943. Negativland Live Mix, or: Early 81-82 Booper

Bootleg answering machine tapes from the rural south will be activated. Call in and leave message.

The Weatherman summons all culture jammers. People making small talk. Give 'em a second, they may perfect it yet.

February 2022

GOOD

944. Negativland Live Mix, or: David Stuff

Bootleg answering machine tapes from the rural south will be activated. Call in and leave message.

Good sounds and atmosphere. It's only 8 minutes, so why not?

February 2022

GOOD

945. Over the Edge

Alternate recording of "An Experiment of Sorts"
This is a different 90 minute mix of Negativland's early show from July 6, 1981.

(See: 1)

February 2022

DUPLICATE

946. Outtakes

On the earliest shows only a few excerpts got saved. Private collectors were not even taping at that time so far as we know.

This is extremely confusing. So basically peak OTE I guess.

February 2022

GOOD

947. Fake Stone Age Outtakes

Radio producer C. Elliot Friday calls a Modesto booking agency looking for new talent. C. Elliot: Omer D. Edge. Midge: The Refrigerator Lady. General Cavendish: Himself. Humphrey Bugger: Don Joyce.

Umm... Okay, now it's too confusing.

February 2022

SKIP

948. Women's Show

Only about 30 minutes of this show on the aircheck.

They may perfect it yet!

February 2022

GOOD

949. Fake Stone Age and the Sax Poets

Cave painting in the Western hemisphere. Fake Stone Age presents more rock slides and rubbings on velveteen depicting life before the Red Man came.

Extremely chaotic as Fake Stone Age usually is. Lots of live saxophone soloing throughout— not an instrument I particularly like, but yeah. Sound collage is good. Receptacle Programming is good. Wilderness.

February 2022

GOOD

950. Negativland

The Weatherman stumbles into Goodwill, trips over a vacuum cleaner, falls into a screenless Unimedia console, and wakes up in Negativland with his bulbous part all bent. Very Stupid.

Good sound collage; Pastor Dick does Bible quiz show; guy recites poetry, converses with a Negativland member (who for some reason starts talking in broken japanese later on) about free-form radio; brief spurts of Nightcore; lots of Receptacle Programming. It's a very varied and revealing tape, you can hear studio chatter that gives the impression they're still learning the ropes. It's starting to sound more like regular OTE.

March 2022

GOOD

951. Not Negativland

Just as it says on the tin.

Feels like a waste of time. It's mostly sound collage in non-sequiturs and The Weatherman + callers saying random shit. There's also some C. Elliott Friday lore and a Mickey Mouse imitator who gets on my nerves after a while.

March 2022

SKIP

952. Fake Stone age at War with Negativland

Tonight we broadcast from the outer lobby of the Black Hole Tube of Transreality, where Fake Stone Age interviews Roxanne Gravle, prehistoric safari guide, as she departs with a paying customer in search of Mesozoic trophies.

Pretty decent, but 5 hours of it is a bit much.

March 2022

SKIP

953. Mother's Day

Directed by C. Elliot Friday. 1/2 (Caution: some nuclear holocaust scenes). The Digit household is in an uproar when Midge takes painting lessons and Dunk has to keep answering the door. Midge Digit: Refrigerator Lady. Duncan Digit: Omer Edge. Savvy Romero: Duncan Renaldo. Lighting: Don Joyce.

Lots and lots of Receptacle Programming. In the middle part of the show, both callers and Negativland members engage with feminist topics, but not in an overly serious way, although there are a few thought provoking moments. After that, some atmospheric sound collage and Over the Hedge (improvised radio drama). Really interesting.

March 2022

GOOD

954. The C. Eliot Friday Story - A Tribute to Earth

A jam filled fun fest featuring fanciful fatalism and feckless feedback by flamboyant finaglers favoring frequent flukes of formless frenzy. Fanny Flippant hosts.

What if we had radio in Space? This show follows from that premise. Fake Stone Age is still around, and so is Mickey... It's worth hearing just for the intro.

