WFMU: Fool's Paradise with Rex: Playlist from January 8, 2022

Listener comments!
	1:00pm Mister Dobalina: Mo MM a !!!!!
	1:00pm Andres: My heart!
	♥ 1:00pm Handy Haversack: Rex! Fools! Paradise!
	1:00pm Little Danny: Heck yes
	♥ 1:01pm Slamtonio: Get the hell on with it
	♥ 1:01pm DjLorraine: And NOW.... intense and extreme...
	1:02pm phil.vas1: Fools!
	🌮 ♥ 1:02pm Bruce S.: Hey Rex, Hey All!
	1:02pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Stupid. Stoopid! Stoooopid !!
	♥ 1:03pm Greg from ZONE 5: Afternoon, Rex & Fools!
	♥ 1:03pm DjLorraine: Rev Rabbit will this show prepare me for the Water Tiger year starting in Feb?
	1:04pm James Graham: Hey Rex, who does your theme song and what's it called? I WANT IT!
	1:05pm Brez: Oh, boy, it's SATURDAY! Fool's Paradise Day! Hooray!
	1:07pm Mister Dobalina: Zippers? Morals? Who needs that when you have a fool & his paradise?
	🌮 ♥ 1:08pm Mailman Tom: Haystacks lived in my hometown of Norwalk during the 1960s. Norwalk had a wrestling arena named the Crystal Rink where he made several appearances, along with greats like Bruno Sanmartino!
	1:08pm Rev Phil: Birthdays today besides Elvis, Soupy Sales and still with us at the age of 99 comic Larry Storch.
	🌮 ♥ 1:10pm Bruce S.: getting off to a great start!
	1:11pm borf: That was definitely not tequila. And this is definitely not you really got me
	1:11pm otto: BIG!
	🌮 ♥ 1:11pm luka: {howling intensifies}
	1:13pm Barefoot Jimmy G: I've waited all week for REX!
	1:14pm Mister Dobalina: I sold a portable mini disc with a couple of mixed music disc recently. People still want 'em.
	🌮 ♥ 1:14pm Bruce S.: there are no bad versions of stronger then dirt
	1:16pm Brez: Don't worry about the no drop-ins, Rex, we've got them in our heads and we'll just think of them at the appropriate moments in the show!
	♥ 1:16pm Greg from ZONE 5: Drop-ins, schmop-ins. I'm here for the pink elephants.
	1:16pm Steve: LOVE your show. I’m a dedicated listener. Any chance you could break out your Orsen Wells?
	🌮 ♥ 1:16pm Mailman Tom: I was hoping to hear Gloria Grahame saying "What's going on in here, an orgy?" from the motion picture, Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
	1:16pm The Butterman: Just in from playing in the snow. Rex was blasting to the entire neighborhood on the speaker out front with Butterboy and a huge snow mound. Funn
	🌮 ♥ 1:18pm Mailman Tom: Or Jean Porter saying "That's me, available!" from the motion picture, Cry Danger (1951)
	1:19pm The Butterman: I didn’t know theys were called “drop ins” but that’s cuz I got rocks in my head.
	🌮 ♥ 1:19pm Cool Hands Luke: AN IDEA: Have some of the FP Faithful call in and reprise their own FAVORITES of the drop-ins!!!
	🌮 ♥ 1:20pm Cool Hands Luke: I volunteer...!
	🌮 ♥ 1:21pm Bruce S.: Rex hasen't played"I don't like this set up and I don't want anything to do with it" in awhile
	🌮 ♥ 1:23pm Cool Hands Luke: I want to recite "Put a candle in the window, mother..."
	🌮 ♥ 1:26pm Cool Hands Luke: {...crickets...}
	1:27pm johnk77: more birthdays bowie, jimmy page, jerry garcia, and little anthony also odds against tomorrow on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfUvjdKk7S0
	♥ 1:27pm Rex: I appreciate the offer for live drop-ins, by the on-air phone system is even more screwed up than everything else here...
	🌮 ♥ 1:28pm Cool Hands Luke: Btw, have you got "Shoot The Juice To Me Bruce" by Splash Morgan and his Nine Musical Drips?
	1:29pm Mister Dobalina: More so than the Mini-Disc player, say it ain't so.
	🌮 ♥ 1:30pm Bruce S.: this is what I call Music
	1:30pm Andres: We need more odes to hog sloppin’.
