WFMU: Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison: Playlist from February 4, 2021

Listener comments!
	11:14am Davee: Where is everybody?
	11:15am Davee: The more I think about it No. 12 has a resemblance to my old pal Irwin.
	12:14pm Lolabelle Pancake: Irwin used to host a program on WFMU during the 1990s. Courtney remembers him as "a bubbling cauldron of tranquilizers, vodka, anxiety and fear." Otherwise unremarkable.
	2:17pm Gus Bodenheim: Am I early? I am... I'm early. There must be a gin mill within walking distance. Well, off I go then.
	2:53pm Listener Robert: Speaking of WFMU's present and former hosts, the Wikipedia entry "List of WFMU Radio Hosts" is woefully incomplete. It was even missing Jim Price and Bill Kelly until I added them minutes ago, but I'm not going to do the whole job by myself. Get in there and add every one you can remember, and if you have no other reference to cite, link to the archives here for those who are in the archives.
	4:17pm zopa: Is there a Delbarton sanctioned prize for correctly identifying the culprits?
	4:36pm Gus Bodenheim: We're trying to work out the red tape in order to offer Rancho Malario vouchers with participating tobacconists. Slow going so far, to be frank.
	5:14pm Pierre Delecto: Their identities can be traced on Mystery Facebook.
	5:43pm rrg: Good evening, Gus. Will Lolabelle be administering your playlist tonight, a job that she does very well for Courtney?
	5:46pm Gus Bodenheim: Such audacity! I will administer my OWN playlist, thank you very much!!
	5:49pm Lolabelle Pancake: That's a touchy subject, rrg. Gus will never forget the day he got disenfranchised.
	5:51pm Gus Bodenheim: I wish someone would administer me a Singapore Sling.
	5:52pm rrg: Lolabelle's boots are big. Those are big boots to fill. But I'm sure that you, Gus, will have no trouble filling them. And Miss Pancake will get to relax and listen to the program without distractions for once.
	5:53pm rrg: Except, of course, for the pleasant distractions provided by your music and chat.
	5:54pm Gus Bodenheim: I pride myself on my boot-filling, young man; thank you.
	5:57pm Laura L: Lolabelle's boots are big, sure, but she's never a bossy boots. No need to be a bossy boots with boots that big--but Mr. Bodenheim will fill 'em just fine, no doubt about it.
	5:58pm rrg: No room for bossy boots here. And remember, as Peppa Pig once said, if you jump up and down in muddy puddles, you must wear your boots.
	5:59pm Gus Bodenheim: Some wadded newspaper is on hand in case the boots are overly capacious
	5:59pm ultradamno: Sounds like Fablio has gone full hippy. Showing his true colors.
	6:00pm rrg: Fablio is almost done. Finally.
	6:00pm Martinibomb: I am here!
	6:00pm ultradamno: Playing something called "The Head Shop"...or more likely bought from one.
	6:00pm Lolabelle Pancake: Fablio doesn't know Gus is filling in. He's clueless. As usual. But his music is a dead giveaway.
	6:01pm ultradamno: PIECE OF WORK?! That's even worse than he usually says 'the old codger'.
	6:02pm rrg: Right, he usually says "The Ooooooooooooooooold Codger".
	6:02pm Martinibomb: These faces look familiar. I feel like I've seen them on the post office wall.
	6:02pm G: GO GO GUS
	6:02pm HyperDose: Courtney would never enter a shrunken head shop! He pays by the pound, not the ounce.
	6:03pm Gus Bodenheim: Again relegated to obscurity by the incompetence of others. I recoil.
	6:04pm Lolabelle Pancake: During the mic breaks, my finger will be on the BLEEP button in case Gus gets a little .... wayward.
	6:04pm Gus Bodenheim: I'll thank you to mind your manners.
	6:05pm Lolabelle Pancake: Gus's motto is "Catch 'em young, treat 'em rough, make 'em sign an NDA."
	6:05pm rrg: That's what SHE said.
	6:05pm G: Lolabelle riding herd on "Bleep" Bodenheim
	6:06pm ultradamno: Should put that motto on a shirt so people can see what's coming.
	6:07pm Thumb this: I've heard about you, you bastard
	6:07pm Listener Robert: You only wrote that book because a certain DJ came up with the title.
	6:07pm HyperDose: Codgerless....I should ink that on a strip of leather so I'll always remember the saddest day in the Poutin Shanty.
	6:07pm Lolabelle Pancake: The Codger has known Gus for years. He told me yesterday, "Gus is a real blowhard. And the drunker he gets, the harder he blows."
	6:08pm Miss G: Gus Bodenheim, your velvet voice made me run over to the laptop to see what was happening?!
	6:08pm dale: does the hays commission have the codger on their advisory panel right now?
	6:08pm Thumb this: OK, I'll bite. What WAS happening?
	6:09pm Gus Bodenheim: Jean Shepherd stole my every idea. Especially my personal charm.
	6:09pm G: Selma Hayek has a show in development for HBO Max called "A Boob's Life," wherein a 40yo woman's breasts talk to her. Maybe early/mid 1900s culture is not so bad after all.
