I daresay this is a particularly RABID episode of I WAS THERE™, the internet call-in radio show you’ve been CLAMORING for since we last took to the airwaves. Oso and Poolhouse — aka Grand Master Oso the Funky Unc and DJ Poolie Kool — are BACKK on the mic, Arizona tall boys and/or DIY beverages in hand, ready to take your calls.

The boards were lit. The topics were varied. The spirit was wildly electric and mildly chaotic. The program begins with the hush of a late-night radio confessional and quickly escalates into the rawkus atmosphere of a holiday-themed pub crawl. Through South Central LA. The vibes are deranged but festive. In other words: another classic banger of I WAS THERE™.

Tonight: Slurpee theology & convenience-store cosmology. The crack epidemic as a spiritual attack on the inner city. A few secret histories of gangster rap. An ethnography of the crackhead / fent zombie in American folklore (yes, George Floyd’s “banana dance” is mentioned.)

All this plus perennial shop topics like: DXM, cults, gay conversion therapy, bath salts, carnies, creepy circus music and Ian Curtis’s huge d***.

It’s like the morning zoo from the psych ward, served in a tallboy of refreshing radio realness for your 200 mile drive to score at a traphouse across state lines. I WAS THERE!™

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