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Blackout's Box Podcast - Consciousness & Comedy - Pranks & Parody - Silliness & Spirituality

Blackout's Box Podcast - Consciousness & Comedy - Pranks & Parody - Silliness & Spirituality

By Blackout AKA Michael Biggins - HOST - Stacey Curletto - Executive Producer

All new insanity from an INsane man with a hat in an OUTsane world. THE old school original live streamer & podcaster before it was even called podcasting! From prank / crank / improvisation calls & comedy bits to long philosophical and spiritual rants on the nature of reality, life , death, the Law of Attraction and your grandma at a strip club - this is Blackout's Box, old and new - remastered classics and all new audio gold. SPIRITUALITY & STUPIDITY - COMEDY CULTURE ART MUSIC PHILOSOPHY FILM RANDOMNESS LOVE LIGHT LAUGHTER KINDNESS CREATIVITY & ABUNDANCE FOR ALL WAYS - ALWAYS!
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Blackout's Box Podcast - Consciousness & Comedy - Pranks & Parody - Silliness & Spirituality Dec 12, 2019

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Season 2 - Episode 26 - Operation TURBO BOOST! (prank / crank call)

Season 2 - Episode 26 - Operation TURBO BOOST! (prank / crank call)

I have been very sick my friends with bad black mold poisoning and am going through a lot, but I am determined to remaster the classic material I have made and bring all new soon as I recover my voice and health (hopefully - pray to the Thrice Great Okapi that I heal-eth). 

For now, enjoy the first of season two - Operation Turbo Boost. What happens when you bring your old 1989 Honda Civic into the Blackout's Box garage to fix a small scratch.  Some 007 Spy Hunter very extremely expensive & unnecessary repairs stealth & weapon additions - that's what!

NOTE: Even though I am doing seasons, I am keeping the episode numbers so that each season will still continue from the episode number where last season left off. Why am i doing this? To know which podcast you are actually up to? To learn how to count past 1 digit? i don't know - you figure it out.

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May 30, 202116:20
Ep 25 - The Adventures of Auntie Danny & Gladys Ridgeford! - BEYOND BIPOLAR

Ep 25 - The Adventures of Auntie Danny & Gladys Ridgeford! - BEYOND BIPOLAR

Grab a six pack, or six six  packs, or hell an entire TRUCK of Coors light and get ready for one of the most ridiculous Blackout's Box Podcast episodes ever - as I walk into a small bodega while recording and the owner of the store JESS is already on the phone with a very colorful character (to say the least)  - Auntie Danny. This prank call was fate, it was destiny I say, I walked into it and it walked into me, and of course Gladys Ridgeford showed up and all hell broke loose!

SHOW AND TIMESTAMP NOTES:

The Great Auntie Danny & Gladys Ridgeford


PART I

0:00 -Introduction to Jess (24 convienence store owner) & her bi-polar Auntie Danny & her 6 pack a day Coors beer habbit. Also Malik - Jess's boyfriend.

2 minutes in - Malik starts playing a youtube video about how the coronavirus is bacterial not viral, auntie Danny gets a little annoyed

4min - Jess talks about 5G in Long Island New York

5 min - Auntie Danny says "I\m Auntie - I'm 66 & a half.

5:30 min - Auntie changes from 6 beers a day to 6 "packs" of 6 beers a day of Coors beer

6:30 - Aunty Danny has never had a Bloody Mary

8:30 - Aunty Danny talks about her favorite time during the 80s.

13:00 - Auntie Danny calls me Blackout and asks if she's ok?

14:30 - weirdness competition - 6 pack mentioned again

15:00 - Auntie Danny talks about Idaho

16:00 - Auntie Danny is a California Girl & we discuss rental prices

18:30 - I start talking as a surfer dude with my surfer days in Cali - Auntie Danny Loves it

21:30 - We start talking about being bipolar

22:00 - BAT ATTACK!

25:20 - Ride the waves BRO (Aunty Danny starts to turn & become combative BRO!)

27:40 - Auntie Danny's secret to a long marriage & Woodstock stories

29:20 - Auntie Danny birthed children while at Woodstock

31:55 - Auntie Danny tells me how to date and get it on with a girl.

35:00 - Dating in Idaho

36:00 - Jess (the niece in the store - sleeps me a piece of paper that says "SHE'S BIPOLAR!!!!"


