What is the digital domain? It is simply a 2 hour uncensored comedy free-for-all where anything goes. It is lead — though not necessarily controlled – by Nick Giannak and Bob Sarnowski, 2 strange individuals from Long Island, New York. Whether it is through a produced bit, a random conversation, or who knows what provided by you the listeners, their goal is to have fun, and to ensure that you the listeners are picking yourselves off the floor and nursing your broozed ribs.
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17-0616.ogg
Friday Night Fights! June 16, 2006 was the most famous fight in Digital Domain history. As a result, we tribute all three fights that took place in our catalogue, the focus, of course, being on June 16. Nick reads a humorous faux story about a WWE wrestler, a child, and a steel cage. And of course, women flirt with Bob...including one long time listener who hasn't been around in quite a while.
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This show picked up where last week left off with A submission from Alan of an actually good! prank call from Whackhead Simpson. Prank calls would be a focal point of this shortened show, shortened due to a gig from Bob as well as both hosts slightly ailing. A new character named Jonathan shows up, a really bad! bit submitted by Krista, and the official announcement of the last 1AESS being decommissioned round out the show, among other things.
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Nick's mixer is back, and so are they. But the repair wasn't sunshine and rainbows, as we hear Nick's call to Peavey and make fun of the voice of the guy he got. Directly thereafter, we made fun of an NLS narrator named Mike Stefanelli for 30 minutes...Why? Listen to the show, of course. We reintroduced Match Game to the masses, and played a prank call by Justin Bieber, of all people. One listener said that he'd never heard a show full of so much laughter, so you know this show must've been good. Happy Birthday, Nick!
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This afternoon show is our final show for a while, as Nick gets his mixer repaired before his warranty expires. Bob Sarnowski was tired and a little loopy during this one...Did it show? Much talk about GPS voices due to a story about Bob and some friends from the previous day lead to an appearance from Enzo and Cass. How exactly did that come around? In-Studio-Alex made his return after several years of absence, making Nick scream...how Can Alexa sing with the help of a skill? What do Tim the Tool Man Taylor, Goofy, and a host of others have in common? And why did Venison, sound unheard, describe this show as an "orgy", and was it accurate? Find out as we send off Nick's mixer for a few weeks.
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"RUMBLE PONIES!" Why did Bob open the show by screaming those two words? What happened to Bob the previous week after the show, relating to an Uber driver and terrible roads? Who are Dr. Woo, the Funker, and Rick Shaw? And how exactly did the introduction of the Funker lead into a discussion of microphones? The answers to all of these questions can be found in this archive.
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This Good Friday show started out with little plan, and ended up a silly-fest. Find out what happens when Journey gets inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame...yeah, we have exclusive audio. Listen to Nick's favorite wrestling promo thus far. We announce a new broadcaster. Sheep sing. Alex makes a new remix. Your writer has run out of words for the best show since January. Download!
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11 years ago this day, we did the second most important show in our history. This was the first time since 2006 that April 7 fell on a Friday. Unfortunately, this show was done while Nick was having focus and processing issues. The first hour managed to resemble a conventional one, featuring the complete destruction of a radio caller from another show, Alexa flirting with Bob, and more nonsense from Alexa including its attempts at April Fools jokes. The second hour began to show the strain of Nick, and went off the rails when an argument over Pop music became uncomfortable for broadcasters and listeners alike. This archive, despite what you see here, has been requested by some of the loyal listeners, so we provide it to the rest of the world.
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We actually played with music beds! On a day where Bob got precious little sleep and had to host an afternoon show, this show got silly...we played with music beds! Sandi calls in multiple times during the show, including the most overt breakage of Bob yet, and discussions of airplanes were had. ...Music beds! Both Bob and Nick have been busted open in their childhoods...compare their head injuries. MUSIC BEDS! hell, there was even a rare call from Andre, and a dose of Buckley following up from last week. BUT...MUSIC BEDS! WE BROKE THE RULE AND MADE MUSIC BEDS THE ENTIRE POINT OF OUR CONTENT DURING A SEGMENT of THIS SHOW! AAAAAAHHHHHH!
