The Overnightscape Underground

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1:00:03 – Join Dave and Lisa in Kentucky as they dig through the contents of Dave’s grandma’s old trunk, which has remained unexplored for many years.  Will they find the mysterious belt of which the medium spoke last year?  Press play to find out.

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Released July 2019 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an audio website.

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 1:03:00 – Dave in Kentucky talks about the books and movies that have been occupying all his time and preventing him from cleaning out his closet.  (Well, he’ll blame it on that, anyway.)  Dave reviews both of Harper Lee’s novels (To Kill a Mockingbird and its sequel, Go Set a Watchman) as well as the movie with Gregory Peck, George Orwell’s 1984 (both the book and the movie), plus Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra.

This show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Attribution: by Dave in Kentucky – more info at onsug.com.

Released June 2019 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an audio-oriented website.

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30:01 – In which Old Time Radio actor/announcers Larry Thor and Ernest Chappell do their respective things at the corner bar where Dave in Kentucky is the emcee. Dave performs their theme songs (Rodgers and Hart’s “Manhattan” from Thor’s “Broadway’s My Beat” and the slow movement from Cesar Franck’s Symphony in D-minor from Chappell’s “Quiet, Please”) and vocalizes his own song parody “I’ll Take Kentucky”. Thrill to the high-flying beat poetry of Larry Thor, and discover the “energy drink” that inspires it! Marvel at the encyclopedic knowledge of Ernest Chappell, the Man Who Knows Everything! Salivate at the evocative descriptions of Del Monte Foods and Campbell’s Soups! Please don’t reveal the Shock Ending: Proof that open-mic audiences are truly a Crowd Without Pity!

This show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Attribution: by Dave in Kentucky – more info at onsug.com.

Released June 2019 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel.

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1:38:04 – Before he defected to WOR in the Big Apple, Jean Shepherd worked at several other radio stations, four of which (WSAI, WCKY, WKRC, WLW) were in the Cincinnati area. During one of these brief bouts of employment, Shep spent a summer in Covington, Kentucky. Dave in Kentucky introduces and comments on four show segments in which Shep in New York talks about Shep in Kentucky. While staying mostly out of the master storyteller’s way, Dave does manage to sneak in one of his own stories near the end. (Show art: WKRC promotional photo, circa 1948.)

This show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Attribution: by Dave in Kentucky – more info at onsug.com.

Released March 2019 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel.

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1:00:37 – Tonight, on a very special episode of ‘The Closet Excavationist’, spend an hour with Dave in Kentucky as he reminisces about life on the farm in the 1960s, running the gamut from juvenile Westerns, playsets and capguns to sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, from the Sons of the Pioneers to the Quicksilver Messenger Service, and from the coming of age to the saying of goodbye.

This show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Attribution: by Dave in Kentucky – more info at onsug.com.

Released February 2019 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel featuring more-or-less impromptu monologues by more-or-less extemporaneous speakers, as well as other more-or-less miscellaneous audio.

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1:25:31 – The conclusion of our two-part retrospective on Father Charles E. Coughlin, the radio priest who influenced many across America, Catholic and non-Catholic alike, through his weekly broadcasts from the Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak, Michigan. Last time we examined some of his political views and his defense against charges of anti-Semitism. This time the emphasis shifts to his economic views on banking, money creation, and the Federal Reserve, based on two of his broadcasts from April of 1940, just before he was banned from the public airwaves.

This show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Attribution: by Dave in Kentucky – more info at onsug.com.

Released February 2019 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel.

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1:01:34 - The closet excavation continues, with the latest find being an old photo album containing the school picture shown in the show art. Dave in Kentucky conducts this one-hour seminar on the academia of yesteryear. Are you smarter than a second grader? Is pi round or square? Who was hotter, Fran Allison or Shari Lewis? Inquiring minds want to know! Take your seat beside Little Jackie Benny and have a heaping helping of pi doled out to you by Quizmaster Dave. There’s the bell; class is now in session!

This show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Attribution: by Dave in Kentucky – more info at onsug.com.

Released January 2019 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel.

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58:30 - How did the sale of a house, the purchase of a new washer and dryer, and a reading from a psychic medium spawn a brand-new show that is like a cross between “Tape Land” and “Al Capone’s Vaults”?  You’ll never know unless you listen to this episode!

Episode 1 deals with, among other things, the rediscovery of four blues recordings from “ought-five” that had been thought lost.  Be one of the few living humans who have heard these!  Dave in Kentucky provides the audio liner notes.

This show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.  Attribution: by Dave in Kentucky – more info at onsug.com.

Released January 2019 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel.

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1:34:24 – A brief history of the radio career of Father Charles E. Coughlin, who went from ardent supporter of FDR to one of his harshest critics, resulting in the loss of both his weekly radio show and his weekly magazine. Was he really anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi, as his enemies claimed, or were these charges merely Stalinist denunciations designed to de-platform him? Inquiring minds want to know!  Posted on the eightieth anniversary of Father Coughlin’s New Year’s Day message for the year 1939, which this episode analyzes in detail, providing extensive historical context.

This show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.  Attribution: by Dave in Kentucky – more info at onsug.com.

Released January 2019 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel.

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30:29 – Shadow & Avenger, Omphale’s Spinning Wheel, Le Rouet d’Omphale, Camille Saint-Saens, Lamont Cranston, Margo Lane, Jim Brandon, Fern Collier, Street & Smith, Doc Savage, Monk, Blackhawk, Mr. Fantastic, Buckeroo Banzai, Kenneth Robeson, Lester Dent, Conde Nast, Detective Story, Whistler, Suspense, Man in Black, Inner Sanctum, Raymond, Maxwell Grant, Orson Welles, Frank Readick, Agnes Moorehead, Endora, Bewitched, Paul Lynde, Whisperer, Sheridan Doome, Hook McGuire, Blue Coal, Martin Gabel, Arlene Francis, What’s My Line, March of Time, Mercury Theatre, War of the Worlds, Edsel Ford, John Houseman, Negro Theatre Project, Macbeth, WPA, Treasure Island, Dracula, Campbell Playhouse, Ray Collins, Com. Weston, Lt. Tragg, Perry Mason, Kenny Delmar, Fred Allen, Sen. Claghorn, Foghorn Leghorn, Hunter, Joseph Cotten, David O. Selznick, Ben Mankiewicz, Christopher Lee, Robt. Osborne, Herman Mankiewicz, Citizen Kane, Bill Johnstone, Bret Morrison, Grace Matthews.

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Dave in Kentucky. More info on onsug.com.

Released November 2018 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel.