Off The Hook With Gage

Every Friday is a GOOD FRIDAY on OFF THE HOOK! * That's because of the SACRIFICE that goes into the making of each and every show! * OFF THE HOOK sacrifices sleep, good health practices, social obligations and financial stability in order to NAIL DOWN the best possible program for you every week! * Each one is loaded with EASTER EGGS and your Faith in radio is always RESURRECTED when you tune in! * So, hop like a BUNNY to KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ !

Well, I've cleaned off all of the cat hair and all of the BEARD HAIR, so OFF THE HOOK will be recognizable once again! * My CACHE OF COOL tunes is replenished and so am I! * Be prepared for a relaxed new face with the same old frantic voice you've come to accept! * We're back in business and business is pleasure on OFF THE HOOK, baby! * Live corn pops on OFF THE HOOK! * KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/

What does FRIDAY THE 13TH have in common with any other Friday on KXSF? * It's your LUCKY DAY! * If it comforts you to have a RABBIT'S FOOT in your pocket, fine. * But, OFF THE HOOK wards off all BAD JUJU every damn week! * You'll be CHARMED by our MAGIC and our groovy MOJO will keep you from FOMO, MOFO! * Our three-hour SPELL is heard on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ !

Lousy with SPARKLE, rank with splendor, OFF THE HOOK turns heads * Inside-out. * Still the pre-doom OFF THE HOOK you've always loved, OFF THE HOOK startles with nonchalant urgency! * Dotted with tease, crossed with eyes, OFF THE HOOK falls into your lap on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/, baby!

YOU'RE CURIOUS. I like that about you. * You need to know about the LATEST in SOUNDS. * Luckily, OFF THE HOOK, The Show That Shows, is here to help you out! * A three-hour journey of discovery, OFF THE HOOK satisfies your need to STAY ON TOP of things! * Your friends may describe you as "curious" for having musical FOMO, but just look at those boring antiquities living in the past. * You need new friends. * OFF THE HOOK is your new friend and you're not a cat, so scratch that itch with Off The Hook on KXSF-LP 102.5 FM, it won't kill you.

Just as hosting a radio program in a FROSTY studio is akin to feats of endurance in the Winter Olympics, we know that listeners need a proper blankie in order to fully appreciate the amazing SPECTACLE that is OFF THE HOOK! * OFF THE HOOK blankets you with a coziness that WARMS FROM WITHIN! * It's like a STEAMING cocoa-coffee and a hot toddy rolled into one! * And then there's the RADIANT WARMTH blasting from your chattering host! * Or, you may get HOT under the collar at the agitating sounds heard on OFF THE HOOK! * Either way, you'll leave less frozen than when you arrived! * https://kxsf.fm/

Are you a SUPERSTITIOUS VALENTINE? * Well, OFF THE HOOK, for one, is not! * No CANDY HEARTS brought to you by a BLACK CAT today! * The Show That Shows has business to attend to and will not let CUPID'S ARROW turn it into a wobbly, drunk-with-desire, BESOTTED blob! * Our infatuation is with presenting a LOVELY program of Brilliant New Sounds! * And ladders? We walk right under them! * Cracks? We step right on them! * So, no themes, but you will have great LUCK and will FALL IN LOVE with OFF THE HOOK when you tune in: https://kxsf.fm/

Save the head-butting for Sunday! * OFF THE HOOK doesn't need to compete -whether you're a bunny or a rock, OFF THE HOOK hands off something to everyone! * Its GOAL is to clinch your hearts with new audibles that will make you SNAP! * Our non-confrontational half-time event (called The Birthday Segment) will be a bonanza for oldies fans! * There's only one team, so join OFF THE HOOK, in association with KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ for a BLITZ where everyone scores!

OFF THE HOOK WANTS YOU! * Curious listeners sought for a ROUSING program of auditory self-improvement! * Feeling draggy from listening to mediocre radio? * OFF THE HOOK sharpens the senses and brings a PROFOUND sense of well-being! * Its varied selection ensures your rapt attention and puts pep in your step! * Enrollment on a walk-in basis between KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ No one turned away!

