201. Sex Dirt 1 (mislabelled)

What can I say. It's Sex Dirt.

Septermber 2021

GOOD

202. Another UFO: Probing Mars (mislabelled)

Don's notes: The whole band sets up for a 5 hour look at what's really on Mars. The show revolves around former NASA employee, former CBS science advisor, Richard Hoagland's contention that NASA photos taken by the Viking space craft that went to Mars in 1976 show artificial structures and a monumental mile long humanoid face looking straight up from the surface of Mars on the plains of Sidonia, as well as his suspicions about the failure of the 1993 Mars Observer mission which could have photographed these structures in much greater detail. We use a lot of edited interviews with Hoagland (principally from Art Bell's Dreamland show) and other researchers involved in studying these features on Mars, as well as a variety of science fiction material concerning Mars, the McDaniel Report and epistemology, NASA's history and evidence suggesting a NASA cover-up of this information, Arthur C. Clarke and "The Transit of Earth", Mars ex-spurt, The Weatherman, his scanner, and continuous live music beds by the band. With all these wacky guys involved, we take a less seriously provocative route through the basic concept, although there is plenty to consider here.

It is suggested that, if real, these enigmas on Mars have probably been there for millions of years, predating human history, yet the face, in particular, is apparently designed to be seen from off planet. New work in Egyptology, particularly with regard to the Sphinx, suggests a reevaluation of assumptions about the age of the monuments on the Giza Plateau, and Hoagland also points up certain math links between the layout of the monuments in Egypt and similar pyramidal structures near Sidonia on Mars. Spaced out and with a minimum of live mike interaction, this show gives you a lot of improvised music and sounds from Negativland along with the perplexing subject at hand.

"Profoundly interesting, atmospheric, funny; Another UFO is peak OTE."
—New York Times

September 2021

GREAT

203. Sex Dirt II (mislabelled)

Now here's something for everyone! The whole group shows up to try out a record idea live. It's mostly about the Weatherman and what he's really like and what he really likes and what he really DOESN'T LIKE! Lots and lots and lots of live, improvised sex music. Eat it raw here, before it turned into a puny little CD. Parental guidance suggested.

Septermber 2021

GOOD

204. Alpha and Omega I

Honestly I couldn't quite grasp what this one was about. Mormonism? Economics? The thearchical nature of modern society where money is God? There wasn't enough receptacle programming to keep it interesting, just a bunch of samples played in succession. Lots of Julee Cruise, Cocteau Twins and some weird music box play throughout.

October 2021

SKIP

205. Alpha and Omega II

Now that's more like it. This one starts off pretty similar to Alpha and Omega I but quickly devolves into strange Japanese commercials and commentary on their work culture... and then The Ticktockman and The Harlequin show up; the two callers interact with each other extensively.

October 2021

June 2023 addition:

I want to add that the image of Japan as a country with efficient work environments thanks to the submissive and group-oriented worker is only one of the ways that Japan has been perceived throughout history. Before the 70s, it was instead seen as a land of mysticism and exoticism and attracted the spiritual and artistic curiosity of various people leading to such trends as french Japonisme. After the 70s and 80s, when the bubble burst, the perception of Japan shifted towards culture products like anime and manga and supposedly established the country as a "soft power". The government-backed cultural export approach known as Cool Japan today aims to get people interested in japanese culture and thereby become a more convincing country that is able to get its way without using coercion, much the same way as Coca-Cola beats every other brand thanks to being part of the common unconscious by virtue of just being everywhere, and so being the most obvious choice.

GOOD

206. Alpha and Omega III

VERY similar to the first one. Cocteau Twins again, Julee Cruise again, the same music box, the same samples; it's about 60% redundant, and the remaining 40% isn't anything to write home about.

SKIP

207. Another UFO: Dreamland I

Don's notes: Dreamland is one of the many names applied by residents local to the "secret" military test site, more commonly known as "Area 51", located in the desert around the dry Groom Lake outside of Las Vegas, Nevada. We join the show as Mr. Edge is listening to his phone messages. After an example of the usual prankster calls he receives from OTE listeners, UFOlogist Leland Googleburger's message sets up this program's overview of all the fascinating lore surrounding Area 51. Regular nocturnal displays of aerial phenomenon over Area 51 which do not conform to conventional aerodynamics give rise to the name Dreamland, and to the widespread belief that the U.S. Government has been testing captured alien flight technology there for years. Ever since Roswell, some believe the flying disk recovered there, and others since, are being "back-engineered" at Area 51 in order to build and fly them ourselves. One of the UFO phenomenon's most reasonable journalists, George Knapp, gives a thumbnail sketch of UFO background (Roswell again), as well as a description of the Groom Lake base and its history, and we hear a great deal from Bob Lazar, who claims to have worked as a physicist at the base where he personally saw several different alien craft being housed in underground hangers in which he worked on narrow aspects of the propulsion system. We hear a lot of his experiences and a lot of almost detailed description of the "gravity amplification" systems used to propel these craft. Receptacle callers add their own stories about the area and UFO sightings, and we read from the extremely interesting "Area 51 Viewers Guide" written by local resident/ researcher Glen Campbell, and distributed as a desktop published book. Area 51 geography is covered (from a couple mountain tops outside the guarded boundaries, one can illegally look down on "the base that doesn't exist"), cat and mouse games played by resourceful would-be viewers and the civilian paramilitary security force which guards the base's boundaries, a history of area sightings and strange occurrences of note, perceptual facts and fictions, and much more. At the very least, Area 51 is where the military has developed and tested its conventional experimental aircraft such as the U2, stealth aircraft, and the fabled Aurora "pulse jet", still not acknowledged to exist. Big, black budget secrets are kept here and speculations about the biggest one of all continue to proliferate, couched in logic ranging from plausible to ridiculous. Area 51 is a vast labyrinth of top and above top secret layers, deep within which is the "S-4" area at Papoose Lake (dry) where Lazar says the alien hardware is kept, and which is supposedly beyond access even to the commander of the base. Nevada residents who work at the base answer all queries with the phrase "If I told you, I'd have to kill you".

October 2021

GREAT

208. Another UFO: Dreamland II

Don's notes: One week later we continue to explore Area 51, this time beginning with another audio memo from Retro-History which exposes Leland Googleburger's role as disinformational conduit, as well as Retro-History's ability to reveal their real purposes without fear of being believed.

