WFMU: Irwin Chusid: Playlist from July 4, 2012

Listener comments!
	3:08pm Vince Furnier: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HImhpJAY89I
	3:10pm RWR: Shit, did I say that? My memory's not what it was. Totally true, though, whoever the fuck said it.
	3:11pm Mitt: I've been practicing in front of hotel room mirrors to try to sound just like Ronnie. Not sounding too close yet, but hey -- I still have five months...
	3:11pm Alison Porchnik: Psst. you spelled "lucky wrong. Or John Murphy did.
	3:12pm seang: Ragtime rules
	3:15pm dc pat: Oh yeah...it's Wednesday...
	3:15pm dc pat: Here we go...
	3:16pm Alison Porchnik: I always have that urge.
	3:16pm Losers: Fuck freedom. Send OPM.
	3:17pm Alison Porchnik: Independence from co-dependence
	3:19pm Alison Porchnik: If we walk out of the room, how are we supposed to listen to Irwin? It's a trick.
	3:19pm listener mark: Remember the War of 1812!
	3:21pm G: @mark: You know, after we won that one, Britain decided to ally with us rather than keep trying to get revenge for the Revolution. As Joe VP might put it, that's really a BFD.
	3:23pm seang: Massachusetts represent
	3:24pm Ike: Oh B.J. Snowden! "America/ a place where you can be." Hell yeah! Damn straight.
	3:25pm Detroit Mac: 54-40° or fight! Remember the Maine! The only good Indian is a dead one. Kill a Commie for Christ. I cannot tell a lie. The South will rise again. This land is your land. God bless America (not including Canada and Mexico)
	3:26pm listener mark: If the Confederacy had won in Gettysburg, Britain and France would have recognized the independent South. Extending loans and the support of the French and British navies. Eventually the North would have sued for peace.
	3:27pm Detroit Mac: Oh yes... I forgot the Fugs: "Kill for Peace!"
	3:28pm G: I didn't quite hear that, mark. Your pointed hood muffled the wording :-P
	3:30pm Alison Porchnik: Finally - some REAL American music!
	3:31pm Irwin: Durn'd strait!
	3:32pm seang: Honky Tonkin baby
	3:32pm Alison Porchnik: Even that "jazz" music was co-opted by those Euro-peeans. C&W is the only untainted music left.
	3:33pm Butthead: heh heh taint...
	3:35pm Detroit Mac: Oh come on Alison! I'm an Oscar Meyer Weiner is real 'merican and not C&W.
	3:38pm Droll: Alison, Don't be so hasty with that generalization: Lovely Miss BJ Snowden is pure as the driven snow. Not that Chris Isaak sold out, but that tune would sound an awful lot like a power pop tune without the taint of his twang.
	3:41pm Kobayashi: Hey Irwin! Happy 4th! I've got my 'FMU Flora T shirt on today too.
	3:41pm Detroit Mac: I have to always remind myself the Jim Flora was color blind (and to remember to steal his color palette choices in my work.
	3:41pm Alison Porchnik: @ Detroit Mac: But the hot dog has German origins. @Droll: I don't mean anything I write here. When not on this comment board (which is 99% of the time) I prefer to think of jazz as uniquely "American" music. Just as the kazoo is the only truly American musical instrument. @Irwin: Yay for Three Suns!
	3:42pm Michael: Damn auto nick! Hi from me too Irwin!
	3:42pm Listener John: That part where they sing "And the banker never wears a mac" in "Penny Lane" means that Paul is dead. A "MAC" -- A "MACCartney." Get it? I mean, the album was called "I buried Paul," weren't it?
	3:44pm Alison Porchnik: What about a GF cake?
	3:44pm Detroit Mac: Next you'll be telling me that Pizza and Hamburgers are not american! Go 4th and have one swell forth (all around the world)!
	3:45pm Alison Porchnik: Pizza was invented in Providence, RI.
	3:46pm Alison Porchnik: YAYYAYAYAY!
