OFF THE HOOK Flight Plan 3/1/2024: chug along at light speed towards the future, taking in sounds of HEAVENLY musical bodies. * Then -ZZZZIIIIIIP-FLOOOOOP- rewind to the past for the Birthday Segment * and then -ZZZZZRRRRROOOOOM- back to the future towards a BEAUTIFUL horizon! * Traversing a straight line -steady on, no brakes- through REALMS UNKNOWN. * A pleasure cruise ...and something more? * You get out of OFF THE HOOK what you put into it! * Port of embarkation: KXSF 102.5FM /  https://kxsf.fm/ 

I know you want to retreat into your COMFORT ZONE -the world is so exhausting today! * What with the Machiavellian Machinations of Power-Mongering Politicians and Treacherous Tech Goons, who wants to be challenged by unfamiliar NEW SOUNDS? * Well, BUCK UP, KID! * A weak mind and weak spine will not serve you! * Extract yourself from the GOOEY MORASS of complacency and keep your senses sharp! * They prey on soft, spongy brains and OFF THE HOOK may be your only defense against Despot Domination! * Free your mind on KXSF 102.5FM ( https://kxsf.fm/ ) * Comfort sounds = mind rot = death.

My father had LOFTY goals for me as a child. * "You should be a Writer or an Actor", he told me. * "But, I wanna be a Lawyer", I said. * "You now have but one parent", he replied, as his back disappeared though the door. * After being fired from my eventual short-lived Legal Assistant job, my DJ career commenced. * My mother said "You are so great.  Everyone should be like you." * "Thanks, Ma, but the world needs some practical people as well." * And so we have OFF THE HOOK, the non-practical, not-exactly-artistic, UNINTIMIDATING friend you visit every week on KXSF 102.5FM /  https://kxsf.fm/ 

It's a SLIMY, corrupt world, this radio biz, full of seedy, UNSAVORY bedfellows. * Take the way you help me perpetrate a weekly SHAM by pretending to listen to OFF THE HOOK while I pretend to care, kicking back, counting my dough while "playing records". * Left-wing conservatives never report on my show, while right-wing liberals host listening parties of a hundred or more in an effort to severely reduce my "numbers". * It's DISGUSTING, I tell ya -HAVE NO PART OF IT! * But, do tune in to KXSF 102.5FM or -I mean AND- https://kxsf.fm/ 

OFF THE HOOK is heard everywhere:  in parks, in cars, at the gym (imagine!) and in bed (recommended)! * And then there are those of you who enjoy your "Slough-Off Fridays" listening to OFF THE HOOK in your offices and cubicles! * You've slaved all week making money for somebody else and now it's your turn to ENRICH YOURSELF on company time! * The music played on OFF THE HOOK is much more IMPORTANT AND BENEFICIAL to you than the work you're given and your Secret Friend speaking so intimately to you on your earbuds has a most POSITIVE EFFECT! * Working five days a week is insane and Take Back Friday, YOUday, whatever you call it, is finally here! * You've earned it, you deserve it, you deserve OFF THE HOOK! * 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ The Show That Pays.

STOP SHLUBBY RADIO! * You pride yourself on being smart, up-to-date and WITH IT, right? * So, why should you settle for the frumpy dump of picked-over remains heard on other radio programs? * OFF THE HOOK reflects your stylishness and GOOD TASTE, the mirror that others gaze into over your shoulder with admiration and WONDER! * So, too, are other radio programs agog with rapt envy at the GORGEOUS up-to-the-minute offerings heard on OFF THE HOOK! * Step into the looking glass on KXSF 102.5FM / https://kxsf.fm/  for OFF THE HOOK, the fairest of them all!

Pardon my OUTBURST, but OFF THE HOOK can do no wrong! * Its creator and host cannot be removed or held responsible for any acts perpetrated on the air between 1pm and 4pm every Friday on KXSF because said creator and host has been granted CURATORIAL IMMUNITY! * It is built into the bylaws that govern OFF THE HOOK, bylaws created by its creator! * What he lacks in SELF-CONTROL, he more than makes up for with TYRANNICAL programming to Make Radio Great Again! * Become a subject of our musical kingdom on KXSF / https://kxsf.fm/ * OFF THE HOOK:  its immunity is built into its name.

So, it's come to this. * I'm expected to provide RIVITING, JOYOUS AND EDUCATIONAL musical programs EVERY WEEK for you? * What if they are merely MARVELOUS, FABULOUS AND BOOGIE-FIED? * What if I just say No? * OK, you got me! * You know I can't withhold from listeners the musical TREASURES I come across each week! * That would be antithetical to the righteous code of OFF THE HOOK! * You win!  Just tune in at to KXSF 102.5FM or https://kxsf.fm/ and we'll put your little power play behind us.

Well, that BIG ASS SOLAR FLARE threatening to WREAK HAVOC with radio transmissions was a bust! * You call that a X5 flare? * Little did Sunspot AR3536 know that OFF THE HOOK wreaks its own havoc! * No solar X-rays with PLUMES OF SOLAR PLASMA in the form of coronal mass ejections will degrade OFF THE HOOK's signal! * We'll do that ourselves and eject THEIR ass while we're at it! * OFF THE HOOK, the Radio Force that stands up to the wimpy meddling of unhip celestial bodies transmits its HEAVENLY PROGRAMMING on KXSF 102.5FM /  https://kxsf.fm/ 

RACING INTO THE DARK:  As much as we wish to leave this cruddy year, the road ahead looks CHALLENGING and uncertain, to say the least! * Besides, the devil we knew had some GOOD JAMS! * But, there will always be good jams! * And they will always be heard on OFF THE HOOK, the Show That Shows that as we laugh in the face of CERTAIN DEATH, so will we not DANCE AWAY from our responsibility to rock you, roll you and expand your minds on this little station that can! * Long live KXSF, San Francisco, Planet Earth!  We don't deserve you! * Huddle with us in MERRY ABANDON on the Final Off THE HOOK of 2023! https://kxsf.fm/