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A live, improvised sound collage experiment, going back 25 years, weaving mesmerizing new soundscapes from found and collected materials right in the present moment.
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November 22, 2017: The Importance of Having a Voice & The Need for Creative Inquiry | Download full MP3
Two classic & mildly political collages in two hours.
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Ken's Last Ever Extravaganza |
The Need for Creative Inquiry (Just sit on the bench and watch the ballgame)
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Show #339, from Nov. 2, 2004 | 2004 | Free creation without the arbitrary limiting effects of coersive institutions. Full source listing | ||
Emergency Alert System |
Required Weekly Test
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0:00:28 (MP3 | ) | ||||
Emergency Alert System |
Live sounds of EAS printer
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0:00:42 (MP3 | ) | ||||
The User |
Dot Matrix 1
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Right after EAS printer | 0:00:55 (MP3 | ) | |||
Ken |
Identification
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2004 | 0:01:54 (MP3 | ) | |||
Brain Science |
Public Radio
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Support for NPR/National Public Radio as National Business Radio.com | 0:01:59 (MP3 | ) | |||
Belle and Sebastian |
Judy and the Dream of Horses (Live at KCRW 8/26/2003)
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About 5 copies. Is that enough dead air? | 0:03:33 (MP3 | ) | |||
Judy Garland |
Everybody just better sit on the bench and watch the ballgame.
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Judy Garland Speaks (Disc 1) | 0:08:48 (MP3 | ) | |||
Monte Cross |
Title
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A Clockwork Orange (Alternate soundtrack) | 0:11:40 (MP3 | ) | |||
DJ Clone |
Dislocution
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Fortuitous Concourse of Atoms | 1999 | 0:14:08 (MP3 | ) | ||
DJ Clone |
Drowse
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0:14:13 (MP3 | ) | ||||
DJ Clone |
Formule
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Fortuitous Concourse of Atoms | 1999 | 0:14:19 (MP3 | ) | ||
DJ Clone |
Inconvergence
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0:14:24 (MP3 | ) | ||||
Bill Cosby |
Conflict
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To Russell My Brother | 1968 | The mind and the body don't get along at all | 0:14:29 (MP3 | ) | |
Noam Chomsky |
Interview with Michel Foucault
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Manufacturing Consent DVD / 1971 Discussion Between Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault | 1971 | A decent society should seek to maximize the potential for creative expression | 0:15:15 (MP3 | ) | |
Escape Mechanism |
Culture
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1998 | 0:16:41 (MP3 | ) | |||
Michael Moore (director) |
Various scenes
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Roger & Me film | Incl. former GM workers now staffing prisons where their fellow picket-line-mates are jailed | 0:18:09 (MP3 | ) | ||
David Lynch (director), Lara Flynn Boyle, others (actors) |
Various scenes
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Twin Peaks: Pilot episode | Crying by Lara Flynn Boyle | 0:19:50 (MP3 | ) | ||
George W. Bush |
Debate excerpts
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Presidential Debate 2004 #1 | 2004 | 0:21:23 (MP3 | ) | ||
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen (director/writer), Sam Elliott (actor), George Bush, Sr. (voice) |
Scene: Sometimes There's a Man
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The Big Lebowski film | "Sometimes there's a man, he's the man for his time and place. And even if he's a lazy man, which would place him high in the running for laziest world-wide..." "This will not stand, this aggression against Kuwait." | 0:22:05 (MP3 | ) | ||
When In Rome |
The Promise
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Steve Masters Presents- A Trip Back To The 80's | Intro looped for most of show, resolved at end | 0:24:46 (MP3 | ) | ||
John Kerry |
Debate excerpts
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Presidential Debate 2004 #1 | 2004 | 0:26:28 (MP3 | ) | ||
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza |
Interview excerpts
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On-air interview with K.L.E.R.E. 2/7/2004 | 2004 | Improvisation, the nature of the intentional accident, more | 0:28:33 (MP3 | ) | |
Shifty and M-Sli(c)k da ninjA |
Oompa Loompa (Sweets)
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Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory remix | 0:30:06 (MP3 | ) | |||
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza |
Please Call Stella
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Show #310 from 4/30/2004 | 2004 | Many sources used within, not listed here. Full show here | 0:30:47 (MP3 | ) | |
Live phone call |
Woman, unclear
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2004 | 0:31:57 (MP3 | ) | |||
Ken |
Identification
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2004 | 0:32:22 (MP3 | ) | |||
Live phone call |
Things fly through the air, electoral college, thousands of lawyers, the resistance
