We have some GREAT new music (The Attery Squash, SODDI, Mutant Mountain Boys, Kenneth Jonsson, The Duke of Uke, and the grand southern mission of the first thing that came into my bobslack) and some of the best ranting from the Portland Cyclone of Slack devival from last October: Dr. Hal, Rev. Crawford Smith, and Dr. Onan Canobite. There's also a goodly stretch of Radio Synaesthesia, involving Lonesome Cowboy Dave. It's all peppered with wonderful ear-humping collages by LeMur, Phineas Narco, Rev. Sweetness McGee, Rev. Eric, The Large, and Wilhelm Stahlhelm.

Every year, the great Cleveland station WCSB has a pledge drive or "Radiothon," and we at Hour of Slack love this one single time each year, when we are able to legally grub for money just like regular Christian evangelists. You see, the stations that carry Hour of Slack are all public-supported and thus we can't exactly advertise. Even during pledge drives, we can only grub money for the station. And boy, do we! Because this episode may be aired by other stations, and because the WCSB pledge drive is already over, we have reversed or cut the Cleveland phone number for pledges from these copies. But, if you want to pledge, the phone number is: 216-687-6900. Or, you can always mail or Paypal your pledge to stang@subgenius.com, aka SubGenius, PO Box 181417, Cleveland Hts OH 44118. Or (and this is probably easiest) just buy something from subgenius.com. Praise "Bob."

This is a rerun of episode number 374 from early 1993, when we were still in Dallas. We have lots of recordings on hand from the recent devival in Portland, but we are in the middle of a somewhat larger SubGenius project and rather than edit those new cuss-filled rantings, we're saving time with this fine rerun, which includes readings from REVELATION X, the SubGenius book that was in progress at the time. Incidentally, there is now an archive of mp3s of hundreds of old, uncut Hours of Slack from the 90s, free for downloading, and if you want to check those out, see subgenius.com and click on the RADIO button in the upper left. That will show you links to the old shows, hundreds of newer shows, and text logs of every track on every show. You can even... subscribe. There is a Church devival in Detroit on Nov. 28, with The Amino Acids and many more, and weekly subrants by Pope Mike Flores in Chicago every week of December -- for info see the EVENTS page at subgenius.com.

17 years ago! This one is a mix of recordings from various SubGenius shows at various stations, including KPFA's Puzzling Evidence and Cleveland's WCSB from long before the SubGenius Foundation moved to Cleveland! You'll hear people who have long since been unpersoned, and much younger voices of people you now think of as old. There's also some great kook, prank-call and Bad Music material for the bulldada collectors. Hopefully you will be inspired to donate to the WCSB.org pledge drive coming up next week. We could all use a donation, actually. DID I MENTION that there is a SubGenius devival with the Amino Acids in Detroit this November 28, and weekly devivals in Chicago all through December? No? Well, see subgenius.com events for details. And with that, we hop into the wayback machine and vanish, backwards!

For once, Hour of Slack offers a news scoop. It turns out that in 2002, the son of Stang (now a director in Hollywood) was employed by Richard Heene, father of the kid known as Balloon Boy. This live show (featuring guest cowpoke Lonesome Cowboy Dave) is a look into the minds, such as they are, of the Heenes, with rather revealing recordings of their 911 calls, testimony about them by young Stang and another former employee of the Heenes, and numerous poems by the writers of alt.slack that were composed during the hoax-news event. We also delve into kookdom in general and the relationships of various kooks with the mass media. A big song by Little Fyodor caps the show.

We return to Starwood Festival with Rev. Stang's sermon to the pagans, an interview from Right Where You Are Sitting Now about Starwood, and several bits of location recordings. Little Fyodor and Babushka contribute a song from their new album, and the show is generally punctuated with collages by LeMur and others. Puzzling Evidence is represented. Our frequent caller Bernard is again featured, and we close with the late Prof. Chas Smith's classic "Jaguar Night," performed at Starwood by Witch Disco (the descendant of Chas Smith's band, Einstein's Secret Orchestra).

 
First of two shows centered around the 2009 Starwood festival, utilizing Stang's sermon to the pagans, clips from an episode of Right Where You Are Sitting Now with Stang guesting, Radio Synesthesia from WCSB Cleveland, and location recordings of various Starwood events. Collages by The Great LeMur, The Large and signal2noise, and new songs by Little Fyodor and The Attery Squash help immeasurably in muddying the spiritual waters. Bernard continues to leave important messages on The SubGenius Foundation answer machine.

Last summer, Rev. Ivan Stang was interviewed by the British radio show RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE SITTING NOW. The main subject was Stang's old book about extremists of all flavors, HIGH WEIRDNESS BY MAIL. We intercut some of that show with all manner of miscellaneous kook-related music, and audio samples from the actual kooks themselves. Also: New songs from Little Fyodor, The 180 Gs and Ricardo Autobahn.

A good old-fashioned brand-new Hour of Slack, with a little of everything: Stang's SubG 101 rant to SRO crowd at DragonCon, great clips from Rev. Susie's classic live Fun House show during DragonCon weekend with Byron, Pisces & Stang, DEVO-killing DEVO covers from the latest DEVOtional collection, Little Fyodor & Babushka covering Nancy Sinatra, even weird covers of Negativland and Ween songs! LeMur is used as seasoning and preservative. Contains artificial colors.

Princess Wei R. Doe considers our recent WREK Atlanta recordings to be the FUNNIEST SubGenius radio ever. Rev. Susie the Floozie hosts and guest DJ St. Byron Werner (Rural War Room, Famous Potatos) mixes while Rev. Ivan Stang and Priestess Pisces try to keep up. Also included: new and tear-jerking "Bob" hymn from The Mutant Mountain Boys, new music from The Attery Squash and The 180 Gs, plenty of new LeMur collage, and Rev. Susie the Floozie's stage rant from DragonCon 2009.

