WFMU: This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from June 18, 2020

Listener comments!
	9:02am David (in London): Hello Trouble. And greetings to the Troublesome across the silver globe.
	9:02am Handy Haversack: Hello, Trouble and all the Troubled.
	9:02am common: good day, trouble and all.
	9:02am BnowB: ahh its Thursday with Trouble.. Hi there ;) I can now take deep breaths
	9:04am Hughie Considine: Ahhhh....yes. Glad it's Thursday and glad for Trouble.
	9:05am Pale Son: Good morning, all! Perfect piece of art, as usual. Really missed this show last week, though we had plenty of trouble in the actual modern world. These vibes are already working their magic.
	9:05am duke: Nice start with Lonnie Holley
	9:05am Passaic River Blues: Beautiful.
	9:05am Snoochienucci: Hello trouble and all!! :)
	9:06am MikeG: Lonnie Holley. The patron saint of TITMW
	9:07am David (in London): Hey Handy, common, Hughie and the Snoochmeister.
	9:09am Hughie Considine: Ahoy, @David!
	9:10am UncleMarty: Greetings all around the world From Queens NY
	9:11am Peter from Dover NJ: Hello Trouble and fellow travelers.... Great opening to the show. A shame I have to go do a workout.
	9:11am fm Mike: Ah, I always love your show Trouble :)
	9:11am Jim the Poet: Just what I need! Trouble!
	9:11am Trouble: whoa that was some crazy! dj program died on my end. we had to reload everything, so matt started a prerecorded emergency show. but now all is fine : fingers crossed
	9:11am Handy Haversack: David, how fares the estuarial metropole? There was some Nebraska talk on Wake after Michele's state showcase. The Runzas were appropriately upped!
	9:12am Trouble: good morning!
	9:14am MikeG: What could possibly go wrong on a show called Trouble!
	9:15am David (in London): Handy, I was listening (although not commenting) and was incensed when Michele said 'There was no state food for Nebraska'! NO STATE FOOD thought I! Have you never heard of TMR (The Mighty Runza)? We know better of course. Mariano, I salute thee. Londinium soggisimus est.
	9:16am Fredericks: Is this aqua a Philip Glass piece?
	9:17am melinda: Morning Trouble and everyone!
	9:21am Trouble: ok! we are now officially ina prerecorded show mode, sicne mixxx has quit 3 times in ten minutes. i am sooooooo unhappy. i had a giant juneteenth show planned with lots of goood stuff. o well: next week, after i learn a whole new dj system to replace mixxx
	9:21am Hughie Considine: Oh boy.... this John Cale is my funeral song....not really but kind of. Such beauty.
	9:22am Rich in Washington: I have to run an older version of Mixxx, as the current one crashes at random moments on my older computer.
	9:22am Lixiviated Life: hi all
	9:22am Pale Son: Ah, that stinks, Trouble, so sorry!
	9:23am waters7: Oh, so sorry trouble. feel better. glad to hear what you have dropped so far. xo
	9:24am Lisboner Pasc: Sorry to read this, Trouble. Perhaps Traktor? That can be a little crashy as well though...
	9:24am UncleMarty: Have a cuppa & relax ... Juneteenth should last all month
	9:24am Hughie Considine: oh damn...
	9:26am David (in London): Bobbie at the Beeb. Bloody brilliant.
	9:27am Arlene: G'morning Trouble! Excellent Bobbie Gentry.
	9:28am prudy: Trouble...love the Ringgold piece...have loved her work ever since I was introduced to her Tar Beach series...
	9:28am Handy Haversack: Trouble, I feel you. One thing that this sudden enforced home-based work has shown us is that we did NOT value cutting-edge tech over the years. The demands work makes on these machines are so much greater than what we require bumbling along in our private lives. It's hard to suddenly make your home act like a pro space. We already appreciate so much what you have managed to do! But also: what UncleMarty said!
	9:29am melinda: I didn't know Bobbie did this, I remember the Helen Reddy version.
	9:30am prudy: sorry to hear about the tech problems...I've been working from home for four years and am NOT a tech person so i empathize...
	9:32am waters7: Just breathe, you are among friends. You can even ask Matt to play nothing but John Fahey, a little Lonnie Holley, and ease us out with more Bobbie G.
	9:32am Jim the Poet: Sorry, Trouble.
	9:32am Hughie Considine: The Fahey song is called "A Raga Called Pat - Part I," which always struck me as a funny name for a raga.
	9:32am SHAGALOV: Dear Trouble, GOOD MORNING to you! Morning World!
	9:34am Trouble: weird thing is my husband has been my tech guru and he is going back to work shortly, so we have been going over how i can do all of this on my own. welllllll today proved that i can not. at least this time when we start figuring out how to dj from home i won't also be figuring out how to teach high school art on line at the same time. sigh
	9:35am fm Mike: Morrrrrrrrrrning Trouble!
	9:36am ami ad: Hello D.J. Hello all.Sounding good.Chirps ahoy.
	9:37am Trouble: it is sooooooo weird listening to myself talk when i am sitting here wanting to talk to you about so many contemporary things!
	9:37am ami ad: @Handy Haversack:Hello.Read the reception advice,it got better,meybe the weather(too much sun the past few days)?Thanks again.
	9:38am Rich in Washington: You can do it, Trouble. It's a bit bumpy at first. I am sure someone can guide you through it.
	9:38am steveo: what a time to be an educator; my older is starting high school in the fall. Right now they are talking about the possibility of a hybrid online/in-person situation. could be interesting. my current employer is also wondering if they need an office in manhattan anymore.
