28:16 – Sitting outside on this blustery winter morning talking about Mike Karels, Gordon Bell, Dave Ross, and Jim Kloss, with some trademark digressions and a hot mug of coffee. Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade. Released June 2024 on Rubenerd and The Overnightscape U…

1:11:40 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic material from my personal archives. Frank in NJ and NYC. Saturday, September 22, 2001 (11 days after 9/11), don’t know when the next attack is gonna come, the situation in Obliviana, lighting a cigar, Rowe-Manse Emporium, pipe tobacco, stressed ou…

3:22:59 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Treehouse dreams, spaceship in the basement, The Great Race (1965), Tape Land, Please Open Doors Slowly, wax museum, Whychock Revival, The Amusement Industry (Japan, Jan. 1993), Synthetic Pleasures (1995), another solar scam, Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973), The Criterion Channel, cool…

Join Mike in the studio late at night, where he wonders why kids aren’t taking summer jobs as much as they used to, and if this means that child labor should be reinstated? Chick-Fil-A tried it this week, and got some mixed responses. In other news, I tried some child labor of my own the past couple weeks, running a playwriting sweat shop in a thea…

Join Mike out back for a drink as he decompresses from a hectic week of teaching summer camp and remembers the life and times of Wayne Newton, who’s still alive, but, ya know, kinda forgotten these days… In other news: we’re watching Joe Bob Briggs host “Donnie Darko” (2001) on his late night horror show, “The Last Drive-In”. Also: what the h-e-dou…

Join Mike in the studio late at night, where he remembers the time he met the cast of 1987’s “The Monster Squad,” and how they took off with his social security number. Also, are movies over? That’s the question after the mega-budget “Mad Max” movie bombed last week. Mike investigates, though he gets sidetracked by how much a Youtuber talking about…

Join Mike in the studio late at night, where he mulls over the mental gymnastics of playing violent video games. Does good karma extend to the virtual world also? In other news, I’m sequestered in my house lately due to (yet another!) car issue; my absurd back-and-forth with a service lady at the dealership; a new “Adults Only” library in Idaho; wh…

Join Mike outside for a whiskey on a mild May night, and, later, on a drive through the streets of Birmingham, where he remembers the old 90s joke about how RadioShack wanted to know all your personal business. Also: how I got fired from my new job this week; all about my basset hound Izzy’s risky surgery to remove a mass; Larry Sanders; “The Jinx:…

30:18 – After his smashing success versus the big city of Jericho, Joshua’s expeditionary force runs into unexpectedly stiff resistance from the little town of Ai. Troubles abound as he discovers that corruption within the ranks has caused a lack of enthusiasm for the campaign by his superiors. Receiving an ultimatum from the commander-in-chief, he…

4:24:29 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Jury duty, American Dream, wandering around the mall, new food court area, Onsug Radio Lounge, The Acolyte, book delayed?, gray catbird, The Nevers, Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown demo, repeated experiences, elitist fantasies, they’re cutting down trees, Time Express, TV Guide 4/…

Fusebox 251: “BANJAXED” 35:44 -Banjaxed Out Of The Box, For Whom The Bell Tolls, Thanks To Our Man In Ireland Neal O’Connor, A Chat About Roger, Fusebox Liner, Grindhouse Resurrection Magazine Spot 4, Fusebox Liner ID: Better Than A Subpoena, Tolling Tales, Tolling Polls, Fusebox Liner Id, Roger Takes A Final Bow, Fusebox Show Close. Completely coh…

2:07:45 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Pat Sajak’s final Wheel of Fortune, The Pat Sajak Show, jury duty, visions of root beer, IBC Root Beer, Carry On Holograph Alley, Cycling Frog, Hybrid, 7-11 owl shirt, Onsug Radio Stash, Obliviana, Doctor Who, The Acolyte, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:27:13)… WMAQ Chann…

2:50:11 – Dave in Kentucky is joined by Eddie Murray of The Wool Gathering (at 44:41), Chad Bowers of Chadcast and TITFOS (at 1:33:09) and Frank Edward Nora of The Overnightscape (at 1:48:38) for a discussion of all things artificial. Next month’s topics: Revolution, Evolution and Devolution. Record about one, two or all three of these and send aud…

2:59:00 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Confusing new “album”, rabbit, minicomics, Pat Sajak’s last Wheel of Fortune, Picasso “quote”, chat again, the nature and pleasure of investigation, PQ’s adventures, Videocassette 209, Sunset Boulevard 1997, Onsug Radio – May 2024 Archive, Jim Henson: Idea Man (2024), various theor…

2:04:47 – Frank in New Jersey and New York City, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Going to the movies, traffic circles, motels, Star Wars, The Acolyte, weirdo cars, vegan bagels, Jettison Fiesta, car inspection, letting go of negativity, food hall lunch, Thums Up cola, Cricket World Cup, chewing gum, shopping carts, Murder One – Season One (199…

4:58:28 – Welcome, hosts and listeners of The Onsug radio universe, to come and join a freeform chat in video, which will be released in audio. The Exit Ramp continues for another amazing group show. Host Frank from The Overnightscape is joined by Jefferson from Philadelphia, Dave in Kentucky from his various shows, Peter Litkey from The Three Weas…

2:33:36 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Car inspection blues, Tom Bombadil, I passed inspection!, The Exit Ramp #55 – Rummage Mu, Tahiti, Tahitian Terrace, tiki bars, kava kava, Aer City Pack X-Pac as a cat bed, Iasos – Bora Bora 2000, The Rampler #292 (5/13/09), the cold open, fettuccine insanity, haircuts, new Thai pla…

44:37 – Back to the Seventies with Isaac Hayes as Doc Sleaze takes another stroll through the underbelly of pop culture, pondering over the opportunities afforded invisible men, whether Italian movies can be judged on poorly edited and dubbed VHS duplicates and goes ‘Down Under’ for some detective action. Plus some topical political ranting. Includ…

Fusebox 250: “SHAMCASTING” 26:42 -Pulling The Wool Over Your Own Eyes, Sham Shenanigans, Shamtastic Shamcasting, Fusebox Liner, Grindhouse Resurrection Magazine Spot 5, Fusebox Liner ID: Released From A Lab In Wuhan, Shamcasters, Shamcasting: “A Blood Bath?”, Shamcasting: Trump Media Plays Financial Footsies, Shamcasting: Holier Than Thou-Except Wh…

3:09:17 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Car detailing and inspection, Whychick Revival, Fernwood, Dabney Coleman in Buffalo Bill, Murder One, TV stories per week, Twin Peaks theory, new hard drive, Dead and Company at Sphere update, MC 900 Foot Jesus was in The Telefones, Beavis & Butthead, Megalopolis, drive cycle blues…

2:27:47 – Who could hang a name on you? RFS 300. Recorded 5/20/24 through 5/26/24. License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Shambles Constant, Falling Cow Productions – more info at onsug.com Released May 2024 on The Overnightscape …

4:10:33 – Frank in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York, plus the Other Side. Topics include: The missing blue bin, torrential downpour, car detailing, today’s adventure: Return to Crystal Run, Whychock Revival logo, Excoffon, Think I’m Going Weird, amber screen, stuck in a parking lot, lost, white corn chips, Rockaway mall, classic arcade, pinba…

30:02 – Dave in Kentucky completes the first two-parter of the SERMONS series with the story of how “Joshua fit de battle ob Jericho.” What do soldiers marching across a bridge have to do with why the walls came a-tumblin’ down? How did Rahab’s house of ill repute remain standing, since it was built into one of Jericho’s walls? Why does Ella Fitzge…

3:24:15 – Frank in NJ, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Punch card labyrinth, big blanket, power washing the porch, ladybug larvae, punch boards, Edge Shaving Cream, Wawa, IBC Root Beer, Whychock Revival, Glass Beams, Karate Boogaloo, The Richat Structure / Eye of the Sahara, Western Sahara, Atlantis, car detailing, “portal” update, the chat, a…

56:54 – Neal makes an empassioned case for the return of the sitcom theme song, considers assembling a whale stomach survival kit, provides a brief orientation for new listeners, considers parameters for a study of interchangeability of potato and chicken skins, proposes a Russian doll solution to the property crisis and discusses catcher glove ana…

58:44 – Neal looks at how dogs instintively guard agains snout detachment, how the savvy traveller uses their tailwind Time Savings, why your burner phone doesn’t make you a loser. Stephen King’s afterlude process, fun toilet cistern disposal methods, the entrhalling possibilities of 360 degree facial philosophy, a plumbing experiment of which the …

1:11:51 – Neal illustrates the Mandela Effect phenomenom using Status Quo’s discography, reevaluates Popeye, changes your mind about socks and discusses what we know about helicoptors, how elevators should work, a clever trick for locating a cordless phone with ham, why holes in food are useful, why the sausage thing last time was a bit much, defin…

1:01:51 – Neal discusses popping your Bs, the trouble with playing a zombie, how to purchase free tap water in pubs, BB Max and other nemeses, apple seed myths, the globalisation of bin day, a tip for listeners who don’t enjoy this voice, a card game nation, an entrepreneur’s guide to counting money, why Nickelodeon goes over children’s heads, the …

Join Mike in the studio late at night, where he recounts his nightmare adventure of getting his fingerprints taken for a new job, and how the great cyber hack of Birmingham’s City Hall is still going on three months later. It’s a good example of “analog horror” that the kids are all talkin’ about! Also: what is “analog horror,” and why is it everyw…

1:39:02 – Rainy spring, Doctor Who: Space Babies and The Devil’s Chord, deleted Facebook app, taking a walk around my work building, Radio Free Shambles to be replaced by a new series (for real this time), downtown Bloomington after dark, poster and comp tickets, co-worker’s retirement lunch at Outback, catchy Starburster song, a new episode #1, Le…

1:26:00 – In this Episode: Paunch boys return to the Chiller Theatre Expo in Parsippany, NJ, Hollywood Squares, Three’s Company, Dial of Destiny (2023), Priscilla (2023) and Elvis (2022) biopics, Marlon Brando vs Frank Oz during The Score (2001), Frasier reboot with Kelsey Grammer, rewatching Batman, X-Men, and Spider-Man 1990’s animated series, ba…

29:48 – Why did the Ark of the Covenant go ahead of the Israelites, when before it had traveled in their midst? Why were the people commanded to stay more than half a mile away from it as it entered the Jordan River? Were those really Levites carrying the Ark, or something else? Why did Joshua’s spies visit a prostitute in Jericho? Why are all Dave…

4:00:13 – Frank in NJ, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Early morning power failure, white noise, busy week, local election, Dead and Company at Sphere, Grateful Dead history, Revolutionary Hamstrung Blues, Whychock Revival, Fraunces font, the Chantico cups, later, watching the show, next day, paving, After Glyptography, The Evel Knievel Museum…

Fusebox 249: “SMARMALADE” 32:25 -What Side Is Your Bread Buttered On? Slathered In Buttery Goodness, A Stinkfoot Orchestra Triumphant Return, A Guilty Pleasure or 9, Fusebox Liner, Grindhouse Resurrection Magazine Spot 7 https://42ndStreetPete.net, Fusebox Liner ID:”Riding The Rails”, WTF, Florida?: More Wine!, A Grindhouse Minute: “Beast of Blood”…

2:56:56 – Frank in NJ, plus the Other Side. Topics include: VR Expo 10 years ago, Nightstation VR, still no metaverse, port, Aggro Dr1ft (2023), Conversation Pit Loco, car inspection fail, The Old Time Radio Talk, Paramus Park Mall, 7777, new Doctor Who episodes “Space Babies” and “The Devil’s Chord”, “portal” between NYC and Dublin, tripleS 24 mem…

58:54 – Walked 5.1 miles in one day, starting off the day with exercise?, acupuncture synchronicity, poster distribution, rescuing comp tickets from the wind, dizzy spell, Clown Shoes poetry and short fiction collection, aging as a positive experience, time gaps between creative endeavors, new Doctor Who episodes to watch, visited by a bumblebee, o…

30:17 – Dave in Kentucky takes an in-depth look at the first two chapters of the Book of Job, and finds not just one God, but several gods. Was Satan one of them? Was he one of the Watchers who descended to earth and spawned the Nephilim? What is Yahweh’s place in the polytheistic pantheon? Was he subordinate to any other god? If so, who? Answers a…

33:19 – He has powers and knowledge that are far beyond younger men, caught between forty and fifty-five, accruing more interest yet losing his sex drive, developing skills and a gut. RFS 297. Recorded 5/4/24 and 5/5/24. License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by…

3:11:12 – Dave in Kentucky is joined by Eddie Murray (at 53:36), Chad Bowers (at 1:36:08) and Frank Edward Nora (at 2:13:02) to state their individual cases before the court of public opinion. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, what say ye? Next month’s topics: Artificial Sweeteners, Artificial Limbs and Artificial Intelligence. Record about any or …

4:02:03 – Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Wasp ease, Nichibutsu shirt, Moon Cresta, mahjong, Twin Peaks, Repo Man 2: The Wages of Beer, A Texas Tale of Treason (2006), Starbucks Chantico cups, Coca-Cola Blak, Pepsi Kona, Crazy Climber, Frisky Tom, The Phantom Menace re-release, General Cinema, Sunset Door – I Zimbra, Whych…

3:24:24 – Peter, Frank, Jefferson, Bryan, and Briana on a Weasel adventure in Pennsylvania, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Wawa, arrival at Bryan’s, Mediterranean cuisine, Gamehendge, Manayunk, Lord of the Rings, Otherworld, Nifty Fifty’s, birch beer, credit card holograms, supermarket, dropping off Jefferson, Universal Studios Monsters Horri…

1:43:37 Join Mike in the studio late at night, where he recounts his protest-free graduation day, and also dives shallow into his first post English-degree book, “Gravity’s Rainbow” by Thomas Pynchon. Also: How I profited from my motorcycle gettin’ stole’d; paranoid dreams of secret societies; “Eyes Wide Shut” (1999); Sanford Strong g `Music Break:…

2:18:45 – Frank in New Jersey and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Art coffee hoax, Princeton street fair, 1995, cat goddess time travel hijinks, foggy, Robert Palmer, HQ Trivia, Genesis, Trash The Airport Meadow, Some Like It Hot (1959), robot lawnmowers, lunch in Brooklyn, Family Feud, Wheel of Fortune, vegan ramen, food hall, ducts, Why…

1:22:51 – Walking for exercise, Beublin A. Richardson, Doctor Who 10/10 stories, the act and art of recording, it’s been a year since I got my car, using way too much screen time, updates on my theatre involvement, emotional breakdown in March, ’70s music, walking with Mom and Gizmo, Snoop Dogg and the motorcycle gang, remembering my lines, forgett…

Fusebox 248: “SATISFRACTURE” 30:02 – PRE ROLL: That Palermo Story, Show Open, Ya Gotta Make Time, Just Bursting With Giddy Delight, Fusebox Liner, Grindhouse Resurrection Magazine Spot 6 https://42ndStreetPete.net, Fusebox Liner ID: Decisions,Decisions, Setting The Scene, The Fusebox Interview: Ray White and Nick Chargin, You’re Hired!, Show Close.…

3:14:18 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Shatter spice, pepper grinder, blue Mason jars, milk glass mugs, terra cotta phone case, cart abandonment, Aggro Dr1ft tickets, Vegemite, bread, Meow Wolf, Oracle of the Source, Quark, Kirwan Deck, creativity, Whychock Revival, poker, Hi Weird Little Highway, Peignot, WHYCHOCK 1224…

57:38 – Doc Sleaze takes another stroll down ‘Exploitation Alley’, musing about mercenaries on film, B-movies as patriarchal subjugation of women, the squalid truth about giant movie monsters and more. Plus, vaguely satirical political gibberings and more obscure movie talk. Plus, to celebrate BBC2’s sixtieth anniversary, Gerald Priestland gamely t…

30:00 – Did Moses fake his own death, or did he have help? Where did he go, and how did he reappear approximately 1200 years later at the Transfiguration of Jesus? Who was that Elias fellow that appeared with him, and how did he get there? How did Moses go 40 days and nights without eating food or drinking water when he finally retrieved a pair of …

51:22 —Join me outside for a whiskey and fine cigar in my celebration of finishing graduate school! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike US License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released April 2024 on Mike’s Bonfire and The Overnightscape Underground.By Frank Edward Nora

31:45 – The unfocused drive to be more creative, expressing myself through writing, what I don’t understand in myself, looking for a drop box, Bumper Chain Cosmic, old home movies, Somewhere in the Whoniverse, transition year, weird deja vu. RFS 295. Recorded 4/18/24. License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 U…