Favoriting Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from November 20, 2023 Favoriting

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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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Favoriting November 20, 2023: Ruby 1: The Adventures of A Galactic Gumshoe (Part 2)

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ZBS Foundation  Ruby 1: The Adventures of A Galactic Gumshoe [Excerpt]   Favoriting Ruby 1: The Adventures of A Galactic Gumshoe  ZBS Foundation  1982 
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Shot Reverse Shot  The Crystal Wastes (Instrumental)   Favoriting The Wary Wayfaring EP  WTBC Records  2023 
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ZBS Foundation  Ruby 1: The Adventures of A Galactic Gumshoe [Excerpt]   Favoriting Ruby 1: The Adventures of A Galactic Gumshoe  ZBS Foundation  1982 
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Shot Reverse Shot  The Story So Far (Instrumental)   Favoriting The Wary Wayfaring EP  WTBC Records  2023 
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ZBS Foundation  Ruby 1: The Adventures of A Galactic Gumshoe [Excerpt]   Favoriting Ruby 1: The Adventures of A Galactic Gumshoe  ZBS Foundation  1982 
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Shot Reverse Shot  Wending Their Way (Instrumental)   Favoriting The Wary Wayfaring EP  WTBC Records  2023 
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ZBS Foundation  Ruby 0: Tired Of The Green Menace? (The Colonel / A Whole Lotta Songs)   Favoriting Ruby 0: Tired Of The Green Menace?  ZBS Foundation  1980 
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Shot Reverse Shot  The Slow And Strange Path (Instrumental)   Favoriting The Wary Wayfaring EP  WTBC Records  2023 
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ZBS Foundation  Ruby 0: Tired Of The Green Menace? (Where Are We Going? / All Is Revealed?)   Favoriting Ruby 0: Tired Of The Green Menace?  ZBS Foundation  1980 
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Shot Reverse Shot  Dance The Meteor (Instrumental)   Favoriting The Wary Wayfaring EP  WTBC Records  2023 
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ZBS Foundation  Ruby 1: The Adventures of A Galactic Gumshoe [Excerpt]   Favoriting Ruby 1: The Adventures of A Galactic Gumshoe  ZBS Foundation  1982 
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Listener comments!

Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 7:27pm
Austin Rich:

Good Hello.
  10:02pm
Mildred:

I haven't deliberately listened to this show yet... but everytime i see the name go by... I think about this memory of mine and i wonder if the name is related to the region and the way the station is sortof half broadcast there... when i was a kid in the mid (hudson) valley and i would listen to fmu... but i didnt know it was wfmu yet either. It was just one of these fuzzy stations that would come in and out and like alternate with another station depending on what side of a hill you were on our if you touched the antenna or something... and that was where and when i began to realize that it was fun to mix things up.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:55pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mildred @10:02
Hopefully you get a chance to listen!
Avatar 11:02pm
Mr. X:

It's Ruby time!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:02pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr. X @11:02
Hell yeah! Nice to see you!
Avatar 🎸 11:02pm
univac:

Wow! This looks like an amazing show tonite, Austin! I need to go feed myself, so I'll check on the archive.
Avatar 11:05pm
Mr Fab:

Hey space cadets!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:10pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @11:05
Nice to see you in the chat, Mr. Fab! And univac! And Mr. X! And Mildred!

And... all the lurkers... we love you, too!
  🎸 11:11pm
Heather Z:

I'll listen to the nightly news now. Since the Android Sisters asked.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:11pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather Z @11:11
Heather! Thanks for sticking around.
Avatar 11:11pm
Mr. X:

Are these Android Sisters tunes that were part of the show also on their albums? Or are they only available as part of the show?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:12pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr. X @11:11
Some of the album are things re-made from the show. But some things on the album are only on the album. And some stuff in the show is ONLY in the show...
Avatar 11:14pm
Mr. X:

↳ Austin Rich @11:12
A collector's nightmare!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:16pm
Austin Rich:

I mentioned this last time, but for anyone who is new this time: TJ Teru is played by Bill Raymond. Angel lips is played by Robin Karfo. Rodant Kapoor is played by Tom Stewart. And Ruby is played by Laura Esterman. Moliere is played by Fred Neuman. Some of the cast are still acting, and have been in a ton of movies and TV shows. But they always come back for a new series or Ruby.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:17pm
Austin Rich:

All the music is by composer and electronic musician Tim Clark. He has solo work, but most of his career has been spent working on ZBS shows.
Avatar 🎸 11:17pm
univac:

I’m actually still listening while cooking.
This is amazing, Austin!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:18pm
Austin Rich:

↳ univac @11:17
They still make new installments of this show! (There was a new one last year.) It's really good! And from 1982... it's just so ahead of the curve.
Avatar 🎸 11:19pm
univac:

Incredible!
Reminds me of Hitchhikers radio show.
Avatar 11:20pm
Mr. X:

↳ univac @11:19
Definitely the only thing that even comes close.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:20pm
Austin Rich:

↳ univac @11:19
Yeah. This is like when American radio is inspired by English Radio.