Rev. Susie the Floozie hosts this amazing blend of SubGeniusry. Many SubGenii were in Atlanta for a devival at the huge weirdo convention DragonCon, and Susie snuck a few old-timers into the studios of WREK at Georgia Tech to record 2.5 hours of bulldada. The main blabbermouths are Rev. Susie, Priestess Pisces, St. Byron Werner (Rural War Room), and Rev. Ivan Stang. In this episode we also hear as much of Pisces' rant as is possible to play on public supported stations, plus a Negativland cover by The 180 Gs, location recordings of amusing DragonCon events such as the SuperVillain Contest, and something . . . catchy.

Here we have DEVOtional Report #2 plus misc. weird covers of everything from Nancy Sinatra to Negativland, with new material from Little Fyodor, Rural War Room, Rev. Wilhelm Stahlhelm, The Mutant Mountain Boys and a whole bunch a really good bands that we heard at the DEVOtional or else the latest NNBBM collection. A visit from Rev. Mark Hosler resulted in our acquisition of a whole album of Negativland covers by "The 180 Gs" of Detroit. There is also a 1950s German cover of "El Paso" by Lolita.

We attended and recorded the 2009 DEVOtional in Cleveland, devoted to all things DEVO. Part of this episode covers that, and features several novel covers of DEVO songs by various bands along with some unusually bran-splitting collages (largely by The Large). The bulk of the show was recorded live at WCSB-Cleveland with StangDoe in the studio and Lonesome Cowboy Dave calling in. The subject matter for that part pretty much runs the gamut. There are photos from the DEVOtional at subgenius.com (events section).

An influx of brand new music from various highly twisted artists allows us to start gradually weaning ourselves away from the 12X-Day recordings. This episode features startlingly different songs by Devo Dan, Rev. Wilhelm Stahlhelm, The Attery Squash, and Rural War Room, plus some oldies from ESO and Rev. Oroborous Rex. The spoken word section, however, is an unbroken series of readings at 12X-Day by various voice actors of FAIRY TALES, specifically four "Fairy Tale Frday" tales, all written by Rev. Ramona Back It On Up. Readers include Rev. Nickie Deathchick Wild, Rev. Susie the Floozie, Dr. Hal and Pater Nostril. Rev. Norel Pref and Mister LeMur also pop up.

A chunk of this episode is some naughty sex advice from the brand new podcast of Reverends Bunny Day and Dildo Valerie, two young Connieites who made a big splash at 12X-Day (first heard there on DJ Shaver's ORKILLME Radio.) The whole last half is dedicated to the "Ask Dr. Hal" performance that took place at 12X-Day, with Priestess Pisces fielding the questions for Dr. Hal. The show is rounded out, or squred off, or disrupted, depending, by collages from LeMur and The Large, Puzzling Evidence, and the occasional pertinent movie soundtrack clips.

The secrets of the SubGenius world-ritual-exorcism called X-Day are finally revealed. After this broadcast, we probably don't need to produce any more shows. The deed is done. There is no turning back. Dr. Hal, The Amino Acids, LeMur, Norel Pref, Priestess Pisces, Rev. Susie the Floozie, Phat Man Dee, Puzzling Evidence, Dr. Philo Drummond. . . what does any of it matter now?

While this episode features various other weird sounds, such as the Puzzling Evidence show, nice stretches of "live" Hour of Slack with Dr. Hal and Priestess Pisces, recorded on the Brushwood main stage, and music from 12 X-Day by The Amino Acids and Fat Free, much of it -- the heavily-edited parts that sound like they're recorded outdoors in the cold, cold wind -- are from a little recorder that was in Rev. Ivan Stang's preachin' jacket pocket during the morning of July 5, as the SubGeniuses awaited the arrival of the alien Escape Saucers and the end of the world. Also heard are the gathered SubGeniuses' reactions when things didn't go quite as planned.

This is another "X-Day Drill Variety Show." With an opening collage by talented newcomers, its skeleton is a "Live Hour of Slack" performed from the Brushwood stage-studio in front of an audience, involving mostly Dr. Hal, Rev. Susie the Floozie, Priestess Pisces, and a revealing interview with Rev. Angry Larry (grunt for The Amino Acids). Interspersed are songs by Phat Man Dee, The Amino Acids, John Deere Tractor Beam, actual secret recordings of the forbidden SubGenius bonfire and sacred-book-burning, insertions from the Puzzling Evidence show, and a great pulpit-pounding rant by new preacher Rev. Crazy Jim Jones. And Fernandinande LeMur is never very far away.

For this Post-12X-Day special, we intercut the very first of the live-on-stage Hours of Slack (in this case starring Dr. Hal and Priestess Pisces) with rants by Rev. Carter LeBlanc and Rev. Stang, along with some of the music of X-Day: Phat Man Dee's torid torch singing, Fat Free's sex rock, a Hal/Pisces improvised gospel song, and John Deere Tractor Beam's rip-offs of The Amino Acids. We are even privileged to hear a Church ritual that is usually kept secret: The Launching of the Bleeding Head of Muammar al-Gaddafi.

This unusual documentary episode captures one very sexy and exciting Saturday afternoon at X-Day Drill 12 (held at NY campground Brushwood). We intercut a "live Hour of Slack" sex education show held on the main stage (Dr. Hal, Stang, Lonesome Cowboy Dave officiating), with an amazing series of reports by Dave and Priestess Pisces on the Naked SubGenius Mass Bobtism event -- which almost turned tragic when there occurred a sudden epidemic of sin sac near-rupturings. We also hear some excellent live John Deere Tractor Beam (personal friends of The Amino Acids) and bits of the SubGenius Gang Wars, as well as chunks of a post-12X-Day episode of Dr. Sinister's Radio Synesthesia (WCSB-Cleveland).

Episode 1212 is the FIRST of many more EDITED ones to come about 12X-Day, when the last shall be first. Because we're already behind on shows, and faced with several dozen hours of INSTOUNDING location audio to edit, we're FIRST starting with the LAST things recorded during the 12X-Day Drill: Dr. Sinister's uncut WCSB RADIO SYNESTHESIA show from July 5 night, broadcast right after Stang, Princess Wei and Dr. Hal and had returned from the great event, joined by phone by Lonesome Cowboy Dave. This otherwise unbroken recording is broken up by LeMur, new songs by Max Slack and Phineas Narco, and a bit of fresh Puzzling Evidence.

