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Show:
Chaos: Live!
Time:
Saturdays, 4 to 6 PM
Genre:
Freeform
Website:
Favorite Artists:
They Might Be Giants, Eels, Sw!ms, Okay Paddy, Minus Five, Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, People Like Us, The A-Sides, Chumbawamba, Piffle Princess, anything related to Elephant 6, Joanna Newsom, Tom Waits, My Dad Is A Dinosaur, some random J-Pop disasters, Shooby Taylor, and anything else that ticks off the people who are waiting for the urban shows to start. All accordions are welcome.
The program everybody loves to hate/not listen to/get drunk to enters its death throes, as the pathetic state of the Scranton job market threatens to send the show spiraling into the WUSR Saturday Brain-Drain Dustbin, joining fellow Scrantonia evacuees (well, evacuee and attempted evacuee) Pirate Radio and Scranton vs. The World. Join in on the descent to radio obscurity!
What the critics are saying about "Chaos: Live!":
I never thought that any radio show could ever make me wish that radio was never invented. "Chaos: Live!" has proven that notion to be very, very wrong.
--Michael J. Fox, Nintendo Power
This show is quite possibly the dumbest, must repugnant and self-indulgent piece of tripe that my ears have ever had the misfortune of hearing. My only hope is that one day the host will be tied to a chair and forced to listen to his own putrid attempts at broadcasting.
--Brett Somers, Soldier of Fortune
Given a choice between having to listen to this show again and slowly gnawing my own foot off, all I would have to say would be 'Pass the salt!'
--Gilbert Gottfried, Highlights for Children
Stupid, banal, and downright pathetic. If this is the best that college radio can do these days, then the world can use some more Clear Channel top-40 stations.
--Naoko Takeuchi, The Christian Science Monitor
Fun facts about The Other Guy:
- Most episodes of "Chaos: Live!" consist of approximately two minutes of sitting around, followed by thirty seconds of running around the broadcast booth screaming frantically, trying to figure out what to play next as the current song is ending. Lather, rinse, repeat.
- Had to have a truck bay installed in the WUSR studios so he could drag in his entire CD collection every week and play a grand total of ten songs from it.
- Former Secretary General of the United Nations, 1987-1992.
- Is the WUSR Webmaster, which means that he can plant incriminating evidence in Brian Carpenter's DJ Profile whenever he wants. As if his jokes weren't incriminating enough.
- Has been elected independent candidate for Paddington.
- Very low in sodium.
- Will soon be sued by the people at Broccoli for the numerous on-air atrocities he has committed against the Galaxy Angel theme. Will then be sued by the rest of the world when it is revealed that he is always dressed like Ranpha when he commits said atrocities.
- Is consistently amazed at how highly Google ranks this profile in all Galaxy Angel-related searches due to the previous point.
- Does not shed.
- Ponytail is prehensile.
- On the radio, he may sound like the single most pathetic person you will ever encounter. However, in real life, he is actually... the single most pathetic person you will ever encounter.
- Wishes he had majored in punditry, as that seems to be the only career path that's viable right now.
- Pitched a perfect game for the Detroit Tigers on August 4, 1933.
And, because Brian Carpenter is constantly requesting it to the point of me wanting to just scream in agony (although just being around Brian Carpenter is in itself enough to make you scream), here is a list of all the previous hosts of Chaos: Live! through January 2009. Enjoy, and all that.
(Photo by gretchen robinette)
Playlists for The Other Guy:
- November 14, 2009 | I don't want no gov'ment takin' away my constitut'nal right to get sick from unregulated clams, and die 'cuz my health insurance dropped my coverage 'cuz I fell off a bike when I was six! DON'T TREAD ON ME!!!!!!111one (w/ guest host Nina Kulagina)
- November 07, 2009 | More talk, less parking. (w/ guest host St. Vitus)
- October 31, 2009 | Today's Programme (w/ guest host The Horseless Headman)
- October 24, 2009 | In which a college radio DJ's dreams reveal the horrid truth behind former local TV news personalities' bad tastes in music. (w/ guest host Granny Smith)
- October 17, 2009 | Activities to avoid while on a train platform. (w/ guest host Taiga Aisaka)
- October 10, 2009 | 1,001 illegal activities you can engage in using clown suits! (w/ guest host Fear and Loathing)
- October 03, 2009 | In the name of the Mohn, I will punish you! (w/ guest host Colonel Lemuel Q. Stoopnagle)
- September 26, 2009 | WUSR: Your home for disappearing equipment and disappearing DJs. (w/ guest host L.L. Cool Bean
- September 19, 2009 | All I want is to walk in the basement and listen to music. That's all I want out of life. Today's show sponsored by the National Salami Council. Salami: It's Some Kind of Meat™. (w/ guest host Trajan)
- September 12, 2009 | WUSR: Touching and Menacing Our Listeners Daily (w/ guest host Fulcanelli)
- September 05, 2009 | The Eighth Annual "Hopped Up on Cannoli" Show. (w/ guest host Arthur Hornblow, Jr.)
