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Giant Slide 19 Holes Underground Parking Podcast
by Jeremy Braddock
audio pieces related to my book on the Firesign Theatre, Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums https://www.ucpress.edu/books/firesign/paper jeremybraddock.substack.com
Episodes
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interview with Phil Vellender
Hi everyone. I hope you all enjoy this conversation with Phil Vellender, one of the five minds behind the London fanzine Trailing Clouds of Glory. I shared their fantastic 1974 multipart Firesign Theatre piece last week (linked here in case you missed it). A transcript of our conversation follows...
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Firesign sources #8 / FDR Pearl Harbor address
The final entry in this series on the Firesign Theatre’s radio sources has to be FDR’s December 1941 Pearl Harbor address — Firesign’s inspiration for the famous travesty that interrupts “The Further Adventures of Nick Danger” (at 25:20) and concludes the hour-long How Can You Be in Two Places at...
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Firesign sources #7 / The Maltese Falcon
Last week I said I thought that The Adventures of Philip Marlowe was probably the primary model for Firesign’s Nick Danger. I still think that’s right, but you wouldn’t get far into side two of How Can You Be without recognizing another important source: The Maltese Falcon. Phil Proctor’s Rocky...
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Firesign sources #6 / The Adventures of Philip Marlowe (2 of 2) "The Pelican's Roost"
Yesterday I posted the first of the Gerald Mohr episodes of The Adventures of Philip Marlowe. That’s the one that begins with the detective “getting tired of reading Philip Marlowe, Private Investigator backwards on the ground glass of my office door.” Firesign’s Nick Danger would take that line…
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Firesign sources #5 / The Adventures of Philip Marlowe (1 of 2) "The Red Wind"
Today we’re finally flipping over to the second side of How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You’re Not Anywhere at All. Though the first side of How Can You Be is as far out as anything Firesign ever did, the flip side was much more conventional, a parody of old radio detectives called “The...
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Firesign sources #4 / Buffalo War of the Worlds (1968)
We’re about halfway through this series of radio sources for the Firesign Theatre’s 1969 album How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You’re Not Anywhere at All. Today’s entry would not have directly informed How Can You Be in Two Places at Once — Firesign had just finished recording the “War…
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Firesign sources #3 / The War of the Worlds (1938)
The Mercury Theatre on the Air’s 1938 “War of the Worlds” broadcast — directed by and starring the inevitable Orson Welles — is the most legendary radio drama event of them all, so it should not be surprising to find it a point of reference for the Firesign Theatre. David Ossman (who named one of...
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Firesign sources #2 / On a Note of Triumph
The second in this series of the radio sources for Firesign’s How Can You Be in Two Places at Once is “On a Note of Triumph,” Norman Corwin’s dramatic celebration of the Allies’ World War II victory over Nazi Germany, which broadcast on CBS live from Columbia Square in Los Angeles on VE Day, May…
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Firesign sources #1 / The Hitch-Hiker
On September 10, I’ll be giving a talk from my Firesign book at the Cornell University Library (you can watch it remotely: pre-register here). Since I’m being hosted by the Library, I decided to present the part of the book that’s most about information (or, more explicitly, propaganda). That…
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KBOO interview with David Ossman
More Firesign promotional doings. Hi everyone. I’ve got a few pieces in the pipe — on Allen Ginsberg’s 1965, on the phenomenon of the comedy rock single (with maximum Cheech and Chong), an opening salvo on the Pynchon-Firesign Theatre connection. But for now I’m posting a few recent interviews…
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an outtake from Don't Crush That Dwarf [ The Fly! — Counterspy! — Afflicter of Justice! ]
Here’s something I wish I had more of: walking through the Firesign Theatre’s voluminous, amazing archive with David Ossman. In the short clip above, he’s reading and commenting on a few pages written for Don’t Crush That Dwarf Hand Me the Pliers but later excised from the final script (folks who...
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Firesign on the radio (the Golden Ring Club, from the annals of Sex and the Senior Citizen)
Firesign officially hits the streets this Tuesday, October 29. Many, many thanks to all who have pre-ordered. I look forward to hearing what you think. Sharing something a little different today: an excerpt from the Firesign Theatre’s Dear Friends radio show, which broadcast on KPFK from…
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How to Be in Two Places at Once (The Organist ep. 91)
In late 2017, when I was first figuring out how to write about the Firesign Theatre, Andrew Leland offered me a space (and a producer, Myke Dodge Weiskopf) on his excellent podcast, sponsored by KCRW and McSweeney’s, The Organist. Early on — before I decided that media archaeology would be the...
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