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Favoriting January 18, 2021: Hang Onto a Dream (America), with bonus 2021 mixing

This spontaneous collage draws upon dozens of samples, speeches, and corporate anthems, creating an ambiguous if sometimes disturbing meditation on some notions of freedom. With appearances by Noam Chomsky, George W. Bush, Shell Oil, the NSA, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Barack Obama, Jello Biafra, John Lennon...and Neil Diamond.

Updated 2021 version is below:

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Artist Track Album Year Format Comments New / Special Approx. start time
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza  Hang onto a dream (America)   Favoriting Show #469, from Aug. 28, 2013 (1/16/17 edit)  2013        0:00:00 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Neil Diamond  America   Favoriting Jazz Singer  1984  WAV    * ***   0:00:00 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Unknown IT Corporation  I Have A Dream   Favoriting IT Anthems    MP3  of 2 CPU's  * ***   0:04:21 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Noam Chomsky  Class War   Favoriting Class War  1995  MP3    * ***   0:04:56 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Brian Reitzell & Roger J. Manning Jr.  Shibuya (field only)   Favoriting Lost In Translation s.t.    WAV    * ***   0:06:35 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Brian Reitzell & Roger J. Manning Jr.  Shibuya (field only)   Favoriting Lost In Translation s.t.    WAV    ***   0:07:16 (MP3 | Pop-up)
George W. Bush  Address to Congress 9/20/01   Favoriting   2001  MP3    * ***   0:08:20 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Joe Frank  Another Country Pt 2   Favoriting   1986  WAV  Life in America was inconceivable to her  * ***   0:10:00 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Joe Frank  Another Country Pt 3   Favoriting   1986  MP3  To have so much beauty, perhaps you had to have this much degradation.  * ***   0:11:58 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Jello Biafra  The New Soviet Union   Favoriting If Evolution Is Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Evolve (Disc 1)  1998        0:13:43 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Neil Diamond  America   Favoriting Jazz Singer  1984  WAV    * ***   0:17:11 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Brian Reitzell & Roger J. Manning Jr.  Shibuya (field only)   Favoriting Lost In Translation s.t.    WAV    * ***   0:17:16 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Madiha R Tahir & NSA  NSA recruiting session with students questions   Favoriting University of Wisconsin recruitment drive, July 2013  2013  MP3  Discussion here  * ***   0:18:54 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Leo McKern & Patrick McGoohan  You're just as much a prisoner as I am   Favoriting The Prisoner (1x02: The Chimes of Big Ben)  1967  WAV    * ***   0:21:02 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Joe Frank  Another Country Pt 2   Favoriting   1986  WAV  I can't stand the isolation in this country. All you Americans do is watch television and go to the movies.  * ***   0:22:52 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Shell  Growing and Winning (We Are the World)   Favoriting   2006  MP3    * ***   0:24:30 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Joe Frank  Another Country Pt 3   Favoriting   1986  MP3  The waste is enormous  * ***   0:28:18 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Timothy "Speed" Levitch  One of the great tragedies of civilization is this need to work for a living   Favoriting The Cruise  1998  WAV    * ***   0:30:08 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Noam Chomsky  The Undermining of Union   Favoriting Class War  1995  MP3    * ***   0:31:30 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Neil Diamond  America   Favoriting Jazz Singer  1984  WAV    ***   0:34:47 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Jeff Daniels, Emily Bergl  There used to be more time, before I had to work   Favoriting Chasing Sleep  2000  WAV    * ***   0:36:59 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ralph Richardson, Peter Vaughan  When I have knowledge of computers, I will be the surpreme being   Favoriting Time Bandits  1981  WAV    * ***   0:38:53 (MP3 | Pop-up)
American Standards  My Bathroom Is a Private Kind of Place   Favoriting Bathrooms Are Coming!!  1969  MP3  I'm free....  * ***   0:39:26 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Malcolm X  Stop Singin' And Start Swingin'   Favoriting     MP3    * ***   0:40:29 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Malcolm X  The Ballot or the Bullet   Favoriting     MP3    * ***   0:41:12 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Michael Nyman  Drowning By Number 2   Favoriting Drowning By Numbers  1988  MP3    * ***   0:42:24 (MP3 | Pop-up)
George W. Bush  Address to Congress 9/20/01   Favoriting   2001  MP3    * ***   0:44:23 (MP3 | Pop-up)
George W. Bush  Address to Congress 9/20/01   Favoriting   2001  MP3    ***   0:46:06 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Michael Nyman  Drowning By Number 2   Favoriting Drowning By Numbers  1988  MP3    ***   0:47:39 (MP3 | Pop-up)
George W. Bush  Address to Congress 9/20/01   Favoriting   2001  MP3    * ***   0:48:32 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Leo McKern & Patrick McGoohan  Both sides are becoming identical   Favoriting The Prisoner (1x02: The Chimes of Big Ben)  1967  WAV    * ***   0:50:45 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Noam Chomsky  Social Policy-Welfare for the Rich   Favoriting Class War  1995  MP3    * ***   0:52:32 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Harrison Ford  It's an absolute sin to accept the decadence of obsolesence   Favoriting Mosquito Coast  1986  WAV    * ***   0:53:57 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Iam Holm, Craig Warnock, David Rappaport  Evil turned out rather well   Favoriting Time Bandits  1981  WAV    * ***   0:54:41 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Shell  Growing and Winning (We Are the World)   Favoriting   2006  MP3    ***   0:56:45 (MP3 | Pop-up)
David Lynch  Blue Velvet interview (excerpts)   Favoriting Canadian TV interview  1986  WAV    * ***   0:57:35 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Irene Trudel  Today live 2021 on Drummer stream, mixed with now mixed with then   Favoriting   2021         
Ken  The half-way handoff, live in 2021   Favoriting   2021         
Ken  Everything is going as planned   Favoriting   2013         
Jeff Daniels, Guy Sanville  Always two steps behind   Favoriting Chasing Sleep  2000  WAV    * ***   1:10:39 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Timothy "Speed" Levitch  Been running from the cops all my life   Favoriting The Cruise  1998  WAV    * ***   1:12:28 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Unknown IT Corporation  I Have A Dream   Favoriting IT Anthems    MP3    * ***   1:13:35 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn  Full movie   Favoriting My Dinner With Andre  1981  MP3    * ***   1:14:04 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn  Full movie   Favoriting My Dinner With Andre  1981  MP3    ***   1:14:45 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Great Society Band  March of the Astronauts   Favoriting     MP3    * ***   1:17:00 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Malcolm X  You Can't Hate the Roots of a Tree and Not Hate That Tree   Favoriting     MP3    * ***   1:18:28 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Harrison Ford, River Phoenix  America is a toilet   Favoriting Mosquito Coast  1986  WAV  Why do they keep coming?  * ***   1:19:44 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Martin Luther King, Jr.  Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Address   Favoriting   1964  MP3    * ***   1:21:24 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Alessio Rastani  Trader on market crashing, dreams of another recession   Favoriting BBC, Dec. 2012  2012  MP3    * ***   1:26:29 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Barack Obama  If you can't trust us, we're going to have some problems   Favoriting   2013  WAV    * ***   1:28:52 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Malcolm X  You Got What's Known As White's Disease   Favoriting     MP3    * ***   1:30:10 (MP3 | Pop-up)
John Lennon  Jann Wenner Interview Part 1   Favoriting   1971  MP3  The dream of this generation is over  * ***   1:34:24 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Noam Chomsky  Terrorism & The War On Nicaragua   Favoriting The New War On Terrorism  2001  MP3    * ***   1:42:20 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Air Supply  Making Love out of Nothing at All (reversed)   Favoriting   1983  WAV  Written by Jim Steinman  * ***   1:45:11 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Neil Diamond  America   Favoriting Jazz Singer  1984  WAV    ***   1:45:33 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Neil Diamond  America   Favoriting Jazz Singer  1984  WAV    ***   1:50:40 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
 
