Spoken Word with Electronics

# 77-B: "Television News and Grief Re-Runs" by Spoken Word with Electronics

"Chop It Out!" Variety of takes / Vintage radio spots / radio advertisement / PSA from the 1970s for Clarence Beauty, in Clarence, TX. This is side one of a promotional disc sent to local radio stations during the short lived era of organ and tissue removal for weight loss.

# 77-D: "CLARENCE BEAUTY RADIO SPOTS, Side B" (Charlie Pickle, Pt 69) by Spoken Word with Electronics

R.S.S. SUBSCRIBER #2 - HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM S.W.W.E. - HAVE A GREAT NEW YEAR.

R.S.S. # 2-B: "It's Okay" (Side 2) #CP-65 by Spoken Word with Electronics

R.S.S. # 2-C: "Dale's Flipbook" (Side 3) #CP-66 by Spoken Word with Electronics

R.S.S # 2-D: "When You Die" (Side 4) #CP-67 by Spoken Word with Electronics

Welcome, Subscriber! This is the first issue of THE RSS SUBSCRIBER. Issues labeled R.S.S. are not posted elsewhere and are outside normal SWWE numbering. You are only informed of these shows through subscribing. Got RSS? This is our way of saying thank you. - Ay Alf Tol. This episode of RSS is brought to you by: https://www.vareschimastering.com/ Keep track of future episodes with this RSS feed: http://www.ep.tc/swwe-rss

Featuring: "Kangaroos" by Andrew Howie (Arturia Microfreak composition with Field Recording, Australia)

R.S.S. # 1-C: "Cylon Foreplay" (Imperious Orgy) by Spoken Word with Electronics

R.S.S. # 1-D: "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" (Charlie Pickle, Pt 63) by Spoken Word with Electronics

SWWE # 76: "How to Make Sound from the Moon" https://soundcloud.com/eptc/sets/spoken-word-with-electronics-episode-76 This episode is brought to you by Vareschi Mastering. Got Light? Visit https://www.vareschimastering.com/ This episode reviews the ADDAC AC308 and the DOEPFER A-179-2, both of which are Light to CV Modules. We put these two wonderful modules to the bright test with Moonlight, Strobe Light, Lamps, and Dimmers. See show notes at: https://boingboing.net/tag/spoken-word-with-electronics (there will be a short delay in the notes being posted after the audio first airs)

# 76-B: "Light Sensors" (DOEPFER A-179-2 vs ADDAC ADDAC308) by Spoken Word with Electronics

# 76-C: (Charlie Pickle, Pt 61) "Marble Reading" by Spoken Word with Electronics

# 76-D: (Charlie Pickle, Pt 62) "Drunk Sorority Girls" by Spoken Word with Electronics

SWWE #75: "A Tribute to the Dial Tone" (Dedicated to Rob Hordijk, R.I.NOISE) https://soundcloud.com/eptc/sets/spoken-word-with-electronics-episode-75 This episode of Spoken Word with Electronics is brought to you by Vareschi Mastering. Get your reverb checked! Dial: http://www.vareschimastering.com This show discusses: How to make a functioning dial tone (and make the phone ring and accept calls) on a disconnected landline phone. Notes and instructions on this episode will be at: https://boingboing.net/tag/spoken-word-with-electronics (Please note that this tutorial information is posted about a week after the audio) If you enjoy the show, help tell others about the show. Thank you. (AY!ALF!TOL!)

# 75-B: "Ice-Land!!" / "Louise" (Live Set) by Spoken Word with Electronics

How to make a dial tone on a disconnected landline phone, using Cell2Jack, or two frequency generators. No Magic Jack or VOIP needed. Uses your existing Cell phone and bluetooth. Keep those nice heavy telephones of the past out of landfills.

