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Relax — if you can — with the Strand On The Air: Chill Out Edition, coming to you Sunday February 25th at 5pm over WRFR 93.3 in Rockland and WRFR.org. Join Liz McLeod and the Strand Family Players, Brittany Parker, and musical guests from the Midcoast Music Academy for a full hour of laughs and tunes! Feel the calm flow over you like a wave as All Things Rescinded explores the therapeutic power of kneading dough, discover ways to relax when every fiber of your body tries to keep you from it, and get acquainted with the philosophical mastermind behind the Who Cares Movement. And down in Abysmal Point, Mrs. Grunden leans into physical fitness when she introduces the thrilling new sport of Clamball. The Strand On The Air, written and directed by Liz McLeod, is a presentation of the Strand Theatre in downtown Rockland, and will be available after the radio broadcast on your favorite podcast platform!

Broadcast 12/29/24 over WRFR, Rockland, Maine. "What Now? Edition," featuring Liz McLeod and the Strand Family Players, Brittany Parker, and guests Patty and Rusty. Presented by the Strand Theatre, Rockland ME.

Will it snow, will it blow, will it pour? Who knows? But no matter what the weather, The Strand On The Air will give out on Sunday February 25th at 5pm with its all-new Snow Fooling Edition! Tune in WRFR 93.3 for new laughs from Liz McLeod and the Strand Family Players, new tunes from Brittany Parker, new poetry from Professor Dan Bookham and special musical performances from rising young talent courtesy of the Midcoast Music Academy Winter Recital. All Things Rescinded will introduce you to the trials and travails of a Leap Year Baby and to exciting new advances in the manufacture of year round snow -- and down in Abysmal Point, Mrs. Grunden and Gertie run into plenty of grief with their bold new home-delivery business "Hello Clams!"

Ring out the old and brace yourself for the new as the Strand On The Air welcomes the New Year with its Here We Go Again Special, Sunday December 31 at 5pm, broadcast over WRFR (93.3 in Rockland) and WRFR.org. Join Liz McLeod and the Strand Family Players, Brittany Parker, and anouncer Dan Bookham for an hour of new laughs and new tunes as All Things Rescinded brings you its foolproof predictions of what absolutely NOT to expect in 2024, and an exclusive interview with a genuine time traveler from 2124 who will give you hints of wonders and marvels yet to come. And down in Abysmal Point, Mrs. Grunden's latest future dream could put clams right in anyone's mailbox. Joining in the fun will be traditional holiday musical guests Patty Jackson and Rusty Blake with their old-time harmonies. The Strand On The Air, written and directed by Liz McLeod, is a regular radio presentation of the Strand Theatre and will be available on popular podcast platforms and on the Strand website following the broadcast.

Coming Sunday October 29th at 5PM over WRFR 93.3 and WRFR.org, grab your basket of autumn cliches, kick the cat off the warm spot on the couch, and tune in the Strand On The Air Pumpkin Spice Special! Liz McLeod, Dan Bookham, and the Strand Family Players dig deep into a damp pile of leaves for laughs and fun, Brittany Parker offers new music, and tossing a fresh log on the fire you'll hear the Midcoast Music Academy Jazz Ensemble. And down in Abysmal Point, Mrs. Grunden confronts the existential terror of what lottery winner Gertie Crummet can afford now to do to her for Halloween. Presented by the Strand Theatre in Rockland, The Strand On The Air is available for download following each new broadcast over all major podcasting platforms or at rocklandstrand.com!

Looking for some laughs? Looking for some tunes? Lucky you -- when you tune in the Strand On The Air Press Your Luck Special, on the air Sunday August 27 at 5pm over WRFR and WRFR.org! Liz McLeod and the Strand Family Players take a comic look at the vicissitudes of fate, as All Things Rescinded introduces you to the Luckiest Couple on Earth, and down in Abysmal Point, the whole town tries their luck when Mrs. Grunden's clam shack installs a lottery machine. Brittany Parker will be along with new music, and it'll be your great good fortune to discover the esoteric melodies of our special musical guest PlanetYes! The Strand On The Air is a regular presentation of the Strand Theatre in downtown Rockland, and will be available on the Strand website and all podcast platforms after the broadcast.

IT'S SPRING PLANTING SEASON WITH THE STRAND ON THE AIR!  Grab your garden shovel and your big sun hat and dig down deep in the rich brown earth as the Strand On The Air presents its Spring Planting Edition, Sunday April 30 at 5pm over WRFR and WRFR.org! Liz McLeod  and the Strand Family Players sow the seeds of laughter, as the All Things Rescinded team takes on every angle of the gardening question, from high-tech fertilizer to what to do when the dandelions come; Professor Dan Bookham unveils his "Ode To Yardwork," and down in Abysmal Point Mrs. Grunden, Lilita, Gertie and the gang continue to cultivate plans for their big Clamtennial celebration. Plus new music from Brittany Parker and tunes recorded live on the Strand stage by the Midcoast Music Academy adult jam band "Better Late!" 

Join Liz McLeod and the Strand Family Players for comic sidelights on the Strand's 100th Anniversary celebration, and a trip down to Abysmal Point, where Mrs. Grunden and friends are busy with Centennial plans of their own. Plus new music from Brittany Parker, and selections from the Midcoast Music Academy Jazz Ensemble, recorded live on stage during MCMA's Spring Recital! Listen at 5pm on Sunday, Feb. 26 by tuning in to WRFR (93.3 in Rockland) or by streaming at WRFR.org. The show will then be available to hear as a podcast, or by streaming from our website. This show is presented by recording by the Strand Theatre.

It's Christmas Night in Abysmal Point as Mrs. Grunden and her friends gather at the Passivity Grange Hall for their annual holiday dinner -- and who knows how that'll go, as the Strand On The Air presents its annual holiday special, December 25th at 5pm over WRFR and WRFR.org! Liz McLeod and the Strand Family Players, Brittany Parker, and announcer Dan Bookham will all be on hand for a heaping helping of holiday fun, with musical guests Patty Jackson and Rusty Blake. This show is presented by recording by the Strand Theatre.

Strand On The Air Fun Size Halloween Special. Broadcast 10/30/22 over WRFR, Rockland, Maine. Featuring Liz McLeod and the Strand Family Players, Brittany Parker, Dan Bookham, and the Adult Jam Band of the Midcoast Music Academy.

"All's Fair Special," broadcast 8/28/2022 over WRFR, Rockland, Maine. Featuring Liz McLeod and the Strand Family Players, Brittany Parker, Dan Bookham, and musical guests from the Midcoast Music Academy Summer Recital.

The Word says on this journey of following Christ we will have troubles. But praise the Lord, Joy comes in the morning! The thing is, sometimes the troubles last longer than we'd like and it feels like the battle is ongoing. This is spiritual warfare, but rest assured the battle is already won because we are free and victorious in Jesus Christ who overcame the WRLD. As a reminder we just DROP'D our Spiritual WRFR playlist to help you remember who you R and whose you R! So to celebrate, we're spotlighting 5 songs on our new playlist and the RTSTS behind the songs. Go support these amazing RTSTS who are using and sharing they're RTSTC gifts and talents to glorify God! Join the convo and give us a rating on your favorite podcast streaming platform! Stay safe, stay blessed, stay RTSTC!