Puzzling Evidence show from KPFA, 7-9-04, has Dr. Hal and Philo Drummond reporting on their 7X-Day adventures... from this skeleton we hung documentary recordings from 7X-Day. Some audio is from the StangCam and other is from Pater Nostril's soundboard. Clips from the 7X-Day shows at WREK Atlanta's "Bob's Slacktime Funhouse" with The Lymph Node Institute and Rev. Susie the Floozy further illustrate the promise and tragedy of X-Day.

Excitement, anticipation and severe brain damage mark this episode recorded live at the WCSB studio, as Stang, Lonesome Cowboy Dav, Princess Wei and numerous collagiasts and singers prepare for the upcoming end of Pink Human civilization on July 5. Includes a marvelous collage by Rev. Susie the Floozie about "Bob" Dobbs, X-Day and the Church of the SubGenius. Odd note: this particular show was videotaped by a director who was in town getting footage for an authorized documentary about DEVO. At least, the part that happened in the studio was videotaped.

AMAZING! Some NEW X-Day hymns (including one sung, yes, SUNG by Rev. Susie the Floozie!) are intercut with about 50 of our favorite bits and pieces related to the end of all normal human reality, scheduled for this July 5. We're getting ready to head for Brushwood in New York for the big blast-off party, so from here on out, except for a live show next week, The Hour of Slack will probably henceforth always be in reruns, forever. Unless we're stood up again by the Xists and "Bob." This is only the 12th time we will have gathered out there at 7 a.m., faithfully awaiting Their Arisal.

Rev. Ivan Stang went to the station alone this night, alone but for a few collages, and read from his favorite dirty books until Lonesome Cowboy Dave called in. We forget what happened after that. Something to do with J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, the Church of the SubGenius, and the impending end of the world on July 5 at 7 a.m. Among other things.

The May 22, 2009 Puzzling Evidence Show from KPFA Berkeley with host Puzzling Evidence, Dr. Hal, Dr. Philo Drummond and caller Phineas Narco forms the skeleton for this episode. The meat draped over these bones includes collages by our old pals LeMur and Norel Pref, as well as The Kleptones and Cuttlefish, but the "organs" are some new songs (and one old) by Little Fyodor, Ari Sponge, Max Slack, and Nenslo. Yes, NENSLO! Dozens of new band names are invented.

Praise "Bob," for here we have a truly all-purpose, no-theme/all-themes salad of SubGenius sources. We've been in reruns or live shows for so long that quite a nice stack of short clips by beloved Church of the SubGenius Audio Soldiers has piled up. This episode scavenges from Radio Synesthesia (Cleveland) and Puzzling Evidence (Berkeley), with collages from our favorite insane clip editors keeping the two SubGenius shows far enough apart that they won't squabble and get into fights. One solitary oldie, a gospel song by Rev. Onan Canobite, is the sole anchor to familiarity.

After a 15 minute collage of collages that will make you feel like you're on serious hallucinogens, you'll be brought down to earth, and then a lot farther down, by a particularly meandering and burbling live show with Rev. Stang and Princess Wei in the WCSB studio, and Lonesome Cowboy Dave on the phone. The fake Star Trek spoilers are just the beginning. "Let's mince words and torture them until they talk! Waterboard them till they SPILL!"

This week we go even further back in time, to last century, with a rerun of Hour of Slack # 257, which was broadcast in 1990 and happened to be our FIVE YEARS ANNIVERSARY SHOW. The online SubGenius History and Cult-Management class is still running at Robert Anton Wilson's Maybe Logic Academy, maybelogic.net, so reruns are appropriate and necessary. Don't worry, we'll drag Lonesome Cowboy Dave and ourselves back into the studio soon. Meanwhile, you get to hear what the show was like in the olden times of the last millenium, when we actually wrote scripts for our rantings. This episode also features some pieces, especially one by Joe Paulino, that have become true classics in retrospect. We also get to hear Puzzling Evidence broadcasts from KPFA that are so old that St. Palmer Vreedeez, also known as LIES, was a regular. And near the end of this show is a lecture about current so-called Modern Man, delivered by a FUTURE man, Homo Correctus.

We have indeed gone BACK IN TIME again. This is a rerun of Episode #276, from 1991. We're in Week 5 of the 8-week SubGenius History/How to Run Your Own Cult online class at MaybeLogic Academy, hence the reruns. Also, the Conspiracy has been keeping Dave from getting to the station. But these old shows have their own special charm. For instance, the George Bush you'll hear us refer to in this is actually the FIRST one -- not the relatively recent George Bush with the war, but an older one, with a slightly different war.

This is an old favorite of ours, a complete documentary about the Prairie Squid. Half of this show is from Hour of Slack #40 (1986) with G. Gordon Gordon, Rev. Ivan Stang, and background music by DK Jones, Mark Mothersbaugh, and Onan Canobite. Interspersed with that hardy and informative classic fossil are Prairie-Squid-related songs by Champion Jack Codini, songs and rants from Stang/Wei/ESO Radio and devival collaborations, a little Puzzling Evidence squididity, plus everything on Napster with the word "squid" in the title (mostly from 2000-2001).

The "Bob" praisin' takes a temporary backseat to the promise of human-enslaving and rival cult bashing. X-DAY IS COMING! And we won't let you forget it, any more than the Christians will let you forget about Jesus. Luckily, we have on hand a solid mass of new material on both those subjects: superb collages, mash-ups and blabberclips from many fine audio arteests and bigmouths. Otherwise, this would have been a rerun, since we are still hard at work on the SubGenius Online Class at Maybe Logic Academy.

The SubGenius History Class is a good reason for reruns, and this is one of our favorites, from the days when Hour of Slack merged with Chas Smith's ESO Swamp Radio on WCSB. Lonesome Cowboy Dave is razzed and tortured by Stang (and defended by Wei) while Chas plays his ass off on several synthesizers. (Two songs spontaneously generate themselves.) This episode is particularly skewed towards paleontology and paleoanthropology, because Stang and Wei had visited the Cleveland Natural History Museum earlier in the day. The museum actually does display the jawbone of a Yeti, incidentally, and the Dobbson Fly is a real insect.

