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Playlist: O'Dark 30 episode 50

Compiled By: KUT

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O’Dark 30 is KUT's now officially middle-aged stroll through the world of independent radio production. Every Sunday at midnight on KUT 90.5 Austin we present 3 hours of a little bit of everything from the world of independent radio production.

Episode 50 includes The Penguin Goes A Courtin'...Voices From Pie Town...State of the ReUnion Veteran's Day Special...A Difference Between People and Animals...Postcards from Africa...Legends: Stories from Native America...When the Spam Hits the Fan in Nam...Two Wheels to Nowhere: Episode 1...Angel's Landing...L'il Hot Mama Flossie Turner Lewis...U of M Duck & Goose Calling Club...Doors of New Orleans...Good Crush: Connecting Student Bodies

The Penguin Goes A Courtin'

From Jonathan Goldstein | 03:55

Two of literature's great umbrella travelers-- The Penguin and Mary Poppins-- have dinner together in Merry Old England.

Default-piece-image-2 Before The Penguin became best known as Batman's archenemy in Gotham City, he was a boozing dandy who lived in London. The Penguin's friends all thought that if he just met the right woman, he might be inclined to settle down and avert the disastrous, alcoholic path his life appeared to be taking. His friends held a dinner party at which he was introduced to a woman they believed would make a perfect mate for him-- a singing nanny named Poppins, who, like him, traveled about by umbrella. Everyone thought the two eccentrics would get on most splendidly. Everyone, of course, was wrong.

Voices from Pie Town

From Aengus Anderson | 06:30

Pie Town, New Mexico: population 90. Over the past thirty years, this small town perched atop the continental divide has become a mecca for pie aficionados from across the Southwest. But the festival is about more than celebrating good pie, it is about a rural community struggling to raise money for basic social services. It is also about visitors from distant cities, people who feel a lack of community in their own lives and attempt to find it, if only for a weekend, in Pie Town.

Pie_small Pie Town, New Mexico: population 90. Over the past thirty years, this small town perched atop the continental divide has become a mecca for pie aficionados from across the Southwest. But the festival is about more than celebrating good pie, it is about a rural community struggling to raise money for basic social services. It is also about visitors from distant cities, people who feel a lack of community in their own lives and attempt to find it, if only for a weekend, in Pie Town.

Veterans Day Special

From Al Letson | Part of the State of the Re:Union: Season One series | 53:53

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are sending our veterans home with wounds and obstacles not always clearly visible to the rest of the country. These two current wars also illuminate how veterans of previous eras are still trying to come home years after returning from war. In this episode, State of the Re:Union explores how veterans are serving each other after they come back home from serving the country.

Sotru_vets_square_240_small State of the Re:Union
Veterans Day Special

Host: Al Letson
Producer: Sara Wood

DESCRIPTION: The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are sending our veterans home with wounds and obstacles not always clearly visible to the rest of the country. These two current wars also illuminate how veterans of previous eras are still trying to come home years after returning from war. In this episode, State of the Re:Union explores how veterans are serving each other after they come back home from serving the country.

BILLBOARD (:59)
Incue: From PRX and WJCT
Outcue: But first, this news.
 
NEWS HOLE: 1:00- 6:00
 
Segment A (12:29)
Incue: From WJCT in Jacksonville, Florida
Outcue: That's ahead on State of the Re:Union. (music tail)

A. VETERAN'S BOOK PROJECT: Riley Sharbonno returned from a year in Iraq with thousands of digital images that he took, but with no memory of the events the photographs captured. So when artist Monica Haller approached him, the two embarked on a project that ended up as a book of Riley's photographs and writing. This book sparked the Veteran's Book Project, a bookmaking workshop for people who have experienced the wars through many different perspectives. While each book tells a different story, together the books are creating a library of honest conversations about what happens during war.

SEGMENT B (18:59)
Incue: You're listening to State of the Re:Union
Outcue: P-R-X.O-R-G

A. O's GUITAR: Richard O'Connor left for Vietnam with his father's old Montgomery Ward guitar. In between fighting and attacks, he played songs for his fellow marines in order to keep a sense of sanity and calm amidst chaos and devastation. Now, 42 years after returning home, Richard is using his music to welcome back recently returning veterans. But he's also finding his own way home.