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2004 | The guy | 0:34:45 (MP3 | ) | ||
Ken |
A resistance of lawyers
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2004 | 0:36:04 (MP3 | ) | |||
Jackson Brown |
Lawyers in Love
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0:38:23 (MP3 | ) | ||||
Wendy Carlos | 0:39:08 (MP3 | ) | |||||
Live phone call |
Resistance is futile
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2004 | The guy | 0:42:48 (MP3 | ) | ||
Michel Foucault |
Interview excerpts
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Manufacturing Consent DVD / 1971 Discussion Between Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault | 1971 | 0:42:56 (MP3 | ) | ||
Ovo |
Dad, Something's Come Up
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Funny (In a Sad Way) | 2000 | Brief | 0:43:01 (MP3 | ) | |
Bill Cosby |
The Losers
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To Russell My Brother | 1968 | 2-year olds | 0:43:09 (MP3 | ) | |
Live phone call |
Bush is a thief, he's a dog with a bone, follow the money trail
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2004 | He's knawing on the marrow, sucking it out. The guy | 0:47:50 (MP3 | ) | ||
Valentino |
Dogs-Doberman Growls
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Valentino Sound Effects Library Volume 13 | 0:48:32 (MP3 | ) | |||
Valentino |
Dogs-Doberman Barks
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Valentino Sound Effects Library Volume 13 | 0:48:42 (MP3 | ) | |||
Valentino |
Dogs-Dog
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Valentino Sound Effects Library Volume 13 | 0:48:54 (MP3 | ) | |||
Valentino |
Dogs-Pack Barking
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Valentino Sound Effects Library Volume 13 | 0:48:59 (MP3 | ) | |||
Valentino |
Dogs-Dog-Angry Growl
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Valentino Sound Effects Library Volume 13 | 0:49:05 (MP3 | ) | |||
Valentino |
Dogs-Dog Kennel Ambience
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Valentino Sound Effects Library Volume 13 | 0:49:13 (MP3 | ) | |||
Ken |
Identification
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2004 | 0:49:58 (MP3 | ) | |||
Live phone call |
Bush will be tried as a war criminal. It's up to the lawyers
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2004 | The guy | 0:50:45 (MP3 | ) | ||
Ken |
Thanks
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2004 | 0:51:10 (MP3 | ) | |||
Ken |
Later
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2004 | 0:54:46 (MP3 | ) | |||
When In Rome |
The Promise
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Loop finally releases | 0:55:32 (MP3 | ) | |||
Ken's Last Ever Extravaganza |
The Importance of Having a Voice
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Show #322, from July 13, 2004 | 2004 | (Lords & peasants, factories & workers; outraged about many things; things you are going to say to people; the right time and the wrong week; just to be able to say that you don't agree; no place like home.) Full source listing | 0:58:38 (MP3 | ) | |
Tavishi |
Desert Mirage
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Tavishi & Mambo | 2016 | 1:56:09 (MP3 | ) |
Listener comments! | |
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![]() Afternoon/evening, Kenzo and all! May nothing happen in your motorcades today. |
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Wed. 11/22/17 4:58pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
A figure slumps? |
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![]() Good afternoon Kenzo, hello again james |
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Wed. 11/22/17 5:03pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Hi, fred, and james again! |
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Wed. 11/22/17 5:03pm
northguineahills:
What's a "Borders"? :) |
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![]() Ah, the Soil Amendment of 1846. Vital to our Republic. Er, what? |
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![]() ngh: A mythical source of 30%-off coupons. |
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Wed. 11/22/17 5:06pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Hi, ngh! |
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Wed. 11/22/17 5:06pm
northguineahills:
When I was in HS, Borders was pretty much one of three places to get decent avant cds. |
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Wed. 11/22/17 5:08pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
I'm listening with headphones |
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![]() Judy in the house! |
Wed. 11/22/17 5:10pm
iiiike:
Anybody got 18 sticks of butter, an old Nevada highway sign, and a sack full of mud? | |
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![]() That "Tess of the Storm Country" ref she dropped is a deep goddamn dive: en.wikipedia.org... |
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Wed. 11/22/17 5:12pm
northguineahills:
Digging the Belle & Sebastian mushup. |
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Wed. 11/22/17 5:13pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
No wire hangers! |
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![]() Thought I heard a bit of the old ultraviolence there. |
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Wed. 11/22/17 5:13pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
