The Overnightscape Underground

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2:13:07 – Killer Serials continues its comeback with this second installment of Dashiell Hammett’s The Dain Curse, which appeared in the December 1928 issue of Black Mask. Reading by Dave in Kentucky, with feline commentary by Mr. Bean and music by Dave and Suno.

Words by Dave in Kentucky, music by Suno.ai (v4.5). Soundtrack potentially available on Alternate Timeline Records.

Show art: Interior illustration from “The Hollow Temple” as it appeared (less the damage) in the December 1928 Black Mask.

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2:14:39 – Dave in Kentucky brings back his Killer Serials series, transitioning from Old Time Radio serials to magazine serials, and from homemade song parodies to AI-generated songs. First up: Dashiell Hammett’s The Dain Curse, as it appeared in the pulp magazine Black Mask from late 1928 to early 1929. This first installment (“Black Lives”) is from November 1928, and is thus in the public domain, in this timeline, at least. The reading is by Dave in Kentucky, with occasional feline ambience by Mr. Bean.

Words by Dave in Kentucky, music by Suno.ai (v4.5, except #1 is v5). Soundtrack is thought to be available on Alternate Timeline Records.

Show art: Public-domain covers of the November and December 1928 issues of Black Mask, which contained the first two episodes of the serialized version of The Dain Curse.

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2:29 – It’s a song about a hockey team, right? Yeah, that’s the ticket. Words are by Dave in Kentucky, music and show art by Suno.ai (v4.5).

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) Attribution: by Dave in Kentucky and Suno.ai (v4.5). No further info is available.

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2:52:21 – Dave in Kentucky is joined by Eddie Murray (at 32:34), Chad Bowers (at 1:31:55) and Frank Edward Nora (at 1:56:32) for an examination of the concepts of borders, barriers and boundaries. Congratulations to Chad on reaching the milestone of 400 Central episodes, thereby crossing a border, breaking a barrier, and expanding our boundaries!

Next month’s topics: Planes, Trains & Other Conveyances. Record about one, two or all three of these and send audio files or links to DaveKY at mail.com by the deadline: 6pm Central Time on March 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). Featured song (at 26:22) and bumper clips: “A Deal with the Devil” (2025) by Dave in Kentucky and Suno.ai (v4). Closing theme: “Noise Rebellion” (2024) by Eddie Murray and Suno.ai (v3).

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30:29 – From the land of the bluegrass, Dave in Kentucky proudly presents his first AI-Generated Biblical Paleocontact Bluegrass Album. (Come to think of it, it’s probably the world’s first, not just his.) Songs are presented in the approximate chronological order of the historical events on which these songs are based. Headphones are recommended.

1. Anunnaki Genesis (at 0:00)
2. I Don’t Like to Watch (at 2:35)
3. A Bet with Satan (at 4:56)
4. Abram was Sumerian (at 6:35)
5. Landing Party (at 8:54)
6. Nuking the Sodomites (at 12:21)
7. I’m Just a Jealous God (at 14:55)
8. The Powers of the Ark (at 17:31)
9. Moses Faked his Death (at 21:31)
10. Jericho’s Last Stand (at 23:26)
11. Achan and Ai (at 25:13)
12. The Ark Ain’t Lost (at 27:21)

Disclaimers: Not for the easily offended. Anu ‘n’ the Naki Boyz are not an actual band, and the album’s producer, Herman Eutics, is not an actual person, just an actual process.

Album cover art: Generated by the AI Image Generator at Deepai.org.

Music: All lyrics by Dave in Kentucky, all music and performances by Suno.ai. Songs 3, 9 and 10 were generated with version 3; the rest with version 3.5. Songs 3, 9, 10 and 11 were previously included in SERMONS episodes; the other eight songs are made available here for the first time.

These performances are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International license. Attribution: by Dave in Kentucky and the Suno AI – more info at onsug.com, sermons.blog and suno.ai.

This album, along with all episodes of SERMONS, is also available at sermons.blog.

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29:37 – The love triangle of Jacob, Rachel and Leah can be summed up in the words of the Lovin’ Spoonful: “Sometimes you really dig a girl the moment you kiss her, but then you get distracted by her older sister.” Except in this case, it’s the girls’ father who masterminds the distraction. A battle of wits ensues in which two con men attempt to out-con each other, and two sisters vie for the same man’s affection, by methods both normal and paranormal. It’s a Biblical confection with a musical surprise in the middle. Sit a spell, listen a spell, maybe even fall under a spell. Dave in Kentucky does the casting.

Show art: Jacob Fleeing from Laban (1686) by Filippo Lauri (1623-1694), Public Domain.

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This episode, along with all other episodes of SERMONS, is also available at sermons.blog.

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59:08 – Dave in Kentucky plays an original song about a fictional close encounter and talks about an actual one he had back in the Seventies. Also: a slightly-reedited “sex scene” featuring Joe Besser and Lou Costello, from 1949’s Africa Screams, plus more from the Ethiopic Bible, including The Book of Jubilees as well as The Book of Enoch, the Nephilim or Watchers, Azazel the metallurgist / jeweler / cosmetologist, Semjaza the community organizer / horticulturist / hoodoo man, the sons of Anak (the Anakim) and the Anunnaki, Heather Lynn’s The Anunnaki Connection, the survivors of the Great Flood, Unidentified Submersible Objects (USO’s), the Thule Society and the Master Race, the three types of aliens (Greys, Reptilians, and Nordic), Dietrich Eckart and the German Messiah, Rudolf Hess, Hermann Goering, Heinrich Himmler, Aryan race theory, the Spear of Destiny, the Holy Grail, the Ark of the Covenant, Indiana Jones movies, Subaru cars and the Pleiades star cluster, Pleiadians, Zecharia Sitchin, V-2 rockets, the debunking of pseudoarchaeologists, and the source of the Spanish flu.

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Show art: Today Germany, tomorrow the solar system!

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59:20 – Dave in Kentucky plays another of his songs and talks about minor-key blues, Lisa’s fifth round of chemo, THX1138, George Lucas, artificial intelligence, neXt, propaganda, Big Sky, David E. Kelley, Picket Fences, Elon Musk, freedom passes & nudge units, carrots & sticks, Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners, compensated emancipation, the tyranny of the majority, Jefferson’s Democratic-Republican Party, suggestions for future elections, Nixon vs. Kennedy, the Bill of Rights, the Moon, The Watchers in The Book of Enoch, Carl Sagan, Kindle books vs. physical books, changing history, the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, the Foreign Relations Authorization Act of 1987, the Tobacco Buyout of 2004, John Milton, the First Amendment and more.

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Show art: Carl Sagan, the dry look.

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1:00:39 – Dave in Kentucky plays another of his songs, and talks about hokum in general and Tampa Red & Georgia Tom in particular, plus: Thomas A. Dorsey, fourth round of chemo, canceling the concealed carry class, flattening & widening the curve, Elvis’ TVs, the election, “faces” and “heels”, All in the Family, USA Red & USA Blue, nullification, Hammer’s The Hound of the Baskervilles, the documentary Crisis:  Behind a Presidential Commitment, Jack & Bobby Kennedy, George Wallace, Arthur Bremer, Taxi Driver, John Hinckley, Jr., rights vs. powers, taxidermy, Sumatran tigers & giant rats, Indonesia’s Pres. Sukarno, Komodo dragons, RFK Jr., Jeremy Bentham, utilitarianism, the panopticon, Spock’s “the needs of the many,” democracy, spasmodic dysphonia, vaccine choice, Taco Bell’s beef quesarito, Five Easy Pieces, “nudging”, the “nationwide coin shortage,” roundup accounts, Amazon Rewards Points, Marlboro Miles, loyalty cards, information & privacy, cashless societies & barter, different panopticons, Nicholas Katzenbach, The Anunnaki Connection by Dr. Heather Lynn, The Book of Enoch, and much more.

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Show art: Tampa Red & Georgia Tom, circa 1930.

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58:16 – Just in time for the Halloween season, Dave in Kentucky unveils another morbid curiosity from Ye Olde Morbid Curiosity Shoppe. Topics include: Robert Johnson, cremation vs. burial, crowded family plots, cancer, mummification vs. embalming, reanimation, Steve Martin’s “King Tut”, Viking funerals, Valhalla, Jurassic Park, pyramids, secret burial chambers, curses, the importance of a Christian burial, predestination, whether the Pope is Catholic or not, the gyp of resurrection, Star Trek, Kirk and Scotty, the transporter paradox, the Nuremburg trials, transhumanism and posthumanism, Ted Williams’ frozen head, cryogenics, Sears catalogs, downloading consciousness, Glock Perfection range bags, CCW Breakaways jeans and jean shorts, pocket holsters, debasing the currency, hyperinflation, gold vs. silver, prepping, hoarding, panic buying, Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Anthem, the Nolan Chart, Dead of Night, Michael Redgrave, Twice-Told Tales, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Vincent Price, Sebastian Cabot, Beverly Garland, Black Sabbath, Anton Chekhov, Guy de Maupassant, Aleksei (not Leo) Tolstoy, Boris Karloff, Mario Bava (a “gialli” good fellow), Peter Cushing, Dr. Who & the Daleks and Daleks – Invasion Earth 2150 A.D., Christopher Lee, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Jeremy Brett, etc.

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Show art: “cyberspace” by openDemocracy (CC BY-NA 2.0).