WFMU: Currents with Brian D: Playlist from December 18, 2022

Listener comments!
	♥ 3:02am Scott67: G'day Brian & Moon Dogs! 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺🐶🌚
	⚡ 3:02am Don in Tampere: Good morning Brian! Let's see who joins the chat today!
	⚡ ♥ 3:03am tom tom the pipers son: good morning brian, folks
	⚡ ♥ 3:05am fred: Hello Brian and all
	♥ 3:07am Scott67: Beaut 1st Dog piece Brian!🐾🐾
	♥ 3:09am Scott67: Thank fuck for Albo! & fuck Fascism!
	⚡ ♥ 3:10am fred: @Scott: I bought a whisky from Tasmania for my brother, looks like the new hot place for whisky these days
	♥ 3:10am Brian D: Scott! Don! Tom Tom! Fred!
	♥ 3:11am Brian D: Love First Dog @Scott.
	♥ 3:12am Scott67: It does Fred! I can't afford it on my buck a can beer budget, so what's it like mate? 🍻😎🤙🥃
	♥ 3:16am Scott67: I guess you won't know til after Xmas Fred, if he shares it with you?😉
	⚡ ♥ 3:22am fred: @Scott: I probably won't get to taste it, I actually already gave it to him. But my whisky guru recommended a specific cask, so I'll probably get a bottle for myself next month (December is tough on my budget)
	⚡ ♥ 3:26am tom tom the pipers son: saw the snake story on colbert... thought it was that snakes have two clitorises or is it clitorii
	♥ 3:26am Scott67: December is tough all round I reckon Fred. I just endure Xmas for the sake of appearance. Such a needlessly stressful time posing as a joyful celebration.
	♥ 3:28am Brian D: It has two parts, Tom Tom: www.cnn.com...
	♥ 3:28am Scott67: A venomous clitoris! Pussy Riot potion!✊
	⚡ ♥ 3:32am fred: There was an article about that in The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com...
	⚡ ♥ 3:34am tom tom the pipers son: dolphins too! but you would kinda figure that one
	⚡ ♥ 3:43am tom tom the pipers son: sleeping rough
	♥ 3:44am Brian D: Good one, Tom Tom.
	3:48am morphe': 2 clitorises or is it clitorii makes sense as male snakes have 2 penis heads ..
	⚡ 3:51am Don in Tampere: Well, it seems clear that snake sexual organs are good click bait for this crew :D
	⚡ ♥ 3:52am fred: I noticed that the Paris transit authority has been removing seats in subway stations, putting spikes or weirdly shaped plastic things to deter homeless people from sleeping there. The next move could be putting a sculpture of them instead (I'm afraid to give them ideas)
	♥ 3:52am Brian D: I love how you all are taking this for the important scientific discovery it is, and I'm making sophomoric jokes.
	⚡ ♥ 3:52am tom tom the pipers son: good point, so to speak morphe
	⚡ 3:53am Don in Tampere: My mood usually lifts a little in December because the permanent snow cover has usually arrived and it's no longer as dark and bleak as November usually is here.
	⚡ ♥ 3:54am tom tom the pipers son: the sort of feminist spin on the research part is interesting
	♥ 3:54am Brian D: Yeah @Fred. Paris sounds like it has a similar approach to NYC's.
	♥ 3:55am Brian D: @Don. I actually like the cold weather, so that part makes December enjoyable. Could do without some of the holiday, uh, "spirit," however.
	⚡ 3:56am Don in Tampere: fred, I think I remember seeing similar things in London a long time ago. So where the hell are they supposed to sleep? It seems so evil, and frankly, in the run-up to Christmas, exactly the opposite of what the person who's birth Christmas is ostensibly celebrating was preaching about.
	⚡ 3:57am Don in Tampere: I think that the pre-Christmas atmosphere in most of Europe is, while still commercial, somehow not quite as cheesy as I remember in the US (or saw the couple of years I lived in Ireland)
	♥ 3:57am Scott67: The most phallic of Animals has 2 clitoris. Stay in touch with your Feminine side guys. 🍻😎🤙
	♥ 3:58am Brian D: Actually, I've found pre-Christmas in Ireland refreshing compared with the US. Which may be saying something, Don.
	⚡ 3:58am Don in Tampere: I went to a nice handcraft-oriented Christmas market at the alternative art space at Hiedänranta last Sunday, which was very nice and chill, and even saw my neighbor do a great solo jouhikko concert.
	♥ 3:59am Brian D: The jokes write themselves, @Scott.
	♥ 4:02am Scott67: Love this!!
	♥ 4:02am Brian D: To be clear, I'm not saying the sculpture in London is solving any problems. I just think it highlights a more humanistic approach to the problem. Meanwhile, the police in NYC are rounding up homeless people and forcibly checking them into hospitals for psychiatric care.
	⚡ 4:02am Don in Tampere: The German Christmas markets are of course very commercial, but I find the atmosphere quite nice except when they get too crowded. Haven't managed to get to the Frankfurt one since 2019 though, first canceled due to Covid, then last year's 4th wave, and this year I just have too damn much work to get there before it closes. But I'll at least be there for the ringing of the bells in all the downtown churches at 5 pm on Christmas Eve (the "Stadtgeläut")
	4:03am Chris Crisco: 2 G Spots?
	♥ 4:03am Scott67: Would be a better work of Public Art if it had bunks & food inside it.
	4:04am Chris Crisco: 1 For Tomorrow 1 Just For Today
	♥ 4:04am Brian D: I have sadly never been to a German Christmas market.
	♥ 4:04am Brian D: Or 2 more than a lot of men know about @Chris. Hello, by the way.
	♥ 4:05am Brian D: And great point, @Scott.
	4:05am morphe': NYC has all types of uninviting seating things from the subway to corporate plazas to the parks ... Squatted in London in the mid-late 80s between King's Cross and Heuston Station ... the area had "hostels" for homeless people, but there was a rule about only staying for x nights to try to get folks to move on = no stability ... Great book about Euston Station about a homeless alcoholic who saved his own life via Chess: The Grass Arena: An Autobiography by John Healy https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/3990814-the-grass-arena
	♥ 4:07am Scott67: & I'm an Artist Brian. I always try to add layers of meaning to work. While not exploiting people or our planet in the making.
	⚡ 4:07am Don in Tampere: Finland has made it a goal to get rid of homelessness by 2027, not by running off the homeless but by providing housing. There are still about 4000 homeless people in Finland but they are working on it in the right way. www.helsinkitimes.fi...
	⚡ ♥ 4:08am fred: @Brian: Do you have a very conservative writer to recommend? I try to challenge myself by reading those. I was reading Rod Dreher, but he got too insane and boring lately (Orban worship, consuming hatred, got repetitive)
	♥ 4:09am Brian D: Interest @Don. Thanks for sharing. And thanks, too, Morphe. That book is going on the list.
	♥ 4:09am Brian D: InterestING
	♥ 4:10am Scott67: ⬅️Apart from my limited run Artist Designed TRASH CULT T-Shirt! Available to pre-order until Dec 31.
	♥ 4:10am Brian D: Scott @4:07, I get it. The art in London will only matter if it gets people thinking and acting, I guess.
	4:10am morphe': SF 2018: "Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 2178 into law on Sept. 18. It forbids so-called limited service charitable organizations from serving food in plazas, parks and other public spaces without a permit. Local officials may confiscate the food and cite the organization with a misdemeanor." https://www.sfpublicpress.org/state-law-cracks-down-on-free-public-meals/
	⚡ ♥ 4:15am Michael of Cologne: Good morning Brian & all. I'll avatar for you at the Xmas market on Rudolfplatz or Stadtgarten, if you like, since I don't indulge in them myself. Just tell me when you'd like to go.
