The Overnightscape Underground

2:18:40 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: New Year’s Eve Eve, cleaning up the studio, Shindig! Magazine, Phish at MSG, Dream Wheel, Gulliver’s Gate, economics, Weird October Dreamer, Video Loaf, December, Groovy Walking Rover, 209, 1423, Tokyo video, Chongqing Night Walk, Shenzhen video, Buckaroo Banzai review, Onsug Radio Shuffle Mode segment, lost […]

1:21:06 – Continuing the experiment of random Onsug listening! Taken from the complete Onsug archive of nearly 16,000 hours, here are 22 random 3.5 minute clips! It’s another good one, enjoy the deep dive into the mysterious / mundane! Ref: 142-18, 541-01, 102-33, 111-051, 959-03, 116-53, 133-24, 139-04, 410-54, 990-38, 942-25, 911-30, 981-22, 811-003, 910-05, 140-02, […]

2:04:53 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: New chandelier, dimmer switch, ice buying, lottery, Bronson Pinchot, another Canadian time travel show (Odyssey 5), clear birch beer vs. root beer, Buckaroo Banzai, Screaming Yellow Zonkers, holiday celebrations, dreams, Travel Gluer, Money Pull Gift Boxes, time echoes, “massive” snowstorm, HENGE, Strawberry Alarm Clock shirt, […]

1:20:55 – PriorCaster, by Bob LeMent of Static Radio and Morning Commute, seeks to document the people who were the pioneers of audio on the internet. The Paunch Stevenson Show was born from two friends having fun recording silly bits that they dreamed up onto an old boom box. Rob and Greg, two lifelong friends […]

1:17:32 – Birmingham Pizza of the Sea Review – Holiday Edition – with Chad Bowers and Mike Boody. License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Chad Bowers – more info at titfos.tumblr.com or onsug.com.

2:58:09 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: The Larry Sanders Show, the 1990s, dreams for the future, new forms of entertainment, hipsters, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984), the sequel, Brett Butler, Dark Side of Comedy, oil change, Party City at Staples, balloons, 15 Minutes Ago In The […]

52:27 – It’s one hundred and out for Doc Sleaze as this incarnation of the show draws to a close. But we’re going out with an edition packed full of festive fun as the Doc searches for that elusive spirit of the season, investigates whether Santa is about to be banned from the US and […]

1:17:27 – Continuing the experiment of random Onsug listening! Taken from the complete Onsug archive of nearly 16,000 hours, here are 22 random 3.5 minute clips! It’s another great selection! Enjoy!! Ref: 102-37, 751-029, 221-12, 995-08, 920-01, 1013-21, 305-37, 123-18, 139-23, 115-73, 232-23, 223-1, 912-15, 233-100, 997-16, 910-08, 112-46, 222-12, 971-11, 950-33, 721-23, 602-38. License for […]

2:14:56 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Best Guess Live, Glitch: The Rise & Fall of HQ Trivia (2023), Vine, Not Ready for the Junkyard, The Bugaloos, The Krofft Supershow, Kaptain Kool and the Kongs, The Clinger Sisters: The First All Girl Rock & Roll Band, Bearcats! (1971), health concerns, L.A. […]

1:40:48 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Celebrities at a quarry, Captain Marvel, cool flea market, cruise ship, dark spirits, presidential video at a park back in time, light rail weirdness, snow, a mall and two hotels in Las Vegas, dangerous elevator, The Partridge Family’s store, Mrs. Partridge told me off, dangerous […]

2:48:24 – Three listener-recorded airchecks from December 1938, recorded off the air from WHBI (Hoyt Brothers Incorporated) in Newark, New Jersey, 1250 on the AM dial. By this time, Father Coughlin’s radio program, at one point a weekly live broadcast on CBS, had been reduced to purchasing airtime on individual stations. Note that the show […]

1:31:43 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Unidentified loud noise, amber Mason jars too big, new coins for the “Semiquincentennial”, health concerns, Mercury Dime, Journeyman (2007), the golden age of time travel TV shows, Ramble Flunk, luxury condos, Jimmi Simpson, Kevin McKidd, Ancient Rome, Pseudolus by Plautus, Latin, and much more… plus […]

