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This is where all of culture and all of time are collapsed into one seductive portal and viewed through the panoramic lens of the exotic. Come and embark on an armchair-travel virtual-voyage to the heart of timeless darkness and beyond; embrace the numinous monolith of the exotic immensity. Let us find that place where hybridization meets its destiny as pure fantasy. Let us become observers observing those others who are ourselves. You wear your mask and I'll wear mine.

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
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Lancelot Layne  Kamboulay   Favoriting Blow 'Way  Cree  2017  orig. rec. 1985?  0:00:35 (Pop-up)
Nat King Cole  Go Down, Moses   Favoriting Every Time I Feel The Spirit  Capitol  1960  with the First Church of Deliverance Choir  0:23:57 (Pop-up)
Trinity  Song of the Midnight Hours   Favoriting Three Piece Suit  Joe Gibbs Record Globe  1977    0:25:47 (Pop-up)
Earl Zero  Shackles & Chain Version   Favoriting Shackles & Chain / Shackles & Chain Version 7"  Freedom Sounds  1977  King Tubby  0:29:17 (Pop-up)
The Congos  Feast of the Passover   Favoriting Arkology  Island  19??/1997    0:32:41 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Paul Shapiro 
Ma Lecha Hayam   Favoriting
Midnight Minyan 
 
 
 
0:35:54 (Pop-up)
Rod Taylor  Ethiopian Kings Version   Favoriting Ethiopian Kings / Ethiopian Kings Version 7"  Freedom Sounds  1978  King Tubby  0:46:41 (Pop-up)
La Mont Zeno Theatre  Go Down Moses   Favoriting Black Fairy  Taifa Records  1975    0:48:36 (Pop-up)
Claude Rains  Moses in the Bullrushes   Favoriting Bible Stories for Children  Capitol  1958    0:51:53 (Pop-up)
Sun Ra Arkestra  I, Pharaoh   Favoriting I, Pharaoh  El Saturn Records  1979    0:56:33 (Pop-up)
Ray Russell Quartet  A Day in the Working Life of a Slave of Lower Egypt (Part One: Dormancy; Part Two: Tremendum)   Favoriting Turn Circle  CBS  1968    1:04:56 (Pop-up)
Charles Mingus  Meditations for Moses   Favoriting Mingus Plays Piano (Spontaneous Compositions And Improvisations)  Impulse!  1964    1:12:23 (Pop-up)
Archie Shepp & Horace Parlan  Go Down Moses   Favoriting Goin' Home  SteepleChase  1977    1:16:02 (Pop-up)
Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids  Land of Ra   Favoriting An Angel Fell  Strut  2018    1:20:17 (Pop-up)
Gary Lucas  Let My People Go   Favoriting Street of Lost Brothers  Tzadik  2000    1:29:33 (Pop-up)
King Tubby  Israelite Children Dub   Favoriting Freedom Sounds In Dub  Blood & Fire  1996    1:32:24 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Paul Shapiro 
Lester Young's Misheberakh   Favoriting
Midnight Minyan 
 
 
 