The ZBS company made a lot of great shows, but this is the only Sci-Fi.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:21pm
Austin Rich:

The Zoot Mutants! Hell yeah!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:22pm
Austin Rich:

"The Vertical Lips of the Door." That's an image.
Avatar 11:23pm
Mr. X:

↳ Austin Rich @11:22
Makes sense for a bar called The Womb.
Avatar 11:24pm
Mr. X:

Did I just hear a Zorro reference?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:25pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr. X @11:24
I think so!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:28pm
Austin Rich:

ZBS Shows often take time out to remind you that money is a problem. It's sort of a running subject in all their shows.
Avatar 🎸 11:28pm
univac:

Why the hell have I never heard this?!
  11:29pm
wenzo:

Howdy AR
Avatar 11:29pm
Mr. X:

↳ Austin Rich @11:28
Well, they charge enough for their merch, they ought to know.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:29pm
Austin Rich:

↳ univac @11:28
I had a roommate clue me in, but it's still on NPR periodically. How you missed it: not sure? Seems really univac-like.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:30pm
Austin Rich:

↳ wenzo @11:29
Wenzo! Nice to see you.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:31pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr. X @11:29
They charge a lot... but also... all the shows are available for free, in a number of ways. But when you pay, you get a nice physical artifact that is pretty worth it, and you help support ZBS. But yes: there is a contradiction, for sure.
Avatar 🎸 11:32pm
univac:

↳ Austin Rich @11:29
I guess I didn’t listen to enough of this kind of radio at the time.
Now we have podcasts!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:32pm
Austin Rich:

↳ univac @11:32
Yeah! This crew was sort of making "podcast" style shows before podcasts existed.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:33pm
Austin Rich:

↳ univac @11:32
There's almost a "proto Mission To Zyxx" vibe, too. Which I like.
Avatar 🎸 11:33pm
univac:

Exactly. I listen to a bunch of modern podcasts that are direct descendants of this.
Avatar 🎸 11:34pm
univac:

Time to feed.
Thx, Austin! So great.
See you Sunday.
Avatar 🎸 11:37pm
univac:

↳ Austin Rich @11:33
Definitely Zzyxx. Love that show.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:37pm
Barno in Akron:

How do you do, fellow kids?
Avatar 11:38pm
Mr. X:

↳ Barno in Akron @11:37
Hey Barno, how's Akron tonight?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:39pm
Barno in Akron:

↳ Mr. X @11:38
Hi Mr. X - Cold but cozy in Akron, tonight! How are you?
Avatar 11:40pm
Mr. X:

↳ Barno in Akron @11:39
Fine as frog's hair, as my grandma used to say.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:41pm
Austin Rich:

I think the stream glitched again for a moment. Hopefully it's not too distracting?
Avatar 11:44pm
Mr. X:

Am I remembering right, that Angel Lips looks exactly like Ruby?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:44pm
Barno in Akron:

↳ Mr. X @11:40
Will you be visiting Akron for the holidays?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:44pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr. X @11:44
She did, for a while. But now she looks like herself again.
Avatar 11:45pm
Mr. X:

↳ Barno in Akron @11:44
Nah, sittin' tight here in Oregon. Last time I was there was 2015.
  🎸 11:46pm
Heather Z:

Oh wow. We got a Blackstar. That makes sense.
Avatar 11:46pm
Mr. X:

↳ Heather Z @11:46
Hence the Bowie album?
  🎸 11:47pm
Heather Z:

↳ Mr. X @11:46
I mean.... that's what always comes to my mind when I hear any reference to a Blackstar.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:48pm
Barno in Akron:

↳ Mr. X @11:45
2015 is the year we moved out there. To Eugene. Regretably, we returned to Akron in 2015. Not that I don't like Akron. I just wasn't finished living in Eugene.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:48pm
Austin Rich:

It's VERY likely Bowie heard this. It was on NPR, heard in countries all over the world. And it was very popular. (Spielberg famously stole from these shows.)
  🎸 11:50pm
Heather Z:

↳ Austin Rich @11:48
I was just typing this same thing. He was an avid radio listener. And this is very in alignment with a Bowie world. Makes me wonder.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:50pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Barno in Akron @11:48
Eugene is one of the nearer "cool" cities to me. I miss hanging out there. It was fun in the 90's, too!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:50pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather Z @11:50
There's a ton of weird philosophy in Ruby. I'm sure someone has compared the two...
Avatar 11:51pm
Mr. X:

↳ Barno in Akron @11:48
I've moved away from Eugene several times, and always wind up coming back.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:52pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr. X @11:51
I haven't moved back yet. But I think about it often.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:56pm
Austin Rich:

This was on NPR.

"Bite me gently here."