	🌮 ♥ 1:31pm Mailman Tom: Or Robert Erdman saying, "Let's get out of this hot sun and move into a nice cool bar" from the motion picture, Cry Danger (1951)
	1:31pm David watts: ol Rex he got the best hillbilly tunes around
	1:32pm ed: howdy Rex & fellow fools. Haystack Calhoun! Had a buddy who loved wrassling and was a huge fan of the stack.
	♥ 1:34pm Handy Haversack: Someone get Cousin Tuny one of those welfare Cadillacs and a medal, stat!
	1:35pm David watts: those damn commodities!
	1:35pm Kathryn: Dear Cousin Tuny, Go Ef yourself. What a crap attitude you have.
	1:35pm SeanG: MOMMA!
	♥ 1:37pm Dominick: Mark a little "x" where you hit it so the next DJ will know where to hit it.
	♥ 1:37pm Handy Haversack: Kathryn, let's write an answer song!
	🌮 ♥ 1:38pm Bruce S.: A Loaf of Toast?
	1:39pm little tommy: Haystack was cool as hell!
	♥ 1:39pm Handy Haversack: Loaf of Toast was a pretty solid nineties college-radio band from Chapel Hill.
	1:39pm Mark in Toronto: Haystacks, please move that cow over here.
	1:40pm captain mike: Beware Andre the Giant’s “oil check”!
	1:40pm Sylvia's Mother: Is it true Haystacks once rolled over on to his little dog squashing him?
	♥ 1:40pm Handy Haversack: My dad used to sing this one in the car.
	1:41pm Brez: Thanks, Kathryn and Handy H, yeah that song was a real eye-roller. I'll send in my $3.50 for a 45 rpm record answer song, fer sher.
	1:41pm Jen: Self-righteous Cousin Tuny. Ugh.
	1:41pm lazy pierogi: 🤔😅🤯
	1:41pm little tommy: Too bad Hastack couldn't Big Splash Vince McMahon!
	1:41pm ed: if U ck?
	1:41pm Sylvia's Mother: You don't have to spell it out for me!
	♥ 1:41pm medson: Sorry to hear of the Mini Disc players demise.
	1:42pm ?: if you seek a ...what?
	1:42pm egould310: He’s covertly spelling “fuck.“ Great tune Rex.
	🌮 ♥ 1:42pm yerfriendpaul: This is beautiful, ha ha!
	🌮 ♥ 1:42pm Cool Hands Luke: Lou e C K ?
	1:42pm andy fuchs: Seriously, I thought If U C Kay was a myth....wow....
	1:42pm The Butterman: F.u.c.k? What the heck?
	1:42pm Brez: Now THIS is a great song!
	1:42pm ChrisB.: This needs a twin spin with King of Fuh.
	🌮 ♥ 1:42pm Bruce S.: You have got to play that again
	🌮 ♥ 1:43pm Mailman Tom: Thanks, Rex!
	1:43pm phat in lincoln: Lol. I now know there is more than one song with that title.
	1:43pm egould310: There was a rock tune in the 80’s with the same gimmick.
	1:43pm andy fuchs: PLay his follow up single "I used to be Greek, but its all behind me now".... :). I make me laugh.
	1:44pm ?: Rex, You have got THE GREATEST, MOST HILARIOUS SENSE OF HUMOR BRO!!!
	♥ 1:44pm DjLorraine: IF U. C. Kay ; )
	1:44pm TVP: Every time I hear the name Haystacks Calhoun, I immediately hear that line by Macho Man Randy Savage in Space Ghost: "He was a mountain of a man!"
	1:45pm egould310: April Wine https://youtu.be/MjmxUSsL-qk And the video is not as sexist as you would presume.
	1:45pm ?: he's no honey dripper...
	1:47pm phat in lincoln: Poster Children had a song with that title, too: https://youtu.be/j9OAOhAW7co
	🌮 ♥ 1:48pm Mailman Tom: I love Dolly and James Mosley!
	1:48pm Mister Dobalina: HarrCare & harrcuts.
	1:49pm ?: i think that girl between Haystacks legs might have a pistol trained on his...erm
	1:49pm Mister Dobalina: I often say this show should be 3 hours, 2 is definitely not enough!!!!
	1:50pm Stillwell Coney Islander: My brother and I were big 🤼 wrestling fans when were kids in the 50s. Haysyacks Calhoun was our favorite. Love the photo of him!
	🌮 ♥ 1:51pm luka: they truly have everything
	1:51pm ?: that rabbit stew maw cooked last month was extra spayshul
	1:51pm Mr C: Solomon Burke did a great version of I Feel a Sin on Atlantic..
