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The Exit Ramp #63 – Cloakings Amuse (6/1/25)

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2025 289:44


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 Erik from Norway, Becky from Bi-Coastal Becky, Doc […]

The Midnight Citizen 290: “Bully for Kilroy!”

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2025 107:57


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 […]

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

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2025 215:32


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 […]

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

Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2025 56:17


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, wild […]

The Overnightscape 2226 – Basic Programming (5/29/25)

Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2025 147:47


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, […]

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

Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2025 46:06


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 […]

The Overnightscape 2225 – The Grand Ragtag Line – Rolling Happenstance (5/27/25)

Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2025 180:33


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 […]

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

Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2025 46:04


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 […]

The Midnight Citizen 289: “Palindrome Days”

Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2025 88:52


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 […]

The Overnightscape 2224 – Amazeballs Muckamuck Drifter (5/22/25)

Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2025 136:32


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 The Past, Steely Dan, Muppets executive David Lazer dead at 89,return […]

The Overnightscape 2223 – Maison Pioneiro as MacGuffin (5/20/25)

Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2025 218:13


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 Show, […]

The Overnightscape 2222 – 2222 (5/15/25)

Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2025 129:57


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, […]

The Overnightscape 2221 – Dastardo (5/13/25)

Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2025 190:49


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 […]

The Midnight Citizen 288: “Tetraphobia”

Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2025 67:17


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 […]

Overnightscape Central – Simulation, Speculation & Revelation (5/10/25)

Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2025 168:04


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 […]

The Overnightscape 2220 – Behind the Rocks (5/8/25)

Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2025 176:15


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, Andor, Darth Vader, Ardnahoe Distillery, […]

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

Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2025 25:46


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” […]

The Overnightscape 2219 – Vagabond Submersibles (5/6/25)

Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2025 187:57


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 compilation: The Clinger Sisters – Havin’ A Good […]

The Midnight Citizen 287: “Night Shift Intellectual”

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2025 64:25


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 […]

The Overnightscape 2218 – Mondomensional (5/2/25)

Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2025 272:45


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, Anti-Barney, cinema rides, […]

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

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2025 57:20


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, […]

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

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2025 152:19


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, Llamasoft “I, Robot”, screensavers, […]

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

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2025 253:05


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, Doc Sleaze from his various shows, Nate […]

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

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2025 210:55


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 I […]

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Nothing is Real #2 (4/26/25)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2025 39:36


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 Victorian […]

The Overnightscape 2216 – Remember (4/24/25)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2025 187:26


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 No […]

The Overnightscape 2215 – Sylph (4/22/25)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2025 173:52


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, Phish, Qatar malls, […]

The Midnight Citizen 286: “The Margaritaville HOA”

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2025 98:33


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 […]

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

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2025 36:15


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-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 […]

The Overnightscape 2214 – Mazenweed II (4/17/25)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2025 157:47


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. […]

The Overnightscape 2213 – Mazenweed (4/15/25)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2025 148:09


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 Thomas Pynchon […]

The Midnight Citizen 285: “Microwave Epiphany”

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2025 89:59


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 […]

Overnightscape Central – Leftovers, Stopovers & Hangovers (4/11/25)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2025 130:12


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 […]

The Overnightscape 2212 – Station Unlimited (4/10/25)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2025 169:06


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 perception, editing of reality, Florida survey, […]

The Overnightscape 2211 – Ye Olde Gift Shoppe (4/8/25)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2025 153:21


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 […]

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

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2025 90:09


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

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2025 258:46


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 stairwell […]

Fusebox 265: “Good Trouble” (4/2/25)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2025 30:37


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 […]

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

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2025 48:05


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 […]

The Overnightscape 2209 – Weasels Our Tour (3/29/25)

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2025 320:17


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 Museum, The Ark of the Covenant, Moxie, Pinball […]

The Midnight Citizen 283: “The Past Can Be So Hostile”

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2025 89:41


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 […]

Tape Land 182 – Bluffcosm Jam (March 28–April 1, 2001) [released 3/28/25]

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2025 93:33


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 the corner of West Broadway […]

The Overnightscape 2208 – 22nd (3/27/25)

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2025 146:34


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 at […]

The Overnightscape 2207 – Ballyhoo Ark (3/25/25)

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2025 199:36


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), expired raviolis?, Severance, Dungeon Crawler […]

The Exit Ramp #61 – Photon Clouseau (3/23/25)

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2025 277:11


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 Philadelphia, Ann from Suffern, NY, Jan Erik […]

Into Your Head – Show 846: Not Too Many Ems On The Outside (3/19/25)

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2025 60:26


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 […]

Into Your Head – Show 845: Boogeyman's Grand Day Out (3/6/25)

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2025 43:27


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 school […]

Into Your Head – Show 844: Navigating Self Facing Voodoo Doll Feedback Loops (2/25/25)

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2025 57:17


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 […]

Into Your Head – Show 843: Your Own Personal Ice Age (2/12/25)

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2025 58:39


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 […]

The Midnight Citizen 282: “Memory Farm”

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2025 107:04


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 […]

The Overnightscape 2206 – Speakeasy Illusions (3/20/25)

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2025 191:18


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 Conversation (1974), Shields and Yarnell, The Mexican Hovercraft, […]

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