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Favoriting January 15, 2023: "Ride the train/I'm far from home..."

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Artist Track Album Comments Approx. start time
David Bowie  Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)   Favoriting Blackstar    0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The John-Pauls  Same Dweller, Different Cave   Favoriting Bon Mots    0:04:25 (Pop-up)
Scott Walker  Funeral Tango   Favoriting Scott Walker Meets Jacques Brel    0:08:26 (Pop-up)
Interpol  Stella Was a Diver and She Was Always Down   Favoriting Turn on the Bright Lights    0:10:24 (Pop-up)
Gleaming Spires  Welcoming a New Ice Age   Favoriting Welcoming a New Ice Age    0:17:15 (Pop-up)
The Clean  Outside the Cage   Favoriting Anthology    0:21:35 (Pop-up)
  Clip: ABC-rioters attack government buildings in Brazil       0:26:39 (Pop-up)
TMA  Psychopathic   Favoriting What's for Dinner? Beach Party 2000?    0:27:25 (Pop-up)
Gogol Bordello  Immigrant Punk   Favoriting Gypsy Punks    0:28:43 (Pop-up)
  Clip: Euronews-Italy enacts new migrant rescue laws       0:32:27 (Pop-up)
Kid Congo Powers and the Near Death Experience  New Kind of Kick   Favoriting Live In St. Kilda    0:33:53 (Pop-up)
  Clip: CBS-California cuts climate, homeless funds to meet budget deficit       0:38:22 (Pop-up)
B-Sides  I Say, You Say   Favoriting Herald's Missing the Funny Pages    0:39:56 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Glasgow Police Pipe Band 

The Gathering of the Clans (Part I)/The Highland Fling/Scottish Marhes Medley Part I   Favoriting

Scottish Pipes 

 

0:43:11 (Pop-up)
Arbor Labor Union  Forevergreen   Favoriting Yonder    0:51:48 (Pop-up)
Yardbirds  Jeff's Blues   Favoriting Blues, Backtracks, and Shapes of Things Vol. 2  RIP Jeff Beck  0:54:51 (Pop-up)
Janis Joplin and Jorma Kaukonen  Daddy, Daddy, Daddy   Favoriting The Legendary Typewriter Tape: 6/25/64 Jorma's House    0:57:42 (Pop-up)
Led Zeppelin  In the Light   Favoriting Physical Graffiti    1:02:18 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Glasgow Police Pipe Band 

The Gathering of the Clans (Part I)/The Highland Fling/Scottish Marhes Medley Part I   Favoriting

Scottish Pipes 

 

1:10:35 (Pop-up)
Big Blood  Sirens Knell, Part IV   Favoriting Weird Road EP    1:15:15 (Pop-up)
  Clip: CBS-Paris stabbing spree       1:22:00 (Pop-up)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor  Storm   Favoriting Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven    1:22:40 (Pop-up)
Weeping Icon  Like Envy   Favoriting Weeping Icon    1:45:06 (Pop-up)
  Clip: WION-ocean temperatures warmest on record       1:49:18 (Pop-up)
No Tongues  Finnis Terrae   Favoriting Ici    1:50:25 (Pop-up)
Chloe Stafler  Mad World   Favoriting MP3    1:56:09 (Pop-up)
Ingar Zach  Vapore   Favoriting Musica Liquida    1:59:21 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Glasgow Police Pipe Band 

The Gathering of the Clans (Part I)/The Highland Fling/Scottish Marhes Medley Part I   Favoriting

Scottish Pipes 

 

2:08:39 (Pop-up)
MoE y Escalantes  The Sandman   Favoriting Saint Vitus Dance    2:15:59 (Pop-up)
Blood Quartet  A Place of Dead Roads   Favoriting Root 7    2:23:31 (Pop-up)
  Clip: CBS-Russia to rescue space station astronauts       2:28:56 (Pop-up)
Sun Ra and His Blue Universe Arkestra  Intergalactic Research   Favoriting Universe in Blue    2:29:05 (Pop-up)
Mose Allison  Your Mind Is On Vacation   Favoriting Live    2:44:30 (Pop-up)
Eri Yamamoto Trio  Sounds of Peace   Favoriting A Woman With A Purple Wig    2:47:31 (Pop-up)
Pharoah Sanders  Morning Prayer   Favoriting Thembi    2:51:28 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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Don in Tampere:

Good morning Brian!
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Brian D:

Hello Don! And everyone!
Avatar 3:25am
Don in Tampere:

Wherever everyone is! I'll be leaving in a little over an hour to head to the cabin and do a little more assembly. This coming week the plumber is supposed to come and install hot water, toilet and shower so I might be able to start spending the night there now and then next weekend.
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Don in Tampere:

But with pretty good 4G coverage in Finland, I might be able to listen to the rst of Currents on the way.
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Brian D:

Good luck with that, Don. Sounds lovely. As for everyone else, it is quiet...
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Brian in UK:

Quick hello Brian & Don before heading out for a dog walk. Looks like you listeners are exiting!!!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:32am
Brian in UK:

Some might say, all immigrants are punks. Certainly our Home Secretary would.
  3:34am
Chris Crisco:

Mooooooorrrrrnnnnnniiiiinnnnnngggg!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:37am
Brian D:

Good morning Brian! Morning, Chris.
  3:38am
Chris Crisco:

Was Bolsonaro granted asylum here? Why is DeSatan not putting Bolsonaro's illegal ass on a plane back where he came from?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:40am
Brian D:

No asylum as far as I know.
Avatar 3:45am
Don in Tampere:

I thought asylum was a federal-level decision anyway.
Avatar 3:49am
Don in Tampere:

I'm reading that right now too. Completely different in style to anything else I've read by him, but very interesting.
As a banjo player, I know about playing a hated instrument :D
Avatar 3:49am
Roberto:

Why do I find the term "busking" slightly nauseating?
Avatar 3:51am
Roberto:

Isn't it great when people loudly and publicly announce whom they work for while committing acts that might cause them to lose their jobs?
  3:52am
Chris Crisco:

Exactly so Bolsonaro is just another illegal immigrant then. DeSatan should be putting his ass on a plane like he does with other asylum seekers.
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Brian D:

Sorry for using "busking," Roberto. My personal off-putting term is "curating."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:53am
Brian D:

↳ Roberto @3:51
Yes, the guy was a tool, just like his boss.
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Roberto:

↳ Brian D @3:52
It's not your fauly, BD. It's the fault of whoever popularized the term.
Avatar 3:53am
Roberto:

↳ Roberto @3:53
fault
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Roberto:

↳ Roberto @3:53
That was a faulty spelling
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:02am
Destroit:

Howdy Brian and everyone.
Avatar 4:03am
Roberto:

↳ Song: "In the Light" by "Led Zeppelin"
AW YEAH one of my fave LZ non-hits!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:03am
Brian D:

Hey Destroit! Mine too, Roberto.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:08am
Paulo AD:

Very underplayed zep track
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:09am
Paulo AD:

Hi all :) just getting ready before I start djing, been a while
Avatar 4:15am
Roberto:

Better than saying "literally" when not warranted, which you just did.
Avatar 4:16am
Roberto:

↳ Roberto @4:15
Although you did correct yourself.
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Paulo AD:

It's not that bad Bri lol
  4:17am
morphe':

efd also did a great show and Interview about Leeds Music genesis:
THE PROF. FUZZ 63 LIVE SET plus GAVIN BUTT chats about his book No Machos Or Popstars: When The Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:17am
Brian D:

Hey Paulo. Next I'll be saying everything is "awesome."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:18am
Brian D:

Hey Morphe! You're right. I missed that due to work.
Avatar 4:18am
Roberto:

↳ Brian D @4:17
Still better than mis-/overusing "literally."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:18am
Paulo AD:

Now that is something I say all the time
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:19am
London Calling Francky:

Be kind to yourself Brian haha... we all say cringing stuff in front of an audience... I do it all the time with my students and then think to myself "what an arse!"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:20am
Brian D:

Hey London. I can't even imagine speaking in front of a group of young people.
Avatar 4:22am
Roberto:

Yes, be kind to yourself -- except when you use "literally" wrong.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:24am
London Calling Francky:

Cause I have been doing it for a couple of decades, I don't even think about it any more... but I can't seem to help uttering totally idiotic stuff every so often... but then it is is within the confines of a Lecture Theatre... while you talk to humans from all around the world... yeah, be kind to yourself, even with "literally" haha
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:25am
Listener Jonny in South Central... (Ohio):

Hi Bri! Hi insomniacs!
Spectacular set!

