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Favoriting August 17, 2017: Where Tiki torches are used for keeping mosquitoes away and to festively light up a bbq....


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Artist Track Album Label Approx. start time
Billie Holiday  Strange Fruit   Favoriting Ken Burns Jazz  Sony Legacy  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Sinead O’Connor  Black Boys on Mopeds   Favoriting I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got  Parlophone  0:05:49 (Pop-up)
Bob Dylan  Hurricane   Favoriting The Essential Bob Dylan  Sony Legacy  0:08:47 (Pop-up)
Charles Mingus  Original Faubus Fables   Favoriting Ken Burns Jazz  Sony Legacy  0:17:16 (Pop-up)
Nina Simone  Mississippi Goddamn   Favoriting Live & Kickin  Bellaphon  0:17:55 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
John Kiley 

Side A   Favoriting

Red Sox Organ Music 

Boston Red Sox 

0:31:09 (Pop-up)
Billy Bragg & Wilco  My Thirty Thousand   Favoriting Mermaid Avenue, Vol. 3  Nonesuch  0:37:23 (Pop-up)
Spanky & Our Gang  Give a Damn   Favoriting The Best of Spanky & Our Gang: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection  Mercury  0:39:21 (Pop-up)
Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals  Call It What It Is   Favoriting Call It What It Is  Stax  0:42:49 (Pop-up)
Richie Havens  Oxford Town   Favoriting My Own Way  Douglas Music  0:46:40 (Pop-up)
The Kinks  Black Messiah   Favoriting Misfits  UMC/UMC  0:49:55 (Pop-up)
Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention  Trouble Every Day   Favoriting Freak Out!  Zappa Records  0:51:27 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
John Kiley 

Side A   Favoriting

Red Sox Organ Music 

Boston Red Sox 

0:59:48 (Pop-up)
Anima Sound System  Fuck the Racist (Cosmopolitan Mix)   Favoriting Shalom  Crossroads Records  1:06:00 (Pop-up)
Heaven 17  (We Don't Need this) Fascist Groove Thang   Favoriting New Wave Hits of the 80's: Just Can't Get Enough Vol 8  Rhino  1:10:03 (Pop-up)
The Specials  Why?   Favoriting The Singles Collection  Chrysalis  1:14:28 (Pop-up)
Bob Marley & the Wailers  War   Favoriting Songs of Freedom  Tuff Gong  1:18:12 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
John Kiley 

Side A   Favoriting

Red Sox Organ Music 

Boston Red Sox 

1:21:48 (Pop-up)
They Might Be Giants  Your Racist Friend   Favoriting Flood  Elektra / Wea  1:26:38 (Pop-up)
Ramones  The KKK Took My Baby Away   Favoriting Mania  Warner Off Roster  1:29:15 (Pop-up)
Dead Kennedys  Nazi Punks Fuck Off   Favoriting Plastic Surgery Disasters/In God We Trust Inc.  MANIFESTO RECORDS  1:32:16 (Pop-up)
M.D.C.  John Wayne Was A Nazi   Favoriting Now More Than Ever  Beer City Records  1:36:17 (Pop-up)
Gorilla Biscuits  Degradation   Favoriting Start Today  Revelation Records  1:38:17 (Pop-up)
Propagandhi  Apparently I'm a P.C. Fascist   Favoriting Less talk, More Rock  Fat Wreck Chords  1:40:03 (Pop-up)
The Oi! Scouts  Nuke the Nazis   Favoriting Boots For The Beatdown  Working Class Records  1:41:39 (Pop-up)

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John Kiley 

Side A   Favoriting

Red Sox Organ Music 

Boston Red Sox 

1:47:11 (Pop-up)
War  Why Can't We Be Friends?   Favoriting Why Can't We Be Friends?  Far Out Records  1:47:31 (Pop-up)
The Impressions  Choice of Colors   Favoriting Beg, Scream & Shout!: The Big Ol' Box Of 60's Soul  Rhino  1:51:09 (Pop-up)
Sly And The Family Stone  Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey   Favoriting Stand!  Epic/Legacy  1:54:18 (Pop-up)
The Temptations  Message From a Black Man   Favoriting Psychedelic Soul  Motown  2:00:28 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
John Kiley 

