WFMU: Currents with Brian D: Playlist from May 21, 2023

Listener comments!
	⚡ ♥ 3:01am Paulo AD: Morning my dudes :) hows your weekend? We have a rain warning here!!!
	3:01am Cosmic: Think about the break of day!
	⚡ ♥ 3:02am fred: Hello Brian and all. Doors should be more open than they are, but that's just me
	3:02am Cosmic: Morning Paulo. Sunny here. Morning Brian
	⚡ ♥ 3:03am fred: ↳ Paulo AD @3:01 How was golf this week?
	⚡ ♥ 3:03am tom tom the pipers son: hi brian, everybody
	♥ 3:04am Brian D: Good morning all!
	♥ 3:04am Brian D: ↳ fred @3:02 Ferme la porte, Fred.
	⚡ ♥ 3:06am fred: ↳ Brian D @3:04 I conditioned myself to only do that if I have the key in my hand (absolutely true fact)
	⚡ ♥ 3:07am fred: ↳ Paulo AD @3:01 The weather gods are going all in to prepare you for your trip home I guess
	⚡ ♥ 3:08am Paulo AD: ↳ fred @3:03 Sustained another head injury, smashed my head getting to o the cart, it really hurt. Got my average score for the 18 not great, not crap
	⚡ ♥ 3:08am Paulo AD: ↳ fred @3:07 Haha yup getting ready for the rainy uk
	⚡ ♥ 3:09am fred: ↳ Paulo AD @3:08 Did you headbutt a tree again?
	3:11am Jung: What the. This is how you get the party started
	⚡ ♥ 3:12am Paulo AD: ↳ fred @3:09 Not again haha
	⚡ ♥ 3:15am fred: ↳ Paulo AD @3:08 Though it's England, if I remember correctly. Which is a desert compared to Wales
	♥ 3:15am Brian D: ↳ Paulo AD @3:12 X-rays of my head found nothing.
	⚡ ♥ 3:16am Paulo AD: ↳ fred @3:15 This is true mostly, but its the south coast
	⚡ ♥ 3:16am Paulo AD: ↳ Brian D @3:15 Well, there is an area that's stores useless music trivia
	♥ 3:17am Brian D: ↳ Paulo AD @3:16 'Tis true.
	3:17am Jung: ↳ Paulo AD @3:16 What is considered useless music trivia?
	3:18am Erik/VermonT: I conditioned myself, it still didn’t seem to work.
	3:18am Jung: A member of ZOKU owns a toilet made of paper straw, world's first?
	⚡ ♥ 3:19am Paulo AD: ↳ Jung @3:17 Well, nothing in a pub quiz
	♥ 3:20am Brian D: ↳ Jung @3:18 Sounds like the 4th floor bathroom at FMU.
	3:21am ryansterlingvirtue: Enjoying this song
	⚡ ♥ 3:22am London Calling Francky: Morning Brian & Currentors! Super amazing trippy set! Just perfect for my breakie preparation shenanigans!
	⚡ ♥ 3:22am fred: ↳ Paulo AD @3:19 Then again, isn't the point of a pub quiz getting a free drink then buying a round, hence making more empty room?
	3:23am ryansterlingvirtue: Haha. How do you say I like the smiths but not morrissey without saying it
	3:25am Jung: I like four fifths of the smiths
	⚡ ♥ 3:25am pgalub: Hey Brian and everyone. Wasn't this meant to be a collaboration with Bryan Ferry that fell through?
	3:26am modern blaze: hi all!
	3:27am ryansterlingvirtue: Always makes me think of Ducky
	♥ 3:27am Brian D: ↳ pgalub @3:25 Different instrumental, Pete.
	3:28am modern blaze: have to use DuckGoGo
	♥ 3:28am Brian D: ↳ pgalub @3:25 I think. "Money Changes Everything" maybe?
	⚡ ♥ 3:28am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @3:27 useful music trivia...
	♥ 3:29am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:28 But I may be wrong, Tom Tom.
	⚡ ♥ 3:29am fred: A high school friend introduced me to The Smiths. He was a rugby player and became a physical therapist. Then a neurological disease had him in a wheelchair within a year
	⚡ ♥ 3:30am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @3:29 sad story...
	⚡ ♥ 3:30am pgalub: ↳ Brian D @3:28 Ah yes, thks.
	3:30am modern blaze: sorry mispronounced DuckDuckGo
	♥ 3:32am Brian D: ↳ fred @3:29 Jaysus, Fred. Brutal. Is he still with us?
	⚡ ♥ 3:33am fred: ↳ Brian D @3:32 I don't know. I really suck at keeping touch
	⚡ ♥ 3:33am Paulo AD: ↳ fred @3:29 Rugby related?
	3:33am modern blaze: Reigning Sound from latest TOPT's show reminded me of The Replacements, still remember his show
	♥ 3:34am Brian D: ↳ fred @3:33 I'm the same way, Fred.
	3:34am modern blaze: @Brian D, nice touch of songs today!
	⚡ ♥ 3:35am fred: ↳ Paulo AD @3:33 No, as far as I know. Then again, that was in the early '90s, so knowledge was inexistent
	3:35am modern blaze: it's midday here in my City
	⚡ ♥ 3:35am Paulo AD: ↳ fred @3:35 This is true. My back is fucked because of the way it was played back in the day
	⚡ ♥ 3:36am Paulo AD: Putting pre-pubescent kids into full Co tact scrums is such a great idea
	⚡ ♥ 3:36am Paulo AD: ↳ modern blaze @3:35 Nearly midday here, where you at?
	3:36am modern blaze: feeling sleepy all day and barely could something more of a sense
	⚡ ♥ 3:37am Paulo AD: ↳ Song: "Clip: Sky News-World to reach 1.5C temps by 2027"... Got up to 48 here last week and summers not even in full swing yet
	3:37am modern blaze: ↳ Paulo AD @3:36 Blaze City, Roichland
	♥ 3:38am Brian D: ↳ modern blaze @3:34 Thanks MB!
	♥ 3:38am Brian D: ↳ Paulo AD @3:37 Yikes. Viet Nam just set a record at 49.2 C I think.
	3:39am modern blaze: ↳ Paulo AD @3:36 but cut the crap me! i'm from Ufa City, BR
	⚡ ♥ 3:39am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "My Displeasure" by "Special Interest" this is 3/4 female band
	3:40am modern blaze: ↳ Brian D @3:38 you are welcome!
	3:42am modern blaze: ↳ Song: "My Displeasure" by "Special Interest" listened through the song so-soo naturally
	3:42am Jung: Lol have to admit I only know one Smiths song and that is, "I see you somewhere, I see you somehow, ohhhhaahhhh"
	3:43am modern blaze: ↳ Jung @3:42 funny
	⚡ ♥ 3:43am fred: ↳ Paulo AD @3:37 Are AC techs considered first responders there?
	⚡ ♥ 3:46am Paulo AD: ↳ fred @3:43 Can you imagine haha
	3:46am modern blaze: sound exchange period, hmm...
