The Overnightscape Underground

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(29:10) After almost a year-and-a-half hiatus, Saved From Oblivion returns from the dead! And it returns in style: Suspense (from 1955) and the exciting episode, CLASSIFIED SECRET.

It’s Hitchcockian, with twists and turns aplenty. Saturday afternoonish-type fun.

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(44:14) Hey everybody, Jimbo’s in the quiet stillness of rural Georgia. Come on in and enjoy it with him.

CONTENTS: syphilis (psa) .. Eddie’s Theme .. so quiet here .. the amazing Frank and the Onsug .. trash truck .. the boring restorer .. MORNING NOISE .. soup and ketchup .. Mike Wallace: Is your house safe? (psa) .. TX Rangers’ update .. six hours of commercials .. dumb football fan .. Jimbo LIVE on vocoder: UNCLE FLETCHER AND THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TRACKS . JJJJ STUNBOLT . HARRY FIE FROM DETROIT . RISHIGAN FISHIGAN FROM SISHIGAN MICHIGAN . BRICK MUSH THIS MORNIN’ . HERE COME MR. GUMPOX . PLANT 14 . MEAN TO VIC . INDOOR HORSESHOES .. Chimney Sweep Soot Destroyer .. Spam .. National Coffee Day .. going against the doctor .. jungle .. blood moon .. life before the internet .. cheap encyclopedias .. store-bought tomatoes .. silver dollars .. coin purse .. gumball machine tattoos (circa 1970)

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2:14:36 – A fabulous, international look at the Morning Meal and Cereal, too!!  Jimbo, Rubenerd, Chad, Clara, Frank, and more!!  PQ hosts and yaks it up, as well as reviewing the past week’s doings on ONSUG and telling you how to be part of the fun!!

Next:  Imagination

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Overall attribution by PQ Ribber , all other hosts appear courtesy of themselves.

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Stories from Chinese School

01:26:59 – Starting Chinese school, texts and patterns of learning, poem recitals (‘Climbing a Mountain’, ‘Calendar’), using English to write down word pronounciations (vs use of bopomofo), stories such as 畫蛇添足 (draw snake add legs), 草船借箭 (To Borrow Arrows with Thatched Boats), memorised poems (‘Before the bed there is a bright moon’, ‘Returning Home’), some Chinese songs (incl. Chinese version of a popular song from 1989, a Chinese opening theme for a TBV drama), and more.

Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licxence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. Attribution: Clara Tse.

Released September 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts, and Nai Wong Bao Network, an independent network focusing on Asia Pacific matters.

Thanks for listening to this podcast. (´∀｀) 多謝你！

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01:03:29 – A late night train commute from Beecroft to Mascot, seeing the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Opera House, and various thoughts in between. These may include the first female Concorde pilot, The Mary Tyler Moore show, still chilly for a spring night, celebrating Sebastian’s birthday, the Anime@UTS club, Latvia, can’t escape plane sounds, idiots jumping onto train tracks, tabloid TV (A Current Affair, Today Tonight), embankments and cuttings as a geological fascination, epic road trips to northern New South Wales, Sydney Trains 160th anniversary, romance of travel, ocean liners, Malta, flag designs (stars, colour, Vexillology), the Nintendo 2DS, and getting back into Pokémon!

Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.

Released September 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts (this one notwithstanding).

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1:38:06 - In this episode:

• Jeremiah Oresky, master celebrity photo seeker, joins us,
• the beginnings of a hobby,
• nice and nasty celebrities,
• celebrity deaths (Wes Craven, Yvonne Craig, Dean Jones, and Darryl Dawkins),
• awkward back to school memories and feelings,
• mullets,
• Gerard and Michael Way,
• Zap It water guns,
• Kanye West for President?,
• Christian Slater,
• Olivia Wilde,
• Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel,
• Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) starring Tom Hardy,
• Back to School (1986) starring Rodney Dangerfield,
• Google and Apple map cars,
• movie premieres for Dogma (1999) and Hitman Agent 47 (2015),
• Rob-views of Ride Along (2014) starring Ice Cube and Let’s Be Cops (2014) starring Damon Wayans, Jr.,
• review of Ant-Man (2015) starring Paul Rudd,
• what’s the better Star Trek show?,
• convention antics of Lou Ferrigno and Virgil,
• and more Stan Lee and Transformers impressions.

