The Overnightscape Underground

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1:18:28 – Onsug Saloon continues from last week’s experimental show Onsug Radio Shuffle Mode. It’s in the same format, with random 209 second clips from the entire Onsug Radio archive, shuffled, each introduced by a computer voice. The first clip is chosen from the shuffle, so things get off to a good start, but the rest are completely random, from a pool of over 259,000 clips. This time, the set of clips are updated to include the complete archive up to last month, June 2025. Like last time, I think it’s better not to include show titles, as the titles are spoken in the audio. But I will include a reference list which will allow you to find the shows in need be. I really like how this one turned out, just like last time, and I intend to continue with this experiment.

Onsug Saloon was originally a short-lived project that began ten years ago, in July 2015. It was a chat room where random Onsug Radio shows would be played on a live stream, 24/7. The name came to mind, and I thought it would be a great name for this new project.

Ref: 211-42, 951-12, 308-06, 686-059, 109-11, 967-01, 305-01, 1001-08, 958-15, 451-75, 601-07, 1007-08, 791-18, 905-23, 903-09, 922-17, 712-41, 142-09, 691-18, 914-32, 117-10, 410-23.

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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3:13:04 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: There were these gods living in a hotel, Tenet (2020), I’ve a Need, Owl, commercials, The Secret of NIMH (1982), save scumming, eye of a needle, Severe Repair, creativity, Dealowl, I Overflow, Man, Donkey Kong Bananza, Popeye, Howard Johnson’s, Don Imus, rough commute, current events, Phish in Philly, Amish in bus terminal, my morsel, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:32:14)… Ice Town by Fuzzy Daupner [collection], Sign Of The Malls by Fuzzy Daupner [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Mark Linn-Baker and Bronson Pinchot at the Fanboy convention in Knoxville Tennessee (7/11/25) [X.com], Archipelago’s The Open Show – Week 3 [collection], Plain Runner by Antti Luode [anttismusic.blogspot.com, CC BY 3.0], Strange Music 1 by misha64u [Jamendo, CC BY-SA 3.0], Ivy Vine 1 (from The Carrie Michel Show #21 – Celebrities (11/15/12)) [Onsug, BY-NC-ND 3.0], GLUE Ep. 2 “Ponch” [YouTube], Tequila Sunrise by Oleg O. Kachanko [Jamendo, CC BY-SA 3.0], Alexander’s Ragtime Band by Billy Murray (1911) [Archive.org, public domain], The Shock of the New: The Mechanical Paradise (1980) (excerpt) [Archive.org], EDB interviewed by Zoogz Rift, 1984 [Earth Dies Burning].

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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2:33:39 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Mysterious basketball, intense vegetable maintenance, Walt Disney animatronic, Onsug Radio Shuffle Mode, pickup truck people, Disco City Antiques, Phish in South Carolina, Tweezer Reprise, car insurance, Hate The Radio, the underground, Invisible Ink Underground, manga, Edens Zero, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:52:56)… Ice (live) by The Forced Oscillations [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Chinese film (1966) (excerpt) [FedFlix, public domain], The Third Degree by Mola [Jamendo, CC BY-SA 3.0], The Evil Farm (Episode 10 “End”) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], The Host (Lampé Remix) by Alic [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], George’s Bluffcosm Promo (3/28/01) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], Everything is Peaches Down in Georgia by American Quartet with Billy Murray (1918) [Archive.org, public domain], Bluffcosm Banter #3 (7/9/00) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], 4 by Kangmey [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Virginia Slims San Diego (April 22, 1985) [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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1:18:28 – Onsug Radio Shuffle Mode is an experimental continuation of previous project Onsug Radio Previews, from 2023–2024. That one had a semi-random, but curated, set of show clips, each 209 seconds long (3:29), and each introduced by a computer voice.

This new concept uses the same set of clips (the full Onsug archive up to Sep. 2023), but has a different computer voice, talking faster and just saying the show title. It’s also fully random (except for a first clip, which is chosen from random options).

I like how this one turned out, and I’m planning on doing more episodes in the near future. It’s a great way to listen to Onsug Radio, getting a cross-section of everything within the archive.

(Since the show titles and clip numbers are spoken in the audio, I won’t include them here. But the one without a title, due to a tag issue, was The Meanderer (7/21/21).)

Ref: 965-14, 919-02, 961-39, 941-01, 960-14, 964-38, 944-06, 961-33, 902-04, 901-18, 920-03, 905-05, 941-09, 905-20, 906-12, 939-35, 972-16, 906-08, 918-25, 911-02, 908-08, 903-06.

