The Overnightscape Underground

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Join Mike in the studio late at night.

Tonight, a real experimental episode as we cross over into June, and I do my first live show in over 2 years! Of course, you’re downloading it, but still… Witness the drama as I attempt to engineer a livestream while clumsily monologuing about bullies, 90s self-help videos for kids hosted by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Teddy Roosevelt, and memes from World War II featuring Kilroy, the perpetual schlemiel of late 20th century pop culture. You know the drawing — I didn’t until yesterday, but everybody else I talk to seems to.

Later, I drink a toast to Loretta Swit, “Hot Lips” Houlihan on “M*A*S*H”, who died this week at 87… and two more toasts to other recently passed folks George Wendt and Simpsons composer Alf Clausen leaves me a little too flighty to talk about Thomas Pynchon’s first novel V…but I do it anyway.

Also…we’re bringing MUSIC BREAKS back to the show! Tonight, enjoy a back-to-back serving of music by Caühaüs and our favorite band from New Jersey, Forget the Whale!

“Rednecks with White Faces” by Caühaüs (CC-BY)

Slow Dancing with Your Ghost” (CC-BY-NC)

And…I’m excited to take you back down to the Video Street Video Store, where we’ll check out a double feature of tapes on how to get a date in the 90’s!

“Looking for Love: Dating in the 90’s!” (1995)

“Computer Chronicles: Cyber Dating” (1997)

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike US License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released June 2025 on mikesbonfire.substack.com and The Overnightscape Underground.

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3:35:32 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic material from my personal archives.

Here’s a collection of “failed” segments recorded for my show The Overnightscape in 2012, which I decided at the time to set aside and not release.

In some cases, as I recall, I was just not feeling it, and figured it would be better to start over. In other cases, I must have felt I was going too far on a particular topic.

In any case, it was quite fun listening to the segments, now 13 years later. Enjoy this audio which is being released here for the first time!

– Frank Edward Nora, 5/31/25

Notes:

0:00:00 – 3/28/12 – The Promenade Shops at Clifton, Times Square, vague areas of New Jersey, lifestyle centers, the 2008 economic decline, The Overnightscape Underground Archive, cigar, Three Card Monte, ume riceballs, social engineering, “worthful”, day world vs. night world entertainment, bear sculptures, what to do, weird antenna, must have rained before, rooftop park.

0:27:45 – 5/1/12 – Monthly bus pass, weird customer, weird day, Occupy Wall Street, economic theories, protesters in Bryant Park, intentions, ruling the world.

0:43:37 – 6/19/12 – Homeless guy with Pillsbury Doughboy bathrobe in front of the Port Authority Bus Terminal, Juneteenth, Overnightscape Central, King of Prussia Mall, The Marx Brothers, occult symbolism, Disney’s New Amsterdam Theatre, coffee prices, Times Square, arts festival, art scam, The Emperor’s New Clothes, cement mixers, America’s Got Talent, schemes and scams.

1:18:38 – 7/5/12 – Winston comedy video, tobacco archive, demolition, planned obsolescence.

1:31:23 – 7/17/12 – Vans in the ’70s, coin pusher games, Supervan (1977), dreams, sunglasses, Macaron Cafe, Barris Kustoms, The Gong Show Movie (1980), MAS*H.

1:55:33 – 7/20/12 – I was on TV last night (Access Hollywood and Project Runway) as a face in the crowd, watching TV, game show laws.

2:03:24 – 7/26/12 – Checked the radar, got my umbrella.

2:04:23 – 7/27/12 – 209th day of the year, London Olympics begin, New York City tried to get these Olympics, Innsbruck, Austria, violence and cash, costumes, puppets, broken touchscreen, personal space, the mysteries of “Mac”, history of 209, Grand Central Station, debt, PEP (past editing paranoia), King Aroo.

2:41:36 – 8/16/12 – Screaming Yellow Zonkers are back, The Skatebirds, Lidsville, The Beat Generation
CD box set, Ladytron, accents are like piercings for letters, Project Greenlight, The Battle of Shaker Heights (2003), occult symbolism, Olympics closing ceremony, Pink Floyd, conspiracy theories, violent comic books, violent video games, more consopiracy theories.

3:23:37 – 8/17/12 – Conspiracy theories, plastic surgery, Bowling Green, subway sounds, World Trade Center sphere sculpture, 9/11, Olympics closing ceremony.