More on the secret Nevada test site, Bob Lazar's claim that he worked on captured alien craft and saw evidence of recovered alien bodies there, military security tactics directed at him when he quit the base and began to talk, corroborating and dissenting character witnesses who are checking his story, mind control, drugs, and brain washing. Also material on UFO detection, flight characteristics and strange sightings over Area 51, the nature of other technology, such as "Aurora", being tested at the base, Projects Artichoke, Moondust, and Blue Fly, the MJ12 papers, The "Falcon's" revelations, and more readings from the "Area 51 Viewer's Guide", as well as further versions (begun last week) of Nevada broadcaster Art Bell's one and only sighting on a road near Area 51 as he consistently redescribes it to every UFOlogist he interviews. Leland Googleburger calls in from Area 51 on a cellular phone from a mountain top overlooking the base. After discounting the existence of U.M.N.'s Retro-History Project, he describes C. Elliot Friday's private U2 parked on the runway below him as Mr. Edge attempts to distinguish plausible deniability from disinformational deception. Leland is then abducted right before your ears. Richard Hoagland discusses new discoveries, new physics, and the cover up of both, and larger doses of old science fiction dramas crop up. Dreamland II might be characterized as the more paranoid of the two shows.

November 2021

GOOD

209. Willsaphone Release Party

The Weatherman shows up with his two bodyguards and a power book user to celebrate the official release of "The Willsaphone Stupid Show" double CD. This is one big on-air party, copyrighted crowd in the background and all. There's ham jamming, CB remoting, green slime punching, an extremely rare appearance of the OTE Wheel of Fortune, and jokes made up right on the spot. They don't come any more crowded than this.

I recommend listening to The Willsaphone Stupid Show before this tape. You should listen to it anyway, since it is a fantastic piece of work which is not only hilarious, but somehow humanizes the goofy character that is The Weatherman by showcasing moments from his normal life with his grandmother and then late mother; it has the potential to enhance your enjoyment of Over the Edge as a whole by providing context, especially for this era of OTE, the U2 lawsuit era.

The tape itself includes some snippets from the CD (which is itself two edited down OTE shows) but is mostly original. There's some good banter in-studio and with callers going on, and lots of interesting sound collage.

November 2021

GREAT

210. The RedNarc Phone Show

It's not exactly about phones, but definitely by phones. It's nonstop Receptacle Programming, and there doesn't seem to be any particular theme to it. Or the theme is that there is no theme.

November 2021

SKIP

211. Ginsberguru

Goodhello again. I'm Crosley Bendix, co-hosting this live recording-filled broadcast which you no doubt are listening to on tape

Three hours in which we'll pour out our own ponderous poetry, and investigate the humbug hermeneutics of hallucination! (?)

Alright imma be honest, I have zero clue about the beatniks or about poetry in general. This tape was still enjoyable, but I'm sure I'd have enjoyed it even more if I were more knowledgeable in the subject. Second half contains a gameshow segment.

November 2021

GOOD

212. Copyright Clearinghouse (March 26, 1994)

Review by Lusanaherandraton: From Don's intro: "Another edition of, that's right, the Copyright Clearinghouse, produced and directed by Negativland. The Copyright Clearinghouse involves a lot of readings of stuff surrounding the copyright issues that so occupy us here in the '90s. Why do we do it? Because no one else will."

For those of you thinking "yes, well, this is all tremendously boring," there are between-reading interludes in the show's more usual receptacle mode. These feature ham radio operators complaining about Over the Edge, repeated calls from an excited C.H.O.A.M. spokesman, and clips about the Joker copyrighting fish (heard in Negativland's "Dead Dog Records"). The genesis of the U2 fiasco unrolls before us in the Weatherman's original OTE reading of "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" (later released on These Guys Are From England), joined by a catchy R&B cover of the same. A sound collage recaps Escape From Noise, Helter Stupid, U2, Guns, and Free in condensed form, and we hear from Negativland's fellows-in-arms John Oswald (Plexure) and the Tape-beatles (The Grand Delusion).

The featured documents are listed below. As most also appear in Negativland's Fair Use, I have added page numbers for that book where applicable. You can follow along at home. Don't forget to turn the page when you hear Tinkerbell's chimes! [Lusanaherandrathon then proceeds to timestamp various points of interest in the tape with descriptions of what each consists of]

Since the previous Copyright Clearinghouse show there have been positive developments in the 2 Live Crew lawsuit. Don reads more (and maybe some of the same?) excerpts from the Fair Use book including the Supreme Court decision of Campbell (Luther Campbell of 2 Live Crew) v. Acuff-Rose Music (who own Roy Orbison's song Pretty Woman, which was parodied by 2 Live Crew), and again stumbles over his words, but not quite as much as last time.

The Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music lawsuit was in the zeitgeist of parody and Free Use issues in the '90s, and so is quite important historically. However, the whole story is told more coherently in the aforementioned Fair Use book. There is still some content worth sticking around for even if you've already read the book, namely some funny samples of people criticizing the Over the Edge radio show saying that it makes no sense/is just a waste of tax money, and some of the usual, stimulating Receptacle Programming; but if you were really excited to hear some new material on Free Use policy for some reason, then you'll be disappointed.

November 2021

GOOD

213. Advertising Secrets (April 1994)

Man calls in and plays tapes of outtakes from commercials, then Man 2 calls in to complain that there's too much dead air so music starts playing, then Don plays tapes of outtakes from commercials.

New Crosley Bendix arts review (on commercials) at around 146 minutes.

January 2022

GOOD

214. Another UFO: Mutilation

Don's Notes: The 30 year mystery of cattle mutilations and their association with night sky phenomenon is probed, principally by George Knapp and Linda Howe in selected reports to Art Bell's syndicated radio show, Dreamland, from Nevada. Howe's persistent investigations of hundreds of these anatomically startling and obviously callous killings has produced many interesting patterns and a consistent M.O., perhaps suggesting that at least some of these represent the activities of a superior technology extending its' interest in Earth's genetic material down to lower life forms for purposes we can only guess at. If you have never connected the cattle mutilations with UFO's, be assured others have. Sightings of glowing objects at the time of these mutilations, sometimes over the field or range in question, appear to occur regularly.

