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2:08:00 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Dryer incident, Chinese Pepsi – Lemon Flavor bite the wax tadpole, Benson & Hedges 100’s Sweepstakes, town-wide garage sale, George Carlin on stuff, Waiting for Godot, Boba Fett, The Cover’s Progress, Peacemaker, Holly Hobbie Colorforms, The Rake’s Progress, Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, a network of versions of you in alternate timelines, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:23:58)… Edict Zero Minute 3 [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], SHOWTIME promos 1985 [YouTube], Nock by Tree Bag Ask [Onsug, CC BY 4.0], Grow With Ontario intro 1976 [YouTube], The Streets Of Cairo by Dan W. Quinn and Fred Gaisberg (1895) [Archive.org], Niles Monorail – TechTV (2004) [YouTube], Coffee Land by Serge Quadrado [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC 4.0], Wonder Women (1973) Theatrical Trailer [YouTube], Mark and Darrell Show Survival Guide Episode 5 (10/26/04) [OpenPodcast.org], Cut And Clear by Haze Parade [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0], Carl Sagan introduces the library of Alexandria [YouTube], MST3K on The Comedy Channel (4/14/90) (Break 6) [YouTube], Memorial City Mall Commercial, 1989 [YouTube], Go to Sleep by Kinley Caliper [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], kRaga1 by KraftiM [Jamendo, CC BY 3.0], Das Cabinentaxi – Krauss Maffei Transurban (1974) [YouTube], Down by the Old Apple Tree by Billy Murray (1922) [Archive.org, public domain].

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

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2:26:23 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Esperanto synchronicity, Pyramids Incense, French and Saunders, Café del Mar 45th Anniversary CD, Jimmy Buffett, One Battle After Another (2025), Inherent Vice (2014), morning incident, TV Gamblers update, Alien: Earth finale, Jimmy Kimmel, next afternoon, saw the movie, faucet and wallet update, Times Square casino not approved, “A New Era” for Zaccaria Pinball, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, Monkees songwriter Bobby Hart dead at 86, Robert Redford dead at 89, Thistle Dhu, relaxation, miniature golf, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:45:53)… Cosmic Joke by Blitz Lunar [Ubiktune, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], 70’s Ads: The San Pedro Beach Bums ABC TV Spot [YouTube], Since 1984 by Atomik Circus [Jamendo, CC BY-SA 3.0], I am not an atomic playboy [YouTube], Chopin – Waltz in A flat major, Op. 34 no. 1 (perfomed by Olga Gurevich) [Musopen, public domain], 1978 NBC Promo Quark CPO Sharkey [YouTube], By the Light of the Silvery Moon by Ada Jones & Male Quartet with Billy Murray (1912) [Archive.org, public domain], Kiki – BPitch Control Podcast (excerpts) (10/21/08) [collection], Melnik by The Racoons [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Nite-Owl [FuzzyMemories.TV], Hollow Summer by Extent of the Jam [Ubiktune, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], The Cannonball Run 1981 London UK stereo radio advert [YouTube], A Girl And A Gun by Julia Haltigan [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Woodstock 89 – Mountain Madness (8/16/89) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], All Alone by Wead [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0].

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

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3:07:30 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: CD fakeout, new wallet, proofreading, swapping wallets, power outages, Café del Mar, recent trips, robots, Absolutely Fabulous, 33? Revolutions per Monkee (1969), current events, principles, comedian Jim David, Justine Bateman, Toys “R” Us to return nationwide, faucet repair, Blippo+, Viola’s Room, Crispin Glover’s No! YOU’RE WRONG. or: Spooky Action at a Distance (2025), a package from Chad, swamp green Onsug Van!, The Bottle of Things from Every NLl in New Jersey, Dr. Steve’s Caffeine Melts – Root Beer Float Neuromelts, Stiller’s Soda, Dirty Shirley, TV Gamblers (Washy Ticket, Stovepipe Lifer, and Video Slams), Phrivls, Native Tongues, De La Soul is Dead 1991) gambling, pareidolia, Legacy Show Creators, Onsug Radio Portable, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:26:43)… Bell System ad (early 1980s) [YouTube], King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki Me O by Roger McGuinn [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], NBC Pine Canyon is Burning promo 1977 [YouTube], Smell The Trance by Alexander Stein [Jamendo, CC BY-SA 3.0], Hi-Fi African Drums – Trumpet Version by Cyberdread [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], WFLD Channel 32 – Newstalk with Wanda Wells – “Psychology and the Vote” (Part 1, 1984) (excerpt) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Nylon Pylon by Antti Luode [anttismusic.blogspot.com, CC BY 3.0], May 17, 1984 HBO promos [YouTube], To Your Credit (1985) (excerpt) [FedFlix, public domain], 4-butte-1: A lesson in archaeology (1967) (excerpt) [FedFlix, public domain], round_one_begin by tim.kahn [Freesound, CC BY 3.0], TOUR OF THE UNIVERSE (1986-1992) [Retrontario, YouTube], In My Merry Oldsmobile by Billy Murray (1905) [Archive.org, public domain].