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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3:55:22 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: See Rock City, nursery rhymes, Ruby Falls, fridge magnets, airplanes, neon coffee sign, Norfolk, place pronunciations, Daily Listening, AI, mind-boggling theories, visions of an alien city, next day, went to see Superman (2025) first thing in the morning, cinema hassles, my review from the mall parking lot, the mall, filler arcs, Pura Vida Miami, Okay Toscanini, The Flintstones, Pebbles, The History of Fairyland Caverns, nursery rhymes, Mid-Century vibes, the 3D field, The Standard Biergarten, ski shot, Phish in Columbus, Ohio, new crawlspace lock, soap operas, K-Pop, Severe Repair, Roger Miller, Doctor Who, the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful, 1980: Graham Chapman Reviews M*A*S*H, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 3:14:01)… Black & White by Elegic Landslide [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Hollywood Hot Tubs (1984) [YouTube], Foul Rift One by Frank Edward Nora [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], He’s Stupid [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Catch It by hit the center [Jamendo, CC BY-SA 3.0], Impossibles – Frankenstein Jr. – Opening Titles [YouTube], Scott Joplin’s New Rag by Scott Joplin (performed by Gerlüz) [IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], 1968 AMC AMX in Goodyear Tire Commercial Paul Frees Voice over version B [YouTube], Not Because Your Hair is Curly by Billy Murray (1906) [Archive.org, public domain], Simon Le Bon 1985 [YouTube], Third Wave by Kalumet [Archive.org, CC BY-ND 4.0], Video Newsletter (Convenience Stores) (Ideas Ideas) [Archive.org], The Old Opening by Tree Bag Ask [Onsug, CC BY 4.0], Roller Boogie TV spot 1980 [YouTube], Interlude for Gigeras Babies by Achecorporation [Dogmazic, CC BY-NC-SA 2.5].

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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2:54:15 – Dave in Kentucky is joined by Eddie Murray (at 24:50), Chad Bowers (at 1:12:04) and Frank Edward Nora (at 1:56:45) for a discussion of the decades, centuries and millennia of our past, present and future.

Next month’s topics: General Information, Major Concerns & Private Thoughts. Record about one, two or all three of these and send audio files or links to DaveKY at mail.com by 6pm Central Time on August 10, 2025.

Show art: Automat (1927) by Edward Hopper (1882-1967) depicts a sneaky time traveler listening to the Overnightscape Central in an automat while cleverly concealing her air buds with her hat brim.

Opening theme: “It’s Central Time Again” (2024) by Dave in Kentucky and Suno.ai (v3.5). Closing theme: “Noise Rebellion” (2024) by Eddie Murray and Suno.ai (v3).

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International license. Attribution: by Dave in Kentucky & Guests.

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1:19:24 – A new show from Onsug Radio hosts Mike Boody (The Midnight Citizen) and Chad Bowers (Chadcast /TITFOS) – Birmingham Pizza Review part 2 – SLICE. They talk about all manner of things and say a few words about the pizza they are consuming at pizza restaurants around the greater Birmingham, Alabama area.

IIn this episode: TDR, a lack of spirit, that demon luck, raisins, pizza

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 Chad Bowers – more info at titfos.tumblr.com or onsug.com.

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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].

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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Join Mike in the studio late on a Saturday night. Tonight, check your commie cynicism at the door and give yourself a little permission to be a proud Ameri-CAN on this 4th of July weekend. Go on, now — call a ceasefire on the whole “Us vs. Them” thing. Just watch yourself a little “Back Up, Terry” and I promise, it’ll all feel right as rain…

Now that we’re all feeling appropriately patriotic, join me as I check in on the newest branch of the armed services, the United States Space Force. Who are they and what are they doin’ with all those golf ball antennas that look like Spaceship Earth?

Anyway… Once the fireworks are over, I return to bein’ a mean old man, and try to get at what the cause of all this cynical ire in me — and maybe most of us — really is. Maybe it’s, like I’ve said before on the show, all this truth you learn that has no where to go if you don’t have kids. Existential indigestion? Or maybe it’s just the textbooks they gave us when we were kids ourselves — those that taught us that history was all in the past and everything these days is mostly a-O.K. Yeah, that’s probably it.

Later… After I play you some music, I talk about small town crime and the Dixie Mafia, and one shocking murder that went down in Biloxi, Miss. in the 1980s. It inspired Edward Humes’s excellent book “Mississippi Mud”, which itself maybe even kicked off that whole sick, wonderful obsession we all have with True Crime.

Also… Sad Juggalos, that great date movie “Operation Dumbo Drop”, and a toast to Michael Madsen, who passed this week at 67.

Music Break: “It Won’t Be Too Long” by the Cut Worms (CC-BY-NC-ND) | “Automaton” by Vampire Lezbos (CC-BY-NC)

Video Street Video Store: “Police Sting Nabs The Unsuspecting!” — Caught on Tape TV | “From the Archives: 1987 Hamilton Place Mall Opening” — WDEF News 12

Listen on Spotify and Apple Music: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...

You can listen to my conversation with Bob Lament on his show STATIC RADIO here: https://www.staticradio.com/2025/07/0…

…and be sure to join the Facebook page and find me on Instagram! “Sometimes I dance around the house in my underwear. Doesn’t make me Madonna.”

Additional backing music for tonight’s show by Topher Mohr and Alex Elena, Ketsa, legacyAlli, BFCMusic (“Soulmate Strings”, CC-BY, Free Music Archive), Mr. Smith (“Slingshot”, CC-BY, Free Music Archive).

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

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