WFMU: Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from January 28, 2025

Listener comments!
	♥ 6:56pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	🎸 ♥ 8:57pm Arvo Zylo: I apparently am interrupting my first listen to an album by Creedence Clearwater Revival, so this better be good!! JK I know it will be good... Still haven't seen the Max H movie... keep forgetting.
	8:58pm Imaginos: Ahoy me hearties! Looks like a most awesome show.
	8:59pm Scott Kirkwood: Looking forward to hearing the show tonight.
	9:01pm Charles: Mid-Mi-Mi-Mid-Valley Mu-mu-tations!
	♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you in the Digital Salon, Arvo, Imaginos and Scott! Strap in for a dose for 40 years ago...
	♥ 9:01pm Krys O.: Hello!
	♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: Charles! Thanks for droppin' in!
	♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:01 Krys O! Always nice to see you in the Digital Salon!
	9:02pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:01 Going to try to stay up for the full show tonight. Max is too cool to miss. And so are you.
	♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:58 Imaginos, my friend in Max!
	9:02pm Mr. X: WARNING: Watching this blipvert may cause you to spontaneously explode.
	♥ 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:02 Mr. X! This may pique your interest...
	9:04pm ramencity: Moo moo, Max-a-roos!
	♥ 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:04 Hoooray! It's the ramen city kid!
	♥ 9:05pm postconsumer: Mad Max! LOVED him in the 80s/90s
	9:05pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:02 Bryce Lynch. The youngest genius to out-technobabble Spock.
	9:06pm Imaginos: My favourite music on Max Headroom was the lift chase theme from the original movie.
	9:07pm Blank SKot: w00 h00!
	9:09pm Mr Fab: Hey Austin! What is the concept behind Max Headroom again? I remember i liked it, but it was on a loooong time ago.
	9:10pm Imaginos: ↳ Blank SKot @9:07 excellent job! Thank you for your time.
	9:10pm Imaginos: ↳ Mr Fab @9:09 the adventure series was about a reporter whose mind was copied into the computerverse.
	♥ 9:10pm Aitch: Weird when you see Matt Frewer in anything else. Ultimate type-casting
	9:11pm Imaginos: ↳ Aitch @9:10 He's in a lot of Stephen King movies.
	♥ 9:12pm Aitch: ↳ Imaginos @9:11 the right place for him
	♥ 9:13pm Austin Rich: Thanks for joining us, Aitch and Mr. Fab! and Blank SKot! Time to dance...
	9:13pm Imaginos: ↳ Song: "??" by "??" Might be the band After The Fire.
	9:14pm ramencity: ↳ Song: "??" by "??" How do you say "Joe Strummer" in German?
	♥ 9:15pm Austin Rich: Max is just telling jokes in German, at the opening of his first show on in the UK. Sure, makes sense...
	9:16pm ramencity: Is Telegram Sam the son of Lucifer Sam?
	♥ 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:16 I'm sure there's some fanfic that establishes that.
	9:19pm Imaginos: Loved the video for this song. I always used to imagine that Billy Idol would appear on 20 Minutes into the Future as Bryce's Blank older brother.
	♥ 9:19pm Austin Rich: For context: there were no opening credits for any of these episodes, nor were there any intended to be included. The show would just open with Max, addressing the audience, and then a video would play. Sometimes the band and the song title would pop up, but not always. And at the end of the half hour, a copyright notice would scroll across the bottom of the screen. There were not closing credits. That's how the show initially came on. A lot of people weren't really sure what they were seeing, and then a music video would come on. I can only imagine how 1985 England must of reacted to it.
	♥ 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:19 That's a great idea!
	9:20pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Telegram Sam" by "Bauhaus" In 1985 I was couch surfing at a friend's apartment in San Francisco, who introduced me to her Goth brother. He tried to make me into a fan of Bauhaus, and even loaned me his Bauhaus LPs. I accidentally left one in the sun and it warped. I had to go hunt it down at the local record shop and buy a replacement. That's what Bauhaus means to me.
	9:21pm univac: Hello, all.
	♥ 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:20 While I'm sad that you had to spend the money, I sort of love that story.
	♥ 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:21 univac! This seems like a show you would enjoy.
	9:21pm Iratemix: ↳ Song: "??" by "??" This ?? Song sounds like Falco to me, not sure of the title
	9:22pm Imaginos: ↳ Iratemix @9:21 I think you're right. ATF did the English versions of their songs.
	♥ 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Iratemix @9:21 I'll have to investigate! Thanks for the tip.
	♥ 9:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Destination Zulu Land" by "King Kurt" It's funny this song turned up in this first episode of the show. A King Kurt record came into our store the other day during a record buy, and I was sort of curious what he sounded like. Now I know!
	9:25pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:21 Yes! I had seen some of these way back when, on Cinemax as we had discussed earlier, but they were "Americanized". So cool you found them!
	♥ 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:25 I have to thank Blank SKott. I know he's in the Digital Salon. Maybe he wants to tell his side of tracking these down?
	9:28pm Blank SKot: That video for "Destination Zulu Land" is absolutely cringe (as the kids say) by today's standards. Blackface and colonialism together, who'da thunk? Yet rather than block that video, YouTube blocked the entire episode featuring "Turning Japanese". It's amazing we are able to get these fully uncut.
	9:28pm univac: Love this song so much. The video was great--a camera on a see-saw...
	9:28pm Mr. X: Did the UK have an equivalent of MTV on the air? Is that what Channel 4 specialized in?
	♥ 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Blank SKot @9:28 Yeah, that was probably the video that was the hardest to watch, out of these. But I really enjoyed finally knowing what the music sounded like. (I DO NOT recommend that video, but the song is okay.)
	9:29pm univac: ↳ univac @9:28 Or maybe on a long jib arm, I guess? I just remember it going up high into the air, then down and upside down...
	♥ 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:28 I'm a big sucker for Cabaret Voltaire.
	🎸 ♥ 9:31pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ ramencity @9:16 Lucifer Sam was written in the 60s and Telegram Sam was written in the 70s, so Possibly David Berkowitz was involved. I also want to add that I wish I would have seen Cabaret Voltaire on MTV.
	♥ 9:31pm WR: Hello Austin and folks. Too tired from hectic work day to last any longer. Will come back for archive listening. I saw some of the The Max Headroom Show series 2 and 3 on Cinemax back in the mid 80s. Loved them. Later found the sci fi Max Headroom show that was produced in the late 80s. It is OK but I most liked the few bits on the original series when they had Max Headroom interacting with guests ala Space Ghost Coast to Coast that came later. The interaction with guests was a small part of the original series but made an impression on me. Anyway, laters folks and Thank You, Austin. And thank you, Blank SKot for sharing Max.
	9:32pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Dancing With Myself" by "Generation X" Generation X had become the inferior Gen X at this point.
	9:33pm univac: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:31 Sensoria was their big "hit" so it played on MTV a bit for a while.
	9:33pm Blank SKot: Regarding how these were found: so I'd been hunting these for quite a number of years and had a few of them in incomplete form. Some were floating around torrent sites and others were uploaded to YouTube and then often had to be edited to comply with copywrongs. We knew there were 13 episodes for Series 1, but we didn't know what they all contained, or even what order they were aired in. What we thought we knew was wrong. Then more recently, someone who taped these all in order back in the day and digitized them sometime in the 90s or so uploaded most of them to YouTube. But they had to have some videos edited out and Episode 3 had to be left out entirely. So I attempted to contact the original taper, and it took a while but he finally got back to me and shared the entire lot, fully uncut! This was an unbelievable coup.
	♥ 9:34pm WR: ↳ Blank SKot @9:33 Thank you! Amazing.
	9:34pm univac: ↳ Blank SKot @9:33 Amazing!!! Thanks for sharing!
	9:35pm Imaginos: ↳ Blank SKot @9:33 Well done!
	🎸 ♥ 9:36pm Arvo Zylo: I only remember Max Headroom on MTV occasionally as a kid, but I do remember the Max Headroom signal hijacking. I was 6 years old when that happened. en.wikipedia.org...
	9:36pm Blank SKot: Austin, I've got a complete list of all the videos played on all the episodes along with a guide to Max's bits that I've sent to you.
	🎸 ♥ 9:36pm Arvo Zylo: Yay! I was beginning to think you were offended by my Creedence joke...
	9:37pm Imaginos: Oh? Curiosity piqued.
	9:38pm Blank SKot: Sorry, I spent some time compiling that list after I got the episodes and I forgot to send it to you with the episodes!
	9:38pm Heather Z: ↳ Blank SKot @9:33 That's super cool! Total coup, absolutely! Fantastic!!
	9:39pm Imaginos: Max and Cinemax in talks on train! Talks break down! Talk resume, train breaks down. Talks and train resumed. Max breaks down. Doctors blame spinning newspapers.
	9:40pm univac: Ah, yes. Ultravox...
	♥ 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:38 Heather Z! My Max Headroom co-host...
	9:41pm ramencity: "Midge Ure looks like a milk thief!" - Half Man Half Biscuit
	♥ 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Blank SKot @9:33 That is incredible! I have sent to many blind e-mails like that, in my own efforts to track them down. I'm so glad you managed to actually make the score!
	9:42pm univac: ↳ ramencity @9:41 Ha!
	9:42pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:40 I'm here and loving the tunes! I'm assuming our best buds Supertramp will be well represented soon?
	♥ 9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:42 Funny story about that... (Heather and I bonded over our mutual hatred for Supertramp, and how they kept inexplicably showing up in this first series of Max's video show.)
	9:43pm univac: Midge Ure and Chris Cross did some music for Max Headroom as well.
	9:43pm univac: Hello, Heather!
	9:44pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:43 It was hilarious how mad we got! I'm smiling hard about the rants rn!
	9:44pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:43 Weird. What's that all about?
	9:44pm Heather Z: ↳ univac @9:43 Hi univac!
	9:45pm Blank SKot: So much time passed after I emailed the original taper and then followed up again, that I thought it was never going to happen. But then suddenly out of the blue just as we hit 2025, he got back to me with the episodes, and Austin is right: possibly the best news of 2025 to date! Supertramp does get represented at least twice in these episodes. We get a video for "Cannonball", which is not so often played.
	9:45pm laurapanic: just srrived.....ooooooohhhhhhh!!!
	♥ 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:45 laurapanic! This seems like something you'd appreciate.
	9:46pm Heather Z: Wow Wreckless Eric!! Fabulous!!
	♥ 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:44 I'll talk about the playlist for this particular show. Folks might be surprised that I chose not to include Bryan Adams or Supertramp on my WFMU show...
	🎸 ♥ 9:48pm Arvo Zylo: Back in the summer of '69!
	♥ 9:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Love Is A Battlefield" by "Pat Benatar" This video contains a lot of clips from the movie, "The Legend of Billie Jean," which is a very cool 80's movie. It was hard to find for years due to Pat Benatar copyright issues... but I think you can get it on BluRay these days.
	9:49pm Imaginos: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:48 1969 or 1869?
	🎸 ♥ 9:50pm Arvo Zylo: I mentioned the Max Headroom television hijacking prank in Chicago. Have there been any notable television hijacks in other cities?
	9:50pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:49 you can rent it on Google TV/Youtube pretty easily
	🎸 ♥ 9:51pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Imaginos @9:49 2069
	♥ 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:50 Not many! But Chicago is a very special broadcasting town, with a particularly large number of engineers and ex-engineers who would actually know how to do that. Not a lot of other cities would have that kind of pool of smart kids to pull from...
	♥ 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:50 Oh, good news! That movie rules.
	9:51pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:49 Does it have the original songs? I know some movies changed their songs due to copywrite later on (Like Love At First Bite)
	9:51pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Love Is A Battlefield" by "Pat Benatar" She'll always be Pat Andrzejewski to me.
	9:52pm Mr. X: It was uncool among my mid 70s high school peer group to like Supertramp. But now they are a guilty pleasure for me.
	♥ 9:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:51 I'm not sure. It's possible the music is different. I'll have to check.
	9:52pm Mr Fab: I went to an all-boys high school near a supermarket, and once Pat Benatar was spied shopping there. Sent a ripple of excitement through the school. Didn’t register more than a shrug with me. (Maybe if someone had seen Exene shopping there…)
	♥ 9:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:52 It's like the nostalgia I have for some 90's bands. It's not good music... but I was in High School...
	9:54pm Imaginos: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:51 Oh, good year. Desdinova became Queen of Plutonia, Laguna Island (formerly Laguna Beach) became the 51st US State, and the Bouchard Museum of Modern Music had a summer festival featuring the Ultracowbell.
	♥ 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:52 I mean, I would go out of my way if I could possibly spot Exene shopping for groceries. I told you I got to spend an hour with her on the radio, interviewing and talking to her, about 13 years ago...?
	🎸 ♥ 9:55pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Imaginos @9:54 I got a haircut with a cimitar machine!
	♥ 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:52 blasphuphmusradio.wordpress.com...
	9:57pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Do It Again" by "The Kinks" The Kinks, struggling to remain relevant in the 80s... And pulling it off!
	9:57pm ramencity: 69 AD was the "Year of Four Emperors" - I bet Bryan Adams is a Roman history nut.
	♥ 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:57 I sort of like it, but I know this era has detractors.
	♥ 9:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:57 It's the most "Who" The Kinks had sounded in years.
	9:59pm ramencity: ↳ Austin Rich @9:58 "Arthur" is still their zenith in my opinion..
	🎸 ♥ 9:59pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr. X @9:57 I like their '80s stuff sometimes more than the previous. Particularly the song "Good Day".
	9:59pm Imaginos: ↳ Song: "River" by "King Trigger" This is in my Bath Songs playlist on Amazon. Love this song.
	♥ 10:00pm Austin Rich: I might loose some fans, but: I'm not a huge Kinks fan. They're pretty good, and I like a lot of songs, but I'm not obsessive. I don't know their albums well. I think "Apeman" might be my fave Kinks song. (I expect to get a lot of hatemail over this comment.)
	10:00pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Vienna" by "Ultravox" Ultravox were certainly more popular in the UK. Midge Ure was a guest celebrity in the sitcom "Filthy, Rich and Catflap".
	♥ 10:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:59 Yeah, I totally love this one.
	🎸 ♥ 10:01pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Imaginos @9:59 "Bath Songs on Amazon"? Man I don't have a bath song playlist.
	10:01pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:00 Apeman and The Destroyer are mine.
	♥ 10:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:00 I got into them very late, because I sort of wrote them off as "more 80's pap" when I was young. Later, I regretted that, when their albums were not cheap anymore...
	10:02pm Imaginos: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:01 Mine is an hour plus long. I usually shuffle it so it's different each time.
	🎸 ♥ 10:02pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:00 "I Go To Sleep" was made popular by Peggy Lee, but written by Ray Davies, and a Kinks version didn't come out for decades. I love that song more than any Kinks song by far.
	10:05pm Imaginos: the BBC in the UK has been known to broadcast shows that were only 15 minutes long (like Great Movie Mistakes)
	10:05pm univac: I've gotta run. Thanks so much Austin and Blank SKot! I'll catch the rest on the archive.
	10:05pm Blank SKot: So the unknown track is Makromad with "Tausend Tage Fete", I believe.
	10:08pm Mr. X: ↳ Mr. X @9:28 Thanks for explaining about Channel 4, Austin.
	10:08pm Blank SKot: It was preceded by Max's German joke, and then interrupted again with Max continuing the joke before it resumed.
	10:09pm Heather Z: Big Time Television! <3
	10:10pm Mr. X: I should have known Neil Innes was behind it all.
	10:12pm Imaginos: ↳ Mr. X @10:10 The master behind the Intro and the Outro?
	10:14pm Mr. X: ↳ Imaginos @10:12 My favorite Neil Innes project is The Rutles.
	10:15pm Heather Z: ↳ Mr. X @10:14 The Rutles are so good! I'm definitely a fan. I was lucky enough to meet Neil Innes twice and he was a lovely person.
	10:16pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Lava Lamp Lounge Ambience" by "Mini-Mutations" Max may not have been a big hit in the USA, but he did inspire President Reagan’s electronic simulation Ron Headset. en.wikipedia.org...
	10:16pm Mr Fab: Icehouse were popular in the US. At least that “birds fly” song was.
	10:18pm Blank SKot: I did know Icehouse in the 80s, but they were pretty low-key in popularity from what I recall. This likely varied from region to region.
	10:19pm Imaginos: ↳ Song: "One Step Beyond" by "Madness" They played this one on The Young Ones
	♥ 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:14 I know I've said this on the show before, but I prefer The Rutles to The Beatles, even if you need the later to have the former.
