Back in the You NJ: Ken's show

Listener comments!

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6:35am Ken:

Hello Sweden!

7:12am Jack:

Morning, Ken! Congrats on the Marathon.

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7:18am Ken:

Thank you Jack

7:29am F๛F๛ (:

Kommissar Ken! Welcome back! I hope you enjoyed your staying in this little island. Hi Jack!

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7:53am Ken From Hyde Park:

Here's a song & dance scene from the Shaolin Soccer movie, if you need material for future video shows - youtu.be...
The big showdown at the end is fun to watch - youtu.be...

7:59am groucho:

woke up in a car this morning. went to see Courtney Barnett last night and accidentally got too drunk to drive home. I'm ready now though. let's Ken.

8:02am Listener Robert:

My sister e-mailed me a bunch of dog GIFs, some animated. I've no idea about the rights to them. Easiest way to send them would be to forward them so you'd have attachments inside an attachment. Want them?

8:23am Dan B From Upstate:

Wow. Go To Hell! with Andy Breckman was six years ago today!

wfmu.org...

8:25am groucho:

ha, them comments!

"Joseph Fritzl:

I never forced them to listen to Seven Second Delay"

8:26am groucho:

So, Franz Ferdinand have made an album with Sparks. called FFS. and this song is called P*ss Off www.youtube.com...

yep

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8:29am Ken:

No Robert, please do not send me attachments inside attachments, whatever those are.

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8:33am Ken:

f0f0, you live in the UK? For some reason I always imagined you living in Sayreville, NJ.

8:33am F๛F๛ (:

From the GO TO HELL show comment section:

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Andy B:

Welcome all listeners. My musical heaven is your musical HELL!! My show is smokin'. Your soul is roasting. There will be no Nihilist Spasm Band or Lubricated Goat on this show. Only GOOD music for a change. Suffer!"

Now I'm interested to hear the Lubricated Goat..whatever that means.

8:34am Yvang:

Hello hello everybody everywhere around the world...

8:35am Dan B From Upstate:

Oh wow. I thought fofo lived in spain.

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8:35am Ken:

Lubricated Goat comin' right up..

8:36am Listener Robert:

OK, Ken, I'll unpack them all, considering that to just forward would be to send you all of my sister's private kvetching.

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8:40am Ken From Hyde Park:

Will WFMU be swapping signals with other stations today or is there a more elaborate April Fool's Day prank coming up?

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8:40am Ken:

It's OK Robert, no need to send them to me. I have all the animated dog GIFs a boy could want.

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8:42am Ken:

No, no April Fool's Day pranks in the works AT ALL. April Fools Day jumped the shark long ago. I heard a fake story on NPR this morning and it turned my stomach.

8:43am F๛F๛ (:

Ken,

As far as I know I live near Vicki's hangouts. Sayreviling, N.J. sounds like verbal abuse.

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8:49am Ken:

f0f0 you;re in Southwest London? You shoulda come to Birmingham last week, we had fun!

8:52am F๛F๛ (:

I friend once told me (not in April 1st) that Frank Zappa recorded an album that had no music on it. That is, it was a vinyl that had only one final track at the very end of it where you can hear him laughing for a bit before it ended. I think the concept was to mock consumerism. I haven't heard any more about it. Do you guys know of any musical joke? I heard this morning Joni Mitchel was in the hospital. Don't know if that was a joke (who can joke about it?).

8:59am Marcel M:

Is that from Seven Samurai?

Hi Ken!

8:59am F๛F๛ (:

Ken,

Yes! But I'm in the poor side of SW. We can only dream and aspire to be like the folks living in Clapham. I wanted to, but alas, had no time nor money to travel !

9:02am Brendan:

Ken baby!

9:04am MD:

Good Morning Freeform Nation of the Station!!!

9:05am Michael:

Morning Ken: is whatever you (and Vicki) did in Birmingham available online?

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9:05am bbell:

ah, sanctuary! it's Ken time!

9:06am Tony:

Michael, the Birmingham show is at www.wfmu.org/playlists/kf

9:06am MD:

i see we are still basking in that wonderful glow of
marathon success!!!! Yeah for us!

9:06am Sem Chumbo:

Loved the B'ham show, Ken.Great fun.

9:07am Dan B From Upstate:

I remember the best show the night of the frequency switch. Tom Schaprling seemed incredibly annoyed, turned in a half-hearted performance and started the show with 40 minutes of music, something he hadn't done since he had an all-music show. Yeah, I guess April Fools jumped the shark a while ago. I see a lot less April Fools jokes on the internet this year and the last couple of years. Oh well. I was aware of what day it was had a good time.

9:07am Polyus:

Where is the big giant hand .gif from? Fantastic!

9:08am pierre:

Ken ! Why didn't you passs by Paris ? !

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9:08am Ken:

Second Good Morning everybody!

9:09am Michael:

Thanks Tony. I flipped past that this morning. Before coffee.

9:09am redkayak:

Good morning all!

9:09am Parq:

Whew. I heard her voice and was afraid she had died during the night.

9:11am jan:

what a beautiful Joni song. It's been years since I heard one.

9:11am DF:

Wow, I was wondering who would be playing Joni Mitchell today but I never thought it would be Ken. Excellent.

9:12am F๛F๛ (:

Exactly, pierre! 'Sex and Broadcasting' needs to be shown in Paris! I mean, sex! French love sex!! Not sure if they love Broadcasting, BUT at least you'd have half an audience in there.

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9:14am Ken:

Yeah a lot of DJs here love Joni Mitchell even though she hardly ever gets played. Figured I'd play her before she passes away rather than after. Hope she pulls through.

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9:15am Ken:

ahhhh it's so great to be on the air all alone in the studio..

9:17am thedunkel:

How was your trip?

9:17am egal:

Oddly, Prof Dum Dum played Joni regularly ("Songs to Aging Children Come")

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9:18am Ken:

thedunkel, it was great! I love Birmingham.

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9:18am bbell:

This version of "our lips are sealed" is brilliant!

9:18am cory:

i find this fuxa song fuxing amazing

9:18am kirk from beer city usa:

holy shit, I thought I had all the fuxa records, but I've never heard this! brilliant

9:19am tea marauder:

I heard somebody say that fmu dj's favorite bands overall would probably be the beatles and nrbq

9:20am Dan B From Upstate:

digging the low key show.

9:21am Parq:

"37 other people favorited this." Gee!

9:21am Billy Jam:

lovin' every song so far Ken and know what you mean about that relaxed feeling of being back in station on-air studio all alone

9:23am Kurt Gottschalk:

listening on the train. "there's a weapon that we must use in our defense -" and then nothing. dead air. i thought it was brilliant until i realized the signal had dropped. verizon made a remarkably clean edit for me.

9:27am Sam:

This is how waltzes were meant to be performed. You don't have a waltz if it ain't got that shmaltz.

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9:27am Webhamster Henry:

I have this tune on a piano roll, but haven't tried whistling to it.

9:27am F๛F๛ (:

Dan B From Upstate

I'm orginally from one of those massive countries that only registered 1 pledge, according to the WFMU pledge worldmap.

9:28am dale:

oooh, love the marine forecasts

9:28am Sam:

Bloody weather

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9:28am AnAnonymousParty:

"Occasionally Poor" would be a good band name. Works on multiple levels.

9:30am Listener Robert:

As in red rain, Sam?

9:30am F๛F๛ (:

TONY MASON COOOOOOOXXX!!!

9:31am Sam:

Yes, with a champagne supernova in the sky

9:33am Sam:

"I found some white punks. But I have no dope."

9:33am Stevel:

Ahhh, technology.

9:34am Dan B From Upstate:

Siri knows the power of punk.

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9:34am Webhamster Henry:

Siri's pal "Shuffle" does a great job DJing on the WFMU streams!

9:36am Brendan:

The BBC shipping forecast Is my Barry White go to music. Ladies love it.

9:37am Marcel M:

Mandolin Bros. Haven't been yet. Wanna check it out.

9:39am Stevel:

HAVE to listen to WPOD? GET to!

9:40am Parq:

Can't stop staring at those bare legs creeping along the forest floor. Anybody know what that's from?

