Alright, listeners, let’s talk.

I know last week you tuned in expecting the explosive second half of our AC/DC deep dive, only to find an archived broadcast spinning on the decks. I’m not going to sit here and give you a polished corporate runaround—some sudden, massive technical and logistical fires flared up behind the scenes that were completely out of my control. When you operate on the bleeding edge of raw analog and digital tech, sometimes the system bites back. But never fear: the second half of that AC/DC architecture is wrapped, locked in the vault, and we will be back to full strength the second the air clears.

This week, we are hitting the brakes for something much more critical to the literal survival of this frequency. We are officially in the thick of our Spring Pledge Drive.

We only step up to the microphone to ask you for financial help a few times a year, and we do it because community radio lives or dies by the people holding the dial. Let’s look at the reality on the ground: times are tough right now, and budgets are incredibly bruised everywhere. Writing a check or entering your credit card info isn’t a casual afterthought anymore. That is exactly why your support matters more right now than it ever has in our 30-year history on these airwaves.

WORT is a completely unique entity—an uncompromised bastion of raw truth and beautiful, weird, dangerous music in a media landscape that has been corporate-sanitized and algorithmically choked. Because institutional and federal grant funding for independent entities has been completely gutted, listener donations now account for a staggering 90% of our total operational support. If the community doesn’t keep the lights on, the mast goes completely dark.

Our goals are incredibly modest. If you get value out of what we do here every single week on Rolling with Scissors—if you dig the exhaustive history, the unfiltered commentary, and the refusal to pull punches—please consider stepping up.

Head over to wortfm.org/donate right now and make a donation. Every single dollar genuinely keeps the signal alive.

The Chaos Protocol: A Quick Twist into Bill Hicks

Since the rock-and-roll deep dives are on a brief hiatus until the pledge drive smoke clears, I decided to do something a little crazy. If we’re fighting for the soul of free, uncompromised speech on the airwaves this week, there is only one man whose legacy fits the bill.

We are pivoting into a special, lightning-fast, three-hour mini-deep dive into the legendary Bill Hicks.

It completely blows my mind, but because he’s been gone since 1994, there is an entire generation of listeners coming up who have absolutely no idea who he was. Hicks wasn’t just a stand-up comic; he was a social philosopher, a cynical shaman, and a truth-teller who weaponized brilliant, pitch-black humor to tear down political theatre, corporate marketing, and collective cultural complacency. He spoke with a fierce, uncompromising clarity that left audiences either completely transformed or deeply uncomfortable—usually both.

If Bill Hicks were still alive in 2026, navigating this hyper-sterilized, corporate-vetted “Skynet” era of media, he wouldn’t be allowed within a mile of a mainstream microphone. WORT 89.9 FM would be his natural home. This station is exactly the kind of rogue, listener-funded haven where a voice like his could sit behind the glass, turn the pot up, and speak completely unvarnished truth without a board of directors pulling the plug. This week, we honor his legacy, his bite, and his absolute refusal to compromise.

-- HOUR ONE --
Artist – Song – Album – Label

Bill Hicks - Burning Issues (05:26) - Dangerous - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - Flying Saucer Tour (04:00) - Dangerous - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - I Love My Job (10:51) - Dangerous - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - Modern Bummer (06:33) - Dangerous - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - My Parents (07:02) - Dangerous - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - Please Do Not Disturb (09:14) - Dangerous - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - Smoking (03:21) - Dangerous - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - The Vision (00:56) - Dangerous - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - War On Drugs (05:30) - Dangerous - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - We Live In A World... (01:33) - Dangerous - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - A New Flag (01:12) - Rant In E Minor - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - Artistic Roll Call (04:33) - Rant In E Minor - Rykodisc

-- HOUR TWO --
Artist – Song – Album – Label

Bill Hicks - Back to the Garden (01:19) - Rant In E Minor - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - Car Bomb Derby (00:25) - Rant In E Minor - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - Christianity (00:27) - Rant In E Minor - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - Confession Time (04:26) - Rant In E Minor - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - Deficit (02:47) - Rant In E Minor - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - Easter (01:18) - Rant In E Minor - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - Fevered Egos (04:05) - Rant In E Minor - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - Gays In The Military (02:24) - Rant In E Minor - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - Gideons (01:05) - Rant In E Minor - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - Gifts of Forgiveness (05:09) - Rant In E Minor - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - I'm Talking To The Women Here (01:10) - Rant In E Minor - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - I.R.S. Bust (01:09) - Rant In E Minor - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - Lift Me Lord (00:50) - Rant In E Minor - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - Love List (02:55) - Rant In E Minor - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - Non-smokers (02:38) - Rant In E Minor - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - One of the Boys (01:03) - Rant In E Minor - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - Orange Drink (01:08) - Rant In E Minor - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - People Suck (00:21) - Rant In E Minor - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - People Who Hate People (00:32) - Rant In E Minor - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - Politics In America (00:39) - Rant In E Minor - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - Pro Life (04:13) - Rant In E Minor - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - Purple Vein Dick Joke (00:29) - Rant In E Minor - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - Quiet Loner (00:57) - Rant In E Minor - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - Rush Limbaugh (02:21) - Rant In E Minor - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - Save Willie (01:31) - Rant In E Minor - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - Seven Seals (00:28) - Rant In E Minor - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - The Elite (01:06) - Rant In E Minor - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - The Pope (01:02) - Rant In E Minor - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - Time To Evolve (03:16) - Rant In E Minor - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - Waco (05:35) - Rant In E Minor - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - Wax Dart (00:30) - Rant In E Minor - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - Wizards Have Landed (01:43) - Rant In E Minor - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - You're Wrong Night (05:36) - Rant In E Minor - Rykodisc

-- HOUR THREE --
Artist – Song – Album – Label

Bill Hicks - Your Children Aren't Special (03:13) - Rant In E Minor - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - As Long As Were Talking Shelf (05:00) - Arizona Bay - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - Bullies Of The World (01:22) - Arizona Bay - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - Clam Lappers & Sonic The Hedgh (03:01) - Arizona Bay - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - Dinosaurs In The Bible (05:45) - Arizona Bay - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - Don't Talk For Me (01:40) - Arizona Bay - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - Elvis (08:02) - Arizona Bay - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - Goodbye You Lizard Scum (03:52) - Arizona Bay - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - Hooligans (04:20) - Arizona Bay - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - L.A. Falls (03:54) - Arizona Bay - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - Living World (01:05) - Arizona Bay - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - Marketing & Advertising (04:38) - Arizona Bay - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - Me & Saddam (03:11) - Arizona Bay - Rykodisc
Bill Hicks - Officer Nigger Hater (05:27) - Arizona Bay - Rykodisc (Fade Out)

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