Grab the hot dogs and the marshmallows, pack up the bug spray and the tick spoon, and head Up to Camp -- as the Strand On The Air presents its Summer Camp Edition, Sunday June 26 at 5pm over WRFR 93.3 and WRFR.org! Join Liz McLeod and the Strand Family Players, Brittany Parker, and Dan Bookham for an hour of laughs and tunes as we all try to escape the heat or the cold, depending on when this article sees print, duck the sunburn, and try to find a parking place. "All Things Rescinded" will explore the state of not-really-post-pandemic summer travel, consider the possibility of a super hero blockbuster summer flick that hasn't been done before, and will interview Almost The Last Living Person In America Without A Smartphone. And down in Abysmal Point, the woods are full of cuckoos, as Mrs. Grunden, Lilita, Gertie, and Edith head for the tranquil algae-blooming waters of Sluice Lake. All this and the music of returning Strand On The Air favorites Patty Jackson and Rusty Blake!

A Strand on the Air Special Event! Enjoy this 30-minute radio-play version of THE MAGIC LAKE, a musical retelling of a Peruvian folktale about a quest to discover a magic lake at the end of the world. The play is performed by local middle school students as part of the "Take the Stage" class, a collaboration between the Strand Theatre and RSU #13's Afterschool Program. The play will debut first on the airwaves of Rockland's own WRFR (93.3), and will be available to stream afterwards on all podcast platforms.

Grab the brooms and clean up -- let's go! Spring is here and that means it's time to wash the windows, mop the floor, and pour out a whole new bucket of laughs and tunes as the STRAND ON THE AIR returns with its Spring Cleaning Special! House Manager Liz McLeod dusts off the Strand Family Players, who find joy in tossing out a few barbs at the World's Greatest Professional Declutterer; show you what not to do when your neighbor messes up your garden; and meet an upcycler with a startling new use for cat hair. And down in Abysmal Point, Mrs. Grunden and Lilita make a startling discovery under the floorboards when redecorating the clam shack. Tidying up the music department, Brittany Parker presents a sampling of the outstanding work done by her students in the Strand Take The Stage Program -- and you'll meet as special musical guest singer-songwriter Trisha Mason, making her first broadcast appearance in the Midcoast after relocating to Rockland. STRAND ON THE AIR, written and directed by Liz McLeod, originally broadcast on WRFR, 93.3 in Rockland.

The intrepid journalists of All Things Rescinded will take a look at the burgeoning new pandemic-inspired musical genre of “grumblecore,” featuring the radio debut of the hard-driving alternative band “Karen's Spleen,” along with a nostalgic look at Town Meeting season as it used to be, and a preview of our coming travails with mud season. Down in Abysmal Point, Mrs. Grunden, Lilita, and the gang will gather round the kitchen table to drive off the winter blues with a hard-fought no-quarter-asked-and-none-given game of full-contact Monopoly. Special musical guests GoldenOak. Broadcast on WRFR on February 27, 2022 at 5pm.

My guest today is Asheville, NC based DJ, Bruce Swan. Bruce went to college after of high school and earned his degree just a few short years later. Or at least that's what he thought. Nearly 25 years later, he was informed that he didn't quite finish and would need to go back to fulfill his final requirements. Upon his return to Hunter College in New York, NY, he discovered the college radio station, WHCS. He filled out an application and went in for an interview, and at the age of 50, began his career as a radio DJ. Since his time on air at Hunter College, he's been at several different stations including: 10 years at 89.5 WPKN independent radio in Bridgeport, CT, 7 years at 93.3 WRFR community radio in Rockland, ME, and now he's on air at 103.3 Asheville FM in Asheville, NC. At the start of the pandemic, Bruce started a live remote show called, Music My Mother Would Not Like. The program should not be confused with the show he hosted on WPKN (Bridgeport, CT) bearing the same name. The pandemic version of Music My Mother Would Not Like features 3-4 artists playing in succession on Tuesday nights. Originally, the show was only supposed to be five weeks, but nearly two years later, it's still going strong and is popular among the singer-songwriter community. If you enjoy the podcast, please let others know, subscribe or write a review. 5 star ratings and reviews on Apple Music as well as subscribing to our YouTube Channel help us out the most!! IF YOU'D LIKE TO SUPPORT THE PODCAST IN A MONETARY WAY, I'M NOW ON PATREON! www.patreon.com/andysydow You can support my artist career and this podcast for as little as $3 per month. The price of one cup of coffee helps keep this podcast on its feet. Any and every contribution is greatly appreciated! Guest Links: https://www.musicmymotherwouldnotlike.com/ https://www.ashevillefm.org/ https://www.bakerbooking.com/ Episode Music: **All original music by Andy Sydow Sponsors: A huge thanks to our sponsors, PQ Mastering and Narrator RF. For any sponsorship inquiries, shoot me an email at middleclassrockstar@gmail.com pqmastering.com narratorrf.com

Broadcast October 31, 2021 over WRFR, Rockland, Maine. Featuring Liz McLeod and the Strand Family Players, Brittany Parker, Dan Bookham, and special guests Bee Parks and the Hornets. Down in Abysmal Point, Mrs. Grunden and company set out to rescue Gertie Crummet from the grasp of unspeakable horrors. Presented by the Strand Theatre in Rockland, Maine.

At long last, there's light at the end of the tunnel – and if you don't think so, we'll set you straight in this springtime STRAND ON THE AIR broadcast! Our “Light At The End Of The Tunnel Edition” features more laughs with Liz McLeod and the Strand Family Players, more music from Brittany Parker – and even a few surprises! Originally broadcast on WRFR in Rockland, Maine.

Quit doomscrolling and start laughing – with the Strand On The Air's “Don't Let The Internet Get You Down!” Edition! Join your house manager Liz McLeod, musical director Brittany Parker, announcer Dan Bookham, those ever-popular bytes of fun the Strand Family Players, and our special musical guests Freya, for a full hour of laughs and tunes! Originally broadcast on WRFR in Rockland, Maine.

It's the moment we've all been waiting for! This year is finally over – almost! This STRAND ON THE AIR: Socially Distant Good Riddance to 2020 Edition features comedy sketches by Liz McLeod, announcing by Dan Bookham, performances from the Strand Family Players, special guests the Midcoast Music Academy, and music from Brittany Parker and the Blake Rosso Band. Broadcast on WRFR.org, 93.3 Rockland and 99.3 Camden, on December 27, 2020 at 5pm.

It's all treats and no tricks for the STRAND ON THE AIR Halloween Special! The Strand Theatre's radio variety hour returns with a Fun-Size bag of Halloween laughs and tunes with Liz McLeod and the Strand Family Players, Brittany Parker, and Dan Bookham. Musical guests will be mandolinist Jim Coffman of the Blake Rosso Band and New York based singer-songwriter Elizabeth May, last seen at the Strand in “Zodiac Math.” Originally broadcast over WRFR in Rockland, Maine.

