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Season 147

Happy Holidays! Nov 25th, 2021 by gare What a beautiful place to hit pause eh? Please join me for the time being over at https://homeplanetariums.buzzsprout.com/ as we take a somewhat zany (who me) look at those stars and culture. Thank you! Narrator Gare Melpomene Has a Go Nov 23rd, 2021 by gare (147-15) - and like everybody else, plays what SHE wants! (with a little help from Ada Jones & Billy Murray, 1911) And so it goes here at the Overlooked Hobby Hotel, a metaphor for Home Planetariums. Everybody plays what THEY want to play, and everybody's their own boss. Radio W O B Y stands for 'What's in your Own Back Yard!?' Hopefully you'll find happiness in whatever YOU decide to build out there. After all, the stars are always shining. Maybe if we ask nicely enough, they will show us all the way. Sky Rag - RMS Majestic of the White Star Line Nov 23rd, 2021 by gare (147-14) - Ragtime from the 1914 largest liner in the world! Chaos Descends Nov 22nd, 2021 by gare (147-13) - Jake (alas, Zeus-less, rhymes with useless) tries to step in between William and Liam, only to find he failed to show on Sunday, which he blames on Urania. Leaderless, the station drifts - rhymes with rifts ... A Spat Breaks Out Nov 22nd, 2021 by gare (147-12) - William gets wind of Liam's plan to play disco before Wednesday - and reaffirms his ownership of the 70's, resorting to harsh language (briefly) Liam Reports Late Nov 22nd, 2021 by gare (147-11) - But what's that old saying? No seriously, what is it?? Helloo-oh? Muses Skip Town for Jackson Hole! Nov 21st, 2021 by gare (147-10) - Shakeup at the podcast station as new call letters W O B Y (Whatup in yo Own Back Yard) debut, that's 4:30 AM (time of Gare's show) on your radio dial! But there's more - the Muses all headed west! Update from Urania! Nov 21st, 2021 by gare (147-09) - but it isn't good. only 1 cryptic voicemail received so far from that state way out there. you know the one. Specialty Projector! Nov 21st, 2021 by gare (147-08) - You can purpose-build a special effects home planetarium projector, OR you can select a given piece of junk, and see what becomes of it! Its All Make Believe, Isn‘t It Nov 21st, 2021 by gare (147-06, 07) - Narrator drops by with new sign, new brand, new overlooking .... view? Narrator Drop By - Eclipse Leaves Him Speechless? Nov 20th, 2021 by gare (147-05) - on the contrary, he can't seem to stop talking, day by day Haunted Planetaria! - The Knocking Nov 19th, 2021 by gare (147-04) - Can long gone doors still be knocked on? Narrator Returns to His Old School! Nov 19th, 2021 by gare (147-03) - nevermind he doesn't know the words anymore lol Meanwhile, on Urania‘s Iphone Nov 17th, 2021 by gare (147-02) - Nobody misses the narrator since William's 'Whacked Out Wednesday' disco show (known as WOW) has dominated the station today. But then came the voicemail attempts Much Too Late (for Goodbyes)! Nov 17th, 2021 by gare (147-01) - Is a holiday break in the offing? Nobody seems to know....

The Man in the Window

The sky there's a man in the window. Amy eight years old said this over dinner with her parents. I thought I heard you talking in the spare bedroom this morning said her mother. Her father, one of the world's leading solar astronomers smiled. Who are you talking to? Amy he wanted to know the man in the window. He's not so bright early in the morning said Amen. He said we'd better start getting ready. concerned that her fantasy friend might be getting out of hand Mother said Now Amy, you know this is make believe right? Getting ready for what anyway? He sang some songs to me about life and light and stuff. Then he said that tell dad. Your father perked up but this. This was on the verge of getting totally out of hand but he couldn't resist asking. Tell dad what. And then he was astounded when the young girl began spouting off numbers. Hold on, he grabbed the pen and tried to follow what she was viewing. And he continued for a little while reciting number she somewhat and probably had remembered as her dad furiously scribbled her mother looked aghast at her. Amy finally finished her surprise recitation and looked in passively at her father inexplicably intoned frequencies you'll see. Amy's dad looked down at what he had scribbled and was astounded, discover they did look like frequencies. Totally caught up. Now in her spell. He leaned forward. The man that you really get these numbers aiming? Did you find them somewhere? How can you remember them? The man in the window said I would. He said only kids could hear him. Adults know too much. What else her father couldn't stop at this point. Something about six months to go. The big lizards couldn't understand the last time but we could if I told you staring at the paper her father finally said I look into this. What big lizards? Amy finished. It was time for cake anyway. He said a flare up a flare will kill everything or something like that. You have to warn people and build shelters or something. Can I have cake now please? Did he say what his name was? said that. Amy looked at him as she began her chocolate cake. Something about Apollo. He's that bright man in the sky. I can see through the window in the morning. He said he had to warn us. He said that we were his greatest children. And we'd understand thanks for listening