3:38:17 – Dave in Kentucky is joined by Eddie Murray (at 46:41), Chad Bowers (at 1:20:39), Mike Boody (at 2:35:47) and Frank Edward Nora (at 3:00:01) for an in-depth discussion about the things that annoy us, amuse us and amaze us. Next month's topics: The Automatic, the Enigmatic & the Systematic. Record about one, two or […]

52:28 – Doc Sleaze demonstrates the truth of the old tech adage ‘Garbage in, Garbage Out’ with this broadcast. We ask, is the Anti-Christ near, or is he already here and senile? Are you on the ‘Hate Express’ and think that even modern psychos are too ‘politically correct’? All these questions might be answered. Or […]

1:50:02 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: The Nightstation Room idea, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Onsug Radio Shuffle Mode, synchronicities, Unplugged: A Board Game Cafe, Brian Auger and the Trinity with Julie Driscoll, The Incredible String Band, Lawn Club, Barcade FiDi, Game Beat, Absolutely Rose Street (1994), TV Guide, Under the […]

4:04:30 – It’s a special edition experiment! Instead of the usual 22 clips, this time we’re doing 70, without the computer voice introducing each clip. Also, the audio is a lo-fi mono, similar to old AM radio, which stimulates the mind differently. I listened to the whole four hours, and it’s quite a trip! License for […]

1:13:38 – Continuing the experiment of random Onsug listening! Taken from the complete Onsug archive of nearly 16,000 hours, here are 22 random 3.5 minute clips! Somehow, there’s one repeat clip from last episode, which seems incredibly unlikely, but is still within the realm of possibility. Also, there’s an unbelievable synchronicity, from my most recent episode […]

2:52:24 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: 80s gift shop, ancient supermarkets, ancient drug stores, reincarnation, world questions, Venture (Exidy, 1981), dreamlike/liminal games on ColecoVision, Fax (Exidy, 1983), little boxes with fantasy art (company may be called “Plactory”), What Child Is This, religion, Deep Drape, Mean Estate, Ramp’n’patch, the Christmas deer, Fire […]

Fusebox 273: “MERRY CRAPMUS” 30:23 – Cold Open :: Jingle Hell :: Coughing Up Lungs :: Another End Of The Year Clip Show :: Live From Suicide Salley's :: From FSBX 267: Vinyl Vexations :: From FSBX 263 Hot Wired Mice :: From FSBX 262 More About Elevenses :: From FSBX 264 Some Political Musings […]

2:03:18 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Things are a bit discombobulated at the moment, new dishwasher, table lost in mail, building the console, Dopapod, appliance madness, doing the dishes by hand, Todoist, Hobosesh, Onsug Radio Shuffle Mode, building the table, finagle the wires, Wholier – Multi for Plant-Based People, Contac Cold […]

1:40:35 – It's the 20th Anniversary Episode!!!: some early Paunch memories, sequels to Airheads (1994) and The Running Man (1987), whatever happened to butt fumbler Mark Sanchez?, Tom Cruise looking like Norm MacDonald, Al Pacino as “Foghorn Leghorn” in Scent of a Woman (1992), Martin Kove bites Cobra Kai co-star, meeting Weird Paul Petrovsky and Mr. T at conventions, Spaceballs 2 on the horizon, the […]

1:17:01 – Continuing the experiment of random Onsug listening! Taken from the complete Onsug archive of nearly 16,000 hours, here are 22 random 3.5 minute clips! Did you know, given the size of the archive, we could do over 12,000 episodes like this without ever repeating a clip! Ref: 761-20, 772-32, 702-14, 914-44, 703-58, 912-29, 999-01, […]

46:21 – The Pan Dimensional Poop Chute – it’s a revolution in waste disposal! Just dump your effluent in Narnia! Doc Sleaze explores this and other technological innovations, such as the joy of seX, brought to you by Elon Musk. Plus, is heaven too woke? Creating the illusion of politics for the extremists. The truth […]

1:32:54 – Super Trance – In My Dreams Forever (Ozan Yarman (Ph.D), Attribution NC ND 3.0), Let It Flow (Frenchie, Attribution NC SA 3.0), Money (Pink Floyd cover) (ktfu, Attribution NC SA 3.0), Insert 2 Coins (Captive Portal, Attribution NC SA 3.0), Je Swinga (Elvii Marten, Attribution NC SA 4.0 International), Movie Trailer – Batman […]

