WFMU: This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from April 29, 2021

Listener comments!
	♥ 8:58am Pale Son: Oh wow, cool painting! Morning, Troubledom!
	♥ 8:59am Handy Haversack: Good gray Thursday, Trouble and all the Troubled. The title of today's episode Boaled me over!
	♥ 9:01am steveo: listening same, Handy
	♥ 9:01am YETI BOB: Good morning from Springer, New Mexico!
	♥ 9:01am Yes: good morning. love this track
	9:01am JetBoy of Brooklyn: Been a long covid time since I’ve been up this early…
	♥ 9:01am Threemoons: Morning Trouble, fellow Troublemakers.
	♥ 9:01am Strandlund: Good Morning trouble and all you Modernaires out there...
	♥ 9:02am Trouble: goooood grey thursday morning modern people!
	♥ 9:02am Phillippe: howdy
	9:02am Robm: Hello to all my fellow trouble makers:)
	♥ 9:02am Handy Haversack: I was proud of that one, steveo.
	♥ 9:02am waters7: So beautiful
	♥ 9:03am steveo: oh wait, not exactly; it only bowled me over (and thanks for hipping me to Augusto)
	♥ 9:03am LastVisibleDog: Good morning
	9:03am Doug in JC: Good morning. We picked up a book about caracaras recently and it turns out the author is the singer from Shearwater. Had no idea. Can't recommend it yet, it's still unread. www.penguinrandomhouse.com...
	♥ 9:03am luka: hey gm everybody hot dog it's thursday
	♥ 9:03am Webhamster Henry: Hello ! This is the Moderna and Pfizer world!
	9:04am TerrDE: Morning all... Is this Arthur 2 Sheds Jackson ?
	♥ 9:04am HyperDose: This is the only Trouble I look forward to in life
	9:04am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Good ♃Thor'sday Troublefolk !
	9:04am Mikey Capone: Good morning, Trouble, thank you for your soothing tunes.
	9:04am Malcolm: hello trouble and modernists
	♥ 9:05am luka: did anyone catch Clay say who is filling in for Fabio today?
	9:05am TerrDE: YetiBob did you or are you going to the Caverns ?
	♥ 9:05am Trouble: oops
	♥ 9:06am Handy Haversack: luka, it's Underwater Theme Park and Meghan.
	♥ 9:06am steveo: yay, records!
	♥ 9:06am luka: s p e e d w a r p
	9:07am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: WrongSpeeding ! ...give the turntable hamster a wheetie...
	♥ 9:07am luka: oooh, that's delightful. ty Handy!
	♥ 9:08am Ken From Hyde Park: Good morning, Trouble and general troublemakers.
	♥ 9:08am listener james from westwood: Morning, Trouble and all!
	♥ 9:09am steveo: love the avi today,RR; spotted the leporid nice and easy
	♥ 9:10am jdaAndAnoukFromKöln: hallo Trubel. (though this is not a 1to1 translation). lets surprise me with some new sounds and birds. which reminds me, that I hab my sony wm 20 refurbished, and it still plays a cassette tape with early morning birds which I recorded in the 80ies – as a teenager. time flies…
	♥ 9:10am HyperDose: And Doug Schulkind is filling-in for Flash Strap tonight on the GTD stream
	9:11am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Cheers steveo. For Trouble's program & I try & match the decor if possible...
	♥ 9:13am steveo: breathing and letting the morning drive-time energy dissipate
	♥ 9:14am steveo: :thumbs-up: RR
	♥ 9:14am Irene Trudel: Lovely start to the morning as I was hoping, Trouble! Good morning all.
	9:15am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: jdaAnd: Love you have your own 80s birds.
	♥ 9:15am HyperDose: Hey Irene! :D
	♥ 9:16am jdaAndAnoukFromKöln: :-)
	♥ 9:17am spodiodi: good morning, Trouble and Modernists
	♥ 9:18am YETI BOB: TerrDE: You mean Carlsbad? I've been there before, not going on this trip. I actually don't like caves and going into a hole underground with other people doesn't sound like fun during COVID. I'm avoiding people mostly. But I did see a giant meteor crater in AZ, that was cool!
	9:21am earthwalker: Mellowing out Today’s the Day !
	9:24am fm Mike: Mornin' y'aaaaall.
	9:25am TerrDE: I love the Caverns. Everytime I go cross country I stop there. If there was an airport nearby , I d go once a year.
	9:26am earthwalker: We listen
	♥ 9:27am jdaAndAnoukFromKöln: nyc zoo?
	♥ 9:28am YETI BOB: TerrDE: It's definitely interesting and I'm glad you enjoy it. I prefer to stay above ground, every time I've toured a cave or a mine I just want to get out of there!
	9:29am Malcolm: the summer of bird lovers
	9:30am earthwalker: Holy birds Batman !
	9:30am fm Mike: There are fake plastic birds sold by my job, and they "sing" and it offends me so, because noooone of those bird songs from those fake birds are REAL songs lol
	♥ 9:30am The Oscar: Morning-- I thought that was Bob & Ray, and I was waiting for the punchline!
	9:30am Beetledrink: Oh shit I have "Casket Sinkers / Caused by Rum" by Droll Yankees, so good
	9:30am TVP: Don't fly like my brother.
	9:30am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: NewEngland ooooh yeauh don'chaknow...
	♥ 9:33am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): I'm always amazed that people do gardening on purpose.
	9:33am lautomnedaniell: The garden conversion show Monty Don does is fascinating.
	9:33am robfoto: Hard or soft “g” in Italian depends on vowel or consonant that follows. 😉
	9:33am headcleaner: the italian 'g' can be hard ('gato') or soft ('luigi') depending on position
	9:34am TerrDE: Wow, as caves go Carlsbad is more like an underground doomed football statium. But being underground is freaky, my girlfriend won't go to Carlsbad w me.
	9:34am Sam: Lawnmower mishaps are the leading cause of death in jolly old England.
	9:34am headcleaner: @robfoto: ginxissimo!
	9:35am Malcolm: there are a lot of weird and wonderful museums in england. in the town I live in we have a hat museum
	9:36am John in Jersey: Monty Don's primary show is Gardeners World, on BritBox weekly.
	♥ 9:36am Vivian: Gardening is in full swing in my backyard. Blueberries are coming along, we're nibbling on strawberries from the front. Tomatoes, okra, bean and peppers going in the ground this weekend.
	♥ 9:36am redbee: I'm quite fond of that Ana Roxanne album, and that track in particular always reminds me of Yo La Tengo, in a comforting way... might be the guitar tone, but there's a sequence that sounds a bit like something on Painful or maybe And then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out, and I haven't quite put my finger on it yet...
	♥ 9:37am redbee: Also I lol'd pretty hard at the "Car Talk" comment
	9:38am Adrian in London: Hi Trouble. Press deadline today so thanks for the music in advance.
	♥ 9:38am waters7: I knew from the first chord that this was Linda Smith. She was part of my first group of friends in NYC. This brings back so many memories. It is still so resonant today. xo
	9:39am John in Jersey: I work part time in a garden center in Bergen County. Last weekend I had over $6000 in sales. Beyond crazy.
	♥ 9:39am Trouble: I thought of you adrian in london as last sunday I totally screwed up the time i was supposed to be attending a talk from london on quilting. dang i so effed it up.
	9:40am Arlene: Gmorning Trouble, enjoying the music and also the artwork!
	9:40am Jessica B: Love the artwork too
	♥ 9:41am Trouble: merci arlene /jessica b
	9:41am fm Mike: Thank you for this peaceful music Trouble. Soothes my troubled soul.
	♥ 9:42am waters7: Yes, the artwork is kind of incredible. Looks 1930 and today.
	♥ 9:43am redbee: @Trouble — Could you remind us what the jaunty birdsong gentleman's name and show was called? I was AFK when you mentioned and I didn't jot it down!
	♥ 9:43am steveo: was just thinking this week that the trombone quotient had dropped to dangerously low levels around here; loving this
	♥ 9:44am Passaic River Blues: I had completely forgotten about this Nelson Patton--thank you for spinning once again!
	♥ 9:44am steveo: dave nelson is a fave
	9:45am JT: Oh my … having that same early teen emotion like when everyone starts listening to the band you discovered: Monty Don
	9:45am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: tight bones
	♥ 9:45am Trouble: the bird record is the edge of the meadow on droll yankees, 1969. the gardening narrator is monty don, he has several gardening series floating around on different streaming channels. i am watching historical gardens on acorn
	♥ 9:49am redbee: Thank you! I was typing in "john baird" and losing my mind. JAMES Baird... o boy that short-term memory!
	9:50am Jessica B: I'm realizing the painting reminds me of Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. The five figures, the masks, the overall composition...
	♥ 9:50am waters7: I heard an incredible show about the night migration of birds on this podcast called, "Nocturne". The guy--who is a self-taught ornithologist--has been watching birds since 1985--noticed the difference in their night "peeps" and how incredible it is to witness night migrations.
	9:52am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: JessicaB: !
	9:53am Toutevoix: ((((((◍))))))
	9:53am sphere: hullo. one thing I love about the trouble chat is that you never know what the chat topic will be when you log in.
	♥ 9:54am nathan: this show always has perfect spring morning vibes, love it
	♥ 9:55am steveo: @sphere but it might be birds :)
	9:55am Dayffid: Hello everyone hope you are all having a great morning
	♥ 9:57am redbee: @waters7: Sounds fascinating, I'll definitely check that out. Related, the bird migration maps on this site are interesting to keep tabs on: birdcast.info...
	♥ 9:58am Webhamster Henry: Oh yeah! Looks like I already had clicky-starred Switched On Bacharach!
	9:58am sphere: @ steveo True that. :)
	♥ 9:59am steveo: @redbee, neat
	9:59am JT: Love me warblers
	♥ 10:00am Threemoons: I did NOT know that Hot Chip did this cover!
	♥ 10:00am waters7: nice cover.
	♥ 10:00am Handy Haversack: Very cool, redbee! I wish the Cornell Labs stuff didn't rely so much on Google and didn't ask for an e-mail address in order to ID more than one bird through its Merlin service. But the species info they publish as a "field guide" is great.
	♥ 10:00am YETI BOB: Hot Chip Alexis has such a lovely voice
	10:03am alan the painter: thank you Trouble, remembering the Palace theatre...
	10:03am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: <3 Lou
	♥ 10:03am YETI BOB: Handy: I wish half of the Web didn't run on Amazon servers (AWS), but building your own infrastructure and keeping it running is HARD. It' the "tyranny of convenience"
	♥ 10:04am βrian: We call that Chickadee the Aunt Sophie bird. "YoooooHooo!"
	♥ 10:04am YETI BOB: There's basically no way to use computers and the Internet without putting money in the hands of giant corporations. As soon as you start using computer chips, you've made a deal with the devil - there is no cottage industry for semiconductors. All kinds of toxic chemicals, etc.
	♥ 10:04am redbee: I've learned my white throated sparrow calls this spring, they hang out in the yard behind my apartment building. @Handy: Thought you might like those maps! And, I forgot about the data stuff on Merlin, I've been logged in for so long... ugh.
	♥ 10:05am steveo: hmm, i think the bird call i have been trying to figure out is the white-throated sparrow
	♥ 10:05am Greg from ZONE 5: Oh my God I could listen to this bird guy all day.
