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2:33:36 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Car inspection blues, Tom Bombadil, I passed inspection!, The Exit Ramp #55 – Rummage Mu, Tahiti, Tahitian Terrace, tiki bars, kava kava, Aer City Pack X-Pac as a cat bed, Iasos – Bora Bora 2000, The Rampler #292 (5/13/09), the cold open, fettuccine insanity, haircuts, new Thai place, Donald Trump, sci-fi concept, branching timelines, Letterman visits Trump in 1986, automatic seatbelts, Phish Mondegreen Festival, trash the airport meadow, Whychock Revival, Fraunces font, return to Second Avenue, scaffolding, Coca-Cola Wozzaah, Polynesiacs – Tiki at Home, Gamma Flunk, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:53:12)… WLS Channel 7 – The Day After (Opening & Pre-Show Break, 1983) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Raga Train by Jim Guittard [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], 1/2/1983 ABC Promos “Fall Guy” “The Gold Monkey” “Three’s Company” + more [YouTube], spring break, big bang bar, diamond lady, frontier [PinMAME], Maryland Public Television circa 1970’s Ident [YouTube], Showbiz intro (1970s) [YouTube], KNBC-4 1970- The NBC Comedy Theater, Very Rare Promo [Obsolete Video/YouTube], Toronto, 1970s [YouTube], PAY CARDS opening credits syndicated game show [YouTube], HA! TV COMEDY NETWORK – 1991 bumpers, promos, show opens [YouTube (peetoons)], Yoruba Diasporas by Teo Vincent IV [IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0], Sunburnt Werewolf by Tequila Moonrise [FreeMusicArchive, CC0 1.0], ABC Network – The Flintstones – “Fred’s Flying Lesson” (Promo, 1965) [FuzzyMemories.TV].

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 Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

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3:09:17 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Car detailing and inspection, Whychick Revival, Fernwood, Dabney Coleman in Buffalo Bill, Murder One, TV stories per week, Twin Peaks theory, new hard drive, Dead and Company at Sphere update, MC 900 Foot Jesus was in The Telefones, Beavis & Butthead, Megalopolis, drive cycle blues, Dudman’s Den, ancient incense, ultra obscure fonts, The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel, Doctor Who episode 73 Yards, crockinole, new hoodie, Fortnite Wrecked, Edmund Fitzgerald Porter, Alleyway save scumming, Nethack, timeline manipulation, consonance, science, Kamakiriad, The Stellar Bartender, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:28:06)… The Making Of Luxor Las Vegas Documentary 1993 (1/4) [YouTube], Cerebral Steve by Orange Magnolia (3/20/10 – Live at Gottrocks – Greenville, SC) [Archive.org, CC BY-ND 3.0], P.M. Magazine – on the VCR Market, 1984 [YouTube], Rainmaker Jam by August West (Live at Main Stage Hemp Fest II – The Hempire Strikes Back!!! on 2010-07-10) [Archive.org], Going Walkabout in Cyberspace, 1993 (edit) [YouTube], Waltzing Oxe by Antti Luode [anttismusic.blogspot.com, CC BY 3.0], louis vuitton fake handbags Good beef Sichuan by tim.kahn [Freesound, CC BY 3.0].

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 Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

