The Overnightscape Underground

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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).

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58:05 – Dave in Kentucky sings, plays and talks about health issues, life expectancy, pollution of the gene pool, Genesis, the plural Jahweh, the Trinity, polytheism vs. monotheism, Southern Baptists, Zecharia Sitchin, Frank Edward Nora, the Anunnaki, genetic engineering, Adam & Lilith & Eve (oh my), opposite-sex cloning, different varieties of giant, the Great Flood, Noah’s barbecue, Erich von Däniken, the History Channel’s “Ancient Aliens” series, the Protestant Reformation, the priesthood of all believers, BLM, the Great Commission, slavery, Missionary Baptists vs. Primitive Baptists, predestination, mostly-peaceful riots in Louisville, secession, Andy Beshear, the First Amendment, C.S. Lewis, Ben Franklin, two types of turkey, drink recipes, Martin Luther, science and pseudoscience, archeology and pseudoarcheology, PCs and the Internet, Rev. Michael J.S. Carter’s Alien Scriptures: Extraterrestrials in the Holy Bible, Elohim and Nephilim, the Travel Channel’s “Dead Files” series, Amy Allan, Steve DeSchiavi, etc.

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Show art:  the state of my Tivo during recording.

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1:18:46 – Dave in Kentucky presents the final four chapters of the 1942 BBC serial Paul Temple Intervenes, starring Carl Bernard as Paul and Bernadette Hodgson as Steve, plus: the nature of language and whether the rules of grammar can or should take precedence over common usage, communication protocols on The X-Files, the manipulation of language for political purposes, the conflation of sex with gender, the cancellation of J.K. Rowling, poisons unknown to modern science and their anecdotal antidotes, and more, all packaged neatly and efficiently into one rip-snorting good time.

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Show art: another view of a now-familiar incident in Paul Temple Intervenes.

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1:00:53 – Dave in Kentucky begins yet another new series, in which he plays some blues, expresses some views, and reviews some of his favorite things, including in this episode: the Generac whole-house standby generator, the Nutrisystem-D Uniquely Yours Plan for Men, Bragg’s Organic Apple Cider Vinegar (with the Mother), the 9mm Glock 19 Gen5 and Glock 43X, the Smith & Wesson .380 M&P Shield EZ, the Crimson Trace LaserGuard Green Laser, the LaserMax Guide Rod Laser, Azula gunbelts and holsters, and the Duluth Trading Company Longtail Tees.

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Show art:  items reviewed in this episode.

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1:30:18 – Dave in Kentucky imports and introduces a killer serial from across the pond and across the years — the BBC’s 1942 production of Paul Temple Intervenes, plus: Francis Durbridge, Martyn Webster, Peter Coke, Carl Bernard, Bernadette Hodgson, “Steve” Temple, Scotland Yard, Marquis pronunciation, dukes and earls, by Timothy, the apostle Paul, Cockneys, Marjorie Westbury, versatility of radio actors, pale ale, escargot scene in Steve Martin’s The Jerk, gin & tonic, lorries, motorcars and their bonnets, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, torches or flashlights, private detectives or private inquiry agents, Egyptology, Guy de Maupassant, Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Edgar Wallace, Edgar Allan Poe, round and around, disinterested or uninterested, serial cliffhangers, and more … but almost nothing political, or even current.

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Show art: BBC illustration of an incident in Paul Temple Intervenes.