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Strand on the Air is back for another socially distanced special! Broadcast 8/30/2020 over WRFR, Rockland Maine. Sponsored by the Strand Theatre. Featuring Liz McLeod and the Strand Family Players, Brittany Parker, Dan Bookham, and musical guest Peter Hynd.

Another chapter in our summer of social distancing specials! Broadcast July 26, 2020 over WRFR, Rockland, Maine. Sponsored by the Strand Theatre. Featuring Liz McLeod and the Strand Family Players, Brittany Parker, Dan Bookham, and guests Dusty & Joanna And Friends.

Strand on the Air continues from home! This episode of our radio variety show was broadcast on 6/28/2020 over WRFR in Rockland, Maine. Featuring Liz McLeod and the Strand Family Players, Brittany Parker, and special guests Patty Jackson and Rusty Blake.

Hey MSP listeners, the show is going on a brief hiatus while new episodes are recorded and produced.  Check back in a few weeks for more great episodes of the Maine Show Podcast hosted by Ben Sprague and listen for the show on WERU 89.9 in Blue Hill/99.9 Bangor and WRFR 93.3 in Rockland.  Visit www.maineshowpodcast.com to listen to all past episodes and don't forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes.   Find the show on Twitter @maineshow and follow host Ben Sprague on Twitter @bensprague and find him on Facebook at www.facebook.com/benspraguebangor.  

On November 21, 2015, Rockland poet Kendall Merriam visited WRFR's studio and read three poems and the introduction to his 1980s work Medvedb's Journal The reading starts with the recenty written "Bear Dance" a poetic tribute to Merriam's long time friend the late Gunnar Hansen. This is followed by a reading of Hansens introduction to Merriam's book "Medvedb's Journal". It is entitled Medved dances. Next: "An open Poem to ISIS" written in Thomaston in 2015. Followed by "At the cafe" written in paris in 2013. Medved's Journal was published by Blackberry Books of Nobleboro Maine A reviewer at the Bollard wrote: "I suppose one would call Medvedb’s Journal a novel, though there’s no plot, hardly any dialogue, and really only one character: Medvedb, a very horny, schizophrenic poet who thinks he’s both a bear and the president of the United States."

For the first time ever WRFR is running a capital campaign to raise funds for the move to the Lincoln Street Center in Rockland, Maine. With a multimillion embezzelment charity scandal going on in the next town over, we decided to examine both sides of the coin.. MAKE A DONATION ON WRFR.ORG and get some FREE SWAG! Listen to the show for details. 1. Buzz Buzz, Brian Setzer Orchestra. (music bed) 2. The Muppet Telethon Theme. 3. Money, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. 4. Buzz, Buzz, Buzzing, Tim Hicks. 5. Movie Clip. (Mr. Dees Goes to Town) 6. Make Money Money, John Reuben. 7. The Muppets Movie Clip. 8. WKRP in Cincinnati theme, Richard Cheese. 9. Buzz, Buzz, Buzz, The Hollywood Flames. 10. Show Me The Money clip Jerry Maguire. 11. Money Changes Everything, Cyndi Lauper. 12. This Buzz is for You, Tommy Alverson. 13. Who's Got Your Money, Tina Parol. 14. Movie Clip. (Mr. Dees Goes to Town part 2) 15. Money Greases the Wheel, Ferlin Husky. 16. Not Just Money, Frank Ocean. 17. Scared Money, Amos Lee. 18. Buzz Me Blues, Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five. 19. Gimmie Some Money, Spinal Tap. 20. Coffee is for Closers.

Today's mix tape is called "I am so in L-O-V-E". It was a Valentine gift from one squishilly sick individual to another. You know the type. Those people that are so stupid in love with one another that they almost make those around them uncomfortable. It almost seems like they have a disease. Enjoy the sickness of the heart! 1. Girl From Impanema (music bed), Niteshift. 2. Ordinary Day, Emilie Mover. 3. You Make My Dreams Come True, Hall and Oates. 4. Love Song, Sara Bareilles. 5. All I Want To Do, Sugarland. 6. Oblivion, Sissel. 7. Trees, Marty Casey and the Lovehammers. 8. Streets of Old Quebec, Bill Staines. 9. Love You Madly, CAKE. 10. Don't Dream It's Over, Paul Carrack. 11. Our Bungalow of Dreams, Bix Beiderbecke. 12. Follow Me, Paul McCartney. 13. I Love You 5, Never Shout Never. 14. Nobody Does It Better, Voices 8 15 God Only Knows, Natalie Maines

I found out how it feels to have someone give you a very personal mix tape the other day. This tape is a very personal story to me and I find that I have a hard time listening to it. It is a fantastic tape with a full length narrative, and must be listened all the way through just as any good mix tape should be. My ego is a bit bruised on the back side of this one. Give it a listen as it is fantastic. 1. You Had Me from Hello / Bon Jovi 2. Copier Repair Man song 3. Can't Find the Words / Karina 4. 221B Baker Street (Opening Theme) 5. I Think We're Alone Now / Ac Rock 6. I Think It's Going to Rain Today / Katie Melua 7. How Could an Angel Break My Heart / Lorraine 8. That's It - I Quit - I'm Movin' On / Sam Cooke 9. Are You Still Mine / Lisa Hayes 10. Sweet Forgiveness / Susan Tedeschi 11. Crazier Things / The Kilborn Alley Blues Band 12. She Believes In Me / Joe Cocker 13. We Are Family (The Wedding Band Cast Versio... 14. When I Grow To Old To Dream / Della Reese 15. Could I Have This Dance / Foster & Allen

A Listener submission. This is in from Gregory Greenleaf of Harpswell, Maine. He says that the title of his tape is "Wings!" and it deals with different types of flight. 1. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Theme 2 Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)3:51 The Byrds Turn! Turn! Turn! 3.Butterfly, Simple Things Amuse! 4. That's Really Super, Supergirl 3:21 XTC Skylarking 5. Little Wing 5:11 Sting ...Nothing Like the Sun 6 Clip from Airplane 0:30 7.Airplane 3:21 Indigo Girls Rites Of Passage 8 Leaving on a Jet Plane 3:28 Peter, Paul & Mary 9. Chickadee 0:18 10.Blackbird 3:28 Corinee Bailey Raye and Herbie Hancock 11.Daytime Nightime Suffering 3:23 Paul McCartney & Wings Back To The Egg 12. Volunteers 2:08 Jefferson Airplane Jefferson Airplane: The Woodstock Experience 13. Theme from "The Greatest American Hero (Believe It or Not)" 3:14 14. Lark Ascending 11:50 15. Doctor Who Sound FX_ TARDIS take off 0:24

A Very Merry Mix Tape Christmas, VOL.1. Tired of hearing Karen Carpenter and Nat King Cole, than this Mix Tape is the cure to what ails ya! 1. A Working Elf's theme, (music bed) The Polyphonic Spree 2. Snowflakes, The Fontaine Sisters 3. Santa Lost His Mojo, Jeremy Lister 4. Why Are Mom and Daddy Fighting On Christmas?, K.S. Rhoads 5. Silver Bells, Meaghan Smith 6. Santa Claus Want Some Lovin', Tinsley Ellis 7. Stocking Full Of Love, Marva Wright 8. Roudolph, The Red Nosed Reindeer, The Smithereens 9. Santa Claus Baby, Joan Osborne 10. On Santa's Way Home, Marc Broussard 11. The Twelve Pains OF Christmas, Bob Rivers 12. I Feel It In My Bones, The Killers 13. I Pray On Christmas, The Blind Boys of Alabama 14. Baby, It's Cold Outside, Pearl Bailey & Hot Lips Page 15. One Parent Christmas, Saffire & The Uppity Blues Women 16. Silent Night, Charlie Musselwhite 17. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, Kermit The Frog.

