This week: "Attack of the Chinese Balloon." Look, up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, no it's a balloon. Opening theme includes clips from The Conet Project; "Saturday Night Live," "The Simpsons," Paul Harvey; "Citizen Kane;" 1010 WINS; Bill Cosby; and Larys Strong from "House of the Dragon." Thanks for the songs from Husker Du ("Turn On The News"), Paramore ("The News"), Boots Randolph ("Benny Hill Theme"), and Robyn Hitchcock ("Balloon Man"). Clips and excerpts from "The Daily Show;" Tucker Carlson; Jesse Watters; Jeanine Pirro; Desi Lydic; "Tooning Out the News;" Weijia Jiang; Lester Holt; Joe Scarborough; Ayman Mohyeldin; and Seth Meyers. Episode 106.

"Turn On The News" is the weekly newscast from the fictional Radio Network, with parody radio coverage of the radio and its headlines. Now with computerized news readers, and fewer meddling reporters, plus aggregated reporting, and automated music. Tune in "Turn On The News" each week for the latest news, radio art, and more from our robot reporters, making sure you hear both sides -- good and evil -- every time you "Turn On The News." It is often a mash-up of the week's news, and sometimes a radio news fantasy with song parodies and covers similar to "Dr. Demento" and comedy skits and more. The show airs at 3 p.m. Thursdays on WGXC, and also most weeks on WGRN, WRWK, KFUG, KACR, KRFP-LP, KMSW, and many other stations. Produced by Tom Roe at Wave Farm and WGXC.