Cattle are found, "Precision cuts, surgical, eyes and utters removed, no tracks, no prints, no blood (!), no signs of a struggle, no answers." One eye will be surgically removed, One ear removed, the tail will be smoothly cut off at the tailbone, internal and genital organs are neatly removed, as well as "coring" and removing the entire rectal canal, doing all of this without spilling any blood, but sometimes draining all the blood from the body. There are no tracks at all around the carcass, even in mud or snow, and wild predators avoid this easy meal. Veterinary opinion finds the cuts and holes to be high precision, surgically knowledgeable, laser scalpel-like cuts accomplished with extremely high heat - hardly portable equipment, even for the local Satanic M.D. And there are hardly enough "Jack the animal rippers" to account for the number of these peculiar tissue, gland, and organ excisions which continue worldwide and unabated as the decades go by. There are lots of associated sightings and more than one Johnny on the spot has seen a cow being lifted up into the night sky in a beam of extremely intense light, disappear into the bottom of a levitating craft, and be spit out shortly afterward to come crashing down through tree branches in the dark. And then there are those black helicopters hanging around the farmer in the dell... Most disturbing.

It's actually not that interesting; you can get everything out of this tape from just reading the summary above. There is mostly badly recorded interviews with witnesses, some music, and very little Receptacle Programming (all of it near the end).

January 2022

SKIP

215. Proliferation

This is all about Guns Guns Guns Guns Guns Guns. No Receptacle Programming.

Ballistics. Martial technologies. Financing the war effort. Sub machine guns, missiles, explosions. Happiness is a warm gun, and God bless the United States of America. (It seems to be a Don solo show.)

January 2022

GOOD

216. Another UFO: The Crops

Don's Notes: My personal favorite among UFO associated phenomenon are the crop circles, being as they are, some kind of pure graphic expression and a polar-opposite activity to the gory cattle pathology. As in the mutilations, UFO sightings have often accompanied the creation of crop circles. The circles, too, have been with us for 30 years, appearing all over the world in waves of more or less, increasing or decreasing in complexity, but never ceasing. Those of you who fell for the heavy coverage by a welcoming media of the English hoaxers explanation should think that through and listen to this.

As usual, reality is discovered in the details. Careful comparisons of "authentic" circles with those clumsily created for the press by those two English guys show their hoax to be a hoax, though this sticky little follow-up point has never been widely reported. Science has begun to analyze these huge patterns pressed into mature grain fields overnight, and they turn out to have many unique properties apparently quite beyond our ability to duplicate. In at least some of the crop circles, each grain stem in the pressed pattern is sharply bent only once in a 90 degree angle at ground level, the stalks appear combed, and they stay down flat! Occasionally single stalks remain standing straight up within a pressed pattern with no bend and no sign of ever being touched. Try that with a board and ropes, and then try it simultaneously on different continents. The flattened upper stalks are not even bruised. The grain stalks all "flow" around the design in the same direction and are actually interwoven in overlapping layers. Micro-analysis of the blackened plant tissue at the bend point shows unique molecular mutation somewhat similar to the effects of very intense microwave bombardment.

There are no tracks or sign of equipment entering or leaving these immaculate impressions. Some speculate these sometimes simple, sometimes quite complex signs being imprinted in our food supply represent some kind of obviously intelligent "transmission", surely intended to be noticed if not understood. As such, they present the most tantalizing and probably the most unresolvable of all the enigmas from possible Others, yet these gigantic, geometric grain sculptures remain to stare us down, beautiful enough to be art as we know it... This show dribbles over its' edge into The Puzzling Evidence SubGenius Show in which Dr. Howl (Hal Robins) and I discuss crop circles until the cassette runs out.

Includes a revealing conversation with an australian caller about the nature of the Another UFO series and Don's "honest" thoughts on the subject, as well as a brief appearance by Dr. Hal, who sounds uncannily similar to the scientists from Half-Life.

January 2022

GREAT

217. Believe Anything II

This show mostly revolves around esotericism, mainstream and alternative religions, tall tales and secret societies which Negativland see as ridiculous or unbelieveable and yet are indeed believed by people. Some top-notch Receptacle Programming on here.

Whatever happened to Believe Anything I?

January 2022

GOOD

218. Over the Edge: Blue Receptacle

Blues music, fragments of Derek Jarman's Blue, and some random Receptacle Programming.

February 2022

GOOD

219. Let's Scare the Weatherman

Review by Lusanaherandraton: Despite the early suggestion to terrify your local meteorologist with a false disaster report, Willsafans can rest easy that Negativland's own Weatherman does feature in this spooky slice of receptacle programming.

After joining the show by walkie-talkie, he is called in to the studio for a hair-raising session with Dr. Oslow Norway (around 1:08:27), who administers a questionnaire on his deepest fears. At other times, callers taunt him with frightening stories of chewed gum, building code violations, and messes too messy for Formula 409. I won't give away whether anybody succeeds in scaring the Weatherman, but by the end, you'll certainly be chilled to the bone!

Also in the mix: Creepy music, horror clips, spontaneous combustion, alien abductions, screams, growls, cackles, and the voice of Dick Vaughn... speaking from beyond the grave! It all closes out with a guest appearance by Dr. Hal from the Puzzling Evidence Show. Listen to it by candlelight for maximum effect, and... DON'T FALL ON THE STAAAAAIRS!

February 2022

GOOD

220. Believe Anything TV

A static filled look at TV and its' pervasive effects and persuasions. We channel surf through reactions, analysis, commentary, critique, satire, and demonstrations relating to our national agenda setting medium and its ability to create belief and promote believability. As Peter Jennings suggests his reporters put on gas masks and a crowd outside ABC chants "Tell the truth!", the whole electronic parade speeds on much too fast to understand its own effect on the passive consciousness of its audience. "This species has amused itself to death". (See "Caution" under "We Are Driven")

Some people call in to discuss how television has dumbed us down and crippled our sense of imagination, meanwhile a booper goes positively bonkers in the background.

The australian caller from Another UFO calls in and talks with Don about crop circles and australian culture representation on american TV, and viceversa.

February 2022

GOOD

221. Comet Pole Watch

This is a show about the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. It starts off strong with a Crosley Bendix Arts Review, this time about a comet called O. J. Simpson which is about to crash into Jupiter (don't think too hard about it). Then some atmosphere, some astronomy, some Space Rock, and of course some apocalypticism as there always is with these things.

July 2022

GOOD

222. Radio Roulette I

A show in the style of old OTE: it's full of unexpected turns and hilarious non-sequiturs. Lots of good banter too. Listen to it.

July 2022

GREAT

223. The Sample Show

An extremely lively update of several shows on music appropriation we have done, such as The Copywrong Show. This one remixes some virtually unknown material received by Negativland for consideration as releases on our Seeland label. Included are very interesting works by Chris Sizemore of San Francisco, The Evolution Control Committee of Columbus Ohio, and many more. Never letting up and full of quick switches, this mix was about as close to perfect as it ever gets - a complex and fast moving mix of mixes of very funny and very illegal music which will never see a record store unless copyright laws are reformed to allow such artistic reuses of other people's work.