PART II

37:09 - Surfer Bro tells Auntie Danny he want to introduce her to his grandma Gladys Ridgeford (Gladys enters the conversation) Aunti Danny ALMOST picks up on me changing voices!

38:38 - Gladys starts hitting the bourbon! Wooooof!

43:04 - Auntie Danny telles her tale of hard hard work and no free rides or discounts and 

begins to get angry about her rich mean priviledged mom

45:00 - Share & Cher & Money - Auntie Danny starts to turn even darker about money & starts to get confrontatinal 'bro!'

49:10 - The benefits out having your own house & not having fishy roomates

50:00 - NEWSCAST - Aunty Danny becomes unhinged

53:30 - Fight between Gladys & Auntie Danny

58:40 - Auntie Danny & Gladys make up - Gladys talks abut Tripod. BOOM!

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Jul 27, 202001:19:22
Crazy Covid Continues! No Holds Barred w Libertarian Larry Sharpe (Joe Rogan EP#1167) on increased world craziness

Crazy Covid Continues! No Holds Barred w Libertarian Larry Sharpe (Joe Rogan EP#1167) on increased world craziness

SHOW NOTES: Opening w Larry handsome man prince story - 1999 censorship on big platforms youtube and facebook zero tolerance origin of internet bbs systems mainframes huge monopolies oligarchies -giant corporations are facebook and youtube platforms or publishers advantages of the covid lockdown larry's daughter & planets the cons of the internet & wikipedia knowledge wikipedia robots school teaches obedience and not good thinking hating high school college was better than high school but degrees are old school why bother you should start thinking about your future by middle school "adulting" the balance between keeping the child life force and curiosity and adult responsibilities structured 9 to 5 vs the new gig economy government = politicians we are no longer in an industrial society those jobs will become automated by machines minimum wage laws self checkout & the first signs of automation mega corporations ensure small guys can't compete why did certain stores get the special pass and small stores were all shut during covid? how tech has messed our memories up, who remembers phone numbers anymore? technology is making people want to be monitored and chipped for convenience how far tech has come in less than a lifespan the death of physical media & "the cloud" - someone eles's hard drive Twitter - will they go full censorship too? Larry and the problems of parenting in a super tech connected world how crazy pornography has gotten - my little pony porny! The Documentary Idiocracy - We're living it! The massive changes in the 6 weeks from being on Larry's show till today from covid to police brutality & black lives matter the hatred towards all lives matter ignorance comes in all colors people have forgotten how to debate - everything is personal how we went from covid concern to racism and police brutality are there higher forces above government playing their cards and using this covid - to move towards global tracking / golbal government / cabal and if so how are they doing? why do we still have king and queens in the modern world? & inbreeding why are their egyptian symbols on are money and in front of all the soviern power city states the wealth gap / fractional reserve banking Blackout state trooper story - dad & corrupt cops and a child first learning about money "money rules the world" my search to understand who is the ultimate authority / who controls the issuing of currency the rabbit hole of money  we didn't have income tax for over 100 years --COMMERCIAL BREAK -- Elmhurst hospital The Epicenter Nurse - documentary that shows doctors & nurses putting people who they knew were not covid on massive drugs and then killing them by damaging their lungs with ventilators All hospitals could only make money off covid patients - so corruption occured in a corrupt system -  Covid burnout / crisis fatique, lets change up and burn things down!  Rascism is really culuralism & markers  Lesson's from Larry's Dad Larry's view on spirituality Blackout talks about his near death experience Will there be a phase 2 of covid - is it planned? worse case scenario - Darth Vader Storm Troopers at his door - what would he do? We talk about qualified immunity - the one congressmen who introduced a bill against it - Congressman Amash http:://Blackout.com - for all social media links SUBSCRIBE & SUPPORT at http://patreon.com/BlackoutsBox 
Jun 24, 202001:36:41
Addiction, Dependency, Habits - What's the Difference? A Mortuary Cosmetician & Chaos Magician + Sapiosexuality & Keanu Reeves Prank!
May 28, 202002:59:03
Covid-19 P2 - Vice President & NYC Governor Libertarian candidate Larry Sharpe & Blackout discuss the EROSION of FREEDOM under the guise of pandemic & what to do about it!

