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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.
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New! 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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Shockwave Radio Broadcasts
Recent shows
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.
       
Interviews from and around the Minnesota Fringe Festival done on an iPod.
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
12M 24:45 All the 2006 Fringe iPod Interviews available as podcast with pictures and links
2006 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
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
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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