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Ep 183 – reddish
gts183 “reddish” Take a left at Phobos, if you hit an asteroid you’ve gone too far. 01-01 Jack Lancaster & Robin Lumley – Marscape 101 – Take-Off (1976) — anything you blow into, that’s Lancaster. All keyboards by Lumley, and the drums here are by Philip David Charles Collins, whose non-posh name is Phil, here…
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Ep 182 – artemish
gts182 “artemish” Artemis II mission has its first launch window beginning on February 5th 2026. 01-01 Frank Sinatra – It Might As Well Be Swing 101 – Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words) (1964) — not the first into the capsule, Frank’s version followed 10 years after the song was written, originally titled…
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Ep 181 – shelfelf
gts181 “shelfelf” A quiet desperate yule. 01-01 Bobby Helms – Decca 30513 – Captain Santa Claus And His Reindeer Space Patrol (1957) 01-02 Buchanan & Goodman – Santa And The Satellite (1957) 01-03 Shana Lynette – Mister Russian Please Don’t Shoot Down Santa’s Sleigh 01-04 SR 71 – Christmas Is The Time To Say I…
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Ep 180 – armshtrong
gts180 “armshtrong” Gimme my Tang! 01-01 Patti Smith – Easter 102 – Space Monkey (1978) — best song off this album is one we can, unfortunately, no longer play on the radio. 01-02 2001 Sprach Kazoostra — ahhh, finally some kazoo! 01-03 Deodato – Prelude 101 – Also Sprach Zarathustra (1973) — appearance in the…
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Ep 179 – misshile
gts179 “misshile” The weather ain’t been the same since they started shootin’ up them rockets. 01-01 Tom Lehrer – That Was The Year That Was 206 – Wernher Von Braun (1965) — desperately wanted a quiet academic career, but people kept demanding he play his funny songs. Eventually opened an office in New York where…
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Ep 178 – bovitish
gts178 “bovitish” Still think they should’ve paid Bo Diddley. 01-01 Bo Diddley – The London Bo Diddley Sessions 202 – Do The Robot (1973) — this LP came out on Chess, like most of his best stuff. 01-02 8 Eyed Spy – 8 Eyed Spy 101 – Diddy Wah Diddy (1981) — Of course, this…
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Ep 177 – droidish
gts177 “droidish” Iron eyes can never weep. 01-00 clip from “The Day The Earth Stood Still” (1951) — the female vocal is Patricia Neal, four years after winning the very first Tony Award ever given for Best Actress. Here, she delivers a message which saves our planet, to Gort, the protector robot of alien visitor…
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Ep 176 – shmegabyte
gts176 “shmegabyte” You should follow Wynken Blyken and Nod, not Hewlett Bitcoin and Jobs. 01-00 The Shadow – The Computer Calculates But The Shadow Knows (1964) — a note about the opening piece: The radio show “The Shadow” started in 1937 with Orson Welles in the title role. He left after a year when Hollywood…
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Ep 175 – shock
gts175 “shock” Aha, NOW I get what those giant humanostorage chambers were doing in The Matrix! 01-01 Benny Goodman Sextet – 1939-11-27 Waldorf-Astoria, NYC, NY 08 – AC-DC Current (1939) — critics didn’t like it, but reportedly, Benny “was fond of it himself.” 01-02 AC/DC – High Voltage 104 – Live Wire (1976) — band…
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Ep 174 – devlish
gts174 “devlish” Had a tune by the band Stuffed Babies On Wheels, but ran out of time. 01-01 The Lumberjack With The Northwood Singers – Coach 6557 – Hell Bound Train (1965) — with the boiler full of lager beer, bound to be a fun trip! 01-02 cast – Hadestown OBC 09 – Way Down…