WFMU: Currents with Brian D: Playlist from December 9, 2023

Listener comments!
	6:02am morphe': Attuned !!!!
	⚡ 6:02am Don in Tampere: Hi Brian! Just over a week to go before I am retired!
	6:03am Toothgrinder Tom: Good morning, whoever’s out there!
	♥ 6:03am StringOFperils: ↳ Song: "Stranger in a Strange Land" by "Margo Price" Good morning, Brian....nice to hear this; the Leon Russell/Don Preston original has been with me for a long time.
	⚡ ♥ 6:03am tom tom the pipers son: good morning brian and people...
	♥ 6:04am Brian D: Oh I'm "out there" alright. Good morning everyone.
	6:04am morphe': ↳ Don in Tampere @6:02 To misquote Rex quoting someone else .. EVERYDAY IS SATURDAY TO A RETIREE !!!!!
	♥ 6:06am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @6:02 One week to FREEDOM!
	⚡ 6:07am Don in Tampere: ↳ morphe' @6:04 Only if Currents is on every day!
	6:07am Toothgrinder Tom: Just a ‘wavelength’ away? Eh, Brian? Eh?
	6:07am Toothgrinder Tom: Sorry, current. Er …
	⚡ 6:08am Don in Tampere: ↳ Brian D @6:06 and lots of banjo playing. the previous owners also left me an old German piano (with candle holders built in!), so anotehr project is to try to re-learn piano, which was my first instrument but I haven't played in almost 50 years
	♥ 6:08am Aaron Working In Newark: Good Morning
	♥ 6:08am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @6:07 That would sure beat working.
	♥ 6:09am StringOFperils: ↳ Don in Tampere @6:08 I like your plan
	♥ 6:11am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @6:08 That sounds perfect.
	6:13am morphe': ↳ Don in Tampere @6:08 I remember long ago seeing a guy playing a full on piano from the back of his truck .. it was his daily gig ... saw him on the corner a few times ... can ya park on the Square in Tampere?
	♥ 6:13am Brian D: ↳ Brian D @6:11 Unlike CD3.
	6:13am Toothgrinder Tom: @Don in Tampere what is the title of your farewell lecture?
	6:15am Bort Simpson: Oi, caramba!
	⚡ ♥ 6:16am Michael of Cologne: Good noonday Brian, Tom Tom, Don, Tom, morphé & all from grey, grey Cologne.
	♥ 6:16am TDK60: Good morning Brian. Free Palestine!
	⚡ ♥ 6:18am tom tom the pipers son: hello michael...
	♥ 6:18am Brian D: Michael! TDK!
	♥ 6:18am StringOFperils: The recent maiden flight of a 'green' passenger aircraft could be some good news for the atmosphere. Possibly? 'I want to believe.'
	♥ 6:19am Brian D: As an aside, the verse at the top of the page is from poet and actor Benjamin Zephaniah, who passed away this week: www.bbc.com...
	♥ 6:19am Brian D: ↳ StringOFperils @6:18 Indeed. Covered it last week!
	♥ 6:21am StringOFperils: :)
	6:21am morphe': Great Photo embedded: "Pablo Guzmán, the the minister of information for the Young Lords.." https://www.sanjuandailystar.com/post/pablo-guzmán-puerto-rican-activist-turned-tv-newsman-dies-at-73
	♥ 6:23am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @6:21 He is the "legendary NY newsman" we'll be recognizing later.
	⚡ ♥ 6:24am tom tom the pipers son: i know that's che, but my mother worked in an insurance company in nyc where castro and entourage dressed in fatigues visited prior to revolution, she remembers that they smelled bad juanita castro dead this week, have not seen warhol's life of juanita castro, but a little surprised warhol was aware of her in '64 or so...
	⚡ ♥ 6:24am London Calling Francky: ↳ Brian D @6:19 Morning Brian D and Currentists! RIP Mighty Benjamin Zephaniah! He was a Professor of Creative Writing at one of my Universities here in London Town and by all accounts he was a brilliant academic, on top being an amazing artist and an awesome human! :-(
	♥ 6:25am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:24 Perhaps he was her handler?
	♥ 6:26am Brian D: ↳ London Calling Francky @6:24 Greetings Francky. Yes, and I am one of the six people that hasn't watched "Peaky Blinders." I'm told he was great in that as well.
	⚡ ♥ 6:28am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @6:25 handler? she was a secretary, revolution is a smelly business...as one would expect
	⚡ ♥ 6:28am London Calling Francky: ↳ Brian D @6:26 Apparently so, Brian D. That makes 7 of us. I have tried to watch it but I am not great with depiction of violence.
	♥ 6:29am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:28 I meant Juanita's handler. With the CIA: www.npr.org...
	⚡ 6:30am Don in Tampere: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @6:13 From South to North, from Chemistry to Electronics: a Geographical and Scientific Journey"
	⚡ 6:32am Don in Tampere: ↳ morphe' @6:13 Not sure I could carry this into the back of my Caddy. But the most money per hour I ever made busking was in Tampere about 10 years ago when I was cycling home from a jam session with my banjo in a backpack and some drunk kids shouted "soita Paranoid" (the Finnish equivalent of Play Free Bird") so I got off the bike and did a quick clawhammer rendition of the song. They were so surprised that they gave me something like 10 EUR for 2 1/2 minutes of singing.
	6:33am Toothgrinder Tom: @Don in Tampere a stimulating topic!
	⚡ ♥ 6:34am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @6:29 oh, of course juanita castro's not actually in warhol film, don't know how she actual figures in it, or if the title is a sort of non sequitur
	⚡ ♥ 6:39am tom tom the pipers son: don't know how castro's visit registered with my mother, whether it peaked her awareness at all of how 'the other half lives' or if she was too wrapped up in her own survival
	♥ 6:42am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:39 As most of us are.
	⚡ ♥ 6:42am fred: ↳ Don in Tampere @6:32 Is it an upright piano? If so you could turn it into a pianocktail
	⚡ ♥ 6:43am fred: Also, hello Brian and all
	♥ 6:43am Brian D: Fred!
	⚡ ♥ 6:44am tom tom the pipers son: hello fred...
	6:46am rich in angleton: good morning Brian and everybody in radioland!
	6:46am morphe': Photos: https://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2023/dec/07/benjamin-zephaniah-a-life-in-pictures
	♥ 6:47am Brian D: ↳ rich in angleton @6:46 Rich!
	♥ 6:47am TDK60: I never heard this Bowie cover of "Mother." A single. Never knew about it. Discogs says, a release in 2021.
	6:47am LiXiviated Life: no surprise
	⚡ ♥ 6:48am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Clip: ANC-global emissions reach record highs" cop 28 is such a sick joke
	♥ 6:48am Brian D: ↳ TDK60 @6:47 Yep. Picked it up at the Bowie "pop up" store in SoHo that winter.
	⚡ ♥ 6:49am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:48 What else could we expect given the location?
	⚡ ♥ 6:50am tom tom the pipers son: true
	⚡ ♥ 6:52am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Song: "All is Loneliness (ft. Joan as Police Woman)" by ... Elegiac.
	6:52am morphe': ↳ fred @6:49 Democracy Now did some good coverage of Crap28 = tried to .. AG was there... worth having a look ...