April 2022

GOOD

955. The Next to the Last Over the Edge

A random sampling of urban cultures are magnified to enormous proportions and analyzed by Fake Stone Age scientists with long sticks. Moderation by Dr. Linear Syntax, founder of Alternative Science and the brains behind gravity reduction.

It had some boring parts, but a strong start and some brainfuck moments, like: first, a conversation plays out of a woman describing herself to a man over the phone (she's like 7 feet tall and has purple skin), then an hour later we hear Midge(?) talking to another woman ("Midge's trainer," or maybe it's a recording of herself) and telling her to pretend to be Midge and describe herself as previously mentioned. It's impossible to know if they're acting or if it's a recording from before. Identities get mixed up as in a Lynch movie, it's quite an experience. There's also lots of moaning. I'm sitting on the fence between "skip" and "good".

April 2022

GOOD

956. Big Ideas

Shopping mall celebrity Dick Vaughn takes over this time slot which was formerly fraught with futile folly. Dick Vaughn hosts.

Big Ideas, or: No Ideas. The Weatherman resolves to finally disown his Clorox Cowboy persona, for about 10 minutes. Then, nothing of note happens for 3 hours.

April 2022

SKIP

957. Negativland Live

Dick Vaughn has been fatally flattened by a forklift. No one knows what will happen next. See folio for February. Management hosts.

Pastor Dick Show (first hour): hilarious call-in segment where he tells all callers that their fathers are burning in hell.

Random sound collage (second hour): Weatherman talks about cheese and motorcycles and communism over japanese instruction tapes & stupid dumb coffee protest song.

More sound collage (third, fourth and fifth hrs.): The Weatherman has a strange fixation with doorknobs and cleaning products.

April 2022

GOOD

958. Fake Stone Age vs Bob Dylan

America, he said, was built on a gun. The gun and the Bible carved this great nation out of the wilderness. Mayor Dukes, if you want our guns, come out and get 'em.

I have nothing against Bob Dylan, but I have a bone to pick with all the people parading him as the "greatest artist of the 20th century." Fellas, we don't need to compromise with people who don't consider (non-classical) music a "real artform" by putting people like Dylan on a pedestal (because he's a "great poet"). This is the same sentiment as when The Last of Us and the new God of War came out: people were saying "videogames are finally art now!" One entity alone can't change the value of a whole medium, please stop fooling yourselves. Music has value with or without Dylan, with or without lyrics. This practice of always trying to pin down the "greatest ever" is absolutely idiotic.

But I digress. Ah yes, the tape... It's boring. It's mostly jokes that don't land in the form of fake news pieces related to Dylan, Dylan songs and a Dylan imitator who keeps taking about people buying his records and how grateful he is about it.

June 2022

SKIP

959. The Talent Show

The whole Fake Stone Age (everything prior to the Plasticene Age) will be dramatized tonight. Tom Patrick as Dr. Budding, genial genealogist and your guide to prehistory. Jeff Stoll as Ooomp, a young, nomadic night clubber, and Helen Istic as his nocturnal victim, The Refrigerator Lady. Mixed by Tool.

And we're back! This one's pretty boring, with a side of horrid saxophone playing.

October 2022

SKIP

960. The Dumb, Stupid Come Out Line

Review by Tekdiff: This is the show that formed the core material of the CD by the same name that made me an OTE super fan. And the rest of the episode doesn't disappoint. Trigger warning if needed: Pastor Dick and Dale Embrey rail against the scourge of homosexuals and the Weatherman comes out of the closet to occasional homophobic callers, weirdos, and general chaos. Then The Clorox Cowboy arrives and all bets are off. Solid early mix of material all around even if the band gets a little too comfortable hurling the "F" and "Q" words around as the night wears on. Five hours without a dull moment.

Absolute classic. I actually enjoyed this one a lot more than the edited down version. Raw, uncut and uncensored is always better, that's my policy.

October 2022

GREAT

961. The Black Hole Tube of Transreality

Binky reveals all when he strips down to his quasi-space retro-futiurist undergarments. Lord Borborygmic is insulted and leaves the table, his veal unfinished.

A lot going on here, but nothing in particular stood out to me.

