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KTRP is back on the air this haunted Halloween night with a special broadcast of Transmissions From Elsewhere! The good Doctor Butcher is on assignment this week, so your favorite utility players Gore & Carey, A.K.A. "The Gruesome Twosome", are filling in for a spooky night of Cryptid-centric calls from true believers near and far! It's going to be a bumpy ride, dear listener, so strap in and hang on tight!

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Thanks for listening and Happy Halloween from your favorite fiends at 66.6 KTRP!

Happy Halloween! Your friends as 66.6 KTRP are back with a brand-new, holiday-themed episode of Rex Banter's "Haunted" Hit Parade! Now poor Rex Banter, your intrepid host, has unfortunately fallen ill and is spending this Halloween in the hospital with an appendicitis, but don't fret, for Rex's pals Gore & Carey, A.K.A. THE GRUESOME TWOSOME (with a little help from their long-time producer Billy Bones), have volunteered to sit in and host this very special broadcast for your listening pleasure! Sit back and let 66.6 KTRP provide all the haunted hits for your swingin' All Hallows shindig!

Join the conversation! Visit our official blog (CLICK HERE) and leave us a comment! Tell us what you think of our "haunted" hits and share a few of your own! You can also send us a spooky email (CLICK HERE) which we always appreciate. Also, we're on social media! I know, right?! So be sure to follow us on Instagram (HERE) and BlueSky (HERE) for the complete KTRP experience, whatever that means.

Thanks for listening, and be sure to stay tuned, dear listener, because we may have one more terrifying trick up our tattered sleeve this Halloween!

The spooky season is upon us! Naturally, that means it's time for TRAPPO to talk about scary movies! This time around, we wanted to bring some much-needed attention to what is, sadly, a largely forgotten pioneer of the "found footage" genre, 1998's The Last Broadcast, directed by DIY cinematic trailblazers Lance Weiler and Stefan Avalos. We think it's a movie that deserves a reappraisal, and we sincerely hope that you'll give it a chance this Halloween when you're looking for something to watch that will send shivers up your spine. It's currently on SHUDDER, AMC+ and Tubi for your viewing pleasure, so if you haven't already ventured into the Pine Barrens to search for the Jersey Devil with the "Fact or Fiction" crew, take a chance this October. You'll be glad you did.

There's a conversation going on right now at the official TRAPPO blog (CLICK HERE to visit), and we want you, yes YOU, to be a part of it! Head on over to our blog (CLICK HERE) and tell us what you think of The Last Broadcast, share some of your favorite found footage titles, or just tell us what you think of the current state of horror cinema. We'd love to hear your feedback. And if you're feeling more verbose, you can always share that feedback in the form of a long-winded email (CLICK HERE), which is always much appreciated. We're also on BlueSky (CLICK) and Instagram (CLICK) if you're interested in the whole social media thing.

Thanks for listening, and don't forget to join us next week as we share another seasonally appropriate broadcast from our favorite fiends over at 66.6 KTRP...

We're back with the second part of our incredibly long season three premiere! Eleven albums down, and eleven more to go! Which amazing new musical masterworks will be inducted into the TRAPPO Essentials Can(n)on in this scintillating episode? Tune in to find out, dear listener!

There's also a conversation going on right now, and we'd love you to be a part of it. What conversation? Where conversation? Why conversation? Look, just go to official TRAPPO blog right now (CLICK HERE to do just that) and leave a comment. Other people already have. Really cool people. Don't you want to be one of the cool people? Join that amazing conversation, and let's all be best friends. Tell us what you think about our essential picks, share some of your own essential albums, or just talk about whatever you want. We don't really care. If you've got something you need to get off your chest, just spill your guts on the blog (CLICK HERE).

We also have an email address that's incredibly lonely, because people just don't pay a lot of attention to it. It's [email protected], by the way. If you listen closely, you can hear our sad old email address weeping, gently carried on the breeze. Please cheer our email address up by sending us an email! That's the only cure for this affliction. Send us an email. Tell us things. Tell us all the things. In an email. Or several. Several emails would be even better. Send us several emails, dear listener, and we'll love you forever.

Do you like social media? Of course you do! Did you know that TRAPPO is on social media? We're on Instagram (CLICK HERE) and also on BlueSky (CLICK HERE), where all the cool kids are hanging out. So follow us there if you want what we like the call "the complete TRAPPO experience", which we promise is not a sexual euphemism. At least not yet, anyway.

That's it for now, everybody. We'll be back next year to begin our annual celebration of the spooky season, A.K.A. the most wonderful time of the year. It's gonna be a real blast.

Thanks for listening!

TRAPPO is back for season three with a two-episode premiere! It's time for more essential albums to be inducted into the illustrious TRAPPO Essentials Can(n)on, and this season we're turning it up to eleven! That's eleven albums, dear listener! Eleven albums per host, meaning twenty-two albums in total. That's a lot of essential music, and that's why we needed two episodes to share it all with you! So here's the first half of this super-sized discussion for your listening pleasure!

It's time to join the conversation! What conversation? Only the greatest conversation on the entire internet! Follow THIS LINK to visit the official TRAPPO blog and leave your feedback! Tell us what you think of our essential picks so far, share some of your own essential albums with us, and tell us what you hope to hear from us in season three! We always love reading your feedback, either on the blog (CLICK HERE to visit) or via a long-winded email (CLICK HERE to send us one of those), which we also greatly appreciate. We're also on Bluesky (CLICK HERE) and Instagram (CLICK HERE), so if you want to follow TRAPPO on social media, you know what to do.

Thanks for listening, and stay tuned for next week's conclusion to our essential season premiere! You don't want to miss it!

