My son Jacob's latest obsession has been "Little Shop of Horrors" - the Off Broadway soundtrack, the movie, different performance clips on YouTube, you name it! So my wife Melanie and I surprised him with an early Hanukkah gift - we took him to the Repertory Company High School for the Theatre Arts, where they did a performance of the show! When the cast heard that we came in from Passiac to see it just because he loves the show, they had the director bring us backstage so they could meet him! Listen along to our adventure - one he'll treasure for the rest of his life! (Includes a couple vintage TV commercials from the original Broadway show!)
Hanging out in New York City, en route to Day 4 of shooting the independent TV pilot "Erroneous Convictions" with Bruce Birns and Jerry Sheindlin, more about Snowctoberpocalypse, walkig through the park trying to avoid falling branches, the result of "The Miracle Man" vote for indieWIRE.com's Project of the Day, then voted as Project of the Month, great thanks to the Virtual Street Team & everyone who voted & asked others to vote, recapping this week's Overnightscape Central topic of Sleep & Insomnia, meeting up with Brandon General, JB Reed, Jeff Beemer and Justin McCabe of The Human Orchestra and talking about the evolution of the band, their album, Slainte - The Rock Of Ireland and more!
It's October... and it's SNOWING! I make my way home via the NJ Transit train system and spend my wait time between trains at Secaucus Junction updating you on some recent exciting things in my life, such as "The Miracle Man" being selected as indieWIRE.com's Project of the Day, then voted as Project of the Week, then this Monday is the vote for Project of the Month - CONTACT ME TO JOIN MY VIRTUAL STREET TEAM - I'm producing & co-directing the independent TV pilot "Erroneous Convictions" with Bruce Birns and Jerry Sheindlin, the October snow postponed the Tarrytown/Sleepy Hollow Halloween Parade, my niece's quinceañero, the family's fine.
It's been two years since I started my "rampling," and I'm ready to start Year Three!
I've been exceptionally busy lately, working a lot at my acting gig at Kaplan, video shoots, parades, substitute teaching and officiating weddings. Here I drive down the New Jersey Turnpike on my way to a wedding, where I have noticed a major-scale construction project, which includes about 7 overpasses that don't seem to lead to anything - mostly into woods and housing developments, with no road at either end. I worked in my son's school, my wife went back to work. Crazy things have been happening lately - my son lost his hearing aid, my iPod went on the fritz, the car battery died... almost like Mercury Retrograde, or is it because my energy is off from being so exhausted? Long time Friends of ONSUG Brandon General and JB Reed have a brand new music project - The Human Orchestra - listen to 5 of their tracks from their upcoming EP due out soon! Includes the track, "On With The Show," courtesy of Brandon General.
Hanging outside my condo during the "eye" of Tropical Storm Irene, slowdown on The Overnightscape Underground, progress with The Miracle Man investment documents, new fundraising campaign at http://tinyurl.com/mmfund2, recapping the past month, the family's doing well, getting ready for September, planning my new Law of Attraction/Law of Abundance podcast, turning 40, my birthday celebrations, Zach's Towne Pub in Secaucus, my father came up from Florida, I officiated my mother's wedding, return to Amy's Omelette House, made it through the storm okay, Manny the Mailman's basement flooded. Feature Segment: Melanie's story of the day David was born.
Join me, Jacob, my sister Karen and her kids Megan and Evan as we recap the day we had at Sesame Place in Langhorne, PA. But first a few of my fellow podcasting friends welcome my new son David into the world - Neal from Into Your Head (by request of Manny the Mailman), Kay and Abi from Exposed, and Overnightscape Central master of ceremonies PQ Ribber.
Join me on a warm & pleasant evening in Times Square, NYC as I recap Harry Potter: The Exhibition at Discovery Times Square! Topics include Harry Potter, and all things related to the books, movies & exhibit. The exhibit is open until early September, so if you're a fan of the books and movies, this is a must see!
31:42 - It's been a while - been keeping really busy between taking care of my wife, who is currently on bed rest, the boy, who just finished Kindergarten, a busy work schedule, "The Miracle Man" progress and other projects. I didn't even have time to do post production until a few days after recording this...