"I can't breathe."This tape was passed between lovers in a long distance relationship. It seems that one of them is still married to someone else and the lament over it is clear. 12/8/12 SOURCE: The Archive (the back seat of a Honda Ridgeline) 1. Three Little Words, Les Paul and Mary Ford (music bed) 2. The Song of Life, Scribblemonster 3. When You're Near Me, XTC 4. Islands In The Stream, Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parotn 5. The Letter, Eva Cassidy 6. Can't Help Falling In Love, Lick The Tins 7. Messes of Men, mewithoutyou 8. Me and Mrs. Jones, Michael Buble 9. The Moth, Aimee Mann 10. Helpline Operator, The The 11. Baby I love You, Natalie Merchant 12. I Want You To Want Me, Damhnait Doyle 13. Needing/Getting, OKGo (Car Video version) 14. Grow Old With You, OC Times.

THANKSGIVING 11/17/12 SOURCE: THE ARCHIVE. (the trunk of the 1984 Delta 88 Oldsmobile) 1. Grandmother's House. Peanuts Thanksgiving. 2. Mess Around. Ray Charles. 3. WKRP Thanksgiving intro. 4. Be Thankful. Natalie Cole. 5. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. Car Stop. 6. I've Got Plenty To Be Thankful For. Bing Crosby. 7. Peanuts Thanksgiving Special. Turkey Tree. 8. Kind And Generous. Acoustic. Natalie Merchant. 9. WKRP. Helicopter. 10. What A Wonderful World. OC Times. 11. Peanuts Thanksgiving. Prayer. That's why they call it thanksgiving. 12. Making Pies. Patty Griffin. 13. Peanuts Thanksgiving. That's why they call it thanksgiving. 14. Autumn Leaves. Eva Cassidy. 15. WKRP. Parking Lot Bombed. 16. Thank You For Hearing Me. Sinead O'Connor. 17. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. Gobble Gobble. 18. Thank You. Dido. 19. Coat of Many Colors. Dolly Parton. 20. WKRP. Aftermath. 21. Little Birdie. Vince Guaraldi. 22. WKRP. As God is my witness.

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Emperors are known for many things, but only an amazing emperor - the Emperor Penguin- lays eggs. Find out how and why in this fascinating book by Brenda Z. Guiberson, illustrated by Joan Paley. Read to you by Kalen Darney, on WRFR Community Radio's Penobscot Bay Report for September 3, 2009

On April 23, 2009 scallopers Arthur Alley and Michael Keating visited the studio of WRFR Community Radio in Rockland,to talk about scallops and the state of Penobscot Bay.

Enjoy a 40+ minute show that includes an overview of the state of corrections in Maine and elsewhere, and segues into a lengthy phone conversation with a retired inmate, or ex-con, who phoned in and promises to call again next week, with a guide to etiquette and survival for the incarcerated. All interlaced with Jimi Hendrix. This show aired over WRFR lpfm, community radio for coastal Knox County, Maine -Ron Huber, producer. See www.wrfr.org

On December 17th, Penobscot Bay Report's Ron Huber spoke with Jamie Johnson of Jess'Market on South Main Street in Rockland, Maine, about how the trade in lobsters and other live and fresh Maine- and Gulf of Maine-caught seafood is going in this time of a devalued dollar and a contracting economy. Ten minutes. See www.jessmarket.com

On December 10th, WRFR community radio reporter Ron Huber visits the waterfront office of the Rockland Harbormaster. Ed Glaser is Rockland's current, and many say, most conservation-minded Harbormaster. They discuss his oversight of a busy five miles of very diverse waterfronts, each "working" at its own pace. From ferries visiting three islands, to marinas, shipyards, two coast guard facilities, two herring fleets, windjamming schooners and private landowners. In the harbor waters, dozens of lobstermen feed and livetrap and release thousands of lobsters that crawl into Rockland harbor each year. Meanwhile there are abandoned and derelict boats, moorings to be licensed, upcoming civic harbor events and lots more keeping Ed busy. Listen and learn. Photo courtesy Bates College

Today's episode of Live and Direct is the second part of my interview with Barry Carter. We recap the first part, discuss his web site Subtle Energies, gardening with ORMUS, the effect it has upon the brain (coherence), ORMUS types and states, ORMUS vendors and their products, implications for power and authority structures, and, as last time, some broader spiritual and consciousness-related topics (including using ORMUS in group settings to bring about interpersonal coherence).Today's interview is 58:52 long and 30.6MB big. As always, I welcome your comments. Please submit questions you'd like me to ask Barry in the future. You may either listen online via the link above, or download it (right-click, "Save as..."), or subscribe to the podcast to receive my show automatically in iTunes or your podcast platform of choice. Share and enjoy!

Today it gives me pleasure to present a live phone interview with Barry Carter of Subtle Energies fame. We discuss his personal background, his interest in ORMUS and science, some uses for ORMUS, methods of extracting it, and some broader spiritual and consciousness-related topics. Barry and I would like to continue the conversation, so stay tuned for more. If you enjoy the interview I encourage you to check out Barry's in-depth site, chock-full of descriptions, lectures, tutorials, pictures, and email lists on which other like-minded folks discuss ORMUS.Today's interview sizes up at 57:32 and 30MB. I welcome your comments. Please also let me know if you have any questions you'd like me to ask Barry in follow-up shows. As always, you can either listen online via the link above, or download it (right-click, "Save as..."), or subscribe to the podcast to receive my show automatically in iTunes or your podcast platform of choice. Share and enjoy!

Part six (6) of David Hudson's 1990s talk "Has the Philosopher's Stone Been Found?" is upon us. This episode finishes the science and new findings segment of the lecture, and starts the historical retrospective, having a bit more of a speculative feel than the former parts. Newcomers will want to listen to parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 before this one.Come get the mp3, 29.8MB in size and 52:57 in length. Tune in next week for the exciting conclusion to this series. Also in the pipeline is a phone interview with Subtle Energies' Barry Carter. Send any questions or comments for Barry to me in email.