	9:40am fm Mike: Ooo, what is this funky harpsichord?!?!?!
	9:40am Rich in Washington: My missus is currently off for 'summer break' now, which makes our Covid shutin thing slightly less weird now. Not sure what Fall will look like for her in terms of classroom times, etc.
	9:41am UncleMarty: Maybe do a Bob Ross presentation? LoL
	9:42am David Watson: thanks!! you are playing great stuff
	9:42am Lixiviated Life: Il y a une famille de "House Wrens" qui ont construit un nid dans notre jardin. Leur chanson est joyeuse et pétillante. C'est un délice printanier!
	9:43am Blues Mandinga: Ea!
	9:43am Handy Haversack: @steveo: when employers now start talking about cutting down the real estate footprint, what they are also doing is taking away collective spaces from labor. An atomization of the work force also takes away its power. Is my feeling. Just the idea of fighting it on the basis that there are matters more important than the bottom line. I was perhaps not the most popular voice on the panel of the "What have we learned working from home?" webinar yesterday. @ami ad: clouds definitely help my reception!
	9:43am βrian: Jour 94 ici à Madison. Qu'il fait beau !
	9:45am Pale Son: @Trouble You can talk to us in here!
	9:46am Lixiviated Life: Comme c'est beau, en effet
	9:48am ami ad: @Handy Haversack:JobLess.
	9:48am steveo: that's a good point, handy; i do enjoy having that extra 90 minutes a day that i don't have to commute, though
	9:51am βrian: C'est bon, Le Bon.
	9:51am Handy Haversack: I miss my commute so much! It was more walking than subway and had some great views of the city. And it was when I got most of my reading done. But yes, I do like having easy access to that first drink in the afternoon.
	9:52am holland oats: Cate is great!
	9:52am Peter from Dover NJ: Handy Haversack 9:43. Right on.
	9:52am Roberto: I'm with you now, Cate.
	9:52am βrian: We're talking 12:01??
	9:52am Malcolm: hello trouble and listeners
	9:53am steveo: i also miss my commute (by bike) but I also don't miss it
	9:53am Trouble: the artist a the top of the page today is having a virtual talk ( free) tonight at MOMA. link here www.moma.org...
	9:54am melinda: @handy good for you pointing out the less obvious problems with remote working. Commutes can really suck but being remote is bad for work relationships on a basic human level, too.
	9:54am UncleMarty: HH - Although many love working from home, this is yet another instance of employer shifting costs onto the employee (Uber is evil). The IRS gives a deduction to home office space because even they see it as an expense ... of course, an increase in pay might balance that, but we all no how ephemeral that is ...
	9:54am prudy: I moved out of the city several years ago and one of the things I miss most is the subway. In spite of its numerous problems, it is a marvelous thing...hard to remember when it breaks down and is not maintained properly or funded properly...
	9:54am βrian: 20 minute bus ride for me. I can usually read. Not so keen on the bus now. though.
	9:54am p/b: Good morning fd up planet fmu sanity preservers. Love from Bklyn. #BLM
	9:56am luca: it’s not so much about commuting in my case…commuting on my motorbike was just fine…but then again, i can now also take my motorbike any time of the day and make a ride ;)
	9:56am Curious Tom: Ooh, I love some Fever Ray.
	9:56am Roberto: I utilized the subway for the first time in almost three months last Friday. It worked.
	10:00am melinda: Working away from home also means having to wash one's hair and prepare a lunch/snacks/vitamin container in advance. I don't miss that.
	10:01am Bill W: RIP Vera Lynn
	10:04am Jim the Poet: Trouble's Back!
	10:04am Pale Son: Yeah!!!
	10:04am Peter from Dover NJ: Coming in loud and clear, Trouble.
	10:05am Jim the Poet: Thank you, Daddy Fromaggio
	10:05am Handy Haversack: In living Trouble! @melinda, I hear that! Though I also do miss my bagel people. And bagels!
	10:08am Trouble: it's alive! phewwwww
	10:16am benji: Love the dub jams
	10:17am Dances with Moomins: Hi Trouble and the vocal Modernists around the world. Cheers!
	10:17am Trouble: this set is inspired by this: hyperallergic.com...
	10:18am Trouble: DACA stands!! 5-4 evil is shut out!!!
	10:18am Dances with Moomins: GREAT!
	10:22am Mike W: REAL NEWS SOURCE thanku Trouble!
	10:22am Trouble: i'm a little verklempt right now. i can't believe it! yippeeeeee
	10:23am Mike W: with the understanding that my finite energies are needed elsewhere i still cannot help but dwell on how furious the loser in the White House must be to get smacked down by (cough sputter) his Supreme Court.
	10:24am David (in London): Bill W, yeah. she's one serious icon departed. Boo.
	10:24am Hughie Considine: Dan Rather just tweeted that Roberts will not be invited to the White House Xmas party....good one, Dan.
	10:30am Dean: @Mike W: Exactly. We invest way too much fear in the fairly sensible, but by no means demonstrable notion that the SCOTUS bench belongs to the POTUS who appointed the Justices. Roberts on DACA, Gorsuch on civil rights for LGBTQ...who'd a thunk?
	10:36am βrian: Vermilion teeth?
	10:36am Itzall Hear: Good morning Trouble. Yes, there is good news in these dark days. DACA survives another assault.
	10:38am The Hip Replacement: Cute "million teeth" story. Young niece was asked what she'd wish for if she had 3 wishes. 1: To be able to make herself invisible at will. 2. To be able to fly. 3:... she was stuck. She turned to her even younger sister for a suggestion. "Easy. Wish that you had a million teeth and they all fell out!"