In this episode, I take you along on two interesting gigs - first a long bus ride up to Lake George, NY - a great resort town where I march in a huge Fireman's convention parade with the Tappan Zee Bridgemen, then a long drive south to Wildwood, NJ where I officiated a wedding. Topics include multiple units of the band, Six Flags Great Escape, marginal placenta previa, changing the baby's "due" date, Jacob Celebrity Fashion Show and the Boys & Girl's Club, camping in Wildwood in 1989, had a video gig in Queens, drove through 4 out of the 5 boroughs of New York City, scouting the beach, Ontario license plates in Wildwood, enormous Ferris wheel, The Skyscraper, don't go to Seaside, finding a fenced pathway up a sand dune, Jacob's iPod Touch takes better pictures than my phone, waiting to hear back from a famous actor for "The Miracle Man," putting investment documents together, a brief review of the latest CD from "Weird Al" Yankovic, "Alpocalypse," I may start a new regularly published podcast on the Law of Attraction.
1:05:12 - After several months of promoting this event, listen along as my friends Kati, Lynda, Tammy and I - and about 2,000 others - walk for 18 miles from Cadman Plaza in Brooklyn, up the Brooklyn Promenade, over the Brooklyn Bridge, past Ground Zero, around the tip of Manhattan, through Battery Park City, up the Hudson River, over to Sixth Avenue, down Broadway, then back over the Brooklyn Bridge to Cadman Plaza as we raise both money and awareness for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention! Discussion topics include Mariel Hemingway in the Opening Ceremony, Kati's brother Michael and my step-brother Allan, my grandfather's death and what it still means to me today, the recent passing of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, is suicide ever justified, suicide and older men, Blue Marble Ice Cream, the film The Jonestown Defense, talking with a man whose 22 year old son took his life in February, I left stuff in the car, The Freedom Tower and the 9/11 Memorial, passing by the mile markers and questioning the accuracy of their placement, the Staten Island Ferry, I used to work at 17 State Street with Frank Nora's sister-in-Law Carrie Ann Carol, the film Keeping the Faith, midnight snack at Pier 96, promoting the film In Montauk by Kim Cummings and the band HOT BREAKFAST featuring Jill Knapp and Matt Casarino, talking to street people, caffeine makes you dehydrated, reading the list of names of those who have sponsored my walk, luminarias, closing ceremony.
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32:12 - Weird day! Global earthquakes shaking corpses out from the grave...
Just kidding, of course. Today we take a look at how Harold Camping "creatively" came up with this date as Judgment Day, grocery shopping, my son's new iPod & my "new" G5 and the saga of my blood sugar.
Once again, I take to the airwaves on WMSC-FM for my old college radio show, The Cellular Toaster on WMSC-FM's Alumni Takeover! Sadly, my partner in the show, Jill Knapp, was unable to join me in the festivities. This year it was mostly about the music. Here I present a sample of the show, playing only snippets of non-podsafe stuff (under Fair Use), and all of the permissible tunes in their entirety. Here's the set list of the entire show:
INTRO Featuring "Une fanfare a Saint-Germain" by students of Aldor and "Fun Zone" by "Weird Al" Yankovic
SET ONE: Tenacious D – "Tribute" – Tenacious D Sifl & Olly (featuring Chester) – "Stolen Holiday" – Sifl & Olly Songs of Season 1 The Party Party – "Sunday Bloody Sunday" – ThePartyParty.com The Presidents of the United States of America – "We're Not Gonna Make It" – The Presidents of the United States of America
SET TWO: Adam Sandler – "Four Years Old" – What's Your Name? Mucky Pup (as Billy & the Boingers) – "U Stink But I ♥ U" – Billy & the Boingers Jimmy Fallon & Bruce Springsteen – "Whip My Hair" – Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
SET THREE: "Weird Al" Yankovic – "Perform This Way" – Alpocolypse Kate Winslet & "Weird Al" Yankovic – "I Need a Nap" – Dog Train Your Mother – "I'll Be Mellow When I'm Dead" – The Weird Al-Bum
RALPH THE WORD GUY New words for the English Speaking World: Detomify, Nerk and Rexting Featuring music from "Bananas" by Marvin Hamlisch
SET FOUR: Industrial Jazz Group – "Big Ass Truck" – Leef The Evelyn Situation – "Secretaries and Their Bosses (Coffee)" – Somewhat Remastered Evelyn JDL – "MTV" – JDL
SET FIVE: The Dead Milkmen – "Some Young Guy" – The King in Yellow The Dead Milkmen – "Stuart" – Beelzebubba The Dead Milkmen – "In Praise of Sha Na Na" – Metaphysical Graffiti
