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A combination of collage, new experimental records and other bits and bobs, Mid-Valley Mutations is a tour through the mind of Austin Rich, who has been broadcasting in some form since 1998. Heavily influenced by Dr Demento, Don Joyce and old fashioned College Radio, Austin creates Audio Essays on a variety of subjects, and even just plays records, from time to time. Sometimes Live music and Interviews will grace the program, helping create a situation where you don't really know what you're going to hear, when you tune in. What you need to know is when you enter the Mid-Valley region, be prepared for the Musical Mutations... in whatever form they take.

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Trimming The Tree
Mini-Mutations  Seasoned Greet(ing) [Instrumental]   Favoriting A Carol-ing We Go Along II: The Quickening  WTBC Records  2021 
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The MST3K Cast  Let's Have A Patrick Swayze Chistmas   Favoriting Episode 321: Santa Claus Conquers The Martians (21 December 1991)  Best Brains Productions  1991 
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Robert Frost (read by Austin Rich)  Christmas Trees   Favoriting Somewhere In-Between: A Radio Zine #24 (18 December 2020)  WTBC Radio  2020 
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Riverbottom Nightmare Band  Riverbottom Nightmare Band   Favoriting Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas  The Jim Henson Company  1977 
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Getting With The Spirits
Mini-Mutations  Earl Rest Ye Doney Glitchmas Tree   Favoriting A Carol-ing We Go Along II: The Quickening  WTBC Records  2021 
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Bob and Doug McKenzie  Twelve Days of Christmas   Favoriting Great White North  Mercury Records  1981 
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Hermey & Rudolph  We're a Couple of Misfits   Favoriting Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer  NBC  1964 
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Ada Buisson (read by Austin Rich)  The Ghost's Summons   Favoriting Somewhere In-Between: A Radio Zine #25 (25 December 2020)  WTBC Radio  2020 
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Hide & Seek
Mini-Mutations  Organ Holiday Get-Down   Favoriting A Carol-ing We Go Along II: The Quickening  WTBC Records  2021 
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A. M. Barrage (read by Austin Rich)  Smee   Favoriting Somewhere In-Between: A Radio Zine #22 (4 December 2020)  WTBC Radio  2020 
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Ghost's Stories
Mini-Mutations  Krampus, Baby   Favoriting A Carol-ing We Go Along II: The Quickening  WTBC Records  2021 
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Mark Twain (read by Austin Rich)  A Ghost Story   Favoriting Somewhere In-Between: A Radio Zine #16 (23 October 2020)  WTBC Radio  2020 
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Mini-Mutations  Gingerbread People & Places   Favoriting Holiday Cookies EP  WTBC Records  2022 
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Holiday Travel
Mini-Mutations  Shortbread (Instrumental)   Favoriting Holiday Cookies EP  WTBC Records  2022 
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Algernon Blackwood (read by Austin Rich)  The Kit-Bag   Favoriting Somewhere In-Between: A Radio Zine #54 (24 December 2021)  WTBC Radio  2021 
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Mini-Mutations  It's Beginning To Sound A Lot Like Synth-Rock   Favoriting A Carol-ing We Go Along II: The Quickening  WTBC Records  2021 
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Happy Holidays
Dead Moon  Christmas Rush   Favoriting It's Finally Christmas!  Tim/Kerr Records  1994 
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Listener comments!

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Austin Rich:

Good Hello.
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Ahoy!
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MHLee:

Nice Christmas card
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:00pm
Austin Rich:

Good Hello, Imaginos! And MHLee! Howdy!
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Aitch:

My mutate mates date!
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Scott67:

G'day Austin & Mutants! Lets shake shit up this season!
🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:01pm
Austin Rich:

Aitch! I feel honored.
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Austin Rich:

Scott67! Hooray!
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Sarcofiguy:

HAAAAAAAH!!!!!
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Aaron in Minneapolis:

I AM HERE FOR THE GHOSTS
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:02pm
Austin Rich:

Sarcofiguy! Are you here for the scary stories?
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Mr Fab:

I SO wish that party could actually happen
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:02pm
Krys O.:

Hiya, Austin!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:02pm
Austin Rich:

Someday, Mr Fab, we'll have a great holiday party!
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Looking forward to the scary stories.
  9:02pm
Charles:

Cheers!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:03pm
Austin Rich:

Charles! Nice to see you.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:03pm
WR:

Hello Austin and all. Don't know how long I will last tonight. Last night after Dimestore Radio I stayed up until nearly 3AM finding and watching 2 Jack Benny films.
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Sarcofiguy:

↳ Mr Fab @9:02
Same. I'd love actually meet you all in person!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:03pm
Krys O.:

↳ WR @9:03
Hey, WR. Which films?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:03pm
Austin Rich:

That's okay WR. We all go on Jack Benny jags, now and then.
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Sarcofiguy:

↳ Austin Rich @9:02
I can stick around till 9:30, then beddy byes! I sadly still have my day job!
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Austin Rich:

↳ Sarcofiguy @9:04
You can always listen later. A gig's a gig, dig?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:05pm
Aaron in Minneapolis:

I am doing a fill in tomorrow for Dinner at Andy's as well, so you will hear me there!
  9:05pm
Charles:

Sweet Aaron! Love the show!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:05pm
Aitch:

A general sheena trip to Tokyo would be sort of in the middle.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:05pm
Austin Rich:

Nice to see you in the chat, Aaron in Minneapolis! Have some Nog!
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Krys O.:

Same here. I have two more days of work before we close down. We are off for nine days from the 23rd until January 1st.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:06pm
Krys O.:

↳ Aaron in Minneapolis @9:05
Hi, Aaron! That's great news!
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WR:

↳ Krys O. @9:03
Kyrs, Austin had played a Command Performance radio bit with Jack Benny and Fred Allen so I found Love Thy Neighbor on Archive.org and also watched Buck Benny Rides again,
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:07pm
MHLee:

I'll be doing gene analysis stuff all night
  9:07pm
Charles:

I love Mitch's show!
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Sarcofiguy:

↳ MHLee @9:07
DAYUM, that sounds wonderfully interesting!
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Mr Fab:

↳ Aaron in Minneapolis @9:05
congrats, goin big time!
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Scott67:

Beer punch mate!🍻😎🤙💨🍺
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Sarcofiguy:

THANK YOU!!!!!
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Aaron in Minneapolis:

↳ Krys O. @9:06
But no Smash Mouth this time!
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Sarcofiguy:

↳ Aaron in Minneapolis @9:08
Hey, now! YOU'RE A ROCK STAR!!!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:09pm
Krys O.:

↳ Aaron in Minneapolis @9:08
LOL!! It will still be great, I'm sure.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:09pm
Scott67:

Like Vietnamese Beer Hoi.🍻
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Lynchee kinchy collie mollie dingo dingo.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:09pm
Aitch:

Hoi rude word in Thai
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:10pm
Krys O.:

↳ WR @9:07
Nice. My favorite Benny is To Be or Not To Be.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:10pm
Krys O.:

↳ WR @9:07
2nd favorite Benny is Horn Blows at Midnight.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:10pm
Aaron in Minneapolis:

The only real ghost story anyone hears around this time is a Dickens of a tale!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:11pm
MHLee:

↳ Sarcofiguy @9:07
Sometimes, sometimes you know the information and are just transferring data from one sheet to another
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:12pm
Scott67:

Lucky I'm not drinkin' Thai Beer Aitch!
🍻😎🤙💨🍺
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:12pm
Austin Rich:

"My favorite movie: Roadhouse."
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:13pm
Austin Rich:

I do have a bit of a soft spot for "Roadhouse," but you have to go into it knowing it's the most ridiculous movie you'll see that week.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:13pm
Aaron in Minneapolis:

↳ Sarcofiguy @9:09
I appreciated your Prince show as I am in ground zero of all things Prince
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:13pm
Aaron in Minneapolis:

and MST3K!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:14pm
Austin Rich:

MST3K is one of the few sacred things to me. It must be mocked relentlessly, the way they would have done.
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HyperDose:

Stoked for the ghost story!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:15pm
Austin Rich:

HyperDose! Hooray!
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Sarcofiguy:

↳ Aaron in Minneapolis @9:13
Sigh! I miss that little fella. I'm quite sure a sighting of him was like a "whatever" experience for most folks up there, I imagine. Glad you enjoyed the show.
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

