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This is your brain on the radio

animated image of selecting a station on a radio We had a bunch of interesting radio show ideas this past week, including:

  • talk show
  • news show
  • day in a life
  • work together to take over the city
  • work together to defeat Dr. Oblivion
  • AI pros & cons
  • AI propaganda
  • AI as a weapon/tool for domination
  • storytime
  • reality show/office drama
  • female empowerment show

This was all before we sprung the Aggressive Technologies corporation idea on everyone. One idea specifically mentioned it anyway, but it could be easily connected to any of the other concepts. Even if a show concept is totally unrelated, Aggressive Technologies could show up as the show’s sponsor. The idea of Dr. Oblivion as a villain could be an interesting one. What’s his connection to AT? Is he a product? Is he the man behind the curtain? A rogue entity escaped from Research & Development?

I encourage everyone to look over everyone else’s ideas. Are there ways to make them work together? Are there ideas or characters you would like to work with? Everyone will be forming radio groups in a few weeks, and it’s better for people to make their own groups rather than get assigned randomly, so it won’t hurt to start thinking about it now.

Radio Show Ideas

Let’s not forget Chuckles is an architect! Not only is he into building fascinating sights, but also building connections with others.

Perhaps the radio show could emphasize his career as an architect. Or even be turned into a comedy show type talk to showcase his jokes. Or even a combination of both, where everyone discusses their best work jokes!

Chuckles is easy going and communicate with everyone!

What Are You Listening To? – Very Underdeveloped Radio Ideas

Below are some ideas for radio shows. They aren’t fully developed yet but could be fun!

  1. Tea in a Tree. This is a very normal talk show except the hosts sit in a new tree each week.
  2. Local Landscape. A review of nearby events and places so people know what is going on. This is inspired by my struggle to find things to do in Fredericksburg. (I know things must be happening, but I’m having trouble finding them.)
  3. Second Page. A news show that highlights current stories that aren’t as popular or aren’t getting much coverage, especially from around the world.

I’ll continue to add to this list as I come up with ideas. Tea in a Tree is my favorite because it is the silliest. I love climbing trees. If you need a fun activity find a tree and climb it. Sometimes you just need to climb a tree.

Radio Show Ideas

For radio show ideas I’m thinking of doing a story line of my character, Leo Storm, living my daily life. Another idea is my character and other characters created by other students come together as a joint force to take over the city of Fredericksburg. Going off the last idea another idea of mine is my character and other characters as superheroes fighting villains and completing various missions to save the city of Fredericksburg. Another idea is having Dr. Obivilion as a villain in a story line and my character and other characters as the protagonists. These are some ideas, feel free to comment your thoughts on these ideas.

Radio Show Ideas

It might be interesting to have this radio show focus more on the role of AI in different professional spaces and determine its advantages and disadvantages. We could almost do case studies of how its been implemented and if it has hurt or improved the company culture in different industries. In this analysis, it would also be interesting to see if some industries are hurt more than others and why this could be.

As for my character, Isaiah Beacon, I think he would do everything in his power to bring the attention of the radio show back to himself. I also think that anytime another character brings up a negative point about AI in the workplace, he would try to belittle and suppress their comments as much as possible. Isaiah also already has his own media empire, so it would be kind of funny to frame it as him having different guests on his show. I think all of the case study examples that Isaiah would bring up would be overwhelmingly positive to the point of obvious delusion. For example, he’d probably perform some mental gymnastics to vilify unions or individuals protesting their jobs being taken away by AI.

Radio Show Ideas

When taking my character, Rikaro, into consideration, I think a discussion of AI would intrigue him as he would wonder how to take advantage of its dangerous potential. But that would be a thought in the back of his conscious. He would be more vocal about its benefit to those in need but mention how it can damage those in higher positions. The other hosts could be unaware of who he is, since he is a wanted person, but his occasional comments could cause them discomfort. Rikaro would be unaware of this, so it could be a comedic thing. I wonder if it would make more sense if he was speaking himself on the radio or if it is a text-to-speech, since he is in hiding. I’ll put more thought into Rikaro’s situation with the government.

