
Off The Hook With Gage
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Ep 208Off The Hook ~June 27, 2025 (no Flappy)
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!

Ep 207Off The Hook ~June 20, 2025
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!

Ep 206Off The Hook ~June 13, 2025
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/

Ep 205Off The Hook ~June 6, 2025
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.

Ep 204Off The Hook ~May 30, 2025
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.

Ep 203Off The Hook ~May 23, 2025
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.

Ep 202Off The Hook ~May 16, 2025
A Tincture for your troubles, OFF THE HOOK is the BALM that calms and invigorates your interior, mates! * While its Essence would seem Evanescent, this POTENT POTION lasts long beyond the quickest three-hour run in all of radio! * With JOLLY JAMS and Cooing Croons, OFF THE HOOK is Mighty Medicine indeed! * The Doctor will see you on KXSF 102.5 FM https://kxsf.fm/ ! * Down the hatch!

Ep 201Off The Hook ~May 9, 2025
SPECIAL FREE OFFER! * KXSF will provides FREE PROGRAMMING of the OFF THE HOOK music show! * It's called "The Show That Shows" because they tell you everything that is good right now. * FREE TICKETS to events will be offered during the program. * Interested parties should set their FM radio dial to 102.5 on Fridays from 1:00 to 4:00. * It can also be accessed via this link: https://kxsf.fm/

Ep 200Off The Hook ~May 2, 2025
One thing that bugs me about the CHAOS AND CALAMITY our Current Administration has brought to the country is: that's OFF THE HOOK's brand! * But, while there's no trace of benevolence in their actions, OFF THE HOOK wants nothing more than to make you PROSPER by bringing you the coolest, up-to-datest sounds! * The HAPPY HAVOC of OFF THE HOOK brings a certain KINETICISM that keeps you on your toes and MOVING FORWARD! * Tune in for a good kind of UNPREDICTABILITY on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/

Ep 199Off The Hook ~April 25, 2025
A WHIRLING FLURRY of imagistic slurry awaits listeners of OFF THE HOOK today! * SOUNDS YOU CAN SEE in aural 3D! * The sharp edges of a cloud, a shadow described. * Clarity turned back on itself, a reversal of intent, bound to itself, ever unspooling. * How can this be? * It can't! * LISTEN AND SEE at 1:00 on OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ if it can.

Ep 198Off The Hook ~April 18, 2025
OFF THE HOOK, The Show That Shows, brings the goods: the LATEST GREATEST new tracks and the celebrated Birthday Segment! on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/

Ep 197Off The Hook ~April 11, 2025
UPBEAT! * Whether your heart is doing paradiddles or flams in this time of CONFUSION and loss, OFF THE HOOK tries to keep things HOPEFUL in this Season of Bad Stars. * Lives are ephemeral, but MUSIC IS ETERNAL, preserved in amber and passed from hand to heart. * OFF THE HOOK will not take from you that upon which you have become reliant: the lesser-knowns and unpopular will still have a voice. * Recorded music and live talking will remain on OFF THE HOOK even as the world has gone off its axis. * Count on transmissions on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ for the foreseeable future.

Ep 196Off The Hook ~April 4, 2025
God bless FREE RADIO! * I know many are pretty INVESTED in the weekly transmission of OFF THE HOOK, but I hope you don't put too much STOCK in it! * As we watch our life savings being "LIBERATED", isn't it a comfort to know that listening to OFF THE HOOK won't cost you a dime? * A lifeline to those needing to keep up on the Latest Musical Events, OFF THE HOOK presents a No-Risk portfolio of all the music you can BEAR and that's no BULL! * Free of The Market, KXSF gives you Free Radio so you don't have to be radio-free! * Let's RALLY for OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/

Ep 195Off The Hook ~March 28, 2025 (21st Century Fox show)
25 YEARS IN seems like a good time to assess the musical output of this Century! * And since it's the final installment of the CREME DE LA FEMME series celebrating Women's History Month, OFF THE HOOK brings you 21st CENTURY FOX! * This FEMALE-FOCUSED trajectory will reveal a LUMINOUS ARC that will illuminate and transform our souls for all time (or at least the five hours of today's program)! * Join us for this special Silver celebration on OFF THE HOOK at KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ * Music smart as a 21st Century fox!