	♥ 10:05am jt: "Birds are as different as people"
	♥ 10:05am Handy Haversack: Brown thrasher is the state bird of Georgia, where I originated. Last time I was in Chicago, I came across four dead brown thrashers in one weekend of walking around. Coincidence? YB, sure -- but defaulting to having Google read your geo info and demanding an e-mail address to use a free ID service is one step past running on AWS, I'd say. We have some white-throated sparrows hanging about, and current thinking is we have several of the genetic variants. Punk rock head stripes!
	♥ 10:06am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): What? You don't want to know about my favorite Hall * Oates record is?
	♥ 10:06am YETI BOB: HH: Agreed, that's a bit obnoxious.
	10:06am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Bully for that guy ! Love nature - but know not even the names of flora & fauna. Ignorance of my own environment.
	♥ 10:07am Handy Haversack: It used to be about the birds, maaaaaaaaan!
	♥ 10:07am Webhamster Henry: You could have done "2 of a kind" with Wendy Carlos' What's New Pussycat.
	♥ 10:07am steveo: what the world needs now is birds sweet birds
	10:08am Dayffid: Hi all, need to choose between Pfizer and modern vax. Is there a generally consensus on which is preferable? Just curious
	10:08am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Handy: Dennis Hopper, Ornithologist...
	♥ 10:08am redbee: @steveo: I lost my mind thinking they were chickadees, for a while!
	♥ 10:08am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): The Pfizer tastes better.
	♥ 10:08am Passaic River Blues: @Steveo: I missed the Droll Yankees interlude (damn you, work calls!), but the white-throated sparrow call is so lovely. In New England, people say the song sounds like, "Poor Sam Peabody!" When we're scoping birds, my wife and I just call it "Peabodying." They also make unmistakable, wholly-their-own adorable peeps.
	♥ 10:09am jdaAndAnoukFromKöln: amanda lear?
	♥ 10:09am waters7: Funny, just listened to "Just Kids" and saw the Alice Neal show at the Met. Lovely portrait of Jacki Curtis. Thinking how these people in New York City were so on the edge of what is now.
	10:10am Dayffid: Woods of Maine - haha thanks. I’ll keep that in mind
	♥ 10:10am ze boocherie: This is a great record
	♥ 10:10am YETI BOB: Dayffid: This is the Moderna world (sorry)
	♥ 10:10am northguineahills: When they were talking about the brown thrush while I was taking my morning constition, a mockingbird landed on an electronic converter a meter away from me and started to sing.
	♥ 10:10am jt: Brown Thrasher is one of my favorite birds... saw them every time - on route to Joppa Flats, P.Island, MA. Their brown feathers are so distinctive, special and like no other in tone and shade, although they are quite common, I am a fan.
	♥ 10:11am Handy Haversack: Anyone else get car-alarm-mimicking mockingbirds? I'm a big fan!
	♥ 10:11am steveo: @redbee yes similar @prb coincidentally my dear spouse's maiden name is peabody, thanks for that
	♥ 10:12am Handy Haversack: Dayffid: get whichever one is available sooner! That's the only criterion for selection between 'em.
	♥ 10:12am βrian: What's AI good for if the car alarms don't mimic cardinals?
	10:12am mb: Hola DJ Trouble and FMUers of the day About to get my 2nd Pfizer shot. The first one cured my long Covid symptoms and i am not a lounghauler anymore. Its a gd miracle and I thought I was never going to be healthy again. My prayers were answered.
	♥ 10:13am northguineahills: Unless I see the mockingbird sing, I can;t tell which bird is singing (they're everywhere down here). I've heard them do the car alarm once.
	10:13am wizard frog: @mb ohhh happy for you... that long covid sounds so nasty - glad you're over it!
	10:15am Carl from Providence: im going for the trifecta, Pfizer+ Moderna. and A JnJ cherry on top... upgrade to a full mutant...kidding
	♥ 10:16am Trouble: so great to hear that @ mb!!
	♥ 10:17am Passaic River Blues: @NGH: the other day in Military Park in Newark, we were looking for warblers when we heard the last bit of a hermit thrush's refrain being repeatedly endlessly high up in an oak tree. Usually those guys are on or near the ground, so we crane our necks and eventually spy a goddamned starling just perfecting the doubled flanged sound of the final notes over and over again. It was really something. Then the guy went back to typical starling lazer sounds. @MB: excellent news!
	♥ 10:18am Listener Gregory: This show is my go-to source for Arto Lindsay. Thanks, Trouble.
	10:18am JT: New KOC drop tomorrow
	♥ 10:19am Handy Haversack: Wow, mb, what wonderful news! Heartfelt congrats!
	10:19am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: OK: If you love Nature & Animals - but don't know the 1st thing about birdsong - where do you go ?
	10:21am mb: Thanks wizard frog and Trouble!! Long Covid is a real thing. Kind of like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome which I didn't understand how hellish it was for people. If you know someone that is suffering from it stay in touch with them. Every little bit of love helps and gives us a reason to keep pushing. Thx Handy!
	♥ 10:21am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): Is it a mocking bird that can do language? When I was a kid my folks had friends with such a bird. The lady's name was Marquida and if the phone rang the bird would yell "Answer the goddamned phone Marquida!" Hilarious.
	♥ 10:25am βrian: "Cut the chatter, and spin the platter!" en.wikipedia.org...
	10:25am mb: @PRB: Thanks! And thx for this boards existence. It gave me a place to sound off when shit got dark and I am very grateful to the new internet friends I made that checked in on me. Serious gratitude.
	♥ 10:29am Handy Haversack: Rev Rab, bird song is still a mystery to me in many ways, but Kate and our very musical neighbor are great at it, so I bet you would be. There's an entire system of notation for it, which is discussed in many field guides. Find (or check out) a Petersen's or Golden, and I bet the first lesson will get you started finding more.
	♥ 10:30am oshiwoshi: okute - what sorcery is this?
	♥ 10:30am βrian: Speaking of mimicking, Little Human has taken to imitating Shaun the Sheep, side-mouth bleats and all.
	10:31am headcleaner: @mb - your long covid rebond story is very encouraging + it's great to have you here with us
	♥ 10:31am freeebooksdotcom: Magpie’s imitate as well!
	♥ 10:31am Mick: Extremely happy for you, mb - that is amazing news! Dayffid, I'm with Handy - get whichever vax you can get to first (and hydrate a bunch to minimize negative side effects. though in my case, the main side effect was euphoria)
	10:31am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Handy: Thx. I suppose I need to learn what the species are in the 1st place & how they look & the whole deal...
	♥ 10:32am Handy Haversack: Woods, probably a mynah bird.
	♥ 10:32am βrian: Nahawa Doumbia buoys me.
	♥ 10:33am Handy Haversack: Field guides and www.allaboutbirds.org... plus www.allaboutbirds.org... more generally.
	♥ 10:34am βrian: The whippoorwill's is the call I most miss.
	10:35am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Thx Handy ! That looks like it might be the stuff!...
	♥ 10:35am JohnEBGood: Birds are cool. I recently ordered my mom a bird oriented gift for Mothers Day. I'm sure she will like it. Have a fantastic weekend DJTrouble and my WFMU family 🕊🐦
	♥ 10:35am duke: Speaking of birds, a large turkey hen just strutted across the field next to my house.
	10:36am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...& to think they're theropod dinosaurs...
	10:39am Doug in JC: I hear we have our first chimney swifts of the year in our neighborhood
	10:39am Dayffid: Thanks for the advice all! Getting the pfizz later today Mb - great to hear your story so glad your feeling better.
	♥ 10:40am Handy Haversack: That's why I try to stay on their good side, Rev Rab. What if they're just taking a breather?
	♥ 10:40am Passaic River Blues: @RRV63: I am generally pretty terrible at remembering all but the dozen or so calls I hear all the time; am much better at visual IDs. I think Handy's right about the standard guides, Cornell Lab website, also YouTube videos. My wife and I go on Bergen County Audubon Society walks usually led by the inestimable Don Torino. He swears by books published by a guy named Ernest Jardine, including one called "Bird Song Decoded." I bought it not too long ago, but haven't read it as yet. www.goodreads.com...
	10:41am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Thx PRB
	10:41am ?: Nuthatches are silly, especially when they walk down tree trunks and make squeaky noises. They are patient, too, like when the jerky birds are at the feeder and they just hang until the pushy birds do their thing.
	♥ 10:42am JohnEBGood: We made cheap model birds and painted them. We hung them on the wall and shot them down with rubber flips topped on soda bottles. Indoor entertainment in 1970. What fun ; )
	♥ 10:42am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): There was a cool article in The Ne Yorker a couple of issues ago about animal migration and how incredible they are at finding their way.
	10:43am Doug in JC: Around this time of year a friend of ours in Hoboken would stick a microphone out on his balcony at night and record all the calls of passing migrants in the morning. He would get a lot of birds you wouldn't normally see here because they don't stop.
	10:44am Doug in JC: That wasn't clear. He would record at night and do playback in the morning, IDing by ear
	10:44am JT: I have a litter of baby raccoons in my fireplace now. I'm just letting the mother handle it, but it's driving my cat nuts.
	♥ 10:44am Handy Haversack: Was it the Blind Tourist ... or Olivia ... a few months ago who had on the guy who had made a 30'-long antenna for recording bat calls and would wander around outside his house with it at twilight, wearing headphones and recording gear?
	10:45am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Did he convert bat audio to human frequencies ?
	♥ 10:46am Handy Haversack: Yeah, Rev Rab. Now I can't find it, though.
	10:47am Doug in JC: This? Doesn't seem right but it involved bats wfmu.org...
	10:48am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I must've heard that too...
	♥ 10:48am Glorious Estephonic: beautiful show, Trouble! Thank you <3
	♥ 10:48am JohnEBGood: The coons are no joke JT. You need a specialist that have tools to remove them.
	♥ 10:49am Handy Haversack: Hrrrrrm, no. Nothing leaped out at me from looking at the BT or RR playlist pages, either.
	10:50am βrian: I really like this Altın Gün. I usually head the other direction when I see umlauts.
	10:50am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Doug no but that certainly look pertinent !
	♥ 10:50am redbee: @Trouble: You're a knitter, yes? Any favorite plant-fiber yarns for the summer months? I can never find a cotton that I truly love!
	10:50am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: *lookS
	♥ 10:51am Jason from Houston: What was that bat thing?!? I remember it as well.
	♥ 10:51am βrian: Good beer makes for interesting plant-based yarns.
	♥ 10:54am Trouble: @redbee: ihear you, cotton can be a drag to work with and has no body. I have't tried any other non wool fibers but there is always a mix of hemp, bamboo or linen that might work for your summer knitting needs? ( i usually trade in my needles for the sewing machine in summer)
	♥ 10:55am steveo: umlauts are people too
	10:55am JT: JohnEB, I had a wildlife rescue service come out. For $600, they would spray a "male scent" in an attempt to drive the mother out, but the guy said it may or may not work, and I could just wait until the mother takes them out in a few weeks. I play loud music under the flue at random times during the day hoping that the mother will maybe look for another "safe" space.
	♥ 10:55am jt: From one jt to another JT: Where do you live? Grey Gardens !!??
	♥ 10:55am Handy Haversack: Um, louts?
	♥ 10:56am Jason from Houston: Not Richard Devine? soundcloud.com...
	♥ 10:57am Devin B.: To the Bat Cave! on In Real Life with Emily and Kimzilla: wfmu.org...
	♥ 10:58am redbee: @Trouble: yeah, my inclination was to look for a blend as well... I'm finding some silk & linen mixes, oo-la-la!
	♥ 10:59am steveo: miss that show, Devin
	10:59am Listening Out There: Intuitively.