It's high time to cut the comedy |
Wed. 11/22/17 5:14pm
iiiike:
My Swedish army knife isn't sharp enough for that. | |
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Wed. 11/22/17 5:15pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Everybody better just sit on the bench and watch the ballgame |
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![]() I liked the B&S mashup too. |
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![]() We lost Foucault too dang soon. |
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Wed. 11/22/17 5:16pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Yeah that was fun...I 75% remember when I did it / this all |
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![]() Also initially thought this was a very abstruse Tom Lehrer intro to one of his tunes before it jelled. |
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![]() Ah, thought that was Finch. :) |
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![]() "If I can improve myself morally, money will come later." Donald Trump is an enduring opposing argument to that hope. |
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![]() @james: more shuffling than opposing: he increased his wealth and power, and now moral leaders see him as a guiding light |
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Wed. 11/22/17 5:23pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Sometimes, there's a man. |
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![]() hi kenzo, and everyone~ i have an unreliable internet connection and can't listen live today, but i'm here in spirit and wanted to wish everyone a good evening. <3 |
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Wed. 11/22/17 5:26pm
northguineahills:
I once made a "I was Michel Foucault's love slave" tee shirt when I was an undergrad. I believe my mother disappeared it when I was visiting home once. |
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Wed. 11/22/17 5:27pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
awww gloomsday you're missing all the screaming |
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Wed. 11/22/17 5:29pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Hi, Swedish army iiiike |
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![]() nooo i love screaming :'( |
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Wed. 11/22/17 5:30pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Check it out later! Catharsis |
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Wed. 11/22/17 5:31pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Cutting them into little pieces |
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Wed. 11/22/17 5:33pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
And a toy pet snake for her brother Bob |
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![]() Is that the group noun, a resistance of lawyers? |
Wed. 11/22/17 5:36pm
ekiiiiiii:
Somebody answer that phone! | |
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Wed. 11/22/17 5:37pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
I put up resistance, on my couch |
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Wed. 11/22/17 5:37pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
ike, it's for you |
Wed. 11/22/17 5:39pm
Sandra:
Hi Ken, Sounds great! Happy Thanksgiving! | |
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Wed. 11/22/17 5:40pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Sandra, we're back in Austin this week! This one with KOOP and KVRX content. |
Wed. 11/22/17 5:41pm
Sandra:
Awesome! | |
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Wed. 11/22/17 5:41pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Cool, Judy Garland younger in the second hour |
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Wed. 11/22/17 5:42pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
By goodness, they keep breathing in and out |
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Wed. 11/22/17 5:44pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Those are the basic institutions of oppression and coersion and autocratic rule |
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Wed. 11/22/17 5:46pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
M-Sli(c)k |
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Wed. 11/22/17 5:48pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Unleash the dogs |
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Wed. 11/22/17 5:50pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
It's high time to stop the trolley ride. |
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Wed. 11/22/17 5:50pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Sounds like someone answered the phone |
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Wed. 11/22/17 5:53pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Mm I love this show |
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Wed. 11/22/17 5:56pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
ngh, you favorited this loop already |
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Wed. 11/22/17 5:59pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Moving back a few months, into: The Importance of Having a Voice |
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![]() It's a good loop. (I don't specifically know which but I'm taking an educated guess.) |