We're busy for the next 8 weeks with the online SubGenius History course (at maybelogic.net), so it's rerun time. Luckily, this particular rerun is one of the best of the late-90s ESO/SubGenius live radio collaborations, from ESO Swamp Radio on WCSB Cleveland. Chas Smith still had his life, and his original band, and you hear them playing along musically with wherever I, Stang and Lonesome Cowboy Dave go -- which was primarily to Hell and back. It is a torturous route, but it has a happy ending: Dave saves the world, and Chas covers a Residents classic.

This episode spotlights new music from some strangely unheard-of ensembles, as well as The Kleptones; we hear the unforgettable, uncircumcised, incredibly passionate rant by Rev. Susie the Floozy from the Baltimore 2008 SubGenius Devival; and we hurt ourselves real bad with toxic kill-lage by Rev. Norel Pref and the great Fernandinande LeMur. This is a good one for headphones: very dense! -- and yet, unusually danceable! IMPORTANT NOTE to radio stations copping these free Internet show versions for airplay: Susie's rant has about 25 "fucks" in it. The $5 broadcast radio version has none.

We are kept jabbering live on the mics much more than usual by the presence of, pardon the expression, "SPECIAL" GUEST Bishop Joey from the First Church of the Last Laugh, aka Ed Holmes of the San Francisco Mime Troupe (not THAT kind of mime) and also of The Puzzling Evidence Show. He's the closest thing we have to a professional entertainer in the Church of the SubGenius radio spectrum, outside of Dr. Hal. There is no way to specify the subject matter, as every single aspect of human endeavor is covered in this single one-hour show, although the accent is on SubMarines. (Holmes, I mean Joey, was a Navy submarine engineer in the previous century, and has many a salty tale to tell.)

Pope Robert Anton Wilson preaches about "Bob" in this episode, from a RAW tribute episode (#23) of the Right Where You Are Sitting Now podcast. Rev. Stang and others explain the close connections between RAW, Bob Shea and the Church of the SubGenius. But first, from the Baltimore Devival of 2008, Priestess Pisces preaches on Bobbies and Rev. Carter LeBlanc sermonizes on the Xists and the "sticky-trap" of the Conspiracy. Drenched in LeMur sauce with sprinkles of The Large and Rev. Sweetness McGee.

Opens and closes with collages, Watchmen-related bits and a favorite old cartoon song, but mostly this show is live yak from the WCSB studio, with Lonesome Cowboy Dave, Princess Wei and Rev. Stang. We read some recent interesting letters to the Church, an ad for BeRock O'Boner male enhancement pills, spam for the upcoming SubGenius History Online Class ( http://www.maybelogic.net/ ), make funny jokes about the unfunny economy, and find ourselves unable to stop referring to THE WATCHMEN no matter how hard we try. Other topics include the Yoga of Fear, "Bob's" genitals, LOST, the New World Order, and SubGenius halal cuisine.

Along with the usual unusual collages by LeMur, and clips of the Puzzling Evidence show, this episode features much "New Age Bashing" taken from Rev. Stang's most recent sermons at Starwood and Winterstar festivals. By way of playing soundtrack excerpts, we also announce a new SubGenius DVD of short animations called "SubGenius IGAZUM Cerebral Reformatter." (Search "IGAZUM" on YouTube or Google Video and you'll find samples.)

This entire show is one phone conversation on Radio Synaesthesia, the mutant call-in talk show that follows Hour of Slack on WCSB in Cleveland. Lonesome Cowboy Dave and Rev. Stang called in to join Dr. Sinister and his other guests, and then they never shut up. (Thus, no scissor-space to cut to anything else.) Topics include, among many other things, the economy, Tycho Brahe's nose, feeding and feeling one's own brain, brine shrimp as tank-brain food, zombies and the stimulus, The Four Humours, The Masons, Orwellian vs. Huxleyan, beating up old people, the 4-Leaf Cloverfield Monster, and the Church tradition of watch-smashing.

Half of this was recorded on Valentine's Day at the SubGenius devival at Winterstar Symposium, Feb. 14 2009, Rev. Ivan Stang at the pulpit. A mass SubGenius marriage is performed near the end, but mainly it features a completely new rant called "The Forbidden Topic" by Onan Canobite. The other half is new songs and collage, and radio, by Puzzling Evidence, Rev. Phineas Narco, Dr. Philo Drummond, Dr. Hal, Rev. Sweetness McGee, Mister F. LeMur, The Large, Dr. Sinister, the British show Right Where You Are Sitting Now, and Lonesome Cowboy Dave. And an all-star broadway cast. Winterstar was a gas, by the way. Great place to spend Valentine's Day.

This has got to be one of the greatest works of sheer editing, of ANY kind, EVER. In this case it happens to be sound editing. What it really is, is magic. Rev. Susie the Floozy created this unbelievably complex mix for her recent 752nd episode of "Bob's" Slack Time Funhouse (midnights Saturday at WREK FM Atlanta), and it is truly jaw-dropping, brain-slamming and ear-waxing. HEADPHONES ARE RECOMMENDED! I, Stang, know how she does it, and that makes it even more stupifyingly impressive. We would have to kick her out of the Church for her brilliance, were she not so fucking weird. It is about the change of power in January, 2009.

Back in 1994, Hour of Slack came from Dallas, but we used a lot of material recorded whenever Rev. Stang visited Cleveland and sat in on the late Chas Smith's show, "ESO Radio/Brain Rot Theater" on WCSB. One of the best chunks of one of the best of those shows, "Lonesome Cowboy Dave in Space," comprises the majority of this. Many listeners thought it was SCRIPTED! What was scripted however was the intro to the show, detailing the truly dire deadlines and circumstances of The SubGenius Foundation at that time. Also includes music from Nenslo, The Rudy Schwartz Project and Doktorz 4 "Bob".

This live and lively show will probably sound to most regular listeners just like any other completely insane live Hour of Slack broadcast from WCSB in Cleveland. However, we have done a fairly good job, in behind-the-scenes editing, of hiding the fact that that particular Sunday night, there happened to be some startling new glitches in the brand-new studio CD players, glitches which made our carefully-prepared support recordings usable only in the most extreme SubGenius way. So it's a good thing we're SubGeniuses.