Side A   Favoriting

Red Sox Organ Music 

Boston Red Sox 

2:06:20 (Pop-up)
The Specials  Racist Friend   Favoriting The Singles Collection  Chrysalis  2:08:52 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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annie:

glad to have made the live show meghan!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:03pm
Meghan:

Hey there Annie!
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KP:

Awesome opener
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northguineahills:

perfect
Avatar 12:11pm
Cheyenne:

Powerful stuff today Meghan! Thank you.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:11pm
Meghan:

Hey there Cheyenne!
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Dave B:

Righteous!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:13pm
Meghan:

Hello there Mr. Brady....
Avatar 12:14pm
Dave B:

Hello there Ms. McKee and Denizens of the Underwater Theme Park!
Avatar 12:16pm
Joe non Papa:

Usually, I listen in archive. I had to listen live today. I know this show is going to be important.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:19pm
Meghan:

Glad you are joining us live today!
Avatar 12:26pm
Snortley:

Pic by Brecht Vandenbroucke

www.flickr.com...
Avatar 12:28pm
Parq:

Would you take a vacation trip to Nashville and Memphis, or would you regard supporting the Tennessee economy as something you couldn't do? Asking for a friend.
Avatar 12:29pm
KP:

I've gone from iphone to laptop to freely converse here so i better come up with something worthwhile.
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KP:

The High Priestess of Soul
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:29pm
Meghan:

Hahaha. Hello everyone!
Avatar 12:31pm
Sem Chumbo:

Live and Kickin', you bet. Hiya, Meghan, all.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:31pm
Meghan:

I have taken a vacation to Memphis for a night and had to work in Nashville. But being major cities, I feel they are more diverse and the people there shouldn't be lumped in the political garbage...
Avatar 12:32pm
Dave B:

Red Sox Organ Music - much better than that "Pitch Felt Around The World" last night
Avatar 12:34pm
Cheyenne:

@Parq, yes of course. Go! Tennessee is beautiful. I'm from Kentucky and know for sure that there are lots and lots of folks fighting hard for equality and peace in Tennessee, just as there are everywhere else.
  12:34pm
Dean:

Read Robert Paul Wolff's recent series of posts at The Philosopher's Stone for clarity regarding the sadness and hatred. Truly. Smart analysis can provide some relief.
Avatar 12:35pm
Dave B:

and NUTS I missed the call for songs! I could have provided a bunch...
Avatar 12:36pm
KP:

Wow. "Blindsided." That's a good one, M.
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KP:

You know, despite his horrible background, i think the key to all of this is the investigation. He's looking into the abyss.
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northguineahills:

Exactly, KP!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:42pm
Doug Schulkind:

Greetings, Meghan and fellow anti-racist anti-fascists!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:43pm
Meghan:

Welcome to this safe haven Doug!
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annie:

growing up in a household that was academic and "conversation-oriented" there was access to multiple sources from all aspects of global society. (my father was an ever-growing bigot, too). i turned to music for escape and to learn the trials of those oppressed and those not; the lesson i got?.... no one is immune from troubles. everything is relative.. therefore love all people, not just those in your corner.. ...
Avatar 12:45pm
Parq:

"Suppose you lived there all your life. Do you think that you would mind?" All these decades later, those lines still kill me.
Avatar 12:49pm
Parq:

Like Annie's, my family was open and respectful. (Also like Annie's, my dad was changed for the worse by time and age, but that's a side point.) Unfortunately, it ended at my front door. The blue collar Catholic New Jersey community in which I grew was openly racist, anti-Semitic and pit-bull Republican. That, plus my current (and for the past 30 years) work environment, is why I'm not suprised by the current crop of racist bullying assholes. Not that I understand them, condone them or forgive them in the least -- it's just that, unlike people I know from more enlightened backgrounds, I'm not at all surprised to find that they exist.
  12:52pm
Dean:

Nixon, folks. He wasn't personally disposed to dislike minorities. In fact, he was a strong proponent of civil rights...until being so was politically infeasible. The hatred promoting racism does not manifest only as individual emotion.
Avatar 12:56pm
annie:

i proud to have grown up to be the same damn hippe i was at 23.... i watched Billy Jack last night... what a timeless movie..
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:56pm
The Oscar:

Just tuning in-- this feels real good right now.
Avatar 12:57pm
KP:

Trouble Every Day is Right! Great get.
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Parq:

See this is the thing -- right now, there is a web radio show playing songs that are saying 180 degrees the opposite of what these songs are saying, and that show's listeners are relating to them just as much as we are to these.
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Sem Chumbo:

Brilliant string of spins.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:01pm
coelacanth∅:

hello Meghan and snorkelers
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Sem Chumbo:

Those will gills welcome here, as well.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:03pm
coelacanth∅:

have a statue of a dog pissing on the confederate statue.
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Dave B:

Put Bussas everywhere to remind them that the war is over...

en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:05pm
doctorjazz:

Hi, meetings until now, great space to be for a bit.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:05pm
The Oscar:

Just found out that there's a confederate statue on an island off the coast of Massachusetts up here. The thing is, they can't actually do anything to it, because the whole grounds are a historically protected area. The solution: they put a nondescript box over it.
Avatar 1:05pm
northguineahills:

Most of the statues came up during the resurgence of the modern KKK in the late 1910s/1920s or during the Civil Rights era.
Avatar 1:06pm
βrian:

I think it's more of having the statues in a public context. Germany kept many Nazi artifacts but in museums that provide a more specific context.
Avatar 1:08pm
Dave B:

NICE! I love Anima Sound System!

I was also going to suggest Reagan Youth's "I Hate Hate"
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Parq:

The problem is not that these sculptures exist. The problem is that they were erected to celebrate the men they are portraying, and many people continue to do so, encouraged by the prescience of the statues. I'm not a big fan of cultural revision, but these aren't mere works of art.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:08pm
coelacanth∅:

annie - you watched billy jack last night; i listened to billy jack last night! (the song)
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Parq:

Also, after decades of being "fair to both sides" while the other side takes advantage of my doing so and sucker-punching, I really don't care so much any more about being fair.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:10pm
coelacanth∅:

agreed Parq. maybe that's why i do like the little girl in front of the bull.
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Dave B:

And it's in our backyard now too...

www.nydailynews.com...
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βrian:

I think, for example, a carefully curated underwater theme park might be a good final destination for the statues.
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Dave B:

@βrian - they would make for a good artificial reef
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Parq:

Annnd, the right wingers always get a "but what about" just when they need one. A terrorist has just ploughed a van through La Rambla in Barcelona.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:12pm
coelacanth∅:

i'd be surprised if i didn't start seeing (more) confederate flags here in upstate ny now.
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northguineahills:

I got a Soviet propaganda poster while in college, and took it to my father to give to a friend of his who was a framer. My father threw it away.
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annie:

......imagine being blind and NOT seeing the sculptures. the buddha was the first to say he did not want stone homages to himself. i think we put these things up to feed our ego/guilt. remember when the taliban began to destroy all those amazing buddhas?? there was a global uprising, yet it still happens in other forms: our attachment to images that soothe our fears/egos/guilt is just that. i think the question is: how are our hearts and souls satisfied?
i'm a pacifist, and the small quaker in me says leave those icons behind and love one another..
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:16pm
Meghan:

In Moscow I found this amazingly beautiful poster of Lenin. It was gorgeous. I turned to my husband and said- wow, this is amazing.... but it would be kinda weird to have a giant poster of Lenin in our house right? Sadly we didn't get it, but I do have some other posters from both China and Russia....
Avatar 1:18pm
Dave B:

Heroic or worshipful images are the basis for a cult of personality.
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annie:

@ coel: that story on the delaware county fair is somewhat troublesome in that one of the protesers was banned from the fair.... ... we STILL live in paranoid times. and @meghan: i used to have such an amazing collection of posters and images... more and more visitors to my home questioned my "loyalty". when i was 13-14 i recieved a lovely pin from a visiting russian dignitary to our house, an image of yuri gagarin. i wore it with pride.. i was torn to shreds in Jr HS as being a commie... ... we will never stop hating...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:23pm
Ike:

I don't hate communists or Lenin, but my problem w/them is that (IMHO) people like to forget that they oppressed human rights and gave leftists a bad name. I'm for democratic socialism. But only if it stays democratic. People like Lenin, Chavez et al. were really into circular firing squads and ultimately gave in to corrupting totalitarian tendencies, severely damaging the cause for many generations past and yet to come.
  1:27pm
Alex In Illinois:

I think we need to know how people get radicalized into believing those extreme right wing ideas.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:32pm
The Oscar:

I was lucky enough to grow up in a pleasantly liberal bubble-- aging hippie parents, experimental high school not unlike the one in Billy Jack-- but I was still deep enough in the backwoods that there was a lot of that stuff around. One house a mile or two from mine had a Confederate flag outside. After 9/11, they literally hung a "United We Stand" flag UNDERNEATH IT. I really wanted to get a photo, but I was afraid of being shot.
  1:33pm
Alex In Illinois:

I was responding to what was spoken about trying to talk to those extreme right wing folks--not anything posted
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Parq:

The Oscar's story says it all -- poignant and mind-blowing.
  1:34pm
Eliyah:

Hey guys am i the only one who thiks american political systems and all are shiiiiiet!?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:35pm
Meghan:

If we knew how to do that Alex..... Sadly it has become us vs them and no open discussion. People get radicalized by growing up with it....and being isolated
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:35pm
coelacanth∅:

i just looked at an image of some fool posing, foolishly, facing the little girl who's facing the bull. i don't know what the hell he's thinking, but the commenter on "politicalhotwire" is maybe even more of a fool, writing:"A statue signifying the empowerment of women...and girls".
...apparently doesn't even understand the statement the statue is making.
Avatar 1:36pm
KP:

I'm all for a Jello statue
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Dave B:

@KP - you'd need to keep it refrigerated....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:40pm
coelacanth∅:

i love this set! i feel like it's 1984 and i'm listening to Pat Duncan or Paul Cavenaugh.
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Parq:

The most intractable aspect of that problem (re Meghan@1:36) is that it's all a result of human nature. Given the way the human mind is wired to work, and given certain unchangable aspects of our current society, this stuborn, irrational opposition to progressive ideals is inevitable. I'm all for trying to eliminate this terrible part of human nature, but I fear we can't do so any more than we can hope to eliminate hurricanes.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:40pm
coelacanth∅:

(...okay well not now!)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:42pm
The Oscar:

Cathartic to hear all the stuff the other DJs can't play-- thanks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:42pm
Meghan:

The joys of not having to follow FCC guidelines..... ahhhhhhhh
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:43pm
Meghan:

And yes Parq..... sadly I agree.....
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northguineahills:

I see it at the charity I was volunteering (giving clothes and food to the needy), there are many christian right-wingers who's heart is in the right place, but they can't shake the ideal their pastor or fox news has drilled into them.
  1:45pm
Eliyah:

Isnt that stupid of confusing a religion or a faith with the fucked up politics?
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Parq:

I have had a lot to say, but here's one more thing I have to say: this has been a freaking great show, and an equally great on-line conversation. Meghan, as always, you are thee greatest.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:50pm
Meghan:

It's brainwashing. If you repeat something over and over and over, people will eventually believe it
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Dave B:

Indeed. Thanks Meghan!
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northguineahills:

Back in the 90s, my mother voted for Clinton, was into art. She started listening to Rush "for entertainment". Now, she's further right then my father, who's your typical military republican.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:54pm
doctorjazz:

Some of this is human nature, have to agree, my group or "tribe" is who I'm with. My dad, who was a holocaust survivor (camps, the works), espoused racist feelings when I was a child. You'd think after what he went through it might resonate differently for him, but, no, he had a tough life, and resented Black folks for various reasons.
Avatar 1:55pm
Dave B:

@NGH - I thought you meant Rush - THE BAND at first read...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:56pm
Doug Schulkind:

Can't hear enough of this show, Meghan. Thank you.
Avatar 1:56pm
northguineahills:

She even subscribes to the Rush's magazine, it's cringeworthy, especially the attempts at "right wing humor"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:57pm
Meghan:

Wow, Doctorjazz.... that is tough. And sad on many levels.....

