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- 01 / 15 / 83 -

Brienne O'Brian, "Stardate," Mike isn't here for the fourth week in a row, calling Mike at home, a conversation with Mike's nurse, getting through to Mike, clarifying how long Mike has actually been sick, Mike bounced two checks while he was sick, Brienne brings in Cherry Chews, a snowstorm is on the way, a rundown of whose pictures are on the WUSB walls, Mike has a big surprise for Eric, Nurse Edna makes a request, a full weather forecast in anticipation of the storm, The Clash, the high incidence of boredom in the United States, Sex Pistols, Iggy Pop, the story of "The Good Boys," Cheap Trick, Joe Jackson, still no sign of the snow, the sound of a frog in dub to relieve boredom, Michael Jackson, Yellowman, Rolling Stones, "Jazz Alive" promo, The Harmony Sisters, Debby McClatchy. [last half hour missing]

January 15
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- 01 / 22 / 83 -

Mike is back on the radio, all sorts of snacks, Mike surprises Eric with an Albanian folk music record, The Singing Dogs perform "Oh Susanna," Eric gets a copy of a Fisher's Island phone directory, some other oddities of the island, Eric's bag used to hold a typewriter, a disinfectant threatens the food in the station, some facts about Albania, a satellite is due to fall from the sky, Eric challenges Mike to try and call Albania, Will Kinnally is on the way out, cool words like queue and mnemonics, Mike and Eric talk over the vocals of Pink Floyd, remembering previous satellite crashes, Pluto is now the eighth planet, why you can never see a sliver of a moon in the middle of the night, there will be a WUSB benefit concert on February 19 featuring George Winston, this is the Year of the Boar, an invitation to predict where the satellite will land, Talking Heads, Sea Shanty ID, Joe Glazer, Charles DiBango talks about a new sports league, Sons of Creation, a new controversy involving James Watt, another Joe Glazer song, Laverne and Shirley, Guy Van Duser and Billy Novick, The Heptones, The Shaggs, Eric was very unhappy with last week's snowfall, how the phone company dealt with someone who didn't pay their bill, making strange sounds, running out of things to talk about, news about the Shoreham nuclear plant and the falling Soviet satellite, Mike uses alternative pronunciation. Rachmaninoff's "Second Symphony," "Insights."

January 22
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- 01 / 29 / 83 -

"Stardate," the first words are uttered from a brand new studio, Mike demonstrates how quiet the new room is, Mike moves into a different studio, "Rob the Cashbox," Grace Jones, The Adventures of Captain Chong: the diamond robbery, Grandmaster Flash, The Real World: temperatures and weather conditions throughout the United States through telephone recordings, Yoko Ono, Gary Numan, ringing a payphone in Laguna Beach, the show is now in delay, an update on the upcoming George Winston concert, various hotlines are ringing, there's a dance marathon going on downstairs, Joe Glazer, a candid look at our nation's prisons, Monty Python, Michael Rogers and steel drums, Greg Kihn Band, Fotheringay, trying the payphone in Laguna Beach again, asking the operator if a phone number is a coinbox, an important discovery, Buddy Kelley will be following tonight, Lydia Lunch, the news with assorted voices.

January 29
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