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  • Lucky Fultz
    Feb 20 2025

    This week on Keep Your Voice Down Three Rivers singer-songwriter Lucky Fultz joins hosts Alek Haak-Frost and Doug Sears, Jr. to discuss his upcoming album "Riverside Drive," which is set to drop on February 28. Fultz details his musical influences and methodology, Tupac gets praise, Drake gets all the smoke, and male vulnerability is celebrated.

    The show’s theme is “Howling at the Moon” by D Fine Us, and this week’s outro music is “Normal” by Lucky Fultz. You can support Keep Your Voice Down and Watershed Voice with a donation here.

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    58 min
  • Najifa Farhat
    Feb 12 2025

    Keep Your Voice Down hosts Alek Haak-Frost and Doug Sears, Jr. are joined by Watershed Voice Staff Reporter Najifa Farhat to discuss her educational and professional background, the experiences in Bangladesh that propelled her toward a career in journalism, family dynamics, and her interest in climate vulnerabilities.

    The show’s theme is “Howling at the Moon” by D Fine Us, and this week’s outro music is “Till I Die” by ZISO. You can support Keep Your Voice Down and Watershed Voice with a donation here.

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    51 min
  • Tereasa Bellew & Sundos Hejazi
    Dec 24 2024

    Watershed Voice Short Story Contest winners Tereasa Bellew & Sundos Hejazi recently dropped by Keep Your Voice Down to discuss their winning pieces.

    Sundos, whose short story titled "One Man" won the 17 and under category, lives in Portage where she attends Portage Central High School. Tereasa, a grandmother of five and great grandmother of two, won the 18 and over category with her short story "A New Beginning." She lives in Marcellus, where she does much of her writing under the pen name Teresa Blue.

    The show’s theme is “Howling at the Moon” by D Fine Us, and this week’s outro music is “Knocked Out” by Canon. You can support Keep Your Voice Down and Watershed Voice with a donation here.

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    40 min
  • Brittni's back, book babes
    Dec 13 2024

    OK, Brittni Huyck was gone for a minute but she's back now, and she has a new story to tell, literature(ly). The local author, hairstylist, and Three Rivers native dropped by Keep Your Voice Down Thursday to promote the fourth (and possibly final) book in her Iron City Heat Series "Someone Like Him."

    Doug, Alek, and Brit discuss the obstacles she encountered between writing her third and fourth book, why she may be done writing romance novels, how "Someone Like Him" is different from her three previous books, and may be her best work yet.

    "Someone Like Him" officially drops on December 31 but you can pre-order your copy today on Amazon. Brazen Beauty Bar (56964 N. Main St. Suite 4, Three Rivers) will host a launch party for Brittni's new novel on Friday, January 10 from 6-8 p.m. where you can get a signed copy of the book and meet the author.

    Following Brittni's interview (54:07), Alek and Doug fill listeners in on what's happened in their lives since the last time they recorded an episode, and Doug gives a moving tribute to his late cat Samwell.

    The show’s theme is “Howling at the Moon” by D Fine Us, and this week’s outro music is “Big Leagues” by Vic Sage. You can support Keep Your Voice Down and Watershed Voice with a donation here.

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    1 h et 20 min
  • The Watcher on the Wall
    Sep 17 2024

    Alek and Doug are back (as is Doug's voice) to discuss the upcoming launch of Watershed Voice's new website, the importance of maintaining editorial independence and practicing watchdog journalism, and the news magazine's ongoing need for financial support.

    The show’s theme is “Howling at the Moon” by D Fine Us, and this week’s outro music is “Appassionato” by Noto. You can support Keep Your Voice Down and Watershed Voice with a donation here.

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    37 min
  • The things I could get done with a trained hawk
    Sep 11 2024

    Kalamazoo-based creative Marcel Fable Price drops by Keep Your Voice Down to promote his book "New American Monarch," and perform an excerpt from the title ahead of its October 8 release. Alek, Doug, and Fable also settle the Chicago deep dish versus New York style pizza debate, discover the link between Fable's love of nature and Louis Armstrong, and discuss the myriad of ways one can process trauma and grief.

    You can pre-order "New American Monarch" on Fable's website, and find anything else Fable related here.

    The show’s theme is “Howling at the Moon” by D Fine Us, and this week’s outro music is “war in my head” by messwave. You can support Keep Your Voice Down and Watershed Voice with a donation here.

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    52 min
  • Frank Stanko
    Aug 19 2024

    Alek and Doug are joined by Watershed Voice staff writer Frank Stanko for his long overdue Keep Your Voice Down debut. The trio discuss Samwise Gamgee and the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, Frank's journey from Michigan to North Dakota and back again, the challenges, rewards, and current state of journalism, and Frank's passion for theatre.

    Alek also promised a link to that TikTok personality who perfectly melds NPR stylings with the likes of Lil' Jon, so here it is.

    The show’s theme is “Howling at the Moon” by D Fine Us, and this week’s outro music is “Mama Knows” by Gaela Braun. You can support Keep Your Voice Down and Watershed Voice with a donation here.

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    54 min
  • Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this (pay)wall
    May 31 2024

    In true Watershed Voice fashion the Keep Your Voice Down (wrecking) crew brings the news in this week's episode. Doug and Alek discuss the fourth annual Artist Showcase lineup announcement slated for next week, the Huss Project Farmer's Market that kicks off on Saturday, June 1 (according to Doug's Fitbit), and the official end to Watershed's paywall, making content accessible to all regardless of financial circumstance.

    The show’s theme is “Howling at the Moon” by D Fine Us, and this week’s outro music is “Miami Beach” by Cosmonkey. You can support Keep Your Voice Down and Watershed Voice with a donation here.

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    32 min