HANGOVERS OF THE AMERICAN SOUL

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WSTX CHANNEL 68 PRESENTS

This Sunday, WSTX Channel 68 lowers the lights, pours the last drink, and opens the locked room at the back of the American family.

First, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Eugene O’Neill’s thundercloud masterpiece of memory, morphine, resentment, foghorns, old wounds, and people who love each other too much to stop destroying one another.

Then, stay seated, because the bar is not closing.

The Iceman Cometh follows, dragging us into Harry Hope’s saloon, where every broken dream gets another round and every lie has its own stool. The old boys are waiting. Hickey is coming. Hope is a tab nobody can pay.

Together, they form one long Sunday descent into the national hangover: family, booze, failure, illusion, tenderness, poison, and the terrible mercy of finally saying what everyone already knew.

Hosted by Buzz Drainpipe, broadcasting from a barstool that has achieved consciousness.

WSTX Channel 68 Presents:
Hangovers of the American Soul
Long Day’s Journey into Night
The Iceman Cometh

Sunday only.
Bring your own regrets.
The house provides the fog.

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