This is number 5 in a series of parts of a lecture given by David Hudson in the 1990s entitled "Has the Philosopher's Stone Been Found?" If you missed the other four parts, you might wish to listen to them first: part 1, part 2, part 3, and part 4. In this part Hudson presents, with sources, compelling evidence that the white powder of gold, also known as the philosopher's stone (and by many other names through the ages), is the common thread in all the old mystery religions, Egyptian spirituality, esoteric Judaism, and in suppressed Christianity.The ark of the covenant, the holy grail, the philosopher's stone, they all seem to be obscured in the mists and myths of history, but perhaps there is a straight path through what was once occult. Science has begun to understand the realm of the spirit. Materialism is giving way to in the face of discoveries and rediscoveries (which are now gaining traction, validity, and verifiability in the scientific world). This episode and the following few will show these connections; I hope you enjoy listening to them.As previously mentioned, in the weeks ahead I hope to feature the current center of the ORMUS "universe", Barry Carter. In the meantime, check out his very in-depth site about ORMUS. Stay tuned for more details about his interview.Here is the mp3 for your listening and downloading pleasure; it's 28.8MB big, 55:02 long. As always, please tell me what you think.

This is part 3 of my coverage of David Hudson's lecture on ORMUS entitled "Has the Philosopher's Stone Been Found?" If you are new to the scene, I highly encourage you to start at the beginning; check out parts one and two of this lecture before listening to this part. Furthermore, googling "David Hudson ORMUS" and perusing Barry Carter's Subtle Energies site will provide hours of reading material.You may listen and download the show, which will net you an mp3 that is 44:43 in length and 26MB in weight. Enjoy the show, email me with your thoughts, and stay tuned for the rest.

This is part 4 in my multi-part David Hudson lecture "Has the Philosopher's Stone Been Found?" Parts 1, 2, and 3 may be desirable to hear before delving into this one if you are jumping in mid-series. In this part, Hudson addresses more spiritual concerns than in the prior three parts, which cover more hard science and published and peer-reviewed research.This episode of Live and Direct is 52:40 long and takes up 28.7MB. Please download, listen, and enjoy. As always, feel free to email me.

This is a continuation of last week's lecture on ORMUS/white powder gold/m-state material. It has many names in the modern parlance, but perhaps the ancients were more succinct in calling it mzkft, which translates to "what is it?" In this week's segment David elucidates more chemistry and physics behind ORMUS. Again if you are interested in what you hear, please check out Barry Carter's Subtle Energies site. I have talked to Barry and in the near future I intend to feature him on Live and Direct to talk about ORMUS. You too can be a part of this fascinating, accessible, little-understood phenomenon (especially if you live near the sea, a good source from which to extract ORMUS).This week's episode is 29.3MB, byte-wise, and 51:15 long. I hope you enjoy it, and stay tuned for the next part.

In this episode I introduce the concept of what we in the modern day call ORMUS or white powder gold (a bit of a misnomer since it includes not only gold but also other metal group elements), or m-state materials, what alchemists called the philosopher's stone, and what in ancient times was called the manna or mzkft ("what is it?"). In the 1990s a farmer living in the southwest US named David Hudson made a mysterious discovery in the tailings of his mining expeditions. This episode is the first in a series of parts from a lecture David gave entitled "Has the Philosopher's Stone Been Found?"For more (quite extensive) information, discussion and pictures relating to the ORMUS phenomenon, check out Barry Carter's site Subtle Energies. At his site are several email lists discussing the effects of ORMUS and how to make it by extracting it from natural sources.The last 5 minutes of the show feature chanting by Dufay named "Nuper Rosarum Flores".Listen or download to this episode here. The mp3 is 54:59 long and takes up 62.9MB. Enjoy it and stay tuned for the rest of the lecture as well as more in-depth discussion of ORMUS in the coming weeks.

Got a good mix this week. Sthow is starting to tighten up. Some future ones may need some help, but this one is good. so what do The Spencer Davis Group and Cream have in common. What does Ry Cooder have against Keith Richards, The Ray Davies Quartet were better known as who? and what is meant by Blind Faith? Hitchin a Ride - Vanity Fair Imagine - John Lennon It never Rains in Souther CA - Albert Hammond Sweet City Woman - Stampeders Cant find My Way Back Home - Blind Faith More Than a Feeling - Boston Honky tonk Woman - Stones All Right Now - Free Lola - Kinks Teenage Wasteland - The Who

Ok, this was my second try at putting together something that would be fun and informative. I was still working out the kinks. And remember it was suppose to be kinda tongue in cheek. Never thought it would get to a regular show. Who knew?! So, I decided to always open with Here I Come and close with GreenTambourine. Some pretty good facts and other stuff, but I am always open for more. If you have 60s or 70s rock facts about songs or band, let me know! Hold on loosely - 38 Special Spirit in the Sky - Norm Greenbaum Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple Dont fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult Radar Love - Golden Earring Magic Carpet - Ride Steppenwolf Ramblin Man - Allman Brothers Hold your Head - Up Argent Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Ok, here we go! Now, relax, this was my first try. I have played with this program on WRFR for a couple of months and got some laughs and got some fans. But instead of doing what I did with my first podcast (starting in with the latest episode) I thought that I would start right from the very first mix. So the facts and info are terse, but still interesting. The mix was right off some of the old mix cds I used to make. Enjoy here is the list Monday Monday Sleeping Bag You Shook Me All Night Long School Out House of the Rising Sun Paranoid Down on the Corner Smoking Gun I love you to want me Nights in White Satin And just so you don't get confused in the coming weeks...I always open with Here I Come and close with Green Tambourine

Today's episode of Live and Direct Listens features a musical interpretation of a Finnish epic poem. It's 33.6MB and 1:02:03 long. Ruth MacKenzie's album "Kalevala: Dream of the Salmon Maiden" is a mixture of Finnish and English folk song punctuated by a high pitched call named "kulning", which is actually a Finnish animal call. MacKenzie has said that in Kalevala she realized that beauty and ugliness are not too different and also that there is very little separating the earth, the animals and the human voice.The original written work that the album is based upon is called the Kalevala, it was published in 1849 and is a collection of oral tradition which may come from as far back as pre-recorded history and include fragments as recent as the Iron Age. Part creation myth, part folk song and poetry, it has a national Finnish holiday dedicated to it (February 28th) and has influenced numerous artists, of whom Ruth MacKenzie is one. There's an overview of the Kalevala here on wikipedia, along with the source text (in english) here on wikisource. You can buy it from Ruth on her site and also find it on iTunes.I hope you enjoy today's show. It's a little bit different from things you normally hear on the radio, and I wanted to share it with you in the hope that it would touch something within you and awaken part of you. Thanks for listening, and please tell me what you think.