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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56:17- Another edition of the best podcast you’ve never bothered listening to! This time around you’ll be missing some ruminations on circuses without animals, unnecessary movie remakes and the madness of King Trump. You’ll also miss Doc Sleaze’s musings on when a hermit becomes a recluse, some hauntingly insane exploitation films and the wild, wild world of tabloid hate. Plus, invaluable advice on how to tell if your neighbour is a witch, while Little Miss Strange has her own celebrity experience and more. So go on, break the habit of a lifetime and actually give it a listen! Includes:

The Circus Comes to Town! ¦ Total Bollocks with Little Miss Strange ¦ The Wild, Wild World of Tabloid Hate ¦ Movies in Brief – ‘The Uninvited’ (1944) inc trailer ¦ Have You Been Shagged by a Spy? ¦ A Hermit’s Life for Me ¦ Commercial Break – Accidents4U ¦ Avoidance Tactics ¦ Celebrity Bollocks with Little Miss Strange ¦ The Madness of King Trump ¦ Forgotten Film – ‘The Black Cat’ (1989) inc trailer ¦ Is Your Neighbour a Witch? ¦ Unnecessary Remakes ¦ Closedown

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 May 2025 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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2:27:47 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Places I’ve lived, Martians landed, Billy Murray songs on the Other Side, Basic Programming, The Girl With No Name cigar, Mission Hill, TV Dinners, iPod games, Palm OS games, Asteria, Cosmic Wimpout, David Lynch auction, Twin Peaks, High 5 Casino, lost video games, Portugal dream, Jeep Cherokee Briarwood, wood panels, ice cream trucks, Turkey in the Straw, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:46:30)… John Silver (from Eagle Mall Suite) (Live at House of Blues, Chicago (4/30/02)) [Archive.org], Shaun Ryder Happy Mondays Interview on The Word (1992) (excerpt) [YouTube], Gold Fever by The Wind Whistles [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Maclean Hunter Cable 8 Guelph Ontario Sign-off (1989) [Retrontario], Born To Shine by Men In Route [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], David Letterman’s Catch Phrases 1st Edition (1982) [YouTube], African Hunter by Polar Lion [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Yor The Hunter from the Future (1983) trailer [YouTube], Sit Down, You’re Rocking the Boat by Billy Murray (1913) [Archive.org, public domain], CHiPS pull over HR Pufnstuf ! S01EP08 [YouTube], Invisible Walls by Revolution Void [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Diamond Lady (Gottlieb, 1988) [PinMAME], Hands Across The Sea by John Philip Sousa (performed by “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band) [collection], Future Cop/Three’s Company promo [Archive.org].

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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46:05 – Bessie Smith’s first five recording sessions for Columbia Records, which made her a star and got her dubbed the Empress of the Blues. These sessions cover the first half of 1923, and also feature (at the piano) Clarence Williams on the first two sessions and Fletcher Henderson on the latter three.

This show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International license. Attribution: by Dave in Kentucky. Musical selections and show art are believed to be in the public domain, having been created over 100 years ago.

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3:00:33 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: New Stereolab album Instant Holograms on Metal Film, AI art discomfort, going down to the Jersey Shore for Memorial Day Weekend, Atom Heart Mother by Pink Floyd, lawn care, Take Me Away by Blue Oyster Cult, PEPs (supermarket, house color), TV stuff, chills, A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Batsto Village, new cereal, collectible cereal boxes, squirrels, vegan restaurant difficulties, card game irregularities, the theoretical narrative, nested simulations to increase the sense of immersion, Doctor Who, The Grand Ragtag Line – Rolling Happenstance, Amazeballs Muckamuck Drifter, Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:19:46)… 80s Vibe by FoolBoyMedia [Freesound, CC BY-NC 3.0], Cube Banter 12 [collection], At the Moving Picture Ball by Billy Murray (1919) [Archive.org, public domain], Solar energy, the great adventure (1978) (excerpt 1) [Archive.org], Alligator Moon Suite by Robert Hunter (live at Player’s Tavern on 1978-05-23) [Archive.org], CBS Network – In The News – “Census Forms On Their Way” (1980) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Pour Quoi Royale by Zipp [Archive.org, CC BY-NC 3.0] Bronson Pinchot Interview – 3/22/88 [YouTube], Trip by Aufklarung [Jamendo, CC BY-SA 3.0], Nixon Tapes – on the phone with Kissinger – 4/7/71 – 10:35-10:37pm [nixontapes.org], Koala Giraffe by Tree Bag Ask [Onsug, CC BY 4.0], Professor Owl on Audio-Animatronics (Gulf Oil) [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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46:04 – Another dose of nonsense from Doc Sleaze who, this time around, looks at the frustrations of being a journalist on a right-wing newspaper when your idols are in power, but deeply unpopular. Also, who has the biggest ‘rocket’ with which to blast women into space? Plus, an investigation into the decline of the Great British Bank Holiday, fear and loathing at the supermarket and how to get thrown out of heaven, female-led exploitation films, listener’s letters, celebrity gossip and more. Includes:

Frustration on Fleet Street ¦ Forgotten Film – ’13 Frightened Girls’ (1963) inc trailer ¦ Total Bollocks with Little Miss Strange ¦ Battle of the Rockets ¦ Donald J Trumper apologises ¦ Expelled From Paradise ¦ Listener’s Letters ¦ The Decline of the British Bank Holiday ¦ Forgotten Film – ‘The Viking Queen’ (1967) inc trailer ¦ More Total Bollocks with Little Miss Strange ¦ Fear and Loathing at the Supermarket ¦ Closedown

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 May 2025 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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Join Mike in the studio late at night.

