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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 February 27, 2024: It Did Happen Here: A Panel Discussion from the authors of the podcast and book, about anti-fascist struggles in the 80's & 90's in the Pacific Northwest)

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Shadows In Blue  Mid-Valley Mutations Opening Theme   Favoriting Mid-Valley Mutations Opening Theme  Self-Released  2024 
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Obadiah Baird & Austin Rich  ... Introduce The Show   Favoriting Recorded 18 February 2024  Mid-Valley Mutations  2024 
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  https://www.itdidhappenherepodcast.com/
Erin Yanke, Jonathan Mozzochi, Moe Bowstern & Pete Normal  It Did Happen Here Panel Discussion (Part 1)   Favoriting 21 January 2024 Live Event  It Did Happen Here  2024 
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Obadiah Baird & Austin Rich  ... Talk About Their Punk Scene Experience   Favoriting Recorded 18 February 2024  Mid-Valley Mutations  2024 
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Erin Yanke, Jonathan Mozzochi, Moe Bowstern & Pete Normal  It Did Happen Here Panel Discussion (Part 2)   Favoriting 21 January 2024 Live Event  It Did Happen Here  2024 
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Obadiah Baird & Austin Rich  ... Wrap Up Their Thoughts On The Event   Favoriting Recorded 18 February 2024  Mid-Valley Mutations  2024 
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Obadiah Baird & Austin Rich  "Bela Caio" / One Night In Downtown Salem   Favoriting Somewhere In-Between: A Radio Zine #2 (22 June 2020)  Mid-Valley Mutations  2020 
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Shadows In Blue  Mid-Valley Mutations Ending Theme   Favoriting Mid-Valley Mutations Ending Theme  Self-Released  2024 
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Listener comments!

Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 5:27pm
Austin Rich:

Good Hello.
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Imaginos:

Ahoy
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Krys O.:

Hello!
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ramencity:

cha cha cha!
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Arvo Zylo:

Howdy
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postconsumer:

hello
  Swag For Life Member 9:03pm
WR:

Here to hear.
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Kat in the chat:

Hey Austin, I'm not able to stick around for this one, but I wanted to let you know that I really enjoyed last week's show which I caught in the archive a day late :)
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postconsumer:

🤩
thanks, Austin!
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Geoff-U:

Hello! :wave:
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:05pm
Austin Rich:

Geoff-U! Thanks for poppin' in!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:06pm
coelacanth∅:

good evening Austin Rich, and others
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:06pm
Austin Rich:

Coelacanthø! Sit down and stay a spell.
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Geoff-U:

Which bookstore here in Hardcorevallis?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:07pm
postconsumer:

I'm looking fwd to hearing more. I can remember being a teenager in Minneapolis and hearing stories about the Neo nazi situation in Portland. We had a smaller problem in the twin cities at the time.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:07pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Geoff-U @9:07
The Book Bin in Corvallis.
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Arvo Zylo:

↳ Kat in the chat @9:03
I also listened late, but only by a few hours...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:08pm
Austin Rich:

I like that Obadiah had to work during the Anti-Capitalist Book Fair.
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Geoff-U:

Yay! The Book Bin = much awesome <3
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Mr. X:

Hi
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Austin Rich:

↳ Mr. X @9:09
Thanks for stoppin' by, Mr. X! Lovely to have you around.
  9:09pm
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Hello everyone.
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Austin Rich:

Pardon all my actual throat clearing in the recording. I'm not sick, just allergies.
  9:10pm
Obadiah:

Hello everyone
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:10pm
Austin Rich:

↳ @9:09
Hello, ?!
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Imaginos:

Ahoy
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:10pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Obadiah @9:10
Obadiah! Hooray!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:11pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @9:10
Thanks for joining us, Imaginos!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:11pm
Austin Rich:

This recording was given to me by Erin, and is the version that was heard on their website. (I think it's a "bonus" episode, on their podcast, but don't quote me on that.)
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Imaginos:

↳ Austin Rich @9:11
Always a pleasure to be here
  9:13pm
Obadiah:

The Book Bin also hosted an early event for a great book about ARA called We Go Where They Go. It is a highly recommended read.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:14pm
postconsumer:

Erin was at KBOO, right? I think she was the PD when I started there
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:14pm
Austin Rich:

↳ postconsumer @9:14
I think so, but I'm not 100%.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:15pm
Austin Rich:

Moe Bowstern is the author of the zine, "Xtra Tuf."

