I thought he had a steady job working for KPFA on an assigned slot, which is where he honed his talent for talking for long stretches to fill the air on the rad

I thought he had a steady job working for KPFA on an assigned slot, which is where he honed his talent for talking for long stretches to fill the air on the radio—all while chain smoking at the console and answering calls from little old ladies in Berkeley, who would ask him obscure questions about whatever topic he was going on about. I think I remember reading that the archival audio tapes for those shows are still around somewhere, but I’ve never once heard them. I got interested in this like 15 years ago or so, and took a look-see in the Pacifica archives, and I think they are still there locked up in a vault somewhere, unless a fire or a flood took them out, which happens more than you might think.