DJ Mike Fuller retired ending the 30 year run of Shake the Shack, this April.  I miss this show very much, it was a Friday Night regular for me.  I will admit that it seemed lacking since Dr. Leon Berman left.  Maybe the show just couldn’t survive without a Dr. of Proctology at it’s helm.

     Two genre’s of music I particularly enjoyed were rockabilly and surf music, and I also enjoyed much of the novelty music that aired on this show.  The older I get, the more I feel abandoned by the broadcast industry.  Not excited by the more mainstream trash programming that KEXP has replaced it with.

     There are some other good sources on the Internet such as That Rockabilly Show, but nothing I can listen to in my car as I’m out on my Friday grocery run.

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     While there are many instances of echo on YouTube, it’s usually by not even 1/2 second but more on the order of 1/15th of a second, more of a reverb than an echo.

     I have read of accounts of long delayed echos of as much as 30 seconds.

     I have heard theories that it might involve a conversion from an electromagnetic wave into an acoustic wave in the plasma of the ionosphere and because the acoustic wave travels much slower, and then if by the same mechanism translated back into an electromagnetic signal, because the acoustic transmission was much slower in than the speed of light, especially in the tenuous plasma, that a relatively short path could account for the extreme delays.

     I personally find this theory a bit convoluted and can’t help but wonder if perhaps something more direct is involved, something involving the nature of time perhaps not being strictly linear as we commonly think of it.  Perhaps there are loops or vorticies in time.

     I was wondering if you had like this psycho-killer guy on the dating site setting up dates that never returned, what kind of liabilities would Premier Networks and George Noory himself incur?

     He will be leaving the program, Cuzzin Mike Fuller will continue the show, however, I can’t imagine it being the same or nearly as comprehensive musically as it has been under Dr. Berman’s leadership.

     Dr. Leon Berman had this quote on his page, “I grew up thinking the voice of Pat O’Day was God”.  Folks, Pat O’Day is radio done right in my book, and in his sober life a hell of a nice guy and so I can’t think of a better radio guy to emulate.

     There is no explanation given in KEXP‘s website, in fact not even any notice that he is leaving, only found out listening to the show tonight.

     He did say he would try to do some “fill in” shows.

     The night before last I went to their site.  The “Take Me To The Live Stream” link went to a hosting companies advertising page.

     The Listen with Windows Player link didn’t work but I’m using Linux so didn’t expect it to.

     The Listen with Coast Player link wanted me to sign in as a member.

     So apparently they decided it wasn’t cost effective to provide free web access to the Live show anymore.  I wrote to support, got this for an answer:

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If you do not and are interested in subscribing please go to:

For Coast Insider:
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Thank you!

     I informed them that it wasn’t worth $5/month to me to listen to George Noory.

     With respect to audio quality, I’ve found that bringing the level down on the codec and then bringing up the master volume to compensate results in better quality.