Caffienned up recording spacy trip music in my studio with this show on in the background...
Avatar 4:25am
Don in Tampere:

Just the right music for a grey, wet Sunday morning. We still have snow on the ground, but a few days of above-freezing temperatures and light rain have turned it into a slushy mess. And some flooding predicted in the region close to Helsinki
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:26am
London Calling Francky:

↳ Song: "Storm" by "Godspeed You! Black Emperor"
Oh wow I love GY!BE. They are so insanely good live!
Avatar 4:27am
Roberto:

Also, prefacing every other statement with "honestly." Less is more, folks.
Avatar 4:30am
Don in Tampere:

maybe we should preface everything with "dishonestly"
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Brian D:

↳ Listener Jonny in South Central... (Ohio) @4:25
Hello Jonny. Glad you're enjoying. Hope it's helping with what you're doing.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:30am
Brian D:

↳ Don in Tampere @4:25
Actually had our first snow of the winter here today, though no accumulation.
Avatar 4:32am
Roberto:

↳ Don in Tampere @4:30
It might be more honest lol
Avatar 4:33am
Michael of Cologne:

Gadzooks Brian! Gawd peat us all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:36am
Brian D:

Hello Michael! Read something interesting today: The German language doesn't have different words for mind and soul. Is that true?
Avatar 4:41am
Don in Tampere:

Brian, that's more or less true, Seele can be used for both
Avatar 4:41am
Don in Tampere:

Hitting the road now, wishing for good reception!
  4:41am
morphe':

Is it my lack of depth/knowledge of Big Blood or was
Sirens Knell, Part IV a new divergent sound from them?
Going to look for I,II,III....
Avatar 4:42am
Michael of Cologne:

What!? Geist is hard to translated, but is basically mind (_nous_ in ancient Greek) and Seele (_psyche_ in Gk.) is soul. But Geist has a broader spectrum, stretching also to spirit, as in Holy Spirit. Then there's the Geisteswissenschaften (lit. the sciences of mind), which are what we call the humanities. Soul can also be Gemüt, which is more the seat of feeling.
Avatar 4:43am
Roberto:

Dishonestly, I literally should have gone to bed hours ago. Night, all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:43am
Brian in UK:

'Kind of, like' has had a long shelf life; over here at least.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:44am
Brian in UK:

Oh, & 'absolutely'.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:46am
Brian D:

↳ Michael of Cologne @4:42
Blame Cormac McCarthy. In his new novel, Stella Maris, a character says the German language doesn't have separate words for mind and soul. And I don't know German so...
  4:47am
morphe':

I did not go to NYU, somewhere in the 80s "like" "was like" every other word out of too many NYU students' mouths .... flipside .. NYU had THE NEW AFTERNOON Show!!!! which featured efd and led me to accidentally find 91.1 on the FM Dial ...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:48am
Brian D:

Serves me right. I was fuming listening to a group of young women on the train on my way here because they kept using the word "like."
Avatar 4:51am
Roberto:

↳ Brian D @4:48
People don't generally put thought behind their speech (or even writing). It's just an autonomic response. Yeah, I came back to throw that in NIGHT NIGHT
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:54am
Brian D:

↳ Roberto @4:51
Honestly, Roberto. Like, go to bed already. It's literally late. Sleep awesome.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:55am
Brian in UK:

↳ Brian D @4:54
Absolutely, totally awesome comment, like, amazing.
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Geoffrey in Ottawa:

I started "The Passenger" this weekend. Enjoying it more once I started skipping the italicized chapters.
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Brian D:

Hey Geoffrey. It's really good. Be patient with the italics, though. It comes together.
  Swag For Life Member 4:59am
Geoffrey in Ottawa:

Brian, the opening is incredible, the scene where they dive down and enter the plane. Incredible writing.
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Michael of Cologne:

↳ Brian D @4:46
Reminiscent of how the Brits characterized the Germans shortly after WWII: "clever, crafty and cruel".
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Brian D:

↳ Geoffrey in Ottawa @4:59
Agreed. There are sections of that book that are so well written.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:01am
Brian D:

↳ Michael of Cologne @4:59
As far as the Brits, pot calling the kettle...
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Michael of Cologne:

My current pet hates re linguistic clichés are "amazing" and "incredible". There's this phenomenon of mindless speaking and writing...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:01am
Brian in UK:

Just remembered what really pisses me off. Use of 'guys' when someone talks to men & women.
Enough of an old man wittering on.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:04am
Brian D:

↳ Brian in UK @5:01
I'm guilty of that one.
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Geoffrey in Ottawa:

@ Michael: Guilty!
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Brian in UK:

There are so many wonderful words & we limit ourselves to so few.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:06am
Brian in UK:

The Semantic Court is now in session. Prays silence for Lord Lexicon.
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Brian D:

I may never do another mic break.
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Michael of Cologne:

↳ Brian in UK @5:05
Rather partial to "astounding", "astonishing", "extraordinary", "outstanding" myself.
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Brian in UK:

Never read Cormac McCarthy; where is a good place to start?
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Brian in UK:

↳ Michael of Cologne @5:09
'Delightful', is a favourite recently.
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herb.nyc:

Bonjour!
  5:17am
morphe':

↳ Brian in UK @5:09
His early books are set in Appalachia with echoes of Faulkner .. really quite good but lesser read/known... he then moved West - Blood Meridian is a fairly brutal intro to his westernish writing .. The Road is quite good apocalypse tale .. Blood Meridian !!!!
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Brian D:

↳ Brian in UK @5:09
The Road. No Country for Old Men. Both on the short side. And brilliant. The Road is my second favorite dystopian novel.
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Brian D:

↳ herb.nyc @5:16
Hello Herb!
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Michael of Cologne:

↳ Song: "The Sandman" by "MoE y Escalantes"
Great sax!
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Michael of Cologne:

↳ Song: "The Sandman" by "MoE y Escalantes"
John Zorn's sax for Painkiller was more aggressive and chaotic.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:23am
Ike:

I was in another room -- were you playing bagpipe in the background during that mic break? If not, then the local bagpiper in Sunset Park may have started doing sessions at 5 a.m. I wonder if someone will call the cops.
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Brian in UK:

Oh, is McCarty dystopian & brutal. I might take a powder on them for a while then. Thanks for the recommendations though. I appreciate that good writing can transcend subjects, maybe later.
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Brian D:

I did have bagpipes playing the background, Ike. You're not hearing this. Good morning, by the way.
  5:25am
morphe':

↳ Brian D @5:17
When teachin Alt HS (=17-21 YOs) Pre Netflix, etc.. I used to hook students into reading The Road and/or No Country by showing the beginning of the films only with the promise of the entire flick when they fnished the book... Required a 2 paragraph Reading Log
(I. Summary II. Analysis) per chapter/section so no plagarism, etc... It worked well ...
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Brian D:

↳ Brian in UK @5:24
Not always, Brian. His novel Suttree focuses on a down and out dude in the American south.
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Brian D:

↳ morphe' @5:25
Wow. Nicely done, Morphe.
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herb.nyc:

Je ne peux pas dormir. Bonjour, encore un fois. (Mrs Haber learned me French in sheepshead bay, eons ago)
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i̺k̺e̺:

↳ Song: "The Gathering of the Clans (Part I)/The Highland ...
Oh, *duh*, it's right there in the playlist.