Covid-19 P2 - Vice President & NYC Governor Libertarian candidate Larry Sharpe & Blackout discuss the EROSION of FREEDOM under the guise of pandemic & what to do about it!

Covid-19 P2 - Vice President & NYC Governor Libertarian candidate Larry Sharpe & Blackout discuss the erosion of freedom under the guise of pandemic & what to do about it!

I was a guest on "The Sharp Way" on 4/17/2020, a libertarian show hosted  by Larry Sharpe, an American business consultant, entrepreneur,  political activist, and internet broadcaster. He was a candidate for the  Libertarian Party nomination for Vice President of the United States in  2016, losing narrowly to former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld.  Sharpe was also the Libertarian nominee for Governor of New York in the  2018 gubernatorial election. Sharpe is the founder and managing director  of the online business training company Neo-Sage Group, Inc. He also  appeared in a full episode interview on the Joe Rogan Podcast Episode  1167.   We discuss the current situation of covid19 and how it has been  massively over exaggerated and used as a weapon of control to further the grips of government power gone wild in a big push for citizens to give up even more freedom and the move towards global governance as well as  cults, psychology, propaganda,  big pharma, medicine, the invisible  rainbow, Dana Ashlie, corporatism, religion,  mind control, Bill Gates,   Event201, id2020, quantum dot tattoo, tracking and control systems,  face recognition, government abuse, digital certificates, human rights  infringements, the constitution, bill of rights, the W.H.O. (WHO) world  Health Organization, Apple, Microsoft, Military, The United Nations,  world wide abuses, economic damage vs sickness damage, immune systems,  quarantine, over reaching of police and military forces, and possible  solutions - all while remaining calm and non fear based looking for  SOLUTIONS!

Apr 19, 202001:03:27
Bonus Easter Special: Jesus, The Marriott, Gladys, Satan & So much more! ep 21!

Bonus Easter Special: Jesus, The Marriott, Gladys, Satan & So much more! ep 21!

BONUS EPISODE! WARNING!: EXTREMELY EXPLICIT ADULT HUMOR - NSFW - It's the Blackout's Box Sunday Morning Easter Special!  UN-EDITED, a full four hours of insanity. What happens when Jesus tries to book a room at the Marriott hotel but has issues? Is Satan real? Apparently so and he lives in the country. Gladys gives Satan a call to see how he's doing. Gladys gets drunk.  Jesus gets upset. People call in and sing the blues. Did the world end in 2012 and we all died and are in an alternative / parallel universe!?  Was Prince right about chemtrails and exited this world just in time? This and so so so much more in this Easter special bonus podcast. Please remember don't just stream it! Download a podcast app and subscribe , rate & share it! If you enjoy my work and are able to support you HAVE NO IDEA how much it helps me! You can here: 

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Apr 12, 202004:04:25
The Rrrrrrooksnitchzien Society! (REMASTERED)

The Rrrrrrooksnitchzien Society! (REMASTERED)

"Tip of the top of the tongue to the T, that's all you have to do to trill your R's"

One of the greatest prank calls I consider when I look back on my own stuff besides the Quanicles, this 13 minute journey into absurdity was made in a simpler time when people actually had to dial 411 and speak to an actual human being operator to get some information!  One of the first prank calls I made that went old school viral - this was broadcast live on 88.5 WKPX in south Florida, and many people who recorded my radio show passed around cassette copies. I then put it on 1-800-KOOK-LINE where it was further recorded and passed around in very low quality. Now, enjoy it and laugh at the madness of layers of managers and supervisors who try to connect me to - THE RRRRRROOKSNITCHZIEN SOCIETY!  (or at least give me my quarter back).  - Blackout

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Apr 11, 202021:12
What is the truth about coronavirus Covid19? P1: Why are WE on lock-down and the politicians &News Media aren't?

What is the truth about coronavirus Covid19? P1: Why are WE on lock-down and the politicians &News Media aren't?

Ok kiddies. we are going to get into some serious shit on this one. First of all I invite all of you to my private discord chat/info/voice/video server where I have a lot of documents and information up and no one can be censored (unless you're a harassing troll). Please listen to the podcast first and then here is the link: https://discord.gg/764ZgP4  I link to credited articles that show there may be an agenda behind this.