	♥ 4:16am Scott67: Brian, the photo of the Homeless Sculpture is the most poignant. It captures how the average commuter receives it. Walking by glued to their fucken phone! Rendering its meaning as mute as the people it suggests it represents.
	♥ 4:18am Destroit: Hi everyone. I’m here but fading fast hehe….
	♥ 4:22am Brian D: Fred @!4:08, I don't. I'm not very open-minded, I'm afraid.
	♥ 4:23am Brian D: Morphe, Gov. Jerry Brown = Gov. Moonbeam.
	⚡ ♥ 4:23am fred: @Brian: Then again, if you say everything as a performance of your last words (you never know, right), that could get pompous and weird real fast
	♥ 4:23am StringOFperils: @Scott67 > Yet, that neglect and indifference reinforces the installation's meaning, like a tragically self-reflexive black hole, sucking in the last vestiges of reality as the human race disappears up its own sorry butt.
	⚡ ♥ 4:24am Michael of Cologne: -4° C here this morning. On Thursday it was -9° C in the morning.
	♥ 4:24am Brian D: Hello Michael and Destroit. I may take you up on that offer, Michael.
	♥ 4:25am Scott67: Pretty much SOp!🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	♥ 4:25am Brian D: Very true, Fred. I have a relative who insists on quoting Churchill or FDR during political discussions. It gets tiresome.
	♥ 4:27am StringOFperils: Can't believe I can't sleep again (middle of the night), but glad to be here for a while with you all. Hello!
	♥ 4:28am Scott67: I would rather an Artist Installation of Caravans (trailers) to shelter Homeless Humans. Parked on the lawns of Public Buildings & Religious Corporations.
	♥ 4:30am Scott67: 8:30pm Sunday, Summer 22 Celsius here.🌏
	♥ 4:30am StringOFperils: Not going to happen in present-day London, that's for damn sure. If things get much worse, it's gonna be 1789 Paris all over again.
	♥ 4:31am Brian D: Hello String. Sorry you can't sleep, but glad to have you.
	♥ 4:32am Scott67: That's not the Blitz Spirit SOp!
	⚡ ♥ 4:32am fred: @Brian: Kinda sad if one's last words would be a quote, especially from a politician. I wish I could die quoting Sylvia Plath, that would be overachieving
	♥ 4:34am Brian D: Right Fred. A friend, who is 95, used to quote Yeats, Joyce and Shakespeare from memory. That's all gone.
	♥ 4:34am StringOFperils: Sorry for kvetching like that. I'm just disgusted. And, I have to admit, somewhat fearful at this point. These times are becoming a little too interesting.
	⚡ ♥ 4:34am Michael of Cologne: Hi Scott! It's nice to have forgotten about Fahrenheit. Only remember 32 and 212 as fixed points. US never converted to save money. Same with inches to cm. and feet to metres. Save money and make the rest of the world put up with.
	♥ 4:37am Scott67: G'day Michael, & yet they changed the spelling of the English Language as a way to cast off the Imperial Colonists Legacy. But kept Imperial Measurements. Australia converted in a year without a ripple.
	♥ 4:40am Scott67: They definitely retained the arrogance of their Colonists.
	⚡ ♥ 4:40am tom tom the pipers son: haters gonna hate-an murican ;)
	⚡ ♥ 4:41am fred: @Scott: Freud would have a blast over the US clinging to the imperial system
	♥ 4:42am Scott67: All the Americans I know are great. & the First Nations didn't get a say. But the Corporate Capitalist System of USA is toxic.
	⚡ ♥ 4:42am Michael of Cologne: Yeah, Scott. Aussies are nifty in that way. The Brits like to get stuck in between -- half-hearted -- love their traditions. So you never know over the Channel whether its miles or km. Mostly a mish-mash of both.
	4:43am Chris Crisco: I remember back in the 1970s the US tried to go metric. Didn't get very far. I'm still adjusting. I just remember every 10°C is 18°F starting from 32 so 10°C is 50°F 20°C = 68°F 30°C = 86°F and go from there.
	⚡ 4:43am Don in Tampere: I remember a discussion in the 70s about the US switching to metric, but people got all upset about not keeping their "amurrcan" measurement units. Metric makes so much more sense. Though I am ok with the fact that the French Revolutionaries didn't manage to make their new calendar stick like they did with the metric system. one day off every ten days? no way!
	♥ 4:44am StringOFperils: It's estimated that here in Canada we spent in excess of a billion dollars converting from imperial to metric, between 1970 and 1985. And everyone still uses both systems simultaneously!!! No one ever really converted. We just use them both now. Ottawa smokes kilos of weed by the pound.
	♥ 4:44am Brian D: That's funny, String.
	⚡ ♥ 4:45am Michael of Cologne: The Comet Is Coming - beautiful!
	♥ 4:45am Scott67: SOp, your land border is the issue there mate.
	⚡ ♥ 4:45am Michael of Cologne: String: infected by the US in so many ways.
	♥ 4:46am StringOFperils: You mean our grovelling subservience to that giant thing casting the shadow?
	♥ 4:47am StringOFperils: ...said the guy glued to the New Jersey mothership. Ha ha ha.
	♥ 4:48am Brian D: If everything the US "exported" was like WFMU, the world would be a much better place.
	♥ 4:48am Scott67: I can see Fox "news" now if US declared Metrication. " Our guns are next". FREEDOM FREEDOM FREEDOM from facts!
	⚡ 4:48am Don in Tampere: brian, absolutely!
	⚡ ♥ 4:50am tom tom the pipers son: some lungs on whoever this sax player is
	♥ 4:50am Scott67: Said the rebel Aussie likewise! 💻🎶🍻😎🤙💨🍺❤️🍁
	⚡ ♥ 4:52am fred: It's weird, my sister younger, by a decade) still converted to Franc for years, when I was thinking in Euros right away. Ideologic thing I guess, I'm against borders, this didn't work out
	4:53am Chris Crisco: If I remember correctly my 1974 Malibu the speedometer had both miles and kilometers. In the US they say a car gets good or bad gas mileage. Still trying to figure out what they call it here in NZ kilometerage?
	4:56am Chris Crisco: It also had a horn switch that switched between a normal horn and a silly high pitched squeal because NYC had a law against loud horns.
	♥ 4:56am StringOFperils: I like this Spill track. Kinda reminds me of Miles Davis' 'In A Silent Way'
	♥ 4:58am Pablexa™: Ima up a little early, or Ima still up - Hiya folks!
	♥ 4:58am StringOFperils: He's waking up™
	♥ 4:59am Pablexa™: @String LOL He's prolly gonna fall asleep™
	♥ 4:59am Scott67: He's typing!
	♥ 4:59am StringOFperils: LOL
	♥ 5:00am Pablexa™: Hiya Scott!!
	⚡ 5:00am Don in Tampere: Over here fuel efficiency is usually given in liters per 100 km. I guess for electric cars that should change to kW-h/100 km
	♥ 5:01am Brian D: Hello Pablexa. I'm not smart enough to do that TM thing...
	♥ 5:01am Scott67: Get this inya Pabs! It'll keep you up, or knock you out mate. 🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	♥ 5:02am Scott67: How the fuck does anyone do that TM thing? Coulda used it when making my T-Shirt Design. Available now to order.😉
	♥ 5:03am Pablexa™: Hey Brian D! Hold down ALT key and 0153
	♥ 5:03am StringOFperils: Or you can just find Pablexa in any archive, and cut and paste it like did.