	10:40am Moon Dog: Horace Andy also worked with Alpha on an album called Two Fazed People
	10:40am βrian: One could make bank with the tooth fairy.
	10:40am Moon Dog: Phazed*
	10:42am Trouble: thanks moon dog! i adore alpha and horace, will look for that!
	10:46am Handy Haversack: "Didn't Portishead sample this? ... ah." Guess it's been a minute!
	10:47am Moon Dog: Same here. It's exactly what you think it would sound like, which means it's great!
	10:48am Dean: If I had three wishes just now, one would be for the entire Massive Attack catalog.
	10:49am Mike W: @Dean yeah, i can’t help but be a little cynical about the larger scope of these decisions — clearly the Resident expects to get his way every time, but also...if the power structures have felt a little shaking in their pillars, acknowledging LGBTQ+ rights and preventing the travesty of deportation of the Dreamers might be quietly seen as “safe” conservative decisions that won’t threaten their grip on power. I wouldn’t expect them to make similar decisions on voting rights, because voter suppression is precisely how elected officials maintain their power. Huge decisions in favor of the good-hearted people of this country are nonetheless HUGE...but at the top they may look at these as bones they could safely toss to try and placate the gnashing masses of savages at the gates (hi, us, present, yes).
	10:49am Mike W: we are not placated
	10:50am Handy Haversack: Hell yeah, Mike W.
	10:50am Mike W: also i am listening to the music and amid all this my heart just swooned at the opening strains of Antena
	10:51am waters7: Yr killing it. Coffee is a wondrous thing.
	10:51am Mike W: what is up @Handy
	10:52am Dean: I hear you, @Mike W.
	10:55am Mike W: if it’s possible to draw conclusions from the jams i’d guess that our DJ is in a good mood
	10:56am Ike: @Mike W@10:49, agreed. We should celebrate this, while keeping in mind that surely there will still be some very ugly decisions coming later.
	10:56am Yes: good morning, trouble, friends
	10:58am Bill W: also best to end the fantasy that Trump is going to prison. Biden (or whoever replaces him if he croaks) will "move on."
	10:58am steve in bristol: hi trouble and listeners! i've been listening since the start of lockdown in march but your bristol section has prompted me to register and say hi. i look forward to your show every week – thank you so much!
	10:59am adampsyche: I LIKE THIS SET
	10:59am adampsyche: Geto Boys sampled and basically covered this song's intro
	11:01am Trouble: hello steve in bristol! thanks for checking in, welcome aboard!
	11:02am melinda: @Mike W yeah it does seem like a big deal and a bone toss at the same time
	11:02am Listener Gregory: Excellent set.
	11:02am Passaic River Blues: @Ike: word at 10:56.
	11:04am Ike: @Bill W, agreed on federal crimes. I'd like to think that Tish James will not let up (remember, future presidents can't pardon for state crimes), but ultimately I guess NY State will not be able to corner him in Florida, which is why he moved his official residence. Would be delightful if he went into hiding someplace like Kazakhstan though! :)
	11:06am Christopher S Clabbers: worked a half day! great to get home in time! Chris in Philly
	11:09am βrian: What to cook, then?
	11:10am Trouble: www.theanimationproject.org
	11:13am Mick: The Animation Project looks fantastic - thank you for sharing, Trouble
	11:13am steve in bristol: it felt so good to see the colston statue fall the way it did, even though it was way overdue. there are so many other commemorations of slave traders around our city: buildings, schools, roads, etc. people have been pushing for these changes for many decades but it looks like it might actually happen now
	11:14am Stanley: Hey steve in bristol - nice to see you leading the vanguard from the West Country. Look out for Sean and Ills, also from Bristol.
	11:15am Itzall Hear: James. BROWN!!!
	11:16am Trouble: @brian, i saw some interesting juneeth recipes in the new york times this weekend...
	11:16am Stanley: And a big hello to Trouble.
	11:18am luca: Kazakhstan may not be the best choice for Trump, Ike...remember the problems they have over there ;) youtu.be...
	11:19am Trouble: helllooo @stanley! @brian: bryant terry has a great book: vegan soul food that i enjoy and he also has a new book out. search him out in the interwebs
	11:19am steve in bristol: hey stanley! will do, thanks
	11:22am Stanley: And also, I have a slightly different view on the statues that commerorate our slavery past. Should be taken down, for sure but I think they should be put into a history museum and given an explanation educating people of the dark and terrible times they represent. Then, they can then be, literally, confined to history. Oh, yeah get rid of the House of Lords, wherein sit the heirs of these cruel and exploitative fuckers.
	11:22am p/b: Omg I can't work with JB love it to death Dont raise your hand if you dont mean it #BLM
	11:23am Listener Gregory: Perhaps a good time to plug the James Brown biography Kill 'Em and Leave by James McBride, which places him and his career in the background of growing up desperately poor in the south, and how he tried to improve the lives of children like him. Wonderful book.
	11:25am Priscilla: Ow!
	11:26am Trouble: that does sound like a great book @ listener gregory. i read an excerpt from his new one and I like his writing style
	11:27am Priscilla: Love those effortless high notes
	11:28am Listener Gregory: McBride is actually a winner of the National Book Award.
	11:28am Trouble: @priscilla: great word for aretha; effortless. she made it seem like breathing
	11:30am Carmichael: Heya Trouble and fellow covidians.
	11:32am Trouble: if you are looking to support black farmers at the core of their existence, lookie here: www.federation.coop
	11:36am Roberto: Ooh vegan soul food is delish. In general.