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

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6:02:02 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Going To Every Mall in New Jersey, Part 2, Day 3: Wednesday, Mall 18: Brunswick Square, Mall 19: Freehold Raceway Mall, Mall 20: Jackson Premium Outlets, Starbucking (2006), Mall 21: Ocean County Mall, Mall 22: Jersey Shore Premium Outlets, Mall 23: Monmouth Mall, Day 4: Thursday, Mall 24: Princeton Forrestal Village, Mall 25: MarketFair, Mall 26: pj: Moorestown Mall, massage chair, Mall 28: Cherry Hill Mall, Mall 29: Voorhees Town Center (formerly Echelon Mall) (closed), Mall 30: Deptford Mall, Mall 31: Gloucester Premium Outlets, Mall 32: Cumberland Mall, dream Beatles song Kids in the Machine, Day 5: Friday, casino, Mall 33: The Quarter at Tropicana, Mall 34: Playground Pier, Underneath The Yum Yum Tree by Million Dollar Pier Orchestra; M. K. Jerome (1924), Mall 35: Tanger Outlets Atlantic City, Mall 36: Hamilton Mall, pinball arcade, it is complete, I have visited every mall in New Jersey!, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 5:21:05)… The Neon Exhibition by 3D TV [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Apollo 8 – First Closeup Account Of Moon’s Surface [collection], Floatin’ Down To Cotton Town by Polar Lion [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Klondike Kat #1 Honor At Steak (excerpt) [YouTube], slumlord by lo tag blanco [ccMixter, CC BY 2.5], Ivy Vine 4 (from The Carrie Michel Show #25 – Reunion (4/2/13)) [Onsug, BY-NC-ND 3.0], Ride by Absolute Zero [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-SA 2.5], I am not an atomic playboy [YouTube], Come Over to Dover by American Quartet with Billy Murray (1915) [Archive.org, public domain], betsons furniture commercial. philadelphia 1986-1987 [YouTube], Gregorian Spring by Karibean [EardrumsPop, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], The Games of Starcade – Dragons Lair [YouTube], Fomalhaut IX Suite by A_dontigny [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0].

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

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4:39:34 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Going To Every Mall in New Jersey, Part 1, Day 1: Monday, Mall 1: Kinnelon Mall, Mall 2: City Center Mall, Mall 3: American Dream, Mall 4: Newport Centre, Mall 5: Hudson Mall, Mall 6: The Mills at Jersey Gardens, Mall 7: The Mall at Short Hills, Mall 8: Livingston Mall, Day 2: Tuesday, the defunct malls, Mall 9: Paramus Park, Mall 10: Garden State Plaza, Mall 11: Bergen Town Center, Mountain Dew Trolli, Mall 12: The Shops at Riverside, Mall 13: Willowbrook Mall, Mall 14: Rockaway Townsquare, Rollergames pinball, Hawaiian Sun Lilikoi Passion, Mall 15: Bridgewater Commons, North (1994), energies, Mall 16: Menlo Park Mall, Mall: 17: Woodbridge Center, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 3:57:42)… Gemini Broadway Commercial Take Human Bites [YouTube], Laserium – London laser show – radio ad 1979? [YouTube], Ellen Feiss #2 Apple Switch Commercial [YouTube], William Cooper Film – LUXOR (excerpt) [YouTube], 1982 World’s Fair Energy Express Theme Song [YouTube], At Luxor (from ONS 2111) (4/21/24) [Onsug Radio, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], Waltz Me Around Again Willie by Billy Murray (1906) [Archive.org, public domain], The Making Of Luxor Las Vegas Documentary 1993 (2/4) [YouTube].