	10:20pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "One Step Beyond" by "Madness" Love this. My brother used to recite that opening monologue at random moments.
	♥ 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:19 I could watch the Young Ones all day long.
	10:21pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:19 I agree with you 100% on this!
	10:21pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:20 So could I. Rick: I think Special Patrol Group is a stupid name for a hamster. Vyv: I'll change it then. Hello, Cliff Richard!
	♥ 10:23pm Austin Rich: There was a part of me that was initially sort of shocked at how much stuff got played on The Max Headroom Show that I didn't really gel wish. (Like Go West, or Peter Gabrial.) But in a way, that was much more authentic to video shows in the 80's and 90's. You would get a lot of random videos, and I didn't like all of them. Often, I would sit through three songs I didn't care for to find a video I liked. So, while I'm not too happy that Bryan Adams shows up TWICE on this video show, it's a little more authentic to have some dreck in with the gold.
	10:23pm Mr. X: Neil's Heavy Concept Album by Nigel Planer is a lot of fun for fans of The Young Ones. en.wikipedia.org...
	♥ 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:23 That album is very cool!
	♥ 10:24pm Austin Rich: Mozey Baby!
	10:24pm Imaginos: ↳ Mr. X @10:23 I love his version of Hole In My Shoe
	10:24pm ramencity: Yesterday was Mozart's birthday!
	♥ 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:24 What timing!
	♥ 10:27pm Austin Rich: The complaint was from himself.
	10:27pm Blank SKot: This may be the best source for the Cocteau Twins' "Aikea-Guinea" video...Cocteau Twins were one of those groups that never really did release their videos, and definitely never on DVD or other digital formats.
	♥ 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Blank SKot @10:27 Yeah, I was wondering about that, when I saw it. That band is so sneaky...
	10:28pm Blank SKot: Other artists that never made the jump to digital home video for their video material: Kate Bush and Tom Waits.
	♥ 10:28pm Aitch: ↳ Song: "Turning Japanese" by "The Vapors" One of the first LPs I ever bought. Not sure I ever played it all the way through. Still got it.
	♥ 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Blank SKot @10:28 Yeah, that needs to be remedied, someday.
	10:29pm David Shortell: ↳ Mr. X @10:14 It was just a 3 ½ minute skit in its 1975 debut on the Eric Idle/Neil Innes series “Rutland Weekend Television”. When Lorne Michaels expanded it into the 1978 prime-time NBC movie “All You Need Is Cash”, the part of the Harrison-inspired Stig O’Hara was recast.
	10:29pm Imaginos: does the music sound like Disco Duck to anyone else?
	10:29pm Blank SKot: Both Kate Bush and Tom Waits have material on Laserdisc, but that is as far as they went. Extremely frustrating if you really want to see their videos in good quality.
	🎸 ♥ 10:30pm Arvo Zylo: I prefer the Aerovons to the Beatles by far! Also I can just listen to loops of car engines revving all frigging day! I'm a wild and crazy guy!
	♥ 10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Aitch @10:28 It's not a bad album, but there's a reason that song is so well known. It's amazing!
	♥ 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Blank SKot @10:29 There are so many things that are just lost on Laserdisc. Movie commentaries that have never made the leap...
	🎸 ♥ 10:33pm Arvo Zylo: I was listening to The Belmonts cover "My Sweet Lord" and I was like, yeah this is probably the best Beatles song, and lo and behold, George Harrison completely ripped off "She's So Fine" by Ronnie Mack, and it was determined in court that it was the exact music, with different lyrics. But damn that Belmonts acapella cover is great.
	🎸 ♥ 10:34pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:31 I never owned a laserdisc player, but I had some cool laserdiscs from working at a record store. I remember a DEVO laserdisc. Not sure that was ever reissued.
	♥ 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Walk Like A Man" by "Divine" That introduction there might be the closest Max ever comes to actually introducing the show in any useful way.
	10:35pm ramencity: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:33 The Five Stairsteps did a cover of it too...
	10:35pm Heather Z: Oh heck yeah!!!
	10:36pm Imaginos: ↳ Song: "Walk Like A Man" by "Divine" they also played this during the Body Banks episdoe of the Max Headroom 20 Minutes Into the Future series.
	♥ 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:34 Some of that Devo Laserdisc has not been reissued, but most of it is available in other forms. But there's some stuff that's only on that laserdisc.
	10:36pm David Shortell: ↳ Mr. X @10:23 He played Ralph Filthy in Ben Elton’s “Filthy, Rich and Catflap”, the Scarlet Pimpernel in Ben Elton’s “Blackadder III” and Egeus (of “A Midsummer Night's Dream”) in Ben Elton’s “Upstart Crow”.
	🎸 ♥ 10:36pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Walk Like A Man" by "Divine" Wow, never saw this video. Need to look it up promptly.
	10:36pm Heather Z: My neighbors are also enjoying this with me because I just cranked the volume. Sorry neighbors!
	♥ 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:36 The video for this song is almost - but not quite - like Devo's "Whip It." But in some ways: Cooler?
	10:37pm Imaginos: ↳ Heather Z @10:36 they should be grateful. Good music.
	🎸 ♥ 10:38pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:37 I'm quite confident that it's cooler, with all due respect!
	♥ 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:38 Both videos sort of have the same sets / conceit.
	10:39pm Heather Z: ↳ Imaginos @10:37 I know but I'm east coast, too, and it's only Tuesday! I'll be more reasonable after this is done.
	🎸 ♥ 10:39pm Arvo Zylo: Man, Austin needs a video channel on the big screen broadcast into space.
	10:39pm Imaginos: ↳ Heather Z @10:39 I thought I could hear you. Lol!
	♥ 10:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Ziggy Stardust" by "Bauhaus" I love Bauhaus. I think I know Bowie's songs better from Bauhaus covers.
	♥ 10:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:39 I would love to host a music video show. Damn, that would rule.
	10:40pm Heather Z: ↳ Imaginos @10:39 Sorry Neighbor!
	10:40pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:20 I just saw the theatrical rerelease of "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade". Why did it take me 36 years to notice that Alexei Sayle played the Sultan?
	10:40pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:39 This is pretty close to the original.
	🎸 ♥ 10:41pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:39 "Bela Lugosi's Dead" never gets old. And "All We Ever Wanted Was Everything" is a special little ditty.
	♥ 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:40 Oh, that's right! He's got a bit-part. I hope he gets good residuals for that.
	10:41pm Imaginos: ↳ Heather Z @10:40 I'm listening, too. Sometimes I wish we were actual neighbors. I know you'd like the movies I've collected, well, some anyhow. There's hardly any cool people where I live.
	🎸 ♥ 10:43pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:40 There was a channel on TV in some place in Germany, pretty sure it was called "Network Awesome", and it pretty much was like a youtube channel broadcast on TV, but had interviews and things too. I mean you already know how to do video editing, so it could be like one long video collage.
	🎸 ♥ 10:44pm Arvo Zylo: I think you should do another one of these, if there is still enough non-Bryan Adams.
	🎸 ♥ 10:46pm Arvo Zylo: Well I know there will be at least a little dancing music when I guest next week, at least, but this one will be a hard act to follow.
	10:47pm Heather Z: ↳ Imaginos @10:41 Ahh wouldn't that be nice? I could play you music in trade for the movies!
	10:47pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:46 I'll be tuned in and dancing, for sure!
	10:48pm Imaginos: check out MaxHeadroom.com for some cool Max Headroom stuff.
	10:48pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Turning Japanese" by "The Vapors" Walking east on Houston Street toward the Parkside Lounge last September, I noticed the Vapors’ name scrawled outside the Mercury Lounge. It was probably no coincidence that Paul Weller was also playing in the area that weekend—Paul’s dad and Bruce Foxton managed the group!
	10:48pm Imaginos: I assume by horrorshow you're not talking NadSat?
	10:48pm Mr. X: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:46 Looking forward to it. You always pick some cool tunes.
	10:50pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:41 ...and Ade Edmondson for his bit part in one of the recent Star Wars movies.
	♥ 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:50 Oh, that's good to hear! I do hope he's getting a good check for that, too. Those guys deserve retirement programs.
	♥ 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "19 feat. Kid Crab" by "Paul Hardcastle" This video is one of the shining gems of these recordings.
	🎸 ♥ 10:53pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @10:47 Thanks Ms. Z and Mr. X!
