1:10:43 – Faberge Eggs and other random fascinations!! A lost track from the vaults and Moon music!! “Ancient Sorceries’ episode of Escape!! More Spanish Flu research!! PQ Ribber is your guide!
Released December 2020 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel based on a freeform monologue style, presenting diverse and fascinating hosts who craft thought-provoking, unique transmissions for now, and all future times!
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.
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.
3:06:04 – To celebrate the imminent return of major-league baseball, Dave in Kentucky presents the 1957 All-Star Game, and talks about Chris Berman, the ’56 and ’57 Chevys, Sputnik, the Red Scare, Reds and Redlegs, stuffing the ballot box, the Cincinnati Times-Star, Burger Beer, Waite Hoyt, Ed Bailey, Johnny Temple, Roy McMillan, Don Hoak, Frank Robinson, Wally Post, Gus Bell, Buddy Bell, David Bell, George Crowe, Ted Kluszewski, Ford Frick, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Ted Williams, Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Jim Bunning, disenfranchising the fans, Harry Caray, Falstaff, Budweiser, Jim Brosnan, The Long Season, Pennant Race, Jim Bouton, Ball Four, Fred Hutchinson, Giants and Dodgers moving to the West Coast, different versions of the national anthem, the Three Stooges and more.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
1:32:40 – Dave in Kentucky presents three more chapters of the Carlton E. Morse adventure serial, The City of the Dead, plus: radio commercials for syndicated programs, post-war reconversion, furniture stores piggybacking on the post-war housing boom, University of California branches, San Francisco’s Hotel Britton, The Good Hotel, the Colma necropolis, Jackson Street apartments, personal freedom and potential dictators, stepping on graves both past and future, getting the shivers, and better living through chemistry.