	11:36am melinda: I have that cookbook too, interesting stuff.
	11:36am Listener Gregory: Damned ambiguous pronouns! Brown left his estate to the poor children of Georgia and South Carolina (hope those are the right states), where he grew up. Very little of that actually got to those children, sadly. The story is too weird and complex for a comment board.
	11:37am Layet J: Ooo I have to check out that vegan cookbook!
	11:37am Layet J: Loving your music today and you're talking all my interests, Trouble! Animation and vegan stuff :) Love your show!
	11:38am Trouble: thanks layet j!
	11:39am Matt Fiveash: James McBride used to have lunch every Friday at a bar where I used to work in Manhattan. Super nice, funny and interesting guy and an amazing writer. He liked the music I played at the bar and through talking about that we got to know each other a little. He's also a musician and runs a music program for kids at New Brown Memorial Baptist Church in Red Hook Brooklyn where he grew up. Proud to say that I turned him on to WFMU! We still exchange emails a couple few times a year...
	11:44am Trouble: great story @matt!!! very cool
	11:47am Trouble: there is a sale ongoing of very cool artist designed scarves to benefit black trans advocacy coalition : hyperallergic.com...
	11:48am Dean: A friend and former teacher of mine, Angela Harris, currently at the American Bar Foundation, has been researching the history of black farmers for several years. Just skimmed the DACA opinions. Only J. Sotomayor supported the respondents' equal protection claim.
	11:48am Stanley: Hearing Stevie Wonder come on always gets me leaping up and writing: STEVIE!
	11:48am steveo: Powers keep on lyin' While your people keep on dyin' World keep on turnin' Cause it won't be too long
	11:49am Passaic River Blues: @Matt Fiveash: incredible story! "The Color of Water" and "The Good Lord Bird" are classics in my house.
	11:49am Roberto: I just received my shipment of black-owned vegan bakery cookies!
	11:49am Megaroni: I got your postcard DJ Trouble! You’re so cool :)
	11:51am Roberto: Da kat is very interested in da kookies.
	11:51am Trouble: o good@megaroni! thank you for the coooool bird calendar!
	11:51am steveo: it's interesting what brings up the emotion in these emotional times; stevie this time, thanks
	11:51am Trouble: where did you get the cookies from @roberto?
	11:55am ami ad: Thank you D.J. Peace&Laugh.
	11:56am Roberto: I ordered the cookies from Maya's Cookies.
	11:57am Trouble: thanks@roberto! thanks for sitting in today everyone! let's keep working to change the world! and in the meantime i will se you next week.
	11:57am Handy Haversack: Whoa, it's so late! Trouble, thanks so much -- and Cheese-Powered Super Skeleton Fancy Matt! Loved being here.
	11:58am Priscilla: Thanks so much Trouble! I really appreciate this every week.
	11:59am Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks for your perseverance and dedication this morning, Trouble. And the nice selections.
	11:59am Yes: thank you
	12:00pm Really Lisa: Thank you, Trouble. Enjoyed the show. I second the 'peace & laugh', ami ad (I had family from K'Far Menachem, still do in Ashkelon)
	12:00pm Stillwell Coney Islander: Hello Trouble, thank you so much for your support and voice of advocacy for the Black and POC population in the US and all over the world. It truly means a great deal to us! Love all of the music and conversation today. Merci beaucoup !
	12:01pm Itzall Hear: Oh MAN! Where (rhetorically) did the time GO?

This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from June 18, 2020

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Comments	New	Approx. start time
MV& EE	moontide "moontide" by "MV& EE"	livestock moon forms rural ragas
lonnie holley	the obama groove live 2013 on Wfmu
adrian younge and ali shaheed muhammad	down deep ( feat doug carn)	jazz is dead			*	0:07:23 (Pop-up)
Los Cumpleaños	aqua "aqua" by "Los Cumpleaños"	on the beach				0:09:46 (Pop-up)
terry riley	"terry riley"
kraftwerk	franz schubert "franz schubert" by "kraftwerk"	trans europe express
john cale	paris 1919 "paris 1919" by "john cale"	paris 1919				0:19:53 (Pop-up)
bobbie gentry	peaceful "peaceful" by "bobbie gentry"	1968-69 bbc 2 with donovan and james taylor				0:24:16 (Pop-up)
john fahey	a raga called part one	Days Have Gone By (Volume 6)				0:28:43 (Pop-up)

baroque jazz trio	zoma "zoma" by "baroque jazz trio"	baroque jazz trio				0:38:37 (Pop-up)
linda martell	color him father "color him father" by "linda martell"	Country Soul Sisters Volume 2				0:47:47 (Pop-up)
cate le bon	are you with me now? "are you with me now?" by "cate le bon"	mug museum				0:50:07 (Pop-up)
fever ray	concrete walls "concrete walls" by "fever ray"	fever ray				0:54:22 (Pop-up)
solange	rise "rise" by "solange"	a seat a the table				0:59:48 (Pop-up)
	a song					1:02:30 (Pop-up)
bobby oroza	Down On My Knees "Down On My Knees" by "bobby oroza"	this love				1:05:23 (Pop-up)
trembling blue stars	doo-woop music	lights on a darkening shore v/a				1:08:12 (Pop-up)
horace andy	bad man (fenin dub version) feat milion teeth	broken beats				1:13:08 (Pop-up)