Live 2021 I-miss-you mixing
Joe & Eddie  Sing Halleluiah   Favoriting The Best Of Joe & Eddie      with Les Baxter Orchestra    1:51:40 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ween  She Wanted to Leave (Reprise)   Favoriting The Mollusk  1997         
Henryk Górecki  Symphony No. 3, Op. 36: I. Lento - Sostenuto Tranquillo Ma Cantabile   Favoriting Fearless s.t.  1993    With Dawn Upshaw, London Sinfonietta, David Zinman     
Ken  I miss you, I've been meaning to visit, I have been thinking about you   Favoriting   2021         
Arvo Pärt  Fratres (The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra)   Favoriting Out of the Night      With Taverner Choir; Andrew Parrott     
Ken  I don't think you should be afraid to reach out to the people you're thinking of (you always run out of time)   Favoriting   2021    Life is about connection     
Henryk Górecki  Symphony No. 3, Op. 36: I. Lento - Sostenuto Tranquillo Ma Cantabile   Favoriting Fearless s.t.  1993    With Dawn Upshaw, London Sinfonietta, David Zinman     
Noam Chomsky  Being subjected to a master is intolerable (Ask Me Anything)   Favoriting Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal, Dec. 21, 2020  2020    Working for a master is intolerable, and American workers used to know it     
Ken  I need to you to embrace   Favoriting   2021         

