The Overnightscape Underground

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4:07:19 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: The crawlspace lock, deck, bolt cutters, The Consumer Information Catalog – Pueblo, Colorado, next day, walk around block, limo discomfort synchronicity, The Rampler, cause and effect reversed, obscure Italian crackers, H-E-B, Butt, Hearthstone’s “$158” pet dinosaur, ranch water, Sparkling Lavender Lemonade, Liquid Death – Rootbeer Wrath, heptagon spiral, DiscMaster 2, Real Men (1987), Anthony Newley, The Clash, Phish in Boulder, Colorado, bands starting with W, Phish cover songs from the 19th Century, Maple Leaf Rag, Ardnahoe, Superman, interview, brainwashing, the evil setlist thread, spider incident, city vision, Goose, red plastic spoon, future topics, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 3:26:33)… escape by The Dog Above [Jamendo, CC BY 3.0], Caution: Adolescents at Risk (1991) (excerpt) [FedFlix, public domain], Variatio 11 a 2 Clav. [The Open Goldberg Variations, played by by Kimiko Ishizaka, public domain], Seneca Glass (excerpt) [FedFlix, public domain], Tiddle-Dee Winks (At All the Men) by Billy Murray (1920) [Archive.org, public domain], WBBM Channel 2 – It’s Worth Knowing with Mary Jane Hayes (Opening, 1980) [FuzzyMemories.TV], The God of Speed by The Silence Industry [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], When the Circuit Breaks: America’s Energy Crisis (1975) (excerpt) [Prelinger], La Manchaha And The Gunfighter by Blood Reef [SurfGuitar101.com, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], Way to Go! Special (Part 6, 1980) (scouting) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Invitation Rag by Polar Lion [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], The Beatles interviewed by Kenny Everett – chat (6/6/68) [collection], Ashine by Blindmoore [Jamendo, CC BY-SA 3.0], Eye Magazine ad [Archive.org], Octopus by Mystic Morrison Visions [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0], Declaration of Independence (excerpt) read by William Edward Compton (KCAC,7/4/70) [Archive.org].

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2:35:15 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: NJ Transit meltdown, corridor, “magic minute” in Congress, Smiling Friends, dry ice, okra, new doorknob, sneaker and tire prints in the cement, quick adventure to Rockaway Townsquare Mall, Route 46, Route 66, Crazy Eddie, Flagship Radio Shack, Phillips 66, fireworks, pompous town, Fame, slight synchronicitues, Five Guys, The Smurfs, at the mall, occult books, pinball, video games, Blackout tournament (with myself), wandering around the mall, grapefruit, When will the Yellow Submarine arrive?, food court, to outrun the storm, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:54:07)… So Slow by Simon Mathewson [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0], Stunt Rock (1978) Theatrical Trailer [YouTube], The Forced Oscillations – Acids (Tbilisi-89 Mix) [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], KFMB TV8 KCET-28 (1975) Sat Night At The Bijou _ KFMB News [Obsolete Video/YouTube], Intrus Mental The big Re-Masterage by SFT [Jamendo, CC BY-SA 3.0], WAVE Channel 3 – Celebrity Sweepstakes (Opening, 1975) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Fourtha Losta (lyrics by Frank Edward Nora, music by Suno AI 3.5, non-commercial use) (6/14/24) [collection], Commercial – I Want My MTV [collection], When You Drop Off at Cairo, Illinois by Billy Murray (1916) [Archive.org, public domain], In The Box #03 (7/21/09) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Beat Surf by Rev Mike [SurfGuitar101.com, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], Dailysonic74: The ship sinks no matter what (08/03/05) (opening) [collection], Rack ‘Em Up! by Danny Snyder [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Private Lessons (1981) (Trailer) [YouTube], R’lyeh Beckons by Space God Ritual [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0].