	♥ 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:48 I do like Paul Weller. He can write some good songs.
	♥ 10:55pm Austin Rich: In 1985, the Vietnam war had only been over for 10 years. It was still a pretty fresh cultural wound for a lot of people.
	10:56pm Blank SKot: Nigel Planer's bit part in Brazil is something I didn't notice until later...
	♥ 10:56pm Austin Rich: I really love The Damned. They have recorded some of the best albums, in my mind. I'm not sure what Captain Sensible is doing here.
	♥ 10:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Blank SKot @10:56 There's a lot about Brazil that I didn't notice until I had seen is a few times.
	🎸 ♥ 10:57pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @10:47 One day, I will do a 100% dance set, but lately, I like the "freeform" vibe where it's more unpredictable. But this show is good because it is danceable and still somewhat unpredictable.
	♥ 10:58pm Austin Rich: I do want a chorus of woman singin, "Say Captain, Say Wot," behind me someday, but that's just some fantasy, I think...
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:57 I still haven't seen that one...
	♥ 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Goodbye Tonsils" by "Severed Heads" This was a very nice discovery. I was convinced that Severed Heads couldn't have actually appeared on Max's show, and when I saw a clip that suggested as much, I was in denial, and thought some super-fan had edited something to suggest it. But it really happened! It's a nice surprise to find out it was true.
	11:00pm Imaginos: Austin, I can't wait for everyone to hear the project that you and I and Heather worked on. I'm interested to hearing the finished project.
	♥ 11:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:58 I really love Brazil, but I think I saw it at the right age, and it really helped inform my political / punk perspective on the world.
	11:01pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:30 Lounge singer Tom Monroe's version on SCTV: youtube.com...
	♥ 11:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "(It's Not Me) Talking" by "A Flock Of Seagulls" I love that sample from "War of The Worlds" that you hear before this video...
	♥ 11:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @11:01 Rick Moranis was the best. I really wish he'd return to performing.
	11:03pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @11:02 at least he left the business with honour.
	11:03pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:57 I love a mix that goes all over the place! I don't DJ often but, when I do and there's no theme, I like to just play what feels right!
	♥ 11:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Rats On A Budget" by "Majka Jezowska" The video for this song needs to be seen to be believed. It is... incredible. And yes... this song is about making rat hamburgers and serving them to people.
	🎸 ♥ 11:04pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Goodbye Tonsils" by "Severed Heads" still regret not skipping work to see Severed Heads... Also, The Damned opened for the Misfits reunion before the pandemic. Thankfully we showed up early.
	♥ 11:04pm Austin Rich: "I love Rats On A Budget! Have one with Everything on it!"
	♥ 11:05pm Austin Rich: "And we serve no pets before it's time."
	11:05pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @11:03 Wasm't there an episode of 20 Min where Edison was talking about the Blanks eating rats?
	♥ 11:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @11:05 Yep, there's a few "eating rats" references in the US Max Headroom show, referencing this song.
	11:06pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @11:06 Rat! The other white meat.
	🎸 ♥ 11:06pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @11:04 DESPERATE LIVING There is a documentary about RATS, and in certain countries there are people who worship rats and bathe them in milk...
	11:07pm Heather Z: Rats-a-Roni!
	11:07pm Mr. X: There's a Monty Python routine involving rat tart, if I recall...
	♥ 11:08pm Austin Rich: For this interview, Max is just facing the audience. The voice is coming offscreen. It's sort of weird to watch him answer these questions, talking and looking directly at you.
	♥ 11:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @11:07 That's true!
	♥ 11:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @11:06 That movie is so good. I need to watch it again.
	♥ 11:09pm Austin Rich: Now that everyone is worried about AI, this interview with Max is sort of funny.
	11:11pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @11:08 There was rat cake, rat sorbet, rat pudding and strawberry tart (it's got some rat in it).
	11:11pm Mr. X: ↳ David Shortell @11:11 Ha ha! Yes, that's it!
	♥ 11:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The People (Living In the USA)" by "Randy Andy" People abroad have been worried about the US for 40 years. It's only recently that the people in the US are worried about the people in the US.
	11:12pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @11:09 I use AI for my own amusement, entertainment, and for music and singing for the lyrics I write.
	♥ 11:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @11:11 "Can I have a slice without as much rat in it?"
	♥ 11:12pm Aitch: ↳ David Shortell @11:11 one un-jugged rabbit-fish later
	11:12pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @11:12 Instead of SPAM, SPRAT. (spiced rat)
	11:14pm Heather Z: It's probably near that time so I'll say thanks Blank SKot and Austin for the fun show and yall in the chat for a fun night! Have a great rest of your days or nights, time zones and all.
	11:14pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @11:11 Bowie did a song called "I'm Afraid of Americans," which is pretty great.
	♥ 11:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @11:14 That one I do know!
	11:15pm Imaginos: A big thank you to Austin for a wonderful show.
	11:17pm Mr. X: Good cherry-picking, Austin! Thanks for another enlightening show.
	♥ 11:18pm Austin Rich: You can still leave comments, but of course, we're almost done...
	11:18pm Blank SKot: Thanks for the show, Austin! We'll be in touch.
	♥ 11:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Blank SKot @11:18 Absolutely! What a treat.
	11:19pm Mr. X: @Arvo: Okay, you can get back to your Credence now.
	♥ 11:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Get It On (Bang A Gong)" by "The Power Station" I don't mind this version, but... well, the original is just so incredible, it's hard to love anything else.
	🎸 ♥ 11:21pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr. X @11:19 Ha! Another T. Rex cover! I do not mind! Thanks Blank Skot and AR! Good times!
	♥ 11:21pm Austin Rich: Thanks for indulging me, everyone!
	11:23pm Mr Fab: Too busy doing stuff to comment much, but much thanks for the bonus sized episode, Austin! Super cool stuff. Now I gotta find that original Neil Innes bit.
	♥ 11:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @11:23 Oh yeah! That show is great. "The Innes Book of Records." It's worth checking out.
	7:38pm Sam: Sam I Am Green Eggs And Ham! Damn! Shazam even! Alakazam!
	7:50pm Cardiogram Sam: ↳ Song: "Rats On A Budget" by "Majka Jezowska" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IlSp35_BLU&pp=ygUfTWFqa2EgSmV6b3dza2EgcmF0cyBvbiBhIGJ1ZGdldA%3D%3D There is a seven minute long version of this video on YouTube. Incidentally, the police are modelled after Chicago police, same cars, same Chicago flag patch on the sleeve.

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from January 28, 2025

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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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January 28, 2025: Another Post-Punk Jukebox: Or, "The Max Headroom 40th Anniversary Celebration"

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Artist	Track	Approx. start time
(Tonight's Show Contains Edited Excerpts from the Series 1 Max Headroom Episodes that Aired on Channel 4 in April, May and June of 1985.)
