Favoriting Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from October 31, 2023 Favoriting

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A combination of collage, new experimental records and other bits and bobs, Mid-Valley Mutations is a tour through the mind of Austin Rich, who has been broadcasting in some form since 1998. Heavily influenced by Dr Demento, Don Joyce and old fashioned College Radio, Austin creates Audio Essays on a variety of subjects, and even just plays records, from time to time. Sometimes Live music and Interviews will grace the program, helping create a situation where you don't really know what you're going to hear, when you tune in. What you need to know is when you enter the Mid-Valley region, be prepared for the Musical Mutations... in whatever form they take.

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Favoriting October 31, 2023: Ghost Stories 2023! (w/ Special Guest, Heather Zajkowski!)

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Artist Track Album Label Year Images Approx. start time
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Mini-Mutations  Halloween Ambience   Favoriting Halloween Ambience  Mid-Valley Mutations  2016 
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Austin Rich  The Pumpkin Tide by Richard Brautigan   Favoriting 18 October 2019  Mid-Valley Mutations  2019 
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Vincent Price  Harp Notes   Favoriting A Graveyard of Ghost Tales  Cademon Records  1974 
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The Cranial Fishers  Munster Mash-Up   Favoriting Munster Mash-Up  Self-Released  2022 
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Dr. Louis Berger And Claire  Disco Boogyman   Favoriting WNUF TV-28 Presents: Frank Stewart Investigates: Halloween  Terror Vision  2015 
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Future Bible Heroes  I'm A Vampire   Favoriting Eternal Youth  Instinct Records  2002 
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The Cranial Fishers  They're Here, They're Here!   Favoriting They're Here, They're Here!  Self-Released  2022 
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Obadiah Baird  Sowenacht by Kyle Opperman   Favoriting 18 October 2019  Mid-Valley Mutations  2019 
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Frank Stewart  Haunted Laundrymat   Favoriting WNUF TV-28 Presents: Frank Stewart Investigates: Halloween  Terror Vision  2015 
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Vic Crume  The Haunted House   Favoriting Selections From "The Haunted House And Other Spooky Poems And Tales"  Scholastic Records  1970 
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Eban Schletter  Devil Doll   Favoriting Eban Schletter's Witching Hour  Oglio Records  2008 
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Alfred Hitchcock  The Haunted And The Haunters (The Pirate's Curse)   Favoriting Ghost Stories For Young People  Golden Records  1962 
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Austin Rich  Trick Or Treating Down To The Sea in Ships by Richard Brautigan   Favoriting 18 October 2019  Mid-Valley Mutations  2019 
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Vince Guaraldi  The Great Pumpkin Waltz   Favoriting It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown  Craft Recordings  2022 
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Crackerbash  Nov. 1st   Favoriting Nov. 1st  Sub Pop  1992 
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Listener comments!

  10/28 5:13pm
Arvo:

👋🧟‍♂️👹☠️👻👺💀🦇🧛‍♂️🖤
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Austin Rich:

Good Hello.
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Mr. X:

Trick or treaters already running around the neighborhood. But no knocks on the door yet... Might not have much time for chatting tonight.
Avatar 8:52pm
Mr. X:

I am wearing a fez. It's all I could scrounge up for a costume.
Avatar 9:01pm
Mike Rogers:

Hi Austin san!
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Imaginos:

Ahoy! Happy Halloween and Day of the Dead.
  9:01pm
Arvo:

Reporting for doody doody doo!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lqRRUkuSLY
  9:01pm
Charles:

Glad to be ending my halloween day here. Have a good halloween everyone and congratulations for the hellraiser!
  🎸 9:03pm
Heather Z:

Hi everyone! I'm so excited to be part of the show tonight!!!

In case it's easier to call in, here are the zoom phone numbers!