Listener comments!

  8/28/13 2:02pm
Bliss:

Hooray.
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Carmichael:

Hey man, how's it goin'?
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kat330:

Hi, Kenzo, Yo, Bliss!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8/28/13 2:03pm
listener james from westwood:

good afternoon kenzo! sans context, this opening pair of notes is quite sinister.
Avatar 8/28/13 2:03pm
Dervish:

Sybil's rights?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8/28/13 2:05pm
pacific standard simon:

They've all gone to look for Armenia...
Avatar 8/28/13 2:06pm
fleep:

Baby Gojira or Giant Kitten? You decide!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8/28/13 2:08pm
pacific standard simon:

Giant catbox or tiny atoll.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

The Laughing Noam.
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fleep:

I'm mixing Noam Chomsky with CNBC.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8/28/13 2:10pm
Rich in Washington:

Guardin' Noam
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Chernobyl Cat.
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fleep:

@kat330 Godzilla, over there.
Avatar 8/28/13 2:11pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

oh yes, oh no
  8/28/13 2:12pm
Bliss:

That Bush thing was weird.
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Carmichael:

Remember, it's *Mer-kuh*.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...don't make me go nuke-yoo-lar w/ yer nazi-ism...
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- Duhbya.
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Carmichael:

Emphasis on *duh*.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8/28/13 2:14pm
listener james from westwood:

this is the first time i've listened w/ headphones on. definitely enhances the effect.
Avatar 8/28/13 2:15pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

hey, everyone, you're all in charge
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fleep:

I put dibs on Pope.
Avatar 8/28/13 2:18pm
fleep:

This is mixing with an Infiniti commercial. Keep it up!
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Carmichael:

Is this Jello Biafra?
Avatar 8/28/13 2:19pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Carm: Distinctly.
Avatar 8/28/13 2:20pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Jello is robot-resistant, apparently
  8/28/13 2:20pm
2HOPE:

i feel a knot
Avatar 8/28/13 2:21pm
Rev. Turnip Druid:

Present.
Avatar 8/28/13 2:21pm
Carmichael:

I have attended several of his group performances. California Uber Alles!
Avatar 8/28/13 2:21pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Gojira / Godzilla :
en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar 8/28/13 2:23pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- this week ?
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kat330:

Hunh, how ironic.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Kissinger: 'The U.S. does not have Allies - it has Interests.'
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Carmichael:

The war room discussion from Dr. Strangelove would fit in well here, Kenzo.
  8/28/13 2:27pm
Bliss:

Kissinger knows more about politics than most anyone on Earth.
He is also insane.
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fleep:

The fave game among Poli Sci types involved lying your ass off to 'allies'. Some of those guys are in State now en.wikipedia.org...
  8/28/13 2:28pm
2HOPE:

i am very wake, i literally woke up and visited the page. its dusk outside
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Rev. Turnip Druid:

holy crap.
Avatar 8/28/13 2:29pm
kat330:

Clearly he has a tin ear. You'd think this many decades in the U.S. would have put a dint in his accent at least.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8/28/13 2:29pm
listener james from westwood:

these days, they're playing less diplomacy and more illuminati: en.wikipedia.org...
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

en.wikiquote.org... :
- The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
Avatar 8/28/13 2:30pm
kat330:

Ooops dEnt...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8/28/13 2:30pm
listener james from westwood:

or as spy magazine perpetually dubbed him, socialite-war criminal henry kissinger.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8/28/13 2:31pm
listener james from westwood:

not to be confused with "short-fingered vulgarian donald trump."
this shell ... parody? corporate anthem? is jaw dropping.
  8/28/13 2:33pm
Bliss:

I'm surprised that Whole Foods Market Inc. hasn't come out with a version?
Avatar 8/28/13 2:34pm
kat330:

Well, the Internet has taken care of the working part. ;)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8/28/13 2:34pm
Rich in Washington:

US foreign policy reminds me of the scene in Monty Python's Mr. Neutron episode with the US Air Force van with loudspeaker driving through a bombed out city, apologizing for the inconvenience.
Avatar 8/28/13 2:36pm
Rev. Turnip Druid:

Hearts and minds.
Blood and souls.
Avatar 8/28/13 2:36pm
fleep:

The plan is to fire a guided giant cartoon hand, which will seek out Assad and give him such a smack.
Avatar 8/28/13 2:37pm
Carmichael:

I say we drop a giant boulder on him, and give him a tiny umbrella at the last moment to protect him.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8/28/13 2:37pm
listener james from westwood:

or a small sign saying, "HELP!" to hold up.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8/28/13 2:38pm
pacific standard simon:

@fleep, Carmichael - you don't think bombarding him with audio-collage will be enough?
  8/28/13 2:38pm
Bliss:

The more I think about the Coming to America song, the more I realize how gross it is.
Avatar 8/28/13 2:38pm
kat330:

Just read on Sunday that Indiana is #40 in nearest to matching the national earnings average. We were #30 in the late '90s.
  8/28/13 2:39pm
Bliss:

Love the way this part of the song is being used though.
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kat330:

A lot of that is due to union busting. While on the other end of the spectrum, municipal / utility worker unions are impenetrable and bankrupting the cities.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8/28/13 2:39pm
pacific standard simon:

'they've all gone to look for art media...'
  8/28/13 2:40pm
possibilitywaves:

limits of language / these combinations really do matter beyond what can be expressed...
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kat330:

If people consumed less—were willing to make do with less—there could be more time for creation.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- the U.S. (which is what we blithely mean by 'America') *has* represented freedom & opportunity to innumerable immigrants & refugees - incldg. nearly all our predecessors. 'America' is a large complicated thing - not a single simple thing to either Pledge Allegiance to nor to Hate...
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Carmichael:

Or the discussion in the movie Barcelona about high crime stats in the US compared to Spain. Priceless.
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Rev. Turnip Druid:

On that note [kat330] ... it's time to make ready a splendidly violent yard-sale...
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Rev. Turnip Druid:

EVIL had the greatest lines (time bandits)
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Carmichael:

kat, if you offer me a 44 oz soda, I will drink it. If you build it, they will come. That's where consumption is born, in the boardrooms.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8/28/13 2:43pm
pacific standard simon:

I consume mass quantities of art supplies.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

anything here for me? no? ok
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kat330:

@Rev: Why violent?? We've had a couple of those, but most ends up being donated to the Salvation Army or Goodwill. We use things 'til they're pretty used up. :)
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kat330:

@Carmichael: Resistance is NOT futile though! I was lucky to adopt a non-consumer mindset back when this country had a lot of optimism and hope among the young. There IS a way to keep it and tune out the Joneses.
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fleep:

Kenzo: you'll be mixed with Obama shortly, let's see what happens.
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Rev. Turnip Druid:

VIOLENT yard sale from our perspective. Violently enthusiastic. Brutally thorough. Everything must go. BUT no haggling before 12noon. We shall not be victimized by mere "people."
  8/28/13 2:46pm
2HOPE:

i am here
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Rev. Turnip Druid:

Everything from televisions to decorative absinthe fountains. But I keep the plush Cthulhu.
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kat330:

@Rev: Heh, OK.
@fleep: Yeah, I was going to stream that, too, but ...
@2Hope: Good to see it.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- & of course - the U.S. is *pathologically* adverse to / afraid of Socialism. Elsewhere, possibly older Civilizations - they have figured out that we will all Get Sick & need Health Care, Education is essential - even Art is a Basic Human Need. Unemployment is higher than since the Great Depression - simultaneously, our Infrastructure Disintegrates &/or becomes Obsolete - partly because Conservatives refuse to Invest in our Future - *any* Future - & employment positions remain vacant because Qualified people can't be found - & the TeaParties & Cons refuse to back Education...
Avatar 8/28/13 2:49pm
duke:

Is there an applause sign at these speeches?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8/28/13 2:49pm
Rich in Washington:

This is wonderful, Kenzo!
  8/28/13 2:49pm
Bliss:

"The President of the United States."