This week's Live and Direct, episode number 10, is about the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) and the illegal and unconstitutional federal income tax. This podcast version is 1:00:47 long and the file size is 21.9MB. The podcast includes an extra 7 minute clip at the end about so-called tax criminals who were harassed and brutalized by the IRS, including a family whose small business and personal life was scrutinized mercilessly by the IRS, though they had done no wrong and had in fact paid their taxes, and a historic celebrity boxer during WWII named Joe Lewis whose winnings, though donated entirely to others, were taxed by the IRS, putting him so deeply into debt that his once-hated opponent paid for his funeral.Some talking points from the clips I played follow. Remember:The 16th Amendment was never legally ratified by the states.The federal income tax is a direct, unapportioned tax, which is illegal as per the Constitution.As Catherine Fitts (former Assistant Secretary of Housing) explained, the government's use of tax money is not reported, nor will they disclose the breakdown of their expenditures upon request, as they are legally required to do.The federal income tax money you pay only goes to the U.S. debt, as Reagan's investigative commission found."Income" is undefined in the tax code, though it is defined in the Constitution (the definition of which the tax code contradicts).Income is not wages or labor, it is gains from corporate activity (as defined in the Constitution).Your labor is your private property, as per the Supreme Court.The 16th Amendment (which was never legally ratified, remember) gave no new powers of taxation.So, if former IRS agents and government officials are no longer paying taxes, why are we? If tens of millions of people do not pay taxes (so says Sherry Jackson, former IRS agent) because they do not wish to continue propping up this illegal and unconstitutional perversion of governmental authority, why should we?Also, I missed this the first time: If you are audited, put in a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request asking to be shown applicable statutes and laws under which your income is taxed and the records substantiating the audit.Check out filmmaker Aaron Russo's site freedomtofascism.com. As I previously mentioned, there are news updates, blog entries, and video interviews there. You can watch the film online if you have a broadband connection. You may also rent or buy the movie on DVD. You should also check out David Champion's site nontaxpayer.org. An article on the America Patriot Friends Network site has some interesting things to say about taxation. Googling "How to STOP the IRS" cd will turn up some interesting research that a fellow named Eugene Kernan has compiled on exactly what to send the government to get them off of your trail as far as taxes. He wants $400 for the CD of materials, research, and instructions. While I understand he has gone to some effort to make this information available, $400 is expensive for a CD. I'll try to see if I can turn it up for less than that; I'll keep you posted. Furthermore, as you can see by searching the Internet, there have been many individual victories over the IRS as well as Supreme Court decisions recognizing the illegality of the federal income tax. The problem is that the lower courts do not recognize this. The more people that help make their others, the media, and their elected officials aware of this sham, the closer we will come to turning the tide of coercion foisted upon the American people.Some people say two things are inevitable: death, and taxes. Myself, I'm not so sure about the latter.Thanks for listening. Please weigh in with your thoughts on this or any of my topics.

This week I replayed my third show (Weather), and as an added bonus at the end I played a medley of Somewhere Over the Rainbow and What a Wonderful World by a young Canadian singer named Aselin Debison. It would be redundant to put up the episode again, so instead I'll just direct you to the original podcast episode of Weather (45:18, and 41.5MB) and to Aselin's song Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World (5:20, 7.3MB) from her 2002 debut Sweet is the Melody, recorded when she was 12 years old. Some people have mistaken her for Norah Jones in this song, but I actually prefer her version over Jones'.The episode I intended for this week was, in part, delayed by weather (specifically, high winds ripping part of my roof off), making this an appropriate episode to rebroadcast. Stay tuned next week for fresh new content.

Click, download, listen! Live and Direct number 9 (Live and Direct Listens ep #3) has arrived. It's 48.9MB, and 56:10 long. In it, I featured an album composed in real time on the Internet by a group of musicians collaborating with some software called NetPD. NetPD in turn relies on PD, which is a graphical programming language particularly suited to music synthesis and composition, but also extensible to video and other forms of data, hence the name "Pure Data".The album is "dub" in style, featuring samples and loops that wind here and there at the whim of the collective controlling them. I played most of it, sans the last bit, which I had to cut for time constraints whilst on-air. If you wish to listen to it, you can find the whole thing here as an mp3. It's 72.1MB and 1:18:44 long, and the bit that I cut starts at 1:08:03 and goes till the end.If you're interested in playing around with PD, you should check out the main site listed above as well as other sites on the PD webring. PD comes in Mac, Windows, and Linux flavors, so chances are it's compatible with your hardware. There's also a book, which gives some of the philosophy and context of PD's development as well; you can download the whole thing in pdf format here. Wrap your mind around the idea, install PD, download some other people's patches (PD programs are called patches), and then give it a whirl. It's free, you're bored, go create something!As always, feel free to let me know what you think. In the future (given a large enough listenership) I'd love to do an experiment in live radio where you, the listener get to influence the music going live on the air. Whether this is via a web browser which interfaces with PD behind the scenes, or some such similar arrangement, I think it'd be fun.

=Live and Direct episode #8 has arrived. It features background and critical analysis concerning the Federal Reserve System, why it is illegal and unconstitutional, and why it must be abolished. This episode runs for 55:33, and is 50.9MB. For your convenience, the times listed below in parentheses indicate the start and end of each segment.The song I played is Money For Nothing, by Dire Straits (it's between 01:12 and 09:12).I then played the intro to Aaron Russo's documentary "America: Freedom to Fascism" (09:48 to 13:30). "Freedom to Fascism" is a timely, shocking expose of the duplicitous and corrupt nature of not only the Federal Reserve, but also the IRS and the federal income tax. You may watch a low-quality version of it here on Google Video, see it in select theatres, rent it, or buy it directly from Aaron's site. Aaron also maintains a blog on the site with timely news, interviews, and commentary.Next up is a 2002 speech before Congress by Ron Paul, current Presidential hopeful and monetary-reform advocate (14:05 to 19:22). You may watch it on YouTube or read it at the House's web site as well.I followed Ron Paul's speech with another excerpt from "Freedom to Fascism" detailing the creation of the Federal Reserve, its unconstitutionality, and the ways in which it harms the American people and government (20:24 to 33:44). Lastly I read from Dr. Cleon W. Skousen's publication "The Urgent Need for a Comprehensive Monetary Reform". I have included it here on my site (in an easy to read and print PDF format) as the original at the National Center for Constitutional Studies seems to be defunct. You may check out the table of contents, the first section "Development of the United States Monetary System", the second section "How the Federal Reserve System Operates and Why it Has Failed", or the third and final section "Providing the United States with a Sound Money System". I retrieved the above linked pages with the help of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, mentioned in my show as a handy online research tool.I continue to delve into the conspiracies by a powerful few elite bent on controlling and dominating the rest of the people, aided by money-hungry politicians, complicit industries, and helped along here and there by a few sad historical accidents. Please stay tuned to Live and Direct for more provocative and imperative issues. Listen to WRFR locally in Midcoast Maine at 93.3 and 99.3FM, online, or subscribe to my podcast and listen at your convenience using your computer, iPod, or other MP3 player. As always, please email me with what's on your mind. It's a pleasure to produce this show, and I'd love your feedback.