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  9:04pm
Arvo:

I have a couple stories I haven't told yet, but I'll leave some cake for the others, since I have been on what, 3 times for these ghost stories?
  9:06pm
Charles:

ghostsplaining ahah
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Imaginos:

Since I'm doing a different type of story with Austin and Heather in the future, I'll leave the awesome ghost stories to other listeners. I'm looking forward to the stories that will be told tonight.
  🎸 9:12pm
Heather Z:

↳ Charles @9:06
I can't staaaand it when they just show up and ghostsplain!
  9:12pm
Charles:

Vincent on halloween! I'm in heaven <3
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Austin Rich:

I'm a bit busy behind the scenes. But thanks EVERYONE for joining us!
  🎸 9:13pm
Heather Z:

↳ Arvo @9:04
Get the cake! If you have more stories, we want to hear them!!
Avatar 9:14pm
Imaginos:

the captain didn't go down with the ship?!
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Mr. X:

We're giving out Butterfinger and Payday this year.
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Austin Rich:

Yeah! What candy do ya'll have?
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Austin Rich:

Aaron In Minneapolis! Thank you so much for joining us!
  🎸 9:16pm
Heather Z:

↳ Austin Rich @9:15
I didn't open the door tonight but I do have 10000 Grand bars and fun size Nerds for an upcoming party!
  9:17pm
Paco_Jones:

Happy Halloween!
  9:17pm
Arvo:

↳ Heather Z @9:13
Zoom is updating...
  🎸 9:18pm
Heather Z:

↳ Arvo @9:17
ah, yes..... I know the zoom updating well, hence me trying to start this meeting here at 8:30 this evening....
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Geoff-U:

Good eeeevening
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Imaginos:

↳ Geoff-U @9:19
velcome!
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Geoff-U:

‘tis the season of vintage Simpsons Treehouse Of Horror watching
  9:25pm
Charles:

that's pretty funny, not giving up on the chase ahah
Avatar 9:25pm
Imaginos:

the strangest thing that ever happened to me was back in he mid 80s when I tried to make a call on a payphone without putting a coin in first. Instead of getting a "please pay to call" message, it said either "RA1-Channel 4" or "Array 1 Channel 4" 3 times then "RA" or "Array" 1. Then repeated itself.
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Geoff-U:

↳ Imaginos @9:25
neat!
  9:34pm
Charles:

Every day is halloween, today is just the halloweenest.
  🎸 9:39pm
Heather Z:

Thank you for calling in, Arvo!!!

Operators are standing by if anyone else feels like zooming by!
  9:40pm
Arvo:

↳ Heather Z @9:39
Thanks all for having me! I hope it meets the standard of quality!!!
  🎸 9:41pm
Heather Z:

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  9:46pm
Arvo:

Well, it was a "silent pledge" this time right?
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Herk H.:

Hello all :)
  9:47pm
Arvo:

There are some good "deep" cuts on that full-length that The Monster Mash comes on, FYI...
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Austin Rich:

There's a lot happening behind the scenes... but I'm so happy to see so many excellent folks in the chat!
  9:48pm
Arvo:

Boris Pickett was not a one-hit wonder in my book!
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Herk H.:

Love this :)
  🎸 9:50pm
Heather Z:

↳ Arvo @9:48
I'm a fan, for sure!
Avatar 9:51pm
Imaginos:

↳ Song: "Disco Boogyman" by "Dr. Louis Berger And Claire"
great story. fun to listen to.
  🎸 9:52pm
Heather Z:

↳ Imaginos @9:51
They got me giggling with the "give us a sign!"
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Imaginos:

↳ Heather Z @9:52
makes me think of the Disco Zombies from Stevie & Zoya.
  🎸 9:55pm
Heather Z:

ughhhhhh I love this song so much!!! Dance break time!!
  10:00pm
Charles:

great song
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Mr Fab:

I’m here! Sitting by the door waiting for more trick-or-treaters to come by.
  10:02pm
Arvo:

↳ Song: "Disco Boogyman" by "Dr. Louis Berger And Claire"
I am waiting to hear about the Frankenstein love line discussion! Lord knows, hair like the Bride of Frankenstein is one way to my heart!
  10:06pm
Chuck:

I hang out with dead people in my dreams all the time!!!...:)
  10:08pm
Arvo:

There is a correlation with electromagnetic stuff and ionization in the air, and all kinds of things, with paranormal activity...

