The Overnightscape Underground

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1:27:05 – Dave in Kentucky with the complete Escape adventure Earth Abides from November 1950, plus the Chinese coronavirus, George R. Stewart, Isherwood Williams, Cal-Berkeley, ecology, the Sierra-Nevada mountains, John Dehner, Have Gun, Will Travel, magical thinking, US 40, Route 66, inbred Royals vs. Meghan and Harry, Three Skeleton Key, Elliott Reed, Harry Bartell, William Conrad, Suspense, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Biological Products, bio-weapons, wet markets and bat soup, Hanlon’s Razor, Robert J. Hanlon, Robert A. Heinlein, the “devil theory” fallacy, Occam’s Razor, William of Ockham, Copernicus, Ptolemy, Copernican heliocentrism vs. Ptolemaic geocentrism, the Law of Unintended Consequences, conspiracy theories, useful idiots, The Omega Man, antibiotics and viruses, Nutrisystem, Parley Baer, Gunsmoke, Frontier Gentleman, Paladin, color-blind animals, prize boars and prize bores, Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom, Marlin Perkins, Cannon, Jake and the Fat Man, symbols of authority, Chairman Mao, birth of the state, license to kill, Ecclesiastes 1:4, rebuilding civilization, etc.

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Show art: A radio-casual John Dehner, circa 1950s.

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2:02:47 – Marc Rose!! Rubinerd!! A note from Dave in Kentucky!! Frank Edward Nora!! Radio of the past is honored and analysed! PQ Ribber is your instigator!

Next: Pet Peeves

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Released February 2020 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.

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1:19:12 – Dave in Kentucky with the final five chapters of the I Love a Mystery adventure The Thing that Cries in the Night, plus Athena Lorde, Jerry Booker, Gloria Blondell, Joan Blondell, Albert “Cubby” Broccoli, Cafe Trocadero, Ted Healy, the Three Stooges, Ellery Queen, Jim Hutton, breaking the fourth wall, fair play in the detective story, Shakespeare, soliloquies, Greek & Shakespearean tragedy, tragic flaws, Mercedes McCambridge, All the King’s Men, The Exorcist, CBS Radio Mystery Theater, John Markle, Salomon Brothers, Stephens Inc., Jack and Witt Stephens, Betsy Palmer, I’ve Got a Secret, Mrs. Voorhees, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Harry Leopold, Emil Albrecht, Fake News from the United Press, and a few other odds and ends.

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Show art: Russell Thorson (Jack) stands by while Athena Lorde and Jim Boles (Doc) act out a scene, circa 1951.

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1:23:36 – Dave in Kentucky with the middle five chapters of the I Love a Mystery adventure The Thing that Cries in the Night, plus a Hop Harrigan update, “Chairy” on Jeopardy, the Barnums, what Carlton E. Morse sounded like, narration in the dialogue, Hollywood then and now, voicing the demon, a Bob Marley song parody, red herrings, silencers or suppressors, fair play in the detective story, last-minute rewrites, Walter Paterson, Michael Raffetto, Barton Yarborough, Dragnet, One Man’s Family, writing characters out of shows, partial and total nudity in the theater of the mind, and Undergarments Which Must Not Be Named.

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Show art: Mercedes McCambridge, NBC Radio promotional photo, date unknown.

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2:29:46 – Dave in Kentucky!! Doc Sleaze!! Frank Edward Nora!! Chad Bowers!! All Stars of ONSUG gather to examine the glories of Cable TV!!

Next: Detectives

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Released January 2020 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.

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1:15:31 – Dave in Kentucky with Part One of an I Love a Mystery adventure, The Thing that Cries in the Night, plus Jean Sibelius, Valse Triste, Vanilla Fudge, Russell Thorson, Jim Boles, Tony Randall, The Odd Couple, The Fear that Creeps Like a Cat, The Great Gildersleeve, Gildy and Mr. Peavy, Hop Harrigan, Mercedes McCambridge, Orson Welles, Linda Blair, The Exorcist, Pee-wee’s Playhouse, Carlton E. Morse, One Man’s Family, Stuff the Lady’s Hatbox, Riders Radio Theater, Riders in the Sky, Ranger Doug, Too Slim, Woody Paul, Joey the Cow Polka King, Foy Willing and the Riders of the Purple Sage, Gene Autry’s Melody Ranch, the Emery Theater, Bob and Ray, Scooby-Doo, The Three Musketeers, John Dickson Carr, Douglas Greene’s The Man Who Explained Miracles, and practically nothing else.

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Show art: Russell Thorson, Jim Boles and Tony Randall, the featured cast of Mutual’s I Love a Mystery series, circa 1949.

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1:55:10 – Recorded sound on discs and other earthly delights are celebrated by Doc Sleaze, Frank Edward Nora, and your host, PQ Ribber!!

Next: Abstract Novel Again Again

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Released December 2019 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.

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1:54:40 – Dave in Kentucky with the conclusion of Hop Harrigan’s Riddle of the Ghostly Avengers, plus Descartes, dualists vs. identity theorists, epiphenomenalism, a priori and a posteriori knowledge, causality, materialism, geocentrism vs. the Copernican theory, scientists who do the bidding of others, high crimes and misdemeanors, narcissism and the Presidency, decorating for Christmas, accents, Booked for Safekeeping, cops then and now, Time’s Person of the Year, child abuse, impending disasters, folk tales and their morals, preserving Old-Time Radio, culture shock for seniors, devils known and unknown, looking ahead to 2020, and very little else.

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Show art: Plainclothesman (Inspector Fry?) chats with uniformed patrolmen in front of the Orleans Parish courthouse.

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2:00:43 – Dave in Kentucky with more of Hop Harrigan’s Riddle of the Ghostly Avengers, plus:  Irish cops, drunks and brawlers, fear of flying, righteous vs. self-righteous indignation, more stereotypes, David Goodis, Dark Passage, Bogart & Bacall, The Fugitive, Cassidy’s Girl,  Dumas’ Count of Monte Cristo, Devil Doll with Lionel Barrymore, the Kettering Bug, the Flying Pancake and other Flying Wings, Area 51, Glenn Campbell’s Groom Lake Desert Rat, New Orleans airport, John Moisant, Louis Armstrong, Satchmo & Keb’ Mo’, Lake Pontchartrain, and a tiny, tiny bit more.

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Show art: New Orleans Airport, circa 1947.

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2:06:41 – Join Dave in Kentucky for the first part of a new three-part Hop Harrigan adventure, which is surprisingly NSFW. Dave’s curmudgeonly commentary is also somewhat NSFW, but then Dave is no more unsafe for work than work is unsafe for Dave, so no harm, no foul.

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Show art: Mitsubishi A6M “Zero” in flight.