# 75-D: "Bomb Rights" (Charlie Pickle, Pt 60) by Spoken Word with Electronics

This episode of Spoken Word with Electronics is brought to you by Vareschi Mastering. Visit: https://www.vareschimastering.com/ This episode discusses: The Sketchy Labs Analog Shift Register. Designed by David Dixon, based on the original Serge ASR circuit with slight adjustments for voltage consistency. Show notes, including a tutorial on many of the ideas described: https://boingboing.net/tag/spoken-word-with-electronics (Note: There's a delay with audio posting first, then the article the week following)

# 74-B: "This is Port 25" (Charlie Pickle, Pt 57) by Spoken Word with Electronics

# 74-C: "The SMTP Server" (Charlie Pickle, Pt 58) by Spoken Word with Electronics

# 74-D: "A Delighted Face" (Charlie Pickle, Pt 59) by Spoken Word with Electronics

SWWE #73: "One Hundred and Ten By Day..." (A Human Mind Cooks in the HEAT) This episode of Spoken Word with Electronics is brought to you by Vareschi Mastering. Are your tracks Climate Controlled? https://www.vareschimastering.com/

# 73-B: "Summer Drums" (Pulsar 23 with Ambulances, A/C Unit, and Light Rain) by Spoken Word with Electronics

# 73-C: "Harvey on the Escalator" (Charlie Pickle, Pt 55) by Spoken Word with Electronics

# 73-D: "Roses" (Charlie Pickle, Pt 56) by Spoken Word with Electronics

This episode of Spoken Word with Electronics is brought to you by Vareschi Mastering. Do you find the world slightly different than how you remember it? Oh we feel the same! Visit: https://vareschimastering.com/

# 72-B: "It's Been a Rough Month" (Knas Quad Massager Demo & Three Minimoogs) by Spoken Word with Electronics

# 72-C: "The Hallway of Dead Businessmen" (Charlie Pickle, Pt 53) by Spoken Word with Electronics

# 72-D: "LUMBAR'S EGG ORDER" (Charlie Pickle, Pt 54) by Spoken Word with Electronics

GRP V22 Vocoder (Demo and Sound Tests) This episode is brought to you by Vareschi Mastering. Do you vocode? A good engineer can explain such processes. Ask: https://www.vareschimastering.com/ "A Midnight Drive with a GRP V22 Vocoder" Full episode (four tracks) https://soundcloud.com/eptc/sets/spoken-word-with-electronics-episode-71 The GRP Vocoder Speaks for Itself! After saving up nickles and tree lint for three years, we happily bring a Vocoder into the show. This is the GRP V22. It is easily the most configurable and sonically expressive analog vocoder to ever exist. There ARE a few comparable Vocoders in terms of sound: The Bode 7702/Moog Vocoder is one, as is the Sennheiser VSM-201. But neither the 7702 or the 201 provide 22 channels of speech analysis. Nor do either provide the variety of tone shaping and filtering as found on the V22. But enough typing, just hear it. It's one incredible Vocoder. I call the V22 the Buchla Easel of Vocoders. This show introduces it to the family of instruments in the SWWE studio. It took some restraint to not buy anything for three years. But the joy is pretty nice now that it's here. The vocoder was invented in 1938 by Homer Dudley at Bell Labs as a means of synthesizing human speech. This work was developed into the channel vocoder which was used as a voice codec for telecommunications for speech coding to conserve bandwidth in transmission.

BIRD ALERT: "This thing is like a rusted knife, twisting in my brain!" Major Urban Problems.

GRP V22 Demo, First Recordings and Initial Field Tests Alternate Title: "Midnight Drive with a GRP V22 Vocoder" Full show notes (four tracks) https://soundcloud.com/eptc/sets/spoken-word-with-electronics-episode-71 Tuning in to Channel GRP

From The Recovery of Charlie Pickle Words and Music copyright Ethan Persoff A Porcelain Bath Tub / Porcelain Bath Tub / A Porcelain Bath Tub. Illuminated by a sharp line of light. This is a cheap room. No running water. No bed, just an empty bath tub. It's a flop house. In the middle of downtown.

GREETINGS! - DON'T BE ALARMED - This week we hammer out an anti-theft device. It's amazing what sounds are hidden in the world's worst chirping oscillator. This episode of SWWE is brought to you by Vareschi Mastering. Get your clock checked! https://www.vareschimastering.com/

# 70-B: "Has This Ever Happened to You?" (Our Hyper-Monitored World) by Spoken Word with Electronics

How's Your ATD?