	3:46am Chris Crisco: I remember seeing Morrissey at Jones Beach. Someone jumped onstage and security intercepted him but still scared the shit out of Morrissey and he did the rest of the show offstage.
	3:47am ryansterlingvirtue: Special interest is also my fav band. Their show at Bowery was amazing
	3:48am modern blaze: pardon me. but The Smiths and Morrissey are two moronical extravaganza
	3:49am modern blaze: humor
	3:51am modern blaze: Denis Johnson? passed away about 6 years ago...
	♥ 3:52am Brian D: ↳ modern blaze @3:51 Six years ago Wednesday, MB.
	♥ 3:53am Brian D: ↳ Chris Crisco @3:46 I'd probably jump on the stage at this point, too.
	3:53am ryansterlingvirtue: Damn now I have to shoot up
	3:54am modern blaze: ↳ Brian D @3:52 collisioned https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiskadoro
	♥ 3:55am Brian D: ↳ modern blaze @3:54 Brilliant book.
	3:56am modern blaze: ↳ Brian D @3:55 inspired many while Lou was also inspired
	3:57am Chris Crisco: Drill Baby Drill Insane Clown sez
	⚡ ♥ 3:58am fred: When is the interview?
	3:58am modern blaze: I don't know just where I'm going But I'm gonna try for the kingdom, if I can 'Cause it makes me feel like I'm a man When I put a spike into my vein And I'll tell ya, things aren't quite the same When I'm rushing on my run And I feel just like Jesus' son And I guess that I just don't know And I guess that I just don't know I have made the big decision I'm gonna try to nullify my life 'Cause when the blood begins to flow When it shoots up the dropper's neck When I'm closing in on death And you can't help me, not you guys Or all you sweet girls with all your sweet talk You can all go take a walk And I guess I just don't know And I guess that I just don't know I wish that I was born a thousand years ago I wish that I'd sail the darkened seas On a great big clipper ship Going from this land here to that On a sailor's suit and cap Away from the big city Where a man cannot be free Of all of the evils of this town And of himself, and those around Oh, and I guess that I just don't know Oh, and I guess that I just don't know Heroin, be the death of me Heroin, it's my wife and it's my life Because a mainline to my vein Leads to a center in my head And then I'm better off than dead Because when the smack begins to flow I really don't care anymore About all the Jim-Jim's in this town And all the politicians makin' crazy sounds And everybody puttin' everybody else down And all the dead bodies piled up in mounds 'Cause when the smack begins to flow Then I really don't care anymore Ah, when the heroin is in my blood And that blood is in my head Then thank God that I'm good as dead Then thank your God that I'm not aware And thank God that I just don't care And I guess I just don't know And I guess I just don't know
	⚡ 3:58am Don in Tampere: Hi Brian and all. Joining late since we had a festival gig in Lahti last night and I needed a lie-in.
	3:59am ?: ↳ Brian D @3:55 what kind of Ukrainian food did you love?
	♥ 3:59am Brian D: ↳ fred @3:58 About 10 minutes Fred.
	♥ 3:59am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @3:58 Hello Don. Saw video/images on IG.
	3:59am katharsis: Dj, listeners just keep rowing
	3:59am modern blaze: ah, Ukrainians
	♥ 4:02am Brian D: ↳ @3:59 Letcho, the Ukrainian version of goulash.
	4:02am XXX: Food for working under the changing skies, lots of cals but good. Smart if no refrigeration access. My grandma was the earth health guru. RIP pour pour
	⚡ ♥ 4:03am fred: ↳ Brian D @3:59 Thanks, gotta schedule chores around that. Meaning postpone in this case, which comes easily
	⚡ 4:03am Don in Tampere: Looking forward to the interview. I also think I need to order his books. When I see how quickly we are destroying our biosphere, I'm kind of glad I'm pretty old.
	4:03am Jung: A lot of words, why so many words.
	♥ 4:03am Brian D: ↳ fred @4:03 Happy to provide the excuse.
	4:03am XXX: ↳ Brian D @4:02 yeah that sounds about right
	⚡ ♥ 4:04am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @4:02 you go to veselka?
	♥ 4:04am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @4:03 Desert Notebooks is a beautiful book.
	4:04am modern blaze: ↳ Brian D @4:02 Letcho sometimes referred to goulash because of it's texture but there's meal consisting of red peppers with tomatoes
	4:05am Jung: ↳ Don in Tampere @4:03 I think like this when I go to the stationary store
	♥ 4:07am Brian D: ↳ modern blaze @4:04 Yep. And it's really good over a potato pancake.
	⚡ 4:07am Don in Tampere: ↳ Brian D @4:04 I was going to start with that one. At the moment I am still struggling quite slowly through Juha Hurme's Finlandia prizewinner "Niemi" in Finnish. Very interesting but slow going since my Finnish is still fairly limited and his writing stylventional.e is pretty unconventional.
	♥ 4:07am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:04 Ukrainian East Village Restaurant, actually.
	4:07am XXX: ↳ modern blaze @3:59 Sounds like you may have met one? Couldn't help myself. They're a bunch!
	⚡ ♥ 4:08am tom tom the pipers son: that's right next to veselka, right?
	♥ 4:08am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @4:07 I struggle through books in English at this point, Don.
	♥ 4:09am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:08 Yep. In the Ukrainian National Home.
	4:09am Jung: What rhymes with babooshka?
	⚡ ♥ 4:10am tom tom the pipers son: that used to be my stomping ground
	4:10am XXX: Always pursued, it's crazy. Kakshuka, a great egg and tomato dish.
	4:10am Chris Crisco: ↳ Jung @4:09 Kate Bushka
	4:11am XXX: Shakshuka, that's it. But no more eggs for me anyway! Try it, if interested it's great.
	4:12am Jung: ↳ XXX @4:10 Thanks
	4:12am Jung: Existential lyrics
	4:12am XXX: ↳ Jung @4:12 Thanks for asking! Babooshkas are essential.
	4:14am modern blaze: but otherwise, my personal dish is on fry pan consisting of rafinad oil little bit of milk 2 eggs white onion slices and tomatoe heart
	4:16am XXX: ↳ XXX @4:12 dang Brian D YES
	⚡ ♥ 4:16am fred: ↳ Don in Tampere @4:07 Years ago a coworker asked me about my favorite book and I said Infinite Jest. He tried it and got very angry about that, bringing a letter from a professor saying it was a difficult book (Italians both, I'm French). That was fun, seeing a book getting so much revulsion
	4:17am XXX: ↳ modern blaze @4:14 Unknown what tomato heart is, but have no doubt this is delicious like an omlette? Hmmm yes.
	⚡ ♥ 4:18am Michael of Cologne: Morning Brian & all. 103/58 at 76 this mourning. These data freely offered to ChatGPT.
	4:19am modern blaze: ↳ XXX @4:17 it differs but you could say an omlette from afar
	♥ 4:19am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @4:18 Good morning, Michael.
	4:19am modern blaze: http://wfmu.org/profile/783860992/modern_blaze
	♥ 4:20am Brian D: ↳ fred @4:16 I had a hard time with Infinite Jest, but DFW was a terrific writer.
