215 episodes
Aerial View Chris Tsakis
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- Society & Culture
Aerial View is a phone-in talk show hosted by Chris T. and heard LIVE every Friday night, 6 pm ET on thehoundnyc.com, with replays Tuesday nights at 6 pm ET. Call 760-422-5528 and join in during the show... or leave a message any other time for playback on air. Aerial View is also available as a podcast from Amazon Music Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud and YouTube. Aerial View's Facebook page is here. Send email to aerialviewer@me.com. Aerial View tackles an amazing range of topics. From light to heavy we discuss politics, taxes, bullies, cannibals, fuel prices, teachers, movies, climate change, asteroids, the Olympics, God, guns, oil, scams, the future, Florida, JFK, Yom Kippur, American History, space monkeys, suicide, robbery, love, Wall Street, Quadrophenia, the quiet car and Jimmy Page – to name just a few. Aerial View is hosted by Chris T., who was born in Amityville, grew up blue-collar in Lindenhurst, Long Island, and was a punk before you were a punk, playing guitar in two seminal NY outfits - The Nihilistics and Missing Foundation. He moved to New Jersey in 1986 and shortly thereafter began co-hosting The Nightmare Lounge with cartoonist Kaz on free-form WFMU. Five years later he debuted Aerial View - the first regularly-scheduled 'FMU talk show. It ran there from 1989 to 2016. He’s worked at CBS Radio, NPR's NY Bureau, WFMU, WNYC and SiriusXM, where he co-hosted a daily 3-hour talk show for over a dozen years and DJ’d on the Blues and Outlaw Country channels. His writing has been published in several compendiums and he currently lives where Burr shot Hamilton, in Weehawken, NJ, with his wife and two cats. Roger the (Cat) Engineer and Marty (Super) Mart
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2010 Mermaid Parade
An Aerial View Archive from June 14 2016: The 2010 MERMAID PARADE. Originally heard over WFMU, this Aerial View documents Coney Island USA's 2010 Mermaid Parade IN STEREO (listen over headphones for a real thrill!). Recorded in high-quality by me from the central vantage point of the MC podium, you won't hear the Mermaid Parade quite like this anywhere else! Listen for King Neptune Lou Reed & Queen Mermaid Laurie Anderson, Coney Island USA Founder & Artistic Director Dick Zigun, co-MC Kay Sera and Chief Justice Mark Alhadeff. DON'T LET THIS PARADE PASS YOU BY!
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Aerial View Farwell
An Aerial View Archive from July 5, 2016, originally heard over WFMU and not since. This was the last Aerial View ever broadcast over WFMU.
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The Lost WABC Tapes
An Aerial View Archive from May 31, 2016, originally heard over WFMU and not since. Features a ton of archival Mid-1960s "Go-Go" era WABC-AM audio salvaged from the garbage and dubbed from reel-to-reel tapes. Includes mic breaks, news reports, commercials, stingers (including PAMS imaging) and garage rock via Cousin Brucie's Big Break contest. Stay tuned for yet more rare radio audio, including Alan Colmes throwing the switch to transition WNBC-AM into WFAN-AM on Oct. 7, 1998; the inventor of FM, Maj. Edwin Howard Armstrong tests FM networking via the Yankee Network on Feb. 14, 1941.
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Summer Footwear
An Aerial View Archive from May 14, 1993, originally heard over WFMU and not since. Topics:
• CLIPS FROM CHRIS T.'s SLEEP TAPE
• SHOPPING MALL BIKE RIDING WITH CHRIS T.'s COUSIN J.D.
• CHRIS T.'s OLD FRIEND GLENN
• SUMMER FOOTWEAR,
• FINDING FRIENDS THRU SUMMER FOOTWEAR
• LOCATING OLD FRIENDS
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Old Farts
An Aerial View Archive originally heard May 21, 1993 over WFMU and not aired since.
DISCUSSIONS INCLUDE:
BECOMING AN OLD FART AND DYING ALONE. ARE YOUNG PEOPLE OLD FARTS, AND ARE OLD FARTS TODAY'S REBELS THE STEPS TOWARD BEING AN OLD FART. DIFFERENT THEORIES ABOUT WHAT CAUSES "OLD FARTNESS." AMERICA, AND THE WORLD AS BEING, YOUTH OBSESSED HOW A PERSON'S JOB CAN OFTEN DEFINE WHO THEY ARE ANTI- NOSTALGIA
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Ken Katkin Objects!
Ken Katkin, Professor of Constitutional Law at Salmon P. Chase School of Law and Chief Custodian of Trash Flow Radio (WAIF-FM) discusses the Supreme Court’s foot-dragging and Trump’s trial.
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