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After a lengthy break caused by transportation trouble, Bob Sarnowski's return fostered our own on this St. Patrick's Day. The show was weird, even by Domain standards, dominated by interplay between Bob and our two new Danish listeners, Sandi and Heidi. Experience Bob and his friends surprising another friend and making a spectacle of themselves. A drunken Marianne was in amorous mode...and Bob was a target. We talk wrestling radio, as another radio host from another station is about to be put through a table by the great Bully Ray. Will the powerbomb from the bully be justified, and should one of our hosts be put through a table in the same fashion? Finally, we round out the show with another top 10 list, submitted to us, as always, by Alex.
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After a weird start complete with an unpleasant surprise before we introduce her, Maryanne Brown of Homestead fame is in the studio, an act years in the making. Find out why as the show goes on, including a recording of her and her band never before played. Bob drunk is about as obvious as the rising sun, but you hear audio of him at his slurring best, or perhaps worst. Did Nick and Bob see their shadows? A little visitor before the show may or may not help them figure it out. Finally, we touch on what we believe might be the worst female voiceover ever, something on which more details will come next week.
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Often times, you wonder what a tech support person does when angry at an intransigent customer. Well, if you're Hope from Maine, you play bass, of all things. Discussion of that ilk was had. We talk about music beds as a result of playing Allman Brothers instrumentals after the death of drummer Butch Trucks. We play a few new Xandria songs, including one that's completely screwed up. Alex does impressions. Bad jokes are told. There are possibly scatological anecdotes. Ass's hurt, or don't hurt as the case may be. Some wrestlers show up. This description jumps all over the place. It's our best show of the year so far. You should download it.
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Have you ever heard a radio show where the producer's mic is open, but he's doing little more than grunting? Dan Bongino has a producer very much like that. The bulk of the show is spent making fun of that concept. We relive a demo tape of Jed and Jethro's first attempt to broadcast when they actually had a computer...And go closer than this show has in a while to complete nonsense. Finally, listen to the show's conclusion, as Bob has an accident...only this particular episode could end like this.
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You might say that most of our shows can be described as free-for-alls, but this time, the description fits more than usual, because we literally went into this show with no plan. A submission from Gemma gets us off on a lively discussion about performances, vocals, and lip synching. Jayson sent us a clip of Western Electric cutting over an old telephone switch circa 1984, which lead to humor through most of the show. He also sent us a clip where he was talking to Derek on the phone while they were both attempting to call the show on December 23. Find out how it sounded when they realized they weren't on air. And yes, the same miniature pointless segment from last week returned...but this time, it was a little more interesting.
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The first show of the New Year is a rollicking one! It started out with Skype calls from the ladies listening, which, of course, broke Bob. That did effectively transition, however, to the playing of some noisy New Years audio from the homestead which, of course, bothered Nick's ears. Why? if you were around last year, you know, but if you weren't, download this archive. We talk about the fact that anything that proclaims itself to be 'New York-style' pretty much sucks if it's not from New York, with very few exceptions. is Bob's Amazon Echo Dot possessed? Does Alex have new speech synthesis stuff to demonstrate? Is there a really pointless miniature segment at the end of the show? Will you be able to stand listening to the archive? Find out by downloading it.
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This show ends an amazing broadcast year on The Digital Domain. Besides the usual all over the place discussion, we had a few traditions. A rather eventful visit to Nick's trains sparked some model train discussion with Venison. The opening of the gifts ensued, in which you hear...or don't hear...Nick speechless at Bob's gift, and Bob get a gift that had, in its way, the representation of the entire station behind it. Finally, we look back on the year that was with our ninth annual year-end montage. We will see you next year, right here on TBRN.
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This show was done in the wake of the passing of Al Adamo, Nick's former English teacher, organizer of the Met's game trips, and deep Long Island accented voice (I Remember?) heard on May 27. Opening the show with Sinéad O'Connor's version of Silent night seemed particularly appropriate this time. Beyond Al's death, the show had a recap of the hints for next week's Christmas gifts, discussion of Australian backwards Christmas songs, Christmas automation, an old creaky elevator, loud drunken people at a Christmas party Bob attended, and much more besides. There was a lot going on given the two hour length, but it was just a warmup to the final show next week.