9:41am Andrew Waterloo:

BBC Shipping forecast reminds me of Black Books

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9:41am Ken From Hyde Park:

Thanks, Ken, for your tireless efforts to pull off the marathon. You must go a month non-stop to line things up and all things we listeners don't see. I'm horrible at asking people for money. I'd sign up for fund-raising bike rides and just hand them a check for $150.00.

9:42am bobdoesthings:

goood morning

9:45am Sam:

I agree with Ken above, you guys are phenomenal with the marathon, always keeping the positive energy going. The station just seems to kick ass at everything it puts its mind to.

9:45am Greg from Bloomfield:

Morning bob & Ken & all!

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9:46am Ken:

Thanks for the kind words everybody.

9:46am bobdoesthings:

argh our internet at work keeps crapping out.. an IT guy came and asked our team "is anyone having problems with the internet" I yelled out "yah, too many cat videos!" only 2 people laughed :(

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9:46am Ken:

Pray for my laptop. It's not recovering nicely.

9:47am cory:

my boss found your FCC talk last week fascinating

9:50am pierre:

Ken, I totally missed the show, but i'm so happy that the marathon went well !
Next time let's organize a screening in Paris ! (pretty please)

9:55am Murakami Whywolf:

FlatPack (sp?) broadcasts archived? I can't find any pointer thereto on what looks like their site....

('Culture Club', their slime moulds event, sounds <em>fascinating</em>.)

9:57am Andrew Waterloo:

Is the internet down? I don't know, I'm working.

9:58am ?:

dis website is sooo sweet, look at all these GIFs.

9:59am SeanG:

Range Life!

9:59am john:

chocolate ruins a good macaroon

10:00am MD:

Lets go Khlaming!!!!

10:00am F๛F๛ (:

Problem with that idea, pierre, is that just a handful of Europeans know about WFMU. Wouldn't be great if WFMU had a long term strategic goal to open up a franchise in either Paris, London or Berlin?

10:03am MD:

Klahming...

10:03am bobdoesthings:

KLAHM or KHLAM?

10:04am MD:

"No Hot Dog! Only Klahm!!!!!"

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10:04am Ken:

John, you are talking like a MADMAN.

10:04am F๛F๛ (:

bob,

It's actually MLAKH.

10:04am thedunkel:

YES - ITS KLAHM or is it KHLAM? YES EITHER WAY!

10:04am Elon Musk:

I take it back, we've got nothing to worry about with respect to AI. Siri, you suck.

10:05am Polyus:

Oh good, the hand is back. I thought maybe I imagined it.

10:05am bobdoesthings:

haha

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10:05am Station Mgr Ken:

Murakami - last week's show is archived - go to "ken's other playlists" and look for last week's show.

10:05am SeanG:

will Khlam be streaming on Tidal?

10:06am conkrete dawg:

is a Klahm-bake

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10:06am Ken From Hyde Park:

"Play music by KMFDM."

10:08am F๛F๛ (:

Siri,

"Delete all Mariah Carey's music from the internet."

Let's try that! Who knows? It might work!

10:09am Marcel M:

I think the guys in the daft punk helmets were in fact Khlam

10:09am SeanG:

hahaha Marcel!

10:11am pocket vito:

All those people would have to do is change direction and the hand would never be able to follow them. It's like running down the track in front of a train, instead of just getting off the track.

10:12am cory:

fofo, am i cool enough to get your khlam zip?

10:13am F๛F๛ (:

cory,

It depends. Do you love or hate Coldplay?

10:13am Tusalava:

BUNNIES. HAVE A SEAT.

10:13am MD:

THE KHALMING IS GOOD TODAY! lots of sweet little cherry stones!!!

10:14am DCE:

oh gawd, a CLE classic

10:14am cory:

hate, so very hate

10:15am Tusalava:

To be fair, you really don't know how you're going to react when pursued by a giant hand until it actually happens.

10:16am Sem Chumbo:

Shocking, these electric eels.
More, please.

10:16am Roberto:

This is amazing.

10:16am Dan B From Upstate:

I'm still waiting for WFMU repeaters to eventually keep working their way up north, and one will end up here eventually.... Eventually. Of course, there's probably an FCC regulation about how far repeaters can be from their source, isn't there?