aksak maboul	c'est charles "c'est charles" by "aksak maboul"	figures			*	1:17:55 (Pop-up)
alpha	back "back" by "alpha"	come from heaven				1:21:53 (Pop-up)
pablo'e eye	amb "amb" by "pablo'e eye"	spring break	stroom	reissue	*	1:26:42 (Pop-up)

Massive Attack	sly "sly" by "Massive Attack"	protection				1:38:07 (Pop-up)
portisehead	humming "humming" by "portisehead"	portisehead				1:42:46 (Pop-up)
antena	Noelle A Hawaii "Noelle A Hawaii" by "antena"	camino del sol				1:48:07 (Pop-up)
curtis mayfield	little child runnin' wild	superfly				1:51:10 (Pop-up)
king curtis	memphis soul stew "memphis soul stew" by "king curtis"	Beg Scream & Shout (V/A)				1:56:37 (Pop-up)
the impressions	Mighty Mighty (Spade & Whitey)	the young mod's forgotten story				1:59:25 (Pop-up)

amber mark	high on your love "high on your love" by "amber mark"					2:07:30 (Pop-up)
mary wells	bye bye baby "bye bye baby" by "mary wells"					2:10:29 (Pop-up)
james brown	get up,get into it, get involved	Funk Power 1970: A Brand New Thang				2:13:20 (Pop-up)
afrika bambaataa	unity: the third coming	Star Time (box set)				2:20:15 (Pop-up)
aretha franklin	(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone					2:23:48 (Pop-up)
sudan archives	honey "honey" by "sudan archives"	athena				2:25:46 (Pop-up)
thee sacred souls	can i call you rose	penrose records vol 4			*	2:28:51 (Pop-up)

Anchorsong	ancestors ( souleance remix)	tru thoughts 2019 v/a				2:36:05 (Pop-up)
santigold	big boss big tiem business	99¢				2:40:02 (Pop-up)
nina simone	see line woman "see line woman" by "nina simone"					2:42:54 (Pop-up)
stevie wonder	higher ground "higher ground" by "stevie wonder"					2:45:21 (Pop-up)
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings	better things	I Learned The Hard Way				2:48:58 (Pop-up)
the pointer sisters	send him back	after hours v.a				2:52:29 (Pop-up)
the politicians	the world we live in	psycha-soula-funkadelic				2:54:37 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:02am David (in London): Hello Trouble. And greetings to the Troublesome across the silver globe.
	9:02am Handy Haversack: Hello, Trouble and all the Troubled.
	9:02am common: good day, trouble and all.
	9:02am BnowB: ahh its Thursday with Trouble.. Hi there ;) I can now take deep breaths
	9:04am Hughie Considine: Ahhhh....yes. Glad it's Thursday and glad for Trouble.
	9:05am Pale Son: Good morning, all! Perfect piece of art, as usual. Really missed this show last week, though we had plenty of trouble in the actual modern world. These vibes are already working their magic.
	9:05am duke: Nice start with Lonnie Holley
	9:05am Passaic River Blues: Beautiful.
	9:05am Snoochienucci: Hello trouble and all!! :)
	9:06am MikeG: Lonnie Holley. The patron saint of TITMW
	9:07am David (in London): Hey Handy, common, Hughie and the Snoochmeister.
	9:09am Hughie Considine: Ahoy, @David!
	9:10am UncleMarty: Greetings all around the world From Queens NY
	9:11am Peter from Dover NJ: Hello Trouble and fellow travelers.... Great opening to the show. A shame I have to go do a workout.
	9:11am fm Mike: Ah, I always love your show Trouble :)
	9:11am Jim the Poet: Just what I need! Trouble!
	9:11am Trouble: whoa that was some crazy! dj program died on my end. we had to reload everything, so matt started a prerecorded emergency show. but now all is fine : fingers crossed
	9:11am Handy Haversack: David, how fares the estuarial metropole? There was some Nebraska talk on Wake after Michele's state showcase. The Runzas were appropriately upped!
	9:12am Trouble: good morning!
	9:14am MikeG: What could possibly go wrong on a show called Trouble!
	9:15am David (in London): Handy, I was listening (although not commenting) and was incensed when Michele said 'There was no state food for Nebraska'! NO STATE FOOD thought I! Have you never heard of TMR (The Mighty Runza)? We know better of course. Mariano, I salute thee. Londinium soggisimus est.
	9:16am Fredericks: Is this aqua a Philip Glass piece?
	9:17am melinda: Morning Trouble and everyone!
	9:21am Trouble: ok! we are now officially ina prerecorded show mode, sicne mixxx has quit 3 times in ten minutes. i am sooooooo unhappy. i had a giant juneteenth show planned with lots of goood stuff. o well: next week, after i learn a whole new dj system to replace mixxx
	9:21am Hughie Considine: Oh boy.... this John Cale is my funeral song....not really but kind of. Such beauty.
	9:22am Rich in Washington: I have to run an older version of Mixxx, as the current one crashes at random moments on my older computer.
	9:22am Lixiviated Life: hi all
	9:22am Pale Son: Ah, that stinks, Trouble, so sorry!
	9:23am waters7: Oh, so sorry trouble. feel better. glad to hear what you have dropped so far. xo
	9:24am Lisboner Pasc: Sorry to read this, Trouble. Perhaps Traktor? That can be a little crashy as well though...
	9:24am UncleMarty: Have a cuppa & relax ... Juneteenth should last all month
	9:24am Hughie Considine: oh damn...
	9:26am David (in London): Bobbie at the Beeb. Bloody brilliant.
	9:27am Arlene: G'morning Trouble! Excellent Bobbie Gentry.
	9:28am prudy: Trouble...love the Ringgold piece...have loved her work ever since I was introduced to her Tar Beach series...
