WFMU: Techtonic with Mark Hurst: Playlist from February 27, 2023

Listener comments!
	🤖 5:59pm chresti: Hi Mark and Gaylord and techtonicians!
	🤖 6:00pm Handy Haversack: Mark! Techyon Particles!
	6:00pm ultradamno: Mark! Gaylord! Techtockies!
	6:01pm Bread and Jam for Frances: Meat DJs unite!
	6:01pm DanFA: This might be your least depressing topic, Mark.
	🤖 6:01pm Deano de los Muertos: Belated thanks to Olivia, and hello Mark and techies
	🤖 6:02pm Deano de los Muertos: and Gaylord!
	6:02pm ultradamno: Big AI story on the triumphant return of John Oliver's show last night, though no talk of DJ...
	🤖 6:02pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Bread and Jam for Frances @6:01 I am now mentally storyboarding Meat DJ: the adventure comic book!
	🤖 6:03pm Bas NL: Hi Mark & all!
	🤖 6:03pm Ken From Hyde Park: Give platitudes Techtonic! Hello!
	6:03pm ultradamno: ...I have suspected album rock stations have been using them for years. Nothing else explains morning zoo shows, lack of intelligence aside.
	🤖 6:03pm Handy Haversack: Also: YAAAAAAYYYYYY! GAYLORD!!!! Bas, how was the Cool Greenhouse?
	6:03pm Andres: I’m excited!!
	6:04pm Greg from ZONE 5: As a long-time listener of this station, I am very excited!
	6:04pm Gaylord Fields: Hi there, Mark and fellow Techtonic shifters!
	6:04pm kevlicki: Hi mark and Gaylord!!!
	🤖 6:04pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Mark & Gaylord!
	🤖 6:04pm Bas NL: Hey Handy; couldn't attend.. my dad passed away.
	🤖 6:05pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Bas NL @6:04 Oh, Bas, so sorry to hear it. Sympathy and solidarity, my friend.
	6:05pm Bread and Jam for Frances: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:02 ha ha I would buy that
	6:06pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Bas NL @6:04 Deepest sympathies, Bas.
	🤖 6:06pm Bas NL: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:05 Thanks Handy.
	6:06pm joe mulligan: the Spotify algo burns me up! they play the songs that people don't like because they are cheap and sort of "bottom inventory", then those songs end up getting more plays and appear to be favored by the listeners but it's only because the algo suggested them. so the hits are fake and not what listeners are actually choosing/liking. I've seen this happen for many artists I look up on their 'most played" songs. pffffft
	6:06pm lindac: Gaylooorrrd! I boycot Spotify like the plague.
	6:06pm ultradamno: May I also suggest GF's co-hosting of the black country ep of Honky Tonk Radio Girl show? wfmu.org...
	🤖 6:06pm Bas NL: ↳ Gaylord Fields @6:06 Thanks Gaylord.
	6:06pm DanFA: Monica probably sends these types of stories to Mark every week to try and get him to have a nervous breakdown.
	6:07pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ lindac @6:06 <3
	🤖 6:08pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Bas NL @6:04 Sad to hear that, Bas. Condolences.
	🤖 6:08pm MarciB: I miss Gaylord! So glad to hear him on this show.
	6:08pm coelacanth∅: "ai dj"? you mean like the wfmu rock & soul stream?
	🤖 6:08pm Handy Haversack: If you are listening in the future, hopefully Gaylord has a show on the schedule once again!
	🤖 6:08pm Bas NL: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:08 Thanks Ken.
	6:08pm chris in the redwoods: ↳ Bas NL @6:04 sorry for your loss, Bas. much love to you and your whole family.
	6:08pm Bread and Jam for Frances: in a tiny bright spot, Bandcamp finally rolled out playlists
	6:09pm HyperDose: Mark Hurst leading the DJ is a verb movement!
	6:09pm Glistener MW: didn’t They Might Be Giants write a song along these themes? “A., mister deejay, I. thought you said we had a deal…”
	6:09pm listener 126464: ↳ Bas NL @6:04 Condolences, Bas.
	🤖 6:09pm Handy Haversack: Obviously, an AI DJ is an oxymoron, and none of us will ever fall for the scam, BUT: if I were running a dark alternative commercial radio station, I would totally call my AI DJ The AIDJLORD!!
	6:09pm kevlicki: Ultradamno thanks for the tip on that archive, v curious to learn from that playlist!
	🤖 6:10pm Webhamster Henry: I used to work for Stationhead, which uses Spotify (and now Apple Music) to let you make playlists and cut into them with vocal comments, so kind lof like using Spotify as your radio channel. (I was trying to get their model of user interaction to be more like WFMU's ... I didn't last super long at that job) They've finally gotten their tech together enough so they have some traction, but if there are robots making "your" channel, and making up dialog to go with it ... hmmm!
	🤖 6:10pm Bas NL: ↳ chris in the redwoods @6:08 Thanks Chris and listener 126464.
	6:10pm coelacanth∅: oh man, i'm sorry for your loss Bas. may he rest in peace.
	6:10pm DanFA: "I am a DJ. I am what I play." - David Bowie, DJ
	6:10pm ultradamno: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:09 I like DJ Skin Job or DJ Caprica
	🤖 6:11pm Bas NL: ↳ coelacanth∅ @6:10 Thanks coel.
	6:11pm Mark Hurst: Hi all, welcome! @Gaylord, thanks for joining us!
	6:11pm DC: Indeed Gaylord Fields is one of the legendary greats, excellent to hear from him. He is an expert DJ when it comes to creating a mood & guiding the listener on a curated journey
	6:11pm Mark Hurst: @Bas, so sorry for your loss.
	6:11pm lindac: ↳ DC @6:11 You said it!
	🤖 6:12pm chresti: spotify is AD (automated dumbness)
	🤖 6:12pm Will thee Sound Guy: Hi Mark Hurst, Gaylord Fields, AI DJ Bots, and all!!!
	6:12pm Franco Twinkie: Extruded glop of text - I'm stealing that right now.
	🤖 6:13pm Bas NL: ↳ Mark Hurst @6:11 Thanks Mark.
	6:13pm Bread and Jam for Frances: imagine if they reanimate Casey Kasem…?
	6:14pm Franco Twinkie: Oh man, I'm so sorry Bas.
	🤖 6:14pm Webhamster Henry: In similar radio news, There's a company hoping to use AI to do "voice tracking". Voice tracking is the already evil system where a company has dozens of radio stations and uses one single team to do the shows, playing the same music about dropping in local references and news to make it seem like the shows are local. So now, the already job-killing technique can get rid of the actual human talent.
	🤖 6:14pm Folsom: Who plans the filler between shows on Give the Drummer and Rock & Soul? Is it just random songs from a curated playlist?
	6:14pm Ciggy: Every amd any music streaming service that recommends a Playlist for me, I immediately scroll past the suggestion.
	6:15pm laurapanic: ↳ Folsom @6:14 I kinda wonder the same, how that works.
	6:15pm Bread and Jam for Frances: gallows humor?
	6:15pm DanFA: ↳ Bas NL @6:13 Sorry for your loss, Bas. My condolences.
	🤖 6:15pm Bas NL: ↳ Franco Twinkie @6:14 Thanks Franco.
	6:15pm Jeff formerly from Rahway: My teenage son loves music but he only knows Spotify. He never listened to radio staffed by humans. When he joined his college radio station, he had no idea how to back announce and he had to call his old man.
	6:15pm joe mulligan: ↳ DC @6:11 Truth! Gaylord is the best of the best. and spins with a smile, always kind.
	6:16pm DanFA: A flesh DJ.
	6:16pm yippie: is there anyway on Spotify that users can upload music for other users to listen to?
	6:16pm coelacanth∅: Folsom, drummer stream id Doug's personal collection, and i'm sure at least some of the time it's geared toward whatever live program it follows.
	6:16pm Niall: ↳ Bread and Jam for Frances @6:13 Trained only on those "Snuggles" and U2 clips.
	🤖 6:16pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Folsom @6:14 It is random from a curated playlist . DOug is adamant againt having an OwlSun like robot on the Drummer sdtream. He won't even categorize the randomness in to broad blocks, like 78s, free jazz, World pop for a few 3 hour stretches...
	🤖 6:16pm Handy Haversack: For the record, I would totally let Gaylord go through my hard drive if he asked. I can't imagine it would help the radio show, though!
	🤖 6:16pm Ken From Hyde Park: Payola 2.0!
	🤖 6:17pm chresti: Very sorry Bas!
	6:17pm efd: ah, love to hear Gaylord waxing rhapsodic about the great Dan Ingram!
	6:17pm coelacanth∅: r&s seems much more random, although it must also be someone's personal collection.
	6:17pm john_zilla: this is the first tectonic I've listened to cause of the ai/music intersection
	6:17pm DanFA: Sounds like a real troublemaker that Dan Ingraham
	6:17pm Niall: "He would use the hell out of that friggin' delay effect fect ect ct t."
	🤖 6:17pm Bas NL: ↳ DanFA @6:15 Thanks DanFA and chresti. And again thanks all. But on with the show.. this is a great topic.
	6:18pm Bread and Jam for Frances: ↳ Niall @6:16 lol I think negativland made a Casey Kasem soundboard at some point?
	6:18pm Franco Twinkie: Biting the hand that feeds you - beautiful when it works.
	6:18pm coelacanth∅: and sheena's stream is Mr Fab's personal collection
	6:18pm ultradamno: ↳ Jeff formerly from Rahway @6:15 The writing in cursive of broadcasting
	6:18pm Niall: ↳ Bread and Jam for Frances @6:18 Aye, and for many of us, that Negativland album was why we know of them.
	6:19pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ efd @6:17 Any opportunity to extol Dan Ingram's mastery of Top 40 radio, I will take it.