1:35:30 (Pop-up)
The Congos  Feast Dub   Favoriting Congo Ashanti  Congos  197? / 2003  (Bonus track on 45 disc)  1:44:44 (Pop-up)
Max Romeo  Smokey Room   Favoriting War Ina Babylon  Federal  1976    1:47:53 (Pop-up)
Jah Woosh  Free Mi Ganja   Favoriting Psalms of Wisdom  Black Wax  1976    1:51:13 (Pop-up)
U-Roy  Chalice in the Palace   Favoriting Dread in a Babylon  TR International  1975    1:54:28 (Pop-up)
Tapper Zukie  Cally Dolly   Favoriting Man Ah Warrior  Count Shelly  1973    1:57:49 (Pop-up)
The Lone Ranger  Collie Rock   Favoriting On the Other Side of Dub  Studio One  1977    2:01:08 (Pop-up)
The Revolutionaries  Collie in Dub   Favoriting Earthquake Dub  Earthquake  1976  with Ossie Hibbert  2:04:33 (Pop-up)
Horace Andy  Collie Dub   Favoriting In The Light Dub  Hungry Town  1977    2:07:00 (Pop-up)
Keith Hudson / Third World Product  Callie Rocker Dub   Favoriting Rebel Dub  Third World  1976    2:12:00 (Pop-up)
The Skatalites  Herb Dub – Collie Dub   Favoriting Herb Dub = Collie Dub Collie Dub = Herb Dub  Jigsaw  1976  King Tubby  2:15:42 (Pop-up)
Mikey Dread  Kasha Herb Rock   Favoriting Dread at the Control Dubwise  Dread at the Controls  1979    2:19:40 (Pop-up)
Dillinger  Marijuana in my Brain   Favoriting Marijuana in my Brain  Jamaica Sound  1978    2:23:22 (Pop-up)
Big Joe  Smoke Marijuana   Favoriting African Princess  Trojan  1978    2:28:22 (Pop-up)
Musical Intimidator  Mariguana (Version)   Favoriting Frankie Jones & The Spear - Mariguana / Musical Intimidator - Mariguana (Version) 7"  New Star  1978    2:29:51 (Pop-up)
Maxie  Ganja Syrup   Favoriting Three The Hard Way  Silver Camel  1981    2:32:38 (Pop-up)
Jah Lloyd  Ganja Crop   Favoriting Herbs of Dub  Dip  1974    2:35:48 (Pop-up)
Lee Perry & The Upsetters  Bush Weed   Favoriting Revolution Dub  Cactus  1975    2:39:36 (Pop-up)
Lee Perry  Free Up The Weed   Favoriting Roast Fish, Collie Weed, & Cornbread  Lion of Judah  1978    2:42:45 (Pop-up)
Tapper Zukie  Liberation Struggle   Favoriting Man Ah Warrior  Count Shelly  1973    2:45:44 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Muszikás 
Farewell to the Guests   Favoriting
Máramaros - The Lost Jewish Music Of Transylvania 
 
 
 
2:48:17 (Pop-up)
Paul Shapiro  To Life   Favoriting Midnight Minyan  Tzadik  2003    2:56:21 (Pop-up)
Lancelot Layne  Kamboulay (Dance Mix)   Favoriting Blow 'Way        2:59:04 (Pop-up)


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Avatar 6:49pm
Flash Strap:

Hello explorers
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chresti:

Hello Flash and co-explorers
Avatar 6:56pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Chresti!
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listener james from westwood:

Evening, all!!
Avatar 7:02pm
Flash Strap:

Lancelot Layne is so crucial
Avatar 7:02pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Listener James!
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Flash Strap:

Kamboulay is just barely getting started: this is one of the ultimate history lessons in song, this is what Calypso was made to do, but rarely does on such a grand scale
Avatar ♥ 7:07pm
hyde:

hi! gonna be low profile tonight, but i'm here ;)
Avatar 7:07pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Hyde! keep it cool, low key, very wise
Avatar 7:09pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...needs a SchoolhouseRock cartoon...
Avatar 7:09pm
Flash Strap:

hi RevRab!
Avatar 7:13pm
Flash Strap:

Lancelot kills me everytime, one of the greatest and most unfairly overlooked/underrecorded of the later Calypsonians. very reminsicent of Chalkdust's style as the "Calypso Professor", but stylistically much more radical. Unusually good among his peers at synthesizing soca, disco, etc., and Rapso (which he "invented" more or less) as well
Avatar 7:14pm
Flash Strap:

Damn even Crispus Attucks gets a shoutout
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:14pm
Little Danny:

Hey Flash, hey all
Avatar 7:15pm
Flash Strap:

Hey LD!
Avatar 7:17pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Epic.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:22pm
doctorjazz:

Hi Evan and all you Explorers out there!
Avatar 7:23pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Doc!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:24pm
doctorjazz:

This is great!
Avatar 7:25pm
Flash Strap:

really cool production on this Nat King Cole, virtually all his Capitol recordings are just so perfect in that regard
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:26pm
doctorjazz:

A bit of Passover Spirit (sing this at the Seder... Can't compete with Nat Cole, though)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:27pm
doctorjazz:

Love Cole with the trio...
Avatar 7:27pm
Flash Strap:

me either Doc
Avatar 7:29pm
Flash Strap:

is this the best Trinity track? sometimes I think this is untoppable
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:30pm
chresti:

Jolly good time!
Avatar 7:32pm
Flash Strap:

This track can be found on the King Tubby comp, Freedom Sounds in Dub, highly recommended, some of his coolest, most unique stuff is there (and virtually nowhere else). just now getting into it of late
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:33pm
chresti:

Perfect
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:34pm
doctorjazz:

!!!!!!!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:34pm
chresti:

Lee Perry production?
Avatar 7:35pm
Flash Strap:

definitely Lee Perry
Avatar 7:35pm
Flash Strap:

there;s a few version of this Congos track, this one is from the lee Perry Arkology box set
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:37pm
chresti:

Those voices knock me sideways @Congos
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:38pm
Granny Spicy Tuna:

very sprightly!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:39pm
doctorjazz:

It's in the cart (the King Tubby).
Love this bed music...have this Paul Shapiro CD, saw him this past New Year Day at The City Winery, NYC, great show! (Part of my Microscopic Septet gruopiedom)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:43pm
chresti:

Enjoying the bed music, also!
Avatar 7:48pm
Flash Strap:

@chresti: That Paul Shapiro is oddly enough my favorite Tzadik release, truly wonderful music
Avatar 7:49pm
Flash Strap:

Hi there Granny!
Avatar 7:51pm
Flash Strap:

This La Mont Zeno Theatre LP is so intense
Avatar 7:52pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

What was I watching - made the comparison of how Germany handles its' Nazi history compared to what the U.S. does w/ Slavery...It's nowhere to be seen...
Avatar ♥ 7:55pm
northguineahills:

You went full Assyrian, Flash! even 2 millennia before Hassan-I Sabbah, where Hashashins (assassins) got their name from, and where the Muslims showed the Crusaders of the herb until it became noticed in Europe.
Avatar ♥ 7:55pm
northguineahills:

Damn, missed Trinity and the Congos!
Avatar 7:56pm
Flash Strap:

Hi NGH - no fear, lots of dub & toasting to come
Avatar ♥ 7:57pm
northguineahills:

(full Assyrian, references the image).
Avatar 7:58pm
Flash Strap:

according to some, that's supposed to be an early representation of cannabis, but in truth I think it's just cedar
Avatar 7:59pm
Flash Strap:

still, yeah, I can't resist the Assyrians
Avatar 8:03pm
Flash Strap:

not the best recording quality but I've always loved this Sun Ra live album, incredibly mystic shit going on here
Avatar 8:04pm
Flash Strap:

great little solo coming up too
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:06pm
coelacanth∅:

hey Flash & Explorers
Avatar 8:08pm
Flash Strap:

hey coelacanth!
  8:10pm
melinda:

Hi chums
Avatar 8:10pm
Flash Strap:

ah hello, Melinda!
Avatar 8:14pm
Flash Strap:

Mingus, my god, the guy's pretty good
Avatar ♥ 8:17pm
northguineahills:

If Doug was here, I'd intend a pun, "are you Assyrias?"
Avatar 8:17pm
Flash Strap:

hey that's a Doug-worthy pun
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:20pm
doctorjazz:

This Shepp Horace Parlan duet is great (they did another great album, Trouble In Mind)
Avatar 8:20pm
Flash Strap:

Shepp has such a voice, I love him so much
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:21pm
doctorjazz:

Ok,time too take the show to the car (as usual), night all, happy holidays.
Avatar 8:21pm
Flash Strap:

Oh, I don't think I've heard that, Doc!
Avatar 8:22pm
Flash Strap:

safe travels Doc, thanks for hangin out
Avatar 8:23pm
Flash Strap:

when I heard about this new Idris Ackamoor coming out I was just automatically skeptical, but wow, it's great
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:24pm
doctorjazz:

The duo's take on the blues. As this is a gospel tribute.
Avatar 8:25pm
Flash Strap:

gotta check it out ASAP
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:25pm
doctorjazz:

www.discogs.com...

