Best Plunderphonics Podcasts (2025)

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Noise - Episode September 18, 2025

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The Boys are back in town! Join Steve, Adrian and Chad as they kick out the jams on this episode of NOISE! Playlist: Tebby & The Heavy - Soothe Zabus - Zaum Uboa - Wasted Potential The Exit Bags - Her Ghost is Gone NECHT - ...And So Across The Bloody Lake We Did Sail In Silence Bicep, featuring Silla - Takkuuk Andrew Staniland - The Laws of Nature:…

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202: Transom 12:38

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A new composition of field recordings and a few notes. (part 3)By john wanzel

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Noise - Episode September 11, 2025

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Playlist: Big Thief - Incomprehensible Eliot Krimsky - Feel I'm Getting Closer Friendly Rich - Birds 40-76 Sarah Houston - Dancing Shadows Dirty Projectors, David Longstreth, stargaze - Uninhabitable Earth, Paragraph One Georgia Denham - to gwen, with love Martin Arnold, Quatuor Bozzini - Aberrare (Casting) 1 - 2 Marmots - Sheath and Knife Eric Che…

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The Curious Case of the Dungeons and Dragons Promotional Cassette 33:23

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Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon In this episode, we dare to enter Ross’s cherished domain: the tabletop role-playing game! We’re checking out “First Quest,” a 1985 promotional cassette released by TSR UK. The cassette features a wide variety of tracks from an eclectic collection of artists. The end result is a fascinating assortment of electro…

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Noise - Episode September 4, 2025

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Wait a minute.....there's a LEMON behind that rock! Playlist: Beverly Glenn-Copeland - Save The Children Eric Alexander - Wise One Greg Murphy - Pannonica Cory Weeds, Jerry Weldon - Toy Albare - Simplicity Aversions - Empty Century Bee Bee Sea - It's All About The Music TTTTurbo - Lassie Shirt Janitor Scum - Frigidaire Le Tigre - The The Empty Pupp…

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201: Threshold 18:55

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A new composition of field recordings and a few notes. (part 2)By john wanzel

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Noise - Episode August 28, 2025

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Remember - If you ever travel back in time, don't step on anything. Because even the tiniest change can alter the future in ways you can't imagine. Playlist: Jonathon Wilcke - Aspirin & Sucrets Andrew Staniland - Dancer Portraits: Dancer No. 2 Tebby & The Heavy - Razzle Dazzle POSTNAMERS - Shahnjirel Year of the Rabbit - KITTY JAY Kim Deal - Nobody…

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August New Music: Xeeland and Nmesh 43:20

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Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon It’s time for our August new music episode. This time there’s no obvious overarching theme between our picks so no clever episode title, sorry! We’re starting off with Master Builder by Xeeland, an album that takes you on an evocative journey through the horrors of brutalist architecture. Then we’re heading off …

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Noise - Episode August 21, 2025

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Playlist: Umlaut - Bite Your Tongue Jonah Yano - Romance ESL Issa Contractor - The KJL Dance Issah Contractor - Read the paper...... read the paper Dana and Alden - Melange FACT - IV Lingyuan Yang - Ritual Fire Arid Landscapes - The Dust Storm PJ Harvey - Legs Year of the Rabbit - I AM LIAM GALLAGHER'S SON Fencing - Dresses Jed Arbour - Walmart gal…

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Noise - Episode August 14, 2025

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Playlist: MASSIRRAYTORR - SLOW GARDEN Golomb - Other Side of the Earth Golomb - Dog Eye of Newt - Dateline Plum Wine Eye of Newt - Yoga Girls Get Off My Waterfall Sonic Youth - Sacred Trickster Sonic Youth - Female Mechanic Now On Duty Innerspear - I, Phone Eric Chenaux Trio - I've Always Said Love Friendly Rich - I Have Nothing to Say The Exit Bag…

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200: Door 11:27

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A new composition of field recordings and a few notes.By john wanzel

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A Dungeon Synth Picnic 34:14