Again: NPR.
  🎸 11:56pm
Heather Z:

↳ Austin Rich @11:50
I'll have to try to Google that. Blackstar being the last album, there was so little interest or energy in the more in depth interviews and press releases, on Bowie's part, as I understand, that came with, e.g, Outside. I haven't run across any Blackstar era interviews, understandably. But maybe I should look harder, just in case there's something out there.
  🎸 11:56pm
Heather Z:

↳ Austin Rich @11:56
That's the quality content I want from NPR.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:58pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather Z @11:56
I do wanna talk about Ruby for 20 Minutes, someday.
Avatar 11:58pm
Mr. X:

My favorite part of Akron is the coin-operated puppet bandstand at Luigi's.
  🎸 11:59pm
Heather Z:

↳ Austin Rich @11:58
Let's! I have feelings about the show, that's for sure.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 12:00am
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather Z @11:59
It's one of my fave things. We should totally discuss soon, since it'll be "fresh-ish."
  🎸 12:02am
Heather Z:

↳ Austin Rich @12:00
Damn I should be making notes! But that's what archives are for!
  12:03am
wenzo:

Night all!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 12:04am
Austin Rich:

↳ wenzo @12:03
Sleep well, wenzo!
Avatar 12:08am
Mr. X:

Highly enjoyable! Thanks Austin!
  🎸 12:11am
Heather Z:

I'll try to find Ruby 10! Is there.... a podcast? We can make a deal, maybe. I'll try to find Ruby 10 and you can try to have a listen to Bowie's Blackstar?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 12:14am
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather Z @12:11
I've heard Blackstar a few times. I worked in radio when it came out. We all got a copy.
  🎸 12:17am
Heather Z:

↳ Austin Rich @12:14
As Lou Sedaris used to say, I'll give you five dollars to listen, really listen.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 12:18am
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather Z @12:17
I don't know who Lou Sedaris is. But I will listen to it again for the podcast.
  🎸 12:19am
Heather Z:

↳ Austin Rich @12:18
David Sedaris's dad. He'd offer the kids five dollars to listen, really listen, to his fave jazz albums. And then never cough up the five bucks.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 12:19am
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather Z @12:11
As I mentioned earlier: most of the ZBS stuff is available free online. But you can get very nice merch from them directly, if we wanted to pay. But I think Ruby 10 is around.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 12:20am
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather Z @12:19
I don't remember that one.
Avatar 12:20am
Mr. X:

↳ Heather Z @12:19
Ah David Sedaris, another great NPR discovery who went on to great things.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 12:21am
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr. X @12:20
We'll probably be hearing Santaland Diaries on NPR again, soon.
Avatar 12:22am
Mr. X:

↳ Austin Rich @12:21
Classic!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 12:23am
Austin Rich:

I worked in a Halloween store one year. It happened to be a scam; I never got my last paychecks, but "gift cards" good in other Halloween stores. I soon discovered there was a class-action lawsuit, involving all the employees who were also angry for similar treatment. I've been meaning to write about it; working in that store was bonkers.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 12:27am
Austin Rich:

While Ruby calls herself "Ruby Tuesday" in this story, I'm not sure if that is "canon" for the series as a whole.
Avatar 12:28am
Mr. X:

↳ Austin Rich @12:27
In some ways this is more coherent and easier to follow, but I miss the background beat moving things along.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 12:30am
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr. X @12:28
Yeah. This sounds more like a traditional radio drama. I think they were experimenting, looking for different ways to present Ruby. They eventually settled on the "short" installments, which they have stuck with. But this is a nice anomaly of another possibility for the character.
Avatar 12:31am
Mr. X:

↳ Austin Rich @12:30
Yeah, I didn't know about Ruby 0, but I am liking it.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 12:32am
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr. X @12:31
I don't believe this was every broadcast, and to my knowledge, it was not available to hear until they released it on CD, MANY years later. So it's truly an artifact of something that could have been.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 12:33am
Austin Rich:

(All subsequent Rubys were on NPR, as well as other stations, first... and then would be sold on their website, and in the old days, by Mail Order.)
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 12:34am
Austin Rich:

In the old days, you could write to them, tell them you worked in radio, and they would send you Ruby 1 on LPs... FOR FREE.
  🎸 12:35am
Heather Z:

↳ Austin Rich @12:34
Wow. I only know of TMBG who does that now, when they're doing the Dial a Song radio network.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 12:37am
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather Z @12:35
They had some philosophical reasons for giving it all away for free for years. They were originally a "Radio Commune," and it was sort of born out of hippy nonsense in the late 60's. But then they all got serious about actually making radio shows, regularly, and the commune part fell away. But they had a lot of hippy ethics that they still sort of believe.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 12:57am
Austin Rich:

We're gonna go over. Sorry!
Avatar 1:07am
Mr. X:

Theme song sounds like the Residents.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 1:08am
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr. X @1:07
Yeah... I think this is probably closer to what Tim Clark's "solo" music sounds like.
Avatar 1:13am
Mr. X:

I guess when you have a planet over your shoulder, you can slow down time?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 1:14am
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr. X @1:13
Maybe?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:17am
Barno in Akron:

Thanks Austin!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 1:17am
Austin Rich:

↳ Barno in Akron @1:17
Thanks Barno!
Avatar 1:18am
Mr. X:

Great show, thanks, Austin. See you tomorrow night for Punks on Culture!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 1:18am
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr. X @1:18
See ya soon, Mr. X! Take care!
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