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2:36:16 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Mongolian Seating Area, depressing/liminal seating areas, walk around block, frost flame, fasting, teas, fads, China Cat Sunflower, King’s X, Christian rock, sunflower and C.S. Lewis synchronicities, Google – Meet AI Mode, finally got Conkdor in Mario Kart World on Switch 2, riichi mahjong, Phish in Austin, The Electric Eye Abides Yer Fame, fidget spinner, superhero dream, space madness dream, squirrel peril, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:54:13)… African tribal drums, beat 3 by peridactyloptrix [Freesound, CC0 1.0], akustic-efects by Jee-co [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Comfort Me by Stanleybirch [collection], Vaughn Bode Toronto Comic Con 1974 Part 1 (excerpt) [YouTube], Little Red Riding Hood and the Monsters (1965) Movie Trailer “The K Gordon Murray Presentation” [YouTube], Name That Tune (misc 2) [MAME], Dateline Walt Disney World – The Disney Decade, 1990 [YouTube], Blow The Man Down by Roger McGuinn [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Train passing by in the Wirikuta Desert (Mexico, SLP) [freesound, felix.blume, CC0 1.0], Deep Cover by The Surfside IV [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Maple Leaf Rag (1899, Zachary Brewster-Geisz) by Scott Joplin [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US], The Lucifer Complex (excerpt 27) [Archive.org, public domain], In Washington by Billy Murray (1907) [Archive.org, public domain], Thief (Pacific Novelty, 1981) [MAME].

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51:28 — Neal adds some colour to the parable of the boy who cried wolf, wonders what it’s like to run a combine harvester, tears the so-called leaping Salmon down a peg, reinvents cut-out activities in children’s comics, highlights one job missing from every school careers day and considers cave based wardrobe design, mouth based cave design, unsatisfying tree houses, whether soup is eaten or drunk, flying fishing boats, roots and foundations, letting your AI assistant clean your brain, how tow paths helped scoults discover knots, the case for amphibious bicycles, how Star Trek ruined the traditional Two Cats Walk into a Bar story, loops on TikTok, how Roy Orbison cried wolf and more.

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1:07:22 — Neal “remembers” a twenty minute nuclear catastrophe on Ireland’s east coast, compares your cat to an anthropomophic Mars rover, invents the virtual hotel room, probably fails to change your mind about backpacks on trams, recounts his unique challenges as a teenage Queen collector and discusses library sandwich inhalation memories, Owls on Napster, understanding dog whistles. a terrifying bucket, movie “The Walk” (2015), sheet music for whistlers, virtual whistling, earworms in the animal community, how dogs get earworms, life as a non whistler, sheet music for whistlers, skiffle orchesras, briefcase kids, how train windows predict the future, partialy defending earphone non-use, logistics of using Irish government issued iodine tablets, whether Dublin’s Anna Livia radio once did a War of the Worlds style nuclear drama, skiffle bands in space, vacuum cleaners in space, Mother Nature’s human diamond turducken, a very good reason to get back to the living room, maximising your podcast listening without risking electrocution, a plagiarism prevention safeguard, Nicholas Parsons and more.

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52:50 — Neal discusses the logistiics of handling raw chicken on bathroom visits, an experiment for your next ATM visit, workplace pneumatic tube messaging etiquette, an AI veterinary assistant versus a talking dog, a carpet-based vacation concept, improving your child’s scream accuracy, getting bitten at a sleepover, vinyl records, vinyl floor-covering, a urinal advisory for Dublin’s Blackrock Shopping Centre, this podcast in the newspapers, what replaced the dodo, making messenger birds less messy, queues versus dotted lines, a dog mismeasuring speed, navigating a whale’s insides, healing a whale from within, ancient bile medicine, CD changers versus coal cellers versus car doors, a partial defence of dogs and bats, opposite Columbus mnemonics for US kids, the Nordic Noir crime dramaas craze, Bang Bang and other street characters of Dublin’s past, U2 versus Aslan, Scooby Doo reboots and more.