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Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon In this episode, we’re finally breaking out the summer dungeon synth. But first we ask: what even is summer in music when freed from the burden of marketing and publicity? After that mild diversion, we chat about five dungeon synth albums that could, by some definition, evoke feelings appropriate for summer time…

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Summer Dungeon Synth? No, Summer and Dungeon Synth! 39:10

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Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon First of all, sorry for the hecked up timing of recent episode releases. Ross and I have both had family in town which makes sticking to our usual schedule a bit difficult. Things should be back to normal here shortly. Anyways! In this episode, Ross and I set out to find some new summer dungeon synth. That didn’…

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199: Holiday Weekend 13:47

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A summertime groove for this holiday weekend, or as close to one as I can make.By john wanzel

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Vibing with The Rat Man in Vermis 34:14

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Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon In this episode, we’re exploring one of our favorite metagenres: haunted media about media that never existed. This time, we’re delving into Vermis, a strategy guide for a game that doesn’t exist. It’s a beautiful and evocative collection of art and worldbuilding from the artist Plastiboo. We also check out the …

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June New Music: Suburbia After Dark and Vistas 37:52

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Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon It’s time for June new music explorations and in this episode Ross and Birk have once again shown up with two very different albums. We’re discussing Suburbia After Dark, a compelling sample-laden darkwave journey, and Vistas, an upbeat love letter to Frutiger Aero and all the tech you love from the 00’s. Grab y…

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198: Waxing Gibbous 14:51

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A reflective flute, the slow moving, the low bass rattles, the echoes, repeating, the slow draw of a bow over a cello. A time of great potential.By john wanzel

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Seeking More Sanctuary (Sanctuary 2025 Part Two) 42:16

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## Support TransOhio! In this episode, we’re back to checking out a bunch of great live and URL sets from Sanctuary 2025, a charity show for the TransOhio Emergency Fund organized by Nostalgia Lounge in March of 2025. We go through sets that cover everything from classic vaporwave, to house and techno, breakcore, and beyond. Join us on our musical …

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197: Left to Right – Right to Left 12:17

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Thinking back, talking a walk, and moving stones between pockets, stopGOstop is proud to present episode 197, Left to Right – Right to Left. One rock shifts to the left, one rock shifts to the right. Still I walk, still I move them, there’s been times… A multivoice monologue.By john wanzel

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May New Music: celadonDREAM Suite and ZIAD! 34:22

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Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon It’s time for us to gather around the Bandcamppole and celebrate the working artists of the world with our May new music episode. We’ve once again (completely unplanned!) have selected albums that represent both the comfort and the anxiety in vaporwave. First, we’re checking out the smooth and lush classic vapor…

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196: Tending to 38:56

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I woke up some years ago… and I ain’t sure I ever went back to sleep. Time got slippery. Lost its shape. Like water in your hands—no matter how tight you squeeze, it runs down the cracks, leaves you cold and wondering what you were trying to hold in the first place. Episode 196: Tending to. A monologue, a soundscape, a continuation of a story, and …

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A Sanctuary Sampler (Sanctuary 2025 Part One) 41:52

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Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon ## Support the TransOhio Emergency Fund In this episode, we’re starting our series covering as many IRL and URL sets as we can get our hands on from Sanctuary 2025. Sanctuary is a charity show put on by Nostalgia Lounge (run by Crystal Eternal) to raise money for the TransOhio Emergency Fund. It was a huge succe…

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195: To remember summer 16:52

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Episode 195, To remember summer. Not the first summer on a calendar, but the first summer in feeling. The one that seemed to stretch on forever. The one that felt full of joy, play, and discovery. Maybe it was real. Maybe it’s just a mix of memories, TV shows, and time. The clatter and rush of a roller coaster, the soft conversation of the crowd, t…

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Patreon Rerelease: Corporate Art and Vaporwave 42:54

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Hello! We’re starting a new project this month. We have almost 50 bonus episodes on our Patreon. The goal is to get these older bonus episodes out from behind the paywall. So travel back in time with us for poor recording setups, bad editing, out of date opinions, and so much more! Original Show Notes: Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon Well frie…