We were planning to do a live Cleveland show this week, but the weather and the gods conspired against us. Luckily there was plenty of Puzzling Evidence -- the puzzlingest, from KPFA Berkeley -- and a confusion of the senses in Synaesthesia, from WCSB Cleveland, to which Lonesome Cowboy Dave and Rev. Stang could at least phone in. And we were able to reheat leftovers from devivals of 2008 such as Starwood's and Baltimore's. Phineas Narco helped too! Twice! New manglings of old media are committed by LeMur, The Large, Sweetness McGee, and Hercules.

The Puzzling Evidence doctors performed a show in Berkeley the night of New Year's Day. The Cleveland quacks were all too broke to afford Chistmas, so instead they called Radio Synaesthesia to gripe. Those recordings were scavenged for this show. Sweetness McGee and The Large begin sharing some of the heavy collage burden that had been so nobly shouldered before mainly by Mr. Fernandinande LeMur, Rev. Norel Pref, and The Mighty Sons of Hercules. We are still awaiting the good recordings from the Balitomore SubGenius Devival, but this show has some short clips from the other ones.

Almost no music! All talk. Kooks (SubGenius, Christian, and otherwise) are discussed at Starwood, Radio Synaesthesia, and old Puzzling Evidence shows from the 1980s; Phineas Narco presents a masterpiece. Classic German silent fantasy films are also discussed in some detail by Dr. Hal and Rev. Stang.

A little of everything! Sermon clips from Starwood Festival and Baltimore Devival 2008, interview clips from Right Where You Are Sitting Now, a ton of primo Puzzling Evidence Show, collages by LeMur, Pref, and McGee; antique music of the deep past; and much skulking and sneaking around in Stang's office by mischievous Philo Drummond, Dr. Hal, and Puzzling Evidence. (Posted 2 weeks early - last show until 2009.)

This episode covers all the main basic themes of the Church: "Bob," Slack, The Conspiracy, and World Blowout. Lots of Norel Pref collage helps ventilate dense sermon clips from Starwood Festival and radio banter from Puzzling Evidence with Philo Drummond and Dr. Hal. We start scavenging some interview material from an excellent British podcast, Right Where You Are Sitting Now, and we welcome work by new collagist Rev. Sweetness McGee. NOTE: We are posting this episode and #1185 early, because we'll be vacationing during the holidays and don't want to mess with big uploads then. This will carry us through to the end of December in weekly shows.

This is the annual traditional Xmas Re-Rerun of #867 (& 921 and 1026 & 1077), which was itself a condensation of the previous year's 3-show "Best of Xmas Sickness" compilation, which were themselves the concentrated best-of from 15 years' worth of previous Xmas SubGenius and other Xmas weirdo collections.

Mostly live from WCSB Cleveland, with Lonesome Cowboy Dave joining Rev. Stang and Princess Wei by phone. Not recommended for the infirm, the very old or the very young. An amazing new sarcastic Christmas song by The Attery Squash is premiered, along with several other bites out of the fresh Xmas apple by LeMur, SODDI, Rev. Norel Pref, Puzzling Evidence, and Synaesthesia. The Obituaries become a regular feature on the show, as everyone ages inexorably.

This one's heavy on the Puzzling Evidence-Dr.Hal-Philo show excerpts, and they're exemplary excerpts. Papa Joe Mama's classic "Last Chance" rant proves that he knew the results of the 2008 election back in 1996. We also hear the openings of the Stangian sermons from the most recent Starwood Festival and Baltimore devivals. Most of the music comes from Girl Talk, making this an unusually illegal episode! There are even some last dangling remnants from the XI-X-Day stage and radio recordings, from Brushwood as well as WCSB's Radio Synaesthesia.

This is one of the greatest Hours of Slack ever, and it's not even an Hour of Slack. It's Rev. Susie the Floozy's incredible Episode # 740 of "Bob's" Slacktime Funhouse from WREK in Atlanta, Georgia, and it's truly one of the most amazing media barrage-style collages we have ever had the orgozmonic psychotronic pleasure to hear. Praise Rev. Susie the Floozy, and the 101 sources from whence she drew. It makes losing everything worth it.

In the Hour of Slack studio, as we acquire new music and clips, we categorize them into various folders according to general subject matter: "Bob," sex, war, etc. This month, the folder of sound files concerned with drugs filled up. This episode, then, is composed of material that either deals with the dangers of drug abuse (especially in outer space), or else makes you feel like you are on drugs and wish you could come down. LeMur, Dr. Hal, the Joker, Radio Synaesthesia, Priestess Pisces, The Psycho Skeletons, Girl Talk, and especially the band Ogo Dys help out.

It's a pledge drive show! -- a real one, originally done for WCSB in Cleveland, but we have jiggled and edited the specific phone numbers, pledge premiums and station I.D.s so that ANY station could use this for fund-raising purposes. Aside from a little LeMurian collage, some Girl Talk and "Faith healer" by ESO, it's nonstop all-out full-tilt gut-blowout frenzy on the parts of Lonesome Cowboy Dave and Rev. Stang as they dredge up every possible begging and wheedling ploy in the book, including dozens that no RESPECTABLE religious broadcast would ever consider.

Rev. Ivan Stang, Lonesome Cowboy Dave and Princess Wei R. Doe break in the new WCSB studio with a live pre-election show featuring "The Interrogation of Mister Listless," bold surrealism, a slew of LeMur political cure-alls and some amazing music by Girl Talk and Marvelkind. Since most of our listeners will hear this after the election, we had to pretend that the election had already happened.

A rerun of the wizened old Hour of Slack #100, an unusually good oldie featuring classic Puzzling Evidence, Michael Peppe's rant called AD, a big ol' mess of Brother Cleve, Swinging Erudites and Iron Liver, our first lady radio preacher Sister Krys, and the UNFINISHED, uncut, temporary soundtrack for the subgenius video, ARISE!