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4:10:33 – Frank in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York, plus the Other Side. Topics include: The missing blue bin, torrential downpour, car detailing, today’s adventure: Return to Crystal Run, Whychock Revival logo, Excoffon, Think I’m Going Weird, amber screen, stuck in a parking lot, lost, white corn chips, Rockaway mall, classic arcade, pinball, 80s witchcraft, traffic jam Rt. 80, smoke trend Wednesday, Rockefeller Center, Uncle Joe’s Mint Balls, bus tire blowout, 9/11, Pennsylvania Welcome Center, Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Park Headquarters, Rt. 209, Fernwood, weird bridge toll, Stokes, Space Farms Zoo & Museum, turtle attacking goose, Murder One, jury duty, MoMA, vegan bagel, Beatnic locations closed, Spanish potato chip investigations, ultra liminal “museums”, monuments closed for the day, refrigerator synchronicity, Rock Fantasy in Middletown, NY, more pinball, blacklight posters, black panther synchronicity, Return to Crystal Run, Konami Smash Stadium, arcade nihilism, knee sunburn, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 3:27:32)… Palm Vision – Beauties (Original Mix) by PalmVision Official [Soundcloud, CC BY 3.0], CONFESSIONS OF A PSYCHO CAT trailer [Archive.org, public domain], Blue Line by Café Del Chillia [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Back to 1987 (face b) by fspee [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 2.5], Kuso Wait by Tone Tone [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], Movimiento Robotico by Danubio Rodriguez [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Why Doesn’t Cathy Eat Breakfast? [A/V Geeks, public domain], Funk Shui by SLiVeR [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Flutterby by Starlight Girls [Bandcamp, CC BY-NC 3.0], Leafless Quince Tree by Rolemusic [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Radio Madness by Taxi Dancer [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Recording of IBM 7094 singing “A Bicycle Built for Two (Daisy)”, 1961 [textfiles.com], The Prince of Persia by Metastaz [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC 4.0], Outlaws of Spacecraft by Tree Bag Ask [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Outlaw Masquerade by Tree Bag Ask [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0].

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 Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

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3:24:15 – Frank in NJ, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Punch card labyrinth, big blanket, power washing the porch, ladybug larvae, punch boards, Edge Shaving Cream, Wawa, IBC Root Beer, Whychock Revival, Glass Beams, Karate Boogaloo, The Richat Structure / Eye of the Sahara, Western Sahara, Atlantis, car detailing, “portal” update, the chat, a Vanilla Sky transfer, Wacky Packages Old School, virtual card collecting, Irish Eviltime, quick drive thru weird areas, USB-C AA batteries, Fortnite Far Out Man, Cycling Frog Wild Cherry THC Seltzer, Dead and Company Sphere update, Dabney Coleman dead at 92, Doctor Who episode “Boom”, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:43:27)… It Happens All The Time by Paul Lisak & After The Ice [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0], Archipelago’s The Open Show – Week 3 [collection], Polar Lion – La Seduccion (May 2010) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], KENNEDY AFTER TWO YEARS [FedFlix, public domain], There’s a Madman Chasin’ After Me by Pancakes O’Malley [collection], LORILLARD PROGRAM TAPE 2 (excerpt 2) [Archive.org], The Reality Machine by Monroeville Music Center [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY 3.0], WLS Channel 7 – Bizarre with Richard Dawson (Opening & Break, 1979) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Tchaikovsky – The Nutcracker Suite – Act I, No.7. Dance of the Flutes [Musopen, public domain], 4-butte-1: A lesson in archaeology (1967) (excerpt 2) [Archive.org, public domain].

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 Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

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4:00:13 – Frank in NJ, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Early morning power failure, white noise, busy week, local election, Dead and Company at Sphere, Grateful Dead history, Revolutionary Hamstrung Blues, Whychock Revival, Fraunces font, the Chantico cups, later, watching the show, next day, paving, After Glyptography, The Evel Knievel Museum, Mirage closing, Pixel 7a ringtones, Chinese card game Guangdan / Throwing Eggs, GPT-4o conversational AI, Dystopika demo, massive stir fry, Megalopolis, Nedick’s, AGI, world theories, noise pollution, difficult thought experiment, Rebel Cheese – Pepper Jack, Loona Yves videos, USB-C rechargeable batteries, interestingness, Sam Ash shutting down after 100 years, the organ sound Reface YC, People-Vultures, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 3:18:45)… Quadra – Boot [collection], Space Dominator Squadron by Antti Luode [anttismusic.blogspot.com, CC BY 3.0], Nite-Owl [FuzzyMemories.TV], Gambler Rock by D_Tom [Jamendo, CC BY-SA 3.0], Repo Man (TV Version) – Lorna Doones [collection], Twinky by DallaS [Archive.org], Audio Collage Poetry Soundscape (as performed at the Artist Abbey Experimental Arts Festival, Dec. 2022) by PQ Ribber [YouTube].