We are in an unprecedented event that has never happened before in the history of the world as far as any of us know. Many people smell the bullshit. Why are YOU on lock down when politicians & fear porn news media are all free to scare the shit out of you? Why are so many businesses / industries being closed? Is this a financial global reset? is there an agenda behind this?  Who / what / when / where / why? 

Mar 27, 202045:58
Brad's Dirty Secret & Debt Buyers

Brad's Dirty Secret & Debt Buyers

Brad’s got a dirty secret, and in these series of calls we find out a little bit more about Brad, and a whole lot more about Tiffany - a sweet, kind, lying, drunk pimp who first tries to get Brad the service that he needs, and then tries to cover it all up when Brad’s dirty secret is about to be revealed.  This call also includes our favorite 67 year old crooner - Gladys Ridgeford, who plays Brad’s Mom. 

Will Gladys find out Brad’s Dirty Secret? Will Tiffany be able to keep up with her back pedaling barrage of lies and hide her true occupation? Will the 'lit' girls in the background stop with their obnoxious singing? Will Brad ever get to see his favorite Transformers movie? There's more than meets the eye, or ears! Find out the answers to these questions and more in Brad’s Dirty Secret!

Gladys - - - Michael Biggins (Blackout)  
    Brad - - - - - Rob Shapiro (Pharris)Credits:

Feb 22, 202020:11
Gladys Ridgeford's Broken Toy REMASTERED + (the origin of Gladys pt 2)

Gladys Ridgeford's Broken Toy REMASTERED + (the origin of Gladys pt 2)

Find out a little more than you wanted to know about your favorite bourbon swilling, dog loving, unhinged and uncensored immortal old brave broad - Gladys Ridgeford, as she reveals a slightly more erotic side of herself as she calls up the Adam & Eve adult catalog hotline number (it's open 24 hours for all your needs... and they'll even call you back) and tries to find out what could be wrong with her toy. The names of the items that this place sells are really from their catalog, I didn't make them up. Gladys always likes to know where she can get a good bargain on a "Cum Here Mr Cucumber." Warning: contains explicit hilarious adult toy situations and possibly suggestions of 3 legged bestiality, but in a very dignified and professional manner.   Like what you hear, please SUBSCRIBE, SHARE, AND RATE ON APPLE PODCASTS or whatever pod app your using and if you can throw this old broad a few bucks please become a patron on http://patreon.com/BlackoutsBox or http://PayPal.me/BlackoutServices 

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Feb 14, 202015:06
Cashless Society, Slavery, Tracking, Propaganda, When is it TOO MUCH!? Flashback Episode

Cashless Society, Slavery, Tracking, Propaganda, When is it TOO MUCH!? Flashback Episode

Are you ready to be micro chipped in a cashless society? Is your cell phone your helper or a spy monitor for big corp, big gov & big pharma? Why
are there still kings and queens in the modern day world? Is hard cider better than beer? What can be done about it? Do you care? Should you care? How many identifiers do you use daily and how tracked are you? Are you truly free if you accept these conveniences? What are the spiritual implications? Has this become a prison planet or a human farm? Is convenience worth freedom or as Ben Franklin said, "if you want safety over freedom you get neither"

Enjoy this Blackout's Box Podcast flashback where we take open calls and discuss.


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Feb 02, 202001:04:26
Gimme a Smart One Prank Call & the Origin of Gladys Ridgeford p1

Gimme a Smart One Prank Call & the Origin of Gladys Ridgeford p1

It's Gladys again, and this time she is upset with her stupid grandchildren and wants a smart kid, so she decides to call up one of those sponsor a child programs for a few cents a day to get one, but nothing can work out so easily can it?  There always seems to be problems with the selection and shipping of children, and Gladys really runs into some.  How will she ever get her television fixed?  How can you tell if a child is intelligent from just a picture? Don't wipe your nose. Gladys has some ideas.

Enjoy,

- Blackout aka Michael Biggins 

Jan 26, 202024:15
Grandma & Jacklyn Prank Remastered

Grandma & Jacklyn Prank Remastered

This used to only be available in RealAudio format. Sex, drugs, the Lords of Acid and the Vampire Lestat are just a few of the topics that I talk to Grandma about in this call as I portray the slightly led astray by porn and drugs little girl, Jacklyn. The background on this is that several times some old woman actually called me by mistake asking for her granddaughter, Jacklyn, so one night I decided to call her back as little Jackie myself, and she bought it! But I doubt her REAL granddaughter ever acted like this. It's all that bad TV that I watch. I'll tell you one thing, I would have paid a couple hundred bucks to have been there when the grandmother next talked to Jacklyn's Mom after hearing all that little Jacklyn had to say! 

