WFMU: Currents with Brian D: Playlist from November 4, 2023

Listener comments!
	♥ 6:01am Aaron Working In Newark: Yo! Good Morning
	⚡ ♥ 6:01am tom tom the pipers son: good morning brian, people...
	6:01am alan the painter: good morning
	⚡ ♥ 6:01am fred: Good morning Brian and listeners
	♥ 6:05am Brian D: Good morning, folks! Happy Saturday.
	6:06am alan the painter: did the b52s borrow the beep beep from kraftwerk for one of there songs?
	⚡ ♥ 6:07am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @6:05 the end of the marathon was really something, a massive amount raised on last day...
	6:07am alan the painter: i love this album flip side the best
	♥ 6:08am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:07 Yes. I was worried it wouldn't happen. The WFMU community is incredible.
	6:09am alan the painter: FMU is incredible and keeps us
	⚡ ♥ 6:13am fred: ↳ Song: "Highway Anxiety / Radioactivity" by "William Tyle... The Radioactivity part is a pretty good cover
	6:14am Chris Crisco: Cheers Brian & everyone congratulations on reaching your goal and FMU too!
	6:14am rich in angleton: good morning!!
	♥ 6:14am StringOFperils: Hello, and good morning!
	♥ 6:18am Brian D: ↳ Chris Crisco @6:14 Chris. Good to "see" you.
	♥ 6:18am Brian D: ↳ rich in angleton @6:14 Rich up early!
	♥ 6:19am Brian D: ↳ fred @6:13 Don't overlook the bass.
	♥ 6:19am Brian D: ↳ StringOFperils @6:14 Greetings String.
	⚡ ♥ 6:21am fred: ↳ Brian D @6:19 indeed
	⚡ ♥ 6:26am tom tom the pipers son: shortly before visiting berlin for the first time, i bought a book of photographs taken in berlin from the late 20's to early 50's. the book included post war images of statues of, i guess, notable germans that were damaged and knocked off their plinths. sometime after arriving in berlin, i was walking near potsdamerplatz, and walked passed this small, sort of old, municipal building, there was a narrow alley way next to the building, and i decided to have a look. at the rear of. the building, were the statues i had seen in the book from 1945, all stacked, haphazardly against each other just like in the images in the book i had.
	⚡ 6:29am Don in Tampere: Hi Brian and all! I forgot that you haven't set your clocks back yet so was surprised to see you already on air. I am moved into the new house but there is still a fair amount to get from the old place, and a hell of a lot to unpack an reassemble here.
	♥ 6:31am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @6:29 Hello Don! Congrats on the move. Officially retired?
	♥ 6:33am radioronan: Good morning Brian & all. Happy to be up and catching the program!
	⚡ 6:36am Don in Tampere: ↳ Brian D @6:31 Still employed until the end of the year and the last two months look very busy.
	♥ 6:37am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @6:36 Ah. Well, you're in the home stretch.
	♥ 6:37am Brian D: ↳ radioronan @6:33 Good morning. Happy to be throwing the program to you.
	6:43am Cooh John: Good morning Brian and current eventers.
	6:45am Juli: Good Morning:::}
	♥ 6:50am Brian D: Hello Cooh John and Juli.
	♥ 6:50am Brian D: For more information on my guest next week, Andrew McCormick of Covering Climate Now: coveringclimatenow.org
	6:52am Hawkeye: Good morning
	⚡ ♥ 6:54am tom tom the pipers son: speaking of climate, saw on a news broadcast, that winter is coming to mideast making situation in gaza even worse
	♥ 6:54am Brian D: Hey Hawkeye.
	6:55am LiXiviated Life: “So nice to wake up to” 🎶🎵
	6:57am Barbie: Morning Brian
	6:58am Juli: So good! Amazing
	♥ 6:59am Brian D: ↳ LiXiviated Life @6:55 Hey Lix!
	♥ 7:00am Brian D: ↳ Barbie @6:57 Hi Barbie! You may be seeing my missus later.
	7:00am concert on film: 1. Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii is a 1972 concert film directed by Adrian Maben filmed over four days in October 1971. ¿Has anybody watched this apparently visual experience? Considering attending a rare theatrical screening(an hour drive away). 2. Anybody else hear news of a “vintage?” Bowie live concert film being re-released due to the success of ‘Stop Making Sense’ and the unfathomable popularity of the 3hour Taylor Swift Eras placebo. Curious minds wanna know.
	7:01am Juli: ↳ concert on film @7:00 I've seen it! It is amaze
	7:03am Juli: I saw it on a projector at the Artist Alex Grey's place in the Hudson Valley:::{LSD cults} lol Anyway yes if you like Pink Floyd it's a lot of interview and play in beautiful vintage film
	♥ 7:03am dday: ↳ concert on film @7:00 PF in Pompei was interesting as I recall. Saw it many years ago. Maybe there's more footage now. I recall there being no dialog at all. If Bowie in question is from an 80's tour of Japan stay away. It's horribly shot. They ran a bit of it on PBS recently. Looks like it was done by an amateur. Horrible.
	7:05am Juli: ↳ dday @7:03 Maybe I saw the Theatrical Cut but mine had documentary in Pompeii
	♥ 7:06am dday: ↳ Juli @7:05 Very possible. There's many versions of everything anymore. People looking for ways to make a buck via re-treading. Great if they do a good job of it :)
	♥ 7:06am StringOFperils: ↳ concert on film @7:00 Saw it in 1972 at a midnight screening (the only slot it would ever get, where I lived, and at that time in history when stuff like that wasn't on the radio or TV ever). Not strictly a concert film. NO audience, just the band performing in an ancient space, outside of time). More of an 'art' film. I loved it, as a 15 (?) year old, and I think I'd still love it now.
	♥ 7:08am dday: ↳ StringOFperils @7:06 That's how I remember it. Of course when I saw it a midnight screening as well (aged 15 or so) I was probably chemically altered as well ;) It has been run on PBS several times during pledge drives but it's very cut up
	7:10am Juli: The documentary is amazing try to see it:::they speak so cute & talk about how their parents bought their instruments to start the band lol
	7:10am Juli: They seemed very "punk rock" in their attitudes
	♥ 7:10am StringOFperils: ↳ dday @7:08 Oh, too bad...I liked the inserts of them ordering pie and coffee etc in a cafe, etc. It's a very arty film. Dumb and pathetic that they'd cut it to pieces
	♥ 7:10am dday: Of course you can find it on the toobs of U: www.youtube.com...
	7:12am Juli: Too bad my parents don't believe in Rock & Roll I have to go back & listen to this interview because I am now thinking of PF lol
	♥ 7:13am dday: ↳ Juli @7:12 Mine did. My younger brother got their full support as a heavy metal front man in the 80's
	⚡ ♥ 7:13am sydniuß: ↳ Juli @7:12 call to you across the skyyyy ‘morn Juli!
	7:14am Juli: ↳ dday @7:13 Ooof to be born again Or to make money yourself lol
	7:14am Juli: ↳ sydniuß @7:13 Morning!
	⚡ ♥ 7:14am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ StringOFperils @7:10 wonder if doing the 'more' soundtrack, set in ibiza, inspired them to film a performance, also on the mediterranean
	♥ 7:18am dday: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:14 the scene of the guy sitting on the rail of the moving boat is dizzying
	♥ 7:20am StringOFperils: Outside of purely musical concerns, Roger Waters strikes me as someone who has always tried to locate his own place in history. His mother's social concerns, his father's self-sacrifice at Anzio...I suspect it was him, trying to touch the past's mysteries. Not just music, but the history of performance itself...in an ancient amphitheatre
	⚡ ♥ 7:20am Michael of Cologne: Morning Brian & all from rainy Cologne. Learning from history?? Thanks for interview.
