Best Rampler Podcasts (2025)

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The Overnightscape 2232 – Nox Arc (6/19/25) 2:52:26

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2:52:26 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Space shirts, Portable Night, delivery robots, storms, driving in Manhattan, have a good one, Din Tai Fung, another vegan restaurant closed, C86, Dig Dug New Frontier, post-modern architecture, The Picture of Dorian Gray on Broadway, Nox Arc, swamp green, weird heavy energy, World …

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The Overnightscape 2231 – Barrier Funk (6/16/25) 3:20:20

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3:20:20 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: End of an action oriented video game series, a wild Saturday, Andy Kaufman Lives, mug synchronicity, Chromebook shopping, finally unlocked Mirror Mode in Mario Kart World, The Rampler, interestingness, Mexico dream, train dream, Mazenweed, saw The Kills at White Eagle Hall in Jerse…

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The Midnight Citizen 292: “Live and Mercy” 2:05:00

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Join Mike in the studio late (and LIVE!) on a stormy Saturday night… Tonight, on the eve of Fathers’ Day, and in the absence of having kids of my own, I pass onto you some sage advice handed down to me by my dad…or maybe it was the funny coach from Teen Wolf: “Never get less than 12 hours sleep… never play cards with a guy who has the same first na…

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The Overnightscape 2230 – The Ultimate Road Forever (6/12/25) 2:13:51

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2:13:51 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Lucky Numbers, Cosmic Wimpout, The Little Rascals, Fonnjo Foon, Flea Devil Solitaire, Mario Kart World, 2002, sample sale, cat wheel training, Paul McCartney interviews dream, John Junkin, Dig It, The Beatles – Winston, Richard And John (1969 outtake), The Big Broadcast, AI listeni…

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Overnightscape Central – The Scientific, the Unscientific and the Pseudoscientific (6/11/25) 4:04:44

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4:04:44 – Dave in Kentucky is joined by Randy from California (at 22:43), Chad Bowers (at 38:26), Eddie Murray (at 1:53:15), Mike Boody (at 2:41:08), and Frank Edward Nora (at 3:11:46) for an oblong-table discussion of all things scientific, unscientific and/or pseudoscientific. (Didn’t have room for six around the roundtable.) Next month’s topics:…

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The Overnightscape 2229 – New Cover Concept (6/10/25) 3:00:41

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3:00:41 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: False alarms, drill, inch cigar, the ancient incense, rolltop desk and nosering shopping dream, chipmunks, lapis lazuli, New Cover Concept, car alarm, soap opera effect, helicopter, Here in Heck relinked, “fine water”, Modelo Chelada Especial, Tori Amos on Rick and Morty, feud, rio…

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The Midnight Citizen 291: “Millennial Falcon” 1:56:06

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1:56:06 —Join Mike in the studio late on a Saturday night. Tonight, I’m wondering why my generation has gotten such a bad rap for so long. Is it really just our love for Avocado toast, or something much deeper? Maybe we’re all looked down on because all the 80s and 90s pop culture we’re so nostalgic for was kind of vapid and banal, or it’s simply t…

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The Overnightscape 2228 – Airport Comfort (6/5/25) 2:40:25

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2:40:25 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Nintendo Switch 2 release day, Mario Kart World, my Nintendo history, Howard Johnson’s, Donkey Kong, location scout update, intrusions of fiction, garbage pickers update, Rainbow Road, realness, sports, The Mets, scotch, old days of podcasting, Airport Comfort, protesting, phone se…

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Fusebox 267: “Mood Poison” (6/4/25) 30:51

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Fusebox 267: “MOOD POISON” 30:51 – Show Open Vinylized! :: Clean Up on Aisle 4 :: A Simpler Time? :: The Vinyl Rant :: It Can’t Really Last :: Fusebox Liner :: Grindhouse Resurrection Magazine Spot 7 :: Fusebox Liner ID :: Have You Heard The Good News? :: Bonus Added Feature Of Extra Added-Ness :: A Grindhouse Minute: “The Losers” (1970) :: Show Cl…

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The Overnightscape 2227 – Phantom Ragtag – Ivory Raygun (6/3/25) 2:24:12

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2:24:12 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Powerwashing debacle, noise pollution, pollen, ice, show derailed by film location scout, nursing, The Exit Ramp #63 – Cloakings Amuse, Doctor Who – “The Reality War”, The Florida Keys, new book cover ideas, the campfire, Supervan (1977), Tape Land 184 – ONS “Fails” 2012, Occupy Wa…

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The Exit Ramp #63 – Cloakings Amuse (6/1/25) 4:49:44