Episode 4 Excerpt "Episode 4 Excerpt"
The Untouchables	Free Yourself "Free Yourself" by "The Untouchables"	0:00:17 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Shot Reverse Shot	20 Minutes Into The Future Theme	0:04:21 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mini-Mutations	Lava Lamp Lounge Ambience	0:05:43 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Episode 1 Excerpts "Episode 1 Excerpts"
??	?? "??" by "??"	0:12:39 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bauhaus	Telegram Sam "Telegram Sam" by "Bauhaus"	0:15:31 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Generation X	Dancing With Myself "Dancing With Myself" by "Generation X"	0:18:11 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
King Kurt	Destination Zulu Land "Destination Zulu Land" by "King Kurt"	0:20:40 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Intaferon	Get Out of London "Get Out of London" by "Intaferon"	0:23:37 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Cabaret Voltaire	Sensoria "Sensoria" by "Cabaret Voltaire"	0:26:58 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mini-Mutations	Lava Lamp Lounge Ambience	0:31:20 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Episodes 2 & 5 Excerpts "Episodes 2 & 5 Excerpts"
Ultravox	Vienna "Vienna" by "Ultravox"	0:39:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Wreckless Eric	Pop Song "Pop Song" by "Wreckless Eric"	0:44:52 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Pat Benatar	Love Is A Battlefield	0:47:54 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Pale Fountains	Jean's Not Happening	0:52:37 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Kinks	Do It Again "Do It Again" by "The Kinks"	0:55:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
King Trigger	River "River" by "King Trigger"	0:58:53 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mini-Mutations	Lava Lamp Lounge Ambience	1:02:54 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Episodes 2, 3, 4, 6 & 7 Excerpts "Episodes 2, 3, 4, 6 & 7 Excerpts"
Madness	One Step Beyond "One Step Beyond" by "Madness"	1:18:19 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jean-Michel Jarre	Zoolook "Zoolook" by "Jean-Michel Jarre"	1:20:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Cocteau Twins	Aikea-Guinea "Aikea-Guinea" by "Cocteau Twins"	1:24:33 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Vapors	Turning Japanese "Turning Japanese" by "The Vapors"	1:27:01 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Madness	Driving In My Car "Driving In My Car" by "Madness"	1:28:39 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Cabaret Voltaire	Just Fascination	1:32:04 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Divine	Walk Like A Man "Walk Like A Man" by "Divine"	1:34:57 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bauhaus	Ziggy Stardust "Ziggy Stardust" by "Bauhaus"	1:38:57 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mini-Mutations	Lava Lamp Lounge Ambience	1:42:35 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Episodes 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9 Excerpts "Episodes 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9 Excerpts"
Paul Hardcastle	19 feat. Kid Crab	1:51:37 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Captain Sensible	Wot "Wot" by "Captain Sensible"	1:55:22 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Severed Heads	Goodbye Tonsils "Goodbye Tonsils" by "Severed Heads"	1:58:12 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
A Flock Of Seagulls	(It's Not Me) Talking	2:00:10 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Majka Jezowska	Rats On A Budget "Rats On A Budget" by "Majka Jezowska"	2:03:10 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Randy Andy	The People (Living In the USA)	2:10:52 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mini-Mutations	Lava Lamp Lounge Ambience	2:15:14 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Episode 4 Excerpt "Episode 4 Excerpt"
The Power Station	Get It On (Bang A Gong)
Shadows In Blue	Mid-Valley Mutations Closing Theme

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Listener comments!
	♥ 6:56pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	🎸 ♥ 8:57pm Arvo Zylo: I apparently am interrupting my first listen to an album by Creedence Clearwater Revival, so this better be good!! JK I know it will be good... Still haven't seen the Max H movie... keep forgetting.
	8:58pm Imaginos: Ahoy me hearties! Looks like a most awesome show.
	8:59pm Scott Kirkwood: Looking forward to hearing the show tonight.
	9:01pm Charles: Mid-Mi-Mi-Mid-Valley Mu-mu-tations!
	♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you in the Digital Salon, Arvo, Imaginos and Scott! Strap in for a dose for 40 years ago...
	♥ 9:01pm Krys O.: Hello!
	♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: Charles! Thanks for droppin' in!
	♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:01 Krys O! Always nice to see you in the Digital Salon!
	9:02pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:01 Going to try to stay up for the full show tonight. Max is too cool to miss. And so are you.
	♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:58 Imaginos, my friend in Max!
	9:02pm Mr. X: WARNING: Watching this blipvert may cause you to spontaneously explode.
	♥ 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:02 Mr. X! This may pique your interest...
	9:04pm ramencity: Moo moo, Max-a-roos!
	♥ 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:04 Hoooray! It's the ramen city kid!
	♥ 9:05pm postconsumer: Mad Max! LOVED him in the 80s/90s
	9:05pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:02 Bryce Lynch. The youngest genius to out-technobabble Spock.
	9:06pm Imaginos: My favourite music on Max Headroom was the lift chase theme from the original movie.
	9:07pm Blank SKot: w00 h00!
	9:09pm Mr Fab: Hey Austin! What is the concept behind Max Headroom again? I remember i liked it, but it was on a loooong time ago.
	9:10pm Imaginos: ↳ Blank SKot @9:07 excellent job! Thank you for your time.
	9:10pm Imaginos: ↳ Mr Fab @9:09 the adventure series was about a reporter whose mind was copied into the computerverse.
	♥ 9:10pm Aitch: Weird when you see Matt Frewer in anything else. Ultimate type-casting
	9:11pm Imaginos: ↳ Aitch @9:10 He's in a lot of Stephen King movies.
	♥ 9:12pm Aitch: ↳ Imaginos @9:11 the right place for him
	♥ 9:13pm Austin Rich: Thanks for joining us, Aitch and Mr. Fab! and Blank SKot! Time to dance...
	9:13pm Imaginos: ↳ Song: "??" by "??" Might be the band After The Fire.
	9:14pm ramencity: ↳ Song: "??" by "??" How do you say "Joe Strummer" in German?
	♥ 9:15pm Austin Rich: Max is just telling jokes in German, at the opening of his first show on in the UK. Sure, makes sense...
	9:16pm ramencity: Is Telegram Sam the son of Lucifer Sam?
	♥ 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:16 I'm sure there's some fanfic that establishes that.
	9:19pm Imaginos: Loved the video for this song. I always used to imagine that Billy Idol would appear on 20 Minutes into the Future as Bryce's Blank older brother.
	♥ 9:19pm Austin Rich: For context: there were no opening credits for any of these episodes, nor were there any intended to be included. The show would just open with Max, addressing the audience, and then a video would play. Sometimes the band and the song title would pop up, but not always. And at the end of the half hour, a copyright notice would scroll across the bottom of the screen. There were not closing credits. That's how the show initially came on. A lot of people weren't really sure what they were seeing, and then a music video would come on. I can only imagine how 1985 England must of reacted to it.
	♥ 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:19 That's a great idea!
	9:20pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Telegram Sam" by "Bauhaus" In 1985 I was couch surfing at a friend's apartment in San Francisco, who introduced me to her Goth brother. He tried to make me into a fan of Bauhaus, and even loaned me his Bauhaus LPs. I accidentally left one in the sun and it warped. I had to go hunt it down at the local record shop and buy a replacement. That's what Bauhaus means to me.
	9:21pm univac: Hello, all.
	♥ 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:20 While I'm sad that you had to spend the money, I sort of love that story.
	♥ 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:21 univac! This seems like a show you would enjoy.
	9:21pm Iratemix: ↳ Song: "??" by "??" This ?? Song sounds like Falco to me, not sure of the title
	9:22pm Imaginos: ↳ Iratemix @9:21 I think you're right. ATF did the English versions of their songs.
	♥ 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Iratemix @9:21 I'll have to investigate! Thanks for the tip.
	♥ 9:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Destination Zulu Land" by "King Kurt" It's funny this song turned up in this first episode of the show. A King Kurt record came into our store the other day during a record buy, and I was sort of curious what he sounded like. Now I know!
	9:25pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:21 Yes! I had seen some of these way back when, on Cinemax as we had discussed earlier, but they were "Americanized". So cool you found them!
	♥ 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:25 I have to thank Blank SKott. I know he's in the Digital Salon. Maybe he wants to tell his side of tracking these down?
	9:28pm Blank SKot: That video for "Destination Zulu Land" is absolutely cringe (as the kids say) by today's standards. Blackface and colonialism together, who'da thunk? Yet rather than block that video, YouTube blocked the entire episode featuring "Turning Japanese". It's amazing we are able to get these fully uncut.
	9:28pm univac: Love this song so much. The video was great--a camera on a see-saw...
	9:28pm Mr. X: Did the UK have an equivalent of MTV on the air? Is that what Channel 4 specialized in?
	♥ 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Blank SKot @9:28 Yeah, that was probably the video that was the hardest to watch, out of these. But I really enjoyed finally knowing what the music sounded like. (I DO NOT recommend that video, but the song is okay.)
	9:29pm univac: ↳ univac @9:28 Or maybe on a long jib arm, I guess? I just remember it going up high into the air, then down and upside down...
	♥ 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:28 I'm a big sucker for Cabaret Voltaire.
	🎸 ♥ 9:31pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ ramencity @9:16 Lucifer Sam was written in the 60s and Telegram Sam was written in the 70s, so Possibly David Berkowitz was involved. I also want to add that I wish I would have seen Cabaret Voltaire on MTV.
	♥ 9:31pm WR: Hello Austin and folks. Too tired from hectic work day to last any longer. Will come back for archive listening. I saw some of the The Max Headroom Show series 2 and 3 on Cinemax back in the mid 80s. Loved them. Later found the sci fi Max Headroom show that was produced in the late 80s. It is OK but I most liked the few bits on the original series when they had Max Headroom interacting with guests ala Space Ghost Coast to Coast that came later. The interaction with guests was a small part of the original series but made an impression on me. Anyway, laters folks and Thank You, Austin. And thank you, Blank SKot for sharing Max.