	🤖 6:19pm Dance the Blues: Maybe Spotify can save $200 million by creating an AI Joe Rogan.
	🤖 6:20pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Dance the Blues @6:19 AI Joe: A "Real" American Hero!
	6:20pm Ciggy: I'll occasionally check out WFMU's monthly 'Heavily Played' songs on Spotify. But it can get tedious. WFMU is my source of new music and learning there are a few tidbits of artists I have missed during prior decades. I get turned on by humans Djs
	🤖 6:20pm Webhamster Henry: How about training the DJ on WBAI's Lynn Samuels?
	6:20pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ joe mulligan @6:15 Aw, thanks!
	6:20pm AbbyNrml: What about Ron Lundy? Hello Love!
	6:20pm headcleaner: From an artistic (and human) perspective, of course the idea of an AI DJ makes no sense at all. But from what the industry calls a "business perspective" -- it makes all too much sense. That sense being: whatever pushes people's buttons, and jerks their spinal cord in a way that keeps them "engaged", and at minimal cost -- is a wondrous, beautiful thing. Providing an "attractive, warm, human" context to the whatever random sound patterns they might be hearing -- just doesn't matter that much to a lot of (arguably most) folks. And certainly not the secondary market of bars, restaurants, taxis etc that just need some random muzak-y noise in the background to keep their customers appropriately numbed and distracted.
	6:20pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ Gaylord Fields @6:19 I want to hear Dan Ingram subvert the machine!
	6:20pm Niall: Man, this really sounds like a fundraiser tee-up.
	6:20pm Bread and Jam for Frances: the Simpsons was prescient on this too. They had a morning zoo robot.
	🤖 6:21pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Ciggy @6:20 "Heavily played" by WFMU numbers are like "Ignored" on other stations.
	6:21pm StRts: Spotify sucks.. NO human element at all. Even those who like it remind me of robots. 0
	6:21pm Rolando: I too can't thing of a word to describe the sort off arrogance described, ... reason it works is because the youth have been 'programmed' not to expect much in life, or pursue self satisfaction and fulfilment ... pretending to be happy. - A personal DJ will make me happy!! If I must have a DJ please give me a very politically incorrect DJ, once they can figure that out, then perhaps I will look into. - This is an new level of Social Engineering
	6:21pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Franco Twinkie @6:20 There are a lot of great airchecks of him going right up to the line — and sometimes crossing it!
	6:21pm coelacanth∅: spotify is a non-issue, in my opinion. you can block it from accessing your computer, and program your own playlists. you can play whole albums and never use their algorhithms.
	🤖 6:21pm MarciB: I'm so glad I never succumbed to the Spotify/ Pandora thing. I'm one of the only folks I know who actually LISTENS to the radio (meaning 99% WFMU, 1% KCRW)
	6:22pm ultradamno: theinfosphere.org...
	6:22pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ Gaylord Fields @6:21 Thanks Gaylord - a man after my own heart.
	🤖 6:22pm PaulRobeson1923: Interesting show
	6:22pm Kurty: There’s always going to be real DJ’s don’t worry
	🤖 6:22pm Folsom: I remember before Sirius bought XM the punk station would play random songs between DJs, man that really sucked, there is a lot of bad punk out there that needs to be weeded out
	🤖 6:22pm MarciB: ↳ StRts @6:21 You got that right!
	6:23pm Andres: More Kenny G!
	6:23pm chresti: KXLU is pretty freeform
	6:23pm DonJuanTijuana: Gaylord is GOD!!!
	6:23pm Rolando: Gaylord grows up in public - 1993 - 2023 and nothing is the same. Alienation is like fasting, it helps to focus you. Making mistakes publicly - Yes!!
	6:24pm DanFA: ↳ DonJuanTijuana @6:23 You can't spell Gaylord without God.
	6:24pm Jeff formerly from Rahway: For 30 years I've described WFMU to people unfamiliar with the station - or the freeform genre - as "ranging from brilliant to unlistenable."
	🤖 6:24pm Handy Haversack: I often mention a time a buddy and I were playing boardgames and listening to Suzy Hotrod. She was in the middle of a sort of rockabilly-y set, and my friend's partner came home and decided there was too much static in the reception and so put on a Spotify rockabilly channel. And we went from being surprised by every song and saying, "Wow, who's this?!" to knowing every single song that was played. Really sucked the air out of the day. And like many humans, I need air to live.
	6:24pm chresti: Kitten sparkles was on KXLU maybe still is?
	🤖 6:24pm Webhamster Henry: Ooh Radio Miracle producing WFMU! New Bumper Sticker!
	6:25pm DonJuanTijuana: ↳ DanFA @6:24 You know it!
	6:25pm Gaylord Fields: There are so many fantastic freeform stations that inspire and are inspired by what we do here, with KXLU being just one stellar example.
	6:25pm Bread and Jam for Frances: Sometimes you play these precious platters with just the right surface crunch. Let’s see a borg dj do that
	6:25pm StRts: A.I.M.A.
	6:25pm StuartR: It is great to hear Gaylord again.
	🤖 6:25pm Folsom: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:24 Why didn't you change to the stream instead of going to Spotify?
	🤖 6:26pm Bas NL: We needs the freeforithm.
	6:26pm StRts: (A.I. my ass)
	🤖 6:26pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Folsom @6:25 Not my house. And I didn't even notice the FM crackle. I will endure a lot of crackle to listen to the terrestrial signal.
	6:26pm Rolando: Roly wonders is this is a live interview with Gaylord or a pre-recored interview?
	🤖 6:27pm PaulRobeson1923: WaKE & BaKe ForEvEr
	🤖 6:27pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Gaylord Fields @6:25 Freeform and real local stations. It used to be that something would be a monster hit in say, San Diego, but not elsewhere!
	6:27pm drowsy: Human DJs rule and infinity, etc are the sucks. I was so crestfallen when the Infinity bug started picking off college radio. Emerson in Boston, UNH here in New Haven, super sad trend.
	🤖 6:28pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Rolando @6:26 Prerecorded: Mark has his Wayne's World-esque transition music to segue to the prerecorded interviews -- plus Mark and Gaylord are both on the board!
	6:28pm Roger: So good to hear Gaylord. Amazing show, you two!
	6:28pm lindac: I seriously wanted to be a DJ when I "grew up"...until.I realized what commercial radio was about. And this AI thing really turns my stomach.
	6:28pm alanSixº: This is fantastic thanx guys
	🤖 6:29pm Will thee Sound Guy: We miss your show Gaylord Fields, soo many great things
	6:29pm Mark Hurst: ↳ Roger @6:28 Thanks, Roger! Glad to see you here.
	6:29pm Mark Hurst: ↳ alanSixº @6:28 Thanks, Alan!
	6:29pm Stashu: 💋
	6:29pm Franco Twinkie: Organic evolution could be a handle here.
	6:29pm Stashu: ❤️
	6:30pm Stashu: magic dust of the universe
	6:30pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Stashu @6:29 ❤️
	🤖 6:30pm Dance the Blues: I think we are giving the tech guys too much credit. Spotify "DJ" has flop written all over it. Spotify users don't want DJs.
	6:30pm Mark Hurst: ↳ Stashu @6:29 👍👍
	🤖 6:30pm Webhamster Henry: Gaylord, Monica, Joe Mcgasko are masters of the segue
	6:30pm Ciggy: How am I gonna go from Cousin Brucie - from The Nightbird Allison Steele - from Rosko from WPIX'SMs Dan Neer from WLIR's Donna Donna from EFD &The New Afternoon Show from WKCR's Phil Schapp --- TO Spotify? Humans - I got to learn from humans.
	6:30pm coelacanth∅: sometimes it (Gaylord's show) is cinematic; sometimes it's very personal.
	🤖 6:30pm MarciB: What's great about Gaylord's show was the cohesiveness - no matter what genre.
	6:30pm pgalub: I find Gaylord's show to have an especially good flow.
	🤖 6:31pm MarciB: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:30 Agreed!
	🤖 6:31pm Folsom: I always like how Mike Sin seems to have a billion compilation albums, I like when he plays something from a comp since I know I'll probably like the rest of the record.
	6:31pm DonJuanTijuana: Bring back Gaylords Genius show!!! I miss that Sunday night vibe!!!
	6:31pm kevlicki: Being in the Hudson valley if I want a change from WFMU I go up the dial a couple clicks to 91.3 to wfuv the Vassar station it’s DJs aren’t as “strong” as WFMU but it’s a nice variation
	6:31pm Franco Twinkie: It's kind of like the board game Candyland.
	6:31pm Roger: Mark, my sampling of your "Who's Raising the Kids" show on Double Dip Recess last week was very well received. I hope I sent a crowd to your show!
	6:31pm DC: I actually quite like AI. Yet I agree that so much of what makes humans beautiful is what AI will never seek to imitate, and so much of it is by nature inimitable
	🤖 6:32pm Webhamster Henry: While many WFMU DJs have massive curated personal collections to draw from, there is also the awesome WFMU library to draw from.
	6:32pm Mark Hurst: ↳ Roger @6:31 Thanks, Roger! Appreciate you mentioning it!
	🤖 6:32pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Roger @6:31 That was excellently well done, Roger! Fantastic radio!
	6:32pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ DonJuanTijuana @6:31 Thanks so much — although I must say I am enjoying my emeritus status too much. But never say never…
	6:32pm coelacanth∅: Dance the blues @630 correct. the solution is a no-brainer: don't use it. ...or use what you want to of it.
	🤖 6:33pm Will thee Sound Guy: I prefer Pandora over Spotify... but in all sense of the phrase, 'I'm Ride or die WFMUniverse!!!'
	6:34pm kevlicki: My nephew, a WFMU fan, has a college radio show and has to deal with a station manager that wants to exhibit more traditional radio practices. It’s demoralizing and takes the pleasure out of his passion for music.