	1:52pm johnk77: @eg310 thanks wfmu where i go for my canadian video content to watch after rex party is over
	♥ 1:52pm Handy Haversack: The accent led me to think that they were going to give directions in reference to the Big Chicken -- north Athens made perfect sense, though.
	1:52pm ed: I bet that store was a real honey pot of fun.
	1:53pm johnk77: wrap'em with cheater slicks
	🌮 ♥ 1:54pm Bruce S.: pass the kleenex
	♥ 1:57pm drr: @egould: by April Wine, Canadia's Finest.
	♥ 1:58pm drr: Oh crap, egould310, just saw your second comment. I thought I was helping.
	1:58pm Bill C: Hey Rex, Got a new aerial for the hi-fi. You are coming in loud and clear in Westfield.
	2:02pm Mark in Toronto: Goy a new antenna for the computer-thingy. You are coming in loud and clear in Toronto, Ontario, CANADA!
	2:02pm Mark in Toronto: Got!
	2:03pm Moammar: This is some A1 hipster vinyl right here.
	2:03pm Moammar: I actually felt my soul patch growing.
	🌮 ♥ 2:05pm Bruce S.: Go Sax Go
	2:10pm egould310: I want to go to Nel’s Grill.
	2:10pm Moammar: I find Kinfolks out there credited to James Wayne, not Wee Willie Wayne. Same dude? Both have the New Orleans sound.
	2:10pm James in Oregon: We hear you Lima Charlie in Eugene OR
	2:12pm Sylvia's Mother: I'm the only chick I know who likes wrestling.
	2:12pm alan the painter: I'm gating hunngry, gone a heat up that second 1/2 sandwich from Famous4thstreetdelecatession.
	2:12pm The Butterman: Some of these folks coulda been at a wang dang doodle as well.
	♥ 2:14pm Handy Haversack: All night long, Butterman?
	🌮 ♥ 2:14pm Bruce S.: love snake charmer
	2:15pm The Butterman: All night, Handy! That’s 2 wang dang doodle sun one week! Can we go for three?
	2:16pm The Butterman: Doodles.
	♥ 2:16pm greg g: @egould310 : You and me both!!
	2:16pm Andres: Full side! Yes!
	2:18pm egould310: @greg g my mission today is to eat fried chicken.
	2:18pm P-90: Is Rex awake?
	2:18pm kyle a.: Rex, that last set made my cat throw up. Keep it up!
	2:19pm Little Danny: Rex my CD player is broken I need your help!!!
	2:20pm johnk77: the stream is strong with this 1
	2:20pm Moammar: This is like Fibber McGee's closet at slow speed.
	🌮 ♥ 2:21pm dave miss: That’s a pizza box Rex.
	2:23pm johnk77: federal & king labels straight out of cincinnati the then music capitol of ohio
	2:23pm Mister Dobalina: Stick a calzone in that miniDisc player cause it is toast!
	🌮 ♥ 2:24pm Bruce S.: Go Bengals!
	2:25pm Mister Dobalina: Cheesin' it, Rex...solid stuff, as always!
	♥ 2:25pm greg g: @egould310 : Just finished the remnants of a tasty Nashville Hot Chicken sandwich from a place called Frank's. They are known for hot dogs but their chicken is amazing. if you're ever in Buffalo you gotta go! www.findfranknow.com...
	2:26pm french yak: @moammar - James and Wee Willie Wayne are one and the same....
	🌮 ♥ 2:29pm Bruce S.: lol that was funny Rex
	♥ 2:30pm Greg from ZONE 5: Pre-clicked!
	2:32pm Moammar: Delbert!
	♥ 2:37pm Handy Haversack: Well, at least this drop-in is working!
	2:37pm egould310: @greg g I don’t anticipate being in Buffalo, ever. But thanks for the tip. I added it to my lengthy list of restaurants recommendations. You never know when you might end up in Buffalo?!?
	🌮 ♥ 2:37pm Bruce S.: no brow is definitly were it's at
	2:40pm Andres: I’m going skiing and I’m a bum. The complete package.
	2:41pm The Butterman: I made poor life choices. I shoulda been a ski bum.
	♥ 2:43pm Greg from ZONE 5: Sigh. If only Astro Zombies was as good as its trailer (or The Misfits' song…)
	♥ 2:43pm solo mon: I’m going on a killing skii
	🌮 ♥ 2:43pm Bruce S.: living organs ripped from voluptous females
	2:44pm phat in lincoln: That Astro Zombies ad might be the greatest piece of writing ever committed to paper.