"YOU’LL NEVER LEAVE" Words and Music: Ethan Persoff An uplifting November breeze is whistling on the outskirts of Clarence tonight. No chance of rain. Mid-40s ... clear skies ... a light curve of a moon. It's a little after 11pm. Bus Stop. The room is unnervingly clean. From The Recovery of Charlie Pickle. Part 51 https://soundcloud.com/eptc/sets/the-recovery-of-charlie-pickle

Welcome back! This week we return to celebrate five years of sobriety (A good mood on that, and regards to those who drink, too) - A discussion on the role of electronic instruments for strength in stress: "Metasonix as a Higher Power" This episode of SWWE is brought to you by Vareschi Mastering, https://vareschimastering.com/ — Do you Hz/V to V/octave convert? Contact them for your vacuum tube synthesizer production needs. Featured this episode: Metasonix R56 Spring Reverb Demo Metasonix R51 VCA Demo Metasonix R55 Demo Metasonix RK7 Demo Metasonix RK3 Demo Metasonix RK6 Filter Demo Metasonix F1 Distortion Pedal Metasonix S2000 Demo Metasonix D2000 Demo

# 69-B: "Five Year Sobriety Report" (Metasonix as a Higher Power) by Spoken Word with Electronics

# 69-C: "And Now, the News" (CLASSICAL ELECTRONIC RADIO, SWWE FM) by Spoken Word with Electronics

# 69-D: "Potency" (Charlie Pickle, Pt 50) by Spoken Word with Electronics

Welcome back to the show. This week, our room is a mess. Including a tribute to Vestax DJ Mixers of the 1990s and 2000s, and a two part demo of a rarely heard Moog 984 Four Channel Matrix Mixer. Watch where you step, our room is a mess! This week's mess is brought to you by Vareschi Mastering. https://www.vareschimastering.com/ — Clean it up!

# 68-B: "My Room Is a Mess" (Moog 984 Matrix Mixer Demo) by Spoken Word with Electronics

# 68-C: "A Tribute to Vestax DJ Mixers" (and Moog 984, Pt 2) by Spoken Word with Electronics

# 68-D: "Sharlene Ramble and Nuclear Fission" (Charlie Pickle, Pt 49) by Spoken Word with Electronics

SWWE #67: "Hopeless Dope Addicts!" (and: Hi, Everyone. Are we at war?) The Electronic Shirelles, performing 'One Night Only' Live on SWWE Pacific Coast to Coast Radio, 1977, 4am time slot. This archival episode of Spoken Word with Electronics is brought to you by Vareschi Mastering: https://www.vareschimastering.com/

# 67-B: "We Have a Loud Buzz" (Discussion) by Spoken Word with Electronics

# 67-C: "Headlines Like These" (A Visit to U.S. Narcotics Hospitals) by Spoken Word with Electronics

# 67-D: "THE INVISIBLE FILE" (Charlie Pickle, Pt 48) by Spoken Word with Electronics

Episode 66 - NEW BI-WEEKLY FORMAT. Hi - How've you been? This week was a wet and cold one in local Austin news. But we kept warm with Samsung's new burning hot release: Up to 763,000 gallons of Sulfuric acid waste from an Austin Samsung facility! Buzzing hot. Show notes: https://boingboing.net/2022/02/09/samsungs-big-leak-up-to-763000-gallons-of-sulfuric-acid-spilled-into-an-austin-tx-tributary.html This episode of Spoken Word with Electronics is sponsored by Vareschi Mastering: https://vareschimastering.com/ - Visit them to have a good discussion on your recordings. Make what you make sound perfect.

# 66, Side 2: "Sam Is on The Couch" (Charlie Pickle, Pt 47) by Spoken Word with Electronics

Hello welcome back to SWWE. This week we discuss candy mints, or Bit-Mint. Sometimes the most ordinary things in the world are pulled off shelves for their ingredients. This happened to Certs Mints in 2018 for its inclusion of partially hydrogenated cottonseed oil. That doesn't keep Certs addicts from that mint, though. There are hundreds of listings for expired Certs across the Web, averaging out at $25/roll sold. Certs Mints are hot. This episode, we break it all down into the Mint-Haves and the Mint-Nots. We also discusses the Ukraine crisis, and before the world ends over that, provide a useful tutorial on how to use a Drawmer Noise Gate along with a Trapezoid Envelope Generator. This episode of Spoken Word with Electronics is sponsored by Vareschi Mastering: https://vareschimastering.com/ — Give them a visit!