	6:34pm Tommy in Neversink: There a lot of theme or genre shows in FMU.But they go into the genre in a way you will not find anywhere else. And expand upon it (as Gaylord said) .
	🤖 6:34pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ kevlicki @6:31 When Stashu was on Mondays, it was fun fo flip the dial between two different polka shows.
	6:34pm Ciggy: It passes me off when n Dan Neesr writes a book FM and chronicles the decline of WNEW-FM & similar stations on the basis of consultants. They lost their balls
	6:35pm coelacanth∅: (^) wfuv may have "live" (though very fake) djs most of the time, but they very much have playlists for them to adhere to.
	6:35pm DanFA: Does WFMU have some kind of legacy program to inspire and train the next generation?
	6:35pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ Will thee Sound Guy @6:33 I prefer a pile of CD's on the passenger seat when I'm not in front of the screen.
	6:35pm coelacanth∅: (and most of their music is crap, but that's my opinion!)
	🤖 6:36pm Handy Haversack: ↳ DanFA @6:35 Radio Row? Sundays, 5-6?
	6:36pm Bread and Jam for Frances: a problem with our culture right now is that a lot of people do want an echo chamber. they want repetition and safety
	6:36pm Kurty: Kens gonna fire them all and get robots to take their place
	6:36pm drowsy: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:16 Respect to Doug always, and I don't know how Sheena does its autoplay. I have to say that I found Owl Sun to be kind of fun, taking requests, giving the weather, etc. I was startled once when Owl Sun used a comment of mine in one of "her" poems... I felt mighty odd about that immediately. Then I started to wonder if the other commenters were AIs... it's not a great situation to be in on no sleep. But the intentions are better than the gross stuff Gaylord and Mark are rightly trashing.
	6:37pm DanFA: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:36 I meant like a behind the scenes program like an internship.
	6:37pm alanSixº: the greatest musical kit i was ever provided was the WFMU record library
	🤖 6:37pm Dance the Blues: WFMU surged during the pandemic to today, no? Many people wanted the human DJs.
	6:37pm Stashu: It’s nice to experience time with other humans and animals too. To spend time among icicles and sand particles. Of ripples in ponds. The shrill of some bird and the scurry of a skunk. Nice to hear you two- so happy I happened to be listening love you Gaylord love you Mark!
	6:37pm kevlicki: What is the level of usage of streaming programs by DJs WFMU and other stations? Bandcamp, Spotify, etc. how much is physical plays vs digital?
	6:38pm lindac: Love you Gaylord...thx for all the pop-ins!
	🤖 6:38pm Bas NL: Thanks Gaylord!
	6:38pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ kevlicki @6:37 Bandcamp and Spotify, when used, are pretty much used only as a supplementary record library.
	6:39pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ lindac @6:38 Love you too!
	6:39pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Gaylord! good to hear your voice again
	6:39pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Bas NL @6:38 It's been my pleasure being Mark's guest!
	6:39pm ultradamno: I don't mean to alarm anyone, but there's been a robot sneaking in on all my posts...spying, I'm guessing.
	6:39pm Franco Twinkie: That was terrific. Gaylord gave up the secret - follow your impulses.
	🤖 6:39pm Will thee Sound Guy: Thank you Gaylord Fields, great to hear your voice and insight! We hope you are doing well!!!
	🤖 6:39pm Webhamster Henry: I like to point to the article by Irwin that Top 40 radio in the 60s actually was freeform. This was before stations branded them as Urban Contemporary or Oldies only or whatever. That's how the top songs of 1969 were Sugar Sugar (bubblegum) , Let the Sun Shine in (overproduced hippie anthem of Broadway), Honky Tonk Woman (raunchy rock) en.wikipedia.org...
	6:39pm DanFA: ↳ Stashu @6:37 Brilliant.
	6:39pm Roger: Why, hello Mark!
	6:39pm HyperDose: Riveting radio as usual, Gaylord!
	6:40pm Mike Sin: The larger issue is that a "freeform DJ," in general, and a WFMU DJ, in particular, are of a special breed. WFMU DJs are folks who must be so dedicated to a show week after week for no financial gain whatsoever. It can become quite consuming. That's a hard concept to sell or make folks understand who don't share that "illogical" brain construct. ;)
	6:40pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ coelacanth∅ @6:39 It was my privilege, even though I may have sounded odd talking through a non-standard mic.
	6:41pm Kurty: You sounded as clear as a crystal
	6:41pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Mike Sin @6:40 Perfectly stated! I could not agree more!
	6:41pm Juli: AI will never replace humans in any Art
	6:41pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ Gaylord Fields @6:40 You sounded like you under a blanket.
	6:42pm PMD: wow that's well done
	6:42pm DanFA: Too slick.
	6:42pm StRts: ↳ Juli @6:41 exactly
	6:42pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Franco Twinkie @6:41 It was a blanket of love — and an earbud mic.
	🤖 6:42pm Webhamster Henry: Spotify ad: It brings to ming Elon Musk having an actor playing his humanoid robot of the future.
	🤖 6:42pm Bas NL: Zzzzz...
	🤖 6:42pm spacecadet: oh I hate everything about this
	6:42pm Mennlinn Rebarts: no thanks
	6:42pm Julian in LA: JFC i just tuned in and this is a version of hell
	6:42pm coelacanth∅: is this an Ice-T bot?!
	6:42pm HyperDose: That backyard ambience was a direct rip-off of Neighbor's Noise 😤
	6:42pm Hopey Sockmonkey: Is this real? It's so creepy.
	🤖 6:42pm MarciB: This commercial is a creepy in a way as Apple's AI Memories feature in Photos
	6:42pm McGroovey: I don't like Max already.
	🤖 6:42pm Dance the Blues: Yeah that was trash
	6:43pm pgalub: Spotify AI DJ= Surveillance DJ
	6:43pm Bread and Jam for Frances: so chummy it’s creepy
	🤖 6:43pm PaulRobeson1923: We got baskets! Baskets of LoVe!
	6:43pm DanFA: Max has real trash taste.
	6:43pm Juli: It took me days to get like seven good AI art images and I lost interest immediately::::and AI will never be able to out create Humans
	6:43pm ultradamno: IT'S PERSONALIZED? That makes it SO much worse! Like a form letter that works your name into the text.
	6:44pm joe mulligan: so cringey. sounds like Cleveland from Family Guy
	6:44pm Julian in LA: ok but to be honest i love the rock and soul radio AI dj
	6:44pm coelacanth∅: owlbot and bunnybot. no, thank you.
	6:44pm DanFA: Can we get Stashu to be the voice of WFMU AI DJ? Instead of playing what you want to hear she ignores you and plays what she wants to hear: polka!
	🤖 6:44pm Will thee Sound Guy: I love the streams
	6:44pm Jeff formerly from Rahway: ↳ Gaylord Fields @6:40 Clay would have accused you of calling in on the football phone LOL.
	6:44pm ultradamno: And those alt streams reserve the right to get dirty!
	🤖 6:44pm Handy Haversack: ↳ DanFA @6:37 I think Olivia has interns, yes.
	🤖 6:45pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ ultradamno @6:43 If you are lucky, Owl Sun will try to play something like your requests.And then write a poem about it.
	6:45pm Kurty: Rockn soul bot gives you the temperature and also announces the quarter of the hour
	6:45pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Jeff formerly from Rahway @6:44 I could only afford the level of Sports Illustrated subscription that got me a Hockey Puck Phone.
	🤖 6:45pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Mike Sin @6:40 If we were gonna use logic, we'd never get anything done!
	6:46pm coelacanth∅: but imagine if Alison Steele's poetry was as laughably terrible as owlsun's!
	6:46pm Juli: You get what I am saying tho? Its j a tool It will never be more creative or enjoyable as humans creating and we still humans to oversee AI
	6:46pm HyperDose: That classic R'N'S reverb 😍
	🤖 6:46pm MarciB: Not a fan of the reverb to be honest
	🤖 6:46pm PaulRobeson1923: Skyyyy pilot!!!
	🤖 6:47pm Will thee Sound Guy: damn that bunny 🐰
	6:47pm The Oscar: My wife just came home just in time to hear that Spotify ad, and she thought I’d been bodysnatched!
	6:47pm drowsy: ↳ Mike Sin @6:40 Yes indeed Mike Sin. Thanks to all of you(se)
	6:47pm Juli: We still need humans to oversee AI Humans will ALWAYS be more interesting::::most humans will lose interest in AI Art
	🤖 6:47pm PaulRobeson1923: So good. So so good
	6:47pm Julian in LA: ugh bunny has such good taste tho!!
	6:47pm ?: Gaylord, I have been a dedicated fan of your work for 30 years since our days at SPY Magazine. Mark, your show is indispensable… I share your casts to friends and colleagues around the globe. so I ask this question sincerely and with great respect. But did you NEVER find new music, thanks to the Music Genome Project? Or never from the short-lived We are Hunted? NO ONE can replace the bottomless human well of talent and genius at WFMU. Surveillance issues are of course a grotesque part of any algorithm that tracks our past, but can’t these tools be used as a tool in the toolbox? OH DAMN, Mark…. you just nulled my question. —a few more minutes of that creeeeepy Spotify AI DJ that you just played would have me on suicide watch…
	🤖 6:47pm Ken From Hyde Park: Owl Sun archives - www.wfmu.org...
	6:47pm DanFA: ↳ The Oscar @6:47 Honey, it's not what you think.
	6:47pm Jeff formerly from Rahway: I find myself saying "that was fun" like Bunny from time to time.
	6:47pm coelacanth∅: there's one and only one redeeming value to the r&s bots, which is that the library at access is mostly excellent.
	6:48pm ultradamno: Until such time as the humans return, damnation
	6:48pm Juli: Ugh I hate robot voice:::that Tik Tok voice is the worst
	6:48pm HyperDose: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:47 Too quick....are you sure you're not AI, Ken?