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Rob and Greg – more info at paunchstevenson.com

Released September 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

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4:03:49– Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Chipmunk sex apocalypse, Pope Francis arrives in NYC, Yogi Berra dead at 90, religion, Yogi Bear, TV review – The Muppets (series premiere), 12 Monkeys, time travel, ramen, olive cream cheese, listener email (Shaun from England), atheism, spirituality, Berenstein/stain Bears, new bus terminal?, Hugh Downs, The Compleat Strategist, Jim Hanley’s Universe, Olde Good Things, supermoon eclipse, return of 80s energy?, No. 7 Veggie – Total Vegetarian Chaos & Destruction, 7-11, cheese, Graphic Story World, The Monster Times, Apple Music, Aphex Twin – Syro, The Beach Boys – The Smile Sessions, 32nd Street Memories, Penn Station, fast morning commute, Heroes Reborn, UrbanSpace – Hong Kong Street Cart, sitting in a cafe in Bayonne, One More Line, Minority Report, cruise to nowhere, keys, identity, Onsug Archive, driving around an abandoned world (Need For Speed World offline server), flipping through a magazine – Graphic Story World (Sep. 1972), and much more… plus the Other Side (at 3:24:37)… Old Chicago – “Monsters of the Midway” (Commercial, 1979) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Prairie Fire (12/22/94) (part c – blacksmith) [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Canopy’s Chill by fluidvolt [Ubiktune, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Another Generation by WK [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], NBC Cliffhangers 1979 TV promo [YouTube], Future Shock (1972) 5/5 [YouTube], C. Louis Leipoldt – Afrikaans – Oktobermaand [LibriVox, public domain], Shatter Cider Suite (1987) by Little Frankie Nora [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Vaughn Bode Toronto Comic Con 1974 Part 1 (excerpt) [YouTube], The Games of Starcade – Galaga [YouTube].

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at TheOvernightscape.com

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Shopping at Daiso, Chatswood

01:15:36 – Halloween in Australia , the spirit of Halloween despite not celebrating it officially, songs playing in the store, changing prices over the years, glassware and ceramics from Japan and other countries, food sold in Daiso Japan, Japanese on various crockery, smashing fragile glass or ceramic items in a shop, further drooling over crockery, hair accessories, measuring systems in the US vs UK, Japanese snacks and sweets (Pocky, youkan, hard and gumi candies, sauces, dried foods), fake flowers and carp streamers, Engrish on Japanese products and more.

Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. Attribution: Clara Tse.

Released September 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts, and Nai Wong Bao Network, an independent network focusing on Asia Pacific matters.

Thanks for listening to this podcast. (´∀｀) 多謝你！

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1:20:13 – We’ve got us a few fragmentary episodes of The Jack Benny Program from almost exactly 81 years ago. Jell-O enters the picture and will bounce around here for several years (by the OTR history, that is). Radio Free Shambles is still on hiatus for the time being (although I recorded one in a dream I had last night).

Jack Benny, Set #6 (9/28/34-10/28/34)
Last Show of the Season – Rise of the House of Rawchild (9/28/34) *
First Show for Jell-O – Jack Benny, Grocery Store Owner Part 1 (10/14/34) *
Jack Benny, Grocery Store Owner Part 2 (10/21/34) *
The Bennys of Wimpole Street (10/28/34) *

*Partial

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Released September 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

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1:51:00 – Join Mike in the studio late at night. Topics include: a history of “Happy Birthday”, and how it was finally freed from copyright this week; Kampgrounds of America (KOA) and its Kranky Kustomer service; ran into high school friend who was a huge “Tears for Fears” fan a day after I talked about him; lattice of coincidence; local hipster bistro is actually a “breastraunt” in disguise; failed job interview I once had at a Hooter’s; more “Friday the 13th” marathon audio with friends Jason and Adam; awkward Folger’s ads from the 90’s; TV review — “Project Greenlight”, and much more!