# 65-B: "The Price of Certs" / "The Price of Bitcoin" by Spoken Word with Electronics

# 65-B: "The Price of Certs" / "Noise Gates and Pitch"

# 65-D: "The Fastest Talker in The Room" (TV's Unbeatable Pundit) by Spoken Word with Electronics

SWWE #64: Dangerous Emojis and Fornicating Ants This episode is brought to you by Vareschi Mastering: https://www.vareschimastering.com/ - Give 'em a visit! Welcome to 2022. This new episode of Spoken Word with Electronics teaches you about microwaves, and asks you if you've ever heard the Ant and Elephant Sex Joke. We run the math on how many ants it might take to equal a 9,000 pound elephant in bed. The episode closes with a tribute to Zip Disks as the efficiency tool of the late 1990s. Track three is a news item. Headline: DEA releases list of 'Dangerous Emojis' linked to drug use in text messages Looking to crack the code on your kids' illicit activities? The Drug Enforcement Administration has posted an "emoji drug code guide" that lets parents know the real use of gas pumps, chickens and rocket ships. These are tools children are using to purchase high quality narcotics. And to help the kids make the order correctly, the government has provided a menu. Link to the DEA chart of emojis used in drug purchases: https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2021-12/Emoji%20Drug%20Code%20PDF_Final.pdf There is a measure of good intention here. Many pills bought off the street are currently laced with Fentanyl, which is a complete horror to consider. But no kid wants to take Fentanyl (unless they order it with a clear 'smiling face with tear', of course). Instead of encouraging distrust and resentment with parents and kids, the real push from the DEA should be to provide your kids with no-questions access to Fetanyl test strips: https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/forefront.20210601.974263/full/ – Similar to just giving your kids condoms, a simple test for them to know what they're about to ingest would likely impact the death rate on laced pills. If you're already snooping on their messages for a text code (a code that can easily change, incidentally) you might consider speaking candidly over Hallmark Channel espionage. The DEA has a history of this, and it's always comical in terms of effort and effect. Synonym addicts will enjoy their word-packed 2018 PDF on Slang Terms and Code Words (which introduced me to the term 'whiffle dust', thanks for that: https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2018-07/DIR-022-18.pdf Or for fans of visual aids, there is the diagram-packed 1960s/1970s "Diagram of a Drug Abuser": http://www.ep.tc/otherscenes/pdf/1960s-diagram-of-a-drug-abuser.pdf Pro-tip: If you encounter a zip disk with a happy face on its label, it might be high. Have a great new set of months, Ethan

# 64-B: "Pachydermophilia and Extinctions" by Spoken Word with Electronics

# 64-C: "EMOJI SAFETY" (D.E.A. Special Report) by Spoken Word with Electronics

# 64-D: "Zip Disks" (Charlie Pickle, Pt 46) by Spoken Word with Electronics

Happy holidays to you from us at Spoken Word with Electronics. Primary music in track two is goth santas Alien Sex Fiend, whose Stuff the Turkey should be sung around every chimney. We also review an Electro-Voice RE20, whose flat frequency curve at 5K makes it the far better microphone for this show than any Shure product. That mic comparison (RE20 vs SM57 vs SM7B) is discussed in the introduction. Enjoy the season. Oh, Mariah! This track: Demo of RE20 on a shockmount in an untreated room. Comparison of Shure SM7B and Shure SM57 to an Electrovoice RE20.

# 63-B: "Our Last Xmas?" (A. Sex Fiend and M. Carey) by Spoken Word with Electronics

# 63-C: "Don't Cry, Marie" (Charlie Pickle, Pt 44) by Spoken Word with Electronics

# 63-D: "A Home is Like a Tree" (Charlie Pickle, Pt 45) by Spoken Word with Electronics

"1, 2, 3, and 4, inside, outside!" Hi, everyone. Was amused to find a small saxophone hiding in my bottle of kombucha this week. The small pressure of a barely open lid released a torrent of improvisational jazz. If it were a plastic bottle, I'd swear this was the ghost of Ornette Coleman! This episode of SWWE also features a variety of electronic snow and other winter-related sound. Have a nice holiday. – Ethan

# 62-B: "Kombucha Saxophone Solo" (and Electronic Snow Music) by Spoken Word with Electronics

# 62-C: "KOHIO Cleveland" (Charlie Pickle, Pt 42) by Spoken Word with Electronics

# 62-D: "Sam is on the Bus" (Charlie Pickle, Pt 43) by Spoken Word with Electronics

# 61-A: "The Nature of the Creature" (Introduction) by Spoken Word with Electronics

# 61-B: "Soy Sauce In Your Mask" / "A Softer Sound" by Spoken Word with Electronics

The Other Scenes Inventory Report is an archive of John Wilcock's Other Scenes Download related PDFs discussed in this track at http://www.ep.tc/otherscenes