It's the second-season finale of the show that talks about stuff on purpose, and we've got a doozy for you this week, dear listener! It's been a while since we've done a mix-tape here on TRAPPO, so we thought we'd wrap up our second season with another one of those beauties. But not just any mix-tape, friends! This is a very special mix-tape, one that's near and dear to our hearts. We call it "The Un-Skippable Mix-Tape"! What exactly does that mean, you may very well be asking. Well, what does the term "un-skippable" mean to you? That's what this mix-tape is. We've curated a selection of songs that we never skip when they come up on "shuffle". That's it. That's all there is to it. Un-skippable songs. That's the playlist. I mean the mix-tape. We make mix-tapes here on TRAPPO. Because we're old and out of touch. You might think a mix-tape filled with un-skippable songs might be an easy thing to come up with, but you'd be wrong, because we take this stuff seriously. I'm gonna be real with you folks: we agonized over this mix-tape. A lot of hard choices were made to get to this point, to create the perfect mix-tape of immaculate, un-skippable music. And now you get to hear us build this impossible tower of perfect music, track by track, on the season finale of TRAPPO! So enjoy it. That's an order. Enjoy this episode. You have no choice.

Join the conversation! Leave a comment on the official TRAPPO blog (CLICK HERE to visit said blog) and tell us how badly we screwed up creating an "un-skippable" mix-tape, then share your own lists of music you consider "un-skippable". We'd love to read those lists, if for no other reason than to harshly judge your pathetic musical taste. Are you brave enough to let TRAPPO trash your sacred musical cows? Leave a comment on roll the dice! (CLICK HERE to visit our stupid blog) If you're feeling more verbose, you're always more than welcome to send your playlists and accompanying thoughts via email! Our address is [email protected], so feel free to send us an email! We know you use email. Everybody does. So just send us an email. Send TRAPPO an email. Or don't. It's your choice. We'll be fine either way.

Thanks for listening, thanks for helping us cross the finish line with season two, and we'll see you soon for season three!

In this informal episode, your hosts Dustin & Ky discuss their shared past with the versatile medium of comics! Nostalgic memories of browsing quarter bins in dingy old shops, discovering amazing new stories by talented artists and writers! And Dustin also shares the origin of his limited kinship with Jack "The King" Kirby.

Join the conversation! Visit the official TRAPPO blog and tell us all about your cherished comic book memories. We want to hear from you! CLICK HERE to visit the blog and sound off! If you're feeling a little more verbose, you could always send us a lengthy email. Our address is [email protected], so click away and send us some comic book stories!

Thanks for listening!

BLACK SUMMER concludes with this special album exchange! We begin by choosing two Black Metal-related albums recommended by listeners from TRAPPO's Black Metal Mail Bag: "Orphans Of The Black Sun" by Mütterlein & "Fear Not The Dark nor The Sun's Return" by Vulgarite. Then we conclude with a pair of personal picks: "Dopethrone" from Electric Wizard & "Blight Witch Regalia" from Cicada the Burrower.

BLACK SUMMER might be wrapping up, but the conversation never has to end. Just head to the official TRAPPO blog and leave a comment. It's that easy. Tell us what you think about the music featured on this week's episode. Share your thoughts on Black Metal in general. CLICK HERE to visit the blog. You could also send us an email if you're feeling a little more verbose. Just CLICK HERE to do that. We know you won't, but the option is there. We always appreciate your feedback.

Thanks for joining us throughout this miserable season. BLACK SUMMER lives on forever in our withered hearts, and in the darkness that dwells within our corrupt souls. Thank you for listening.

(one quick note: this episode was recorded several months ago, and in the interim the artist in question has chosen to be identified as Haela Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix. The episode refers to the artist as "Hunter" throughout, and moving forward, whenever the artist or her work is mentioned on the show we will use her chosen name)

Join the conversation! Go to the official TRAPPO blog and leave a comment! Share your thoughts on Liturgy, Origin of the Alimonies, Haela Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix's art and theology, or whatever else. We don't mind, as long as you're not a bigoted prick. Please don't be a bigoted prick. CLICK HERE to visit the blog and leave a comment. You could also send us email if you have something more substantial to share. CLICK HERE to send us an email, which we would greatly appreciate. That's it for now, but we'll be back next week to bring this exalted BLACK SUMMER to a close.

Thanks for listening!

The horrible glory of TRAPPO's BLACK SUMMER continues unabated with a deep dive on the "Black Gaze" phenomenon with a brand-new episode of TRAPPO Investigates. Once upon a time, we began a new series here called TRAPPO Investigates with an episode called "What Is Shoegaze", and just about everybody who listened to that particular episode had something negative to say about it. Apparently we just didn't do a very good job of investigating "Shoegaze", and listeners were pretty eager to let us know. That was back in January, and we're finally following up with our second installment of this nascent series a scant seven months later, so I think we're striking while the iron is hot. And coincidentally (not coincidentally), the topic we're discussing this time around is not only Black Metal-adjacent, but also "Shoegaze"-adjacent, so we get to royally upset two fan bases at once with our latest episode!

So what the hell is "Black Gaze"? That's the question we're asking this week. Seriously, what the hell is this "Black Gaze" thing? Do you know? Could you tell us? Leave a comment on the official TRAPPO blog, telling us everything you know about "Black Gaze". You could also tell us all about how much this episode sucks and how much we suck because we don't understand music or the popular culture or literally anything else. That's cool. Just type some words out below and share your thoughts. CLICK HERE to visit our blog and leave a thousand comments! Do you use email? Do you have an email address? We do. It's [email protected]. You could send us an email if you would like. You probably won't, but you could. And we would love to read your emails. Preferably out loud on the next episode of TRAPPO's Mail Bag! But we won't hold our breath.

That's it for now. BLACK SUMMER rages on next week with more wholesome fun!