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49:04 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I will be presenting the audio of a cassette tape from my collection. It’s a way to help motivate me to digitize more of my archives.

This tape is labeled “ABM Show Cool!”, but doesn’t have any dates written on it. It’s from my college radio show “Anything But Monday”, which I did with Mad Mike.

Side One has one of our earliest episodes – I estimate it to be from March 3, 1986, though it could be the week before or after. It has a lot of prepared skits and jokes, and some of these clips have been released on Onsug before.

Side Two is from September 29, 1986, and has a much different tone. I don’t think any audio of this episode has ever been released before. The Weekly World News figures prominently, which is always good.

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1:14:25 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I will be presenting the audio of a cassette tape from my collection. It’s a way to help motivate me to digitize more of my archives.

This is a great example of a cassette tape that was used multiple times and overdubbed, with layer upon layer of audio. I originally dubbed my vinyl copy of the Cosmos soundtrack onto the tape, but then much more stuff was added.

On side one is the long-lost 1984 revival of my parody TV station “Channel 67 WWW”, which I originally did in Montana 1980. I had completely forgotten that this existed. It is quite insane.

On side two, what happened is, my college roommate got drunk and I wasn’t there, but his friends used my tape and my boombox to record him. I didn’t find out about it till later. This was most likely in the Fall of 1985.

For my Internet radio station Bluffcosm in 2000, I released the first few minutes of this as A Hairy One. When I recently digitized the whole tape, I was completely surprised to find that the audio continued on much further… I guess I stopped listening after a period of silence. It’s amazing audio of drunk college students in a dorm in 1985.

Sprinkled throughout are other surprises, such as several radio airchecks and fragments of songs. So much happening on a single tape from over 30 years ago…

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30:48 – Bad headache –> Tylenol PM –> groggy night, Bradley Whitford in The West Wing, the crazy climate dream, how long it takes me to read a book, my old driver’s license, flipping through movie channels on Friday night at midnight. Recorded 3/10/17 and 3/11/17. RFS 101.

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Released March 2017 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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2:49:42 – Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Radio Shack going bankrupt again, snow, Tape Land 4 – After the ABM Show (4/16/86), random jelly donut, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Whip from King of Fighters, The Americans, Bill Irwin, Alive From Off Center, Legion, The New Mutants, burrito, farro, cartoonist Jay Lynch dead at 72, the futility of life, Duran Duran, vinyl records, to be back in college with my current mind and memories, Inhusto Mysterious, dwelling on the past, will, coping, float downstream, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:33:51)… Congo (Williams, 1995) [PinMAME], David Letterman 1980 [YouTube], Smile For Me, Sun by Adam and Alma [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], NBC Cliffhangers 1979 TV promo [YouTube], Moon in the Desert by C – Voyager Crew [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Drugs at Work (Employee Version) (1988) (excerpt) [FedFlix, public domain] +++ 956 1046 – The Street People (1986) (excerpt) [FedFlix, public domain], Walking By by MyVirtualBand Members [MyVirtualBand (defunct), CC BY 2.0], Don’t Take Your Love by Marauders [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-ND 2.5].

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(56:46) A fascinating look at THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951), IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA, THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN and THEM!, four above-average 1950’s films that dealt with radiation and/or nuclear weapons.

ONSUG hosts Doc Sleaze (Sleazecast/Schlock Express), Marc Rose (Fusebox) and Shambles Constant (The Malt Shop/Radio Free Shambles and many more) join producer Jimbo (ONS Central, Hey Everybody it’s Jimbo!, Vic and Sadecast, Hometownville) attempting something he’s never done before: documentary audio.

Music credits:
harmonic clouds patch III – severence (YouTube); Klangteppich – Marius Leicht (YouTube); Once Upon a Time in the West KATICA ILLÉNYI (theremin) and the GyÅ‘r Philharmonic Orchestra, written by Ennio Morricone (used by special permission, thanks to Katica Illényi and IKP Music) (YouTube); BURG – The saucer people by ollilaboratories (YouTube)

A very special “thank you” to PQ Ribber.

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55:37 – Another incomparable transmission!!  Jimbo gives PQ an honest evaluation!!  Peter Bernard watched the News!!  A funny video about Rob Liefeld!!  Delights from the Boy’s Nitroglycerine Pep Club!!  Bob and even Ray!!

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Attribution by PQ Ribber.  Music is by PQ or used by expressed consent of the copyright holders.

Released March 2017 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 for your listening pleasure.

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1:05:33 – Recorded 3/8/17.

Included in this episode:
Questioned By Police (Ma Perkins, 10/7/49)
The Voodoo Matter (Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, 8/4/53)
Perpetuum Mobile (Comedian Harmonists, 1933)
Lum and Abner are Partners Again (Lum and Abner, 3/13/35)

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Shambles Constant, Falling Cow Productions – more info at onsug.com
Released March 2017 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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37:47 – Putting pressure on myself, driving through campus, Virginia Avenue closed off, trying to choose a title for RFS 99, lazy with show art, picture of me during tornado drill, bus/train trip idea, crossing guard, Mortimer Snerd, the first time I ever heard Jimbo, bad Jimmy Stewart impression, 7th Heaven (1927), bad Tom Brokaw impression, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Frank Edward Nora, my new lenses, Law & Order SVU, recorded a new Malt Shop episode, candidates for mayor, lenses still not fitting frames right, a good day off, red-light-running jerk, the Pokemon Go fad. Recorded 3/8/17. RFS 100.

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Shambles Constant, Falling Cow Productions – more info at onsug.com
Released March 2017 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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28:41 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I will be presenting the audio of a cassette tape from my collection. It’s a way to help motivate me to digitize more of my archives.

More impossibly obscure audio from the archive… this time from over 30 years ago.

I had a college radio show with Mad Mike called Anything But Monday, which began in February 1986, but by April 1986, we were kicked off the air for our on-air antics. Two of our fellow DJs went on the air later that week and “dedicated” their show to us, making some nasty comments about us. I must have known they were planning on talking about us, because I recorded some of the show. I’m glad I did, because it’s fascinating to listen to…

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36:29 – Recording of tornado drill, the new season of the show, deleted an episode on purpose, “marvelous day… marvelous aspects,” lost recordings from college, old cassettes, taking a day off, Taco Bell order, work lunches cut down from 45 minutes to 30, going to the Ovation, Tapestry, D.W. Griffith and the racist Birth of a Nation, RFS Scrambled episode, coming attractions, review of Get Out, a day to decompress. Recorded 3/7/17. RFS 99.

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Shambles Constant, Falling Cow Productions – more info at onsug.com
Released March 2017 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.