	6:48pm SeaCreature: Repulsive.
	6:48pm coelacanth∅: Marci i agree about the reverb.
	6:48pm McGroovey: I always turn off the stream when the Bunny is on. I'm not offended by the Bunny, but I want a person.
	6:48pm joe mulligan: "from the album turnturnturn"
	6:48pm Carmichael: I find it annoying to hear. I cannot listen to the rock n sould stream unless there's someone live.
	6:48pm Bread and Jam for Frances: ↳ MarciB @6:42 there was a comedian who got a “Happy Anniversary!” montage of himself during chemo from Facebook. It was creepy and hilarious in its inappropriateness.
	🤖 6:49pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ coelacanth∅ @6:46 The WFMU bots never try to hide their robotednesss!
	6:49pm Jeff Moore: Alison Steele, The Nightbird! To paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen... "You, robot, are no Alison Steele."
	6:49pm Julian in LA: yeah it's obviously a bot and it's funny
	6:49pm kevlicki: I’m busy looking at the reflectacles site while listening to this show
	6:49pm Jeff formerly from Rahway: ↳ McGroovey @6:48 I do the same. Bunny needs a wider variety of music and sound clips in between songs.
	6:49pm ultradamno: The bunny does have a slightly Hal quality.
	🤖 6:50pm PaulRobeson1923: How high can you fly?
	🤖 6:50pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:49 Nor do they charge you or advertise at you. Well, I think old Coke ads were popping up for a while on the R&S stream?
	6:50pm sydnius: oh I must get a minute hand for that watch
	6:50pm DanFA: X wants to murder you in your sleep and wear your skin like a suit.
	6:50pm HyperDose: ↳ PaulRobeson1923 @6:50 No glass ceiling here, baby!
	6:50pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ coelacanth∅ @6:47 I suggest trying to subvert the robots when you make a request.
	🤖 6:50pm PaulRobeson1923: The Animals Rock so hard it’s unmeasurable
	6:50pm chresti: WFMU AI djs sound like cute aliens or androids
	🤖 6:51pm Will thee Sound Guy: I get tiffd when thd bunny mis-cues a RnS stream show, plays last weeks show, or crashes during a show... the played tunes are decent tho. I do prefer human DJ'S 100%
	🤖 6:51pm PaulRobeson1923: ↳ HyperDose @6:50 Go on…
	6:51pm ultradamno: Play BTS Bunny I'm afraid I can't do that Dave.
	6:51pm Juli: Well thats true its creepy to not know if its real or not I j think humans will lose interest in AI
	6:51pm DanFA: I prefer my AI to be antisocial and not want to get to know me.
	6:51pm Kurty: I put it on when annoying human DJ’s are talking on WFMU 😂
	6:52pm Gaylord Fields: I would not want to meet the Bunny in a dark alley. Or under any circumstance.
	🤖 6:52pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Will thee Sound Guy @6:51 Good thing there's always the Mothership! Yeah, I listen to the streams only for specific DJs. I don't think I'd ever switch over when it's the robot -- I guess maybe during Jack LaLanne on Wake, but that's about it.
	6:52pm ultradamno: ↳ DanFA @6:51 The exact first reason I never considered doing Siri or Alexa...I don't want a robot friend.
	6:52pm coelacanth∅: Franco i've succeeded at that! i've also brutally insulted owlbot! (not bunnybot because i won't even listen to that) -and owl misunderstands completely! pretty funny
	6:53pm DanFA: ↳ ultradamno @6:52 Yeah, you've seen Me3gen.
	6:53pm Bread and Jam for Frances: I get mad when chewy dot com asks me how my pets are by name.
	6:53pm Carmichael: ↳ ultradamno @6:52 I don't want a robot friend to tell all the other robot friends about me.
	6:53pm Franco Twinkie: Looking for a radio buddy will probably get you a pat on the back and a kick in the pants.
	🤖 6:53pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Bread and Jam for Frances @6:53 Whenever I see a Chewy delivery in our bldg. I leave a card for our local pet-food store on it.
	🤖 6:53pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ ultradamno @6:52 Alexa and Siri aren't trying to be robot Friends, but Replika is.
	🤖 6:54pm PaulRobeson1923: @Mark: l love that you choose Sky Pilot to introduce our Owl Sun
	🤖 6:54pm MarciB: ↳ DanFA @6:51 yes indeed!
	6:54pm kevlicki: WFMU just asks you to reveal who you support in your pledges and how you listen…
	6:54pm chresti: Agree mark, it’s off putting when an AI being acts all familiar
	6:54pm Julian in LA: i like hearing the NYC roboweather it's oddly endearing since i live in LA
	6:54pm Spotifylover: I love Spotify!
	6:54pm Jeff formerly from Rahway: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:53 Handy, I worked at a brick & mortar pet store and I consider your act heroic.
	6:54pm coelacanth∅: Handy i've listened to both the drummer stream and sheena's stream in-between live djs. usually very good.
	6:55pm Glistener MW: Someone please use the name “extruded glop” for a project somewhere!
	6:55pm Jeff Moore: I have great respect for Dave A, whose skunkworks project those FMU robot DJs are... but I have zero interest in being subjected to the experience of listening to them.
	6:55pm ultradamno: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:53 You don't think. My experience is admittedly limited, but I thought there was some degree of responding like a person (OK, here's what I found for...)
	6:55pm chris in the redwoods: thanks, Mark and Gaylord!
	6:55pm Annette: Thanks Mark I enjoyed this show immensely!
	6:55pm Jules in VT: True there's no S-P-Y in WFMU. But there is an F-U
	6:55pm Bread and Jam for Frances: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:53 I get buying local, but some people can’t drive or haul because of disabilities
	6:55pm ?: Not to mention the spotify "DJ" is coded black
	🤖 6:55pm Handy Haversack: And thanks, Mark, Gaylord, Stashu, Alan, Roger, and all the wondrous humans who keep this wildly unlikely gift going and giving and uncovering new delights of chance and expertise, day after day, week after week. You all are wonderful! Many thanks! And looking forward to answering phones for Mark and Trouble next week!
	🤖 6:55pm MarciB: Oh Mark + Trouble! Can't wait to donate for that show :)
	6:55pm Chris Hiatt: Great show, Mark.
	6:55pm Rolando: Thanks Mark and Gaylord - nice chatter
	6:55pm drowsy: nice out, Mark.
	6:56pm DanFA: Good show, Mark.
	🤖 6:56pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, DJs & mubots!
	🤖 6:56pm Dance the Blues: Spotify has never made a profit. Not sure what their end game is but this AI DJ ain't it.
	6:56pm Gaylord Fields: Thanks for having me, Mark, and see you around, fellow Techtonic plate spinners!
	🤖 6:56pm Bas NL: Sorry AIs... Habitual WFMU listener here. Thanks Mark!
	6:56pm Julian in LA: thanks mark tried to list you as one of my shows i support but coudln't find you on the list
	6:56pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Mark!
	6:56pm Mike Sin: Gaylord, Mark -- excellent show tonight!
	6:56pm Juli: Techtonic will prolly be my choice for donating as well Considering how crucial this is
	6:56pm Hopey Sockmonkey: Very informative show. And thanks for playing this jam!
	🤖 6:56pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Jeff Moore @6:55 I want to put more perosonality and better poetry into DA's robots, but he's content with where they are!
	6:56pm chresti: Weeee! Thanks Mark!
	6:56pm drowsy: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:56 oooh the best avatar img returns!
	6:56pm Franco Twinkie: WFMU: No extruded glop! That's a tee shirt!
	6:57pm listener 126464: Thanks Mark, great show. Thank you, Gaylord.
	6:57pm Bread and Jam for Frances: great show. sorry about your Dad, Bas
	🤖 6:57pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Julian in LA @6:56 Julian: pledge.wfmu.org...
	6:57pm ultradamno: But if a DJ is what they play....as Bowie says...
	6:57pm Rolando: What was that Movie Mark mentioned about resisting the algorithm ????
	🤖 6:57pm Will thee Sound Guy: Thank you Mark Hurst, Gaylord Fields, and all the Real human DJ'S at the WFMUniverse!!! Big love to all y'all!!!
	6:57pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Rolando @6:57 Blade Runner
	6:58pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Will thee Sound Guy @6:57 I'm still made up of over 99% human parts!
	🤖 6:58pm Dance the Blues: There's no riddim in algorithm
	🤖 6:58pm chresti: ↳ Song: "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life" by "Indeep" Every day!
	6:58pm Rolando: Tx. Real People in Real Time - Right now! much appreciated.
	6:58pm Jeff Moore: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:56 Interesting!
	🤖 6:59pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Gaylord Fields @6:58 Pretty good!
	6:59pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Dance the Blues @6:58 There's your t-shirt tight there!
	6:59pm Mark Hurst: Thanks, everyone! Great comments tonight.
	🤖 6:59pm Webhamster Henry: Here's the real Alison Steele stumping for the ROTC: jhhl.net...
	6:59pm ultradamno: Trouble down the drain? Is that how the co-host gets here next week?
	7:00pm headcleaner: Last night an algorithm got me laid off, then got my insurance cancelled, then got me romantically rejected, and to top it off, botched all my keyword searches and diverted me to clickbaity link farms instead. But then I came home, put on the radio and a WFMU DJ save my life

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February 27, 2023: Gaylord Fields discusses Spotify's AI DJ

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Today: Gaylord Fields discusses Spotify’s AI DJ

• Gaylord Fields – archived shows. For new listeners looking for a place to start, one episode I particularly enjoyed was Nov 21, 2021.

• Rock & Soul Radio on WFMU has AI DJs of its own: OwlSun on the Night Owl Show, and the Bunny on Rock'n'Soul Radio. (OwlSun is named after Allison Steele, legendary DJ from WNEW-FM (NYC) in the 60s and 70s.)

• Spotify Just Launched A Personalized ‘DJ’ Powered By Generative And Voice AI (Music Business Worldwide, Feb 22, 2023): “The company is launching a ‘DJ’ feature, which it says is like an ‘AI DJ in your pocket” and adds that it serves as “a personalized AI guide that knows you and your music taste so well that it can choose what to play for you.’”

• Introducing DJ | Spotify – one-minute promo spot (warning, links to a fully surveilled Google/YouTube video)

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Listener comments!
	🤖 5:59pm chresti: Hi Mark and Gaylord and techtonicians!
	🤖 6:00pm Handy Haversack: Mark! Techyon Particles!
	6:00pm ultradamno: Mark! Gaylord! Techtockies!
	6:01pm Bread and Jam for Frances: Meat DJs unite!
	6:01pm DanFA: This might be your least depressing topic, Mark.
	🤖 6:01pm Deano de los Muertos: Belated thanks to Olivia, and hello Mark and techies
	🤖 6:02pm Deano de los Muertos: and Gaylord!
	6:02pm ultradamno: Big AI story on the triumphant return of John Oliver's show last night, though no talk of DJ...
	🤖 6:02pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Bread and Jam for Frances @6:01 I am now mentally storyboarding Meat DJ: the adventure comic book!
	🤖 6:03pm Bas NL: Hi Mark & all!
	🤖 6:03pm Ken From Hyde Park: Give platitudes Techtonic! Hello!
	6:03pm ultradamno: ...I have suspected album rock stations have been using them for years. Nothing else explains morning zoo shows, lack of intelligence aside.
	🤖 6:03pm Handy Haversack: Also: YAAAAAAYYYYYY! GAYLORD!!!! Bas, how was the Cool Greenhouse?
	6:03pm Andres: I’m excited!!
	6:04pm Greg from ZONE 5: As a long-time listener of this station, I am very excited!
	6:04pm Gaylord Fields: Hi there, Mark and fellow Techtonic shifters!
	6:04pm kevlicki: Hi mark and Gaylord!!!
	🤖 6:04pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Mark & Gaylord!
	🤖 6:04pm Bas NL: Hey Handy; couldn't attend.. my dad passed away.
	🤖 6:05pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Bas NL @6:04 Oh, Bas, so sorry to hear it. Sympathy and solidarity, my friend.
	6:05pm Bread and Jam for Frances: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:02 ha ha I would buy that
	6:06pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Bas NL @6:04 Deepest sympathies, Bas.
	🤖 6:06pm Bas NL: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:05 Thanks Handy.
	6:06pm joe mulligan: the Spotify algo burns me up! they play the songs that people don't like because they are cheap and sort of "bottom inventory", then those songs end up getting more plays and appear to be favored by the listeners but it's only because the algo suggested them. so the hits are fake and not what listeners are actually choosing/liking. I've seen this happen for many artists I look up on their 'most played" songs. pffffft
	6:06pm lindac: Gaylooorrrd! I boycot Spotify like the plague.
	6:06pm ultradamno: May I also suggest GF's co-hosting of the black country ep of Honky Tonk Radio Girl show? wfmu.org...
	🤖 6:06pm Bas NL: ↳ Gaylord Fields @6:06 Thanks Gaylord.
	6:06pm DanFA: Monica probably sends these types of stories to Mark every week to try and get him to have a nervous breakdown.
	6:07pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ lindac @6:06 <3
	🤖 6:08pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Bas NL @6:04 Sad to hear that, Bas. Condolences.
	🤖 6:08pm MarciB: I miss Gaylord! So glad to hear him on this show.
	6:08pm coelacanth∅: "ai dj"? you mean like the wfmu rock & soul stream?
	🤖 6:08pm Handy Haversack: If you are listening in the future, hopefully Gaylord has a show on the schedule once again!
	🤖 6:08pm Bas NL: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:08 Thanks Ken.
	6:08pm chris in the redwoods: ↳ Bas NL @6:04 sorry for your loss, Bas. much love to you and your whole family.
	6:08pm Bread and Jam for Frances: in a tiny bright spot, Bandcamp finally rolled out playlists
	6:09pm HyperDose: Mark Hurst leading the DJ is a verb movement!
	6:09pm Glistener MW: didn’t They Might Be Giants write a song along these themes? “A., mister deejay, I. thought you said we had a deal…”
	6:09pm listener 126464: ↳ Bas NL @6:04 Condolences, Bas.
	🤖 6:09pm Handy Haversack: Obviously, an AI DJ is an oxymoron, and none of us will ever fall for the scam, BUT: if I were running a dark alternative commercial radio station, I would totally call my AI DJ The AIDJLORD!!
	6:09pm kevlicki: Ultradamno thanks for the tip on that archive, v curious to learn from that playlist!
	🤖 6:10pm Webhamster Henry: I used to work for Stationhead, which uses Spotify (and now Apple Music) to let you make playlists and cut into them with vocal comments, so kind lof like using Spotify as your radio channel. (I was trying to get their model of user interaction to be more like WFMU's ... I didn't last super long at that job) They've finally gotten their tech together enough so they have some traction, but if there are robots making "your" channel, and making up dialog to go with it ... hmmm!
	🤖 6:10pm Bas NL: ↳ chris in the redwoods @6:08 Thanks Chris and listener 126464.
	6:10pm coelacanth∅: oh man, i'm sorry for your loss Bas. may he rest in peace.
	6:10pm DanFA: "I am a DJ. I am what I play." - David Bowie, DJ
	6:10pm ultradamno: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:09 I like DJ Skin Job or DJ Caprica
	🤖 6:11pm Bas NL: ↳ coelacanth∅ @6:10 Thanks coel.
	6:11pm Mark Hurst: Hi all, welcome! @Gaylord, thanks for joining us!
	6:11pm DC: Indeed Gaylord Fields is one of the legendary greats, excellent to hear from him. He is an expert DJ when it comes to creating a mood & guiding the listener on a curated journey
	6:11pm Mark Hurst: @Bas, so sorry for your loss.
	6:11pm lindac: ↳ DC @6:11 You said it!
	🤖 6:12pm chresti: spotify is AD (automated dumbness)
	🤖 6:12pm Will thee Sound Guy: Hi Mark Hurst, Gaylord Fields, AI DJ Bots, and all!!!
	6:12pm Franco Twinkie: Extruded glop of text - I'm stealing that right now.
	🤖 6:13pm Bas NL: ↳ Mark Hurst @6:11 Thanks Mark.
	6:13pm Bread and Jam for Frances: imagine if they reanimate Casey Kasem…?
	6:14pm Franco Twinkie: Oh man, I'm so sorry Bas.
	🤖 6:14pm Webhamster Henry: In similar radio news, There's a company hoping to use AI to do "voice tracking". Voice tracking is the already evil system where a company has dozens of radio stations and uses one single team to do the shows, playing the same music about dropping in local references and news to make it seem like the shows are local. So now, the already job-killing technique can get rid of the actual human talent.
	🤖 6:14pm Folsom: Who plans the filler between shows on Give the Drummer and Rock & Soul? Is it just random songs from a curated playlist?
	6:14pm Ciggy: Every amd any music streaming service that recommends a Playlist for me, I immediately scroll past the suggestion.
	6:15pm laurapanic: ↳ Folsom @6:14 I kinda wonder the same, how that works.
	6:15pm Bread and Jam for Frances: gallows humor?
	6:15pm DanFA: ↳ Bas NL @6:13 Sorry for your loss, Bas. My condolences.
	🤖 6:15pm Bas NL: ↳ Franco Twinkie @6:14 Thanks Franco.
	6:15pm Jeff formerly from Rahway: My teenage son loves music but he only knows Spotify. He never listened to radio staffed by humans. When he joined his college radio station, he had no idea how to back announce and he had to call his old man.
	6:15pm joe mulligan: ↳ DC @6:11 Truth! Gaylord is the best of the best. and spins with a smile, always kind.
	6:16pm DanFA: A flesh DJ.
	6:16pm yippie: is there anyway on Spotify that users can upload music for other users to listen to?
	6:16pm coelacanth∅: Folsom, drummer stream id Doug's personal collection, and i'm sure at least some of the time it's geared toward whatever live program it follows.
	6:16pm Niall: ↳ Bread and Jam for Frances @6:13 Trained only on those "Snuggles" and U2 clips.
	🤖 6:16pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Folsom @6:14 It is random from a curated playlist . DOug is adamant againt having an OwlSun like robot on the Drummer sdtream. He won't even categorize the randomness in to broad blocks, like 78s, free jazz, World pop for a few 3 hour stretches...
	🤖 6:16pm Handy Haversack: For the record, I would totally let Gaylord go through my hard drive if he asked. I can't imagine it would help the radio show, though!
	🤖 6:16pm Ken From Hyde Park: Payola 2.0!
	🤖 6:17pm chresti: Very sorry Bas!
	6:17pm efd: ah, love to hear Gaylord waxing rhapsodic about the great Dan Ingram!
	6:17pm coelacanth∅: r&s seems much more random, although it must also be someone's personal collection.
	6:17pm john_zilla: this is the first tectonic I've listened to cause of the ai/music intersection
	6:17pm DanFA: Sounds like a real troublemaker that Dan Ingraham
	6:17pm Niall: "He would use the hell out of that friggin' delay effect fect ect ct t."
	🤖 6:17pm Bas NL: ↳ DanFA @6:15 Thanks DanFA and chresti. And again thanks all. But on with the show.. this is a great topic.
	6:18pm Bread and Jam for Frances: ↳ Niall @6:16 lol I think negativland made a Casey Kasem soundboard at some point?
	6:18pm Franco Twinkie: Biting the hand that feeds you - beautiful when it works.
	6:18pm coelacanth∅: and sheena's stream is Mr Fab's personal collection
	6:18pm ultradamno: ↳ Jeff formerly from Rahway @6:15 The writing in cursive of broadcasting
	6:18pm Niall: ↳ Bread and Jam for Frances @6:18 Aye, and for many of us, that Negativland album was why we know of them.
	6:19pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ efd @6:17 Any opportunity to extol Dan Ingram's mastery of Top 40 radio, I will take it.
	🤖 6:19pm Dance the Blues: Maybe Spotify can save $200 million by creating an AI Joe Rogan.
	🤖 6:20pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Dance the Blues @6:19 AI Joe: A "Real" American Hero!
	6:20pm Ciggy: I'll occasionally check out WFMU's monthly 'Heavily Played' songs on Spotify. But it can get tedious. WFMU is my source of new music and learning there are a few tidbits of artists I have missed during prior decades. I get turned on by humans Djs
	🤖 6:20pm Webhamster Henry: How about training the DJ on WBAI's Lynn Samuels?
	6:20pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ joe mulligan @6:15 Aw, thanks!
	6:20pm AbbyNrml: What about Ron Lundy? Hello Love!
	6:20pm headcleaner: From an artistic (and human) perspective, of course the idea of an AI DJ makes no sense at all. But from what the industry calls a "business perspective" -- it makes all too much sense. That sense being: whatever pushes people's buttons, and jerks their spinal cord in a way that keeps them "engaged", and at minimal cost -- is a wondrous, beautiful thing. Providing an "attractive, warm, human" context to the whatever random sound patterns they might be hearing -- just doesn't matter that much to a lot of (arguably most) folks. And certainly not the secondary market of bars, restaurants, taxis etc that just need some random muzak-y noise in the background to keep their customers appropriately numbed and distracted.
	6:20pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ Gaylord Fields @6:19 I want to hear Dan Ingram subvert the machine!
	6:20pm Niall: Man, this really sounds like a fundraiser tee-up.
	6:20pm Bread and Jam for Frances: the Simpsons was prescient on this too. They had a morning zoo robot.
	🤖 6:21pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Ciggy @6:20 "Heavily played" by WFMU numbers are like "Ignored" on other stations.
	6:21pm StRts: Spotify sucks.. NO human element at all. Even those who like it remind me of robots. 0
	6:21pm Rolando: I too can't thing of a word to describe the sort off arrogance described, ... reason it works is because the youth have been 'programmed' not to expect much in life, or pursue self satisfaction and fulfilment ... pretending to be happy. - A personal DJ will make me happy!! If I must have a DJ please give me a very politically incorrect DJ, once they can figure that out, then perhaps I will look into. - This is an new level of Social Engineering
	6:21pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Franco Twinkie @6:20 There are a lot of great airchecks of him going right up to the line — and sometimes crossing it!
	6:21pm coelacanth∅: spotify is a non-issue, in my opinion. you can block it from accessing your computer, and program your own playlists. you can play whole albums and never use their algorhithms.
	🤖 6:21pm MarciB: I'm so glad I never succumbed to the Spotify/ Pandora thing. I'm one of the only folks I know who actually LISTENS to the radio (meaning 99% WFMU, 1% KCRW)
	6:22pm ultradamno: theinfosphere.org...
	6:22pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ Gaylord Fields @6:21 Thanks Gaylord - a man after my own heart.
	🤖 6:22pm PaulRobeson1923: Interesting show
	6:22pm Kurty: There’s always going to be real DJ’s don’t worry
	🤖 6:22pm Folsom: I remember before Sirius bought XM the punk station would play random songs between DJs, man that really sucked, there is a lot of bad punk out there that needs to be weeded out
	🤖 6:22pm MarciB: ↳ StRts @6:21 You got that right!
	6:23pm Andres: More Kenny G!
	6:23pm chresti: KXLU is pretty freeform
	6:23pm DonJuanTijuana: Gaylord is GOD!!!
	6:23pm Rolando: Gaylord grows up in public - 1993 - 2023 and nothing is the same. Alienation is like fasting, it helps to focus you. Making mistakes publicly - Yes!!
	6:24pm DanFA: ↳ DonJuanTijuana @6:23 You can't spell Gaylord without God.
	6:24pm Jeff formerly from Rahway: For 30 years I've described WFMU to people unfamiliar with the station - or the freeform genre - as "ranging from brilliant to unlistenable."
	🤖 6:24pm Handy Haversack: I often mention a time a buddy and I were playing boardgames and listening to Suzy Hotrod. She was in the middle of a sort of rockabilly-y set, and my friend's partner came home and decided there was too much static in the reception and so put on a Spotify rockabilly channel. And we went from being surprised by every song and saying, "Wow, who's this?!" to knowing every single song that was played. Really sucked the air out of the day. And like many humans, I need air to live.
	6:24pm chresti: Kitten sparkles was on KXLU maybe still is?
	🤖 6:24pm Webhamster Henry: Ooh Radio Miracle producing WFMU! New Bumper Sticker!
	6:25pm DonJuanTijuana: ↳ DanFA @6:24 You know it!
	6:25pm Gaylord Fields: There are so many fantastic freeform stations that inspire and are inspired by what we do here, with KXLU being just one stellar example.
	6:25pm Bread and Jam for Frances: Sometimes you play these precious platters with just the right surface crunch. Let’s see a borg dj do that
	6:25pm StRts: A.I.M.A.
	6:25pm StuartR: It is great to hear Gaylord again.
	🤖 6:25pm Folsom: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:24 Why didn't you change to the stream instead of going to Spotify?
	🤖 6:26pm Bas NL: We needs the freeforithm.
	6:26pm StRts: (A.I. my ass)
	🤖 6:26pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Folsom @6:25 Not my house. And I didn't even notice the FM crackle. I will endure a lot of crackle to listen to the terrestrial signal.
	6:26pm Rolando: Roly wonders is this is a live interview with Gaylord or a pre-recored interview?
	🤖 6:27pm PaulRobeson1923: WaKE & BaKe ForEvEr
	🤖 6:27pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Gaylord Fields @6:25 Freeform and real local stations. It used to be that something would be a monster hit in say, San Diego, but not elsewhere!
	6:27pm drowsy: Human DJs rule and infinity, etc are the sucks. I was so crestfallen when the Infinity bug started picking off college radio. Emerson in Boston, UNH here in New Haven, super sad trend.
	🤖 6:28pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Rolando @6:26 Prerecorded: Mark has his Wayne's World-esque transition music to segue to the prerecorded interviews -- plus Mark and Gaylord are both on the board!
	6:28pm Roger: So good to hear Gaylord. Amazing show, you two!
	6:28pm lindac: I seriously wanted to be a DJ when I "grew up"...until.I realized what commercial radio was about. And this AI thing really turns my stomach.
	6:28pm alanSixº: This is fantastic thanx guys
	🤖 6:29pm Will thee Sound Guy: We miss your show Gaylord Fields, soo many great things
	6:29pm Mark Hurst: ↳ Roger @6:28 Thanks, Roger! Glad to see you here.
	6:29pm Mark Hurst: ↳ alanSixº @6:28 Thanks, Alan!
	6:29pm Stashu: 💋
	6:29pm Franco Twinkie: Organic evolution could be a handle here.
	6:29pm Stashu: ❤️
	6:30pm Stashu: magic dust of the universe
	6:30pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Stashu @6:29 ❤️
	🤖 6:30pm Dance the Blues: I think we are giving the tech guys too much credit. Spotify "DJ" has flop written all over it. Spotify users don't want DJs.
	6:30pm Mark Hurst: ↳ Stashu @6:29 👍👍
	🤖 6:30pm Webhamster Henry: Gaylord, Monica, Joe Mcgasko are masters of the segue
	6:30pm Ciggy: How am I gonna go from Cousin Brucie - from The Nightbird Allison Steele - from Rosko from WPIX'SMs Dan Neer from WLIR's Donna Donna from EFD &The New Afternoon Show from WKCR's Phil Schapp --- TO Spotify? Humans - I got to learn from humans.
	6:30pm coelacanth∅: sometimes it (Gaylord's show) is cinematic; sometimes it's very personal.
	🤖 6:30pm MarciB: What's great about Gaylord's show was the cohesiveness - no matter what genre.
	6:30pm pgalub: I find Gaylord's show to have an especially good flow.
	🤖 6:31pm MarciB: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:30 Agreed!
	🤖 6:31pm Folsom: I always like how Mike Sin seems to have a billion compilation albums, I like when he plays something from a comp since I know I'll probably like the rest of the record.
	6:31pm DonJuanTijuana: Bring back Gaylords Genius show!!! I miss that Sunday night vibe!!!
	6:31pm kevlicki: Being in the Hudson valley if I want a change from WFMU I go up the dial a couple clicks to 91.3 to wfuv the Vassar station it’s DJs aren’t as “strong” as WFMU but it’s a nice variation
	6:31pm Franco Twinkie: It's kind of like the board game Candyland.
	6:31pm Roger: Mark, my sampling of your "Who's Raising the Kids" show on Double Dip Recess last week was very well received. I hope I sent a crowd to your show!
	6:31pm DC: I actually quite like AI. Yet I agree that so much of what makes humans beautiful is what AI will never seek to imitate, and so much of it is by nature inimitable
	🤖 6:32pm Webhamster Henry: While many WFMU DJs have massive curated personal collections to draw from, there is also the awesome WFMU library to draw from.
	6:32pm Mark Hurst: ↳ Roger @6:31 Thanks, Roger! Appreciate you mentioning it!
	🤖 6:32pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Roger @6:31 That was excellently well done, Roger! Fantastic radio!
	6:32pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ DonJuanTijuana @6:31 Thanks so much — although I must say I am enjoying my emeritus status too much. But never say never…
	6:32pm coelacanth∅: Dance the blues @630 correct. the solution is a no-brainer: don't use it. ...or use what you want to of it.
	🤖 6:33pm Will thee Sound Guy: I prefer Pandora over Spotify... but in all sense of the phrase, 'I'm Ride or die WFMUniverse!!!'
	6:34pm kevlicki: My nephew, a WFMU fan, has a college radio show and has to deal with a station manager that wants to exhibit more traditional radio practices. It’s demoralizing and takes the pleasure out of his passion for music.
	6:34pm Tommy in Neversink: There a lot of theme or genre shows in FMU.But they go into the genre in a way you will not find anywhere else. And expand upon it (as Gaylord said) .
	🤖 6:34pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ kevlicki @6:31 When Stashu was on Mondays, it was fun fo flip the dial between two different polka shows.
	6:34pm Ciggy: It passes me off when n Dan Neesr writes a book FM and chronicles the decline of WNEW-FM & similar stations on the basis of consultants. They lost their balls
	6:35pm coelacanth∅: (^) wfuv may have "live" (though very fake) djs most of the time, but they very much have playlists for them to adhere to.
	6:35pm DanFA: Does WFMU have some kind of legacy program to inspire and train the next generation?
	6:35pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ Will thee Sound Guy @6:33 I prefer a pile of CD's on the passenger seat when I'm not in front of the screen.
	6:35pm coelacanth∅: (and most of their music is crap, but that's my opinion!)
	🤖 6:36pm Handy Haversack: ↳ DanFA @6:35 Radio Row? Sundays, 5-6?
	6:36pm Bread and Jam for Frances: a problem with our culture right now is that a lot of people do want an echo chamber. they want repetition and safety
	6:36pm Kurty: Kens gonna fire them all and get robots to take their place
	6:36pm drowsy: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:16 Respect to Doug always, and I don't know how Sheena does its autoplay. I have to say that I found Owl Sun to be kind of fun, taking requests, giving the weather, etc. I was startled once when Owl Sun used a comment of mine in one of "her" poems... I felt mighty odd about that immediately. Then I started to wonder if the other commenters were AIs... it's not a great situation to be in on no sleep. But the intentions are better than the gross stuff Gaylord and Mark are rightly trashing.
	6:37pm DanFA: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:36 I meant like a behind the scenes program like an internship.
	6:37pm alanSixº: the greatest musical kit i was ever provided was the WFMU record library
	🤖 6:37pm Dance the Blues: WFMU surged during the pandemic to today, no? Many people wanted the human DJs.
	6:37pm Stashu: It’s nice to experience time with other humans and animals too. To spend time among icicles and sand particles. Of ripples in ponds. The shrill of some bird and the scurry of a skunk. Nice to hear you two- so happy I happened to be listening love you Gaylord love you Mark!
	6:37pm kevlicki: What is the level of usage of streaming programs by DJs WFMU and other stations? Bandcamp, Spotify, etc. how much is physical plays vs digital?
	6:38pm lindac: Love you Gaylord...thx for all the pop-ins!
	🤖 6:38pm Bas NL: Thanks Gaylord!
	6:38pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ kevlicki @6:37 Bandcamp and Spotify, when used, are pretty much used only as a supplementary record library.
	6:39pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ lindac @6:38 Love you too!
	6:39pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Gaylord! good to hear your voice again
	6:39pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Bas NL @6:38 It's been my pleasure being Mark's guest!
	6:39pm ultradamno: I don't mean to alarm anyone, but there's been a robot sneaking in on all my posts...spying, I'm guessing.
	6:39pm Franco Twinkie: That was terrific. Gaylord gave up the secret - follow your impulses.
	🤖 6:39pm Will thee Sound Guy: Thank you Gaylord Fields, great to hear your voice and insight! We hope you are doing well!!!
	🤖 6:39pm Webhamster Henry: I like to point to the article by Irwin that Top 40 radio in the 60s actually was freeform. This was before stations branded them as Urban Contemporary or Oldies only or whatever. That's how the top songs of 1969 were Sugar Sugar (bubblegum) , Let the Sun Shine in (overproduced hippie anthem of Broadway), Honky Tonk Woman (raunchy rock) en.wikipedia.org...
	6:39pm DanFA: ↳ Stashu @6:37 Brilliant.
	6:39pm Roger: Why, hello Mark!
	6:39pm HyperDose: Riveting radio as usual, Gaylord!
	6:40pm Mike Sin: The larger issue is that a "freeform DJ," in general, and a WFMU DJ, in particular, are of a special breed. WFMU DJs are folks who must be so dedicated to a show week after week for no financial gain whatsoever. It can become quite consuming. That's a hard concept to sell or make folks understand who don't share that "illogical" brain construct. ;)
	6:40pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ coelacanth∅ @6:39 It was my privilege, even though I may have sounded odd talking through a non-standard mic.
	6:41pm Kurty: You sounded as clear as a crystal
	6:41pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Mike Sin @6:40 Perfectly stated! I could not agree more!
	6:41pm Juli: AI will never replace humans in any Art
	6:41pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ Gaylord Fields @6:40 You sounded like you under a blanket.
	6:42pm PMD: wow that's well done
	6:42pm DanFA: Too slick.
	6:42pm StRts: ↳ Juli @6:41 exactly
	6:42pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Franco Twinkie @6:41 It was a blanket of love — and an earbud mic.
	🤖 6:42pm Webhamster Henry: Spotify ad: It brings to ming Elon Musk having an actor playing his humanoid robot of the future.
	🤖 6:42pm Bas NL: Zzzzz...
	🤖 6:42pm spacecadet: oh I hate everything about this
	6:42pm Mennlinn Rebarts: no thanks
	6:42pm Julian in LA: JFC i just tuned in and this is a version of hell
	6:42pm coelacanth∅: is this an Ice-T bot?!
	6:42pm HyperDose: That backyard ambience was a direct rip-off of Neighbor's Noise 😤
	6:42pm Hopey Sockmonkey: Is this real? It's so creepy.
	🤖 6:42pm MarciB: This commercial is a creepy in a way as Apple's AI Memories feature in Photos
	6:42pm McGroovey: I don't like Max already.
	🤖 6:42pm Dance the Blues: Yeah that was trash
	6:43pm pgalub: Spotify AI DJ= Surveillance DJ
	6:43pm Bread and Jam for Frances: so chummy it’s creepy
	🤖 6:43pm PaulRobeson1923: We got baskets! Baskets of LoVe!
	6:43pm DanFA: Max has real trash taste.
	6:43pm Juli: It took me days to get like seven good AI art images and I lost interest immediately::::and AI will never be able to out create Humans
	6:43pm ultradamno: IT'S PERSONALIZED? That makes it SO much worse! Like a form letter that works your name into the text.
	6:44pm joe mulligan: so cringey. sounds like Cleveland from Family Guy
	6:44pm Julian in LA: ok but to be honest i love the rock and soul radio AI dj
	6:44pm coelacanth∅: owlbot and bunnybot. no, thank you.
	6:44pm DanFA: Can we get Stashu to be the voice of WFMU AI DJ? Instead of playing what you want to hear she ignores you and plays what she wants to hear: polka!
	🤖 6:44pm Will thee Sound Guy: I love the streams
	6:44pm Jeff formerly from Rahway: ↳ Gaylord Fields @6:40 Clay would have accused you of calling in on the football phone LOL.
	6:44pm ultradamno: And those alt streams reserve the right to get dirty!
	🤖 6:44pm Handy Haversack: ↳ DanFA @6:37 I think Olivia has interns, yes.
	🤖 6:45pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ ultradamno @6:43 If you are lucky, Owl Sun will try to play something like your requests.And then write a poem about it.
	6:45pm Kurty: Rockn soul bot gives you the temperature and also announces the quarter of the hour
	6:45pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Jeff formerly from Rahway @6:44 I could only afford the level of Sports Illustrated subscription that got me a Hockey Puck Phone.
	🤖 6:45pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Mike Sin @6:40 If we were gonna use logic, we'd never get anything done!
	6:46pm coelacanth∅: but imagine if Alison Steele's poetry was as laughably terrible as owlsun's!
	6:46pm Juli: You get what I am saying tho? Its j a tool It will never be more creative or enjoyable as humans creating and we still humans to oversee AI
	6:46pm HyperDose: That classic R'N'S reverb 😍
	🤖 6:46pm MarciB: Not a fan of the reverb to be honest
	🤖 6:46pm PaulRobeson1923: Skyyyy pilot!!!
	🤖 6:47pm Will thee Sound Guy: damn that bunny 🐰
	6:47pm The Oscar: My wife just came home just in time to hear that Spotify ad, and she thought I’d been bodysnatched!
	6:47pm drowsy: ↳ Mike Sin @6:40 Yes indeed Mike Sin. Thanks to all of you(se)
	6:47pm Juli: We still need humans to oversee AI Humans will ALWAYS be more interesting::::most humans will lose interest in AI Art
	🤖 6:47pm PaulRobeson1923: So good. So so good
	6:47pm Julian in LA: ugh bunny has such good taste tho!!
	6:47pm ?: Gaylord, I have been a dedicated fan of your work for 30 years since our days at SPY Magazine. Mark, your show is indispensable… I share your casts to friends and colleagues around the globe. so I ask this question sincerely and with great respect. But did you NEVER find new music, thanks to the Music Genome Project? Or never from the short-lived We are Hunted? NO ONE can replace the bottomless human well of talent and genius at WFMU. Surveillance issues are of course a grotesque part of any algorithm that tracks our past, but can’t these tools be used as a tool in the toolbox? OH DAMN, Mark…. you just nulled my question. —a few more minutes of that creeeeepy Spotify AI DJ that you just played would have me on suicide watch…
	🤖 6:47pm Ken From Hyde Park: Owl Sun archives - www.wfmu.org...
	6:47pm DanFA: ↳ The Oscar @6:47 Honey, it's not what you think.