1:25:12 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Hot sauce and vitamins lost in the mail, Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, vegan meal, Flip 7, office light, Trailer Park, Clint Eagar “Abstracts” postmodern prints, The Beatles Anthology, Morristown Pinball Wizard, Surf’s Up, building furniture, fiber optics, Jack White, and much more… plus the […]

2:09:18 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008-2009), decades, new TV, Onsug personality Peter Bernard passed away last month, 209, The Midnight Citizen concludes with episode 300, Dopapod, Amarok by Mike Oldfield (1990), endings, the dripping faucet, next day, Are We Not Drawn Onward To New Era, […]

1:51:45 — Join Mike in the studio for the last time…maybe? After 15 years and 300 shows, it all ends tonight. Bring out your drink of choice and make a toast with me as I say goodbye to this weird, wonderful podcast that's been, altogether, not a bad way to document all the ups and […]

1:20:42 – Continuing the experiment of random Onsug listening! Taken from the complete Onsug archive of nearly 16,000 hours, here are 22 random 3.5 minute clips! This is another good one, presenting a dizzying array of Onsug audio delights! Ref: 131-07, 979-10, 611-30, 411-05, 949-17, 305-09, 105-085, 907-28, 971-26, 951-10, 922-12, 1003-11, 140-18, 904-16, 1011-11, 621-099, […]

2:50:37 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Depressing seating areas, a new theory of liminality, other worlds, dimensionality, bus people, The Beatles Anthology 4, Carnival of Light, class action lawsuit, Gully System Grotto, gully synchronicities, The Overnightscape 1398: Colt’s Tooth Ditch (6/13/17), Grateful Dead, pasta mishap, imaginary tattoo, Return to Burnt Island, […]

2:53:31 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Romance of trucking and vans on the 70s, CB radio, Doctor Who, Space Truckers (1996), editing the past, Psion Series 3a, Dennis Hopper, anniversary in NYC, Chelsea Piers, parking incident, Campbell Apartment, cigar stores, The Original Soupman, Beyond Sushi, Waiting For Godot, another parking incident, […]

38:51 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic material from my personal archives. Notes: 12/31/00, 11:19 pm, going into the new millennium, tradition of making tapes on New Year's Eve, 11:53 pm, big snowstorm yesterday, countdown with my in-laws, Happy New Year!, entering the […]

1:13:54 – PriorCaster, by Bob LeMent of Static Radio and Morning Commute, seeks to document the people who were the pioneers of audio on the internet. Mike listened to podcasts in the early days of the new media's life, but didn't find the things he wanted in it. Until he heard The Overnightscape Underground, here […]

51:41 – PriorCaster, by Bob LeMent of Static Radio and Morning Commute, seeks to document the people who were the pioneers of audio on the internet. Ted Ganchiff decided in the late 90's to take the road less travelled with a site called Give Me Talk!, making everyone a talk show host of their own […]

1:18:31 – Continuing the experiment of random Onsug listening! Taken from the complete Onsug archive of nearly 16,000 hours, here are 22 random 3.5 minute clips! This time I revamped the backend system, and found a new computer voice to use. This one has a great variety of Onsug content, as usual! Ref: 1011-11, 126-41, 998-36, […]

2:02:22 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Podcast Expo 2006, Here is a piece of… “Portable Night” (thanks to Escapist for the pic), artifacts of The Overnightscape, balconies, showing up, We Are Rewind Cassette Player, new Tortoise album Touch, Flea Devil Ltd., Doctor Who: The Stones of Venice, septarian, polychrome jasper, labradorite, […]

2:20:54 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: New cassette player, dosa, changing company names, new Flea Devil minimum score rule, Cruel solitaire, Lumines Arise, Zaccaria Pinball, The Wool Gathering Omnibus, solar flares, hemp ban, Couch Galleon Thoughtwave, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, The White Stripes, Warren Zevon, I was on The […]

10:20:40 – The Wool Gathering returns!! License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Eddie Murray – more info at onsug.com

THE FUSEBOX INTERVIEW : Napoleon Murphy Brock and Nick Chargin : 01:06:18 Join us for a delightful interview with Napoleon Murphy Brock, Frank Zappa's frontman during the 1973 -75 years. Arguably, one the most beloved bands non the Zappa universe. He's featured on albums like “Over-nite Sensation”, “One Size Fits All”, “Bongo Fury”  and “Roxy […]