	♥ 5:04am StringOFperils: *like I did
	♥ 5:04am Brian D: I did that and it says this computer will self-destruct in 10 seco
	♥ 5:04am Scott67: My laptop is ticking now!!!!????
	♥ 5:04am Pablexa™: I shoulda warned you not to do it on a Mac™
	♥ 5:05am Scott67: Fuck Apple!
	⚡ ♥ 5:05am fred: @Brian: cheap way to blame a listener for your next flub
	♥ 5:05am Pablexa™: I knew I liked you Scott!
	♥ 5:06am StringOFperils: Doesn't work on my PC :(
	♥ 5:06am Scott67: Cheers Pabs!🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	♥ 5:06am Pablexa™: @String Maybe also hold down the FN key???
	⚡ ♥ 5:06am Michael of Cologne: ™ ASCII !!
	♥ 5:07am Scott67: 🍻😎🤙💨🍺™
	♥ 5:07am Scott67: I like your method SOp! ™
	♥ 5:08am StringOFperils: That's my speed. Takes half the time, and .5 times as long.
	♥ 5:09am Scott™: The power of ownership has gone to my bald head! 🍻😎🤙💨🍺™
	⚡ ♥ 5:09am fred: I remember Mach OS manuals with "Boycott Apple" from 1993. They're not new to evil
	5:10am morphe': I read that the Zambian student was serving 9 years for a drug offense... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-63935260
	♥ 5:10am Pablexa™: OHHHHH FUGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
	⚡ ♥ 5:11am fred: OK, the only Xmas song
	♥ 5:11am StringOFperils: It's officially Christmas now. Pogue mahone 2020!
	♥ 5:11am Pablexa™: IT'S NOT A CHRISTAMS SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
	♥ 5:12am StringOFperils: 2022. oh man. I need sleep
	♥ 5:12am Pablexa™: Tis one of my Fave songs of all time though
	♥ 5:12am Scott™: Like all apples, full of goodness until removed from its nurturing roots. Then it quickly loses goodness & turns bad.🌳🍏🌸
	⚡ ♥ 5:13am Michael of Cologne: Scott67: FREEDOM! Freedom to accumulate IT endlessly, freedom of movement for IT. As long as IT keeps accumulating senselessly and endlessly, everything's hunky dory. So say the US. The Earth is showing it's no longer going to put up with it. Is that why the US Reps have become totally unhinged? Unhinged from Earth. Unhinged from humans.
	♥ 5:13am StringOFperils: And there it is. The last station that will air the other F word
	♥ 5:13am Pablexa™: Also If Ima asked what my fave Xmas song is, I'll prolly name this one......
	♥ 5:13am Pablexa™: @String I heard that!!!!
	⚡ ♥ 5:14am fred: It's early, but Guinness cracked open
	♥ 5:14am Scott™: Right on Michael! ✊😎🤙❤️🌏
	♥ 5:14am Pablexa™: SEE "I've built my dreams around you" - Tis a love song, not a Christmas song!!!
	♥ 5:16am StringOFperils: Proprietary WFMU Christmas song I guess, with Dennis Diken on drums
	5:16am Chris Crisco: I coulda been some one ... well so could anyone. Best lyric ever for an Xmas song. Maybe any song.
	♥ 5:16am Scott™: What Fuck?? No fucks here, I heard nothing! & you can't prove a fucken thing!....™
	♥ 5:18am Pablexa™: @Chris Crisco Get's It!!!
	5:18am morphe': "RTE Late Late Show viewers all have same complaint after ‘PC version’ of Fairytale of New York" https://www.thesun.ie/tv/9917033/rte-late-late-show-complaint-fairytale-new-york/?rec_article=true
	♥ 5:18am Scott™: Thank fuck for that!🍻😎🤙💨🍺™
	♥ 5:19am StringOFperils: Revisionist history is a fucking fucking drag
	♥ 5:20am Scott™: My TM stands for Testicle Mold.
	⚡ ♥ 5:20am fred: @Pabs: "Happy Christmas your arse" is top holiday spirit
	⚡ ♥ 5:20am Michael of Cologne: ALT-0154 š ALT-0155 › ALT-0128 € ALT-91 [ ALT-0152 ˜ ALT-0151— A whole ALT world!
	5:21am Chris Crisco: No fucks just clitorises. Someone should invent a 2 headed vibrator. Maybe that could be Muskrat's next venture.
	♥ 5:21am Pablexa™: Ima from the UK and one Xmas Eve I got my front tooth kicked out - Root an' all - Twas my fave Xmas ever!!
	♥ 5:21am StringOFperils: Ouch! God bless us everyone.
	♥ 5:22am StringOFperils: What happened to the other guy?
	♥ 5:22am Scott™: Faggot is a no go now! But can be legally broadcast. Fucken double standards!
	♥ 5:22am Pablexa™: He got away
	⚡ ♥ 5:27am Michael of Cologne: Most regwetable, as say in land of rising sun.
	⚡ ♥ 5:27am tom tom the pipers son: in the words of charles ludlam the playwright as camille "throw another faggot on the fire,there are no faggots in the house? look out the window and see if there are any faggots on the street."
	♥ 5:27am Scott67: This fucken ripppsss!!!
	5:28am Chris Crisco: I think that alt thing only works with a numeric keypad the regular numeric keys it doesn't work so if you don't have one you're SOL. Windows has a charmap program to get the unicode characters but ™ doesn't appear to be on there.
	♥ 5:28am Scott67: & Shakespeare said fuck.
	♥ 5:29am StringOFperils: Maybe that's where 'flaming' comes from
	♥ 5:29am Scott67: Bloody oath SOp!!
	⚡ ♥ 5:30am Michael of Cologne: @Chris: Most regwetable, as say in rand of lising sun.
	♥ 5:31am Scott67: Casual racism is a slippery slope M.
	♥ 5:32am StringOFperils: True. The vestigial tail of language.
	⚡ ♥ 5:32am Michael of Cologne: Yer right, Scott. Thnx.
	♥ 5:34am Scott67: The performer in me is prone to accents Michael. & I still do it without thinking mate.
	⚡ ♥ 5:34am fred: Sorry I hogged so much of the conversation today, I'll stay away
	♥ 5:34am Pablexa™: #WeAreBrummies
	♥ 5:35am Scott67: Don't start that Fred, no need! We love you mate!
	♥ 5:35am Brian D: Not at all, Fred. Very lively comments board this week. I love it.
	♥ 5:35am StringOFperils: Speaking of evolutionary dinosaurs....very 'in the pocket' tho.
	⚡ ♥ 5:36am Michael of Cologne: I love imitating accents, too, Scott. Don't have many qualms taking off Germans, though. Just to get even at rough handling by an authoritarian culture.
	♥ 5:37am StringOFperils: I slip into an ebonics thang now and then in the chat and I have to watch that
	5:38am morphe': Cigarettes were commonly called Fags in 60s-70s Ireland(probably before) with no Neg sense ... "Give us a Fag..."
	♥ 5:38am StringOFperils: Or I's guine be gittin' in trouble fo sho
	♥ 5:38am Scott67: It is at once an Actors Art on screen & an affront to evolving standards in the everyday Michael. We are a product of the Media, so I blame them mate.
	⚡ ♥ 5:38am tom tom the pipers son: @brian lloyd newman was 43
	♥ 5:40am Brian D: Ack. Thanks for the fact-check, Tom Tom.
	♥ 5:40am Pablexa™: @Morphe' - 1st time my American (ex to be) wife met my Irish dad and he saw she smoked - He said "Oh you smoke!! The fags are dear over here" - She had no idea how to respond
	♥ 5:40am Scott67: I ham the Aussie lingo for my foreign chat mates often. I must hate myself!??