	6:10pm Gus Bodenheim: Miss G ...finally someone is talking sense here.
	6:10pm Gus Bodenheim: Lolabelle's impudence knows no bounds.
	6:11pm Lolabelle Pancake: Gus, how come you don't go visit your uncle John Wilkes Bodenheim at the Van Halen Nursing Home anymore? He wonders: is it because of that last wedgie?
	6:11pm ultradamno: Will Euneeda ever get to fill in? I would adore hearing her mellifluous voice doing mic breaks
	6:12pm Spinning Giant: G- that sounds like a fantastic premise for a show - wonderful - keep us posted on the details...
	6:12pm Buddha of Suburbia: This is Lurv-a-lee!
	6:14pm Gus Bodenheim: That, and two Indian burns and a Wet Willie.
	6:14pm dale: hey boop boop de boods.
	6:14pm HyperDose: Buddha! Did you take a wrong turn and end up at the Sulking Shed by mistake? I did that last week. Felt like sulking, so I stayed for a bit.
	6:15pm Buddha of Suburbia: Good one, Dale! Lolabelle Pancake, cute moniker! Hi HyperDose, I love this kind of music.
	6:15pm Lolabelle Pancake: Courtney told me about the day Vaughn De Leath said to Gus, "Is that an Amberol cylinder in your pocket or are you just feeling frisky?"
	6:15pm G: Is that avatar really you, Gus? In what year?
	6:16pm gd00: The guy on the right is Zappa. Right? Right?
	6:16pm Gus Bodenheim: My high school photo. And the rest is confidential.
	6:16pm Buddha of Suburbia: Hello Gus, I'm new here. Great show!
	6:17pm Buddha of Suburbia: Ooh! I hate dung beetles or those the same as stink bugs?
	6:17pm G: "a fine p---s when sober"????
	6:17pm HyperDose: Honestly not sure I can trust that is really Gus after those hijinks the station manager pulled on Michele's show on Tuesday.
	6:17pm Flora: I am finding Mr. Bodenheim's song selections to be far superior to that degenerate, Courtney
	6:17pm Miss G: Mid-Atlantic accent for the win!
	6:17pm Lolabelle Pancake: Gus makes a mean barbecued bat wing!
	6:18pm Buddha of Suburbia: What in the dickens are you talking about Hyperdose?
	6:18pm Dave from Brooklyn: Ol Codgers aside to Miss L Pancake about Gus is the stuff of premium bumper stickers!
	6:18pm G: Gus attended Andover, but was expelled for moonshining in the woods
	6:19pm rrg: Louise Massey and The Westerners: www.youtube.com...
	6:19pm Buddha of Suburbia: What a lovely voice Gus!
	6:20pm rrg: I'm a contrarian. Sometimes. No, I'm not! Or maybe I am.
	6:20pm Gus Bodenheim: These mic breaks are exhausting. Thank you to Buddah, Flora, et al for the welcoming remarks.
	6:20pm Floradix Hundwasser: Gus with this Marais and Miranda, you are truly a man after my own hart. I'm sure I don't need to explain the pun.
	6:20pm Davee: is this gourmet Gus?
	6:21pm Lolabelle Pancake: Gus drinks Lo-Jack Daniels. Makes it easier to track his whereabouts when he's on a bender.
	6:21pm ultradamno: One of those guys managed to get on set without a huge hat!
	6:21pm HyperDose: @Buddha I wish I knew. So much happens here in an hour. It's hard to keep up. Hope you're well!
	6:22pm Gus Bodenheim: I am contractually obliged to claim that I drink only Sly Weasel.
	6:22pm Lolabelle Pancake: Gus, is it true you're masterminding the campaign to raise the wages of sin to $18/hr?
	6:23pm Gus Bodenheim: We need merely 1,500 more signatures and then they'll "look it over"
	6:24pm G: "way down in the delter"
	6:24pm Davee: it doesn't pay to sin anymore
	6:24pm Listener Robert: This one broke Ken's lunk alarm.
	6:24pm Buddha of Suburbia: Thanks HyperDose! Bless your cotton socks. I don't quite know if I'm going to be able to make a Party Girl version for the contest.
	6:25pm Buddha of Suburbia: ha ha
	6:26pm Miss G: I saw "Paint Your Wagon" at the famed Music Box Theater in Chicago. I thought it was really filthy.
	6:26pm Flora: This song THRILLS me!
	6:26pm rrg: The singer here is Rufus Smith.
	6:26pm Listener Robert: Buddha, I like stink bugs. They smell sweet, like perfume. They must've automatically gotten that appellation because people expect anything coming from a bug to be bad. (But what of cochineal, then?)
	6:26pm Gus Bodenheim: It was the last word in depravity. I'm still offended.
	6:27pm Flora: Is that a "western" pronunciation of "maria?
	6:27pm Dave from Brooklyn: The Wind Cries Mariah!
	6:27pm Gus Bodenheim: How do you solve a problem like Mariah?
	6:27pm Floradix Hundwasser: My Uncle Elvin used to tell people he was going out to "paint his wagon." I was confused because there was never a can of paint in sight.
