• OTR

    From Ennev@VERT/MTLGEEK to All on Thu Jan 26 13:49:28 2017
    Is listening to Old Time Radio still a thing ?

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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to Ennev on Thu Jan 26 23:18:00 2017
    Is listening to Old Time Radio still a thing ?

    Do you mean like AM and FM, or do you mean like Old Time Radio shows?


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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to Ennev on Fri Jan 27 03:34:13 2017
    Re: OTR
    By: Ennev to All on Thu Jan 26 2017 08:49 am

    Is listening to Old Time Radio still a thing ?


    sometimes i turn it on in my car and some idiots are talking so i put in a cd or play music off my usb stick.

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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Mro on Sat Jan 28 03:03:00 2017
    Mro wrote to Ennev <=-

    Is listening to Old Time Radio still a thing ?


    sometimes i turn it on in my car and some idiots are talking so i put
    in a cd or play music off my usb stick.

    That's what put me off commercial radio years ago - wanker DJs crapping on about nothing. :)


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  • From Ennev@VERT/MTLGEEK to Dumas Walker on Fri Jan 27 15:17:19 2017

    Do you mean like AM and FM, or do you mean like Old Time Radio shows?


    I should have been more specific :-) old time radio show

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  • From Ennev@VERT/MTLGEEK to Mro on Fri Jan 27 15:18:22 2017
    sometimes i turn it on in my car and some idiots are talking so i put in a cd or play music off my usb stick.

    Yes regular radio can be quite horrible. I was referring to old time radio shows.

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  • From Zero Reader@VERT/ALKY to Ennev on Fri Jan 27 15:56:00 2017
    On 01/26/17, Ennev said the following...

    Is listening to Old Time Radio still a thing ?

    I still listen to "Suspense" but that's it. There's a podcast that posts
    an episode every week and I like to listen to them while I'm out walking or whatever.

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  • From Ennev@VERT/MTLGEEK to Zero Reader on Fri Jan 27 20:29:10 2017
    I still listen to "Suspense" but that's it. There's a podcast that posts an episode every week and I like to listen to them while I'm out walking or whatever.

    I love suspense, that was a great show.

    One of my favourite was The Weird Circle.

    Just I was preparing a big share folder with tons of OTR and was wondering if there is still interest in that.

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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to Vk3jed on Fri Jan 27 22:53:38 2017
    Re: Re: OTR
    By: Vk3jed to Mro on Fri Jan 27 2017 10:03 pm

    Mro wrote to Ennev <=-

    Is listening to Old Time Radio still a thing ?


    sometimes i turn it on in my car and some idiots are talking so i put in a cd or play music off my usb stick.

    That's what put me off commercial radio years ago - wanker DJs crapping on about nothing. :)


    yeah it's cringe worthy how they laugh at their own jokes. some even do laughtracks of themselves laughing at their own jokes. because ya know, they arent funny and they get up at 3am.

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  • From Hemo@VERT/UJOINT to Ennev on Fri Jan 27 22:13:12 2017
    Re: Re: OTR
    By: Ennev to Zero Reader on Fri Jan 27 2017 03:29 pm

    I still listen to "Suspense" but that's it. There's a podcast that
    posts an episode every week and I like to listen to them while I'm out
    walking or whatever.

    I love suspense, that was a great show.

    One of my favourite was The Weird Circle.

    Just I was preparing a big share folder with tons of OTR and was wondering if there is still interest in that.

    hell yeah. Haven't listened to OTR in a long while, used to have an Abbott and Costello tape I used to play in my car. Was twilight zone ever OTR, or was I just listening to tv audio.. not sure.

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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to Ennev on Fri Jan 27 23:27:00 2017
    Do you mean like AM and FM, or do you mean like Old Time Radio shows?

    I should have been more specific :-) old time radio show

    I have occassionally listened to a few on youtube where people have posted
    the audio.

    There is one out there somewhere where someone actually filmed a short, black-and-white movie to go along with the script of one of them. I cannot remember if they lip-synced to the original soundtrack or if they used the script to create the short with their own soundtrack. It was really neat, either way. I think that might have been an episode of Light's Out.

    There is also a radio show that is recorded in Lexington at one of their historic theatres. It bills itself as an "old time" radio show. It is broadcast on local (or syndicated?) radio and also, with video, on
    our statewide PBS network, KET. It is a music show, and I got to attend a recording of one of the episodes a few years back. It was pretty neat.


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to Mro on Sat Jan 28 14:58:00 2017
    yeah it's cringe worthy how they laugh at their own jokes. some even do laughtracks of themselves laughing at their own jokes. because ya
    know, they arent funny and they get up at 3am.

    Bob and Tom is one that I cannot stand. I hate how there is no longer any morning rock radio that plays rock. B&T are usually very, very unfunny.