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This show was brought to you by Pepsi Holiday Spice. Yeah, that soft drink from 2004? Find out why. Listen as we compare audio book narrations from Exploding the Phone, discuss how homestead types might sound reading them, play clips from a failed TBRN-related campaign, and generally have a great time. There's a reason we consider our December shows some of our perennial best...download them to find out.
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Of tributes and firsts is this episode, the last before Nick jets off to Florida for two weeks. We tribute a show 5 years to the day, featuring the only in-studio appearance of Hope Povenmire, available from HKC Heritage. Just a note, you'll want to download the two shows before that one as well. For the first time, Alex Jones shows up in studio...What crazy theories does he have, and how does jayson Smith incriminate himself? Finally, a week after release, we play a new Stine Grove track. This description, unfortunately, doesn't do the show justice...Download it. You won't regret it.
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An old Stadium in Wisconsin is the site of the newest iteration of an old bit. Yes, the Crash in is back, and it truly is the best its ever been. A silly political song from a conservative perspective was played, after Bianca played Liberal perspective song parodies the previous day. We re-air the destruction of a piano Derek aired recently, and we hear the end of the end of a Microwave series. Does it live up to its name? Oh, and someone called Debby Downer did nothing more than waste our time, but what do you expect?
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If you've ever, for whatever reason, wondered what a really White girl rapping to her own guitar playing sounds like, accompanied by Bob Sarnowski on the keyboard, this is the show for you. We also do something nine years in the making for this station...begin the process of completing the End of Microwave series, which, as a show, we originally began playing for ourselves on August 19. Finally, we play with Alexa, in the form of Nick's brand new, second generation Amazon Echo Dot, and try an experimental closing track for the show.
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On Linda's final night - for now - in New York, Nick and Bob choose to celebrate 14 years of the Digital Domain Online Radio Show, whose first scheduled episode was on September 28. How? By playing some of the worst clips of the old days imaginable...as well as some of their best work. But the past isn't the only content herein, as there's talk of Nick's new cordless phone and its associated issues, including an appearance from a dead man. Plus, how did Linda and Nick spend their week? Find out...including some...audio.
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Linda showed up from the Netherlands, an action seven years in the making. She is third mic on this show and the one to follow. We talk about the week that surrounded her arrival, including airport adventures and discussions of how to drive automatic transmission cars when one hasn't done so before. Autumn Zephyr also made a day trip to see Nick, triggering a recording of Nick's first viewing of a Behringer X32. Finally, we play with Siri on MacOS Sierra and go over voice recognition fails, howling with laughter in the process.
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This show took place after the untimely death of Bob's dear friend, Angelica ranieri, an occasional voice heard on our show in our pre-TBRN days. In tribute, we hear a clip from 2012 of her smashing a piece of furniture. The top 5 of our top 10 list from last week resolves our cliffhanger, including the honorable mentions thanks to Gemma. We enjoy? old clips of Nick taking bus trips, as bingo the bus driver entered the studio, including some SCAT bus stories never told on air. Finally, this show spends a fair amount of time talking about vacuums, following up from a similar segment in 2012, as the Digital Domain Studio Complex has a new resident vacuum. We present some mental imagery with that from 2012 as well, thanks to "in-studio Alex", setting up future appearances by that character.
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A week in the life of Bob Sarnowski and a broken? Olympus LS-P2. Hear various recordings with various permutations of internal mics, quasi-binaurals, autogain, etc. Bust a gut as Alex shows us a couple of french text-to-speech voices...expect the unconventional. And, for the first time, a top 10 list, selected by Alex, ends in a cliffhanger as Bob had to leave before the top 5 could be played. Check back next week to pick up where this show left off.