	⚡ ♥ 6:53am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:50 A least having it be openly a market for oil deals yells the quiet part
	♥ 6:53am TDK60: ↳ Song: "All is Loneliness (ft. Joan as Police Woman)" by ... I have the original of this Moondog song, on my dad's old 1953 10" LP. It's scratchy but I still play it. Later, I dug the Big Brother & the Holding Co. version.
	⚡ ♥ 6:53am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @6:53 u huh, the mask is off...
	6:56am Cooh John: Good morning Brian and current eventers.
	♥ 6:58am Brian D: ↳ Cooh John @6:56 Greetings Cooh.
	⚡ ♥ 6:59am tom tom the pipers son: oh, that photo is castro... sure looks like che
	♥ 7:02am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:59 You're right. Not sure why I said that. Maybe I do need the bitter tea.
	⚡ ♥ 7:02am fred: @Brian: is it easier to be at the station for 6am on a Saturday or 3am on a Sunday? I'd guess the former, but you don't get rest after the workweek
	7:04am morphe': ↳ morphe' @6:52 AG = Amy Goodman, though Al Gore was there too and spoke truth as did Mary Robinson from Ireland... Democracy Now did some good coverage of Crap28 = tried to .. AG was there... worth having a look ...
	7:07am morphe': ↳ Brian D @7:02 An old guy on my block who swept up in front of the Synagogue said one day when chatting about ??? said "Ya gotta take the bitter with the sour..."
	⚡ ♥ 7:07am Strandlund: Good Morning Brian and all those tuned in!! Iowa checking in...
	⚡ ♥ 7:08am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Song: "Rama" by "Heron Oblivion" Great dirty guitar work.
	♥ 7:09am Brian D: ↳ fred @7:02 This shift is way easier for me, given my work schedule. But, ironically, getting here is more difficult. This morning was my first easy trip.
	♥ 7:10am Brian D: ↳ Strandlund @7:07 Strand!
	7:11am morphe': ↳ Song: "Jubilee Street" by "Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds" Nick Cave was at Shane's funeral yesterday in Tipperary
	♥ 7:12am TDK60: Morning morphe'. I think COP28 has a few more days to go before concluding. Democracy Now will likely have more coverage a few days into next week.
	♥ 7:12am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @7:11 There were good friends.
	⚡ ♥ 7:13am fred: ↳ morphe' @7:07 I like that!
	⚡ ♥ 7:18am Krys O.: Good morning! I appreciate the quote by Zephaniah. My parents were refugees and my sisters were born in a refugee camp. I'm a living and breathing example of generational trauma.
	⚡ ♥ 7:19am fred: @Brian: That story this week about a US ambassador being a Cuba spy was pretty wild. It could be warmongering (while everyone is distracted) or true (underestimating Cuba is a tradition)
	7:19am Robm: morning fellow current events listeners
	♥ 7:21am Brian D: ↳ Krys O. @7:18 Good morning Krys O. Zephaniah's words and your story should be a reminder to us all.
	⚡ ♥ 7:21am Strandlund: Thank you for the Elliott Erwitt photos. I love his work. RIP...
	⚡ ♥ 7:21am fred: ↳ Krys O. @7:18 I hope there are easier paths to great radio
	7:21am Robm: ↳ fred @7:19 fred when i used to live in south florida i used to listen to radio havana cuba on shortwave, besides the bashing of the us, they played a lot of wonderful music
	♥ 7:21am Brian D: ↳ fred @7:19 Very wild. Never a dull moment in US-Cuba relations.
	♥ 7:22am Brian D: ↳ Robm @7:19 Greetings Rob.
	7:22am Robm: ↳ Brian D @7:22 greetings brian
	⚡ ♥ 7:24am fred: A friend of mine did an artist residency in Cuba for a few months. Her take is miles away from anything I heard in the media, on both good and bad sides
	⚡ ♥ 7:24am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Brian D @7:21 Mayn good reasons to be sick at heart.
	♥ 7:25am Brian D: ↳ fred @7:24 I have friends who lived there for a time as well. And yes, same thing.
	7:25am Peter in Tappan: I am absolutely loving the show
	♥ 7:27am TDK60: ↳ fred @7:24 Bonjour Fred. A few years ago I got to hear some Cuban anarchists give their unusual views on their country. A "mixed bag" for sure. But the anarchists adamantly called for an end to the US blockade of their country.
	⚡ ♥ 7:29am fred: ↳ Brian D @7:25 She has a white father and black mother, so maybe that's why she was sensitive to the racism/colorism there. She didn't expect that, and tended to go outside of Havana
	♥ 7:31am Brian D: ↳ Peter in Tappan @7:25 Thank you, Peter.
	⚡ ♥ 7:32am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Song: "Queen Crimson" by "Inutili" "Inutili" = 'useless' - what good music is good for..
	♥ 7:32am Brian D: ↳ fred @7:29 I can see that. There's a lot of that in the Americas.
	⚡ ♥ 7:33am fred: ↳ TDK60 @7:27 Anarchists agreeing? Brothers and sisters, I don't know what this world is coming to
	⚡ ♥ 7:35am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Good morning Brian and everyone.
	7:36am gnarly☮️gnarwhal💜: Wonderful stuff
	7:38am Robm: ↳ fred @7:33 pretty soon dogs and cats living together:)
	7:40am Robm: love listening to fox when i am awake, great person who has been through a lot of shit in her life
	⚡ ♥ 7:41am fred: Another friend worked for years on a doc about a Cuban hip-hop band, right before it should have come out it came out they were funded by the CIA. She said it was a shock to one of them at least, but yeah, never a dull moment.
	7:42am morphe': ↳ fred @7:33 John Sayles has a short story collection "The Anarchists' Convention" and the epoynomous [sp?] story is about how the Anarchist Convention is cancelled over a disagreement about whether or not there should be a seating plan...
	⚡ ♥ 7:42am tom tom the pipers son: sent to spy on a cuban talent show naxt stop cuba a go go
	♥ 7:43am Sera from Rockaway: ↳ Song: "Tell Me Mama" by "Cat Power" This album is excellent
	⚡ ♥ 7:44am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:42 havana a go go, duh, its early
	♥ 7:45am Brian D: ↳ Robm @7:40 Agreed. One of my favorite people -- and DJs -- here.
	♥ 7:45am Brian D: ↳ Peter from Saranac Lake NY @7:35 Belated good morning, Peter.
	♥ 7:45am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @7:42 That's funny!
	♥ 7:46am StringOFperils: I don't know much about Cat Power, but this is a great cover!
	⚡ ♥ 7:47am fred: ↳ morphe' @7:42 The tendency to split over anything can have tactical benefits: I once saw an alternative anarchist demonstration of 3 middle-aged people with flags draw three cop buses following them. Probably not intended, but effective (10 to 1 cop ratio at least)
	7:47am Robm: ↳ Brian D @7:45 too bad fox is on an overnight shift
	♥ 7:48am TDK60: ↳ Song: "Tell Me Mama" by "Cat Power" That was nice. Cat Power is the next "new Dylan." But that wasn't "She Belongs to Me."
	⚡ ♥ 7:48am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ morphe' @7:42 reminds me once saw two orthodox jews arguing in a canoe, didn't know if the argument was talmudic or aboput paddling
	♥ 7:48am Sera from Rockaway: ↳ StringOFperils @7:46 A whole album of Dylan covers....
	♥ 7:49am Brian D: ↳ TDK60 @7:48 Corrected. Forgot to change it.
	⚡ ♥ 7:49am Strandlund: Larry Fink is another one of my favorites...We have several of his works at the Art Center here in Des Moines. RIP...
	♥ 7:50am William Hellfire: ↳ TDK60 @7:48 I got to see Cat Power in the early/ mid 90s. She was very nervous. She took me into the basement of Maxwell's to sell me a cd. I think it was just her and Steve Shelley.
	7:50am melinda: Morning friends
	♥ 7:53am William Hellfire: I thought Saturday mornings were greasy kid stuff...then y'all taking about cuban spys. Heavy.
	7:53am Robm: morning melinda, have not seen you on the boards in a while?
	♥ 7:54am Brian D: ↳ William Hellfire @7:53 Greasy Kid Stuff a fine radio program.
	⚡ ♥ 7:54am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:48 Part of the orthodox fun is making anything talmudic, with the other part playing along because arguing is the point. If orthodox jews and anarchists unite, the world will implode! But it will not happen
	⚡ ♥ 7:56am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @7:54 they were actually standing up in canoe, pretty precarious and an image
	♥ 7:56am William Hellfire: ↳ Brian D @7:54 Crazy how time changes and shifts. I turned on the radio one Saturday and it was all adult stuff. I was like ...tilt head to the side WHAAAAAAT.....oh yeah I'm freaking old now. Stuff changes.
	♥ 7:57am TDK60: Actually could be shown to be historically inaccurate, Fred. Anarchists have united before. That's why they were hung in Chicago in 1886. Or repressed by Franco in Spain in 1936; /because/ they were highly organized.
	⚡ ♥ 7:57am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:56 maybe i'm embellishing, unlikely they were standing, a long time ago
	⚡ ♥ 7:58am dale: morning. slept hard and late, getting over some kind of bug. have to go back and check out the margo price cut, she was huge in 2020 and not heard so much now.
	⚡ ♥ 7:59am fred: ↳ William Hellfire @7:50 I saw her around that time and she was so nervous I was uncomfortable watching her (a top ten show though). I'm glad she found a successful and healthy way
	8:00am Cosmic: Hello Brian, hi currenteers! Late checking in but frothing for the next hour and catching up.
	8:03am Robm: ↳ dale @7:58 feel better dale
	⚡ ♥ 8:04am dale: ↳ Robm @8:03 thanks. i'm on the upswing thankfully.
	8:05am Robm: ↳ dale @8:04 YAY
	⚡ ♥ 8:06am fred: ↳ TDK60 @7:57 I know, I was referring to the current ones. I lost count of how many CNT alternates are here today. If there is a cause though, they'll come together without anyone having to ask. It's part of the deal: ideals over leaders because leaders lead only themselves
	8:08am Toothgrinder Tom: A Santa shortage? Well I’ll be.
	♥ 8:08am William Hellfire: ↳ fred @7:59 Yeah! I think she started crying at one point. I later worked with a photographer that was friends with her and she sang for her wedding and was the same way. Beautiful show but everyone felt that anxiety attack.
	♥ 8:09am Brian D: ↳ dale @7:58 Greetings Dale. Speedy recovery.
	♥ 8:09am Brian D: ↳ Cosmic @8:00 Hello cosmic!
	♥ 8:09am StringOFperils: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @8:08 Who wants to be seen as a paedophile and a cat burglar these days?
	♥ 8:10am William Hellfire: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @8:08 Finally! Hope they get exterminated all together. Scarry lot them.
	8:10am Toothgrinder Tom: Hope you feel better @Dale.
	⚡ ♥ 8:10am fred: ↳ TDK60 @7:57 Also, 1886 is why many countries have Labor Day on May 1st (a fact both Americans and Europeans angrily deny)
	⚡ ♥ 8:11am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @8:06 not anarchists, but leadership was important in labor,re: shawn fain in uaw walkout
	⚡ ♥ 8:12am dale: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @8:10 thanks, man!
	⚡ ♥ 8:13am Strandlund: ↳ dale @7:58 Pixie headed your way, Dale!! Get feeling better!!
	⚡ ♥ 8:13am tom tom the pipers son: democracy now did a piece on guzman's passing a couple of weeks agow/ young lords co founder juan gonzalez
	♥ 8:14am TDK60: Morning, Tom tom. Actually, anarcho-syndicalists have had leaders. Usually rotated. The Haymarket Martyrs were union leaders.
	♥ 8:14am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:13 Juan a great former Daily News columnist and frequent Democracy Now! cohost.
	⚡ ♥ 8:14am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: ↳ fred @8:06 I'm kind of whipsawed with the interesting threads here this morning... all I can contribute is, on Franco: you might like reading The Disinherited, by Henry Kamen. About Spain's expulsion of Jews, Moors, and, during the Franco era liberals/republicans.
	⚡ ♥ 8:14am Strandlund: ↳ Song: "Get Down Moses" by "Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros" I love this CD by Joe!! Nice to hear this on WFMU!!
	8:15am morphe': ↳ Song: "Clip: CBS-legendary newsman Pablo Guzman dies" 2 great Docs about The Young Lords [Guzman was a founding member] Palante Siempre Palante and the newer one about the takover of Lincoln Hospital Takeover
	⚡ ♥ 8:15am dale: i get tv with over the air antennas, and wpix11 comes in on a downstairs tv and i watch their news. it's interesting to see reporters from wcbs and fox5 end up there like it's some kind of banishment. but 11 has a lot less of the fluff news the other programs force on us so it's not bad at all.
	⚡ ♥ 8:16am tom tom the pipers son: pablo 'yoruba' guzman www.democracynow.org...
	⚡ ♥ 8:16am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:11 Leadership is useful to negotiate. But anarchists strike fear because there is no head to buy or kill. An incentive for the rulers to compromise. I'm so dark there, is Kissinger's spirit floating around?
	⚡ ♥ 8:16am dale: ↳ Song: "Get Down Moses" by "Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros" some day i have to find that vial of joe strummer beer backwash i won as a marathon prize. it's around here somewhere.
	♥ 8:17am William Hellfire: ↳ dale @8:15 Wpix 11 also shows archived Magic Garden Christmas around this time of year.
	8:17am Nina: First time listener of your show. It’s fantastic!
	♥ 8:18am Brian D: ↳ dale @8:16 I'm jealous. I feel alive when I see the photo of Strummer making tea in the WFMU kitchen when I'm... making tea in the WFMU kitchen.
	⚡ ♥ 8:18am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @8:16 ah, i see that, was just adding on to what you said
	♥ 8:19am Brian D: ↳ Nina @8:17 Thank you, Nina. Glad you're enjoying. Welcome.
	♥ 8:19am StringOFperils: ↳ dale @8:16 You should have someone suspend that in nitrocellulose and refinish a guitar with it
	8:21am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ Good ♄Saturday FMUvianz ~
	⚡ ♥ 8:21am dale: ↳ Brian D @8:18 if i find it i'll ship it back to the station so it can make some more money with it. the prize that keeps on prizing.
	♥ 8:23am William Hellfire: Ruts!!!! Great show!!!
	⚡ ♥ 8:24am fred: ↳ dale @8:16 Save it. Find a way to slip it in when Musk's white Mars project gets going
	♥ 8:31am Brian D: ↳ fred @8:24 I'd throw something else at Musk.