	4:21am Chris Crisco: My daughter went to Pomona because she wanted to take David Foster-Wallace's class. She's one of the few who finished the book. At graduation the valedictorian made a joke that everyone has a copy of Infinite Jest with page 8 folded over.
	⚡ ♥ 4:22am fred: ↳ XXX @4:16 The letter made no sense because I wasn't the guy's supervisor and didn't have any authority over him. It went to my boss, and did work against me
	⚡ ♥ 4:22am fred: ↳ fred @4:22 The ref to XXX was a mistake
	⚡ ♥ 4:23am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @4:16 i liked an essay d.f.w. wrote for harpers about being stuck on a cruise ship, got infinite jest as a present from jeffrey eugenides but never read it. i was intimidated
	4:23am modern blaze: soviet style apartment blocks, hmm...
	4:25am modern blaze: I wanna say that, i grew up down in New York, hmm…
	⚡ ♥ 4:29am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:23 It took me 20 years to get through Finnegans Wake, Infinite Jest is nowhere near that, it's long but easy. Don't skip the footnotes though. And yeah, his essays are great.
	⚡ ♥ 4:31am London Calling Francky: Melia and Ceuta mark the shameful outer edge of paranoid Fortress Europe!
	⚡ ♥ 4:32am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @4:29 lost i.j. to hurricane damage in 2012. maybe i'll try the library
	⚡ ♥ 4:35am tom tom the pipers son: one footfall of not being used to being on the radio is saying "um" a lot. i know from experience
	⚡ ♥ 4:36am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Song: "Interview with Ben Ehrenreich" Too right, Tom Tom. Detracts from message.
	⚡ 4:38am Don in Tampere: ↳ fred @4:29 I have only managed to dip into Finnegan's Wake, haven't tried going through the whole book yet- Maybe that's a retirement project for next year. How could simply liking "Infinite JEst" cause problems with one's boss?
	4:41am modern blaze: ↳ Song: "Interview with Ben Ehrenreich" philosofycal aspects over book
	4:42am modern blaze: is it true after New York was invaded by drugs then there's Las Vegas with prom violence
	4:44am modern blaze: PH
	⚡ ♥ 4:45am fred: ↳ Don in Tampere @4:38 For years I would just read a page of Finnegans Wake at random. Out loud is best. Infinite Jest got me in trouble because recommending it was considered harassment
	4:45am XXX: I like this guy, he's great. but he also said that US society has been in relative "order" for the last few decades. disagree. anyway, MUSIC P lz zzzzzz
	♥ 4:46am Brian D: ↳ fred @4:45 People do the same with Proust.
	4:47am modern blaze: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3nfsgkKdX8
	4:49am Katharsis: Joyce? Bloomsday is coming.
	4:49am modern blaze: that is something ain't it?)
	⚡ ♥ 4:50am fred: ↳ Brian D @4:46 @Brian: Sorry about recommending that n+1 story last week, please don't report me to HR (that would be Ken?)
	⚡ ♥ 4:50am Paulo AD: My wife is actually in Jerusalem right now
	♥ 4:50am Brian D: ↳ fred @4:50 Think you're safe here, Fred.
	4:53am Katharsis: It took me ten years to get through ulysses. I got halfway and had to stop then went back and started over
	⚡ ♥ 4:56am Paulo AD: ↳ Katharsis @4:53 I bought it years ago and it's still sitting ony shelf un touched
	⚡ ♥ 4:56am fred: I actually started to read the national review. I want to read cogent stuff I don't agree with. Dreher and American Conservative worked for a while, but they went crazy over the past year
	4:57am modern blaze: i wanna see you, phunks
	5:03am modern blaze: play music plzz
	⚡ ♥ 5:05am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Michael of Cologne @4:36 We humans are a species of animal surviving on planet Earth?
	⚡ ♥ 5:05am Paulo AD: Enjoyed that interview, very interesting
	♥ 5:06am Brian D: ↳ Paulo AD @5:05 Thanks, Paulo. Glad you enjoyed it.
	♥ 5:06am Brian D: Links to some of Ben's articles at the top of the playlist page for those interested.
	⚡ ♥ 5:07am fred: ↳ Paulo AD @4:56 Read it! It's not hard beyond the first few pages, and rewarding more and more
	⚡ ♥ 5:09am tom tom the pipers son: i' m having interactions with a young palestinian woman presently, i'm pointing her to things like wfmu, democracy now, and edward said, i'll mention ben's book to her
	5:10am Katharsis: I am trying to understand why there is one law now that says I cannot legally be consious about some important things and I can be legally consious about about some other important things. And do the people making the laws understand that there are many theories about what consciousness even is. This is really happening. Awake/asleep its bs. On a physical/emotioal/mental level the human organism requires both. I am not an expert. however this seems so basic. When I brake it down it all falls apart. thought crime/non dualisn
	⚡ ♥ 5:11am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:09 Said might be a tough call
	⚡ ♥ 5:11am Paulo AD: ↳ fred @5:07 I've got two book in my queue, I'll add it and give it a go
	⚡ ♥ 5:12am Paulo AD: ↳ Brian D @5:06 My wife is going to be interested in this
	♥ 5:13am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:09 It's really terrific. Such a human approach to a complex issue.
	⚡ ♥ 5:13am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @5:11 i don't really know all that much in detail about said, why do you say tough call... i'm interested
	5:14am Chris Crisco: I get why Jews need a homeland after the persecution they suffered from the Nazis. Fucking disgrace they are now behaving like Nazis.
	⚡ ♥ 5:15am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @5:13 maybe i'll buy it for her
	5:16am morphe': Far-right anti-immigration activists take credit for burning Dublin refugee camp https://www.euronews.com/2023/05/13/far-right-anti-immigration-activists-take-credit-for-burning-dublin-refugee-camp
	5:17am morphe': 12 year old Simon singing: "love is everywhere.." !!!!
	⚡ 5:18am Don in Tampere: ↳ fred @4:45 That is truly bizarre
	♥ 5:18am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @5:17 Hello morphe! Yes, saw that Dublin story. Awful.
	⚡ 5:19am Don in Tampere: ↳ Paulo AD @4:56 I read Ulysses as part of an independent study on Irish literature in college, and read it during summer break, mostly on lunch hour hanging out in the locker room with the other janitors while I had a summer job as a hospital janitor.
	⚡ ♥ 5:21am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:13 Said was important, by no means leave him out. But include female voices if you can, Rafia Zakaria is one but not the only one
	⚡ ♥ 5:25am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @5:21 thanks fred, i'll look her up
	⚡ ♥ 5:26am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @5:13 ben's book ordered
	5:26am morphe': Finnegans Wake .. Was in a small bookshop in Ireland and two elderly woman were wandering about - no intention of buying... seemed like they had just come from their weekly afternoon tea meet up.. They were chatting about all kinds of stuff, including the "new Cadbury" biscuit.. One said "Sure Cadbury never does anything wrong.." They happened upon a stack of Finnegans Wake and one said ".. Joyce himself didn't know what it is about.." "At Swim Two Birds" by Flann O'Brien is another rough one ... Highly reccomend O'Brien's "Third Policeman..' especially if ya ride a bike-cycle... great couple of pages about the transfer of molecules from bike to rider and rider to bike...
