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Jon Nelson
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Dad. Radio Artist. Perzine Reader. Writer. I was Weird before it was cool.
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Happy Thanksgiving… from KBHR, in Cicely and WKRP in Cincinnati. And Radio Retrofit. And WFMU. And me.

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Thanksgiving Double Feature: Radio Retrofit
Two Thanksgiving Themes This Thursday... Listen to Chris in the Morning, in hour one of a winter theme in progress, AND Johnny Fever, making room for Les Nessman, too, and a really high flying statio...
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November 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
TWO new Turkey themed episodes of Radio Retrofit are about to ...DROP. Read about it at the blog:
www.awphooey.com/post/new-epi...
New Episode about to ...drop.
Two NEW Thanksgiving themed episodes of Radio Retrofit are on their way...Watch out! Both Chris Stevens (KBHR) & Johnny Fever (WKRP) celebrate the holiday, in their own, unique way, this Fall, in The ...
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October 17, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Radio Retrofit NEWS

Neil Mitchell and MakerParkRadio.nyc aired Radio Retrofit this morning and even took some time for an interview with Yours Truly (I’m truly yours, if you didn’t know).

Here’s the link to Listen (and See!)
vimeo.com/1127571097

(interview starts around 25:00)
Jon
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Today’s Schedule See the full schedule
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October 16, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The Chameleons - Swamp Thing
YouTube video by LeftHandOfDarkness
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September 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
What? Never imagined myself on a sports talk show, but there I was... Thanks to Lance McAlister, definitely an A-lister in legitimate radio, for having me on for a few minutes this evening, not to talk sports, thankfully, but my own program, Radio Retrofit.

Huge honor. 🙂
I'll link to the show soon.
August 21, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Clem Clements (from WIXU in Seymour's Bay, New Jersey), is the Guest DJ on Radio Retrofit today... From 2019, in The Wiggle Room, on The Sheena's Jungle Room stream, at WFMU.

Tonight, 8pm, eastern. Join us!
wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
July 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Jimmy DIED, to provide the story inspiring this post. The least you can do, is LISTEN. 😂

Swaggart never said any of this. I did, ~30 years ago, cutting deeply into his records, tearing parts out, smashing them back together, RUINING his message, for mine…

escapemechanism.bandcamp.com/track/today
Today, by Escape Mechanism
from the album Self Titled
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July 2, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Coming Very Soon

Time to pump UP the volume, for a NEW episode of Radio Retrofit (WFMU), this Tues on the Sheena’s Jungle Room stream.

It’s early 90’s teenage rebellion, at its most inspiring. Think of it as a refresher course, if you’re in need.

Part 1, 5/27
8pm est

Radio Retrofit:
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May 25, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Springsteen hasn’t backed down from fierce declarations, made in Manchester, England, on May 14.

Instead, the singer has immortalized the words, which are fighting. They open his new live album.

Springsteen’s effort is a signal to the rest of us, to do the same.

RESIST. However YOU are able.
May 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Venus Flytrap (WKRP)
episodes 2+3, in April!

w f m u

April 15 and April 22
(8-9pm, eastern)

wfmu.org/playlists/WG
April 1, 2025 at 12:18 AM
TONIGHT!
“Venus Flytrap” DJs this week’s episode of Radio Retrofit, from Cincinnati, in 1982, on the legendary WKRP.

Tune in to the Wiggle Room, on the Sheena’s Jungle Room stream

At WFMU.ORG

8pm, Eastern
Tonight
(Tues, 3/25)
March 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
March 6, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Good idea: Not watching State of the Union or any scheduled tv appearance. Watch the highlight reels, after, online, if curious. Not Live.
March 4, 2025 at 12:43 AM
February 7, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Reposted by Jon Nelson
learning to enjoy bad writing on websites because that means that at least a person wrote it, somebody who cared about what they were writing about enough to try. totally non-dystopic state of affairs
January 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM
"Save the Planet. Defy Authority. ...Watch your Cholesterol"?

Hear what 3 teenage boys have to say, on underground high school radio station KFLM. In 1993.

Parker Lewis is “Doctor Retro,” this Tuesday at 8pm (est).

WFMU>The Sheena’s Jungle Room stream>Wiggle Room

1/28:
wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
January 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Thanks to PDS for helping me figure out how to bridge my Bluesky account with his setup at Mastodon. It was easier than I thought, just follow the fediverse's bsky account: @ap.brid.gy
January 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Defying authority, now, just means trying to be a good person.
January 13, 2025 at 9:11 PM
This is my favorite part, after the show is finished, getting to update the website... 😊 Mission accomplished!

awphooey.com/retrofit

Now over 10 hours of radio, from Cicely, Saigon and Cincinnati. Tune in!
January 13, 2025 at 2:06 AM
We're fools!
January 13, 2025 at 1:58 AM
January 13, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Legendary, fictional DJs. Radio broadcasts assembled from vintage, incomplete airchecks.

Radio Retrofit. On The Sheena’s Jungle Room stream, at wfmu.org

Alaska ('95, Northern Exposure), Ohio ('82, WKRP in Cincinnati) and AFVN ('65, Good Morning, Vietnam) so far...

More here:
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January 12, 2025 at 8:08 AM