HOT PLATE EPISODE XIV, "THE CATERING OF THE REBELS' GETTING-TO-KNOW-YOU MEETING"

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Here's what you'll find on this episode.

Hot Plate Theme (©Karl Straub)

Desiree-2000, sexy robot, first Funding announcement.

News Crunch w/ Dagny Coleman (AD- Hunka Hunka Burnin' Fat Daily Mega Fat Buster Cardio Fat-destroying Workout for Busy Ladies, CRUNCH story- TontoCon)

Dave Nuttycombe interview about Danny Simon, Neil Simon's significantly less famous older brother.

FREE SKATE Johnny Thunders "You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory" (from "So Alone" album)

Nuttycombe chat cont.

APPLE VS. ORANGE fiddle drones from the mid 1960s
Velvet Underground, "Black Angel's Death Song," featuring John Cale, electric viola
Scotty Stoneman, "8th of January" traditional fiddle tune (from Mr. Country Fiddler album)

NEW STRAUBINICAL SONG, HOT PLATE EXCLUSIVE!
The mysterious Millicent Ratskiwatzki sings "Biggest Payday" (©Karl Straub 2017. Karl played guitars and toy piano and sang low backup, Jarrett Nicolay played bass and put together the drum loop, Rachel Carlson Burns sang high backup).


More Nuttycombe chat, with occasionally audible drunken Dagny Coleman.  The two sages discuss the importance of big thick books, and more Danny Simon.


FREE SKATE, "Daddy Rollin Stone," Otis Blackwell and "Walkinonit," J Dilla. (from Donuts album,  one of Karl's favorite "modern" releases and a key album influencing the Hot Plate aesthetic. It's on the Stones Throw label.)

Surprisingly, even more Nuttycombe. Sid Caesar eyebrow technique, and hitherto unrevealed inside dope about the classic film "The Travesty Show," and how Danny Simon's teachings influenced the creative process.

TORTUOUS POLITICAL BLATHER (It's super brief, don't worry!)
Tom Alderson interview, Part Two. Law and Order, a hammered John Wayne speaks to ROTC about the importance of roughing up hippies, GOP's fanning of culture war flames, Hillary-hating on the left, etc.

FREE SKATE "Johnny Guitar," Johnny 'Guitar' Watson, and "Tulsa Telephone Book," Tom T. Hall.

God, still more Nuttycombe. The two wizened veterans discuss the importance of "no joke jokes," before cracking a few joke jokes, etc.

FREE SKATE "Only When I'm Drunk," the Alkaholiks, produced by Madlib.
"Sophisticated Boom Boom," the Goodies.


BEDTIME STORY. Late night DJ Candy Berberian (her first Hot Plate appearance!) introduces thespian Sir Theophilus Bathysphere Mayhew, who reads excerpts from Angelica Huston's classy Hollywood memoir, "Of Jacuzzis Thrice-Gentle." People who have wondered what Jack Nicholson's nickname for Marlon Brando was can sate their curiosity herein.