	2:46pm elkeno: i was singing this song to myself this morning, really. The J geils version.
	2:46pm Brez: Peanut butter!!! Thanks, Rex, I haven't heard this in forev!
	♥ 2:46pm solo mon: This person likes creamy and chunky peanut butter? Pick a side!
	♥ 2:47pm Don Gorden: Yo, Rex, I'm dad was childhood friends with John Carradine, they would put on shows Ah la little Rascals in the allyway
	2:47pm Richard W'hig: chunky or smooth? I'm kinda chunky and def NOT smooth!
	♥ 2:48pm Don Gorden: My dad that is
	♥ 2:49pm DjLorraine: Rex, thank you big time
	♥ 2:52pm Don Gorden: Michael Shelley and Rex made a day of unpleasant carpet cleaning so much more enjoyable thanks, see ya next week.
	2:54pm johnk77: great show
	2:56pm Richard Whig: I don't think there are any bad versions of Fortune Teller!
	♥ 2:56pm radioronan: Thanks Rex...until next time!
	🌮 ♥ 2:56pm Bruce S.: Thanks Rex, It was Great, and By the Way, If You See Kate, Say Hello For Me
	2:56pm Stillwell Coney Islander: Thanks Rex & Haystacks :-))
	2:57pm phat in lincoln: @Richard Whig truth
	2:58pm Brez: Bitchen show, def a mood elevator! Thx, Rex!
	♥ 2:59pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, Cosmic Rex!
	2:59pm phil.vas1: Thanks, Rex! Till next week, Fools!
	2:59pm elkeno: Well, it's been weird knowing you!
	2:59pm Andres: Thank you; Rex!!
	3:00pm Sylvia's Mother: There's a guy on this comments board who is a little too kissy with the ladies.
	3:13pm Matt: Hi! Can someone send me that No Brow song?

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Artist	Track	Label	Approx. start time
The Hollywood Tornadoes	Moon Dawg	Aertaun	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Invaders	Disc Jockey "Disc Jockey" by "The Invaders"	Whingding	0:06:00 (Pop-up)
The Braves	Mo'Combo "Mo'Combo" by "The Braves"	Vantage	0:15:04 (Pop-up)
Bobby James & The Dristells	Let's Go	Lant	0:15:30 (Pop-up)
Wally Willette and his Globe Rockers	Pink Elephants	Flag	0:16:40 (Pop-up)
Curt Jensen with the Don Henze Rhythmaires	Just For You	Pet	0:17:38 (Pop-up)
The Astronauts	Come Along Baby "Come Along Baby" by "The Astronauts"	Palladium	0:19:03 (Pop-up)
Cheek-O Vass and The Sola-Tears	LIttle Bo Peep	Twy-Lite	0:21:18 (Pop-up)
Macey Ross	Big Chief Buffalo Nickle	Veep	0:24:48 (Pop-up)
Al Casey	If I Told You Baby "If I Told You Baby" by "Al Casey"	MCI	0:26:07 (Pop-up)
Bill Browning and His Echo Valley Boys	Breaking Hearts	Island Records	0:28:06 (Pop-up)
Chuck Mayfield	Hog Sloppin' Time "Hog Sloppin' Time" by "Chuck Mayfield"	Starday	0:29:24 (Pop-up)
Cousin Tuny	Mortgaged Plymouth "Mortgaged Plymouth" by "Cousin Tuny"	Paula	0:34:41 (Pop-up)
Rusty Adams	If You See Kay "If You See Kay" by "Rusty Adams"	GMC	0:41:17 (Pop-up)
Marvin Rainwater	It Wasn't Enough	Brave	0:43:40 (Pop-up)
R.D. Spruell	Honey Running Wild "Honey Running Wild" by "R.D. Spruell"	Spiral	0:45:09 (Pop-up)
Jerry Reed	I Feel A Sin Coming On	RCA Victor	0:48:38 (Pop-up)
Jim Foster	Four Chrome Wheels "Four Chrome Wheels" by "Jim Foster"	Turret	0:51:57 (Pop-up)
Dave Dixon	Feel So Low "Feel So Low" by "Dave Dixon"	Ace	0:59:09 (Pop-up)
Frankie Lee Sim	What Will Lucy Do?	Ace	0:59:49 (Pop-up)