This episode is mostly music, especially the great songs of Bob Walkenhorst, and also new songs by Rev. Robin Renee and Rev. Max Slack. Sex and love among the gorillas and demons is the "theme;" Dr. Hal and Rev. Stang read the confessions of the audience at 11X-Day. Robert Anton Wilson spouts on conspiracies in government, and fresh collage from Norel Pref and Fernandinande LeMur dress the stage

The week we were producing this show, the stock market plunged about 10,000 points. We danced in the streets and spent money like it was going out of style. (Evidently it is.) Includes a brand new Bleepo mix, news songs by The Psycho Skeletons and Rev. Max Slack, and a recording of Senator John McTaint's appearance on the Ask Dr. Hal show in Berkeley, with his wife Sindy. Also, much Radio Synaesthesia and 11X-Day live show clips with Lonesome Cowboy Dave, Dr. Hal, Rev. Susie the Floozy, Priestess Pisces, Rev. Stang. AND all the great Lemur and Preffish collages.

Music and rants recorded at DEVOtional 2007 and 2008, and Mongoloidapalooza '07, are interspersed with truly amazing covers of classic DEVO songs taken from the annual compilation, "Not Necessarily Beautiful but Mutated." The close relationship of DEVO and The Church of the SubGenius becomes all too hideously clear. Also includes original songs by The Attery Squash and The Mutant Mountain Boys. Photos and video of these events can be seen at: http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/fun/devivals/devivals.html

Lonesome Cowboy Dave, Princess Wei and Rev. Ivan Stang pollute the clean air of Cleveland from the WCSB studio. New music by Rev. Max Slack as well as Bob Walkenhorst, a ton of old Einstein's Secret Orchestra, a Phineas Narco mash-up starring Hitler, and the soaring arfulness of Fernandinande LeMur's sound-chopper add their own special taints.

Priestess Pisces and Rev. Susie the Floozie dominate Dr. Hal, Rev. Stang and Lonesome Cowboy Dave (real intercourse, recorded live at 11X-Day Drill) in between collages by F. LeMur, Dr. Phineas Narco and N. Pref. Robert Anton Wilson discusses tomkookery among conspiracy buffs. Songs by Bob Walkenhorst and Gary G'Bruagfran heat up the show and help prevent cramps.

Live recordings from X-Day, PUNKtuated with DEVO covers from the latest annual DEVOtional collection, "Not Necessarily Beautiful but Mutated." Yakkers on the Brushwood live Hour of Slack stage include Dr. Hal, Priestess Pisces, Lonesome Cowboy Dave, Rev. Ivan Stang and Rev. Susie the Floozy. Robert Anton Wilson speaks at length from the album "RAW Explains Everything." Also, some classic Rainmakers, good for any election year. Phineas Narco, Fernandinande LeMur, and Norel Pref do everything else!

This Hour of Slack is mostly Dr. Hal, Rev. Susie the Floozy, Priestess Pisces and Lonesome Cowboy Dave, with Rev. Stang, recorded at the Brushwood stage before a live audience on July 5, 2008. Interspersions include new music by Max Slack and Mose Giganticus, old music by ESO, and collages by Mister F. LeMur and Norel Pref.

Recorded at the Brushwood stage before a live audience on July 5, 2008, this Hour of Slack is, by popular demand, almost entirely the learned banter of Dr. Hal and Lonesome Cowboy Dave, with only smatterings of Rev. Stang, Princess Wei, Mister F. LeMur and Norel Pref. We do however get to hear two complete classic songs from the late Chas Smith's band, Einstein's Secret Orchestra.

Mostly live in the WCSB studio with Lonesome Cowboy Dave, Rev. Stang and Princess Wei -- our first live show in weeks. Much stored-up gas is released. Topics include The Bigfoot Corpse, SubGenius Funerals, Prehistoric Dave Men and Dave Women, The Pyramid of Dobbs, upcoming events. Rev. Norel Pref's collages are abused, as are those by that cut-up Fernandinande LeMur. New music by Mose Giganticus, The Flyin' Ryan Brothers, The Psycho Skeletons.

Music by Fat Free, The Versificators and Max Slack, and brainshifting cut-ups by Norel Pref and Mister LeMur, punctuate an otherwise live 'Hour of Slack' from the 11X-Day Drill stage at Brushwood, performed before an audience on July 4, 2008. Dr. Hal and Rev. Ivan Stang answer many questions about J.R. "Bob" Dobbs and his Great Plan. Dr. Hal goes into some detail about the tampions used by bears to keep ants out of their butts during hibernation.

A truly live episode, performed before an audience on stage at Brushwood on the first day of X-Day Drill 11 (7-3-08). Cohosts Rev. Ivan Stang and Dr. Hal Robins address the most pertinent issues of our times, such as the fecundity of "Bob." Nonstop-talking Big Heads are interrupted only by short bouts of LeMuristic audio collagery.

In this densely edited episode we follow post X-Day narration from Dr. Hal, Lonesome Cowboy Dave, Rev/Princess StangDoe, Priestess Pisces, Dr. Sinister and callers (including THE AMINO ACIDS' Rev. Angry Larry!), intercut with actual live recordings from the X-Day event. A new song by The Attery Squash opens the show. Clips from 11X-Day stage recordings include The Amino Acids, Pisces rants, and some Chickenhed-tainted dawn awaiting-the-saucers moments.

Dr. Hal and Lonesome Cowboy Dave join Dr. Sinister, Rev. Ivan Stang and beloved callers for a pre-report on the 11X-Day gathering, wherein SubGeniuses from near and far awaited the coming of the alien overlords who will save us all under "Bob." New collages by LeMur punctuate the show, and we are proud to premiere new music from The Attery Squash and Rev. Max Slack.

Recordings from the annual SubGenius festival X-Day are bound together by Dr. Hal and Lonesome Cowboy Dave, guest starring on a post-event Radio Synaesthesia. Features the perverse Baptism of the Dead, lead by Dr. Legume, and part of a great live Amino Acids show along with snippets from several other main X-Day events.