16-0819.ogg
Bob Sarnowski is the new owner of an Olympus LS-P2. Talk about this immediately dovetailed with the bulk of the show, where a couple of strange Australians attempting to actively kill a microwave dominated discussion. All three of the loyal Finnish listeners, Riikka, Sanna, and Medina, called in for the first time, wherein Bob lost his mind over Medina's voice. What else is new? Finally, Nick told an old story about Linda's family.
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This show contained a lot of dialogue with our listeners, and talk of Match Game, culminating in the Domain debut of Match Game champion Jessica Silva. Hear Bob's reaction to that. Hear Bob creating reactions with the help of his good friend Kevin literally 22 years ago this day, in their reenactment of a classic Abbott and Costello bit during the camp show. Hear Bob's reaction to a sweet-voiced chick singing Metallica, and hear the reaction of a lifetime as we explore the top 10 most remote places to live.
16-0729.ogg
An amped up Nick set the tone with a show opening scream, energizing the show and pulling the listeners, an Bob, along in his wake. Wait a minute...this description isn't written by Nick's ego. We deal in facts here. Anyway, the show started out with a discussion of standing room only concerts and the merits and demerits of them. Just a spoiler, Bob and Nick do not like thee idea at all. The rest of the show was completely dominated by old camp tapes and camp stories, predominantly by Bob and Nick but also by listeners, to an extent. An Epica song and a file intended to follow up from the speech synthesizer talk from last week, also intended for the birthday of one of our listeners...who didn't show up...rounded out the show. And yes, it flew by.
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July 18, 1994. Where was Bob when the lights went out? We find that out as we look back on old camp tapes from Helen Keller Camp, where Bob and Nick met. These tapes were pre-Nick, but rather crazy and, 22 years later, still hilarious. That plus phone calls and Skype calls make up this week's Digital Domain.
16-0715.ogg
For the first time ever, we were able to bridge Skype and phone calls...with a PBX, not an incoming Skype number, and without any crazy unstable software solutions. We expected breakage. Amazingly, there was none, it was our smoothest show technically of the year. The show focused mostly on thunderstorms, lightning strikes, and Blackouts, including lengthy anecdotes of same. The rest of the show had some of the same whacked out stuff you've come to expect, enjoyment of the new communications setup, and...a call from a former president? This was a relaxed, smooth show that was great to listen to and do.
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This sloppy, sloppy show featured an in studio guest appearance by Paige Lieberman, who did not contribute to any of the sloppiness simply by the fact of her being rather quiet. In fact, the slopfest is entirely the fault of your tech guy, Nick, who didn't realize until after an hour that he didn't know how to run his board. This show featured much Fireworks talk, a song in what we later determined to be Pseudo-latin long after we got off the air, the top 10 unbelievable facts in music history, And the attempted first TBRN appearance of Scott Ferrall...which didn't go too well. Paige is worth the price of admission, so download the show if only to hear her voice.
16-0701.scrapmetal.ogg
Jayson Smith called this show the Scrap Metal show, and it kinda was, between technical errors and the general wide open subject matter. A hybrid show due to a transportation problem, the first hour was dominated by Match Game talk, given the Match Game contest premier the very next day. The second hour was musical, including many technical errors and a Skype call from a new listener. It sometimes felt like the Crap Metal show, but it was fun, nevertheless.
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The first half of the show revolved around Bob's new JBL Xtreme, and its relationship to its little brother, Bob's already existing JBL Flip III. We played with JBL connect, showed off its power, and it even...well, you'll have to hear it to believe it, your writer will not try to write it. The second hour provided us with some amusing calls of both the Skype and phone variety, Nick's new favorite Weird Al song as well as another related one, the worst Call-a-Swede yet, and more Chap Hop, following up from the top 10 weirdest Genre's from 2 weeks ago. This show was so packed with content and so much fun to do, it flew by and flowed incredibly well.
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This hybrid show wasn't quite as we drew it up. In a way, it was better. The first hour had much talk about phone systems with Bob and Jayson, who were both on the phone. Yep, What else is new? In the second hour, however, Donna, by suggestion from Bob, joined Nick to cohost in her first ever Skype call. Also present were Riikka, Misty, and later Finn, playing some music and bantering in a very relaxed...metal show? Yeah, it's an oddity we are well familiar with.