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 Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

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2:56:56 – Frank in NJ, plus the Other Side. Topics include: VR Expo 10 years ago, Nightstation VR, still no metaverse, port, Aggro Dr1ft (2023), Conversation Pit Loco, car inspection fail, The Old Time Radio Talk, Paramus Park Mall, 7777, new Doctor Who episodes “Space Babies” and “The Devil’s Chord”, “portal” between NYC and Dublin, tripleS 24 member debut, Apple “crush” ad, the AI situation, Big Truck Day, solar storms, auroras, NJ Transit ticket bombshell, Wicked Foods Late Night Rice Noodles, new Megalopolis trailer, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:16:30)… The Shirley Temple Show Fall Preview [TV Obscurities], Crow Bean Running by Tree Bag Ask [Onsug, CC BY 4.0], Sharon Tate – Coppertone ‘Don’t Make Waves’ movie promo [Archive.org], TOUR OF THE UNIVERSE (1986-1992) [Retrontario, YouTube], C Channel – Music intro (1983) [YouTube], Feel It Down by MOPI [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Marlene by X-Breed [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Going Away by Christophe MARC [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Mancala Champs by Tree Bag Ask [Onsug, CC BY 4.0], Greenshine by Brady Arnold [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], What Is It That I Can Do For You Girl by Elegic Landslide [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Dialing Web TV [collection].

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 Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

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4:02:03 – Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Wasp ease, Nichibutsu shirt, Moon Cresta, mahjong, Twin Peaks, Repo Man 2: The Wages of Beer, A Texas Tale of Treason (2006), Starbucks Chantico cups, Coca-Cola Blak, Pepsi Kona, Crazy Climber, Frisky Tom, The Phantom Menace re-release, General Cinema, Sunset Door – I Zimbra, Whychock Revival, Fat Choy temporarily closed, bad airplane dreams, Jerry Harrison, cat visit, new smoke alarm, Toga Enduro, Steve Albini dead at 61, Tom Bodett, The Animaniacs, Megalopolis trailer, Dead and Company at Sphere, adequate vegan burger/fries/shake lunch, Japanese bookstore, Nostalgic Vending Machine models, Grace Plaza, Chevy Malibu ending production, oatmeal with sesame sticks, new season of Doctor Who, Tales Of Ephidrina (30th Anniversary Edition) by The Amorphous Androgynous (1993), Superiors, Aggro Dr1ft, Weird Little Highway, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 3:21:10)… Here I Am by MyVirtualBand Members [MyVirtualBand (defunct), CC BY 2.0], Follow the Drinking Gourd by Roger McGuinn [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], The Armixhony Of Conrad by Fuzzy Daupner [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Remembering by MyVirtualBand Members [MyVirtualBand (defunct), CC BY 2.0], HeyBabyHeyBabyHey Lovethang by Goldstoned [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Donkey Kong by Praktika [Ektoplazm, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0], William Jennings Bryan’s Ideal Republic [collection], The Darkness Within by MyVirtualBand Members [MyVirtualBand (defunct), CC BY 2.0], Hollywood Capers (edit) [Archive.org, public domain], Paragon Rag by Scott Joplin (performed by Gerlüz) [IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Middlesix – Zontar the Thing From Venus (1966) [Archive.org], WBBM Channel 2 – TV 2 News at 10pm – “Chroma Key Afro” (1973) [FuzzyMemories.TV].

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 Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

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3:24:24 – Peter, Frank, Jefferson, Bryan, and Briana on a Weasel adventure in Pennsylvania, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Wawa, arrival at Bryan’s, Mediterranean cuisine, Gamehendge, Manayunk, Lord of the Rings, Otherworld, Nifty Fifty’s, birch beer, credit card holograms, supermarket, dropping off Jefferson, Universal Studios Monsters Horrified board game, Amish Market, West Chester, Taco Mar, coffee, game store, Good Planet Foods – Pepper Jack Cheese Slices, True Food Kitchen, New Directions in the World of Weasel Leisure, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:43:02)… Classic 1970’s Television: 1970 Promo for ABC-TV’s Friday Line-Up [YouTube], Rain of Love by Jim Obzina [Jamendo, CC BY-SA 3.0], 1977 79 Commercials Mt Airy Lodge, WOR, Yoo Hoo [YouTube], Telemann – 18 Canons Mélodieux (part 16, perfomed by Michel Rondeau) [IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library, CC BY-NC 4.0], The Clever Rodent Cafe by Another Flask of Weird [Archive.org, CC BY-ND 3.0], Bubble Bath Aftermath by virt [Ubiktune, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], WLVI Channel 56 – The Benny Hill Show (Ending & Partial Break, 1979) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Ukelele Lady by Polar Lion [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], David Letterman Dropping Stuff off of a 5 Story Tower. [YouTube], Way To New Start by Synth Dimension [Archive.org. CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], WLS Channel 7 – The ABC Thursday Night Movie – “The Return of the King” (Opening & Commercial Break, 1983) [FuzzyMemories.TV], La descente by Demoiselle Döner [FreeMusicArchive, public domain], The Games of Starcade – Bag Man [YouTube], Summer Vacation by Copper Man [collection].

