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Keep Your Voice Down is a podcast featuring fellow Central Michigan University journalism grads and best friends Alek Haak-Frost and Doug Sears, Jr. Alek, the executive editor of Watershed Voice, and Doug, a Watershed Voice writer and columnist, will discuss a variety of topics including the week's top stories in St. Joseph County and beyond, as well as pop culture and other general nonsense. With 13 years of friendship and training from the best journalism school in the State of Michigan under their belts, Doug and Alek try to make sense of the world around them, while ensuring neither takes themselves too seriously. So pull up a chair, turn up the volume, and no matter what happens, don't keep your voice down.
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Booking probability
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Signup to Generate a PitchKeep Your Voice Down is a podcast featuring fellow Central Michigan University journalism grads and best friends Alek Haak-Frost and Doug Sears, Jr. Alek, the executive editor of Watershed Voice, and Doug, a Watershed Voice writer and columnist, will discuss a variety of topics including the week's top stories in St.
Keep Your Voice Down is hosted by Alek Haak-Frost. The show has published 100 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Work and love in equal measure" (15 July 2026, 152 minutes), "Recording Live from Somewhere" (27 May 2026, 67 minutes), and "Let's Talk About Cake" (19 March 2026, 56 minutes).
Keep Your Voice Down publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 70 minutes across 100 episodes.
Booking probability for Keep Your Voice Down is 47%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Keep Your Voice Down requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Keep Your Voice Down's contact route on record: public web form.
Alek Haak-Frost hosts Keep Your Voice Down, a news podcast with 100 episodes published.
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Keep Your Voice Down
Keep Your Voice Down hosts Alek Haak-Frost and Doug Sears Jr. celebrate their 100th episode with a casual and authentic conversation with poet, author, spoken word artist and educator Aubrey Barnes aka Mister Aubs...
Episode #6
Alek and Doug provide a preview of the upcoming Watershed Voice Artist Showcase and unveil this year's lineup. The celebration of local talent and local journalism will take place Saturday, July 25 at 6 p.m. inside the...
Episode #5
Canadian journalist and baker Chantal Hortop , who serves as managing editor of The Gleaner in Quebec, stops by Keep Your Voice Down to talk cake and shop with hosts Doug Sears, Jr. and Alek Haak-Frost . The wide...
Episode #4
Keep Your Voice Down hosts Alek Haak-Frost and Doug Sears Jr. discuss Alek's experience during the tornado that touched down in Three Rivers last week and the days that followed. Alek describes how the community has...
Episode #3
WMUK's Gordon Evans stopped by Keep Your Voice Down this week to discuss his career in public radio, the state of journalism, how it's changed, where it's headed, and what gives him hope about the industry he's...
Episode #2
Keep Your Voice Down hosts Alek Haak-Frost and Doug Sears. Jr. are joined by Screen Tea Podcast hosts and friends Lisha and Jules McCurry to talk about love. The quartet discuss how they met their future spouses, when...
Episode #1
Keep Your Voice Down hosts Alek Haak-Frost and Doug Sears Jr. are joined by frequent collaborator and friend Layne Deuel to talk about distractions that helped them endure the past year. The trio discuss the benefits of...
Episode #8
By the grace of Betty White, Doug and Alek return to their respective mics to look back at the year that was on Keep Your Voice Down . The duo also touch on Watershed Voice 's year-end fundraising efforts, emphasizing...
Episode #7
Watershed Voice Staff Writer Maxwell Knauer joins Keep Your Voice Down hosts Doug Sears Jr. and Alek Haak-Frost for what might just be the most chaotic conversation in KYVD history. Alek goes "full Larry David" over his...
Episode #6
Keep Your Voice Down hosts Alek Haak-Frost and Doug Sears Jr. are joined by Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Abdul El-Sayed . The former Rhodes Scholar and Michigan gubernatorial candidate fields questions about...
Episode #5
Keep Your Voice Down hosts Alek Haak-Frost and Doug Sears Jr. reveal the lineup for the fifth annual Watershed Voice Artist Showcase , which will take place later this month at The Huss Project in Three Rivers. The duo...
Episode #4
Keep Your Voice Down hosts Alek Haak-Frost and Doug Sears Jr. are joined by Three Rivers Pride Board Secretary Lexi Jacobs , President Chuck Lepinski , and Volunteer Coordinator Sarah Apwisch to preview the third annual...
Episode #3
Watershed Voice launched in 2020 only weeks after the COVID-19 pandemic had much of the country sheltering in place, and a short time before protests, the size and frequency of which the country hadn't seen since the...
Episode #2
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...
Episode #1
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...
Episode #7
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...
Episode #6
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...
Episode #5
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...
Episode #4
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...
Episode #3
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...
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