Mid-Valley Mutations

The War Of The Worlds (Retrocast) (#22.2) (Where I rebroadcast the Mutual Network’s classic October 30th, 1938 episode of The Mercury Theater on The Air featuring Orson Welles!  Originally available as a podcast for this program on 10 October 2009.) Halloween is just starting to take off, and stay tuned next week for one of … Continue reading The War Of The Worlds (Retrocast) (#22.2)

An Evening With Vincent Price! (Retrocast) (#22.1) (Featuring the master of horror readings himself, Mr. Vincent Price, performing classic tales from his Caedmon Records releases.  Originally podcast 23 October 2012.) There are a number of people who have become so associated with horror and the macabre that they become culturally associated with Halloween, a holiday … Continue reading An Evening With Vincent Price! (Retrocast) (#22.1)

Ghost Stories w/ Bob Bucko Jr., et. al. (#22) This week we pull out all the stops for a Halloween broadcast the likes of which you have never heard before!  It is one thing to play Halloween Music on the radio, and I’ve been doing that since 2003.  But this week I decided that it … Continue reading Ghost Stories w/ Bob Bucko Jr., et. al. (#22)

A Spike Jones Spooktacular (In Screaming Stereo Sound!) (Retrocast) (#21.2) (Featuring Halloween Novelties, Monster Records, and Plenty of Spooktacular fun!  Originally broadcast on KPSU 15 October 2011.) Pulling material from two classic Halloween Novelty records (namely the Spike Jones album in question, and Alfred Hitchcock’s Music To Be Murdered By), this show focuses records and … Continue reading A Spike Jones Spooktacular (In Screaming Stereo Sound!) (Retrocast) (#21.2)

The Embassy (Retrocast) (#21.1) (Featuring a re-telling of the 1955 X-Minus One broadcast hosted by none other than Detective Dexter Roland, Private Investigator!  Originally podcast on 30 October 2012 on BlasphuphmusRadio.com) In our final Halloween Spook-tacular this season, we pull out all the stops and bring you a story straight out of Astounding Science Fiction magazine. … Continue reading The Embassy (Retrocast) (#21.1)

The Delerious Insomnica Free Form Radio Show (#21)  I will by honest: Arvo Zylo and I have never met.  And, furthermore, I was unfamiliar with his work – or the releases on his label, No Part Of It – until I heard it on Ricardo Wang’s What’s This Called?  But a good thing is hard to resist, … Continue reading The Delerious Insomnica Free Form Radio Show (#21)

Frankenstein’s Monster Talks! (Retrocast) (#20.2) (Featuring the complete 1963 story, “Frankenstein’s Monster Talks!” written by Cherney Berg and performed by Hal Johnson &  Gabriel Dell.  Originally podcasted 9 October 2012.) Dr. Victor Frankenstein was a scientist of some renown during the early 1800’s, and was not only responsible for the study of a number of fascinating aspects of … Continue reading Frankenstein’s Monster Talks! (Retrocast) (#20.2)

The Creeping Terror! (Retrocast) (#20.1) (We take WTBC Radio to new depths of bad horror movies with this 1964 piece of schlock-o-rama.  Originally 15 October 2015.) Here’s everything you need to know about this movie from 1964: there is no documented evidence that the film was ever shown to anyone – anywhere – until it first … Continue reading The Creeping Terror! (Retrocast) (#20.1)

It’s A Manual Pledge Drive (w/ Manual Sex Drive, LIVE!) (#20) When you do enough radio, you meet some incredible people who stick with you over the years.  I met Monty O’Blivion, Nick Feratu and NickDave when they toured through Closet Radio in 2012.  (Those three also play in an incredibly psychobilly group, The Limit Club.)  For … Continue reading It’s A Manual Pledge Drive (w/ Manual Sex Drive, LIVE!) (#20)

The Ghoulardi Show! (Retrocast) (#19.2) (Originally broadcast on 8 October 2011 on KPSU.) I have to admit, I am not cool enough to have known about Ghoulardi until only a few years ago.  As a Cramps fan, this may seem unusual, but with so much on my radar when I first discovered The Cramps, it just wasn’t … Continue reading The Ghoulardi Show! (Retrocast) (#19.2)