	9:28am Handy Haversack: Trouble, I feel you. One thing that this sudden enforced home-based work has shown us is that we did NOT value cutting-edge tech over the years. The demands work makes on these machines are so much greater than what we require bumbling along in our private lives. It's hard to suddenly make your home act like a pro space. We already appreciate so much what you have managed to do! But also: what UncleMarty said!
	9:29am melinda: I didn't know Bobbie did this, I remember the Helen Reddy version.
	9:30am prudy: sorry to hear about the tech problems...I've been working from home for four years and am NOT a tech person so i empathize...
	9:32am waters7: Just breathe, you are among friends. You can even ask Matt to play nothing but John Fahey, a little Lonnie Holley, and ease us out with more Bobbie G.
	9:32am Jim the Poet: Sorry, Trouble.
	9:32am Hughie Considine: The Fahey song is called "A Raga Called Pat - Part I," which always struck me as a funny name for a raga.
	9:32am SHAGALOV: Dear Trouble, GOOD MORNING to you! Morning World!
	9:34am Trouble: weird thing is my husband has been my tech guru and he is going back to work shortly, so we have been going over how i can do all of this on my own. welllllll today proved that i can not. at least this time when we start figuring out how to dj from home i won't also be figuring out how to teach high school art on line at the same time. sigh
	9:35am fm Mike: Morrrrrrrrrrning Trouble!
	9:36am ami ad: Hello D.J. Hello all.Sounding good.Chirps ahoy.
	9:37am Trouble: it is sooooooo weird listening to myself talk when i am sitting here wanting to talk to you about so many contemporary things!
	9:37am ami ad: @Handy Haversack:Hello.Read the reception advice,it got better,meybe the weather(too much sun the past few days)?Thanks again.
	9:38am Rich in Washington: You can do it, Trouble. It's a bit bumpy at first. I am sure someone can guide you through it.
	9:38am steveo: what a time to be an educator; my older is starting high school in the fall. Right now they are talking about the possibility of a hybrid online/in-person situation. could be interesting. my current employer is also wondering if they need an office in manhattan anymore.
	9:40am fm Mike: Ooo, what is this funky harpsichord?!?!?!
	9:40am Rich in Washington: My missus is currently off for 'summer break' now, which makes our Covid shutin thing slightly less weird now. Not sure what Fall will look like for her in terms of classroom times, etc.
	9:41am UncleMarty: Maybe do a Bob Ross presentation? LoL
	9:42am David Watson: thanks!! you are playing great stuff
	9:42am Lixiviated Life: Il y a une famille de "House Wrens" qui ont construit un nid dans notre jardin. Leur chanson est joyeuse et pétillante. C'est un délice printanier!
	9:43am Blues Mandinga: Ea!
	9:43am Handy Haversack: @steveo: when employers now start talking about cutting down the real estate footprint, what they are also doing is taking away collective spaces from labor. An atomization of the work force also takes away its power. Is my feeling. Just the idea of fighting it on the basis that there are matters more important than the bottom line. I was perhaps not the most popular voice on the panel of the "What have we learned working from home?" webinar yesterday. @ami ad: clouds definitely help my reception!
	9:43am βrian: Jour 94 ici à Madison. Qu'il fait beau !
	9:45am Pale Son: @Trouble You can talk to us in here!
	9:46am Lixiviated Life: Comme c'est beau, en effet
	9:48am ami ad: @Handy Haversack:JobLess.
	9:48am steveo: that's a good point, handy; i do enjoy having that extra 90 minutes a day that i don't have to commute, though
	9:51am βrian: C'est bon, Le Bon.
	9:51am Handy Haversack: I miss my commute so much! It was more walking than subway and had some great views of the city. And it was when I got most of my reading done. But yes, I do like having easy access to that first drink in the afternoon.
	9:52am holland oats: Cate is great!
	9:52am Peter from Dover NJ: Handy Haversack 9:43. Right on.
	9:52am Roberto: I'm with you now, Cate.
	9:52am βrian: We're talking 12:01??
	9:52am Malcolm: hello trouble and listeners
	9:53am steveo: i also miss my commute (by bike) but I also don't miss it
	9:53am Trouble: the artist a the top of the page today is having a virtual talk ( free) tonight at MOMA. link here www.moma.org...
	9:54am melinda: @handy good for you pointing out the less obvious problems with remote working. Commutes can really suck but being remote is bad for work relationships on a basic human level, too.
	9:54am UncleMarty: HH - Although many love working from home, this is yet another instance of employer shifting costs onto the employee (Uber is evil). The IRS gives a deduction to home office space because even they see it as an expense ... of course, an increase in pay might balance that, but we all no how ephemeral that is ...
	9:54am prudy: I moved out of the city several years ago and one of the things I miss most is the subway. In spite of its numerous problems, it is a marvelous thing...hard to remember when it breaks down and is not maintained properly or funded properly...
	9:54am βrian: 20 minute bus ride for me. I can usually read. Not so keen on the bus now. though.
	9:54am p/b: Good morning fd up planet fmu sanity preservers. Love from Bklyn. #BLM
	9:56am luca: it’s not so much about commuting in my case…commuting on my motorbike was just fine…but then again, i can now also take my motorbike any time of the day and make a ride ;)
	9:56am Curious Tom: Ooh, I love some Fever Ray.
	9:56am Roberto: I utilized the subway for the first time in almost three months last Friday. It worked.
	10:00am melinda: Working away from home also means having to wash one's hair and prepare a lunch/snacks/vitamin container in advance. I don't miss that.