November 2022

GREAT

224. Radio Roulette II

February 2023

GOOD

225. A Redball Halloween

Really funny Halloween show where Omer Edge has a pre-recorded internal monologue about wanting to literally kill Ronald Redball. May experience whiplash upon hearing the R-word.

We love Bug we love Bug.

February 2023

GOOD

226. Under the Sphinx

Review by Lusanaherandraton: Don Joyce adopts the persona of Rocky Jordan, Egyptian Detective, and presents one of his "most perplexing dreams... or was it?" This comes to us in vignettes from an old CBS mystery radio serial with a storyline somewhat reminiscent of H. P. Lovecraft's Houdini story "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs". On top of this, we hear Egyptian music, the names of pharaohs repeated umpteen times, and wild theories about the significance of Egyptian monuments.

Tapes from talk radio suggest that "under the Sphinx" is where to look for buried Atlantean papers, and that the pyramid was built from molded cement blocks(!). Callers discuss ancient astronauts and a psychic information superhighway. One raises the question "Which came first, the Sphinx or the sphincter?" and another reveals that the Sphinx was seen on the grassy knoll. My favorite part, though, is when one of Don's friends tries to strike up a conversation, forgetting that it's Rocky Jordan in the studio. I don't know whether the stony silence he receives is more indicative of Don's professionalism, or his antisocial tendencies, but it perfectly sums up something or other about him!

February 2023

GOOD

227. The Experience Remix

An extended, brain-blowing remix of all the known and unknown Jimi Hendrix music I could get my hands on. A continuous, merging, overlapping, multi-channeled intercutting of The Experience, along with sporadic dialog from the Hendrix film, "Experience", and assorted comments about the '60s. Lest you become nostalgic, all this is forced through some distinctly new sorts of digital manipulations, contemporary effects sporting settings unknown in Jimi's day, and a live reel to reel loop delay now extremely rare on OTE. since our new decks make it hellishly difficult to accomplish. This man was the greatest mutant guitar genius of all time, and this 3 hour, solid music mutilation is a wacky act of total respect. Goes with any psycho-active substance.

April 2023

GOOD

228. The Blade Runner Remix

Upon discovering that Vangelis (maker of the theme music which begins every OTE) finally released his original soundtrack to Blade Runner, Scott Riddle hosts a 3 hour remix of the dialog from Blade Runner and all the original and associated music. This is one of my 3 all-time favorite movies and it provides a personally delightful playpen of disconnected sounds and plot. " Do you like our owl?" "More human than human is our motto." "Wake up, time to die." Inspired by this extremely effective cinematic creation of a darkly Gothic future so full of gripping ambiance that the plot seems like a by-product, this turned out to be a moody good job of stretching that ambiance out over twice its original length with the help of edits, loops, repeats, and the Receptacle. It probably helps to have seen the movie.
-- Don Joyce

Review by richxxiii: This is a fun show. As no doubt all fans of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner are aware, the official soundtrack to that amazing 1982 film didn't come out until 1994 - which was a real crime (up to then, one either had to resort to the wretched-by-comparison New American Symphony album - released around the time of the film - or track down some impossible-to-find and inferior-sounding bootlegs). So, if you were a fanatic who snapped it up on CD, you probably played it incessantly. Don Joyce's remix of it, sounds of the film, isolated soundbites, etc, captures that rapturous moment. For Blade Runner fanatics, it's something to hear and amazing audio mix that seems like it's coming out of your head.

GOOD

229. The Lazy Weatherman

A slim but true premise (we can’t get the weatherman to go on tour with us because he’s lazy) produces surprisingly interesting results. Negativland’s forcefully Scottish manager, Paul McGoonis, (Mark) and his wife Penny (Alicia) attempt to encourage, persuade, harass and otherwise convince the reluctant Weatherman to get off his charismatic duff, get on the bus, and do some stuff. Dr. Oslow Norway takes a more clinical approach. But in fact, the Weatherman is in top form as we all perform lengthy live versions of ‘Sue Ridgewater’ and 180-G’. Also live dual accordions, ‘Mr. Lazy’, some fun tape edits, a lengthy new mid-section to ‘Sue Ridgewater’ advocating suicide, and Dr. Norway’s ‘lazy test’, which refers us back to Blade Runner, are highlights of this utterly charming music & noise fest. But as sometimes the case, it’s the piece that went unplanned, 180-G, that blows it all away. Cool.
-- Don Joyce

I got goosebumps. This might be in the top 10 ever OTE shows.

Apparently the guy who's always playing guitar over the phone is called "The Professor".

May 2023

GREAT

230. Another UFO: Abductions II

Don's notes: This stab at the abduction phenomenon expands on the previous effort while taking a much closer look at the abductees, themselves. There are several recorded interviews with abductees, edits from the soundtrack of "Communion", "The little blue doctors", lots of John Mack and other abductee researchers, and George Knapp's journalism. You are there for the actual details as told by the experiencers... "And as we plunge even further into the bizarre...", Crosley Bendix actually reappears with a Christmas review of the UFO phenomenon, Mary Poppins sings "Stay Awake", while lengthy personal abduction accounts continue ever more intermixed with stereo phone music, the integrity of research methods, phantasy phone abductions, and The Future Sound Of London. After three hours of this, the whole program turns into another program as I sit in for the off-planet Puzzling Evidence who normally follows OTE with the SubGenius Show each week. His partner in SubGeniusness, Dr. Howl, co-hosts this Sub-bonus two hour skewed addendum to the subject of UFO's, ha, ha, ha. After we each announce our new books (no kidding!), the Dr. lays out the details for what to expect when the X-ists come and a lot of other invaluable UFO whizzdum as the SubGenius know it, abduction hangover tapes from OTE intrude as the little blue doctor, Hal, expounds upon the "Grays" and their hive mentality, along with what appears to be a UFO sex line, solid callers, civilization and its noises, and the doctor does not stop talking...

Really cool atmospheric collage. Includes new Crosley Bendix Arts Review ("Visions").

May 2023

GREAT

231. Another UFO: Sightings and Technology

Don's notes: Our second week in December '94 is devoted to the 50 year history of the sightings, themselves, and the possible technologies involved. From that fateful year, 1947, and pilot Kenneth Arnold's first airborne and widely reported sighting near Mt. Rainier in which he coined the term "flying saucer" (referring to flight characteristics, not the shape which he described as "Horseshoe" or "crescent shaped"), to a very recent, extremely rare tape of a radar operator tracking UFO targets over Michigan while hanging on the phone with 911, you hear the bird's eye accounts of real people seeing an array of craft and propulsion technology in the same sky we hardly notice every day. The Weatherman is a glowing orange object, someone sneers at my background, extended new looks at how alien craft actually work(!) and who might be flying them, and a wide variety of witness after witness tell their story. Roswell and Area 51 are back, paving the way for the cover-up. This month's shows begin to overlap at the edges with some material that missed getting in the previous show moving into the next.