If he is teamed up with a mad genius, they could get passionate about the potential of AI or the other mad genius could try to one-up Rikaro. Since Rikaro is a nervous and timid person, he would allow the other person to take over the show. The others could slowly realize who Rikaro is by the end of the radio show.

I don’t know if my ideas are correct or is what was asked of me. These are just some thoughts I had for the radio show.

Radio Show Ideas – Tennis Junkie Transitioning into Something New?

I’d like to say that I’m an avid listener of podcasts and radio shows. My long commutes to school and work often allows me to finish a chunk of these at a time, and I really enjoy the insights I get from my favorite podcasters. I will say however, that my scope of interests is severely limited, with the majority of my listening time being taken up by Gill Gross’ Tennis podcast.

Gill does a lot of tennis post-match commentaries detailing the strategies of players, historic implications, among many other things a tennis fanatic can get behind. However, I realize that for the purpose of DS106, I probably can’t do a tennis broadcast with my course character along with my partner’s characters.

To tell a story about AI with connections to our characters within a 20-30 minute window, I think that creating a little short story with sound effects and dialogue included would be an interesting way to fulfill the requirements, similar to the radio stories we listened to during the DS106 radio broadcast this week. I haven’t really thought of the specifics yet, but I think this will become more clear after the groups have been assigned and we get to talk about everyone’s characters and their interests.

RadioShowIdeas

I’m pretty easy to work with so I’d do a radio show with anyone on just about anything (especially since I’m not very competent in technology), but some ideas I’d be really interested in would be talking sports or music, ranking sports or music, talking about art, a gym radio show, or like a life at UMW one. I don’t have many ideas and I’m down for just about anything, but these would be some things I’m interested in that are in ranked order.

Radio Show Brainstorming

If there’s one assignment I’m excited for, it’s this one. I JUST WANNA WORK WITH OTHERS!! I wanna see where their brains are, and how we can connect them!

An idea I had was to use Sol as a radio host. We know Sol as a painter of the skies, a painter of stories, but what if we also saw that they told stories through audio? What if they had a podcast where they reflected people’s stories, or discussed the latest story they painted in the sky?

I think it would be interesting to see other people’s characters as the ones who have told their stories on Sol’s radio. Maybe they come on air, and maybe Sol helps them relive the stories? Or maybe they just talk about it and discuss! Perhaps Sol is working with a character that is more into audio or engineering to help tell the stories, maybe a cohost!

These are rough ideas, and I have no idea if anyone else would be down, but I’m interested to see other people’s thoughts! (I’m now going to look at all the brainstorming posts to see if maybe someone has a better idea that I can piggy back off of)

half-baked radio show ideas

My course character Andrea has a bit of a backstory already but leaves enough open for a lot of different radio show ideas.

A lot of my ideas are centered around Georgia (Sydney Says Things’ character) since we made them together as almost 2 sides of the same coin. Things we could do would be an informative ad for the company they work for, guest interviews of the two talking about office life, or even just a segment where they talk about their past which likely just turns into a long-winded argument.

I could also do a radio show about the company we created Aggressive Technologies, a software company that Andrea works at. This could either be a reality TV setting where other course characters talk about their experiences, either from working there and giving us an inside look, office drama told dramatically, customers airing their grievances, or just a random character that has loose ties somehow.

Andrea could also be in a radio show as herself, the social butterfly who everyone flocks to. People are drawn to her because she exudes confidence, always knows what to do, has infinite connections, and the luck that seems to follow her as things seem to almost magically happen in her favor. The same people are also blind to her often self-centered behaviors, mistake the influence she has as her own and not her parents, and her instinct to crush those in her path. I can imagine Andrea on a radio show about the social scene of New York, a tell-all about her influential family (I have some potential stories for them), or a talk show with her and other course characters that flesh well together.