Off The Hook With Gage

YOU'RE INVITED! * Kenady lets you listen in on his MASTERFUL culture-culling for the purpose of building his own personal library of GREAT NEW SONGS he doesn't already have! * Music for people with time on their hands! * It's called OFF THE HOOK, The Show That Shows and it starts at 1:00 on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ ! * Take advantage (?) of his industrious hobby!

There's nothing TERRIBLY STRANGE about playing CHRISTMAS MUSIC a week before Christmas, but the Christmas music you'll hear on Today's OFF THE HOOK might be! * New, unfamiliar Carols will give a FACELIFT to the saggy puss of Christmas Past and your jowls will snap to attention when we STUFF YOUR STOCKINGS with a sleighful of the Brightest Stars in the Birthday Segment! * All in all, it's gonna make Christmas itself look puny and pathetic! * Join the party on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ Our gift to you!

ARE YOU READY FOR IT? * You'd better be, because TWENTY TWENTY-SICK is here! * What it will bring no one knows, but the signposts may be heard on Today's OFF THE HOOK, which will include 2025's TOP TRACKS! * We will also hear tracks from albums not yet gotten to and not-yet-gotten-to tracks from albums gotten to, too! * Believe it or not, musicians are people, which means they have BIRTHDAYs, which will be celebrated in a special SEGMENT! * All in all, it's business as usual on this FIRST OFF THE HOOK of 2026! * Join us at 1:00 on KXSF 102.5FM  https://kxsf.fm/ ! * O...

'TIS THE SEASON to kick the eff back for three hours! * You be settin' up yer tree -OFF THE HOOK is the perfect soundtrack! * No Holiday Sounds yet, but the JOVIAL MOOD you'll be put in as you SLURP your eggnog will have you LURCHING from limb to limb, hanging ornaments in HAPHAZARD fashion as you REEL AND BUMP your way to Flappy's Den! * You've been shoppin' and plannin' so doggone hard -give yourself a break! *Tune in to OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM  https://kxsf.fm/

GOOD FOR WHAT ALIS YOU! * Your overconsumption of merriment yesterday is exacting its toll today. * OFF THE HOOK is here to help! * The EASY BREEZY sounds heard on today's show will soothe the savage turkey breast that your poor beaten body is still struggling to digest! * And nothing's more DIGESTIBLE than OFF THE HOOK's Mellow Menu of Melodious Morsels! * Find relief on OFF THE HOOK and wash it down with humble pie!

The Show That Shows (OFF THE HOOK) has a few TRICKS up its sleeve! * Its SLEIGHT OF HAND is so deft that even WIZARDS cannot detect how it can conjure the ILLUSION of a top-shelf, professional operation! * With a wave of its hand, this slap-dash collection of unlikely sounds, hosted by an inane MC, appears to be a finely crafted, well-thought-out presentation of scholarly experience! * The MAGIC that ensues perplexes the senses and boggles the rational mind! * ABRACADABRA, PRESTO CHANGO, it's OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ Let the hypnosis work for you!

Is it SEX you're after? * OFF THE HOOK has a very good record of matchmaking, bringing together saucy trombones and feisty castanets and other unlikely couplings! * Like to DANCE? * No one has ever prevented anyone from dancing to OFF THE HOOK! -we suggest the Crawl, except that's a swimming stroke, not a dance. * Is OFF THE HOOK all things to all people? * No.* I guess we can't be sure what OFF THE HOOK really is until we listen.   https://kxsf.fm/ So let's all listen and be one.

Regardless of how it may sound to you, your host is not easily satisfied! * The music must be INTERESTING, and/or BEAUTIFUL, and FRESH! * He is willing to sacrifice a bit of professionalism in his presentation, but the music must never fall short! * If it seems to, you are clearly a newcomer who has not yet been indoctrinated into the WHIMSICAL ways of OFF THE HOOK! * Please tune in to the Idiosyncratic Aberration that is OFF THE HOOK at 1:00 on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ and we'll reverberate together.

IF YOU'RE WEARING PANTS, you might as well take them off now, because Today's HALLOWEEN edition of OFF THE HOOK will scare them right off of you! * GHOSTS & GOBLINS, WITCHES & DEVILS, SPIDERS & BATS and DEATH DEATH DEATH will animate today's most unholy program! * Spells at https://kxsf.fm/ Maybe bring a diaper.

Like the Umbrella Mouth Gulper Eel, OFF THE HOOK goes deep! * Wriggling its way to the depths to scoop up GLITTERING GEMS in its mighty maw, the OFF THE HOOK Gulper surfaces with its once-submerged spoils in a RESPLENDENT display of Sub-aquatic Sounds! * But it's no bottom feeder! * Its appetite is for the Freshly Spawned -the gulped guppies that are winnowed from the minnows in the Great Aquarium of musical meals! * GO DEEP with OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/  No snorkel necessary!

It's funny and squishy and full of goodness! * LISTEN TO OFF THE HOOK! * It's right Up Your Street! * By its reputation, you'd think it's a Music Show, but nominally it's about a hook! * WHAT IS IT? * OFF THE HOOK, The Show That Shows, hooks you! * The guy on it is worth a dime, at least! * Cruise on into the GOOD TIMES on OFF THE HOOK -you'll laugh a lot!  https://kxsf.fm/  Take part.

BEAUTY FOR THE FEW! * Even though OFF THE HOOK's listenership is not that great, each individual listener IS great! * That's why the Herculean effort taken to produce each OFF THE HOOK program is WORTH IT! * Scouring the interwebs for new and NOVEL sounds is exhausting and often dirty work, but Off The Hookers expect the UNEXPECTED and deserve the IDIOSYNCRATIC voice that speaks to and for them! * OFF THE HOOK takes no days off to bring you the Last Word in New Music, because there IS no last word -it never stops coming! *     https://kxsf.fm/

OFF THE HOOK carries on: no shutdown, no cancellation, no sweeping changes! * Just The Life of a Showboy (me) at 1:00 on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/  Business as usual!