	♥ 5:41am Brian D: I included a link to this on the playlist, but the kid deserves more than that cheesy clip: www.espn.com...
	⚡ ♥ 5:42am Brian in UK: Hello Brian & early/late risers.
	♥ 5:42am StringOFperils: From Klaus Barbie to shrimps on the barbie from one comment to the next, Scott
	⚡ ♥ 5:42am Michael of Cologne: Natch, Scott. I can slip into it, too, to get anyone off my tail.
	⚡ 5:43am Don in Tampere: About time to start my weekend housecleaning, so I'll be listening but off the comments board. Great show Brian, and great comments and discussion, all of you!
	♥ 5:43am Scott67: Fag is a uniquely American slur. But at least 3 Nations I know of refer to Cigarettes as Fags.
	5:43am Chris Crisco: There was a 1 armed pitcher Jim Abbott in major league baseball. Pitched a no hitter for the Yankees
	⚡ ♥ 5:45am Michael of Cologne: In German a fag is a Glimmerstange.
	♥ 5:45am Brian D: He did. I remember that day well, Chris.
	⚡ ♥ 5:45am Brian in UK: Scott67, it is a Harry Rag over here, as documented by the Kinks.
	♥ 5:45am Scott67: A uniquely Kiwi Sport Reference Chrisco! 🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	♥ 5:46am StringOFperils: Fittingly Cockney
	⚡ ♥ 5:46am Michael of Cologne: Or a Lulle.
	5:46am Chris Crisco: Tough year for the All Blacks Scott
	♥ 5:47am Scott67: Brian, I don't hear the F word in Oz much anymore mate. By the way, did you see the Test, or did you blink?
	⚡ ♥ 5:47am tom tom the pipers son: cockney rhyming slang
	♥ 5:47am Brian D: Belated hello @Brian and good day @Don!
	⚡ ♥ 5:48am Brian in UK: Googbye Eddie Jones. Close the door on your way out.
	♥ 5:49am Scott67: I don't follow Thugby Chrisco, so this is your safe space mate. 🍻😎🤙💨🍺🌻
	5:51am Chris Crisco: I don't either Scott. But it never fails to crack me up when they line up in that wedge formation with their heads up each others asses.
	⚡ ♥ 5:51am Brian in UK: Ah the smell of Granola in the oven wafting from the kitchen
	♥ 5:51am Scott67: @5:47. message for UK Brian. Notued to multiple Brians. Mind if we call ya Bruce? 🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	⚡ ♥ 5:52am fred: @Brian: I'm not open-minded to fascism. I want to understand where people are coming from, to have a way to talk with them. Probably a fail, but I feel I have to try
	♥ 5:52am Ike: Morning, ya dirty hippies!
	⚡ ♥ 5:52am Brian in UK: Scott67, gone in two days. Warner's next test will be his hundreth. Amazing.
	♥ 5:53am Scott67: Chrisco, they bathe together, least they know the butt is clean mate.
	5:54am morphe': Thanks BD and all !!!
	♥ 5:54am Brian D: I know Fred. To your enduring credit. If I had any recommendations, I'd offer. I should read more, in general, but particularly from thinkers I disagree with.
	♥ 5:54am Brian D: Ike!
	⚡ ♥ 5:54am tom tom the pipers son: thanks brian the three hours go by quickly
	⚡ ♥ 5:54am Brian in UK: This here's the wattle the emblem of our land You can put it in a bottle or hold it in your hand.
	♥ 5:55am Scott67: Hopefully his last too B. He's an overrated big mouthed little boof head. But probably a good Dad.
	5:55am Chris Crisco: Footy they call it here I think.
	5:56am Chris Crisco: Cricket is also a mystery to me still.
	⚡ ♥ 5:56am Brian in UK: Scott67 agreed.
	♥ 5:56am Scott67: Amen crack a tube!! Don't mind if I do! Cheers!🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	♥ 5:57am Brian D: Thank you, all. GREAT discussion today. Stay safe, have a great week and a great holiday (for those who observe). "See" you in two weeks.
	♥ 5:57am StringOFperils: Thanks, Brian D, and everyone in the chat. I'm going to be a wreck today with so little sleep, but it was worth it. Cheers! (and Happy Holidays to all. Hang onto your dental work)
	♥ 5:58am Scott67: Best Show end song ever!
	⚡ ♥ 5:58am Michael of Cologne: Thanks to all and have a good week.
	⚡ ♥ 5:58am Brian in UK: Five leaves left, time to buy another packet of cigarette papers.
	♥ 5:59am Scott67: Thanks Brian, be well til we hear you next mate! 🌏🍻😎🤙💨🍺🌻❤️
	♥ 5:59am StringOFperils: Brian in UK, rolling his own fags.
	5:59am Chris Crisco: Cheers Brian & everyone! Great show as always!
	♥ 5:59am Scott67: Tallyho B.UK!
	⚡ ♥ 5:59am Brian in UK: Brian, enjoy the break.
	⚡ ♥ 6:00am Brian in UK: String Nick D, rolling his own joints.
	♥ 6:00am Scott67: Hahahaha! SOp!
	⚡ ♥ 6:24am fred: @Brian: Those you disagree with are the worthy ones, keep your mind at work. Agreement is boring

Currents with Brian D: Playlist from December 18, 2022

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December 18, 2022: "I get up in the evening/And I ain't got nothing to say..."

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Artist	Track	Album	Comments	Approx. start time
Lucy Dacus	Dancing in the Dark "Dancing in the Dark" by "Lucy Dacus"	Ladies Sing the Boss		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	Starman "Starman" by "David Bowie"	The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars		0:03:13 (Pop-up)
Portishead	We Carry On "We Carry On" by "Portishead"	Third		0:07:26 (Pop-up)
Drugdealer	Posse Cut (ft. Bambina, Sedona, Sean Nicholas Savage)	Hiding in Plain Sight		0:14:28 (Pop-up)
	Clip: BBC/various-researchers find evidence of clitoris in female snakes			0:20:56 (Pop-up)
APB	Danceability Parts 1 and 2 "Danceability Parts 1 and 2" by "APB"	Something to Believe In		0:20:57 (Pop-up)
Manuel Göttsching	E2 E4 (excerpt)	MP3	https://pitchfork.com/news/manuel-gottsching-german-electronic-innovator-dies-at-70/	0:29:14 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: James Murphy	Golden Years "Golden Years" by "James Murphy"	While We're Young motion picture soundtrack		0:34:14 (Pop-up)
Pet Shop Boys	King's Cross "King's Cross" by "Pet Shop Boys"	Actually	https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/newslondon/giant-hyper-real-sculpture-of-a-person-experiencing-homelessness-unveiled-at-king-s-cross-station/ar-AA14VsHY	0:40:17 (Pop-up)
	Clip: WFAA-Kroger-Albertsons supermarket merger in US			0:45:18 (Pop-up)
Adrian Quesada	Rise of the Have-Nots	Jaguar Sound		0:46:09 (Pop-up)
Savana Funk	Lipari "Lipari" by "Savana Funk"	Ghibli		0:51:02 (Pop-up)
Yanna Momina	The Donkey Doesn’t Listen	Afar Ways		0:56:45 (Pop-up)
	Clip: CNN/CBC-the latest on migration "Clip: CNN/CBC-the latest on migration"			1:04:09 (Pop-up)
Charlotte Adigery and Bolis Pupul	Making Sense Stop	Topical Dancer		1:05:25 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: James Murphy	Golden Years "Golden Years" by "James Murphy"	While We're Young motion picture soundtrack		1:09:47 (Pop-up)
Vieux Farka Toure et Khruangbin	Ali Hada Abada	Ali		1:18:41 (Pop-up)
	Clip: Newzroom Afrika-Zambia student killed fighting for Russia		https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-pardoned-zambian-student-to-fight-in-ukraine-where-he-was-killed-foreign-minister/ar-AA155t5Q	1:23:52 (Pop-up)