Rev. Susie the Floozy is responsible for this extremely complex production, which was first broadcast on her show "Bob's" Slacktime Funhouse from WREK-Atlanta on 6-28-08. This is certainly the most intense X-Day-inspired editing yet produced by any SubGenius, and it seems somehow appropriate that it was incubated only a few days before the end of the world.

We're taking off for X-Day and leaving you with several "advance" shows to remember us by. Several new musical entrancees help enyoungify an episode which also features some really old classic tracks from ancient, not very classy SubGenius Doktors. Music by The Large, Negativland, and Cuttlefish, and calls from Priestess Pisces and Rocknar, enliven old zombies LC Dave, Puzzling Evidence, Dr. Hal, Phineas Narco, Dr. Sinister and the late Prof. Chas. Collagery by Norel and LeMur space out the proceedings.

Rev. Susie the Floozy's amazing Conspiracy Special, originally heard on WREK-Atlanta's "Bob's" Slacktime FunHouse, comprises most of this episode, unless we are silenced by that selfsame Conspiracy halfway through. It is presaged by a tossed cross-section of classic Puzzling Evidence and new Radio Synaesthesia, and sprinkled on top with LeMur and Norel Pref collages.

This is really Rev. Susie the Floozy's astounding DISEASE Special, "Bob's" Slacktime Funhouse Episode #720, a gigantic collage about anthrax and other wonders of warfare, originally broadcast on WREK in Atlanta. The world is about to end, and when that happens we at Hour of Slack take the Path of Least Resistance, which in this case is to rerun this great Flooze mastresspiece.

We finally got around to using up the Norel Pref clips on Scientologism and Moneyism, and a great call-in Synesthesia show featuring the medical adventures of Priestess Pisces. X-Day is coming...

A live show with Lonesome Cowboy Dave and Princess Wei extemporaniizing with Rev. Stang, who reads from various alt.slack papers comparing the Church to Scientology and Rev. Stang to Hitler. Songlages by The Opponent Process and Rev. Shayne Caplain join the noises of Mister Fernandinande LeMur and Rev. Norel Pref.

Just your average all-round sex-obsessed collection from all SubGenius radio and Internet outlets. Includes the full 'transporntainment' rant from Winterstar 2008 by Rev. Bleepo Abernathy, and an unusually naughty spread with Norel Pref showing "Pink."

During the many SubGenius radio shows on various stations recently, we reminisced about old times and the most horrifying moments of the real-life SubGenius adventure. We saved those bits for this show, which ties in with Stang's SubGenius History / Cult Management online course at Maybe Logic Academy (maybelogic.net). Ironically, brand new mindfuckery ends the show.

Mostly improvisational religious trance spouting, live in the studio with Lonesome Cowboy Dave, Princess Wei 'R.' Doe and Rev. Ivan Stang, punctuated by collages and PSAs from LeMur, Pref and a possible "Bob" recording found by iDRMRSR. Just John background music is abused, Stang reads Unclaimed Mysteries, Wei reads part of a new Onan Canobite pamphlet, Superior Mutants. The majority of this particular episode is completely insane -- and yet it won new converts while it was first being aired. Go figure.

Our friend Onan Canobite turned us on to this Australian Mystery Band, TISM, and so they're splattered all over the show. Also, an unusual number of collages pulled from movie soundtracks. Priestess Pisces, Lonesome Cowboy Dave and others guest on Radio Synaesthesia clips, and everybody indulges their Divine Hate-Squared.

This was an especially good episode from early 1987, with early Puzzling Evidence (with LIES!), Nenslo, DK Jones, Brother Cleve, Sister Krys, The Swinging Love Corpses, Dr. Hal, Don Trubey, Ken Nordine, and Stang's "Bitter Money Sermon"

An episode devoted entirely to the wonders and promise of X-Day, the annual SubGenius End of the Human World. Excerpts from Puzzling Evidence (KPFA) and John Hell's Pirate Cat show, San Francisco; Rick Barber's KOA-Denver AM talk show; Stang's sermon at Winterstar Symposium, and Radio Synaesthesia (WCSB Cleveland). New songs by The Attery Squash and Doctor Steel. Plan 9 Vs. The Mist.

A live broadcast from WCSB Cleveland, in which Lonesome Cowboy Dave, Rev. Stang and Princess Wei attempt to adjust moment-by-moment to the Rural War Room background music. The subject matter is primarily sex, sexual issues, and fluids that issue from "Bob." A rare 1929 SubGenius recording is played. Deluxe extra texture by LeMur, Norel Pref.

God, Jesus, "Bob," Crowley, Satan, and upcoming events, from Puzzling Evidence (KPFA) and  John Hell's Pirate Cat show, San Francisco, and Stang at Winterstar Symposium. Also: Lemur noises, Noam Chomsky and Norel Pref sounds, climaxing in the next-to-last recording by the late Prof. Chas Smith.

All on the subjects of health, coffee and jenkem, from Puzzling Evidence (KPFA) and  John Hell's Pirate Cat show, San Francisco, and Radio Synesthesia (WCSB Cleveland);  Stang reads from THE BOOK OF THE SUBGENIUS at Winterstar Symposium. Also: dopest and dopiest Lemur noises and Norel Pref sounds.

Taken from various devivals and radio shows from recent months -- Puzzling Evidence (KPFA) and  John Hell's Pirate Cat show, San Francisco;  Stang's sermon at Winterstar Symposium, and Radio Synesthesia (WCSB Cleveland). 2 songs by The Rainmakers including a rarity, and a new song by The Bishop (aka The Sicker Vicar).

Peppered with Lemur and Pref collages, but mostly live this time in the WCSB studio. Rev. Stang, Lonesome Cowboy Dave and Princess Wei 'R' Doe cover pretty much everything, Subjects include recent mind-impregnating movies, the Mystery of the Chopped Off Feet, the killings of "Bob," and the listener.

For the first time in decades, a POLITICAL episode! Taken from various devivals and radio shows from recent months -- Puzzling Evidence (KPFA) and  John Hell's Pirate Cat show, San Francisco;  Stang's sermon at Winterstar Symposium, and Radio Synesthesia (WCSB Cleveland). 2 songs by The Rainmakers including a rarity.