May 2023

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232. Another UFO: Roswell II

Don's notes: This show began a full month of five UFO shows and deals once again with the event that began the modern UFOlogy movement. After a pre-show announcement about X'ing out Christmas, another memo from the Retro-History Project leads to a phone message from UFOlogist Leland Googleburger concerning new information about the Roswell incident and how to find it. This time we focus more exclusively on the saucer crash at Roswell with a lot of new media reference material. The soundtrack to the movie, "Roswell", is used against various documentaries on the subject and a variety of discussions gathered from radio and TV. Many more details about the seminal event of UFO history, as well as researchers' persistent methods of operation, and the rising tide of official curiosity about what may have happened at Roswell. There is now an investigation by Congressman Schiff of New Mexico attempting to get any Government documents which may exist relating to Roswell.

Meanwhile, Omer Edge is out in the Lucky Muck Swamp again to retrieve a confidential tape from Leland Googleburger who is now an abductee on his way to the Moon. And it appears that both C. Elliot Friday and Sergio Carracus had their sticky fingers on that craft recovered at Roswell. "The truth will come out..."

Solo show.

May 2023

GOOD

233. Late Late Classic Cartoons

The highlight is Letters to Frizzy: a segment where this character played by Don Joyce receives letters from his "fans" addressing his child molesting charges and other fucked up stuff he's done, all of which is read out by him in a goofy voice backed by an incredibly, maddeningly annoying music loop.

The second third retreads old ground with some Copywrong Collage. Then Frizzy comes back, but there's not much to stick around for.

May 2023

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234. All About Eno

You know the drill. Lots of interesting Brian Eno interviews and lectures mixed with music from his albums (as well as albums he produced) and noise from the live booper.

June 2023

GOOD

235. New Waves in Science

Bleeds into the Puzzling Evidence show

Super String theory, Spontaneous Human Combustion (SHC), Ball Lightning, and other stupid funny science stuff. After the three hour mark Dr. Howlland Owll, a.k.a Hal, takes the reins from Dexter Surge. He talks about the disgusting things he's seen goats do, and have done to them.

June 2023

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236. Plan X II

As you may know, Plan X was a one-off show that happened when Don didn't have time to prepare. The idea is that Receptacle Programming is always in effect and the audience is allowed to do the whole show. They decided to do it again. It's not very fun.

June 2023

SKIP

237. Zapped!

This densely dual injected mix is a sonic assault on the early life, times, and music of Frank Zappa. Frank talks, others talk about Frank, and lots and lots of familiar and unfamiliar Zappa music jousts with itself for 5 hours. Beginning with a 1963 appearance on Steve Allen's TV show in which a young and unknown Zappa gets Steve, his band, and his engineer to play real concrete music while Frank solos on bicycle, through a joint interview with John and Yoko preceding their Fillmore East jam together, this infomusic layer cake is thrown back into Frank's late face according to his own principles. From Doo-Wop infatuation, to scary hair and the 20th Century's greatest mustache, to gutter subjects, intellectual sneers, and serial material, Zappa was one of America's most distinctive Pop Flirt composers. This is either just what you're looking for or "That is crap."

Review by Lusanaherandraton: Don Joyce and Phineas Narco can't quite agree on a title for the show. "Zapped!" is Don's offering, while Phineas suggests "They Saved Zappa's Moustache: The Frank Zappa Remix Volume I: The Beginning." Either way, it's a towering tribute to the late, great Frank Zappa. The episode mostly focuses on Zappa's early career, but includes a few clips from later on. In one interview, he mentions Fredric Dannen's book Hit Men (1990), which I read on Negativland's recommendation. And of course, there are tapes of the PMRC Senate Hearing at which Zappa testified (1985).

I can't think of a better format than OTE's freeform mix to introduce listeners to his work. (Though a longtime Zappa fan myself, I've barely scratched the surface of his monstrous oeuvre, so there were plenty of unfamiliar gems among the more prominent tunes.) Hearing multiple versions of the same song played together is just one unique benefit of the presentation. I also love how Uncle Meat devolves into a stuttering mess around 3:47:46. Groovy!

June 2023

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238. Deviant Singalong

Lots of music-related topics are covered, some which are no longer relevant today, some that still are; there's the african influence in modern music, the Hidden Satanic Messages craze of the hard rock era, Bob Dylan as a representative of old musical values compared to the hip-hop artists of today, and the use of profanity in music. Then, callers finally sing along about 2 hours in.

June 2023

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239. The Air Down Under

With a generous supply of very recent Australian media tapes from an OTE buyer down under, we survey what's on the air there. Focusing mainly on Triple J radio, which is a nation wide "youth station" supported entirely by the government, we surf all over their surprisingly wacky features, music, and characters. As you will notice, language censorship does not seem to occur to whoever is in charge (the government!), and what I dared air here is not half of what gets aired there. There's also remixed bits from Australian TV and some samplings from their widespread commercials for American products suitably tailored to local consumers. Maynard F# Crabbes hosting Radio Stupid and the Dag For A Day quiz, silly serials, silly ID's, and silly promotions, an unbelievably insane approach to sports reporting, and some of the diversely weird music these blokes are playing, including a smirkful national obsession with Tom Jones. These people are having more fun than we are...

June 2023

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240. Over the Puzzling Edge of Evidence

Starring Dr. Hal again. Man I love Dr. Hal. Phineas Narco's there too. Lots of funny banter.

June 2023

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241. Another UFO: Moondust Bluefly

Don's Notes: In somewhat of a holdover from last week’s subjects, we begin with a mix of several UFO investigators and the director of the made-for-TV movie, “Roswell,” discussing the various rumors and speculations concerning a film, supposedly made by the U.S. government in 1947, of the autopsy on the aliens recovered from the Roswell saucer crash. This rather suspicious film has recently surfaced in private hands in England, and the owner has been tantalizing media types with short clip screenings in an attempt to sell the broadcast rights worldwide. And yes, it soon came to a TV near you.

