The Overnightscape Underground

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29:23 – We take another journey After Hours to discover a lost PG Wodehouse classic: ‘Steady On, Jeeves’. Can Jeeves’ secret photography studio in the pantry save the day for Bertie? Will the proceeds from the Drones Club nude calendar raise the funds to pay off Aunt Dahlia’s gambling debts? ‘Consumer Eye’ looks into a dodgy sexual deviant dating app, while The-Man-in-the-Pub tries to sell his re-imagining of classic British sitcom ‘On The Buses’. Is the world ready for his vision of drug dealing bus crews and drive by shootings by double-decker bus? Plus, just why was a kebab shop burned to the ground by soldiers in hazmat suits? One man recalls how one bad takeaway terrorised an entire town. Across the pond – is ICE sourcing its equipment from providers of ‘adult’ toys? Hear top reporter’s hard-hitting in-depth investigation. Finally, join Harry and Stan as they dig up some more graveyard relics and try to restore them in ‘Dead and Buried’.

Written and Produced by Doc Sleaze

After Hours was created using FreeTTS, ChatGPT Reader and Google AI Studio. Sound effects by Freesound Community via Pixababy.com. Music: ‘Midnight Charleston’ versions 1 & 2 by Cosmiczebra via Suno.ai. Opening theme ‘Twilight Static’ and closing theme ‘Twilight Sunder’ by Doc Sleaze via Freemusic.ai.

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Doc Sleaze more info at TheOvernightscape.com. Released September 2026 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and clever hosts presenting unique programs, historic archival material, and nocturnal audio.

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1:44:08 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic recording from my collection. It’s a way to help motivate me to release more of my archives.

Continuing the audiobook version of my “failed science fiction novel” Severe Repair. This time: CUPLINE 12: FOOLWARD OAK, CUPLINE 13: FRIEND IS TAR MONORAIL, and CUPLINE 14: TO VIXENWAY, read by computer voice “Azure Harper MAI-Voice-2”.

Some great stuff here. As always, reading the stuff I wrote circa 30 years ago is a real trip… from the amazing promise of the story, to how the whole thing crashed and burned…

Find the text version of the full book here: severerepair.com

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora– more info at onsug.com

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2:52:23 – Magic Kingdom – 5/20/26 (0:00-2:52:23). Part 4 of 4. Recorded 5/20/26 on my iPhone 13. M8D009.

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Shambles Constant, Falling Cow Productions – more info at onsug.com
Released September 2026 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and clever individuals who say stuff and record it and let other people hear it.

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2:12:22 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Union, NJ, indoor flea markets, comic books, birthday at cafe, Up or Down? card game, sundog, Tape Land 204 – Dream Writes (1989-1994), pawn shop, The Howard Stern Show on HBO Max, Living Nutz Raw Sprouted Pumpkin Seeds, Theme Restaurant Design by Martin M. Pegler (1997), Gate Five, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:31:31)… Flamenco Rumba by Teo Vincent IV [IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0], Raiders of Galaxy (1985) (excerpt) [Archive.org], Blue Feather by Ada Jones & Billy Murray (1909) [Archive.org, public domain], WSNS Channel 44 – Summit Series Game 8 (Commercial Break, 1972) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Circus Apple Gray by Tree Bag Ask [Onsug, CC BY 4.0], John Peel’s Final Perfumed Garden, 14th. August 1967 (segment 3-3) [collection], Slush Jerk (excerpt from Blatant Manipulation of the Timestream (FN 2/27/10)) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Natasja Scotch by The Search [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 2.5], Hardcore FM Xmas [via Webm8 productions], TV Guide Commercial – 1977 [YouTube].

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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2:04:40 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic material from my personal archives.

This is quite the re-discovery. It’s a computer voice reading a bunch of dreams I had written down from 1989 to 1994. It was originally released as my entry for Overnightscape Central – Writes (2/23/22). At that time, the computer voice I used was less sophisticated and talking very fast. It also seemed to be incomplete. Here, I use the computer voice “Azure Harper MAI-Voice-2”, which is a much better voice, talking at a more normal pace. And the full text is included.

It’s a dizzying trip through my dreams, at a time when I was dreaming a lot, and remembering epic sections of the dreams. There are even a few references to dreams which inspired sections of my failed science fiction novel, Severe Repair (including the origin of the character Prince Ferrajalt).

