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The Ozone Nightmare covers a wide range of subjects, from gaming to politics, comics to culture. We speak our minds, for better or worse, but we also try to keep the conversation approachable for everyone.

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062310.mp3 Jun 14, 2010

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062210.mp3 Jun 14, 2010

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Red Brain Dead Redemption Jun 14, 2010

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LANDO Jun 11, 2010

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There’s a funny story about Joe and I from the first year of our having met. Joe lived in a college suite with some friends of mine while I was living in blessed isolation in the single rooms across campus. I was working on my BA with a double major in English and Psychology and hadn’t yet discovered the desire to learn everything, though it was bubbling. I did however discover a rather comprehensive personality test in the Psychology Office’s library, which, I then administered to most of my friends in Joe's suite. Afterward, I administered the test to myself, waiting to score them all together so that I wouldn’t slant my own answers based on subconsciously desired results.

After several hours of crunched numbers, I ended up with a set of results for my friends and Joe. What I saw was a group of people with very common personality traits, you might almost call them stock personality types, which make up most of the population. What I had not counted on was that Joe and I would fall into a personality type that was shared by no one else in the suite, and in fact only shared with three to five percent of the population. It was a leadership type, a personality that refused to take orders blindly and which sought to instead discover its own path. What made it funnier was that Joe and I were counter point inside the type. Joe was a leader who preferred to lead from the shadows and remain out of the spotlight, effecting control of the world without demanding recognition. I was a leader who did not want control but through effect of personality drew people to me and created tribes. A drastic simplification of the types of course, but the point was that I had met someone like me, just on the opposite end of the pendulum. This show is the interest on years of friendship between two people of a less common personality type who refuse to be led and instead lead themselves. Joe went the way of Art and I went the path of English and Psychology. I have a MA in Writing, and MA in Psychology, and a MA in Literature. I believe that knowledge is the greatest wealth and would keep myself in education forever if I could. Instead I read a lot and subject myself to college courses on tape in a constant struggle to learn, well, everything. I was raised on Fantasy and Led Zeppelin and matured into Cyberpunk and Techno. I am the child of immigrants who themselves stepped out of the common roles their parents expected from them, starting a tradition of rebellion. These days I read every genre but my love of the sea is always the seas of Science-Fiction, or as some have started calling it, Speculative Fiction. Beyond my education and reading I don’t have much more to say, I never really liked the idea of bios and the like. I have been writing since I was eleven, and one day I do hope to touch the minds of others the way my mind was touched at a young age, starting me off into the lands of mind and question. Gibson’s Neuromancer was more than just futurist crime fiction, it taught a boy like me that life could be very different from what the everyday dictated. I hope this gives our listeners some better ideas of their hosts. Oh, and one more thing, I am confident that Theodore Roosevelt would kick Ernest Hemingway’s ass in an old style fistfight. That said, enjoy the show and thanks for your time.

JOE Jun 11, 2010

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So who is the lunatic pictured above and why does he put this show out, anyway? No big mystery, really. I've always been a loudmouth opinionated person, and really what better forum for that than a weekly podcast? I started this show mostly out of boredom and a desire to try the medium, and once Lando came on board it just took on a life of its own. Before this, I went to school for illustration and then realized I would have to do real work to make money. I still love art, and I do it when time and creativity allow, but it became clear very quickly after graduation that it was not the career for me. There's a fair amount of irony that a proudly native New Yorker would end up meeting his wife as far away as possible: California. I've never been the type to be too tied to where I am, so when the time came for one of us to move I was the one who uprooted and split. While this state is most decidely weird, the weather is outstanding and all in all I've adjusted. Deep down, though, the Empire State will always be home. Not much else interesting about me besides that, guys. I do IT work, pump out some artwork here and there and muddle about in amateur photography. Beyond that, this is where I spill the overflow from my brain. It ain't much, but hopefully it's entertaining.

MU The 3rd Jun 11, 2010

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This week, the second part of the biggest crossover of the summer, Mysterious Universe vs The Ozone Nightmare! This is 2 hours of no holds barred random conversation, so dig in and enjoy! If you're looking for the first part, just hop on over to MU and become a Premium Member. Enjoy!

Opening Music: "Alive WIP v2" by George Carpenter Closing Music: "Superheros 2007" by The Toxic Avenger