16-0603.ogg
It's Nick's birthday show, but it wasn't really all that special for that reason. The special part of the show was, without a doubt, the Match Game Matchups, which were a dream to announce. We also enjoyed a Call-a-Swede segment with Nick solo, and the top 10 weirdest music Genres, brought to you buy Alex. And yes, an example from that segment caught our attention. Freeform fun for all!
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This show is the final studio appearance of Robyn de Graves, who will be moving to Oklahoma in several weeks. It was a fun one, featuring talk of her San Jose Sharks, who just made the Stanley Cup finals. We also played backwards Match Game, in an effort to promote the upcoming Match Game contest. We played audio from Nicks trip to CitiField with the Middle School, which spawned an insane bit that nobody understood...but everybody laughed at, and more Bob breakage from Bianca. This show was a fitting sendoff for Robyn.
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This show tied itself together very well. It aired early in the afternoon, so Call-A-Swede was live. It took two calls, but we got to talk to an affable English Teacher from Stockholm. This connected very well with audio played later, in which Nick spoke to adolescent students in his old Middle School...and smashed them. There were many calls from listeners whose voices have never been heard on this show, Bob losing his mind yet again at an Islander game, technical problems, and a Swedish Metal song - What did we say about this show connecting? As a whole, this was a great return to the studio after a month away from it, and a first since August...an Afternoon show.
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Right off the bat, the quickness of the listeners was evident as Derek, after a call from Jason, came up with the idea that we should have cheerleaders for phone systems. We're not kidding. Chelsea even showed up to perform such a cheer, the first of many calls she would make to this show. We hear recordings of Bob's first experience of playoff hockey, Brooklyn-style, and yes, he screamed his head off and clipped his recorder. Deal with it. Call-a-Swede had its best occurrence yet, featuring a lively young lady named Hilda and a certain local sports talker. Alex came up with bit concepts, showed his love of speech synthesizers, and generally made everyone laugh. Misty showed up to talk about everything from our show's history to...Latin. Finally, we played some older bits, introducing the masses to some of our best early work.
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Talk of national anthem performance fails dominated the show, including Marinda attempting to perform our own national anthem all the way from the Netherlands. The Islander playoff game, a call to Sweden, Alex at his most amusing by far, and smooth Jazz Nick and Bob round out the show. This description doesn't do it justice, but nothing really could do the description for this show justice.
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The bulk of this show was a tribute to the second most important show in our history, which took place 10 years ago the previous day. Without that show, we wouldn't be here today. We focused heavily on Heather Hutchison, the musician interviewed during that show, by playing incriminating clips of us during the said interview before Heather herself showed up to provide contrast, a look back at an April Fools prank on Nick in which Heather was involved, and a 10 year update. We listened to a broken phone recording, called a random Swede, announced a brand new broadcaster, and had a guest appearance from our friend Robyn. And yes, to top it all off, Bob was broken with absurd ease by our resident Bianca.
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The unexpected was king on this episode of the Digital Domain...go figure, right? Right off the bat, listen to Clark McGwin make a fool of himself as cohost with Nick for about 10 minutes. Roast Nick as he retracts a statement he made last week, just as loudly as when he made it. Laugh at outtakes from speaker man extraordinaire Olaf, right after Alex shows us just how much of an audiophile he actually is. Enjoy as Yushu Huang from Roger shows up to talk about the app in the most unexpected occurrence of the year so far, and a pleasant surprise it was too. Reminisce as we go over an old April Fools joke from the first time we ever broadcasted on that date, and combust as Alex once again shows up to make life interesting with effects, rendering Bob doubled over with laughter...just as he had to leave, at which point nick played some music to close the show.