November 2022

GOOD

962. OTE Self-Reflexivity Show

Everyone calls in and talks about how they are calling in and talking about how they are calling in. Lots of people think they can do better.

It's a little obnoxious. I expected better.

November 2022

SKIP

963. Black Hole Tube Control Purple Alert

Five new chapters of Space Brain. A hoard of parasitics ratings transinfiltrate the channels of the Black Hole Tube and several subjects are consumed before Dr. Linear Syntax is able to devise a defense. Host toasted.

More Black Hole. I think this one's a little better than the last one.

November 2022

GOOD

964. Fake Stone Age - The Rating

Midge goes out with the guys for an evening of miniature bowling. Hubby Dunk searches her dresser and finds a faded letter postmarked in the Fake Stone Age. Analysis of the strange markings by Dr. Odious Wedge.

Really funny. Maybe the best episode of Fake Stone Age so far!

November 2022

GOOD

965. Dick Vaughn

A small California town is abandoned in such a hurry that the local radio station's transmitter is left on and continues to broadcast ambient sounds into an empty environment. Dick Vaughn narrates.

January 2023

GOOD

966. Computerworlds

It's all computers, all night long, with most of Negativland, Dr. Ted Right, Dr. Dane Burrett, The Weatherman, lots of callers, lots of noise, lots of computer talk, and lots of echo. Just when you thought it was safe to turn on your radio! A fun and busy show.

KPFA folio description from 1982: Haggard remnants of a FCC assault squad use triangulation to locate the source of offensive transmissions. It turns out to be a radio station left operating in a small, abandoned California town. Abandoned freeway photography by Helen Istic. Hobo: Don Joyce.

It's interesting that OTE is broadcast from Berkley, which is about 50 kilometers north Silicon Valley, the breeding-ground for mass-producible technologies such as the Microprocessor, which made it possible to have man-sized, "portable" computers and brought to the masses in the 70s. The history of computers as we know them goes back to the 50s, but in the beginning it wasn't the norm for everyone to have access to them. It all started at MIT, when a group of very special people (known as hackers) congregated around the Hulking Giant —the IBM 704 Computer—, a giant machine that took up a whole room and required an intricate cooling system to keep from exploding. These hackers were one of the most influential groups of people to our culture today, establishing not only the "nerd" stereotype (they lacked hygiene, lacked social skills, conversed at lenght about topics like science fiction and philosophy, had irregular sleep schedules, obsessed over intricate systems), but they also exhibited a very interesting set of politics known as the hacker ethic. It goes something like this: computers are meant to be used, anyone who attempts to stop someone from using a computer, or places obstacles in the way of them getting computer parts, or restricts access to certain parts of the computer system in any way is the greatest evil that can exist; information must be shared for humanity to advance, a locked door is the Devil.

Even though they were government-funded, they had no regard for what was "useful", and they simply developed the things that they found interesting, as they were given free rein to do whatever they wanted (for some time); as technology improved and they got their hands on the legendary PDP-1 in 1962, they were the first to develop Videogames (most notably Spacewar), as well as the first Chess AI (which beat critic/philosopher Hubert Dreyfus in a game). Naturally, with such a liberal attitude they were bound to be labled as communists, but compared to the hardware hackers of the West, MIT hackers were conservative. MIT hackers were known to be elitist in certain ways, such as ostracizing anyone who couldn't hold their salt when it came to programming. Hardware hackers, on the other hand, were determined to create a future where a computer was present in each household. This is the same logic that Negativland operates under, the same "everyone has a right to take full advantage of the technology that exists to enrich their lives by doing things like taping TV shows or editing commercials to make a piece of art" attitude, so this couldn't possibly make more sense.

I could go a little more in-depth into the history, but I'd recommend just reading Steven Levy's Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, if one is interested in the subject.

January 2023

GOOD

967. Fake Stone Age

Fake Stone Age scientists present a detailed account of the over-harvesting of dinosaurs by UFOs which will eventually lead to their extinction. Slides of extinct UFOs by Don Joyce.