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56:02 — Neal discusses beaches spontaneously turning to concrete, a parent’s head replacement disclosure dilemna, a busman’s holiday in jail, the case for going nowhere slowly, alien visitor respitory concerns, home expansion slot systems, garage modules, attic rooms, defining a shed, beech house owners, parental supervision from a beach-adjacent mountain, billionairre hot air balloon bouncing, dark times on children’s TV shows, Record Breakers (BBC), Roy Castle, Roy Castle, Norris and Ross McWhirter, owning headphones in prison , memorable childhood insect death, recognising a power washer, flood cleanup sock confidence, the gap between sea and space, airship interior mysteries, orvilles, space boats and the horizon, how sand insects outwit humans in fights, selling cigarettes to a cat for editorial balance, choosing cigarettes for visiting dignitaries in 2025, a cat reveals Pope Benedict Emeritus XI’s cigarette branding fandom and more.

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3:38:33 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Direct Flights to Groovy Ghost Town, walking around the block, intermittent fasting, discarded CRT TV, watering the cement, Photo-Lettering’s One Line Manual Of Styles (1971), Papirtis Shish-Ka-Bob Heavy, Papirtis Pussycat, Benfatto Eerie Solid, printing technologies, lost media, acronyms, House Industries, Cooper Nouveau, listener email (Steve Dupont), en dashes and en dashes, typographic rules, Barryville synchronicity, time distortions and perceptions, can half cognate, Shifty (2025) by Adam Curtis, Amarok (1990) by Mike Oldfield, indulgent speculation, Phish in Pittsburgh, Acid Cigar, Clinique, shaving, gamebooks.org, Taletwisters: The Storm (1982) by Anne Schraff, BR?Z Amplify Watermlon Uplifting Lime Tonic, Ilegal Mezcal 1-4-24 Dice, root beer, Fujifilm X half Digital Camera, Postmodern Architecture: Less is a Bore (2020) by Owen Hopkins, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:57:25)… Heck (7/23/14) by Robert Hunter [Gravity’s Rainbow compilation, Archive.org], They Start the Victrola (and Go Dancing Around the Floor) by Billy Murray (1914) [Archive.org, public domain], Umberella by Brady Arnold [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], NATO Defense (Pacific Novelty, 1982) [MAME], Scary TV Logos [YouTube], Paul & Ringo Interviewed by Tony Palmer (5/23/68) [collection], Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F (perfomed by Willhoite) [Archive.org, public domain], The Exit Ramp #18 – In a Cantina (1/17/21) (excerpt) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Tell Him Now by Yop [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Magic Journeys 2D (excerpt) [YouTube], Cooling by Ignition880 [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0].

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

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3:20:20 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Watering the cement, heat wave, driveway finally fixed, hose issues, Tartaria, defunct casino shirt, en dashes, Phish opening weekend in New Hampshire, spam call, lanternfly nymphs, garbage truck update, Iran, religion, Bluffcosm CDs (2000–2001), Yeowww! Catnip Pollock Fish Cat Toy, PQ update, Conover Avenue, True Goes Shopping (March 1967), mail order monkeys, HQ Trivia (2017–2020), Quibi (2020–2020), and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:39:16)… Take Us To The Nearest Starbase by Astrometrics [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC 4.0], Cube Banter 11 [collection], Starbase Gambler by Tree Bag Ask [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Soundbreak.com [YouTube], Paraworlds by A_dontigny [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Starblade (Namco, 1991) [MAME], I’ll Do It All Over Again by Billy Murray (1914) [Archive.org, public domain] ELKMONT VALLEY SOLAR ENERGY: Elkmont Rural Village [FedFlix, public domain], Starbase Actresses by Tree Bag Ask [Onsug, CC BY 4.0], Space 1999 – Destination Moonbase Alpha opening [Archive.org], To You by Black Math [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Video & Film logos of the 1970s & 1980s Part 3 [YouTube], Chocobeat by Zipp [Archive.org, CC BY-NC 3.0], Hardcore FM [via Webm8 productions], UFO Party by MrJuan [Jamendo, CC BY 3.0].

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com