56:17- Another edition of the best podcast you’ve never bothered listening to! This time around you’ll be missing some ruminations on circuses without animals, unnecessary movie remakes and the madness of King Trump. You’ll also miss Doc Sleaze’s musings on when a hermit becomes a recluse, some hauntingly insane exploitation films and the wild, wil…

2:27:47 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Places I’ve lived, Martians landed, Billy Murray songs on the Other Side, Basic Programming, The Girl With No Name cigar, Mission Hill, TV Dinners, iPod games, Palm OS games, Asteria, Cosmic Wimpout, David Lynch auction, Twin Peaks, High 5 Casino, lost video games, Portugal dream, …

46:05 – Bessie Smith’s first five recording sessions for Columbia Records, which made her a star and got her dubbed the Empress of the Blues. These sessions cover the first half of 1923, and also feature (at the piano) Clarence Williams on the first two sessions and Fletcher Henderson on the latter three. This show is licensed under a Creative Comm…

3:00:33 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: New Stereolab album Instant Holograms on Metal Film, AU art discomfort, going down to the Jersey Shore for Memorial Day Weekend, Atom Heart Mother by Pink Floyd, lawn care, Take Me Away by Blue Oyster Cult, PEPs (supermarket, house color), TV stuff, chills, A.I. Artificial Intellig…

46:04 – Another dose of nonsense from Doc Sleaze who, this time around, looks at the frustrations of being a journalist on a right-wing newspaper when your idols are in power, but deeply unpopular. Also, who has the biggest ‘rocket’ with which to blast women into space? Plus, an investigation into the decline of the Great British Bank Holiday, fear…

Join Mike in the studio late at night. After fighting a long, drawn-out battle to some stubborn window blinds, I give in and just get on with the show. Starting with listener comments about their absolute worst job interviews. Then an update on my continuing job hunt gets me thinking about how my lifestyle lately is fitting for these palindrome day…

2:16:32 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: All screwdrivers vanished, TV set, theory of messes, toothpaste, animal language, Anthony Newley, printing technology, Completely Random Memories (M’Lady’s, Azerbaijan, Melampo, Marbles The Brain Store, Mission Hill), PlayStation Underground, Stereolab event, Portlandia, Crap From …

3:38:13 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Bike trip livestream, wandering around stores, LOONA, VR trip 11 years ago, Nightstation VR, metaverses, Cyberpunk 2077, HDR, Clack Market cigar, Fortnite, Darth Vader, The Great Gatsby, rules from the past, Menlo Park Mall brawl, Person of Interest, The Unknown Comic, The Gong Sho…

2:09:57 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Hotel implosion, new computer games, Pinball FX, Doom: The Dark Ages, Andor, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), 2222, palindromes, Space Duel, tech levels, HBO Max, Spike TV, The Comedy Channel, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:29:01)… coccyx by jaffar [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-…

3:10:49 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Banana freakout, pothole repair, new gaming laptop (Asus Rog Strix Scar 18 (2025)), Pinball FX, Cyberpunk 2077, Google Stadia, PQ update, American Dream mall, Coin Pusher Casino, Dastardo, Bandersnatch, and so it begins… AI movies, the real world, and much more… plus the Other Side…

Join Mike back in the studio on a Saturday night. This week: some audience participation! What was your worst job interview ever? For me, it was that time I got detained for peddling coupon books in a federal building. I should’ve done more to heed the number 4, a bad sign for good fortune. The interviews lately haven’t been that bad on my most rec…

2:48:03 – Dave in Kentucky reviews the 1973 West German TV miniseries World on a Wire and the 1999 American movie The Thirteenth Floor, as well as the 1964 novel on which they were both based, Simulacron-3 (a.k.a. Counterfeit World), after which he is joined by his wife Luna in Kentucky (at 28:30) for her comments on the Chinese edition of Simulacr…

2:56:15 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Umbrella, new pope, Switch 2 pre-order, Moog Messenger, Flea Devil updates, ghost kitchens, Mister Agave utensils, The Prisoner Puzzle with Patrick McGoohan, Pope Leo XIV, new laptop, Behind the Rocks, Zope, wannabe polymath, creativity, Pixies, Laphroaig Cairdeas on the rocks, And…

