THE BARMY
Hey babes. Just wanted to fill you in on a few things – hopefully this stuff isn’t too redundant. So right now things are going swimmingly – we’ve got 398 Barmy members currently, which is great, and the goal of reaching 500 members is looking more and more realistic each day! (500 members was the goal I set for myself when we launched the Barmy.) Why 500? Well, 500 is the number where all the bills get paid, including pay for employees! It keeps us in the “we don’t have to panic about bills” area, which is about where I wanna be after almost 10 years of doing this! If you’re still on the fence about joining the Barmy, remember, your not only getting a shit ton of amazing content, but your helping your favorite show get to a level of success that most independent shows don’t get to! For 33 cents a day, you can be part of something big! https://redbarradio.net/barmy – check out some of the insane shit that has been added this month alone!

XM RADIO
Well, so far so good! We’re going on our third week as part of the lineup on XM EXTREME TALK CH. 165. Haven’t really heard much from the bosses over there, but they have said that the fan interaction has been great! SiriusXm doesn’t run ratings/numbers on small shows like ours, so the only way they know people are listening to it, is from listener feedback! If you have 5 extra seconds, please shoot an email to [email protected] ! Tell em how much you love Red Bar on ch.165, and how much you want it to stay on! This will do so much more than you think in terms of helping the show. Thanks to all of the listeners that have done this so far. Please keep it up! It really will determine whether we live or die on XM!

THE TOUR
My goal for the new year, is to start doing LIVE shows in different cities each month! The next LIVE EVENT coming up will be in Los Angeles. I am desperately trying to book this event this week, and hope to have tickets up for purchase asap! If you live in L.A., please email me venue suggestions! I have emailed about 13 places with no luck! We are trying to do the show on the weekend of Jan. 20th – so save the date!

If you want us to come do a show in your town, please email [email protected] letting us know which city you want us to come to! Also, please include venue suggestions, as we have no idea where the good places to perform would be. I am keeping track of every email that comes in, and making a list of places that have the most listeners. We will come to any city that has 50 listeners that will come to the show. So make sure to email me, otherwise I won’t know that you exist!

MIKE’S BIRTHDAY!
Mike’s birthday is January 14th! Yep, you can totally send him gifts! Need ideas? Check out the AMAZON WISHLIST – https://redbarradio.net/wish

THE EASIEST THING YOU CAN DO
Almost every day after the show, I post HIGHLIGHT CLIPS on Facebook and Twitter. PLEASE SHARE THESE ON YOUR WALLS! The idea is to constantly have these short clips shared, to slowly start building a bigger audience. These videos however, have BARELY gotten any views! Not sure why people aren’t sharing them, but please let me know if there is a particular reason! This is the easiest way to introduce thousands of people to Red Bar quickly and without spending any money. You guys have the power to expose us to potentially MILLIONS of new viewers/listeners. Please remember that the next time you see a highlight clip that we put out! Clicking “share” only takes a second! You can see all of our highlight clips on our YOUTUBE CHANNEL – https://www.youtube.com/redbarradio

THE BRING-BACK GROUP
If you haven’t joined our private Facebook group, you’re missing out. The BRING-BACK group, which started in August after the take-over, has now become the ultimate location for super-fans. I am in this group everyday posting all sorts of stuff, and there really is no better area as of now for Red Bar fans to congregate. You have to ask to join this group, as it is private, but once granted access, you will love it. Ask to join today – http://www.facebook.com/groups/bringbackrbr

I think that’s it for now. See ya on the air!

MIKE

Doing something a bit different today – Today’s show will air at 10:30PM CST. You heard me! Just had to move some things around for today. Tune in at 10:30pm CST at https://redbarradio.tv !

THE RED BAR RADIO SHOW JOINS THE SIRIUS/XM SATELLITE RADIO FAMILY!

Since 2003, The Red Bar Radio Show has been independently produced by creator/host Mike David, and has basically only been marketed via word of mouth. There have been snippets of success along the way, as well as ups and downs, and a “format” that is forever changing. This week, Red Bar takes it’s comedy Internet radio show / podcast to the next level. Starting Thursday December 8th, the show will become available on SiriusXM Satellite Radio, on EXTREME TALK channel 165!

How is this gonna work?
Everything will remain EXACTLY the same! The podcast and live version of the show, the show that you have now, will be there just as always – FREE, five days a week, at 3pm cst on our website, and up on the podcast feed directly afterward. The SiriusXM show will be weekly (Thursday nights at 10pm cst., on Extreme Talk Channel 165. It will be the EXACT same show as the podcast, except it will only be one hour long. It will remain uncensored, and basically just a shorter version of the show you’ve all come to know and “love.” It’s about as basic as it gets!

The show in it’s infancy will NOT be live. We will be recording it during the week, and sending it over to them to air on Thursdays. So we will technically be doing SIX shows per week, Monday-Friday, with one of those 6 shows being the one that ends up on SiriusXM. Not sure exactly what day we will record the SiriusXM show, or if it will broadcast live on our website or not. The show MAY be available int he BARMY, our bonus content section of the website.

