01:46:59 — While I’m in-between producing shows or whatever, enjoy one of the random recordings I’ve been posting on my Spotify feed since the last episode of my podcast, The Midnight Citizen, back in November 2025. On this episode, join me on another trip to Quincy, IL, where I walk along the waterfront of the Mississippi River and loiter in the parking lot of the posh local boating club. Later, I sit on the back porch of a shuttered bar close to my hotel and reflect on anything and whatever. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike US License. Attr
Originally posted July 18, 2026 on The Midnight Citizen Spotify feed 01:30:24 — While I’m in-between producing shows or whatever, enjoy one of the random recordings I’ve been posting on my Spotify feed since the last episode of my podcast, The Midnight Citizen, back in November 2025. On this episode, join me in the midwest — first in a vacant lot overlooking the Mississippi River at dusk in small town Quincy, and later on a walk around the famous arch in St. Louis, Missouri. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike US License. Attribution by Mike Boo
2:53:19 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: John Peel’s Perfumed Garden, fox, social media reckoning, Grand Theft Auto VI: Extended Trailer, health, Heroes, inZOI, Push The Onsug Random Radio Button, rain, The Big Three, American Truck Simulator, synchronicities, Joe Schmo 2 (2004), Love, American Style, Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, the lion thing, the cosmic horror of The Brady Kids, The Brady Bunch Variety Hour, metafiction, Baby Face, The OA, Eyes Wide Shut (1999), The Shining (1980), Artificial Cinnamon Council, Tim Curry dead at 80, list songs, The Great Wall (
4:50:47 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: PATH Bad Bill posters, Brooklyn, pinball, Flea Devil Solitaire, Push The Onsug Random Radio Button, ‘De La Soul is Dead’ 35th Anniversary, SpaghettiOs, Ice Cream Irn-Bru, Murder Mystery Liquid Death Sparkling Energy, beverage review – Dirty Zero Sugar Mountain Dew Cream Soda Dew, synchronicities (Urge Overkill shirt, missing clock numbers, buses becoming spaceships), addiction, audio series Afterlore, Urgh! A Music War (1981), time, Occam’s Razor, ambient, Invisible Sex, Klaus Nomi, Rush Limbaugh, Cargo Cupboard, The Man Who S
3:27:03 – Middle-Eight Dream State is a series that contains longform and/or experimental material and will be released whenever seems appropriate to my weird creative impulses (okay, so it’s REALLY been a while). This episode is a field recording from our family trip to Disney World back in May. All told, I recorded almost 13 hours of material. (The rest will be released in the near future.) Epcot – 5/14/26 (0:00-1:01:11), Hollywood Studios – 5/14/26 evening (1:01:11-3:27:03). Part 1 of 4. Recorded 5/14/26 on my iPhone 13. M8D006. License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommer
Originally posted June 14, 2026 on The Midnight Citizen Spotify feed 51:02 — While I’m in-between producing shows or whatever, enjoy one of the random recordings I’ve been posting on my Spotify feed since the last episode of my podcast, The Midnight Citizen, back in November 2025. On this episode, join me for a walk down Whiskey Alley in downtown Louisville, KY as I walk off an Old Fashioned and try to find my rental car. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike US License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released August 2026 on The Overnightscape Undergr
1:48:23 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic recording from my collection. It’s a way to help motivate me to release more of my archives. Continuing the audiobook version of my “failed science fiction novel” Severe Repair. This time… CUPLINE 5: THE CARBONIZE NEIGHBOR and CUPLINE 6: YELLOWHAUS, read by computer voice “Azure Harper MAI-Voice-2”. Find the text version of the full book here: severerepair.com License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-n
8:51:34 – An inspiration on a Sunday morning, Macho Condor Cyberspace brings back the occasional Macho Condor with an assortment of deep, longer audio clips from Other Side history, some surf tunes, plus a couple of previously unreleased rarities. Track list: [Mego 2-XL] General Information 1 – Track 1 [Archive.org], El Jaguar by The Surge! [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Tron, The Secret of NIMH, The Devils Playground (1982) [siskelandebert.org], Ride Until Dawn by Archie Vetters & Drumsdick [SurfGuitar101.com, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], Floor Care (3/11/24) [collection], Beat Surf by Rev Mike [SurfGu