It's sure to pick you up! * Sit back and let Uncle Gagie fix you up with the GOOD STUFF! * Mainline the latest from his weekly HIT Parade and settle into a SERENE SWOON that'll have you nodding in appreciation! * "Where do I get this Direct Injection of ADDICTIVE Fun?", you ask. * On KXSF 102.5FM or https://kxsf.fm/ * First one's free -they all are! * You won't be OFF THE HOOK much longer!

KICKIN' BACK IN THE CUBICLE! * You've got better things to do! * Point out to old man Bossman that the PLEASING AND STIMULATING sounds of OFF THE HOOK make for a warmer, more focused workplace! * It's a bunch of hooey, of course -or is it? * Cram a bunch of co-workers in there for a "SPECIAL PROJECT" and see if the mood of GOOD WILL and camaraderie isn't heightened! * No work will get done, but you'll have a GLORIOUS last day and a BRIGHT FUTURE centering your life around OFF THE HOOK on the couches you'll be flopping on! * Your future starts on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/

YOU'RE INVITED! * Kenady lets you listen in on his MASTERFUL culture-culling for the purpose of building his own personal library of GREAT NEW SONGS he doesn't already have! * Music for people with time on their hands! * It's called OFF THE HOOK, The Show That Shows and it starts at 1:00 on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ ! * Take advantage (?) of his industrious hobby!

There's nothing TERRIBLY STRANGE about playing CHRISTMAS MUSIC a week before Christmas, but the Christmas music you'll hear on Today's OFF THE HOOK might be! * New, unfamiliar Carols will give a FACELIFT to the saggy puss of Christmas Past and your jowls will snap to attention when we STUFF YOUR STOCKINGS with a sleighful of the Brightest Stars in the Birthday Segment! * All in all, it's gonna make Christmas itself look puny and pathetic! * Join the party on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ Our gift to you!

ARE YOU READY FOR IT? * You'd better be, because TWENTY TWENTY-SICK is here! * What it will bring no one knows, but the signposts may be heard on Today's OFF THE HOOK, which will include 2025's TOP TRACKS! * We will also hear tracks from albums not yet gotten to and not-yet-gotten-to tracks from albums gotten to, too! * Believe it or not, musicians are people, which means they have BIRTHDAYs, which will be celebrated in a special SEGMENT! * All in all, it's business as usual on this FIRST OFF THE HOOK of 2026! * Join us at 1:00 on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ ! * OFF THE HOOK resolves to continue curating cool collections of quirky curiosities for the culturally curious in the new year!

'TIS THE SEASON to kick the eff back for three hours! * You be settin' up yer tree -OFF THE HOOK is the perfect soundtrack! * No Holiday Sounds yet, but the JOVIAL MOOD you'll be put in as you SLURP your eggnog will have you LURCHING from limb to limb, hanging ornaments in HAPHAZARD fashion as you REEL AND BUMP your way to Flappy's Den! * You've been shoppin' and plannin' so doggone hard -give yourself a break! *Tune in to OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/

GOOD FOR WHAT ALIS YOU! * Your overconsumption of merriment yesterday is exacting its toll today. * OFF THE HOOK is here to help! * The EASY BREEZY sounds heard on today's show will soothe the savage turkey breast that your poor beaten body is still struggling to digest! * And nothing's more DIGESTIBLE than OFF THE HOOK's Mellow Menu of Melodious Morsels! * Find relief on OFF THE HOOK and wash it down with humble pie!

The Show That Shows (OFF THE HOOK) has a few TRICKS up its sleeve! * Its SLEIGHT OF HAND is so deft that even WIZARDS cannot detect how it can conjure the ILLUSION of a top-shelf, professional operation! * With a wave of its hand, this slap-dash collection of unlikely sounds, hosted by an inane MC, appears to be a finely crafted, well-thought-out presentation of scholarly experience! * The MAGIC that ensues perplexes the senses and boggles the rational mind! * ABRACADABRA, PRESTO CHANGO, it's OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ Let the hypnosis work for you!