10:18am pocket vito:

That's true, there'd be no time to think. I shouldn't judge.

10:18am Listener Robert:

What's he breaking in there?

10:18am Marcel M:

I would slap him a big high five

10:19am Tusalava:

That would be the classy thing to do.

10:20am pocket vito:

Any time you're being pursued by anything, always throw it a sausage. That usually works.

10:21am Listener Robert:

Actually, Dan B, I can recall from some decades ago reading about satellite-fed supposed FM xltrs that were way, way beyond what anyone could consider the listening area of the primary stn.

10:21am Tusalava:

Any kind of sausage? Summer, kielbasa, little breakfast links? We need to know. For safety!

10:21am Louise Blake:

Well if Grant would, so would I.

10:22am F๛F๛ (:

cory,

I'm sorry you stumbled with that question. But, hey, here, 'll give you another chance:

Singing adult songs children..should they be near or far away from microphones? Think carefully.

10:22am MD:

FMU IS HOME...

10:23am egal:

The vinyl smashing gif (hard G) should come with a trigger warning.

10:23am glenn:

i admit my curiosity got the better of me and i searched out the big sausage pizza video. it's......cheesy.

10:23am cory:

what type of microphone and how big is the room?

10:23am Tusalava:

nooooooooooo

10:24am Brendan:

The sound of breaking gas

10:25am pierre:

or home is where the WFMU is

10:26am Annie Lennox:

Oh no, not again.

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10:26am Ken:

Tusalava, you hate Nick Lowe?! That is SO COOL!

10:27am Sigurður:

That reminds me pierre, it is soon time to make a pilgrimage to WFMu

10:29am Tusalava:

No, I was referring to Big Sausage Pizza.

10:30am Tusalava:

Nobody hates Nick Lowe.

10:30am F๛F๛ (:

I believe WFMU was fined by the UK's Her Majesty Communications Commission as, last week, Ken said several times live on air 'Asshole', instead of 'Arsehole' while back annonuncing 'Ogre You Asshole'.

10:32am Tusalava:

It was a noooooo of dismay. My hatred is much sharper around the edges.

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10:32am Ken:

Tusalava, I thtand corrected.

10:34am pierre:

@Sigurður: if only I had the time and the money… i'd do that every year

10:34am Tusalava:

Exthellent.

10:35am bobdoesthings:

this is making me uncomfortable.. excuse me

10:37am Tusalava:

Klaus!

10:37am βrian:

Tierbaby?

10:38am Lewis:

Tiger Lilies?

10:41am Tusalava:

Get your shit together, Siri.

10:41am cory:

how is radio this fun legal?

10:42am MD:

"wANT TO PLAY A gAME?"

10:42am bobdoesthings:

@cory -- it's not ... shhh.. be cool man, be cool

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10:43am Ken From Hyde Park:

Some paintings...the eyes follow you around the room, or occasionally grin.

10:44am Tusalava:

It's legal because The Man doesn't know it's happening.

10:44am F๛F๛ (:

cory,

I'm sorry I didn't get the innuendos that stem from your answer, but in any case I'll give you the key to access the fantastic "From Russia With KHLAAAAAAM", a special edition bootleg ZIP featuring never-seen-or-heard-before MP3, photos and videos from the Russian band. Stay tuned next week.

10:44am MD:

hey siri can you control all of our military drones???

10:45am MD:

Siri:"You want me to crash all of our Drones into the oceans???"

10:46am MD:

That sounds Great Siri...Make it so...

10:49am F๛F๛ (:

GOATS!

10:50am MD:

This song get's my Goats!!!

10:50am Tusalava:

Kitty.

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10:51am Webhamster Henry:

Goat Mask Replica! www.ebay.com...

10:51am Sigurður:

10:52am US Military:

We have contingency plans for attacks by all types of giant body parts.

10:53am Tusalava:

I FEEL COMFORTED.

10:54am Glenn Manning:

Wait till you get a load of me, US Military!

10:55am G:

Aha, the infamous Madison Masturbatorium

10:56am herb.nyc:

haha, "get off" route 24 to andy's masturb...

