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| Fixed and updated! Podcasts of Shockwave Radio now available. Shows or files also available as podcasts are indicated by this color. Podcasts include pictures and urls! |
| Permanent archive of Shockwave Radio Theater broadcasts and files placed on archive.org, usually in several formats including streaming and downloadable. Files on archive.org indicated by this color. |
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| Political Coverage, summer 2008 | |||
| Republican National Convention and related interviews | |||
| Type | Time/size | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mp3 | 33:07 min/7.7M | Windows-friendly version of August 30, 2008 Podcast | Baron Dave Romm interviews at A Libertarian Rage and at a MoveOn.Org viewing of Obama's acceptance speech. |
| Mp3 | 26:00 min/6.1M | Windows-friendly version of August 24, 2008 Podcast | Baron Dave Romm interviews politicians and tween dancers at a DFL fundraiser. |
| Mp3 | 41:26 min/9.6M | Windows-friendly version of August 22, 2008 Podcast | Baron Dave Romm interviews politicians and volunteers at the Minnesota State Fair. |
| Mp3 | 3:21 min/2.3M | Global Warming: Republicans vs. Democraats | Brief excerpts of interviews with Barb Davis Whte and Robert Lilligren |
| Mp3 | 8:56 min/2.1M | Police Raid house in S. Mpls 8/30/08 | Unedited interview with housemate of those arrested in one location. |
| Shockwave Radio Broadcasts | |||
| 2005-2006 broadcasts (incomplete) | |||
| Type | Time/size | Name | Description |
| QT | 29:29 min/33.8M | Shockwave Radio Broadcast April 29, 2006 | Baron Dave Romm and Brian Westley play an interview with Antarctica undersea photographer Dennis Cornejo. |
| QT | 29:30 min/33.8M | Shockwave Radio Broadcast April 22, 2006 | Baron Dave Romm and Brian Westley don't discuss Earth Day, discuss Minicon and play filk music from the con. |
| QT | 27:50 min/31.9M | Shockwave Radio Broadcast April 15, 2006 | Brian Westley hosts and plays the second half of the Baron Dave interview with Amy Salloway. |
| QT | 30:07 min/34.5M | Shockwave Radio Broadcast April 8, 2006 | Baron Dave Romm, Brian Westley and the mysterious "Bob" play unique and obscure music to get you to pledge to KFAI-FM, our non-profit station. |
| QT | 29:19 min/33.6M | Shockwave Radio Broadcast April 1, 2006 | Baron Dave Romm and Brian Westley and "Bob" pledge rap and play unique items including a penguin interview. |
| QT | 29:48 min/34.1M | Shockwave Radio Broadcast March 25, 2006 | Baron Dave Romm and Brian Westley spot a new spot on Jupiter and play an interview with author Walter H. Hunt. |
| QT | 30:42 min/35.1M | Shockwave Radio Broadcast March 18, 2006 | Baron Dave Romm and Brian Westley discuss news from Mars and play demented music from Marscon. |
| QT | 30:36 min/35M | Shockwave Radio Broadcast March 11, 2006 | Baron Dave Romm and Brian Westley discuss planetary news, play parody music acquired at Marscon. |
| QT | 27:02 min/31.3M | Shockwave Radio Broadcast March 4, 2006 | Brian Westley hosts, plays the first part of a Baron Dave Romm interview with Amy Salloway. |
| QT | 29:11 min/33.4M | Shockwave Radio Broadcast Feb. 18, 2006 | Baron Dave Romm and Brian Westley discuss why more people believe Elvis is alive than approve of George W. Bush and play lots of Elvis covers. |
| 29:10 min/33.4M | Shockwave Radio Broadcast Feb. 11, 2006 | Baron Dave Romm and Brian Westley interview Amy Salloway about the restaging of her Fringe Festival show, So Kiss Me Already, Herschel Gertz and other topics. | |
| 29:58 min/34.3M | Shockwave Radio Broadcast Feb. 4, 2006 | Baron Dave Romm and Brian Westley discuss the and play songs from artists appearing at Marscon 2006. | |
| 29:02 min/33.2M | Shockwave Radio Broadcast Jan. 28, 2006 | Baron Dave Romm and Brian Westley read versions of the Jabberwocky and explain the terms. | |
| 29:31 min | Shockwave Radio Broadcast January 7, 2006 | Baron Dave Romm and Brian Westley talk about cliches and how language can be used to manipulate the truth. | |
| 29:20 min | Shockwave Radio Broadcast Dec. 31, 2005 | Baron Dave Romm and Brian Westley play covers of tv theme songs. | |