A scant week later, it's time for Live and Direct, episode #7. This week I've assembled a hypothetical soundtrack to the 80's comedy Real Genius, starring Val Kilmer. I say "hypothetical" because there was never an official soundtrack, however many fans have compiled their own lists of songs heard in the movie. This week's show is 44.5MB and runs for 50:36.The playlist for the show is below, along with the point in time at which each song starts (minutes:seconds). The only song played in the movie that is not included is Tonio K's "The Tuff Do What", as it is unreleased and apparently unavailable in the wild. (however, if you have it, please, please send me a copy?)You Took Advantage of Me - Carmen McRae, 01:31I'm Falling - The Comsat Angels, 03:32Number One - Chaz Jankel, 08:01All She Wants to Do Is Dance - Don Henley, 11:50One Night Love Affair - Bryan Adams, 17:01The Walls Came Down - The Call, 21:26Pleasure Seekers - The System, 25:47Standing in the Line - The Textones, 30:25Summertime Girls - Yesterday & Today, 34:51You're the Only Love - Paul Hyde and the Payola$, 38:25Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears, 44:16a Real Genius sequel? What you say? That's right, at the end of last year multiple news sites, wikipedia, and blogs were reporting that Val Kilmer has announced a desire to reprise his role as Chris Knight in a sequel to the original Real Genius. A fan has started a site dedicated to this hypothetical sequel. We'll see how that pans out. I suppose it could work, though I'm leery of sequels by default.If you haven't seen the movie, you should. In the immortal words of Chris Knight, it's a moral imperative!Enjoy this "what if" soundtrack, and as always, please let me know what you think.

This, the sixth episode of Live and Direct is now available for your consumption and critical analysis. It's me, interviewing protestors and activists who were at last Sunday's demonstration and who are involved with several local organizations whose causes include pro-impeachment, anti-war, and pro-peace groups. This episode is 53MB and features 57:56 of thoughtful, non-mainstream political discussion. What follows is an annotated timeline.I first interviewed Sue Ferra (at 1:33) and George Miller (at 2:58) at the From Every Village Green protest on Sunday.NOTE: in the show I got the percentage wrong of Americans who would favor impeachment, given Bush's lies about the war. It was actually 53% in favor of impeachment vs. 42% against. For details, see Majority of Americans Support Impeachment.As George suggests, you should google "federal reserve bank ownership" and read for yourself the history and true nature of what many Americans assume is a branch of their government.Here is a 2002 speech by Congressman Ron Paul advocating the abolishment of the Fed. For those of you who prefer to watch a video, here you go.The solitary, yet appropriate song I played during the show is Deirdre Flint's "Presidential Succession". Should you wish to listen, it's from 12:42 to 15:40. Deirdre also has a podcast.The two people I interviewed on the air were Deb Atwell and Steve Burke. Deb is the local contact for Maine Impeach, and Steve is one of the original founders of the Midcoast Peace and Justice Group. Midcoast Peace and Justice holds meetings at 7PM on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Rockland. They are free and open to the public.Both Maine Impeach and Midcoast Peace and Justice will provide pro-impeachment stickers and yard signs, should you desire that.There are many such groups around Maine. The two largest are Peace Action Maine in Portland, and the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine in Bangor. An umbrella organization is the Maine Coalition for Peace and Justice.I had a first for Live and Direct, a caller expressing her views. The transcript of that segment is below: (this exchange happens between 29:48 and 31:29, for those of you eager to hear it)Female Caller: I'm a Republican, and I think George Bush is the best president we've ever had, and this is all just a bunch of crap.Kim: Well, I understand those are your political views and you're welcome to them. We have the people that we're interviewing, and they're welcome to theirs as well.Caller: Let me just say: George Bush is only against slackers and sinners and terrorists, so if you don't like him, which one of the three are you?Steve: I guess I can try and answer the lady's question, or at least give my spin on it. I don't think George Bush is a Republican at all. I think the Bush administration is pretty much run by neo-conservatives and they've defied most of the tenets of the Republican party. Most Republicans aren't really thrilled with the ideas of military adventurism, they support fiscal responsibility, a balanced budget, in the Reagan tradition they're against increasing the size of the federal bureaucracy, and the Bush administration has failed at all of this. I think that true Republicans are going to be severing ties with this administration pretty fast come election time.Caller: Twenty years from now when they blow us all up, you'll remember that, and you'll say George Bush was a good president.Kim: Thank you for your call.I thank everyone that took the time to talk to me for their thoughts and criticism, opinions and analysis of the most important—but least aired, in mainstream media—political issue of our time. As always, I welcome your dialogue and criticism. If you are so inclined, please contact me.

Behold, Live and Direct #5. This, the second episode of Live and Direct Listens, and the 5th episode of Live and Direct, is upon us. This too-long-for-the-air, uncompromising, special podcast version runs for one hour, ten minutes, and seventeen seconds, and will set you back 64.4 megabytes of disk space.Today's featured Listen is ESCM by BT (also known as Brian Transeau). This album was released in 1997 following his debut album Ima. The US version (featured in this podcast) included the track "Lullaby for Gaia" (5:26); in the UK, the track included instead was "The Road to Lostwithiel" (8:38), which I have not heard but will attempt to dig up.I didn't have time to play tracks 5 and 6 ("Memories In A Sea Of Forgetfulness" and "Solar Plexus") on air, but I've inserted them in the proper place in the podcast, thanks to Audacity, a podcaster's best friend.BT rose to fame in the late Nineties and helped define the sub-genre of Electronica called Trance (specifically "Dream Trance"). His albums, however, often avoid categorization and jump genres happily. He has created and employed several production effects, notably the "Stutter Edit" and "Break Tweaker", which are both slated to be released by BT's software venture this year. Speaking of software, BT codes much of the software used to produce his music himself, by hand. Check out some of the interesting trivia and hard-core geekiness behind his latest effort, This Binary Universe. On a more domestic note, "BT has said that the album has a lullaby-like quality, inspired by his newborn daughter, Kaia, who sat on his lap throughout most of the song writing process." [from this Wikipedia article]As one of my listeners noted, sadly, BT's studio was recently burglarized again (the first time was in 2001), and hundreds of thousands of dollars of equipment stolen. This includes the data for his current show. On his site, Transeau discusses his intent to create a non-profit dedicated to helping musicians recover stolen gear and also to providing equipment to aspiring musicians who would not otherwise be able to afford it.If you have ideas for future Listens, please email me. Good night, and enjoy.

Live and Direct episode 4 is available for you to download and enjoy. It's 44.4MB in size, and 48 minutes and 24 seconds long. Live and Direct Listens is a new series on my show where I'll play cohesive albums in their entirety, as they were meant to be heard. This week's album is Chill Out, by the KLF.I prefer to listen to this album at night, because of the atmosphere and mood it evokes. It brings to mind a road trip through the Deep South, which was the artists' intent:I've never been to those places. I don't know what those places are like, but in my head, I can imagine those sounds coming from those places, just looking at the map.Chill Out is one of my favorite ambient albums of all time, by one of my favorite artists of all time. Let me know what you think of it, and if you have any suggestions for future albums to feature on Live and Direct, drop me a line.

