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Onsug Radio 811 – The Obtuse Angle

“A man with one functional brain cell expounds upon life, liberty and the pursuit of coherence.”

“Steve Dupont was known for his rants on the Obtuse Angle podcast. After publishing his debut novel Therein Lies the Problem in 2007, Steve left the literary world behind, returning to graduate school and ultimately becoming a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist.”

Steve Dupont, from Birmingham, Alabama, produced his podcast, The Obtuse Angle, from May 2005 to June 2007. After the show ended, Steve pursued a new career as a registered dietitian. You can still find him today at stevedupont.com

In those early days of podcasting, I was a fan of The Obtuse Angle, and Steve also listened to my show, The Overnightscape. We would mention each other’s shows, send in comments and emails, and occasionally record audio for the other show.

A few months back, I thought of The Obtuse Angle and started looking to see if any of the episodes were preserved. I was immensely pleased to find that a near-complete archive had been posted to The Internet Archive by archivist “apphands” in December 2021. I found few early episodes which were missing, in another archive posted by archivist Sketch the Cow in March 2019. Then, using the Wayback Machine, I was able to build a full list of episodes, along with show notes. In the end, the archive was complete, except for four episodes. If anyone has copies of these episodes, let me know, and I will add them to the archive.

I contacted Steve Dupont, and he gave his blessing to this new collected archive of The Obtuse Angle.

The show fits in extremely well with the other shows here in Onsug Radio, and I am thrilled to preserve The Obtuse Angle for future generations.

– Frank Edward Nora, 2/17/25

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20:09 – In a special edition of ‘Sleaze Talk’, noted festive experts Ash Dieback and Diane Butz investigate the phenomena of so called ‘Rogue Santas’ – the fakes who can ruin kiddies’ Christmases, scarring them for life. From shopping malls to department stores to rip-off Christmas theme parks, these low life Santa impersonators are a blight on our seasonal cheer.

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 Dec 2024 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.

Onsug Radio Update – November 2024 Added

Pocket Onsug Radio is a 256GB flash drive containing the entire Onsug Radio audio archive in “lo-fi” audio (complete up to October 2024), plus extras, in a limited edition of 11 copies.

The idea is to get some backup copies of the archive out there. We use the Internet Archive as our main archive copy, and since it’s been having difficulties recently, I wanted to make this alternate copy.

So, if you’d like to help out by keeping a copy in your possession, and are open to the possibility of making additional copies for others (additional cover stickers will be included), please request a copy by emailing my at frank@theovernightscape.com

To browse the files in Pocket Onsug Radio without a copy, you can use this Virtual Volumes View (VVV) catalog:

Pocket_Onsug_Radio_Catalog.zip

A portable Windows copy of VVV is included. Mac and Linux versions can be found online.

(The specific flash drive used is “SanDisk 256GB Ultra Dual Drive USB Type-C – USB-C, USB 3.1 – SDDDC2-256G-G46,Black”)

Onsug Radio Update – October 2024 Added

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40:11 – The first of an occasional series created with AI tools, beginning with ‘Sleaze Talk’, a chat show where two guest experts discuss a selection of stories from my site The Sleaze.

Herb Herzheimer introduces Ash Dieback and Diane Butz as they discuss allegations of cannibalism at a burger bar, underground monkey abuse rings and look into the conspiracies surrounding the attempted assassinations of Donald Trump.

Ash Dieback and Diane Butz appear via NotebookLM, a Google utility that analyses sources in a variety of formats and produces digests, reports and an AI generated audio discussion between two AI characters.

Herb Herzheimer and the other characters appearing in this edition were created via Textspeakpro, a text to speech service which offers a range of AI characters.

In the unlikely event that anyone is interested in checking the accuracy of the NotebookLM generated discussions, the original sources for the Ash Dieback/Diane Butz segments are as follows:

All Flesh is Meat

Spanking the Monkey

I Shot Trump

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 Nov 2024 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.