Midnight Voicejail is a 50-episode radio series about a group of 20-something slackers, stuck in the very work-oriented suburbs of Silicon Valley during the 80's and 90's. They used various voicemail systems as their main social and creative outlet and as an early form of social media. They came to be known as 'voicejailers'. The show is an ongoing audio documentary about their world, revealed mostly through collected voicemail messages interspersed with pieces of psychedelic collage and comedy bits.
Synopsis: Mr. 1:15, Redball, Mr. Chemist and Joe prepare to go to Berkeley for a stint on Negativland’s radio show, Ronald makes crank calls and interviews the electronic voicemail voice: 'Voicejail Betty'.
This is the complete episode edited for terrestrial radio. Probably best to play this in Safe Harbor hours just in case. If you get the Entire Digital Album, you get this and the uncut version (in tracks). The Bandcamp player defaults to the Complete Radio Edit.
The tracks before the Radio Edit track represent the episode in its original, uncut NSFW form. Listener Discretion Advised.
If you wish to donate to our Latent Einstein Outreach Ministry you can go to
nationalcynical.com/donate or become a patron at
patreon.com/nationalcynical or consider entering in a dollar amount for this program which goes back into the project.
All derived material in this program is used fairly, accredited, and transformed (remixed / fragmented / re-contextualized / re-worked) for the purpose of education, cultural reference, and to artistically capture the cultural conversation about the subject matter during the time of this program's creation. All voicemail material is used with the permission of the recording's owners at the time of this episode's creation.
This researched program is the result of an artistic and creative process which can be documented, and is meant to be heard, and taken in its entirety. Payment is not a prerequisite to get this package, though donations are appreciated. Any proceeds made through this page are considered donations.
from
Midnight Voicejail - Episode 28 - The Shout,
released December 1, 2019
Dimitri Tiomkin ; John Williams; Ronald Redball (voiceover; writing; production); Phineas Narco (writing; production); Jamien; Mr. 1:15 (Alexander T. Newport); Mr. Chemist; The Bay Area Representative; Ray Taliaferro; KGO News-Talk Radio; Hannah-Barbera; Joe Sledgehammer; Voicejail Betty; Don Joyce (of Negativland); Dio; Jimi Hendrix