SEGMENT C (18:59)
Incue: You're listening to State of the Re:Union.
Outcue: to bring them back together. (music tail)

A. TEAM SEMPER FI: On a foggy Sunday morning in Santa Cruz, California, a team of injured marines take the same camaraderie and strength from the battlefield, and bring it to the competitive sports track.

B. FARMER VETERANS: The country is having a hard enough time dealing with the unemployment rate, so imagine returning home from war, and then having to find a job. But a growing movement of veterans are finding their stride by creating a new mission once they return home: Feeding the country. SOTRU visits two farms that are on this mission.

C. REFLECTION: Al reflects on a country dividing its attention between two wars and their own lives.

D. VOX: A montage of voices of those who have experienced the challenges of coming home, from veterans to family members, of all services, of all eras.

PROGRAM OUT @ 59:00

The Veterans Day Special is available on PRX without charge to all public radio stations, and may be aired an unlimited number of times prior to January 31, 2017. The program may be streamed live on station websites but not archived. Excerpting is permitted for promotional purposes only.

State of the Re:Union is presented by WJCT and distributed by PRX.  Major funding for the State of the Re:Union comes from CPB, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Delores Barr Weaver Fund at The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida.

Thanks for your consideration of State of the Re:Union with Al Letson. 

 

A Difference Between People And Animals

From The humble Farmer | 01:42

People can do things animals can't do.

Humbleoats_small Have you ever read that a human being can outrun a horse?

Postcards from Africa

From Jake Warga | 06:43

Personal encounters in homes and streets of various African towns. I first went to Africa feeling like a child, everything new and different, but soon enough I grew-up. Sound-rich with music and tape.

Card2_small Sample:
I know enough French to say “Leave me alone please.”  But not enough to say, “Go home to your family if they will have you, don’t sell yourself to strangers.  Use condoms. AIDS is not worth the money.  Be sure to be a child before you have one.”

I am looking at a young woman who lost her childhood—seduced by an empty urban culture.  She stumbles away, disappearing into the choking red dust of a cruel African street.

Legends: Stories from Native America

From Native Voice One | Part of the Legends series | 28:58

"Stories from Native America" is the first episode in the Legends storytelling series.

Elbertphoto_small Legends is a storytelling show. It features stories from various Native American Nations/Tribes, hosted by storyteller Elbert TwoPonies.
 
The stories are entertaining and give explanations for how things came to be. Theses stories taught people how to live in their clans and tribes.
 
Today, there is a need for stories that speak to us. It is hoped that the listener will hold one or more of these stories in his or her heart and mind and tell it to others. A meaningful story becomes a personal friend, something that speaks to one in times of trouble and helps you get through a difficult day. These stories entertain us and can help us in life, regardless of our heritage.
 
Each story is there to help all of us that are willing to listen; tell the story and pass it on to someone else.

Elbert Dee Walston TwoPonies (Cherokee, Comanche) was born in Slaton, Texas in 1951.  In 1972 he was taught how to tell stories in the Native American tradition by John TwoPonies, a Northern Cheyenne man who was living on the Dine' Reservation in Arizona. Elbert TwoPonies realized that the stories are very entertaining, but also have lessons, instructions on how to live and how things came to be.
 
In 1997 Elbert TwoPonies began telling stories on his internet radio station in hopes of giving the stories to a larger audience. He tells stories from different nations that he believes will help the listeners. It is his hope that when people listen to the stories, one or more of those stories will speak to them and that people will learn the stories, tell them to others, and pass them on.  The retelling of the stories will keep them alive.

When the Spam hit the fan in Nam

From Rich Halten | 10:36

A Veteran's Day flashback to two tales of survival from one historic battle

Hue_billets_post-tet_small With the passing of more and more of WW2's veterans, the largest number of vets alive to mark this Veteran's Day is those who served in Vietnam. Two Vietnam vets separated in battle during the Tet Offensive by the Vietcong in 1968, came together recently to tell their very different stories of survival.  One was captured and spent five years in a prison camp, the other feels angels must have saved him from a similar fate -- or worse.