Is it SEX you're after? * OFF THE HOOK has a very good record of matchmaking, bringing together saucy trombones and feisty castanets and other unlikely couplings! * Like to DANCE? * No one has ever prevented anyone from dancing to OFF THE HOOK! -we suggest the Crawl, except that's a swimming stroke, not a dance. * Is OFF THE HOOK all things to all people? * No.* I guess we can't be sure what OFF THE HOOK really is until we listen. https://kxsf.fm/ So let's all listen and be one.

Regardless of how it may sound to you, your host is not easily satisfied! * The music must be INTERESTING, and/or BEAUTIFUL, and FRESH! * He is willing to sacrifice a bit of professionalism in his presentation, but the music must never fall short! * If it seems to, you are clearly a newcomer who has not yet been indoctrinated into the WHIMSICAL ways of OFF THE HOOK! * Please tune in to the Idiosyncratic Aberration that is OFF THE HOOK at 1:00 on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ and we'll reverberate together.

IF YOU'RE WEARING PANTS, you might as well take them off now, because Today's HALLOWEEN edition of OFF THE HOOK will scare them right off of you! * GHOSTS & GOBLINS, WITCHES & DEVILS, SPIDERS & BATS and DEATH DEATH DEATH will animate today's most unholy program! * Spells at https://kxsf.fm/ Maybe bring a diaper.

Like the Umbrella Mouth Gulper Eel, OFF THE HOOK goes deep! * Wriggling its way to the depths to scoop up GLITTERING GEMS in its mighty maw, the OFF THE HOOK Gulper surfaces with its once-submerged spoils in a RESPLENDENT display of Sub-aquatic Sounds! * But it's no bottom feeder! * Its appetite is for the Freshly Spawned -the gulped guppies that are winnowed from the minnows in the Great Aquarium of musical meals! * GO DEEP with OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ No snorkel necessary!

It's funny and squishy and full of goodness! * LISTEN TO OFF THE HOOK! * It's right Up Your Street! * By its reputation, you'd think it's a Music Show, but nominally it's about a hook! * WHAT IS IT? * OFF THE HOOK, The Show That Shows, hooks you! * The guy on it is worth a dime, at least! * Cruise on into the GOOD TIMES on OFF THE HOOK -you'll laugh a lot! https://kxsf.fm/ Take part.

BEAUTY FOR THE FEW! * Even though OFF THE HOOK's listenership is not that great, each individual listener IS great! * That's why the Herculean effort taken to produce each OFF THE HOOK program is WORTH IT! * Scouring the interwebs for new and NOVEL sounds is exhausting and often dirty work, but Off The Hookers expect the UNEXPECTED and deserve the IDIOSYNCRATIC voice that speaks to and for them! * OFF THE HOOK takes no days off to bring you the Last Word in New Music, because there IS no last word -it never stops coming! * https://kxsf.fm/

OFF THE HOOK carries on: no shutdown, no cancellation, no sweeping changes! * Just The Life of a Showboy (me) at 1:00 on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ Business as usual!

"What's up with that guy? He's always shoving WILLFULLY OBSCURE music down our throats." * "His oldies-Birthday segment is good and he gives away good tickets to shows, but the NEW MUSIC he plays -where does he get it? Nobody's heard of it before." * "And he's a little out of control, like he doesn't know what he's doing." * "Kind of amateurish. It's a little exhausting." * "Most of the BEST MUSIC I never heard before I heard on OFF THE HOOK" * Take the bad with the good on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ Keeping you on edge.

Sure, you might have better things to do, but can you still do them? * As your freedoms erode, it's nice to know that OFF THE HOOK is still, for the time being, here. * It's impossible at this point to know what innocently careless thing your host might say or post that could get OFF THE HOOK shit-canned (dictators are capricious like that!). * It's not like KXSF has some big corporate merger pending (I hope!) * But you come to OFF THE HOOK to escape such unsavory (nay, soul-crushing) thoughts! * OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ It's like waking up from a nightmare for three hours each week.