Wee Willie Wayne	Kinfolks "Kinfolks" by "Wee Willie Wayne"	Imperial	1:04:06 (Pop-up)
Teddy "Mr. Bear" McRae	Hi-Fi Baby	Amp 3	1:05:36 (Pop-up)
Little Walter	Crazy Legs "Crazy Legs" by "Little Walter"	Checker	1:06:52 (Pop-up)
Babs Gonzales	House Rent Party "House Rent Party" by "Babs Gonzales"	King	1:10:17 (Pop-up)
The Puddle Jumpers	Snake Charmer "Snake Charmer" by "The Puddle Jumpers"	Federal	1:13:14 (Pop-up)
Eddie Weldon "The Panting Panther"	Cooler Weather (Is Coming Soon)	Marly	1:24:09 (Pop-up)
The Fabulous Chevelles	I Want A Girl For My Birthday	Flip	1:27:34 (Pop-up)
The Sandabs	Crab Louie "Crab Louie" by "The Sandabs"	Bamboo	1:29:04 (Pop-up)
The Oddballs	Rockin In The Jungle	Rocket	1:29:49 (Pop-up)
The Ron-Dels	Lose Your Money "Lose Your Money" by "The Ron-Dels"	Smash	1:32:09 (Pop-up)
Al "Jazzbeau" Collins	Beat Love "Beat Love" by "Al "Jazzbeau" Collins"	Dot	1:34:05 (Pop-up)
The Moguls	Ski Bum "Ski Bum" by "The Moguls"	Panorama	1:41:12 (Pop-up)
Bobby and the Demons	The Woo "The Woo" by "Bobby and the Demons"	MCI	1:45:20 (Pop-up)
The Four Blazers	Peanut Butter "Peanut Butter" by "The Four Blazers"	Buddy	1:45:46 (Pop-up)
The Kingsmen	Monkey Walk, Pt 1 "Monkey Walk, Pt 1" by "The Kingsmen"	Sarjo	1:48:39 (Pop-up)
Rich Miller	Wha-Cha Gonna Do "Wha-Cha Gonna Do" by "Rich Miller"	Amber	1:50:50 (Pop-up)
The Big Kanuku	Big Kanuku "Big Kanuku" by "The Big Kanuku"	Groovy	1:54:42 (Pop-up)
The Teentones	Fortune Teller "Fortune Teller" by "The Teentones"	Don And Mira	1:57:31 (Pop-up)
Nick Anthony	My Baby's Gone "My Baby's Gone" by "Nick Anthony"	ABC - Paramount	1:58:34 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	1:00pm Mister Dobalina: Mo MM a !!!!!
	1:00pm Andres: My heart!
	♥ 1:00pm Handy Haversack: Rex! Fools! Paradise!
	1:00pm Little Danny: Heck yes
	♥ 1:01pm Slamtonio: Get the hell on with it
	♥ 1:01pm DjLorraine: And NOW.... intense and extreme...
	1:02pm phil.vas1: Fools!
	🌮 ♥ 1:02pm Bruce S.: Hey Rex, Hey All!
	1:02pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Stupid. Stoopid! Stoooopid !!
	♥ 1:03pm Greg from ZONE 5: Afternoon, Rex & Fools!
	♥ 1:03pm DjLorraine: Rev Rabbit will this show prepare me for the Water Tiger year starting in Feb?
	1:04pm James Graham: Hey Rex, who does your theme song and what's it called? I WANT IT!
	1:05pm Brez: Oh, boy, it's SATURDAY! Fool's Paradise Day! Hooray!
	1:07pm Mister Dobalina: Zippers? Morals? Who needs that when you have a fool & his paradise?
	🌮 ♥ 1:08pm Mailman Tom: Haystacks lived in my hometown of Norwalk during the 1960s. Norwalk had a wrestling arena named the Crystal Rink where he made several appearances, along with greats like Bruno Sanmartino!
	1:08pm Rev Phil: Birthdays today besides Elvis, Soupy Sales and still with us at the age of 99 comic Larry Storch.
	🌮 ♥ 1:10pm Bruce S.: getting off to a great start!
	1:11pm borf: That was definitely not tequila. And this is definitely not you really got me
	1:11pm otto: BIG!
	🌮 ♥ 1:11pm luka: {howling intensifies}
	1:13pm Barefoot Jimmy G: I've waited all week for REX!
	1:14pm Mister Dobalina: I sold a portable mini disc with a couple of mixed music disc recently. People still want 'em.