"What's up with that guy?  He's always shoving WILLFULLY OBSCURE music down our throats." * "His oldies-Birthday segment is good and he gives away good tickets to shows, but the NEW MUSIC he plays -where does he get it?  Nobody's heard of it before." * "And he's a little out of control, like he doesn't know what he's doing." * "Kind of amateurish. It's a little exhausting." * "Most of the BEST MUSIC I never heard before I heard on OFF THE HOOK" * Take the bad with the good on KXSF 102.5FM  https://kxsf.fm/ Keeping you on edge.

Sure, you might have better things to do, but can you still do them? * As your freedoms erode, it's nice to know that OFF THE HOOK is still, for the time being, here. * It's impossible at this point to know what innocently careless thing your host might say or post that could get OFF THE HOOK shit-canned (dictators are capricious like that!). * It's not like KXSF has some big corporate merger pending (I hope!) * But you come to OFF THE HOOK to escape such unsavory (nay, soul-crushing) thoughts! * OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/  It's like w...

SUPER FESTIVE STUFF happens on this week's continuation of the SUPER CELEBRATORY celebration of KXSF's 7th Anniversary of being on the airwaves! * (Mostly, I'm thinking, music.) * OFF THE HOOK BRINGS IT: the latest crop of NEW SOUNDS -and a smattering of old!! * Whether KXSF 102.5FM or https://kxsf.fm/, It's three hours of RECKLESS WONDER!

SUPER FESTIVE STUFF happens on this week's continuation of the SUPER CELEBRATORY celebration of KXSF's 7th Anniversary of being on the airwaves! * (Mostly, I'm thinking, music.) * OFF THE HOOK BRINGS IT: the latest crop of NEW SOUNDS -and a smattering of old!! * Whether KXSF 102.5FM or https://kxsf.fm/, It's three hours of RECKLESS WONDER!

When is OFF THE HOOK not off the hook? * When it has the responsibility of getting you to listen to this damn show! * Toward that end, may I entice OLDIES lovers with an extended, massive, Virgo-engorged Birthday Segment? * Plus, I could promise to refrain from begging you for station donations (haha / *wink* -you know it's fundraising week)! * Whatever it was, your excuse for not listening has just withered away -you're ON the hook to listen to OFF THE HOOK: on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/

Every week, OFF THE HOOK tries to ORGANIZE sets of music that let you MARCH to a different drummer! * We don't PROTEST the LABOR that goes into it, because, at the end of DAY, it's worth it! * The VOICES HEARD -lesser-known, struggling artists- need a PLATFORM and appreciate your SUPPORT! * They REPRESENT the DEMOCRATIC programming heard on OFF THE HOOK and make for a most DIVERSE three hours! * Join the MASSES on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ and on Monday.

HERE IT COMES AGAIN, ready to haul you out of this week's Pit of Despair! * OFF THE HOOK, the little tow truck that does, will never let you sink! * The Show That Shows (and showers every week FOR YOU) has your back! * It knows you (it's about the music, right?) and holds our weekly rendezvous dear (why not send a check or donate with paypal?) * In the cruddy quagmire that is Today, OFF THE HOOK takes you away -for three hours on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/

A MATTER OF RECORD * In this climate of historical erasure, cultural and otherwise, OFF THE HOOK goes to great lengths to produce UNFORGETABLE programs! * Their residency in your memory is indelible, legal and un-deportable, but to safeguard its legacy, it would be but a small matter of recording episodes of OFF THE HOOK for yourself, lest they are forever banished by our archival archrival Remander-In-Chief! * Set your recording timer for 1:00PM Pacific Time at KXSF 102.5FM or here: https://kxsf.fm/ for good times to save and savor!

OFF THE HOOK wants to be your FEEL GOOD ISLAND, where, while the sounds may be harsh, the VIBE IS CHILL, and you don't need to listen through your hands! * You DON'T NEED A YACHT to get there and recurring features like the Birthday Segment bring a COMFORTING FAMILIARITY that allows us to pretend there is still a future! * Join the Illusion that is the Reality that is the Illusion that is OFF THE HOOK, an Island unto itself!  KXSF 102.5 FM San Francisco  Off The Hook Fri Aug 8 with Gage Kenady on KXSF-LP 102.5 FM

GOOD MUSIC for Good People! * Bad People stay away! Beat it! SCRAM! * It is incumbent upon you Good People to help OFF THE HOOK maintain a standard that upholds the standards that are in keeping with those set by those who are the final arbiters of that which constitutes Good Radio (namely OFF THE HOOK) by providing an example of Proper Listenershiphood that is a model of unquestioned Good Taste (even when debatable)! * But even Good People can be BAD ASS, so make sure to bring your Bad Ass Good People friends along! * Bad People may listen from a...

Is it suspicious that last week's EXTREMELY LOCALIZED power outage occurred moments before the beginning of the HIGHLY OUTSPOKEN Off The Hook? * Or was it merely the Fates chuckling in my direction after tempting them? * Either way, it will have NO CHILLING EFFECT on today's OFF THE HOOK program! * KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/

OFF THE HOOK turned down two HOT DATE offers last night in order to fine-tune today's show in selfless dedication to its self-imposed remit: to drag those stubborn MULES away from their troughs of over-familiar feed, fill them with EXOTIC morsels, and slap their rears for them to run off and tell their sheepish friends! * Hungry? * This bib-optional metaphor is a feast for all on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/

Business as per usual on Today's OFF THE HOOK: a bunch of GREAT NEW JAMS (now, when you need them the most), the Birthday Segment, ticket giveaways, and ME! * Check ME out on Off The Hook Fri Jul 4 with Gage Kenady on KXSF-LP 102.5 FM or KXSF 102.5 FM https://kxsf.fm/  I hope it rains.

