An UNHEALTHY OBSESSION? * Only recently have I asked myself the question posed by many through the years, as I slog through piles of RUBBISH in order to extract the SWEET KERNELS of sound that I present to you, dear listener, each week on the OFF THE HOOK program (with a side of my personal corn)! * IS IT WORTH IT? * Our answers may differ, but as a public servant who is COMPELLED to educate, for the betterment of all ears and minds, mine would be a resounding 'YES!' * You, on the other hand, may care less for a diet heavy with current music (today's extra-long Birthday Segment will offer respite) and OFF THE HOOK may not be for you. * TRY IT! * If you don't like it, maybe we can still be friends. Maybe not. 

INDICTED? For taking RECORDS AND DOCUMENTS (Birthday Segment notes) home with me from the KXSF studio following the OFF THE HOOK program? * THEY"RE MINE! * And, in my quest to Make Radio Great Again, they're essential! * That's why you'll hear nary a crummy song (I don't think) on today's (or any day's) OFF THE HOOK! * Join your Special Master when you're ready to hear NO CRUMMY SONGS! * Indicted?  I should be Knighted!

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE! * Whether at home or in the office, it's time to pack up your workweek starting at 1:00 with OFF THE HOOK! * What constitutes a great preekwend (pre-weekend)? * Well, something FREE for starters, something that ROUSES (makes you move, maybe gets you a little horny), something that goes good with drugs! * Check, Check, Check! * OFF THE HOOK does it all with INCREDIBLE MUSIC and the sparkling repartee of acrobat/MC Gage Kenady! * Like a swashbuckler of the airwaves, the devil-may-care DERRING-DO of this tightrope walker with two left feet will have you on the edge of your seat gnawing nails -will he make it? * Find out and prepare to have your swash buckled on OFF THE HOOK!

Another Friday, another cab fare. * But it's worth my personal expense to keep San Francisco (and the world!) musically educated! * Otherwise, you might veer towards 'publican songs of civil war! * Hey!  We have a society here! * The American educational system has clearly failed and critical thinking is all but dead! * You need the facts. * Fact is, you can't think for yourself if you let others do it for you with one-sided viewpoints and misinformation! * Fact is, OFF THE HOOK offers you a BROADER musical palette with options NEWER than those dusty old saber-rattling war songs! * Fact is, OFF THE HOOK comes to you FREE and it's fun!

Well, I've Raided my various Search platforms in Order to Document the latest new Records Released this week and will Unseal Evidence of material that will Warrant your spending three hours with me today! * Just want to Inform you that you will be in Receipt of a Garland of pretty tunes full of Motion that have not been Planted merely to Serve my own self-interests! * Although I feel it would be a bit Déclassé of you to request it, I would gladly sign an Affidavit to this effect in hopes that you will Investigate at least a portion of the fine program I have prepared. * If you don't like it, at least you tried, and I'll have to consider you OFF THE HOOK!

Hang onto your ears because OFF THE HOOK ROCKS YOUR FACE! * Yes, this most UN-CRUMMY weekly program -FOR CHAMPIONS and losers alike- scrapes the MEAT from the bone and shoves it in your cranium, animating a DEPRAVED DANCE that will have your neighbors shuddering behind their shutters! (that's what you like, right?) * Toxic and non-fattening, it's OFF THE HOOK! * Hang on to your face.

n whose shoes do you walk?  Only just your own. * On what path do you tread?  None before shown. * 

With quickening steps you boldly go to spy a wilderness unknown. * Up ahead is OFF THE HOOK, whose heart's not made of stone. *

A friendly guide to clear the way, the byways it be prone. * So tune in sharp at one o'clock, lest your chance be blown. *

At 102.5-FM (KXSF it is known) * It's OFF THE HOOK, the Show That Shows. * Nothing to do with phones!

I like you. * It seems very few actually LISTEN to music anymore. *  You're different. * You can't wait to find out WHAT'S NEW in music every week on OFF THE HOOK! * While others are TikTok-ing away, or require only a nostalgic aural wallpaper to soundtrack their mundane social media fabrications, you're in it for a deep dive of contemporary MUSICAL INSPIRATION! * The kind you come to expect on OFF THE HOOK, the Show That Shows you that the wellspring of humanity is PUMPED by the creative impulse! * You'd like for everyone to be so inspired, for a better world. * Tell them, good person:  OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM /   http://kxsf.fm  You I like.

How can I describe the WONDERS TO BE HEARD on today's OFF THE HOOK? * I can't.  You'll just have to listen! * BUT, I can tell you about The Birthday Segment, where tunes from Stars of Yesteryear will break up the onslaught of TERRIBLY EXCITING new music that won't -just can't!- be heard anywhere but on OFF THE HOOK! * I can tell you, too, that I will be giving away FREE TICKETS, and, if we're LUCKY, we'll be wrapping up with Uncle Gagie's Singles Box! * Well, I, for one, am already feeling satisfied! * It's OFF THE HOOK!

He's back! * It's here! * Are you ready for the 'OFF THE HOOK 10th ANNIVERSARY SHOW!' ? * Yes, THE SHOW THAT SHOWS has been showing you what's what for 10 years! * Can you believe it? * Neither can I! * Just starting to get the hang of this thing and -Phew! -ten years older! * (and TEN YEARS SHARPER! -you should hear some of the first shows) * We'll have Lights! * Streamers! * Dancers! (you) * Popcorn and punch! * And the BEST DOGGONE MUSIC, as has been our mission lo these many years! * Please join us for this inexplicable anniversary!