    That said, I actually met them once. I was in Gasoline Alley at Indianapolis during the time trials for the 500. They broadcast from the Speedway for at least a part of the month of May, and that is the only time I can stand to listen to them. The skit they did live in one of the garages was actually pretty funny in person. They had a tire-changer show them how to change
    tires, and then tried it themselves. I think there was also a competition between their guy and the tire changer.

    Needless to say, the pro tire changer kicked their butts. :) Thing is,
    since they are on radio, I have no idea how that translated to an audience
    that could only listen to it, but seeing it was pretty funny.


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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Mro on Mon Jan 30 03:20:00 2017
    Mro wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    yeah it's cringe worthy how they laugh at their own jokes. some even do laughtracks of themselves laughing at their own jokes. because ya
    know, they arent funny and they get up at 3am.

    Yep, all offputting.


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  • From Ennev@VERT/MTLGEEK to Dumas Walker on Sun Jan 29 16:13:46 2017
    There is also a radio show that is recorded in Lexington at one of their historic theatres. It bills itself as an "old time" radio show. It is broadcast on local (or syndicated?) radio and also, with video, on
    our statewide PBS network, KET. It is a music show, and I got to attend a recording of one of the episodes a few years back. It was pretty neat.

    Yes sometime "Radio Drama" and Old Time Radio get confused. I love to hear modern or contemporary recording of radio drama. Like right now i'm thinking
    of the https://www.theincomparable.com/radio/

    like that the genre is still existing today.

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  • From Jazzy_J@VERT/JAYSCAFE to Dumas Walker on Sun Jan 29 11:50:00 2017
    Dumas Walker wrote to Ennev <=-

    There is also a radio show that is recorded in Lexington at one of
    their historic theatres. It bills itself as an "old time" radio show.
    It is broadcast on local (or syndicated?) radio and also, with video,
    on our statewide PBS network, KET. It is a music show, and I got to
    attend a recording of one of the episodes a few years back. It was
    pretty neat.

    "The Shadow" was my regular. Never thought about looking for recordings of it on Youtube. It would come on right after Dr. Demento. God, those were good programs. AFRTS would carry them when I was stationed in Germany 88-92. They ended most of my days activities.

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  • From Ennev@VERT/MTLGEEK to Jazzy_J on Sun Jan 29 20:25:15 2017
    "The Shadow" was my regular. Never thought about looking for recordings of it on Youtube. It would come on right after Dr. Demento. God, those were good programs. AFRTS would carry them when I was stationed in Germany 88-92. They ended most of my days activities.

    :-)

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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to Jazzy_J on Sun Jan 29 23:50:00 2017
    "The Shadow" was my regular. Never thought about looking for
    recordings of it on Youtube. It would come on right after Dr. Demento. God, those were good programs. AFRTS would carry them when I was stationed in Germany 88-92. They ended most of my days activities.

    When I lived in Louisville, there was an AM station there that would
    sometimes play old episodes of "The Shadow," Alfred Hitchcock, and, I think, Agatha Christie. That was when I was pretty young, but I really enjoyed listening to some of them.

    When I was in elementary school, we'd go to the school library once a week.
    We were somewhat free as to what we read or did, so long as we didn't make noise or tear stuff up. Well, I found an Alfred Hitchcock record, so I sat down at a listening booth, put on the headphones, and gave it a listen. He
    was just getting to the "reveal" of a particularly spooky story when I
    suddenly got a tap on my shoulder that nearly made my heart stop!

    It was the librarian. My class had left me sitting there.


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  • From Zero Reader@VERT/ALKY to Ennev on Mon Jan 30 02:46:00 2017
    On 01/27/17, Ennev said the following...

    One of my favourite was The Weird Circle.

    Just I was preparing a big share folder with tons of OTR and was
    wondering if there is still interest in that.

    Yes definitely! If you are offering!

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  • From Ennev@VERT/MTLGEEK to Dumas Walker on Mon Jan 30 14:32:57 2017
    down at a listening booth, put on the headphones, and gave it a listen. He
    was just getting to the "reveal" of a particularly spooky story when I suddenly got a tap on my shoulder that nearly made my heart stop!

    It was the librarian. My class had left me sitting there.


    Wow, talk about timing. Glad you are still here with us today.

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  • From Ennev@VERT/MTLGEEK to Zero Reader on Mon Jan 30 14:38:25 2017
    Yes definitely! If you are offering!

    Still playing with the organisation of the folders but you can have a look if your familiar with resilio ( formerly bittorrent sync, it's a encrypted distributed folder sharing technology based on bittorrent, but it's not bit torrent, it's like dropbox but not centralized)

    The link would be https://link.getsync.com/#f=OTR&sz=0&t=1&s=EJX6Q4ZZOAF7SZSY327ZWJRIHFDUUMHY&i=C
    J4WSKP3IFYEY37NZQFK7QQXLWBBZLEUF&e=1486046006&v=2.4

    Or the key or secret is simply BYBETDVGQABLORKWPNBNIMHIG5BG3UKH6 if you
    already have a client, this way it's not even going through a server.

