WFMU: Currents with Brian D: Playlist from May 14, 2023

Listener comments!
	⚡ ♥ 3:03am tom tom the pipers son: hi brian ... ben ehrenreich, any relation to barbara?
	⚡ ♥ 3:04am fred: Good morning Brian and listeners
	♥ 3:05am Brian D: Fred! Tom Tom! Everyone! Ben is Barbara's son. He'll be with me next week!
	⚡ ♥ 3:05am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Waiting on a Train (feat. Ellen Beth Abdi & Chunk... seems ahead of its time hi fred!
	⚡ ♥ 3:06am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @3:05 oh!
	♥ 3:07am Brian D: Sorry for the exclamation marks! Don't know what's gotten into me!
	⚡ ♥ 3:08am fred: An article about wildfires in NJ I just read: nymag.com...
	⚡ ♥ 3:11am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @3:08 yes suppedly sparked by faulty trains and communities trying to get the train companies to pay for damage. story has sort of fallen from view... will read
	⚡ ♥ 3:13am tom tom the pipers son: supposedly*
	⚡ 3:13am Don in Tampere: Good morning Brian, Fred, Tom Tom and whoever else is listening. Tampere was a zoo last night between the ice hockey world cup being held here and people going nuts over the Eurovision contest for the most insipid pop song of the year. Had to take several detours to get home from our gig. Luckily it was held in a hockey- and Eurovision-free zone....
	♥ 3:13am Brian D: ↳ fred @3:08 Yeah, Fred. Things ain't pretty. I'll be talking to Ben Ehrenreich a bit about that next week as he's written a lot about the climate crisis.
	3:16am Fox: Hey, this is amusing. I was catching up on the archives and first realized that the story you were playing about people fearing the rush at the border in the near future happened to be THAT EXACT DAY I was then listening to it, having watched that very morning news stories of gun fights across a Mexico / Texas bridge, and not understanding why..... And then heard that you'd played a Big Brave song for me, which was AWESOME! And even awesomer because the week before I'd played a Big Brave song and credited you for it in my playlist, totally oblivious of A Song for Foxes!!
	♥ 3:16am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @3:13 Greetings Don. You'll be disappointed to learn I've been watching the hockey. But sorry for its disruption.
	♥ 3:18am Brian D: ↳ Fox @3:16 Hey Fox! Yeah, Big \| Brave rule. I try to stay ahead of the headlines here.
	⚡ ♥ 3:25am fred: There was an intriguing short story on n+1 this week, the premise was a site for profiles of poor people for use as leads for journalists. I don't think it went all that well throughout, but I thought it could be relevant here. www.nplusonemag.com...
	♥ 3:28am Brian D: ↳ fred @3:25 Thanks for sharing that, Fred. I'll have to read it later. Sadly, there's no need for an app. Such sources aren't hard to find.
	⚡ ♥ 3:30am Michael of Cologne: Good morning Brian, Tom Tom, Fred, Don, Fox & all.
	3:30am devlawn: My favorite pair of Levis jeans are proudboy Khaki colored. I need to dye them tye dye or green or something else.
	♥ 3:30am Brian D: ↳ Fox @3:16 I haven't listened to your "May the Fourth" show yet, hence I missed the credit.
	⚡ ♥ 3:32am fred: ↳ Brian D @3:28 In the story, the app is called "Source", so you get the point
	♥ 3:36am Brian D: Greetings Michael. Dev.
	3:37am Fox: ↳ fred @3:25 I was a token poor person in a political group I worked for for two years. It started off with good intentions; dudes who had been in the peace corp who wanted to keep doing good, so they started essentially a lobby group of volunteers to push for laws to eradicate poverty. But by the time I got involved decades later it was drowned in bureaucracy, and all the young people involved seemed more interested in using the experience as a networking and resume advantage. I was part of the cohort euphemistically titled "Experts on Poverty" thanks to my "lived experience"
	3:42am Fox: And once a year, everyone gets to go to Washington DC and take part in conferences and lectures that are mostly bullshit, and then the last day we go in teams to talk to our representative's office staff. At no point were we, as poor people, asked for our expertise to inform the laws for which we were to advocate. No, we were there to "tell our story". Somehow we were to fit our life of poverty into a scenario that would tell a compelling story to sway the listener to our side.
	3:43am Fox: It sucked to be in DC fighting for housing projects when I HATE the idea of projects and as a poor person, I know that Section 8 is a FAR better solution.
	⚡ ♥ 3:43am tom tom the pipers son: sourcing for hard luck stories reminds me of a local nbc reporter, melissa colorado, who after reporting tragic and hardluck stories always closes with a half smirk, half sour ball in mouth expression that says life sure does suck doesn't it
	♥ 3:44am Brian D: ↳ Fox @3:43 What a depressing circle of hell...
	♥ 3:44am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:43 Grim...
	3:45am Fox: ↳ Brian D @3:30 My last two shows haven't been great, I'll be honest. My health has been dragging lately. But May the Fourth DOES have a really excellent radio play. One of my all time favorite ever dramatic recordings!
	⚡ ♥ 3:48am fred: ↳ Fox @3:45 Your shows don't have to be great every week, as long as they're yours
	3:48am Fox: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:43 I was poached by BBC's World Have Your Say, like eighteen years ago or so? I tweeted something, and they found it, messaged me, asked me to email them a voicemail stating basically what I'd written. I did so. They edited out half of it. Everything about the experience totally shattered my trust in the BBC News.
	3:49am Fox: ↳ fred @3:48 Thanks, dude!
	♥ 3:49am Brian D: ↳ Fox @3:45 I liked this week's!!!!
	3:51am Fox: ↳ Brian D @3:49 Thanks! but oh, it was such a mess. I nearly called out sick. I ended up going to the ER the next day. I had so much more content for thematic flow, but I was so out of it trying to get out of the house I fucked up the files. I spent so much time isolating bits of dialogue from radio plays and then forgot them!
	⚡ ♥ 3:52am tom tom the pipers son: really sad to hear you're not in good health fox...
	3:53am katharsis: Hellos guide me home
	⚡ 3:54am Don in Tampere: Sorry to hear about your health problems Fox, especially knowing how effed up the US helth system is.