	10:59am headcleaner: bird talk > car talk, any day
	♥ 10:59am Webhamster Henry: This is what those French bird records sound like in English.
	♥ 10:59am Handy Haversack: That seems likely, Jason, though I still can't find the show! Even searching in the playlist comments only shows one instance of Richard Devine on the Blind Tourist, and it was for cow sounds. First catbird of the year showed up yesterday.
	10:59am JT: I tried to get Pidge to adopt her for his morning show – that was before I discovered her in the fireplace and the litter had arrived.
	♥ 10:59am Listener Gregory: "You might call it weaving; I call it knots," is what my weaving teacher said to me.
	11:00am Doug in JC: Good job Devin, I'm going to have to listen to that one too. We had a a major hibernaculum where I grew up. White nose pretty much did away with that though. I took my now wife there once years ago but only saw a few come out at dusk. We did experience our first screech owl that night. The memory of panic-googling "horse sound in woods at night" will live with me forever
	♥ 11:00am βrian: The French narrator is much more lyrical.
	♥ 11:00am jt: Last year a Cat Bird would visit me every day, when I was secluded out in the country. They are funny.
	♥ 11:01am redbee: oo I do miss the catbirds! I'm pleased that they hang out in prospect park.
	11:02am Dean from Old Bridge: I could actually listen to that bird call talk all day
	♥ 11:02am Handy Haversack: That thick Swiss accent, though, Trouble!
	11:02am prudy: Trouble...at least you didn't have a Pawtucket accent...
	♥ 11:02am Webhamster Henry: I like catbirds too - sometimes they really sound like cats! I knew a parrot that could also meow.
	11:02am Carl from Providence: Rhode island the best state money can buy
	♥ 11:03am Steve from Dunwoody: The Style Council stylish movie?! Oh my...
	11:03am Emma: Hi Trouble, sorry if you mentioned this already - but what is the recording of the New Englander talking about bird calls?
	♥ 11:03am Jason from Houston: So wild, Handy! Very strange. I will totally listen to those cow sounds.
	♥ 11:03am Listener Gregory: Trouble, I lived in Cranston for a time, and everyone would tell me, "Oh, you live in Cveeeaaanston?", imitating the old Cranston accent. But in fact I never found anyone who actually pronounced it that way or had a "Cranston accent." I think it was just gone (by 1985 say).
	11:03am prudy: Carl, actually these days Florida gets that title..
	11:03am JT: The catbirds steal all my alpine strawberries. Clever little buggers.
	♥ 11:04am Passaic River Blues: @Emma: I think it's this one: www.discogs.com...
	♥ 11:04am unpopularfred: as a long time, non-native eastern MA resident, I concur, that accent is hardcore
	♥ 11:04am Jason from Houston: I worked on getting rid of my Texas accent when I was in high school. It worked for the most part but now I wish I had it back.
	11:04am Mikey: Style Council doc is up on the youtubes!!!
	11:04am prudy: grew up outside of Boston and spent summers in RI
	♥ 11:05am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): You should hear my driveway plow guy/lobster fisherman. I grew up here and when I first met him I could hardly understand him.
	♥ 11:05am Handy Haversack: @Emma: "the bird record is the edge of the meadow on droll yankees, 1969."
	♥ 11:06am jt: Massachusetts accents: in changes from town to town, the leafy suburbs can have a British tinge, almost like a classic Atlantic accent, whereas the small cities around Boston, like Lynn and the one's to the south, get really strong and very "unsophisticated" I used to get 'called out' since i didn't talk with a grating MASS accent, my parents were from Albany, thankfully.
	11:06am oscarfate: PREACH TROUBLE!!!!!!
	11:06am prudy: current labor law totally favors the employer...
	♥ 11:06am jt: Amazon is truly evil...
	♥ 11:07am redbee: Ugh... ugh... didn't yet know the details of this story (was too sad to look it up). Thanks for discussing.
	11:08am JT: The EU don't play Amazon.
	11:08am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Oh there was no way the Union could win against Amazon there. Remember Bezos is the richest person who ever lived by far. Who can bust someone like that?
	♥ 11:09am JohnEBGood: My neighbor in Smithville, NJ hired a specialist that removed them through the chimney with a a pole with a claw on it. I spoke with the specialist. He knew his trade well. Very humane with the animals, concerned with his customers as well as the animals.
	11:09am tranewreck: Who I like these two guys talking birds. Who are they? Did I miss an earlier citation?
	♥ 11:09am Listener Gregory: The podcast On The Media had a (typically) excellent show on the Amazon union vote and the media coverage of it. Recommended! www.wnycstudios.org...
	♥ 11:10am northguineahills: Raz Mesinai!
	♥ 11:10am Threemoons: I am going out of my way to NOT use Amazon as much as possible. Yes, it means paying for shipping sometimes when I could get free shipping. Example: I bathe with Dr. Bronner's liquid soap every AM (mixed 50/50 with water in a squeeze bottle, Tea Tree blend). I also do my hand-washing with it. So, I now buy it from an indie health food store or direct from Dr. Bronners, NOT Spamazon. Also pivoted away from them for as many household items as possible (shower spray, cast iron pan cleaners, kitchen chotkies, etc). BEZOS IS EVIL. I am SO glad that we, the people of Queens, kicked his greedy ass to the curb despite Cuomo and DiBlasio fellating him at every opportunity.
	♥ 11:10am JohnEBGood: Heckle and Jeckyl!
	♥ 11:10am jt: something like only 11 % of the US work-force is Unionized. A lot of money JB generates is 'soft' income, nefarious small amounts done to a large scale, a million here a million there, you almost don't notice. Unionization would alter his level of control somewhat and destabilize one of his many economies.
	♥ 11:10am northguineahills: w/ Carolyn!
	♥ 11:10am Alicja Uleeshuh: That WAS interesting, thanks for sharing. Lotsa good Union jobs out there.
	11:11am oscarfate: en fait je prefere les ornithologues francophones
	♥ 11:12am Andrea: Trouble, nice transition - talking about Amazon to this reggae song about suspicion...!
	11:12am sphere: @ Threemoons - I don't think Bezos really wanted Queens. He was looking for leverage to get where he really wanted and got - Arlington, VA.
	11:12am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ListenerGregory Thx - I was gonna Link to that.
	♥ 11:12am Handy Haversack: Word, Threemoons. Same here. I don't think I have ordered from Amazon in six years. But note that Amazon and Google have been quietly moving into Hudson Yards and making the whole place a Surveillance Capitalist power zone in the middle of Manhattan ...
	11:12am oscarfate: one way to level the playing field for unionizing efforts like the one in Bessemer is to push for the PRO Act
	♥ 11:12am Passaic River Blues: @Tranewreck: James Baird: The Edge of the Meadow (1969; Droll Yankees, Inc.) www.discogs.com...
	11:13am Dayffid: My old boss was selling some of his ‘art’ photo books at ny book fair a couple of years ago. Bezos comes up looks at his books and starts chatting. My boss doesn’t have a clue who he is till after he’s gone and other vendors tell him. I told him he missed his chance to assassinate him lol. Not that I condone assassination.
	♥ 11:13am northguineahills: Carolyn Honeychild is a dear friend of mine!
	11:13am sphere: Being in Arlington gives Amazon a lot of financial and political leverage in the DC area. It links up with being owner of the Washington Post.
	♥ 11:14am Andrea: I hate it when assholes like Bezos have interest in art. I know... irony.
	11:14am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Biden actually spoke very ProUnion last night.
	11:15am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Need to dump the Filibuster to get Democracy in Congress.
	♥ 11:15am Marshall Stacks: Amazon is able to do this sort of thing because Jeff trains his staff in how to think things out and follow a plan. If the thoughts and plan are evil, well, here we are.
	11:16am sphere: Also, a deep deep irony is that Bezos and Musk are huge fans of Iain Banks' Culture series of SF books, and Banks was a Scottish radical socialist.
	11:17am Dayffid: I think he just said the photos were very dark and put the book down. The photos where black and white street photos taken at night. LOL
	♥ 11:17am Handy Haversack: The Expanse is what happens when Musk and Bezos lead the way into space. They are also fans of that. I get the feeling that the self-examined life (not the bar!) is not high on the list of skills on their CVs.
	11:19am sphere: @ Handy - Right on about the Expanse. "Governments, megacorps, exploitation, and you."
	11:19am tranewreck: @PRB. Thanks! Just north of San Francisco we had about a month of starling murmurations. A union of starlings... if you will. https://www.marinij.com/2020/12/30/marin-birdwatchers-stunned-by-starling-spectacle/
	♥ 11:19am βrian: "Examined life? Buddy I got people who do that for me!"
	11:19am Layet Johnson: Morning, Trouble! Killer set today!
	♥ 11:19am Andrea: Dayffid- haha about the "dark" photos!! Wonderful detail. (I used to work for a billionaire with an art collection- it was horrid- he abused all of his staff like Trump does. When I quit, he threatened to sue me even though he owed me $15,000.)
	♥ 11:20am Passaic River Blues: @RRN63: word. Biden's commentary about the Amazon unionization drive, discussion of candidates for the NLRB, and generally supportive statements serves as some of the most pro-union language espoused by a U.S. President since FDR.
	♥ 11:21am βrian: Space flight? Nah, not for me. I want to fly with the starlings!
	♥ 11:22am Handy Haversack: A new life awaits you in the Off-World Colonies ... !
	11:22am Yes: 😎
	♥ 11:22am JohnEBGood: My favorite novel, October Light. Author John Gardner. Vahmont!
	♥ 11:23am Jason from Houston: ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡
	♥ 11:23am βrian: Was that a Rimshot Segue?
	♥ 11:24am Handy Haversack: I'm going to have to jump off in a few and go sit in the car. I can either DL work and take the computer with me or leave it inside and take the bluetooth speaker so I can hear Continental Subway. Sorry, work! I'll be listening over FM to the end of the show, Trouble. Great stuff today as always -- glad you're back in the heart of it all! Even with American birds!
	11:24am eric from lake hiawatha: Trouble way thanks for Sault
	♥ 11:25am βrian: How many people can you squeeze into that car, Handy? Let's make it an event.
	♥ 11:25am patrick321: Hi Trouble and all. Love this record. crazy that it isn't a huge hit.
	♥ 11:25am melinda: Tunes are really hitting the spot today.
	♥ 11:26am Trouble: of the saddest moments in virtual teaching for me this year is I haven't been able to play the heck out of these sault releases in my art classroom...
	♥ 11:26am JohnEBGood: Is the eagle's name Uncle Sam?
	11:26am Dayffid: Andrea - yeah made me laugh too. Your experience sound so typically unfortunately. Money does terrible things to people, thank gd I have so little of it! lol Hopefully you work somewhere better now?
	11:27am sugarwolf: Mina!
	11:28am headcleaner: maysa and mina, every day!
	♥ 11:29am karlward: First heard this sampled on the Quannum Projects record.
	11:30am oscarfate: yes that quannum record, was trying to remember!! good track
	♥ 11:31am Jason from Houston: Ohhhhh! I need to revisit that, karlward!