	6:28pm HyperDose: @Buddha I can take the vocal track and cut up the samples for you if that makes it easier. Then you just compose what you want and insert them where you see fit in Audacity. Don't hesitate to reach out!
	6:29pm The Butterman: Dave in Brooklyn, I was going to write that. Great minds…
	6:29pm Lolabelle Pancake: Gus, do you still have that vicious attack ferret?
	6:29pm Buddha of Suburbia: Serioously???! Hyperdose, I'm going to friend you..
	6:29pm dale: my dad used to go out to the garage to polish his rocket 88. it always looked dull when he backed it out though.
	6:30pm Gus Bodenheim: Come 'round and you'll soon find out!
	6:30pm Dave from Brooklyn: Butterman, howdy. Sometimes I don't mind thinking.
	6:30pm βrian: Ask the Old Codger to "friend" you. See where that gets you!
	6:31pm HyperDose: I'll get started on it after Hearty White (that's like church for me) =]
	6:32pm Davee: BURP! there that is natural!
	6:32pm ultradamno: So when the wind cried Mary, was it correcting them?
	6:33pm (Murakami Whywolf))): I'm not sure, but I think it was Anna Akhmatova who said to him 'They‘re killing, us Paul.' to which he said nothing.
	6:34pm HyperDose: @Lolabelle Did you see what Davee just did?! Is that allowed?
	6:34pm Davee: Where's the meat?
	6:34pm ultradamno: Hoagy, local hero here.
	6:34pm Lolabelle Pancake: Message from Courtney to Gus: "I had the original sheets from the day I took Sophie Tucker's virtue (she once had it!), but those sheets were stolen by you and sold on eBay. I don't want the sheets back — I want to know the final auction price because I get 60%. I worked HARD to give those sheets incomparable value."
	6:35pm Gus Bodenheim: Hoagy was a titan.
	6:35pm G: Little known fake fact: Hoagy was called Po Boy here in NOLA.
	6:35pm Davee: Take a sheet!
	6:36pm Gus Bodenheim: I sold those off in 2 inch square sections... at this late date, impossible to evaluate.
	6:36pm Floradix Hundwasser: Why, I see Murakami is a staunch Anti-Communist!
	6:37pm Gus Bodenheim: Submarine specialist, wasn't he?
	6:38pm HyperDose: Gus is in the black market hamster napkin business? Knew he was up to something nefarious in that storage room.
	6:38pm Flora: Oh, how I do miss rousing nights in barns!
	6:39pm Gus Bodenheim: Save the last bale for me.
	6:39pm brainiac: I would have expected Gus to have more of a Mid-Atlantic non-rhotic accent along the lines of FDR. I'm unconvinced we're actually hearing Gus Bodenheim speaking. Probably some intern enlisted for the occasion.
	6:39pm Miss G: Charles Ives! Wow, danke schoen!
	6:40pm ultradamno: Well this gives The Harmonicats version of Sabre Dance a run for it's money, quite the hustler.
	6:41pm Gus Bodenheim: My accent seems unduly affected by too much of The QVC
	6:41pm dale: jerry murad's harmonicats? those guys must have gotten so much tail....
	6:41pm Miss G: brainiac, it is not so easy for anyone to do that Mid Atlantic accent! I could tell you stories of my early acting classes, the teacher saying "bag" and me saying Mid-Western "bae-ugg" and him tormenting me, until someone in the back of the room said a word that rhymed with bag.
	6:43pm Lolabelle Pancake: This is filler. "723" was Savitt's magnum opus.
	6:43pm ultradamno: When Jerry let them out for the night, I've no doubt.
	6:43pm loveless: Bon Bon!
	6:43pm Gus Bodenheim: Ah!! One who "digs!"
	6:43pm Micheal: That Jan Savitt is rocking!
	6:43pm anomalee: this nostalgic music takes me way back. i'm Forty Six btw. i miss the saloons and speakeasies. all the old fashioned drinks now classic. this is when there was real women who didn't need to feel pressured to have fun.
	6:45pm Davee: I need an edjumication
	6:46pm Davee: Did he slip a disk?
	6:46pm Listener Robert: Those sound like fresh bottles each time.
	6:46pm Lolabelle Pancake: As youth, Gus earned beer money by selling worn-out 78s that had been doctored with shoe polish to look new. A little stunt he learned from his pal Teddy Reig.
	6:46pm Miss G: Oh dear, Collier Bros vibes. Get well soon, Ol Codger!
	6:47pm redkayak: Snowin' here in the Imperial Midwest gentle folk..
	6:48pm Gus Bodenheim: Keep it westward, I implore! Shoveling will be the death of me.
	6:48pm anomalee: get out the Luden's cough drops.
	6:49pm Gus Bodenheim: I always travel with an abundance of "freshies," Robert.
	6:49pm Lolabelle Pancake: When in doubt, ask yourself: "What would Gus do?" Get plushed.
	6:49pm Listener Robert: I have a feeling the final mic break will be epic.
	6:50pm G: @anomalee: Smith Brothers!!!
	6:50pm anomalee: i cannot lie. my last name is Smith.
	6:50pm Gus Bodenheim: That Rex Stewart: a craven braggart!
	6:50pm Davefrom Brooklyn: Lola P,now that explains the rarity of shoe polish in these here parts
	6:52pm anomalee: that reminds me i have to polish my furniture this weekend.
	6:52pm G: with black shoe polish?
	6:52pm Lolabelle Pancake: The Old Codger will return next week when he descends from Mt. Cranky, where he is currently perched.
	6:52pm HyperDose: Mellow sound for a hefty eight. Still goes down smooth like a warm old butterscotch from the coat pocket.
	6:52pm Davefrom Brooklyn: Ultradynamo,that wind was a trippin
	6:52pm Davee: are you polish?
	6:53pm anomalee: i'm a smidge Irish.
	6:53pm Davee: that doesn't make you a bad person
	6:53pm Gus Bodenheim: Indeed, HyperDose. Lintless and succulent.
	6:54pm ultradamno: 'Bout time someone recognized my dynamism
	6:54pm Lolabelle Pancake: Gracie was always bragging about her au gratin.
	6:55pm G: Say goodnight, Gracie.
	6:55pm brainiac: Is that what she called it?
	6:55pm Buddha of Suburbia: This has been wonderful! I am so pleased I stumbled on this. Are you here every 'Thursday at 6pm?
	6:55pm anomalee: no but i do fancy dark beers like Guinness.
	6:55pm G: This basic program is here every Thursday at 6, yup
	6:56pm Gus Bodenheim: The Codger will resume his toils next week and henceforth
	6:56pm Buddha of Suburbia: HyperDose, please check your email!!
	6:56pm dale: a love nest for two sounds lovely. until you realize a nest is made from sticks and fecal matter.
	6:56pm anomalee: pleased to be in your presence BOS
	6:56pm G: Gus is going back into Witness Protection
	6:56pm HyperDose: Like a bad habit...of which Courtney has many! I'm sure Lolabelle will be happy to spin a few yarns!
	6:56pm Lolabelle Pancake: The show is normally hosted by a more charming, warm and charismatic personage. Tonight he is ... indisposed.
	6:56pm Buddha of Suburbia: Ooph, Dale!
	6:57pm Miss G: What a great show, thank you. I'm supposed to be contacting California and I have completely dropped the ball.
	6:57pm Listener Robert: Would you have done this program if you'd known WFMU has no money to pay DJs? Mr. Edison keeps thinking they're just late.
	6:57pm Gus Bodenheim: Well I... (SPUTTER, HUFF)
	6:57pm Buddha of Suburbia: Lolabelle Pancake, LOL!
	6:57pm ultradamno: That autocolonoscopy chore sounds like it could take a lot out of a man.
	6:58pm anomalee: and now back to our recently rescheduled program.
	6:58pm HyperDose: Fantastic show, Gus. Please come back every- errr anytime! I accepted, Buddha!
	6:58pm Gus Bodenheim: Wait... no money?
	6:58pm G: Fornicator is still there, Unless the Big One has just happened.
	6:58pm The Butterman: Great show, Gus.
	6:58pm radioronan: Thanks Codger.. thanks Lolabelle.. thanks skeletons
	6:58pm Gus Bodenheim: Codger! I will brain you!
	6:58pm G: Fornicator? CALIFORNIA. TY auto-correct.
	6:58pm Gus Bodenheim: Why thank you Butterman!
	6:58pm rrg: They're right, it was pretty good.
	6:58pm ultradamno: But it might be a tax write off, somehow
	6:58pm Davee: change your name to the old guster
	6:59pm anomalee: cool show btw. i learned a lot.
	6:59pm Gus Bodenheim: It was a pleasure. I thank you all for your kind indulgence.
	6:59pm Lolabelle Pancake: Guten klontarf!
	6:59pm Buddha of Suburbia: Have a nice night every one!!!
	7:00pm Laura L: Thank you, Gus!
	7:00pm Davee: if birds get married do they fly off on their honeymoon
	7:00pm anomalee: goodnight Buddha. save a rose petal for me.
	7:00pm Lolabelle Pancake: The show is over, but you have a right to remain.
	7:00pm loveless: Gus, dig ya later.
	7:01pm Davee: wonderful, I think!
	7:01pm HyperDose: @Lolabelle We have gulp rights?
	7:01pm Gus Bodenheim: Cheers, friends.
	7:01pm G: You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
	7:28pm Jennica: "Naked Came the Ceramics Instructor." - HA! What a riot. I had to work late Thursday night. Finally breathing and catching up now. Loving it!!!

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison: Playlist from February 4, 2021

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Tommy Todd Trio	Chloe "Chloe" by "Tommy Todd Trio"	0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Minnie Wallace	The Old Folks Started It	0:02:40 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Mildred Bailey	Where Are You? "Where Are You?" by "Mildred Bailey"	0:06:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Foy Willing & the Riders of the Purple Sage	Twilight on the Trail	0:10:07 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Willie "The Lion" Smith	Morning Air	0:13:07 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Marais & Miranda	Animal Cries "Animal Cries" by "Marais & Miranda"	0:17:48 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jimmie Rodgers	Mississippi Delta Blues	0:20:35 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Paint Your Wagon (original cast)	They Call the Wind Maria	0:24:01 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Paul Robeson	River, Stay 'Way from My Door	0:27:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Ethel Waters	Bread and Gravy "Bread and Gravy" by "Ethel Waters"	0:32:56 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Pan American Chamber Orchestra (Nicolas Slonimsky, cond.)	Barn Dance (from Washington's Birthday by Charles Ives)	0:35:51 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The BBC Dance Orchestra	Wild Ride (A Study in Fox Trot Rhythm)	0:37:57 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jan Savitt & His Orchestra	720 in the Books	0:40:55 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Lew Stone and His Band	Hand in Hand	0:45:51 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Rex Stewart's Big Eight	Swamp Mist	0:48:44 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Gracie Fields	Walter, Walter, Lead Me to the Altar	0:53:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra	The Wedding of the Birds	0:56:45 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	11:14am Davee: Where is everybody?
	11:15am Davee: The more I think about it No. 12 has a resemblance to my old pal Irwin.
	12:14pm Lolabelle Pancake: Irwin used to host a program on WFMU during the 1990s. Courtney remembers him as "a bubbling cauldron of tranquilizers, vodka, anxiety and fear." Otherwise unremarkable.
	2:17pm Gus Bodenheim: Am I early? I am... I'm early. There must be a gin mill within walking distance. Well, off I go then.
	2:53pm Listener Robert: Speaking of WFMU's present and former hosts, the Wikipedia entry "List of WFMU Radio Hosts" is woefully incomplete. It was even missing Jim Price and Bill Kelly until I added them minutes ago, but I'm not going to do the whole job by myself. Get in there and add every one you can remember, and if you have no other reference to cite, link to the archives here for those who are in the archives.
	4:17pm zopa: Is there a Delbarton sanctioned prize for correctly identifying the culprits?
	4:36pm Gus Bodenheim: We're trying to work out the red tape in order to offer Rancho Malario vouchers with participating tobacconists. Slow going so far, to be frank.
	5:14pm Pierre Delecto: Their identities can be traced on Mystery Facebook.
	5:43pm rrg: Good evening, Gus. Will Lolabelle be administering your playlist tonight, a job that she does very well for Courtney?
	5:46pm Gus Bodenheim: Such audacity! I will administer my OWN playlist, thank you very much!!
	5:49pm Lolabelle Pancake: That's a touchy subject, rrg. Gus will never forget the day he got disenfranchised.
	5:51pm Gus Bodenheim: I wish someone would administer me a Singapore Sling.
	5:52pm rrg: Lolabelle's boots are big. Those are big boots to fill. But I'm sure that you, Gus, will have no trouble filling them. And Miss Pancake will get to relax and listen to the program without distractions for once.
	5:53pm rrg: Except, of course, for the pleasant distractions provided by your music and chat.
	5:54pm Gus Bodenheim: I pride myself on my boot-filling, young man; thank you.
	5:57pm Laura L: Lolabelle's boots are big, sure, but she's never a bossy boots. No need to be a bossy boots with boots that big--but Mr. Bodenheim will fill 'em just fine, no doubt about it.
	5:58pm rrg: No room for bossy boots here. And remember, as Peppa Pig once said, if you jump up and down in muddy puddles, you must wear your boots.
	5:59pm Gus Bodenheim: Some wadded newspaper is on hand in case the boots are overly capacious
	5:59pm ultradamno: Sounds like Fablio has gone full hippy. Showing his true colors.
	6:00pm rrg: Fablio is almost done. Finally.
	6:00pm Martinibomb: I am here!
	6:00pm ultradamno: Playing something called "The Head Shop"...or more likely bought from one.
	6:00pm Lolabelle Pancake: Fablio doesn't know Gus is filling in. He's clueless. As usual. But his music is a dead giveaway.
	6:01pm ultradamno: PIECE OF WORK?! That's even worse than he usually says 'the old codger'.
	6:02pm rrg: Right, he usually says "The Ooooooooooooooooold Codger".
	6:02pm Martinibomb: These faces look familiar. I feel like I've seen them on the post office wall.
	6:02pm G: GO GO GUS
	6:02pm HyperDose: Courtney would never enter a shrunken head shop! He pays by the pound, not the ounce.
	6:03pm Gus Bodenheim: Again relegated to obscurity by the incompetence of others. I recoil.
	6:04pm Lolabelle Pancake: During the mic breaks, my finger will be on the BLEEP button in case Gus gets a little .... wayward.
	6:04pm Gus Bodenheim: I'll thank you to mind your manners.
	6:05pm Lolabelle Pancake: Gus's motto is "Catch 'em young, treat 'em rough, make 'em sign an NDA."
	6:05pm rrg: That's what SHE said.
	6:05pm G: Lolabelle riding herd on "Bleep" Bodenheim
	6:06pm ultradamno: Should put that motto on a shirt so people can see what's coming.
	6:07pm Thumb this: I've heard about you, you bastard
	6:07pm Listener Robert: You only wrote that book because a certain DJ came up with the title.
	6:07pm HyperDose: Codgerless....I should ink that on a strip of leather so I'll always remember the saddest day in the Poutin Shanty.