	⚡ ♥ 5:27am fred: Thing is do the extra work to highlight female voices. It's harder, which is exactly why it has to be done
	♥ 5:27am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:25 Also Noura Erakat. Prof at Rutgers.
	♥ 5:28am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:26 Cool. You and she won't be disappointed.
	♥ 5:29am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @5:26 To be fair, Cadbury can do no wrong.
	⚡ ♥ 5:30am tom tom the pipers son: thanks brian and fred, i'm writing these names down
	⚡ ♥ 5:32am Michael of Cologne: ↳ morphe' @5:26 FW so far only in small doses, a few pages at a time, but Ulysses is my favourite piece of literature, maybe apart from Stearne's Tristram Shandy.
	5:32am morphe': Palestine/Israel - Hanan Ashrawi has always been a voice of reason ... she and Said were "on the same page.." Hanan Ashrawi: Palestinian champion of women’s rights https://www.dailysabah.com/opinion/op-ed/hanan-ashrawi-palestinian-champion-of-womens-rights
	⚡ ♥ 5:33am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:30 I think you want to show women who thrived (and struggled) as thinkers
	⚡ ♥ 5:35am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ morphe' @5:32 thanks morphe'
	5:35am morphe': ↳ Michael of Cologne @5:32 MoC .. in my Master's at Hunter, CUNY - I was the only one who chose to deal with both Ulysses and Tristram Shandy.... The Tristram Shandy film within a film is worth a watch ... Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
	⚡ ♥ 5:37am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @5:33 thanks fred, something that wasn't in view for me
	5:43am LiXiviated Life: Bright shiny electronic people , hello.
	5:44am ryansterlingvirtue: Outstanding show today, as always
	♥ 5:44am Brian D: Thank you, Ryan. And hello Lix.
	5:45am ryansterlingvirtue: Marty, Abbie, Brian, Carol, Sarge in a row. Doesn’t get much better than that.
	⚡ ♥ 5:47am fred: I talked too much nonsense, as usual, but thanks for the show
	5:49am morphe': Wanted to see that show but the tkt price was pricey !!!!
	♥ 5:50am Brian D: ↳ fred @5:47 Not at all. You NEVER talk nonsense.
	♥ 5:51am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @5:49 It was indeed, and still had a corporate sponsor.
	5:51am morphe': "... went out [of style] like Pro-Keds..." !!!
	⚡ ♥ 5:52am Michael of Cologne: ↳ morphe' @5:35 Thanks for film tip, morphe' ! Both U and TS belong to the funniest books ever written. Dr. Johnson hated TS, of course.
	⚡ ♥ 5:52am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @5:47 almost posted a long winded essay about getting pick pocketed in paris then getting sped through paris in an un marked police car only to end up in a police station with movie posters on the walls, got driven to my destination after. different than nyc cops but maybe because i was a tourist
	5:53am modern blaze: been out and there's tpo much comments to read
	5:54am morphe': Thanks for spinning and info again BD and thanks for the intro to Gang Starr ... Did the show include Brother D and the Collective effort [Bklyn early 80s] "How Ya Gonna Make the Black Nation Rise" ".. Agitat, Educate and Organize!!!
	⚡ ♥ 5:54am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Michael of Cologne @5:52 But Garrick loved it! Thanks Brian, as always.
	5:54am modern blaze: i'm tired but that's okay
	♥ 5:54am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @5:54 Another miss!
	⚡ ♥ 5:55am tom tom the pipers son: thanks for the music and interview, brian
	♥ 5:55am Brian D: Thank you all for joining me. And my thanks again to Ben. Stay safe and have a great week everyone...
	⚡ ♥ 5:57am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:52 If you had been a local, they would have beaten you up and got all the money you had
	5:57am Chris Crisco: ↳ fred @4:56 When Ken filled in for Techtonic and interviewed Matt Taibbi (another second generation journalist like Ben Ehrenreich) I had always thought of him as a very credible investigative journalist so I started following his racket.news site. He has turned into a complete asshole singing arias to Clucker Carlson, Russiagate, Hunter Biden's laptop and all sorts of horseshit.
	⚡ ♥ 5:59am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @5:57 kinda figured that judging from their actions at the recent protests
	♥ 6:00am radioronan: Thank you Brian..excellent show. Cheers y'all..

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Currents with Brian D welcomes artist Audrey Flack to discuss her new memoir, With Darkness Came Stars, and her ongoing exhibition of the same name at the Hollis Taggart Gallery in Manhattan. She'll also talk about how her work draws from contemporary culture and world events.

May 21, 2023: "Blood on the rise it's following me..."
Links to Ben Ehrenreich's work: Sea of Troubles: Inside the effort to rescue Europe’s unwelcome immigrants--https://newrepublic.com/article/155271/europe-migrant-crisis-mediterranean-rescue-boat-alan-kurdi Hope and Fear: How the Fortunes of Five L.A. Immigrants Have Changed Since Trump Took Office--https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/hope-and-fear-how-the-fortunes-of-five-l-a-immigrants-have-changed-since-trump-took-office-121582/ At the Checkpoint in Hebron--https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v38/n13/ben-ehrenreich/short-cuts Letter from Ramallah--https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/letter-ramallah/

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Comments	Approx. start time
The Doors	Peace Frog/Blue Sunday "Peace Frog/Blue Sunday" by "The Doors"	Morrison Hotel	Elektra		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Dead Shaman	Night Godess "Night Godess" by "Dead Shaman"	Under The Influence	Sixteentimes Music		0:11:07 (Pop-up)
HTRK	Straight to Hell (Version) "Straight to Hell (Version)" by "HTRK"	Death Is A Dream	N&J Blueberries		0:11:09 (Pop-up)
SONS OF ZOKU	Believe and Transcend	SÜN	Self-Released		0:14:28 (Pop-up)
The Smiths	Oscillate Wildly "Oscillate Wildly" by "The Smiths"	Louder Than Bombs	Sire/Rough Trade	R.I.P.: Andy Rourke: https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/bass-guitarist-andy-rourke-smiths-britains-influential-bands-99452014	0:21:44 (Pop-up)