	⚡ ♥ 7:21am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ dday @7:18 ah, i can't remember many details, it's been a while, i can still sense the general atmosphere
	⚡ ♥ 7:22am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ StringOFperils @7:20 that sounds like a good theory
	♥ 7:22am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @7:20 Hello Michael!
	⚡ ♥ 7:23am Spikey BXL: ↳ Song: "Part I of interview with author Joseph Kanon" Devastatingly interesting!
	⚡ ♥ 7:23am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Michael of Cologne @7:20 hi michael...
	⚡ ♥ 7:24am Michael of Cologne: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:23 Hey Tom Tom!
	♥ 7:25am Brian D: For more about Joseph Kanon and his work: josephkanon.com
	♥ 7:26am StringOFperils: If you want to read a good history book (not a novel) about how 'we' got to Berlin in the 1940s in the first place, Margaret MacMillan's 'Paris 1919' is excellent. And just as captivating as any good novel....and maybe a study of how history might tend to be doomed to repeat itself. Doomed by the complexity of politics at least. ***Lust for Life...soooo good,
	♥ 7:27am dday: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:21 hitchhiking, drugs, sex..you know a 60's movie ;)
	⚡ ♥ 7:28am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Fall In Love With Me" by "Iggy Pop" funny iggy singing about white wine, he doesn't strike me as a white wine drinker, i think its sardonic
	⚡ ♥ 7:29am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ dday @7:27 yes, personified by mimsy farmer...
	♥ 7:30am dday: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:29 Honestly, the only reason I bothered to see it was because I knew Floyd did the soundtrack
	7:33am Juli: They think it is cool.
	7:34am Juli: The Bad guys think it is cool to be bad.
	⚡ ♥ 7:35am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ dday @7:30 there's barbet schroeder's involvement too
	7:36am Juli: They also may be scared of being inferior
	⚡ ♥ 7:36am Spikey BXL: Impossible to answer probably, but which book would you recommend as a first JK read?
	7:37am Juli: I have studied racists::: They are afraid
	⚡ ♥ 7:37am sydniuß: ↳ Juli @7:36 loss of privilege feels like oppression to the oppressors
	7:37am Juli: Or they think they are real real cool Like Batman villains but less backstory
	♥ 7:38am dday: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:35 Again to be honest..I had no idea who he was at the time & still know little about him today
	7:39am Juli: Yes!
	7:39am Juli: This is how I write my film.
	7:40am Juli: & Plan my Art
	⚡ ♥ 7:41am Strandlund: Good Morning everybody!!
	⚡ ♥ 7:42am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ dday @7:38 i saw 'more' for the first time maybe 15 yrs ago, so i knew the name, seems he may be more notable for films he produced, rather than directed
	⚡ ♥ 7:44am tom tom the pipers son: someone told me that crossing from west berlin into east berlin was going from technicolor to black and white movie
	♥ 7:44am StringOFperils: Valuable lessons to be dramatized in novels that can lead readers through experience that can make understanding possible. Germany, then: A country where, say, one part of its citizens decided that the other part of its citizens were not the kind of people they wanted to even call citizens. So a big part of the Germans rounded up the other big part of the Germans, and put them in camps, and tortured and killed them. The Germans killed the Germans. Sure, they were Jews, and Catholics, and homosexuals, and communists....pretty much everyone they didn't agree with, really. Everyone they didn't want to include in the ongoing story of Germany. They decided they only wanted people that they thought were just like them. No on else allowed. EVen if they were Germans.....well, they weren't really Germans at all, they said. They are not patriots. They're losers. The self-defned 'real' Germans decided the time had come to more clearly define their values, and to vote in some essential corrections. And to take over the courts, to make those changes stick. And wherever it met with resistance, there was force. And fear. And death. Now think MAGA.
	♥ 7:46am Brian D: ↳ Spikey BXL @7:36 Istanbul Passage is my personal favorite -- because I read it during my visit to Istanbul in 2013. But any and all are great. Stardust is also topical, in a way.
	♥ 7:46am Brian D: ↳ Strandlund @7:41 Hello Strand!
	⚡ ♥ 7:48am Spikey BXL: ↳ Brian D @7:46 Thanks Brian, I'll check those two first on goodreads and pick one. Super interview!
	♥ 7:49am Brian D: ↳ Spikey BXL @7:48 Thanks, Spikey. You can't go wrong with Joe in my opinion.
	7:49am ?: ↳ Song: "Part II of interview with Joseph Kanon" Sounds like Mr. Kanon is stuck in that can. Maybe he's hanging out with Stashu in there
	⚡ ♥ 7:49am Michael of Cologne: ↳ StringOFperils @7:44 Yes, the template is well-established and can be used over and over again like a cookie cutter.
	⚡ ♥ 7:51am tom tom the pipers son: sense of 'place' is a funny thing, on the one hand, 'real', on the other abstract
	♥ 7:51am StringOFperils: ↳ Michael of Cologne @7:49 It would probably freak me out less if there weren't so many people fighting to put those cookies in the oven right away.
	♥ 7:51am Onion: Germans pejoratively refer to the Dutch as "Swamp Germans".
	⚡ ♥ 7:52am sydniuß: ↳ StringOFperils @7:51 ha they don’t know I turned the oven to 550° muahaha
	♥ 7:52am JohnEBGood: You cool B. Dr Jimmy and Mr Jim!!
	⚡ ♥ 7:52am Spikey BXL: ↳ Onion @7:51 And point to their reluctance to spend money by expanding the NL on their cars to: nur Limonade
	7:53am concert on film/Vt: ↳ Juli @7:03 @Juli/dday/SofP/tom: thanks for all y’all’s ‘feedback’ on Pink Floyd Pompeii, & etc. appreciated. (Apologies Brian et al for taking folks off-topic re the fine audio on at ear). Juli, you sent me to wiki the fascinating art world of Alex Grey!! Thank you. Was only familiar via Nirvana & David Byrne albums. Y’all are the best people. 🙌🫶🙏
	♥ 7:54am StringOFperils: I worked once with on old Dutch carpenter who remembered running across a field with his brother, being strafed by a German plane
	⚡ ♥ 7:59am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Michael of Cologne @7:49 template, well established and adaptable, in germany it was industrial age murder, in post industry age perhaps the process of disenfranchisement of others is being done through media
	♥ 8:00am JohnEBGood: Lets get rid of political opinions on WFMU. The great Tom Sharpling would tell SringofPearls Lifetime Ban!!!Haa haaaa!
	♥ 8:01am StringOFperils: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:59 It's a media-assist. Mass-hypnosis, if you will The flesh and blood is still rounded up and executed. All around the globe.
	8:04am rich in angleton: Brian - that was a fantastic interview! thank you for this.
	⚡ ♥ 8:04am sydniuß: ↳ JohnEBGood @8:00 DJ Topic excepted. I love being a rabid atheist on Ken’s show.
	♥ 8:05am Brian D: ↳ rich in angleton @8:04 Thank you, Rich. Glad you enjoyed.