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  • From Lobo@VERT/DALISCAT to Jazzy_J on Mon Jan 30 20:11:51 2017
    Re: Re: OTR
    By: Jazzy_J to Dumas Walker on Sun Jan 29 2017 06:50 am


    "The Shadow" was my regular. Never thought about looking for recordings of

    The Shadow was great, I think oldies.com (or something someone) has put a
    whole collection on nifty bunch of CDs. However, most of them are seemingly
    in public domain as well (although lower quality mp3s) but you can check them
    out here if interested -

    http://www.oldradioworld.com/shows/The_Shadow.php


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  • From Lobo@VERT/DALISCAT to Ennev on Mon Jan 30 20:17:00 2017
    Re: Re: OTR
    By: Ennev to Jazzy_J on Sun Jan 29 2017 03:25 pm

    "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?"

    "The Shadow Knoooooooooows"

    By Golly and Molly, such a great character and besides those old weird tv shows from 30s or so, only one movie ever made, although not bad at all actually but still somewhat suffering from green screen effect of 90s. I wish someone would plunge into it and make another one but ALAS! :)


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  • From Zero Reader@VERT/ALKY to Ennev on Mon Jan 30 23:54:00 2017
    On 01/30/17, Ennev said the following...

    Yes definitely! If you are offering!

    Still playing with the organisation of the folders but you can have a
    look if your familiar with resilio ( formerly bittorrent sync, it's a encrypted distributed folder sharing technology based on bittorrent, but

    Thanks! I'll check it out!

    -ZR

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  • From Poindexter Fortran@VERT/REALITY to Jazzy_J on Mon Jan 30 20:40:22 2017
    Re: Re: OTR
    By: Jazzy_J to Dumas Walker on Sun Jan 29 2017 06:50 am

    it on Youtube. It would come on right after Dr. Demento. God, those were good programs. AFRTS would carry them when I was stationed in Germany 88-92. They ended most of my days activities.

    Oh, the times I spent taping Dr. Demento on Sunday nights... Checking Youtube now...

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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to Ennev on Mon Jan 30 22:50:00 2017
    down at a listening booth, put on the headphones, and gave it a listen. He was just getting to the "reveal" of a particularly spooky story when I suddenly got a tap on my shoulder that nearly made my heart stop!

    It was the librarian. My class had left me sitting there.

    Wow, talk about timing. Glad you are still here with us today.

    LOL, yeah, and I never did find out how the story ended! :D



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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to Lobo on Tue Jan 31 23:18:00 2017
    The Shadow was great, I think oldies.com (or something someone) has
    put a
    whole collection on nifty bunch of CDs. However, most of them are seemingly
    in public domain as well (although lower quality mp3s) but you can
    check them
    out here if interested -

    I think you can, or could, find them in the gift shops at the Cracker Barrel stores also.


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  • From Poindexter Fortran@VERT/REALITY to Ennev on Wed Feb 1 14:39:32 2017
    Re: Re: OTR
    By: Ennev to Zero Reader on Mon Jan 30 2017 09:38 am

    Still playing with the organisation of the folders but you can have a look if your familiar with resilio ( formerly bittorrent sync, it's a encrypted distributed folder sharing technology based on bittorrent, but it's not bit torrent, it's like dropbox but not centralized)

    I'm glad to see people using Resilio that way. I'm trying to use it to do my local sync, like being able to share files with others the same way.

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  • From Poindexter Fortran@VERT/REALITY to Dumas Walker on Wed Feb 1 14:40:38 2017
    Re: Re: OTR
    By: Dumas Walker to Ennev on Mon Jan 30 2017 05:50 pm

    It was the librarian. My class had left me sitting there.

    LOL, yeah, and I never did find out how the story ended! :D

    They married, moved to Skokie, Indiana and have 3 kids. The oldest, Chet, is entering ROTC this fall at Purdue.

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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to Poindexter Fortran on Wed Feb 1 22:58:00 2017
    It was the librarian. My class had left me sitting there.
    LOL, yeah, and I never did find out how the story ended! :D
    They married, moved to Skokie, Indiana and have 3 kids. The oldest,
    Chet, is entering ROTC this fall at Purdue.

    Awesome! I had such high hopes for them. :D


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  • From Ennev@VERT/MTLGEEK to Poindexter Fortran on Mon Feb 6 17:56:28 2017
    I'm glad to see people using Resilio that way. I'm trying to use it to do
    my local sync, like being able to share files with others the same way.

    Yes I use it to synchronize some data through different machines. I used to employ DropBox to do that, but it's less secure and i don't have the space limitation with Resilio. Also I use it to share some folders with friends.

    Used to be quite a number of file cache secret in this community : https://www.reddit.com/r/btsecrets/ i don't know if it still active, haven't really checked lately.

    But right now i'm looking into a real open source solution https://syncthing.net but haven't really played it it much yet. Maybe i'll transition to this for syncing my server folders.

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