How do we get the new SiriusXM show? Is Sirius and XM the same company now? I’m confused!
Yes, this is a bit confusing. Although the two companies have merged, the programming is still separate in some cases. There are three packages you can get. An XM only package, A Sirius only package, or the SiriusXM package. If you have an XM or SiriusXM package, you can hear us on ch. 165, no problems. However, if you have the Sirius-only package, you may see that there is no channel 165! In that case, call the customer service department, and tell them that you want the “XM ADD-ON” so that you can hear THE RED BAR RADIO SHOW! You can call them at: 1-866-635-2349. For more information, visit their website at http://siriusxm.com

So to make this nice and easy, here is the current weekly Red Bar schedule:

MON: 3PM CST at https://redbarradio.net
TUES: 3PM CST at https://redbarradio.net
WED: 3PM CST at https://redbarradio.net
THURS: 3PM CST at https://redbarradio.net & on SiriusXM Ch.165 at 10PM CST
FRI: 3PM CST at https://redbarradio.net

Share the promo video on your Facebook, Twitter, etc! LINK: http://youtu.be/5bkZSjpoeCU

Questions from real listeners answered!

Q. Will the SiriusXm show be on the iTunes podcast feed?
A. No. It will only be available on SiriusXm and POSSIBLY on the Barmy section of the website.

Q. What will the show be like? How long is it? Will it be a replay of one of the weekly episodes or a completely new episode?
A. It will be the EXTACT same show, except for the fact that it will run 60 minutes long, instead of 2 hours like our usual show. It will be a SEPARATE episode, and NOT a replay of our normal show. Or, if we have a really killer hour on one of the regular shows, I could chop it and use it. Well see!

Q. I know the show won’t be LIVE on SiriusXM, but when you RECORD the SiriusXM show, will it live on Ustream/the RBR website?
A. Maybe. Probably. I still want to have callers and the live interaction. We’ll see!

Q. Will they censor you or tell you what you can or cannot say?
A. NO! I wouldn’t do it if they did!

Q. How much does SiriusXm cost and how do I subscribe?
A. You can get all of that information by going to http://siriusxm.com or by calling 1-866-635-2349 and telling them you want Extreme Talk ch.165!

Q. Will the SiriusXM shows have a permanent co-host?
A. At this time, no. Not sure how it’s gonna work completely, but I will basically just do it exactly how we do the regular show.

Q. What can listeners do to support the SiriusXM show to make it so that they love you?
A. Not completely sure yet, but for now, you can tell them how much you love us and want us to stay on buy the doing the following:
– Emailing [email protected]
– Following @ExtremeXM165 on Twitter and tweeting to them how much you love us
– Share this video on all of your FB walls, Twitter, etc: RBR SIRIUSXM PROMO VIDEO

Q. What other shows are on this channel?
A. The lineup is under construction right now, but you can get a basic idea by going to http://www.siriusxm.com/extremetalk

Q. How did this deal come to be?
A. The guys from Extreme Talk ch.165 approached us last week saying they wanted the show and that they love it!

Q. Are you rich now?
A. No! Haha, so don’t cancel your Barmy memberships! This show WILL NOT survive without you guys being members of the BARMY!

More questions? Just listen to the show! We’ll explain things as we need to, and no one will be left in the dark! Hopefully this sums it up pretty well, and makes it a little less confusing. This is gonna be awesome for the show! Thanks again to everyone that has supported us to make things like this possible. And don’t think we’ve “made it” just yet or anything like that! This show only works with you guys being awesome like you have been. Let’s show these satellite people what we can do!

See ya this week!

MIKE

The new website designed by Mike, for comedian DREW MICHAEL is now up! Check it out! It’s still in it’s “rough draft” mode, and we’ve got a lot of style updates to do to get it more pretty-er! BOOKMARK THIS! Lots of great content to come out of this site in the near future! DREWMICHAEL.COM

Slight change of plans today guys – we’re gonna take the day off to catch up over here, so no LIVE show today. I’m sure most of you have a ton of content to catch up on anyway. We have some HUGE news to share with you, and possibly will be announcing it today. I will see if there is something I can put on the feed for today to keep you entertained. See ya tomorrow! Oh, if you’re starving for content, check out the ALL NEW BARMY! https://redbarradio.net/barmy – tons of bonus content added this week!

Check out our latest Weezer cover over at Weezer’s website! The more views, the better chance we have at landing on Weezer’s front page! CLICK HERE TO WATCH US ON WEEZER.COM!

Well, that was a fun week.

Thanks to all of you for making the re-launch even better than expected! Obviously we have a lot of kinks to work out, but as long as the microphones and internet keep working, we’ll just keep riding!

I guess I’ll save most of my talking for the show, since we’re on every day now. We’re gonna try to have someone new on each show this week. Then once we get into a groove again, we’ll start making it even more fun!

The BARMY should be up and running tomorrow morning! We were gonna launch today, but we had a couple hold ups over the weekend that we weren’t expecting. Make sure to look out for our updates!

If you haven’t been watching our show live, try to check it out this week! We’re on LIVE every day at 3pm cst, over at https://redbarradio.tv . We’re going to be doing some amazing things with the video format, so you’re definitely missing out if you’re only listening to the audio version of the show. The video shows are all recorded, and uploaded to the BARMY the very same day! So once the BARMY launches, you will be able to catch up on all the video shows! Also, I’m sure a lot of you have seen our video highlight clis that come out after each show. Please SHARE these on your Facebook’s and Twitters! If we can all get in the habbit of sharing the videos every day, eventually millions of people will be aware of Red Bar, and hopefully a few of them will become fans! Check out all of the video highlight clips we have so far by visiting our YOUTUBE CHANNEL.

Oh – have you checked out our Amazon Wishlist? We’ve had the wishlist up for about a month now, and many of you have purchased things off of it to help the show get back up and running. When you purchase something from the gift lift, you get back double the value in Barmy, and some of the items even give you autographed memorabilia from the old studio! Check out this wishlist, as it’s only gonna be up for a week or two longer! CLICK HERE FOR THE WISHLIST!