This show preceded the Fox showing – we focus more on this film in later shows. From there, we move through another wink at Disney’s embrace of UFOs and into a more nitty-gritty mix of documentation concerning our governments whole history of extra-terrestrial craft recovery, as well as how these ongoing military programs have apparently been hidden or disguised. Project Moondust is reportedly assigned the task of recovering any foreign object from space, which may have come to earth within our borders since the ’60s. This includes anything from meteorites, to falling soviet satellites, to alien space craft. Operation Bluefly designates the often plain clothes Air Force units that actually go out to collect the space object in question. “Why the secrecy?” Then there are the ongoing mass sightings in Mexico, large and small formations of UFOs routinely seen by literally hundreds of thousands above Mexico City traffic jams, multi-point of view videos galore, a continuing mainstay in Mexican news media, yet barely if ever mentioned in the North American news. Flight patterns seem to be tracing paths between various Volcanic locations and (inevitably) fulfillment of Aztec prophesy is suggested, leading us right into next weeks extended examination of what in the world was responsible for the spiritual histories of supernatural intervention common to every human culture?

August 2023

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242. Another UFO: Above and Below

Don's notes: This final, 5-hour edition of Another UFO for this month deals with ancient religious histories and implications related to an extra-terrestrial intelligence which may have been interacting with life on this planet for a very long time. This historically recent direction in probing the origins of religions is interesting because, in some ways, it actually represents a more “reasonable” explanation for all those varieties of ancient spiritual supernaturalness which, otherwise, we are supposed to either dismiss as ignorant myths created out of no apparent stimulus, or accept as… actually supernatural!

Arthur C. Clarke has said that any contact with a truly superior technology is going to appear to be magic, and that would be as true thousands of years ago as it remains today. We might note that we, ourselves, went from the first powered flight to landing on the moon in 60 years, less than one human lifetime! That seems utterly impossible except that it happened. Once we realize that “intelligence” elsewhere in the universe could be not only thousands, but just as easily millions or billions of years older than ours, almost anything becomes possible. Among other things, our definition of natural might end up being the ignorant myth. So here’s a whole bunch of new possibilities why Christianity may be even more stupid than we thought, or to put it another way, why it may finally make sense! A few of the concepts covered: Angels and aliens, Ezekiel and other Biblical strangeness, the supernatural enigmas pervading ancient civilizations, genetic manipulation of Earths indigenous species to explain the missing link in human evolution, modern UFO encounters indicating an ancient relationship, “The many masks of God”, egos lost and paranoias gained, more on Mexican antiquity and the modern sightings there, and the Reverend Tilt Reptilian hosts an experimental religious call-in show for the next century called, “What Are We Supposed To Think Now?”

Solo show.

August 2023

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243. Another UFO: True or False

Don's notes: This show begins another full month of “Another UFO” shows. Now for all the stuff that makes this phenomenon hard to take seriously or downright ludicrous. We delve deep into human gullibility, elaborate speculations, unsupportable presumptions, confabulated conspiracies, hypothetical lore mongering, and the mentally challenged wackos, dizzy-brained wanna-be’s, starry-eyed new agers, and possible disinformation specialists who drive it all.

As UFOs become a route to celebrity and the mainstream landscape fills with books, broadcasts (like this one), lectures, conventions, movie deals, and competing egos, the whole business becomes even more suspect than it was when it wallowed in fringe topic obscurity. Focusing primarily around John Lear (son of the famous plane designer) from many of his extensive interviews with Art Bell going back several years, it becomes clear that some people are ready to believe anything. In turn, this kind of mentality inevitably lures paranoids and show-offs to their phones as they all encourage each other to push our admittedly flexible true/false envelope over the edge and out of sight.

What’s more disconcerting is the fact that Lear admits to having worked with the CIA in his past, and claims many corroborating sources for his scary details in the military and intelligence services. Or wait a minute… maybe he is right about some of this… All part of the big mind game this subject plays like no other I know of. Lear is joined by Leland Googleburger (who overrides the Netwebs signal to bring you this embarrassingly unauthorized side of the story and then accidentally kills himself!), and various other UFOlogists mixed up in robot phone calls, mind control, underground bases, The Men In Black, and much more. And, “Please, humans, dont shoot aliens!”

August 2023

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244. Another UFO: Fire in the Media

Don's notes: The 2 extended centerpieces of this show are soundtrack dialog from “Fire in The Sky” (a rather mediocre movie fictionalization of the Travis Walton abduction), and an Art Bell interview with Travis Walton and Mike Rogers who discuss what they claim actually happened to them that day in the Arizona mountains. You get their whole fascinating story as we contrast how the movie (which they advised) often veers annoyingly far from the way they remember it. The Travis Walton abduction remains one of the most impressive abduction stories on record.

A six-man lumber crew all agreed on the craft they encountered up close in a remote forest, as well as the events in which one of them was apparently taken by the ship and remained missing for five days. Only Travis knows what happened inside the craft, (he thought he was there for about an hour) but it ain’t much like the movie! The believability of these two simple (and frustratingly inarticulate) working guys is difficult to brush off, and the six-person corroboration of the incident is especially impressive since it is hard to imagine these types upholding a conspiracy amid the public pressure, which ensued. (For five days, until Walton mysteriously reappeared, the others were being investigated for murder and shunned by their hometown.) Apart from this lengthy comparison between real people and a Hollywood movie inspired by them, we cover the general infusion of UFO subject matter into all forms of modern media, the degree to which UFO lore proliferates throughout advertising now, (“Are we being conditioned?”) and specifically, bits from Disney’s(!) TV special on the subject of UFOs. The overall content of the special was surprisingly serious, comprehensive, and without a hint of skepticism, and it was, of course, actually designed to promote Disney Worlds new “Alien Encounters” theme ride opening in summer ’95. “When you wish upon a star…”

Review by dj jonnyX: The first half of this episode is "1995.08.XX - Hollywood Hotel." At the 1:33:52 mark (hr:min:sec), it switches to "1995.06.15 - Another UFO - Fire in the Media." The full episode was available as an mp3 via the Negativland website as well as the http://db8.ca/radioarchive/kpfa/ archive until earlier this year. Hopefully when the rest of the OTE episodes are uploaded, we'll get a full version of this one in lossless format as well.

Hollywood Hotel (see: 249), or at least the part of it that snuck onto this tape somehow, is pretty boring, and the half of Fire in the Media that's present is just ok.

