Ethan Persoff

Episode 29, Discussion: "The Lary King Encyclopedic Guide to Adult Video Cassette Movies" by Spoken Word with Electronics

SPOKEN WORD WITH ELECTRONICS #29: "Lary King's 1984 Guide to Adult Video Cassette Movies" Hi, everyone, welcome back to the show. This week focuses on an independently produced book from 1984. Title is "Lary King's Encyclopedic Guide to Adult Video Cassette Movies" and it is a wonderful surviving snapshot of adult movies from that era. Incidentally, 1984 is the stated end of The Golden Age of Porn...

Hear the second half, L-Z: "Let Me Count the Lays" through "Zolita": https://soundcloud.com/eptc/episode-30-side-b

Episode 29, Side B: "Morrie Treemont" (Charlie Pickle, Pt 11) by Spoken Word with Electronics

SPOKEN WORD WITH ELECTRONICS #28: A Tribute to Patch the Pony Greetings, everyone. Welcome back to the show. This week is our Halloween episode. It's a tribute episode to a familiar childhood pony, named Patch, of the 1960s-1980s. Patch the Pony taught children an easy to remember rule: "Nay, Nay! From Strangers Stay Away!" — I love the story of Patch the Pony. To keep with the Halloween season, a...

Episode 28, Raw Audio: "Patch the Pony" (1968) by Spoken Word with Electronics

Episode 28, Side A: "Patch the One-Eyed Horror Movie" (A Tribute) by Spoken Word with Electronics

Episode 28, Side B: "Psychiatric Notes #1" (Charlie Pickle, Part Ten) by Spoken Word with Electronics

SPOKEN WORD WITH ELECTRONICS #27: A Phone Interview with Donald Trump, 26 Days Before the Election. Hi, everyone, welcome back to the show. This week, our close friend Donald Trump phones in for a five minute interview, where we discuss his second term ambitions. This phone call was made earlier last week, and just a day or so after being released from Walter Reed for the Guinness World Record in...

Episode 27, Ringtone: "Donald Trump's Covid Cough" — 100% Authentic! Free Download by Spoken Word with Electronics

Episode 27, Side A: "Visiting Dante's Hell to Check-In on the Republican Party" by Spoken Word with Electronics

Episode 27, Side B: "The Seasoner Purchase" (Charlie Pickle, Pt 9) by Spoken Word with Electronics

Learn how to do 'Thought-Based MIND SURGERY' with this 1985 self-help cassette "A Self-Help Course on MIND SURGERY and JUNK-PROOF FILTERING" Hi, everyone – Welcome back to the show. This week we present a course on Mind Surgery, which is a cassette I found in a thrift store bin in Denver in 1993. The tape itself is a product of Denver, a part of the 'UNIQUE-TECHNIQUE' Program, based in suburban Li...

Episode 26, Raw Audio: "Mind Surgery and The Junk-Proof Filter" (1985, Self-Help Cassette) by Spoken Word with Electronics

Episode 26, Side A: "Undergoing Mind Surgery" (A Tribute to The Mind Surgeon) #NIOPS #MMMS by Spoken Word with Electronics

Episode 26, Side B: "Roadside Politics" (Charlie Pickle, Pt 8) by Spoken Word with Electronics

SPOKEN WORD WITH ELECTRONICS #25: Do You Believe in THUMB HYPNOSIS? Hi, everyone – Welcome back to the show. This week is all about Thumb Hypnosis. That might provide more questions than answers. Specifically, "Thumb Hypnosis" is a 1960s recording (I'm presuming, it's undated) that arrived to me with other hypnotism records some years ago. I love self-pressed hypnotism recordings, and "Thumb Hypno...

Episode 25, Raw Audio: "Thumb Hypnosis" by Spoken Word with Electronics

Episode 25, Side A: "Pitch Shifters and Samplers" (Under the Influence of Thumb Hypnosis)" by Spoken Word with Electronics

Episode 25, Side B: "Doorway Accounting" (Charlie Pickle, Part Seven) by Spoken Word with Electronics

SPOKEN WORD WITH ELECTRONICS #24: How Much Electricity Can Kill You? https://soundcloud.com/eptc/sets/spoken-word-with-electronics-episode-24 Greetings, everyone. Welcome back to the show. This week, survival and home safety is on our mind, and the discussion is on THE FATAL CURRENT! (Including this article from 1966, linked below, which advises you to not wear wet shoes, or a soaking wet robe, wh...

Episode 24, Discussion: "How Much Electricity Can Kill You?" by Spoken Word with Electronics

Episode 24, Side A: "The Brochure" (Charlie Pickle, Part Six) by Spoken Word with Electronics

Episode 24, Side B: "Electronic Electricity Session" (Outro) by Spoken Word with Electronics

SPOKEN WORD WITH ELECTRONICS #23: 1980s Telephone Voting Hardware Greetings everyone, welcome back to the show. This week we look back at telephone polling hardware from the 1980s and ask the question: "What if they'd evolved into how we vote in elections?" The technology for phone voting became pretty robust, including synthesized voices and other nice ideas. But nice ideas are quickly exploited,...