@Dave B- I did too..... hahahaha
  1:58pm
Alex In Illinois:

In other countries, there are people who call themselves "conservatives" but are pro-choice and acknowledge that global warming is a man-made problem and is real.
Avatar 1:58pm
northguineahills:

I might have rather family dynamic if that were the case, oh the possibilities on that timeline.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:59pm
coelacanth∅:

i grew up with crazy contradiction. my parents always voted republican but were opposed to the vietnam war, turned us on at a very young age to Peter Paul & Mary, the beatles, Harry Belafonte; my mom got into astology and wearing colorful ponchos; my dad started smoking herb.my brother's "black" friend moved in when he got kicked out of his house, but my mother was opposed to "inter-racial" sex....etc -but the still and to this day vote republican.
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northguineahills:

different family dynamic...
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annie:

doc jazz, i have a cherokee indian friend who has nothing good to say about jews, and, for the life of me i am not able to get to the bottom of his hatred
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doctorjazz:

Sounds like a similar dymanic, Annie...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:01pm
Meghan:

Going over in time today everyone! No Matt means I can play a few more songs!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:01pm
The Oscar:

@coel Similar lines with my grandparents-- southern, conservative, and not 100% cool racially, but they HATED Nixon and Bush, and ultimately lived to vote for Obama. I'm pretty glad they weren't around the past year or so.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:02pm
Doug Schulkind:

You can go long, Meghan, just as long as you're off by 7pm.
  2:02pm
Alex In Illinois:

North Guinea Hills, that's scary about your Mom.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:03pm
Meghan:

hahaha.... I got to get to work at some point today! haha
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:04pm
coelacanth∅:

my mother didn't vote for bush for the second term, but both parents (& they're not together so it's not a collaboration) voted for trump.
i wonder if they have any idea why.
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northguineahills:

Yep, well, at least my parents aren't racist, they got that going for them. Good thing as my niece is half Guyanese.
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northguineahills:

Faving this episode Meghan, thanks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:09pm
KevinfromBayRidge:

Hey Meghan et al. Last set-very fulfilling. I was running last week on the Belt bikepath and saw a local "no-neck" with a "Hillary for Prison '2016" Tshirt. Asked if she would share her cell with Donald!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:09pm
coelacanth∅:

my mother is definitely racist, though not particularly hateful. she's the kind that would say she has a problem with jews or mexicans, "but Murray's different; but Juan is different". she disapproved of interracial romances, but by the time every one of her offspring had had such relationships she softened her view on that.
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Sem Chumbo:

Though I have been living and breathing American culture and news and politics for the past forty years here in the great white north, there is nothing in my experience or reading or quizzing my American friends which helps me understand what in the gods name's is going on in your country. From here it looks like not only is American history is being deconstructed, but the country itself.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:10pm
Meghan:

hahaha.... nice one Kevin!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:11pm
coelacanth∅:

Thanks Meghan. Excellent program.

tchau camaradas
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KevinfromBayRidge:

I just have to watch out for Nazi driven vehicles now
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Dave B:

@Kevin: youtu.be...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:17pm
doctorjazz:

In my dad's defense, he had little knowledge of American history, just saw the turbulent 60s on TV with demonstration, violence, and he thought to himself (likely), "they think THEY had it bad". He had little context for what was going on, not much education in Poland.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:20pm
Doug Schulkind:

Yes yes yes.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:21pm
Artie:

Hey, everybody. Matt, did you do something different with your hair today?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:27pm
doctorjazz:

(no updates in the playlist, are we on the stream? Sounding good...)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:35pm
doctorjazz:

now, silence from the Stream...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:35pm
Doug Schulkind:

I am hearing this, too, doc. (Or, not hearing.)
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