After slaying on the battlefields of Rock, suddenly presenting as a GENTLEMANLY WIZARD of ambient electronics may seem a curious turn, but an artist as multifaceted as GREG LISHER simply cannot be pinned down! * Yet, that is precisely what we will attempt to do when we put him in the HOT SEAT and grill him on the details of how he transformed from a DEBAUCHED Rockin' Road Warrior into the deep and PENETRATING electronic artiste heard on his latest album Underwater Detection Method! * It may get LURID, it may get bloody, but do not turn away from the FASCINATING...

After slaying on the battlefields of Rock, suddenly presenting as a GENTLEMANLY WIZARD of ambient electronics may seem a curious turn, but an artist as multifaceted as GREG LISHER simply cannot be pinned down! * Yet, that is precisely what we will attempt to do when we put him in the HOT SEAT and grill him on the details of how he transformed from a DEBAUCHED Rockin' Road Warrior into the deep and PENETRATING electronic artiste heard on his latest album Underwater Detection Method! * It may get LURID, it may get bloody, but do not turn away from the FASCINATING...

HUZZAH! The Summer Solstice is upon us! * And, as it HAPPENS TO FALL on the longest day of the year, that means you'll have more time to picnic in the park and DISCOVER STRANGE CREATURES in the tidepools of the LONGEST OFF THE HOOK OF THE YEAR! * Relax and leisurely enjoy that extra nano-nanosecond of OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM  https://kxsf.fm/  HUZZAH!

WHO NEEDS A HUG? * At the end of a week surely one of the rottenest since January -one that has instilled alarm, fear and sadness, courtesy of our commander-in-grief-, now the Fates have added injury to insult by taking from us two of the most INFLUENTIAL AND BELOVED creators in all of music: SLY STONE and BRIAN WILSON. * We offer our tribute to the latter on today's OFF THE HOOK, along with new music and the Birthday Segment. * Sometimes you just need a hug from someone who understands.  

OFF THE HOOK's arms are open on KXSF 102.5FM h...

Oh, the Pride and Petulance that plays out on the world stage! * OFF THE HOOK refrains from Macho Posturing and, while it looks out for its constituents (Off The Hook World), as far as Abominations go, its BILL of fare can be said to be neither pork-filled nor disgusting! * OFF THE HOOK serves and Benefits everyone (except, perhaps, those wishing to hear Corporate radio favored by Oligarchs)! * Virtue shining, but not waving on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/  OFF THE HOOK: a Black Eye on bad daddies.

What's the difference between a Rainbow and a COW? * I don't know, but when I tell you Today's OFF THE HOOK is JAM-PACKED, I'm just talking out my ass! * How can we know if it will really happen? * It's laughable, really. * Either way, it's here:  https://kxsf.fm/ One makes milk and the other has Fear Of Fitting In.

No phony phone-ins or pre-programmed pap! * Just a STRUGGLING JUGGLER on a tightrope trying to keep all the plates spinning and not crashing down around your ears! * (And WITHOUT A NET! So brave!) * This is REAL LIVE RADIO just like mama used to make! * And when something does go amiss, the resultant clatter of broken platters is EXHILARATING! * Feel the rush of RECKLESS ABANDON where anything can happen (and usually does) on OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ Wear a helmet.

A Tincture for your troubles, OFF THE HOOK is the BALM that calms and invigorates your interior, mates! * While its Essence would seem Evanescent, this POTENT POTION lasts long beyond the quickest three-hour run in all of radio! * With JOLLY JAMS and Cooing Croons, OFF THE HOOK is Mighty Medicine indeed! * The Doctor will see you on KXSF 102.5 FM https://kxsf.fm/ ! *  Down the hatch!

SPECIAL FREE OFFER! * KXSF will provides FREE PROGRAMMING of the OFF THE HOOK music show! * It's called "The Show That Shows" because they tell you everything that is good right now. * FREE TICKETS to events will be offered during the program. * Interested parties should set their FM radio dial to 102.5 on Fridays from 1:00 to 4:00. * It can also be accessed via this link:  https://kxsf.fm/

One thing that bugs me about the CHAOS AND CALAMITY our Current Administration has brought to the country is: that's OFF THE HOOK's brand! * But, while there's no trace of benevolence in their actions, OFF THE HOOK wants nothing more than to make you PROSPER by bringing you the coolest, up-to-datest sounds! * The HAPPY HAVOC of OFF THE HOOK brings a certain KINETICISM that keeps you on your toes and MOVING FORWARD! * Tune in for a good kind of UNPREDICTABILITY on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ 

A WHIRLING FLURRY of imagistic slurry awaits listeners of OFF THE HOOK today! * SOUNDS YOU CAN SEE in aural 3D! * The sharp edges of a cloud, a shadow described. * Clarity turned back on itself, a reversal of intent, bound to itself, ever unspooling. * How can this be? * It can't! * LISTEN AND SEE at 1:00 on OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ if it can.

OFF THE HOOK, The Show That Shows, brings the goods: the LATEST GREATEST new tracks and the celebrated Birthday Segment! on KXSF 102.5FM  https://kxsf.fm/

UPBEAT! * Whether your heart is doing paradiddles or flams in this time of CONFUSION and loss, OFF THE HOOK tries to keep things HOPEFUL in this Season of Bad Stars. * Lives are ephemeral, but MUSIC IS ETERNAL, preserved in amber and passed from hand to heart. * OFF THE HOOK will not take from you that upon which you have become reliant: the lesser-knowns and unpopular will still have a voice. * Recorded music and live talking will remain on OFF THE HOOK even as the world has gone off its axis. * Count on transmissions on KXSF 102.5FM  https://kxsf.fm/ f...