	⚡ ♥ 3:56am fred: ↳ Fox @3:51 That's the beauty of WFMU, it's real people doing real radio. And even though it doesn't help with actual health, the long distance connection might have benefits
	⚡ 3:57am Don in Tampere: Mother's Day is less chaotically disributed around the world than Father's Day. MD is also today at least in Finland and Germany. I know the day is different in Britain where it's called Mothering Sunday. Father's Day is all over the place, and while my parents were alive I could never remember when to call my dad. The weirdest one is Germany, where Vatertag is on Ascension Day and instead of it being a day where the family do nie things together with the father, the men go off together into the countryside pulling a cart full of booze and get shitfaced.
	3:58am Robm: @Fox hope you feel better soon, try to catch your show live and if not i listen to the archives , so hang in there
	⚡ ♥ 3:58am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Fox @3:48 one good thing about bbc world news compared to us broadcasts is that when the anchors sign off they avert their gaze downward away from the camera where in the us they stare you down as a sort of cannibalization of the gaze
	3:59am Fox: ↳ Brian D @3:44 Oh! The worst most ironic fucking part of my DC visit: It was the day that we were actually meeting with the politicians. I brought my own snacks because I can't eat most common American foodstuffs. Between meetings, we went to the closest cafeteria, which was in the basement (near the senator-only subway!). And everyone in my group went to get food and sit down, but I instead wandered around the perimeter of the cafeteria trying desperately to find a recycling bin for my trash. I could find none. Eventually I sat with the compatriots at their table, defeated. "Did you see Bernie?!?" What? "Bernie Sanders! He was just here!" ... what? "We each got selfies with him, see?!" .......WHAT?! So yeah. I missed meeting Bernie Sanders AT THE CAPITOL CAFETERIA because I was looking for a recycling bin.
	3:59am Robm: ↳ fred @3:56 Fred the technical difficulties are what makes the magic factory great.
	♥ 4:03am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:58 And US news always insists on signing off with a "happy story" -- regardless of whether such a story is really appropriate.
	⚡ ♥ 4:04am fred: ↳ Fox @3:59 Get him on your show!
	♥ 4:05am Brian D: ↳ Fox @3:59 Loaded with irony, there.
	4:05am Fox: ↳ fred @4:04 I never thought of that! Well, we shall see if I remain on the schedule. I'd like to do more talking to people.
	4:06am Robm: ↳ Brian D @4:03 Don’t get me started on local news or cable news, i would rather listen to the BBC then hear the latest so called outrage
	4:06am Fox: ↳ Brian D @4:05 Also, there's not one recycling bin in any of the captiol buildings.
	4:07am Fox: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:58 I think it's the newscaster's desperate silent plea for help.
	4:07am Robm: ↳ Fox @4:06 Interesting sort of summons up DC these days
	4:09am Katharsis: Home
	⚡ ♥ 4:10am fred: ↳ Fox @4:05 You belong here. I didn't even think you could be off
	⚡ ♥ 4:10am Brian in UK: Hello Brian & early birds. Think that Arthur Lee took inspiration from 'Revelation' on Da Capo. In the same way that Jagger used 'She Comes in Colours' title from the same album.
	♥ 4:11am Brian D: ↳ Katharsis @4:09 With musical accompaniment, Katharsis.
	♥ 4:11am Brian D: ↳ fred @4:10 Agreed, Fred. No way you come off the sked Fox.
	⚡ ♥ 4:12am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Fox @4:07 for the bbc or us broadcasts? with the bbc anchors i look at it as more of a" flattening" effect and a respect for the viewer as something separate and a recognition of the screen between them and us
	♥ 4:12am Brian D: ↳ Brian in UK @4:10 Greetings Brian. You might be on to something...
	⚡ ♥ 4:13am Brian in UK: Our Home Secretary insists that there is an invasion of refugees. I believe that the figures are not significantly higher than previous years. The people are not being processed so there is a backup.
	4:14am Katharsis: Well it was mostly your voice, sorry to miss feelies and rem. (((fox))) I have no idea what’s going on for you. I will scroll back.
	♥ 4:15am Brian D: ↳ Brian in UK @4:13 The strategy seems to be to initiate fear and panic as opposed to, say, dealing with this as a human problem.
	⚡ ♥ 4:16am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Song: "Going Home" by "Rolling Stones" What a wonderful, rare surprise!
	⚡ ♥ 4:16am Brian in UK: ↳ Brian D @4:15 But ofcourse. These people are so fucking useless & blame everyone else.
	⚡ ♥ 4:16am fred: ↳ Brian D @4:15 The worst thing about this strategy is that it works
	♥ 4:17am Brian D: ↳ fred @4:16 Sadly, you are correct, sir.
	⚡ ♥ 4:18am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @4:17 it helps the status quo. " come to papa"
	⚡ ♥ 4:20am Brian in UK: Aftermath is one of the best Rolling Stones records, I think. Despite the misogynistic songs.
	4:21am Fox: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:12 It was for the BBC World Service's program World Have Your Say. I used to listen to BBC News for like four hours a day, at least.
	4:22am Guy in Solihull UK: ↳ Brian in UK @4:16 Totally. They can all get in the sea. I might as put my vote in the bin every election where I live. Depressing.
	⚡ ♥ 4:22am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Brian D @4:15 Human resources (Menschenmaterial) that are not needed at the moment to fatten capital which, by contrast, has free global movement and can pick & choose the HR it wants to deploy under its own terms & conditions.
	⚡ ♥ 4:22am Brian in UK: ↳ Guy in Solihull UK @4:22 Same here in South Shropshire. Rural & Blue.
	⚡ ♥ 4:23am Brian in UK: ↳ Fox @4:21 Fox, that is why the integrity of the BBC must be maintained.
	♥ 4:23am Brian D: ↳ Brian in UK @4:20 It may be my fave, although that's a moving target.
	♥ 4:24am Brian D: ↳ Fox @4:21 As did I. Basically, whenever I wasn't listening to FMU. There are still good reporters there...
	⚡ ♥ 4:25am Brian in UK: ↳ Brian D @4:23 Brian Jones added so many great touches. Marimbas & sitars. Shame he was such a mess.
	♥ 4:26am Brian D: ↳ Brian in UK @4:25 Yes and yes and yes.
	⚡ ♥ 4:26am fred: The Monty Python ad is my fave Stones outing
	4:28am Fox: ↳ Brian D @4:24 I miss Owen Bennett Jones. He was my favorite.
	♥ 4:29am Brian D: ↳ fred @4:26 Charlie Watts as straight man.
	4:30am Fox: ↳ Brian in UK @4:23 I thought like half of the BBC went to Al Jazeera when they started?
