Media for J

Note: Don't worry. So are we.

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Note: J explores a pit toilet.

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Note: Yummy.

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Note: J mixes up a Blue Hawaiian with a psychedelic flourish.

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Note: Ode to a cherry-flavored cough suppressant.

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Note: Sometimes love is a pisser. Happy Valentine's Day from ROX #78

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Note: Another video portrait of a relationship from ROX 78, “Love on the ROX.” This one takes on a special poignancy given the untimely passing of Jenny B in 2019. Impermanence.

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Note: J&B sing the classic by They Might Be Giants.

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Note: Poetry by J. Vox by B.

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Note: J & mnortham try a non-alcoholic drink.

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Note: This is it! This is the very first segment from the first on-line show of the first TV series distributed via the Internet. The first portion of this clip shows what it looked like back in 1995 — very low-res! — and the remainder is presented in glorious standard definition. From ROX #86, “Global Village Idiots”

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Note: J mixes a drink and gets us all in trouble.

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Note: J&B buy fruit at the local grocery store and get shut down by the man.

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Note: The credits roll while Jim Poyser and Brian Kearney improvise a song. J plays the piano; B videotapes.

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Note: Our first attempt to load a grapefruit with alcohol fails miserably.

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Note: Our second attempt to load a grapefruit with alcohol is no more successful than the first.

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Note: Just the audio: Jim Poyser and Brian Kearney improvise a song. J plays the piano.

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Note: In the culmination of our fruit-loading efforts, J tackles the notoriously difficult Asian Pear.

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Note: XY gets ready to bake some fish.

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Note: J introduces our guest of honor, a visiting dignitary from another planet.

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Note: J&B make their first attempt to “load” fruit with alcohol.

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Note: A new vocabulary word, straight from the D-Jar.

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Note: J mixes up an aptly-titled Fool's Gold.

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Note: J makes his first trip to Big Lots, guided by XY, to buy supplies for the Festival of Fools parade. B mans the cam. Fun fact: when we first upped this clip in December 2003, we provided an “extra-large” version at a whopping 480x360 resolution. It seemed huge at the time!

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Note: J&B try a new drink: the Big Lot. Do not try this at home.

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Note: J&B discuss the flyer created by the Have Fun Club for the Festival of Fools parade.

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Note: J mixes an amaretto sour. This was the first clip from ROX uploaded to YouTube by Editor B in March of 2008. A portion of this video was referenced in ROX #99.

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Note: Mixing an old classic.

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Note: Weirdness at water's edge. J operated the fishing pole; B operated the camera.

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Note: J&B introduce the program and try a Wisconsin Cream Fizz. Fine camerawork and giggling by MKM.

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Note: J&B sign off from their Wisconsin vacation special.

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Note: This is the opening sequence for “J&B on the Road.”

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Note: J&B sample the fine beers of the Cherryland Brewing Company.

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Note: Through painstaking research, we discovered this old film, apparently made around the same time as “Reefer Madness.”

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Note: J reads a letter from Particle Butthead, and XY offers a stunning reBUTTal.

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Note: W. Owen drinks his first cup of coffee — ever!

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Note: J mixes a drink for the freshly deflowered coffee virgin, W. Owen.

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Note: J&B visit the local head (and body) shop — the late, lamented Eye of Osiris. From ROX #34

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Note: If you are watching your weight but still want to cop a buzz, you might try mixing up the Fat Albert. (This clip contains a scene we thought was deleted from the full episode. It actually wasn't but maybe it should have been.)

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Note: ROX pays a visit to the Saint Roch National Shrine in New Orleans.

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Note: This video documents a fateful day in the lives of two young men in Bloomington, Indiana. They are in fact J&B, about a month before they began production of J&B on the ROX.

Viewers are forewarned that J has called this “the most embarrassing snippet of video I ever participated in.” He's also called it “a true travesty of human endeavor”, and “funny to the extent that it can be funny to watch severely fucked-up people trying to speak in complete sentences.”

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Note: This video will teach you how to mix an Orange Whiskey.

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Note: In this video, J teaches you how to mix an Orange Aid. Originally presented in ROX 16, and re-presented in ROX 32 to antagonize a viewer who complained about ROX re-runs — the mysterious letter-writer who called himself “Particle Butthead.”