| 29:40 min | Shockwave Radio Broadcast Dec. 24, 2005 | Baron Dave Romm and Brian Westley discuss the War On Channukah and play bayou music as counterpoint to the overplayed pagan winter music. | |
| 29:38 min | Shockwave Radio Broadcast Dec. 17, 2005 | Baron Dave Romm talks about his trip to Antarctica and plays an interview with penguins conducted on site. He and Brian Westley banter about sunsets and travel and global warming and play music from Ushuaia Argentina. | |
| 30:08 min | Shockwave Radio Broadcast Dec. 10, 2005 | Brian Westley plays lots of Firesign Threatre podcasts. | |
| 28:32 min | Shockwave Radio Broadcast Dec. 3, 2005 | Brian Westley plays themes to science fiction tv shows. | |
| 29:46 min | Shockwave Radio Broadcast Nov. 26, 2005 | Brian Westley takes us on a musical journey, where every song links to the previous. | |
| Baron Dave coverage of the Minnesota Fringe Festival. | |||
| 2008 Minneosta Fringe | |||
| 12.8M | 28:17 | Podcast August 18, 2008: Fringe Festival - Winding Down podcast | with pictures and links |
| 13.8M | 28:59 | Podcast August 14, 2008: Fringe Festival - Rolling Along podcast | with pictures and links |
| 12.8M | 28:04 | Podcast August 4, 2008: Fringe Festival - the early days podcast | with pictures and links |
| 4.7M | 5:04 | Report of July 30, 2008 with Fringe Princes Robin Gillette | KFAI News broadcast |
| 4.7M | 5:04 | Report of August 5, 2008 with various Fringers | KFAI News broadcast |
| 4.6M | 5:02 | Report of August 11, 2008 with various Fringers | KFAI News broadcast |
| 2007 Minneosta Fringe | |||
| 31.8M | 33:17 | Podcast August 20, 2007: Fringe Festival - Final Report podcast | with pictures and links |
| 22.4M | 23:45 | Podcast August 6, 2007: Fringe Festival - the early days podcast | with pictures and links |
| 2006 Minneosta Fringe | |||
| Size | Time | Name | Description |
| 1.9M | 4:01 | Tim Mooney of Criteria | after the Out Of Towners Preview 8/2/06 |
| 952K | 2:01 | Pat, Stage Manager for The Star Chamber | after the Out Of Towners Preview 8/2/06 |
| 2.6M | 5:41 | Marc Gutman and Sophie Bowman of Calculus: the Musical | after performance 8/4/06 |
| 2M | 4:18 | Joseph Evans of Love in a Time of Rinderpest | after performance 8/5/06 |
| 1.4M | 3:03 | David Pisa of 1926 Pleasant | before performance 8/7/06 |
| 2.5M | 5:24 | Wake Up, Marconi! of America Drama: Pocket Edition | after performance 8/11/06 |
| 14.3M | 29:46 | Brodcast July 22, 2006 with Leah Cooper podcast | with pictures and links |
| 22.4M | 23:40 | Brodcast August 5, 2006 with Out of Towners podcast | with pictures and links |
| 12M | 24:45 | All the 2006 Fringe iPod Interviews available as podcast | with pictures and links |
| 2005 Minneosta Fringe | |||
| Size | Time | Name | Description |
| Jon Ferguson and Noah Bremer are the co-creators of Please Don't Blow Up Mr. Boban | |||
| QT | 3:56/2.3M | Interview with Mrs. & Mrs. Landy, Fringe volunteers | waiting before performance 8/4/05 |
| QT | 5:29/3.1M | Interview with Jon Ferguson (director), 8/4/05 | after performance 8/4/05 |
| QT | 4:21/2.5M | Interview with Noah Bremer (Mr. Boban), 8/4/05 | after performance 8/4/05 |
| I met these two girls at the Jungle Theater 8/12/05 and turned on the iPod... | |||
| QT | 4:10/2.4M | Otis and Melvin | Jungle Theater foyer 8/12/05 |
| The Scrimshaw Brothers Fringe Show, The Scrimshaw Show | |||
| QT | 4:40/2.7M | Joseph Scrimshaw | After their first show Thurs. 8/5 am |
| Miscellaneous | |||
| QT | 5:21/3.1M | Dean Seal | Organizer of The Spiritual Fringe (poor recording) book |
| QT | 8:18/4.8M | Joe Decamillis | Artist at the Uptown Art Fair 8/5/05 |
| QT | 5:57/3.4M | Chicks In Space | Members of the Theatre Unbound after their Fringe show 8/5/05 |
| Interviews and radio production | |||
| Baron Dave was Fan Guest of Honor at the 2004 Marscon March 5-7, 2004 |
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| RM | 19:21 min | Interview with Dr. Demento March 7, 2004 (YML 35) | by Dave Romm Dr. Demento website |
| Shockwave Interview with Minneapolis Mayor RT Ryback | |||
| RM | 25:26 min | Interview with RT Ryback, Nov. 18, 2003, aired Jan. 10, 2004 | by Dave Romm www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/mayor/resources/about.asp |