	⚡ ♥ 8:06am Michael of Cologne: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:59 Yes, adaptable, adjustable to suit the historical situation. The template is a set of ideas aka an ideology that sets out, among other things, how others are to be (mis)estimated and (mis)esteemed. How we value and devalue each other through certain ideas is at the core. Political leaders cannot do without such ideological templates.
	♥ 8:06am JohnEBGood: Lifetime bannn! Who hoo : )
	♥ 8:06am StringOFperils: Fuck Tom Scharpling. He has no hegemony on being a big-mouth. Banning political opinion IS a political opinion.
	♥ 8:07am dday: ↳ StringOFperils @8:01 Read Canadian singer / songwriter & activist Bruce Cockburn's book "Rumours of Glory" Eye opening accounts of human's inhumanity to each other around the globe.
	8:09am ?: test
	⚡ ♥ 8:10am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Michael of Cologne @8:06 'Political leaders cannot do without such ideological templates.'... makes me think of biden's refusal to acknowledge palestinian death toll
	♥ 8:10am StringOFperils: ↳ dday @8:07 I got the media up the wazoo for that, dday. I'm drowning in accounts of inhumanity. I used to see Bruce around, now and then. He's really at his best behind an acoustic guitar, despite his social conscience. Great player.
	♥ 8:12am dday: ↳ StringOFperils @8:10 I like the book becuase it's firsthand. No spin as "media" often does (badly)
	⚡ ♥ 8:13am sydniuß: ↳ dday @8:07 for the record: I don’t have a rocket launcher
	♥ 8:13am dday: ↳ sydniuß @8:13 That's nice :)
	♥ 8:14am Brian D: ↳ sydniuß @8:13 I have one... IN MY PANTS (sorry).
	⚡ ♥ 8:14am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Sound and Vision" by "Beck" love this song, great evolution of thin white duke period
	⚡ ♥ 8:14am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @8:14 or are you happy to see us .. sorry too
	♥ 8:15am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:14 Both!
	♥ 8:16am StringOFperils: ↳ dday @8:12 I hear you. Cockburn has seen a lot of unpleasant world things first-hand, in his travels. Like novels (as per our guest today), first-hand accounts can convey a lot more experience than a cold news story, for sure. Experience-lived is much more than experience-reported. There's emotional investment. And empathy.
	♥ 8:17am dday: ↳ Brian D @8:14 When I had my heart attack in 2017 & was in the ER, two docs one an older guy & one a stunning redheaded female were about to put a ballon cathter up the vein(?) in my thigh. I was pretty doped up by then when the guy doc said "Ok, you might feel a little prick down there" Instinctively I said "So might you" They both stopped in their tracks & cracked up. I made their day
	8:20am Barbie: Do you and mrs currents, an avid reader, ever read the same books?
	♥ 8:20am Brian D: ↳ dday @8:17 Ha! Reminds me of when I last went to the dentist (I'm overdue) and they injected the painkiller in my gums and I said, "Feels like a cocaine freeze." Everything stopped.
	♥ 8:21am dday: ↳ Brian D @8:20 hahahahah :) Gotta keep'em laughing!
	♥ 8:22am Brian D: ↳ Barbie @8:20 Now and then. We both just read Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave and Sean O'Hagan (great, by the way). And we both read Ben Ehrenreich's (former guest of this program) The Way to the Spring.
	⚡ ♥ 8:22am tom tom the pipers son: bowie did successfully adapt disco tropes into rock music
	♥ 8:23am dday: ↳ Brian D @8:22 Reading that one (Cave) for the third time right now. Excellent
	♥ 8:24am McGroovey: I'm waking up in Harrisburg, PA, to Bowie covers, and I don't know why, but that's OK.
	8:24am WSJ: Great version by Susannah!
	⚡ ♥ 8:25am Michael of Cologne: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:10 Seems to me that many of these ideological templates have to do with boosting and shoring up the who-standing of supporters and depreciating the who-standing of opponents, the other, the alien. No matter if the boost to who-standing is a manipulative delusion, especially one that takes supporters for suckers. It still works. Flattery.
	♥ 8:26am dday: ↳ Song: "Boys Keep Swinging" by "Susanna Hoffs" The late John Entwistle played bass on that track
	⚡ ♥ 8:26am fred: When I got my covid booster I asked "so when do I get 5G?". The pharmacist laughed and said "not yet, you only had 4 shots". There was an elderly couple waiting to get a flu shot who refused to get the covid one, the look on their face at that joke was startling. They really believed that crap
	8:27am Toothgrinder Tom: I should really go for a run but I don’t want to miss anything.
	♥ 8:28am Brian D: ↳ McGroovey @8:24 Good morning! I spent two weeks in Harrisburg one night.
	⚡ ♥ 8:29am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Michael of Cologne @8:25 yes it seems biden is looking ahead to 2024 and thinking he's placing the right bet no matter how many lives are lost in gaza
	♥ 8:30am dday: ↳ fred @8:26 I like that bit about 5G :) When someone started yapping to me about that microchip nonsense once I said " hell I don't even own a cell phone so if they put a chip in me maybe I don't need one after all"
	♥ 8:31am Brian D: ↳ fred @8:26 Funny Fred and then not so funny.
	⚡ ♥ 8:35am Michael of Cologne: ↳ fred @8:26 Funny, just last week I got my sixth COVID booster and turned down the offer of a flu shot.
	⚡ ♥ 8:35am fred: ↳ dday @8:30 I don't have a phone either, though it's becoming harder every day
	8:38am Barbie: I received the flu, covid, pneumonia, and RSV vaccines no side effects what so ever.
	♥ 8:38am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @8:35 Why give Fauci your money? (rimshot)
	⚡ ♥ 8:38am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @8:35 do you know whether or not they still have the 'iconic' phone booths in london?
	8:38am Erik & Film’d Concerts: ↳ dday @8:17 Ha,LOL; putting aside your serious situation, that is a very humorous and spontaneous moment that i would be pleased with, if I could be that lucid in such a situation.
	⚡ ♥ 8:39am Michael of Cologne: ↳ fred @8:35 Harder and harder to abstain from immersion in the cyberworld and the dictatorship of the algorithms.
	♥ 8:41am dday: ↳ fred @8:35 It is. I want a phone that just makes phone calls. I carry a junk phone with no service plan just to be able to call 911 if I need to. Don't need all the other stuff, but the plans I see cost the same no matter what (data,text etc.) I'm retired now but at my last job I had two phones & two, two way radios on my hips everyday. Once I called it quits I said "if you want to talk to me call me at home or send me an email or egads! an actual letter". I miss letter writing, a lost art form.
	♥ 8:42am dday: ↳ Erik & Film’d Concerts @8:38 Thanks. I was so high from whatever they had already given me it just came out :)
	⚡ ♥ 8:42am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:38 No idea, I'haven't been there in over 30 years. Phone booths have been gone in France for 20 years or so
	♥ 8:42am dday: ↳ Barbie @8:38 Same here. Over & over. I joke with the jabbers are you guys just giving me water shots?
	8:43am Juli: Mixing this w other music & it is epic lol
	⚡ ♥ 8:44am sydniuß: ↳ dday @8:42 you jabber joker you 🤣
	8:45am Juli: It is also epic on own:::}
	⚡ ♥ 8:45am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Brian D @8:38 Fauci is out of bounds here, and COVID inoculation is still free here. Too many in my circle of acquaintances have gotten major problems with long-term COVID after being infected; others have been allergic to the inoculation itself. Fortunately, no symptoms for me from the injection, and haven't yet been infected by the disease...
	♥ 8:46am dday: ↳ sydniuß @8:44 “Beware the Jabberjoker, my son The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!”
	⚡ ♥ 8:46am fred: ↳ Michael of Cologne @8:39 There's this delayed EU law that will make smartphones with biometric ID mandatory for banking (meaning essential stuff like pledging to WFMU). I'll have to yield then
	8:46am Erik Filmed Concerts: After the Flash by Squid 🦑 = gee, seriously thought this was some sorta Colin Newman (wire) project.
	⚡ ♥ 8:46am fred: ↳ Juli @8:45 How is the film going?
	⚡ ♥ 8:47am sydniuß: ↳ Michael of Cologne @8:45 I’m 4x jabbed as we all are, wife caught it anyway 2x!! I am seemingly hyper immune wøøt
	⚡ ♥ 8:47am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @8:42 oh, thx, thought you may have traveled for dance perfs... think we held on to pay phones a little longer, but were no longer serviced by major telecoms and were usually not working
	⚡ ♥ 8:48am sydniuß: ↳ dday @8:46 gimbling and gaving over here
	⚡ ♥ 8:48am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:47 I don't travel (money and health issues). But if I did, I'd probably hit Brussels more often than London anyway
	♥ 8:48am StringOFperils: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:38 I think there may be some red phone boxes left, for tourist photo-ops....next to Westminster and places like that. Otherwise, they are broadly decommissioned. www.theguardian.com...
	⚡ ♥ 8:50am tom tom the pipers son: ah, thanks...
	♥ 8:50am dday: ↳ sydniuß @8:47 I've been curious to know if perhaps blood type plays into infection. Just a thought. I have not done any research but it would be interesting to know if certain blood types are more or less resistant to Covid
	♥ 8:50am dday: ↳ fred @8:46 What could possibly go wrong?
	⚡ ♥ 8:51am sydniuß: ↳ dday @8:50 A-, for your study
	♥ 8:51am dday: ↳ sydniuß @8:51 :(
	♥ 8:53am StringOFperils: I blame the anti-masker gene. It's a genetic marker for dumb-assness
	⚡ ♥ 8:53am Michael of Cologne: ↳ fred @8:46 The stranglehold of the algorithms gets tighter from year to year, and a frightening proportions even welcomes it -- for the sake of 'convenience'. To say nothing of the 'enhancement' of the State's control over its population (if the algorithms don't fuck up).
	8:54am Gary K: Hey DJ are you OK? Why are you assaulting us like this on a Saturday morning? Was it something we said?
	⚡ ♥ 8:54am fred: ↳ Song: "Our Hearts in the Sun (with OLOLOLOP and Arakawa ... Is that The Ex's Zea?
	⚡ ♥ 8:55am Michael of Cologne: ↳ sydniuß @8:47 Seems this vaccine is a bit hit-and-miss, for sure.
	8:55am Erik & Film’d Concerts: ↳ fred @8:48 “Don’t travel” & still able to attend 60 or so dance concerts per year?! Wow, lucky to live in an area that is “dance central”! Apologies, I forget, Is that Paris?
	⚡ ♥ 8:55am tom tom the pipers son: thanks brian, have a good week
	♥ 8:55am StringOFperils: ↳ Michael of Cologne @8:53 Not to mention the Starlink panopticon. Thank you Jeremy Bentham. Nice one.
	⚡ ♥ 8:55am sydniuß: ↳ Michael of Cologne @8:55 well for infection yes effects are far worse for the uninoculated
	⚡ ♥ 8:56am fred: ↳ Erik & Film’d Concerts @8:55 I work there, and live nearby
	♥ 8:57am Brian D: ↳ fred @8:54 Oui.
	⚡ ♥ 8:57am sydniuß: we know 4 hospitalized for covid pneumonia, all unjabbed.
	♥ 8:57am McGroovey: ↳ StringOFperils @8:53 I'M TIRED OF STUPID PEOPLE. There was a guy at a rest stop last night driving a new $50 Jeep with TRUMP on his personalized plates. Ugh. I guess I AM F-ING STUPID wouldn't have fit.
	♥ 8:57am Brian D: Thank you all. And my thanks to Joseph Kanon. Stay safe and have a great week.
	⚡ ♥ 8:58am fred: ↳ fred @8:56 Also, I like going to see people I don't know. That expands the field considerably
	8:58am Barbie: Thanks for the great show, I’m off to see the ceo of wsp sdr
	♥ 8:58am StringOFperils: ↳ McGroovey @8:57 No accounting for self-destruction. O_O *shrugs
	⚡ ♥ 8:58am Michael of Cologne: ↳ StringOFperils @8:55 And Bentham's calculus for the maximization of happiness of the greatest number. Only a Brit could come up with that. Thanks Brian for the program.
	8:59am rich in angleton: thx Brian!! great show today!
	♥ 8:59am dday: ↳ Michael of Cologne @8:55 It easy to say that but based on what comparisons? This is really the first "modern day" pandemic that we have been collection extreme amounts of statistical data on, both on infection & vaccine efficacy. Polio, smallpox and others etc. all did lots of damage until vaccines were used to combat them but we didn't keep the kind of statistics we do now. Just a thought
	♥ 9:00am StringOFperils: Thanks, Brian. And thanks everyone else here on The Raft of the Medusa. Glu glub glub...sputter...
	⚡ ♥ 9:00am fred: ↳ Michael of Cologne @8:58 The irony of that when the British and French empires did so much to maximize misery
	♥ 9:01am StringOFperils: Did? Hey, have you met Rishi?

Currents with Brian D: Playlist from November 4, 2023

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Music inspired by life and current events

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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.

November 4, 2023: "When it comes to our future..."