SET SIX: Friday's Child – "The Connection" – DigitalCafeTour.com Secret Gossip – "Midnight Freak" – DigitalCafeTour.com The Fave – "Let It Out" – DigitalCafeTour.com Peter Blood – "Osama's Daughter" – DigitalCafeTour.com
SET SEVEN: They Might Be Giants – "Clap Your Hands" (Live) – TMBG.com They Might Be Giants – "Can't Keep Johnny Down" – Join Us They Might Be Giants – "Particle Man" (Live Beatlesque Version) – TMBG.com
SET EIGHT: Derek Nicoletto – "Hustler with a Rescue Plan" – Kind Ghosts Natalie Gelman – "Just Someone" – Natalie Gelman Hooray for Everything – "1970's Children's Comic" – Sitting in a Tree
SET NINE: The Rutles – "Get Up and Go" – All You Need Is Cash The Mop Tops – "Hava Nagila" – A Hard Day's Day
56:58 - Today I met up with my friend Kati Gegg at Washington Crossing State Park in Titusville, NJ, as we did a training walk for our upcoming participation in Out of the Darkness Overnight - an 18-mile walk over the course of one night in New York City. Net proceeds benefit the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, funding research, education, and awareness programs – both to prevent suicide and to assist those affected by suicide. Today's topics include turning the radio down through toll booths, April Fool's Day idea for next year, this year I changed my Facebook profile name to Sherman Nyrphryeizhenyrphglergryr and lost 10 friends (but gained one back), soon approaching an Academy Award winner to play Morris Goodman for "The Miracle Man," baby names for Boy #2, Pinky Dinky Doo and her Little Brother Tyler, Big Kev's Geek Stuff, Exposed with Kay and Abi, The Tobolowsky Files, Neal from Ireland in Newark, mailing the rest of the Miracle Man t-shirts, meeting up with Manny the Mailman, Kati's participation in last year's Out of the Darkness Overnight walk in Boston, walking slower is a harder workout, issues being a suicide survivor, warning signs of suicide, Revolutionary War reenactment, getting stuck in traffic on Christmas for the reenactment of Washington's Crossing, visiting center, losing the Blue Dot Trail, air raid sirens, random telephone pole in the middle of a field, living in Lancaster, PA, Spring House, burrito lunch at Gabriel's II pizzeria, correction to BJS002: learning disability is not considered to be related in any way with VACTERL association.
1:14:33 - Listen to this two-day adventure as I deliver T-shirts to friends who contributed to "The Miracle Man!" Day 1 topics include the first non-Frank Nora ONSUG recording at The Overnightscape Studio, commenting on my similarity to Bob Lament's car, working for UPS, Chad from Chadcast, working at a movie theater, Paterson is flooded, getting pulled over by a cop, spending all day at Dunkin Donuts & the mechanic's, delivering shirts to Rishard in Hawthorne, Liese in Pompton Lakes & Nicole in Boonton, driving past flood waters. Day 2 topics include Shaun Hollinger in Maplewood, Audiodicals, Overnighscape Central, meeting up with Manny the Mailman, Debbie in Jackson, 80's Prom Night at Webster Hall, Great Adventure vs. Six Flags, Stephen in Howell (my hometown), Lynda in Farmingdale, meeting my mom in Little Silver, Liz in Aberdeen, getting a flat tire, Gina Sideris & Little Kids Rock, Ma & Pa Harney, my last bit of news hasn't come in yet... what is it? Find out tomorrow!
36:40 - A rampling morning commute with Brian on an early morning following a rough rain storm. Topics include walking through Third Ward Park to the Passaic train station, working at Kaplan as a proctor, the world spinning backwards, musical Target gift card, Secaucus Junction, no trains to NYC, missing the Long Branch train, Willow Smith's "I Whip My Hair," Richard Cheese, Jimmy Fallon (as Neal Young) and Bruce Springsteen, "Good Morning" alarm on my new cell phone, no 6:00 train to South Amboy, catching up on podcasts, such as Exposed with Kay & Abi, Big Kev's Geek Stuff, The Paranormal View with Geoffrey "Badger" Gould, not posting links anymore - you can look anything up on Google & other search engines, first day since December 26, 2010 without snow on the ground in Northeastern New Jersey, losing my old phone, Amtrak Acela Business Class train, at the mercy of NJ Transit, prepping the day before, Pulp Comics with Jim Breuer, another Amtrak train - Not Brian's Train, flooding in New Jersey, earthquake in Japan, tsunamis in the Pacific Rim, 6:10 Trenton-bound train arrived 9 minutes later, stories with happy endings, 30th anniversary of Morris Goodman's plane crash, completed 5th draft of the script, check out ONSUG.com & Overnightscape Central, Ric Flair.