	9:32pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Dancing With Myself" by "Generation X" Generation X had become the inferior Gen X at this point.
	9:33pm univac: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:31 Sensoria was their big "hit" so it played on MTV a bit for a while.
	9:33pm Blank SKot: Regarding how these were found: so I'd been hunting these for quite a number of years and had a few of them in incomplete form. Some were floating around torrent sites and others were uploaded to YouTube and then often had to be edited to comply with copywrongs. We knew there were 13 episodes for Series 1, but we didn't know what they all contained, or even what order they were aired in. What we thought we knew was wrong. Then more recently, someone who taped these all in order back in the day and digitized them sometime in the 90s or so uploaded most of them to YouTube. But they had to have some videos edited out and Episode 3 had to be left out entirely. So I attempted to contact the original taper, and it took a while but he finally got back to me and shared the entire lot, fully uncut! This was an unbelievable coup.
	♥ 9:34pm WR: ↳ Blank SKot @9:33 Thank you! Amazing.
	9:34pm univac: ↳ Blank SKot @9:33 Amazing!!! Thanks for sharing!
	9:35pm Imaginos: ↳ Blank SKot @9:33 Well done!
	🎸 ♥ 9:36pm Arvo Zylo: I only remember Max Headroom on MTV occasionally as a kid, but I do remember the Max Headroom signal hijacking. I was 6 years old when that happened. en.wikipedia.org...
	9:36pm Blank SKot: Austin, I've got a complete list of all the videos played on all the episodes along with a guide to Max's bits that I've sent to you.
	🎸 ♥ 9:36pm Arvo Zylo: Yay! I was beginning to think you were offended by my Creedence joke...
	9:37pm Imaginos: Oh? Curiosity piqued.
	9:38pm Blank SKot: Sorry, I spent some time compiling that list after I got the episodes and I forgot to send it to you with the episodes!
	9:38pm Heather Z: ↳ Blank SKot @9:33 That's super cool! Total coup, absolutely! Fantastic!!
	9:39pm Imaginos: Max and Cinemax in talks on train! Talks break down! Talk resume, train breaks down. Talks and train resumed. Max breaks down. Doctors blame spinning newspapers.
	9:40pm univac: Ah, yes. Ultravox...
	♥ 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:38 Heather Z! My Max Headroom co-host...
	9:41pm ramencity: "Midge Ure looks like a milk thief!" - Half Man Half Biscuit
	♥ 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Blank SKot @9:33 That is incredible! I have sent to many blind e-mails like that, in my own efforts to track them down. I'm so glad you managed to actually make the score!
	9:42pm univac: ↳ ramencity @9:41 Ha!
	9:42pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:40 I'm here and loving the tunes! I'm assuming our best buds Supertramp will be well represented soon?
	♥ 9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:42 Funny story about that... (Heather and I bonded over our mutual hatred for Supertramp, and how they kept inexplicably showing up in this first series of Max's video show.)
	9:43pm univac: Midge Ure and Chris Cross did some music for Max Headroom as well.
	9:43pm univac: Hello, Heather!
	9:44pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:43 It was hilarious how mad we got! I'm smiling hard about the rants rn!
	9:44pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:43 Weird. What's that all about?
	9:44pm Heather Z: ↳ univac @9:43 Hi univac!
	9:45pm Blank SKot: So much time passed after I emailed the original taper and then followed up again, that I thought it was never going to happen. But then suddenly out of the blue just as we hit 2025, he got back to me with the episodes, and Austin is right: possibly the best news of 2025 to date! Supertramp does get represented at least twice in these episodes. We get a video for "Cannonball", which is not so often played.
	9:45pm laurapanic: just srrived.....ooooooohhhhhhh!!!
	♥ 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:45 laurapanic! This seems like something you'd appreciate.
	9:46pm Heather Z: Wow Wreckless Eric!! Fabulous!!
	♥ 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:44 I'll talk about the playlist for this particular show. Folks might be surprised that I chose not to include Bryan Adams or Supertramp on my WFMU show...
	🎸 ♥ 9:48pm Arvo Zylo: Back in the summer of '69!
	♥ 9:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Love Is A Battlefield" by "Pat Benatar" This video contains a lot of clips from the movie, "The Legend of Billie Jean," which is a very cool 80's movie. It was hard to find for years due to Pat Benatar copyright issues... but I think you can get it on BluRay these days.
	9:49pm Imaginos: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:48 1969 or 1869?
	🎸 ♥ 9:50pm Arvo Zylo: I mentioned the Max Headroom television hijacking prank in Chicago. Have there been any notable television hijacks in other cities?
	9:50pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:49 you can rent it on Google TV/Youtube pretty easily
	🎸 ♥ 9:51pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Imaginos @9:49 2069
	♥ 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:50 Not many! But Chicago is a very special broadcasting town, with a particularly large number of engineers and ex-engineers who would actually know how to do that. Not a lot of other cities would have that kind of pool of smart kids to pull from...
	♥ 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:50 Oh, good news! That movie rules.
	9:51pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:49 Does it have the original songs? I know some movies changed their songs due to copywrite later on (Like Love At First Bite)
	9:51pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Love Is A Battlefield" by "Pat Benatar" She'll always be Pat Andrzejewski to me.
	9:52pm Mr. X: It was uncool among my mid 70s high school peer group to like Supertramp. But now they are a guilty pleasure for me.
	♥ 9:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:51 I'm not sure. It's possible the music is different. I'll have to check.
	9:52pm Mr Fab: I went to an all-boys high school near a supermarket, and once Pat Benatar was spied shopping there. Sent a ripple of excitement through the school. Didn’t register more than a shrug with me. (Maybe if someone had seen Exene shopping there…)
	♥ 9:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:52 It's like the nostalgia I have for some 90's bands. It's not good music... but I was in High School...
	9:54pm Imaginos: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:51 Oh, good year. Desdinova became Queen of Plutonia, Laguna Island (formerly Laguna Beach) became the 51st US State, and the Bouchard Museum of Modern Music had a summer festival featuring the Ultracowbell.
	♥ 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:52 I mean, I would go out of my way if I could possibly spot Exene shopping for groceries. I told you I got to spend an hour with her on the radio, interviewing and talking to her, about 13 years ago...?
	🎸 ♥ 9:55pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Imaginos @9:54 I got a haircut with a cimitar machine!
	♥ 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:52 blasphuphmusradio.wordpress.com...
	9:57pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Do It Again" by "The Kinks" The Kinks, struggling to remain relevant in the 80s... And pulling it off!
	9:57pm ramencity: 69 AD was the "Year of Four Emperors" - I bet Bryan Adams is a Roman history nut.
	♥ 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:57 I sort of like it, but I know this era has detractors.
	♥ 9:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:57 It's the most "Who" The Kinks had sounded in years.
	9:59pm ramencity: ↳ Austin Rich @9:58 "Arthur" is still their zenith in my opinion..
	🎸 ♥ 9:59pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr. X @9:57 I like their '80s stuff sometimes more than the previous. Particularly the song "Good Day".
	9:59pm Imaginos: ↳ Song: "River" by "King Trigger" This is in my Bath Songs playlist on Amazon. Love this song.
	♥ 10:00pm Austin Rich: I might loose some fans, but: I'm not a huge Kinks fan. They're pretty good, and I like a lot of songs, but I'm not obsessive. I don't know their albums well. I think "Apeman" might be my fave Kinks song. (I expect to get a lot of hatemail over this comment.)
	10:00pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Vienna" by "Ultravox" Ultravox were certainly more popular in the UK. Midge Ure was a guest celebrity in the sitcom "Filthy, Rich and Catflap".
	♥ 10:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:59 Yeah, I totally love this one.
	🎸 ♥ 10:01pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Imaginos @9:59 "Bath Songs on Amazon"? Man I don't have a bath song playlist.
	10:01pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:00 Apeman and The Destroyer are mine.
	♥ 10:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:00 I got into them very late, because I sort of wrote them off as "more 80's pap" when I was young. Later, I regretted that, when their albums were not cheap anymore...
	10:02pm Imaginos: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:01 Mine is an hour plus long. I usually shuffle it so it's different each time.
	🎸 ♥ 10:02pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:00 "I Go To Sleep" was made popular by Peggy Lee, but written by Ray Davies, and a Kinks version didn't come out for decades. I love that song more than any Kinks song by far.