Fusebox 266: “ORANGE LIES MATTER” 25:45 – COLD OPEN: “Toothpaste Tariff” :: Show Open :: Have A Nice Trip :: Orange Lies Matter :: Mad As Hell! :: Iowa Wants Answers! :: Fusebox Liner :: Grindhouse Resurrection Magazine Spot 3 :: Don’t Be That Guy: “The Jargon Jerk” :: Fusebox Liner ID: “Golfing In Greenland” :: Tariff Troubles :: An Open Letter To…

3:07:57 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Temp mailman, robots, talk about dandelion, sow thistle, TV, I appeared The Pep Talk podcast about Andy Kaufman, disheartening cosmic bureaucracies, professional wrestling, K-Pop, epiphanies, supernatural information, nice surprises, The Great Gatsby, Megatouch Maxx Crown, new comp…

Join Mike on a rainy night in the suburbs of Birmingham, AL, as he sits in his parents’ garage, freshly unemployed, and ponders the next big move. Really, instead of making any definite decisions, I get hung up on spotting “The Club” security bar on the steering wheel of somebody’s late model POS in a Walgreens parking lot — probably the first time…

4:32:45 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Expensive animal figurines, ants, Las Vegas, vegan options, Carlos & Albert, door to door salesman, an experiment in niceness, mobygratis, Crazy Taxi shirt, Slipstream: Blue Hour, OutRun, spider rescue mission, video game expansion dream, Mall of America ’94, Pogs ,wrong number, An…

57:20 – By decree of Donald J Trumper, this is a politics free edition. Well, maybe. This time around, Doc Sleaze’s natural scepticism is put to the test as he ponders as to why he has never been invited to join the local coven and why weird phenomena never happen to him, either. Also included, an excursion into classic British smut and the sexual …

2:32:19 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: New Lyndhurst train station, 9/11, new Japanese Dr Pepper shirt, Tape Land 183 – Hemisinister Review from OsoaWeek (1994–2002), Permanent Daylight Saving Time, Pet Gravity Speedy Sprint Ball, Jonas Brothers, Andor, Doctor Who, The Battle Computer Is Engaging Warp Engines, Sinistar,…

4:13:05 – 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, Jan Erik from Norway, Ann from Suffern, NY, Joe Gipson from Comicversal, …

3:30:55 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic material from my personal archives. Hemisinister Review from OsoaWeek, by Frank Edward Nora, 1994–2002, recorded 4/26/25 Before Onsug Radio, my main creative outlet was OsoaWeek, “the weekly ezine of Obliviana Super Occult Amusement (Osoa)”, which…

39:36 – Another of our occasional series created with AI tools, this time presenting ‘Ghost Talk’, a chat show about ghosts, apparitions and hauntings where several guest experts discuss a selection of supernatural stories culled from my site The Sleaze. Jules Bidet introduces Dr Keith Uppock discussing the reign of terror of a resurrected Victoria…

3:07:26 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Living in a cyberpunk city, no new Andy Kaufman Press Conference, Chewy delivery, recycling, unnecessary quotes, Google Buzz, Flea Devil – Minus, Plus, Crack of Dawn update, wildfires in NJ, Woven City, EPCOT, Bubb Rubb, YTMND, Million Dollar Homepage, new Hawkwind album There Is N…

2:53:52 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Simulated house, grappling hooks, Earth Day, Ecology Flag lunch box, a new Andy Kaufman Press Conference?, supernatural experiences, Life and Trust (immersive theater production) abruptly closes, Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, Pope Francis dead at 88, Epic Universe, Blue Prince, P…

Join Mike in the studio for another late night ramble. Tonight, we explore life after the rat race in Margaritaville, FLA, where a flock of 55-and-up Parrot Heads and coastal grandmothers are wastin’ away in an oasis by the sea. Also, Katy Perry and Gayle King go to space, and to all our chagrin, come back; meanwhile, back on Earth, I pay my taxes …