	🌮 ♥ 1:14pm Bruce S.: there are no bad versions of stronger then dirt
	1:16pm Brez: Don't worry about the no drop-ins, Rex, we've got them in our heads and we'll just think of them at the appropriate moments in the show!
	♥ 1:16pm Greg from ZONE 5: Drop-ins, schmop-ins. I'm here for the pink elephants.
	1:16pm Steve: LOVE your show. I’m a dedicated listener. Any chance you could break out your Orsen Wells?
	🌮 ♥ 1:16pm Mailman Tom: I was hoping to hear Gloria Grahame saying "What's going on in here, an orgy?" from the motion picture, Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
	1:16pm The Butterman: Just in from playing in the snow. Rex was blasting to the entire neighborhood on the speaker out front with Butterboy and a huge snow mound. Funn
	🌮 ♥ 1:18pm Mailman Tom: Or Jean Porter saying "That's me, available!" from the motion picture, Cry Danger (1951)
	1:19pm The Butterman: I didn’t know theys were called “drop ins” but that’s cuz I got rocks in my head.
	🌮 ♥ 1:19pm Cool Hands Luke: AN IDEA: Have some of the FP Faithful call in and reprise their own FAVORITES of the drop-ins!!!
	🌮 ♥ 1:20pm Cool Hands Luke: I volunteer...!
	🌮 ♥ 1:21pm Bruce S.: Rex hasen't played"I don't like this set up and I don't want anything to do with it" in awhile
	🌮 ♥ 1:23pm Cool Hands Luke: I want to recite "Put a candle in the window, mother..."
	🌮 ♥ 1:26pm Cool Hands Luke: {...crickets...}
	1:27pm johnk77: more birthdays bowie, jimmy page, jerry garcia, and little anthony also odds against tomorrow on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfUvjdKk7S0
	♥ 1:27pm Rex: I appreciate the offer for live drop-ins, by the on-air phone system is even more screwed up than everything else here...
	🌮 ♥ 1:28pm Cool Hands Luke: Btw, have you got "Shoot The Juice To Me Bruce" by Splash Morgan and his Nine Musical Drips?
	1:29pm Mister Dobalina: More so than the Mini-Disc player, say it ain't so.
	🌮 ♥ 1:30pm Bruce S.: this is what I call Music
	1:30pm Andres: We need more odes to hog sloppin’.
	🌮 ♥ 1:31pm Mailman Tom: Or Robert Erdman saying, "Let's get out of this hot sun and move into a nice cool bar" from the motion picture, Cry Danger (1951)
	1:31pm David watts: ol Rex he got the best hillbilly tunes around
	1:32pm ed: howdy Rex & fellow fools. Haystack Calhoun! Had a buddy who loved wrassling and was a huge fan of the stack.
	♥ 1:34pm Handy Haversack: Someone get Cousin Tuny one of those welfare Cadillacs and a medal, stat!
	1:35pm David watts: those damn commodities!
	1:35pm Kathryn: Dear Cousin Tuny, Go Ef yourself. What a crap attitude you have.
	1:35pm SeanG: MOMMA!
	♥ 1:37pm Dominick: Mark a little "x" where you hit it so the next DJ will know where to hit it.
	♥ 1:37pm Handy Haversack: Kathryn, let's write an answer song!
	🌮 ♥ 1:38pm Bruce S.: A Loaf of Toast?
	1:39pm little tommy: Haystack was cool as hell!
	♥ 1:39pm Handy Haversack: Loaf of Toast was a pretty solid nineties college-radio band from Chapel Hill.
	1:39pm Mark in Toronto: Haystacks, please move that cow over here.
	1:40pm captain mike: Beware Andre the Giant’s “oil check”!
	1:40pm Sylvia's Mother: Is it true Haystacks once rolled over on to his little dog squashing him?
	♥ 1:40pm Handy Haversack: My dad used to sing this one in the car.
	1:41pm Brez: Thanks, Kathryn and Handy H, yeah that song was a real eye-roller. I'll send in my $3.50 for a 45 rpm record answer song, fer sher.
	1:41pm Jen: Self-righteous Cousin Tuny. Ugh.
	1:41pm lazy pierogi: 🤔😅🤯
	1:41pm little tommy: Too bad Hastack couldn't Big Splash Vince McMahon!
	1:41pm ed: if U ck?
	1:41pm Sylvia's Mother: You don't have to spell it out for me!
	♥ 1:41pm medson: Sorry to hear of the Mini Disc players demise.
