Owner: Turetzky Syndrome URL:http://www.turetzkysyndrome.com Join Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 21:08:25 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: Stories of my adventures in the comedy music biz, as I perform tunes heard on the Sirius Radio Howard 101 and Raw Dog Comedy channels, the Dr. Demento Show, National Lampoon Radio and the Podsafe Music Network. Site statistics:Click here
Knitting Time Together: 'Morris The Cat' 2007-05-07 03:20:47 Knitting Time Together, Episode 4
Date: April 25, 2007
Full episode: From Norway To Tacoma
Summary: I'm glad I have at least one nice song around to offer to nice podcasts such as Theresa's fledgling Knitting Time Together.
This week, Theresa played The Ballad Of Morris
The Cat as a tribute to her undersupervised pet Franky, who somehow survived a shocking incident where he stuck his head inside a bottle.
"This is The Ballad of Morris The Cat, by Ken Tur-zee-ky?" Theresa offers, contributing yet another novel pronunciation of my last name to the expanding list.
No batteries required
But there's also a nice interview about knitting and embroidery from Norway with a lady named Gloria, who lives in the nursing home where Theresa helps out as a volunteer. Did I mention how nice of a podcast this was?
Next, Theresa reads letters from fans of the show. "I had some questions answered by Angel," she says. "In response to the question, 'What's the strangest thing you ever crocheted Read more:Knitting
Schnauzer Logic: Who's your doctah? 2007-04-21 08:19:48 Schnauzer Logic
, Episode 49
Date: March 29, 2007
Full episode: Schnauzer Logic, Episode 49
Summary: Host Robin Goldstein is back after three weeks off to rest her surgically repaired brain, and I'm called in to consult on my own recent experiences with the health care system. Today we learn that CT scans are freakin' hilarious!
But what the heck, we're all Jews here, or we've all at least had the sniffles at one time or another. Doctors are our favorite topic.
And then the laughter died
Before the fun gets out of hand, though, entertainment reporter Jason Nathanson joins the conversation from Hollywood to dissect some casualties from the TV networks' spring schedules. Andy Richter, anyone?
But soon we're back on familiar ground. Should John Edwards quit his presidential campaign and stay home to nurse wife Elizabeth, who's been diagnosed with cancer? Does Katie Couric have a nose for news, or is she even all that cute any more? When did the laughter die at CBS?
Finally,
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Snark Infested Waters: 'If They Found Me Dead'
Taylor Kent is comfortable with his faith and tempers the Snark Infested Waters podcast's religious theme with a healthy irreverence. Or maybe that's just his cynical plan to convert the unbelievers. Here, he spins 'If They Found Me Dead' by Ken Turetzky
Big Phil's Love Parade: 'Her Shit Don't Stink' 2007-04-20 02:53:07 Big Phil's Parade
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, Show 107
Date: April 5, 2007.
Full episode: Show 76: I Stink
, Therefore I Am
Summary: Big Phil's in the bathroom this week, making moist, airy sounds while "The Morning Poop" drones in the background, ostensibly dissecting the humanitarian crisis in Darfur.
Her Shit Don't Stink has never been so embarrassed by its surroundings. Whatever would inspire a program host to abuse my tender love song in such a manner? Surely not the title.
Thankfully, Big Phil refrains from blasting another wet one until the last note fades.
He follows up with a theme-appropriate melody from from Lynn Julian, If Farts Were Made of Super Ball Stuff.
Finally, a noticeably mellow Phil stumbles over the credits: "We heard from Ken Turzetzky...."
He'll be here all week, folks.
Listen: (0:45).
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Manic Mondays: 'Today Was A Very Good Day'
Tom Rockwell's Manic Mondays is the rare Dr. Demento-spawned podcast whose host is himself an accomplished Demento artist. This week, Rockwell (front man for the comedy hip-hop act Sudden Death) features 'Today Was A Very Good Day' by Ken Turetzky.
Snark Infested Waters: 'If They Found Me Dead' 2007-04-19 02:05:16 Snark Infested Waters
, Show 107
Date: April 3, 2007
Full episode: J. David Baker, creator of RSTC
Summary: Taylor Kent is comfortable with his faith and tempers Snark Infested Waters' religious message with a healthy irreverence. Or maybe that's just his cynical plan to convert the unbelievers.
But I'm hooked. Where do I sign up to meet Jesus? This edition marks a satisfying return to the podcast, which featured The Ballad Of Morris The Cat on January 11 as part of Episode 107.