10:57am courtneynoir:

You’d think after years of them saying the word “Masturbatorium” I’d stop giggling like a child every time I hear it but …. Nope. Every time

10:59am F๛F๛ (:

Masturbatorium, a.k.a. the Korean Boy Lair.

11:00am G:

The Man-Boy Cave?

11:02am Dan B From Upstate:

10:10 makes me wonder, has anyone ever done a performance of John Cage's 4'33" for hoof and mouth?

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11:04am AnAnonymousParty:

Is this Klingon?

11:04am G:

Led Back Zeppelin

11:05am F๛F๛ (:

I don't know about the Hoof. BUT Hush & (shut your) Mouth has done 4'33 before.

11:05am conkrete dawg:

Trebor Tnalp

11:05am βrian:

@Dan B: I heard ASCAP is really cracking down on that. Even for derivative performances, long pauses, and so on

11:05am MD:

Hey...I forgot Laughter!!!!

11:05am G:

Tihs On

11:06am bobdoesthings:

I leef ekil I tsuj koot aivlas

11:07am G:

It's a Middle Elvish cover

11:09am Marcel M:

This is awesome.

11:09am F๛F๛ (:

bobdoesthings,

According to Google translate you just wrote something in Turkish.

11:10am MD:

Is there anyone out there who remembers Laughter?

11:10am James in ATL:

Stairway back from heaven

11:10am G:

Cuz you know sometimes songs have two versions

11:10am Dan B From Upstate:

Fine, Turkish Salvia.

11:10am Marcel M:

He is speaking Salvian

11:10am bobdoesthings:

@fofo -well yeah.. turkish is just english backwards.

11:11am cory:

wow, i almost enjoyed a zeppelin tune

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11:11am AnAnonymousParty:

The slot machine concerto!

11:12am dk:

i will never, ever, ever tire of 'In C' in any form at all.

11:14am Kat in Chicago:

I was lucky enough to see Terry Riley perform twice this weekend, including a jam with Kronos Quartet and Laurie Anderson!!! bigearsfestival.com

11:14am Kat in Chicago:

and @dk: agreed.

11:15am glenn:

crash them into mike pence's house, siri.

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11:17am Ken:

Kat, how are things going at WLUW these days?

11:19am Kat in Chicago:

@Ken: not bad! I have a "specialty show" (electronic) so they don't make me play format or mess with me much at all.

11:19am Kat in Chicago:

@Ken I see you're coming to Chicago soon with Sex and Broadcasting! Very excited.

11:20am Sigurður:

MAkeS me think of underwater Meghan this does (YOda)

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11:22am Ken:

Kat, actually I am not goign to Chicago after all but the doc is - they bumped the doc to 11pm and would not schedule a DJ gig for me, so it's not worth it for me to go, for a short Q&A at 12:45am.

11:23am Kat in Chicago:

:( totally understandable, though. I'm still looking forward to the doc!

11:23am Kat in Chicago:

A DJ gig would have been rad!

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11:24am AnAnonymousParty:

That chainsaw would probably work better if it had a chain on it.

11:26am Andrew Waterloo:

I can't wait till the doc comes out on DVD. It's only a year, or two late now.

11:26am G:

The guitarist's insurance provider wouldn't allow it. Very Spinal Tap.

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11:28am Ken:

Thanks for your patience Andrew - it's all very complicated and it's totally out of WFMU's control. But it will eventually be released. Just cant accurately say when.

11:30am Andrew Waterloo:

Ken, fully understood. I just hope DVDs are still around by the time it comes out :)

11:30am Polyus:

I'm sure the question has been asked 1,000 times, but any chance the doc will be available online, Netflix or something like that?

11:33am F๛F๛ (:

Ken, people,

I'm afraid to inform 'Sex and Broadcast' has the t.A.T.u. Film Curse! I.e. By the time of its theatrical release there would be released no more WFMU! So let the delay continue!!!

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11:33am Ken:

@Polyus it will definitely be released digitally. And the Kickstarter donors will definitely get the DVDs they were promised. I dont know if it will be released commercially on DVD though. (The doc is also playing in Montclair NJ next month, and at the Jersey Shore in June. )

11:34am F๛F๛ (:

* By the time of its theatrical release there would be no more WFMU!

Damn yuo autocharacter!!