The Smiths	Asleep "Asleep" by "The Smiths"	Louder Than Bombs	Sire/Rough Trade		0:25:05 (Pop-up)
n/a	Clip: Sky News-World to reach 1.5C temps by 2027	n/a	n/a		0:29:56 (Pop-up)
A Certain Ratio	Holy Smoke "Holy Smoke" by "A Certain Ratio"	1982	Mute Artists Limited		0:30:14 (Pop-up)
Special Interest	My Displeasure "My Displeasure" by "Special Interest"	Endure	Rough Trade		0:34:12 (Pop-up)
Blank Account	Pass "Pass" by "Blank Account"	Smatter	Blank Account		0:39:36 (Pop-up)

Velvet Underground	Heroin "Heroin" by "Velvet Underground"	Velvet Underground and Nico	Verve		0:50:40 (Pop-up)
Chris Forsyth & the Solar Motel Band	Have We Mistaken the Bottle for the Whiskey Inside?	Dreaming in the Non-Dream	No Quarter		0:57:58 (Pop-up)
n/a	Clip: Al Jazeera-Greece changes approach to migrants	n/a	n/a	https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/world/europe/greece-migrants-abandoned.html	1:04:35 (Pop-up)
Dirtmusic	Bi De Sen Söyle (feat. Brenna Mac Crimmon)	Bu Bir Ruya	Glitterbeat Records		1:06:01 (Pop-up)

Ben Ehrenreich reading from The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine
Interview with Ben Ehrenreich "Interview with Ben Ehrenreich"
Ben Ehrenreich reading from The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine
Ben's Set "Ben's Set"
Smog	Rock Bottom Riser "Rock Bottom Riser" by "Smog"	A River Ain't Too Much In Love	Drag City/Domino		2:04:36 (Pop-up)
Pharoah Sanders	Love Is Everywhere	Wisdom Through Music	Impluse!		2:11:24 (Pop-up)
MIchael White	Land of Spirit and Light, Part 2	Land of Spirit and Light	Impluse!		2:16:26 (Pop-up)
n/a	Clip: NewsNation-Migrants brave dangerous train journey to reach US	n/a	n/a		2:19:49 (Pop-up)
Donald Byrd	Where Are We Going? "Where Are We Going?" by "Donald Byrd"	Black Byrd	Blue Note		2:21:23 (Pop-up)
Yusef Lateef	Woodward Avenue "Woodward Avenue" by "Yusef Lateef"	Yusef Lateef's Detroit	Atlantic		2:25:58 (Pop-up)
Sons of Kemet	My Queen in Nanny of the Maroons	Your Queen Is A Reptile	Impulse!		2:28:15 (Pop-up)
Sun Ra (w/ June Tyson)	Somebody Else's World	My Brother The Wind, Vol II	El Saturn		2:34:56 (Pop-up)
n/a	Clip: DW-Italy floods "Clip: DW-Italy floods" by "n/a"	n/a	n/a		2:39:02 (Pop-up)
Anthony Santos	Ábreme la Puerta "Ábreme la Puerta" by "Anthony Santos"	Corazon Bonito	Platano Records		2:40:14 (Pop-up)

Gang Starr	Take A Rest "Take A Rest" by "Gang Starr"	Step in the Arena	Chrysalis/EMI		2:48:52 (Pop-up)
Mohamad Zatari Trio	Gankino Hora "Gankino Hora" by "Mohamad Zatari Trio"	Istehial	Zehra Music		2:53:10 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	⚡ ♥ 3:01am Paulo AD: Morning my dudes :) hows your weekend? We have a rain warning here!!!
	3:01am Cosmic: Think about the break of day!
	⚡ ♥ 3:02am fred: Hello Brian and all. Doors should be more open than they are, but that's just me
	3:02am Cosmic: Morning Paulo. Sunny here. Morning Brian
	⚡ ♥ 3:03am fred: ↳ Paulo AD @3:01 How was golf this week?
	⚡ ♥ 3:03am tom tom the pipers son: hi brian, everybody
	♥ 3:04am Brian D: Good morning all!
	♥ 3:04am Brian D: ↳ fred @3:02 Ferme la porte, Fred.
	⚡ ♥ 3:06am fred: ↳ Brian D @3:04 I conditioned myself to only do that if I have the key in my hand (absolutely true fact)
	⚡ ♥ 3:07am fred: ↳ Paulo AD @3:01 The weather gods are going all in to prepare you for your trip home I guess
	⚡ ♥ 3:08am Paulo AD: ↳ fred @3:03 Sustained another head injury, smashed my head getting to o the cart, it really hurt. Got my average score for the 18 not great, not crap
	⚡ ♥ 3:08am Paulo AD: ↳ fred @3:07 Haha yup getting ready for the rainy uk
	⚡ ♥ 3:09am fred: ↳ Paulo AD @3:08 Did you headbutt a tree again?
	3:11am Jung: What the. This is how you get the party started
	⚡ ♥ 3:12am Paulo AD: ↳ fred @3:09 Not again haha
	⚡ ♥ 3:15am fred: ↳ Paulo AD @3:08 Though it's England, if I remember correctly. Which is a desert compared to Wales
	♥ 3:15am Brian D: ↳ Paulo AD @3:12 X-rays of my head found nothing.
	⚡ ♥ 3:16am Paulo AD: ↳ fred @3:15 This is true mostly, but its the south coast
	⚡ ♥ 3:16am Paulo AD: ↳ Brian D @3:15 Well, there is an area that's stores useless music trivia
	♥ 3:17am Brian D: ↳ Paulo AD @3:16 'Tis true.
	3:17am Jung: ↳ Paulo AD @3:16 What is considered useless music trivia?
	3:18am Erik/VermonT: I conditioned myself, it still didn’t seem to work.
	3:18am Jung: A member of ZOKU owns a toilet made of paper straw, world's first?
	⚡ ♥ 3:19am Paulo AD: ↳ Jung @3:17 Well, nothing in a pub quiz
	♥ 3:20am Brian D: ↳ Jung @3:18 Sounds like the 4th floor bathroom at FMU.
	3:21am ryansterlingvirtue: Enjoying this song
	⚡ ♥ 3:22am London Calling Francky: Morning Brian & Currentors! Super amazing trippy set! Just perfect for my breakie preparation shenanigans!
	⚡ ♥ 3:22am fred: ↳ Paulo AD @3:19 Then again, isn't the point of a pub quiz getting a free drink then buying a round, hence making more empty room?
	3:23am ryansterlingvirtue: Haha. How do you say I like the smiths but not morrissey without saying it
	3:25am Jung: I like four fifths of the smiths
	⚡ ♥ 3:25am pgalub: Hey Brian and everyone. Wasn't this meant to be a collaboration with Bryan Ferry that fell through?
	3:26am modern blaze: hi all!
	3:27am ryansterlingvirtue: Always makes me think of Ducky
	♥ 3:27am Brian D: ↳ pgalub @3:25 Different instrumental, Pete.
	3:28am modern blaze: have to use DuckGoGo
	♥ 3:28am Brian D: ↳ pgalub @3:25 I think. "Money Changes Everything" maybe?
	⚡ ♥ 3:28am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @3:27 useful music trivia...
	♥ 3:29am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:28 But I may be wrong, Tom Tom.
	⚡ ♥ 3:29am fred: A high school friend introduced me to The Smiths. He was a rugby player and became a physical therapist. Then a neurological disease had him in a wheelchair within a year
	⚡ ♥ 3:30am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @3:29 sad story...
	⚡ ♥ 3:30am pgalub: ↳ Brian D @3:28 Ah yes, thks.
	3:30am modern blaze: sorry mispronounced DuckDuckGo
	♥ 3:32am Brian D: ↳ fred @3:29 Jaysus, Fred. Brutal. Is he still with us?