	♥ 11:31am Hubig Pie: Cold coffee Unfiltered cigarette And this bluesy piano
	♥ 11:31am Andrea: Dayffid- yes! and haha. Yes- I was a web designer and after that horrid experience of big art money world, I became a teaching artist in the schools. I'm SO much happier. I love nyc again, and ny public school students. I have less, money, but mentally healthy enough to make my own art again. :)
	11:33am oscarfate: oh yeahhh also a Handsome Boy Modeling School track
	11:34am Marco Esquandolas: @Karlward, me too. Such a cool piano riff The lyrics were about the "truth". . . "because the truth hurts, just as much as fuckin' with lies will"
	11:34am headcleaner: that's the way to go, andrea
	♥ 11:35am JohnEBGood: Hi Trouble. I showed a picture of the Uncle Sam logo teaching my 7th grade students in Atlantic City, NJ. I asked them what it represented. After 5 minutes or so a young answered United States? All eyes lit up. Cool
	♥ 11:36am Trouble: gracias@layet! you are very welcome @ericfrom LH
	♥ 11:37am karlward: oscarfate: you're right, "The Truth" was on the Handsome Boy Modeling School record. I misremembered it being on Quannum Spectrum. I was totally wrong! I think those two records got welded together in my memory.
	♥ 11:38am karlward: I am loving the Open Mike Eagle + Prince Paul podcast, season 1 of What Had Happened Was...
	♥ 11:38am northguineahills: Wait, Stereo Total covered this!!!!! RIP
	♥ 11:38am karlward: "Push It" reminds me of the Germs covering "Sugar Sugar," one of my favorite covers
	♥ 11:39am Passaic River Blues: RIP Francoise!
	11:39am JT: Love me bluebirds, too. They like eating my wild winterberries.
	11:39am mb: omg watching a Blue Jay rn fluttering around. Surreal FMU moment.
	♥ 11:40am Jason from Houston: Seriously. I can listen to hours of this.
	♥ 11:40am Spankyflop: Sounds like if the Car Talk guys took up bird watching
	♥ 11:41am redbee: "California's Gold" w/ Huell Howser, anyone? That was the '90s, but, very much of a similar vibe as these bird dudes
	♥ 11:41am northguineahills: Bluejays are one of the few corvids that aren't black.
	11:41am James Douglas: They could have been the Marlon Perkins and Jim Fowler or birdwatching.
	♥ 11:41am jeep: My partner just messaged me: Saw a female bluebird hawking for bugs on our feeder. She flew down and grabbed a big earthworm out of your mud pile. I went to the front and watched her go to the house and she went in. Came out with a fecal sac. Congratulations we have babies!!
	11:41am Marco Esquandolas: Apologies for the bad word I used earlier. Not sure what the protocol on that is
	11:42am Dayffid: Andrea - It's funny you should say that. I am also a web/graphic designer and freelancing since loosing job last October. But now that things are finally looking up (landing a big client) I can't help but feel like maybe this really isn't what I want to do with my life. I have started contemplating some kind of career where I wouldn't have to spend my life staring at a rectangle. And yes as you said, be healthier, happier and make my own art. thanks for sharing your experience!
	♥ 11:44am Handy Haversack: Joke's on me! It's Orthodox Easter! And we think there might be an honest-to-god red-headed woodpecker out back.
	11:44am JT: I also recommend the Roger Tory Peterson double album of bird songs as well ... "Plate 239, the Brewer's blackbird ... [cue bird] ... Plate 240, the red-winged blackbird ... [cue bird]." For hours. They don't cut records like that any more.
	11:44am James Douglas: Marlon sips a martini and listens to the bird calls as Jim climbs the redwood to catch a rare recording of the marbled murrelet.
	♥ 11:46am Andrea: Dayffid- interesting! Yeah, I accidentally ended up as a web designer for 10 years after my MFA. I didn't know about the possibility of working as a teaching artist. Have you taught at all? I can share more about teaching artist stuff if you are interested. My email is goldmandrea@gmail.com
	♥ 11:47am βrian: David D is waiting at the platform: wfmu.org...
	♥ 11:47am Hughie Considine: This has been an enchanting set! I immediately stopped what I was doing when the Sault song came on - remembered that I loved them the last time I heard them, but never followed up. Checked on Discogs, and the vinyl is super expensive ($75-$100) and only a few CDs are available via Europe. So I had to download it via Apple Store, which isn't my ideal way.
	♥ 11:47am Passaic River Blues: @JT: those sound fantastic--definitely will search them out. Thank you!
	♥ 11:47am Jason from Houston: ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡
	♥ 11:48am redbee: @ Andrea & Dayffid: I'm also a designer, just recently gone freelance. I'm finding that volunteer/pro-bono projects are keeping me sane and happy, even if it cuts into my "profitable" hours. I've been wanting to look into teaching in NYC, but I felt like I couldn't find my way in. Andrea, mind if I email you as well?
	♥ 11:49am Handy Haversack: Andrea and Dayffid, my partner, Kate (K8 on the boards, mostly Sundays), has been a teaching artist in NYC schools for like fifteen years. Drama, poetry, music, and singing.
	♥ 11:50am northguineahills: I used to teach at Hunter College, but the pay sucked, and I'm not the best speaker. I would love to go back to NYC, but I'm not sure I'm cut out for sub teaching (due to the stories of my friends that teach at NYC public schools).
	11:50am sphere: @ Hughie - Last time I checked, the Sault albums were all available for sale on Bandcamp.
	♥ 11:51am rx scabin: @Hughie C. I got all the CDs from Bandcamp.
	11:51am JT: Don't forget the community colleges!
	♥ 11:52am rx scabin: What sphere said.
	♥ 11:52am Hughie Considine: Maybe I should purchase from Bandcamp. Blind spot! Thanks
	♥ 11:52am Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Trouble. Bandcamp Friday a week from tomorrow - www.isitbandcampfriday.com
	♥ 11:52am Andrea: redbed - sure! the teaching artist world is interesting and in flux like everything else now. Some people do it as just one of their gigs, and it can be a puzzle, and it is not for everyone. There are wonderful nonprofit organizations and some that suck. You gotta love it and love kids and be committed to equality etc... but I love it, especially after experiencing terrible jobs. Feel free to email me. @Handy- interesting about your partner- does she like it?
	♥ 11:53am rx scabin: Lot's of the music Trouble plays is there.
	11:53am Marie: love this
	♥ 11:54am Andrea: Trouble- I just noticed that your playlist is called "pedagogy of the oppressed" - and suddenly this other conversation comes up about teaching, and also the playlist is INCREDIBLE. thank you.
	♥ 11:55am Trouble: thanks for sitting intoday on my bird watching tv show. see you next week. YES i am looking for the paolo freire book, since i have only read chapters here and there....
	11:55am JT: This playlist was one of my favs in recent WFMU memory. Thanks, Trouble.
	♥ 11:55am Hughie Considine: Good to know, @rx. Just haven't made the connection ... till now.
	♥ 11:55am Handy Haversack: Actually, Augusto Boal's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, which lent itself to the title of the episode of the Modern World today, is critical to Kate's teaching and her own pedagogy. (Jinx, Andrea!) @Andrea, she does, but there are a lot of ... issues? From the bureaucracy of the schools to lack of support from placing organizations to an atomized semi-freelance workforce that has no collective representation and a strained sense of collective identity. It's a hustle, all the time, and there's a lot of feast-or-famine to it. But also, YES, she does like it because the students need it and often respond and don't get what she does from any other source.
	11:57am Dayffid: Andrea - Thanks! yes I will definitely email you. I don't have a lot of teaching experience but I think its something I would probably enjoy, and also not really something I was aware of before.
	11:57am 30 century girl: hey trouble, thank you for the DJing- it's rainy where i am, in western massachusetts, and it feels perfectly right for this moment! i'm doing some of my last assignments of college, ever, and my brain is grateful for the music
	11:57am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: TY As Ever DJ Trouble !
	♥ 11:57am redbee: Thanks for a lovely set, Trouble!
	♥ 11:58am JohnEBGood: I'm sure JD likes this one: )
	♥ 11:58am Andrea: @Handy Ah! Augusto Boal's Pedagogy of the Oppressed! Thank you. And yes, I totally relate to "... issues?" re Kate. well put. @Dayffid- cool!
	♥ 11:58am Passaic River Blues: Thank you, Trouble!
	♥ 11:58am radioronan: Thanks Trouble!
	11:58am Dayffid: Hi Redbee - Love your book cover designs
	♥ 11:58am Trouble: congratulations!@ 30 century girl. if i won the lottery i would go back for my upteemth degree in a minute. i love college
	♥ 11:59am Handy Haversack: @Andrea, feel free to reach out through my WFMU profile if you'd like to be in direct touch with Kate. Thanks again, Trouble. Great show again today!
	♥ 11:59am Glistener MW: Joining playlist just now, but, thankyou THANKYOU, Trouble, for the Alessandra Novaga / Derek Jarman track at 9am. That was exactly what I needed on this grey rainy day. <3
	11:59am Doug in JC: Thank you Trouble!
	12:00pm spodiodi: Thx’
	♥ 12:00pm melinda: thanks Trub!
	12:00pm Dayffid: handy- thanks for the insights too!
	12:00pm Dayffid: thanks trouble!
	♥ 12:00pm Irene Trudel: Lovely show, only able to lurk today. Thanks Trouble!
	♥ 12:00pm Greg from ZONE 5: You done it again, DJ Trouble!
	12:05pm Avrilinmay: ♡
	1:20pm northguineahills: No No u
	1:21pm northguineahills: Ok, pocket text.