SUPER FESTIVE STUFF happens on this week's continuation of the SUPER CELEBRATORY celebration of KXSF's 7th Anniversary of being on the airwaves! * (Mostly, I'm thinking, music.) * OFF THE HOOK BRINGS IT: the latest crop of NEW SOUNDS -and a smattering of old!! * Whether KXSF 102.5FM or https://kxsf.fm/, It's three hours of RECKLESS WONDER!

SUPER FESTIVE STUFF happens on this week's continuation of the SUPER CELEBRATORY celebration of KXSF's 7th Anniversary of being on the airwaves! * (Mostly, I'm thinking, music.) * OFF THE HOOK BRINGS IT: the latest crop of NEW SOUNDS -and a smattering of old!! * Whether KXSF 102.5FM or https://kxsf.fm/, It's three hours of RECKLESS WONDER!

When is OFF THE HOOK not off the hook? * When it has the responsibility of getting you to listen to this damn show! * Toward that end, may I entice OLDIES lovers with an extended, massive, Virgo-engorged Birthday Segment? * Plus, I could promise to refrain from begging you for station donations (haha / *wink* -you know it's fundraising week)! * Whatever it was, your excuse for not listening has just withered away -you're ON the hook to listen to OFF THE HOOK: on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/

Every week, OFF THE HOOK tries to ORGANIZE sets of music that let you MARCH to a different drummer! * We don't PROTEST the LABOR that goes into it, because, at the end of DAY, it's worth it! * The VOICES HEARD -lesser-known, struggling artists- need a PLATFORM and appreciate your SUPPORT! * They REPRESENT the DEMOCRATIC programming heard on OFF THE HOOK and make for a most DIVERSE three hours! * Join the MASSES on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ and on Monday.

HERE IT COMES AGAIN, ready to haul you out of this week's Pit of Despair! * OFF THE HOOK, the little tow truck that does, will never let you sink! * The Show That Shows (and showers every week FOR YOU) has your back! * It knows you (it's about the music, right?) and holds our weekly rendezvous dear (why not send a check or donate with paypal?) * In the cruddy quagmire that is Today, OFF THE HOOK takes you away -for three hours on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/

A MATTER OF RECORD * In this climate of historical erasure, cultural and otherwise, OFF THE HOOK goes to great lengths to produce UNFORGETABLE programs! * Their residency in your memory is indelible, legal and un-deportable, but to safeguard its legacy, it would be but a small matter of recording episodes of OFF THE HOOK for yourself, lest they are forever banished by our archival archrival Remander-In-Chief! * Set your recording timer for 1:00PM Pacific Time at KXSF 102.5FM or here: https://kxsf.fm/ for good times to save and savor!

OFF THE HOOK wants to be your FEEL GOOD ISLAND, where, while the sounds may be harsh, the VIBE IS CHILL, and you don't need to listen through your hands! * You DON'T NEED A YACHT to get there and recurring features like the Birthday Segment bring a COMFORTING FAMILIARITY that allows us to pretend there is still a future! * Join the Illusion that is the Reality that is the Illusion that is OFF THE HOOK, an Island unto itself! KXSF 102.5 FM San Francisco Off The Hook Fri Aug 8 with Gage Kenady on KXSF-LP 102.5 FM

GOOD MUSIC for Good People! * Bad People stay away! Beat it! SCRAM! * It is incumbent upon you Good People to help OFF THE HOOK maintain a standard that upholds the standards that are in keeping with those set by those who are the final arbiters of that which constitutes Good Radio (namely OFF THE HOOK) by providing an example of Proper Listenershiphood that is a model of unquestioned Good Taste (even when debatable)! * But even Good People can be BAD ASS, so make sure to bring your Bad Ass Good People friends along! * Bad People may listen from a distance, I guess -we're not monsters! * Beholden to decorum, it's OFF THE HOOK.