	♥ 4:30am Brian D: ↳ Fox @4:28 Yes, agreed. Haven't heard him since he left.
	⚡ ♥ 4:34am Brian in UK: ↳ Fox @4:30 Some good journalists have departed recently. Guess that they feel the need to say it how it is. This might change now Richard Sharp has gone.
	♥ 4:36am Brian D: Al Jazeera has its own issues. But there's some great journalism there, too.
	⚡ ♥ 4:44am Paulo AD: What's up crafty currents crew?
	⚡ ♥ 4:46am Paulo AD: Trying to catch up with everything. When I lived it Brighton it was odd half the town votes green, the other tory!! Crazyness
	4:48am Fox: The cops running a fundraiser for the subway murderer's legal defense feels far too blatantly partisan for a theoretically neutral arm of the law to do.
	4:50am Katharsis: Ah rats streaming challenged on my end back now
	⚡ ♥ 4:50am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Fox @4:48 did not know, that's really gobsmacking.
	⚡ ♥ 4:50am fred: @Paulo: Did you catch Mona's show?
	♥ 4:51am Brian D: ↳ Paulo AD @4:44 Paulo!
	♥ 4:52am Brian D: ↳ Fox @4:48 Subtlety not their strong suit.
	⚡ ♥ 4:52am Paulo AD: ↳ fred @4:50 Yup, I listened this morning prepping my food for the week. Absolutely loved it. I was chatting to her and she said she only did the interview after told her abiut the book, I feel honoured
	⚡ ♥ 4:52am Paulo AD: ↳ Brian D @4:51 What is up big man :)
	♥ 4:53am Brian D: ↳ Paulo AD @4:52 Mona's show is always great but Friday was... wow!
	⚡ ♥ 4:54am Paulo AD: ↳ Brian D @4:53 I've been banging on about that History of Goth books for weeks now. Maybe now people will listen to me haha I was reading it on the beach yesterday, decidedly un goth haha
	4:57am Fox: ↳ Paulo AD @4:54 Not necessarily! c4.wallpaperflare.com...
	4:58am wenzo got it’s bike back: Good morrow fine people of radioland
	♥ 4:58am Brian D: ↳ Fox @4:57 Nice one, Fox. Hello Wenzo!
	⚡ ♥ 5:05am Paulo AD: ↳ Fox @4:57 True hah My wife did burn in the shade yesterday. It's bloody hot already
	5:08am Katharsis: i’m reading the story about the fire now-in small doses. I can’t even…I was out west for six years and got out as soon as I could after covid. I’ll take winter or hurricanes over that. It was so scary. James Hillman A Terrible Love of War anyone?
	⚡ ♥ 5:09am fred: ↳ Paulo AD @4:54 You are the AD goth scene I guess
	⚡ ♥ 5:10am Paulo AD: ↳ fred @5:09 Yeah pretty much hahaha
	⚡ ♥ 5:12am fred: ↳ Paulo AD @5:10 So you make the rules
	⚡ ♥ 5:15am Paulo AD: ↳ fred @5:12 I'm like judge dress out here, I am the law
	⚡ ♥ 5:16am Paulo AD: Bloody phone, dredd
	⚡ ♥ 5:16am Paulo AD: Though judge dress could be a good drag name
	♥ 5:17am Brian D: ↳ Paulo AD @5:16 Was going to say... copyright that.
	⚡ ♥ 5:17am tom tom the pipers son: getting light nyc quarter after five!
	♥ 5:18am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:17 'Tis.
	⚡ ♥ 5:19am fred: ↳ Paulo AD @5:15 Did Anthrax do I am the law?
	♥ 5:22am Brian D: Here is Ben Ehrenreich's latest from the London Review of Books. He'll be my guest next week. www.lrb.co.uk...
	♥ 5:23am Brian D: And an older one: www.lrb.co.uk...
	5:25am Fox: I also have a mother. And depending on how I feel in about six or seven hours from now, I might spend the day with her for the first time in... decades?
	♥ 5:27am Brian D: ↳ Fox @5:25 Good luck with that.
	⚡ ♥ 5:27am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Song: "Mother" by "David Bowie" Another surprise. Lennon's version somewhat rawer?
	⚡ ♥ 5:29am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Clip: Sky News-Fentanyl crisis in San Francisco" ... chatted with someone from the bay area who said san francisco has turned into a real shithole
	5:29am Fox: ↳ Brian D @5:27 Thanks!
	5:29am wenzo got it’s bike back: Wowza
	5:29am wenzo got it’s bike back: Wow Fox… good luck with that
	♥ 5:30am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @5:27 Perhaps. Bowie's more desperate?
	5:31am Fox: I saw a video of .... somewhere on the West Coast, where white people had a van in some shitty neighborhood for "outreach" and if you asked for a crackpipe, they'd just give you a fresh clean glass pipe. Madness. Like, syringes is one thing. That was to prevent AIDS as secondary to heroin. It wasn't just to be nice to junkies.
	♥ 5:31am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:29 Haven't been myself since 2016. Drugs and houselessness are not new "problems" there, though.
	5:32am Fox: These people have this notion of "compassion" that is utterly beyond any realistic understanding of drug addicts and is based on ego and savior complex. It's so gross.
	♥ 5:33am Brian D: Yeah, crack pipes seems a bit much. Though crack, man... wow.
	♥ 5:34am Brian D: ↳ Fox @5:32 I still believe needle exchanges and rehab over incarceration.
	5:34am Fox: People in charge of taking care of the drug crisis should be a team made from every drug counselor and manager of a halfway house with a criminal record. Those are the people who know that junkies lie. And also know that they are still human. But again, "never trust a junkie."
	5:37am wenzo got it’s bike back: Don’t forget da xylazine
	5:37am Fox: ↳ Brian D @5:34 But what do you do with people who are mentally damaged and antisocial and violent who live on the street and do crack? If free, they will only smoke and be crazy. Bring back asylums? That's only going to turn into state run horror shows of abuse.
	⚡ ♥ 5:38am fred: There's a crack hotspot in Paris. It's sad, but these guys are hostile and I just avoid them. Not proud of that
	5:39am wenzo got it’s bike back: Not everyone who smokes crack is violent or hostile tho. Just saying.
	♥ 5:40am Brian D: ↳ Fox @5:37 Crack is a different animal. But agree with you on the counselor/halfway house/criminal record approach.