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

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6:41:40 – Frank in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Breakfast in a rainy Washington, D.C., lost again, International Spy Museum, Phish conversation, James Bond’s Astin Martin, crawling through an air vent, model homes on the mall, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History, me in 1969 talking about this museum, see a big train, home train idea, Ralph Baer, vegan lunch, Smithsonian National Zoological Park, flamingos, pandas, apes, another dead mall, VÜK Pinball, Rollergames, Eight Ball Deluxe, Centaur, taking the Metro back to the hotel, briefly entering Maryland, brutalist architecture, rooftop bar, preserving the Onsug Radio archive, next morning, plans for today, Dupont Circle, O Street Museum, Planta Queen, Repo Man (1984), the longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere at the Wheaton Metro station in Maryland, Archives, National Gallery of Art, famous art, The Wharf, Water Taxi, 9/11 24th anniversary, airport, National Harbor, Maryland, casino, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 6:00:57)… The Lacustrine Beat Machine by Simon Stålenhag [Ubiktune, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Tomorrowland Attractions Preview [collection], A Heart of Stone by Brady Arnold [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], WLS Channel 7 – The 3:00 Movie – “Paradise, Hawaiian Style” (Opening, 1981) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Selling The Downtown Dream by Copper Man [collection], WTTW Channel 11 – Image Union – “Viewer Discretion Advised” (1982) [FuzzyMemories.TV], beanbag fight by simon_mathewson [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0], Battletruck (1982) – Teaser Trailer [YouTube], Joyride by The Feelds [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Repo Man TV Version – Deal [collection], Heart of stone by SECOND SIGHT’S COMET [Jamendo, CC BY-ND 3.0], Blue Bayou Restaraunt (Complete) [collection], All Alone by Ada Jones & Billy Murray (1911) [Archive.org, public domain], First 12 Minutes of MTV (excerpt) [YouTube].

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

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7:13:20 – Frank in NYC, NJ, PA, DE, MD, Washington, D.C., and VA, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Moynihan Train Hall, one bag travel, vegan croissants, D.C. trip history, on the train, flashes of memory, Metropark, place I used to live, travelling through five states to D.C., Baltimore memories, tofu mishap, weird plane names, arrived in Washington D.C., Union Station, Chiaroscuro, L’Enfant Plaza, arrived at hotel, cool weird room, lunch fail, National Mall, Smithsonian museums, National Museum of African American History and Culture, VMAs, Max Headroom, gum, dinner success, Crystal City Underground Dead Mall, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, Campari confusion, lost in liminal corridors, going to see The Breakfast Club (1985) (40th Anniversary), nail synchronicity, rooftop bar conversation, garbage resolved, good morning, sourdough toast with almond butter, National Air and Space Museum, rabbit holes of space, primordial soup, disappointment, vegan lunch, another cinema, National Portrait Gallery and American Art Museum, Mallard Fillmore, taking the Silver Line Metro to Tysons Corner Center and Tysons Galleria, Devastating Nightscape, Peter Max, Tom Carvel, Five Guys fries, Cirque Du Soleil, the other mall, train racing cars, lost again, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 6:32:45)… Banned In Brazil by Lee Rosevere [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC 3.0], Reactor (Gottlieb, 1982) [MAME], Angry Fairy by Pedro Santiago [Soundcloud, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Peppersnoc Road by Tree Bag Ask [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], De Lorean in Eighties by Antti Luode [anttismusic.blogspot.com, CC BY 3.0], When You Hear That Raggy Refrain by Billy Murray (1918) [Archive.org, public domain], Speech on Disarmament by Stanley Baldwin (1923) (read by Secrets) [LibriVox, public domain], Anomaly by Vasim [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], The Life of Sillyphus by The National Orchestra of the United Kingdom of Goats [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], The Games of Starcade – Calipso [YouTube].

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

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3:25:02 – Frank in NYC and New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: The last day of the trip, Sheetz, pig at a gas station, Mello Yello, PLNT Burger, poster synchronicity, Maryland pronunciation, NPCs, cat furniture update, carpeting, next day, garbage mishap, podcast studios in malls, going to every mall in New Jersey, David Duchovny triple synchronicity, Nightstation Revival II, metaverses, alternate timeline counterbalancing, Alien: Earth, The Ark of the Covenant, the nature of consciousness, The Rock Story, Fire King Mug, local Virginia newspaper, fake LPs, fire truck, Logo Beginnings. Logo Modernism. 45th Ed., Giorgio Armani dead at 91, Don’t Pay The Ferryman, afterlife theories, concept albums, Ticket to Ride, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:44:23)… She Is Nervous by Smersh [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Letterman – End [collection], Donna Rice – No Excuses [collection], 1980 L’Eggs pantyhose commercial featuring Joyce DeWitt [YouTube], Entrée Des Dames by ValDesLacs [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Monica Seles – No Excuses jeans TV commercial ad – 1991 [YouTube], Messages from the City (Ramp Verse) (7/2/21) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], L’eggs Sheer Energy (Commercial, 1976) [FuzzyMemories.TV], That College Rag by American Quartet with Billy Murray (1912) [Archive.org, public domain], Mission Hill Karai-Pantsu (spicy pants) [YouTube], Been There… Done That by The Surge! [SurfGuitar101.com, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], Paranormal Pair O’ Pants by The Nourishment [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0], Chris Shirley goes to Farrell’s at the Brunswick Square Mall [YouTube], Haze Jeans by Tree Bag Ask [Onsug, CC BY 4.0], Jordache Commercials [YouTube].

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com