After fighting a long, drawn-out battle to some stubborn window blinds, I give in and just get on with the show. Starting with listener comments about their absolute worst job interviews. Then an update on my continuing job hunt gets me thinking about how my lifestyle lately is fitting for these palindrome days of May — the same forwards and backwards: Drinking coffee, job hunting, delivering food, job hunting, drinking coffee.

Also: thoughts on the new “Mission: Impossible” (Spoiler-free because the plot’s too complicated to spoil)…and how my dad and I came close to being pariahs in the theater for ratting out a lady and her granddaughter.

Then we wrap up the show by watching an instructional video telling us all how to talk cool in the 90’s, and read some more listener comments about Tetraphobia. A true palindrome experience. Sit back and listen with your favorite after-dark drink — but be careful not to get bucked, y’all!

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…and be sure to join the Facebook page and find me on Instagram! …”Kittridge, you’ve never seen me very upset…”

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike US License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released May 2025 on mikesbonfire.substack.com and The Overnightscape Underground.

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2:16:32 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: All screwdrivers vanished, TV set, theory of messes, toothpaste, animal language, Anthony Newley, printing technology, Completely Random Memories (M’Lady’s, Azerbaijan, Melampo, Marbles The Brain Store, Mission Hill), PlayStation Underground, Stereolab event, Portlandia, Crap From The Past, Steely Dan, Muppets executive David Lazer dead at 89,return of zeppelins?, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:35:39)… NBC Fantastic Journey promo 1977 [YouTube], Trance Dance [via Webm8 productions], The Golden Circle by Spheriot [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], München by Garmisch Partenkirchen [blocSonic, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], MST3K on The Comedy Channel (4/14/90) (Break 3) [YouTube], 3Com “Audrey” [YouTube], T-E-K-N-O by Nattvaktaren [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 2.5], Antti G walks the Earth by Antti Luode [anttismusic.blogspot.com, CC BY 3.0], NUDE ON THE MOON Trailer [Archive.org, public domain], Mr. Headvisit’s Pinball Infinitude (3/2/14) (excerpt 36) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Souvenir Store in Metropolitan Opera House by Shuwen Zhang [IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library, CC BY-NC 4.0], You’re a Great Big Blue Eyed Baby by Heidelberg Quintet with Billy Murray (1913) [Archive.org, public domain], Metropolis Street Racer | 100.4 THE UNDERGROUND (excerpt) [YouTube], MTV The Big Picture – 1991 Showscan & Imax [YouTube], Energy Cushion by Bob Powell [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], ‘Rotary Connection’ LP ad [Archive.org].

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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3:38:13 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Bike trip livestream, wandering around stores, LOONA, VR trip 11 years ago, Nightstation VR, metaverses, Cyberpunk 2077, HDR, Clack Market cigar, Fortnite, Darth Vader, The Great Gatsby, rules from the past, Menlo Park Mall brawl, Person of Interest, The Unknown Comic, The Gong Show, a 1970s comedy style that no longer exists, talent shows, Eurovision Song Contest, soju, Doctor Who, Cheers star George Wendt dead at 76, Maison Pioneiro as MacGuffin, Lusual Stinz, Timeless, overarching, Joan As Police Woman, Small Faces, Mods, Joan Van Ark, The Dambuilders, Family Feud, Jayne Mansfield, Toppo Gigio, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:56:47)… Playstation Underground 4.3 (USA) (Disc 1) – Event Center (2000) [collection], Midnight Rain by Revel at Midnight (live at the Hudson Valley Garlic Festival, 9/27/08) [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Kathy Jones [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Mission Hill Karai-Pantsu (spicy pants) [YouTube], Karina 29 marzo 2007 [YouTube], Bronson Pinchot on Regis & Kathie Lee – 10/26/90 [YouTube], Mission Bucharest by The Pharaos [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Jim Morrison [collection], Doctor Who – Breakfast Time – US Roadshow Tour report [YouTube], The Little Ford Rambled Right Along by Billy Murray (1915) [Archive.org, public domain], Conquer Of Hamster Mountain by Lee Rosevere [CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Pinball by Pitchcraft [toucanmusic.com, CC BY-NC 4.0], Cohen Method by Tab & Anitek [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 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