	6:47pm Jeff formerly from Rahway: I find myself saying "that was fun" like Bunny from time to time.
	6:47pm coelacanth∅: there's one and only one redeeming value to the r&s bots, which is that the library at access is mostly excellent.
	6:48pm ultradamno: Until such time as the humans return, damnation
	6:48pm Juli: Ugh I hate robot voice:::that Tik Tok voice is the worst
	6:48pm HyperDose: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:47 Too quick....are you sure you're not AI, Ken?
	6:48pm SeaCreature: Repulsive.
	6:48pm coelacanth∅: Marci i agree about the reverb.
	6:48pm McGroovey: I always turn off the stream when the Bunny is on. I'm not offended by the Bunny, but I want a person.
	6:48pm joe mulligan: "from the album turnturnturn"
	6:48pm Carmichael: I find it annoying to hear. I cannot listen to the rock n sould stream unless there's someone live.
	6:48pm Bread and Jam for Frances: ↳ MarciB @6:42 there was a comedian who got a “Happy Anniversary!” montage of himself during chemo from Facebook. It was creepy and hilarious in its inappropriateness.
	🤖 6:49pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ coelacanth∅ @6:46 The WFMU bots never try to hide their robotednesss!
	6:49pm Jeff Moore: Alison Steele, The Nightbird! To paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen... "You, robot, are no Alison Steele."
	6:49pm Julian in LA: yeah it's obviously a bot and it's funny
	6:49pm kevlicki: I’m busy looking at the reflectacles site while listening to this show
	6:49pm Jeff formerly from Rahway: ↳ McGroovey @6:48 I do the same. Bunny needs a wider variety of music and sound clips in between songs.
	6:49pm ultradamno: The bunny does have a slightly Hal quality.
	🤖 6:50pm PaulRobeson1923: How high can you fly?
	🤖 6:50pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:49 Nor do they charge you or advertise at you. Well, I think old Coke ads were popping up for a while on the R&S stream?
	6:50pm sydnius: oh I must get a minute hand for that watch
	6:50pm DanFA: X wants to murder you in your sleep and wear your skin like a suit.
	6:50pm HyperDose: ↳ PaulRobeson1923 @6:50 No glass ceiling here, baby!
	6:50pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ coelacanth∅ @6:47 I suggest trying to subvert the robots when you make a request.
	🤖 6:50pm PaulRobeson1923: The Animals Rock so hard it’s unmeasurable
	6:50pm chresti: WFMU AI djs sound like cute aliens or androids
	🤖 6:51pm Will thee Sound Guy: I get tiffd when thd bunny mis-cues a RnS stream show, plays last weeks show, or crashes during a show... the played tunes are decent tho. I do prefer human DJ'S 100%
	🤖 6:51pm PaulRobeson1923: ↳ HyperDose @6:50 Go on…
	6:51pm ultradamno: Play BTS Bunny I'm afraid I can't do that Dave.
	6:51pm Juli: Well thats true its creepy to not know if its real or not I j think humans will lose interest in AI
	6:51pm DanFA: I prefer my AI to be antisocial and not want to get to know me.
	6:51pm Kurty: I put it on when annoying human DJ’s are talking on WFMU 😂
	6:52pm Gaylord Fields: I would not want to meet the Bunny in a dark alley. Or under any circumstance.
	🤖 6:52pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Will thee Sound Guy @6:51 Good thing there's always the Mothership! Yeah, I listen to the streams only for specific DJs. I don't think I'd ever switch over when it's the robot -- I guess maybe during Jack LaLanne on Wake, but that's about it.
	6:52pm ultradamno: ↳ DanFA @6:51 The exact first reason I never considered doing Siri or Alexa...I don't want a robot friend.
	6:52pm coelacanth∅: Franco i've succeeded at that! i've also brutally insulted owlbot! (not bunnybot because i won't even listen to that) -and owl misunderstands completely! pretty funny
	6:53pm DanFA: ↳ ultradamno @6:52 Yeah, you've seen Me3gen.
	6:53pm Bread and Jam for Frances: I get mad when chewy dot com asks me how my pets are by name.
	6:53pm Carmichael: ↳ ultradamno @6:52 I don't want a robot friend to tell all the other robot friends about me.
	6:53pm Franco Twinkie: Looking for a radio buddy will probably get you a pat on the back and a kick in the pants.
	🤖 6:53pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Bread and Jam for Frances @6:53 Whenever I see a Chewy delivery in our bldg. I leave a card for our local pet-food store on it.
	🤖 6:53pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ ultradamno @6:52 Alexa and Siri aren't trying to be robot Friends, but Replika is.
	🤖 6:54pm PaulRobeson1923: @Mark: l love that you choose Sky Pilot to introduce our Owl Sun
	🤖 6:54pm MarciB: ↳ DanFA @6:51 yes indeed!
	6:54pm kevlicki: WFMU just asks you to reveal who you support in your pledges and how you listen…
	6:54pm chresti: Agree mark, it’s off putting when an AI being acts all familiar
	6:54pm Julian in LA: i like hearing the NYC roboweather it's oddly endearing since i live in LA
	6:54pm Spotifylover: I love Spotify!
	6:54pm Jeff formerly from Rahway: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:53 Handy, I worked at a brick & mortar pet store and I consider your act heroic.
	6:54pm coelacanth∅: Handy i've listened to both the drummer stream and sheena's stream in-between live djs. usually very good.
	6:55pm Glistener MW: Someone please use the name “extruded glop” for a project somewhere!
	6:55pm Jeff Moore: I have great respect for Dave A, whose skunkworks project those FMU robot DJs are... but I have zero interest in being subjected to the experience of listening to them.
	6:55pm ultradamno: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:53 You don't think. My experience is admittedly limited, but I thought there was some degree of responding like a person (OK, here's what I found for...)
	6:55pm chris in the redwoods: thanks, Mark and Gaylord!
	6:55pm Annette: Thanks Mark I enjoyed this show immensely!
	6:55pm Jules in VT: True there's no S-P-Y in WFMU. But there is an F-U
	6:55pm Bread and Jam for Frances: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:53 I get buying local, but some people can’t drive or haul because of disabilities
	6:55pm ?: Not to mention the spotify "DJ" is coded black
	🤖 6:55pm Handy Haversack: And thanks, Mark, Gaylord, Stashu, Alan, Roger, and all the wondrous humans who keep this wildly unlikely gift going and giving and uncovering new delights of chance and expertise, day after day, week after week. You all are wonderful! Many thanks! And looking forward to answering phones for Mark and Trouble next week!
	🤖 6:55pm MarciB: Oh Mark + Trouble! Can't wait to donate for that show :)
	6:55pm Chris Hiatt: Great show, Mark.
	6:55pm Rolando: Thanks Mark and Gaylord - nice chatter
	6:55pm drowsy: nice out, Mark.
	6:56pm DanFA: Good show, Mark.
	🤖 6:56pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, DJs & mubots!
	🤖 6:56pm Dance the Blues: Spotify has never made a profit. Not sure what their end game is but this AI DJ ain't it.
	6:56pm Gaylord Fields: Thanks for having me, Mark, and see you around, fellow Techtonic plate spinners!
	🤖 6:56pm Bas NL: Sorry AIs... Habitual WFMU listener here. Thanks Mark!
	6:56pm Julian in LA: thanks mark tried to list you as one of my shows i support but coudln't find you on the list
	6:56pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Mark!
	6:56pm Mike Sin: Gaylord, Mark -- excellent show tonight!
	6:56pm Juli: Techtonic will prolly be my choice for donating as well Considering how crucial this is
	6:56pm Hopey Sockmonkey: Very informative show. And thanks for playing this jam!
	🤖 6:56pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Jeff Moore @6:55 I want to put more perosonality and better poetry into DA's robots, but he's content with where they are!
	6:56pm chresti: Weeee! Thanks Mark!
	6:56pm drowsy: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:56 oooh the best avatar img returns!
	6:56pm Franco Twinkie: WFMU: No extruded glop! That's a tee shirt!
	6:57pm listener 126464: Thanks Mark, great show. Thank you, Gaylord.
	6:57pm Bread and Jam for Frances: great show. sorry about your Dad, Bas
	🤖 6:57pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Julian in LA @6:56 Julian: pledge.wfmu.org...
	6:57pm ultradamno: But if a DJ is what they play....as Bowie says...
	6:57pm Rolando: What was that Movie Mark mentioned about resisting the algorithm ????
	🤖 6:57pm Will thee Sound Guy: Thank you Mark Hurst, Gaylord Fields, and all the Real human DJ'S at the WFMUniverse!!! Big love to all y'all!!!
	6:57pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Rolando @6:57 Blade Runner
	6:58pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Will thee Sound Guy @6:57 I'm still made up of over 99% human parts!
	🤖 6:58pm Dance the Blues: There's no riddim in algorithm
	🤖 6:58pm chresti: ↳ Song: "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life" by "Indeep" Every day!
	6:58pm Rolando: Tx. Real People in Real Time - Right now! much appreciated.
	6:58pm Jeff Moore: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:56 Interesting!
	🤖 6:59pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Gaylord Fields @6:58 Pretty good!
	6:59pm Gaylord Fields: ↳ Dance the Blues @6:58 There's your t-shirt tight there!
	6:59pm Mark Hurst: Thanks, everyone! Great comments tonight.
	🤖 6:59pm Webhamster Henry: Here's the real Alison Steele stumping for the ROTC: jhhl.net...
	6:59pm ultradamno: Trouble down the drain? Is that how the co-host gets here next week?
	7:00pm headcleaner: Last night an algorithm got me laid off, then got my insurance cancelled, then got me romantically rejected, and to top it off, botched all my keyword searches and diverted me to clickbaity link farms instead. But then I came home, put on the radio and a WFMU DJ save my life

Techtonic with Mark Hurst: Playlist from February 27, 2023

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