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September 15, 2015: I Don't Use Technology
In the first Aerial View pod(iatry)cast Chris T. hits Rockefeller Center

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View this in your browser. Today: "I Don't Use The Technology." The first Aerial View in Exile podcast - I Don't Use The Technology - is available NOW. That's right: no waiting until 6 PM! Please be aware: there's CURSING in this podcast, some by me, some by others. The show may or may not be safe for work (maybe you work where there's LOTS of cursing and you keep a .45 automatic on your person). The bulk of the podcast was recorded in Rockefeller Center and the title comes from a line uttered about halfway through by a hairy young man getting stoned in public. I tried to interview him and he kept saying "I don't use the technology, man." I told him "No problem. I'll use the technology!" but he still begged off, probably because he was getting stoned in public. Here's the main Rockefeller Center plaza: For the recording I used my Zoom H6 with the mid-side stereo capsule and an Audio-Technica lavalier microphone clipped to the brim of my hat: The Zoom can record six simultaneous tracks, so I ran a stereo track, a backup stereo track (for any volume spikes) and a mono track for the lavalier mic. Then I mixed it all down to two-track stereo. By the way, that windscreen on the mic capsule is sometimes called a "Dead Cat"... please don't tell Roger: This podcast features interviews about 9/11 with: An Australian. A Floridian. A San Diegan. During this podcast I also: Get scolded by Rock Center Security. Upset a dude trying to get stoned in public. Chat with a hard-working man. Order Halal food from a cart. Provide directions to Germans. Offer wet-shaving advice. Dodge a douche riding a skateboard on the sidewalk (click image below for video): And so much more! I'm happy with how it turned out but I'd love your feedback on the playlist page, which should be live by the time you get this newsletter (special thanks to the great Liz Berg at WFMU for all her help with the podcast workflow!). Because I still had three minutes (and eight seconds) to fill for a solid hour, I attached a special surprise: a vintage interview with the son of Rahway, NJ the epitome of cool, Paul Le Mat (mostly known from his role as John Milner in American Graffiti). Me and Rex Doane were at a Chiller Theater convention back in the day and Paul was meeting and greeting, signing autographs and answering our questions. I'm not sure I've ever run this interview before, so here it is, finally. I'm already planning the next all-new Aerial View podcast (me in the basement, trying to work up an instrumental Aerial View "theme song"), so join me again next week! Last Week: Achilles Last Stand The last over-the-air Aerial View (until who-knows-when) had some incredible moments (including a serenade by Hearty White!) and was a memorable show thanks to YOU. I felt the love, believe me. Why, here's some now... FWIW, folks in non-hipster Brooklyn seem to be hot on these 2-wheel self-balancing scooters. Not a Segway, but… Just look at it… www.youtube.com... I had plantar warts removed from both feet in 2007, including a half-$ size one. It hadn't really sunk in how long I'd be laid up or at least impaired afterward. Chris will stick his toe in the water and try to make a phone-in podcast. Hearty and Chris together - when worlds collide! I walked past an artisanal vape store in Montclair over the weekend...wtf?! PLEASE let there be an Aerial View Hearty crossover episode! Chris used to introduce my show as Maximum Nutrition. I think I might change the name of the show this week in his honor. @heartywhite: MAXIMUM NUTRITION! Murder Nutrients! Nutrition in your FACE! The interim show can be classified as a podiatrycast. Chris T, if you look back and only see one set of footprints in the sand, they are those of your listeners... carrying you. We will never leave you. Heal well! Thanks for all your great work, Chris - best of luck with the surgery and the podcast! Seeya Chris. Thanks for the many hours of entertainment. Looking forward to many hours more. We need you on WFMU so come back when you can. And he exits. And closes with the Beach Boys. Class act until this end. Awaiting a swift recovery and triumphant return. Kudos Chris! Infamy light snowfall industrial town upstate we roamed the streets fell in love I was floating in her clouds hovering above sidewalks in one store and out another always talking the things that came out of her mouth the things that went in later than night our first day together “Sure, come up and visit!” she said over the phone two weeks prior she mailed me a letter she'd heard me on the radio liked my sense of humour but lived far away and I decided long before not to pursue women who liked me on the radio but it wasn’t practical I couldn’t afford to  shut off any avenue of discovery so I went up there December 7th based on some phone conversations a few letters a brief meeting in Hoboken two days after Thanksgiving Her mountain cabin the most beautiful spot I’d seen and her dog old lame legs that wouldn't bend walking on his nails clicking over the floor wagging his tail licking his chops excited as she showed me around “Built by actual hippies!” she tells me “I pay $365 a month.” for wild turkey trotting across the yard deer bounding through the trees hawks eagles wheeling overheard tall pines all around unpoisoned air like that helium.oyxgen mix they pump into astronauts I felt my brain swell trying to wrap around it all this woman smiling at me laughing holding my hand whispering in my ear while everything was a mist I still don’t know how I got there how we made it  to that spot in front of the Xmas display out on the rural route turning to each other in the cold me trying to slide past the steering wheel her swinging her legs around the two of us trying to  meet each other’s lips the geometry all wrong but then we docked Apollo-Soyez my eyes closed I saw Christmas lights  beneath the lids felt the lake of her lips in the cold in the car in front of Jesus, Mary and Joseph illuminated sheep wise men and knew from past experience we were hurtling  we wanted more I turned the key stared straight ahead knowing what’s next we head to the cabin on the couch hands everywhere clothes put aside but she doesn’t want to doesn’t know if she should I say “We don’t have to do this tonight..." So we did. a day that will live in infamy Me the Japanese She Hawaii the strafing went on into the night Artist Track Album Label Year Format Comments Images New * / Special *** Approx. start time Chris T.  Aerial View Podiatrycast Intro   → "Aerial View Podiatrycast Intro" by "Chris T." Aerial View Intros    2015  MP3          Join The Facebook Group! If you haven't already, please join the See You Next Tuesday! Facebook Group, where I'll be putting everything that happens on the Aerial View podcast. Upcoming Events WFMU Literary Guild Meet Up The next WFMU Literary Guild Meet Up is this Fri,, Sep. 18, 6 pm in the Red Room of the KGB Bar, 85 East 4th St., NYC. On the bill:  Gaylord Fields Cheyenne Hohman Nate Knaebel Dave Mandl Scott McDowell Chris M. Yvonne Szymczak For updates, please join the WFMU Literary Guild Facebook Group and follow the Twitter account. Pencil Me In Come and see "Braids" (above) and seventeen other pieces by my wife Janet Tsakis during Pencil Me In, the Monmouth Museum Emerging Artist opening this Friday night, September 18, 6 - 8 pm. Janet gives an Artist Talk Wed., Oct. 7, 7 - 8 pm and the show runs until October 18. Obligatory Throwback Pic Singing "Love Is The Drug" with the Hoof & Mouth Sinfonia, 2014

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