Is it suspicious that last week's EXTREMELY LOCALIZED power outage occurred moments before the beginning of the HIGHLY OUTSPOKEN Off The Hook? * Or was it merely the Fates chuckling in my direction after tempting them? * Either way, it will have NO CHILLING EFFECT on today's OFF THE HOOK program! * KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/

OFF THE HOOK turned down two HOT DATE offers last night in order to fine-tune today's show in selfless dedication to its self-imposed remit: to drag those stubborn MULES away from their troughs of over-familiar feed, fill them with EXOTIC morsels, and slap their rears for them to run off and tell their sheepish friends! * Hungry? * This bib-optional metaphor is a feast for all on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/

Business as per usual on Today's OFF THE HOOK: a bunch of GREAT NEW JAMS (now, when you need them the most), the Birthday Segment, ticket giveaways, and ME! * Check ME out on Off The Hook Fri Jul 4 with Gage Kenady on KXSF-LP 102.5 FM or KXSF 102.5 FM https://kxsf.fm/ I hope it rains.

After slaying on the battlefields of Rock, suddenly presenting as a GENTLEMANLY WIZARD of ambient electronics may seem a curious turn, but an artist as multifaceted as GREG LISHER simply cannot be pinned down! * Yet, that is precisely what we will attempt to do when we put him in the HOT SEAT and grill him on the details of how he transformed from a DEBAUCHED Rockin' Road Warrior into the deep and PENETRATING electronic artiste heard on his latest album Underwater Detection Method! * It may get LURID, it may get bloody, but do not turn away from the FASCINATING insights sure to be revealed in our (heh heh) friendly interrogation beginning in the second hour of OFF THE HOOK

After slaying on the battlefields of Rock, suddenly presenting as a GENTLEMANLY WIZARD of ambient electronics may seem a curious turn, but an artist as multifaceted as GREG LISHER simply cannot be pinned down! * Yet, that is precisely what we will attempt to do when we put him in the HOT SEAT and grill him on the details of how he transformed from a DEBAUCHED Rockin' Road Warrior into the deep and PENETRATING electronic artiste heard on his latest album Underwater Detection Method! * It may get LURID, it may get bloody, but do not turn away from the FASCINATING insights sure to be revealed in our (heh heh) friendly interrogation in the second hour of OFF THE HOOK!

HUZZAH! The Summer Solstice is upon us! * And, as it HAPPENS TO FALL on the longest day of the year, that means you'll have more time to picnic in the park and DISCOVER STRANGE CREATURES in the tidepools of the LONGEST OFF THE HOOK OF THE YEAR! * Relax and leisurely enjoy that extra nano-nanosecond of OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ HUZZAH!

WHO NEEDS A HUG? * At the end of a week surely one of the rottenest since January -one that has instilled alarm, fear and sadness, courtesy of our commander-in-grief-, now the Fates have added injury to insult by taking from us two of the most INFLUENTIAL AND BELOVED creators in all of music: SLY STONE and BRIAN WILSON. * We offer our tribute to the latter on today's OFF THE HOOK, along with new music and the Birthday Segment. * Sometimes you just need a hug from someone who understands. OFF THE HOOK's arms are open on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/

Oh, the Pride and Petulance that plays out on the world stage! * OFF THE HOOK refrains from Macho Posturing and, while it looks out for its constituents (Off The Hook World), as far as Abominations go, its BILL of fare can be said to be neither pork-filled nor disgusting! * OFF THE HOOK serves and Benefits everyone (except, perhaps, those wishing to hear Corporate radio favored by Oligarchs)! * Virtue shining, but not waving on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ OFF THE HOOK: a Black Eye on bad daddies.

What's the difference between a Rainbow and a COW? * I don't know, but when I tell you Today's OFF THE HOOK is JAM-PACKED, I'm just talking out my ass! * How can we know if it will really happen? * It's laughable, really. * Either way, it's here: https://kxsf.fm/ One makes milk and the other has Fear Of Fitting In.

No phony phone-ins or pre-programmed pap! * Just a STRUGGLING JUGGLER on a tightrope trying to keep all the plates spinning and not crashing down around your ears! * (And WITHOUT A NET! So brave!) * This is REAL LIVE RADIO just like mama used to make! * And when something does go amiss, the resultant clatter of broken platters is EXHILARATING! * Feel the rush of RECKLESS ABANDON where anything can happen (and usually does) on OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ Wear a helmet.