Ep 194Off The Hook ~March 14, 2025
THEY WALK THE EARTH and they've been making Herstory from the git-go! * I'm talking about Women and we're going to celebrate their musical achievements today on the 2nd edition of this month's CREME DE LA FEMME series in observance of Women's History Month on OFF THE HOOK! * The Best of the current LadyScene (including gnarly rocker chicks) will be presented and the guys will have to wait their turn til the Birthday Segment! * RESPECT your Sisters OFF THE HOOK! * KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/

Ep 193Off The Hook ~March 7, 2025
Well, it's March and you know what that means! * It means it's WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH! * And that means it's time to present the CREME DE LA FEMME on OFF THE HOOK! * Apart from the Birthday Segment, every song heard today on OFF THE HOOK will be Woman-driven, Woman-fronted, or Woman-performed! * Women Composers, Singers, Producers and Musicians show us what they got (like we don't already know)! * Tune in to OFF THE HOOK on KXSF https://kxsf.fm/ to hear what the guys ain't got!

Ep 192Off The Hook ~February 28, 2025
The Crashing, Careening CHAOS of OFF THE HOOK is part of the fun! * It keeps you on your toes and brings a PRICKLE-NECK SPARK Kineticism to a program where the host is in mortal combat with the equipment and the playlists aren't necessarily playful! * OFF THE HOOK: the only game in town in the Friday 1:00 to 4:00 hour in the Radio Wasteland! * https://kxsf.fm/ Chaos bottled!

Ep 191Off The Hook ~February 21, 2025
OFF THE HOOK toils every week to uncover the COOLEST, most WAY OUT SOUNDS for YOUR delectation! * And, seven weeks into 2025, new OFF THE HOOK-WORTHY Musical Gems are rolling in at a rapidly accelerating pace, ready to be thrown before YOU in a thought-out, TANTALIZING display! * As a serious and well-rounded listener, YOU will also appreciate the Glory of our musical forebears in the Birthday Segment, a bumper crop this week! * This Herculean Effort is the least we can do to satisfy a decerning and inquisitive mind such as YOURS! * Check it out on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/

Ep 190Off The Hook ~February 14, 2025
I know it's VALENTINE'S DAY and you're all expecting some SMOOCHY, Kissy-Face programming today, amirite? * Well, I'm sorry, but OFF THE HOOK doesn't recognize manipulative, money-grubbing Hallmark Holidays! * Demonstrations of AMOROUS FEELINGS are fine, but OFF THE HOOK is the Box of Aural Chocolates that AROUSES YOU on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ ! It's called Self-Love.

Ep 189Off The Hook ~February 7, 2025
Enough with the BLUSTER! * Let's get down to Brass Tacks: OFF THE HOOK gives the Community what it needs: Me!, my GREAT TASTE in music and most importantly: NEW FRIENDS! * Not only have you become a bit of the party dullard (Elton John? Really? Still?), but you yourself have grown a little weary of the same old faces. * You need new friends and NEW PERSPECTIVES! * And, more crucially, these New Faces need you! * SUPPORT NEW ARTISTS! * Size 'em up and if they pass muster, add them to your collection of experiences! * OFF THE HOOK enables this discovery process on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ You're already more fascinating.

Ep 188Off The Hook ~January 31, 2025
EVERY RADIO SHOW FOR ITSELF! * It's the Wild West again and wild claims are being made! * Did you know that OFF THE HOOK reaches more ears than Voice of America and BBC World Service combined, generates the highest ad revenue of any non non-religious program in the world, and makes the rain fall upwards? How could it be reported on a reliable platform if it weren't true? * Join OFF THE HOOK for your own reality! on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ and we'll see about that rain.

Ep 187Off The Hook ~ January 24, 2025
The buildup is INTOLERABLE! * What's he gonna do next?! * As you bite your nails down to the elbow, you find the TENSION ratcheting up to a nauseating degree! * What is this MADMAN capable of?! * Can no one STOP HIM?! * You feel faint, the room begins to spin! * Who is this MANIAC who commands our attention, nay, our will every waking moment until Friday rolls around? * Why, it's none other than your friend Gage, playing nice music for you at 1:00 on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ !

Ep 186Off The Hook ~January 17, 2025
OFF THE HOOK is a mighty juggernaut in its own QUIETLY REMARKABLE way! * And dread not, it's not as dreadful as the naughty numbskulls who will be knocking on your noggins come not but a few days! * Your option: bolster the balustrades by bringing balance to bear and be not beholden to the byzantine bylaws of a banal brutality, but be bathed in the beauty of a billion badass jams on OFF THE HOOK, a quietly remarkable MUSIC PROGRAM on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ Guard the guardrails!

Ep 185Off The Hook ~January 10, 2025
The UNIQUE AND REMARKABLE circumstances of OFF THE HOOK, a weekly program AFFORDED PROTECTIONS as an office of the public good, MANDATE that an UNCONDITIONAL DISCHARGE of UNPRECEDENTED music be RELEASED upon the Public, for it is JUDGED as beneficial to the populace, regardless of the day it FELL ON (is that any way to end a SENTENCE?)! * So, waste NO TIME! -OFF THE HOOK awaits your VERDICT on KXSF 102.5FM ( https://kxsf.fm/ )! * Music trumps politics! MARCH ON!

Ep 184Off The Hook ~January 3, 2025
2025 is upon us and it's time to FACE THE MUSIC! * But, honestly, OFF THE HOOK sounds just as good from behind! * OFF THE HOOK RESOLVES to maintain a CHEERY AND HOPEFUL outlook in the face of EXISTENTIAL EXTINGUISHMENT! * But, who's kidding who? -let us dance into the abyss with BITCHEN SOUNDS until They lock us all up! * OFF THE HOOK will not so much smite our foes with HATE-SNUFFING MUSIC, but, more, will cast us into a BEAUTIFUL WONDERLAND of denial! * OFF THE HOOK, your delusional friend, puts its LOVING SPELL on you on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ * Fallible all-non-AI radio, still.

Ep 183Off The Hook ~December 27, 2024
and IT'S A WRAP! * Here we are at THE END of a year that upset our equilibrium, toyed with our credulity and dragged us through the mud with it! * Truly a crap year for our heads, but a MOST EXCELLENT year for our ears! * I know you're thinking an end-of-the-year best-of OFF THE HOOK awaits you (because I'm a mind reader and because I set you up), but allow ME to mess with your head: No. * Your expectations are unwarranted because every OFF THE HOOK is the BEST and your wanting the BEST BEST is frankly a bit selfish, don'tcha think? * BUT, I may play a couple of items at the TIPPY-TOP of the pile! * Tune in to hear what the capricious man on his whimsical musical mountain will do! * On KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/

Ep 182Off The Hook ~December 20,2024
From his secret regional outpost, high atop Mount Baldy, SANTA GAGE has twice checked his list and it turns out you OFF THE HOOK listeners have been EXCEEDINGLY NICE! * You've listened to and supported OFF THE HOOK unwaveringly! * BUT, double-checking your wish lists, your desired Christmas musical requests have been -how to put this?- a tad Standard, if we may put it euphemistically! * Santa Gage knows what's best for you (and S.G. rules with an iron switch!), so in order you don't turn into a bunch of stagnant work-elves, Santa Gage will provide a more CONTEMPORARY holiday playlist on today's OFF THE HOOK! * Merriment and Jingleberries on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ !

Ep 181Off The Hook ~December 13, 2024
The LUCK you find finds you first -good or bad, who can say? * But, SHAKY Joe and his Bad News Crew ain't gonna put their NERVOUS vibes on Today's OFF THE HOOK! * We'll cancel their FEAR and no HAZARD shall befall OFF THE HOOK listeners who CHANCE upon the Glad Tidings of The Show That Don't Snow! * Throw the dice on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ for the CRAPSHOOT that is OFF THE HOOK!