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4:49:44 – 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 Michael Feir from Canada, Jefferson from Philadelphia, Chad from Chadcast, Ann from Suffern, NY, Jan E…

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The Midnight Citizen 290: “Bully for Kilroy!” 1:47:57

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Join Mike in the studio late at night. Tonight, a real experimental episode as we cross over into June, and I do my first live show in over 2 years! Of course, you’re downloading it, but still… Witness the drama as I attempt to engineer a livestream while clumsily monologuing about bullies, 90s self-help videos for kids hosted by Kareem Abdul-Jabba…

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Tape Land 184 – ONS “Fails” 2012 (March–August 2012) [released 5/31/25] 3:35:32

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3:35:32 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic material from my personal archives. Here’s a collection of “failed” segments recorded for my show The Overnightscape in 2012, which I decided at the time to set aside and not release. In some cases, as I recall, I was just not feeling it, and figu…

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Doc Sleaze: Is Your Neighbour a Witch? (5/30/25) 56:17

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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…

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The Overnightscape 2226 – Basic Programming (5/29/25) 2:27:47

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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, …

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Early Jazz & Blues #3 – Bessie Smith, First Sessions, 1923 (5/28/25) 46:06

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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…

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The Overnightscape 2225 – The Grand Ragtag Line – Rolling Happenstance (5/27/25) 3:00:33

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3:00:33 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: New Stereolab album Instant Holograms on Metal Film, AI 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…

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Doc Sleaze: Fear and Loathing at the Supermarket (5/26/25) 46:04

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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…

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The Midnight Citizen 289: “Palindrome Days” 1:28:52

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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…

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The Overnightscape 2224 – Amazeballs Muckamuck Drifter (5/22/25) 2:16:32

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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 …

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The Overnightscape 2223 – Maison Pioneiro as MacGuffin (5/20/25) 3:38:13

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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…

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The Overnightscape 2222 – 2222 (5/15/25) 2:09:57

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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-…

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The Overnightscape 2221 – Dastardo (5/13/25) 3:10:49

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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…

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The Midnight Citizen 288: “Tetraphobia” 1:07:17

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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…

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Overnightscape Central – Simulation, Speculation & Revelation (5/10/25) 2:48:04

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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…

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The Overnightscape 2220 – Behind the Rocks (5/8/25) 2:56:15

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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…

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Fusebox 266: “Orange Lies Matter” (5/7/25) 25:46

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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…

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The Overnightscape 2219 – Vagabond Submersibles (5/6/25) 3:07:57

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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…

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The Midnight Citizen 287: “Night Shift Intellectual” 1:04:25

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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…

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The Overnightscape 2218 – Mondomensional (5/2/25) 4:32:45

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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…

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Doc Sleaze: It Definitely Didn’t Happen to Me! (4/30/25) 57:20

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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 …

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The Overnightscape 2217 – The Battle Computer Is Engaging Warp Engines (4/29/25) 2:32:19

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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,…

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The Exit Ramp #62 – Gambol Omnium (4/27/25) 4:13:05

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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, …

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Tape Land 183 – Hemisinister Review from OsoaWeek (1994–2002) [released 4/27/25] 3:30:55

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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…

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Nothing is Real #2 (4/26/25) 39:36

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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…

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The Overnightscape 2216 – Remember (4/24/25) 3:07:26

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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…

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The Overnightscape 2215 – Sylph (4/22/25) 2:53:52

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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…

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The Midnight Citizen 286: “The Margaritaville HOA” 1:38:33

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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 …

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Early Jazz & Blues – Bix & the Wolverines, Indiana Sessions, 1924 (4/19/25) 36:15

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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…

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The Overnightscape 2214 – Mazenweed II (4/17/25) 2:37:47

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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)…

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The Overnightscape 2213 – Mazenweed (4/15/25) 2:28:09

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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…

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The Midnight Citizen 285: “Microwave Epiphany” 1:29:59

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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…

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Overnightscape Central – Leftovers, Stopovers & Hangovers (4/11/25) 2:10:12

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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…

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The Overnightscape 2212 – Station Unlimited (4/10/25) 2:49:06

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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…

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The Overnightscape 2211 – Ye Olde Gift Shoppe (4/8/25) 2:33:21

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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…

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The Midnight Citizen 284: “Christy, the Night Manager” 1:30:09

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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…

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The Overnightscape 2210 – Laser Hinterland, The major junkway plain. (4/3/25) 4:18:46

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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…

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Fusebox 265: “Good Trouble” (4/2/25) 30:37

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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 …

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Doc Sleaze: Psycho Nation (3/31/25) 48:05

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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…

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The Overnightscape 2209 – Weasels Our Tour (3/29/25) 5:20:17

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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 …