	3:46pm seang: Is anyone gonna play Vic Chesnutt's song, "Independence Day"?
	3:47pm Alison Porchnik: This song expresses Irwin's political leanings to a T.
	3:51pm Listener John: Detroit Mac, Read the article "Why your hamburger hates America" from the Washington Post at http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/your-fourth-of-july-hamburger-is-un-american/2012/06/29/gJQAPsi8BW_print.html .
	3:53pm Droll: . o O (The hamburgers hate us for our FREEFORM! I mean FREEDOM!)
	3:55pm Michael: Like this tune - there I said it. So sad re: Glen now too.
	3:57pm A.R.T.: http://i.imgur.com/0Qcn0h.jpg
	3:57pm Alison Porchnik: My friends, what is hamburger? Chopped ham? No - chopped steak! And what's better on steak than A-1 Steak sauce?
	3:58pm Ike: @A.R.T. @3:57, thanks for that link! That is a real true-blue illustration of great American awesomeness! As a true patriot, I gotta say, goddammit, let's all give A.R.T. a round of applause! HELL YEAH, AMERICA!
	4:00pm A.R.T.: @IKE - My pleasure, more images here: http://imgur.com/a/r15rj
	4:01pm Droll: Alison, Cracked black pepper? Hollandaise sauce? Balsamic vinegar reduction? A-1 is pretty low on the list actually. But if you get cake and A-1, well, that's another deal altogether.
	4:01pm Ike: Meat Glen Campbell?! Mmmm!
	4:01pm seang: Stryper loves Jesus
	4:02pm Listener John: I don't think this is what Elton Britt was thinking when he wrote "There's a star-spangled banner waving somewhere!" Or maybe he did . . .
	4:03pm Clark Barr: Got to figure out how to Fed Ex some Twinkees to Irwin!
	4:04pm Alison Porchnik: I don't eat steak. I prefer a good, medium-rare burger. No cheese anymore though - I'm lactose intolerant. My condition prompted a long discussion on the comments board several months ago.
	4:08pm Alison Porchnik: No such thing as too much mayonnaise! (I know, I'm a bad Jew.)
	4:09pm Alison Porchnik: This is a great song!
	4:10pm Listener John: I second Alison's opinion: This is a great song!
	4:15pm King of the Non Sequiturs: Shrimp?!? No honey, I'm coming home with crabs!!!
	4:29pm Alison Porchnik: Tiny!
	4:31pm Alison Porchnik: I can't tear myself away, yet I must go purchase avocados for guacamole. Damn you, Irwin, and your good playlists.
	4:32pm Droll: I wish I could remember Tiny Tim for his encyclopedic knowledge of those old songs, but like Michael Jackson, the freak show was so conspicuous.
	4:35pm Some California Farmer: http://www.avocado.org/fourth-of-july/recipes
	4:37pm Droll: To hell with cake -- I want "California Summer Avocado Pie"
	4:39pm Alison Porchnik: Thanks, farmer - I'm from the Central Valley, I know from guacamole!
	4:39pm Some California Farmer: That's the spirit Droll!
	4:39pm Droll: . o O (Probably more fat in the damn pie)
	4:41pm Some California Farmer: I'm sure Alison, you got me wanting some guac too. Peace!
	4:47pm Drew Steele: Come on-a My House - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wc9SqIVKeM
	4:53pm Alison Porchnik: Enjoy Our Nation's Declaration of Insurrection Day, all!
	4:58pm Droll: Allison, You overthrow your municipality, I'll overthrow mine. We are the 91.1!
	5:01pm Dave in PA: That James Flora looks like it's from the Ed Emberle school
	5:02pm Dave in PA: Emberley even...
	5:12pm seang: yes sir
	5:21pm noel: Didn't you New Yorkers know that when you let Big Daddy Bloomberg do what he did to smokers that the soda-lovers were next on the list? Soon, the only thing you'll be able to eat in the Big Apple will be broccoli (apples have sugar, y'know).