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Artist	Track	Album	Approx. start time
Kraftwerk	Radioactivity "Radioactivity" by "Kraftwerk"	Radio-Activity	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	Weeping Wall "Weeping Wall" by "David Bowie"	Low	0:06:30 (Pop-up)
William Tyler and the Impossible Truth	Highway Anxiety / Radioactivity	Secret Stratosphere	0:11:16 (Pop-up)
	Clip: Democracy Now!-UAW settles with automotive manufacturers		0:24:18 (Pop-up)
Amanda Palmer & Jherek Bischoff	Heroes (featuring John Cameron Mitchell)	Strung Out In Heaven: A Tribute to David Bowie & Prince	0:25:03 (Pop-up)
Dylan Howe	Neuköln "Neuköln" by "Dylan Howe"	Subterranean - New Designs On Bowie's Berlin	0:28:36 (Pop-up)
	Clip: NEWS9-Live-Germany changes policy on migrants		0:34:06 (Pop-up)
Alva Noto feat. Martin L. Gore & William Basinski	Subterraneans	Subterraneans	0:36:05 (Pop-up)
Jaoa Gilberto	Outra Vez "Outra Vez" by "Jaoa Gilberto"	Bosa Nova at Carnegie Hall	0:49:24 (Pop-up)
Oscar Casto-Neves Quartet	Nao Faz Assim	Bosa Nova at Carnegie Hall	0:53:49 (Pop-up)
Part I of interview with author Joseph Kanon
Lou Reed	Berlin "Berlin" by "Lou Reed"	Berlin	1:21:03 (Pop-up)
Iggy Pop	Fall In Love With Me "Fall In Love With Me" by "Iggy Pop"	Lust for Life	1:24:29 (Pop-up)
Part II of interview with Joseph Kanon
Nico	Heroes "Heroes" by "Nico"	Do or Die	2:01:13 (Pop-up)
Beck	Sound and Vision "Sound and Vision" by "Beck"	MP3	2:07:11 (Pop-up)
Susanna Hoffs	Boys Keep Swinging "Boys Keep Swinging" by "Susanna Hoffs"	When You're A Boy	2:19:11 (Pop-up)
Danny Michel	Sons of the Silent Age	Loving the Alien (The Songs of David Bowie)	2:24:00 (Pop-up)
	Clip: NBC6-Miami-poster wars in Florida		2:26:42 (Pop-up)
Einstürzende Neubauten	Diverse Lokationen (Berlin West 1980-1983, Performance 2006)	Kassetten (Musterhaus #5)	2:27:31 (Pop-up)
Deeper	Fame "Fame" by "Deeper"	Careful!	2:35:55 (Pop-up)
	Clip: BBC-effects of Gaza war on oil and gold prices		2:39:13 (Pop-up)
Squid	After the Flash "After the Flash" by "Squid"	O Monolith	2:39:49 (Pop-up)
Wimps	City Lights "City Lights" by "Wimps"	City Lights	2:45:28 (Pop-up)
Zea	Our Hearts in the Sun (with OLOLOLOP and Arakawa Atsushi))	We Are Still Each Other’s Only Hope	2:47:51 (Pop-up)
Spring Breeding	Gina Sleeps All Day	Zum Audio Vol. 5	2:51:54 (Pop-up)
Set	Eisen "Eisen" by "Set"	Ost-Kraut! - Progressives Aus Den DDR-Archiven 1970-1975 Teil 1	2:55:51 (Pop-up)

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	♥ 6:01am Aaron Working In Newark: Yo! Good Morning
	⚡ ♥ 6:01am tom tom the pipers son: good morning brian, people...
	6:01am alan the painter: good morning
	⚡ ♥ 6:01am fred: Good morning Brian and listeners
	♥ 6:05am Brian D: Good morning, folks! Happy Saturday.
	6:06am alan the painter: did the b52s borrow the beep beep from kraftwerk for one of there songs?
	⚡ ♥ 6:07am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @6:05 the end of the marathon was really something, a massive amount raised on last day...
	6:07am alan the painter: i love this album flip side the best
	♥ 6:08am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:07 Yes. I was worried it wouldn't happen. The WFMU community is incredible.
	6:09am alan the painter: FMU is incredible and keeps us
	⚡ ♥ 6:13am fred: ↳ Song: "Highway Anxiety / Radioactivity" by "William Tyle... The Radioactivity part is a pretty good cover
	6:14am Chris Crisco: Cheers Brian & everyone congratulations on reaching your goal and FMU too!
	6:14am rich in angleton: good morning!!
	♥ 6:14am StringOFperils: Hello, and good morning!
	♥ 6:18am Brian D: ↳ Chris Crisco @6:14 Chris. Good to "see" you.
	♥ 6:18am Brian D: ↳ rich in angleton @6:14 Rich up early!
	♥ 6:19am Brian D: ↳ fred @6:13 Don't overlook the bass.
	♥ 6:19am Brian D: ↳ StringOFperils @6:14 Greetings String.
	⚡ ♥ 6:21am fred: ↳ Brian D @6:19 indeed
	⚡ ♥ 6:26am tom tom the pipers son: shortly before visiting berlin for the first time, i bought a book of photographs taken in berlin from the late 20's to early 50's. the book included post war images of statues of, i guess, notable germans that were damaged and knocked off their plinths. sometime after arriving in berlin, i was walking near potsdamerplatz, and walked passed this small, sort of old, municipal building, there was a narrow alley way next to the building, and i decided to have a look. at the rear of. the building, were the statues i had seen in the book from 1945, all stacked, haphazardly against each other just like in the images in the book i had.
	⚡ 6:29am Don in Tampere: Hi Brian and all! I forgot that you haven't set your clocks back yet so was surprised to see you already on air. I am moved into the new house but there is still a fair amount to get from the old place, and a hell of a lot to unpack an reassemble here.
	♥ 6:31am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @6:29 Hello Don! Congrats on the move. Officially retired?
	♥ 6:33am radioronan: Good morning Brian & all. Happy to be up and catching the program!
	⚡ 6:36am Don in Tampere: ↳ Brian D @6:31 Still employed until the end of the year and the last two months look very busy.
	♥ 6:37am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @6:36 Ah. Well, you're in the home stretch.
	♥ 6:37am Brian D: ↳ radioronan @6:33 Good morning. Happy to be throwing the program to you.
	6:43am Cooh John: Good morning Brian and current eventers.
	6:45am Juli: Good Morning:::}
	♥ 6:50am Brian D: Hello Cooh John and Juli.
	♥ 6:50am Brian D: For more information on my guest next week, Andrew McCormick of Covering Climate Now: coveringclimatenow.org
	6:52am Hawkeye: Good morning
	⚡ ♥ 6:54am tom tom the pipers son: speaking of climate, saw on a news broadcast, that winter is coming to mideast making situation in gaza even worse
	♥ 6:54am Brian D: Hey Hawkeye.
	6:55am LiXiviated Life: “So nice to wake up to” 🎶🎵
	6:57am Barbie: Morning Brian
	6:58am Juli: So good! Amazing
	♥ 6:59am Brian D: ↳ LiXiviated Life @6:55 Hey Lix!
	♥ 7:00am Brian D: ↳ Barbie @6:57 Hi Barbie! You may be seeing my missus later.
	7:00am concert on film: 1. Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii is a 1972 concert film directed by Adrian Maben filmed over four days in October 1971. ¿Has anybody watched this apparently visual experience? Considering attending a rare theatrical screening(an hour drive away). 2. Anybody else hear news of a “vintage?” Bowie live concert film being re-released due to the success of ‘Stop Making Sense’ and the unfathomable popularity of the 3hour Taylor Swift Eras placebo. Curious minds wanna know.
	7:01am Juli: ↳ concert on film @7:00 I've seen it! It is amaze
	7:03am Juli: I saw it on a projector at the Artist Alex Grey's place in the Hudson Valley:::{LSD cults} lol Anyway yes if you like Pink Floyd it's a lot of interview and play in beautiful vintage film
	♥ 7:03am dday: ↳ concert on film @7:00 PF in Pompei was interesting as I recall. Saw it many years ago. Maybe there's more footage now. I recall there being no dialog at all. If Bowie in question is from an 80's tour of Japan stay away. It's horribly shot. They ran a bit of it on PBS recently. Looks like it was done by an amateur. Horrible.
	7:05am Juli: ↳ dday @7:03 Maybe I saw the Theatrical Cut but mine had documentary in Pompeii
	♥ 7:06am dday: ↳ Juli @7:05 Very possible. There's many versions of everything anymore. People looking for ways to make a buck via re-treading. Great if they do a good job of it :)
	♥ 7:06am StringOFperils: ↳ concert on film @7:00 Saw it in 1972 at a midnight screening (the only slot it would ever get, where I lived, and at that time in history when stuff like that wasn't on the radio or TV ever). Not strictly a concert film. NO audience, just the band performing in an ancient space, outside of time). More of an 'art' film. I loved it, as a 15 (?) year old, and I think I'd still love it now.
	♥ 7:08am dday: ↳ StringOFperils @7:06 That's how I remember it. Of course when I saw it a midnight screening as well (aged 15 or so) I was probably chemically altered as well ;) It has been run on PBS several times during pledge drives but it's very cut up
	7:10am Juli: The documentary is amazing try to see it:::they speak so cute & talk about how their parents bought their instruments to start the band lol
	7:10am Juli: They seemed very "punk rock" in their attitudes
	♥ 7:10am StringOFperils: ↳ dday @7:08 Oh, too bad...I liked the inserts of them ordering pie and coffee etc in a cafe, etc. It's a very arty film. Dumb and pathetic that they'd cut it to pieces
	♥ 7:10am dday: Of course you can find it on the toobs of U: www.youtube.com...
	7:12am Juli: Too bad my parents don't believe in Rock & Roll I have to go back & listen to this interview because I am now thinking of PF lol
	♥ 7:13am dday: ↳ Juli @7:12 Mine did. My younger brother got their full support as a heavy metal front man in the 80's
	⚡ ♥ 7:13am sydniuß: ↳ Juli @7:12 call to you across the skyyyy ‘morn Juli!
	7:14am Juli: ↳ dday @7:13 Ooof to be born again Or to make money yourself lol
	7:14am Juli: ↳ sydniuß @7:13 Morning!
	⚡ ♥ 7:14am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ StringOFperils @7:10 wonder if doing the 'more' soundtrack, set in ibiza, inspired them to film a performance, also on the mediterranean
	♥ 7:18am dday: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:14 the scene of the guy sitting on the rail of the moving boat is dizzying
	♥ 7:20am StringOFperils: Outside of purely musical concerns, Roger Waters strikes me as someone who has always tried to locate his own place in history. His mother's social concerns, his father's self-sacrifice at Anzio...I suspect it was him, trying to touch the past's mysteries. Not just music, but the history of performance itself...in an ancient amphitheatre
	⚡ ♥ 7:20am Michael of Cologne: Morning Brian & all from rainy Cologne. Learning from history?? Thanks for interview.
	⚡ ♥ 7:21am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ dday @7:18 ah, i can't remember many details, it's been a while, i can still sense the general atmosphere
	⚡ ♥ 7:22am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ StringOFperils @7:20 that sounds like a good theory
	♥ 7:22am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @7:20 Hello Michael!
	⚡ ♥ 7:23am Spikey BXL: ↳ Song: "Part I of interview with author Joseph Kanon" Devastatingly interesting!
	⚡ ♥ 7:23am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Michael of Cologne @7:20 hi michael...
	⚡ ♥ 7:24am Michael of Cologne: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:23 Hey Tom Tom!
	♥ 7:25am Brian D: For more about Joseph Kanon and his work: josephkanon.com
	♥ 7:26am StringOFperils: If you want to read a good history book (not a novel) about how 'we' got to Berlin in the 1940s in the first place, Margaret MacMillan's 'Paris 1919' is excellent. And just as captivating as any good novel....and maybe a study of how history might tend to be doomed to repeat itself. Doomed by the complexity of politics at least. ***Lust for Life...soooo good,
	♥ 7:27am dday: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:21 hitchhiking, drugs, sex..you know a 60's movie ;)
	⚡ ♥ 7:28am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Fall In Love With Me" by "Iggy Pop" funny iggy singing about white wine, he doesn't strike me as a white wine drinker, i think its sardonic
	⚡ ♥ 7:29am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ dday @7:27 yes, personified by mimsy farmer...
	♥ 7:30am dday: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:29 Honestly, the only reason I bothered to see it was because I knew Floyd did the soundtrack
	7:33am Juli: They think it is cool.
	7:34am Juli: The Bad guys think it is cool to be bad.
	⚡ ♥ 7:35am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ dday @7:30 there's barbet schroeder's involvement too
	7:36am Juli: They also may be scared of being inferior
	⚡ ♥ 7:36am Spikey BXL: Impossible to answer probably, but which book would you recommend as a first JK read?
	7:37am Juli: I have studied racists::: They are afraid
	⚡ ♥ 7:37am sydniuß: ↳ Juli @7:36 loss of privilege feels like oppression to the oppressors
	7:37am Juli: Or they think they are real real cool Like Batman villains but less backstory
	♥ 7:38am dday: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:35 Again to be honest..I had no idea who he was at the time & still know little about him today
	7:39am Juli: Yes!
	7:39am Juli: This is how I write my film.
	7:40am Juli: & Plan my Art
	⚡ ♥ 7:41am Strandlund: Good Morning everybody!!
	⚡ ♥ 7:42am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ dday @7:38 i saw 'more' for the first time maybe 15 yrs ago, so i knew the name, seems he may be more notable for films he produced, rather than directed
	⚡ ♥ 7:44am tom tom the pipers son: someone told me that crossing from west berlin into east berlin was going from technicolor to black and white movie
	♥ 7:44am StringOFperils: Valuable lessons to be dramatized in novels that can lead readers through experience that can make understanding possible. Germany, then: A country where, say, one part of its citizens decided that the other part of its citizens were not the kind of people they wanted to even call citizens. So a big part of the Germans rounded up the other big part of the Germans, and put them in camps, and tortured and killed them. The Germans killed the Germans. Sure, they were Jews, and Catholics, and homosexuals, and communists....pretty much everyone they didn't agree with, really. Everyone they didn't want to include in the ongoing story of Germany. They decided they only wanted people that they thought were just like them. No on else allowed. EVen if they were Germans.....well, they weren't really Germans at all, they said. They are not patriots. They're losers. The self-defned 'real' Germans decided the time had come to more clearly define their values, and to vote in some essential corrections. And to take over the courts, to make those changes stick. And wherever it met with resistance, there was force. And fear. And death. Now think MAGA.
	♥ 7:46am Brian D: ↳ Spikey BXL @7:36 Istanbul Passage is my personal favorite -- because I read it during my visit to Istanbul in 2013. But any and all are great. Stardust is also topical, in a way.
	♥ 7:46am Brian D: ↳ Strandlund @7:41 Hello Strand!
	⚡ ♥ 7:48am Spikey BXL: ↳ Brian D @7:46 Thanks Brian, I'll check those two first on goodreads and pick one. Super interview!
	♥ 7:49am Brian D: ↳ Spikey BXL @7:48 Thanks, Spikey. You can't go wrong with Joe in my opinion.
	7:49am ?: ↳ Song: "Part II of interview with Joseph Kanon" Sounds like Mr. Kanon is stuck in that can. Maybe he's hanging out with Stashu in there
	⚡ ♥ 7:49am Michael of Cologne: ↳ StringOFperils @7:44 Yes, the template is well-established and can be used over and over again like a cookie cutter.
	⚡ ♥ 7:51am tom tom the pipers son: sense of 'place' is a funny thing, on the one hand, 'real', on the other abstract
	♥ 7:51am StringOFperils: ↳ Michael of Cologne @7:49 It would probably freak me out less if there weren't so many people fighting to put those cookies in the oven right away.
	♥ 7:51am Onion: Germans pejoratively refer to the Dutch as "Swamp Germans".
	⚡ ♥ 7:52am sydniuß: ↳ StringOFperils @7:51 ha they don’t know I turned the oven to 550° muahaha
	♥ 7:52am JohnEBGood: You cool B. Dr Jimmy and Mr Jim!!