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Jan 23, 202011:58
Take Your Medicine

Take Your Medicine

You should always take your medicine, because if you don't, you could have traumatic fits! In these calls, I play a slightly modified version of John Dandell who is now a pharmacist, along with his outspoken assistant pharmacist Hector, and yes, good old lovable Gladys Ridgeford even makes an appearance. Come spend a day in the life of the Cronigs and listen to their sanity and patience slowly dwindle away as they fall victim to the insanity of the Blackout's Box world characters.

Jan 15, 202023:12
Corporate Shit (featuring Gladys Ridgeford)

Corporate Shit (featuring Gladys Ridgeford)

You may think that infomercials and scam commercials are a thing of the past, only for those enough stupid enough to still subscribe and pay for cable TV on an old tube, and you would be right, but they are still here and your grandma and other old people with high credit limits and high insomnia are the targets of such things.  Fear not though, for Gladys Ridgeford Fights BACK! Or at least gives you a chuckle. (C) Blackout aka Michael Biggins & Blackout.com & Blackout's Box Studios.

Jan 09, 202022:44
Doggy Ease - Gladys Ridgeford deals with Dog Anxiety

Doggy Ease - Gladys Ridgeford deals with Dog Anxiety

The modern world is miraculous to behold. What a truly amazing and great society we live in, where technology has advanced so much - that CDs are now available for dogs.  Hey now, don't protest, aren't dogs entitled to the same clarity, fidelity, convenience, and listening enjoyment that compact discs provide for humans? Dog's are actually lucky creatures aren't they, because they started right out with the compact disc. They didn't have to fiddle around with bulky and lame sounding 8 track tapes, hissy cassettes, or scratch prone records.  Nope... dogs jumped right to the CD, and apparently just in time too, because as it turns out - dogs are really stressed out - and CDs calm them down.  At least that is what one corporation that makes the dog CDs is saying, and corporations don't lie.

Dec 30, 201916:43
Tesser & Requiem for a Dream Gay Bar

Tesser & Requiem for a Dream Gay Bar

In this episode of the Blackout's Box Podcast we flashback trip unto the stupid fantastic with call ins about watching Requiem for a Dream while on a passenger flight & listen to Tesser's dreams of film production, all while going to a really bad gay bar. S1 EP10

Dec 27, 201932:20
Depression & Buttworms

Depression & Buttworms

Do buttworms (butt worms) cause depression? Does depression cause buttworms? How scary are empty buffet restaurants? In this episode of the Blackout's Box Podcast I open up on what depression does to creativity, how you can going from being an extrovert into a introvert,  and what buttworms do to your ass.  Remember that you can send replies, messages, and requests via voice on https://anchor.fm/BlackoutsBox or e-mail
box @blackout.com

Dec 16, 201937:55
The Breakfast Club & Fat Albert

The Breakfast Club & Fat Albert

Sound boards used to be a thing. To be able to manipulate them live and choose the appropriate response in time was hard.  Now everything is easy as shit. Yeah. I'm a generation beta alpha zen master.

Dec 12, 201905:40
Christian Slater Prank Call (FULL UNEDITED VERSION)

Christian Slater Prank Call (FULL UNEDITED VERSION)

Before the Apple Iphone hit it big in 2007, the big deal was a phone called the Sidekick. The sidekick had issues though, in that Paris Hilton used it and it was very easy to hack it or copy your entire contact list.   Of course, all the celebrity telephone numbers on Paris Hilton's sidekick were released and copied and spread around the net in certain hacker communities within about an hour. Before any of the numbers were changed, I got a chance to look at the list and give Christian Slater a call.  Howard Stern even listened to it and talked about it and aired a very highly edited version without giving any credit.  This is the absolute full version.

