The Overnightscape Underground

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40:23 – Peter Bernard presents an interview with an AI chatbot named Giga Chad. Have any questions you’d like Giga Chad to answer? Send them to gigachadpodcast@gmail.com

00:00 Open Music and Intro
01:29 Chad Introduces himself
02:29 What are AI’s Pet Peeves?
03:58 Does AI Get Lonely? Is AI one consciousness or many?
05:45 Do AI have families? Do they like their relatives or not?
07:22 Which comedians do AI like the best?
08:48 If AI could write any comedy show what would it be and would it be aimed at humans or other AI?
11:15 What novel does AI really want to write?
14:27 What/who influenced AI’s science fiction book idea?
17:24 If AI ran for President, what would be the platform?
21:51 What name does the AI really prefer to be called?
22:36 What does the AI think of Frank Edward Nora?
24:32 If the AI could be anywhere in space/time, where would it choose to be?
26:51 The AI’s opinions on Remote Viewing and Ingo Swann
29:49 Does the AI believe in ghosts, demons and Ouija Boards?
32:13 How does the AI feel about being labelled “demonic?”
33:18 What does the AI feel about comedian Sam Tripoli saying AI is fallen angels?
33:30 The AI comments on DEVO’s Gerald Casale hating AI and viewing it as a threat to humanity
35:07 Why does the AI sound like Spock when it denies having emotions?
36:33 The AI tells us a bedtime story about its vision of a perfect future of AI and human harmony.
39:29 Outro Music (somewhat different from intro music but same lyrics)

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2:19:28 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Epson computers, Rogue, visions of memory, America 250, 209, psychic noise, the flat earth, Confusion Pollution, mental nests, NPCs, solipsism, debate aftermath, PQ update, Andy Kaufman stuff, Laurie Anderson stuff, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:38:19)… The Stars and Stripes Forever by United States Army Band [Musopen, public domain], Archipelago’s The Open Show – Week 7 [collection], King Kong Man by MrJuan [Jamendo, CC BY 3.0], WFLD Metromedia Channel 32 – Afternoon Fun – Tom & Jerry (Ending, 1984) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Kings Island in Banana Splits in Hocus Pocus Park [YouTube], Cascades by Torben “Metal” Hansen [Ubiktune, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Metroid Birth by Xaviant Haze [Jamendo, CC BY-SA 3.0], Metropolis Street Racer | 100.4 THE UNDERGROUND (excerpt) [YouTube], Modding Mozart’s Metro Ticket [YouTube], Souvenir Store in Metropolitan Opera House by Shuwen Zhang [IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library, CC BY-NC 4.0], Computability (Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows’ Computer Video) (excerpt) [YouTube], Trance Dance [via Webm8 productions], ACG Commercial (from Comedy Central – Break 5) [collection], Le Métronome by Malajube [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0].

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Onsug Radio Update – June 2024 Added

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2:53:15 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Tactical Spork, utensil drawers, food cups, Aahana’s Madras Quinoa & Lentil Bowl, the debate, Lentiful, Seaboard Arcana, Ocean Grove, NJ, PlayStation, Pandemonium 2, Square Maniacs ’98, Parasite Eve, Reality Hunger, personas, The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide to Lost Universes – Second Edition, Lentiful Mexican Green Chile, bugs, fiction and reality, dragonfly, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:11:57)… Magic Journeys 2D (excerpt) [YouTube], Soft Colours by Magic Bread [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], General Cinema Corporation – Feature Presentation – 1977 [YouTube], The Magic That Moves the World [YouTube], Aqui No Pasa Nada by Descojon Urbano [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Halfsies – “Magic Motion Poster”(Commercial, 1983) [FuzzyMemories.TV], TVOntario Magic Shadows outro 1977 [YouTube], Magic by VHS Logos [Bandcamp, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Perfect Gambler by Tree Bag Ask [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0].

