OFF THE HOOK toils every week to uncover the COOLEST, most WAY OUT SOUNDS for YOUR delectation! * And, seven weeks into 2025, new OFF THE HOOK-WORTHY Musical Gems are rolling in at a rapidly accelerating pace, ready to be thrown before YOU in a thought-out, TANTALIZING display! * As a serious and well-rounded listener, YOU will also appreciate the Glory of our musical forebears in the Birthday Segment, a bumper crop this week! * This Herculean Effort is the least we can do to satisfy a decerning and inquisitive mind such as YOURS! * Check it out on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ 

I know it's VALENTINE'S DAY and you're all expecting some SMOOCHY, Kissy-Face programming today, amirite? * Well, I'm sorry, but OFF THE HOOK doesn't recognize manipulative, money-grubbing Hallmark Holidays! * Demonstrations of AMOROUS FEELINGS are fine, but OFF THE HOOK is the Box of Aural Chocolates that AROUSES YOU on KXSF 102.5FM  https://kxsf.fm/ !  It's called Self-Love.

Enough with the BLUSTER! * Let's get down to Brass Tacks: OFF THE HOOK gives the Community what it needs:  Me!, my GREAT TASTE in music and most importantly: NEW FRIENDS! * Not only have you become a bit of the party dullard (Elton John? Really? Still?), but you yourself have grown a little weary of the same old faces. * You need new friends and NEW PERSPECTIVES! * And, more crucially, these New Faces need you! * SUPPORT NEW ARTISTS! * Size 'em up and if they pass muster, add them to your collection of experiences! * OFF THE HOOK enables this discovery process on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/  You're already more fascinating.

EVERY RADIO SHOW FOR ITSELF! * It's the Wild West again and wild claims are being made! * Did you know that OFF THE HOOK reaches more ears than Voice of America and BBC World Service combined, generates the highest ad revenue of any non non-religious program in the world, and makes the rain fall upwards? How could it be reported on a reliable platform if it weren't true? * Join OFF THE HOOK for your own reality! on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ and we'll see about that rain.

The buildup is INTOLERABLE! * What's he gonna do next?! * As you bite your nails down to the elbow, you find the TENSION ratcheting up to a nauseating degree! * What is this MADMAN capable of?! * Can no one STOP HIM?! * You feel faint, the room begins to spin! * Who is this MANIAC who commands our attention, nay, our will every waking moment until Friday rolls around? * Why, it's none other than your friend Gage, playing nice music for you at 1:00 on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ ! 

OFF THE HOOK is a mighty juggernaut in its own QUIETLY REMARKABLE way! * And dread not, it's not as dreadful as the naughty numbskulls who will be knocking on your noggins come not but a few days! * Your option: bolster the balustrades by bringing balance to bear and be not beholden to the byzantine bylaws of a banal brutality, but be bathed in the beauty of a billion badass jams on OFF THE HOOK, a quietly remarkable MUSIC PROGRAM on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/  Guard the guardrails!

The UNIQUE AND REMARKABLE circumstances of OFF THE HOOK, a weekly program AFFORDED PROTECTIONS as an office of the public good, MANDATE that an UNCONDITIONAL DISCHARGE of UNPRECEDENTED music be RELEASED upon the Public, for it is JUDGED as beneficial to the populace, regardless of the day it FELL ON (is that any way to end a SENTENCE?)! * So, waste NO TIME! -OFF THE HOOK awaits your VERDICT on KXSF 102.5FM ( https://kxsf.fm/ )! * Music trumps politics!  

MARCH ON!

2025 is upon us and it's time to FACE THE MUSIC! * But, honestly, OFF THE HOOK sounds just as good from behind! * OFF THE HOOK RESOLVES to maintain a CHEERY AND HOPEFUL outlook in the face of EXISTENTIAL EXTINGUISHMENT! * But, who's kidding who? -let us dance into the abyss with BITCHEN SOUNDS until They lock us all up! * OFF THE HOOK will not so much smite our foes with HATE-SNUFFING MUSIC, but, more, will cast us into a BEAUTIFUL WONDERLAND of denial! * OFF THE HOOK, your delusional friend, puts its LOVING SPELL on you on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/  * Fallible all-non-AI radio, still.

and IT'S A WRAP! * Here we are at THE END of a year that upset our equilibrium, toyed with our credulity and dragged us through the mud with it! * Truly a crap year for our heads, but a MOST EXCELLENT year for our ears! * I know you're thinking an end-of-the-year best-of OFF THE HOOK awaits you (because I'm a mind reader and because I set you up), but allow ME to mess with your head: No. * Your expectations are unwarranted because every OFF THE HOOK is the BEST and your wanting the BEST BEST is frankly a bit selfish, don'tcha think? * BUT, I may play a couple of items at the TIPPY-TOP of the pile! * Tune in to hear what the capricious man on his whimsical musical mountain will do! * On KXSF 102.5FM  https://kxsf.fm/

From his secret regional outpost, high atop Mount Baldy, SANTA GAGE has twice checked his list and it turns out you OFF THE HOOK listeners have been EXCEEDINGLY NICE! * You've listened to and supported OFF THE HOOK unwaveringly! * BUT, double-checking your wish lists, your desired Christmas musical requests have been -how to put this?- a tad Standard, if we may put it euphemistically! * Santa Gage knows what's best for you (and S.G. rules with an iron switch!), so in order you don't turn into a bunch of stagnant work-elves, Santa Gage will provide a more CONTEMPORARY holiday playlist on today's OFF THE HOOK! * Merriment and Jingleberries on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ !