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As we lead up to “Floydian Slip” Show #1,000 the week of June 8, we’re digging into the archives to share relics from the show’s past.

This one’s admittedly somewhat tangential to “Floydian Slip,” but noteworthy nonetheless.

By June 1995, WEXP 105.1 FM in Burlington, Vt., the first commercial station to carry “Floydian Slip,” was signing off. After only a year on the air, the start-up station had burned through its capital, and, unable to find an investor, was in the process of being bought by another local radio group.

I was working the evening shift, where we’d broadcast “Floydian Slip” about once a month, during the new moon, from 11 to midnight.

It looks like we did seven shows — or “phases,” as I occasionally called them — during our time at WEXP, though, oddly, Show #4 didn’t seem to get archived. The last “Floydian Slip” aired on the station May 29, 1995.

The audio below is my final talkset on the station, recorded just before midnight, Wednesday June 14, 1995.

If memory serves, I have station engineer Joe Tymecki to thank for the memories: I didn’t bother rolling tape on my final shift, but Joe was taping it on his home stereo that night.

The strangest thing about this piece of tape is hearing myself backsell something that’s not Pink Floyd. It’s been 20 years since I’ve done that.

The station signed off at noon the next day, June 15, 1995, and “Floydian Slip” went on hiatus for a little more than a year.