God bless FREE RADIO! * I know many are pretty INVESTED in the weekly transmission of OFF THE HOOK, but I hope you don't put too much STOCK in it! * As we watch our life savings being "LIBERATED", isn't it a comfort to know that listening to OFF THE HOOK won't cost you a dime? * A lifeline to those needing to keep up on the Latest Musical Events, OFF THE HOOK presents a No-Risk portfolio of all the music you can BEAR and that's no BULL! * Free of The Market, KXSF gives you Free Radio so you don't have to...

25 YEARS IN seems like a good time to assess the musical output of this Century! * And since it's the final installment of the CREME DE LA FEMME series celebrating Women's History Month, OFF THE HOOK brings you 21st CENTURY FOX! * This FEMALE-FOCUSED trajectory will reveal a LUMINOUS ARC that will illuminate and transform our souls for all time (or at least the five hours of today's program)! * Join us for this special Silver celebration on OFF THE HOOK at KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ * Music smart as a 21st Century fox!

THEY WALK THE EARTH and they've been making Herstory from the git-go! * I'm talking about Women and we're going to celebrate their musical achievements today on the 2nd edition of this month's CREME DE LA FEMME series in observance of Women's History Month on OFF THE HOOK! * The Best of the current LadyScene (including gnarly rocker chicks) will be presented and the guys will have to wait their turn til the Birthday Segment! * RESPECT your Sisters OFF THE HOOK! * KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/

Well, it's March and you know what that means! * It means it's WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH! * And that means it's time to present the CREME DE LA FEMME on OFF THE HOOK! * Apart from the Birthday Segment, every song heard today on OFF THE HOOK will be Woman-driven, Woman-fronted, or Woman-performed! * Women Composers, Singers, Producers and Musicians show us what they got (like we don't already know)! * Tune in to OFF THE HOOK on KXSF https://kxsf.fm/ to hear what the guys ain't got!

The Crashing, Careening CHAOS of OFF THE HOOK is part of the fun! * It keeps you on your toes and brings a PRICKLE-NECK SPARK Kineticism to a program where the host is in mortal combat with the equipment and the playlists aren't necessarily playful! * OFF THE HOOK: the only game in town in the Friday 1:00 to 4:00 hour in the Radio Wasteland! * https://kxsf.fm/ Chaos bottled!

OFF THE HOOK toils every week to uncover the COOLEST, most WAY OUT SOUNDS for YOUR delectation! * And, seven weeks into 2025, new OFF THE HOOK-WORTHY Musical Gems are rolling in at a rapidly accelerating pace, ready to be thrown before YOU in a thought-out, TANTALIZING display! * As a serious and well-rounded listener, YOU will also appreciate the Glory of our musical forebears in the Birthday Segment, a bumper crop this week! * This Herculean Effort is the least we can do to satisfy a decerning and inquisitive mind such as YOURS! * Check it out on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/  Duration: 04:59:26

I know it's VALENTINE'S DAY and you're all expecting some SMOOCHY, Kissy-Face programming today, amirite? * Well, I'm sorry, but OFF THE HOOK doesn't recognize manipulative, money-grubbing Hallmark Holidays! * Demonstrations of AMOROUS FEELINGS are fine, but OFF THE HOOK is the Box of Aural Chocolates that AROUSES YOU on KXSF 102.5FM  https://kxsf.fm/ !  It's called Self-Love.

Enough with the BLUSTER! * Let's get down to Brass Tacks: OFF THE HOOK gives the Community what it needs:  Me!, my GREAT TASTE in music and most importantly: NEW FRIENDS! * Not only have you become a bit of the party dullard (Elton John? Really? Still?), but you yourself have grown a little weary of the same old faces. * You need new friends and NEW PERSPECTIVES! * And, more crucially, these New Faces need you! * SUPPORT NEW ARTISTS! * Size 'em up and if they pass muster, add them to your collection of experiences! * OFF THE HOOK enables this discovery process on K...

EVERY RADIO SHOW FOR ITSELF! * It's the Wild West again and wild claims are being made! * Did you know that OFF THE HOOK reaches more ears than Voice of America and BBC World Service combined, generates the highest ad revenue of any non non-religious program in the world, and makes the rain fall upwards? How could it be reported on a reliable platform if it weren't true? * Join OFF THE HOOK for your own reality! on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ and we'll see about that rain.

The buildup is INTOLERABLE! * What's he gonna do next?! * As you bite your nails down to the elbow, you find the TENSION ratcheting up to a nauseating degree! * What is this MADMAN capable of?! * Can no one STOP HIM?! * You feel faint, the room begins to spin! * Who is this MANIAC who commands our attention, nay, our will every waking moment until Friday rolls around? * Why, it's none other than your friend Gage, playing nice music for you at 1:00 on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ ! 

OFF THE HOOK is a mighty juggernaut in its own QUIETLY REMARKABLE way! * And dread not, it's not as dreadful as the naughty numbskulls who will be knocking on your noggins come not but a few days! * Your option: bolster the balustrades by bringing balance to bear and be not beholden to the byzantine bylaws of a banal brutality, but be bathed in the beauty of a billion badass jams on OFF THE HOOK, a quietly remarkable MUSIC PROGRAM on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/  Guard the guardrails!

The UNIQUE AND REMARKABLE circumstances of OFF THE HOOK, a weekly program AFFORDED PROTECTIONS as an office of the public good, MANDATE that an UNCONDITIONAL DISCHARGE of UNPRECEDENTED music be RELEASED upon the Public, for it is JUDGED as beneficial to the populace, regardless of the day it FELL ON (is that any way to end a SENTENCE?)! * So, waste NO TIME! -OFF THE HOOK awaits your VERDICT on KXSF 102.5FM ( https://kxsf.fm/ )! * Music trumps politics!  

MARCH ON!

