Sunday, January 15 at 8:00 PM, please tune in for an extra special edition of Fermented Radio.

Long Island native and bastard child of Laurel Canyon, Roger Street Friedman, joins us to discuss his brand new recording Love Hope Trust, a collaboration with the producing team of Larry Campbell and Justin Guip.

Roger and Larry play along with Jason Crosby, Gil Goldstein, Theresa Williams, Lucy Kaplansky, Jim Toscano and Matthew Schneider. Love Hope Trust is a wonderful collection of relevant songwriting with a stylistically diverse range of melodic content.

This conversation includes Roger describing his working relationship with Larry and Justin, the songwriting cycle, finding inspiration and being a husband and father. 

We hope you'll tune in and catch the buzz from Fermented Radio on January 15 at 8:00 PM or listen to the segment online on demand. 

https://www.rogerstreetfriedman.com/

This week, Destinies salutes the 50th anniversary of a horror TV classic, relives the glory days of I-Con, and brings you an ancient myth in poetry form.

Tune in Friday night, and celebrate a half-century since the second appearance of reporter Carl Kolchak as Johnny Heller reads the prologue from Jeff Rice's novel The Kolchak Papers: The Night Strangler on the Destinies Audiobook Sampler.

Travel back to I-Con 30 for part one of highlights from "I-Con's Got Talent?" featuring songs from Jekyll and Hyde and Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Plus, Christina M. Rau reads her poem "Maggots: A Rapture."

Friday, January 13th, at 11:30 PM.

Hosted by Howard Margolin (who also competes in I-Con's Got Talent?) and Christina M. Rau.
Destinies-The Voice of Science Fiction

his week, the Destinies Film Review Team assembles live for its 38th annual look back at the genre movies of the previous year.

Tune in Friday night, as Destinies' Fantastic Film Four take turns listing their five favorite and one least favorite science fiction, fantasy, adventure, horror, and super-hero movies of 2022, and discussing as many of the rest as they've seen.

Which of the 94 eligible movies of last year will make the cut? Will there be a consensus on any of them? Will one person's best be another's worst? Which film had the outstanding score of the year?

And, what are the movies worth on the famous Destinies zero to nine dollars rating scale?

Find out on Friday, January 6th, at 11:30 PM, when hosts Howard Margolin, Audrey Dettmering, Dave Campfield, and Timothy Gillespie review the films of 2022 on Destinies-The Voice of Science Fiction.

Yaron Brook is chairman of the board of the Ayn Rand Institute. He wears many hats at the institute and travels extensively as ARI’s spokesman.

Brook can be heard on Yaron Brook Show, which airs live on YouTube, Spotify and Spreaker. He is also a frequent guest on national radio and television programs such as the Lex Fridman Podcast.

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Airs Thursday, Janaury 5, 6-8 PM

DECONSTRUCTING KAREN’s Regina Jackson, Saira Rao, and Director Patty Ivins Specht Up Next on Tom Needham’s SOUNDS OF FILM

In this provocative documentary, white women experience RADICAL HONESTY ABOUT RACISM…their daily role in upholding it, their conditioning to ignore it and the essential part they can play in tearing down the systems that are killing black and brown people every single day.

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Airs Thursday, December 15 from 6-8 PM.

Join us this Friday. December 16 at 10:00 am for an extra special Fermented Radio. 

Host Marc Greene welcomes back Executive Director Bill “Hawk” Semens and Pete Bell of the Owsley Stanley Foundation. These keepers of Bear’s Sonic legacy continue to dip into the incredible wealth of Owsley’s audio archives, the Sonic Journals he captured while working as sound engineer with numerous acts both inside and outside of the Grateful Dead’s immediate family.

The most recent addition is the wonderful The Foxhunt: The Chieftains in San Francisco, 1973 & 1976, capturing a pair of performances by Paddy Maloney’s Irish folk legends, including a set opening for Old and In the Way performed at Jerry Garcia’s invitation.

The gang at the Owsley Stanley Foundation continues to sift through Bear’s tapes, checking and double-checking to make sure they find everything, and this year they found a few somethings.

This week, Destinies sets the TARDIS to the afternoon of November 21, 2021, where, at the Long Island Doctor Who convention, author John Peel discusses his work on the Doctor Who spin-off projects featuring UNIT and The Brigadier, in part one of a two-part presentation.

Tune in Friday night, as John Peel makes his long-awaited 10th appearance to talk about how he came to write novels and later audio books about Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and the members of the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce.

You'll also learn about the life of a freelance writer, and the demands of publishers.

In addition, John recalls his encounters with various Doctor Who actors, including Jon Levene and Anthony Ainley, at conventions over the years.

Friday, December 9th, at 11:30 PM.
Hosted by Howard Margolin.

Join Captain Phil along with Maria Zozulya, Jonathan Benz and MaryBeth Ritkouski for this lively chat with composer Amanda Lee Falkenberg about her new work, The Moons Symphony an orchestral piece centered on 6 moons from the outer solar system and one very familiar moon in our backyard.

Amanda talks about her inspiration from the Voyager missions and her collaborations with NASA Astronaut Nicole Stott, her choices of subject matter and the inspiration of current space research has had on out sense of wonder. Then at 4:30pm join me for a live interview with musician and composer Izzy Meth as he updates us on his musical journey, his new compositions and more! All this on your favorite planet....Captain Phil's Planet!

Airs Thursday, December 1 from 6-8 PM. 

Long Island Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame Inductee JJ French will be joining Tom Needham for an extended conversation about his documentary We Are Twisted F***ING Sister. The film focuses on the ten grueling years leading up to Twisted Sister's commercial breakthrough as they cross-dressed their way all over Long Island bars and clubs to super-stardom.
Twisted Sister items will be featured prominently at the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame’s grand opening on November 25th. For more information, visit https://www.limusichalloffame.org

The Sounds of Film is the nation's longest-running film themed radio show. For over 27 years, the program has delivered a popular mix of interviews and music to listeners all over Long Island, parts of Connecticut and streaming live on the Internet. Recent guests include Billy Joel, Reverend Jesse Jackson, director Rory Kennedy, Gasland's Josh Fox, Michael Moore, Darryl DMC McDaniels, Congressman Steve Israel and Jim Breuer.

Worldwide listeners can tune into the Sounds of Film internet livestream on Thursday at 6 pm EST at wusb.fm.

This week, Destinies joins in WUSB's Fall Radiothon with an exclusive preview of next weekend's Meglos 2022: The Long Island Doctor Who Convention.

Tune in Friday night, as showrunner Ken Deep returns to discuss the guests and events scheduled for the convention, which will be held on November 18th, 19th and 20th at the Holiday Inn in Holtsville.

Learn which Doctor and companions will be in attendance. Find out about the rare in-costume photo opportunity with the Doctor.

Discover which guest-stars, creature actors, and authors will provide behind-the-scenes information about the 59-year-old series.

Hear about the panel discussions and debut movie screenings that you can see. And get in on the chance to receive Doctor Who and British TV-related premiums for your pledge of support to WUSB during the show.