	⚡ ♥ 8:32am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @8:31 what happened to pie-ing?
	8:32am rich in angleton: I've been obsessed with 'seconds' for years. what a great song.
	♥ 8:33am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:32 A lost art.
	⚡ ♥ 8:33am Will thee Sound Guy: Good morning Brian D and all!!!
	8:33am Cosmic: What are this weeks themes please? I’m painting on a ceiling and so can’t search comments any more.
	8:33am Nina: And what a great movie too with rock Hudson. I heard they are turning it into a tv show.
	♥ 8:33am Brian D: ↳ rich in angleton @8:32 Great, simple but beautiful lyrics.
	♥ 8:34am Brian D: ↳ Will thee Sound Guy @8:33 Greetings Will.
	8:35am morphe': Non-Anarchists feeding on leftovers ... watching the hierarchy of the local Crows ... not size so is age or wisdom or both???
	⚡ ♥ 8:35am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Nina @8:33 john frankenheimer's movie after manchurian candidate
	⚡ ♥ 8:40am tom tom the pipers son: stage actors must have 'muscle memory' memory....
	8:40am Cosmic: All my English teachers could recite Shakespeares sonnets, and things like that. I assumed all literature and drama students and actors had to.
	⚡ ♥ 8:42am dale: wondered what happened to x-ray burns' nemesis ernie anastos. wiki says he owns several radio station up in the albany area. interesting retirement from tv.
	♥ 8:42am William Hellfire: ↳ Song: "Jet Boy, Jet Girl" by "The Damned" Hahaha !!!
	⚡ ♥ 8:43am fred: Didn't Marie Osmond once perform Ursonate?
	8:43am morphe': ↳ Song: "Jet Boy, Jet Girl" by "The Damned" A slower version than the one I know???
	♥ 8:43am Brian D: ↳ Cosmic @8:40 I majored in English -- and I barely remember that.
	♥ 8:44am Brian D: ↳ dale @8:42 Ernie will one day "keep f--king that chicken" in the sky.
	8:44am morphe': ↳ Brian D @8:31 "Elon Musk’s new enemy: Nordic workers" https://www.politico.eu/article/elon-musk-x-pace-x-faces-new-enemy-nordic-unions/
	⚡ ♥ 8:45am fred: ↳ Brian D @8:43 Do you mean Shakespeare or your college time?
	♥ 8:46am Brian D: ↳ fred @8:45 Both, actually.
	⚡ ♥ 8:46am dale: ↳ Brian D @8:44 ha ha! forget about that...
	⚡ ♥ 8:47am tom tom the pipers son: now that i see it, figure skating does get on my nerves
	8:48am Cosmic: It might have been a 60s 70s thing in the uk English exams? I still remember the lines from my school plays though. I didn’t have many, so maybe that helps.
	⚡ ♥ 8:49am dale: ↳ fred @8:43 yes. she was shoved on stage and donny wasn't ready to go out or some such so she just was winging it to kill time. which is bizarre because i thought all those shows were taped. maybe the producer and director liked it.
	8:49am Cosmic: Tha damned cover tho!! And this song !! ⚡️📻
	⚡ ♥ 8:50am tom tom the pipers son: julia louis dreyfus did a great marie osmond on snl w/ another actor as donny, and they made out
	♥ 8:51am Ken From Hyde Park: Good morning. Anything of importance concerning Venezuela's threats to annex Guyana?
	⚡ ♥ 8:51am fred: ↳ dale @8:49 Anyone who is shoved on stage and goes there is fine in my book
	♥ 8:52am TDK60: ↳ Song: "On My Radio" by "Screaming Females" Why are they are breaking up before I even heard of them?! So rude.
	8:54am morphe': Thanks BD and all !!!!!
	♥ 8:54am Brian D: ↳ TDK60 @8:52 Ha! Great band from Jersey.
	⚡ ♥ 8:55am tom tom the pipers son: thanks brian...
	⚡ ♥ 8:55am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Great show, Brian. Thank you!
	8:56am rich in angleton: thanks Brian!!! now i'm ready to take on the day! see everyone next week!
	⚡ ♥ 8:56am dale: wait, the bills are breaking up?
	⚡ ♥ 8:56am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ TDK60 @8:52 i believe perro caliente did a set of screaming fgemales this past week
	♥ 8:57am TDK60: Gracias, DJ Brian.
	♥ 8:57am Brian D: Alright all. That's for me. Thanks for the ears -- and eyes. And comments. Stay safe and have a great week.
	⚡ ♥ 8:58am dale: thanks brian!
	♥ 8:58am StringOFperils: Thanks for doin' the show.
	9:00am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ BrianD ~
	⚡ ♥ 9:02am Will thee Sound Guy: Thank you Brian D!!!
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Currents with Brian D: Playlist from December 9, 2023

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Sat. Apr 27th, 6am - 9am: Guest Diane Foley, author of American Mother (More info...)
Currents with Brian D welcomes Diane Foley, the mother of James Foley, the journalist brutally executed by ISIS in 2014. Diane will discuss her new book, "American Mother," and her work to protect US journalists working overseas and to change our country's policy toward citizens taken hostage by terrorist groups.