That is a pretty wild story...
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Imaginos:

↳ Chuck @10:06
nothing so unusual about that. The veil between life and death is not as impenetrable as many might think.
  10:09pm
Chuck:

↳ Imaginos @10:08
Yep!!!...:)
  10:10pm
Arvo:

My cat Chollie definitely visited me in my dream the day he passed on.
  10:12pm
Arvo:

I was in a band that kinda knew me as a "lightning rod" for malfunction because the power would go out when I arrived on a few occasions, once it went out in the whole university at the moment I sat down to do radio....
  10:12pm
Chuck:

↳ Arvo @10:10
That's probably getting into Quantum type stuff???...:)
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Imaginos:

Kate Schechter, I believe.
  10:13pm
Arvo:

I have never read that book, but I used to sit with my friends and try to mentally turn off the streetlights with our minds, and it did work sometimes! May be just a coincidence...
  10:13pm
Charles:

Hello there Chuck. It's always fun when we end up on the same program!
  10:15pm
Chuck:

↳ Charles @10:13
I never know where I'm going to end up until I search around...:)
  10:16pm
Charles:

Isn't it a thing huhh.... some people having street lights dim when they go near them. My memory is fuzzy, forgot what it's called.
  10:16pm
Chuck:

I must say I have always loved stories...:)
  10:17pm
Arvo:

↳ Charles @10:16
I forgot to say that we did this when we were like 7 years old...
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Barno in Akron:

How do you do, fellow kids?
  🎸 10:17pm
Heather Z:

↳ Charles @10:16
It's been happening to me since I was a teen! But the three times in one night the other evening was.... interesting.
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Herk H.:

This is quite lovely.
  10:18pm
Chuck:

Keep your eye open for a large dark winged creature when that happens!!!...:)
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Imaginos:

↳ Chuck @10:18
or a foul-mouthed but well spoken woman with long red hair and a face like a skull.
  10:19pm
Arvo:

I have a correlation mothman story too... haven't told that one yet... it's not a direct experience, just a wild coincidence...
  10:22pm
Arvo:

Are we radioactive?
  10:23pm
Chuck:

↳ Imaginos @10:19
Those are the worst!!!...:)
  10:24pm
Chuck:

↳ Arvo @10:19
Do tell!!!...:)
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Imaginos:

↳ Chuck @10:23
She can be the worst or the best, it depends on your intentions toward the departed.
  10:26pm
Arvo:

↳ Chuck @10:24
I could really go for a long time, but I don't wanna horde...
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Barno in Akron:

I'm not the "usual" cast. That makes me unusual - Yay!
  10:27pm
Chuck:

My best friend really loves redheads but I'm kind of leery about them like Bulldogs...:)
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Imaginos:

↳ Chuck @10:27
Maman Brigitte is not your typical redhead.
  10:32pm
Arvo:

I guess once I leave the zoom meeting, I can't go back in, but I am willing to jump back on if there is some way around that...
  10:34pm
Arvo:

Definitely Terror Vision had video!
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Imaginos:

make sure you don't get confused with the Charles Band movie TerrorVision when looking up the video.
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Mr Fab:

Trick or treaters keeping me busy. Must have had like 30 kids so far tonight
  10:38pm
Chuck:

Orange spider webs are the creepiest!!!...:)
  🎸 10:43pm
Heather Z:

DEVIL DOLL!!! wow, I really did not remember that I sent that at all.
  🎸 10:44pm
Heather Z:

This is Eban Schletter on sound effects and Paul F. Tompkins on vocals and the coolest backup singers you'll ever see if you look up the live version.
  10:45pm
Chuck:

Karen Black's favorite Halloween song!!!...:)
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Austin Rich:

↳ Heather Z @10:44
www.ebanschletter.com
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Imaginos:

Tonight's show was excellent.
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Imaginos:

the devil doll suffered the same fate as the monk.
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Imaginos:

can't be as bad as the zuni fetish doll or Blade from PuppetMaster.
  10:49pm
Arvo:

Good show!
  10:50pm
Chuck:

That WAS fun!!!... Happy Halloween!!!...:)
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Imaginos:

some areas have "safe zones" that kids from other neighborhoods are driven to be selected drivers.
  10:52pm
Chuck:

You sure don't want to dress up like Freddy Krueger and carry around a toy gun nowadays!!!...:)
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Imaginos:

MindWarp II.
  10:53pm
Arvo:

Gonna walk down to electric avenue...
  🎸 10:54pm
Heather Z:

www.youtube.com...

for to see the back up singers
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Austin Rich:

Thank you so much everyone! As I said at the beginning: it's not Halloween without Vincent Price! It's also not Halloween without Alfred Hitchcock... and Sailors!
  🎸 10:56pm
Heather Z:

Thank you, Austin, for letting me be part of the show and than you, everyone for tuning in and for your calls! It's always an honor and a pleasure to be on Mid-Valley Mutations!
  10:56pm
Arvo:

I was Freddy Kreuger, a gangster with a Tommy Gun, Terminator (also with a machine gun), Jason (machete), and I think the only time I didn't have a toy weapon was when I was a vampire!
  10:56pm
Arvo:

Thanks Austin and Heather for being such gracious hosts! Goodnight, whatever you are!
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Austin Rich:

I always went for corny costumes: a ghost (sheet with eyeholes), skeleton, a hobo, a Pirate, etc.
  10:57pm
Chuck:

↳ Arvo @10:56
I guess it's a good thing that you're still alive!!!...:)
  10:58pm
Arvo:

↳ Chuck @10:57
I actually did have a cop almost shoot me when I had a toy rifle, but that wasn't on halloween...
  10:58pm
Chuck:

I always like dressing up as a Russian shaman...:)
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:59pm
Austin Rich:

Special thanks to Heather for producing this episode. You should check out our Max Headroom podcast, if you wanna hear more or what we do. We even did a Halloween show this year, where Heather picked the playlist.

20minutesintothefuture.org
  10:59pm
Arvo:

↳ Austin Rich @10:57
I have also been a hobo, a jailbird, a shark, and a pumpkin! Need to do a pirate some time.
  11:00pm
Arvo:

↳ Heather Z @10:54
I am definitely gonna check out the back up singers...
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Austin Rich:

↳ Arvo @10:59
I was a Ninja one year, using a kids costume I found at a Halloween store. That was pretty good. And I was a bartender one year, too. (Old-timey style.) I like corny Halloween stuff.
  🎸 11:01pm
Heather Z:

↳ Austin Rich @10:59
There's a skit, too, and I need to relisten because we all know I've already forgotten my playlist!
  🎸 11:01pm
Heather Z:

↳ Arvo @11:00
They are SO COOL. I don't think you'll be sad if you give the clip a watch.
  11:02pm
Chuck:

Halloween is no time to try to be funny!!!...:)
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Austin Rich:

↳ Chuck @11:02
I'll try to better next year!
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Mr Fab:

more kids came by. Maybe I’m bad, but I sorted all the licorice to hand out first, so in case there’s any leftovers, we get to keep the chocolate and the Reeses. Hey, I used to love licorice when I was a kid!
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Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @11:03
I love Licorice! But also... Reeses are really, really good.
  11:05pm
Chuck:

Don't forget when you sleep and you dream and you interact with people that are gone... that's real!!!...:)
  🎸 11:06pm
Heather Z:

↳ Chuck @11:05
It is real. I've had a friend I miss very much visit in dreams and I know it's really she who is there.
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Mr Fab:

↳ Song: "The Haunted And The Haunters (The Pirate's Curse)...
For young people, eh? DAMN, guess I’m not allowed to listen…
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Austin Rich:

↳ Song: "The Great Pumpkin Waltz" by "Vince Guaraldi"
This is the 20th Anniversary of me doing Halloween Radio. I usually end with "The Great Pumpkin Waltz" or "Nov. 1st..." so I'm playing them both this year.
  11:07pm
Chuck:

↳ Heather Z @11:06
Yes!!!...:)
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:07pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @11:06
"And the young at heart" it says in small print...
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Austin Rich:

↳ Song: "Nov. 1st" by "Crackerbash"
I only got to see Crackerbash a couple times, but they should have been as big as any of those other grunge bands back then. Oh well... the songs are still great.
  11:12pm
Chuck:

↳ Austin Rich @11:10
Well at least grunge rescued us from hair bands and disco???...:)
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Austin Rich:

↳ Chuck @11:12
I think Nirvana was credited with dethroning Michael Jackson from the pop charts. That was something huge.
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Mr Fab:

Reminds me to play “November “ by Tom Waits. Musical saw!
  11:14pm
Chuck:

↳ Austin Rich @11:13
It's such a difficult conversation...:)
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Barno in Akron:

Good night!
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Mr Fab:

↳ Song: "Nov. 1st" by "Crackerbash"
Hello, Husker Du, we salute you!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:15pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @11:14
Absolutely, Mr. Fab!
Avatar 11:16pm
Mr Fab:

Much thanks to the most boss combo since Sonny & Cher: Austin and Heather!

And thanks to all of YOU who put us over the top. This Hellraiser is OVER. We resume our abnormal programming.
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