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April 29, 2021: pedagogy of the oppressed

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Format	New	Approx. start time
alessandra novaga	I should have been a gardener	i should have been a gardener	die schachtel		*	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
sophie cooper	struck "struck" by "sophie cooper"	a chance/struck	self released	7"	*	0:08:58 (Pop-up)
ana roxanne	suite pour l'invisible	because of a flower	kranky		*	0:11:38 (Pop-up)
priscila ermel	folia do divino "folia do divino" by "priscila ermel"	origens da luz	music from memory			0:20:22 (Pop-up)
tia blake	Betty and Dupree "Betty and Dupree" by "tia blake"	Paris and Montreal Demos, 1973–1976		10"		0:25:25 (Pop-up)

satomimagae	tsuchi "tsuchi" by "satomimagae"	hanazono			*	0:36:32 (Pop-up)
linda smith	i so liked spring "i so liked spring" by "linda smith"	Sky Girl: Compiled by Julien Dechery and DJ Sundae (V/A)				0:40:04 (Pop-up)
nelson patton	blue stone "blue stone" by "nelson patton"	along the way				0:45:19 (Pop-up)
totsouko	all things in form, will one day perish	olga xefteri	to pikap records	10"	*	0:49:26 (Pop-up)
highball artist	walk against the gun	wollesonic loves trouble	wollesonic		*	0:53:17 (Pop-up)
eliana pittman	treze carneirinhios	eliana pittman				0:56:47 (Pop-up)
christopher scott	what the world needs now is love	Switched On Bacharach				1:00:34 (Pop-up)
hot chip	candy says "candy says" by "hot chip"	late night tales			*	1:02:13 (Pop-up)

Jacqueline Humbert & David Rosenboom	distant space	Daytime Viewing (1979-1980)				1:12:18 (Pop-up)
augenwasser	dead of night "dead of night" by "augenwasser"	sleepdancer			*	1:15:01 (Pop-up)
Arto Lindsay	esta seu olhar "esta seu olhar" by "Arto Lindsay"	O Corpo Sutil / The Subtle Body				1:20:37 (Pop-up)
yo la tengo	roll on babe "roll on babe" by "yo la tengo"	sleepless night	matador		*	1:22:20 (Pop-up)
maysa	aqua de beber "aqua de beber" by "maysa"	the women of bossa nova v/a	el			1:26:41 (Pop-up)
okute	quiere la rumba "quiere la rumba" by "okute"			Single	*	1:29:03 (Pop-up)
nahawa doumbia	didadi "didadi" by "nahawa doumbia"	Kanawa	awesome tapes from africa		*	1:33:47 (Pop-up)
lido pimienta	resisto y ya "resisto y ya" by "lido pimienta"	miss columbia			*	1:40:15 (Pop-up)
Sebastião Tapajós and Pedro dos Santos	Sorongaio	Tudo e Moda / Sorongaio	vampisoul	7"	*	1:43:38 (Pop-up)
The Style Council	have you ever had it blue ( uncut version)	Long Hot Summers/ The Story Of The Style Council (New Mix)			*	1:46:16 (Pop-up)
altin gün	yekte "yekte" by "altin gün"	YOL			*	1:50:29 (Pop-up)
barrabas	mujer "mujer" by "barrabas"		get on down			1:53:35 (Pop-up)
st panther	B.O.M.B. "B.O.M.B." by "st panther"	these days				1:58:33 (Pop-up)

badawi presents bedouin sound clash	cyborg stepper feat honeychild					2:12:21 (Pop-up)
kofi	curious "curious" by "kofi"	black...with sugar				2:15:24 (Pop-up)
mikado koko	fukagawa bushi "fukagawa bushi" by "mikado koko"	Seitō: In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun (V/A)				2:20:01 (Pop-up)
sault	wildfires "wildfires" by "sault"	untitled ( black is )				2:25:40 (Pop-up)
mina	IO sono Quel che sono "IO sono Quel che sono" by "mina"	the queen of italian pop				2:29:16 (Pop-up)
galt macdermot	coffee cold "coffee cold" by "galt macdermot"	mr bongo record club v 3 v/a				2:31:11 (Pop-up)
Etienne Daho	tombe pour la france ( version maximum)			12"		2:34:30 (Pop-up)
stereo total	Push It "Push It" by "stereo total"	oh ah				2:40:41 (Pop-up)

adrian younge	watch the children "watch the children" by "adrian younge"	the american negro	jazz is dead		*	2:46:26 (Pop-up)
the sylvers	we can make it if we try	the sylvers II				2:47:18 (Pop-up)
sneaks	you've got a lot of issues	happy birthday			*	2:50:36 (Pop-up)
le mans	jueves 27 "jueves 27" by "le mans"	catastrophe no 17				2:52:55 (Pop-up)
meg baird	Stars Climb Up the Vine	Seasons on Earth				2:56:38 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	♥ 8:58am Pale Son: Oh wow, cool painting! Morning, Troubledom!
	♥ 8:59am Handy Haversack: Good gray Thursday, Trouble and all the Troubled. The title of today's episode Boaled me over!
	♥ 9:01am steveo: listening same, Handy
	♥ 9:01am YETI BOB: Good morning from Springer, New Mexico!
	♥ 9:01am Yes: good morning. love this track
	9:01am JetBoy of Brooklyn: Been a long covid time since I’ve been up this early…
	♥ 9:01am Threemoons: Morning Trouble, fellow Troublemakers.
	♥ 9:01am Strandlund: Good Morning trouble and all you Modernaires out there...
	♥ 9:02am Trouble: goooood grey thursday morning modern people!
	♥ 9:02am Phillippe: howdy
	9:02am Robm: Hello to all my fellow trouble makers:)
	♥ 9:02am Handy Haversack: I was proud of that one, steveo.
	♥ 9:02am waters7: So beautiful
	♥ 9:03am steveo: oh wait, not exactly; it only bowled me over (and thanks for hipping me to Augusto)
	♥ 9:03am LastVisibleDog: Good morning
	9:03am Doug in JC: Good morning. We picked up a book about caracaras recently and it turns out the author is the singer from Shearwater. Had no idea. Can't recommend it yet, it's still unread. www.penguinrandomhouse.com...
	♥ 9:03am luka: hey gm everybody hot dog it's thursday
	♥ 9:03am Webhamster Henry: Hello ! This is the Moderna and Pfizer world!
	9:04am TerrDE: Morning all... Is this Arthur 2 Sheds Jackson ?
	♥ 9:04am HyperDose: This is the only Trouble I look forward to in life
	9:04am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Good ♃Thor'sday Troublefolk !
	9:04am Mikey Capone: Good morning, Trouble, thank you for your soothing tunes.
	9:04am Malcolm: hello trouble and modernists
	♥ 9:05am luka: did anyone catch Clay say who is filling in for Fabio today?
	9:05am TerrDE: YetiBob did you or are you going to the Caverns ?
	♥ 9:05am Trouble: oops
	♥ 9:06am Handy Haversack: luka, it's Underwater Theme Park and Meghan.
	♥ 9:06am steveo: yay, records!
	♥ 9:06am luka: s p e e d w a r p
	9:07am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: WrongSpeeding ! ...give the turntable hamster a wheetie...
	♥ 9:07am luka: oooh, that's delightful. ty Handy!
	♥ 9:08am Ken From Hyde Park: Good morning, Trouble and general troublemakers.
	♥ 9:08am listener james from westwood: Morning, Trouble and all!
	♥ 9:09am steveo: love the avi today,RR; spotted the leporid nice and easy
	♥ 9:10am jdaAndAnoukFromKöln: hallo Trubel. (though this is not a 1to1 translation). lets surprise me with some new sounds and birds. which reminds me, that I hab my sony wm 20 refurbished, and it still plays a cassette tape with early morning birds which I recorded in the 80ies – as a teenager. time flies…
	♥ 9:10am HyperDose: And Doug Schulkind is filling-in for Flash Strap tonight on the GTD stream
	9:11am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Cheers steveo. For Trouble's program & I try & match the decor if possible...
	♥ 9:13am steveo: breathing and letting the morning drive-time energy dissipate
	♥ 9:14am steveo: :thumbs-up: RR
	♥ 9:14am Irene Trudel: Lovely start to the morning as I was hoping, Trouble! Good morning all.
	9:15am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: jdaAnd: Love you have your own 80s birds.
	♥ 9:15am HyperDose: Hey Irene! :D
	♥ 9:16am jdaAndAnoukFromKöln: :-)
	♥ 9:17am spodiodi: good morning, Trouble and Modernists
	♥ 9:18am YETI BOB: TerrDE: You mean Carlsbad? I've been there before, not going on this trip. I actually don't like caves and going into a hole underground with other people doesn't sound like fun during COVID. I'm avoiding people mostly. But I did see a giant meteor crater in AZ, that was cool!
	9:21am earthwalker: Mellowing out Today’s the Day !
	9:24am fm Mike: Mornin' y'aaaaall.
	9:25am TerrDE: I love the Caverns. Everytime I go cross country I stop there. If there was an airport nearby , I d go once a year.
	9:26am earthwalker: We listen
	♥ 9:27am jdaAndAnoukFromKöln: nyc zoo?
	♥ 9:28am YETI BOB: TerrDE: It's definitely interesting and I'm glad you enjoy it. I prefer to stay above ground, every time I've toured a cave or a mine I just want to get out of there!
	9:29am Malcolm: the summer of bird lovers
	9:30am earthwalker: Holy birds Batman !
	9:30am fm Mike: There are fake plastic birds sold by my job, and they "sing" and it offends me so, because noooone of those bird songs from those fake birds are REAL songs lol
	♥ 9:30am The Oscar: Morning-- I thought that was Bob & Ray, and I was waiting for the punchline!
	9:30am Beetledrink: Oh shit I have "Casket Sinkers / Caused by Rum" by Droll Yankees, so good
	9:30am TVP: Don't fly like my brother.
	9:30am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: NewEngland ooooh yeauh don'chaknow...
	♥ 9:33am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): I'm always amazed that people do gardening on purpose.
	9:33am lautomnedaniell: The garden conversion show Monty Don does is fascinating.
	9:33am robfoto: Hard or soft “g” in Italian depends on vowel or consonant that follows. 😉
	9:33am headcleaner: the italian 'g' can be hard ('gato') or soft ('luigi') depending on position
	9:34am TerrDE: Wow, as caves go Carlsbad is more like an underground doomed football statium. But being underground is freaky, my girlfriend won't go to Carlsbad w me.
	9:34am Sam: Lawnmower mishaps are the leading cause of death in jolly old England.
	9:34am headcleaner: @robfoto: ginxissimo!
	9:35am Malcolm: there are a lot of weird and wonderful museums in england. in the town I live in we have a hat museum
	9:36am John in Jersey: Monty Don's primary show is Gardeners World, on BritBox weekly.
	♥ 9:36am Vivian: Gardening is in full swing in my backyard. Blueberries are coming along, we're nibbling on strawberries from the front. Tomatoes, okra, bean and peppers going in the ground this weekend.
	♥ 9:36am redbee: I'm quite fond of that Ana Roxanne album, and that track in particular always reminds me of Yo La Tengo, in a comforting way... might be the guitar tone, but there's a sequence that sounds a bit like something on Painful or maybe And then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out, and I haven't quite put my finger on it yet...
	♥ 9:37am redbee: Also I lol'd pretty hard at the "Car Talk" comment
	9:38am Adrian in London: Hi Trouble. Press deadline today so thanks for the music in advance.
	♥ 9:38am waters7: I knew from the first chord that this was Linda Smith. She was part of my first group of friends in NYC. This brings back so many memories. It is still so resonant today. xo
	9:39am John in Jersey: I work part time in a garden center in Bergen County. Last weekend I had over $6000 in sales. Beyond crazy.
	♥ 9:39am Trouble: I thought of you adrian in london as last sunday I totally screwed up the time i was supposed to be attending a talk from london on quilting. dang i so effed it up.
	9:40am Arlene: Gmorning Trouble, enjoying the music and also the artwork!
	9:40am Jessica B: Love the artwork too
	♥ 9:41am Trouble: merci arlene /jessica b
	9:41am fm Mike: Thank you for this peaceful music Trouble. Soothes my troubled soul.
	♥ 9:42am waters7: Yes, the artwork is kind of incredible. Looks 1930 and today.
	♥ 9:43am redbee: @Trouble — Could you remind us what the jaunty birdsong gentleman's name and show was called? I was AFK when you mentioned and I didn't jot it down!
	♥ 9:43am steveo: was just thinking this week that the trombone quotient had dropped to dangerously low levels around here; loving this
	♥ 9:44am Passaic River Blues: I had completely forgotten about this Nelson Patton--thank you for spinning once again!
	♥ 9:44am steveo: dave nelson is a fave
	9:45am JT: Oh my … having that same early teen emotion like when everyone starts listening to the band you discovered: Monty Don
	9:45am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: tight bones
	♥ 9:45am Trouble: the bird record is the edge of the meadow on droll yankees, 1969. the gardening narrator is monty don, he has several gardening series floating around on different streaming channels. i am watching historical gardens on acorn
	♥ 9:49am redbee: Thank you! I was typing in "john baird" and losing my mind. JAMES Baird... o boy that short-term memory!
	9:50am Jessica B: I'm realizing the painting reminds me of Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. The five figures, the masks, the overall composition...
	♥ 9:50am waters7: I heard an incredible show about the night migration of birds on this podcast called, "Nocturne". The guy--who is a self-taught ornithologist--has been watching birds since 1985--noticed the difference in their night "peeps" and how incredible it is to witness night migrations.
	9:52am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: JessicaB: !
	9:53am Toutevoix: ((((((◍))))))
	9:53am sphere: hullo. one thing I love about the trouble chat is that you never know what the chat topic will be when you log in.