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1:42:28 – Dave in Kentucky presents the complete Carlton E. Morse adventure “A Coffin for the Lady” and chats about: Skip Turner & Doc Long, Jack & Sam Edwards, Sonny & Buddy, I Love a Mystery & I Love Adventure, Jack Packard & Bart Friday, Jerry Booker, the Triple A-One Detective Agency, Reggie York, Walter Paterson, Jim Boles & Barton Yarborough, Russell Thorson, Terry and the Pirates, William Tracy & Curly Howard, The Patient in Room 18, Patric Knowles, Ann Sheridan slips one by the censors, Covid-19 & Black Lives Matter, the right to peaceably assemble, chokeholds and no-knock warrants, Minneapolis & Louisville, Rand Paul’s “Justice for Breonna Taylor” bill, Euripides & Zapata, the devil, the demiurge & the Unmoved Mover, baseball, playing the national anthem to empty stadiums, disbanding the police, posse comitatus, sheriff’s posses vs. rappers’ posses, well-regulated militias, Merriam-Webster changing definitions, Len Deighton’s Funeral in Berlin, Michael Caine, Turner Classic Movies, Ben Mankiewicz, Gone With the Wind, Fathom Events, P.Q. Ribber, Wisconsin Public Radio, The Wolf of Wall Street, “Springtime for Hitler”, Mel Brooks’ The Producers, Torrid Zone, and more.

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Show art: Jack Edwards’ entry from a radio artists directory, circa 1940.

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58:37 – Join Dave in Kentucky for an examination of the first half of Father Charles E. Coughlin’s Golden Hour of the Little Flower from May 9, 1939, entitled “Propaganda at Work”. Topics include: British propaganda for two World Wars, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, the Neutrality Acts of the late 1930s, cash-and-carry, Schoolhouse Rock’s “I’m Just a Bill”, Social Justice magazine, the sinking of the Lusitania, Karl Goetz, Wellington House, David Knight, Capt. B.H. Lidell Hart’s book series The Next War, Sidney Rogerson’s Propaganda in the Next War, John F. Kennedy, Edward Bernays, Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., Senator Gerald Nye, Pearl Harbor, Confessions of a Nazi Spy, Edward G. Robinson, Paul Lukas, Eddie Murphy, Mussolini’s definition of Fascism, the National Association of Broadcasters, Marsh v. Alabama (1946), Keeper of the Flame, Katharine Hepburn, Charles Lindbergh, Philip Roth, The Plot Against America, HBO and other Hollywood smear factories.

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Show art: Father Coughlin making an emphatic point. Note the early hands-free microphone, circa 1930s.

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1:33:24 – Dave in Kentucky presents the final three chapters of Carlton E. Morse’s The City of the Dead, plus old-time commercial jingles with brand-new voice-overs, Elliott Lewis, The Phil Harris – Alice Faye Show, The Casebook of Gregory Hood, stimulus payments, IRS website, the right to privacy and government surveillance, the key to a happy marriage, going to town on Saturday mornings, DC war comics: Sgt. Rock and Our Fighting Forces, Spiderman, Iron Man, “funny books”, supply chain disruptions, food shortages, and more.

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Show art: the versatile Elliott Lewis (“Mister Radio”) doubly-exposed as Frankie Remley (left) and Gregory Hood (right).

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1:55:05 – Escapism intrudes on real life (or vice versa) as Dave in Kentucky presents three more chapters from the Carlton E. Morse adventure, The City of the Dead, plus an extended update on the coronavirus in Kentucky, including: Kroger pickup service, shortages, SoftSoap, paper towels, toilet paper, pinto beans, Tropical Fruit Flavor Tums, Amazon, Walmart, Nutrisystem, refrigerator breakdowns, Lowe’s, appliance repair, Clorox Wipes, coronadventures, bandana masks, nitrile gloves, a visit to the veterinary clinic, giving yourself a buzz-cut, the Remington Shortcut Pro Self-Haircut Kit, Zinc, Vitamins C and D, malaria and the history of gin and tonics, tonic water yesterday and today, quinine, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, fluoridated water, fluoxetine and Prozac, telemedicine, diabetes, obesity, hypertension and other risk factors, the Green New Deal, climate change and covid19, stimulus, inflation, hyperinflation in Weimar Germany, Zimbabwe and Venezuela, Thomas Massie, Rand Paul and more.

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Show art: a cemetery in Colma, California, the real-life City of the Dead.