	⚡ ♥ 7:52am Spikey BXL: ↳ Onion @7:51 And point to their reluctance to spend money by expanding the NL on their cars to: nur Limonade
	7:53am concert on film/Vt: ↳ Juli @7:03 @Juli/dday/SofP/tom: thanks for all y’all’s ‘feedback’ on Pink Floyd Pompeii, & etc. appreciated. (Apologies Brian et al for taking folks off-topic re the fine audio on at ear). Juli, you sent me to wiki the fascinating art world of Alex Grey!! Thank you. Was only familiar via Nirvana & David Byrne albums. Y’all are the best people. 🙌🫶🙏
	♥ 7:54am StringOFperils: I worked once with on old Dutch carpenter who remembered running across a field with his brother, being strafed by a German plane
	⚡ ♥ 7:59am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Michael of Cologne @7:49 template, well established and adaptable, in germany it was industrial age murder, in post industry age perhaps the process of disenfranchisement of others is being done through media
	♥ 8:00am JohnEBGood: Lets get rid of political opinions on WFMU. The great Tom Sharpling would tell SringofPearls Lifetime Ban!!!Haa haaaa!
	♥ 8:01am StringOFperils: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:59 It's a media-assist. Mass-hypnosis, if you will The flesh and blood is still rounded up and executed. All around the globe.
	8:04am rich in angleton: Brian - that was a fantastic interview! thank you for this.
	⚡ ♥ 8:04am sydniuß: ↳ JohnEBGood @8:00 DJ Topic excepted. I love being a rabid atheist on Ken’s show.
	♥ 8:05am Brian D: ↳ rich in angleton @8:04 Thank you, Rich. Glad you enjoyed.
	⚡ ♥ 8:06am Michael of Cologne: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:59 Yes, adaptable, adjustable to suit the historical situation. The template is a set of ideas aka an ideology that sets out, among other things, how others are to be (mis)estimated and (mis)esteemed. How we value and devalue each other through certain ideas is at the core. Political leaders cannot do without such ideological templates.
	♥ 8:06am JohnEBGood: Lifetime bannn! Who hoo : )
	♥ 8:06am StringOFperils: Fuck Tom Scharpling. He has no hegemony on being a big-mouth. Banning political opinion IS a political opinion.
	♥ 8:07am dday: ↳ StringOFperils @8:01 Read Canadian singer / songwriter & activist Bruce Cockburn's book "Rumours of Glory" Eye opening accounts of human's inhumanity to each other around the globe.
	8:09am ?: test
	⚡ ♥ 8:10am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Michael of Cologne @8:06 'Political leaders cannot do without such ideological templates.'... makes me think of biden's refusal to acknowledge palestinian death toll
	♥ 8:10am StringOFperils: ↳ dday @8:07 I got the media up the wazoo for that, dday. I'm drowning in accounts of inhumanity. I used to see Bruce around, now and then. He's really at his best behind an acoustic guitar, despite his social conscience. Great player.
	♥ 8:12am dday: ↳ StringOFperils @8:10 I like the book becuase it's firsthand. No spin as "media" often does (badly)
	⚡ ♥ 8:13am sydniuß: ↳ dday @8:07 for the record: I don’t have a rocket launcher
	♥ 8:13am dday: ↳ sydniuß @8:13 That's nice :)
	♥ 8:14am Brian D: ↳ sydniuß @8:13 I have one... IN MY PANTS (sorry).
	⚡ ♥ 8:14am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Sound and Vision" by "Beck" love this song, great evolution of thin white duke period
	⚡ ♥ 8:14am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @8:14 or are you happy to see us .. sorry too
	♥ 8:15am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:14 Both!
	♥ 8:16am StringOFperils: ↳ dday @8:12 I hear you. Cockburn has seen a lot of unpleasant world things first-hand, in his travels. Like novels (as per our guest today), first-hand accounts can convey a lot more experience than a cold news story, for sure. Experience-lived is much more than experience-reported. There's emotional investment. And empathy.
	♥ 8:17am dday: ↳ Brian D @8:14 When I had my heart attack in 2017 & was in the ER, two docs one an older guy & one a stunning redheaded female were about to put a ballon cathter up the vein(?) in my thigh. I was pretty doped up by then when the guy doc said "Ok, you might feel a little prick down there" Instinctively I said "So might you" They both stopped in their tracks & cracked up. I made their day
	8:20am Barbie: Do you and mrs currents, an avid reader, ever read the same books?
	♥ 8:20am Brian D: ↳ dday @8:17 Ha! Reminds me of when I last went to the dentist (I'm overdue) and they injected the painkiller in my gums and I said, "Feels like a cocaine freeze." Everything stopped.
	♥ 8:21am dday: ↳ Brian D @8:20 hahahahah :) Gotta keep'em laughing!
	♥ 8:22am Brian D: ↳ Barbie @8:20 Now and then. We both just read Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave and Sean O'Hagan (great, by the way). And we both read Ben Ehrenreich's (former guest of this program) The Way to the Spring.
	⚡ ♥ 8:22am tom tom the pipers son: bowie did successfully adapt disco tropes into rock music
	♥ 8:23am dday: ↳ Brian D @8:22 Reading that one (Cave) for the third time right now. Excellent
	♥ 8:24am McGroovey: I'm waking up in Harrisburg, PA, to Bowie covers, and I don't know why, but that's OK.
	8:24am WSJ: Great version by Susannah!
	⚡ ♥ 8:25am Michael of Cologne: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:10 Seems to me that many of these ideological templates have to do with boosting and shoring up the who-standing of supporters and depreciating the who-standing of opponents, the other, the alien. No matter if the boost to who-standing is a manipulative delusion, especially one that takes supporters for suckers. It still works. Flattery.
	♥ 8:26am dday: ↳ Song: "Boys Keep Swinging" by "Susanna Hoffs" The late John Entwistle played bass on that track
	⚡ ♥ 8:26am fred: When I got my covid booster I asked "so when do I get 5G?". The pharmacist laughed and said "not yet, you only had 4 shots". There was an elderly couple waiting to get a flu shot who refused to get the covid one, the look on their face at that joke was startling. They really believed that crap
	8:27am Toothgrinder Tom: I should really go for a run but I don’t want to miss anything.
	♥ 8:28am Brian D: ↳ McGroovey @8:24 Good morning! I spent two weeks in Harrisburg one night.
	⚡ ♥ 8:29am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Michael of Cologne @8:25 yes it seems biden is looking ahead to 2024 and thinking he's placing the right bet no matter how many lives are lost in gaza
	♥ 8:30am dday: ↳ fred @8:26 I like that bit about 5G :) When someone started yapping to me about that microchip nonsense once I said " hell I don't even own a cell phone so if they put a chip in me maybe I don't need one after all"
	♥ 8:31am Brian D: ↳ fred @8:26 Funny Fred and then not so funny.
	⚡ ♥ 8:35am Michael of Cologne: ↳ fred @8:26 Funny, just last week I got my sixth COVID booster and turned down the offer of a flu shot.
	⚡ ♥ 8:35am fred: ↳ dday @8:30 I don't have a phone either, though it's becoming harder every day
	8:38am Barbie: I received the flu, covid, pneumonia, and RSV vaccines no side effects what so ever.
	♥ 8:38am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @8:35 Why give Fauci your money? (rimshot)
	⚡ ♥ 8:38am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @8:35 do you know whether or not they still have the 'iconic' phone booths in london?