December 9, 2023: “We can all be refugees / Nobody is safe, / All it takes is a mad leader / Or no rain to bring forth food, / We can all be refugees / We can all be told to go, / We can be hated by someone / For being someone.”--We Refugees by Benjamin Zephaniah

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Artist	Track	Album	Comments	Approx. start time
Margo Price	Stranger in a Strange Land	A Song for Leon: A Tribute to Leon Russell		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Nicholas Merz	Real Me "Real Me" by "Nicholas Merz"	American Classic		0:04:33 (Pop-up)
Slow Drive	Chained to a Cloud "Chained to a Cloud" by "Slow Drive"	Everything Is Alive		0:08:19 (Pop-up)
Remembering Elliott Erwit: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/arts/elliott-erwitt-dead.html
Hawksmoor	Telepathic Heights "Telepathic Heights" by "Hawksmoor"	Telepathic Heights		0:15:56 (Pop-up)
Nate Wooley, Ken Vandermark, Christopher Dell, Christian Ramond, Klaus Kugel	Around Town	Transitions: Transatlantic 5		0:22:04 (Pop-up)
Langston Hughes	Life Is Fine "Life Is Fine" by "Langston Hughes"	The Dream Keeper		0:29:44 (Pop-up)
	Clip: BBC-skirmishes in the West Bank as Gaza war rages			0:33:07 (Pop-up)
Iron and Wine	House by the Sea "House by the Sea" by "Iron and Wine"	Who Can See Forever soundtrack		0:34:38 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	Mother "Mother" by "David Bowie"	45		0:40:10 (Pop-up)
	Clip: ANC-global emissions reach record highs			0:45:08 (Pop-up)
Ghost Train Orchestra and Kronos Quartet	All is Loneliness (ft. Joan as Police Woman)	Songs and Symphoniques: The Music of Moondog		0:45:52 (Pop-up)
Heron Oblivion	Rama "Rama" by "Heron Oblivion"	Heron Oblivian		0:57:09 (Pop-up)
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds	Jubilee Street	Push the Sky Away		1:07:34 (Pop-up)
Tørrfall	Jeg vaker i ørkenen "Jeg vaker i ørkenen" by "Tørrfall"	Tørrfall		1:14:05 (Pop-up)
Inutili	Queen Crimson "Queen Crimson" by "Inutili"	A Love Supreme		1:23:10 (Pop-up)
Remembering photographer Larry Fink: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/arts/larry-fink-dead.html
Cat Power	Tell Me Mama "Tell Me Mama" by "Cat Power"	Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert		1:41:19 (Pop-up)
	Clip: NBC10Boston-Santa shortages across US			1:46:10 (Pop-up)
The Feelies	Oh Sweet Nuthin "Oh Sweet Nuthin" by "The Feelies"	Some Kind Of Love: Performing The Music Of The Velvet Underground		1:47:16 (Pop-up)
	Clip: NDTV-Washington Post journalists strike			1:54:36 (Pop-up)
Empire	Stand "Stand" by "Empire"	Expansive Sound		1:55:58 (Pop-up)
IDLES	Grace "Grace" by "IDLES"	MP3		2:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Blasters	Samson and Delilah "Samson and Delilah" by "The Blasters"	Mandatory: The Best Of The Blasters		2:06:09 (Pop-up)
	Clip: CBS-legendary newsman Pablo Guzman dies		https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/nyregion/pablo-guzman-dead.html	2:09:59 (Pop-up)
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros	Get Down Moses	Streetcore		2:11:15 (Pop-up)
The Ruts	It Was Cold "It Was Cold" by "The Ruts"	The Crack		2:16:34 (Pop-up)
LCD Soundsystem	45:33 (Prince Language Remix)	45:33 Remixes		2:22:39 (Pop-up)
Human League	Seconds "Seconds" by "Human League"	Dare		2:30:26 (Pop-up)
Remembering Terry Taylor, first woman sports editor at the Associated Press: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/24/sports/terry-taylor-dead.html
The Damned	Jet Boy, Jet Girl "Jet Boy, Jet Girl" by "The Damned"	The Best of		2:40:48 (Pop-up)
Newtown Neurotics	I Get on Your Nerves	Cognitive Dissidents		2:44:03 (Pop-up)
Screaming Females	On My Radio "On My Radio" by "Screaming Females"	On My Radio - single	Announced this week they are breaking up.	2:49:52 (Pop-up)
CMAT and Junior Brother	Uncomfortable Christmas	Single		2:53:14 (Pop-up)
Scott Kempner	Lonesome Train "Lonesome Train" by "Scott Kempner"	Tenement Angels		2:56:24 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:02am morphe': Attuned !!!!
	⚡ 6:02am Don in Tampere: Hi Brian! Just over a week to go before I am retired!
	6:03am Toothgrinder Tom: Good morning, whoever’s out there!
	♥ 6:03am StringOFperils: ↳ Song: "Stranger in a Strange Land" by "Margo Price" Good morning, Brian....nice to hear this; the Leon Russell/Don Preston original has been with me for a long time.
	⚡ ♥ 6:03am tom tom the pipers son: good morning brian and people...
	♥ 6:04am Brian D: Oh I'm "out there" alright. Good morning everyone.
	6:04am morphe': ↳ Don in Tampere @6:02 To misquote Rex quoting someone else .. EVERYDAY IS SATURDAY TO A RETIREE !!!!!
	♥ 6:06am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @6:02 One week to FREEDOM!
	⚡ 6:07am Don in Tampere: ↳ morphe' @6:04 Only if Currents is on every day!
	6:07am Toothgrinder Tom: Just a ‘wavelength’ away? Eh, Brian? Eh?
	6:07am Toothgrinder Tom: Sorry, current. Er …
	⚡ 6:08am Don in Tampere: ↳ Brian D @6:06 and lots of banjo playing. the previous owners also left me an old German piano (with candle holders built in!), so anotehr project is to try to re-learn piano, which was my first instrument but I haven't played in almost 50 years
	♥ 6:08am Aaron Working In Newark: Good Morning
	♥ 6:08am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @6:07 That would sure beat working.
	♥ 6:09am StringOFperils: ↳ Don in Tampere @6:08 I like your plan
	♥ 6:11am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @6:08 That sounds perfect.
	6:13am morphe': ↳ Don in Tampere @6:08 I remember long ago seeing a guy playing a full on piano from the back of his truck .. it was his daily gig ... saw him on the corner a few times ... can ya park on the Square in Tampere?
	♥ 6:13am Brian D: ↳ Brian D @6:11 Unlike CD3.
	6:13am Toothgrinder Tom: @Don in Tampere what is the title of your farewell lecture?
	6:15am Bort Simpson: Oi, caramba!
	⚡ ♥ 6:16am Michael of Cologne: Good noonday Brian, Tom Tom, Don, Tom, morphé & all from grey, grey Cologne.
	♥ 6:16am TDK60: Good morning Brian. Free Palestine!
	⚡ ♥ 6:18am tom tom the pipers son: hello michael...
	♥ 6:18am Brian D: Michael! TDK!
	♥ 6:18am StringOFperils: The recent maiden flight of a 'green' passenger aircraft could be some good news for the atmosphere. Possibly? 'I want to believe.'
	♥ 6:19am Brian D: As an aside, the verse at the top of the page is from poet and actor Benjamin Zephaniah, who passed away this week: www.bbc.com...
	♥ 6:19am Brian D: ↳ StringOFperils @6:18 Indeed. Covered it last week!
	♥ 6:21am StringOFperils: :)
	6:21am morphe': Great Photo embedded: "Pablo Guzmán, the the minister of information for the Young Lords.." https://www.sanjuandailystar.com/post/pablo-guzmán-puerto-rican-activist-turned-tv-newsman-dies-at-73
	♥ 6:23am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @6:21 He is the "legendary NY newsman" we'll be recognizing later.
	⚡ ♥ 6:24am tom tom the pipers son: i know that's che, but my mother worked in an insurance company in nyc where castro and entourage dressed in fatigues visited prior to revolution, she remembers that they smelled bad juanita castro dead this week, have not seen warhol's life of juanita castro, but a little surprised warhol was aware of her in '64 or so...
	⚡ ♥ 6:24am London Calling Francky: ↳ Brian D @6:19 Morning Brian D and Currentists! RIP Mighty Benjamin Zephaniah! He was a Professor of Creative Writing at one of my Universities here in London Town and by all accounts he was a brilliant academic, on top being an amazing artist and an awesome human! :-(
	♥ 6:25am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:24 Perhaps he was her handler?
	♥ 6:26am Brian D: ↳ London Calling Francky @6:24 Greetings Francky. Yes, and I am one of the six people that hasn't watched "Peaky Blinders." I'm told he was great in that as well.
	⚡ ♥ 6:28am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @6:25 handler? she was a secretary, revolution is a smelly business...as one would expect
	⚡ ♥ 6:28am London Calling Francky: ↳ Brian D @6:26 Apparently so, Brian D. That makes 7 of us. I have tried to watch it but I am not great with depiction of violence.
	♥ 6:29am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:28 I meant Juanita's handler. With the CIA: www.npr.org...