Disassembler	Debt "Debt" by "Disassembler"	A Wave from a Shore		1:24:11 (Pop-up)
Lean Year	Nitetime "Nitetime" by "Lean Year"	Sides		1:31:00 (Pop-up)
Maria Chiara Arguru	Forest City "Forest City" by "Maria Chiara Arguru"	Forest City		1:35:09 (Pop-up)
The Comet Is Coming	Angel of Darkness	Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam		1:39:55 (Pop-up)
Spill	Patina "Patina" by "Spill"	Mycelium		1:46:51 (Pop-up)
	Clip: NPR-Death of Story Corps pioneer Lloyd Newman		https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/business/media/lloyd-newman-dead.html	1:55:39 (Pop-up)
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros	Midnight Jam	Streetcore		1:58:08 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: James Murphy	Golden Years "Golden Years" by "James Murphy"	While We're Young motion picture soundtrack		2:02:22 (Pop-up)
The Pogues	Fairytale of New York "Fairytale of New York" by "The Pogues"	If I Should Fall From Grace With God		2:07:40 (Pop-up)
Smithereens	Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer	MP3		2:12:01 (Pop-up)
Howlin' Rain	Calling Lightning Part 2	Live from Pioneertown, CA		2:15:06 (Pop-up)
Color Green	Blizzed Out "Blizzed Out" by "Color Green"	Color Green		2:25:33 (Pop-up)
Led Zeppelin	Houses of the Holy "Houses of the Holy" by "Led Zeppelin"	Physical Graffiti		2:31:22 (Pop-up)
	Clip: Cheddar News-the story of Hansel Emmanuel		https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/35229354/hansel-emmanuel-one-armed-player-northwestern-st-scores-first-points	2:35:06 (Pop-up)
Adrie	You Don't Try "You Don't Try" by "Adrie"	Blind Spot		2:36:23 (Pop-up)
Broadcast	Long Was The Year "Long Was The Year" by "Broadcast"	Maida Vale Sessions		2:41:48 (Pop-up)
Ty Segal	Saturday, Part 2 "Saturday, Part 2" by "Ty Segal"	Hello, Hi		2:46:09 (Pop-up)
Nick Drake	Three Hours "Three Hours" by "Nick Drake"	Five Leaves Left		2:50:10 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	♥ 3:02am Scott67: G'day Brian & Moon Dogs! 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺🐶🌚
	⚡ 3:02am Don in Tampere: Good morning Brian! Let's see who joins the chat today!
	⚡ ♥ 3:03am tom tom the pipers son: good morning brian, folks
	⚡ ♥ 3:05am fred: Hello Brian and all
	♥ 3:07am Scott67: Beaut 1st Dog piece Brian!🐾🐾
	♥ 3:09am Scott67: Thank fuck for Albo! & fuck Fascism!
	⚡ ♥ 3:10am fred: @Scott: I bought a whisky from Tasmania for my brother, looks like the new hot place for whisky these days
	♥ 3:10am Brian D: Scott! Don! Tom Tom! Fred!
	♥ 3:11am Brian D: Love First Dog @Scott.
	♥ 3:12am Scott67: It does Fred! I can't afford it on my buck a can beer budget, so what's it like mate? 🍻😎🤙🥃
	♥ 3:16am Scott67: I guess you won't know til after Xmas Fred, if he shares it with you?😉
	⚡ ♥ 3:22am fred: @Scott: I probably won't get to taste it, I actually already gave it to him. But my whisky guru recommended a specific cask, so I'll probably get a bottle for myself next month (December is tough on my budget)
	⚡ ♥ 3:26am tom tom the pipers son: saw the snake story on colbert... thought it was that snakes have two clitorises or is it clitorii
	♥ 3:26am Scott67: December is tough all round I reckon Fred. I just endure Xmas for the sake of appearance. Such a needlessly stressful time posing as a joyful celebration.
	♥ 3:28am Brian D: It has two parts, Tom Tom: www.cnn.com...
	♥ 3:28am Scott67: A venomous clitoris! Pussy Riot potion!✊
	⚡ ♥ 3:32am fred: There was an article about that in The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com...
	⚡ ♥ 3:34am tom tom the pipers son: dolphins too! but you would kinda figure that one
	⚡ ♥ 3:43am tom tom the pipers son: sleeping rough
	♥ 3:44am Brian D: Good one, Tom Tom.
	3:48am morphe': 2 clitorises or is it clitorii makes sense as male snakes have 2 penis heads ..
	⚡ 3:51am Don in Tampere: Well, it seems clear that snake sexual organs are good click bait for this crew :D
	⚡ ♥ 3:52am fred: I noticed that the Paris transit authority has been removing seats in subway stations, putting spikes or weirdly shaped plastic things to deter homeless people from sleeping there. The next move could be putting a sculpture of them instead (I'm afraid to give them ideas)
	♥ 3:52am Brian D: I love how you all are taking this for the important scientific discovery it is, and I'm making sophomoric jokes.
	⚡ ♥ 3:52am tom tom the pipers son: good point, so to speak morphe
	⚡ 3:53am Don in Tampere: My mood usually lifts a little in December because the permanent snow cover has usually arrived and it's no longer as dark and bleak as November usually is here.
	⚡ ♥ 3:54am tom tom the pipers son: the sort of feminist spin on the research part is interesting
	♥ 3:54am Brian D: Yeah @Fred. Paris sounds like it has a similar approach to NYC's.
	♥ 3:55am Brian D: @Don. I actually like the cold weather, so that part makes December enjoyable. Could do without some of the holiday, uh, "spirit," however.
	⚡ 3:56am Don in Tampere: fred, I think I remember seeing similar things in London a long time ago. So where the hell are they supposed to sleep? It seems so evil, and frankly, in the run-up to Christmas, exactly the opposite of what the person who's birth Christmas is ostensibly celebrating was preaching about.
	⚡ 3:57am Don in Tampere: I think that the pre-Christmas atmosphere in most of Europe is, while still commercial, somehow not quite as cheesy as I remember in the US (or saw the couple of years I lived in Ireland)
	♥ 3:57am Scott67: The most phallic of Animals has 2 clitoris. Stay in touch with your Feminine side guys. 🍻😎🤙
	♥ 3:58am Brian D: Actually, I've found pre-Christmas in Ireland refreshing compared with the US. Which may be saying something, Don.
	⚡ 3:58am Don in Tampere: I went to a nice handcraft-oriented Christmas market at the alternative art space at Hiedänranta last Sunday, which was very nice and chill, and even saw my neighbor do a great solo jouhikko concert.
	♥ 3:59am Brian D: The jokes write themselves, @Scott.
	♥ 4:02am Scott67: Love this!!
	♥ 4:02am Brian D: To be clear, I'm not saying the sculpture in London is solving any problems. I just think it highlights a more humanistic approach to the problem. Meanwhile, the police in NYC are rounding up homeless people and forcibly checking them into hospitals for psychiatric care.
	⚡ 4:02am Don in Tampere: The German Christmas markets are of course very commercial, but I find the atmosphere quite nice except when they get too crowded. Haven't managed to get to the Frankfurt one since 2019 though, first canceled due to Covid, then last year's 4th wave, and this year I just have too damn much work to get there before it closes. But I'll at least be there for the ringing of the bells in all the downtown churches at 5 pm on Christmas Eve (the "Stadtgeläut")
	4:03am Chris Crisco: 2 G Spots?