	8:38am Erik & Film’d Concerts: ↳ dday @8:17 Ha,LOL; putting aside your serious situation, that is a very humorous and spontaneous moment that i would be pleased with, if I could be that lucid in such a situation.
	⚡ ♥ 8:39am Michael of Cologne: ↳ fred @8:35 Harder and harder to abstain from immersion in the cyberworld and the dictatorship of the algorithms.
	♥ 8:41am dday: ↳ fred @8:35 It is. I want a phone that just makes phone calls. I carry a junk phone with no service plan just to be able to call 911 if I need to. Don't need all the other stuff, but the plans I see cost the same no matter what (data,text etc.) I'm retired now but at my last job I had two phones & two, two way radios on my hips everyday. Once I called it quits I said "if you want to talk to me call me at home or send me an email or egads! an actual letter". I miss letter writing, a lost art form.
	♥ 8:42am dday: ↳ Erik & Film’d Concerts @8:38 Thanks. I was so high from whatever they had already given me it just came out :)
	⚡ ♥ 8:42am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:38 No idea, I'haven't been there in over 30 years. Phone booths have been gone in France for 20 years or so
	♥ 8:42am dday: ↳ Barbie @8:38 Same here. Over & over. I joke with the jabbers are you guys just giving me water shots?
	8:43am Juli: Mixing this w other music & it is epic lol
	⚡ ♥ 8:44am sydniuß: ↳ dday @8:42 you jabber joker you 🤣
	8:45am Juli: It is also epic on own:::}
	⚡ ♥ 8:45am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Brian D @8:38 Fauci is out of bounds here, and COVID inoculation is still free here. Too many in my circle of acquaintances have gotten major problems with long-term COVID after being infected; others have been allergic to the inoculation itself. Fortunately, no symptoms for me from the injection, and haven't yet been infected by the disease...
	♥ 8:46am dday: ↳ sydniuß @8:44 “Beware the Jabberjoker, my son The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!”
	⚡ ♥ 8:46am fred: ↳ Michael of Cologne @8:39 There's this delayed EU law that will make smartphones with biometric ID mandatory for banking (meaning essential stuff like pledging to WFMU). I'll have to yield then
	8:46am Erik Filmed Concerts: After the Flash by Squid 🦑 = gee, seriously thought this was some sorta Colin Newman (wire) project.
	⚡ ♥ 8:46am fred: ↳ Juli @8:45 How is the film going?
	⚡ ♥ 8:47am sydniuß: ↳ Michael of Cologne @8:45 I’m 4x jabbed as we all are, wife caught it anyway 2x!! I am seemingly hyper immune wøøt
	⚡ ♥ 8:47am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @8:42 oh, thx, thought you may have traveled for dance perfs... think we held on to pay phones a little longer, but were no longer serviced by major telecoms and were usually not working
	⚡ ♥ 8:48am sydniuß: ↳ dday @8:46 gimbling and gaving over here
	⚡ ♥ 8:48am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:47 I don't travel (money and health issues). But if I did, I'd probably hit Brussels more often than London anyway
	♥ 8:48am StringOFperils: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:38 I think there may be some red phone boxes left, for tourist photo-ops....next to Westminster and places like that. Otherwise, they are broadly decommissioned. www.theguardian.com...
	⚡ ♥ 8:50am tom tom the pipers son: ah, thanks...
	♥ 8:50am dday: ↳ sydniuß @8:47 I've been curious to know if perhaps blood type plays into infection. Just a thought. I have not done any research but it would be interesting to know if certain blood types are more or less resistant to Covid
	♥ 8:50am dday: ↳ fred @8:46 What could possibly go wrong?
	⚡ ♥ 8:51am sydniuß: ↳ dday @8:50 A-, for your study
	♥ 8:51am dday: ↳ sydniuß @8:51 :(
	♥ 8:53am StringOFperils: I blame the anti-masker gene. It's a genetic marker for dumb-assness
	⚡ ♥ 8:53am Michael of Cologne: ↳ fred @8:46 The stranglehold of the algorithms gets tighter from year to year, and a frightening proportions even welcomes it -- for the sake of 'convenience'. To say nothing of the 'enhancement' of the State's control over its population (if the algorithms don't fuck up).
	8:54am Gary K: Hey DJ are you OK? Why are you assaulting us like this on a Saturday morning? Was it something we said?
	⚡ ♥ 8:54am fred: ↳ Song: "Our Hearts in the Sun (with OLOLOLOP and Arakawa ... Is that The Ex's Zea?
	⚡ ♥ 8:55am Michael of Cologne: ↳ sydniuß @8:47 Seems this vaccine is a bit hit-and-miss, for sure.
	8:55am Erik & Film’d Concerts: ↳ fred @8:48 “Don’t travel” & still able to attend 60 or so dance concerts per year?! Wow, lucky to live in an area that is “dance central”! Apologies, I forget, Is that Paris?
	⚡ ♥ 8:55am tom tom the pipers son: thanks brian, have a good week
	♥ 8:55am StringOFperils: ↳ Michael of Cologne @8:53 Not to mention the Starlink panopticon. Thank you Jeremy Bentham. Nice one.
	⚡ ♥ 8:55am sydniuß: ↳ Michael of Cologne @8:55 well for infection yes effects are far worse for the uninoculated
	⚡ ♥ 8:56am fred: ↳ Erik & Film’d Concerts @8:55 I work there, and live nearby
	♥ 8:57am Brian D: ↳ fred @8:54 Oui.
	⚡ ♥ 8:57am sydniuß: we know 4 hospitalized for covid pneumonia, all unjabbed.
	♥ 8:57am McGroovey: ↳ StringOFperils @8:53 I'M TIRED OF STUPID PEOPLE. There was a guy at a rest stop last night driving a new $50 Jeep with TRUMP on his personalized plates. Ugh. I guess I AM F-ING STUPID wouldn't have fit.
	♥ 8:57am Brian D: Thank you all. And my thanks to Joseph Kanon. Stay safe and have a great week.
	⚡ ♥ 8:58am fred: ↳ fred @8:56 Also, I like going to see people I don't know. That expands the field considerably
	8:58am Barbie: Thanks for the great show, I’m off to see the ceo of wsp sdr
	♥ 8:58am StringOFperils: ↳ McGroovey @8:57 No accounting for self-destruction. O_O *shrugs
	⚡ ♥ 8:58am Michael of Cologne: ↳ StringOFperils @8:55 And Bentham's calculus for the maximization of happiness of the greatest number. Only a Brit could come up with that. Thanks Brian for the program.
	8:59am rich in angleton: thx Brian!! great show today!
	♥ 8:59am dday: ↳ Michael of Cologne @8:55 It easy to say that but based on what comparisons? This is really the first "modern day" pandemic that we have been collection extreme amounts of statistical data on, both on infection & vaccine efficacy. Polio, smallpox and others etc. all did lots of damage until vaccines were used to combat them but we didn't keep the kind of statistics we do now. Just a thought
	♥ 9:00am StringOFperils: Thanks, Brian. And thanks everyone else here on The Raft of the Medusa. Glu glub glub...sputter...
	⚡ ♥ 9:00am fred: ↳ Michael of Cologne @8:58 The irony of that when the British and French empires did so much to maximize misery
	♥ 9:01am StringOFperils: Did? Hey, have you met Rishi?

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