August 2023

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245. Redball and Newport, or: Heaven's Blacktop Hat

This is inspired by Howard Stern and other morning radio shock crews. First of all, Redball and Newport are a half hour late for their show but it goes on without them, sponsored by MIT's Apple Gunkies. Then they get behind the mikes to patter their way through gossip, insults, a call from Ronald's real mom who wants child support from Ronald, lots of complaints, bitching with callers and their engineer, a big 'features vs. calls' in-house argument, Alexis the Virgin calls in, OJ Simpson's Workout, Radio Jihad, Sub-Genius think tank, Dr. Howland Owl, drops in on his earth area book tour, a Bosley Crendix farts review, Stern on the drugged Elvis, and it's all pretty weird for this station. This became the third show in OTE history which required an explanation to KPFA management after they received complaints from listeners who took it seriously. A great vomiting spoof, if you can stand it!

Perfectly confusing and hilarious with Redball and Newport being incredibly egotistic, racist and mysoginistic. Don't miss this one if you like the fake ads of Dispepsi and such.

August 2023

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246. The Weatherman's Blind Date

In the first live date ever broadcast in radio history, the Weatherman meets Bug Girl for the first time. After removing their blindfolds, dating topics include movies, pets, cleaning agents, electronic equipment, callers with questions, fooling with the mix, then losing track after track as romantic song after chopped up romantic song accompanies club soda pouring like wine and candle power flickering from electrical sparks in the gerry-rigging, as two, entwined voices reaching for the stars caress the lucky channels of studio A. Selected bits from our young lovers are fed through our dating loop for reconsideration, and Casey Kasem returns with a lot of darn good advice for anyone seeking happiness, as does Laura Palmer with scary observations for anyone seeking old TV shows. The Weatherman and Bug Girl seem to get along fine... could this actually lead to something?

Don at one point mentions a free catalogue of the Best OTE shows from the 80s, available for purchase. I would like to see this catalogue.

August 2023

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247. Film Noir

Shadows and fear, dames and darkness, and a long drive to redemption that falls from grace twice as fast. It's Film Noir at Over the Edge, an honest classic. This "night school" teaches you about the origins of Noir in film while taking us along on a ride that starts with a femme fatale hitchhiker (from 1945's "Detour", a Noir classic) and journeys into Twin Peaks and Taxi Driver. Along the way, we have stopovers in the writing style of James M. Cain, Robert Mitchum's "bad boy" image from a celebrated marijuana arrest, and cameos from Humphrey Bogart, Martin Scorsese, and a fistful of cinema history buffs. The "Twin Peaks" mix in the back half is a particular highlight - Agent Cooper telling Diane of this beautiful and deadly world, and Laura Palmer giggling from oblivion over the haunting melody of the show's theme.

It'll all go wrong at the end, of course - receptacles are thrown into the mix in the last half-hour and are as lost as everyone else. We're one half-step ahead of the cops and losing ground fast, and with luck, we'll make it to another show... or maybe we won't.

August 2023

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248. Sex Dirt III

The third in a series of "Sex Dirt" shows done between '93 and '95, this one takes the cake. Almost all music from beginning to end, with several guests on instruments, the Weatherman, live and on a thousand tapes, drenched in club soda as usual, holds on to his lead vocalist position throughout. This one finally provides the remaining material for the "Sex Dirt" OTE CD, and is the best single Negativland performance on OTE I can remember. Hearing the unedited 3 hours here is full of a lot more of what makes it tick, but it's entirely entertaining to boot!

August 2023

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249. Hollywood Hotel

The first 90 minutes of this tape are also on Another UFO: Fire in the Media (see: 244).

August 2023

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250. Another UFO: Autopsy I

This is actually a copy of "1995.08.XX - Film Noir." It is lower in volume and about 1:30min longer [than] the version at Film Noir

(See: 247)

August 2023

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251. Another UFO: Autopsy II

Don's Notes: Adding a little background to the Santilly film, we cover some new material about the 1947 Roswell UFO crash which supposedly produced the humanoid being dissected. We also listen to various interviews with Congressman Stephen Schiff, of New Mexico, who has been investigating the Roswell incident by requesting the Government Accounting Office to locate any relevant records, which might exist. Their report found nothing except that all outgoing phone records from the Roswell Air Base between ’46 and ’49 were destroyed “without authorization” decades ago, but Schiffs first ever official congressional interest in this incident apparently provokes the Pentagon to replace their original weather balloon explanation with a new and different balloon explanation (“Project Mogul”) – 50 years after the fact(!) Schiff has also seen the Santilly film/video and comments. Also, a taped interview with Barry Goldwater in which he relates his own thwarted attempt to see what UFO material was being kept at Wright Patterson A.F.B., and still more reactions and speculations about the autopsy film.

I managed to listen to 10 shows this month. That's pretty good.

August 2023

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252. Another UFO: Autopsy III

Don's Notes: This edition presents a variety of interview material with Bob Shell, a photo expert who is studying the autopsy film from many standpoints. These include the films chemical makeup, exposure characteristics, its physical condition, etc., as well as the content of the Fox footage and further footage he has seen, and confusion about the location of the crash site. (Actually, according to the cameraman’s statement, his film depicts an alien from another crash near Sequoro, New Mexico, not Roswell, and it happened a month before the Roswell incident. This sticky detail, while actually tending to increase the plausibility of the film since the body shown does not match previous descriptions of bodies from the Roswell crash, is completely ignored by the Fox production which attributes this body to “Roswell”, and appears perfectly willing to spread this misinformation in order to increase accessibility with familiar labels.)

We also hear about Shell’s sometimes contentious dealings with Fox as a consultant from the beginning of their production plans, more about the cameraman’s identity (which everyone closely involved with this seems to already know but are not yet revealing), information about film of another, separate autopsy and various debris which Fox sold(!) to a private German investor named Spielberg. (Nothing to do with the movie director, contrary to many rumors.) The mysteries of shortsighted human folly just keep piling up as the mix gets more musical.

September 2023

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253. Another UFO: Autopsy V

Don's Notes: This is the last of The Autopsy series. With a primary focus on Dr. Cyril Wecht, we hear much more extensive observations of the autopsy itself, as he discusses them in a “UFOs Tonight” interview. Others also comment, as this event continues to drift abreast of us, undefined and unidentified, drenched in rumor and without resolution. Lots of ambient dub, a larger than normal, if there is a normal, edit section on those removable, black, contact eye coverings, Don and Dwight’s technical screw-up weirdness, some great “music” from callers, and you have the most psycho-entertaining one of the bunch. More later, if American journalism, or anybody elses, gets off their duff.

September 2023

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254. Death Clown

Intro by Frizzy. A lot of clown stuff, and, for some reason, some Christmas and Sex Dirt as well.

