[Kzyxtalk] They're just winding you up.

[Marco McClean]

/"Whenever you feel powerless, remember: a single one of your turds can 
shut down an entire water park."/

The recording of last night's (2019-03-22) KNYO Fort Bragg and KMEC 
Ukiah arguably world-class Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show is 
available by one or two clicks, depending on whether you want to listen 
to it now or download it and keep it for later and, speaking of which, 
it's right here:
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0325

Besides that, also at http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com you can find a 
fresh batch of dozens of links to not necessarily radio-useful but 
nonetheless worthwhile educational items I set aside for you while 
gathering the show together. Such as:

A short sad story with a quiet gut-punch of a sad punchline. Except 
maybe not. Think it through again.
https://tinyurl.com/MissCTheWait

Ultima Thule, what a weirdo. Weird name, weird place.
https://tinyurl.com/UltimaThuleWeird

I loved this ride, the Rocket to the Moon ride in Disneyland. I don't 
know whether it was inspired by the Ray Bradbury story or the other way 
around. (The one where the rocket-junkyard man took a real but broken 
rocket and, with projectors and hydraulics and ingenuity, made a fake 
but realistic ride to Mars to take his kids on, and he'd leave motors 
shaking it with the kids asleep inside, to walk across the junkyard at 
night to the house and sit with his wife for a little bit, and then go 
sneak back in.)
https://tinyurl.com/RocketOnTheRoof

Here's the sound of the actual ride! In 1955 it was Rocket to the Moon. 
In 1963 they changed it to Flight to the Moon. In 1975 they called it 
Mission to Mars, mostly unchanged, and then in 1993 they completely 
ruined it, turned it into a weird space comedy horror show with Michael 
Jackson right at the beginning of his pedophile period, I'm told. But 
this audio is very like I remember from a couple of times in the early 
1960s and then again in 1988, including the immense roar of the rocket 
engines and the hiss of the compressed-air G-force-simulating seat 
mechanisms. It was perfect. (The part before you got in, when you're 
walking through the tube on the way to the rocket, they showed you a 
NASA-like space ground control room with animatronic men and operations. 
The UFO over the runway that causes a klaxon to sound turns out to be a 
seagull. That’s why the robot people chuckle at that point in the 
recording. Maybe because it's life, and they're machines.)
https://tinyurl.com/FlightToMoonSound

-- 
Marco McClean, memo at mcn.org,
https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com