	♥ 9:54am nathan: this show always has perfect spring morning vibes, love it
	♥ 9:55am steveo: @sphere but it might be birds :)
	9:55am Dayffid: Hello everyone hope you are all having a great morning
	♥ 9:57am redbee: @waters7: Sounds fascinating, I'll definitely check that out. Related, the bird migration maps on this site are interesting to keep tabs on: birdcast.info...
	♥ 9:58am Webhamster Henry: Oh yeah! Looks like I already had clicky-starred Switched On Bacharach!
	9:58am sphere: @ steveo True that. :)
	♥ 9:59am steveo: @redbee, neat
	9:59am JT: Love me warblers
	♥ 10:00am Threemoons: I did NOT know that Hot Chip did this cover!
	♥ 10:00am waters7: nice cover.
	♥ 10:00am Handy Haversack: Very cool, redbee! I wish the Cornell Labs stuff didn't rely so much on Google and didn't ask for an e-mail address in order to ID more than one bird through its Merlin service. But the species info they publish as a "field guide" is great.
	♥ 10:00am YETI BOB: Hot Chip Alexis has such a lovely voice
	10:03am alan the painter: thank you Trouble, remembering the Palace theatre...
	10:03am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: <3 Lou
	♥ 10:03am YETI BOB: Handy: I wish half of the Web didn't run on Amazon servers (AWS), but building your own infrastructure and keeping it running is HARD. It' the "tyranny of convenience"
	♥ 10:04am βrian: We call that Chickadee the Aunt Sophie bird. "YoooooHooo!"
	♥ 10:04am YETI BOB: There's basically no way to use computers and the Internet without putting money in the hands of giant corporations. As soon as you start using computer chips, you've made a deal with the devil - there is no cottage industry for semiconductors. All kinds of toxic chemicals, etc.
	♥ 10:04am redbee: I've learned my white throated sparrow calls this spring, they hang out in the yard behind my apartment building. @Handy: Thought you might like those maps! And, I forgot about the data stuff on Merlin, I've been logged in for so long... ugh.
	♥ 10:05am steveo: hmm, i think the bird call i have been trying to figure out is the white-throated sparrow
	♥ 10:05am Greg from ZONE 5: Oh my God I could listen to this bird guy all day.
	♥ 10:05am jt: "Birds are as different as people"
	♥ 10:05am Handy Haversack: Brown thrasher is the state bird of Georgia, where I originated. Last time I was in Chicago, I came across four dead brown thrashers in one weekend of walking around. Coincidence? YB, sure -- but defaulting to having Google read your geo info and demanding an e-mail address to use a free ID service is one step past running on AWS, I'd say. We have some white-throated sparrows hanging about, and current thinking is we have several of the genetic variants. Punk rock head stripes!
	♥ 10:06am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): What? You don't want to know about my favorite Hall * Oates record is?
	♥ 10:06am YETI BOB: HH: Agreed, that's a bit obnoxious.
	10:06am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Bully for that guy ! Love nature - but know not even the names of flora & fauna. Ignorance of my own environment.
	♥ 10:07am Handy Haversack: It used to be about the birds, maaaaaaaaan!
	♥ 10:07am Webhamster Henry: You could have done "2 of a kind" with Wendy Carlos' What's New Pussycat.
	♥ 10:07am steveo: what the world needs now is birds sweet birds
	10:08am Dayffid: Hi all, need to choose between Pfizer and modern vax. Is there a generally consensus on which is preferable? Just curious
	10:08am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Handy: Dennis Hopper, Ornithologist...
	♥ 10:08am redbee: @steveo: I lost my mind thinking they were chickadees, for a while!
	♥ 10:08am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): The Pfizer tastes better.
	♥ 10:08am Passaic River Blues: @Steveo: I missed the Droll Yankees interlude (damn you, work calls!), but the white-throated sparrow call is so lovely. In New England, people say the song sounds like, "Poor Sam Peabody!" When we're scoping birds, my wife and I just call it "Peabodying." They also make unmistakable, wholly-their-own adorable peeps.
	♥ 10:09am jdaAndAnoukFromKöln: amanda lear?
	♥ 10:09am waters7: Funny, just listened to "Just Kids" and saw the Alice Neal show at the Met. Lovely portrait of Jacki Curtis. Thinking how these people in New York City were so on the edge of what is now.
	10:10am Dayffid: Woods of Maine - haha thanks. I’ll keep that in mind
	♥ 10:10am ze boocherie: This is a great record
	♥ 10:10am YETI BOB: Dayffid: This is the Moderna world (sorry)
	♥ 10:10am northguineahills: When they were talking about the brown thrush while I was taking my morning constition, a mockingbird landed on an electronic converter a meter away from me and started to sing.
	♥ 10:10am jt: Brown Thrasher is one of my favorite birds... saw them every time - on route to Joppa Flats, P.Island, MA. Their brown feathers are so distinctive, special and like no other in tone and shade, although they are quite common, I am a fan.
	♥ 10:11am Handy Haversack: Anyone else get car-alarm-mimicking mockingbirds? I'm a big fan!
	♥ 10:11am steveo: @redbee yes similar @prb coincidentally my dear spouse's maiden name is peabody, thanks for that
	♥ 10:12am Handy Haversack: Dayffid: get whichever one is available sooner! That's the only criterion for selection between 'em.
	♥ 10:12am βrian: What's AI good for if the car alarms don't mimic cardinals?
	10:12am mb: Hola DJ Trouble and FMUers of the day About to get my 2nd Pfizer shot. The first one cured my long Covid symptoms and i am not a lounghauler anymore. Its a gd miracle and I thought I was never going to be healthy again. My prayers were answered.
	♥ 10:13am northguineahills: Unless I see the mockingbird sing, I can;t tell which bird is singing (they're everywhere down here). I've heard them do the car alarm once.
	10:13am wizard frog: @mb ohhh happy for you... that long covid sounds so nasty - glad you're over it!
	10:15am Carl from Providence: im going for the trifecta, Pfizer+ Moderna. and A JnJ cherry on top... upgrade to a full mutant...kidding
	♥ 10:16am Trouble: so great to hear that @ mb!!
	♥ 10:17am Passaic River Blues: @NGH: the other day in Military Park in Newark, we were looking for warblers when we heard the last bit of a hermit thrush's refrain being repeatedly endlessly high up in an oak tree. Usually those guys are on or near the ground, so we crane our necks and eventually spy a goddamned starling just perfecting the doubled flanged sound of the final notes over and over again. It was really something. Then the guy went back to typical starling lazer sounds. @MB: excellent news!
	♥ 10:18am Listener Gregory: This show is my go-to source for Arto Lindsay. Thanks, Trouble.
	10:18am JT: New KOC drop tomorrow
	♥ 10:19am Handy Haversack: Wow, mb, what wonderful news! Heartfelt congrats!
	10:19am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: OK: If you love Nature & Animals - but don't know the 1st thing about birdsong - where do you go ?
	10:21am mb: Thanks wizard frog and Trouble!! Long Covid is a real thing. Kind of like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome which I didn't understand how hellish it was for people. If you know someone that is suffering from it stay in touch with them. Every little bit of love helps and gives us a reason to keep pushing. Thx Handy!
	♥ 10:21am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): Is it a mocking bird that can do language? When I was a kid my folks had friends with such a bird. The lady's name was Marquida and if the phone rang the bird would yell "Answer the goddamned phone Marquida!" Hilarious.
	♥ 10:25am βrian: "Cut the chatter, and spin the platter!" en.wikipedia.org...
	10:25am mb: @PRB: Thanks! And thx for this boards existence. It gave me a place to sound off when shit got dark and I am very grateful to the new internet friends I made that checked in on me. Serious gratitude.
	♥ 10:29am Handy Haversack: Rev Rab, bird song is still a mystery to me in many ways, but Kate and our very musical neighbor are great at it, so I bet you would be. There's an entire system of notation for it, which is discussed in many field guides. Find (or check out) a Petersen's or Golden, and I bet the first lesson will get you started finding more.
	♥ 10:30am oshiwoshi: okute - what sorcery is this?
	♥ 10:30am βrian: Speaking of mimicking, Little Human has taken to imitating Shaun the Sheep, side-mouth bleats and all.
	10:31am headcleaner: @mb - your long covid rebond story is very encouraging + it's great to have you here with us
	♥ 10:31am freeebooksdotcom: Magpie’s imitate as well!
	♥ 10:31am Mick: Extremely happy for you, mb - that is amazing news! Dayffid, I'm with Handy - get whichever vax you can get to first (and hydrate a bunch to minimize negative side effects. though in my case, the main side effect was euphoria)
	10:31am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Handy: Thx. I suppose I need to learn what the species are in the 1st place & how they look & the whole deal...
	♥ 10:32am Handy Haversack: Woods, probably a mynah bird.
	♥ 10:32am βrian: Nahawa Doumbia buoys me.
	♥ 10:33am Handy Haversack: Field guides and www.allaboutbirds.org... plus www.allaboutbirds.org... more generally.
	♥ 10:34am βrian: The whippoorwill's is the call I most miss.
	10:35am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Thx Handy ! That looks like it might be the stuff!...
	♥ 10:35am JohnEBGood: Birds are cool. I recently ordered my mom a bird oriented gift for Mothers Day. I'm sure she will like it. Have a fantastic weekend DJTrouble and my WFMU family 🕊🐦
	♥ 10:35am duke: Speaking of birds, a large turkey hen just strutted across the field next to my house.
	10:36am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...& to think they're theropod dinosaurs...
	10:39am Doug in JC: I hear we have our first chimney swifts of the year in our neighborhood
	10:39am Dayffid: Thanks for the advice all! Getting the pfizz later today Mb - great to hear your story so glad your feeling better.
	♥ 10:40am Handy Haversack: That's why I try to stay on their good side, Rev Rab. What if they're just taking a breather?
	♥ 10:40am Passaic River Blues: @RRV63: I am generally pretty terrible at remembering all but the dozen or so calls I hear all the time; am much better at visual IDs. I think Handy's right about the standard guides, Cornell Lab website, also YouTube videos. My wife and I go on Bergen County Audubon Society walks usually led by the inestimable Don Torino. He swears by books published by a guy named Ernest Jardine, including one called "Bird Song Decoded." I bought it not too long ago, but haven't read it as yet. www.goodreads.com...
	10:41am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Thx PRB
	10:41am ?: Nuthatches are silly, especially when they walk down tree trunks and make squeaky noises. They are patient, too, like when the jerky birds are at the feeder and they just hang until the pushy birds do their thing.
	♥ 10:42am JohnEBGood: We made cheap model birds and painted them. We hung them on the wall and shot them down with rubber flips topped on soda bottles. Indoor entertainment in 1970. What fun ; )
	♥ 10:42am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): There was a cool article in The Ne Yorker a couple of issues ago about animal migration and how incredible they are at finding their way.
	10:43am Doug in JC: Around this time of year a friend of ours in Hoboken would stick a microphone out on his balcony at night and record all the calls of passing migrants in the morning. He would get a lot of birds you wouldn't normally see here because they don't stop.
	10:44am Doug in JC: That wasn't clear. He would record at night and do playback in the morning, IDing by ear
	10:44am JT: I have a litter of baby raccoons in my fireplace now. I'm just letting the mother handle it, but it's driving my cat nuts.
	♥ 10:44am Handy Haversack: Was it the Blind Tourist ... or Olivia ... a few months ago who had on the guy who had made a 30'-long antenna for recording bat calls and would wander around outside his house with it at twilight, wearing headphones and recording gear?