2025 is upon us and it's time to FACE THE MUSIC! * But, honestly, OFF THE HOOK sounds just as good from behind! * OFF THE HOOK RESOLVES to maintain a CHEERY AND HOPEFUL outlook in the face of EXISTENTIAL EXTINGUISHMENT! * But, who's kidding who? -let us dance into the abyss with BITCHEN SOUNDS until They lock us all up! * OFF THE HOOK will not so much smite our foes with HATE-SNUFFING MUSIC, but, more, will cast us into a BEAUTIFUL WONDERLAND of denial! * OFF THE HOOK, your delusional friend, puts its LOVING SPELL on you on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/  * F...

and IT'S A WRAP! * Here we are at THE END of a year that upset our equilibrium, toyed with our credulity and dragged us through the mud with it! * Truly a crap year for our heads, but a MOST EXCELLENT year for our ears! * I know you're thinking an end-of-the-year best-of OFF THE HOOK awaits you (because I'm a mind reader and because I set you up), but allow ME to mess with your head: No. * Your expectations are unwarranted because every OFF THE HOOK is the BEST and your wanting the BEST BEST is frankly a bit selfish...

From his secret regional outpost, high atop Mount Baldy, SANTA GAGE has twice checked his list and it turns out you OFF THE HOOK listeners have been EXCEEDINGLY NICE! * You've listened to and supported OFF THE HOOK unwaveringly! * BUT, double-checking your wish lists, your desired Christmas musical requests have been -how to put this?- a tad Standard, if we may put it euphemistically! * Santa Gage knows what's best for you (and S.G. rules with an iron switch!), so in order you don't turn into a bunch of stagnant work-elves, Santa Gage will provide a more CONTEMPORARY holiday...

The LUCK you find finds you first -good or bad, who can say? * But, SHAKY Joe and his Bad News Crew ain't gonna put their NERVOUS vibes on Today's OFF THE HOOK! * We'll cancel their FEAR and no HAZARD shall befall OFF THE HOOK listeners who CHANCE upon the Glad Tidings of The Show That Don't Snow! * Throw the dice on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/  for the CRAPSHOOT that is OFF THE HOOK!

The WARNING was a bust, but be prepared to be SWEPT AWAY in a Tsunami of GROOVY SOUNDS on today's OFF THE HOOK! * Underwater Seismic Activity has churned up some Rare Specimens lurking DEEP on the ocean floor and guess who's snatched them up in their Great Net to fling before you for your Auditory Approval? * OFF THE HOOK, that's who! * The Birthday Segment is positively waterlogged with GREAT CATCHES, so soak it in on OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM

Today is your LAST CHANCE to relax before the dominoes of Seasonal Stress Season (SSS) start tumbling down! * After today, you're obliged to think of and comingle with others! * If SSS sounds like the air coming out of your tires, don't worry because OFF THE HOOK will get you to your Personal Happy Place (PHP) before you're deflated and out of gas! * If we can pass the stress test that is Crazy Holiday Time (CHT), we'll be in good shape come Januar- oh... uh, we'd better get our kicks today on OFF THE HOOK! * KXSF 102.5FM  https://kxsf.fm/ Duration: 05:00:01

People are always fighting about OFF THE HOOK! * What is it? * "It's genius!"  "It's drivel!" * 

"It's startlingly new!"  "It's old hat!" * "It's homespun!"  "It's AI!" * What the heck IS it? * These questions are not my problem! * Suffice it to say, OFF THE HOOK is three hours of recorded music and live talking. * Is it boring? * Take it from the horse's mouth: "Nay!" *

 OFF THE HOOK, The Show That Shows on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/

OFF THE HOOK * Still standing * Same life-affirming programming * Welling over with sorrow, OUTRAGE and disgust, but not yet sinking to despair * We're ON THE OTHER SIDE now and must stay sharp and hopeful * We're exhausted, but willful * Let's give ourselves some time to REPLENISH our emotional resources and listen to music healing and cathartic * OFF THE HOOK: an oasis of civility starting at 1:00 on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/

Will Jolly Japes and Mirthful Music get us through Today's post-Halloween / pre-Election Day episode of OFF THE HOOK? *  It has to! * The specter of impending havoc and CHAOS has your host so spooked and TWISTED up with anxiety, it's best that we just SAVOR the moment (life-affirming new music), act like nothing's wrong (quality, uncensored programming, as usual) and HOPE for the best! * Speaking of best: OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM / https://kxsf.fm/  VOTE! for OFF THE HOOK (and your -I mean my- favorite presidential candidate on Tuesday)!

Let's protect your right to FREE PROGRAMMING! * Programming you didn't necessarily ask for, but programming that, by gosh, is your INALIENABLE right! * While other programs conspire to keep you in the dark about what's really going on in the world of music, OFF THE HOOK tells it straight, lifting the veil of complacent conformity to reveal -through programming that you may not actually care for- a sometimes MESSY reality that will induce and indeed GOOSE Critical Thinking! * You cannot choose if not given a choice and you are NOT alright with that! * Knock the block off the bloc that...

There is LESS THAN 3 WEEKS LEFT before the Next OFF THE HOOK! * It is, after all, a weekly program. * But, OFF THE HOOK will be on the scene Today monitoring the latest results, and CURRENT POLLING shows The Show That Shows showing a CONTINUED LEAD in districts with the good taste to tune in! * OFF THE HOOK is PRO-CHOICE and would never tell a woman or man what to do with their ears (if it could make listening mandatory, it would, but that's not part of the PROJECT 102.5 manifesto, darn it!) * Make my voice heard and exercise your right...

DO YOU BELIEVE IN MAGIC? * Well, you won't believe your ears on Today's OFF THE HOOK! * It doesn't just pull a Musical Rabbit out of its hat, it pulls it out of a beret! * The deftness of its WIZARDRY is no mere slight-of-hand, it is a deep psychological PROBING that makes You the blank canvas in a Rorschach of kaleidoscopic FUNHOUSE mirrors! * You'll better know yourself, but you'll never be the same, as you PONDER the Meaning Of Music through the corrected lens of OFF THE HOOK! * How could you have heard music so wrong all these years? * Correct...