11:35am Andrew Waterloo:

The only time to think about WFMU going away is the beginning of week two of the Marathon.

11:36am Sigurður:

Just like ,, hmm what , hahhh just like these are clicked, looked and thoroughly disliked, until, wait for it, until it is well liked

11:37am bobdoesthings:

Poor Okapi.. died so young (38, RIP)

11:38am bobdoesthings:

I meant Kapi.. durr.

11:38am chris:

Ken, this bed music Depeche Xylo, or whatever... its wonderful.

11:40am chris:

nice gurp, Ken

11:41am F๛F๛ (:

And the only way to break the t.A.T.u. film curse that has engulfed the 'Sex and Broadcast' doc is to let MIscha Barton run the radio station.

11:41am bobdoesthings:

"I never ... intentionally..... lied... . I never... lied... tell the whole truth, no one tells the WHOLE truth.... I never.... intentionally... ....... lied.." That Robert Durst HBO show was sorta mind blowing.

11:42am chris:

smiths! d'oh! rockabye baby. thanks, Ken!

11:43am F๛F๛ (:

Er...Aldo Kapi is a fictional character. Just like me.

11:44am Dan B From Upstate:

Can't wait for the verse on suzie using ahyuasca... or however it's spelled.

11:45am Luke:

Damnit Suzie, why did you try dope?

11:45am MD:

Ken...when in Montclair???

11:45am Polyus:

Stop licking that toad, Suzie.

11:45am Andrew Waterloo:

I'm so happy they cancelled my jury duty.

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11:46am Ken:

bobdoesthings, hell yeah! I LOOVED The Jinx. Obsessed with Durst now... burps and all. I identify with his self-muttering, hate to admit.

11:46am P-90:

That has to be the fastest race from first (tobacco!) cigarette to DEATH on any record. Whew!

11:47am Brendan:

Too many crotch critters, stds, and the like for their righteous church of judgement

11:47am bobdoesthings:

@ken - Yeah.. Really blew my mind.. especially the ending. Don't want to spoil it for anyone.. but hot damn.. all should check out The Jinx if they haven't and can on HBO..

11:47am courtneynoir:

I wish all you dudes wouldn't make me drink and do so many drugs.

11:48am courtneynoir:

It's kinda rude.

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11:50am listener jeff:

God less America! - See how cute paranoia can be!

11:51am cory:

i had to go to parkview for rehab after my dui. it sucked

11:52am bobdoesthings:

what's the bed music to this open letter? anyone know?

11:52am PMD:

Woof moo

11:53am G:

the inspiration for cat's in the cradle lol

11:53am F๛F๛ (:

I love the audio open letter genre. Especially those from teens to parents and their replies: parents to teens.

11:53am Roberto:

"Ahguing?"

11:53am F๛F๛ (:

bobdoesthings,

Ray Coniff? I dunno.

11:54am Brendan:

The old man got sick of his babbling

11:54am Sigurður:

moo woofs

11:54am drr:

this is an answer to "An Open Letter" by Victor Lundberg.

11:55am Roberto:

HAHA perfect follow-up!

11:57am Parq:

Youtube has a live version of "Dad I'm", in which Don Was plays it differently, less nutz and more hapless. (Dad, I .. No, Dad ... Dad .. uh, put Mom on.")

11:57am F๛F๛ (:

Thanks, Ken! Great show! Business as usual! Till next episode, everyone! Take care!

11:57am bobdoesthings:

Does God give an answer song back?

11:57am bobdoesthings:

Thanks Ken, Great show.

11:58am bzzbzzbuh:

What's an answer song?

11:58am herb.nyc:

nice JAIL song! those that don't pay their wfmu pledges should not pass go but go directly to jail

11:58am chicken:

What's this background song?

11:59am Michael:

Wonderful gifs today. And wonderful music too.

11:59am G:

an answer song is a song replying to a prior song. sweet home alabama is an answer to neil young's southern man

11:59am chicken:

Sounds like a beach boys cover?

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chicken,,

Dont remember. but check the end credits from the last few shows in the archive section. I believe they were credited recently.

12:01pm nfrae:

The Warmth of the Sun by Friends of Dean Martinez