October 2023

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255. OTE Debunks

Review by Lusanaherandraton: As a longtime fan of Carl Sagan, Martin Gardner, and James Randi, I appreciated this show on various paranormal subjects and their debunking. (Just don't mind the 15-minute bleedover from Sex Dirt that starts half an hour in.) Topics include:

* Johnny Carson vs. Uri Geller
* Billy Meier's UFO hoaxes & Jesus scam
* Astrology, palmistry, and the confirmation bias
* Bridey Murphy, channeling, and cryptomnesia
* Cold fusion and other shaky scientific results
* Christianity is Stupid

Don opens the lines to requests for further debunking, but the only taker asks for disproof of salad. Alla Pugacheva sings "I don't believe you," Dick Vaughn repudiates '70s nostalgia, and Leland Googleburger plugs his book, It's All Real. All in all, everything that promoters of "what THEY don't want you to know" don't want you to know!

October 2023

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256. The Power of Enthusiasm

In this particular show and (probably) no other, Don remarks at least twice that he finds humans disappointing. Wobbly graces us with his voice. If you have a second hand on your watch, take a look at it now. At 63 minutes, Dr. Oslo Norway exposes the truth about positivity.

April 2024

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257. The Beats Go On

Sounds like a solo show. Nothing stands out, but good vibes.

April 2024

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258. Goodbody Lincoln Celebration

Reviewer by richxxiii: Subject: GOODBODY’S MIDNIGHT AUTO PARTY This show is actually a rebroadcast (in December 1995) of the 1988 show which has been reconstructed from various separate tapes which I finally put together to reform the whole thing. In a “remote” broadcast from Dick Goodbody’s Auto Hive, we join Dick and all his cohorts for a celebration of Lincoln, the man and the car. Cheap beer, Lincoln dogs, and hot chili fuel the rowdy audience, while the entertainment ranges from the Concord Youth Choir, Miss Mark 7 and the Rockin’ Winners Circle, Billy Buddy and Sheila Gimminy, an auto trivia call-in, Leroy VanDyke and his roadie, Mr. Neil Diamond live, folk singing, and deals galore. The whole party gets progressively more unruly as thrown beer bottles become the principle form of disruption. As we finally retreat, 180 G tapes are remixed, tapes from a behind the scenes survey of “Dick Vaughns Moribund Music of the 70s,” and a couple tracks from “Sex Dirt.”

See tape 1000, the sequel to this show.

April 2024

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259. Food for Thought

It's about food, as you might have guessed.

April 2024

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260. Long Cut Suck I

Yeah. Still, they pick some pretty weird music, and some of the usual favorites like The Murmurs' You Suck and Annette Peacock's Survival— and Don cuts in once in a while to say "this is the Long Cut Suck". And they can't stop themselves from inserting Sex Dirt at one point or another. Not as engaging as your average OTE show, but it does the job.

April 2024

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261. Long Cut Suck II

The pretense is completely lost already; this is just a regular Don solo show, except a little more aimless. As a plunderphonics thing it's actually kind of ahead of its time in some parts, it reminds me of the way Impossible Nothing uses samples.

April 2024

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262. Long Cut Suck III

This time they did make good on their word to make a boring program. A promise best left unkept, you might say.

April 2024

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263. Execution Night

Quite the morbid morsel, this one. This show brings up the execution of William Bonin, a.k.a. the Freeway Killer, who was the first person to be punished by lethal injection in the state of California in 1996. Before him came Robert Alton Harris —the first man to receive capital punishment since 1967—, who was executed by gas but convulsed for 4 out of his 15 minutes in the chamber, hence the switch to lethal injections (gas was too cruel).

This stuff is pretty nasty to think about, and whatever your stance is on capital punishment, you won't be swayed by this program because there are no questions, let alone answers, here. A pretty tasteless show overall, and not in a funny way. But north americans tend to be weird about serial killers.

April 2024

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264. Motorcycle Receptacle

April 2024

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265. Redball and Newport 2nd Anniversary

cycle /sī′kəl/
noun

1. An interval of time during which a characteristic, often regularly repeated event or sequence of events occurs.
2. A single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon.
3. A periodically repeated sequence of events.
4. The orbit of a celestial body. A long period of time; an age. The aggregate of traditional poems or stories organized around a central theme or hero.
5. A series of poems or songs on the same theme.

Cycle. Rhythm. Series. Repetition. Revolution. Radio revolution. Recycle. Wheel of Fate. Ferris wheel. Romance. Beethoven. French revolution. Cycle. Recycle. Shut up, what are you doing? You think you're so clever going on some kind of stream of consciousness spiel nobody can relate to. Get off the air!

June 2024

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266. Another UFO: Nova Agenda

Don's Notes: This specialized edition is media about media about media. Wobbly and I make some interesting noise all through this show containing the PBS Nova show on abductions and Bud Hopkins appearing on some radio shows to refute that broadcast. Includes an internet statement from Nova's producer, her letter to one of the abductee participants, as well as a written statement by Hopkins. Lots of upset squabbling over how Nova, representing the conservative voice of establishment science, is way behind the times when it comes to this subject, and disappointingly negligent/biased in their presentation of it. The live, concretely musical mix of all this kicks the constant dialog along in an outer entertaining way. An excellent mix about mainstream science's approach to this subject.

June 2024

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267. Billy Joel Receptacle

One of the funniest shows so far. It starts off with "Leah" narrating her correspondence with Billy Joel('s label) and her attempts to land a duet performance with him— unsuccessfully, of course. Then we move onto spreading misinformation and callers sing along. Also, Leah does street interviews.

June 2024

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268. Wobbly Release Party, or: London Music Falling Down I

On secret orders from Mr. Friday, I made a trip to London and returned with several hand picked radio consultants from the BBC. All these actual English speaking people are here from London to make the Netweb better, elevate programming, and make OTE actually tops in no-top broadcasting. Hosted by famous American, Earthworm Jim, everybody's on mike commenting on form, style, American quirks, and tea, dunking in and out of a nice, busy mix of all British voices, actualities, disk jockey pranks, Lance Dann's BBC radio production, a BBC quiz, Radio 1, 2, 3, & 4, Music, News, Weather, and hot tea from the Emerald Sea. And a certain amount of dialect gibberish. A sometimes raucous, sometimes touching tribute to London and it's music, past and present. Mix includes parts of Scanner, Stock, Hausen & Walkman, People Like Us, Barbed, Art Of Noise, Neil Innes, Crass, Vivian Stanshall, Deaf School, Siouxsie, Marianne, Tom, and more.

British-themed show. Lots of classic British shenanigans, like saying the word "cheerio" and drinking tea and talking about the weather or saying what time it is.

April 2025

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