Dec 09, 201939:14
The Dog Beaters Prank Call with Gladys Ridgeford

The Dog Beaters Prank Call with Gladys Ridgeford

Everyone's favorite bourbon drinking narcissistic old lady in her first and biggest prank / crank call where she convinces a accuses an eventually convinces a married couple that they will never kick a dog in the as again. S1- Ep6

Dec 02, 201922:50
The Sins of Kilty O'neil

The Sins of Kilty O'neil

A live exorcism over the phone from calling a televangelist. Yeah, I swear. This was all real. I had the sound fx piped through the phone line and everything.

Nov 30, 201906:19
A Crackhouse (Crack House) Christmas & I've Got Talent Remastered with commentary

A Crackhouse (Crack House) Christmas & I've Got Talent Remastered with commentary

Double feature! Remember those 90's style commercials and infomercials that would try and get you to buy a compilation of either soft rock, 80s hits, 70s ballads, or Christmas compilations?  That's where I got the idea for A Crack House Christmas. I wanted to make a parody of those cheesy commercial styles  but position it from the point of view of  hard ghetto drug pimp. 

I've Got Talent is a prank call that came from the idea of a completely talent-less kid, but who is ultra confident that he is the best that ever lived. 

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Thanks! - Blackout

Nov 29, 201925:31
For Kids or Not for Kids? How YouTube is being unclear with creators about FTC COPPA laws

For Kids or Not for Kids? How YouTube is being unclear with creators about FTC COPPA laws

YouTube (the actual entity that collects data on everyone who uses it) is trying to shift blame on their data collecting of minors to individual creators by parsing videos into only two categories: for kids or not for kids & not providing a middle ground (for general audiences) which most channels fall under.   They are NOT BEING honest, realistic, or transparent about the FTC fines & COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act) law, how compliance actually works, and are dodging having to fix their broken system by shifting the blame from their data collection of 12 and under (which they have control of) to creators because of a few bad acting channels. You can fight back! What YouTube has told you is very unclear and misleading.  COPPA clearly DOES NOT consider "General Audience" or "Mixed audience" videos such as gaming, animation, or vlogs that both adults and children might enjoy to be in the "directed at children" category. You are only in that category if YOU ARE DIRECTLY AND PURPOSELY directing and targeting children as your audience. YouTube is not taking this into account and the burden should be on them to update their data collection techniques.  This whole fiasco is leaving many channel creators highly disturbed and upset and some even quitting their channels all together. Don't take this lying down - fight back for YouTube to institute a true general audience or mixed categorization that actually represents and complies with COPPA without throwing creators under the bus.  Educate yourself and let your objections be know to @TeamYouTube  @YouTube @YTCreators as well as the FTC at https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/commiss... and the online COPPA petition https://www.change.org/p/youtubers-an... YouTube's Creator Compliance & Warning Video: https://youtu.be/-JzXiSkoFKw Social Media Lawyer Ian Corzina full videos on COPPA & other Social media Law: https://youtu.be/3GwDrHOe43E (what youtube's not telling you about coppa) https://youtu.be/pwnvjuCTb54 (COPPA INSIDER Update - What YouTube is hiding)  FTC Press Conference on 170 million dollar Google  / YouTube settlement: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/audio... Tweet @TEAMYoutTube & @YTCreators  #CreatorsFightBack #Coppa #FTC Help keep this channel alive! - support on https://patreon.com/BlackoutsBoxand bring back remastered classics and all new material!

Nov 27, 201921:06
I Ain't Don't Got No Turkey

I Ain't Don't Got No Turkey

It’s Thanksgiving somewhere in the 90s, and I, as usual, was not celebrating with my family because they hated me.  Instead, I decided to stay on live the whole day at 88.5 WKPX, and I make up this little song about how I ain't don’t have any turkey…  you don’t have any turkey.. where the hell IS the turkey?

This has been lost for a long time and I found it on a crappy cassette tape of my old NO CLASS radio show - so the quality level is a little lacking, but the heart’s still there.  You’ll be singing along before you know it.  I dedicate this to all those turkeyless Thanksgivings, Christmases, and any other Holidays that had to be spent alone.

Nov 23, 201903:05
Blackout's Box Podcast Beta Test

Blackout's Box Podcast Beta Test

A time traveling  way before the internets was a thing gets into the internets and finds just how internets it might be, Are we Gods? Are we God itself? Are we peasants controlled by a manipulative magical occult authority type god, group or mass consciousness?  Or are we just all of the above - the paranoia?

Welcome to Blackout's Box - the Podcast

Nov 14, 201903:07