	5:41am wenzo got it’s bike back: I agree passing out crack pipes seems stupid and misguided and pointless
	♥ 5:41am Brian D: ↳ wenzo got it’s bike back @5:39 True. But they can be. The drug brings that out in lots of people.
	5:43am wenzo got it’s bike back: What I’ve heard from crackheads is that every crackhead(crack smoking American? What’s the pc term? Heh heh) has their “tweak” (repetitive habit, thing they do when smoking) all different. Then of course there’s the behavior they engage in to make money, some may be violent sure, many are not at all.
	♥ 5:44am Brian D: ↳ wenzo got it’s bike back @5:43 Yep. We're on the same page, wenzo.
	⚡ ♥ 5:44am fred: ↳ wenzo got it’s bike back @5:39 Yeah, drunks are an issue as well when walking at night. Crackheads have a short fuse though, so spotting them from afar is important
	5:45am wenzo got it’s bike back: I live in a pretty heavy crack area… petty theft is definitely a problem, not saying there’s no violence either but I don’t see much and none directed at me… the violence I experienced was more a result of poverty, youthful anger imo.
	5:47am wenzo got it’s bike back: I’m a bit more freaked out by meth cause it’s more new to the area and provokes sleep deprivation which is terrible for the brain…
	5:48am wenzo got it’s bike back: Not that crack doesn’t keep people up… but I think you gotta keep smoking it whereas you can smoke meth once or twice and be up for days(or so I’ve heard idk if that’s an exaggeration)
	♥ 5:48am Brian D: ↳ wenzo got it’s bike back @5:47 I encountered my first meth head in San Juan years ago. Man.
	♥ 5:48am Pablexa™: Morning
	⚡ ♥ 5:49am fred: ↳ wenzo got it’s bike back @5:45 I agree, but being a small guy I have to be careful. I'm more afraid of soccer fans than crackheads though
	♥ 5:49am Brian D: ↳ Pablexa™ @5:48 Greetings Pab.
	♥ 5:50am Brian D: ↳ fred @5:49 And rightly so, with PSG around.
	⚡ ♥ 5:51am fred: ↳ Brian D @5:50 These are the worst
	⚡ ♥ 5:51am tom tom the pipers son: a while back was in n california and there was a town known for meth heads, they were called 'tweakers" appropriately enough cause they certainly were tweaked
	5:51am wenzo got it’s bike back: I mean the only meth head I’ve for sure encountered recently was completely harmless(at that moment) but I’m still disturbed that it’s making incursions… any new hardcore drug being sold in the area is not good. Not looking forward to xylazine arriving on the scene. That shit killed my favorite cousin last year. Think he was looking for Ketamine… got sold xylazine mixed with fentanyl and Xanax. Super lethal.
	♥ 5:52am Brian D: ↳ wenzo got it’s bike back @5:51 I'm glad I'm (knock wood) clean and sober these days. Scary out there.
	⚡ ♥ 5:54am tom tom the pipers son: thanks brian, have a good week...
	♥ 5:55am Brian D: Thank YOU ALL. Great discussion on here this week. Stay safe and have a great week. Ben Ehrenreich joins me next week.
	5:57am wenzo got it’s bike back: Been on a sober kick myself for 5 months… not that I did much before mostly just weed & mushrooms… occasional social drinking… now I’m straight edge… unless you have to be vegan to qualify in which case I’m not at all lol
	⚡ ♥ 5:57am fred: PSG is weird, a fascist fanbase with an arab ownership, united by hatred for jews. A cesspool
	5:57am wenzo got it’s bike back: Currently eating pizza… the drug of foods…
	♥ 5:58am Brian D: ↳ fred @5:57 Still the only time I have ever feared for my safety at a football match...
	5:58am wenzo got it’s bike back: Fascinating Fred… I was not aware… looking up now
	⚡ ♥ 5:59am fred: Thanks Brian, sorry for hogging the playlist with irrelevant links
	⚡ ♥ 6:00am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @5:58 went to yankee stadium in late 90's and thought so this is where all the scary people from high school ended up

Currents with Brian D: Playlist from May 14, 2023

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Comments	Approx. start time
A Certain Ratio	Waiting on a Train (feat. Ellen Beth Abdi & Chunky)	1982	Mute Artists		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Debby Friday	I GOT IT (FEAT. UÑAS)	Good Luck	Sub Pop		0:03:18 (Pop-up)
Special Interest	Kurdish Radio "Kurdish Radio" by "Special Interest"	Endure	Rough Trade Records		0:07:05 (Pop-up)
Charlotte Abigery and Bolis Pupul	Mantra	Topical Dancer	Deewee		0:10:06 (Pop-up)
Cycheouts	Hit Man (Jungle Assassin Mix)	Cycheouts' Counterattack: Best Cuts 1995-2000	EM		0:14:16 (Pop-up)
REM	What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?	Monster	Warner Bros.		0:19:18 (Pop-up)
Model Citizens	My TV Is On "My TV Is On" by "Model Citizens"	NYC 1978-1979	Modern Harmonic		0:23:16 (Pop-up)
Tanukichan	Take Care "Take Care" by "Tanukichan"	Gizmo	Company Records		0:26:00 (Pop-up)
The Feelies	Tomorrow Today "Tomorrow Today" by "The Feelies"	The Good Earth	Coyote/Twin/Tone Records		0:29:40 (Pop-up)
Os Mutantes	O Careca "O Careca" by "Os Mutantes"	Haih or Amortecedor	Anti-	https://www.npr.org/2023/05/10/1175252876/rita-lee-os-mutantes-brazilian-singer-obituary	0:35:10 (Pop-up)
n/a	Clip: Fox26-Charges for man who allegedly ran over migrants with car in Texas	n/a	n/a		0:39:06 (Pop-up)
The Cradle	It’s Not Related "It’s Not Related" by "The Cradle"	Radio Wars	NNA Tapes		0:40:20 (Pop-up)
n/a	Clip: France24-AFP reporter killed in Ukraine	n/a	n/a		0:46:00 (Pop-up)
The Doors	Unknown Soldier "Unknown Soldier" by "The Doors"	Waiting for the Sun	Elektra/Rhino		0:46:38 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: City of Glasgow Police Pipe Band	Side 2	Scottish Pipes!	Capitol Records		0:50:07 (Pop-up)
Dead Shaman	Trying To Keep Control	Under The Influence	Sixteentimes Music		0:59:37 (Pop-up)

Rolling Stones	Going Home "Going Home" by "Rolling Stones"	Aftermath	London Records		1:06:31 (Pop-up)

Creedence Clearwater Revival	Porterville	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Fantasy		1:18:34 (Pop-up)
Emma Tricca	Through The Poet’s Eyes	Aspirin Sun	Bella Union		1:20:53 (Pop-up)
n/a	Clip: CBS-Photojournalist among arrested in NYC protests	n/a	n/a		1:26:43 (Pop-up)