	♥ 4:03am Scott67: Would be a better work of Public Art if it had bunks & food inside it.
	4:04am Chris Crisco: 1 For Tomorrow 1 Just For Today
	♥ 4:04am Brian D: I have sadly never been to a German Christmas market.
	♥ 4:04am Brian D: Or 2 more than a lot of men know about @Chris. Hello, by the way.
	♥ 4:05am Brian D: And great point, @Scott.
	4:05am morphe': NYC has all types of uninviting seating things from the subway to corporate plazas to the parks ... Squatted in London in the mid-late 80s between King's Cross and Heuston Station ... the area had "hostels" for homeless people, but there was a rule about only staying for x nights to try to get folks to move on = no stability ... Great book about Euston Station about a homeless alcoholic who saved his own life via Chess: The Grass Arena: An Autobiography by John Healy https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/3990814-the-grass-arena
	♥ 4:07am Scott67: & I'm an Artist Brian. I always try to add layers of meaning to work. While not exploiting people or our planet in the making.
	⚡ 4:07am Don in Tampere: Finland has made it a goal to get rid of homelessness by 2027, not by running off the homeless but by providing housing. There are still about 4000 homeless people in Finland but they are working on it in the right way. www.helsinkitimes.fi...
	⚡ ♥ 4:08am fred: @Brian: Do you have a very conservative writer to recommend? I try to challenge myself by reading those. I was reading Rod Dreher, but he got too insane and boring lately (Orban worship, consuming hatred, got repetitive)
	♥ 4:09am Brian D: Interest @Don. Thanks for sharing. And thanks, too, Morphe. That book is going on the list.
	♥ 4:09am Brian D: InterestING
	♥ 4:10am Scott67: ⬅️Apart from my limited run Artist Designed TRASH CULT T-Shirt! Available to pre-order until Dec 31.
	♥ 4:10am Brian D: Scott @4:07, I get it. The art in London will only matter if it gets people thinking and acting, I guess.
	4:10am morphe': SF 2018: "Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 2178 into law on Sept. 18. It forbids so-called limited service charitable organizations from serving food in plazas, parks and other public spaces without a permit. Local officials may confiscate the food and cite the organization with a misdemeanor." https://www.sfpublicpress.org/state-law-cracks-down-on-free-public-meals/
	⚡ ♥ 4:15am Michael of Cologne: Good morning Brian & all. I'll avatar for you at the Xmas market on Rudolfplatz or Stadtgarten, if you like, since I don't indulge in them myself. Just tell me when you'd like to go.
	♥ 4:16am Scott67: Brian, the photo of the Homeless Sculpture is the most poignant. It captures how the average commuter receives it. Walking by glued to their fucken phone! Rendering its meaning as mute as the people it suggests it represents.
	♥ 4:18am Destroit: Hi everyone. I’m here but fading fast hehe….
	♥ 4:22am Brian D: Fred @!4:08, I don't. I'm not very open-minded, I'm afraid.
	♥ 4:23am Brian D: Morphe, Gov. Jerry Brown = Gov. Moonbeam.
	⚡ ♥ 4:23am fred: @Brian: Then again, if you say everything as a performance of your last words (you never know, right), that could get pompous and weird real fast
	♥ 4:23am StringOFperils: @Scott67 > Yet, that neglect and indifference reinforces the installation's meaning, like a tragically self-reflexive black hole, sucking in the last vestiges of reality as the human race disappears up its own sorry butt.
	⚡ ♥ 4:24am Michael of Cologne: -4° C here this morning. On Thursday it was -9° C in the morning.
	♥ 4:24am Brian D: Hello Michael and Destroit. I may take you up on that offer, Michael.
	♥ 4:25am Scott67: Pretty much SOp!🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	♥ 4:25am Brian D: Very true, Fred. I have a relative who insists on quoting Churchill or FDR during political discussions. It gets tiresome.
	♥ 4:27am StringOFperils: Can't believe I can't sleep again (middle of the night), but glad to be here for a while with you all. Hello!
	♥ 4:28am Scott67: I would rather an Artist Installation of Caravans (trailers) to shelter Homeless Humans. Parked on the lawns of Public Buildings & Religious Corporations.
	♥ 4:30am Scott67: 8:30pm Sunday, Summer 22 Celsius here.🌏
	♥ 4:30am StringOFperils: Not going to happen in present-day London, that's for damn sure. If things get much worse, it's gonna be 1789 Paris all over again.
	♥ 4:31am Brian D: Hello String. Sorry you can't sleep, but glad to have you.
	♥ 4:32am Scott67: That's not the Blitz Spirit SOp!
	⚡ ♥ 4:32am fred: @Brian: Kinda sad if one's last words would be a quote, especially from a politician. I wish I could die quoting Sylvia Plath, that would be overachieving
	♥ 4:34am Brian D: Right Fred. A friend, who is 95, used to quote Yeats, Joyce and Shakespeare from memory. That's all gone.
	♥ 4:34am StringOFperils: Sorry for kvetching like that. I'm just disgusted. And, I have to admit, somewhat fearful at this point. These times are becoming a little too interesting.
	⚡ ♥ 4:34am Michael of Cologne: Hi Scott! It's nice to have forgotten about Fahrenheit. Only remember 32 and 212 as fixed points. US never converted to save money. Same with inches to cm. and feet to metres. Save money and make the rest of the world put up with.
	♥ 4:37am Scott67: G'day Michael, & yet they changed the spelling of the English Language as a way to cast off the Imperial Colonists Legacy. But kept Imperial Measurements. Australia converted in a year without a ripple.
	♥ 4:40am Scott67: They definitely retained the arrogance of their Colonists.
	⚡ ♥ 4:40am tom tom the pipers son: haters gonna hate-an murican ;)
	⚡ ♥ 4:41am fred: @Scott: Freud would have a blast over the US clinging to the imperial system
	♥ 4:42am Scott67: All the Americans I know are great. & the First Nations didn't get a say. But the Corporate Capitalist System of USA is toxic.
	⚡ ♥ 4:42am Michael of Cologne: Yeah, Scott. Aussies are nifty in that way. The Brits like to get stuck in between -- half-hearted -- love their traditions. So you never know over the Channel whether its miles or km. Mostly a mish-mash of both.
	4:43am Chris Crisco: I remember back in the 1970s the US tried to go metric. Didn't get very far. I'm still adjusting. I just remember every 10°C is 18°F starting from 32 so 10°C is 50°F 20°C = 68°F 30°C = 86°F and go from there.
	⚡ 4:43am Don in Tampere: I remember a discussion in the 70s about the US switching to metric, but people got all upset about not keeping their "amurrcan" measurement units. Metric makes so much more sense. Though I am ok with the fact that the French Revolutionaries didn't manage to make their new calendar stick like they did with the metric system. one day off every ten days? no way!
	♥ 4:44am StringOFperils: It's estimated that here in Canada we spent in excess of a billion dollars converting from imperial to metric, between 1970 and 1985. And everyone still uses both systems simultaneously!!! No one ever really converted. We just use them both now. Ottawa smokes kilos of weed by the pound.
	♥ 4:44am Brian D: That's funny, String.
	⚡ ♥ 4:45am Michael of Cologne: The Comet Is Coming - beautiful!
	♥ 4:45am Scott67: SOp, your land border is the issue there mate.
	⚡ ♥ 4:45am Michael of Cologne: String: infected by the US in so many ways.
	♥ 4:46am StringOFperils: You mean our grovelling subservience to that giant thing casting the shadow?
	♥ 4:47am StringOFperils: ...said the guy glued to the New Jersey mothership. Ha ha ha.