	1:42pm ?: if you seek a ...what?
	1:42pm egould310: He’s covertly spelling “fuck.“ Great tune Rex.
	🌮 ♥ 1:42pm yerfriendpaul: This is beautiful, ha ha!
	🌮 ♥ 1:42pm Cool Hands Luke: Lou e C K ?
	1:42pm andy fuchs: Seriously, I thought If U C Kay was a myth....wow....
	1:42pm The Butterman: F.u.c.k? What the heck?
	1:42pm Brez: Now THIS is a great song!
	1:42pm ChrisB.: This needs a twin spin with King of Fuh.
	🌮 ♥ 1:42pm Bruce S.: You have got to play that again
	🌮 ♥ 1:43pm Mailman Tom: Thanks, Rex!
	1:43pm phat in lincoln: Lol. I now know there is more than one song with that title.
	1:43pm egould310: There was a rock tune in the 80’s with the same gimmick.
	1:43pm andy fuchs: PLay his follow up single "I used to be Greek, but its all behind me now".... :). I make me laugh.
	1:44pm ?: Rex, You have got THE GREATEST, MOST HILARIOUS SENSE OF HUMOR BRO!!!
	♥ 1:44pm DjLorraine: IF U. C. Kay ; )
	1:44pm TVP: Every time I hear the name Haystacks Calhoun, I immediately hear that line by Macho Man Randy Savage in Space Ghost: "He was a mountain of a man!"
	1:45pm egould310: April Wine https://youtu.be/MjmxUSsL-qk And the video is not as sexist as you would presume.
	1:45pm ?: he's no honey dripper...
	1:47pm phat in lincoln: Poster Children had a song with that title, too: https://youtu.be/j9OAOhAW7co
	🌮 ♥ 1:48pm Mailman Tom: I love Dolly and James Mosley!
	1:48pm Mister Dobalina: HarrCare & harrcuts.
	1:49pm ?: i think that girl between Haystacks legs might have a pistol trained on his...erm
	1:49pm Mister Dobalina: I often say this show should be 3 hours, 2 is definitely not enough!!!!
	1:50pm Stillwell Coney Islander: My brother and I were big 🤼 wrestling fans when were kids in the 50s. Haysyacks Calhoun was our favorite. Love the photo of him!
	🌮 ♥ 1:51pm luka: they truly have everything
	1:51pm ?: that rabbit stew maw cooked last month was extra spayshul
	1:51pm Mr C: Solomon Burke did a great version of I Feel a Sin on Atlantic..
	1:52pm johnk77: @eg310 thanks wfmu where i go for my canadian video content to watch after rex party is over
	♥ 1:52pm Handy Haversack: The accent led me to think that they were going to give directions in reference to the Big Chicken -- north Athens made perfect sense, though.
	1:52pm ed: I bet that store was a real honey pot of fun.
	1:53pm johnk77: wrap'em with cheater slicks
	🌮 ♥ 1:54pm Bruce S.: pass the kleenex
	♥ 1:57pm drr: @egould: by April Wine, Canadia's Finest.
	♥ 1:58pm drr: Oh crap, egould310, just saw your second comment. I thought I was helping.
	1:58pm Bill C: Hey Rex, Got a new aerial for the hi-fi. You are coming in loud and clear in Westfield.
	2:02pm Mark in Toronto: Goy a new antenna for the computer-thingy. You are coming in loud and clear in Toronto, Ontario, CANADA!
	2:02pm Mark in Toronto: Got!
	2:03pm Moammar: This is some A1 hipster vinyl right here.
	2:03pm Moammar: I actually felt my soul patch growing.
	🌮 ♥ 2:05pm Bruce S.: Go Sax Go
	2:10pm egould310: I want to go to Nel’s Grill.
	2:10pm Moammar: I find Kinfolks out there credited to James Wayne, not Wee Willie Wayne. Same dude? Both have the New Orleans sound.
	2:10pm James in Oregon: We hear you Lima Charlie in Eugene OR
	2:12pm Sylvia's Mother: I'm the only chick I know who likes wrestling.
	2:12pm alan the painter: I'm gating hunngry, gone a heat up that second 1/2 sandwich from Famous4thstreetdelecatession.
	2:12pm The Butterman: Some of these folks coulda been at a wang dang doodle as well.
	♥ 2:14pm Handy Haversack: All night long, Butterman?