	⚡ ♥ 3:33am fred: ↳ Brian D @3:32 I don't know. I really suck at keeping touch
	⚡ ♥ 3:33am Paulo AD: ↳ fred @3:29 Rugby related?
	3:33am modern blaze: Reigning Sound from latest TOPT's show reminded me of The Replacements, still remember his show
	♥ 3:34am Brian D: ↳ fred @3:33 I'm the same way, Fred.
	3:34am modern blaze: @Brian D, nice touch of songs today!
	⚡ ♥ 3:35am fred: ↳ Paulo AD @3:33 No, as far as I know. Then again, that was in the early '90s, so knowledge was inexistent
	3:35am modern blaze: it's midday here in my City
	⚡ ♥ 3:35am Paulo AD: ↳ fred @3:35 This is true. My back is fucked because of the way it was played back in the day
	⚡ ♥ 3:36am Paulo AD: Putting pre-pubescent kids into full Co tact scrums is such a great idea
	⚡ ♥ 3:36am Paulo AD: ↳ modern blaze @3:35 Nearly midday here, where you at?
	3:36am modern blaze: feeling sleepy all day and barely could something more of a sense
	⚡ ♥ 3:37am Paulo AD: ↳ Song: "Clip: Sky News-World to reach 1.5C temps by 2027"... Got up to 48 here last week and summers not even in full swing yet
	3:37am modern blaze: ↳ Paulo AD @3:36 Blaze City, Roichland
	♥ 3:38am Brian D: ↳ modern blaze @3:34 Thanks MB!
	♥ 3:38am Brian D: ↳ Paulo AD @3:37 Yikes. Viet Nam just set a record at 49.2 C I think.
	3:39am modern blaze: ↳ Paulo AD @3:36 but cut the crap me! i'm from Ufa City, BR
	⚡ ♥ 3:39am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "My Displeasure" by "Special Interest" this is 3/4 female band
	3:40am modern blaze: ↳ Brian D @3:38 you are welcome!
	3:42am modern blaze: ↳ Song: "My Displeasure" by "Special Interest" listened through the song so-soo naturally
	3:42am Jung: Lol have to admit I only know one Smiths song and that is, "I see you somewhere, I see you somehow, ohhhhaahhhh"
	3:43am modern blaze: ↳ Jung @3:42 funny
	⚡ ♥ 3:43am fred: ↳ Paulo AD @3:37 Are AC techs considered first responders there?
	⚡ ♥ 3:46am Paulo AD: ↳ fred @3:43 Can you imagine haha
	3:46am modern blaze: sound exchange period, hmm...
	3:46am Chris Crisco: I remember seeing Morrissey at Jones Beach. Someone jumped onstage and security intercepted him but still scared the shit out of Morrissey and he did the rest of the show offstage.
	3:47am ryansterlingvirtue: Special interest is also my fav band. Their show at Bowery was amazing
	3:48am modern blaze: pardon me. but The Smiths and Morrissey are two moronical extravaganza
	3:49am modern blaze: humor
	3:51am modern blaze: Denis Johnson? passed away about 6 years ago...
	♥ 3:52am Brian D: ↳ modern blaze @3:51 Six years ago Wednesday, MB.
	♥ 3:53am Brian D: ↳ Chris Crisco @3:46 I'd probably jump on the stage at this point, too.
	3:53am ryansterlingvirtue: Damn now I have to shoot up
	3:54am modern blaze: ↳ Brian D @3:52 collisioned https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiskadoro
	♥ 3:55am Brian D: ↳ modern blaze @3:54 Brilliant book.
	3:56am modern blaze: ↳ Brian D @3:55 inspired many while Lou was also inspired
	3:57am Chris Crisco: Drill Baby Drill Insane Clown sez
	⚡ ♥ 3:58am fred: When is the interview?
	3:58am modern blaze: I don't know just where I'm going But I'm gonna try for the kingdom, if I can 'Cause it makes me feel like I'm a man When I put a spike into my vein And I'll tell ya, things aren't quite the same When I'm rushing on my run And I feel just like Jesus' son And I guess that I just don't know And I guess that I just don't know I have made the big decision I'm gonna try to nullify my life 'Cause when the blood begins to flow When it shoots up the dropper's neck When I'm closing in on death And you can't help me, not you guys Or all you sweet girls with all your sweet talk You can all go take a walk And I guess I just don't know And I guess that I just don't know I wish that I was born a thousand years ago I wish that I'd sail the darkened seas On a great big clipper ship Going from this land here to that On a sailor's suit and cap Away from the big city Where a man cannot be free Of all of the evils of this town And of himself, and those around Oh, and I guess that I just don't know Oh, and I guess that I just don't know Heroin, be the death of me Heroin, it's my wife and it's my life Because a mainline to my vein Leads to a center in my head And then I'm better off than dead Because when the smack begins to flow I really don't care anymore About all the Jim-Jim's in this town And all the politicians makin' crazy sounds And everybody puttin' everybody else down And all the dead bodies piled up in mounds 'Cause when the smack begins to flow Then I really don't care anymore Ah, when the heroin is in my blood And that blood is in my head Then thank God that I'm good as dead Then thank your God that I'm not aware And thank God that I just don't care And I guess I just don't know And I guess I just don't know
	⚡ 3:58am Don in Tampere: Hi Brian and all. Joining late since we had a festival gig in Lahti last night and I needed a lie-in.
	3:59am ?: ↳ Brian D @3:55 what kind of Ukrainian food did you love?
	♥ 3:59am Brian D: ↳ fred @3:58 About 10 minutes Fred.
	♥ 3:59am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @3:58 Hello Don. Saw video/images on IG.
	3:59am katharsis: Dj, listeners just keep rowing
	3:59am modern blaze: ah, Ukrainians
	♥ 4:02am Brian D: ↳ @3:59 Letcho, the Ukrainian version of goulash.
	4:02am XXX: Food for working under the changing skies, lots of cals but good. Smart if no refrigeration access. My grandma was the earth health guru. RIP pour pour
	⚡ ♥ 4:03am fred: ↳ Brian D @3:59 Thanks, gotta schedule chores around that. Meaning postpone in this case, which comes easily
	⚡ 4:03am Don in Tampere: Looking forward to the interview. I also think I need to order his books. When I see how quickly we are destroying our biosphere, I'm kind of glad I'm pretty old.
	4:03am Jung: A lot of words, why so many words.
	♥ 4:03am Brian D: ↳ fred @4:03 Happy to provide the excuse.
	4:03am XXX: ↳ Brian D @4:02 yeah that sounds about right
	⚡ ♥ 4:04am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @4:02 you go to veselka?
	♥ 4:04am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @4:03 Desert Notebooks is a beautiful book.
	4:04am modern blaze: ↳ Brian D @4:02 Letcho sometimes referred to goulash because of it's texture but there's meal consisting of red peppers with tomatoes
	4:05am Jung: ↳ Don in Tampere @4:03 I think like this when I go to the stationary store
	♥ 4:07am Brian D: ↳ modern blaze @4:04 Yep. And it's really good over a potato pancake.