	♥ 4:48am Brian D: If everything the US "exported" was like WFMU, the world would be a much better place.
	♥ 4:48am Scott67: I can see Fox "news" now if US declared Metrication. " Our guns are next". FREEDOM FREEDOM FREEDOM from facts!
	⚡ 4:48am Don in Tampere: brian, absolutely!
	⚡ ♥ 4:50am tom tom the pipers son: some lungs on whoever this sax player is
	♥ 4:50am Scott67: Said the rebel Aussie likewise! 💻🎶🍻😎🤙💨🍺❤️🍁
	⚡ ♥ 4:52am fred: It's weird, my sister younger, by a decade) still converted to Franc for years, when I was thinking in Euros right away. Ideologic thing I guess, I'm against borders, this didn't work out
	4:53am Chris Crisco: If I remember correctly my 1974 Malibu the speedometer had both miles and kilometers. In the US they say a car gets good or bad gas mileage. Still trying to figure out what they call it here in NZ kilometerage?
	4:56am Chris Crisco: It also had a horn switch that switched between a normal horn and a silly high pitched squeal because NYC had a law against loud horns.
	♥ 4:56am StringOFperils: I like this Spill track. Kinda reminds me of Miles Davis' 'In A Silent Way'
	♥ 4:58am Pablexa™: Ima up a little early, or Ima still up - Hiya folks!
	♥ 4:58am StringOFperils: He's waking up™
	♥ 4:59am Pablexa™: @String LOL He's prolly gonna fall asleep™
	♥ 4:59am Scott67: He's typing!
	♥ 4:59am StringOFperils: LOL
	♥ 5:00am Pablexa™: Hiya Scott!!
	⚡ 5:00am Don in Tampere: Over here fuel efficiency is usually given in liters per 100 km. I guess for electric cars that should change to kW-h/100 km
	♥ 5:01am Brian D: Hello Pablexa. I'm not smart enough to do that TM thing...
	♥ 5:01am Scott67: Get this inya Pabs! It'll keep you up, or knock you out mate. 🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	♥ 5:02am Scott67: How the fuck does anyone do that TM thing? Coulda used it when making my T-Shirt Design. Available now to order.😉
	♥ 5:03am Pablexa™: Hey Brian D! Hold down ALT key and 0153
	♥ 5:03am StringOFperils: Or you can just find Pablexa in any archive, and cut and paste it like did.
	♥ 5:04am StringOFperils: *like I did
	♥ 5:04am Brian D: I did that and it says this computer will self-destruct in 10 seco
	♥ 5:04am Scott67: My laptop is ticking now!!!!????
	♥ 5:04am Pablexa™: I shoulda warned you not to do it on a Mac™
	♥ 5:05am Scott67: Fuck Apple!
	⚡ ♥ 5:05am fred: @Brian: cheap way to blame a listener for your next flub
	♥ 5:05am Pablexa™: I knew I liked you Scott!
	♥ 5:06am StringOFperils: Doesn't work on my PC :(
	♥ 5:06am Scott67: Cheers Pabs!🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	♥ 5:06am Pablexa™: @String Maybe also hold down the FN key???
	⚡ ♥ 5:06am Michael of Cologne: ™ ASCII !!
	♥ 5:07am Scott67: 🍻😎🤙💨🍺™
	♥ 5:07am Scott67: I like your method SOp! ™
	♥ 5:08am StringOFperils: That's my speed. Takes half the time, and .5 times as long.
	♥ 5:09am Scott™: The power of ownership has gone to my bald head! 🍻😎🤙💨🍺™
	⚡ ♥ 5:09am fred: I remember Mach OS manuals with "Boycott Apple" from 1993. They're not new to evil
	5:10am morphe': I read that the Zambian student was serving 9 years for a drug offense... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-63935260
	♥ 5:10am Pablexa™: OHHHHH FUGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
	⚡ ♥ 5:11am fred: OK, the only Xmas song
	♥ 5:11am StringOFperils: It's officially Christmas now. Pogue mahone 2020!
	♥ 5:11am Pablexa™: IT'S NOT A CHRISTAMS SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
	♥ 5:12am StringOFperils: 2022. oh man. I need sleep
	♥ 5:12am Pablexa™: Tis one of my Fave songs of all time though
	♥ 5:12am Scott™: Like all apples, full of goodness until removed from its nurturing roots. Then it quickly loses goodness & turns bad.🌳🍏🌸
	⚡ ♥ 5:13am Michael of Cologne: Scott67: FREEDOM! Freedom to accumulate IT endlessly, freedom of movement for IT. As long as IT keeps accumulating senselessly and endlessly, everything's hunky dory. So say the US. The Earth is showing it's no longer going to put up with it. Is that why the US Reps have become totally unhinged? Unhinged from Earth. Unhinged from humans.
	♥ 5:13am StringOFperils: And there it is. The last station that will air the other F word
	♥ 5:13am Pablexa™: Also If Ima asked what my fave Xmas song is, I'll prolly name this one......
	♥ 5:13am Pablexa™: @String I heard that!!!!
	⚡ ♥ 5:14am fred: It's early, but Guinness cracked open
	♥ 5:14am Scott™: Right on Michael! ✊😎🤙❤️🌏
	♥ 5:14am Pablexa™: SEE "I've built my dreams around you" - Tis a love song, not a Christmas song!!!
	♥ 5:16am StringOFperils: Proprietary WFMU Christmas song I guess, with Dennis Diken on drums
	5:16am Chris Crisco: I coulda been some one ... well so could anyone. Best lyric ever for an Xmas song. Maybe any song.
	♥ 5:16am Scott™: What Fuck?? No fucks here, I heard nothing! & you can't prove a fucken thing!....™
	♥ 5:18am Pablexa™: @Chris Crisco Get's It!!!
	5:18am morphe': "RTE Late Late Show viewers all have same complaint after ‘PC version’ of Fairytale of New York" https://www.thesun.ie/tv/9917033/rte-late-late-show-complaint-fairytale-new-york/?rec_article=true
	♥ 5:18am Scott™: Thank fuck for that!🍻😎🤙💨🍺™
	♥ 5:19am StringOFperils: Revisionist history is a fucking fucking drag
	♥ 5:20am Scott™: My TM stands for Testicle Mold.
	⚡ ♥ 5:20am fred: @Pabs: "Happy Christmas your arse" is top holiday spirit
	⚡ ♥ 5:20am Michael of Cologne: ALT-0154 š ALT-0155 › ALT-0128 € ALT-91 [ ALT-0152 ˜ ALT-0151— A whole ALT world!
	5:21am Chris Crisco: No fucks just clitorises. Someone should invent a 2 headed vibrator. Maybe that could be Muskrat's next venture.
	♥ 5:21am Pablexa™: Ima from the UK and one Xmas Eve I got my front tooth kicked out - Root an' all - Twas my fave Xmas ever!!
	♥ 5:21am StringOFperils: Ouch! God bless us everyone.
	♥ 5:22am StringOFperils: What happened to the other guy?
	♥ 5:22am Scott™: Faggot is a no go now! But can be legally broadcast. Fucken double standards!
	♥ 5:22am Pablexa™: He got away
	⚡ ♥ 5:27am Michael of Cologne: Most regwetable, as say in land of rising sun.
	⚡ ♥ 5:27am tom tom the pipers son: in the words of charles ludlam the playwright as camille "throw another faggot on the fire,there are no faggots in the house? look out the window and see if there are any faggots on the street."
	♥ 5:27am Scott67: This fucken ripppsss!!!