# 61-D: "Ben at The Blue Eagle Bar" (Charlie Pickle, Pt 41) by Spoken Word with Electronics

# 60-A: "Pretty Good Week, Mood-Wise" (and: "A Bag of Screws") by Spoken Word with Electronics

LISTENER FEEDBACK ARTISTS LINKS - WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR FEEDBACK! In order of appearance: Sam/Bob from Arizona Bio: Enigma - No social media, no I.D. on file! Their track: "Just a Vaccination Card" not available online Justin Owen / Rotator: "Neurodevelopmental Assessment (Parts 1-4)" https://soundcloud.com/rrrotatorrr/neurodevelopmental 3 for Lunarside: "cakefaxbeds" https://soundcloud.com/supercargosound/cakefaxbeds See also: https://soundcloud.com/supercargosound/ Hector Rodriguez: "#mutableinstruments all elements" https://www.instagram.com/p/CK4r5o1BBSb/ https://www.instagram.com/hr2332 Michael Weeks / The Wretch "TERROR OF THE STRATOSFIEND: ELEVATOR GOD" https://thewretch.bandcamp.com/ https://thewretch.bandcamp.com/album/terror-of-the-stratosfiend-elevator-god https://endmusikrecords.bandcamp.com/ Eric Barbour (we are honored!) Feedback provided is a collection of pedal experiments, not available online! https://www.metasonix.com/ Feedback from a TM-1 pedal, TX-1 Agonizer pedal, and a TX-2 Butt Probe Palle Dahlstedt: "Seven Solo Meditations" https://otoskope.bandcamp.com/album/seven-solo-meditations "Yellow meets Yellow (Metasonix G-1000 meets Bugbrand Board Weevil)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgg1a19cfvU "No-Input Major Drum - Bugbrand DRM1 feedback experiments" https://soundcloud.com/palle-dahlstedt/no-input-major-drum-bugbrand John Morehouse: Compulsory Feedback! "Prayer for a Cloudy Day" | https://mrhs.bandcamp.com/ WE THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR FEEDBACK

# 60-C: "OTHER SCENES INVENTORY REPORT #2" (Issues: 1967) by Spoken Word with Electronics

# 60-D: "A Piece of Dust" / "Packet Drop-Offs" (Charlie Pickle, Pt 40) by Spoken Word with Electronics

# 59-A: "The Ring Modulator Can Not Handle It!" by Spoken Word with Electronics

BE A PART OF THE NEXT EPISODE! Send us your feedback (Drone, Guitar, or any other acoustic or electronic Noise) and we'll include it in a "feedback to the show" segment to commemorate episode number sixty. All noise will be credited to their original creators. Ideally send a track through Soundcloud instant message. We thank you in advance for your feedback. I think you'll enjoy what we do with your feedback.

View the OTHER SCENES archive at http://www.ep.tc/otherscenes

# 59-D: "A Good Enough Gig" (Charlie Pickle, Pt 39) by Spoken Word with Electronics

SPOKEN WORD WITH ELECTRONICS #58: AN ELECTRIC TOOTH! (And Emergency School Board Meeting) This week's tutorial: Hear a Synthesizer recreate getting a Dental Crown Hi, everyone, welcome back to the show. This week the subject is dentistry. I've always been good about going to the dentist. Give me the chair, man! It's like getting a tattoo every six months on your teeth. But due to the pandemic I hadn't been able to get a cleaning for seventeen months, and one of my few fillings (the silver kind from the 1980s) didn't survive. So, pandemic delay accepted, I received the rough prognosis: I NEEDED A CROWN. So this week is dedicated to that very noisy drilling procedure. Make your own tooth: Using a blend of contrasting highly modulated voltage into filters and pitch on a few synths, we emulate the musical scraping and drilling of the experience. Eurorack and event generators provide a good amount of variety to add in sounds of water, random bits of flying pieces, suction, etc. Dental crowns are fascinating, really. Not too painful, but it turns your mouth into a lego set. The mouth is like a small workshop in your face. There's nothing it can't do, or become! Hear our electric tooth tribute in this week's introduction. Contrasting the discomfort and humor of the dentist, audio this week is a montage of some of the best parent protests against forcing masks on their children. Hand a microphone to a pissed off parent and there's no end to the surprises! You find that in the raw audio section of this week's episode. We also visit a coin fountain and travel back in time. But there's no time travel for teeth! Don't miss your cleanings. In between, be sure to floss! Postscript: In memory of video artist NANCY CAIN This week's show is in tribute to Nancy Cain, who passed away on Sunday August 22. Nancy is well known to video art activists for her work in Videofreex. (If you make ANY non-corporate video, from art to a tiktok post, you owe her a thanks for paving the way for your access to such ideas) I knew her as Paul Krassner's truest friend – his long time wife of many decades. She was 81 and an incredible human. Here's to you, Nancy. Read her book, incidentally. It's incredibly vivid and inspiring: https://www.amazon.com/Video-Days-What-Through-Viewfinder/dp/1468006800/ (Fellow Videofreex artist Skip Blumberg confirmed this sad news of Nancy's passing) Connect with SWWE via Dentist Procedure and Replacement Cap on Bandcamp, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and Google . Thanks and have a good week, Ethan

