Off The Hook With Gage

Bombs bursting in your head after yesterday's SHAMEFUL INDULGENCES? * You need a Balm nursing you instead: the balm that is the OFF THE HOOK Post-Freedom(*) Afterparty! * While you may want to relish what could be your LAST HANGOVER celebrating your accustomed liberties, OFF THE HOOK aims to put you on the Road to Recovery (and positivity) with healingly INSPIRING SOUNDS to keep you the Fight-For-...

The transportive POWER OF MUSIC sees us through days of worry and dread, LIFTING US above a banal evil that would rip the very foundations of our shared reality out from under us and plunge us headlong into an abyss of unquestioning conformity! * Just as OFF THE HOOK fights against the scourge of commercial radio on a weekly basis, so too must we ALL rally to preserve our Rights in the face of Exi...

What's a Radio Program without some SUMMER SONGS on the 2nd day of Summer? * OFF THE HOOK, The Show That Snows on expectations! * While JUNE GLOOM is likely, the musical forecast on OFF THE HOOK is WILDLY UNPREDICTABLE! * Only things certain are:  CRAZY-NEW releases, the Birthday Segment, and of course the weather-proof personality of your host, Gage Kenady! * So, layer up!  We don't know what we'...

Take a trip to Offthehookland. * Park your car.  Lock it. * The WILD ABANDON starts here! * * Check your pulse at the door. * WILDMAN Gage Kenady sees to your needs.  "May I offer you a Free Ticket?" * IT COULDN'T GET ANY CRAZIER!! * * Oh, the MAYHEM  -Registered, on call. * OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM    https://kxsf.fm/   Drop-ins welcome.  Dropouts encouraged.

"Tomorrow's another day" * Who in their right mind would say a thing like that? * Well, sorry, Tomorrow doesn't exist! * There is only Today! * and "Seizing The Day" means grasping the slippery eel that is OFF THE HOOK now! * If you think you can twist that squirming serpent into an infinite figure-eight, you'll find yourself empty-handed! * "Tomorrow": a word that means "nothing", and nothing wou...

A GREAT DAY FOR DEMOCRACY! * Business as usual for OFF THE HOOK! *  OFF THE HOOK HAS NEVER  1) attempted to falsify records -all LPs played on OFF THE HOOK are genuine and the property of OFF THE HOOK! *  2) attempted to defraud listeners -all programming and comments heard are those of its host alone! *  3) attempted to make false entries into Spinitron -all above-board accounting, y'all! * 4) at...

(Way) back in the day, DJs were Rock Stars, too -or at least your best friend that you could rely on to hip you to the LATEST GROOVY SOUNDS, helping you through your sodden, dreary day. * OFF THE HOOK's Gage Kenady brings back this SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP, free of the distractions of Ugly Politics, Social Media FOMO, and Taylor Swift! * When he gets it right (every show), he gets it RIGHT ON! * OFF T...

Nervous listeners crochet themselves to the wall with OFF THE HOOK's angsty rhythms! * The more sedate find their bottomless Barcalounger with OFF THE HOOK's lilting trills! * All come together for the Birthday Segment * and diehard junkies who make it to the end will be treated today to the Return of OFF THE HOOK's Legendary Record Race, where twin 45s hurtle towards the finish groove to see who...

A very special Mother's Day performance by Taos, New Mexico band ART OF FLYING! * Artistic, poetic, with a unique sensibility and aura all their own. * Kenady grills them for gritty particulars and artistic insights!

PITY & REVULSION are two emotions never expressed by my AI friends about me. * So, how do I explain the fact that they have ghosted me en masse? * I'm glad I never told them about OFF THE HOOK! * Not only would my heart break at their unspoken rejection, but I think we'd all have to agree that there is much more work to be done in programming their ARTISTIC SENSITIVITY! * They don't know how t...

GOOD SONG AFTER GOOD SONG -the secret formula behind OFF THE HOOK's "success"! * It's hardly rocket science, but does take a REFINED mind with SOPHISTICATED methods to pull off such SUPERIOR programming every week! * Each week I consult the tea leaves, throw dice, polish my amulets to summon some CHARMMAGICAL POWER, and INVISIBLE AGENTS do the rest! * Voila! -a big pile of whimsical rubble in your...

Super righteous OFF THE HOOK! * One of the BEST EVER! * You wanna listen! * Tell your friends to stream, baby, stream! * Listeners will hear the same UTTERLY FANTASTIC programming as always -but more so!  * Thank you and send money!

Is it possible to be IMPARTIAL on the subject of OFF THE HOOK? * After all, its REPUTATION is known world 'round! * I'd be the first to RECUSE myself if the EVIDENCE suggested I was GUILTY of TRYING to COURT listeners with CLAIMS of BIAS, but the fealty of my fiefdom renders such JUDGEMENT DISMISSED! * The VERDICT is that RADIO DEMOCRACY is UPHELD every Friday on OFF THE HOOK, the show without PEE...