	10:45am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Did he convert bat audio to human frequencies ?
	♥ 10:46am Handy Haversack: Yeah, Rev Rab. Now I can't find it, though.
	10:47am Doug in JC: This? Doesn't seem right but it involved bats wfmu.org...
	10:48am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I must've heard that too...
	♥ 10:48am Glorious Estephonic: beautiful show, Trouble! Thank you <3
	♥ 10:48am JohnEBGood: The coons are no joke JT. You need a specialist that have tools to remove them.
	♥ 10:49am Handy Haversack: Hrrrrrm, no. Nothing leaped out at me from looking at the BT or RR playlist pages, either.
	10:50am βrian: I really like this Altın Gün. I usually head the other direction when I see umlauts.
	10:50am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Doug no but that certainly look pertinent !
	♥ 10:50am redbee: @Trouble: You're a knitter, yes? Any favorite plant-fiber yarns for the summer months? I can never find a cotton that I truly love!
	10:50am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: *lookS
	♥ 10:51am Jason from Houston: What was that bat thing?!? I remember it as well.
	♥ 10:51am βrian: Good beer makes for interesting plant-based yarns.
	♥ 10:54am Trouble: @redbee: ihear you, cotton can be a drag to work with and has no body. I have't tried any other non wool fibers but there is always a mix of hemp, bamboo or linen that might work for your summer knitting needs? ( i usually trade in my needles for the sewing machine in summer)
	♥ 10:55am steveo: umlauts are people too
	10:55am JT: JohnEB, I had a wildlife rescue service come out. For $600, they would spray a "male scent" in an attempt to drive the mother out, but the guy said it may or may not work, and I could just wait until the mother takes them out in a few weeks. I play loud music under the flue at random times during the day hoping that the mother will maybe look for another "safe" space.
	♥ 10:55am jt: From one jt to another JT: Where do you live? Grey Gardens !!??
	♥ 10:55am Handy Haversack: Um, louts?
	♥ 10:56am Jason from Houston: Not Richard Devine? soundcloud.com...
	♥ 10:57am Devin B.: To the Bat Cave! on In Real Life with Emily and Kimzilla: wfmu.org...
	♥ 10:58am redbee: @Trouble: yeah, my inclination was to look for a blend as well... I'm finding some silk & linen mixes, oo-la-la!
	♥ 10:59am steveo: miss that show, Devin
	10:59am Listening Out There: Intuitively.
	10:59am headcleaner: bird talk > car talk, any day
	♥ 10:59am Webhamster Henry: This is what those French bird records sound like in English.
	♥ 10:59am Handy Haversack: That seems likely, Jason, though I still can't find the show! Even searching in the playlist comments only shows one instance of Richard Devine on the Blind Tourist, and it was for cow sounds. First catbird of the year showed up yesterday.
	10:59am JT: I tried to get Pidge to adopt her for his morning show – that was before I discovered her in the fireplace and the litter had arrived.
	♥ 10:59am Listener Gregory: "You might call it weaving; I call it knots," is what my weaving teacher said to me.
	11:00am Doug in JC: Good job Devin, I'm going to have to listen to that one too. We had a a major hibernaculum where I grew up. White nose pretty much did away with that though. I took my now wife there once years ago but only saw a few come out at dusk. We did experience our first screech owl that night. The memory of panic-googling "horse sound in woods at night" will live with me forever
	♥ 11:00am βrian: The French narrator is much more lyrical.
	♥ 11:00am jt: Last year a Cat Bird would visit me every day, when I was secluded out in the country. They are funny.
	♥ 11:01am redbee: oo I do miss the catbirds! I'm pleased that they hang out in prospect park.
	11:02am Dean from Old Bridge: I could actually listen to that bird call talk all day
	♥ 11:02am Handy Haversack: That thick Swiss accent, though, Trouble!
	11:02am prudy: Trouble...at least you didn't have a Pawtucket accent...
	♥ 11:02am Webhamster Henry: I like catbirds too - sometimes they really sound like cats! I knew a parrot that could also meow.
	11:02am Carl from Providence: Rhode island the best state money can buy
	♥ 11:03am Steve from Dunwoody: The Style Council stylish movie?! Oh my...
	11:03am Emma: Hi Trouble, sorry if you mentioned this already - but what is the recording of the New Englander talking about bird calls?
	♥ 11:03am Jason from Houston: So wild, Handy! Very strange. I will totally listen to those cow sounds.
	♥ 11:03am Listener Gregory: Trouble, I lived in Cranston for a time, and everyone would tell me, "Oh, you live in Cveeeaaanston?", imitating the old Cranston accent. But in fact I never found anyone who actually pronounced it that way or had a "Cranston accent." I think it was just gone (by 1985 say).
	11:03am prudy: Carl, actually these days Florida gets that title..
	11:03am JT: The catbirds steal all my alpine strawberries. Clever little buggers.
	♥ 11:04am Passaic River Blues: @Emma: I think it's this one: www.discogs.com...
	♥ 11:04am unpopularfred: as a long time, non-native eastern MA resident, I concur, that accent is hardcore
	♥ 11:04am Jason from Houston: I worked on getting rid of my Texas accent when I was in high school. It worked for the most part but now I wish I had it back.
	11:04am Mikey: Style Council doc is up on the youtubes!!!
	11:04am prudy: grew up outside of Boston and spent summers in RI
	♥ 11:05am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): You should hear my driveway plow guy/lobster fisherman. I grew up here and when I first met him I could hardly understand him.
	♥ 11:05am Handy Haversack: @Emma: "the bird record is the edge of the meadow on droll yankees, 1969."
	♥ 11:06am jt: Massachusetts accents: in changes from town to town, the leafy suburbs can have a British tinge, almost like a classic Atlantic accent, whereas the small cities around Boston, like Lynn and the one's to the south, get really strong and very "unsophisticated" I used to get 'called out' since i didn't talk with a grating MASS accent, my parents were from Albany, thankfully.
	11:06am oscarfate: PREACH TROUBLE!!!!!!
	11:06am prudy: current labor law totally favors the employer...
	♥ 11:06am jt: Amazon is truly evil...
	♥ 11:07am redbee: Ugh... ugh... didn't yet know the details of this story (was too sad to look it up). Thanks for discussing.
	11:08am JT: The EU don't play Amazon.
	11:08am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Oh there was no way the Union could win against Amazon there. Remember Bezos is the richest person who ever lived by far. Who can bust someone like that?
	♥ 11:09am JohnEBGood: My neighbor in Smithville, NJ hired a specialist that removed them through the chimney with a a pole with a claw on it. I spoke with the specialist. He knew his trade well. Very humane with the animals, concerned with his customers as well as the animals.
	11:09am tranewreck: Who I like these two guys talking birds. Who are they? Did I miss an earlier citation?
	♥ 11:09am Listener Gregory: The podcast On The Media had a (typically) excellent show on the Amazon union vote and the media coverage of it. Recommended! www.wnycstudios.org...
	♥ 11:10am northguineahills: Raz Mesinai!
	♥ 11:10am Threemoons: I am going out of my way to NOT use Amazon as much as possible. Yes, it means paying for shipping sometimes when I could get free shipping. Example: I bathe with Dr. Bronner's liquid soap every AM (mixed 50/50 with water in a squeeze bottle, Tea Tree blend). I also do my hand-washing with it. So, I now buy it from an indie health food store or direct from Dr. Bronners, NOT Spamazon. Also pivoted away from them for as many household items as possible (shower spray, cast iron pan cleaners, kitchen chotkies, etc). BEZOS IS EVIL. I am SO glad that we, the people of Queens, kicked his greedy ass to the curb despite Cuomo and DiBlasio fellating him at every opportunity.
	♥ 11:10am JohnEBGood: Heckle and Jeckyl!
	♥ 11:10am jt: something like only 11 % of the US work-force is Unionized. A lot of money JB generates is 'soft' income, nefarious small amounts done to a large scale, a million here a million there, you almost don't notice. Unionization would alter his level of control somewhat and destabilize one of his many economies.
	♥ 11:10am northguineahills: w/ Carolyn!
	♥ 11:10am Alicja Uleeshuh: That WAS interesting, thanks for sharing. Lotsa good Union jobs out there.
	11:11am oscarfate: en fait je prefere les ornithologues francophones
	♥ 11:12am Andrea: Trouble, nice transition - talking about Amazon to this reggae song about suspicion...!
	11:12am sphere: @ Threemoons - I don't think Bezos really wanted Queens. He was looking for leverage to get where he really wanted and got - Arlington, VA.
	11:12am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ListenerGregory Thx - I was gonna Link to that.
	♥ 11:12am Handy Haversack: Word, Threemoons. Same here. I don't think I have ordered from Amazon in six years. But note that Amazon and Google have been quietly moving into Hudson Yards and making the whole place a Surveillance Capitalist power zone in the middle of Manhattan ...
	11:12am oscarfate: one way to level the playing field for unionizing efforts like the one in Bessemer is to push for the PRO Act
	♥ 11:12am Passaic River Blues: @Tranewreck: James Baird: The Edge of the Meadow (1969; Droll Yankees, Inc.) www.discogs.com...
	11:13am Dayffid: My old boss was selling some of his ‘art’ photo books at ny book fair a couple of years ago. Bezos comes up looks at his books and starts chatting. My boss doesn’t have a clue who he is till after he’s gone and other vendors tell him. I told him he missed his chance to assassinate him lol. Not that I condone assassination.
	♥ 11:13am northguineahills: Carolyn Honeychild is a dear friend of mine!
	11:13am sphere: Being in Arlington gives Amazon a lot of financial and political leverage in the DC area. It links up with being owner of the Washington Post.
	♥ 11:14am Andrea: I hate it when assholes like Bezos have interest in art. I know... irony.
	11:14am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Biden actually spoke very ProUnion last night.
	11:15am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Need to dump the Filibuster to get Democracy in Congress.
	♥ 11:15am Marshall Stacks: Amazon is able to do this sort of thing because Jeff trains his staff in how to think things out and follow a plan. If the thoughts and plan are evil, well, here we are.
	11:16am sphere: Also, a deep deep irony is that Bezos and Musk are huge fans of Iain Banks' Culture series of SF books, and Banks was a Scottish radical socialist.
	11:17am Dayffid: I think he just said the photos were very dark and put the book down. The photos where black and white street photos taken at night. LOL
	♥ 11:17am Handy Haversack: The Expanse is what happens when Musk and Bezos lead the way into space. They are also fans of that. I get the feeling that the self-examined life (not the bar!) is not high on the list of skills on their CVs.
	11:19am sphere: @ Handy - Right on about the Expanse. "Governments, megacorps, exploitation, and you."
	11:19am tranewreck: @PRB. Thanks! Just north of San Francisco we had about a month of starling murmurations. A union of starlings... if you will. https://www.marinij.com/2020/12/30/marin-birdwatchers-stunned-by-starling-spectacle/
	♥ 11:19am βrian: "Examined life? Buddy I got people who do that for me!"
	11:19am Layet Johnson: Morning, Trouble! Killer set today!
	♥ 11:19am Andrea: Dayffid- haha about the "dark" photos!! Wonderful detail. (I used to work for a billionaire with an art collection- it was horrid- he abused all of his staff like Trump does. When I quit, he threatened to sue me even though he owed me $15,000.)
	♥ 11:20am Passaic River Blues: @RRN63: word. Biden's commentary about the Amazon unionization drive, discussion of candidates for the NLRB, and generally supportive statements serves as some of the most pro-union language espoused by a U.S. President since FDR.
