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(And we can view the Foreign Legion and Spectre cuts played this week as examples A and B of my efforts -- two totally smokin' tracks that would otherwise be unavailable for airplay due to language restrictions.)"},{"startTime":{"@attributes":{"msec":""}},"title":"Comment: This editing process is sort of a pain in the ass. It involves recording the audio directly into the computer where the sound is visually represented by a squiggly line called a .WAV file, then editing out the naughty bits by either bleeping them, removing them, replacing them, or reversing them. I prefer reversing the saucy words, but the problem with doing that is that many FCC-unfriendly terms sound more or less the same backwards as they do forwards. At the end of the day, is there something any less offensive about wanting to 'fuck' someone, or something, than exhibiting a desire to 'kcuf' her, him, or it? It's a one-syllable word, for cryin' out loud! And because it goes by like lightning, it sounds pretty much the same backwards as it does forwards. (To say nothing of the fact that any human with half a nut in their skull can figure out the context, especially if the rest of the sentence is clearly audible.) So in order to remedy this, in certain situations where reversing the truckerspeak doesn't seem like it's quite enough, I've taken to reversing not only the curses, but the surrounding words they modify or are modified by, depending on the part of speech."},{"startTime":{"@attributes":{"msec":""}},"title":"Comment: For example, to declare oneself 'all fucked up on liquor and drugs' is a perfectly valid sentiment, but not one that is suited to the tenor of family-oriented radio, which I strive to make Hip Transistor an upstanding example of. (Stop laughing, please.) Since the offensive word ('fucked'), when reversed, becomes 'dekcuf' and only mildly transforms the sentence into 'I'm all dekcuf up on liquor and drugs,' additional words need to be reversed in order to disguise the dastardly agenda of the immoral lyricist. As such, when presented with a challenge such as that described, I would possibly choose to select and reverse the phrase 'I'm all fucked up' -- transforming it into the entirely inaudible and nonsensical 'pu dekcuf lla m'I' which is not offensive because you can't understand any of it, it looks absurd, and because it sounds like a Bob Hund song title."},{"startTime":{"@attributes":{"msec":""}},"title":"Comment: Naturally, the need to protect the gentle and meek members of society by hiding certain terms deemed inappropriate by our leaders is utterly banal, but I grudgingly do it because I don't want the station to be fined or lose its broadcast license for obscenity charges. Gotta do what you gotta do, I guess. So thanks for bearing with me, thanks for listening, and I hope you all have a great Memorial Day weekend. Rainy forecasts for the metro NYC area may prevent me from attending a barbecue in Trenton that I was looking forward to, so plans to get pu dekcuf lla on liquor and drugs may be shelved until further notice."},{"startTime":{"@attributes":{"msec":""}}},{"startTime":{"@attributes":{"msec":""}},"title":"Is it my Body?","artist":"Alice Cooper","album":"The Life and Crimes of..."},{"startTime":{"@attributes":{"msec":""}},"title":"Czarina","artist":"Pleasure Forever","album":"Alter"},{"startTime":{"@attributes":{"msec":""}},"title":"I am Where you Were","artist":"All Natural Lemon & Lime Flavors","album":"7'"},{"startTime":{"@attributes":{"msec":""}},"title":"Head Exercise","artist":"Lifesavas","album":"Spirit in Stone"},{"startTime":{"@attributes":{"msec":""}},"title":"Firebase Ripcord","artist":"Neil Michael Hagerty","album":"The Howling Hex"},{"startTime":{"@attributes":{"msec":""}},"title":"Dead Brides","artist":"Dwarves","album":"Lucifer's Crank 7' 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The Hotwire Mandate with Mike Lupica from 5/25/2003

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