February 2023

SKIP

968. America is a Vast Giant Sleeping

In response to practically nothing, a group of hooded Shakespearean cartoonists are each given three strips of hot bacon and asked to identify ehich stripis the fake bacon. Electronic music follows. Pete the Pusher - "Get out of my way!" plus the Worst British Accent anyone could ever muster.

Intro: Fake Stone age performs Beat poetry (w/ backing sax). After: good old sound collage, receptacle programming, nonsense. Short and sweet.

February 2023

GOOD

969. Receptacle Programming Continues

A small California town is the setting for a devastating battle between a fanatical FCC assault squad and technoid squatters occupying an abandoned radio station. The resulting static attracts a gang of jammers from Negativand who covet the station for their own foul purposes. Theme music: "Stop! Stupid!" by David Wills. With The Healers

Boring. Stopped after 90 minutes.

February 2023

SKIP

970. Untitled

OTE takes a nostalgic look at its humble beginnings with the return of Rob and Arne and their distinctive Mommy Man sound which made OTE famous in psychiatric circles here and abroad. Made possible by a grant from the Ziggy Fraud Couch Co.

... Who???

March 2023

SKIP

971. Negativland

The History of Wallpaper: Verticals and Patterns. Pastor Dick returns from Negativland to conclude his somewhat distracted appraisal of Christian well coverings. Don Joyce at the carousel. Meanwhile, the Weatherman gets recorded and recorded and recorded…

March 2023

SKIP

972. Untitled

Direct from Afterlife Lounge, we present "You Had Your Chance," a post-holocaust Quiz Show hosted by Helen Heaven. Contestants calling the Starline are asked to identify weapons, targets, strategies, and death tolls of the recent conflagration. Winners spend a week with God.

March 2023

GOOD

973. Untitled

Negativand squabble their way through their forty-second sewer-oriented show. Mark Down breaks another window. The Weatherman mumbles disgusting epithets. Chris and Peter let all the gas out of a P-Rex. No one has any fun. Apologies by Omer Edge.

March 2023

GOOD

974. Receptacle Programming Day

A renegade band of Fake Stone Age technoids, on a quest for ambience, descend on an abandoned California town and set up camp in a radio station which broadcasts every sound they make. Debris by Jeff Stoll. Pyrotechnics by Tom Patrick. This is an over 14 hour Over the Edge Receptacle Programming show made as part of a KPFA fundraising campaign.

This is longer than that the 18-CD Messiaen Edition which is what I listened to last week. It's also longer than Merzbow's Merzbient. Longer than The Flaming Lips' Strobo Trip, of course. It's longer than Autechre's elseq series and NTS sessions combined. Feldman's String Quartet No. 2 was shorter than this. This show is longer than Fushitsusha's Secret Black Box. It's longer than The Well-Tuned Piano. Longer than Daughter of Darkness. Longer than any recording of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas. It's about the same duration as the complete Bitches Brew, In a Silent Way, and On the Corner sessions combined. It's longer than Edgard Varèse's complete works by a long shot, longer than Webern's complete works, and also Alban Berg's; it surpasses Boulez's complete works by about 2 hours in lenght. It's longer than Der Ring des Nibelungen (just barely). Receptacle Programming Day is longer than L'œuvre musicale (Bernard Parmegiani), L'œuvre musicale (Pierre Schaeffer), and L'œuvre électronique (Luc Ferrari). 14 hours is longer than it would take you to watch all of Neon Genesis Evangelion, or the first 3 seasons of Adventure Time. You could watch Sátántangó twice in 14 hours. Or you could watch 9 ninety-minute movies, or 7 two-hour movies. In short, 14 hours is a really long time; so no, I'm not listening to all of this.

April 2023

SKIP

975. Over The Edge Christmas Special

Everyone involved with this program agrees that Christmas in America sucks, and presents a danger to human integrity. Therefore, we present our yearly Halloween Special. In Virginia, Wolf Clause howls at the grave of his father, Santa. Toy wounds are distributed from a castle in the Holy Land. Goblets of turkey blood are passed around. Talk about toilets and urinal cakes.

What can I saw... I agree.

July 2023

GOOD

976. Dancin' Away the Night with Randy Magnus

Boogie Down with the King of the dancefloor. Use only as directed.