The Ghost of Warwick Castle

Halley's Comet first appeared in 240 bc I was not there personally. That next appeared in 163 BC. People ran to tell their friends and neighbors. It appeared a broom star hanging in the sky. Ominously. It scared the hell out of people frankly. Comets were Harbinger's of Doom. This is why I'm playing doom music. You can see comet here in our sky. Above the castle. We're in the 1301 Warwick Castle. Oddly enough, the castle is located in Warwick England, which was visited by Halley's comet. ETC The castle itself was built by William the Conqueror, Bill to his friends, but he didn't have many, because he conquered everyone. There is a ghost in Warwick Castle, just as a commt as a ghost of the sky coming back every 76 years in the case of Halley Speaking of Harbingers of Doom. Sir Fulke Greville died in this castle in 1601, killed by his man servants who was a servant who just happened to be a man. It is said that the ghost of Sir gray Ville can be seen late at night and sometimes earlier standing in the battlements of the tower as ghosts often do. Halley's comet was last seen around these parts in 1986 and we'll be back when all of us are dead. And we will be the ghosts. Here is a picture of the actual ghost of Warwick Castle Do you think I make these things up? I do not. So what is a comet? A ghostly visitor, a broom star such as the one I have here constructed for you. This concludes our lesson on Sir gray Ville Warwick Castle and the ghost of the skies called comets. One more thing. Some superstitious folk believed that comets were actually Dragons come to consume us, but I don't believe in dragons. Do you?

Not the Nazgul Rap

bury you across the water from Ballard is the captain of smell dot speak and it is right for you et Cie CQ there uncouth land called China and they allow our mind to have a stone that burns is the last half of the world but we now take it home and at Northeastern took in blasphemy in writing maker from cursive and it was this he and those who have the houses have in this lab invitation on their their shingle mind showed right in the crowd a little wait those who would seek to sell nothing. This now finds you is a service that he does not see and barely all those walk but these are the sons shall in the end, the last in the fall before him in law or the rise and the rappel of the West shell utterly failed and is raised

Flatland

hello, i am a square in flatland ... youve heard of flatland havent you? ours is a 2 dimensional world, you who live in 3 dimensions, in space, i think dont appreciate our limitations. since the description of our 2 dimensional world written over 100 years ago by Edwin Abbott Abbott (Abbott squared, get it?), we got quite a bit of publicity for awhile, but thats died down now.. we famousy got visited by a sphere from space, your 3 dimensional world, but all we could see were circles growing larger and smaller here in flatland. most people think our 2 dimensional world was just a satire on hiearchical life in Victorian times, but no, we have other business too. since this is a planetarium podcast, you might be interested in how we build planetariums here in two dimensions we spent many years trying to depict stars ourselves, but since we all look like lines in 2 dimensional space, all we could do to make stars is arrange volunteers into constellatons viewed almost on end. this didnt work too well though, because we only looked close to stars from just off center in the audience - the further you got from the center line of sight, the more our 'stars' looked like short lines. that just ruined it for most here in flatland. also, since here in flatland it rains from the north (thats one of our laws of nature, like our gravity, which pulls us south), rain tended to wash away our stars. we couldnt have a roof over their heads much less a dome - nobody could see short lines in front of a larger ilne in back if you see what i mean. so we lived for the longest time with very limited planetarium capacity until FINALLY we came up with a solution. our scientifsts were able to punch a hole into a one dimensional universe called pointland. the inhabitants THERE were lustrous ponts, and they made great stars! now our planetariums are something to see! until it rains....