	5:23pm Irwin: I regret calling Mayor Mike a jerk. I couldn't formulate the word ASSHOLE quickly enough.
	5:30pm steveSF: Noel, keep your smoke and cancer to yourself. We limit alcohol purchases as a public good. Why not the poison in sugar drinks?
	5:32pm Irwin: @SteveSF: the point of Noel's gripe is that he DOES want to keep his vices to HIMSELF. As he wants you to enjoy yours, w/o nanny-staters intervening.
	5:35pm steveSF: Sure, freedom is great except when you and I have to clean up for the hospital costs when he drops his cigarette into his SuperGulp while driving without a seat belt while talking on the iPhone and swerves into a school bus.
	5:37pm Irwin: Thanks for the hysterics, Steve. Enjoy your Dependence Day.
	5:39pm Perspective: @Irwin: If all people could be responsible, considerate citizens even 80% of the time, we could eliminate most every societal regulation and law. Clearly, we've been irresponsible, lousy stewards of the planet, greedy and selfish. "Nannies" are required for childish, selfish behavior.
	5:41pm Ike: But Irwin is always responsible and considerate. And everybody should be like Irwin all the time. Therefore no regulations or oversight are needed. Ever.
	5:42pm mossy: are the nannies from another planet?
	5:43pm other david: Hoping for Ernest Tubb's - America Love It or Leave It
	5:45pm Irwin: @Ike and Steve: I'm a control freak -- over my own behavior, not yours. Return the courtesy.
	5:46pm Dave in PA: Amanda sounds like a juvenile female Wesley Willis...
	5:46pm berlusconi's nose: YES! Cookie Monster is back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Awesome.
	5:48pm steveSF: Irwin, happy to oblige until the Golden Rule is broken.
	5:51pm Perspective: Libertarians often make the mistake of believing everyone else must feel, think and behave they way they do, so why have any government interference because "I'm just fine and dandy." Perspective is needed.
	5:53pm Ike: Politics aside, Happy Explosions Day!
	5:53pm All Parties: make the mistake of believing everyone else must feel, think and behave the way they do.
	5:55pm other david: Yep happy 4th chaps, from an interested observer across the pond.
	5:57pm Michael: Thanks Irwin - off to our little town's parade!
	5:58pm berlusconi's nose: awesome show dude!
	5:59pm full_english_breakfast: thank you irwin! happy 4th!
	8:34pm Irwin: @Steve, Perspective, & Ike: There's a puritanical impulse behind your sniffishness. I'll bet you guys are great fans of Prohibition. How'd that work out?
	1:05pm Droll: . o O (I had to leave and I'm catching the last hour from the archives, and I see the sniping kept going after the show, which must mean it's my turn to push on a rope) I think the whole "debate" is ill posed because it conflates two different things: Freedom From, and Freedom To. Go Amanda! Go CW music where quality comes first!