# 58-B: "Relaxation Records" (Discussion) by Spoken Word with Electronics

# 58-C, Raw Audio: "Board of Trustees Emergency Meeting" (TX Public Schools, 08/2021) by Spoken Word with Electronics

# 58-D: "The Difficulties of The Week" (Conclusion) by Spoken Word with Electronics

SPOKEN WORD WITH ELECTRONICS #57: TWENTY DOLLAR HELL and The Lost Emotional Sound of Dating on Landline Phones Hi, everyone, welcome back to the show. This last year (or two) has been a fun dip into Hell, and it's rekindled my interest in Televangelism. I used to record a lot of them on VHS tapes in the 1990s and so this week I thought I'd share my favorite one. I originally labeled it "Reverend Hellfire" on the VHS label. It's an amazing story that is literally rags to riches, from preaching in front of trash dumpsters 45 years previous, that suddenly erupts into a constant flood of thousand dollar bills. He actually talks to God. Do you have $1000? Do you have a phone? CALL NOW! You'll hear the full pitch in this week's Side A. Side B continues the Charlie Pickle serial, with "The Daily Worry". The opening half of the show discusses Landline Phones and their wonderful floor of ambient noise as it relates to emotional memory. Plug in and enjoy.

# 57-B, Discussion: "Remembering the Room Noise of Analog Phone Connections" by Spoken Word with Electronics

# 57-C, Side A: "1990s VHS Recording / Reverend Hellfire on 45 Years of Televangelism" (CALL NOW) by Spoken Word with Electronics

# 57-D, Side B: "The Daily Worry" (Charlie Pickle, Pt 38) by Spoken Word with Electronics

Have you heard Abbott & Costello's 'Ten Year Old Child Bride' joke from 1941? Hi, everyone, welcome back to the show. This week we meander back to the more innocent times of 1941. Universal Pictures released a war film titled "Buck Privates" starring Abbott and Costello. It's mostly silly gags throughout but there's a slightly notorious joke hidden in there about a 40 year old man marrying a ten year old girl. The duo would continue the joke for some years, short-titled "You're 40, She's 10": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO6JcXXAqec To Costello's credit, though Abbott urges him to pursue his infatuation with the 10 year old, the math on their age isn't right. It sets up the comedy, based on fractions and percentages: When will she be old enough? The duo are best known for other logic problems (like Who's on First?). Here's the entire routine: Abbott: You're 40 years-old and you're in love with this little girl that's 10 years-old. You're four times as old as that girl and you couldn't marry her, could you? Costello: Not unless I come from the mountains. Abbott: All right. You're 40 years-old. You're four times as old as this girl, and you can't marry her, so you wait five years. By that time the little girl's 15 and you're 45. You're only three times as old as that little girl. So you wait 15 years and when the girl is 30, you're at 60. You're only twice as old as that little girl. Costello: She's catching up. Abbott: Yes, yes. Now here's the question. How long do you have to wait until you and that little girl are the same age? Costello: Now what kinda question is that? That's ridiculous! Abbott: Ridiculous or not, answer the question. Costello: If I wait for that girl she'll pass me up. She'll wind up older than I am. Abbott: What are you talking about? Costello: She'll have to wait for me! Abbott: Why should she wait for you? Costello: I was nice enough to wait for her! It's not a terrible abstract math joke but certainly might concern modern audiences. The title for the film "Buck Privates" doesn't help! Appropriately, this week, we also conclude with our series of mail-order psychiatry records from the 1960s, and continue our audiodrama/radio program "Charlie Pickle" with an introduction to the manager of The Clarence Coffee Cup, "Angela Simmons". Incidentally, with the Abbott and Costello joke being written 80 years ago in 1941, this year we can celebrate the birthday of the girl, who probably just turned 90! Lou Costello died at age 52, indeed making him much younger. Thanks and have a good week, Ethan