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros	Forbidden City	Rock Art and the X-Ray Style	Hellcat Records	38th anniversary of MOVE bombing in Philly: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/12/philadelphia-move-bombing-mike-africa	1:27:35 (Pop-up)
n/a	Clip: France24-Vigilante linchings in Haiti	n/a	n/a		1:32:22 (Pop-up)
SONS OF ZOKU	Möönlight "Möönlight" by "SONS OF ZOKU"	Bandcamp	Bandcamp		1:33:42 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: City of Glasgow Police Pipe Band	Side 2	Scottish Pipes!	Capitol Records		1:42:15 (Pop-up)
Issei Herr	Fugato (Night’s Transfiguration)	Distant Intervals	NNA Tapes		1:49:46 (Pop-up)
n/a	Clip: CBS-Protests in Pakistan following arrest of former PM	n/a	n/a		1:55:21 (Pop-up)
Departure Street	Walking on Earth	Walking on Earth	Somewhere Cold Records		1:56:32 (Pop-up)
Colpitts	Recovery "Recovery" by "Colpitts"	Music from the Accident	Thrill Jockey		2:03:42 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	Mother "Mother" by "David Bowie"	45	ISO/Parlophone		2:20:17 (Pop-up)
n/a	Clip: Sky News-Fentanyl crisis in San Francisco	n/a	n/a		2:25:16 (Pop-up)
Donald Harrison and Terence Blanchard	Let's Go Off	Nascence	CBS		2:26:54 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: City of Glasgow Police Pipe Band	Side 2	Scottish Pipes!	Capitol Records		2:33:40 (Pop-up)
nil	0622.7 "0622.7" by "nil"	01	Intangible Arts		2:37:21 (Pop-up)
Storm the Palace	Dream House "Dream House" by "Storm the Palace"	La Bete Blanche	Abandoned Love Records		2:41:59 (Pop-up)
Gwenno	N.Y.C.A.W. "N.Y.C.A.W." by "Gwenno"	Tresor	Heavenly/Pias		2:48:07 (Pop-up)
Mohamad Zatari Trio	Desire "Desire" by "Mohamad Zatari Trio"	Istehial	Zehra		2:52:34 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	⚡ ♥ 3:03am tom tom the pipers son: hi brian ... ben ehrenreich, any relation to barbara?
	⚡ ♥ 3:04am fred: Good morning Brian and listeners
	♥ 3:05am Brian D: Fred! Tom Tom! Everyone! Ben is Barbara's son. He'll be with me next week!
	⚡ ♥ 3:05am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Waiting on a Train (feat. Ellen Beth Abdi & Chunk... seems ahead of its time hi fred!
	⚡ ♥ 3:06am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @3:05 oh!
	♥ 3:07am Brian D: Sorry for the exclamation marks! Don't know what's gotten into me!
	⚡ ♥ 3:08am fred: An article about wildfires in NJ I just read: nymag.com...
	⚡ ♥ 3:11am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @3:08 yes suppedly sparked by faulty trains and communities trying to get the train companies to pay for damage. story has sort of fallen from view... will read
	⚡ ♥ 3:13am tom tom the pipers son: supposedly*
	⚡ 3:13am Don in Tampere: Good morning Brian, Fred, Tom Tom and whoever else is listening. Tampere was a zoo last night between the ice hockey world cup being held here and people going nuts over the Eurovision contest for the most insipid pop song of the year. Had to take several detours to get home from our gig. Luckily it was held in a hockey- and Eurovision-free zone....
	♥ 3:13am Brian D: ↳ fred @3:08 Yeah, Fred. Things ain't pretty. I'll be talking to Ben Ehrenreich a bit about that next week as he's written a lot about the climate crisis.
	3:16am Fox: Hey, this is amusing. I was catching up on the archives and first realized that the story you were playing about people fearing the rush at the border in the near future happened to be THAT EXACT DAY I was then listening to it, having watched that very morning news stories of gun fights across a Mexico / Texas bridge, and not understanding why..... And then heard that you'd played a Big Brave song for me, which was AWESOME! And even awesomer because the week before I'd played a Big Brave song and credited you for it in my playlist, totally oblivious of A Song for Foxes!!
	♥ 3:16am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @3:13 Greetings Don. You'll be disappointed to learn I've been watching the hockey. But sorry for its disruption.
	♥ 3:18am Brian D: ↳ Fox @3:16 Hey Fox! Yeah, Big \| Brave rule. I try to stay ahead of the headlines here.
	⚡ ♥ 3:25am fred: There was an intriguing short story on n+1 this week, the premise was a site for profiles of poor people for use as leads for journalists. I don't think it went all that well throughout, but I thought it could be relevant here. www.nplusonemag.com...
	♥ 3:28am Brian D: ↳ fred @3:25 Thanks for sharing that, Fred. I'll have to read it later. Sadly, there's no need for an app. Such sources aren't hard to find.
	⚡ ♥ 3:30am Michael of Cologne: Good morning Brian, Tom Tom, Fred, Don, Fox & all.
	3:30am devlawn: My favorite pair of Levis jeans are proudboy Khaki colored. I need to dye them tye dye or green or something else.
	♥ 3:30am Brian D: ↳ Fox @3:16 I haven't listened to your "May the Fourth" show yet, hence I missed the credit.
	⚡ ♥ 3:32am fred: ↳ Brian D @3:28 In the story, the app is called "Source", so you get the point
	♥ 3:36am Brian D: Greetings Michael. Dev.
	3:37am Fox: ↳ fred @3:25 I was a token poor person in a political group I worked for for two years. It started off with good intentions; dudes who had been in the peace corp who wanted to keep doing good, so they started essentially a lobby group of volunteers to push for laws to eradicate poverty. But by the time I got involved decades later it was drowned in bureaucracy, and all the young people involved seemed more interested in using the experience as a networking and resume advantage. I was part of the cohort euphemistically titled "Experts on Poverty" thanks to my "lived experience"
	3:42am Fox: And once a year, everyone gets to go to Washington DC and take part in conferences and lectures that are mostly bullshit, and then the last day we go in teams to talk to our representative's office staff. At no point were we, as poor people, asked for our expertise to inform the laws for which we were to advocate. No, we were there to "tell our story". Somehow we were to fit our life of poverty into a scenario that would tell a compelling story to sway the listener to our side.