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Artist	Track	Album	Approx. start time
Lee Morgan	Yes I Can, No You Can't (edit)	The Gigolo	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Charnett Moffett	The Star-Spangled Banner	The Art of Improvisation	0:02:33 (Pop-up)
Antonio Fiornascente and R. Stevie Moore	Disaster in the U.S.A.	The Future Is Worse Than the Past	0:06:25 (Pop-up)
John Murphy, piano	Eubie's Lucky Day (Rag Obsession)	William Bolcom: The Complete Rags for Piano	0:08:49 (Pop-up)

B.J. Snowden	America "America" by "B.J. Snowden"	In Memory of My Father & My Life in Canada's Atlantic Provinces	0:18:36 (Pop-up)
Joy & the Spider	You Are My Sunshine	Upstairs at Larry's: Lawrence Welk Uncorked (various artists)	0:21:08 (Pop-up)
Chris Isaak	American Boy "American Boy" by "Chris Isaak"	Always Got Tonight	0:28:05 (Pop-up)
The Joy Poppers	Feel For Nature "Feel For Nature" by "The Joy Poppers"	Sidonius	0:31:04 (Pop-up)
Sleeping Timmy (with Aly Rose)	Penny Lane	I Buried Paul	0:36:04 (Pop-up)
The Three Suns	Caravan "Caravan" by "The Three Suns"	Space Age Pop Volume 2: Mallets In Wonderland	0:38:52 (Pop-up)

Brian Dewan	Big Rock Candy Mountain	Words of Wisdom	0:45:10 (Pop-up)
Sylvia Boshers	Wake Up, America "Wake Up, America" by "Sylvia Boshers"	I Want To Be A Singer (Irwin's 2012 marathon premium CD)	0:47:51 (Pop-up)
Glen Campbell	Times Like These "Times Like These" by "Glen Campbell"	Meet Glen Campbell	0:50:49 (Pop-up)
Advertising	A.R.T. "A.R.T." by "Advertising"	Advertising Jingles	0:53:54 (Pop-up)

Peter Grudzien	Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere	Songs in the Key of Z	1:00:19 (Pop-up)
Noel Coward	What's Going To Happen To The Tots	Noel Coward Songs	1:02:19 (Pop-up)
Jonathan Coulton	Over There "Over There" by "Jonathan Coulton"	Smoking Monkey	1:05:45 (Pop-up)
Go Home Productions	(I Am The) Trampoline (To The Other Side)	GoHomeProductions.co.uk	1:09:31 (Pop-up)
Josh Turner	Firecracker "Firecracker" by "Josh Turner"	Everything Is Fine	1:13:09 (Pop-up)
St. Etienne	I've Got Your Music "I've Got Your Music" by "St. Etienne"	Words and Music by St. Etienne	1:16:27 (Pop-up)

The Frank Cunimondo Trio featuring Lynn Marino	Animal Crackers in My Soup	Feelin' Good	1:22:59 (Pop-up)
The Bird and the Bee	So You Say "So You Say" by "The Bird and the Bee"	Please Clap Your Hands	1:24:47 (Pop-up)
Tiny Tim	The American Pioneer "The American Pioneer" by "Tiny Tim"	God Bless Tiny Tim: The Complete Reprise Recordings	1:28:01 (Pop-up)
Gene Autry	Don't Fence Me In "Don't Fence Me In" by "Gene Autry"	The Essential Gene Autry	1:29:42 (Pop-up)
Brad Paisley	Welcome to the Future	American Saturday Night	1:32:25 (Pop-up)
Brother Dege	The Star-Spangled Banner	En Francais	1:38:05 (Pop-up)
Norman Blake	You Are My Sunshine "You Are My Sunshine" by "Norman Blake"	O Brother, Where Art Thou? (soundtrack)	1:40:39 (Pop-up)

Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra	Sotho Hotho Ro	Bum Bum	1:48:19 (Pop-up)
The Bran Flakes	Very Very Very Pretty Petticoat	Raymond Scott Rewired	1:52:20 (Pop-up)
Claire Judice	Autumn is the Cat "Autumn is the Cat" by "Claire Judice"	Songs from the Kitchen Stool	1:54:34 (Pop-up)
Seeburg Style 'K' with pipes	Missouri Waltz	Musee Mecanique: The Zelinsky Collection, Vol. 3	1:56:35 (Pop-up)
Stories	What Comes After "What Comes After" by "Stories"	About Us	1:58:56 (Pop-up)
John Davis	Danse des Nègres: Caprice de Concert	Marshfield Tornado: John Davis Plays Blind Boone	2:01:06 (Pop-up)
Dinah Washington	Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do	The Fats Waller Songbook	2:06:04 (Pop-up)