# 56-B: "Angela Simmons" (Charlie Pickle, Pt 37) by Spoken Word with Electronics

# 56-C: "1960s Mail Order Psychiatry, Pt 2" (Raw Audio) by Spoken Word with Electronics

# 56-D: (Side A) "Anything That is Organic Is Neurotic" by Spoken Word with Electronics

# 56-E: (Side B) "Your Analyst Has a Teal Aquarium" by Spoken Word with Electronics

SPOKEN WORD WITH ELECTRONICS #55: Re-Entering Society After Fifteen Months In Isolation Hi, everyone, welcome back to the show. A few weeks ago I received my second vaccine shot. Ten days later I knew I was largely free to re-enter much of the world. I'd taken self-isolation pretty enthusiastically for fifteen months, to the equivalent that it felt like a space station in our home. Parts of me really loved it, other parts (like my socialized mental health) knew that the farther I got away from general society the more painful it would be in re-entry. So the process started this past week. I got an eggs benedict at a favorite local diner. I won't lie: The food felt great, the crowd felt tough. So a discussion on that, along with egg yolk facts, is on the menu for this episode. Life is like an egg yolk. Also, starting this week's show is a multi-episode tribute to mail-order psychiatry lessons. The 1960s offered all kinds of learn-at-home options, and I've been collecting psychotherapy tutorials for a while. These things are awesome. This first one is Part One of "Anxiety", with raw audio here and a reblended track for Side A: "All of Us Develop Patterns". More psychiatry to come! An interesting component of the 1960s psychiatrist is they actually spoke with patients about their problems (not just their symptoms). The modern world is more split now with a therapist/psychologist being the empathic voice and the psychiatrist merely being the druggist. So these perspectives on the dual role (nurturer and prescriber) of psychiatrists in the 60s is really interesting. Demo for this week: AML 54F50 Diode Bridge Compressor Finally, for Side B this week, a cool hardware demo. I had an opportunity to work with a Neve 2254-based Diode Compressor this month. Diode Bridge Compressors are wonderful analog tools, read about them here. They allow for a signal to punch and fade (or glow) almost simultaneously, making a very elastic and glued together sound. In memory of Rupert Neve, who passed away this year, I thought it would be cool to play the entire Introduction track through a 2254. Rupert Neve has reintroduced the 2254 but it lacks the sidechain limiter of the original. Audio Maintenance Labs in the UK makes the most exact recreation of the original 2254 (If you compare their clone to the real thing from 1969, it's uncanny, both visually and in component quality) – So this week's Side B is a demo of the AML 54F50 Compressor / Limiter. Thanks and have a good week, Ethan

Episode 55, RAW AUDIO: "1960s Mail Order Psychiatry Records" (Anxiety, Part 1) by Spoken Word with Electronics

Episode 55, Side A: "All of Us Develop Patterns" (Tranquilizer Setting #6) by Spoken Word with Electronics

Episode 55, Side B: "Instrumental Run Through a 2254 Diode Compressor" (AML 54F50 Demo) by Spoken Word with Electronics

SPOKEN WORD WITH ELECTRONICS #54: LAWN MOWER SEASON! — and Government Informationals on Mailmen, 1946. Listen to this 1946 informational on the wonders of post office work. Hi, everyone, welcome back to the show. This week, the focus is on warm weather! Few things say spring or summmer to me more than the sound of lawn mowers. Lawn Mower season came in with a big bang (or buzz) this month, and it is given a tribute in our introduction — It's Lawn Mower Season. The main audio for this week is a terrific 1946 audio informational from the U.S. Post Office, titled "Meet the Mailman" — You'll find untouched audio here with a re-imagined narrative of Glen Tucker, the bed ridden boy, here. Lots of incredible people, from Charles Mingus to Charles Bukowski (okay, incredible people named Charles) have worked for the USPS over the years, and with Trump threatening its existence and most of us surviving off deliveries for over a year, now is a good time to celebrate the Mail Workers! I love physical mail, and this week is a tribute to that. Great narration on the informational track, too. Have a good week - Ethan