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© 1993
MP3 Audio Sample (2.3 MB)
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(A Great Northern Audio Theatre Double Header,
with Tumbleweed Roundup )
Winner of the
Golden Reel Award
for Best Radio Drama of 1993,
from the NFCB,
National Federation of Community Broadcasters
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Solid State University - what if computers
ran colleges and nobody came to class? This 1993 mockumentry
was so far ahead of its time, it's already happened. The droll
documentary style would make Christopher Guest proud.
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Featuring the voices of:
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Dan Coffey (Dr. Science) and
Dave Moore, of WCCO-TV in Minneapolis.
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Funding:
This program was made possible by an access grant from KFAI-FM
and Film in Cities with funds made available from the National
Endowment for the Arts. Other contributors include the Minnesota
Science Fiction Society and Ned Stearns.
A Great
Northern Audio Theatre
Double Header
Tumbleweed Roundup - 31:00
Tumbleweed Roundup Theme Song - 3:57
Solid State University - 28:42
(Tumbleweed Roundup Theme,
© 1995 Wheaton/Price
McClure & Trowbridge Publishing, BMI)
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CAST & CREW:
Engineering and SSU Marching Theme by Chris O'Dowd
Artwork by Greg Mathieson.
Written and Produced by Jerry Stearns
with additional dialogue by Todd Brun.
© 1993 by Jerry Stearns.
Thanks to Film in the Cities and KFAI
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SSU - Departmental Organization Chart
Solid State
University
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Scientific and Natural Administration For
Universities
Dept. of Admissions and Denials
Dept. of Grants and Gratuities
Dept. of Matriculation
Dept. of Obstructions
Dept. of Departments
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School of Civil and Liberal Arts and Politics
Dept. of Media, Culture, History and Mythos
Dept. of Religion, Politics, Entertainment and Statistics
Dept. of Reality Constructs
Dept. of None of the Above
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School of Deep Science
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Institute of Fuzzy Sciences
Dept. of Slightly Fuzzy Sciences
Dept. of Moderately Fuzzy Sciences
Dept. of Extremely Fuzzy Sciences
Dept. of Paradox, Chaos and Synchronicity
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Clarke Institute of Technology and Magic
Dept. of Virtual Reality and Simulations
Dept. of Ancient Wisdoms
Dept. of Medicinal Purposes
Museum of Stupid Technology
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Dept. of Other
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 (Picture
from the movie, J-Men Forever, by Proctor and Bergman.)
Long after this program was finished, Phil Proctor told
me he had used the name Solid State University in 1973 in one of
the Firesign Theatre books of plays. I looked it up, and he's right. The
name was also used in J-Men Forever (see picture
at left), the Proctor and Bergman film (1979), and by Proctor
in the first of two radio shows of The Digital Diner (1994), produced
by Ted Bonnit and hosted by Peter Bergman. And here I actually thought
I adapted it from DavE Romm's invention of the Solid State Fair,
which we attended on the SHOCKWAVE radio show somewhere in the 80's. Go
figure. -- Jerry.
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