12:00 AM (Midnight) PST: Fridays
Themed mixes are made live and spontaneously on the air from a variety of formats and equipment. There is a plan and there is no plan. The mix consists of found sound of many kinds and from many sources, old and new, put together on the run as the continuous audio collage continues. OTE sometimes employs “Receptacle Programming,” which means you. Hosted by Jon Leidecker and Robert Cole.
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As NASA’s Mercury Program continues to launch in the early 60’s and UFO sightings continue unabated, our radio goes top 40 and our music goes surfing and then romantically pop. Also, comedy from Jonathan Winters and acid parties with Timothy Leary and Alan Watts. 3 Hours.
We begin a sub-series on space in the 60’s which also focuses heavily on the music of the decade. This one is all about the early 60’s, including NASA’s Mercury Program launches from Cape Canaveral which put America’s first men in space while music became folk-inspired and psychedelic drugs began to appear. 3 Hours
Ann McGuire, Wobbly, Don. Crosley Bendix hosts songstress (with an emphasis on stress) Ann Mcguire, appearing with Wobbly as Freddy McGuire, for a night of her poems set to improvised music. Will this be the show that finally puts her over the top of fame and fortune? Crosley is convinced but all of entertainment is … Continued
Our selective overview of the Universe and its other life expands to comedy with The Firesign Theatre’s “Everything You Know Is Wrong,” plus intermixing two 50’s documentaries on the flying saucer flap from America and Britain, lots of Pink Floyd, and Wobbly can’t borrow my Booper. 3 Hours.
Back to unidentified flying life in the Universe and what that makes us feel about everything. Bits from “Moonrock Footnotes #13” continue, along with what the Bible says about flying saucers, old radio science fiction and documentaries about same, scientists describing the Universe, and songs that are trying to get to a point too big … Continued
Suicide Man, himself, shows up for a live, 3 hour talk show about the universe. We take calls and discuss the many mysteries of space as we understand it, which isn’t that much as it turns out. An unusual encounter with Suicide Man, one of our oldest and most dedicated callers to Over The Edge. … Continued
Sightings and saucers continue with a lengthy and detailed account of the icon-forming Roswell saucer crash in ’47 and all the lore about it that followed. Mixed in is an OTE episode from 2001, “Moonrock Footnotes #13, which contains a lot of original scripted fiction of mine built around some old radio fiction about scientists … Continued
Films and their projectors spin at the center of this second look at saucers flying in the ‘50’s. A ‘50’s dramatized documentary film, “The Truth About Flying Saucers,” plays pretty straight for its historical interest, intruded upon only by “novelty” songs of the day on the subject and Receptacle callers. “What is this, science fiction … Continued
This one is all about the flying saucer rage of the 1950’s. All the material comes from the 50’s, including a Long John Neble historical overview of the whole flap, first person encounter accounts, descriptions of various crafts seen, 50’s science fiction drama acknowledging this emergence of aliens in our culture, and 50’s songs on … Continued