I'm a little out of it. Got a little spot of the ol' C-19 for the first time. Fortunately got some Paxlovid, but the side effect known as "Paxlovid Mouth" is *absolutely disgusting*!
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Brian D:

↳ i̺k̺e̺ @5:27
Get well soon, Ike.
  5:28am
tom tom the pipers son:

hi brian,people.... just woke up, sorry i missed you, the chat looks lively
  5:28am
morphe':

↳ Brian D @5:25
Brian UK - BD's recommendation is good .. Suttree .. a subtle[?] deep character study ...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:29am
Brian D:

↳ herb.nyc @5:27
I took French for 5 years. Remember almost nothing, Herb. Despite Mme Didier's best efforts.
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Brian D:

Good morning, Tom Tom.
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herb.nyc:

Hit by micrometeor? Reminds me of Charlie Brown’s “I got a rock”. Now lemme scroll up and read comments, from 3am on.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:32am
Brian in UK:

↳ morphe' @5:28
Thanks & Brian D (you cannot reply to two comments) will check with local libraries.

I have been enjoying Willy Vlautin's novels these past few years. Decent fella, saw/heard him reading a while back.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:33am
i̺k̺e̺:

↳ Brian D @5:28
Thanks. When I searched the internet for this mysterious assault on my taste buds, I found something by Alex Janin of the WSJ: "Sun-baked trash-bag liquid. A mouthful of dirty pennies. Rotten soymilk. These are the myriad flavors of Paxlovid's aftertaste, according to people I talked to..."

I'd say dirty pennies comes closest. Dirty pennies from an old Newark factory that used to process benzene, or soap, or Agent Orange, or all three.
  5:33am
morphe':

Think I read that the hole in rocket was only 10mm in width, but the ship lost significant internal gases... A 2nd unmanned Soyez is enroute or already docked... Wonder what the personal dynamics were like up there 1 Yank and 2 Rooskies with war on???
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:35am
Brian D:

↳ Brian in UK @5:32
Will look into Vlautin, Brian.
  5:36am
morphe':

https://www.space.com/international-space-station-rescue-soyuz-february
[cookies are set on off]
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Brian D:

↳ i̺k̺e̺ @5:33
My bout with COVID-19 was just pre-Paxlovid, but my missus took it and never said anything about the taste. Still, she felt like crap so the taste of the meds was the least of her worries.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:37am
Brian D:

↳ morphe' @5:36
yeah, that's part of the reason I played that clip, Morphe. The dynamic must be interesting.
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Brian D:

↳ i̺k̺e̺ @5:33
Still, add it to the list of things that suck about getting this virus. Feel better and take care of yourself, Ike.
  5:47am
tom tom the pipers son:

saw previous topic of verbal pet peeves... my chatboard pet peeve is the word "lovely" to describe music. i don't know, gets on my nerves
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Ike:

↳ Brian D @5:38
Fortunately not everyone experiences this side effect, but for those that do, it can be an 8-to-10-hour issue… after each dose. Otherwise I wouldn’t even mention it. But hey, it’s nuking my C-19 and that’s the important part.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:51am
Brian in UK:

Brian, great show & comments everyone. Have a fruitful week.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:53am
Brian D:

↳ Ike @5:51
Indeed Ike. But 8 to 10 hours. Blech.
  5:53am
morphe':

Thanks BD and all !!!!
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herb.nyc:

Just read / skimmed the comments - I say:

1. I used word “midget” to my neice and husband, last month. Correkted myself w “wait, should I have used that word?” Lisa told me “little people” is good.

2. Brian D said “No accumulation” of snow in nyc. It was just the barest minimum of snow, yes?

3. Just finished memoir of Greg BAD RELIGION Graffin. I highly respect the man.

4. I joke that all my cousins are dying of covid. I’m Chinese. China is blooming w it. Guess I won’t be having them over for coffee.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:55am
Brian D:

↳ herb.nyc @5:53
Indeed, only flakes, Herb. But our first of the year.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:55am
Brian D:

↳ Brian in UK @5:51
Thank you, Brian, and thank you all. It's been fun, as always. Have a great week and stay safe.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:57am
Brian in UK:

↳ herb.nyc @5:53
1. when I worked in the Post Office, the nomenclature was ' short of stature'.
Snow White & the Seven.........
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Michael of Cologne:

Thanks Brian & all for great show and chat.
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herb.nyc:

I literally mean this- take care y’all. (I never use that last y-word)
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