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A Pleasantly Insane Talk Show Experience

The Rampler #305 (5/29/09)

“STRAWBERRY FIELDS” - 3:12:11 / 176 MB – Frank in NJ and NYC in the morning, afternoon, and evening. Bus stop, calorie restriction, buying a bus pass at Port Authority, anti-torture protest, 7 Train, Senoby update, mother’s milk, prayer, Children’s Television Workshop, Radiophonic Workshop, difficulty crossing 42nd St., Crisp, Starlog Magazine, Kolchak hat, Freemountain Hats, slow bus, heading down to Strawberry Fields, John Lennon, WFMU, talk radio industry, knee injury, statue crash, Central Park, the time enforcer dream, Yoko Ono, carnival, boat, bubbles, musicians, Thoth, computer graphics, Reid Fleming: World’s Toughest Milkman, arrival at Strawberry Fields, Journey Into Imagination, Weasel Village Mall, the drunk painting, Italian Space Command, Trout Fishing In America, etc.

The Rampler #304 (5/28/09)

“THE MONKS” – 59:19 / 54.5 MB – Frank in NYC in the morning. Weird feeling in Port Authority, the time loop, American Idol, garbage and drug addicts in NYC cemetaries, The Monks “Black Monk Time”, Twice Upon A Time, NBC Retro, Bill Hicks, David Letterman, Alex Jones, taking pictures of myself for the logo, Ronald Reagan impersonations, other presidential impersonations, The Ronny Horror Show, Fridays, Ess-A-Bagel, and Vaudeville.

The Rampler #303 (5/27/09)

“NACHOS” - 1:29:33 / 82.1 MB – Frank in NYC in the evening. Mercury Retrograde, Glenlivet City Links, library, Baja Fresh (in the space that had been Zen Burger), the nachos incident, Old Bridge Gourmet Deli, bourbon, Japanese grocery, Bryant Park, hot sauce, Lorenzo Music, Rampler logo ideas, pre-roll video ads, Japanese snack “Choco Banana Pocky”, Japanese beverage “Senoby”, Japanese writing, MTV News internship, chess, shogi, go, anti-imperialist Filipino protest, Stan Lee, motion theaters, and things that should not be done in a public restroom.

The Rampler #302 (5/27/09)

“NEVERMIND” - 1:03:11 / 58 MB – Frank in NJ and NYC in the morning. Hedge trimmer and weed whacker, cardboard injury, cat treatment, bed clothing, origami, kusudama, Naruto on Hulu, subtitles, not the bus, level 4, theĀ  uncensored version of the obscure 1983 animated feature film “Twice Upon A Time”, synchronicity (“Once Upon A Crime”), being a loser in 1991, Nirvana “Nevermind”, driving around Utah, Times Square, Nine Inch Nails, Mike Tyson, thoughts and prayers, questions about prayer, religion, theocracy, the fun and wonder of life, violence, and Baja Fresh.

The Rampler #301 (5/26/09)

“LASER TAG” - 1:19:13 / 72.7 MB – Frank in NJ and NYC in the morning. A letter from Italian Space Command, spent the 3-day weekend cleaning and organizing, Memorial Day – difficult aspects of the nature of war, Starbucks “prank” explosion, Starbucking, Broadway in Times Square closed to traffic, sitting in a beach chair in the middle of the street, the media, old woman falls down, The Secret Power of Pyramids, the troubled history of the movie “Twice Upon A Time” (1983), opening the letter, Origami Tube, a weird “Night Before Christmas”, mobius crochet, spyware, injuries, sink leak, Red Bull Cola, Naruto, Akikan!, nerdy erotic fantasies, Laser Tag, The Secret, and Monster Golf.

The Rampler #300 (5/22/09)

“THE FAIR”3:16:06 / 179.7 MB - Frank in NYC and NJ in the afternoon and evening. It’s the 300th Episode!! Another radio station disrupts the start of the show, a beautiful day, going on an adventure, Mamaroneck, a ride on the 7 Train into Queens, heading to Flushing Meadows Corona Park – the site of the 1965-65 New York World’s Fair, graffiti, recordings from the Fair, The Twilight Zone, WFMU, seeing the rockets, The Hall of Science, miniature golf, camel, The Unisphere, drumming, American Express Pavilion (overview of the Fair), existential homework, ice cream cone, heading over to Citi Field, David Dinkins, taking the 7 Train back, The Overnightscape #300, NetHack, elbow coin skill, “Twice Upon A Time”, photo place idea, Barbie Girl, on the bus home to New Jersey, sumo wrestler food, many topics from the past week, viral marketing actress, The Mocha Beans “In The Moog”, Captain Marvel Porsche, “good luck”, dead malls, Star Wars, and A Roller Skating Jam Named “Saturdays”.

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