	6:07pm Lolabelle Pancake: The Codger has known Gus for years. He told me yesterday, "Gus is a real blowhard. And the drunker he gets, the harder he blows."
	6:08pm Miss G: Gus Bodenheim, your velvet voice made me run over to the laptop to see what was happening?!
	6:08pm dale: does the hays commission have the codger on their advisory panel right now?
	6:08pm Thumb this: OK, I'll bite. What WAS happening?
	6:09pm Gus Bodenheim: Jean Shepherd stole my every idea. Especially my personal charm.
	6:09pm G: Selma Hayek has a show in development for HBO Max called "A Boob's Life," wherein a 40yo woman's breasts talk to her. Maybe early/mid 1900s culture is not so bad after all.
	6:10pm Gus Bodenheim: Miss G ...finally someone is talking sense here.
	6:10pm Gus Bodenheim: Lolabelle's impudence knows no bounds.
	6:11pm Lolabelle Pancake: Gus, how come you don't go visit your uncle John Wilkes Bodenheim at the Van Halen Nursing Home anymore? He wonders: is it because of that last wedgie?
	6:11pm ultradamno: Will Euneeda ever get to fill in? I would adore hearing her mellifluous voice doing mic breaks
	6:12pm Spinning Giant: G- that sounds like a fantastic premise for a show - wonderful - keep us posted on the details...
	6:12pm Buddha of Suburbia: This is Lurv-a-lee!
	6:14pm Gus Bodenheim: That, and two Indian burns and a Wet Willie.
	6:14pm dale: hey boop boop de boods.
	6:14pm HyperDose: Buddha! Did you take a wrong turn and end up at the Sulking Shed by mistake? I did that last week. Felt like sulking, so I stayed for a bit.
	6:15pm Buddha of Suburbia: Good one, Dale! Lolabelle Pancake, cute moniker! Hi HyperDose, I love this kind of music.
	6:15pm Lolabelle Pancake: Courtney told me about the day Vaughn De Leath said to Gus, "Is that an Amberol cylinder in your pocket or are you just feeling frisky?"
	6:15pm G: Is that avatar really you, Gus? In what year?
	6:16pm gd00: The guy on the right is Zappa. Right? Right?
	6:16pm Gus Bodenheim: My high school photo. And the rest is confidential.
	6:16pm Buddha of Suburbia: Hello Gus, I'm new here. Great show!
	6:17pm Buddha of Suburbia: Ooh! I hate dung beetles or those the same as stink bugs?
	6:17pm G: "a fine p---s when sober"????
	6:17pm HyperDose: Honestly not sure I can trust that is really Gus after those hijinks the station manager pulled on Michele's show on Tuesday.
	6:17pm Flora: I am finding Mr. Bodenheim's song selections to be far superior to that degenerate, Courtney
	6:17pm Miss G: Mid-Atlantic accent for the win!
	6:17pm Lolabelle Pancake: Gus makes a mean barbecued bat wing!
	6:18pm Buddha of Suburbia: What in the dickens are you talking about Hyperdose?
	6:18pm Dave from Brooklyn: Ol Codgers aside to Miss L Pancake about Gus is the stuff of premium bumper stickers!
	6:18pm G: Gus attended Andover, but was expelled for moonshining in the woods
	6:19pm rrg: Louise Massey and The Westerners: www.youtube.com...
	6:19pm Buddha of Suburbia: What a lovely voice Gus!
	6:20pm rrg: I'm a contrarian. Sometimes. No, I'm not! Or maybe I am.
	6:20pm Gus Bodenheim: These mic breaks are exhausting. Thank you to Buddah, Flora, et al for the welcoming remarks.
	6:20pm Floradix Hundwasser: Gus with this Marais and Miranda, you are truly a man after my own hart. I'm sure I don't need to explain the pun.
	6:20pm Davee: is this gourmet Gus?
	6:21pm Lolabelle Pancake: Gus drinks Lo-Jack Daniels. Makes it easier to track his whereabouts when he's on a bender.
	6:21pm ultradamno: One of those guys managed to get on set without a huge hat!
	6:21pm HyperDose: @Buddha I wish I knew. So much happens here in an hour. It's hard to keep up. Hope you're well!
	6:22pm Gus Bodenheim: I am contractually obliged to claim that I drink only Sly Weasel.
	6:22pm Lolabelle Pancake: Gus, is it true you're masterminding the campaign to raise the wages of sin to $18/hr?
	6:23pm Gus Bodenheim: We need merely 1,500 more signatures and then they'll "look it over"
	6:24pm G: "way down in the delter"
	6:24pm Davee: it doesn't pay to sin anymore
	6:24pm Listener Robert: This one broke Ken's lunk alarm.
	6:24pm Buddha of Suburbia: Thanks HyperDose! Bless your cotton socks. I don't quite know if I'm going to be able to make a Party Girl version for the contest.
	6:25pm Buddha of Suburbia: ha ha
	6:26pm Miss G: I saw "Paint Your Wagon" at the famed Music Box Theater in Chicago. I thought it was really filthy.
	6:26pm Flora: This song THRILLS me!
	6:26pm rrg: The singer here is Rufus Smith.
