
Idiocracy 2026: Older but no wiser
<p>With having a drop taken and/or a mind wandering being common along both branches of the family tree it behooves a fella from time to time to test-drive what remains of his wits, if any.</p> <p>It struck me recently that for perfectly sound (har de har har) reasons I hadn't done an episode of Radio Free Dogpatch since February 2025. But times pass and things change and people clearly aren't getting any smarter, especially me.</p> <p>So here we are so, dusting off what few of the mad skills I possessed only in theory not so very long ago and taking them for a spin around the old podcasting studio to see what falls off.</p> <p>For openers, the 24-inch LG display that now supplements the 14-inch M4 MacBook Pro in my main office is no longer attached to the MacBook Pro in the studio, which is 10 years older and an inch smaller, displaywise, and I cannot recommend such a tiny stage for audio theater as senescence staggers forward, trying to remember where it left its spectacles (atop its head).</p> <p>Auphonic is no longer a strictly free app, which failed to astonish me in this, the New Gilded Age, so creator and audience must deal with what they call a "Jingle" fore and aft. Jingle my bollocks, boys ... I'll be looking for some other way to give me chin music a tuneup before I next set it out on its street corner to busk for nothing.</p> <p>Finally, Libsyn has gotten a makeover as well, but if you're reading this you can be sure that I managed to negotiate their tricksy little maze. An old ratoncito can still cut the cheese. Find the cheese! I meant find the cheese! Where the hell are my glasses? Oh ... never mind.</p> <p>Could this be the start of something big? Probably not. Mostly I wanted to see if I could still get 'er done. Also, I was bored. Giving the old brain-box a wee scrape and a splash of paint is a fine way to stay out of the wind, which is full of allergens and other evil tidings.</p> <p><strong>• Technical notes:</strong> RFD uses the <a href= "https://earthworksaudio.com/products/ethos/">Ethos mic</a> from Earthworks Audio; Audio-Technica <a href= "https://www.audio-technica.com/en-us/ath-m50x">ATH-M50X headphones</a>; <a href= "https://zoomcorp.com/en/us/handheld-recorders/handheld-recorders/h5/"> Zoom H5 Handy Recorder</a>; Rogue Amoeba's <a href= "https://rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/">Audio Hijack</a>; Apple's GarageBand, and <a href="https://auphonic.com/">Auphonic</a> for a wash and brushup. Sound byte from Mike Judge's "Idiocracy" lifted from YouTube. Booing crowd, kicked-in door, and Celtic tune from Freesound. "Out of Step," which you've heard here before, comes from Audio Hero via Zapsplat. Special guest appearance from Miss Mia Sopaipilla, who despite a screechy meow is healthy as a horse as she approaches her 19th (!) birthday.</p>
February 8, 2025
Burning Down the House
Radio Free Dogpatch discusses the perceived decline in accountability and rise of unchecked authority, highlighting media's failure to hold those in power responsible for societal issues.
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