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Note: In this video, J teaches you how to mix a Bitter Orange.

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Note: In response to our first real fan letter, J concocts the Slacker.

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Note: Editor B shares some treasured premiums from his telemarketing gig.

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Note: Investigating a wrecked firetruck.

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Note: An evening wasted at 344 South Dunn.

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Note: J mixes up a drink in honor of his mother, the doctor.

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Note: J mixes a special drink in honor of his mom.

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Note: Dr. Pat suffers through one of J's nonce cocktails.

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Note: It's the ROX video version of a poem by Martin Action, a.k.a. Paul Smedberg.

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Note: J misdirects the incoming freshman class. Also includes Tip #3: “Go Over There.”

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Note: J mixes a Blue Law.

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Note: J shows how to mix a classic Screwdriver. That music is a piano compisition by Erik Satie, played backwards.

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Note: J and Jim Reichert compare GPA and take-home pay.

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Note: J&B advise you to follow in the footsteps of the famous Dr. Kinsey. You do know what PhD stands for, don't you?

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Note: J explains the operation of the famous Rawles Hall Door-Knocker.

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Note: J unpacks the etymology of paraphernalia.

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Note: J&B read another antagonistic letter from Particle Butthead.

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Note: J demonstrates his new fitness routine.

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Note: J opens a letter from Joe M. Ma and mixes a drink in his honor (or dishonor). The audio seems to be a bit muffled in the middle, so crank your speakers.

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Note: Xy receives her scores for the Graduate Record Exam.

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Note: Per viewer request, J demonstrates how to mix a potable Brownie Blues.

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Note: J demonstrates the subtle art of the Port Flip.

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Note: J shows how to mix this classic drink from the old school.

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Note: Fourteen seconds of fame! A clip of ROX #59 was featured on MTV's Straight Dope. Yes, we smoked dope on MTV, and they paid us for it. Coincidentally, XY was an intern at MTV and ended up working on the special herself, as chronicled in ROX #62.

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Note: J mixes a scary drink.

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Note: Two men you don't even know playing with guns.

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Note: J interviews two college roomies about the Communist Who Wouldn't Share.

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Note: A mixological affirmation of excess.

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Note: J&B find themselves — in the newspaper.

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Note: J & Day mix a Hurricane for a hurricane party.

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Note: Learn how, now.

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Note: Locally-produced cable access programs became the subject of talk radio one Tuesday afternoon in February of 1993. First they talked to the director of BCAT (now CATS), Michael White. Then they took calls from the general public, including J&B.This audio is taken from a casette tape made on a boombox as the broadcast occured. It has been lightly edited to remove commercial interruptions and other irrelevancies. There's a bit missing where the tape ran out and had to be flipped to the other side.Elements of this recording appeared in the audio track of ROX #27.

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Note: April 13, 1994, Bloomington, Indiana — AM-1370 discusses “J&B Get Baked” and the issue of marijuana legalization. J phones in and eventually comes into the studio. Tom Gulley hosts Afternoon Edition. It was a two-hour show, but we caught only part of it on tape, and after removing commercials and news updates, it's about an hour's worth of audio.

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Note: Bartender J (of ROX fame) initiates you into the mysteries of an overlooked classic cocktail.

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Note: In search of the Tulip Trestle.

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Note: Circa 1992.

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Note: Editor B wows 'em live at the Comedy Attic.

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Note: This the concluding clip from our internet debut, ROX #85

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Note: Just outside Celo, NC.

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Note: “Instead of hunting deadbeat dads, Hugh Downs has shaved his head, stabbed a rod of surgical steel through his septum, and is hunting for frogs with a pointed stick.” — Wired magazine

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Note: J&B sing the classic carol — in German! Repeated twice to showcase the variation in quality from two different VHS sources. One is wavery and colorful, the other rock-solid but overexposed. Not sure which is better/worse. This is a snippet from ROX #20.

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Note: Just a short little motorcycle ride through Bloomington, Indiana. From ROX #63

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Note: The unquestionable highlight of the first season of ROX came when J attempted to ride his motorcycle and videotape at the same time. From ROX #14.

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Note: The infamous opening sequence that kicked off our third season. From ROX #61

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Note: Impromptu.

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