Two Wheels to Nowhere - Episode 1

From Aengus Anderson | Part of the Two Wheels to Nowhere series | 30:20

From San Francisco, California to Kanab, Utah by way of the Salton Sea.

Two Wheels to Nowhere is a seven-part series that weaves together the story of one man's motorcycle journey around the United States with the voices of people he met along the way. It is a conversation about people's greatest sources of excitement and concern—a conversation that ultimately explores how different Americans face the unknown.

Ep1_copy_small This is a story of America told through snapshots of excitement and fear. Over the course of three months, Aengus Anderson rode his motorcycle around the United States and asked 166 random Americans the same two questions: what is the most exciting thing in your life? What is the most concerning thing? From beauty shop owners in Cairo, IL to contractors in rural South Carolina, a common theme emerged, one that spanned a cultural divide. From the left to the right, Americans expressed an uncomfortable feeling that something fundamental was off balance. Some worried about an environmental collapse, others a spiritual one, but their underlying disquiet was the same.

Two Wheels to Nowhere is a mix of interviews with a first-person travel narrative, a story that winds its way across American landscapes, both physical and cultural. It explores ideas through counterpoint and finds common ground in unlikely places. It is a story of choices, changes, and facing the unknown.

Angel's Landing

From Hearing Voices | Part of the Scott Carrier stories series | 04:47

A trek along the Grotto trailhead.

Scangelsland_small Utah's Zion National Park draws 2.7 million visitors a year, and a major attraction for hearty hikers is a trek along the Grotto trailhead to Angel's Landing. From the banks of the Virgin River, the yellow-and-red sandstone sides of Zion Canyon rise 2,000 feet. It feels like being inside a huge body. The canyon walls are the rib cage spread open and Angel's Landing is like the heart. Aired on NPR Day to Day.

Good Crush: Connecting Student Bodies

From SexReally | Part of the SexReally Show series | 09:10

Flirting with a crush has never been this easy...or this anonymous...

Internet_dating_prx_small With the help of guest reporter Emily Corwin, Laura Stepp takes a look at college internet dating and specifically goodcrush.com, a popular site that “eliminates potential awkwardness and shyness from romantic interactions by offering simple, fun, and exciting ways to turn your crush into a GoodCrush - a match.”

U of M Duck & Goose Calling Club

From Radio K | Part of the Quick Queue series | 01:43

What is that sound coming across the green mall on the U of M college campus. Ducks? Geese? Both?

Duck_calls_small Neither.  Crossers of the Washington Avenue Bridge or those looking for lunch in the Coffman Union can often hear the sweet serenade of the Duck and Goose Calling Club plying their trade and looking, if not for geese, at least for those interested in how to sound like geese.

Doors of New Orleans

From Jamie Dell'Apa | :33

An audio postcard mimicking the famous posters showing images of a city's famous doors.

Donnas_small For those who perceive the world in audio, New Orleans' doors are a long-forgotten, vintage 1950s sound.  The stretching and contracting of metallic springs with squeaky hinges followed by a thin wooden door slamming shut then bouncing back for an minor encore.  

Unlike today's doors, New Orleans doors don't have the muffling of weather stripping or air-piston governors.  It's New Orleans, houses are barely maintained.  Door hinges lubricated?  Pushawww.  Our doors don't keep bad weather out or the expensive HVAC air in.  Their greatest value is creating a sound that recalls the rich imagery of Elia Kazan's set-in-New-Orleans, Panic in the Streets at a time when 15 cents per gallon gasoline made energy consciousness a thing of the future.  

Like Panic in the Streets, the audio of these doors plays in your mind like a black and white movie.         


Patrons tell us the familiar locations: Spotted Cat, Central Grocery, Apple Barrel, Bicycle Michael's, etc.


(Note, the playback version of this file fades during the last three seconds.  The down load doesn't fade.  If you have any problems, contact the producer, Jamie Dell'Apa at jdellapa@yahoo.com and I'll send you the original file.)