So what.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

it's shaped like a gun pointed at their families
  8/28/13 2:50pm
Bliss:

Right on, Kenzo.
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kat330:

Yes, Kenzo, kudos!
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fleep:

An all encompassing security system with unlimited funds? What could go wrong.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- I work @ a ThriftStore serving CommunityServices
( www.wfmu.org... ) - the danger being you come to believe $3.75 for jeans is normal
...they used to speak of the 'Post-Industrial Era' - that enuff Things had actually finally quite been Manufactured awlready - & CyberInfo would be the new Thing.
That was before Consumption again became a National Patriotic Imperative.
- Obama is President - he cannot but possibly represent what this Country has become. But Thx for this reminder of the Duhbya Administration years (two long Terms) - the 1st a stolen Election in which - ! - he quite lost the Popular Vote - the 2nd won w/ 55% (no more) for a standing wartime President. *Do you remember?!?!*: Everyone believed we had the Worst President in History - or @ least a strong contender. It felt like the American Experiment was Over & we should Leave. No less than that.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8/28/13 3:01pm
Rich in Washington:

David Lynch is a squirrel inhabiting the body of a human.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8/28/13 3:01pm
listener james from westwood:

digging the old tunes!!
  8/28/13 3:01pm
2HOPE:

i am often blind to beauty
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

California Uber Alles:
- What are the Clintons & Obamas? Yuppie Lawyers.

We've Got a Bigger Problem Now :
...& there is much worse...
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duke:

We're all normal and we want...
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kat330:

But it's abnormal to want beyond our resources. Normal can be wanting at a normal, sustainable level.
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fleep:

kat330 The Northridge earthquake shook the materialism right out of me. To this day I am always lightening the load.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- Recent psych studies have concluded that prosperity up to the level of Middle Class Security *does* increase 'Happiness'
- but for Wealth above & beyond that - 'Happiness' quickly flatlines...
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kat330:

@fleep: I missed that (left L.A. in '89), but growing up in a single-parent family as a latchkey kid, then pursuing my art for a decade after HS made and making around 39 household moves over the years make it impossible to get heavy into any sort of object love.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Ken - could you Post the new skedj *here* ?
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...this week's Show long since ☆ed awlready...
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kat330:

[By the same token, I've been giving it away far more than pulling anything in all my life.]
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- check John Densmore last week on Aeriel View:
..."'Currency' means 'flowing'"...
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kat330:

Kenzo, have you heard the Army Corps of Engineers "theme" song? Harry Shearer often plays that ditty to good effect (when talking about NOLA and Katrina).
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...I'm a Hoarder in sense of being an 'Archivist' - I like books & music & collectibles
- but in my old age what good is it?
...We're all hoping to win the Lottery or Die...SoilentGreen is People!...
- Oh! Another Shearer fan - I'm not utterly alone here...
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kat330:

This bathroom song rips off a tune from "Peter Pan" the musical, I believe.
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kat330:

@RR: I have been listening to Shearer ALMOST from his inception at KCRW. I missed a few years in my moves where there was no local station airing him and pre-podcast days, but otherwise, I'm one of his longest, most loyal listeners! :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8/28/13 3:23pm
pacific standard simon:

When I die, my friends and family win the lottery (all my cool shit).
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fleep:

MLK and Obama mixed. What fine work, Ken.
  8/28/13 3:25pm
possibilitywaves:

it is a good point the real "america" exists as amorphous and nameless underneath all of the ways those in charge try to make us hate it. we do have amazing lasting impossible to describe roots that are still here today.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- for me - Malcolm put the fine point on History is Written by the Winners - immensely important that way. They want to write him off as a Militant nutcase - analogous to they writing off Hendrix as Artless & Drug-Addled - &/or Rockers as prolonged-adolescent damaged goods - rather than the New Gnostics (Knowers) that we are.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8/28/13 3:26pm
Rich in Washington:

It's depressingly ironic to me that on the anniversary of Dr. King's speech, Barack Obama, who in some ways can be seen as a fulfillment of King's vision, is now preparing for a continuation of the US's imperialist 'nation-building' program.
Twerk-tweak that, mainstream media.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- well - Hendrix told the Panthers - 'you're doing what you can, & I'm doing what I have to do'...
  8/28/13 3:28pm
possibilitywaves:

^^^ RevolutionrabbitNov63, Yes. last year around this time i read Exegesis by Philip Kindred and his conceptuality of 20th and by extension 21st century existence is that it is not dissimilar to the beginning of "AD" time of some type of existential struggle between gnostics and "romans"
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Doug Schulkind:

@Rich in Washington
What? You were expecting Huey P. Newton?
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duke:

My son say that when in doubt about what to do in the movies, blow shit up. Politics seems to work the same way.
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Rich in Washington:

Putney Swope!
  8/28/13 3:29pm
Bliss:

Obama is not an emodiment of the dream Dr. King Jr. had at all.

Obama just proves blacks can be as evil as whites.
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fleep:

@Rich in Washingon Presidents get aboard a moving train of history. They are the conductors, but not the engineers.
  8/28/13 3:31pm
Bliss:

or half blacks or half whites or whatever.

Race means nothing.
Mean and nice in every race.
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Rich in Washington:

@fleep: I agree. THat's where I'm at now with it. Also, look how much Barack's aged in less than eight years. I'll bet it's a soul-crushing job in the extreme.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...in the World Wars, the U.S. became the 'Arsenal of Democracy'. When Ike - a real General - left Office - he warned of the Military-Industriall Complex. Phil Ochs sang 'We're the Cops of the World'...
- Obama is Mixed Race. Everyone forces him to the Middle of the Bus...
duke: - Wow.
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Rich in Washington:

i140.photobucket.com...
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

*All* President's hair goes white pretty quick.
- Technically - on paper - the job of the President is to Protect the Constitution. In the Realpolitik - it ends being making *anything* & *everything* that might be Wrong in the Free World - & so really the World - Right.
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Doug Schulkind:

By any Neil necessary.
  8/28/13 3:36pm
Bliss:

Let go of the "dream".
  8/28/13 3:38pm
Bliss:

(Wo)man, Lennon was awesome.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

possibilitywaves - ✔
Bliss: On cue to that - John Lennon...
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Rev. Turnip Druid:

oh EVIL, i love you so.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...as a Metaphysician - a very Lennonesque conclusion:
- In the Age of ♒Aquarius - learn to Rule Yourself - don't hire other people (Governement) to do it.
- ♒Aquarius is the People, Circulation, FreeFlowing Information & Energy
- Opposite ♌Leo which is Monarchy & Rulers.
(The Lion & the Unicorn.)
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I will read you all and reply you all later sooner yesterday
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kat330:

After seeing what's going on in Detroit, Turnip, thought your Isle of Dogs might have been inspired by the plight of abandoned dogs there (rather than badger culling in the UK ;).
  8/28/13 3:45pm
Bliss:

Show's great, Kenzo.
  8/28/13 3:45pm
2HOPE:

beauty is there
  8/28/13 3:46pm
possibilitywaves:

``i would really like to help you, but i am a nervous messed up marionette, flying off on a prison ship...and the dinosaurs are roaming the earth...`` but maybe not... maybe not...
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Rev. Turnip Druid:

The Detroit thing is a definite Ballard scenario. He'd be fascinated, methinks.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...this also means that in claiming our Freedom from Leaders - we have to - as Lennon put it - 'Learn to Swim'
- Grow Up & - as Jung put it 'Individualize' - take Responsibility
...as Lennon said - what Violent overthrow of the Institution has ever worked & brought the Better World?
- Yet - Speaking Truth to Power *must* be part of the Process - to acKnowledge what *we* have become...
  8/28/13 3:48pm
Bliss:

Unaware fo the abandoned dogs in Detroi issue, entirely.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

also,
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kat330:

@RR: Year of the Cabbit, Shearer, Lennon and now a Jungster, too? I'd like to think of it as a tribe of like-mindedness, very different from a cult of hive-mindedness.
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kat330:

@Bliss: Something like 70,000 homes just abandoned there, and often the owners left their dogs behind. Some join in packs to survive.
  8/28/13 3:52pm
Bliss:

Those sweeties.
What a mess.
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duke:

Great show kenzo!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

'Almost Lost Detroit' by Dale Earnhart Jr.Jr. should be heard more often.
- well - ♒Aquarius is the Sign of the (Rebel) Individual but also Society - the Paradox of our Age !
- Joseph Campbell says it will take some time for Story-Telling Monkey (HomoSapiens) to get a Story together *this* time !!...
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

We have to Individuate - be Grown Up Adults
- & also learn what a Tribe is - & how it Works.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

OUTSTANDING KENZO.
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Doug Schulkind:

If a rabbi has some tea, does that make him/her rabbit?
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

My name is David.
  8/28/13 3:55pm
Bliss:

This show is important.
  8/28/13 3:56pm
Bliss:

Barack is not important.
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fleep:

Thanks, Ken.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

thank you thank you thank you!
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Rich in Washington:

Thank you, Kenzo!!!
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

@Rich: "Guardin' Noam": Good one!
@james from westwood: Oh yes, these shows are made for headphones.
@Kenzo: And another thing...
@fleep: Thanks for mixing the show with the alternate-reality Media.
@2HOPE: Welcome!
@Carmichael: No fighting in the war room!
@james: Shell corporate anthem is real as far as I know.
@Rich: "US foreign policy reminds me of the scene in Monty Python...with the US Air Force van with loudspeaker driving through a bombed out city, apologizing for the inconvenience." When was the last time the US gov't apologized? By definition, everything done here is correct.
Welcome to then, Bliss, kat330, Dervish, pacific standard simon, Rev. Turnip Druid, possibilitywaves, duke, Doug, everyone who would call or email, and everyone else!
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ParUbi:

Joining!
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chresti:

Hello again!
  11/13/19 5:02pm
John from Florham park:

Hello fellow listeners
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WR:

Oh, a repeat show. That's OKAY, I'm new here, so all new to me.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Algorithmically determined to be new to all. And technically has never been here before in this arrangement.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

We'll see what it means 6 years this on...
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Welcome this new, ParUbi, chresti, John, and WR!
  11/13/19 5:08pm
John from Florham park:

@Kenzo just happened on your fine show
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

@John Brace
  11/13/19 5:12pm
John from Florham park:

I am bracing for ramming speed
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

We are the world
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northguineahills:

Thanks, Ken!
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

ngh, nod
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ParUbi:

Michael Nyman / Drowning by Numbers
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I was just thinking the same thing.
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ParUbi:

unmistakable idea man
  11/13/19 5:57pm
Quinn:

John from Florham park, every time I see your name I try to remember to go out to Ely's Tropical Fish to get some new mystery snails, they keep escaping from our aquarium
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Seems like David Cronenberg is different from David Lynch this way. He says he does set out to disturb an audience.
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WR:

Ok, back into the hole for me (subway) twas pleasant being connected while I could.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Farewell WR
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ParUbi:

be seeing you, WR!
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Yes, Quinn
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Carmichael:

Good after the noon, Kenzworth.
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ParUbi:

disturbance is secondary, but sometimes things need to be reshaped
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Welcome to the half, Carmichael
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chresti:

The bathroom is a private kind of place
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

At last I can finally be me
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cklequ:

I just tuned in. Out of habit i clicked the 'listen to this show' button, and then realized the listen live button was further up the screen. Now i'm listening to the first and second half of the show in unison.

I feel like i'm cheating in some way.
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ParUbi:

i have a room which is pitch dark, no windows. perfect for listening and privacy.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

@cklequ It's a setup
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

They come to America
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ParUbi:

i think that's a great idea! starting it over randomly
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Kerouac & Ginsberg picking up sheets Burroughs had all over & collating 'Naked Lunch'...start anywhere...
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ParUbi:

those two were a pair of regular cut-ups
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Hey cklequ's playing the beginning over all of us
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

James Baldwin blows my mind.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I should look for speeches
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

(btw)
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Said that Malcolm & Martin just got closer to each other's views...
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Martin - just...Musically Eloquent.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

For sure, Martin Luther King Jr.'s later stuff was way more revolutionary
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