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194: From 32:26

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It starts with just a few notes, a hum of a choir—soft, hesitant—and moves gently, the wind blowing in the distance, low, dark waves of sound roll through, like deep ocean currents under the surface. The calm is broken, light tapping, distant and unclear. Ocean waves roll in and out, soft and steady in the background, mixing with the low hum of a w…

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An April New Music Sandwich 37:14

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Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon It’s time for our April New Music episode! This time around, we’re breaking the rules a bit by discussing three albums. Your three course meal starts with some classic USPS inspired vaporwave, moving on to an eclectic selection of chill experimental ambient before finishing things off with a moving tribute to th…

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193: Turn back now 26:47

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Lunar Orbiter 4 Image of the Moon, NASA We return to the story of Jonas and Kellen, now millions of miles apart, sending messages to each other. A team in the endless emptiness, patching together their space stations, and finding more than they expect. Changes, rewritten, modified. THE START OF EVERYTHING.…

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Listenin’ To listencorp 32:05

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Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon In this episode, we’re checking out listencorp, a long-running magazine that covers vaporwave and electronic music. Each of their six issues features long-form articles, artist interviews, album reviews, and a whole bunch of great art and graphic design. We read through all of them and sat down to discuss our fa…

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192: Motion, moving and no one owns it 34:11

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It starts with a spark. A small thing, barely there. Just a flicker of heat, of energy, but it’s enough. Enough to ignite the mix of air and fuel waiting in the chamber. Enough to turn that tiny explosion into movement. Moving, moving, always moving, progress has a price. stopGOstop presents The Ones That Pay, a monologue series delving into labor,…

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Japanese Ambient Explorations 32:13

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Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon You should know that this episode was divinely ordained. The Discogs article below was posted by a listener on our Patreon Discord at the precise moment Birk was listening to a related album and thinking about this episode topic. As a result, you have to listen to us work our way through the landscape of Japanes…

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191: The quarter still spins 18:27

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The work moves through my hands, at the end of the day they are empty. Who leaves here feeling insecure, the push and pull of deposits and debts, paycheck by paycheck, the machine hums, a life behind glass, counting, always counting. stopGOstop present The Ones That Pay, a series of monologues exploring labor, industry, and history. A mechanic refl…

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New Music: Cursed Mall and Blueberries on Mars 36:10

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Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon In this month’s new music episode, we’re exploring the anxiety/comfort duality in vaporwave as it appears across two amazing albums. Join us as we discuss the wonderfully anxiety-inducing Cursed Mall from AWITW and then go on a soothing cosmic voyage with Blueberries on Mars by 猫シ Corp. Shout Outs ninja tape by…

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190: Sitting with someone 26:49

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When your past is too painful, you do what you can to carry it without letting it drown you. A life behind the counter, a life full of listening to others. stopGOstop present The Ones That Pay, a series of monologues exploring labor, industry, and history. A mechanic reflects on machines (ep. 192), a bank teller traces the life of money(ep. 191), a…

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189: I used to walk faster 30:52

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You pour a cup of coffee, you hand it to them and then its there’s. The neon hums, the coffee drips, a women turns a sugar packet in her hands. On a piece of paper in a court house somewhere the world shifts. You can’t just ignore things forever, but isn’t that what we do. stopGOstop present The Ones That Pay, a series of monologues exploring labor…

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Passionate Plunderphonics 30:38

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Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon In this episode, we’re discussing the 2024 album Passion by D.J. VLK. This amazing display of plunderphonics is made entirely using samples from the forgotten paranormal soap opera “Passions.” We talk about the show itself, the plight of memory-holed media, and the exploration of others' memories through art. Th…

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188: I remember the line. 26:05

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A voice in the dark, a man on a drive, the static of the radio… a diner at the edge of a highway, a cup of coffee. Driving, driving, always driving. When the moment becomes just another memory. The road hums. stopGOstop present The Ones That Pay, a series of monologues exploring labor, industry, and history. A mechanic reflects on machines (ep. 192…