Bo Diddley	Ain't It Good to Be Free?	Ain't It Good To Be Free?	2:09:44 (Pop-up)

The United States Of America	The American Metaphysical Circus	The United States of America	2:18:26 (Pop-up)
Supreme Beings of Leisure	What's the Deal?	Supreme Beings of Leisure	2:23:04 (Pop-up)
Peter Palmer and Stubby Kaye (musical director: Lehman Engel)	The Country's in the Very Best of Hands	Original Broadway Cast of "Li'l Abner"	2:26:44 (Pop-up)
Tan Sleeve	American Blood "American Blood" by "Tan Sleeve"	Tan Sleeve	2:32:00 (Pop-up)
Billie Holiday	God Bless the Child	Sixteen Most Requested Songs	2:35:44 (Pop-up)
Brian Dewan	Tobacco's But An Indian Weed	Words of Wisdom	2:38:45 (Pop-up)
Amanda	Mrs. Quad "Mrs. Quad" by "Amanda"	Don't Mess With the Power Child	2:41:50 (Pop-up)
Steppenwolf	Renegade "Renegade" by "Steppenwolf"	Steppenwolf 7	2:45:39 (Pop-up)
Stephen Bennett	The Star-Spangled Banner	Good Wood	2:52:10 (Pop-up)
Hank Williams	No, No Joe "No, No Joe" by "Hank Williams"	Hank Sings About America	2:53:11 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	3:08pm Vince Furnier: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HImhpJAY89I
	3:10pm RWR: Shit, did I say that? My memory's not what it was. Totally true, though, whoever the fuck said it.
	3:11pm Mitt: I've been practicing in front of hotel room mirrors to try to sound just like Ronnie. Not sounding too close yet, but hey -- I still have five months...
	3:11pm Alison Porchnik: Psst. you spelled "lucky wrong. Or John Murphy did.
	3:12pm seang: Ragtime rules
	3:15pm dc pat: Oh yeah...it's Wednesday...
	3:15pm dc pat: Here we go...
	3:16pm Alison Porchnik: I always have that urge.
	3:16pm Losers: Fuck freedom. Send OPM.
	3:17pm Alison Porchnik: Independence from co-dependence
	3:19pm Alison Porchnik: If we walk out of the room, how are we supposed to listen to Irwin? It's a trick.
	3:19pm listener mark: Remember the War of 1812!
	3:21pm G: @mark: You know, after we won that one, Britain decided to ally with us rather than keep trying to get revenge for the Revolution. As Joe VP might put it, that's really a BFD.
	3:23pm seang: Massachusetts represent
	3:24pm Ike: Oh B.J. Snowden! "America/ a place where you can be." Hell yeah! Damn straight.
	3:25pm Detroit Mac: 54-40° or fight! Remember the Maine! The only good Indian is a dead one. Kill a Commie for Christ. I cannot tell a lie. The South will rise again. This land is your land. God bless America (not including Canada and Mexico)
	3:26pm listener mark: If the Confederacy had won in Gettysburg, Britain and France would have recognized the independent South. Extending loans and the support of the French and British navies. Eventually the North would have sued for peace.
	3:27pm Detroit Mac: Oh yes... I forgot the Fugs: "Kill for Peace!"
	3:28pm G: I didn't quite hear that, mark. Your pointed hood muffled the wording :-P
	3:30pm Alison Porchnik: Finally - some REAL American music!
	3:31pm Irwin: Durn'd strait!
	3:32pm seang: Honky Tonkin baby
	3:32pm Alison Porchnik: Even that "jazz" music was co-opted by those Euro-peeans. C&W is the only untainted music left.
	3:33pm Butthead: heh heh taint...
	3:35pm Detroit Mac: Oh come on Alison! I'm an Oscar Meyer Weiner is real 'merican and not C&W.
	3:38pm Droll: Alison, Don't be so hasty with that generalization: Lovely Miss BJ Snowden is pure as the driven snow. Not that Chris Isaak sold out, but that tune would sound an awful lot like a power pop tune without the taint of his twang.
	3:41pm Kobayashi: Hey Irwin! Happy 4th! I've got my 'FMU Flora T shirt on today too.
