Boy, what a swell weekend I had!
On Saturday we did our live broadcast from the Thunder On The Prairie classic car show at Alliance Central Park–a triumphant return to the June tradition after last year’s COVID-forced cancellation. Mike Glesinger and I chatted it up with club members, described some vintage vehicles, and said hello to a steady stream of visitors. And on Saturday night, we broadcast a radio first! Live coverage of the Route 385 Cruisers Gravity Drags, with color commentary by Kalin “Herr Kroheim von Dragheim” Krohe and Commander Kody Wolf of radio sales fame.
But Friday night….well, Friday night was also very special.
My good friends Jeremy Fifield and “Dangerous” Dave Kuskie joined me at Radio City in Alliance® to tape our first internet radio show in 5 months. And the first in over a year with more than two participants in the studio simultaneously! As I feel the need to explain every time: Our internet radio shows are not podcasts, because they are written, acted, produced and edited radio theater as opposed to a spontaneous conversation. Also, most podcasts generate a lot more episodes in a year than we do.
One of our recurring series is “Scare On The Air” which presents supposedly “classic” radio thrillers that are, in actuality, cooked up by our gang. This time around we’re spoofing several things at once:
-the resurgence of radio theater in the 1970s, which was a real thing. Series like “Sears Radio Theater”, “The CBS Mystery Theater”, “General Mills Adventure Theater” and others were popping up on stations coast-to-coast.
-Orson Welles’ notorious commercial filming and recording sessions from the ’70s
-70’s film subjects exorcism and fraternities
Jeremy, Dave and I supply most of the voices, with help from special guest stars Mike Glesinger as Father O’ Brien and Kalin Krohe as Mel Freesburg as Dean of Students. (Mel Freesburg is a recurring character in “Scare On The Air”, an old radio actor whose claim to fame was making dog noises on “The Canine Creeper”, that beloved old radio thriller about the police detective who could hear the thoughts of dogs. Hey, if Marvel can have a universe we can have a couple of running gags.)
Here’s the link to “Frat House Exorcism”. My SoundCloud page has all previous “Scare On The Air” installments and every other one of these things Dave and I have concocted since 2004.