Ep 180Off The Hook ~December 6, 2024
The WARNING was a bust, but be prepared to be SWEPT AWAY in a Tsunami of GROOVY SOUNDS on today's OFF THE HOOK! * Underwater Seismic Activity has churned up some Rare Specimens lurking DEEP on the ocean floor and guess who's snatched them up in their Great Net to fling before you for your Auditory Approval? * OFF THE HOOK, that's who! * The Birthday Segment is positively waterlogged with GREAT CATCHES, so soak it in on OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM

Ep 179Off The Hook ~November 22, 2024
Today is your LAST CHANCE to relax before the dominoes of Seasonal Stress Season (SSS) start tumbling down! * After today, you're obliged to think of and comingle with others! * If SSS sounds like the air coming out of your tires, don't worry because OFF THE HOOK will get you to your Personal Happy Place (PHP) before you're deflated and out of gas! * If we can pass the stress test that is Crazy Holiday Time (CHT), we'll be in good shape come Januar- oh... uh, we'd better get our kicks today on OFF THE HOOK! * KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/

Ep 178Off The Hook ~November 15, 2024
People are always fighting about OFF THE HOOK! * What is it? * "It's genius!" "It's drivel!" * "It's startlingly new!" "It's old hat!" * "It's homespun!" "It's AI!" * What the heck IS it? * These questions are not my problem! * Suffice it to say, OFF THE HOOK is three hours of recorded music and live talking. * Is it boring? * Take it from the horse's mouth: "Nay!" * OFF THE HOOK, The Show That Shows on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/

Ep 177Flappy's Den ~November 8, 2024

Ep 176Off The Hook ~November 8, 2024
OFF THE HOOK * Still standing * Same life-affirming programming * Welling over with sorrow, OUTRAGE and disgust, but not yet sinking to despair * We're ON THE OTHER SIDE now and must stay sharp and hopeful * We're exhausted, but willful * Let's give ourselves some time to REPLENISH our emotional resources and listen to music healing and cathartic * OFF THE HOOK: an oasis of civility starting at 1:00 on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/

Ep 175Off The Hook ~November 1, 2024
Will Jolly Japes and Mirthful Music get us through Today's post-Halloween / pre-Election Day episode of OFF THE HOOK? * It has to! * The specter of impending havoc and CHAOS has your host so spooked and TWISTED up with anxiety, it's best that we just SAVOR the moment (life-affirming new music), act like nothing's wrong (quality, uncensored programming, as usual) and HOPE for the best! * Speaking of best: OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM / https://kxsf.fm/ VOTE! for OFF THE HOOK (and your -I mean my- favorite presidential candidate on Tuesday)!

Ep 174Off The Hook ~October 25, 2024
Let's protect your right to FREE PROGRAMMING! * Programming you didn't necessarily ask for, but programming that, by gosh, is your INALIENABLE right! * While other programs conspire to keep you in the dark about what's really going on in the world of music, OFF THE HOOK tells it straight, lifting the veil of complacent conformity to reveal -through programming that you may not actually care for- a sometimes MESSY reality that will induce and indeed GOOSE Critical Thinking! * You cannot choose if not given a choice and you are NOT alright with that! * Knock the block off the bloc that would block your right to rock -the OFF THE HOOK way! * KXSF 102.5FM / https://kxsf.fm/

Ep 173Off The Hook ~October 18, 2024
There is LESS THAN 3 WEEKS LEFT before the Next OFF THE HOOK! * It is, after all, a weekly program. * But, OFF THE HOOK will be on the scene Today monitoring the latest results, and CURRENT POLLING shows The Show That Shows showing a CONTINUED LEAD in districts with the good taste to tune in! * OFF THE HOOK is PRO-CHOICE and would never tell a woman or man what to do with their ears (if it could make listening mandatory, it would, but that's not part of the PROJECT 102.5 manifesto, darn it!) * Make my voice heard and exercise your right to be enthralled on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ !

Ep 172Off The Hook ~October 11, 2024
DO YOU BELIEVE IN MAGIC? * Well, you won't believe your ears on Today's OFF THE HOOK! * It doesn't just pull a Musical Rabbit out of its hat, it pulls it out of a beret! * The deftness of its WIZARDRY is no mere slight-of-hand, it is a deep psychological PROBING that makes You the blank canvas in a Rorschach of kaleidoscopic FUNHOUSE mirrors! * You'll better know yourself, but you'll never be the same, as you PONDER the Meaning Of Music through the corrected lens of OFF THE HOOK! * How could you have heard music so wrong all these years? * Correct Your lens with OFF THE HOOK on KXSF

Ep 171Off The Hook ~October 4, 2024
DUST OFF YOUR SPURS and put 'em back on their hangin' pegs for the HARDLY BARELY BLUEGRASS edition of OFF THE HOOK, where Banjos are scant and the Prairies are populated by cities! * The Birthday Segment notwithstanding, you're as likely to find a HOEDOWN dance as you are a conscience in Vance! * So, SADDLE UP and feel the WILD FREEDOM of Country-free Programing on today's Not Remotely Bluegrass episode of OFF THE HOOK! * We'll be tippin' our Stetsons on KXSF 102.5FM / https://kxsf.fm/

Ep 170Off The Hook ~September 27, 2024
Autumnally tumbling your way, you'll Fall for the first OFF THE HOOK of the Season and will want to never Leave! -and other Bad Dad Jokes he's already used! * Raking over his moldering past and seeing that decay brings new growth, he Sweeps away the competition, and, to those claiming to be his EQUAL, KNOCKS them into the compost bin! * Off The Hook on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/

Ep 169Off The Hook ~September 20, 2024
The DJs at KXSF share a common ideology -FORWARD, NOT BACK! * There are some stations that deny you access to a CHOICE of programming options, instead controlling your emotions by bathing you in a warm, nostalgic feedback loop! * This has the effect of reducing you to a quivering, obedient blob without Critical Thinking abilities (this is not supposed to sound good, by the way)! * OFF THE HOOK offers you the chance to regain your DIGNITY and independence by weening you from the illusion of a GLORIOUS bygone era and presenting you with the tools you need to stand on your own! * BYGONE SHMYGONE! * What are you -a cringing little baby who can't think for yourself? * GROW UP with OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/

Ep 168Off The Hook ~September 13, 2024
Woe betide the fool who roams the streets today! * The city is lousy with BLACK CATS AND LADDERS! * Best you hew to the Friday tried-and-true of OFF THE HOOK at 1:00 in the safety of your crib or cubicle! * (Cars're probably OK) * To break the chain today could bring UNFORTUNATE CONSEQUENCES! * Passing this warning on to friends will further ensure avoidance of CERTAIN DISASTER! * It's LUCKY for you that OFF THE HOOK has your back! * The music itself is a MAGIC SPELL that will HEX and ward off bad numerological Mojo! * Don't question, just tune in to KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/

Ep 167Off The Hook ~September 6, 2024
Low Risk Radio for Non-Conformists! * Always wanted to be one, but were afraid you'd be "wrong" somehow? * Just remember, the other guy's the jerk! * But, it couldn't hurt to add some weight to your ODD VIEWPOINTS by becoming more informed! * That's where OFF THE HOOK comes in! * By arming yourself with the ARCANE KNOWLEDGE of the Willfully Obscure, you'll be able to scoff in the faces of the "I-Don't-Get" Set! * Your contemptuous laugh will wilt the Cultural Cretins and PUFF YOU UP big time! * Of course, there is the slight risk of falling in love with and becoming dependent on OFF THE HOOK, but a risk not taken is a risk forsaken, so let's whisk you away, Ken, to OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM! https://kxsf.fm/

Ep 166Off The Hook ~August 30, 2024
Like Donner's, the music on OFF THE HOOK can sometimes seem curated for a Party of One! * But, don't Pass it up! * Because even though its idiosyncratic programming reflects the UNIQUE TASTE of its host, you too may be someone who is STARVED for something more RARE! * Going off trail is OFF THE HOOK's m.o. but when it occasionally seems lost, it then recalibrates its course with Fare that is easy to CONSUME, speaking to our common HUMAN experience, to FLESH out our Emaciated sense of direction by SHARING PARTS of all of us! * OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ Give us an ear!