	⚡ 4:07am Don in Tampere: ↳ Brian D @4:04 I was going to start with that one. At the moment I am still struggling quite slowly through Juha Hurme's Finlandia prizewinner "Niemi" in Finnish. Very interesting but slow going since my Finnish is still fairly limited and his writing stylventional.e is pretty unconventional.
	♥ 4:07am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:04 Ukrainian East Village Restaurant, actually.
	4:07am XXX: ↳ modern blaze @3:59 Sounds like you may have met one? Couldn't help myself. They're a bunch!
	⚡ ♥ 4:08am tom tom the pipers son: that's right next to veselka, right?
	♥ 4:08am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @4:07 I struggle through books in English at this point, Don.
	♥ 4:09am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:08 Yep. In the Ukrainian National Home.
	4:09am Jung: What rhymes with babooshka?
	⚡ ♥ 4:10am tom tom the pipers son: that used to be my stomping ground
	4:10am XXX: Always pursued, it's crazy. Kakshuka, a great egg and tomato dish.
	4:10am Chris Crisco: ↳ Jung @4:09 Kate Bushka
	4:11am XXX: Shakshuka, that's it. But no more eggs for me anyway! Try it, if interested it's great.
	4:12am Jung: ↳ XXX @4:10 Thanks
	4:12am Jung: Existential lyrics
	4:12am XXX: ↳ Jung @4:12 Thanks for asking! Babooshkas are essential.
	4:14am modern blaze: but otherwise, my personal dish is on fry pan consisting of rafinad oil little bit of milk 2 eggs white onion slices and tomatoe heart
	4:16am XXX: ↳ XXX @4:12 dang Brian D YES
	⚡ ♥ 4:16am fred: ↳ Don in Tampere @4:07 Years ago a coworker asked me about my favorite book and I said Infinite Jest. He tried it and got very angry about that, bringing a letter from a professor saying it was a difficult book (Italians both, I'm French). That was fun, seeing a book getting so much revulsion
	4:17am XXX: ↳ modern blaze @4:14 Unknown what tomato heart is, but have no doubt this is delicious like an omlette? Hmmm yes.
	⚡ ♥ 4:18am Michael of Cologne: Morning Brian & all. 103/58 at 76 this mourning. These data freely offered to ChatGPT.
	4:19am modern blaze: ↳ XXX @4:17 it differs but you could say an omlette from afar
	♥ 4:19am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @4:18 Good morning, Michael.
	4:19am modern blaze: http://wfmu.org/profile/783860992/modern_blaze
	♥ 4:20am Brian D: ↳ fred @4:16 I had a hard time with Infinite Jest, but DFW was a terrific writer.
	4:21am Chris Crisco: My daughter went to Pomona because she wanted to take David Foster-Wallace's class. She's one of the few who finished the book. At graduation the valedictorian made a joke that everyone has a copy of Infinite Jest with page 8 folded over.
	⚡ ♥ 4:22am fred: ↳ XXX @4:16 The letter made no sense because I wasn't the guy's supervisor and didn't have any authority over him. It went to my boss, and did work against me
	⚡ ♥ 4:22am fred: ↳ fred @4:22 The ref to XXX was a mistake
	⚡ ♥ 4:23am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @4:16 i liked an essay d.f.w. wrote for harpers about being stuck on a cruise ship, got infinite jest as a present from jeffrey eugenides but never read it. i was intimidated
	4:23am modern blaze: soviet style apartment blocks, hmm...
	4:25am modern blaze: I wanna say that, i grew up down in New York, hmm…
	⚡ ♥ 4:29am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:23 It took me 20 years to get through Finnegans Wake, Infinite Jest is nowhere near that, it's long but easy. Don't skip the footnotes though. And yeah, his essays are great.
	⚡ ♥ 4:31am London Calling Francky: Melia and Ceuta mark the shameful outer edge of paranoid Fortress Europe!
	⚡ ♥ 4:32am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @4:29 lost i.j. to hurricane damage in 2012. maybe i'll try the library
	⚡ ♥ 4:35am tom tom the pipers son: one footfall of not being used to being on the radio is saying "um" a lot. i know from experience
	⚡ ♥ 4:36am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Song: "Interview with Ben Ehrenreich" Too right, Tom Tom. Detracts from message.
	⚡ 4:38am Don in Tampere: ↳ fred @4:29 I have only managed to dip into Finnegan's Wake, haven't tried going through the whole book yet- Maybe that's a retirement project for next year. How could simply liking "Infinite JEst" cause problems with one's boss?
	4:41am modern blaze: ↳ Song: "Interview with Ben Ehrenreich" philosofycal aspects over book
	4:42am modern blaze: is it true after New York was invaded by drugs then there's Las Vegas with prom violence
	4:44am modern blaze: PH
	⚡ ♥ 4:45am fred: ↳ Don in Tampere @4:38 For years I would just read a page of Finnegans Wake at random. Out loud is best. Infinite Jest got me in trouble because recommending it was considered harassment
	4:45am XXX: I like this guy, he's great. but he also said that US society has been in relative "order" for the last few decades. disagree. anyway, MUSIC P lz zzzzzz
	♥ 4:46am Brian D: ↳ fred @4:45 People do the same with Proust.
	4:47am modern blaze: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3nfsgkKdX8
	4:49am Katharsis: Joyce? Bloomsday is coming.
	4:49am modern blaze: that is something ain't it?)
	⚡ ♥ 4:50am fred: ↳ Brian D @4:46 @Brian: Sorry about recommending that n+1 story last week, please don't report me to HR (that would be Ken?)
	⚡ ♥ 4:50am Paulo AD: My wife is actually in Jerusalem right now
	♥ 4:50am Brian D: ↳ fred @4:50 Think you're safe here, Fred.
	4:53am Katharsis: It took me ten years to get through ulysses. I got halfway and had to stop then went back and started over
	⚡ ♥ 4:56am Paulo AD: ↳ Katharsis @4:53 I bought it years ago and it's still sitting ony shelf un touched
	⚡ ♥ 4:56am fred: I actually started to read the national review. I want to read cogent stuff I don't agree with. Dreher and American Conservative worked for a while, but they went crazy over the past year
	4:57am modern blaze: i wanna see you, phunks
	5:03am modern blaze: play music plzz
	⚡ ♥ 5:05am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Michael of Cologne @4:36 We humans are a species of animal surviving on planet Earth?
	⚡ ♥ 5:05am Paulo AD: Enjoyed that interview, very interesting
	♥ 5:06am Brian D: ↳ Paulo AD @5:05 Thanks, Paulo. Glad you enjoyed it.
	♥ 5:06am Brian D: Links to some of Ben's articles at the top of the playlist page for those interested.