Telephone guest J. David Baker, director of Reserve Spy Training Corps, consumes most of the program. He's seeking a mainstream audience for his "Christian Spy Thriller," and good luck with that.
Then: "We're gonna close with a great song by Ken Turetz," Kent says, introducing If They Found Me Dead and shortening my last name to two syllables.
I've always considered the number, which closes my EP, to be an appropriate exit tune. This Snarky guy really gets my stuff.
Listen: (0:43) Read more:Snark
New Stern Show Network site feeds Howard dialogue 2007-03-08 06:45:46 The HowardStern
Show's rallying cry on uncensored Sirius Satellite Radio is "No more bullshit."
Meanwhile, the fledgling Stern Show Network declares "No more censorship." Yet the claim is made not in defiance of FCC censorship or meddling terrestrial radio executives, but in challenge to a rival bulletin board's perceived suppression of critical debate concerning their mutual hero.
Is free speech really worth all of this trouble?
Dueling fan sites
TSSN founder Mike (aka That Computer Dude) touts the new board as "a site for the fans, by the fans." He preaches tolerance for divergent points of view while providing capacity for 2,000 simultaneous visitors. (Some 641 people had signed up as of late March 7.)
In contrast, Stern Fan Network lists more than 122,000 members — as well as a reputation for stifling those who dare to criticize the Stern show.
With both a title and mission statement uncomfortably similar to SFN's (italics added) "For fans, by fans: We pic Read more:dialogue
Schnauzer Logic: Happy Fuckin' Anniversary 2007-02-06 02:38:36 Schnauzer Logic
, Episode 44
Date: February 1, 2007
Full episode: Schnauzer Logic, Episode 44
Summary: Schnauzer Logic celebrated its first anniversary on February 1, and in typical insecure faux celebrity fashion, I dropped a very special greeting in host Robin Diane Goldstein's voice mailbox.
"We love Ken Turetzky. He's the half-brother from the other mother we never knew we had," Robin said in response, providing the affirmation I so desperately need.
Just say no to regressive radio
Robin has been considering an offer to share the podcast with her former radio home, KSCO in Santa Cruz, Calif. I've advised against the move on the grounds that my trademark phrase, "cocksucker motherfucker!", would be bleeped on FCC-patrolled terrestrial radio.
Schnauzer Logic, in fact, with more than 1,000 weekly listeners, is more successful than many local radio programs.
Given the choice of timid, ad-polluted "free" radio or free-flowing, uncensored, grown-up podcast conversation, I cont Read more:Anniversary
, Fuckin
, Happy
Artiesondrugs.com intervenes to save Stern funnyman 2007-01-30 07:01:18 Loveable trans-fat freak Artie Lange, a cast member on the Howard Stern
Show for the past five years, has ruefully noted his flirtation with intoxicating substances, among them Jack Daniel's, cocaine, pancakes and more recently, heroin.
The Horse is a comedy rock god's pedigree. But fans fear that Lange is emulating his hero and lookalike, John Belushi, who died in 1982 of a heroin overdose at the age of 33.
Now, purely in the spirit of altruism, a Stern show fan named Russ has created ArtiesOnDrugs.com in order to "track all the signs that Artie Lange's on drugs."
Through the site, Russ hopes to enlist the efforts of Stern's army of loyal listeners and obsessive kibbitzers (see Welcome, Robinswrong.com) to preserve the life of this vital entertainer. "With everyone's combined efforts," Russ says, "we can make a difference."
Hyper Nonsense: Sirius Radio voting scandal! 2007-01-13 09:03:12 Hyper Nonsense
, Episode 56
Date: January 12, 2007.
Full episode: Too shy to party
Summary: This week, Shawno tells a long and pitiable story about how he brought a meat-and-cheese platter to a party and believed that everyone was laughing at him.
But the mood brightens considerably when, fireside chat-style, Shawno reads an extended excerpt from my memorable blog entry, Diebold, Sirius
declare fini
to countdown show fiasco. In a note of podcast brotherhood, he strongly backs the Turetzky team.
Jen closes with an episode of As the type moves, in which she mockingly reads from some other poor schmuck's Live Journal:
Sometimes I think that it's not necessarily you that I miss, but the feeling I had when I was around you…You don't understand how long I've waited for, well, you — or someone like you…
I've prayed for someone who would make me feel less alone. I'm so tired of myself…There's so much I wish you knew. So much I want you to know Read more:Radio
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