	3:43am Fox: It sucked to be in DC fighting for housing projects when I HATE the idea of projects and as a poor person, I know that Section 8 is a FAR better solution.
	⚡ ♥ 3:43am tom tom the pipers son: sourcing for hard luck stories reminds me of a local nbc reporter, melissa colorado, who after reporting tragic and hardluck stories always closes with a half smirk, half sour ball in mouth expression that says life sure does suck doesn't it
	♥ 3:44am Brian D: ↳ Fox @3:43 What a depressing circle of hell...
	♥ 3:44am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:43 Grim...
	3:45am Fox: ↳ Brian D @3:30 My last two shows haven't been great, I'll be honest. My health has been dragging lately. But May the Fourth DOES have a really excellent radio play. One of my all time favorite ever dramatic recordings!
	⚡ ♥ 3:48am fred: ↳ Fox @3:45 Your shows don't have to be great every week, as long as they're yours
	3:48am Fox: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:43 I was poached by BBC's World Have Your Say, like eighteen years ago or so? I tweeted something, and they found it, messaged me, asked me to email them a voicemail stating basically what I'd written. I did so. They edited out half of it. Everything about the experience totally shattered my trust in the BBC News.
	3:49am Fox: ↳ fred @3:48 Thanks, dude!
	♥ 3:49am Brian D: ↳ Fox @3:45 I liked this week's!!!!
	3:51am Fox: ↳ Brian D @3:49 Thanks! but oh, it was such a mess. I nearly called out sick. I ended up going to the ER the next day. I had so much more content for thematic flow, but I was so out of it trying to get out of the house I fucked up the files. I spent so much time isolating bits of dialogue from radio plays and then forgot them!
	⚡ ♥ 3:52am tom tom the pipers son: really sad to hear you're not in good health fox...
	3:53am katharsis: Hellos guide me home
	⚡ 3:54am Don in Tampere: Sorry to hear about your health problems Fox, especially knowing how effed up the US helth system is.
	⚡ ♥ 3:56am fred: ↳ Fox @3:51 That's the beauty of WFMU, it's real people doing real radio. And even though it doesn't help with actual health, the long distance connection might have benefits
	⚡ 3:57am Don in Tampere: Mother's Day is less chaotically disributed around the world than Father's Day. MD is also today at least in Finland and Germany. I know the day is different in Britain where it's called Mothering Sunday. Father's Day is all over the place, and while my parents were alive I could never remember when to call my dad. The weirdest one is Germany, where Vatertag is on Ascension Day and instead of it being a day where the family do nie things together with the father, the men go off together into the countryside pulling a cart full of booze and get shitfaced.
	3:58am Robm: @Fox hope you feel better soon, try to catch your show live and if not i listen to the archives , so hang in there
	⚡ ♥ 3:58am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Fox @3:48 one good thing about bbc world news compared to us broadcasts is that when the anchors sign off they avert their gaze downward away from the camera where in the us they stare you down as a sort of cannibalization of the gaze
	3:59am Fox: ↳ Brian D @3:44 Oh! The worst most ironic fucking part of my DC visit: It was the day that we were actually meeting with the politicians. I brought my own snacks because I can't eat most common American foodstuffs. Between meetings, we went to the closest cafeteria, which was in the basement (near the senator-only subway!). And everyone in my group went to get food and sit down, but I instead wandered around the perimeter of the cafeteria trying desperately to find a recycling bin for my trash. I could find none. Eventually I sat with the compatriots at their table, defeated. "Did you see Bernie?!?" What? "Bernie Sanders! He was just here!" ... what? "We each got selfies with him, see?!" .......WHAT?! So yeah. I missed meeting Bernie Sanders AT THE CAPITOL CAFETERIA because I was looking for a recycling bin.
	3:59am Robm: ↳ fred @3:56 Fred the technical difficulties are what makes the magic factory great.
	♥ 4:03am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:58 And US news always insists on signing off with a "happy story" -- regardless of whether such a story is really appropriate.
	⚡ ♥ 4:04am fred: ↳ Fox @3:59 Get him on your show!
	♥ 4:05am Brian D: ↳ Fox @3:59 Loaded with irony, there.
	4:05am Fox: ↳ fred @4:04 I never thought of that! Well, we shall see if I remain on the schedule. I'd like to do more talking to people.
	4:06am Robm: ↳ Brian D @4:03 Don’t get me started on local news or cable news, i would rather listen to the BBC then hear the latest so called outrage
	4:06am Fox: ↳ Brian D @4:05 Also, there's not one recycling bin in any of the captiol buildings.
	4:07am Fox: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:58 I think it's the newscaster's desperate silent plea for help.
	4:07am Robm: ↳ Fox @4:06 Interesting sort of summons up DC these days
	4:09am Katharsis: Home
	⚡ ♥ 4:10am fred: ↳ Fox @4:05 You belong here. I didn't even think you could be off
	⚡ ♥ 4:10am Brian in UK: Hello Brian & early birds. Think that Arthur Lee took inspiration from 'Revelation' on Da Capo. In the same way that Jagger used 'She Comes in Colours' title from the same album.
	♥ 4:11am Brian D: ↳ Katharsis @4:09 With musical accompaniment, Katharsis.
	♥ 4:11am Brian D: ↳ fred @4:10 Agreed, Fred. No way you come off the sked Fox.
	⚡ ♥ 4:12am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Fox @4:07 for the bbc or us broadcasts? with the bbc anchors i look at it as more of a" flattening" effect and a respect for the viewer as something separate and a recognition of the screen between them and us
	♥ 4:12am Brian D: ↳ Brian in UK @4:10 Greetings Brian. You might be on to something...
	⚡ ♥ 4:13am Brian in UK: Our Home Secretary insists that there is an invasion of refugees. I believe that the figures are not significantly higher than previous years. The people are not being processed so there is a backup.
	4:14am Katharsis: Well it was mostly your voice, sorry to miss feelies and rem. (((fox))) I have no idea what’s going on for you. I will scroll back.
	♥ 4:15am Brian D: ↳ Brian in UK @4:13 The strategy seems to be to initiate fear and panic as opposed to, say, dealing with this as a human problem.