	10:05pm Imaginos: the BBC in the UK has been known to broadcast shows that were only 15 minutes long (like Great Movie Mistakes)
	10:05pm univac: I've gotta run. Thanks so much Austin and Blank SKot! I'll catch the rest on the archive.
	10:05pm Blank SKot: So the unknown track is Makromad with "Tausend Tage Fete", I believe.
	10:08pm Mr. X: ↳ Mr. X @9:28 Thanks for explaining about Channel 4, Austin.
	10:08pm Blank SKot: It was preceded by Max's German joke, and then interrupted again with Max continuing the joke before it resumed.
	10:09pm Heather Z: Big Time Television! <3
	10:10pm Mr. X: I should have known Neil Innes was behind it all.
	10:12pm Imaginos: ↳ Mr. X @10:10 The master behind the Intro and the Outro?
	10:14pm Mr. X: ↳ Imaginos @10:12 My favorite Neil Innes project is The Rutles.
	10:15pm Heather Z: ↳ Mr. X @10:14 The Rutles are so good! I'm definitely a fan. I was lucky enough to meet Neil Innes twice and he was a lovely person.
	10:16pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Lava Lamp Lounge Ambience" by "Mini-Mutations" Max may not have been a big hit in the USA, but he did inspire President Reagan’s electronic simulation Ron Headset. en.wikipedia.org...
	10:16pm Mr Fab: Icehouse were popular in the US. At least that “birds fly” song was.
	10:18pm Blank SKot: I did know Icehouse in the 80s, but they were pretty low-key in popularity from what I recall. This likely varied from region to region.
	10:19pm Imaginos: ↳ Song: "One Step Beyond" by "Madness" They played this one on The Young Ones
	♥ 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:14 I know I've said this on the show before, but I prefer The Rutles to The Beatles, even if you need the later to have the former.
	10:20pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "One Step Beyond" by "Madness" Love this. My brother used to recite that opening monologue at random moments.
	♥ 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:19 I could watch the Young Ones all day long.
	10:21pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:19 I agree with you 100% on this!
	10:21pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:20 So could I. Rick: I think Special Patrol Group is a stupid name for a hamster. Vyv: I'll change it then. Hello, Cliff Richard!
	♥ 10:23pm Austin Rich: There was a part of me that was initially sort of shocked at how much stuff got played on The Max Headroom Show that I didn't really gel wish. (Like Go West, or Peter Gabrial.) But in a way, that was much more authentic to video shows in the 80's and 90's. You would get a lot of random videos, and I didn't like all of them. Often, I would sit through three songs I didn't care for to find a video I liked. So, while I'm not too happy that Bryan Adams shows up TWICE on this video show, it's a little more authentic to have some dreck in with the gold.
	10:23pm Mr. X: Neil's Heavy Concept Album by Nigel Planer is a lot of fun for fans of The Young Ones. en.wikipedia.org...
	♥ 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:23 That album is very cool!
	♥ 10:24pm Austin Rich: Mozey Baby!
	10:24pm Imaginos: ↳ Mr. X @10:23 I love his version of Hole In My Shoe
	10:24pm ramencity: Yesterday was Mozart's birthday!
	♥ 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:24 What timing!
	♥ 10:27pm Austin Rich: The complaint was from himself.
	10:27pm Blank SKot: This may be the best source for the Cocteau Twins' "Aikea-Guinea" video...Cocteau Twins were one of those groups that never really did release their videos, and definitely never on DVD or other digital formats.
	♥ 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Blank SKot @10:27 Yeah, I was wondering about that, when I saw it. That band is so sneaky...
	10:28pm Blank SKot: Other artists that never made the jump to digital home video for their video material: Kate Bush and Tom Waits.
	♥ 10:28pm Aitch: ↳ Song: "Turning Japanese" by "The Vapors" One of the first LPs I ever bought. Not sure I ever played it all the way through. Still got it.
	♥ 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Blank SKot @10:28 Yeah, that needs to be remedied, someday.
	10:29pm David Shortell: ↳ Mr. X @10:14 It was just a 3 ½ minute skit in its 1975 debut on the Eric Idle/Neil Innes series “Rutland Weekend Television”. When Lorne Michaels expanded it into the 1978 prime-time NBC movie “All You Need Is Cash”, the part of the Harrison-inspired Stig O’Hara was recast.
	10:29pm Imaginos: does the music sound like Disco Duck to anyone else?
	10:29pm Blank SKot: Both Kate Bush and Tom Waits have material on Laserdisc, but that is as far as they went. Extremely frustrating if you really want to see their videos in good quality.
	🎸 ♥ 10:30pm Arvo Zylo: I prefer the Aerovons to the Beatles by far! Also I can just listen to loops of car engines revving all frigging day! I'm a wild and crazy guy!
	♥ 10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Aitch @10:28 It's not a bad album, but there's a reason that song is so well known. It's amazing!
	♥ 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Blank SKot @10:29 There are so many things that are just lost on Laserdisc. Movie commentaries that have never made the leap...
	🎸 ♥ 10:33pm Arvo Zylo: I was listening to The Belmonts cover "My Sweet Lord" and I was like, yeah this is probably the best Beatles song, and lo and behold, George Harrison completely ripped off "She's So Fine" by Ronnie Mack, and it was determined in court that it was the exact music, with different lyrics. But damn that Belmonts acapella cover is great.
	🎸 ♥ 10:34pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:31 I never owned a laserdisc player, but I had some cool laserdiscs from working at a record store. I remember a DEVO laserdisc. Not sure that was ever reissued.
	♥ 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Walk Like A Man" by "Divine" That introduction there might be the closest Max ever comes to actually introducing the show in any useful way.
	10:35pm ramencity: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:33 The Five Stairsteps did a cover of it too...
	10:35pm Heather Z: Oh heck yeah!!!
	10:36pm Imaginos: ↳ Song: "Walk Like A Man" by "Divine" they also played this during the Body Banks episdoe of the Max Headroom 20 Minutes Into the Future series.
	♥ 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:34 Some of that Devo Laserdisc has not been reissued, but most of it is available in other forms. But there's some stuff that's only on that laserdisc.
	10:36pm David Shortell: ↳ Mr. X @10:23 He played Ralph Filthy in Ben Elton’s “Filthy, Rich and Catflap”, the Scarlet Pimpernel in Ben Elton’s “Blackadder III” and Egeus (of “A Midsummer Night's Dream”) in Ben Elton’s “Upstart Crow”.
	🎸 ♥ 10:36pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Walk Like A Man" by "Divine" Wow, never saw this video. Need to look it up promptly.
	10:36pm Heather Z: My neighbors are also enjoying this with me because I just cranked the volume. Sorry neighbors!
	♥ 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:36 The video for this song is almost - but not quite - like Devo's "Whip It." But in some ways: Cooler?
	10:37pm Imaginos: ↳ Heather Z @10:36 they should be grateful. Good music.
	🎸 ♥ 10:38pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:37 I'm quite confident that it's cooler, with all due respect!
	♥ 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:38 Both videos sort of have the same sets / conceit.
	10:39pm Heather Z: ↳ Imaginos @10:37 I know but I'm east coast, too, and it's only Tuesday! I'll be more reasonable after this is done.
	🎸 ♥ 10:39pm Arvo Zylo: Man, Austin needs a video channel on the big screen broadcast into space.
	10:39pm Imaginos: ↳ Heather Z @10:39 I thought I could hear you. Lol!
	♥ 10:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Ziggy Stardust" by "Bauhaus" I love Bauhaus. I think I know Bowie's songs better from Bauhaus covers.
	♥ 10:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:39 I would love to host a music video show. Damn, that would rule.
	10:40pm Heather Z: ↳ Imaginos @10:39 Sorry Neighbor!
	10:40pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:20 I just saw the theatrical rerelease of "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade". Why did it take me 36 years to notice that Alexei Sayle played the Sultan?
	10:40pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:39 This is pretty close to the original.
	🎸 ♥ 10:41pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:39 "Bela Lugosi's Dead" never gets old. And "All We Ever Wanted Was Everything" is a special little ditty.
	♥ 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:40 Oh, that's right! He's got a bit-part. I hope he gets good residuals for that.