DUST OFF YOUR SPURS and put 'em back on their hangin' pegs for the HARDLY BARELY BLUEGRASS edition of OFF THE HOOK, where Banjos are scant and the Prairies are populated by cities! * The Birthday Segment notwithstanding, you're as likely to find a HOEDOWN dance as you are a conscience in Vance! * So, SADDLE UP and feel the WILD FREEDOM of Country-free Programing on today's Not Remotely Bluegrass episode of OFF THE HOOK! * We'll be tippin' our Stetsons on KXSF 102.5FM / https://kxsf.fm/

Autumnally tumbling your way, you'll Fall for the first OFF THE HOOK of the Season and will want to never Leave! -and other Bad Dad Jokes he's already used! * Raking over his moldering past and seeing that decay brings new growth, he Sweeps away the competition, and, to those claiming to be his EQUAL, KNOCKS them into the compost bin! * Off The Hook on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/

The DJs at KXSF share a common ideology -FORWARD, NOT BACK! * There are some stations that deny you access to a CHOICE of programming options, instead controlling your emotions by bathing you in a warm, nostalgic feedback loop! * This has the effect of reducing you to a quivering, obedient blob without Critical Thinking abilities (this is not supposed to sound good, by the way)! * OFF THE HOOK offers you the chance to regain your DIGNITY and independence by weening you from the illusion of a GLORIOUS bygone era and presenting you with the tools you need to stand on...

Woe betide the fool who roams the streets today! * The city is lousy with BLACK CATS AND LADDERS! * Best you hew to the Friday tried-and-true of OFF THE HOOK at 1:00 in the safety of your crib or cubicle! * (Cars're probably OK) * To break the chain today could bring UNFORTUNATE CONSEQUENCES! * Passing this warning on to friends will further ensure avoidance of CERTAIN DISASTER! * It's LUCKY for you that OFF THE HOOK has your back! * The music itself is a MAGIC SPELL that will HEX and ward off bad numerological Mojo! * Don't question, just tune in to KXSF 102.5FM  https://k...

Low Risk Radio for Non-Conformists! * Always wanted to be one, but were afraid you'd be "wrong" somehow? * Just remember, the other guy's the jerk! * But, it couldn't hurt to add some weight to your ODD VIEWPOINTS by becoming more informed! * That's where OFF THE HOOK comes in! * By arming yourself with the ARCANE KNOWLEDGE of the Willfully Obscure, you'll be able to scoff in the faces of the "I-Don't-Get" Set! * Your contemptuous laugh will wilt the Cultural Cretins and PUFF YOU UP big time! * Of course, there is the slight risk of falling in love with and becoming dependent...

Like Donner's, the music on OFF THE HOOK can sometimes seem curated for a Party of One! * But, don't Pass it up! * Because even though its idiosyncratic programming reflects the UNIQUE TASTE of its host, you too may be someone who is STARVED for something more RARE! * Going off trail is OFF THE HOOK's m.o. but when it occasionally seems lost, it then recalibrates its course with Fare that is easy to CONSUME, speaking to our common HUMAN experience, to FLESH out our Emaciated sense of direction by SHARING PARTS of all of us! * OFF THE HOOK on...

OFF THE HOOK means FREEDOM! * Freedom to do its own thing. * Freedom to range FREE AND WILD, should it want to. * Freedom to not take requests (I didn't say it's a democracy). * Freedom to give Free Tickets! * Freedom to stop and glare at the state of radio elsewhere. * Freedom to pack up tent should it not want to comply with FCC rules! * This freedom costs you not a dime! * It costs OFF THE HOOK many dimes! * Where else ya gonna go if want to hear FREE RADIO? * I don't know, just send money! * and listen to OFF THE HOOK...

Get ready for today's BIRTHDAY BONANZA on OFF THE HOOK! * A Tremendous Twenty will be celebrated, so, yes, that means -as much as it chagrins me to type this- We ARE Going Back! * Songs from the DAWN OF TIME that will have you searching out your high school flame! (don't do it) * So much PLEASURE and information will be PACKED in that one segment alone, you'll finish feeling like the happiest, most OVERSTUFFED musical encyclopedia that ever waddled away from the banquet table!

OFF THE HOOK is your SPECIAL FRIEND who sits beside you in your workplace keeping you from killing yourself! * It is your road buddy as you tool around the mean streets of San Francisco, putting a GLISTENING GLOW on your grimy environs! * OFF THE HOOK is everywhere with you -at the park, in your shop and at OFF THE HOOK listening parties- everywhere you need NICE SOUNDS THAT MAKE YOU FEEL VERY GOOD! * No wonder it is the MOST LISTENED TO radio program ever! with more listeners than even The Dave Ramsey Show! * OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM, c...

OFF THE HOOK tells it like it is! * OFF THE HOOK STANDS UP TO the divisive, lie-slinging RIVAL RADIO programs whose agenda is to control your choices and foist upon you inferior, self-serving musical programming! * OFF THE HOOK does not bow to these BAD TASTE BULLIES of reactionary radio! * It looks to an inclusionary future and is most definitely NOT GOING BACK! * OFF THE HOOK honors its agreements and if it commits to meeting you at 1:00, it won't CHICKEN OUT and renege! * OFF THE HOOK: the show that SAYS IT TO YOUR FACE on KXSF 102.5FM    https://kxsf.fm/

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"WEIRD": the word Democrats are now using to disparage their opponents. * But, that's the kind of Weird that really means Evil and Insane, not the benign, CULTURALLY CURIOUS, making-the-world-better-by-encouraging-WILFULLY OBSCURE-artistic-statements-in the-name-of-broadening-minds-and-supporting-freedom-of-thought kind of Weird that OFF THE HOOK listeners identify as! * OFF THE HOOK, the Show That Shows you there IS a choice, but only one! * Get on the right side of Weird at 1:00 on KXSF 102.5FM   https://kxsf.fm/

OFF THE HOOK asks not for ALLEGIANCE to its cause * because it isn't a Cause. * It's a causeway atop a FREE-FLOWING resource: the fresh-water stream from which you may SLAKE YOUR THIRST for the latest sounds! * OFF THE HOOK is a 12-year institution appearing through the auspices of that VENERABLE institution KXSF, itself a STALWART BULWARK against the mundanities of mediocrity! * OFF THE HOOK does its GOODEST and never lies! * There is only one choice:  OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ * LOYALISTS reward themselves!

Bombs bursting in your head after yesterday's SHAMEFUL INDULGENCES? * You need a Balm nursing you instead: the balm that is the OFF THE HOOK Post-Freedom(*) Afterparty! * While you may want to relish what could be your LAST HANGOVER celebrating your accustomed liberties, OFF THE HOOK aims to put you on the Road to Recovery (and positivity) with healingly INSPIRING SOUNDS to keep you the Fight-For-Righter we know you to be! * Tune in when others tune out: OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ !

The transportive POWER OF MUSIC sees us through days of worry and dread, LIFTING US above a banal evil that would rip the very foundations of our shared reality out from under us and plunge us headlong into an abyss of unquestioning conformity! * Just as OFF THE HOOK fights against the scourge of commercial radio on a weekly basis, so too must we ALL rally to preserve our Rights in the face of Existential Threat! * But first we must steady ourselves in the REJUVENATING SOLACE that is OFF THE HOOK, for to fortify and renew our passion to live...

What's a Radio Program without some SUMMER SONGS on the 2nd day of Summer? * OFF THE HOOK, The Show That Snows on expectations! * While JUNE GLOOM is likely, the musical forecast on OFF THE HOOK is WILDLY UNPREDICTABLE! * Only things certain are:  CRAZY-NEW releases, the Birthday Segment, and of course the weather-proof personality of your host, Gage Kenady! * So, layer up!  We don't know what we're in for, but maybe bring some galoshes. KXSF 102.5FM  https://kxsf.fm/

Take a trip to Offthehookland. * Park your car.  Lock it. * The WILD ABANDON starts here! * * Check your pulse at the door. * WILDMAN Gage Kenady sees to your needs.  "May I offer you a Free Ticket?" * IT COULDN'T GET ANY CRAZIER!! * * Oh, the MAYHEM  -Registered, on call. * OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM   https://kxsf.fm/  Drop-ins welcome.  Dropouts encouraged.

"Tomorrow's another day" * Who in their right mind would say a thing like that? * Well, sorry, Tomorrow doesn't exist! * There is only Today! * and "Seizing The Day" means grasping the slippery eel that is OFF THE HOOK now! * If you think you can twist that squirming serpent into an infinite figure-eight, you'll find yourself empty-handed! * "Tomorrow": a word that means "nothing", and nothing would behoove you more than existing today for OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM  https://kxsf.fm/ * 

A GREAT DAY FOR DEMOCRACY! * Business as usual for OFF THE HOOK! * 

OFF THE HOOK HAS NEVER 

1) attempted to falsify records -all LPs played on OFF THE HOOK are genuine and the property of OFF THE HOOK! * 

2) attempted to defraud listeners -all programming and comments heard are those of its host alone! * 

3) attempted to make false entries into Spinitron -all above-board accounting, y'all! *

4) attempted to influence an erection -OFF THE HOOK has no control over the reaction of listeners! * 

As to the charge of inciting slavish devotion with...

(Way) back in the day, DJs were Rock Stars, too -or at least your best friend that you could rely on to hip you to the LATEST GROOVY SOUNDS, helping you through your sodden, dreary day. * OFF THE HOOK's Gage Kenady brings back this SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP, free of the distractions of Ugly Politics, Social Media FOMO, and Taylor Swift! * When he gets it right (every show), he gets it RIGHT ON! * OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM  https://kxsf.fm/

Nervous listeners crochet themselves to the wall with OFF THE HOOK's angsty rhythms! * The more sedate find their bottomless Barcalounger with OFF THE HOOK's lilting trills! * All come together for the Birthday Segment * and diehard junkies who make it to the end will be treated today to the Return of OFF THE HOOK's Legendary Record Race, where twin 45s hurtle towards the finish groove to see who makes it there first -they're on separate tracks, so they never crash, it just can sound like it! * KXSF 102.5FM /  https://kxsf.fm/

A very special Mother's Day performance by Taos, New Mexico band ART OF FLYING! * Artistic, poetic, with a unique sensibility and aura all their own. * Kenady grills them for gritty particulars and artistic insights!

PITY & REVULSION are two emotions never expressed by my AI friends about me. * So, how do I explain the fact that they have ghosted me en masse? * I'm glad I never told them about OFF THE HOOK! * Not only would my heart break at their unspoken rejection, but I think we'd all have to agree that there is much more work to be done in programming their ARTISTIC SENSITIVITY! * They don't know how to feel, but they oughta try! * Or, perhaps, it's not what they're made for. * You humans will feel a great deal on today's OFF THE HOOK!<...

GOOD SONG AFTER GOOD SONG -the secret formula behind OFF THE HOOK's "success"! * It's hardly rocket science, but does take a REFINED mind with SOPHISTICATED methods to pull off such SUPERIOR programming every week! * Each week I consult the tea leaves, throw dice, polish my amulets to summon some CHARMMAGICAL POWER, and INVISIBLE AGENTS do the rest! * Voila! -a big pile of whimsical rubble in your listening area! (You can clean up after.) * Good song after good song

Super righteous OFF THE HOOK! * One of the BEST EVER! * You wanna listen! * Tell your friends to stream, baby, stream! * Listeners will hear the same UTTERLY FANTASTIC programming as always -but more so!  * Thank you and send money!

Is it possible to be IMPARTIAL on the subject of OFF THE HOOK? * After all, its REPUTATION is known world 'round! * I'd be the first to RECUSE myself if the EVIDENCE suggested I was GUILTY of TRYING to COURT listeners with CLAIMS of BIAS, but the fealty of my fiefdom renders such JUDGEMENT DISMISSED! * The VERDICT is that RADIO DEMOCRACY is UPHELD every Friday on OFF THE HOOK, the show without PEER! * WITNESS the glory on KXSF 102.5 FM  https://kxsf.fm/ 

All in a day's work?  Forgive me if I laugh as I take off my waders, having spent the week knee-deep in a river of dreck to extract the QUALITY GEMS you, the listener, expect from OFF THE HOOK * Sure, there's a level of satisfaction -PLEASURE even- in presenting you the results of my labors each week. * But my personal SATISFACTION isn't enough! * Your listenership is ALL-IMPORTANT, lest they can my ass -what will I do without all the money I don't make from this plummy-yet-thankless job? * It's not your problem, but I think you'll sleep a little better k...

OFF THE HOOK has nothing to hide! * Every week, The Show That Shows is ON TRIAL! * Will it continue to provide STIMULATING programming that highlights The Best in NEW MUSIC? * Will the Birthday Segment educate listeners and let them stroll down Memory Lane with FUN MUSIC of all kinds? * Will its host make verbal gaffes and have studio technology get the best of him? * YES, YES and YES! * OFF THE HOOK seeks not to DELAY listeners' JUDGEMENT! * It is GUILTY only of bringing you the VERY BEST programming every week on KXSF 102.5FM / https://kxsf.fm/ 

March goes out like a Lioness on OFF THE HOOK's final installment of the CREME DE LA FEMME series today! * Exclusively featuring Musical Artistes who happen to be Women, we once again redress the balance and GIVE RESPECT to the half that have been making the Other Half look like neanderthals for years! * Tune in for the Fiery Finale of this year's Women's History Month festivities on OFF THE HOOK (KXSF 102.5FM  https://kxsf.fm/ ) * Yer mama will love it!

In observation of Women's History Month, Daughters and Grannies, Aunties and Wives will take center stage on the latest installment of the CREME DE LA FEMME series! * From Tangy Señoritas to Frosty Danes, OFF THE HOOK has roamed the globe and discovered that WOMEN ARE EVERYWHERE! * And while Women have been MUSICALLY DOMINANT for some time now, this is not a Battle of the Binaries, but a celebration of the resplendence of Musical Mamas the world over! * Guys will have their turn during the Birthday Segment, but otherwise it's the LATEST SOUNDS from the Wombyverse! * KXSF 102.5FM

In observation of Women's History Month, Daughters and Grannies, Aunties and Wives will take center stage on the latest installment of the CREME DE LA FEMME series! * From Tangy Señoritas to Frosty Danes, OFF THE HOOK has roamed the globe and discovered that WOMEN ARE EVERYWHERE! * And while Women have been MUSICALLY DOMINANT for some time now, this is not a Battle of the Binaries, but a celebration of the resplendence of Musical Mamas the world over! * Guys will have their turn during the Birthday Segment, but otherwise it's the LATEST SOUNDS from the Wombyverse! *  KXSF 102.5FM

If you think OFF THE HOOK isn't going to recognize INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY today, you be dead wrong! * International women will be heard a-plenty and exclusively (except for the Birthday Segment. Sorry, but fair's fair) on today's program as we return with our yearly feature: the CREME DE LA FEMME series! * Women singers, songwriters, musicians, composers, arrangers and producers will strut their stuff before your very ears in a cavalcade of the O VERY greatest latest Women-est tracks in a variety of styles! * Kicks off at 1:00 on KXSF 102.5FM ~  https://kxsf.fm/

OFF THE HOOK Flight Plan 3/1/2024: chug along at light speed towards the future, taking in sounds of HEAVENLY musical bodies. * Then -ZZZZIIIIIIP-FLOOOOOP- rewind to the past for the Birthday Segment * and then -ZZZZZRRRRROOOOOM- back to the future towards a BEAUTIFUL horizon! * Traversing a straight line -steady on, no brakes- through REALMS UNKNOWN. * A pleasure cruise ...and something more? * You get out of OFF THE HOOK what you put into it! * Port of embarkation: KXSF 102.5FM /  https://kxsf.fm/ 

I know you want to retreat into your COMFORT ZONE -the world is so exhausting today! * What with the Machiavellian Machinations of Power-Mongering Politicians and Treacherous Tech Goons, who wants to be challenged by unfamiliar NEW SOUNDS? * Well, BUCK UP, KID! * A weak mind and weak spine will not serve you! * Extract yourself from the GOOEY MORASS of complacency and keep your senses sharp! * They prey on soft, spongy brains and OFF THE HOOK may be your only defense against Despot Domination! * Free your mind on KXSF 102.5FM ( https://kxsf.fm/ ) * Comfort sounds = mind rot = death.

My father had LOFTY goals for me as a child. * "You should be a Writer or an Actor", he told me. * "But, I wanna be a Lawyer", I said. * "You now have but one parent", he replied, as his back disappeared though the door. * After being fired from my eventual short-lived Legal Assistant job, my DJ career commenced. * My mother said "You are so great.  Everyone should be like you." * "Thanks, Ma, but the world needs some practical people as well." * And so we have OFF THE HOOK, the non-practical, not-exactly-artistic, UNINTIMIDATING friend you visit every week on KXSF 102.5F...

It's a SLIMY, corrupt world, this radio biz, full of seedy, UNSAVORY bedfellows. * Take the way you help me perpetrate a weekly SHAM by pretending to listen to OFF THE HOOK while I pretend to care, kicking back, counting my dough while "playing records". * Left-wing conservatives never report on my show, while right-wing liberals host listening parties of a hundred or more in an effort to severely reduce my "numbers". * It's DISGUSTING, I tell ya -HAVE NO PART OF IT! * But, do tune in to KXSF 102.5FM or -I mean AND- https://kxsf.fm/