	3:41pm Detroit Mac: I have to always remind myself the Jim Flora was color blind (and to remember to steal his color palette choices in my work.
	3:41pm Alison Porchnik: @ Detroit Mac: But the hot dog has German origins. @Droll: I don't mean anything I write here. When not on this comment board (which is 99% of the time) I prefer to think of jazz as uniquely "American" music. Just as the kazoo is the only truly American musical instrument. @Irwin: Yay for Three Suns!
	3:42pm Michael: Damn auto nick! Hi from me too Irwin!
	3:42pm Listener John: That part where they sing "And the banker never wears a mac" in "Penny Lane" means that Paul is dead. A "MAC" -- A "MACCartney." Get it? I mean, the album was called "I buried Paul," weren't it?
	3:44pm Alison Porchnik: What about a GF cake?
	3:44pm Detroit Mac: Next you'll be telling me that Pizza and Hamburgers are not american! Go 4th and have one swell forth (all around the world)!
	3:45pm Alison Porchnik: Pizza was invented in Providence, RI.
	3:46pm Alison Porchnik: YAYYAYAYAY!
	3:46pm seang: Is anyone gonna play Vic Chesnutt's song, "Independence Day"?
	3:47pm Alison Porchnik: This song expresses Irwin's political leanings to a T.
	3:51pm Listener John: Detroit Mac, Read the article "Why your hamburger hates America" from the Washington Post at http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/your-fourth-of-july-hamburger-is-un-american/2012/06/29/gJQAPsi8BW_print.html .
	3:53pm Droll: . o O (The hamburgers hate us for our FREEFORM! I mean FREEDOM!)
	3:55pm Michael: Like this tune - there I said it. So sad re: Glen now too.
	3:57pm A.R.T.: http://i.imgur.com/0Qcn0h.jpg
	3:57pm Alison Porchnik: My friends, what is hamburger? Chopped ham? No - chopped steak! And what's better on steak than A-1 Steak sauce?
	3:58pm Ike: @A.R.T. @3:57, thanks for that link! That is a real true-blue illustration of great American awesomeness! As a true patriot, I gotta say, goddammit, let's all give A.R.T. a round of applause! HELL YEAH, AMERICA!
	4:00pm A.R.T.: @IKE - My pleasure, more images here: http://imgur.com/a/r15rj
	4:01pm Droll: Alison, Cracked black pepper? Hollandaise sauce? Balsamic vinegar reduction? A-1 is pretty low on the list actually. But if you get cake and A-1, well, that's another deal altogether.
	4:01pm Ike: Meat Glen Campbell?! Mmmm!
	4:01pm seang: Stryper loves Jesus
	4:02pm Listener John: I don't think this is what Elton Britt was thinking when he wrote "There's a star-spangled banner waving somewhere!" Or maybe he did . . .
	4:03pm Clark Barr: Got to figure out how to Fed Ex some Twinkees to Irwin!
	4:04pm Alison Porchnik: I don't eat steak. I prefer a good, medium-rare burger. No cheese anymore though - I'm lactose intolerant. My condition prompted a long discussion on the comments board several months ago.
	4:08pm Alison Porchnik: No such thing as too much mayonnaise! (I know, I'm a bad Jew.)
	4:09pm Alison Porchnik: This is a great song!
	4:10pm Listener John: I second Alison's opinion: This is a great song!
	4:15pm King of the Non Sequiturs: Shrimp?!? No honey, I'm coming home with crabs!!!
	4:29pm Alison Porchnik: Tiny!
	4:31pm Alison Porchnik: I can't tear myself away, yet I must go purchase avocados for guacamole. Damn you, Irwin, and your good playlists.
	4:32pm Droll: I wish I could remember Tiny Tim for his encyclopedic knowledge of those old songs, but like Michael Jackson, the freak show was so conspicuous.
	4:35pm Some California Farmer: http://www.avocado.org/fourth-of-july/recipes
	4:37pm Droll: To hell with cake -- I want "California Summer Avocado Pie"
	4:39pm Alison Porchnik: Thanks, farmer - I'm from the Central Valley, I know from guacamole!