	10:01am Bill W: RIP Vera Lynn
	10:04am Jim the Poet: Trouble's Back!
	10:04am Pale Son: Yeah!!!
	10:04am Peter from Dover NJ: Coming in loud and clear, Trouble.
	10:05am Jim the Poet: Thank you, Daddy Fromaggio
	10:05am Handy Haversack: In living Trouble! @melinda, I hear that! Though I also do miss my bagel people. And bagels!
	10:08am Trouble: it's alive! phewwwww
	10:16am benji: Love the dub jams
	10:17am Dances with Moomins: Hi Trouble and the vocal Modernists around the world. Cheers!
	10:17am Trouble: this set is inspired by this: hyperallergic.com...
	10:18am Trouble: DACA stands!! 5-4 evil is shut out!!!
	10:18am Dances with Moomins: GREAT!
	10:22am Mike W: REAL NEWS SOURCE thanku Trouble!
	10:22am Trouble: i'm a little verklempt right now. i can't believe it! yippeeeeee
	10:23am Mike W: with the understanding that my finite energies are needed elsewhere i still cannot help but dwell on how furious the loser in the White House must be to get smacked down by (cough sputter) his Supreme Court.
	10:24am David (in London): Bill W, yeah. she's one serious icon departed. Boo.
	10:24am Hughie Considine: Dan Rather just tweeted that Roberts will not be invited to the White House Xmas party....good one, Dan.
	10:30am Dean: @Mike W: Exactly. We invest way too much fear in the fairly sensible, but by no means demonstrable notion that the SCOTUS bench belongs to the POTUS who appointed the Justices. Roberts on DACA, Gorsuch on civil rights for LGBTQ...who'd a thunk?
	10:36am βrian: Vermilion teeth?
	10:36am Itzall Hear: Good morning Trouble. Yes, there is good news in these dark days. DACA survives another assault.
	10:38am The Hip Replacement: Cute "million teeth" story. Young niece was asked what she'd wish for if she had 3 wishes. 1: To be able to make herself invisible at will. 2. To be able to fly. 3:... she was stuck. She turned to her even younger sister for a suggestion. "Easy. Wish that you had a million teeth and they all fell out!"
	10:40am Moon Dog: Horace Andy also worked with Alpha on an album called Two Fazed People
	10:40am βrian: One could make bank with the tooth fairy.
	10:40am Moon Dog: Phazed*
	10:42am Trouble: thanks moon dog! i adore alpha and horace, will look for that!
	10:46am Handy Haversack: "Didn't Portishead sample this? ... ah." Guess it's been a minute!
	10:47am Moon Dog: Same here. It's exactly what you think it would sound like, which means it's great!
	10:48am Dean: If I had three wishes just now, one would be for the entire Massive Attack catalog.
	10:49am Mike W: @Dean yeah, i can’t help but be a little cynical about the larger scope of these decisions — clearly the Resident expects to get his way every time, but also...if the power structures have felt a little shaking in their pillars, acknowledging LGBTQ+ rights and preventing the travesty of deportation of the Dreamers might be quietly seen as “safe” conservative decisions that won’t threaten their grip on power. I wouldn’t expect them to make similar decisions on voting rights, because voter suppression is precisely how elected officials maintain their power. Huge decisions in favor of the good-hearted people of this country are nonetheless HUGE...but at the top they may look at these as bones they could safely toss to try and placate the gnashing masses of savages at the gates (hi, us, present, yes).
	10:49am Mike W: we are not placated
	10:50am Handy Haversack: Hell yeah, Mike W.
	10:50am Mike W: also i am listening to the music and amid all this my heart just swooned at the opening strains of Antena
	10:51am waters7: Yr killing it. Coffee is a wondrous thing.
	10:51am Mike W: what is up @Handy
	10:52am Dean: I hear you, @Mike W.
	10:55am Mike W: if it’s possible to draw conclusions from the jams i’d guess that our DJ is in a good mood
	10:56am Ike: @Mike W@10:49, agreed. We should celebrate this, while keeping in mind that surely there will still be some very ugly decisions coming later.
	10:56am Yes: good morning, trouble, friends
	10:58am Bill W: also best to end the fantasy that Trump is going to prison. Biden (or whoever replaces him if he croaks) will "move on."
	10:58am steve in bristol: hi trouble and listeners! i've been listening since the start of lockdown in march but your bristol section has prompted me to register and say hi. i look forward to your show every week – thank you so much!
	10:59am adampsyche: I LIKE THIS SET
	10:59am adampsyche: Geto Boys sampled and basically covered this song's intro
	11:01am Trouble: hello steve in bristol! thanks for checking in, welcome aboard!
	11:02am melinda: @Mike W yeah it does seem like a big deal and a bone toss at the same time
	11:02am Listener Gregory: Excellent set.
	11:02am Passaic River Blues: @Ike: word at 10:56.
	11:04am Ike: @Bill W, agreed on federal crimes. I'd like to think that Tish James will not let up (remember, future presidents can't pardon for state crimes), but ultimately I guess NY State will not be able to corner him in Florida, which is why he moved his official residence. Would be delightful if he went into hiding someplace like Kazakhstan though! :)
	11:06am Christopher S Clabbers: worked a half day! great to get home in time! Chris in Philly
	11:09am βrian: What to cook, then?
	11:10am Trouble: www.theanimationproject.org
	11:13am Mick: The Animation Project looks fantastic - thank you for sharing, Trouble
	11:13am steve in bristol: it felt so good to see the colston statue fall the way it did, even though it was way overdue. there are so many other commemorations of slave traders around our city: buildings, schools, roads, etc. people have been pushing for these changes for many decades but it looks like it might actually happen now
	11:14am Stanley: Hey steve in bristol - nice to see you leading the vanguard from the West Country. Look out for Sean and Ills, also from Bristol.