Here is my third episode of Live and Direct. This one clocks in at 45:18 long, and 41.5MB big.This show is about weather, specifically of the man-made variety.Here's the playlist of songs:They Might Be Giants - The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent GasThe Weather Girls - It's Raining MenLittle Fluffy Clouds - The OrbHere are some pictures demonstrating atmospheric phenomena that most people would agree are beyond the common understanding of meteorology: holes punched out of clouds: geometric cloud patterns: wave fronts in existing clouds made by scalar weather manipulation (clouds aren't supposed to have r-r-r-ridges): "boiling sky/boiling clouds" - I saw this phenomenon, along with many other people, at the 2005 Common Ground fair in Unity, ME. Check out my gallery of weird weather from 9/25/05. Regretfully those pictures are terribly overexposed, but I have increased the contrast so you might be able to see the "artificial domes" in the cloud bottoms that fair attendees saw that day. Compare the relatively normal clouds in the first picture (taken at about 12:30pm) with the rest of the pictures (taken roughly two hours later).an image of the same phenomenon from Barium BluesI talked about a number of web sites and people in the show, and here are links to some of them:A short list of "starter" sites about weather modification:Scott Stevens' Weather Wars site (some pictures from the site are included below)Tom Bearden's site about weather phenomenaKen Adachi's Educate Yourself, a site featuring many, many interesting, compelling, and far-from-mainstream topics, including chemtrails and weather modification.discussion and hyperbole about chemtrails and weather modification, as well as speculation and very loosely-connected other topics.User-centric forum for discussion of chemtrails and related phenomena. As with the last few sites, your discretion is advised. Many of these sites need to be taken with a rather large grain of salt and with your conspiracy-theory aluminum foil hat firmly on.Sites about the mathematical and scientific background behind scalar weaponry and weather modification technology:a long and interesting essay urging that we re-examine classical electromagnetism in light of comparatively recent discoveries in particle physics, by John Bedini, an alternative energy researcher. [NOTE: as is elaborated there, Lorentz (not Heaviside as I suggested) was responsible for truncating Maxwell's equations into two components: the traditionally used and recognized "Poynting" component, and the neglected and ignored, but potentially more significant "Heaviside" component.]Tom Bearden has an overview of Gabriel Kron's "negative resistor" employed by the Navy's 1930's GE/Stanford University project named the "Network Analyzer" (now postulated to be an overunity energy device). This has, according to Bearden and Bedini, been a serious and long-standing oversight in the physics community, and that, would we recognize Kron's "open path" model in favor of our more limiting "closed-path" model used in classical circuitry and electrical engineering, we would be much further along. [PERSONAL NOTE: it is altogether likely that along with such amateur scientists as Bedini and Bearden, the likes of Tesla, the Russians, and now the US and other governments are using this knowledge. Disclosing this knowledge to the scientific community at large would, however, necessitate a lot of subsequent explaining of their motives for suppressing the knowledge. Alternately, one could speculate that most scientists are not willing to stick their neck too far out against the science orthodoxy ("Never attribute to malice of forethought what can be attributed to ignorance.")]The Revealed Secrets of Classical Electrodynamics, "Generalised Classical Electrodynamicsfor the prediction of scalar field effects" (also linked here), a lengthy and dense, but illuminating scientific paper by Koen van Vlaenderen of the NetherlandsThe Wilhelm Reich Museum, Orgonon, in Rangeley, Maine. They have copies of Reich's books available for purchase and they host an annual conference on Orgonomy (this year's will be from July 29 – August 1, 2007)PORE - Public Orgonomic Research Exchange has current work related to Reich's ideasThe Orgone Biophysical Research Lab is a current, practicing laboratory exploring orgonegoogling Steiner Biodynamics will show some of the similarities between Reich's and Steiner's energy theories. After Steiner's death several people applied biodynamic principles to the atmosphere's behavior with some success.Sites about the politics of weather modification:GovTrack's page about S. 517 [109th]: Weather Modification Research and Development Policy Authorization Act of 2005Weather Modification a Long-Established, Though Secretive, Reality by Mary-Sue Haliburton (I swear that's got to be a pseudonym, else it's timely irony)The Air Force's Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025Tom Bearden's site mentioned above has the following quote (mirrored in an archive of the Defense Department's page) from the former Secretary of Defense, William Cohen, at an April 1997 counterterrorism conference:"Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves… So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations…It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our [counterterrorism] efforts."finally, another Blogger user has posted a concise and informative overview of weather modification.Once again, thanks for listening to my show. I welcome any feedback you have. Keep looking up and don't lose your sense of wonder. Also, feel free to send me pictures of strange weather phenomena that you have witnessed. As Lao Tzu said, "The master observes the world, but trusts his inner vision."

Here is Live and Direct episode #2, "Auddities" in a slightly edited podcast (i added two songs; think of it as the Deluxe Remastered Podcast Edition). It weighs in at 62.5MB and clocks in at 1:08:15. (I ran over due to excess blabbing... good thing the hosts of the show after mine couldn't make it :)"Auddities" = "audio" + "oddities". These run the gamut from odd sounds to unusual production techniques to strange content. I divided the show up into the following sections, each followed by the approximate starting time (should you wish to skip to a particular section):Introduction, 0:00:00Algorithmic music, 0:00:42MIDI music, 0:04:52Tracked music, 0:10:20Sample-heavy music, 0:19:35(note for upstate NY peeps: Rochester/Vertex shoutout @0:33:30)Digitally produced music, 0:34:00Numbers stations (The Conet Project PDF; music: disc 1, disc 2, disc 3, disc 4), 0:42:40Natural phenomena (Electric Enigma PDF; music: disc 1, disc 2), 0:50:10Music about odd things, 0:54:46Wrap-up, 1:07:18The playlist for this show is as follows:A Poke Cheer (links 1, 2, and 3), Atari basic source code by Lloyd BurchiliRule 150 Binary, Java source code by Paul Reiners (IBM)*Rule 150 All Binary, Java source code by Paul Reiners (IBM)Fanfare, Ultima 3: Exodus, composed by Kenneth W. ArnoldTowns, Ultima 3: Exodus, composed by Kenneth W. ArnoldBubble Bobble theme, composed by David Whittaker, Tim Follin, and Peter ClarkeM.U.L.E. theme, composed by Roy GloverRunaway Scales, composed by U4iaGods theme, Nation 12 (composed by "John Foxx"/Dennis Leigh)The Queen and I, 1987, KLFHouse of the Dead, The Big Cahoona, SequencialAnna Denies Tattoo Rumor, Purveyors of Reason and Law, Quelnt (8bit peoples), Irdial-DiscsIiPP Three, Islets in Pink Polypropylene, Anthony Manning, Irdial-DiscsThe Lincolnshire Poacher, The Conet Project, Irdial-DiscsPhonetic Alphabet NATO, The Conet Project, Irdial-DiscsFish Rock Road Whistler Shower, Electric Enigma, Stephen McGreevy, Irdial-DiscsEves River Auroral Chorus, Electric Enigma, Stephen McGreevy, Irdial-Discs*The Power of Lard [explicit lyrics], Power of Lard, LardPlea From a Cat Named Virtue, Reconstruction Site, The Weakerthans* only on the Deluxe Remastered Podcast EditionAgain, thanks for listening. Your feedback is always welcome.

Here is my first show in mp3 format, minus the technical difficulties: Live and Direct #1 (49.4MB, 53:57). It features my introduction, a song by Enigma, and a speech by Terence McKenna entitled "Culture and Ideology are not Your Friends". It's dedicated to my daughter Abigail, with a little surprise from her at the end.As soon as I figure out how to do it, a podcast feed will be available. EDIT: I re-encoded it as a 22KHz MP3; I apologize if that's still too big for some people to download. Thanks for listening, and please share your thoughts.