#0018: This Week On The Air–April 15, 2025

I go over our planned programming for the third Tuesday in April, April 15th....ah fuck, it's tax day isn't it.



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Hey, y’all! Hope you’re doing your best this week. It’s Tuesday, so it’s time for yet another program schedule as we go over what we’re playing for tonight’s episodes of Talkie Time and The Jazz Program on datafruits.fm!

Talkie Time : It’s Tax Day, Assholes - T Men - The Case Of The Subtle Approach / Treasury Agent - The Hate Racket

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man this newspaper advertisment sure does make united states treasury agents seem a lot more interesting than they actually are

It’s everyone’s least favorite and uniquely American springtime tradition once again; tax day. Between decades of lobbying to make

First off, we’ve gotten a rarity; T-Men, from 1956. Featuring Gordon Glenwright as Treasury investigator Jack Ketch1, “the true to life adventures of the men whose job it is to discover and bring to account those citizens who, by concealment, deception, or fraud, evade their lawful taxes.” ## Talkie Time : It’s Tax Day, Assholes - T Men - The Case Of The Subtle Approach / Treasury Agent - The Hate Racket

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man this newspaper advertisment sure does make united states treasury agents seem a lot more interesting than they actually are

, which--according to the fantastic old time radio historian [Jerry Haendiges](https://otrsite.com/logs/logt1190.htm) who is the only source I could find for this show's air dates--aired April 26, 1956. In this one, someone walks into Ketch's office with a bribe, and Ketch--showing a level of mettle and integrity that'd find him isolated in modern Washington--immediately decks the bastard.

After that, it’s Treasury Agent, another rare show produced by Phillips Lord (of Gangbusters fame) and starring Santos Ortega (who you may know as one Nero Wolfe from the ABC run of the show) and Everett Sloan (who went on to played Mr. Bernstein in fellow Mercury Theater troupe member Orson Welles’ first movie, Citizen Kane).

We’ve got one episode for you: “The Hate Racket”, which originally aired April 14.1947. In this one, the U.S. Treasury goes out, beats down, and arrests members of a right-wing hate group, despite their protests and their shtty song-and-dance number about five minutes into the episode about how they hate immigrants. Man, who knew the tax men used to be cool?

A frame from the music video "THE GOVERNMENT KNOWS" by Knower. Louis Cole is up front and center wearing an ammo belt filled with corn dogs, pointing at the viewer, while Genevieve Artadi wears an American flag leotard and dances off to his left. The background is filled with dancers wearing latex masks of American presidents.

THE GOVERNMENT KNOWS HOW MUCH TAX YOU OWE (allegedly)

The Jazz Program: Louis Cole - Life (with KNOWER) / Quality Over Opinion

You may not like it, but this technically counts as continuing with our “ah fuck I have to square up accounts with the government today” theme from Talkie Time. Especially track three off the first record we’re playing. You know the track.

Assuming I know my audience2–and I’ve got a pretty damn good lock on most of you–Louis Cole should be a known entity to most of the regular listeners to the show. Not because I’ve ever featured his work on the show, mind, but because I know you’ve had Clown Core recommended to you by the Youtube algorithm3, your synthesizer-toting trans stoner buddy, or your college roommate at least once, and “allegedly” Cole makes up at least a third of the band.

We won’t be playing any Clown Core tonight (much to the disappointment of many of you, I imagine). Instead, we’ll be starting off with Knower (his collaboration with Genevieve Artadi) and their 2016 rollercoaster-ride-of-an-album, Life.

After that, we’ve got Cole’s Grammy-nominated 2022 jazz-funk-electronic record Quality Over Opinion. If you’re wondering why we only have two records listed this evening, this is why; this beast is over an hour long by itself.

The government may know how much tax you owe (and when you do other things), but for the time being Tor still works, and we haven’t been outlawed from the Internet airwaves yet anyways, so you ain’t got no excuses. Come on over, hop in the chat, and tune in.

NO RERUNS THIS WEEK! All new content, despite me being exhausted! Rejoyce! Mind you, I’m still drawing my butt off (as you can see in the next blog post) but far be it from me to squander any excuse for a goofy theme night.

If you’re reading this the day of, and you can make it in tonight, come hang out in the chat with us on Datafruits! We’ve got a good crowd of folks in the chat every week, and whether you have a suggestion for a future show or just want to hang out and chat with fellow jazz enjoyers, you’re welcome here with us.

You’re all amazing and don’t let anyone tell you that you’re not. Stay safe out there, and I’ll see you back again next week. Same time, same station.

Footnotes…

  1. …who, sadly, is not a trans man as the title may imply. Although, let’s be real here, it’d be a lot cooler if he was. ↩︎

  2. Depressed, burnt out millennial queer folk who spent way too much time on /mu/, Discogs, or other weirdo music forums and browsing through algorithm-bait Youtube-ripped records in their formative years, and currently spend way too much time smoking weed, listening to weird shit, and trying to avoid the news. As you do. ↩︎

  3. Same place I’d wager most of you have heard Mint Jams and Scenery well before you ever tuned into the show, too. Say what you will about Youtube nowadays, but their 2010s algorithm knew what’s up. ↩︎


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