	6:26pm Listener Robert: Buddha, I like stink bugs. They smell sweet, like perfume. They must've automatically gotten that appellation because people expect anything coming from a bug to be bad. (But what of cochineal, then?)
	6:26pm Gus Bodenheim: It was the last word in depravity. I'm still offended.
	6:27pm Flora: Is that a "western" pronunciation of "maria?
	6:27pm Dave from Brooklyn: The Wind Cries Mariah!
	6:27pm Gus Bodenheim: How do you solve a problem like Mariah?
	6:27pm Floradix Hundwasser: My Uncle Elvin used to tell people he was going out to "paint his wagon." I was confused because there was never a can of paint in sight.
	6:28pm HyperDose: @Buddha I can take the vocal track and cut up the samples for you if that makes it easier. Then you just compose what you want and insert them where you see fit in Audacity. Don't hesitate to reach out!
	6:29pm The Butterman: Dave in Brooklyn, I was going to write that. Great minds…
	6:29pm Lolabelle Pancake: Gus, do you still have that vicious attack ferret?
	6:29pm Buddha of Suburbia: Serioously???! Hyperdose, I'm going to friend you..
	6:29pm dale: my dad used to go out to the garage to polish his rocket 88. it always looked dull when he backed it out though.
	6:30pm Gus Bodenheim: Come 'round and you'll soon find out!
	6:30pm Dave from Brooklyn: Butterman, howdy. Sometimes I don't mind thinking.
	6:30pm βrian: Ask the Old Codger to "friend" you. See where that gets you!
	6:31pm HyperDose: I'll get started on it after Hearty White (that's like church for me) =]
	6:32pm Davee: BURP! there that is natural!
	6:32pm ultradamno: So when the wind cried Mary, was it correcting them?
	6:33pm (Murakami Whywolf))): I'm not sure, but I think it was Anna Akhmatova who said to him 'They‘re killing, us Paul.' to which he said nothing.
	6:34pm HyperDose: @Lolabelle Did you see what Davee just did?! Is that allowed?
	6:34pm Davee: Where's the meat?
	6:34pm ultradamno: Hoagy, local hero here.
	6:34pm Lolabelle Pancake: Message from Courtney to Gus: "I had the original sheets from the day I took Sophie Tucker's virtue (she once had it!), but those sheets were stolen by you and sold on eBay. I don't want the sheets back — I want to know the final auction price because I get 60%. I worked HARD to give those sheets incomparable value."
	6:35pm Gus Bodenheim: Hoagy was a titan.
	6:35pm G: Little known fake fact: Hoagy was called Po Boy here in NOLA.
	6:35pm Davee: Take a sheet!
	6:36pm Gus Bodenheim: I sold those off in 2 inch square sections... at this late date, impossible to evaluate.
	6:36pm Floradix Hundwasser: Why, I see Murakami is a staunch Anti-Communist!
	6:37pm Gus Bodenheim: Submarine specialist, wasn't he?
	6:38pm HyperDose: Gus is in the black market hamster napkin business? Knew he was up to something nefarious in that storage room.
	6:38pm Flora: Oh, how I do miss rousing nights in barns!
	6:39pm Gus Bodenheim: Save the last bale for me.
	6:39pm brainiac: I would have expected Gus to have more of a Mid-Atlantic non-rhotic accent along the lines of FDR. I'm unconvinced we're actually hearing Gus Bodenheim speaking. Probably some intern enlisted for the occasion.
	6:39pm Miss G: Charles Ives! Wow, danke schoen!
	6:40pm ultradamno: Well this gives The Harmonicats version of Sabre Dance a run for it's money, quite the hustler.
	6:41pm Gus Bodenheim: My accent seems unduly affected by too much of The QVC
	6:41pm dale: jerry murad's harmonicats? those guys must have gotten so much tail....
	6:41pm Miss G: brainiac, it is not so easy for anyone to do that Mid Atlantic accent! I could tell you stories of my early acting classes, the teacher saying "bag" and me saying Mid-Western "bae-ugg" and him tormenting me, until someone in the back of the room said a word that rhymed with bag.
	6:43pm Lolabelle Pancake: This is filler. "723" was Savitt's magnum opus.
	6:43pm ultradamno: When Jerry let them out for the night, I've no doubt.
	6:43pm loveless: Bon Bon!
	6:43pm Gus Bodenheim: Ah!! One who "digs!"
	6:43pm Micheal: That Jan Savitt is rocking!
	6:43pm anomalee: this nostalgic music takes me way back. i'm Forty Six btw. i miss the saloons and speakeasies. all the old fashioned drinks now classic. this is when there was real women who didn't need to feel pressured to have fun.
	6:45pm Davee: I need an edjumication
	6:46pm Davee: Did he slip a disk?
	6:46pm Listener Robert: Those sound like fresh bottles each time.
	6:46pm Lolabelle Pancake: As youth, Gus earned beer money by selling worn-out 78s that had been doctored with shoe polish to look new. A little stunt he learned from his pal Teddy Reig.
	6:46pm Miss G: Oh dear, Collier Bros vibes. Get well soon, Ol Codger!
	6:47pm redkayak: Snowin' here in the Imperial Midwest gentle folk..