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 Fuzzy Daupner – more info at onsug.com

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3:36:40 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: WFMU, The Average Jones Street Band, timeline theories, birds, Fuzzy Daupner, Infinite (2021), T.V. Tonite with Ron Hendren, carts, Frieda from The Peanuts, gamebooks, Amber, The Merchant Princes Series by Charles Stross, visions, astral travel, other world, the cosmic information cop-out, Gentle Giant, Tangerine Dream, Severe Repair, Push The Onsug Random Radio Button, TITFOS, Stony Brook Raw Pumpkin Seeds, Surrender to the Flow of the Night, American Giant Diamond Stitch Classic Full Zip, hoodie drawstring, The Traitors Season 5, Harriet Hookner, Lanterns, Disco Dynamite, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:56:01)… C Channel – Music intro (1983) [YouTube], My Straw Hat – Mix 3 by MyVirtualBand Members [MyVirtualBand (defunct), CC BY 2.0], KOMA 1965 WQXI 1968 Scoped (excerpt) [Archive.org], lets play ragtime band by tim.kahn [Freesound, CC BY 3.0], Everything is Going Up by Billy Murray (1917) [Archive.org, public domain], The Games of Starcade – Galaga [YouTube], CITYPULSE TONIGHT OPEN – MARK DAILEY (OCTOBER 1993) [Retrontario, YouTube], Train Sound Indian Railways Sound [soundbible.com, public domain], Saturday the 14th Strikes Back Trailer 1988 [YouTube], Reality Check by Spirituz [Ektoplazm, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Charles Nelson Reilly – Bic Banana Ad [YouTube], Xevious Arrangement Music – Objects & Forest (Area 1-4) [YouTube], Macintosh SE – Boot [collection], Mind [collection], Scrab T (Michel) by Tortue Super Sonic [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0], Cube Banter 9 [collection].

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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1:11:44 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic recording from my collection. It’s a way to help motivate me to release more of my archives.

Continuing the audiobook version of my “failed science fiction novel” Severe Repair. This time. CUPLINE 9: THE WATERALLIDGE EDGE, CUPLINE 10: QUARREL ORCHARD, and CUPLINE 11: CARDBOARD RISING, read by computer voice “Azure Harper MAI-Voice-2”.

I enjoyed listening to these three Cuplines. Though as I recall, I don’t think I continued with any of them.

Find the text version of the full book here: severerepair.com

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora– more info at onsug.com

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01:52:15 — While I’m in-between producing shows or whatever, enjoy one of the random recordings I’ve been posting on my Spotify feed since the last episode of my podcast, The Midnight Citizen, back in November 2025.

On this episode, join me on my last night in Fargo, ND, where I walk around a thriving downtown area as it preps for the big AI festival. After my request for a photo op in front of the Marge Gunderson woodchip statue gets turned down by Fargo theater staff, I go for a drink and talk about the classic film on the rooftop bar of the historic Hotel Donaldson. Later, I take it back to the Home 2 Suites for a nightcap and some final thoughts on the town and its people.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike US License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released September 2026 on The Overnightscape Underground.

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12:32 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic material from my personal archives.

This was quite an interesting find. The tape is simply labeled “11/28/01”, for some reason, but the short recording on it is from 12/19/01. It turned out to be notes for my failed science fiction novel Severe Repair, especially interesting because here on Tape Land I’m in the middle of an audiobook version of Severe Repair using a computer voice. Though short, there are some very interesting notes, including some ideas for future editions of Severe Repair that never came to be.

Notes: Wednesday, December 19, 2001, 12:34pm, on the Parkway South, going down to see my friend Mike to see The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) again, 18 days off from work, Severe Repair, Yellowhaus, Carne’s, Nurship, Perkins, Fry Friend, Superior Chapter, going to malls to read and edit the book, E-ZPass, Millicent, Tiny Little Owl, Route 9 under the weekday sun, 8:35pm, saw Lord of the Rings again, Onion Ring Friend, idea for Book 2 or Book 3, Demolish All, Daptin’s Land, Red Archer Booze, Sleap Drassy, Curbside Line Tattoos, Burchard and Keepy, Beautiful Disaster Area, a little broken train set, Crosscountry Canada, to go into that world, Fuzzy Daupner, Trojan Horse.

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 Fuzzy Daupner – more info at onsug.com

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2:50:14 – Magic Kingdom – 5/18/26 (0:00-43:35), Monorail and Epcot – 5/19/26 (43:35-2:18:18), Epcot – 5/20/26 (2:18:18-2:50:14). Part 3 of 4. Recorded 5/18/26 through 5/20/26 on my iPhone 13. M8D008.

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Shambles Constant, Falling Cow Productions – more info at onsug.com
Released September 2026 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and clever individuals who say stuff and record it and let other people hear it.