They sound a bit like the group that sang The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:16pm
Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:15
I love that song! I do believe that Xeres and I played that song on our Dr. Demento tribute show.
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Sarcofiguy:

↳ MHLee @9:11
Still sounds like it's in the realms of fascinating!
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Sarcofiguy:

↳ Song: "Christmas Trees" by "Robert Frost (read by Austin...
Cool.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:19pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Song: "Riverbottom Nightmare Band" by "Riverbottom Night...
In Portland, there was a punk band, called The Muddy River Nightmare Band, and they covered this song, changing the lyrics a little to fit their band.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:20pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Sarcofiguy @9:19
Frost has got some good stuff, if look into some other the lesser known items.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:20pm
Austin Rich:

"Our toothache can help us stay mean."
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Mr Fab:

↳ Austin Rich @9:20
my daughter's school sang a version of "Stopping By The Woods on A Snowy Evening" at their "Winterfest" show last week
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Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @9:21
Very cool. See, I'm not alone!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:23pm
MHLee:

↳ Mr Fab @9:21
I sang a version too about a decade ago...
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Sarcofiguy:

↳ Austin Rich @9:20
I dig stuff like this. It has that Garrison Keillor feel as you read it. I LOVE him too, of course.
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Aaron in Minneapolis:

↳ Sarcofiguy @9:15
I used to go out to Bunkers in Minneapolis a lot where the local R and B cpver band powerhouse plays every weekend, Dr. Mambo's Combo, and a lot of the members are Prince Alumni, and a lot of times, the Purple Man showed up to watch from in the back.
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Sarcofiguy:

↳ Aaron in Minneapolis @9:23
That would blow my damned mind, I swear!
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Alice was a few an of Zappa
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Sarcofiguy:

@AUSTIN: Nighty night, my friend!!!!!
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Fan I mean
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Aaron in Minneapolis:

BOB AND DOUG I HOPE
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Scott67:

Sweet ones Sarcofiguy!✌️😎🤙
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:27pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Aaron in Minneapolis @9:26
Of course it's Bob & Doug. I was obsessed with Strange Brew as a young man.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:28pm
Austin Rich:

"A Beer."
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

In the twelve days does the recipient get the gifts once only or repeatedly?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:29pm
Scott67:

Sounds like my true love! Beer!
🍻😎🤙💨🍺
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:30pm
Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:29
If it's repeatedly, that's a decent amount of golden tooks.
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Look up Dear Nuala. Absolutely hilarious
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Krys O.:

Good night, all! Catch you on the flipside!
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Mr Fab:

Beauty!
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Sleep well
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:31pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Song: "Twelve Days of Christmas" by "Bob and Doug McKenzie"
I once won a radio call-in radio contest, by correctly knowing that on the 8th Day, Bob & Doug received eight comic books. I think I won a Guns and Roses album, if I recall correctly.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:31pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Krys O. @9:30
Sleep well!
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Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:30
I'll have to check that out. Thanks for the tip, Imaginos.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:32pm
MHLee:

is this your snow bank?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:32pm
Austin Rich:

"What do you say we both be independent together." And so, they built a DIY scene.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:32pm
Austin Rich:

↳ MHLee @9:32
There's a lot of weird jokes in that film.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:33pm
Austin Rich:

"They can't fire me, I QUIT, I just don't seem to fit in." I sing that a lot.
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Fitting in is overrated
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WR:

↳ Krys O. @9:10
Will look for those Benny films Krys. To Be or Not to Be interests me, since I think it will go beyond Benny's usual shticks which the two I watched were full of.
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MHLee:

Mr Bass passed away this year
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Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:33
Word up.
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HyperDose:

↳ Song: "Twelve Days of Christmas" by "Bob and Doug McKenzie"
Best comedy album of all time. Thank you for playing it!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:36pm
Austin Rich:

↳ HyperDose @9:35
I had to buy a second copy of the LP, because mine didn't have the liner notes that came with the album originally. I FINALLY have a copy with the liner notes, now... and another copy that just has the album.
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Excellent reading
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:42pm
Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:41
Thank you. It's surprisingly hard to read text without making mistakes. There was a LOT of editing, to make this sound like a cogent story.
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Not just that, but to sound alive and interested and not like reading stereo instructions
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:46pm
MHLee:

one tiny pimple is a weird detail
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:47pm
Austin Rich:

↳ MHLee @9:46
This was written in the 19th Century. I wonder if "pimple" might have meant something else?
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Mr Fab:

Ada Buisson was summoned by a ghost at an early age - she was a member of the 27 club.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:54pm
Aaron in Minneapolis:

We can hear Austin play with his Organ, geez that sounds wrong
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:54pm
Aaron in Minneapolis:

I always go there
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:57pm
Aaron in Minneapolis:

With that joke, I have killed the chat
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:59pm
Austin Rich:

I think the chat slows down when the stories start...
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

I was thinking of a similar story in the Dead of Night.
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MHLee:

i'm just doing work
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Aaron in Minneapolis:

I am taking credit still
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MHLee:

↳ Aaron in Minneapolis @9:54
i was going to joke, you and prince both
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:00pm
Austin Rich:

The "frame" story seems right out of, "Turn of The Screw." But a much less artful version.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:01pm
coelacanth∅:

good evening Austin Rich and Beautiful Mutants
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Austin Rich:

coelacanthø! Pull up a chair, and have some Nog.
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ Aaron in Minneapolis @9:54
Your comment reminded me of a blooper about a musician at a baseball game who spent a rainy moment diddling on his organ
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:03pm
Aaron in Minneapolis:

The song he played? "My Ding A Ling"
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:04pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Aaron in Minneapolis @10:03
Followed by, "If Stuart Could Talk," by The Dickies.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:05pm
Austin Rich:

"Electric Torch." That certainly dates the story.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:06pm
Aaron in Minneapolis:

Its not a proper holiday party until people whisper dirty jokes to each other while the host tries to tell stories
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Mr Fab:

hey gang, Off to a pizza restaurant with the Fab fam. Thx, Austin!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:10pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @10:09
Have a slice on me!
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coelacanth∅:

Happy pizza Fab!
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Scott67:

Did someone say Pizza!??🍕
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Heading to sleep after this story
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Scott67:

That's it! I'm heading to the freezer!... Via the fridge!
🍻😎🤙🍕
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Good night
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smee∅:

my neck hurts
  10:17pm
sufferwords:

yes please
  10:17pm
sufferwords:

i vote unreasonable
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:17pm
smee fill-in, that is∅:

dumb game.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:28pm
Austin Rich:

Some light reading:

en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:35pm
Austin Rich:

And now, a holiday story I wrote...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:42pm
MHLee:

it does sound fun to me austin... if i had a printer i'd send some of my bizarre art as postcards... my pfp is one such piece
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:43pm
MHLee:

i.redd.it...
  10:44pm
sufferwords:

Mikal Gilmore posted the same spiel today- did you see that?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:45pm
Austin Rich:

↳ MHLee @10:43
I would love to get postcards like that in the mail!
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Austin Rich:

↳ sufferwords @10:44
I'm not familiar! Did we just say the same thing, essentially?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:47pm
Scott67:

Gunna say thanks for the entertainment now Austin. So I can lay down & let this last tale send me of into a Nap dream adventure. Cheers all.🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺🌻
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:47pm
Austin Rich:

Goodnight, Scott67. Sleep well.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:53pm
Austin Rich:

I think, unless you have done time in the military, you probably refer to this kind of bag as a duffel bag.

en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:55pm
Austin Rich:

↳ MHLee @10:42
Make sure to message me about this. I can easily add you to the mailing list.
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coelacanth∅:

Thanks Rich! enjoyed the stories! have a Happy holiday or 2!
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Austin Rich:

I will, coelacanthø. Hopefully, you get to as well.
  11:19pm
sufferwords:

thanks fun listen
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:19pm
MHLee:

Thanks Austin
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:20pm
WR:

Thank you!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 11:20pm
Austin Rich:

I like how, in this Dead Moon song, you can hear the bass player learn the song as they record it.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 11:24pm
Austin Rich:

I love ya'll, and I just can't stop! But I'll log off in a sec. Thanks everyone! You're the best.
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