Off The Hook With Gage

It can be lonely being AHEAD OF THE CURVE, but while my dearth of "Likes" is my Badge of Honor, I still request your company and urge you to accept the OPPORTUNITY I offer to avail yourselves of the SPECIALLY CURATED programming I bestow upon you clueless mass! * In one fell swoop (three hours), you become UP-TO-DATE and no social media scenester or influencer can take that away from you! * They will hit a brick wall when it comes to telling you what's what after you've listened to OFF THE HOOK! * NO WACK TRACKS!

RADIO FOR MUSOS! * Still listening to old favorites? * Why, when your NEW FAVORITE SONGS await you on OFF THE HOOK? * Think how impressed your friends will be when you drop the names of UNBELIEVABLY FANTASTIC songs by INCREDIBLE NEW artists they've never heard of! * (those would be your square friends who don't already listen to OFF THE HOOK) * Prestige is one thing, but sharing gets you into Heaven! * Hip your friends to The Show That Shows, OFF THE HOOK!

Pardner, I wouldn't want people laughing behind your back because you're not UP TO DATE with the LATEST SOUNDS. * Surely you can spare a measly three hours to listen to OFF THE HOOK, a show presenting the most MAGNIFICENT (sometimes just BEST) NEW MUSIC on the dial and in the stream! * We've got OLDIES for the NOSTALGIC (in the "Birthday Segment") and INFO for the CURIOUS! * OFF THE HOOK: for your own betterment!

ATTENTION! * Parts of OFF THE HOOK may make you feel uncomfortable! * That's good! * It shows you've been KNOCKED OUT of the complacency you've allowed yourself to be lulled into! * Your reaction to the STIMULATING programming of OFF THE HOOK affirms that you are ALIVE and thinking! * Congratulations! * Isn't it great to feel something?

Today's OFF THE HOOK is going to be a MOTHER with EARTHy and unearthly delights co-existing peacefully in a sustainable Environment (we hope) of mutual crust! * The OFF THE HOOK eco-system is ALIVE and thriving, planting NEW SEEDS of musical inspiration in our three-hour orbit! * The Florist of your musical Forest, OFF THE HOOK puts the ardor in your Arbor, so join us -PLAN IT! *

A good Friday with Flappy.

Good Friday, everyone! * But, whoever said TAX DAY is good? * Well, with a program of EXCITING new music selected especially for you, OFF THE HOOK says just that! * The only true certainty In the impermanent world of OFF THE HOOK is LIFE and the living, thriving sounds presented today shall be testament to that! * Plus, we do Birthdays. * File in and return to OFF THE HOOK! * It shouldn't be too taxing.

GRABBING YOU BY THE EARS until you cry "Uncle! I love it!", OFF THE HOOK may shake you all around, but never shakes you down! * This is FREE RADIO! * Hear what tries to be kept hid by greedy corporate radio goons from a sweet (sarcastic, smarmy, stumbling) and benevolent presenter who knows what's good for you! * To recap: FREE: costs you nothing but your time and mind! * SWEET: but never treacly! * Shake: SHAKE, RATTLE AND BLOW UP with OFF THE HOOK!

Tune in NOW for a Special remote broadcast live from Miami where Gage interviews The Chargers in their secret locker room on the eve of their new dawn! * We'll also hear wrestling 'n' laundry tips from MASTER chef Rudy Giuliani ! * AND animal poets of the Klondikes! * You'd be a fool not to miss this yeah yeah yeah edition of OFF THE HOOK!

I was tooling down the mean streets of San Francisco and flipped on the FM. * What I heard was so APPALLING, I realized that the reports I had heard were true: the state of local radio is UTTERLY ATROCIOUS! * I was about to FLIP OFF the radio when, like a GLEAMING BEACON from the heavens, I came upon 102.5, otherwise known as KXSF! * The power with which this BENEVOLENT RADIANCE hit me belied its paltry 2 Watts and I knew there was hope yet for the otherwise unfortunate denizens of our fair city! * RAH-RAH RADIO! * A particularly NOURISHING OASIS in the radio wasteland is the OFF THE HOOK program!

PLUMBING THE DEPTHS, one encounters the Umbrella Mouth Gulper Eel. * He's OFF THE HOOK and heading for you! * He flies through the Air! He slinks through the Stream! He looks like a stiletto heel and his bite brings wisdom and bliss! * Hear what he brings from the deep. * Catch him on the OFF THE HOOK program. * Plumb the depths with us.

HEY, GOOD LOOKIN'! * When I see someone so SHARP and well-appointed looking at their watch, I know I'm dealing with a FIERCELY INTELLIGENT individual with IMPECCABLE TASTE counting down the minutes to OFF THE HOOK! * A person ahead of the curve who enjoys a ROLLICKING GOOD TIME while sampling tomorrow's menu of musical mayhem today! * Someone whose shrewd discernment can only be sated by the SAGACIOUS SOUNDS on OFF THE HOOK! * Other people like it, too!

OFF THE HOOK: spiffy, with-it sounds for NOW people! * A SEXY, diverse and CONTROVERSIAL "water-cooler show" bringing lashing tongues and flying fists that end in harmonious hugs at the thankfulness shared for such a GODSEND! * This week your host brings not only the HAPPENINGEST hits for the hippest heads, but also a Tribute to the iconic vocalist of the MOST ICONIC "A Whiter Shade Of Pale", Procol Harum's GARY BROOKER (R.I.P.)! * It's OFF THE HOOK!