	6:48pm Gus Bodenheim: Keep it westward, I implore! Shoveling will be the death of me.
	6:48pm anomalee: get out the Luden's cough drops.
	6:49pm Gus Bodenheim: I always travel with an abundance of "freshies," Robert.
	6:49pm Lolabelle Pancake: When in doubt, ask yourself: "What would Gus do?" Get plushed.
	6:49pm Listener Robert: I have a feeling the final mic break will be epic.
	6:50pm G: @anomalee: Smith Brothers!!!
	6:50pm anomalee: i cannot lie. my last name is Smith.
	6:50pm Gus Bodenheim: That Rex Stewart: a craven braggart!
	6:50pm Davefrom Brooklyn: Lola P,now that explains the rarity of shoe polish in these here parts
	6:52pm anomalee: that reminds me i have to polish my furniture this weekend.
	6:52pm G: with black shoe polish?
	6:52pm Lolabelle Pancake: The Old Codger will return next week when he descends from Mt. Cranky, where he is currently perched.
	6:52pm HyperDose: Mellow sound for a hefty eight. Still goes down smooth like a warm old butterscotch from the coat pocket.
	6:52pm Davefrom Brooklyn: Ultradynamo,that wind was a trippin
	6:52pm Davee: are you polish?
	6:53pm anomalee: i'm a smidge Irish.
	6:53pm Davee: that doesn't make you a bad person
	6:53pm Gus Bodenheim: Indeed, HyperDose. Lintless and succulent.
	6:54pm ultradamno: 'Bout time someone recognized my dynamism
	6:54pm Lolabelle Pancake: Gracie was always bragging about her au gratin.
	6:55pm G: Say goodnight, Gracie.
	6:55pm brainiac: Is that what she called it?
	6:55pm Buddha of Suburbia: This has been wonderful! I am so pleased I stumbled on this. Are you here every 'Thursday at 6pm?
	6:55pm anomalee: no but i do fancy dark beers like Guinness.
	6:55pm G: This basic program is here every Thursday at 6, yup
	6:56pm Gus Bodenheim: The Codger will resume his toils next week and henceforth
	6:56pm Buddha of Suburbia: HyperDose, please check your email!!
	6:56pm dale: a love nest for two sounds lovely. until you realize a nest is made from sticks and fecal matter.
	6:56pm anomalee: pleased to be in your presence BOS
	6:56pm G: Gus is going back into Witness Protection
	6:56pm HyperDose: Like a bad habit...of which Courtney has many! I'm sure Lolabelle will be happy to spin a few yarns!
	6:56pm Lolabelle Pancake: The show is normally hosted by a more charming, warm and charismatic personage. Tonight he is ... indisposed.
	6:56pm Buddha of Suburbia: Ooph, Dale!
	6:57pm Miss G: What a great show, thank you. I'm supposed to be contacting California and I have completely dropped the ball.
	6:57pm Listener Robert: Would you have done this program if you'd known WFMU has no money to pay DJs? Mr. Edison keeps thinking they're just late.
	6:57pm Gus Bodenheim: Well I... (SPUTTER, HUFF)
	6:57pm Buddha of Suburbia: Lolabelle Pancake, LOL!
	6:57pm ultradamno: That autocolonoscopy chore sounds like it could take a lot out of a man.
	6:58pm anomalee: and now back to our recently rescheduled program.
	6:58pm HyperDose: Fantastic show, Gus. Please come back every- errr anytime! I accepted, Buddha!
	6:58pm Gus Bodenheim: Wait... no money?
	6:58pm G: Fornicator is still there, Unless the Big One has just happened.
	6:58pm The Butterman: Great show, Gus.
	6:58pm radioronan: Thanks Codger.. thanks Lolabelle.. thanks skeletons
	6:58pm Gus Bodenheim: Codger! I will brain you!
	6:58pm G: Fornicator? CALIFORNIA. TY auto-correct.
	6:58pm Gus Bodenheim: Why thank you Butterman!
	6:58pm rrg: They're right, it was pretty good.
	6:58pm ultradamno: But it might be a tax write off, somehow
	6:58pm Davee: change your name to the old guster
	6:59pm anomalee: cool show btw. i learned a lot.
	6:59pm Gus Bodenheim: It was a pleasure. I thank you all for your kind indulgence.
	6:59pm Lolabelle Pancake: Guten klontarf!
	6:59pm Buddha of Suburbia: Have a nice night every one!!!
	7:00pm Laura L: Thank you, Gus!
	7:00pm Davee: if birds get married do they fly off on their honeymoon
	7:00pm anomalee: goodnight Buddha. save a rose petal for me.
	7:00pm Lolabelle Pancake: The show is over, but you have a right to remain.
	7:00pm loveless: Gus, dig ya later.
	7:01pm Davee: wonderful, I think!
	7:01pm HyperDose: @Lolabelle We have gulp rights?
	7:01pm Gus Bodenheim: Cheers, friends.
	7:01pm G: You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
	7:28pm Jennica: "Naked Came the Ceramics Instructor." - HA! What a riot. I had to work late Thursday night. Finally breathing and catching up now. Loving it!!!

Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison: Playlist from February 4, 2021

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