[Kzyxtalk] MOTA: Good Night Radio all night tonight!

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio all night tonight!

Hi! Marco here. Deadline to email your writing for tonight's (Friday 
night's) MOTA show is around 7pm. After that, send it whenever it's 
ready, and I'll read it on the radio /next/ week. Exception: I'm trying 
something new; I'll be checking my email around midnight, in case you 
really need to squeeze something in.

Half an hour into the show, meaning 9:30pm, tonight and for the next few 
weeks, I'll play this summer's San Francisco Mime Troupe radio play 
series: /Persistence/. Tonight: Episode Seven! (30 min.) And most of 
tonight's break music, like last week, will be name songs. (Thanks to 
all literally eleven of you who sent lists of suggestions. Honestly, I 
did not even know about /Juanita/ by Johnny Maestro and The Crests.)

Top of the news: Mike Richards is O-U-T /out/ as new share-host of 
/Jeopardy/ so the marvelous actual neuroscience PhD Mayim Bialik (Amy 
Farrah Fowler in /The Big Bang Theory/) is now sole permanent host. 
(Mike is out because the Anti Defamation League heard some of his old 
podcasts and didn't like his flip attitude about Jews, and everyone else 
doesn't like him because he asked his podcast partner for what he called 
"boobie pictures" and when she wouldn't comply he dismissed her as a 
"booth ho". Big advances were made this week in the new 6G cell phone 
technology (one G better even than 5G), and in nuclear fusion generated 
electricity, and a 3D-printed eardrum patch (like patching a popped 
tire), and it's been found that the planet Saturn's whole insides are 
sloshing around like the bilge of a ski boat. All that's just three 
minutes of an eight-hour show. Compare to BBC.

Oh, right: near the end of the show I'll play /Fighting Clowns/, 
recorded in 1980 by Firesign Theater, oddly prescient for being about a 
future pointless endless American war in Afghanistan. Organist Richard 
Parker taught for a while at the old Mendocino Community School; he 
played Hammond B3 on /Oh, Afghanistan (Save Us From Babylon)/. I'm sure 
you remember; if you ever heard it it's still stuck in your head, and if 
you haven't, now's your chance.

Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio is every Friday, 9pm to 5am on 107.7fm 
KNYO-LP Fort Bragg as well as anywhere else via
http://airtime.knyo.org:8040/128
(That's the regular link to listen to KNYO in real time.)

Any day or night you can go to https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com and 
hear last week's MOTA show. By Saturday night the recording of tonight's 
show will also be there.

As if all that weren't enough, also at 
https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com there's a metaphorical fighting clown 
tattooed all over with links to poke at until showtime, not to mention 
between shows-- items such as:

Institute of illegal images.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-institute-of-illegal-images.html

This is like something Seth Rogen would do, but it's Seth Meyers. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXH2xKInfZE

And Renato Carosone (and his original Fighting Clowns) play Tu Vuo Fa' 
L'Americano (via Davis Gee)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqlJwMFtMCs

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