	5:28am Chris Crisco: I think that alt thing only works with a numeric keypad the regular numeric keys it doesn't work so if you don't have one you're SOL. Windows has a charmap program to get the unicode characters but ™ doesn't appear to be on there.
	♥ 5:28am Scott67: & Shakespeare said fuck.
	♥ 5:29am StringOFperils: Maybe that's where 'flaming' comes from
	♥ 5:29am Scott67: Bloody oath SOp!!
	⚡ ♥ 5:30am Michael of Cologne: @Chris: Most regwetable, as say in rand of lising sun.
	♥ 5:31am Scott67: Casual racism is a slippery slope M.
	♥ 5:32am StringOFperils: True. The vestigial tail of language.
	⚡ ♥ 5:32am Michael of Cologne: Yer right, Scott. Thnx.
	♥ 5:34am Scott67: The performer in me is prone to accents Michael. & I still do it without thinking mate.
	⚡ ♥ 5:34am fred: Sorry I hogged so much of the conversation today, I'll stay away
	♥ 5:34am Pablexa™: #WeAreBrummies
	♥ 5:35am Scott67: Don't start that Fred, no need! We love you mate!
	♥ 5:35am Brian D: Not at all, Fred. Very lively comments board this week. I love it.
	♥ 5:35am StringOFperils: Speaking of evolutionary dinosaurs....very 'in the pocket' tho.
	⚡ ♥ 5:36am Michael of Cologne: I love imitating accents, too, Scott. Don't have many qualms taking off Germans, though. Just to get even at rough handling by an authoritarian culture.
	♥ 5:37am StringOFperils: I slip into an ebonics thang now and then in the chat and I have to watch that
	5:38am morphe': Cigarettes were commonly called Fags in 60s-70s Ireland(probably before) with no Neg sense ... "Give us a Fag..."
	♥ 5:38am StringOFperils: Or I's guine be gittin' in trouble fo sho
	♥ 5:38am Scott67: It is at once an Actors Art on screen & an affront to evolving standards in the everyday Michael. We are a product of the Media, so I blame them mate.
	⚡ ♥ 5:38am tom tom the pipers son: @brian lloyd newman was 43
	♥ 5:40am Brian D: Ack. Thanks for the fact-check, Tom Tom.
	♥ 5:40am Pablexa™: @Morphe' - 1st time my American (ex to be) wife met my Irish dad and he saw she smoked - He said "Oh you smoke!! The fags are dear over here" - She had no idea how to respond
	♥ 5:40am Scott67: I ham the Aussie lingo for my foreign chat mates often. I must hate myself!??
	♥ 5:41am Brian D: I included a link to this on the playlist, but the kid deserves more than that cheesy clip: www.espn.com...
	⚡ ♥ 5:42am Brian in UK: Hello Brian & early/late risers.
	♥ 5:42am StringOFperils: From Klaus Barbie to shrimps on the barbie from one comment to the next, Scott
	⚡ ♥ 5:42am Michael of Cologne: Natch, Scott. I can slip into it, too, to get anyone off my tail.
	⚡ 5:43am Don in Tampere: About time to start my weekend housecleaning, so I'll be listening but off the comments board. Great show Brian, and great comments and discussion, all of you!
	♥ 5:43am Scott67: Fag is a uniquely American slur. But at least 3 Nations I know of refer to Cigarettes as Fags.
	5:43am Chris Crisco: There was a 1 armed pitcher Jim Abbott in major league baseball. Pitched a no hitter for the Yankees
	⚡ ♥ 5:45am Michael of Cologne: In German a fag is a Glimmerstange.
	♥ 5:45am Brian D: He did. I remember that day well, Chris.
	⚡ ♥ 5:45am Brian in UK: Scott67, it is a Harry Rag over here, as documented by the Kinks.
	♥ 5:45am Scott67: A uniquely Kiwi Sport Reference Chrisco! 🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	♥ 5:46am StringOFperils: Fittingly Cockney
	⚡ ♥ 5:46am Michael of Cologne: Or a Lulle.
	5:46am Chris Crisco: Tough year for the All Blacks Scott
	♥ 5:47am Scott67: Brian, I don't hear the F word in Oz much anymore mate. By the way, did you see the Test, or did you blink?
	⚡ ♥ 5:47am tom tom the pipers son: cockney rhyming slang
	♥ 5:47am Brian D: Belated hello @Brian and good day @Don!
	⚡ ♥ 5:48am Brian in UK: Googbye Eddie Jones. Close the door on your way out.
	♥ 5:49am Scott67: I don't follow Thugby Chrisco, so this is your safe space mate. 🍻😎🤙💨🍺🌻
	5:51am Chris Crisco: I don't either Scott. But it never fails to crack me up when they line up in that wedge formation with their heads up each others asses.
	⚡ ♥ 5:51am Brian in UK: Ah the smell of Granola in the oven wafting from the kitchen
	♥ 5:51am Scott67: @5:47. message for UK Brian. Notued to multiple Brians. Mind if we call ya Bruce? 🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	⚡ ♥ 5:52am fred: @Brian: I'm not open-minded to fascism. I want to understand where people are coming from, to have a way to talk with them. Probably a fail, but I feel I have to try
	♥ 5:52am Ike: Morning, ya dirty hippies!
	⚡ ♥ 5:52am Brian in UK: Scott67, gone in two days. Warner's next test will be his hundreth. Amazing.
	♥ 5:53am Scott67: Chrisco, they bathe together, least they know the butt is clean mate.
	5:54am morphe': Thanks BD and all !!!
	♥ 5:54am Brian D: I know Fred. To your enduring credit. If I had any recommendations, I'd offer. I should read more, in general, but particularly from thinkers I disagree with.
	♥ 5:54am Brian D: Ike!
	⚡ ♥ 5:54am tom tom the pipers son: thanks brian the three hours go by quickly
	⚡ ♥ 5:54am Brian in UK: This here's the wattle the emblem of our land You can put it in a bottle or hold it in your hand.
	♥ 5:55am Scott67: Hopefully his last too B. He's an overrated big mouthed little boof head. But probably a good Dad.
	5:55am Chris Crisco: Footy they call it here I think.
	5:56am Chris Crisco: Cricket is also a mystery to me still.
	⚡ ♥ 5:56am Brian in UK: Scott67 agreed.
	♥ 5:56am Scott67: Amen crack a tube!! Don't mind if I do! Cheers!🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	♥ 5:57am Brian D: Thank you, all. GREAT discussion today. Stay safe, have a great week and a great holiday (for those who observe). "See" you in two weeks.
	♥ 5:57am StringOFperils: Thanks, Brian D, and everyone in the chat. I'm going to be a wreck today with so little sleep, but it was worth it. Cheers! (and Happy Holidays to all. Hang onto your dental work)
	♥ 5:58am Scott67: Best Show end song ever!
	⚡ ♥ 5:58am Michael of Cologne: Thanks to all and have a good week.
	⚡ ♥ 5:58am Brian in UK: Five leaves left, time to buy another packet of cigarette papers.
	♥ 5:59am Scott67: Thanks Brian, be well til we hear you next mate! 🌏🍻😎🤙💨🍺🌻❤️
	♥ 5:59am StringOFperils: Brian in UK, rolling his own fags.
	5:59am Chris Crisco: Cheers Brian & everyone! Great show as always!
	♥ 5:59am Scott67: Tallyho B.UK!
	⚡ ♥ 5:59am Brian in UK: Brian, enjoy the break.
	⚡ ♥ 6:00am Brian in UK: String Nick D, rolling his own joints.
	♥ 6:00am Scott67: Hahahaha! SOp!
	⚡ ♥ 6:24am fred: @Brian: Those you disagree with are the worthy ones, keep your mind at work. Agreement is boring

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