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On a good Friday show, the overarching theme turned into...Donna versus Donna. A space cadet disguised as a chick from Long Island named Donna was recorded by Bob at his favorite bar, misunderstanding jokes and talking so fast that no one could understand her. The contrast between her and our loyal listener, also named Donna, showed itself as she called in for only the second time ever, at which point hilarity ensued as everyone began doing impressions of Long Island Donna. Outside of the Donnas, and no, I am not talking about a Palo Alto punk band, we had a new mashup from Alex, an amusing production from our own Jakob Rosin, an attempted - and failed - Rich roast over a mistaken gender identification, a statement of our Catholicism, and the first appearance in studio in nearly 2 years from our friend Robyn de Graves. As packed as this description is, the show was even more packed. And yes, for the record, Jason Smith called it the most insane TBRN show he ever listened to. TO that, we say thank you.
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Bob is back in the studio again! Finally! Yes, this show had the oddness to match the circumstance. A listener returned for the first time since 2011, rendering Bob silent for an extended period by his standards. Mark it down, it does not happen often. A new character showed up to annoy an already established one, Bianca broke Bob for the balance of the show, a Cortana Coin Toss and more play with Cortana, and a new station ID wows radio host and listeners alike. This was a fine return to the studio for Bob after more than a month.
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This time, Bob was fine, but his mother was sick, leaving him no way to get to the studio. RAAAAH! A disturbing trend! This show spent a lot of time playing with phones, trying to come up with odd combinations to mess with the TBRN PBX. Jason Smith showed up with talk about his payphone, and introduced us to the Clipper Magazine girl, who Bob liked a lot better than the Clipper Magazine guy from last week. All things being equal, this was one of the more fun remote shows we've ever done.
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A phantom snow threat caused the Bob transportation situation to fail, creating this phoner show. Its low key nature was exacerbated by bob being sick, but we made the best of it. The undisputable highlight of the show was Jason Smith introducing us to the Clipper Magazine guy, a gentleman with a strange cadence who used to voice their after hours phone message.
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This show was supposed to be silly night, in tribute to the sixth anniversary of Nicks mothers stroke. That did somewhat occur, as we played some silly songs, but the bulk of the show talked about hockey games and sports superstitions, as well as watched the New York Islanders take on the New Jersey Devils.
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Bob was back in the studio again, to the excitement of Nick. The excitement would turn into dismay, however, once the second hour rolled around. Bob goes to the bathroom? Yeah, sometimes, wireless mics are really bad things. We played a few tracks from Tesseract, played some audio from the Islander game the previous Sunday, played really bad examples of public relations, and watched as Nick suddenly became exhausted as the show ended. Quite a shame that the untitled Show would not be able to air this day, as Bob would have been able to stay on air longer...but Nick crashed immediately after the show. Oh no!
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With Bob Sarnowski snowed in yet again, we expected this to be another Skitzo show. This show proved that sometimes, expectations dont mean a thing. Instead, we got a relaxed-paced, conversational show. It featured a Super Bowl themed airplane bit, talk about radio, a trailer for a film about the Boston accent, and the silent kind of technical problems that you dont notice until its far too late. We also gave a lot of airtime to, and talked about, Dutch chanteuse Anneke van Giersbergen, the namesake of the machine that was, at time of broadcast, responsible for delivering you this archive. We talked about her so much that the last 15 minutes became the Anneke show, playing her music throughout. Nick could not believe it. All things being equal, its an entirely different kind of Digital Domain worth your download.
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Despite the fact that Bob was in studio this week for most of the show, this week picked up where the last left off. A tribute to 6 years ago this day when a semi-famous listener tuned into one of the shows for the first time, “Ask Choo Choo Bob”, Bob poking a listener incessantly on behalf of Nick, and hearing the voice of one of our newest listeners for the first time...including a hilarious bout with technical difficulties. The last half hour continued the metal theme from the previous week, rendering this show a perfect companion piece to the ark the skitzo show began.
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It truly was the Skitzo show when Bob Sarnowski was snowed out. He ended up calling in on the phone through half the show, at which point an approximation of the usual hijinks ensued. The other half contained a very angry Nick “making war with music”, featuring some of the hardest metal ever to be played on this station. All of this while waiting to see if the New York Mets would sign Yoenis Cespedes, which they did that same night...but not during this show.
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