	⚡ 6:30am Don in Tampere: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @6:13 From South to North, from Chemistry to Electronics: a Geographical and Scientific Journey"
	⚡ 6:32am Don in Tampere: ↳ morphe' @6:13 Not sure I could carry this into the back of my Caddy. But the most money per hour I ever made busking was in Tampere about 10 years ago when I was cycling home from a jam session with my banjo in a backpack and some drunk kids shouted "soita Paranoid" (the Finnish equivalent of Play Free Bird") so I got off the bike and did a quick clawhammer rendition of the song. They were so surprised that they gave me something like 10 EUR for 2 1/2 minutes of singing.
	6:33am Toothgrinder Tom: @Don in Tampere a stimulating topic!
	⚡ ♥ 6:34am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @6:29 oh, of course juanita castro's not actually in warhol film, don't know how she actual figures in it, or if the title is a sort of non sequitur
	⚡ ♥ 6:39am tom tom the pipers son: don't know how castro's visit registered with my mother, whether it peaked her awareness at all of how 'the other half lives' or if she was too wrapped up in her own survival
	♥ 6:42am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:39 As most of us are.
	⚡ ♥ 6:42am fred: ↳ Don in Tampere @6:32 Is it an upright piano? If so you could turn it into a pianocktail
	⚡ ♥ 6:43am fred: Also, hello Brian and all
	♥ 6:43am Brian D: Fred!
	⚡ ♥ 6:44am tom tom the pipers son: hello fred...
	6:46am rich in angleton: good morning Brian and everybody in radioland!
	6:46am morphe': Photos: https://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2023/dec/07/benjamin-zephaniah-a-life-in-pictures
	♥ 6:47am Brian D: ↳ rich in angleton @6:46 Rich!
	♥ 6:47am TDK60: I never heard this Bowie cover of "Mother." A single. Never knew about it. Discogs says, a release in 2021.
	6:47am LiXiviated Life: no surprise
	⚡ ♥ 6:48am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Clip: ANC-global emissions reach record highs" cop 28 is such a sick joke
	♥ 6:48am Brian D: ↳ TDK60 @6:47 Yep. Picked it up at the Bowie "pop up" store in SoHo that winter.
	⚡ ♥ 6:49am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:48 What else could we expect given the location?
	⚡ ♥ 6:50am tom tom the pipers son: true
	⚡ ♥ 6:52am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Song: "All is Loneliness (ft. Joan as Police Woman)" by ... Elegiac.
	6:52am morphe': ↳ fred @6:49 Democracy Now did some good coverage of Crap28 = tried to .. AG was there... worth having a look ...
	⚡ ♥ 6:53am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:50 A least having it be openly a market for oil deals yells the quiet part
	♥ 6:53am TDK60: ↳ Song: "All is Loneliness (ft. Joan as Police Woman)" by ... I have the original of this Moondog song, on my dad's old 1953 10" LP. It's scratchy but I still play it. Later, I dug the Big Brother & the Holding Co. version.
	⚡ ♥ 6:53am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @6:53 u huh, the mask is off...
	6:56am Cooh John: Good morning Brian and current eventers.
	♥ 6:58am Brian D: ↳ Cooh John @6:56 Greetings Cooh.
	⚡ ♥ 6:59am tom tom the pipers son: oh, that photo is castro... sure looks like che
	♥ 7:02am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:59 You're right. Not sure why I said that. Maybe I do need the bitter tea.
	⚡ ♥ 7:02am fred: @Brian: is it easier to be at the station for 6am on a Saturday or 3am on a Sunday? I'd guess the former, but you don't get rest after the workweek
	7:04am morphe': ↳ morphe' @6:52 AG = Amy Goodman, though Al Gore was there too and spoke truth as did Mary Robinson from Ireland... Democracy Now did some good coverage of Crap28 = tried to .. AG was there... worth having a look ...
	7:07am morphe': ↳ Brian D @7:02 An old guy on my block who swept up in front of the Synagogue said one day when chatting about ??? said "Ya gotta take the bitter with the sour..."
	⚡ ♥ 7:07am Strandlund: Good Morning Brian and all those tuned in!! Iowa checking in...
	⚡ ♥ 7:08am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Song: "Rama" by "Heron Oblivion" Great dirty guitar work.
	♥ 7:09am Brian D: ↳ fred @7:02 This shift is way easier for me, given my work schedule. But, ironically, getting here is more difficult. This morning was my first easy trip.
	♥ 7:10am Brian D: ↳ Strandlund @7:07 Strand!
	7:11am morphe': ↳ Song: "Jubilee Street" by "Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds" Nick Cave was at Shane's funeral yesterday in Tipperary
	♥ 7:12am TDK60: Morning morphe'. I think COP28 has a few more days to go before concluding. Democracy Now will likely have more coverage a few days into next week.
	♥ 7:12am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @7:11 There were good friends.
	⚡ ♥ 7:13am fred: ↳ morphe' @7:07 I like that!
	⚡ ♥ 7:18am Krys O.: Good morning! I appreciate the quote by Zephaniah. My parents were refugees and my sisters were born in a refugee camp. I'm a living and breathing example of generational trauma.
	⚡ ♥ 7:19am fred: @Brian: That story this week about a US ambassador being a Cuba spy was pretty wild. It could be warmongering (while everyone is distracted) or true (underestimating Cuba is a tradition)
	7:19am Robm: morning fellow current events listeners
	♥ 7:21am Brian D: ↳ Krys O. @7:18 Good morning Krys O. Zephaniah's words and your story should be a reminder to us all.
	⚡ ♥ 7:21am Strandlund: Thank you for the Elliott Erwitt photos. I love his work. RIP...
	⚡ ♥ 7:21am fred: ↳ Krys O. @7:18 I hope there are easier paths to great radio
	7:21am Robm: ↳ fred @7:19 fred when i used to live in south florida i used to listen to radio havana cuba on shortwave, besides the bashing of the us, they played a lot of wonderful music
	♥ 7:21am Brian D: ↳ fred @7:19 Very wild. Never a dull moment in US-Cuba relations.
	♥ 7:22am Brian D: ↳ Robm @7:19 Greetings Rob.
	7:22am Robm: ↳ Brian D @7:22 greetings brian
	⚡ ♥ 7:24am fred: A friend of mine did an artist residency in Cuba for a few months. Her take is miles away from anything I heard in the media, on both good and bad sides
	⚡ ♥ 7:24am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Brian D @7:21 Mayn good reasons to be sick at heart.
	♥ 7:25am Brian D: ↳ fred @7:24 I have friends who lived there for a time as well. And yes, same thing.
	7:25am Peter in Tappan: I am absolutely loving the show
	♥ 7:27am TDK60: ↳ fred @7:24 Bonjour Fred. A few years ago I got to hear some Cuban anarchists give their unusual views on their country. A "mixed bag" for sure. But the anarchists adamantly called for an end to the US blockade of their country.
	⚡ ♥ 7:29am fred: ↳ Brian D @7:25 She has a white father and black mother, so maybe that's why she was sensitive to the racism/colorism there. She didn't expect that, and tended to go outside of Havana
	♥ 7:31am Brian D: ↳ Peter in Tappan @7:25 Thank you, Peter.
	⚡ ♥ 7:32am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Song: "Queen Crimson" by "Inutili" "Inutili" = 'useless' - what good music is good for..
	♥ 7:32am Brian D: ↳ fred @7:29 I can see that. There's a lot of that in the Americas.
	⚡ ♥ 7:33am fred: ↳ TDK60 @7:27 Anarchists agreeing? Brothers and sisters, I don't know what this world is coming to
	⚡ ♥ 7:35am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Good morning Brian and everyone.
