Tape Land 156 – The Compleat Weird University (Fall 1986)
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3:36:17 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic material from my personal archives.
This episode is part of a sub-project within Tape Land called “Video Phase 2022”. I recently began transferring a ton of old video tapes to digital, and have been posting selections to YouTube. Here, I’ll be releasing the audio tracks of these videos, as well as linking you to the YouTube videos, and The Internet Archive.
The Compleat Weird University (Fall 1986)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj1tT34nab4

In 1986, “Mad” Mike and Frank Nora “Master of the Airwaves”, not satisfied with just doing their comedy radio show “Anything But Monday”, decide to produce a video series based on a fictional version of their college called “Weird University”. With their new personas “Franco Wolfini” and “Iggy Szalzo”, they investigate and report on interesting students, the dining hall, campus security, a nearby supermarket, and much more… plus, strange happenings on a Weird Halloween.
This “Compleat” version includes all the raw footage from the three half-hour episodes of Weird University, plus lost, deleted and bonus scenes.
There are some sections of silence, including 10 seconds at the start. I decided to keep these in the audio version, so that the timestamps below would remain accurate.
[0:00:00] Titles
[0:00:10] Weird Lifestyles with Iggy Szalzo – Bart Phillips: The Biggest Stud on Campus
[0:03:44] Sights of the Uncommons
[0:17:24] Weird Lifestyles with Iggy Szalzo – Branson Stringfellow: Condemned Man on Campus
[0:25:32] International Lampoon’s French House
[0:27:30] Weird Lifestyles with Iggy Szalzo – Shannon O’Shannahan & Gil Mannings: The Smartest Guys on Campus
[0:35:53] Dorm of the Dead
[0:38:07] Weird Vice
[0:47:56] Shopping with Franco
[1:08:16] Rough Boys
[1:25:20] The Texas Eggbeater Massacre
[1:34:02] Deleted Scene: Don’t Read and Drive
[1:36:39] A Weird Halloween: The Hitchhiker
[2:08:18] A Weird Halloween: The Dreamer
[2:45:59] A Weird Halloween: The Beast
[2:56:32] A Weird Halloween: The Spirit
[3:01:50] Deleted Scene: Matt Headroom
[3:03:13] Bonus Scene: The Gauntlet Players
[3:03:41] Bonus Scene: The Arkanoid Player
[3:05:41] Bonus Scene: The D&D Players
[3:10:49] Lost Scene: Franco & The Soviet Defectors
[3:24:17] B-Roll
[3:33:09] Weird University Theme Song by Smersh
Released 3/10/22
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 onsug.com
Internet archive link: https://archive.org/details/Tape_Land_Video_156-The_Compleat_Weird_University-Fall_1986



3:28:52 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Mind control water, gas prices rising, smoke detector incident, new door, Tales of the Dervishes by Idries Shah, ancient stories, the oral tradition, weird vision, The Food of Paradise, electrical sound, rental nightmare, Edict Zero – FIS, The Compleat Weird University, video black, mystery image, 1986, New York Deli Potato Chips, Artie Shaw, purple synchronicity, Jeremy’s MicroBatch Ice Creams – Purple Passion Pills, mass market paperbacks, mystery name (“Alfred Juan Gross Fiolly MD8”?), forgetting, MTV dream, Phrivl: Interdimensional Commute, turtle doves, olives, Mission: Impossible, suspicious survey, inspired by Laurie Anderson, consciousness, UFOs, revelations, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:48:16)… 12th Street Rag by Polar Lion [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], American Express Pavilion (Epilogue) [collection], Friends (Live) by Jenni Potts [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], coccyx by jaffar [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Street Musicians by J. Koho [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Kathy Jones [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Middlesix – The Phantom Planet (1961) [Archive.org], Bell System ad (early 1980s) [YouTube], 1983 Wausau Center Mall commercial [YouTube], Latin Nightbug by Lee Rosevere [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC 3.0], Thinkabout (Ending Credits, 1979) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Name That Tune (misc 2) [MAME], Sweet Caress by Kookooo Kitchen [EardrumsPop, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Jean Shepherd – Year One Poster (1970 “Cuckoo Eye”) [collection], Mego’s Slik Silver [YouTube], Stop-N-Go commercial (from Video Newsletter (Convenience Stores)) [Archive.org], Happy Shadow by Crazy Aces [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Sand by musicfornothing [Soundcloud, CC BY-ND 3.0].
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5:00:02 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Fey Hunting, Vectrex, Maze King, the feeling of playing early video games with abstract graphics, gambling dream, lotteries, NJ gas pump law, Games Magazine #11 (May/June 1979), The New Games, “tar” in cigarettes, Cyberchess, Fischer Spassky Chessmate, slide cards, Edict Zero – FIS, The Greenhouse index cards, The Compleat Weird University, Guardians of Justice, more mazes, mezcal review (Bozal Mezcal Artesanal Espadin Barril Ensamble), the next morning, the news, ancient plastic dragon boxes, breakfast sandwiches, video work, the fictional selves, a coin with coins inside it, shifting timelines, what pleases the experiencer, gamboling, Eckha/Halma, Popeye Magazine, Bandai card games from 1981, Dr. Slump, The Nolans, Ajinomoto noodles, REO Speedwagon, Entex 3-D Escape! 1000 Mazes, Escape From Devil’s Castle, Matchbox W.A.C.K.O., CBD, what we can know (the experiencer and the generator of the experiences), Maze Escape Classic, word theories, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 4:19:14)… Perfect Gambler by Tree Bag Ask [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Classic 1970’s Television: 1970 Promo for ABC-TV’s Friday Line-Up [YouTube], Stop by Tree Bag Ask [Onsug, CC BY 4.0], Lyndhurst Trailer Park (1984) [YouTube], Trouba by Steve Gunn [FreeMusicArchive, BY-NC-SA 3.0], Scrabble Brand SENSOR, Electronic Word Game (Commercial, 1979) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Telemann – 18 Canons Mélodieux (part 14, perfomed by Michel Rondeau) [IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library, CC BY-NC 4.0], Run Joe Run – Season One [YouTube], Kingston City Limits by Antti Luode [anttismusic.blogspot.com, CC BY 3.0], Mego’s Slik Silver [YouTube], Anomaly by Vasim [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], Stop-N-Go commercial (from Video Newsletter (Convenience Stores)) [Archive.org].
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