About brennan.fm
The Host
Brennan is a Red River Métis writer, community organizer, and the founder of Fireweed Writing School and Berry House. He founded Write Club at Mount Royal University, and is the author of nine books.
This station is an extension of brennan.day, a public variety radio show to go alongside the writing.
Show Format (planned()
Approximately 60–90 minutes, rough structure:
| Segment | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Cold open | 3–5 min | Monologue, observation, or poem |
| First music block | 10–15 min | DJ set, themed or freeform |
| Main segment | 15–25 min | Essay, interview, commentary, or call-in |
| Second music block | 10–15 min | DJ set |
| Outro | 3–5 min | Upcoming episodes, Toonie Club, sign-off |
Broadcasts air live, and all episodes are released as podcast episodes within 24 hours.
Technical Stack
Self-hosted on a DigitalOcean droplet running AzuraCast (AGPL-3.0). Live broadcasts go through BUTT → Liquidsoap harbor → Icecast2. Guest audio via Cleanfeed. This site is built with Eleventy and hosted on Netlify.
When no live show is running, the AutoDJ pulls from a rotating library of public domain 78rpm recordings, Creative Commons music, old-time radio dramas, and spoken word from the Internet Archive, refreshed hourly by a cron job on the server. All automation code is in this site's repository.