[Kzyxtalk] The mao-niao seat.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: The mao-niao seat.

/"You displease the Dark Lord, Cardinal Spellman. You are hereby 
stripped of your title of Interim Anti-Pope."/

Marco here. Here's the recording of Friday night's (9pm PDT, 2025-12-05) 
seven-hours-long Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show on KNYO.org, on 
107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA) and also, for the first three hours, on 
89.3fm KAKX Mendocino, ready for you to re-enjoy in whole or in part:
https://memo-of-the-air.s3.amazonaws.com/KNYO_0673_MOTA_2025-12-05.mp3

Coming shows can feature your own story or dream or poem or essay or 
kvetch or announcement. Just email it to me. Or send me a link to your 
writing project and I'll take it from there and read it on 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 
worthwhile items I set aside for you while gathering the show together, 
such as:

Tim Minchin on confirmation bias, a couple of years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1juPBoxBdc

Every time this surfaces on the web it reminds me again of Hit and Run 
Theater's /The Irish Persons – The Missile In The Silo/. "Ho-ro, the 
missile [missile here rhymes with exile] O, the missile in the si-lo! 
Ho-ro, the missile-O, the missile in the si-lo!" Juanita and I were in 
our twenties, Crown Hall was full to the rafters, and they had the whole 
steamy crowd belting it out as one. The structure of the 100-year-old 
church was shaking from everyone stamping their feet! I have always 
hated loud kinetic crowds and being in any kind of crowd, but that was 
an exception, a peak experience.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-rattlin-bog.html

The coolest faucet ever. It reminds me of a mechanical metal coin bank 
toy I had when I was a little boy. It was a rocket on its side. You'd 
rest a coin in a slot, cock and release a spring, and it would shoot the 
coin inside through another slot hidden under a fin in front of that. It 
did it so fast it made the coin just vanish, that is, when the coin 
didn't miss the slot and go whanging around the room. It smelled like 
hobby oil. I remember obsessively playing with it, and I snapped the 
spring painfully on my index finger a few times, but I loved that thing.
https://bustednuckles.net/a-cool-faucet/

And I had been waiting so long I thought Penn and Teller Fool Us finally 
stopped, but I just checked, and the new season started months ago. 
There are already eight or nine 45-min. episodes of Season 11 here to 
see. Also all the previous years of Fool Us are available, in case 
you've only just now been made aware of the series, for a hundred hours 
or so of tongue-in-cheek magical thrills, for free (with ads). M.C. 
Brooke Burke is in her middle fifties and she still looks like a million 
bucks. I have always liked the Peppermint Patty edgy scratchy sound of 
her voice. Before her there were six years of M.C. Allison Hannigan ("I 
remember this one time at band camp...") Did you know that Allison 
Hannigan is Teller's daughter?
https://www.cwtv.com/shows/penn-teller-fool-us/

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