| Shockwave Interview with Jon Pertwee, the third Dr. Who | |||
| RM | 16:54 min | Interview with Jon Pertwee, July 1, 1988 | by Brian Westley and Jerry Stearns www.gallifreyone.com/epguide-dw3.php |
| Shockwave Interview with Reverend Billy C. Wirtz | |||
| 21:17 min | Interview with Rev. Billy C. Wirtz, May 31, 2003 | by Dave Romm, Brian Westley, Doug Friauf www.reverendbilly.com | |
| Interview with Phil Proctor, Minicon 33, April 11, 1998 | |||
| Aside from a quick intro and an ending comment, I asked Phil four (4) questions. We talked for an hour. I've divided the interview by those questions |
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| RM | 22:04 min | Question 1: What do you do in Los Angeles? | by Dave Romm 4/11/98 www.planetproctor.com |
| RM | 22:13 min | Questions 2 & 3: Did you get residuals from the Firesign Theatre and What was it like going into the studio to record a new album, did you have fun with the new production techniques? |
I told him I was going to ask Q3 (which starts at 6:45) |
| RM | 16:31 min | Question 4: Tell me a little about Melinda Peterson. and end comments | How he met and wooed his wife |
| RM | 3:47 min | Bonus: Proctor Promos for Shockwave, unedited (except to remove dead air) | Note: Shockwave is no longer on at 6pm, but you can listen to live streaming here (3:30pm Central on Saturdays) and listen to the two most recent shows here. |
| Interviews of World Fantasy Convention 2002 Attendees | |||
| RM | 17:02 min | Frank Wu, November 1, 2002 | by Dave Romm at WFC 2002, www.frankwu.com |
| RM | 23:49 min | Robert Devereaux, November 2, 2002 | by Dave Romm at WFC 2002, Dark Highway Press |
| Past Interviews of World Fantasy Convention Attendees | |||
| RM | 19:09 min | Gene Wolfe, October 31, 1993 | by Dave Romm at WFC 1993 |
| RM | 7:38 min | Karen Anderson, October 30, 1993 | by Dave Romm at WFC 1993 |
| RM | 16:25 min | Forrest J. Ackerman, July 3, 1999 | by Dave Romm at Convergence 1999 |
| Shockwave interview with Terry Brooks | |||
| RM | 33:21 min | Brooks Interviewed Sept. 28, 2002 in St. Paul | by Dave Romm |
| Shockwave interview with Douglas Adams | |||
| 29:55 min | Adams Interviewed Nov. 9, 1993 | by Dave Romm, Jerry Stearns, Brian Westley | |
| RM | 4:48 min | Adams pastiche | Dave having fun at Minicon 30, part of a larger performance |
| Early Shockwave Broadcasts | |||
| For more information, go to Shockwave FAQ 6.0 | |||
| 36:02 min | Shockwave Broadcast Sept. 19, 1979 | The first show with us fans. We took over. | |
| 27:34 min | Shockwave Broadcast Sept. 26, 1979 | Our second show. Laramie Sassaville reads Joanna Russ. | |
| Minicon 32, March 28, 1997 w/special guest David Ossman | |||
| RM | 14.04 min | The Secret Life of Wally Mitter | parody of Thurber story and more |
| RM | 5:19 min | National Weirdness Test | How weird are you? |
| RM | 0:48 min | Scoring the National Weirdness Test | Find out |
| RM | 1:55 min | Books to be published in the 21st Century | I can't wait! |
| from Minicon 25, April 13, 1990 | |||
| Real Audio | 9:40 min | When the Chips Are Down | Inspired by a true story |
| The Food Wars Saga: parody by Kara Dalkey | |||
| RM | 21:52 min | Food Wars: A New Cook | The first (or fourth) in the Saga |
| RM | 27:34 min | The Empire Bakes Off pt. 1 | The Second (or Fifth) in the Saga |
| RM | 16:41 min | The Empire Bakes Off pt. 2 | The Second (or Fifth) in the Saga |
| RM | 6:21 min | Waiting On Line | Bonus: The Shockwave Riders go see The Empire Strikes Back aired 5/27/80 |
| If there's enough interest, I'll digitize Repast of the Jello and put it here. | |||
| Special section for Will Shetterly and Emma Bull | |||
| RM | 3:56min | Dick Space, Space Dick | Written by Will Shetterly circa 1980 |
| RM | 33:38min | PBS Liavek | Minicon Stage Show 1987 (also Podcast as a tribute to John M. Ford) |
| Also Waiting on Line, above | |||
| Interviews from Marscon 2002 | |||
| RM | 15:03min | Peter Woodward | Interview with actor/writer GoH Woodward |
| RM | 7:30min | John Levene | Interview with actor/producer GoH Levene |
| Interviews (edited for airplay) | |||
| RM | 17:37min | Interview w/Jesse Ventura | Recorded 9/9/99, aired 9/25/99 |
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