Very chaotic. Not very interesting.

July 2023

SKIP

977. Untitled

Trucks, trucking, those who drive trucks and those who love them passionatey have little to do with the guests on this show, all of whom appear to have been driven to the studio, but probably BY OTHER MEANS.

July 2023

SKIP

978. The Miracle Company

The Miracle Company, founded in 1895 by Antenna Osiris, maintains their lonely headquarters in the dim regions of the Yukon. Hear their incredible stories.

It seems they were really into Philip Glass around this time. Midge gets engaged, says she'll quit her job to spend more time being Midge. 20 seconds of silence is a really long time. Make some naked noise. Make some naked noise.

July 2023

GOOD

979. Electric Life Receptacle

Contains all of "Electric Life."

I don't really understand what "Electric Life" is. There are fragments from The C. Elliott Friday Story - A Tribute to Earth and other shows I can't name. If there is a narrative I must've missed it.

July 2023

GOOD

980. The Wang Tool Show

Review by Tekdiff: Solo show for Don. The premise, after an extended pre-intro musical segment, is that Mr. Edge's digital assistant, Wang Tool, has decided to take over the show as all the humans went home. Declaring OTE "The Wang Tool Show", Wang mixes whole bunches of tapes but also leaves plenty of space for the nearly constant parade of callers and their receptacle contributions. Lots of jokes and one joke over and over, Wang takes time to collect data in the archive about Howland Island from the listeners. Overall, a fairly low-key, relaxed, but engaging 5 hours.

July 2023

GOOD

981. Psychiatric Problems Hotline

Includes an early edit of "The Gun and the Bible"

Patients call in to consult with Dr. Orway (lol), who only responds with incomprehensible psychobabble; really funny segment. After that (and before Dr. Norway arrives) it goes into a lengthy sound collage, which is also good.

September 2023

GOOD

982. Joy Dog

The California Super Station was Dick Vaughn’s precurser programming to “Moribund Music Of The 70s.” This is a combination of two CSS shows from ‘83 and ‘84. Although Dick’s OTE CDs have all the records edited out, this is how it was done on the air with all the 70s cuts played in their entirety. The radio point here was to convince KPFA listeners that the station had gone to this new format, Dick Vaughn’s Classic 70s rock with news, sports, a weather copter, and lots of classic commercials. This is a composit taste of what Dicks early programming was like coming together as live formatting done on the run.

Freakout.

September 2023

GREAT

983. Vertical Circle Receptacle Annex

We rented this space to remind you that stardom is yours. Call the Starline with your citizen newsfeed. Eyewitness accounts, investigative reports, science outbreaks, news from your cubicle cluster. Call the Starline.

File includes end of previous week's show
The first 1:55:00 of this file is the end of the currently missing (as far as I know) March 14, 1983 show. The morning news guys come in after OTE and joke about Vangelis playing and the fact that echo is still on. They mention the date.

A little C. Eliot Friday lore, and some pretty cool tape delay moments. It starts to drag a bit after a while though.

September 2023

SKIP

984. The Wang Tool Easter War Show

Nothing interesting happens.

September 2023

SKIP

985. The 60s

It's pretty funny to think that saying 60s slang during the 80s would've been like saying "awesomesauce" or "chillax" today.

September 2023

SKIP

986. Untitled

Foreign language receptacle. Pretty uneventful.

September 2023

SKIP

987. Doctor Talk

This space is being sublet. Rates on request. Call Monday mornings between 2:00 am and 7:00 am for complete details. Ask for Omer.

Callers ask Dr. Oslo Norway for prescriptions, the Norse (nurse) pleads desperately with him to take a call, and Dr. Sigmund Signal Boyd (?) answers the Ultimate Question. At 4-and-a-half hours the show ends and another one begins; I don't know what the second one is (about).

September 2023

GOOD

988. Fake Stone Age: History of

Tom, Jeff, Molly and Helen go to Dinsyeland to photograph the plastic rocks but get turned away for wearing Fake Stone Age beenies. Mickey calls in.

Boooring!