4:48:51 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Heavy bus delays, Sonic in Fortnite, characters from different IP universes, independent creators, creative energy, Push The Onsug Random Radio Button, Vic and Sade, Shambles, surrender to the flow, national debt reaches 40 trillion, Dreamies Program 13, Paul is dead, rain, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick audiobook coming in January, Wreck of the Edge Piper, holograms, next day, characteristics, dreams, FJ Cruiser, Corvette, new giant statue, Batman, The Cramps, psychobilly, Bridges Towards Open Spaces: Circadian Rhythms 1967-2
2:45:47 – Charley Straight Imperial Piano Roll Tuscaloosa Alabama (unknown, 1925, public domain), WLVI Channel 56 – Get Smart (Commercial Breaks, 1975) (from archive.org), Bromides (Tom 7, public domain), Sleepwalker (Tony Dubshot, Attribution NC ND 3.0), Singing talking and car racing noises? ca. 1961 (Oldradios90, from archive.org), Time (Playmewhile, Attribution ND 3.0), Juice (Paper Tiger, Attribution NC SA 3.0), Unknown interview – John Lennon in late 1969 (from archive.org), Whispering (Paul Whiteman Orchestra, 1920, public domain), Shaolin Rock (BeatStar, Attribution NC ND 3.0), When I
5:16:43 – The Three Weasels (Frank, Peter, and Bryan) in Pennsylvania, and Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Arrived in Pennsylvania, 40 years of The Three Weasels, The Oddities & Curiosities Expo, McDonald’s, GreenDrop, NetHack, Nash, Gangster Vegan Organics, Wawa, Dirty Cream Soda Mountain Dew, Amish Market, Pinball Gallery, vegan dinner, Weasels depart, two days later, Push The Onsug Random Radio Button, Severe Repair: The Broken Text – Audiobook Part 2 – Cupline 4, Lanterns, Afterlore, Creature Weasel Feature, Litzenburg font, The Downings, the interface, telepresen
2:00:40 – Join Chad Bowers and Mike Boody as they discuss movie posters, movie theatre work, video games, marketing fun with computers, new jobs, bad pizza service, not so great pizza, up down arcade in Birmingham, minimum wage workers used to try, fast food soda sometimes tastes like a fish tank, getting out of the hotel while traveling, cigars, pacman has all gone red, racing in hydro thunder and San Francisco Rush, Pinball. 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/)
1:24:56 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic recording from my collection. It’s a way to help motivate me to release more of my archives. It’s been nearly six years since I recorded Part 1 of the audiobook version of my “failed science fiction novel” Severe Repair. Since I never got back to it, I figured I’d see how it would sound for the reading to be continued by a computer voice. It sounded alright, so here it is! CUPLINE 4: WINTER STADIUM THEM read by “Azure Harper MAI-Voice-2” Find the text version of the full book here: severerepa
2:21:15 – Frank in Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Smoking gold, fuzz looked like key, The Onsug Radio Trip, Push The Onsug Random Radio Button, Dueling Animated Banjo Skeletons, void moons, Shaver Hall, The Shaver Mystery, Die Hard (1988) 35mm scan, Aldi, Lidl, The Three Weasels, The Oddities & Curiosities Expo, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:40:42)… Hibernacion by Jaime Heras [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], College Radio by The Prefab Messiahs [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0] , Hodgepodge Lodge (excerpt) [YouTube], Advert for Chillin’ FM 2 [via Webm8 productions], Untit
3:08:24 – Frank in Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: The flat tire, lug nuts, garage door opener, some of the worst movies ever made, The Master of Disguise (2002), Rose Falcon, Alanis Morrissette, Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026), new Strawberry Alarm Clock album Where’s One?, tiki convention, praying mantis, The Pathfinder, About The Lovely Overture, The Onsug Radio Trip, Thomas Edison synchronicity, the database, House of the Dragon, stories, Spanish eclipse, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:27:34)… Beublin 04 – Cheyenne (Season One – 1990) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], 70’s
2:22:43 – Dave in Kentucky is joined by Eddie Murray (at 33:50), Chad Bowers (at 52:38) and Frank Edward Nora (at 1:22:07) to share ideas about popular misconceptions, unpopular opinions and populist politics. Next month’s topics: The Physical, the Mental and the Spiritual. Record about one, two or all three of these and send audio files or links to DaveKY at mail.com by 6pm Central Time on September 10, 2026. Show art: Night Windows (1928) by Edward Hopper (1882-1967) depicts our sneaky time traveler from the automat after she has returned to her room and is getting ready for bed, where she w