microcosmpublishing.com...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:19pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Song: "It Did Happen Here Panel Discussion (Part 1)" by ...
In the photo, that cloth drape with the outdoor image is very like one that my family had on the wall, in my house, growing up. In a way, those kinds of cloth drapes reminds me of the PNW, The Mid-Valley, and this region. I think the juxtaposition of that kind of imagry, and the kinds of racism and sexism and violence that this book / podcast addresses, is an import aspect of this event.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:22pm
Austin Rich:

That was my laugh, at the, "without the internet," comment.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:25pm
Austin Rich:

Here is a link to the book they are reading from:

pmpress.org...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:31pm
Austin Rich:

Pete Normal was famously in the bands Lazyboy, and later, Resist, a band that I quite loved as a young punk.

www.discogs.com...
  9:32pm
Obadiah:

I was so lucky to come up in a scene where the Nazis had largely been driven out by the work of a previous generation.
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Geoff-U:

I remember those shows in PDX full of skins, like the East Side White Pride etc. They were scary as shit
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Geoff-U:

I was close friends with some of the SHARPs in Corvallis who later moved to PDX and joined Rose City Bovver Boys and other groups
  9:34pm
Obadiah:

I remember so many 45's used to have the bands address right on the lyric sheet. It's hard to imagine now.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:34pm
Austin Rich:

Like Obadiah, I'm a bit younger, so my exposure to nazis was more second-hand. But it was the work of people like this that made the scene so much less violent than what I used to hear about.
  9:35pm
Obadiah:

This is the first good thing I've ever heard anyone say about the Peacock.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:35pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Obadiah @9:34
That detail about the address is so very much of another era.
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Imaginos:

I'm getting sleepy. Also I am just not into heavy politics.
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Geoff-U:

I knew Shandley the guy that stabbed Mike
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:36pm
Austin Rich:

The Detonators from Eugene were legendary. I used to listen to their album all the time back in the day.
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Geoff-U:

I was downtown when the stabbing happened but not at the show, I was skating at waterfront
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:37pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Geoff-U @9:36
I suspected you might have a connection to this panel discussion.
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Geoff-U:

there were like 2 nazi skins in Corvalis, Shandley and Manny
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Geoff-U:

this is fascinating... I am going to get that book
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Austin Rich:

Jonathan Mozzochi is a researcher.

againstthecurrent.org...
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Geoff-U:

and I certainly wasn't "friends" with Shandley - the scene was so small that everyone knew everyone
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Austin Rich:

↳ Geoff-U @9:42
I think that's what Pete was talking about: the scene KNEW who these guys were. It wasn't a secret.
  9:43pm
Obadiah:

Corvallis has such a small scene you always ended up knowing everybody. Even the ones that you didn't want to know.
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Austin Rich:

Erin is the panel moderator, and a documentarian. And she was the Program Director at KBOO in Portland.

www.erinyanke.com
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:46pm
Austin Rich:

$80 rent. Those were the days...
  9:46pm
Obadiah:

I miss Portland rents in the early 2000's
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Austin Rich:

Keeping us poor so we have less time to do anything is one of the ways that power dynamics are reinforced in this country.
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postconsumer:

yeah it just makes me sick to hear about that. really makes you see why they don't want to control rent OR raise the minimum wage.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:51pm
Austin Rich:

What kind of public places are there in your community? How weird can you get, there?
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Austin Rich:

No panel discussion about the 80's is complete without a police siren.
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Geoff-U:

yes we are with you :)
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WR:

Hearing
  9:59pm
Obadiah:

I really connected with the conversation about the necessity of organizing and community defense.
  👻 10:01pm
Heather:

Thank you for sharing this. It's so incredibly important.
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laurapanic:

I just got here, but Perro Caliente has had activists on his shows, in between the great tunes, to talk about their causes.
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Austin Rich:

↳ laurapanic @10:04
Very cool! I need to check that out.
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Austin Rich:

I think it is gone, but there used to be a blog that was dedicated to Icky's Teahouse, an anarchist hangout in Eugene Oregon. It also housed the first show I played as a musician, among many other punk and noise shows, back in the day.
  👻 10:12pm
Heather:

Here in Rochester NY, we have a local poet/artist named Thom Metzger. I'm still a fan of his work. Back in the day, a friend mentioned the white supremacist and started trying to find clues in the local guy's poems. I just asked him if that was him. He wasn't mad at me but he was so mad that an evil person in this world had the same name. He started going by Th Metzger and Der Metzger around that time.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:14pm
Austin Rich:

There is a comedian in Kentucky named Austin Rich, and his routines are incredibly sexist and racist. His stuff comes up every once in a while and it gets linked to me.
  👻 10:15pm
Heather:

↳ Austin Rich @10:14
Oh that's got to feel awful. I'm so sorry.
  10:16pm
Obadiah:

When your name is Obadiah you don't really have that problem.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:16pm
Austin Rich:

Before I listened to any of his stuff, I thought it would be funny to do some of his routines. Then I listened to them... ouch.
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Austin Rich:

The fact that Pete Normal became "A Big Fuckin' Hippy" now sort of blew my mind.
  10:25pm
Obadiah:

"No snaps for love! O.k."
  10:28pm
Obadiah:

I think it is important to find balance between a willingness to embrace the necessity of conflict and keep open the possibility of reconciliation.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:28pm
Austin Rich:

It's so hard to articulate one's politics without sounding like an over-simplified reduction of ideas, but I feel like this group of folks is a nice cross-section of things that I believe. Different amounts of each of them.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:31pm
Austin Rich:

Usually, I would do all sorts of editing, and add songs, or samples, to a recording like this. Aside from the editing that Erin did, I presented exactly what Erin gave me, in two parts. It felt important not to edit their words, or the things they presented to the public.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:35pm
Austin Rich:

I have a little bonus story, that is about 18 minutes long, which would make us go over by about 18 minutes. I hope no one minds?
  👻 10:35pm
Heather:

↳ Austin Rich @10:31
I LOVE your editing style and how you put things together. Absolutely love it. But I want to affirm I think you made the right choice with this one.

Go over!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:36pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather @10:35
Yeah. I had a lot of ideas of what I could do to enhance the conversation. But instead, I felt the raw chat was moving to me, and would be moving to others.
  👻 10:38pm
Heather:

↳ Austin Rich @10:36
It's good and important content. Might be an idea to Austinify it, too, and run again in the future? Sadly, I think this topic will be relevant for a fair bit longer.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:41pm
Austin Rich:

I wanna thank Obadiah for helping put on this event, and co-hosting this episode of the show with me. Thanks for all you do, good sir.
  10:43pm
Obadiah:

I'm really pleased that we were able to partner with the Anti-Capitalist Book Fair in Corvallis to host this event. It is a privilege to have bookstores that allow me to host and support conversations like this.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:47pm
Austin Rich:

"Fuck you with the meditation!"

I think about that every day since this event.
  10:52pm
Obadiah:

"Maybe it's already happening"
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Austin Rich:

I just want a two-hour "Evening with Moe" where she just tells stories about her life.
  10:55pm
Obadiah:

So many digressions and I'm kinda here for it.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:55pm
Austin Rich:

"This is me! Trying to connect!"

I feel like Moe is just speaking my inner monologue.
  👻 10:56pm
Heather:

↳ Austin Rich @10:55
Yeahh... that resonated.
  11:01pm
Obadiah:

I had dinner with most of the folks on the panel after this event and my feeling is that some of the most valuable lessons come from the people who have faced burn out and come close to dropping out of activism. The biggest threat to activism is the difficulty of balancing your personal needs and the needs of the movement. Elders who are still active have had to find ways to protect themselves and find that balance.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 11:02pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Obadiah @11:01
I would have loved to have been there.
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Austin Rich:

Hopefully I supplied enough links for everyone?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 11:08pm
Austin Rich:

Obadiah's Music!

obadiahbaird.bandcamp.com
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Geoff-U:

cool! I have listened to some of this, really good
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Geoff-U:

I gotta run, thanks for the compelling discourse, Austin!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 11:13pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Song: ""Bela Caio" / One Night In Downtown Salem" by "Ob...
As mentioned, I made this radio piece in June of 2020.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 11:15pm
Austin Rich:

"...months in isolation."

Ha!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 11:16pm
Austin Rich:

I love this Crimpshrine record SO MUCH.
  11:16pm
Obadiah:

I don't miss the daily punk rock book delivery.
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Austin Rich:

↳ Song: a song
(The photo I'm describing.)
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Austin Rich:

I think, in the few years since then, these things are far less shocking.
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Austin Rich:

Thanks everyone! See ya next time.
  11:29pm
Obadiah:

See you soon.
  Swag For Life Member 11:29pm
WR:

Thank you! Rich! Hope you can get the full show into the archive.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 11:29pm
Austin Rich:

↳ WR @11:29
I will! I'm gonna send a copy to Rebecca.
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