The album on Discogs
Avatar 8:27pm
Flash Strap:

that's Goin' Home - looking at Trouble now: www.discogs.com...
  8:30pm
Dean:

Shoot, I passed up a used copy of that Shepp/Parlan, because I have Trouble in Mind and I confused it with Goin' Home. Will return to store in hopes it's still available...
Avatar ♥ 8:30pm
northguineahills:

Nice Gary Lucas!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:31pm
doctorjazz:

Oops...
  8:33pm
Dean:

Not the first oops, won't be the last.
Avatar 8:33pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Dean!
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Flash Strap:

yeah there's some great stuff on Gary Lucas' tzadik records, Busy Being Born is really good too
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:35pm
doctorjazz:

I meant my post, Dean. Gotta drive now...
  8:36pm
Dean:

See?! What'd I tell ya?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:40pm
doctorjazz:

The correct link.

www.discogs.com...
Avatar ♥ 8:42pm
northguineahills:

(freedom sounds in Dub is the release I have).
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:44pm
nostrangerer:

Heavy heavy and only halfway there. Lead on.
Avatar ♥ 8:45pm
northguineahills:

You can tell the Black Ark when you hear it, this sounds rather cleaned up if it is....
Avatar 8:46pm
Flash Strap:

Hey Nostrangerer! Glad to have you on board
Avatar 8:46pm
Flash Strap:

totally agree, NGH, I don't know the story on this but I doubt Lee Perry has anything to do with it
Avatar 8:47pm
Flash Strap:

but I like the difference in the vocal arrangement from the better known Perry production, and some of the instrumentation is cool too
Avatar 8:48pm
Flash Strap:

now THIS is the Perry sound!
Avatar ♥ 8:48pm
northguineahills:

The Congos after Congo Ashanti go from mediocre to crap (I learned the hard way, buying everything I could find from them). But Congo Ashanti is a masterpiece, one of the most brilliant pieces of music.
Avatar 8:48pm
Flash Strap:

Tip Top Romeo track, this
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Flash Strap:

often when I try to really spend time with Ashanti, I get restless and go back to Heart of the Congos, I need to get real with it and give it a true listen
Avatar 8:52pm
Flash Strap:

i haven't heard anything of theirs really, between that and the Sun Araw thing. which was good i thought
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Flash Strap:

great jah woosh cover: img.discogs.com...
Avatar ♥ 8:56pm
northguineahills:

I had a certain friend who did her PhD doctorate w/ the Congos and other roots/dub acolytes about a decade ago. She still gives lectures on it (and she's an amazing dj).
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chresti:

Yay!
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Flash Strap:

one of the best toast LPs, this
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Flash Strap:

@NGH: that's really cool, I wonder what she thought of that FRKWYS collab
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Flash Strap:

i'd love to hear that lecture
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Franco Twinkie:

Flash, You are conjuring a happy, happy spring day vibe!
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chresti:

Agree @Flash, good toasting
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Flash Strap:

Hey Franco! very happy to hear it
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Flash Strap:

obsessed for life with this Tapper album and this song on it
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Franco Twinkie:

Man Ah Warrior. Top shelve comical nightmare!
Avatar 9:00pm
Flash Strap:

"said education is what we need ... education is the topic of the day!" something i love about that
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:01pm
Franco Twinkie:

My copy is on Mer,The Music Of The Most High.
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northguineahills:

@Evan: I know I love the FRKWYS collab!
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Flash Strap:

@Franco: ah yes the one with the bald head cover!
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Flash Strap:

@NGH: the live record they did was cool too
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Flash Strap:

VERY laid back dub from the Lone Ranger
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northguineahills:

(I'm a baldy)(never had dreads, thank Jah)
Avatar ♥ 9:04pm
northguineahills:

(baldy in the rasta parlance)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:06pm
Franco Twinkie:

I could do a swinging bag of locks, but I like to wash my hair every other day.
Avatar 9:11pm
Flash Strap:

god damn this one's a classic for a reason
Avatar 9:15pm
Flash Strap:

I don't think Keith is actually involved in this track. weird record, wish i knew the source recording here, sounds like Sons of Negus
Avatar 9:22pm
Flash Strap:

great squiggles from Mikey Dread all over this LP
Avatar ♥ 9:27pm
northguineahills:

Back when I was 22, a friend of mine djed one of the largest modern art galleries in Jacksonville. A lot of blue hairs were there. My friend played Dillenger's "Cocaine in My Brain". We should have brought some fainting couches.
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coelacanth∅:

i used to live with a guy who had long, beautiful dreads. i'd bet many women were jealous, as it seems most "black" women with long beautiful hair bought it, and have scant hair growing from their scalp.
anyway i don't know how often he washed his hair. he was extraordinarily clean and tidy in general; but he put all kinds of stuff into his hair! eggs, yoghurt, mayonaise...basically, if something was rotting or a dairy product going sour or moldy in the refrigerator, he'd transfer it to the bathtub for later use!
Avatar 9:31pm
Flash Strap:

@NGH: hilarious
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Flash Strap:

had a whole family of Carolina wrens nesting on my porch; chicks hatched a few days ago. just looked out in time to see a snake eat the last of them, and choke down the mother. damn, nature, damn
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passiflora:

got lost in my work. distressing to miss this!
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Flash Strap:

@C: gross
  9:34pm
Dean:

Yep, nature's overrated. I'll never understand why anybody would want to "commune" with it.
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Flash Strap:

hi passiflora! the archive will always be there for you waiting with open arms
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Flash Strap:

@dean: hey, i didn't go that far. embrace the vortex of savagery and chaos or you miss the sublime on offer
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:36pm
chresti:

Prince Jazzbo's Jamaican Collie, is a favorite
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:37pm
Uncle Michael:

I trick nature into thinking I'm an ally for the tomatoes.
  9:37pm
Dean:

Yes, but "the vortex of savagery and chaos" is 1) a human (i.e., your) construct), and 2) you are necessarily of nature, as are we all. I admire the sublime in human interventions as much as in so-called "Grand" canyons.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:38pm
coelacanth∅:

sometimes i step in. if the snake's not in danger of starvation i might try to create some sort of barrier. i know it probably wouldn't work; and i know i'd be interfering with ...something. but enough wrens must get taken and enough snakes survive -and it's possible that the wrens were more vulnerable than they'd be if a house and porch wasn't there to nest upon.
  9:40pm
Dean:

Put another way, suburbs are kinda cool, too.
Avatar 9:41pm
Flash Strap:

hehe Dean I think you know there's a difference between a tree and a coal plant when it comes to which is more "of nature" but you can dig the burbs if you dig em
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Flash Strap:

@C: I usually don;t but I might have in this case, after watching them build their nest all season... but I came too late this time
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:43pm
Franco Twinkie:

The first time I saw the Grand Canyon I stood on the edge and thought to myself this is nice. Then I saw an airplane flying thru it and I quickly made a spacial calculation, then I got dizzy and fell down.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:43pm
coelacanth∅:

Evan, regarding the dreadlocks it seemed pretty gross to me too, but he never smelled, as far as i knew (except faintly of patchouli or another earthy essential oil)
Avatar 9:44pm
Flash Strap:

impressive, you gotta hand it to him then
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:47pm
coelacanth∅:

right,Flash. i've never witnessed a snake in nature take it's meal. that might've caught me off guard.
...i've successfully protected birds' nests from various mammals only to come out one day to an empty nest. -too sudden for them to've learned to fly.
they were probably taken by a hawk.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:48pm
coelacanth∅:

...and i'm kind of okay with that, as the hawks are diminishing.
Avatar ♥ 9:50pm
TDK60:

Darn, just gettin' here at the end of a smokin' show; will hafta check the archive later...
Avatar ♥ 9:51pm
northguineahills:

Clicky-starred the episode!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:51pm
Franco Twinkie:

Me too!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:51pm
chresti:

Good call!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:56pm
chresti:

Thanks Flash! Fantastc!!!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:56pm
Little Danny:

Thanks Evan!

Y'all c'mon over now y'hear?

wfmu.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:56pm
coelacanth∅:

Thanks Evan! take care
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:57pm
Franco Twinkie:

Flash, don't use to much Ganja Syrup for your Easter ham glaze.
Avatar 9:57pm
Flash Strap:

Thanks all for tuning in! very good night to you all, see you in the next room
  9:59pm
Doug Schulkind:

Been lurking but loving, Flash. Thanks for the ride!
  10:00pm
doctorjazz:

Thanks Evan.
Avatar 10:00pm
Flash Strap:

My pleasure and privilege, Doc, Doug, all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:04pm
coelacanth∅:

got a notion to revisit this one
Thanks again Evan!
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