	♥ 11:21am βrian: Space flight? Nah, not for me. I want to fly with the starlings!
	♥ 11:22am Handy Haversack: A new life awaits you in the Off-World Colonies ... !
	11:22am Yes: 😎
	♥ 11:22am JohnEBGood: My favorite novel, October Light. Author John Gardner. Vahmont!
	♥ 11:23am Jason from Houston: ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡
	♥ 11:23am βrian: Was that a Rimshot Segue?
	♥ 11:24am Handy Haversack: I'm going to have to jump off in a few and go sit in the car. I can either DL work and take the computer with me or leave it inside and take the bluetooth speaker so I can hear Continental Subway. Sorry, work! I'll be listening over FM to the end of the show, Trouble. Great stuff today as always -- glad you're back in the heart of it all! Even with American birds!
	11:24am eric from lake hiawatha: Trouble way thanks for Sault
	♥ 11:25am βrian: How many people can you squeeze into that car, Handy? Let's make it an event.
	♥ 11:25am patrick321: Hi Trouble and all. Love this record. crazy that it isn't a huge hit.
	♥ 11:25am melinda: Tunes are really hitting the spot today.
	♥ 11:26am Trouble: of the saddest moments in virtual teaching for me this year is I haven't been able to play the heck out of these sault releases in my art classroom...
	♥ 11:26am JohnEBGood: Is the eagle's name Uncle Sam?
	11:26am Dayffid: Andrea - yeah made me laugh too. Your experience sound so typically unfortunately. Money does terrible things to people, thank gd I have so little of it! lol Hopefully you work somewhere better now?
	11:27am sugarwolf: Mina!
	11:28am headcleaner: maysa and mina, every day!
	♥ 11:29am karlward: First heard this sampled on the Quannum Projects record.
	11:30am oscarfate: yes that quannum record, was trying to remember!! good track
	♥ 11:31am Jason from Houston: Ohhhhh! I need to revisit that, karlward!
	♥ 11:31am Hubig Pie: Cold coffee Unfiltered cigarette And this bluesy piano
	♥ 11:31am Andrea: Dayffid- yes! and haha. Yes- I was a web designer and after that horrid experience of big art money world, I became a teaching artist in the schools. I'm SO much happier. I love nyc again, and ny public school students. I have less, money, but mentally healthy enough to make my own art again. :)
	11:33am oscarfate: oh yeahhh also a Handsome Boy Modeling School track
	11:34am Marco Esquandolas: @Karlward, me too. Such a cool piano riff The lyrics were about the "truth". . . "because the truth hurts, just as much as fuckin' with lies will"
	11:34am headcleaner: that's the way to go, andrea
	♥ 11:35am JohnEBGood: Hi Trouble. I showed a picture of the Uncle Sam logo teaching my 7th grade students in Atlantic City, NJ. I asked them what it represented. After 5 minutes or so a young answered United States? All eyes lit up. Cool
	♥ 11:36am Trouble: gracias@layet! you are very welcome @ericfrom LH
	♥ 11:37am karlward: oscarfate: you're right, "The Truth" was on the Handsome Boy Modeling School record. I misremembered it being on Quannum Spectrum. I was totally wrong! I think those two records got welded together in my memory.
	♥ 11:38am karlward: I am loving the Open Mike Eagle + Prince Paul podcast, season 1 of What Had Happened Was...
	♥ 11:38am northguineahills: Wait, Stereo Total covered this!!!!! RIP
	♥ 11:38am karlward: "Push It" reminds me of the Germs covering "Sugar Sugar," one of my favorite covers
	♥ 11:39am Passaic River Blues: RIP Francoise!
	11:39am JT: Love me bluebirds, too. They like eating my wild winterberries.
	11:39am mb: omg watching a Blue Jay rn fluttering around. Surreal FMU moment.
	♥ 11:40am Jason from Houston: Seriously. I can listen to hours of this.
	♥ 11:40am Spankyflop: Sounds like if the Car Talk guys took up bird watching
	♥ 11:41am redbee: "California's Gold" w/ Huell Howser, anyone? That was the '90s, but, very much of a similar vibe as these bird dudes
	♥ 11:41am northguineahills: Bluejays are one of the few corvids that aren't black.
	11:41am James Douglas: They could have been the Marlon Perkins and Jim Fowler or birdwatching.
	♥ 11:41am jeep: My partner just messaged me: Saw a female bluebird hawking for bugs on our feeder. She flew down and grabbed a big earthworm out of your mud pile. I went to the front and watched her go to the house and she went in. Came out with a fecal sac. Congratulations we have babies!!
	11:41am Marco Esquandolas: Apologies for the bad word I used earlier. Not sure what the protocol on that is
	11:42am Dayffid: Andrea - It's funny you should say that. I am also a web/graphic designer and freelancing since loosing job last October. But now that things are finally looking up (landing a big client) I can't help but feel like maybe this really isn't what I want to do with my life. I have started contemplating some kind of career where I wouldn't have to spend my life staring at a rectangle. And yes as you said, be healthier, happier and make my own art. thanks for sharing your experience!
	♥ 11:44am Handy Haversack: Joke's on me! It's Orthodox Easter! And we think there might be an honest-to-god red-headed woodpecker out back.
	11:44am JT: I also recommend the Roger Tory Peterson double album of bird songs as well ... "Plate 239, the Brewer's blackbird ... [cue bird] ... Plate 240, the red-winged blackbird ... [cue bird]." For hours. They don't cut records like that any more.
	11:44am James Douglas: Marlon sips a martini and listens to the bird calls as Jim climbs the redwood to catch a rare recording of the marbled murrelet.
	♥ 11:46am Andrea: Dayffid- interesting! Yeah, I accidentally ended up as a web designer for 10 years after my MFA. I didn't know about the possibility of working as a teaching artist. Have you taught at all? I can share more about teaching artist stuff if you are interested. My email is goldmandrea@gmail.com
	♥ 11:47am βrian: David D is waiting at the platform: wfmu.org...
	♥ 11:47am Hughie Considine: This has been an enchanting set! I immediately stopped what I was doing when the Sault song came on - remembered that I loved them the last time I heard them, but never followed up. Checked on Discogs, and the vinyl is super expensive ($75-$100) and only a few CDs are available via Europe. So I had to download it via Apple Store, which isn't my ideal way.
	♥ 11:47am Passaic River Blues: @JT: those sound fantastic--definitely will search them out. Thank you!
	♥ 11:47am Jason from Houston: ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡
	♥ 11:48am redbee: @ Andrea & Dayffid: I'm also a designer, just recently gone freelance. I'm finding that volunteer/pro-bono projects are keeping me sane and happy, even if it cuts into my "profitable" hours. I've been wanting to look into teaching in NYC, but I felt like I couldn't find my way in. Andrea, mind if I email you as well?
	♥ 11:49am Handy Haversack: Andrea and Dayffid, my partner, Kate (K8 on the boards, mostly Sundays), has been a teaching artist in NYC schools for like fifteen years. Drama, poetry, music, and singing.
	♥ 11:50am northguineahills: I used to teach at Hunter College, but the pay sucked, and I'm not the best speaker. I would love to go back to NYC, but I'm not sure I'm cut out for sub teaching (due to the stories of my friends that teach at NYC public schools).
	11:50am sphere: @ Hughie - Last time I checked, the Sault albums were all available for sale on Bandcamp.
	♥ 11:51am rx scabin: @Hughie C. I got all the CDs from Bandcamp.
	11:51am JT: Don't forget the community colleges!
	♥ 11:52am rx scabin: What sphere said.
	♥ 11:52am Hughie Considine: Maybe I should purchase from Bandcamp. Blind spot! Thanks
	♥ 11:52am Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Trouble. Bandcamp Friday a week from tomorrow - www.isitbandcampfriday.com
	♥ 11:52am Andrea: redbed - sure! the teaching artist world is interesting and in flux like everything else now. Some people do it as just one of their gigs, and it can be a puzzle, and it is not for everyone. There are wonderful nonprofit organizations and some that suck. You gotta love it and love kids and be committed to equality etc... but I love it, especially after experiencing terrible jobs. Feel free to email me. @Handy- interesting about your partner- does she like it?
	♥ 11:53am rx scabin: Lot's of the music Trouble plays is there.
	11:53am Marie: love this
	♥ 11:54am Andrea: Trouble- I just noticed that your playlist is called "pedagogy of the oppressed" - and suddenly this other conversation comes up about teaching, and also the playlist is INCREDIBLE. thank you.
	♥ 11:55am Trouble: thanks for sitting intoday on my bird watching tv show. see you next week. YES i am looking for the paolo freire book, since i have only read chapters here and there....
	11:55am JT: This playlist was one of my favs in recent WFMU memory. Thanks, Trouble.
	♥ 11:55am Hughie Considine: Good to know, @rx. Just haven't made the connection ... till now.
	♥ 11:55am Handy Haversack: Actually, Augusto Boal's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, which lent itself to the title of the episode of the Modern World today, is critical to Kate's teaching and her own pedagogy. (Jinx, Andrea!) @Andrea, she does, but there are a lot of ... issues? From the bureaucracy of the schools to lack of support from placing organizations to an atomized semi-freelance workforce that has no collective representation and a strained sense of collective identity. It's a hustle, all the time, and there's a lot of feast-or-famine to it. But also, YES, she does like it because the students need it and often respond and don't get what she does from any other source.
	11:57am Dayffid: Andrea - Thanks! yes I will definitely email you. I don't have a lot of teaching experience but I think its something I would probably enjoy, and also not really something I was aware of before.
	11:57am 30 century girl: hey trouble, thank you for the DJing- it's rainy where i am, in western massachusetts, and it feels perfectly right for this moment! i'm doing some of my last assignments of college, ever, and my brain is grateful for the music
	11:57am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: TY As Ever DJ Trouble !
	♥ 11:57am redbee: Thanks for a lovely set, Trouble!
	♥ 11:58am JohnEBGood: I'm sure JD likes this one: )
	♥ 11:58am Andrea: @Handy Ah! Augusto Boal's Pedagogy of the Oppressed! Thank you. And yes, I totally relate to "... issues?" re Kate. well put. @Dayffid- cool!
	♥ 11:58am Passaic River Blues: Thank you, Trouble!
	♥ 11:58am radioronan: Thanks Trouble!
	11:58am Dayffid: Hi Redbee - Love your book cover designs
	♥ 11:58am Trouble: congratulations!@ 30 century girl. if i won the lottery i would go back for my upteemth degree in a minute. i love college
	♥ 11:59am Handy Haversack: @Andrea, feel free to reach out through my WFMU profile if you'd like to be in direct touch with Kate. Thanks again, Trouble. Great show again today!
	♥ 11:59am Glistener MW: Joining playlist just now, but, thankyou THANKYOU, Trouble, for the Alessandra Novaga / Derek Jarman track at 9am. That was exactly what I needed on this grey rainy day. <3
	11:59am Doug in JC: Thank you Trouble!
	12:00pm spodiodi: Thx’
	♥ 12:00pm melinda: thanks Trub!
	12:00pm Dayffid: handy- thanks for the insights too!
	12:00pm Dayffid: thanks trouble!
	♥ 12:00pm Irene Trudel: Lovely show, only able to lurk today. Thanks Trouble!
	♥ 12:00pm Greg from ZONE 5: You done it again, DJ Trouble!
	12:05pm Avrilinmay: ♡
	1:20pm northguineahills: No No u
	1:21pm northguineahills: Ok, pocket text.

This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from April 29, 2021

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