	7:36am gnarly☮️gnarwhal💜: Wonderful stuff
	7:38am Robm: ↳ fred @7:33 pretty soon dogs and cats living together:)
	7:40am Robm: love listening to fox when i am awake, great person who has been through a lot of shit in her life
	⚡ ♥ 7:41am fred: Another friend worked for years on a doc about a Cuban hip-hop band, right before it should have come out it came out they were funded by the CIA. She said it was a shock to one of them at least, but yeah, never a dull moment.
	7:42am morphe': ↳ fred @7:33 John Sayles has a short story collection "The Anarchists' Convention" and the epoynomous [sp?] story is about how the Anarchist Convention is cancelled over a disagreement about whether or not there should be a seating plan...
	⚡ ♥ 7:42am tom tom the pipers son: sent to spy on a cuban talent show naxt stop cuba a go go
	♥ 7:43am Sera from Rockaway: ↳ Song: "Tell Me Mama" by "Cat Power" This album is excellent
	⚡ ♥ 7:44am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:42 havana a go go, duh, its early
	♥ 7:45am Brian D: ↳ Robm @7:40 Agreed. One of my favorite people -- and DJs -- here.
	♥ 7:45am Brian D: ↳ Peter from Saranac Lake NY @7:35 Belated good morning, Peter.
	♥ 7:45am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @7:42 That's funny!
	♥ 7:46am StringOFperils: I don't know much about Cat Power, but this is a great cover!
	⚡ ♥ 7:47am fred: ↳ morphe' @7:42 The tendency to split over anything can have tactical benefits: I once saw an alternative anarchist demonstration of 3 middle-aged people with flags draw three cop buses following them. Probably not intended, but effective (10 to 1 cop ratio at least)
	7:47am Robm: ↳ Brian D @7:45 too bad fox is on an overnight shift
	♥ 7:48am TDK60: ↳ Song: "Tell Me Mama" by "Cat Power" That was nice. Cat Power is the next "new Dylan." But that wasn't "She Belongs to Me."
	⚡ ♥ 7:48am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ morphe' @7:42 reminds me once saw two orthodox jews arguing in a canoe, didn't know if the argument was talmudic or aboput paddling
	♥ 7:48am Sera from Rockaway: ↳ StringOFperils @7:46 A whole album of Dylan covers....
	♥ 7:49am Brian D: ↳ TDK60 @7:48 Corrected. Forgot to change it.
	⚡ ♥ 7:49am Strandlund: Larry Fink is another one of my favorites...We have several of his works at the Art Center here in Des Moines. RIP...
	♥ 7:50am William Hellfire: ↳ TDK60 @7:48 I got to see Cat Power in the early/ mid 90s. She was very nervous. She took me into the basement of Maxwell's to sell me a cd. I think it was just her and Steve Shelley.
	7:50am melinda: Morning friends
	♥ 7:53am William Hellfire: I thought Saturday mornings were greasy kid stuff...then y'all taking about cuban spys. Heavy.
	7:53am Robm: morning melinda, have not seen you on the boards in a while?
	♥ 7:54am Brian D: ↳ William Hellfire @7:53 Greasy Kid Stuff a fine radio program.
	⚡ ♥ 7:54am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:48 Part of the orthodox fun is making anything talmudic, with the other part playing along because arguing is the point. If orthodox jews and anarchists unite, the world will implode! But it will not happen
	⚡ ♥ 7:56am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @7:54 they were actually standing up in canoe, pretty precarious and an image
	♥ 7:56am William Hellfire: ↳ Brian D @7:54 Crazy how time changes and shifts. I turned on the radio one Saturday and it was all adult stuff. I was like ...tilt head to the side WHAAAAAAT.....oh yeah I'm freaking old now. Stuff changes.
	♥ 7:57am TDK60: Actually could be shown to be historically inaccurate, Fred. Anarchists have united before. That's why they were hung in Chicago in 1886. Or repressed by Franco in Spain in 1936; /because/ they were highly organized.
	⚡ ♥ 7:57am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:56 maybe i'm embellishing, unlikely they were standing, a long time ago
	⚡ ♥ 7:58am dale: morning. slept hard and late, getting over some kind of bug. have to go back and check out the margo price cut, she was huge in 2020 and not heard so much now.
	⚡ ♥ 7:59am fred: ↳ William Hellfire @7:50 I saw her around that time and she was so nervous I was uncomfortable watching her (a top ten show though). I'm glad she found a successful and healthy way
	8:00am Cosmic: Hello Brian, hi currenteers! Late checking in but frothing for the next hour and catching up.
	8:03am Robm: ↳ dale @7:58 feel better dale
	⚡ ♥ 8:04am dale: ↳ Robm @8:03 thanks. i'm on the upswing thankfully.
	8:05am Robm: ↳ dale @8:04 YAY
	⚡ ♥ 8:06am fred: ↳ TDK60 @7:57 I know, I was referring to the current ones. I lost count of how many CNT alternates are here today. If there is a cause though, they'll come together without anyone having to ask. It's part of the deal: ideals over leaders because leaders lead only themselves
	8:08am Toothgrinder Tom: A Santa shortage? Well I’ll be.
	♥ 8:08am William Hellfire: ↳ fred @7:59 Yeah! I think she started crying at one point. I later worked with a photographer that was friends with her and she sang for her wedding and was the same way. Beautiful show but everyone felt that anxiety attack.
	♥ 8:09am Brian D: ↳ dale @7:58 Greetings Dale. Speedy recovery.
	♥ 8:09am Brian D: ↳ Cosmic @8:00 Hello cosmic!
	♥ 8:09am StringOFperils: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @8:08 Who wants to be seen as a paedophile and a cat burglar these days?
	♥ 8:10am William Hellfire: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @8:08 Finally! Hope they get exterminated all together. Scarry lot them.
	8:10am Toothgrinder Tom: Hope you feel better @Dale.
	⚡ ♥ 8:10am fred: ↳ TDK60 @7:57 Also, 1886 is why many countries have Labor Day on May 1st (a fact both Americans and Europeans angrily deny)
	⚡ ♥ 8:11am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @8:06 not anarchists, but leadership was important in labor,re: shawn fain in uaw walkout
	⚡ ♥ 8:12am dale: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @8:10 thanks, man!
	⚡ ♥ 8:13am Strandlund: ↳ dale @7:58 Pixie headed your way, Dale!! Get feeling better!!
	⚡ ♥ 8:13am tom tom the pipers son: democracy now did a piece on guzman's passing a couple of weeks agow/ young lords co founder juan gonzalez
	♥ 8:14am TDK60: Morning, Tom tom. Actually, anarcho-syndicalists have had leaders. Usually rotated. The Haymarket Martyrs were union leaders.
	♥ 8:14am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:13 Juan a great former Daily News columnist and frequent Democracy Now! cohost.
	⚡ ♥ 8:14am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: ↳ fred @8:06 I'm kind of whipsawed with the interesting threads here this morning... all I can contribute is, on Franco: you might like reading The Disinherited, by Henry Kamen. About Spain's expulsion of Jews, Moors, and, during the Franco era liberals/republicans.
	⚡ ♥ 8:14am Strandlund: ↳ Song: "Get Down Moses" by "Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros" I love this CD by Joe!! Nice to hear this on WFMU!!