All in a day's work?  Forgive me if I laugh as I take off my waders, having spent the week knee-deep in a river of dreck to extract the QUALITY GEMS you, the listener, expect from OFF THE HOOK * Sure, there's a level of satisfaction -PLEASURE even- in presenting you the results of my labors each week. * But my personal SATISFACTION isn't enough! * Your listenership is ALL-IMPORTANT, lest they can...

OFF THE HOOK has nothing to hide! * Every week, The Show That Shows is ON TRIAL! * Will it continue to provide STIMULATING programming that highlights The Best in NEW MUSIC? * Will the Birthday Segment educate listeners and let them stroll down Memory Lane with FUN MUSIC of all kinds? * Will its host make verbal gaffes and have studio technology get the best of him? * YES, YES and YES! * OFF THE H...

March goes out like a Lioness on OFF THE HOOK's final installment of the CREME DE LA FEMME series today! * Exclusively featuring Musical Artistes who happen to be Women, we once again redress the balance and GIVE RESPECT to the half that have been making the Other Half look like neanderthals for years! * Tune in for the Fiery Finale of this year's Women's History Month festivities on OFF THE HOOK...

In observation of Women's History Month, Daughters and Grannies, Aunties and Wives will take center stage on the latest installment of the CREME DE LA FEMME series! * From Tangy Señoritas to Frosty Danes, OFF THE HOOK has roamed the globe and discovered that WOMEN ARE EVERYWHERE! * And while Women have been MUSICALLY DOMINANT for some time now, this is not a Battle of the Binaries, but a celebrati...

If you think OFF THE HOOK isn't going to recognize INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY today, you be dead wrong! * International women will be heard a-plenty and exclusively (except for the Birthday Segment. Sorry, but fair's fair) on today's program as we return with our yearly feature: the CREME DE LA FEMME series! * Women singers, songwriters, musicians, composers, arrangers and producers will strut thei...

OFF THE HOOK Flight Plan 3/1/2024: chug along at light speed towards the future, taking in sounds of HEAVENLY musical bodies. * Then -ZZZZIIIIIIP-FLOOOOOP- rewind to the past for the Birthday Segment * and then -ZZZZZRRRRROOOOOM- back to the future towards a BEAUTIFUL horizon! * Traversing a straight line -steady on, no brakes- through REALMS UNKNOWN. * A pleasure cruise ...and something more? * Y...

I know you want to retreat into your COMFORT ZONE -the world is so exhausting today! * What with the Machiavellian Machinations of Power-Mongering Politicians and Treacherous Tech Goons, who wants to be challenged by unfamiliar NEW SOUNDS? * Well, BUCK UP, KID! * A weak mind and weak spine will not serve you! * Extract yourself from the GOOEY MORASS of complacency and keep your senses sharp! * The...

My father had LOFTY goals for me as a child. * "You should be a Writer or an Actor", he told me. * "But, I wanna be a Lawyer", I said. * "You now have but one parent", he replied, as his back disappeared though the door. * After being fired from my eventual short-lived Legal Assistant job, my DJ career commenced. * My mother said "You are so great.  Everyone should be like you." * "Thanks, Ma, but...

It's a SLIMY, corrupt world, this radio biz, full of seedy, UNSAVORY bedfellows. * Take the way you help me perpetrate a weekly SHAM by pretending to listen to OFF THE HOOK while I pretend to care, kicking back, counting my dough while "playing records". * Left-wing conservatives never report on my show, while right-wing liberals host listening parties of a hundred or more in an effort to severely...

OFF THE HOOK is heard everywhere:  in parks, in cars, at the gym (imagine!) and in bed (recommended)! * And then there are those of you who enjoy your "Slough-Off Fridays" listening to OFF THE HOOK in your offices and cubicles! * You've slaved all week making money for somebody else and now it's your turn to ENRICH YOURSELF on company time! * The music played on OFF THE HOOK is much more IMPORTANT...

STOP SHLUBBY RADIO! * You pride yourself on being smart, up-to-date and WITH IT, right? * So, why should you settle for the frumpy dump of picked-over remains heard on other radio programs? * OFF THE HOOK reflects your stylishness and GOOD TASTE, the mirror that others gaze into over your shoulder with admiration and WONDER! * So, too, are other radio programs agog with rapt envy at the GORGEOUS u...

Pardon my OUTBURST, but OFF THE HOOK can do no wrong! * Its creator and host cannot be removed or held responsible for any acts perpetrated on the air between 1pm and 4pm every Friday on KXSF because said creator and host has been granted CURATORIAL IMMUNITY! * It is built into the bylaws that govern OFF THE HOOK, bylaws created by its creator! * What he lacks in SELF-CONTROL, he more than makes u...