1:17:58 – Here we go, let’s take The Onsug Radio Trip! It’s a neverending audio adventure for the dedicated wanderer and connoisseur of the random and weird and deep. As we dive into the archive that is over 16,000 hours long, you never know what you will encounter. There a many ways to listen. You can go full random for the deepest exploration. But sometimes you just want to go with the flow and focus in on one particular kind of listening experience. For this session, let’s set the filter to “The Rampler”, a nickname for host Frank Edward Nora. This filter will only play Frank’s solo ramblin
Originally posted December 25, 2025 on The Midnight Citizen Spotify feed 45:00 — While I’m in-between producing shows or whatever, enjoy one of the random recordings I’ve been posting on my Spotify feed since the last episode of my podcast, The Midnight Citizen, back in November 2025. This one I recorded on a humid Christmas night in Birmingham, AL. Join me for a drink as I mull over Stanley Kubrick’s last movie “Eyes Wide Shut” — the weirdo plot, theories old and new, and why nobody “saw” it when it came out…even though I processed countless late fees for the VHS at Blockbuster. This work is
2:22:20 – Frank in Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Attic tunnels, NetHack, col medicine, The Boys, Popcorn Mania, noclip.website, Nightstation, next day, another Ireland synchronicity, Rick and Morty, Omni Magazine (Feb. 1981), and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:41:22)… Wild Palms Trailer 1993 [YouTube], Mark Kermode and Katie Puckrik Glastonbury 1994 [YouTube], new-beat by bethke-musik [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Spacer 8714 by Xuranium [Ektoplazm, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0], The Little Red School House by American Quartet with Billy Murray (1922) [Archive.org, public domain], SEGA “
Fusebox 281: “THE GREAT INFLATOR” 30:54 SHOW INTRO – ALMOST :: Surprise Guests ::No, Really. Show Open :: The Great Inflator :: MAGA-Successful Failure :: Fusebox Liner :: I Don’t Got To Show You No Stinking’ Tariffs! :: Have You Heard The Good News?: Giant Anteaters Return! HYHTGN: Amazon Reports Fewer Fires HYHTGN: Viktor Goes Dark HYHTGN: New Tuberculosis Vaccine :: Worm Brain Gets Flushed :: HYHTGN: New Long Life Battery :: A Grindhouse Minute: “The Hot Box” (1972) :: Show Close Non-bloating thanks to our contributors; Pete Chiarella, Mago Weston, and Leslie Jane Hugely big thanks to Grind
2:54:04 – Frank in Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: New Strawberry Alarm Clock album this Friday, wook flu, flat tire, fever dreams, lucid dreaming, The Overnightscape Underground Listening System – Full Random, The Pep Talk with John Carl Pepe – Talkin’ About The Band Called Phish, delusions, The Cosmic Information Cop-Out, Rush, power outage, Flea Devil Solitaire, Braulio (liqueur), robotaxis, Newsweasels, Short Attention Span Theater, Downtown, Mom and Dad Save the World (1992), Charlie Dell, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:13:11)… asked the dream by tim.kahn [Freesound
1:00:45 – Frank appears as a guest on The Pep Talk with John Carl Pepe, along with Mat Demek from Blanks&Postage, talking about Phish. Produced by Hercules Invictus The original episode can be found here:
1:51:26 – At long last, an actual random listening system has arrived! Using AI, I was able to build a small web app that has a button, that when clicked, starts playing at a random moment in the entire Onsug Archive of over 16,000 hours of shows. All is explained in the introduction, and then my first listening session is presented. Try it out! Here’s the very first web app: https://onsug.com/shuffle1/ Here’s an improved version, which lists that last 50 shows listened to: https://onsug.com/shuffle2/ I plan of putting the most up-to-date version here: https://onsug.com/shuffle/ It’s still ver
34:03 – Once again we go After Hours to find out why streaming TV customers are finding their ordinary lives turned into TV dramas. There’s drama in the meth lab for Dr Smith, Will and the Robot in this week’s episode of ‘Lost and Spaced’ as an experiment gets out of hand, while The-Man-in-the-Pub wades into the ‘Paul is Dead’ debate and uncovers a bizarre tale of amnesia, stolen identities and market stalls. Psychic FM’s agony uncle looks into a case of ‘Naked Possession’ and we get a preview of WNKR’s new classic comedy. Finally, the ‘Battering of Britain’ is spotlighted in an investigation
5:03:12 – Frank in NYC and New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: SCTV dream, at Madison Square Garden for night 4 of Phish (95 night), hot dog, new rail tunnel, train, midnight snack, next day, 209th day of the year, Nancy’s Buttons, random slogans, the youthful urge to transgress, The Third Way of Evolution, The Manifesto for a Post-Materialist Science, consciousness, nerd culture of the 70s and 80s, self-mythologizing, morphic resonance, views on The Odyssey (2026), storms, I Defend Wormhole, next day, at Madison Square Garden for night 5 of Phish (96 night), helpful organizations
