[Kzyxtalk] Children of all ages.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Children of all ages.

/"Okay! This is it! Don't be nervous! Backs straight, boobs out, and 
don't forget to smile!"/

Here's the recording of last night's (2023-06-23) eight-hour-long Memo 
of the Air: Good Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA) and 
KNYO.org:
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0546

This cold is the first time I've been sick since some time in 2019. 
There were a few times in the show where I didn't get to the mic knob 
fast enough to not cough or sneeze right in your ear, but I listened a 
bit to the recording, after, and it's not that bad. I had to quit early; 
the show is not even seven hours long, but it has all the regular 
announcements and features and local (and psychically local) writers. At 
the end you'll hear an episode of Captain Midnight from 1940, and then 
Firesign Theater – Waiting For The Electrician Or Someone Like Him, from 
January, 1968.

Email /your/ written work on any subject and I'll read it on the very 
next Memo of the Air.

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

Driving around L.A. in the 1940s and 1950s, colorized, stabilized, 
sharpened, and sound added.
https://theawesomer.com/driving-through-los-angeles-in-the-1940s-and-1950s/708979/

20-speed truck transmission stick-shift pattern. People can get used to 
anything and have it become second nature, but imagine running 
competently and confidently through the gears here, without looking at 
the chart, as unconsciously as you might do a three-speed manual. 
Difficulty, though: no synchromesh. Now hear this: when you brake-check 
a giant truck that riding up on your back bumper, he doesn't just tap a 
pedal and re-accelerate the way you do. It's a problem for him, 
especially on a hill. I'm not excusing the logging truck driver who 
tailgates, or who passes you on an outside curve (!) and blasts his 
air-horn and shakes his fist in the air at you and swears loud enough 
for you to hear over the road noise because he's /that pissed off/ that 
you're not going fast enough to please him. Just, a little 
understanding. You're on your way to or from the beach or the store or 
your stupid job. He's losing his bonus because a car the size of one of 
his tires is in the way, a car with a /goddamn libtard pussy piece of 
shit/ driving it. A little sympathy. Imagine what it must be like for 
him. When he's far enough ahead of you to see you in his side mirror, 
wave a happy wave and smile with all your teeth. Let him know you're a 
brother of the road.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2023/06/20-speed-transmission-shift-pattern.html

And a road-trip with the Amalgamation Choir. (via MyOneBeautifulThing.com)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LYBi9PoR24

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