We return to sheer idolatry for "Bob," taken from various devivals and radio shows from recent months' travels. Excerpts from Puzzling Evidence (KPFA) and  John Hell's Pirate Cat show, San Francisco; Rick Barber's KOA-Denver AM talk show; Stang's sermon at Winterstar Symposium, and Radio Synaesthesia (WCSB Cleveland). Something new is added to the collagiasticity as well.

A rerun of Hour of Slack # 42 from August 1986, first broadcast on KNON Dallas, with clips of SubGenius shows from WFMU in New Jersey with Syster Krys, from KPFA Berekeley's Puzzling Evidence show, from Rat Cave's Serious Abuse show from WBCE FM in Richmond VA; and the the SubG Asylum of AntiPinkness - which was Rev. Bleepo Abernathy and Ahmed Fishmonger in Boston, Massachusets.

Recorded in Beijing, and at KNON-FM, Dallas, in 1986 upon Stang's return from 6 weeks in China. Includes much Chinese SubGenius documentary material. Guest narrator: Li Li-jing. This was just about the last show to feature Rev. Buck Naked as an Hour of Slack studio participant.

Aside from the Lemurian, Norelian, and Mose Giganticusian material, this show is rife with goodly stretches of John Hell's "Season in Hell" show, with guests Stang, Dr. Hal, Puzzling Evidence, Loid Mongoloid, K-ROB, discussing ancient Church origins in some detail.

Wallowing in The Pigsty of Pure Slack, they do more than come hither and yon. A mostly-live show with much talk about Snake Women, and cuts from the great bulldada 1972 underground Biblical Western, Greaser's Palace. Hamlet included. HOT.

Much of this episode is taken from a December 2007 broadcast of John Hell's "A Season in Hell" by host John Hell. Guests were Puzzling Evidence, Dr. Hal, Rev. Ivan Stang, Loid Mongoloid. Also lots of new music and montage from Mose Giganticus, Norel Pref, F. LeMur, and Little Big Man.

Live show with much on-air preaching, plus music by amazing newly-discovered prehistoric bands like Mose Gicanticus. Lonesome Cowboy Dave calls in broken, but he is somewhat repaired during the course of the show. All attempts to introduce serious pertinent discussion about current affairs are effectively rebuffed.

We journey to Darkest San Francisco for not only the Mongoloidapalooza SubGenius/DEVOtional Devival (at 12 Galaxies club), but also John Hell's Season in Hell Show from Pirate Cat Radio and, of course, the Puzzling Evidence Show. With Philo Drummond, Dr. Hal, Puzzling Evidence, Mongoloid, Bishop Joey, Rev. Leslie, Gary G'broagfran... and Palmer Vreedeez in a great KPFA subclip from 1982.

Heavy on the artful media barrages by (respectively) LeMur and Norel Pref, specifically dealing with The Conspiracy, with new music and bits of various devivals and radio shows from the end of 2007: Puzzling Evidence radio, preaching from the Baltimore SubGenius devival, some old ESO Swamp Radio, John Hell's show with SubGeniuses, from Pirate Cat Radio in SF, and Radio Synaesthesia.

We're standing under the Overtoom, in a subterranean pirate radio basement station in Amsterdam, Holland. Dr. Hal is here, and Princess Wei, Pope Black, and Governor Rocknar, and a number of humans or SubGeniuses wearing Dobbsheads masks, making the whole scene look like some kind of warped, twisted Fellini movie. Yes, it's like living in a foreign film. Everything is there except the subtitles; and oh, how I miss the subtitles, which might explain to me what the hell is really going on here. But, of that I remain ignorant, as perhaps you too the listener. All we can do is have faith, yes faith in that FACE of JR Bob Dobbs. That endless, bedotted, half-tone -- oh, sometimes high contrast -- FACE. If we can but seize upon that as the FOCUS of our attention, our LOVE and our thoughts, perhaps we can be safely guided back to a place of COOL music, and cool speech, talking and so forth. But in the meantime, we're trapped, here in this clammy basement with the Church of the SubGenius.

First, the Puzzling Evidence Show attempts to hijack our precious Hour of Slack. Lonesome Cowboy Dave calls in to save the day, and spouts bravely amidst recordings of live sermons from Baltimore and Amsterdam devivals, and collages about the nature of The Conspiracy of the Normals as well as the various Major Lesser Conspiracies.

Absolute top-notch devival with gut blowout ranting! Dr. Legume! Rev. Carter LeBlanc! Rev.Susie the Floozy! The Amino Acids! Fat Free! Stang and other monsters of Slack. (We're posting shows ahead of schedule in order to cut ourselves some Holiday Slack.)

Hot preaching from the coldest radio shows and steamiest devivals -- Priestess Pisces, Dr. Hal, The Cosmiks, Stang Rants, LeMurination, Lonesome Synaesthesia, and What's Inside "Bob's" Head!

We (Wei and Stang) survived another EuroSubGenius Amsterdam Frop Cup Devival and Field Trip, and then discussed it at length with Lonesome Cowboy Dave. We hope that didn't make him feel any more lonesome. The Frop Cup Winners are announced! Also: We Saved Nixon's Brain, or Would Have, Anyway.

RERUN TIME! We're making and posting these 2 weeks ahead, because we'll be busy with the Amsterdam devivals during the middle of November! This is a beloved classic episode from our first year on the radio. The theme: trendiness bashing.

Rev. John Shirley reads his SubGenius short story, "1996 1997 1998" (from "Three Fisted Tales of "Bob" anthology)! That comprises 33 minutes. We also hear from the Puzzling Evidence Letters from Listeners, and some naughty trick audio mutations from norelpref.com and Mister F. LeMur.

The station where live Hours of Slack are produced, WCSB-Cleveland, had a pledge drive, and we did a HELL of a pledge drive show. However, not all the other stations had pledge drives, and even if they did, none have the same call letters, phone numbers and premiums. YET, some of the rants DO APPLY to your life, station, and station in life -- so this episode consists of some of that donation-grubbing, and lots more of everything else, including koyaanisqatful collages by LeMur and Norel Pref, and some fine Puzzling Evidence.