September 2023

SKIP

989. E.L.F.

Review by iamplectrum: How great we were, or could have been Insane Mediocrity. Perhaps the greatest description of the Over The Edge radio show series. Vastly sprawling, found sound colliding with live callers and contributions from various members of Negativland. Presented here is ELF, no explanation of the meaning of ELF is offered. Only listener sponsored radio could ever produce something as bizarre as this. Suicide Man ponders whether OTE is the cause of many local Bay Area suicides.

A bit of joydogian improv and lots of Receptacle Programming. It's fun.

October 2023

GOOD

990. Not E.L.F.

E.L.F. may appear this week, but, if not, they probably appeared last week. Remember? Probably?

Nothing interesting at all happened in the first 90 minutes, so I skipped it.

October 2023

SKIP

991. Band of a Thousand Names

There is no one in Muttville, Joy Dog strikes tonight. Hard-hitting yap music for longhairs. Foxxy Terror: alto sax. Boston Blackie: bass. Glassy Heel: keyboards. Wolf Larsen: guitar. Joe Cocker: vocals. Pit Bullpen: double play on words. Goofy: interruptions.

October 2023

GOOD

992. No More OTE, It's Dick Vaughn!

Review by joe o'brien431: Whereas this show is enjoyable on its own accord, I like to listen to 3-4 different shows at the same time. Jamming culture jams.

Damn, that's crazy. Huh... Anyway, skip this one.

December 2023

SKIP

993. The Over the Edge Beauty Contest

Mr. Edge: Ears Only. An enormous expense account full of tireless investigation has failed to turn up clue one regarding what, exactly, is going to happen the night of June 5th. Drew a blank with the Tool tap. Looks hopeless. Should I keep on it? Need more fuel. Reply code 17. Strange Fedbellows.

Space Lady reads you your horoscope. Then, annoying song segment. Then, sax improv.

December 2023

SKIP

994. All Night Crime

Mr. Edge: Ears Only. Priority 17. As per your instructions, I have dropped the June 5th case and have escalated information acquisition regarding the June 12th incident issue. Absolutely no hint of any content so far. Do I have authorization to decode Tycho transmissions? Strange Fedbellows.

December 2023

SKIP

995. Pastor Dick's Father's Day Tribute

Mr. Edge: Eyes or Ears. Negative Priority. That's the idea, Edge? Picked up a Folio on earth and read my intimate, confidential communiques printed as program listings! Ust because I can't find out wat's going to happen on your stupid program is no justification for thsi dangerous breach of professional security. You've blown my cover, Edge, but I can always find work elsewhere in this solar system. You, however, are stuck on the Star, stewing in your own lack of scheduling! So long, sucker. Strange Fedbellows.

Yeah, it's pretty similar to 957.

January 2024

GOOD

996. California Superstation

This may be an historic moment with Helen Holt and Stoney Burke. If not, Cubist Discussionism tapes of Gertrude Shine will automatically fall into operative positionalization.

Ok, so this is apparently not the same show as tape 3 (of the same title). I remember tape 3 being pretty boring; this one has less news report and more Dick Vaughn, it's funny.

January 2024

GOOD

997. Radio City Central

I don't know what it's about. Just a bunch of bullshit.

February 2024

GOOD

998. The 50s Part 1

I had a lot of trouble getting this to play on archive.org. I might have to download these from now on.

March 2024

SKIP

999. The 50s Part 2

This one's much more interesting than Part 1 for some reason. For some reason, it devolves into straight up noise for a bit at around 40 minutes— don't know if that's part of the show or just the recording.