	4:39pm Some California Farmer: That's the spirit Droll!
	4:39pm Droll: . o O (Probably more fat in the damn pie)
	4:41pm Some California Farmer: I'm sure Alison, you got me wanting some guac too. Peace!
	4:47pm Drew Steele: Come on-a My House - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wc9SqIVKeM
	4:53pm Alison Porchnik: Enjoy Our Nation's Declaration of Insurrection Day, all!
	4:58pm Droll: Allison, You overthrow your municipality, I'll overthrow mine. We are the 91.1!
	5:01pm Dave in PA: That James Flora looks like it's from the Ed Emberle school
	5:02pm Dave in PA: Emberley even...
	5:12pm seang: yes sir
	5:21pm noel: Didn't you New Yorkers know that when you let Big Daddy Bloomberg do what he did to smokers that the soda-lovers were next on the list? Soon, the only thing you'll be able to eat in the Big Apple will be broccoli (apples have sugar, y'know).
	5:23pm Irwin: I regret calling Mayor Mike a jerk. I couldn't formulate the word ASSHOLE quickly enough.
	5:30pm steveSF: Noel, keep your smoke and cancer to yourself. We limit alcohol purchases as a public good. Why not the poison in sugar drinks?
	5:32pm Irwin: @SteveSF: the point of Noel's gripe is that he DOES want to keep his vices to HIMSELF. As he wants you to enjoy yours, w/o nanny-staters intervening.
	5:35pm steveSF: Sure, freedom is great except when you and I have to clean up for the hospital costs when he drops his cigarette into his SuperGulp while driving without a seat belt while talking on the iPhone and swerves into a school bus.
	5:37pm Irwin: Thanks for the hysterics, Steve. Enjoy your Dependence Day.
	5:39pm Perspective: @Irwin: If all people could be responsible, considerate citizens even 80% of the time, we could eliminate most every societal regulation and law. Clearly, we've been irresponsible, lousy stewards of the planet, greedy and selfish. "Nannies" are required for childish, selfish behavior.
	5:41pm Ike: But Irwin is always responsible and considerate. And everybody should be like Irwin all the time. Therefore no regulations or oversight are needed. Ever.
	5:42pm mossy: are the nannies from another planet?
	5:43pm other david: Hoping for Ernest Tubb's - America Love It or Leave It
	5:45pm Irwin: @Ike and Steve: I'm a control freak -- over my own behavior, not yours. Return the courtesy.
	5:46pm Dave in PA: Amanda sounds like a juvenile female Wesley Willis...
	5:46pm berlusconi's nose: YES! Cookie Monster is back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Awesome.
	5:48pm steveSF: Irwin, happy to oblige until the Golden Rule is broken.
	5:51pm Perspective: Libertarians often make the mistake of believing everyone else must feel, think and behave they way they do, so why have any government interference because "I'm just fine and dandy." Perspective is needed.
	5:53pm Ike: Politics aside, Happy Explosions Day!
	5:53pm All Parties: make the mistake of believing everyone else must feel, think and behave the way they do.
	5:55pm other david: Yep happy 4th chaps, from an interested observer across the pond.
	5:57pm Michael: Thanks Irwin - off to our little town's parade!
	5:58pm berlusconi's nose: awesome show dude!
	5:59pm full_english_breakfast: thank you irwin! happy 4th!
	8:34pm Irwin: @Steve, Perspective, & Ike: There's a puritanical impulse behind your sniffishness. I'll bet you guys are great fans of Prohibition. How'd that work out?
	1:05pm Droll: . o O (I had to leave and I'm catching the last hour from the archives, and I see the sniping kept going after the show, which must mean it's my turn to push on a rope) I think the whole "debate" is ill posed because it conflates two different things: Freedom From, and Freedom To. Go Amanda! Go CW music where quality comes first!

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