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Episode 310, Some Assembly Required 58:01

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www.some-assembly-required.net

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Episode 309, Some Assembly Required 57:01

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www.some-assembly-required.net/

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Solarpunk Exploration 34:06

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Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon In this episode we’re digging into Solarpunk, a multi-media art movement that aims to build a vision of a more optimistic future, free from the crushing doom of environmental collapse. We talk about the movement, some example media, and our thoughts on movements becoming aesthetics. So, come in from your rooftop…

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187: A Thousand little promises 29:09

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Tonight’s tale begins in the quiet hum of a clockmaker’s shop. A place where broken gears and forgotten hours find their second chance. But as you’ll soon discover, not all clocks are made to tell time. Some are built to trap it, twist it, or—if you’re not careful—bring it to a stop altogether. So, take a deep breath and listen closely. The gears a…

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186: The Lights Out There 15:54

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And then, there was the light. The fleeting, fragile light. A flicker at the edge of a memory, a dying sun at the end of a long shift. Ah, yes, the light—so stubborn, so fleeting, and yet it lingers in the cracks, doesn’t it? It reminds us that even in the moments we feel most lost, there’s a glow waiting for us. Not to save us, no—salvation is a l…

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New Music: 飑 and Apeiron 35:24

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Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon It’s time for our first new music episode of 2025! It’s getting cold and snowy where we live so we picked out some albums that fit our wintery mood. We’re covering an amazing slushwave compilation from Mom and Dad’s Computer & 愛 as well as an evocative dark cinematic album from Dhalia’s Tear. Albums Discussed 飑 …

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Episode 311, Some Assembly Required 58:01

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Merry Christmas, from Some Assembly Required

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Vaporwave Stocking Stuffers 34:24

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Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon We’re back! In this episode, we’re easing back into our recording schedule with a discussion of thirteen diverse albums spanning a wide range of Christmastude. From classic vaporwave to modern jazz, dark ambient to goth industrial, we delve into our musical stockings to uncover some new seasonal favorites. Outro…

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Episode 308, Some Assembly Required 58:01

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Some Assembly Required is an audio art show focused on works of audio appropriation. "Tape manipulations, digital deconstructions and turntable creations." www.some-assembly-required.net

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185: You will never see the end of the road 15:27

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Lunar Orbiter 4 Image of the Moon, NASA beyond the known, beyond the realms of Earth and its tethered horizons, maybe even beyond your comfort zone, to the silent reaches of the cosmos, stopGOstop is proud to present YOU WILL NEVER SEE THE END OF THE ROAD. This is a story of two brothers, twins, bound by more than blood and who have chosen to be di…

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The Neverending Discord Scroll 34:06

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Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon Announcement: Ross is going on vacation so this will be the only public episode this month. We may also miss one episode in December. Patreon episodes will continue as expected. Thanks for your understanding. In this episode, we’re getting back into some crowd-sourced crate digging. We’re scrolling back in time …

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Storming the Lego Castle 37:20

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Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon In this episode, we’re tossing the new music format out the Part 4444 2x5x6 Wall with Window so we can focus entirely on Lego Castle (1979-1998) by Dreamcastle™. This phenomenally ambitious concept album/experimental film explores childhood and nostalgia through the lens of Legos, video games, and imagination. A…

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184: An interlude 6:04

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I have been sitting here, longer than I can say. It started as just a pause to my day, but slowly, I stayed seated. the bugs at my window seem to be trying to reach the jade plants just inside. as I try to breathe the air. just outside. the light changes, my eyes adjust. the winds shift. I can see it in the trees. maybe tomorrow I will stand on the…

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Fighting the Satanic Panic 31:45

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Support Night Clerk Radio on Patreon In this episode, we delve into the Satanic Panic, which was the primo moral panic of the 1980s and 90s. Specifically, we’re looking at the Satanic Panic series of albums by Vacation Bible School. This series of five albums, like much of VBS’s work, navigates the conflicting emotions brought about by being raised…