[Kzyxtalk] MOTA: Good Night Radio show all night tonight features Ari in Ask A Jew!

[Marco McClean]

Subject: MOTA: Good Night Radio show all night tonight features Ari in 
Ask A Jew!

Deadline to email your writing for tonight's (Friday night's) MOTA show 
is about 7pm. If you can't make that, send it whenever it's done and 
I'll read it on the radio next week. There's always a next week.

Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio is normally every Friday, 9pm to 5am 
on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg as well as anywhere else via KNYO.org. 
Also the schedule is there for KNYO's many other even more terrific shows.

But tonight the show starts at 8:30 for reasons that I'll explain later 
on, and it starts with the /X Minus One/ radio show /A Pail of Air/, 
made from Fritz Leiber's true story about a small family of survivors of 
a rogue planet's having pulled Earth away from the sun, so the very 
atmosphere has frozen. The boy goes out of their 
frozen-layered-blankets-sealed basement apartment nest in a diving suit, 
into the city to get ever-dwindling supplies /and frozen air/ to melt 
next to their fire, which must never be allowed to go out, and in this 
dead city in this dead world he sees a light moving in a building across 
the street. There are a  lot of good X Minus One shows, but that's my 
favorite. So cold and bleak. And the family dynamics, with the mother 
having gone crazy a long time ago from the horror of the situation, and 
then the hopeful ending.

At 9pm, The Human Holiday, a cross between Hitchhiker's Guide to the 
Galaxy and a giant alien Tupperware party. "Join your host Midal Gogat 
of The Finite Corporation as he and a cast of thousands present to souls 
bored with an eternity of bliss a slickly-packaged sales pitch on the 
joys and excitements of incarnating on Planet Earth." You can find the 
original recording here: https://tinyurl.com/HumanHolidayReference and 
I'm pretty sure it's also available via Spotify. Tell your friends, who 
might also like to spend a lifetime as a field mouse or a sponge or a 
precariously-balanced Nubian princess, or any of a zillion other unique 
choices.

The regular part of MOTA will start at 9:40 or so. This show is special. 
The new Ask A Jew section will feature Ari, who is studying to be an 
actual rabbi, so you're getting the straight stuff here.

Any day or night you can go to https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com and 
hear last week's MOTA show. By Saturday night I'll put the recording of 
tonight's show there. And besides all that, there you'll find 
informational unguents and gels to daub on the soft parts of your brain 
until showtime, or any time, such as:

Here's the tongue of a silly dog who has taught his human to bark on 
command. Which reminds me: I hate it when people misspell whoa as woah 
(WO-uh! WO-uh! Ugh.) even though that's the way translators of Tintin 
and Snowy spell it, but I love it when people spell tongue as tounge. I 
hear /townjj/ in my head and smile. (via Everlasating Blort) (You might 
have to click the sound on.)
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1601268367461339136

I didn't know starlings could do this. What a nice bird.
https://laughingsquid.com/mimicking-starling-r2-d2/

And here, watch how a linotype machine works. Newspapers and book 
publishers used linotype machines /for a hundred years/ before something 
better came along. (The story starts 30 seconds in.) I like their choice 
of voice to narrate this. It's very birdlike. They could have gone with 
an Orson Welles or a Don LaFontaine style but they went another way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5slfQizimtg

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