	⚡ ♥ 5:07am fred: ↳ Paulo AD @4:56 Read it! It's not hard beyond the first few pages, and rewarding more and more
	⚡ ♥ 5:09am tom tom the pipers son: i' m having interactions with a young palestinian woman presently, i'm pointing her to things like wfmu, democracy now, and edward said, i'll mention ben's book to her
	5:10am Katharsis: I am trying to understand why there is one law now that says I cannot legally be consious about some important things and I can be legally consious about about some other important things. And do the people making the laws understand that there are many theories about what consciousness even is. This is really happening. Awake/asleep its bs. On a physical/emotioal/mental level the human organism requires both. I am not an expert. however this seems so basic. When I brake it down it all falls apart. thought crime/non dualisn
	⚡ ♥ 5:11am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:09 Said might be a tough call
	⚡ ♥ 5:11am Paulo AD: ↳ fred @5:07 I've got two book in my queue, I'll add it and give it a go
	⚡ ♥ 5:12am Paulo AD: ↳ Brian D @5:06 My wife is going to be interested in this
	♥ 5:13am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:09 It's really terrific. Such a human approach to a complex issue.
	⚡ ♥ 5:13am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @5:11 i don't really know all that much in detail about said, why do you say tough call... i'm interested
	5:14am Chris Crisco: I get why Jews need a homeland after the persecution they suffered from the Nazis. Fucking disgrace they are now behaving like Nazis.
	⚡ ♥ 5:15am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @5:13 maybe i'll buy it for her
	5:16am morphe': Far-right anti-immigration activists take credit for burning Dublin refugee camp https://www.euronews.com/2023/05/13/far-right-anti-immigration-activists-take-credit-for-burning-dublin-refugee-camp
	5:17am morphe': 12 year old Simon singing: "love is everywhere.." !!!!
	⚡ 5:18am Don in Tampere: ↳ fred @4:45 That is truly bizarre
	♥ 5:18am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @5:17 Hello morphe! Yes, saw that Dublin story. Awful.
	⚡ 5:19am Don in Tampere: ↳ Paulo AD @4:56 I read Ulysses as part of an independent study on Irish literature in college, and read it during summer break, mostly on lunch hour hanging out in the locker room with the other janitors while I had a summer job as a hospital janitor.
	⚡ ♥ 5:21am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:13 Said was important, by no means leave him out. But include female voices if you can, Rafia Zakaria is one but not the only one
	⚡ ♥ 5:25am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @5:21 thanks fred, i'll look her up
	⚡ ♥ 5:26am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @5:13 ben's book ordered
	5:26am morphe': Finnegans Wake .. Was in a small bookshop in Ireland and two elderly woman were wandering about - no intention of buying... seemed like they had just come from their weekly afternoon tea meet up.. They were chatting about all kinds of stuff, including the "new Cadbury" biscuit.. One said "Sure Cadbury never does anything wrong.." They happened upon a stack of Finnegans Wake and one said ".. Joyce himself didn't know what it is about.." "At Swim Two Birds" by Flann O'Brien is another rough one ... Highly reccomend O'Brien's "Third Policeman..' especially if ya ride a bike-cycle... great couple of pages about the transfer of molecules from bike to rider and rider to bike...
	⚡ ♥ 5:27am fred: Thing is do the extra work to highlight female voices. It's harder, which is exactly why it has to be done
	♥ 5:27am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:25 Also Noura Erakat. Prof at Rutgers.
	♥ 5:28am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:26 Cool. You and she won't be disappointed.
	♥ 5:29am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @5:26 To be fair, Cadbury can do no wrong.
	⚡ ♥ 5:30am tom tom the pipers son: thanks brian and fred, i'm writing these names down
	⚡ ♥ 5:32am Michael of Cologne: ↳ morphe' @5:26 FW so far only in small doses, a few pages at a time, but Ulysses is my favourite piece of literature, maybe apart from Stearne's Tristram Shandy.
	5:32am morphe': Palestine/Israel - Hanan Ashrawi has always been a voice of reason ... she and Said were "on the same page.." Hanan Ashrawi: Palestinian champion of women’s rights https://www.dailysabah.com/opinion/op-ed/hanan-ashrawi-palestinian-champion-of-womens-rights
	⚡ ♥ 5:33am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:30 I think you want to show women who thrived (and struggled) as thinkers
	⚡ ♥ 5:35am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ morphe' @5:32 thanks morphe'
	5:35am morphe': ↳ Michael of Cologne @5:32 MoC .. in my Master's at Hunter, CUNY - I was the only one who chose to deal with both Ulysses and Tristram Shandy.... The Tristram Shandy film within a film is worth a watch ... Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
	⚡ ♥ 5:37am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @5:33 thanks fred, something that wasn't in view for me
	5:43am LiXiviated Life: Bright shiny electronic people , hello.
	5:44am ryansterlingvirtue: Outstanding show today, as always
	♥ 5:44am Brian D: Thank you, Ryan. And hello Lix.
	5:45am ryansterlingvirtue: Marty, Abbie, Brian, Carol, Sarge in a row. Doesn’t get much better than that.
	⚡ ♥ 5:47am fred: I talked too much nonsense, as usual, but thanks for the show
	5:49am morphe': Wanted to see that show but the tkt price was pricey !!!!
	♥ 5:50am Brian D: ↳ fred @5:47 Not at all. You NEVER talk nonsense.
	♥ 5:51am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @5:49 It was indeed, and still had a corporate sponsor.
	5:51am morphe': "... went out [of style] like Pro-Keds..." !!!
	⚡ ♥ 5:52am Michael of Cologne: ↳ morphe' @5:35 Thanks for film tip, morphe' ! Both U and TS belong to the funniest books ever written. Dr. Johnson hated TS, of course.
	⚡ ♥ 5:52am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @5:47 almost posted a long winded essay about getting pick pocketed in paris then getting sped through paris in an un marked police car only to end up in a police station with movie posters on the walls, got driven to my destination after. different than nyc cops but maybe because i was a tourist
	5:53am modern blaze: been out and there's tpo much comments to read
	5:54am morphe': Thanks for spinning and info again BD and thanks for the intro to Gang Starr ... Did the show include Brother D and the Collective effort [Bklyn early 80s] "How Ya Gonna Make the Black Nation Rise" ".. Agitat, Educate and Organize!!!
	⚡ ♥ 5:54am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Michael of Cologne @5:52 But Garrick loved it! Thanks Brian, as always.
	5:54am modern blaze: i'm tired but that's okay
	♥ 5:54am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @5:54 Another miss!
	⚡ ♥ 5:55am tom tom the pipers son: thanks for the music and interview, brian
	♥ 5:55am Brian D: Thank you all for joining me. And my thanks again to Ben. Stay safe and have a great week everyone...
	⚡ ♥ 5:57am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:52 If you had been a local, they would have beaten you up and got all the money you had
	5:57am Chris Crisco: ↳ fred @4:56 When Ken filled in for Techtonic and interviewed Matt Taibbi (another second generation journalist like Ben Ehrenreich) I had always thought of him as a very credible investigative journalist so I started following his racket.news site. He has turned into a complete asshole singing arias to Clucker Carlson, Russiagate, Hunter Biden's laptop and all sorts of horseshit.
	⚡ ♥ 5:59am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @5:57 kinda figured that judging from their actions at the recent protests
	♥ 6:00am radioronan: Thank you Brian..excellent show. Cheers y'all..

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