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Wed. 11/22/17 6:09pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
I agree with this (I don't know which comment I mean but it's a good guess) (The piano loop) |
Wed. 11/22/17 6:12pm
possibilitywaves:
Here is a current weather image! it is interesting to send this type of image of something we can't see from the ground and see how our mind might react, do we recognize it? it may go well with this water realm! images2.imgbox.com... | |
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Wed. 11/22/17 6:12pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Like a sea monster |
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Wed. 11/22/17 6:16pm
coelacanth∅:
greetings Kenzo & extravagant people |
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Wed. 11/22/17 6:17pm
coelacanth∅:
whoa glad i got here before the end, since this is the last ever... |
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![]() Many live shows this week, so I'll bail out and catch up on sleep. I also blame having to explain Thanksgiving to a coworker earlier today. That included Detroit and Dallas football games, turkey pardon, and even acknowledging that turducken is a thing |
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Wed. 11/22/17 6:24pm
northguineahills:
huh, I was supposed to leave work before 4 (I still need to pack and drive to Orlando tonight) and yet, I'm still here at the office (and have been the only one here since 2pm yesterday). |
Wed. 11/22/17 6:24pm
possibilitywaves:
What i did not know relative to the name, until this year, is the nature of the conceptual extravaganza and how it may relate to the shows! | |
Wed. 11/22/17 6:25pm
possibilitywaves:
this is just one opinion on the matter but much is a positive read!! ``The term was widely used to describe a type of 19th-century British drama made popular by James Planché. Planché defined it as "the whimsical treatment of a poetical subject." The term is derived from the Italian word stravaganza, meaning extravagance. An extravaganza is a literary or musical work (often musical theatre) characterized by freedom of style and structure and usually containing elements of burlesque, pantomime, music hall and parody. It sometimes also has elements of cabaret, circus, revue, variety, vaudeville and mime. `` | |
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Wed. 11/22/17 6:27pm
One Potato:
This extravaganza definitely needs more pantomime. |
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Wed. 11/22/17 6:28pm
northguineahills:
Ok, Done! Leaving work, thanks Ken! |
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Wed. 11/22/17 6:47pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
coelacanth0! I was away |
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Wed. 11/22/17 6:47pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Late goodbye to Fred |
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Wed. 11/22/17 6:47pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
one, potato! |
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Wed. 11/22/17 6:48pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Plenty of mime going on |
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Wed. 11/22/17 6:48pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Late goodbye to ngh |
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Wed. 11/22/17 6:52pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Early goodbye to me |
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Wed. 11/22/17 6:53pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
I liked the first hour a whole lot |
Wed. 11/22/17 6:53pm
Bliss:
Was here a little bit. Good stuff, Kenzo. | |
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Wed. 11/22/17 6:53pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Thanks, Bliss |
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Wed. 11/22/17 6:53pm
One Potato:
My phone just rang and I had to mute your show to see if it was actually my phone or if it was part of the show. That's the beauty of it. |
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Wed. 11/22/17 6:54pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Were you here for the first hour? Lotta ringing |
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Wed. 11/22/17 6:54pm
One Potato:
I was. |
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![]() I bought both then-extant Terminator soundtracks in one shot 'round '93 or so, and the counterperson asked if I was in radio production. |
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Wed. 11/22/17 6:55pm
coelacanth∅:
early or auxiliary hello from me (in case i arrive tardy, or not at all) |
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Wed. 11/22/17 6:55pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Heh |
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Wed. 11/22/17 6:56pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Tavishi |
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Wed. 11/22/17 6:56pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
See you next week in one land or another |
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![]() Thanks, K! |
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Wed. 11/22/17 7:01pm
coelacanth∅:
late goodbye and Thank you |
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