36:26 - Once again, I am doing penance for missing an episode of The Overnightscape Central! In this episode, I welcome goodrob13 to the ONSUG channel, give you an update of "The Miracle Man" and all of my recent jobs - Kaplan, "What Exit" Edison Research at AMC's Essex Green Dine-In Theatre. Then I discuss my influences - my grandmother, my father, my son Jacob, George Lucas, Yoda, Phil Birnbaum, Janis Braden, Dr. Jack Sacher, Dr. Rob Gilbert, The Secret, Nicole Gabriel, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Gandhi, the Buddah, Jesus Christ, Frank Nora, Wayne Reichert, and everyone else on The Overnightscape Underground.
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1:00:32 - Jacob & I meet up with fellow internet radio host Rob Usdin and his daughter for the premiere book signing of "Weird Al" Yankovic's first children's book, "When I Grow Up" at the Barnes & Nobel bookstore in the Marketfair mall in Princeton, NJ. Topics include kindergarten homework, closing school early when the weather cleared up, Jersey Jamcast, too loud to record in the food court, stores in the mall, DI vs. DSI, snooty malls, Big Fish decorum, Calendar Club, Toy Story 3 and other Disney dominoes, Monopoly varieties, A Christmas Story Monopoly, "Weird Al" Yankovic's education and career path, philosophy of doing what makes you happy, Al's talent with parody lyrics & harmonizations, style parodies, Al takes a picture, Al's parents' untimely death from carbon monoxide poisoning, children and technology, mobile movie viewing, TiVO, Al signs Jacob's book.
57:37 - So since I missed recording a segment for The Overnightscape Central's episode about Facebook, I decided to dedicate an entire episode of The Brian Jude Show to the topic! Here the story of how I first joined Facebook, courtesy of Kathryl Velvel Jones, Facebook's lack of customizability, throwing sheep, the rise of Facebook and the downfall of MySpace, high school reunion, some people don't want to talk with old high school classmantes, Alumni Group page, closer with some people now than ever before, letting bygones be bygones, getting gigs, keeping up with family, younger cousins, requests from strangers, Temple of the Jedi Order, status updates, Twitter, "Brian Jude is...," Wall vs. Profile/Info vs. Home, News Feed, using SMS to keep up, FB + Twitter = Now have to keep texts silent & always check, I ignore notifications, Gmail Priority Inbox & Facebook notifications separated, News from friends, Dawn Richie, Vanessa & Reiki, birthdays sharing photos, Jacob's albums, The Many Faces of Brian Jude, people don't like being tagged, DCT Comedy's Brooke Van Poppelen, videos, 3rd Party Apps, MP3, YouTube - Great auto function - instant embed - any web site image, no more Links page(?), notes, tagging, Events, Groups vs. Pages, "Like," Discussions, Insights, promoting DCT, DRP, the Miracle Man, the great time suck, Chat - I'm always "offline", games, Mafia, Farmville, ads are non-intrusive, quick to load, New Facebook, removed info box from sidebar, love new info page & its functionality, birthdays, friends photos, friend groups - everyone has at least 1 category - helps with mass messaging, "The Social Network," helpful for me - cast off doubts! Make someone happy with your favorite social network.
41:15 - My 50th Episode! Also wishing Manny the Mailman and Wayne from Spare Time Radio congratulations on their 50th episodes on The Overnightscape Underground!
The fundrasing campaign for development funds for "The Miracle Man" is over! Did I reach my goal? Find out!
Other topics include: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Unitarian Universalism, recapping notes from other ONSUG shows, Frank's review of "The Miracle Man," Bob LeMent's car, Sheps, "inshuge," Mobigo, civil disobedience, listing the names of people who supported "The Miracle Man on IndieGoGo, shooting the plane crash in "The Miracle Man," The Secret not necessarily selfish, supporting The Esbin Family, the importance of tithing, how Missourians pronounce "Missouri," Jason Davidson, Nadia's Pastry Shop in Elmwood Park, Neal's balloon cat, gratitude.
Special appearances by Manny the Mailman and Neal from Ireland. Special music: "The Chasing Game" by Friday's Child.
My son Jacob's latest obsession has been "Little Shop of Horrors" - the Off Broadway soundtrack, the movie, different performance clips on YouTube, you name it! So my wife Melanie and I surprised him with an early Hanukkah gift - we took him to the Repertory Company High School for the Theatre Arts, where they did a performance of the show! When the cast heard that we came in from Passiac to see it just because he loves the show, they had the director bring us backstage so they could meet him! Listen along to our adventure - one he'll treasure for the rest of his life! (Includes a couple vintage TV commercials from the original Broadway show!)