	⚡ ♥ 4:16am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Song: "Going Home" by "Rolling Stones" What a wonderful, rare surprise!
	⚡ ♥ 4:16am Brian in UK: ↳ Brian D @4:15 But ofcourse. These people are so fucking useless & blame everyone else.
	⚡ ♥ 4:16am fred: ↳ Brian D @4:15 The worst thing about this strategy is that it works
	♥ 4:17am Brian D: ↳ fred @4:16 Sadly, you are correct, sir.
	⚡ ♥ 4:18am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @4:17 it helps the status quo. " come to papa"
	⚡ ♥ 4:20am Brian in UK: Aftermath is one of the best Rolling Stones records, I think. Despite the misogynistic songs.
	4:21am Fox: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:12 It was for the BBC World Service's program World Have Your Say. I used to listen to BBC News for like four hours a day, at least.
	4:22am Guy in Solihull UK: ↳ Brian in UK @4:16 Totally. They can all get in the sea. I might as put my vote in the bin every election where I live. Depressing.
	⚡ ♥ 4:22am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Brian D @4:15 Human resources (Menschenmaterial) that are not needed at the moment to fatten capital which, by contrast, has free global movement and can pick & choose the HR it wants to deploy under its own terms & conditions.
	⚡ ♥ 4:22am Brian in UK: ↳ Guy in Solihull UK @4:22 Same here in South Shropshire. Rural & Blue.
	⚡ ♥ 4:23am Brian in UK: ↳ Fox @4:21 Fox, that is why the integrity of the BBC must be maintained.
	♥ 4:23am Brian D: ↳ Brian in UK @4:20 It may be my fave, although that's a moving target.
	♥ 4:24am Brian D: ↳ Fox @4:21 As did I. Basically, whenever I wasn't listening to FMU. There are still good reporters there...
	⚡ ♥ 4:25am Brian in UK: ↳ Brian D @4:23 Brian Jones added so many great touches. Marimbas & sitars. Shame he was such a mess.
	♥ 4:26am Brian D: ↳ Brian in UK @4:25 Yes and yes and yes.
	⚡ ♥ 4:26am fred: The Monty Python ad is my fave Stones outing
	4:28am Fox: ↳ Brian D @4:24 I miss Owen Bennett Jones. He was my favorite.
	♥ 4:29am Brian D: ↳ fred @4:26 Charlie Watts as straight man.
	4:30am Fox: ↳ Brian in UK @4:23 I thought like half of the BBC went to Al Jazeera when they started?
	♥ 4:30am Brian D: ↳ Fox @4:28 Yes, agreed. Haven't heard him since he left.
	⚡ ♥ 4:34am Brian in UK: ↳ Fox @4:30 Some good journalists have departed recently. Guess that they feel the need to say it how it is. This might change now Richard Sharp has gone.
	♥ 4:36am Brian D: Al Jazeera has its own issues. But there's some great journalism there, too.
	⚡ ♥ 4:44am Paulo AD: What's up crafty currents crew?
	⚡ ♥ 4:46am Paulo AD: Trying to catch up with everything. When I lived it Brighton it was odd half the town votes green, the other tory!! Crazyness
	4:48am Fox: The cops running a fundraiser for the subway murderer's legal defense feels far too blatantly partisan for a theoretically neutral arm of the law to do.
	4:50am Katharsis: Ah rats streaming challenged on my end back now
	⚡ ♥ 4:50am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Fox @4:48 did not know, that's really gobsmacking.
	⚡ ♥ 4:50am fred: @Paulo: Did you catch Mona's show?
	♥ 4:51am Brian D: ↳ Paulo AD @4:44 Paulo!
	♥ 4:52am Brian D: ↳ Fox @4:48 Subtlety not their strong suit.
	⚡ ♥ 4:52am Paulo AD: ↳ fred @4:50 Yup, I listened this morning prepping my food for the week. Absolutely loved it. I was chatting to her and she said she only did the interview after told her abiut the book, I feel honoured
	⚡ ♥ 4:52am Paulo AD: ↳ Brian D @4:51 What is up big man :)
	♥ 4:53am Brian D: ↳ Paulo AD @4:52 Mona's show is always great but Friday was... wow!
	⚡ ♥ 4:54am Paulo AD: ↳ Brian D @4:53 I've been banging on about that History of Goth books for weeks now. Maybe now people will listen to me haha I was reading it on the beach yesterday, decidedly un goth haha
	4:57am Fox: ↳ Paulo AD @4:54 Not necessarily! c4.wallpaperflare.com...
	4:58am wenzo got it’s bike back: Good morrow fine people of radioland
	♥ 4:58am Brian D: ↳ Fox @4:57 Nice one, Fox. Hello Wenzo!
	⚡ ♥ 5:05am Paulo AD: ↳ Fox @4:57 True hah My wife did burn in the shade yesterday. It's bloody hot already
	5:08am Katharsis: i’m reading the story about the fire now-in small doses. I can’t even…I was out west for six years and got out as soon as I could after covid. I’ll take winter or hurricanes over that. It was so scary. James Hillman A Terrible Love of War anyone?
	⚡ ♥ 5:09am fred: ↳ Paulo AD @4:54 You are the AD goth scene I guess
	⚡ ♥ 5:10am Paulo AD: ↳ fred @5:09 Yeah pretty much hahaha
	⚡ ♥ 5:12am fred: ↳ Paulo AD @5:10 So you make the rules
	⚡ ♥ 5:15am Paulo AD: ↳ fred @5:12 I'm like judge dress out here, I am the law
	⚡ ♥ 5:16am Paulo AD: Bloody phone, dredd
	⚡ ♥ 5:16am Paulo AD: Though judge dress could be a good drag name
	♥ 5:17am Brian D: ↳ Paulo AD @5:16 Was going to say... copyright that.
	⚡ ♥ 5:17am tom tom the pipers son: getting light nyc quarter after five!
	♥ 5:18am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:17 'Tis.
	⚡ ♥ 5:19am fred: ↳ Paulo AD @5:15 Did Anthrax do I am the law?
	♥ 5:22am Brian D: Here is Ben Ehrenreich's latest from the London Review of Books. He'll be my guest next week. www.lrb.co.uk...
	♥ 5:23am Brian D: And an older one: www.lrb.co.uk...
	5:25am Fox: I also have a mother. And depending on how I feel in about six or seven hours from now, I might spend the day with her for the first time in... decades?