3:43:06 – Dave in Kentucky is joined by a man called Q (at 4:34), Eddie Murray (at 1:06:32), Chad Bowers (at 1:42:16), Mike Boody (at 2:50:03) and Frank Edward Nora (at 3:09:34) for a magnum opus about anniversaries, birthdays and holidays, in no particular order. Next month's topics: The Annoying, the Amusing & the Amazing. Record […]

3:55:52 – 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, Michael Feir from Canada, Simon from Nevada, Jan Erik from Norway, Peter Litkey from The […]

2:00:12 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: 33? Revolutions per Monkee, Brian Auger and Julie Driscoll, new T-shirts, tariffs, weird energy, solar storm, Mercury Retrograde, town hall, The Prophet’s Song, Music from the Balcony, drainage, Ippudo, new cocktail, Herbal Hibernal, the patterns of the universe, lost song The Hobo March by F. […]

Fusebox 272: “GRIFT FOR THE MILL” 32:44 – Show Open ::  That Thing You Do :: Orange Lies Matter :: The Grift That Keeps On Grifting :: No KIngs And We Mean It :: Fusebox Liner :: Grindhouse Resurrection Magazine Spot 3 :: Fusebox Liner ID: “Got ICE?” :: 90,000 Square Foot Grift :: Portland […]

2:38:55 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Election Day, Nouvelle Vague (2025), Breathless (1960), Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seburg, Le Drugstore, celebrity deaths (Donna Jean Godchaux (78), Dick Cheney (84), Diane Ladd (89), Diane Keaton (79), June Lockhart dead (100), Ace Frehley (74), Jane Goodall (91)), Secret Lair Countdown Kit: An Encyclopedia of […]

4:25:38 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: “It can tell us a lot about the security state, without going too deep down the rabbit hole.”, Affinity by Canva, software design tools, Guandan, return of Mr. Pibb, haircut, cricket, Vago Elote Mezcal, Mischief Night, The Jim Henson Company 70th Anniversary Auction, Count Angeles […]

19:20 – Vincent Price and Peter Lorre crawl out from their catacombs to disinter a trio of sleazy scary stories from the musty archives of ‘The Sleaze’. Join them to listen to three tales from the seamier side of horror: ‘The Ghost Gropers’, ‘Split Sexuality’ and ‘Flushed With Fear’. Tremble as we uncover a disturbing […]

After a long day of grading papers and driving for dollars, I crashed out on Saturday night and slept right through my scheduled live show. But no worries, join me in the car on Sunday morning as I deliver food to the good, hung-over people of Birmingham, AL. Later that night, sit with me outside […]

2:44:10 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: “Your fog, apple, and soaps are desperate.”, hypnopompic hallucinations, the expulsion of expired dreams, going to the doctor, watched a recreation of missing Doctor Who episode “The Smugglers” from 1966, EPCOT Main Entrance Medley – mystery finally solved?, Christina’s World, Incredible String Band – Licorice […]

49:19 – Halloween comes early for Doc Sleaze – are dark occult forces at work two doors down? Are Antifa agents planning to use pumpkins as weapons of terror? Ash Dieback and Diane Butz take a ‘Deep Dive’ into the story of the ‘Hallucinogenic Halloween’ that blighted and English town, while Doc Sleaze investigates the […]

1:58:10 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Heat, Onsug book cover revisions, The Motherlode of Listening Pleasure, air plant funeral, dinosaur theme park selling all their dinosaurs, World Series, repair, information lifestyles, World Gateway Area Loop (11/25/09), EPCOT area loop thought lost is found, cold medicine, new Phish shirt, and much […]

2:56:17 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: The last Howard Johnson’s, now closed and a different restaurant, busy times overview, cold medicine, Shpongle – Live At Red Rocks (2014), a package from Australia, Shindig! Magazine, Popisme, jar shatter, working at a store, dosas, vegan, Betty Booze, HVAC issues, Pokémon Legends: Z-A, next […]

Join Mike in the studio late on a Saturday night. Tonight, we continue the countdown to Episode 300 — the series finale of The Midnight Citizen. Although, after tonight's show, I'm not sure I'll make it that long — this after a FREAK SCARE about an hour into it, when my whiskey toast to Diane Keaton […]