	10:41pm Imaginos: ↳ Heather Z @10:40 I'm listening, too. Sometimes I wish we were actual neighbors. I know you'd like the movies I've collected, well, some anyhow. There's hardly any cool people where I live.
	🎸 ♥ 10:43pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:40 There was a channel on TV in some place in Germany, pretty sure it was called "Network Awesome", and it pretty much was like a youtube channel broadcast on TV, but had interviews and things too. I mean you already know how to do video editing, so it could be like one long video collage.
	🎸 ♥ 10:44pm Arvo Zylo: I think you should do another one of these, if there is still enough non-Bryan Adams.
	🎸 ♥ 10:46pm Arvo Zylo: Well I know there will be at least a little dancing music when I guest next week, at least, but this one will be a hard act to follow.
	10:47pm Heather Z: ↳ Imaginos @10:41 Ahh wouldn't that be nice? I could play you music in trade for the movies!
	10:47pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:46 I'll be tuned in and dancing, for sure!
	10:48pm Imaginos: check out MaxHeadroom.com for some cool Max Headroom stuff.
	10:48pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Turning Japanese" by "The Vapors" Walking east on Houston Street toward the Parkside Lounge last September, I noticed the Vapors’ name scrawled outside the Mercury Lounge. It was probably no coincidence that Paul Weller was also playing in the area that weekend—Paul’s dad and Bruce Foxton managed the group!
	10:48pm Imaginos: I assume by horrorshow you're not talking NadSat?
	10:48pm Mr. X: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:46 Looking forward to it. You always pick some cool tunes.
	10:50pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:41 ...and Ade Edmondson for his bit part in one of the recent Star Wars movies.
	♥ 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:50 Oh, that's good to hear! I do hope he's getting a good check for that, too. Those guys deserve retirement programs.
	♥ 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "19 feat. Kid Crab" by "Paul Hardcastle" This video is one of the shining gems of these recordings.
	🎸 ♥ 10:53pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @10:47 Thanks Ms. Z and Mr. X!
	♥ 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:48 I do like Paul Weller. He can write some good songs.
	♥ 10:55pm Austin Rich: In 1985, the Vietnam war had only been over for 10 years. It was still a pretty fresh cultural wound for a lot of people.
	10:56pm Blank SKot: Nigel Planer's bit part in Brazil is something I didn't notice until later...
	♥ 10:56pm Austin Rich: I really love The Damned. They have recorded some of the best albums, in my mind. I'm not sure what Captain Sensible is doing here.
	♥ 10:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Blank SKot @10:56 There's a lot about Brazil that I didn't notice until I had seen is a few times.
	🎸 ♥ 10:57pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @10:47 One day, I will do a 100% dance set, but lately, I like the "freeform" vibe where it's more unpredictable. But this show is good because it is danceable and still somewhat unpredictable.
	♥ 10:58pm Austin Rich: I do want a chorus of woman singin, "Say Captain, Say Wot," behind me someday, but that's just some fantasy, I think...
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:57 I still haven't seen that one...
	♥ 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Goodbye Tonsils" by "Severed Heads" This was a very nice discovery. I was convinced that Severed Heads couldn't have actually appeared on Max's show, and when I saw a clip that suggested as much, I was in denial, and thought some super-fan had edited something to suggest it. But it really happened! It's a nice surprise to find out it was true.
	11:00pm Imaginos: Austin, I can't wait for everyone to hear the project that you and I and Heather worked on. I'm interested to hearing the finished project.
	♥ 11:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:58 I really love Brazil, but I think I saw it at the right age, and it really helped inform my political / punk perspective on the world.
	11:01pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:30 Lounge singer Tom Monroe's version on SCTV: youtube.com...
	♥ 11:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "(It's Not Me) Talking" by "A Flock Of Seagulls" I love that sample from "War of The Worlds" that you hear before this video...
	♥ 11:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @11:01 Rick Moranis was the best. I really wish he'd return to performing.
	11:03pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @11:02 at least he left the business with honour.
	11:03pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:57 I love a mix that goes all over the place! I don't DJ often but, when I do and there's no theme, I like to just play what feels right!
	♥ 11:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Rats On A Budget" by "Majka Jezowska" The video for this song needs to be seen to be believed. It is... incredible. And yes... this song is about making rat hamburgers and serving them to people.
	🎸 ♥ 11:04pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Goodbye Tonsils" by "Severed Heads" still regret not skipping work to see Severed Heads... Also, The Damned opened for the Misfits reunion before the pandemic. Thankfully we showed up early.
	♥ 11:04pm Austin Rich: "I love Rats On A Budget! Have one with Everything on it!"
	♥ 11:05pm Austin Rich: "And we serve no pets before it's time."
	11:05pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @11:03 Wasm't there an episode of 20 Min where Edison was talking about the Blanks eating rats?
	♥ 11:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @11:05 Yep, there's a few "eating rats" references in the US Max Headroom show, referencing this song.
	11:06pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @11:06 Rat! The other white meat.
	🎸 ♥ 11:06pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @11:04 DESPERATE LIVING There is a documentary about RATS, and in certain countries there are people who worship rats and bathe them in milk...
	11:07pm Heather Z: Rats-a-Roni!
	11:07pm Mr. X: There's a Monty Python routine involving rat tart, if I recall...
	♥ 11:08pm Austin Rich: For this interview, Max is just facing the audience. The voice is coming offscreen. It's sort of weird to watch him answer these questions, talking and looking directly at you.
	♥ 11:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @11:07 That's true!
	♥ 11:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @11:06 That movie is so good. I need to watch it again.
	♥ 11:09pm Austin Rich: Now that everyone is worried about AI, this interview with Max is sort of funny.
	11:11pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @11:08 There was rat cake, rat sorbet, rat pudding and strawberry tart (it's got some rat in it).
	11:11pm Mr. X: ↳ David Shortell @11:11 Ha ha! Yes, that's it!
	♥ 11:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The People (Living In the USA)" by "Randy Andy" People abroad have been worried about the US for 40 years. It's only recently that the people in the US are worried about the people in the US.
	11:12pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @11:09 I use AI for my own amusement, entertainment, and for music and singing for the lyrics I write.
	♥ 11:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @11:11 "Can I have a slice without as much rat in it?"
	♥ 11:12pm Aitch: ↳ David Shortell @11:11 one un-jugged rabbit-fish later
	11:12pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @11:12 Instead of SPAM, SPRAT. (spiced rat)
	11:14pm Heather Z: It's probably near that time so I'll say thanks Blank SKot and Austin for the fun show and yall in the chat for a fun night! Have a great rest of your days or nights, time zones and all.
	11:14pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @11:11 Bowie did a song called "I'm Afraid of Americans," which is pretty great.
	♥ 11:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @11:14 That one I do know!
	11:15pm Imaginos: A big thank you to Austin for a wonderful show.
	11:17pm Mr. X: Good cherry-picking, Austin! Thanks for another enlightening show.
	♥ 11:18pm Austin Rich: You can still leave comments, but of course, we're almost done...
	11:18pm Blank SKot: Thanks for the show, Austin! We'll be in touch.
	♥ 11:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Blank SKot @11:18 Absolutely! What a treat.
	11:19pm Mr. X: @Arvo: Okay, you can get back to your Credence now.
	♥ 11:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Get It On (Bang A Gong)" by "The Power Station" I don't mind this version, but... well, the original is just so incredible, it's hard to love anything else.
	🎸 ♥ 11:21pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr. X @11:19 Ha! Another T. Rex cover! I do not mind! Thanks Blank Skot and AR! Good times!
	♥ 11:21pm Austin Rich: Thanks for indulging me, everyone!
	11:23pm Mr Fab: Too busy doing stuff to comment much, but much thanks for the bonus sized episode, Austin! Super cool stuff. Now I gotta find that original Neil Innes bit.
	♥ 11:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @11:23 Oh yeah! That show is great. "The Innes Book of Records." It's worth checking out.
	7:38pm Sam: Sam I Am Green Eggs And Ham! Damn! Shazam even! Alakazam!
	7:50pm Cardiogram Sam: ↳ Song: "Rats On A Budget" by "Majka Jezowska" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IlSp35_BLU&pp=ygUfTWFqa2EgSmV6b3dza2EgcmF0cyBvbiBhIGJ1ZGdldA%3D%3D There is a seven minute long version of this video on YouTube. Incidentally, the police are modelled after Chicago police, same cars, same Chicago flag patch on the sleeve.

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from January 28, 2025

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