36:14 – More public domain jazz & blues from 100+ years ago. This episode features the first three recording sessions by Bix Beiderbecke and the Wolverine Orchestra (aka the Wolverines), which took place in February, May and June of 1924 at Gennett Records in Richmond, Indiana. This show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercia…

2:37:47 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: The Holly and the Ivy, independent presidential candidate John Anderson, Phish Spring Tour, Mario Kart World Direct, video games, Steam, Flea Devil – Minus, Wink Martindale dead at 91, Tic Tac Dough, Xtreme Wisp E, WYNK Seltzer + THC, Gargoyles (1972), The Mind of Mr. Soames (1970)…

2:28:09 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Mazenweed, vans, the urge to innovate, Mercury Retrograde, Andy Kaufman’s upcoming “Great Friday” announcement, I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, lost dog?, Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, Fieldwork Brewing Hop Water, Black Mirror – Season 7, power outage, upcoming new Th…

Join Mike in the studio for another late night ramble. Tonight, it’s all about looking for a new business to get into, like maybe buyin’ a drone and selling my services as a “droneprenuer”. It seems to work for all those folks on Youtube infomercials, and as far as shady enterprise goes, it’s really no more sketchy than any other classified ad on L…

2:10:11 – Dave in Kentucky is joined by Eddie Murray (at 24:33), Chad Bowers (at 1:00:02) and Frank Edward Nora (at 1:35:01) for a discussion of leftovers, stopovers and hangovers as well as other topics, both related and unrelated. Next month’s topics: Simulation, Speculation & Revelation. Record about one, two or all three of these and send audio…

2:49:06 – Frank in NYC and New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Bryant Park, Goethe, polymath, outdoor seating, Eataly Caffè, mystery pencil case, Sarasa Grand Vintage pens, Station Unlimited, Calling All Listeners (12/6/09), Flea Devil, Black Mirror, red balloon, Blue Prince, Person of Interest (2011–2016), PEPs, science, edge of perce…

2:33:21 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Essex Film Club, Fatty Arbuckle, bird, stocks up, new Stereolab album “Instant Holograms On Metal Film”, still waiting for…, Sour Milk Sea, new Tortoise single, sketch comedy TV shows (Aunty Donna’s Big Ol’ House of Fun, I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, The Fast Show, MA…

Join Mike in the studio late at night for a free-flowing ramble. On this episode, he recounts the Friday night scramble of his first job — racing to close down the dollar theater lobby in time to make it to the video store before they locked the gates. Thankfully, Christy, the night manager, would keep the lights on just a little longer, giving ris…

4:18:46 – Frank in New Jersey and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: 3,000 weeks old, next day, “Liberation Day”, filibustering, Val Kilmer dead at 65, dental work, litter, NaNoWriMo shutting down, new Flea Devil rule – Zilch, Street Road, more Ark synchronicities, Oaks in symbolic context, San Junipero, vegan Indian food lunch in the stairw…

Fusebox 265: “GOOD TROUBLE” 25:53 – COLD OPEN “John Lewis Good Trouble”:: Show Open :: Listen, Smell That? :: Making “Good Trouble” :: Hands Off! Protests :: Fusebox Liner :: Grindhouse Resurrection Magazine Spot 8 :: Fusebox Liner ID :: The Voices Rise Red And Blue :: “The Minotaur In The Whitehouse” Written And Narrated By Jodi Lorimer :: Who Am …

48:05 – As a new age of American fascism dawns, Doc Sleaze explores his theory that the US elected a psychopathic fascist as president because they are a nation of psychopaths. The Doc also gives short shrift to media attempts to rationalise the chaos of the Trump administration, lectures the UK press on its inability to grasp the principles of dem…

5:20:17 – The Three Weasels (Frank, Peter, and Bryan, plus honorary Weasel Brianna) in Pennsylvania, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Arrived at Bryan’s in Pennsylvania, Frank’s 7-11 shirt, ammonia, Coke, vegan restaurant, dimensions, discussion of polarized light, apostrophes, lost items, Hung Vuong Food Market, durian, American Treasure Tour …