	11:15am Itzall Hear: James. BROWN!!!
	11:16am Trouble: @brian, i saw some interesting juneeth recipes in the new york times this weekend...
	11:16am Stanley: And a big hello to Trouble.
	11:18am luca: Kazakhstan may not be the best choice for Trump, Ike...remember the problems they have over there ;) youtu.be...
	11:19am Trouble: helllooo @stanley! @brian: bryant terry has a great book: vegan soul food that i enjoy and he also has a new book out. search him out in the interwebs
	11:19am steve in bristol: hey stanley! will do, thanks
	11:22am Stanley: And also, I have a slightly different view on the statues that commerorate our slavery past. Should be taken down, for sure but I think they should be put into a history museum and given an explanation educating people of the dark and terrible times they represent. Then, they can then be, literally, confined to history. Oh, yeah get rid of the House of Lords, wherein sit the heirs of these cruel and exploitative fuckers.
	11:22am p/b: Omg I can't work with JB love it to death Dont raise your hand if you dont mean it #BLM
	11:23am Listener Gregory: Perhaps a good time to plug the James Brown biography Kill 'Em and Leave by James McBride, which places him and his career in the background of growing up desperately poor in the south, and how he tried to improve the lives of children like him. Wonderful book.
	11:25am Priscilla: Ow!
	11:26am Trouble: that does sound like a great book @ listener gregory. i read an excerpt from his new one and I like his writing style
	11:27am Priscilla: Love those effortless high notes
	11:28am Listener Gregory: McBride is actually a winner of the National Book Award.
	11:28am Trouble: @priscilla: great word for aretha; effortless. she made it seem like breathing
	11:30am Carmichael: Heya Trouble and fellow covidians.
	11:32am Trouble: if you are looking to support black farmers at the core of their existence, lookie here: www.federation.coop
	11:36am Roberto: Ooh vegan soul food is delish. In general.
	11:36am melinda: I have that cookbook too, interesting stuff.
	11:36am Listener Gregory: Damned ambiguous pronouns! Brown left his estate to the poor children of Georgia and South Carolina (hope those are the right states), where he grew up. Very little of that actually got to those children, sadly. The story is too weird and complex for a comment board.
	11:37am Layet J: Ooo I have to check out that vegan cookbook!
	11:37am Layet J: Loving your music today and you're talking all my interests, Trouble! Animation and vegan stuff :) Love your show!
	11:38am Trouble: thanks layet j!
	11:39am Matt Fiveash: James McBride used to have lunch every Friday at a bar where I used to work in Manhattan. Super nice, funny and interesting guy and an amazing writer. He liked the music I played at the bar and through talking about that we got to know each other a little. He's also a musician and runs a music program for kids at New Brown Memorial Baptist Church in Red Hook Brooklyn where he grew up. Proud to say that I turned him on to WFMU! We still exchange emails a couple few times a year...
	11:44am Trouble: great story @matt!!! very cool
	11:47am Trouble: there is a sale ongoing of very cool artist designed scarves to benefit black trans advocacy coalition : hyperallergic.com...
	11:48am Dean: A friend and former teacher of mine, Angela Harris, currently at the American Bar Foundation, has been researching the history of black farmers for several years. Just skimmed the DACA opinions. Only J. Sotomayor supported the respondents' equal protection claim.
	11:48am Stanley: Hearing Stevie Wonder come on always gets me leaping up and writing: STEVIE!
	11:48am steveo: Powers keep on lyin' While your people keep on dyin' World keep on turnin' Cause it won't be too long
	11:49am Passaic River Blues: @Matt Fiveash: incredible story! "The Color of Water" and "The Good Lord Bird" are classics in my house.
	11:49am Roberto: I just received my shipment of black-owned vegan bakery cookies!
	11:49am Megaroni: I got your postcard DJ Trouble! You’re so cool :)
	11:51am Roberto: Da kat is very interested in da kookies.
	11:51am Trouble: o good@megaroni! thank you for the coooool bird calendar!
	11:51am steveo: it's interesting what brings up the emotion in these emotional times; stevie this time, thanks
	11:51am Trouble: where did you get the cookies from @roberto?
	11:55am ami ad: Thank you D.J. Peace&Laugh.
	11:56am Roberto: I ordered the cookies from Maya's Cookies.
	11:57am Trouble: thanks@roberto! thanks for sitting in today everyone! let's keep working to change the world! and in the meantime i will se you next week.
	11:57am Handy Haversack: Whoa, it's so late! Trouble, thanks so much -- and Cheese-Powered Super Skeleton Fancy Matt! Loved being here.
	11:58am Priscilla: Thanks so much Trouble! I really appreciate this every week.
	11:59am Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks for your perseverance and dedication this morning, Trouble. And the nice selections.
	11:59am Yes: thank you
	12:00pm Really Lisa: Thank you, Trouble. Enjoyed the show. I second the 'peace & laugh', ami ad (I had family from K'Far Menachem, still do in Ashkelon)
	12:00pm Stillwell Coney Islander: Hello Trouble, thank you so much for your support and voice of advocacy for the Black and POC population in the US and all over the world. It truly means a great deal to us! Love all of the music and conversation today. Merci beaucoup !
	12:01pm Itzall Hear: Oh MAN! Where (rhetorically) did the time GO?

This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from June 18, 2020

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