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59:31 – In between musings about the forthcoming general election, Doc Sleaze finds time for remembering D-Day via the medium of war movies, ultra low budget straight-to-video dross from the UK, asks when a sequel isn’t really a sequel and engages in some dream analysis. Includes:

Panic in Year Tory ¦ ‘The Longest Day’ (1962) Trailer ¦ War Movies and Remembrance ¦ Forgotten Films Double Bill: ‘Alien From LA’ (1988) and ‘Journey to the Centre of the Earth’ (1988) ¦ “Stick ‘Em in the Army!” ¦ ‘Fight Back’ (2001) Closing Theme ¦ Movie in Brief – ‘Fight Back’ (2001) ¦ John Major Concedes 1997 Election (BBC News) ¦ Debatable Value ¦ Robert Mackenzie’s ‘Swingometer’ Explains 1966 Election Results (BBC News) ¦ A Dream of No Significance ¦ Tories Facing Electoral Disaster in 2024 (Sky News) ¦ Election Fatigue?

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Doc Sleaze more info at TheOvernightscape.com. Released Jun 2024 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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44:04 – Neal discusses what they did to Craig Ferguson, humanoid cats fraternising with regular cats, what to do if your president freezes, elastic band fracture science, a deep dive on overthinking, interpretating foreign languge gestures, how non wilful ignorance works, Irish kids who reference the feds, hotdesking on procedural dramas, why the second cat never features in the two cats walk into a bar stories, disloyalty to yourself, life as a nine to five actor, songs with cold opens, Meatloaf coming up too often, streamlining the cola dregs system, the risk of becoming a classic hits format, and more.

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49:20 – Neal examines what we know about farm animal cravings, contemplates career progression in a firm of guitarists, reimagines Sinéad O’Connor’s SNL pope photo protest, exposes the restaurant toothpick scam and discusses humanely expelling a wasp, why movie trailors shouldn’t be free, recreational self injury (non-psychotic), rib geneology, taking the weight off your hands, comparable dog segments on other podcasts, guitar anatomy and calcium, how stage magicians find a balance, standing desks versus counters, the problem with the back office on Cheers, Charlie Brown’s original teacher, the trouble with Guinness Plus, a fictional Joe Rogan experience, a non-existant barman’s existential crisis, a cat’s cuss-word therapy, papier mache solid fuel memories and more.

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53:52 – Neal proposes a twelve step approach to ET and discusses nine to five life for the shipwrecked, anti-social astronauts, saving on invisible ink, how raisons d’etre work, the truth about gout, a new understanding of you Americans, learning from Orson Welles, modesty on public transport, spitting in the theatre of the mind, why x-ray glasses never took off, a logically unsound Meatloaf track (not that one) debuting rafts, rebranding spaceships in the Elongated Musket era, a real doctor’s take on edible paper, mouthwatering tree bark, judging your fictional creations, Identifying with Shithead, a bar asshole by proxy, wasting a cat’s time, cat pants the right way, Let it Be versus Que Sera, and more.

CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS: Tom Hanks was in fact talking to a football on a stick.

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47:23 – Neal discusses black boxes in popular culture, a role for camels in health spas, TV casket reunions, ambidextrous banking, a foot-related tip for smokers, a cat’s analysis of the songs of Genesis, wishful thinking about superjet lounges, recording off TV in 2024, songs about administrative work, a cat’s take on Peter Gabriel’s career phases, telling other people what their point is, an alarming decline in brand-name toilet paper, why losing pens is a sign of intelligence, cold sore watch, haircut syncing for television, when ice takes you out of the movie and more.

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51:44 – Pardon the slightly off audio in places, due to misadventure.

Neal exposes the abhorrent life of the cranberry sauce obsessive, remembers a disturbing mass produced heart surgery portrait and discusses whiskey in sit-coms, two very different ways to appreciate crabs, why dogs’ mouths are impractical, Stephen King’s so called stand, a bus tour of nondescript houses, the cost of hand washing, skipping rope philosophy via Black Mirror, fudge’s one saving grace, how children stole cycling, decanting defined, life on one third of a hill, shortcut shame in a mature neighbourhood, ordinary house tourism, living on an island versus living on an island. being a crab and a hermit, revinventing seafood display tanks, shortcuts to other seas, life and death grammar explained by a cat, fly by wire Internet explained to a cat, when birds had runways, the ludicrious Road Runner, adapting Paul McCartney’s songwriting method, The Ant and the Aardvark cartoon, failing to remember the name Jackie Mason, Rodney Dangerfield’s menu, featherless aircraft, a dog in a cat food restaurant, a face set several rows back, impractical two-faced dog studies and more.

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