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Lunatic Fringe: crate digging find, french comics, seasons, keeping comedy close in hard times
Feb 28, 2026
30m 05s
Phyllis Musical Inn, Chicago Troubadours, TV Theme Songs of the 80's defining what 90's were not, Jackalope and Chicago Stories
Feb 17, 2026
39m 05s
My Sunday Morning Got Sidetracked by Deep Thoughts...in a comical way...
Apr 7, 2024
23m 29s
Lunatic Fringe/Rubber Rodeo/Quimby's/Chicago Stories, The Nails...and more Music and Mayhem!
Apr 6, 2024
26m 01s
David Berman/Purple Mountains/Critical Thinking and Margaritas At The Mall
Mar 9, 2023
22m 58s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 2/28/26 | Lunatic Fringe: crate digging find, french comics, seasons, keeping comedy close in hard times✨ | crate diggingFrench comics+3 | — | French Canadian comix80's brit band+1 | — | crate diggingFrench comics+3 | — | 30m 05s | |
| 2/17/26 | Phyllis Musical Inn, Chicago Troubadours, TV Theme Songs of the 80's defining what 90's were not, Jackalope and Chicago Stories | The best things about legendary Chicago corner bars like Phyllis' Musical Inn, Chicago live music and Mike Felten (a musical troubadour since the 60's). His story as well as many other cool "insider's view from an outsider"... Cally our author gives the light hearted skinny on these topics and more...so much more! Sick of depressing reality talk, here's a nice break! | 39m 05s | ||||||
| 4/7/24 | My Sunday Morning Got Sidetracked by Deep Thoughts...in a comical way... | Get on your treadmill, start up your car, hop on the L Train and listen to my most poignant thoughts which will be anchored in comedy. Ramble with me for a hot 23 minutes as I solve the problems of the world while listening to some cool ass music and giving you the straight dope on this fine Sunday morning in Rogers Park, Chicago, USA! Headphones ready...let's go! | 23m 29s | ||||||
| 4/6/24 | Lunatic Fringe/Rubber Rodeo/Quimby's/Chicago Stories, The Nails...and more Music and Mayhem! | Music, mayhem and connecting the dots! My love of all things weird and wonderful and the road to possibly finding a new vision for Chicago Stories my book of "fly on the wall" moments. Talking here about lost bands, reads and places that need rediscovering. | 26m 01s | ||||||
| 3/9/23 | David Berman/Purple Mountains/Critical Thinking and Margaritas At The Mall | David Berman was a great song writer who killed himself. BUT he left behind one of the most profound YET bouncy/ poignant/ and unforgettable music albums with his band Purple Mountains. He was a smart man, deep soul, wordsmith and in my humble opinion genius. His music greatly affected my life and he is the topic of one of my Chicago Stories....hear about him now and some other fine gab on this podcast. Lunatic Find/Stories from the Edges of Music and Media!!! #DavidBermanMusic #P... | 22m 58s | ||||||
| 3/6/23 | Chicago Musicians/ Neal Francis and The Metalliques | Two of my favorite "new" Chicago bands you may not know about and will love. Neal Franics is funky, instantly gratifying and will hook your ear from the get go. We will be talking about him on Lunatic Fringe. The Metalliques and smoky, haunting and like watching a movie in a song- they will put a spell on you...don't fight it! #metalliques #nealfrancismusic We will also talk about a couple of cool local bars you need to check out- Montrose Saloon and Phyllis Musical Inn both great loca... | 13m 42s | ||||||
| 3/1/23 | Riding The "L" | This is one of the stories from my soon to be published book "Chicago Stories: An Outsiders View from the Inside". These are true life tales by yours truly shared for your reading/listening pleasure! I hope they inspire some fun conversations about your personal "Chicago Stores"...this specific story is about the perils and pleasures of "Riding The L". Enjoy while driving or making breakfast! Ahhh the beauty of audio! | 8m 06s | ||||||
| 1/31/23 | Chicago Stories Memoir/ Reintroducing Lunatic Fringe | Cally will re-introduce Lunatic Fringe her podcast, which focuses on stories from the edges of music and media. She will discuss lively topics from local dive bars like Phyllis' Musical Inn to author/artist Dmitry Samarov and how he influenced the conception of her book. She'll also tell you a little bit about her forthcoming book Chicago Stories: An Outsiders View from the Inside. Crate-digging musical finds and lots of juicy bits will tempt your ear! | 25m 21s | ||||||
| 6/9/21 | Permanent Vacation THE BOOK Interview | It's the Preparation H of podcasts! You were burning and scratching to know more about this ticket to paradise...literally all in one book! Lisa Marie Peabody interviews Cally Raduenzel your host of Lunatic Fringe ( the podcast about stories from the edges of music and media in the Chicagoland area...and more)! Cally Raduenzel wrote a book and it takes place in sunny Oahu and it's a damn good time! Hawaii, drug smugglers, reclusive authors and sharks....and much, much more...on the pages of P... | 51m 42s | ||||||
| 3/29/21 | Pt. 2 Technicolor Paradise Review | The hits keep on coming....actually this is more of an actual review of Technicolor Paradise, a CD compilation by Numero Group of an amazing assortment of "a musical cocktail...two parties easy listening, one part jazz..." conga drums, bird calls, alluring sexy vibes, "mosquito bitten torch singers, mad genius band leaders, D-List actors," who needed gigs, "summoning Shangri-la." Get out the Daiquiri mix or swirl some rum in your snifter and get a little ear taste of this amazing Numero Group... | 14m 11s | ||||||
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| 3/28/21 | Permanent Vacation/Oahu/Lounge Tiki Lifestyle... | Polynesian Village, remember that...or Don Ho? Well in this shorty episode we will cover a fun new compilation CD called Technicolor Paradise, which according to the label who put it out, Numero Group...it's all about "rum rhapsodies and other exotic delights' from the music of Les Baxter to Martin Denny. Then we will chat about Permanent Vacation my new book that hopes to make you feel as fine as a mystery solved by Hawaii 5-0. Shout out to Dusty Groove a GREAT record store you need to go cr... | 12m 03s | ||||||
| 8/1/20 | LUNATIC FRINGE- TESTING, TESTING- NEW EPISODE | TALKING ABOUT...Covid Conversations. Chats or moments I would've never had if it weren't for COVID/ quarantine! | 3m 49s | ||||||
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