Join Mike in the studio late at night, where he recounts how he visited a place from his distant childhood this week — the atrium lobby of his dad’s old office building from the 80’s. Not having been there in nearly 40 years, he was prepared to receive nothing but warm, nostalgic vibes, but instead suffered the wrath of a hangry woman in scrubs. La…

1:33:33 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic material from my personal archives. Notes: 3/28/01, train arrives, beggar, conversations in the basement, George, superskunk, SATs, Fuzzy Daupner, Blufftoons, Snow White, Cooper, George’s Bluffcosm Promo, construction noises, subway, 3/29/01, at t…

2:26:34 – Frank in New Jersey and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: 22nd anniversary of The Overnightscape, show history, numerology, Penny Farthing, Stoic 2, The Dark Yellow Radio, The Sidetrack, expensive vegan bagel to celebrate, Bryant Park, C D B! by William Steig (1968), quantum random numbers, Wi-Fi light bulbs, Indian lunch, sitting…

3:19:36 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Vague indoor theme parks, virtual reality games, polarized light, street sweeper, Nightstation, The World of Sid and Marty Krofft indoor amusement park, Ballyhoo Ark, World on a Wire (1973), Laurie Anderson, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980), Kamikaze 89 (1982)…

4:37:11 – 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 Dave in Kentucky from his various shows, Chad from Chadcast, Michael Feir from Canada, Jefferson from …

1:00:26 – Neal EXPOSES how motorists are disappearing in a secret holding pattern, MAKES the case for appetisers for a better drip feed regime, EXPLAINS how things that skip generations are never lost, SHOWS how statues of rubber things can demolish boundaries, DEVELOPS a new folding building bricklaying technique in real time, RECALLS a decade wat…

43:27 – Neal offers fresh advice to parents on handling the Boogeyman. explains our primitave plateware to far future listeners, wonders why nobody talks about obelixes, argues against walking to school and discussea the wrong way to arrive at your new school, liquid desserts for visiting dignitaries, growing wheat in city streets, a disappointing …

57:17 – Neal reveals how ducks prevented him settling in the US, uncovers your treadmill cat’s OCD hell, closes in on the surprising identity of the oligarchs of knitting, offers practical advice on self facing voodoo doll feedback loops for your active retirement, remembers The Onion print edition and discusses the sick, sick world of wireless ear…

58:39 – In a packed hour, Neal discusses work life balance in the American Wild West, making Spielberg’s Duel (1971) on an even lower budget, unexplained generational gaps in the wasp community, a simple device that could inadvertently cause you to speak in tongues, why we celebrate cistern noises, vomiting for the privileged, a one size fits all a…

Join Mike back in the studio late at night, where he goes for a long memory jog trying to remember what that Disney movie “The Shaggy DA” was about. He could just Google it, but doesn’t want to farm out his memory to the phone. It’s something we should all resist. Later, I ask if there’s a statute of limitations on synchronicity. I wonder this as I…

3:11:18 – Frank in New Jersey and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Storage area, Internet service, Dracula parodies, Antarctic situation, common courtesy, DAK catalog 1985, Spectravideo, Spectron (1983), confusion, reality filters, Severance, Grand Central Madison, HBO Comedy Half-Hour, cults, The Hugh Food Hall, Olipop Vintage Cola, The C…

50:00 – Doc Sleaze welcomes you back on board the ‘Schlock Express’ for some ‘Cannibal Capers’. This time around we explore the bizarre world of the Italian cannibal movie, including a softcore/cannibal crossover, before taking a look at some foreign attempts to cash in on this most Italian of exploitation genres, including an entry that draws on t…

2:56:15 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Crappy robots, noise pollution, “I hear ya”, The Electric State (2025), Surrogates (2009), Megalopolis (2014), The Dead Milkmen, Creative Commons, Legends of Indie Comics – Words Only, Palatino, cults, luxury cribbage board, expired pierogies, Early Jazz & Blues #1, SITFUSO Compend…