March 2024

GOOD

1000. Chevy Pride Week with Dick Goodbody

Review by Tekdiff: A fun sequel to Dick Goodbody's Midnight Lincoln Celebration from 1988. This show is listed as being from 1983, incorrectly. We arrive with Chevy Pride Week already in progress. A large Chevy based sales convention event. Bud Good (Don Joyce) hosts from the UMN Skybox, Dick Goodbody (Richard Lyons) is front and center as the MC. Ellis Hurt (Chris Grigg) wanders the floor looking for trouble. Plus more! Like the Midnight Auto Party, this one is heavy on maintaining the premise and semi-scripted bits, but very light on typical OTE mixing. Songs and commercials are generally played straight and in their entirety. In fact, late in the show a confused KPFA subscriber (clearly unfamiliar with OTE and its sense of humor) calls in and freaks out about the car (specifically General Motors) adverts, thinking that they're serious and that KPFA has sold out. Don and Richard admit nothing. There are a few edits and chops to suggest that this may have been stitched together from multiple sources. If you liked the previous car-themed Dick Goodbody's Midnight Lincoln Celebration (aka:Dick's Midnight Auto Party) it's more of that, though I liked the earlier show a bit more.

This is some good satire. The objectifying comments, the horrible stand-up routine, the racism, and the seeming lack of self-awareness make this a particularly hilarious show.

See tape 258, the prequel to this show.

May 2024

GOOD

1001. The Zoner's Jammer Convention

Brief episodes from the life and times of C. Eliot Friday spice up an otherwise reasonable program of modern artists having fun.

May 2024

SKIP

1002. Alessandro Volta

A group of telephone operators discuss the recent flood of calls to Howland Island during their break. One, however, prefers to listen to a soap opera on the TV band of her portable radio.

Philip Glass and stuff.

May 2024

GOOD

1003. The Doctor is In

Dr. Sigmund Boyd is back! This one's pretty boring though. The callers (patients) try too hard or not hard enough and there's nothing to fall back on.

August 2024

SKIP

1004. Receptacle

Don is taking a shower. In the meantime, enjoy some People Talking w/ echo.

August 2024

SKIP

1005. Face of the Earth

The first in a comprehensive series of programs on "How Things Work." The alphabet is our guide as we begin with Amway, Art and Asterisk.*

Same thing. People talking with no music and some random samples that don't follow any theme in particular. I guess they weren't feeling it. Neither am I.

August 2024

SKIP

1006. Do You Remember Radio

The second program in the series "How Things Work." (Automobiles, Be-Bop, Bottle Openers) has been postponed due to technical problems. Tonight, a group of scientific intellectuals discuss details underlying unsuspected eventualties.

I guess it's a filler episode.

September 2024

SKIP

1007. And Now

A moon-sized magnetic ball, which passes through the Earth on Christmas Eve, transforms the entire contents of a radio station into random particles, including a valuable group of scientific intellectuals discussing holiday details. The Monster M-Ball is dubbed "Asterisk" by the weather bureau, which claims it's the worst Christmas surprise ever to hit this area.

Improvised songs through the receptacle in the first hour (they're bad).

September 2024

SKIP

1008. Let's Talk

Possibly first use of the "Time Zones" cut up.

This one's fun. Good, high-energy collage.

September 2024

GOOD

1009. Fourth of July

Review by Tekdiff: The show weaves in and out of the theme Don hosts, Mark Hosler & Chris Grigg assist, Hele Holt put in an appearance. But they leave after first 3 hours and Don flies solo. Ali hangs around on the phone all night. Other callers include usual perps (Suicide Man, The Man Who Laughs) A solid mix of patriotic American propaganda and anti-war screeds and music. It strays a bit from the subject throughout, but always finds its way back. Soviet radio, cold and hot war news reports, Patton, Dark Star, The Final Cut, Julius Sumner Miller, Bucky Fuller, Arthur C. Clarke, Wang Tool, The Weatherman, and fireworks galore.

October 2024

GOOD

1010. Battle of the DJs

Funky stuff.

November 2024

GOOD

1011. Machines, Ready

Random collage; guess-the-sound call-in show; a picking-up of steam thirdway in.

November 2024

GOOD

1012. You The Listening Audience

Don is all alone and he needs your help! Listeners at home, send your energy all at the same time! Go! Don! Go!

There's a very interesting conversation between Don and caller Ray at around 40 minutes. Also a very interesting conversation with a 73 year old caller who was in the Navy during WW2.

November 2024

GOOD

1013. Waking Up is Hard to Do

Apparently it was supposed to be about 1984, but it wasn't; no one read the book.

February 2025

SKIP