	8:15am morphe': ↳ Song: "Clip: CBS-legendary newsman Pablo Guzman dies" 2 great Docs about The Young Lords [Guzman was a founding member] Palante Siempre Palante and the newer one about the takover of Lincoln Hospital Takeover
	⚡ ♥ 8:15am dale: i get tv with over the air antennas, and wpix11 comes in on a downstairs tv and i watch their news. it's interesting to see reporters from wcbs and fox5 end up there like it's some kind of banishment. but 11 has a lot less of the fluff news the other programs force on us so it's not bad at all.
	⚡ ♥ 8:16am tom tom the pipers son: pablo 'yoruba' guzman www.democracynow.org...
	⚡ ♥ 8:16am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:11 Leadership is useful to negotiate. But anarchists strike fear because there is no head to buy or kill. An incentive for the rulers to compromise. I'm so dark there, is Kissinger's spirit floating around?
	⚡ ♥ 8:16am dale: ↳ Song: "Get Down Moses" by "Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros" some day i have to find that vial of joe strummer beer backwash i won as a marathon prize. it's around here somewhere.
	♥ 8:17am William Hellfire: ↳ dale @8:15 Wpix 11 also shows archived Magic Garden Christmas around this time of year.
	8:17am Nina: First time listener of your show. It’s fantastic!
	♥ 8:18am Brian D: ↳ dale @8:16 I'm jealous. I feel alive when I see the photo of Strummer making tea in the WFMU kitchen when I'm... making tea in the WFMU kitchen.
	⚡ ♥ 8:18am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @8:16 ah, i see that, was just adding on to what you said
	♥ 8:19am Brian D: ↳ Nina @8:17 Thank you, Nina. Glad you're enjoying. Welcome.
	♥ 8:19am StringOFperils: ↳ dale @8:16 You should have someone suspend that in nitrocellulose and refinish a guitar with it
	8:21am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ Good ♄Saturday FMUvianz ~
	⚡ ♥ 8:21am dale: ↳ Brian D @8:18 if i find it i'll ship it back to the station so it can make some more money with it. the prize that keeps on prizing.
	♥ 8:23am William Hellfire: Ruts!!!! Great show!!!
	⚡ ♥ 8:24am fred: ↳ dale @8:16 Save it. Find a way to slip it in when Musk's white Mars project gets going
	♥ 8:31am Brian D: ↳ fred @8:24 I'd throw something else at Musk.
	⚡ ♥ 8:32am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @8:31 what happened to pie-ing?
	8:32am rich in angleton: I've been obsessed with 'seconds' for years. what a great song.
	♥ 8:33am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:32 A lost art.
	⚡ ♥ 8:33am Will thee Sound Guy: Good morning Brian D and all!!!
	8:33am Cosmic: What are this weeks themes please? I’m painting on a ceiling and so can’t search comments any more.
	8:33am Nina: And what a great movie too with rock Hudson. I heard they are turning it into a tv show.
	♥ 8:33am Brian D: ↳ rich in angleton @8:32 Great, simple but beautiful lyrics.
	♥ 8:34am Brian D: ↳ Will thee Sound Guy @8:33 Greetings Will.
	8:35am morphe': Non-Anarchists feeding on leftovers ... watching the hierarchy of the local Crows ... not size so is age or wisdom or both???
	⚡ ♥ 8:35am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Nina @8:33 john frankenheimer's movie after manchurian candidate
	⚡ ♥ 8:40am tom tom the pipers son: stage actors must have 'muscle memory' memory....
	8:40am Cosmic: All my English teachers could recite Shakespeares sonnets, and things like that. I assumed all literature and drama students and actors had to.
	⚡ ♥ 8:42am dale: wondered what happened to x-ray burns' nemesis ernie anastos. wiki says he owns several radio station up in the albany area. interesting retirement from tv.
	♥ 8:42am William Hellfire: ↳ Song: "Jet Boy, Jet Girl" by "The Damned" Hahaha !!!
	⚡ ♥ 8:43am fred: Didn't Marie Osmond once perform Ursonate?
	8:43am morphe': ↳ Song: "Jet Boy, Jet Girl" by "The Damned" A slower version than the one I know???
	♥ 8:43am Brian D: ↳ Cosmic @8:40 I majored in English -- and I barely remember that.
	♥ 8:44am Brian D: ↳ dale @8:42 Ernie will one day "keep f--king that chicken" in the sky.
	8:44am morphe': ↳ Brian D @8:31 "Elon Musk’s new enemy: Nordic workers" https://www.politico.eu/article/elon-musk-x-pace-x-faces-new-enemy-nordic-unions/
	⚡ ♥ 8:45am fred: ↳ Brian D @8:43 Do you mean Shakespeare or your college time?
	♥ 8:46am Brian D: ↳ fred @8:45 Both, actually.
	⚡ ♥ 8:46am dale: ↳ Brian D @8:44 ha ha! forget about that...
	⚡ ♥ 8:47am tom tom the pipers son: now that i see it, figure skating does get on my nerves
	8:48am Cosmic: It might have been a 60s 70s thing in the uk English exams? I still remember the lines from my school plays though. I didn’t have many, so maybe that helps.
	⚡ ♥ 8:49am dale: ↳ fred @8:43 yes. she was shoved on stage and donny wasn't ready to go out or some such so she just was winging it to kill time. which is bizarre because i thought all those shows were taped. maybe the producer and director liked it.
	8:49am Cosmic: Tha damned cover tho!! And this song !! ⚡️📻
	⚡ ♥ 8:50am tom tom the pipers son: julia louis dreyfus did a great marie osmond on snl w/ another actor as donny, and they made out
	♥ 8:51am Ken From Hyde Park: Good morning. Anything of importance concerning Venezuela's threats to annex Guyana?
	⚡ ♥ 8:51am fred: ↳ dale @8:49 Anyone who is shoved on stage and goes there is fine in my book
	♥ 8:52am TDK60: ↳ Song: "On My Radio" by "Screaming Females" Why are they are breaking up before I even heard of them?! So rude.
	8:54am morphe': Thanks BD and all !!!!!
	♥ 8:54am Brian D: ↳ TDK60 @8:52 Ha! Great band from Jersey.
	⚡ ♥ 8:55am tom tom the pipers son: thanks brian...
	⚡ ♥ 8:55am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Great show, Brian. Thank you!
	8:56am rich in angleton: thanks Brian!!! now i'm ready to take on the day! see everyone next week!
	⚡ ♥ 8:56am dale: wait, the bills are breaking up?
	⚡ ♥ 8:56am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ TDK60 @8:52 i believe perro caliente did a set of screaming fgemales this past week
	♥ 8:57am TDK60: Gracias, DJ Brian.
	♥ 8:57am Brian D: Alright all. That's for me. Thanks for the ears -- and eyes. And comments. Stay safe and have a great week.
	⚡ ♥ 8:58am dale: thanks brian!
	♥ 8:58am StringOFperils: Thanks for doin' the show.
	9:00am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ BrianD ~
	⚡ ♥ 9:02am Will thee Sound Guy: Thank you Brian D!!!
	⚡ ♥ 5:25am Brian in UK: Brian, there seems to be a lot of remembering these days! This link was recorded but a few weeks before Benjamin's passing. www.bbc.co.uk...

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