- August 29, 2009 | Not entirely sure that this isn't Flummox-A-Frosh 2009. (w/ guest host Harley, Son of David)
- August 22, 2009 | Flummox-A-Frosh 2009! Or, college radio DJs really shouldn't need bodyguards... (w/ guest host Hugh Nanton Romney)
- August 15, 2009 | This week, on "Echoes"... (w/ guest host Art Deco)
- August 08, 2009 | WUSR: Listen or we'll clock you! (w/ guest host Dmitri Mendeleev)
- August 01, 2009 | Much like Boston is Scranton with clams, outer space is like Scranton with zero gravity. (w/ guest host United States Handicapper General Diana Moon Glampers)
- July 25, 2009 | WUSR: It Comes Up Faster Than Denny's (w/ guest host Levy Izhak Rosenbaum)
- July 18, 2009 | Faculty approved! (w/ guest host Ralph Amendolaro)
- July 11, 2009 | Yet more ranting about Captain EO, or, Step 1: Push buttons, Step 2: Hope. (w/ guest host Xenon Tetrafluoride)
- July 04, 2009 | Cooking with TJ and AJ: Coming this fall to WUSR! (w/ guest host Rebecca Miyamoto)
- June 27, 2009 | And as of 5:33:07 EDT, Michael Jackson... is still dead. NOW WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE TELL THIS TO THE TV NEWS PEOPLE???! (w/ guest host Bubbles the Chimp)
- June 20, 2009 | WUSR: Radio that's in a sustained state of decay, like the Colosseum. Or, Twitter actually manages to gain legitimacy. Thanks a lot, Iran. (w/ guest host Elizabeth Becton)
- June 13, 2009 | The law of conservation of WUSR Saturday DJs who actually show up for their airshifts strikes again. (w/ guest host Barnacle Bill)
- June 06, 2009 | Helping you plan for your staycation. (w/ guest host Rat Fink)
- May 30, 2009 | WUSR: The sonic equivalent of a flaming wreck on the other side of the highway. (w/ guest host Edwin Hubble)
- May 23, 2009 | This week's book review: "How to Shoot Friends and Influence People" by Dick Cheney (w/ guest host Karl Ernst Ludwig Marx Planck)
- May 16, 2009 | Listen while watching Spongebob. It's trippy, man. (w/ guest host Solomon Grundy)
- May 09, 2009 | Pointless Word Games! (w/ guest host Neel Kashkari)
- May 02, 2009 | WUSR: The station that can drive away those nagging doubts about your value as a human being. Or, Brian Carpenter will do anything for some on-air time. Or, where's the MSDS for arsenate of lead when you need it? (w/ guest host Ajax)
- April 25, 2009 | Brian Carpenter: The best thing to ever happen to Garrison Keillor. Or, our ongoing coverage of the race for Constable of the Crown Dependency of Spike Island (w/ guest host An Old Australian Stockman)
- April 18, 2009 | In which Roman Grecco plans several felonies on the air. Or: does Kevin Bacon taste like Chicken or Bacon? Or, the University of Scranton's Third Annual Incoming Freshman Beheading (Take a straw). (w/ guest host Raoul and the Convertibles)
- April 11, 2009 | Pour some sugar on the floor! Or, the great fire shark trials of 2012. (w/ guest host Wimpie)
- April 04, 2009 | WUSR Presents a Special Presentation of Alfred Hitchcock's The Howling Staircase (w/ guest host Mr. Peabody's boy, Sherman)
- March 28, 2009 | The Scrooge McDuck Trivia Hour (w/ guest host Forttip Hinkle)
- March 21, 2009 | I should have known there would be trouble when the salesman told me the car's color was called "Jersey Barrier". (w/ guest host Yuno)
- March 14, 2009 | Support the creation of the Downtown Scranton St. Patrick's Day Arrest Clock (w/ guest host Federal Inmate Number 61727-054)
- March 07, 2009 | Attack of the Porcine-Human Hybrids! Or, WUSR puts in a bid to purchase Skycam 16. (w/ guest host Vincent Van Gopher)
- February 28, 2009 | Dangerously close to being an accordion show. (w/ guest host Steven Page's Midlife Crisis)
- February 21, 2009 | Everything is Better with Batman. (w/ guest host The Original Hamburger Stand with Der Wienerschnitzel and Tastee-Freez)
- February 14, 2009 | Yelling German words on the air is fun! (w/ guest host The last remaining morsel of food on Earth that is not contaminated with salmonella)
- February 07, 2009 | If we ramble on about politics any more, we will be legally required to have Richard Wolffe on the show. (w/ guest host The Greek Alphabet)
- January 31, 2009 | WUSR: We've got this thing called college radio, and it's bleeping golden (w/ guest host Jesse James Dean Martin Luther Vandross)
- January 24, 2009 | Where are the flying cars? (w/ guest host Joe Henry)
- January 17, 2009 | The WUSR Dramatine Club presents: Bye Bye Bushie - A Tragedy in Two Terms (w/ guest host Victor Laszlo)
- January 03, 2009 | WUSR: Home of the Almighty Thump. Also, Google Street View provides us with proof that Peter Hocking still exists, and is just trying to get out of his driveway. (w/ guest host Mrs. Sprat)