Ep 165Off The Hook ~August 23, 2024
OFF THE HOOK means FREEDOM! * Freedom to do its own thing. * Freedom to range FREE AND WILD, should it want to. * Freedom to not take requests (I didn't say it's a democracy). * Freedom to give Free Tickets! * Freedom to stop and glare at the state of radio elsewhere. * Freedom to pack up tent should it not want to comply with FCC rules! * This freedom costs you not a dime! * It costs OFF THE HOOK many dimes! * Where else ya gonna go if want to hear FREE RADIO? * I don't know, just send money! * and listen to OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM / https://kxsf.fm/

Ep 164Off The Hook ~August 16, 2024
Get ready for today's BIRTHDAY BONANZA on OFF THE HOOK! * A Tremendous Twenty will be celebrated, so, yes, that means -as much as it chagrins me to type this- We ARE Going Back! * Songs from the DAWN OF TIME that will have you searching out your high school flame! (don't do it) * So much PLEASURE and information will be PACKED in that one segment alone, you'll finish feeling like the happiest, most OVERSTUFFED musical encyclopedia that ever waddled away from the banquet table!

Ep 163Off The Hook ~August 9, 2024
OFF THE HOOK is your SPECIAL FRIEND who sits beside you in your workplace keeping you from killing yourself! * It is your road buddy as you tool around the mean streets of San Francisco, putting a GLISTENING GLOW on your grimy environs! * OFF THE HOOK is everywhere with you -at the park, in your shop and at OFF THE HOOK listening parties- everywhere you need NICE SOUNDS THAT MAKE YOU FEEL VERY GOOD! * No wonder it is the MOST LISTENED TO radio program ever! with more listeners than even The Dave Ramsey Show! * OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM, creating its own reality for you!

Ep 162Off The Hook ~August 2, 2024
OFF THE HOOK tells it like it is! * OFF THE HOOK STANDS UP TO the divisive, lie-slinging RIVAL RADIO programs whose agenda is to control your choices and foist upon you inferior, self-serving musical programming! * OFF THE HOOK does not bow to these BAD TASTE BULLIES of reactionary radio! * It looks to an inclusionary future and is most definitely NOT GOING BACK! * OFF THE HOOK honors its agreements and if it commits to meeting you at 1:00, it won't CHICKEN OUT and renege! * OFF THE HOOK: the show that SAYS IT TO YOUR FACE on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/

Ep 161Off The Hook ~July 26, 2024
"WEIRD": the word Democrats are now using to disparage their opponents. * But, that's the kind of Weird that really means Evil and Insane, not the benign, CULTURALLY CURIOUS, making-the-world-better-by-encouraging-WILFULLY OBSCURE-artistic-statements-in the-name-of-broadening-minds-and-supporting-freedom-of-thought kind of Weird that OFF THE HOOK listeners identify as! * OFF THE HOOK, the Show That Shows you there IS a choice, but only one! * Get on the right side of Weird at 1:00 on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/

Ep 160Off The Hook ~July 12, 2024
OFF THE HOOK asks not for ALLEGIANCE to its cause * because it isn't a Cause. * It's a causeway atop a FREE-FLOWING resource: the fresh-water stream from which you may SLAKE YOUR THIRST for the latest sounds! * OFF THE HOOK is a 12-year institution appearing through the auspices of that VENERABLE institution KXSF, itself a STALWART BULWARK against the mundanities of mediocrity! * OFF THE HOOK does its GOODEST and never lies! * There is only one choice: OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ * LOYALISTS reward themselves!

Ep 159Off The Hook ~July 5, 2024
Bombs bursting in your head after yesterday's SHAMEFUL INDULGENCES? * You need a Balm nursing you instead: the balm that is the OFF THE HOOK Post-Freedom(*) Afterparty! * While you may want to relish what could be your LAST HANGOVER celebrating your accustomed liberties, OFF THE HOOK aims to put you on the Road to Recovery (and positivity) with healingly INSPIRING SOUNDS to keep you the Fight-For-Righter we know you to be! * Tune in when others tune out: OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ !