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Featuring John French, Chief Executive at Utility Regulator

If you're looking for a travel destination, look no further. The Moist Towelette Museum in East Lansing, MI has something for everybody and you can spend hours looking at the collection. John French is the founder and director of the museum and he walks us through the impressive collection he has amassed of moist towelettes.

If you want to see part of the museum's collection, check out their website.

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The Hole in the Air team talks with curator/artist/musician Anthony Ausgang about the late artist Victor Hayden AKA The Mascara Snake (of "Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band" fame). They discuss Hayden and a recent exhibition, curated by Ausgang, of Hayden's works, made available by Pamela Des Barres; Captain Beefheart, the Magic Band, and Trout Mask Replica; the curating of individual and group art shows; Cat Museum; the City of Lancaster and the Antelope Valley,; the City of Vernon and a beef-pork mural that once was there, and various other matters of art, music and culture.  Right when the podcast episode is wrapping up, it starts up again for a final portion, with the participants sucking on atomic fireballs. In retrospect, Paul of the podcast team feels quite apologetic for his meandering pontificating, which he maintains was a product of his nervous uncertainty about whether the audience might be largely Beefheart aficionados, or those who might know nothing about that music and scene. Also, making the episode available to the public, months after it was recorded, took longer than expected, oops.    The Hole in the Air Interlocutor and the sounds of Fingers DelRey are heard.

On April 28, 2017, I took a break from lecturing at UC Berkeley, California, and sat down for an extended discussion with drummer, arranger, composer and singer, John 'Drumbo' French. I wanted to understand the strange, unique and complex working process that led to the creation of the legendary 1969 album, Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band. A great deal of misinformation, exaggerations and superficial comments have obscured the truth for far too long. No one on the planet knows more about this music and was more intimately involved in its creation than John French, and what he had to say is of great historic interest. Thank you to John for agreeing to this discussion.

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EPISODE CREDITS
Spoken introduction: Maya Rasmussen
Podcast artwork photograph © 2019 Philippe Stirnweiss
Introduction music: Samuel Andreyev's Piano Piece N° 2, performed by Trami Nguyen

Art collector and forensic psychologist Jon French, Ph.D. shares his love of fine art and ethnographic art. Jon takes on his life's journey hanging out with the manager of the Grateful Dead and writer Allen Ginsberg and the 1967 Summer of Love in San Francisco to become one of the top forensic psychologists in California. Jon worked with dangerous criminals helping to diagnose serious psychiatric disorders, working with actual psychopaths on a regular basis. Jon goes on to speak on how his love of tribal art guided him in his professional arena and helped him to better understand the human mind.  A must-listen podcast for anyone wanting to understand the mind of the criminal.