My big takeaway from Malcolm is that History is Written by the Winners.
He really lifts the veil on this...
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

"To have so much beauty, perhaps you had to have this much degradation."
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Nobody used to live here
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...rather - he blew a fat hole in it...
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

The dream is over.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Such a Punk that Lennon.
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Carmichael:

Great, now I have THIS song going through my head ...
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Neil Diamond time, patriot
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Tribute to his penniless Immigrant Grandma.
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Hi, everyone.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

"The song was also the one he was most proud of, partly because of when it was later used: national news shows played it when the hostages were shown returning home after the Iran hostage crisis ended"
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

"It also became the anthem of his world tour two weeks after the attacks on America on September 11, 2001, when he changed the lyric at the end from; "They're coming to America", to "Stand up for America!""
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...oh well...
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I.e. fight, fight, fight...
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...hostages released the very second Reagan is inaugurated...ho hum...
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Carmichael:

Was the irony of your show against today's proceedings intentional?
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

"In January 1987, Diamond sang the national anthem at the Super Bowl."
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

All is ever coincidental
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Oh here's the best one: "In 1992, he performed for President George H.W. Bush's final Christmas in Washington NBC special."
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Ooh, I'm just two clicks away from this sentence:
"12 Songs also became noteworthy as one of the last albums to be pressed and released by Sony BMG with the Extended Copy Protection software embedded in the disc. (See the 2005 Sony BMG CD copy protection scandal.) "
And on that BMG scandal page is a link to my article series from the time: blog.wfmu.org...
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ParUbi:

and today is Fred Rogers day
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Also Felix Unger Day.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Wrapping up "Hang onto a dream (America)" now. We'll collapse into the end of some dance music wave thing I made last year...
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ParUbi:

i hear some Peaksy guitar
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chresti:

Thanks Kenzo!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11/13/19 6:52pm
ParUbi:

thanks!
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Thank you my dreamfriends and Felix Ungers
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Thanks for your recent extra pledge, Ken FHP!
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chresti:

I love the peaksy stuff, has an opiated feeling to it
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Most welcome, Kenzo. This is good freeform.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

We're here right now on the radio, 2-4pm ET, and then here on the stream, 3-5pm ET. Check?
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

This moment now to be folded in, here, in one hour...
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fred:

It can get bitter seeing some names that will no longer check in
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Historical archive preservation
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I'm pretty sure it was dead air for the first 7 minutes. Moment of silence for the disappeared?
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fred:

I think there was some silence, not sure how long (I switched computers at the time)
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Too many buttons, I forgot one
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Recent tradition with these replays has been I do something new not only at random sneaky and overlapping moments in the midst, but some new collage at the end. We'll see what I do with those 10 mins at the end. Will also plan to run 7 minutes past the end. Which means the live part will start 3 minutes before the end and will run until 7 minutes after the end.
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Webhamster Henry:

The "end" that is.
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fred:

That Shell version somehow manages to outcringe the original. Great find. I had managed to forget about it... Might be tougher this time
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Webhamster Henry:

Did you catch Carlo on Radio Row yesterday? www.wfmu.org...
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I remember when people thought collage was too weird
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fred:

@Webhamster Henry: Thanks for the reminder, out of my listening hours, but I'll get to the archive eventually
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

OK gotta get some December 2020 Chomsky into here
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Wheeeeew ok in an hour you'll hear me here
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

That is, now, 20-21
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Oh, it's Irene Trudel
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Webhamster Henry:

Irene talking under.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I'm bewildered every time
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northguineahills:

*stumbles through the fifth wall* . Are we in a multidimentional dance hexagon?
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

nghgn
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northguineahills:

Watched King in the Wilderness this weekend (a doc on the last two years of his life, recommended.) Always great to learn something new....
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

The strong fall and seed our roots
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Everything Neil Diamond ever did is justified so I could do this show
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

This show is very rare in that the loop plays from the first moment to the last.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

So here's the last 10 minutes except we're 7 minutes delayed so I won't start feeling nostalgic for the present for a few more minutes yet
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Here, now we're today, and will be for 7 more minutes
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Webhamster Henry:

There's your Noam 2021.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

All right, the bonus 2021 audio archive is now posted. Thanks, everyone!
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