	♥ 5:27am Brian D: ↳ Fox @5:25 Good luck with that.
	⚡ ♥ 5:27am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Song: "Mother" by "David Bowie" Another surprise. Lennon's version somewhat rawer?
	⚡ ♥ 5:29am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Clip: Sky News-Fentanyl crisis in San Francisco" ... chatted with someone from the bay area who said san francisco has turned into a real shithole
	5:29am Fox: ↳ Brian D @5:27 Thanks!
	5:29am wenzo got it’s bike back: Wowza
	5:29am wenzo got it’s bike back: Wow Fox… good luck with that
	♥ 5:30am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @5:27 Perhaps. Bowie's more desperate?
	5:31am Fox: I saw a video of .... somewhere on the West Coast, where white people had a van in some shitty neighborhood for "outreach" and if you asked for a crackpipe, they'd just give you a fresh clean glass pipe. Madness. Like, syringes is one thing. That was to prevent AIDS as secondary to heroin. It wasn't just to be nice to junkies.
	♥ 5:31am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:29 Haven't been myself since 2016. Drugs and houselessness are not new "problems" there, though.
	5:32am Fox: These people have this notion of "compassion" that is utterly beyond any realistic understanding of drug addicts and is based on ego and savior complex. It's so gross.
	♥ 5:33am Brian D: Yeah, crack pipes seems a bit much. Though crack, man... wow.
	♥ 5:34am Brian D: ↳ Fox @5:32 I still believe needle exchanges and rehab over incarceration.
	5:34am Fox: People in charge of taking care of the drug crisis should be a team made from every drug counselor and manager of a halfway house with a criminal record. Those are the people who know that junkies lie. And also know that they are still human. But again, "never trust a junkie."
	5:37am wenzo got it’s bike back: Don’t forget da xylazine
	5:37am Fox: ↳ Brian D @5:34 But what do you do with people who are mentally damaged and antisocial and violent who live on the street and do crack? If free, they will only smoke and be crazy. Bring back asylums? That's only going to turn into state run horror shows of abuse.
	⚡ ♥ 5:38am fred: There's a crack hotspot in Paris. It's sad, but these guys are hostile and I just avoid them. Not proud of that
	5:39am wenzo got it’s bike back: Not everyone who smokes crack is violent or hostile tho. Just saying.
	♥ 5:40am Brian D: ↳ Fox @5:37 Crack is a different animal. But agree with you on the counselor/halfway house/criminal record approach.
	5:41am wenzo got it’s bike back: I agree passing out crack pipes seems stupid and misguided and pointless
	♥ 5:41am Brian D: ↳ wenzo got it’s bike back @5:39 True. But they can be. The drug brings that out in lots of people.
	5:43am wenzo got it’s bike back: What I’ve heard from crackheads is that every crackhead(crack smoking American? What’s the pc term? Heh heh) has their “tweak” (repetitive habit, thing they do when smoking) all different. Then of course there’s the behavior they engage in to make money, some may be violent sure, many are not at all.
	♥ 5:44am Brian D: ↳ wenzo got it’s bike back @5:43 Yep. We're on the same page, wenzo.
	⚡ ♥ 5:44am fred: ↳ wenzo got it’s bike back @5:39 Yeah, drunks are an issue as well when walking at night. Crackheads have a short fuse though, so spotting them from afar is important
	5:45am wenzo got it’s bike back: I live in a pretty heavy crack area… petty theft is definitely a problem, not saying there’s no violence either but I don’t see much and none directed at me… the violence I experienced was more a result of poverty, youthful anger imo.
	5:47am wenzo got it’s bike back: I’m a bit more freaked out by meth cause it’s more new to the area and provokes sleep deprivation which is terrible for the brain…
	5:48am wenzo got it’s bike back: Not that crack doesn’t keep people up… but I think you gotta keep smoking it whereas you can smoke meth once or twice and be up for days(or so I’ve heard idk if that’s an exaggeration)
	♥ 5:48am Brian D: ↳ wenzo got it’s bike back @5:47 I encountered my first meth head in San Juan years ago. Man.
	♥ 5:48am Pablexa™: Morning
	⚡ ♥ 5:49am fred: ↳ wenzo got it’s bike back @5:45 I agree, but being a small guy I have to be careful. I'm more afraid of soccer fans than crackheads though
	♥ 5:49am Brian D: ↳ Pablexa™ @5:48 Greetings Pab.
	♥ 5:50am Brian D: ↳ fred @5:49 And rightly so, with PSG around.
	⚡ ♥ 5:51am fred: ↳ Brian D @5:50 These are the worst
	⚡ ♥ 5:51am tom tom the pipers son: a while back was in n california and there was a town known for meth heads, they were called 'tweakers" appropriately enough cause they certainly were tweaked
	5:51am wenzo got it’s bike back: I mean the only meth head I’ve for sure encountered recently was completely harmless(at that moment) but I’m still disturbed that it’s making incursions… any new hardcore drug being sold in the area is not good. Not looking forward to xylazine arriving on the scene. That shit killed my favorite cousin last year. Think he was looking for Ketamine… got sold xylazine mixed with fentanyl and Xanax. Super lethal.
	♥ 5:52am Brian D: ↳ wenzo got it’s bike back @5:51 I'm glad I'm (knock wood) clean and sober these days. Scary out there.
	⚡ ♥ 5:54am tom tom the pipers son: thanks brian, have a good week...
	♥ 5:55am Brian D: Thank YOU ALL. Great discussion on here this week. Stay safe and have a great week. Ben Ehrenreich joins me next week.
	5:57am wenzo got it’s bike back: Been on a sober kick myself for 5 months… not that I did much before mostly just weed & mushrooms… occasional social drinking… now I’m straight edge… unless you have to be vegan to qualify in which case I’m not at all lol
	⚡ ♥ 5:57am fred: PSG is weird, a fascist fanbase with an arab ownership, united by hatred for jews. A cesspool
	5:57am wenzo got it’s bike back: Currently eating pizza… the drug of foods…
	♥ 5:58am Brian D: ↳ fred @5:57 Still the only time I have ever feared for my safety at a football match...
	5:58am wenzo got it’s bike back: Fascinating Fred… I was not aware… looking up now
	⚡ ♥ 5:59am fred: Thanks Brian, sorry for hogging the playlist with irrelevant links
	⚡ ♥ 6:00am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @5:58 went to yankee stadium in late 90's and thought so this is where all the scary people from high school ended up

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