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 Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

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2:18:45 – Frank in New Jersey and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Art coffee hoax, Princeton street fair, 1995, cat goddess time travel hijinks, foggy, Robert Palmer, HQ Trivia, Genesis, Trash The Airport Meadow, Some Like It Hot (1959), robot lawnmowers, lunch in Brooklyn, Family Feud, Wheel of Fortune, vegan ramen, food hall, ducts, Whychock Revival, Legends of Indie Comics, door to door bugman, animation school, whimsy and fanciful thinking, Massive Attack synchronicity?, Hale & Hearty Soups shut down in 2022, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:37:36)… John Glenn ‘Friendship 7’ Launch [collection], Triangle Beams At Funny Angles by Someone Else [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Puppets Dangling by Jacco Gardner [SoundCloud, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], In Extremis by George Sterling [LibriVox, public domain], My Needs Are Different by Smersh [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Make Your Own Magic (1989) (excerpt) [YouTube], Daydream Diary by Spinefish [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], GLUE Ep. 2 “Ponch” [YouTube], I’m Confused by Guitari [collection], ‘Rotary Connection’ LP ad [Archive.org], WGN Channel 9 – Family Classics – “The Canterville Ghost” (Opening, 1983) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Lionfish by Sushi Brother [Archive.org, CC BY-ND-NC 1.0], Ganja Rabbit by Bubar the Cook [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Bagpipe Uncle at the Subway Entrance by Shuwen Zhang [IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library, CC BY-NC 4.0], A New Cupboard From Ikea by Ilkae [Archive.org, CC BY-ND-NC 1.0], Film logos of the 1970s – 1980s Part 5 [YouTube].

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 Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

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3:14:18 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Shatter spice, pepper grinder, blue Mason jars, milk glass mugs, terra cotta phone case, cart abandonment, Aggro Dr1ft tickets, Vegemite, bread, Meow Wolf, Oracle of the Source, Quark, Kirwan Deck, creativity, Whychock Revival, poker, Hi Weird Little Highway, Peignot, WHYCHOCK 1224, creative wreckage, radio talk, PlayStation emulator DuckStation, 90s ‘tude, You Don’t Know Jack, in the archive, casino solitaire, Weasel Adventure, seaside scent, comic strip penguin mystery, overheard on the merch line, net neutrality, Sphere robots, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:33:03)… Things You Want To Do by Fuzzy Logic [Jamendo, CC BY-SA 3.0], I Want To Be With You by Guitari [collection], Stereophonic Motor Club by Juanitos [Jamendo, CC BY 3.0], Sheriff’s Song by Starsheriff Orchestra [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Home Sweet Home [collection], Radio waves (old) [via Webm8 productions], 051 – The Melancholy Pool by Clark Ashton Smith [LibriVox, public domain], What Can We Do (vocal Karine Tharreau) by Yvalain [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Squeeze Me Like a Snake by The Search [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 2.5], ALIEN radio adverts, London release, September 1979 [YouTube], Smoke by Evan Schaeffer [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY 4.0], WBBM Channel 2 – Partial Commercial Break (1976) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Surfin Simon by Crazy Aces [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Kim Fowley ‘Underground Animal’ LP Promo [Archive.org], In Saturn by Clark Ashton Smith [LibriVox, public domain], Lo fi by aoriste [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Hong Kong Here and Now: Tobacco Related Health Concerns (1983) [Archive.org].

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 Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com