	🌮 ♥ 2:14pm Bruce S.: love snake charmer
	2:15pm The Butterman: All night, Handy! That’s 2 wang dang doodle sun one week! Can we go for three?
	2:16pm The Butterman: Doodles.
	♥ 2:16pm greg g: @egould310 : You and me both!!
	2:16pm Andres: Full side! Yes!
	2:18pm egould310: @greg g my mission today is to eat fried chicken.
	2:18pm P-90: Is Rex awake?
	2:18pm kyle a.: Rex, that last set made my cat throw up. Keep it up!
	2:19pm Little Danny: Rex my CD player is broken I need your help!!!
	2:20pm johnk77: the stream is strong with this 1
	2:20pm Moammar: This is like Fibber McGee's closet at slow speed.
	🌮 ♥ 2:21pm dave miss: That’s a pizza box Rex.
	2:23pm johnk77: federal & king labels straight out of cincinnati the then music capitol of ohio
	2:23pm Mister Dobalina: Stick a calzone in that miniDisc player cause it is toast!
	🌮 ♥ 2:24pm Bruce S.: Go Bengals!
	2:25pm Mister Dobalina: Cheesin' it, Rex...solid stuff, as always!
	♥ 2:25pm greg g: @egould310 : Just finished the remnants of a tasty Nashville Hot Chicken sandwich from a place called Frank's. They are known for hot dogs but their chicken is amazing. if you're ever in Buffalo you gotta go! www.findfranknow.com...
	2:26pm french yak: @moammar - James and Wee Willie Wayne are one and the same....
	🌮 ♥ 2:29pm Bruce S.: lol that was funny Rex
	♥ 2:30pm Greg from ZONE 5: Pre-clicked!
	2:32pm Moammar: Delbert!
	♥ 2:37pm Handy Haversack: Well, at least this drop-in is working!
	2:37pm egould310: @greg g I don’t anticipate being in Buffalo, ever. But thanks for the tip. I added it to my lengthy list of restaurants recommendations. You never know when you might end up in Buffalo?!?
	🌮 ♥ 2:37pm Bruce S.: no brow is definitly were it's at
	2:40pm Andres: I’m going skiing and I’m a bum. The complete package.
	2:41pm The Butterman: I made poor life choices. I shoulda been a ski bum.
	♥ 2:43pm Greg from ZONE 5: Sigh. If only Astro Zombies was as good as its trailer (or The Misfits' song…)
	♥ 2:43pm solo mon: I’m going on a killing skii
	🌮 ♥ 2:43pm Bruce S.: living organs ripped from voluptous females
	2:44pm phat in lincoln: That Astro Zombies ad might be the greatest piece of writing ever committed to paper.
	2:46pm elkeno: i was singing this song to myself this morning, really. The J geils version.
	2:46pm Brez: Peanut butter!!! Thanks, Rex, I haven't heard this in forev!
	♥ 2:46pm solo mon: This person likes creamy and chunky peanut butter? Pick a side!
	♥ 2:47pm Don Gorden: Yo, Rex, I'm dad was childhood friends with John Carradine, they would put on shows Ah la little Rascals in the allyway
	2:47pm Richard W'hig: chunky or smooth? I'm kinda chunky and def NOT smooth!
	♥ 2:48pm Don Gorden: My dad that is
	♥ 2:49pm DjLorraine: Rex, thank you big time
	♥ 2:52pm Don Gorden: Michael Shelley and Rex made a day of unpleasant carpet cleaning so much more enjoyable thanks, see ya next week.
	2:54pm johnk77: great show
	2:56pm Richard Whig: I don't think there are any bad versions of Fortune Teller!
	♥ 2:56pm radioronan: Thanks Rex...until next time!
	🌮 ♥ 2:56pm Bruce S.: Thanks Rex, It was Great, and By the Way, If You See Kate, Say Hello For Me
	2:56pm Stillwell Coney Islander: Thanks Rex & Haystacks :-))
	2:57pm phat in lincoln: @Richard Whig truth
	2:58pm Brez: Bitchen show, def a mood elevator! Thx, Rex!
	♥ 2:59pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, Cosmic Rex!
	2:59pm phil.vas1: Thanks, Rex! Till next week, Fools!
	2:59pm elkeno: Well, it's been weird knowing you!
	2:59pm Andres: Thank you; Rex!!
	3:00pm Sylvia's Mother: There's a guy on this comments board who is a little too kissy with the ladies.
	3:13pm Matt: Hi! Can someone send me that No Brow song?

Fool's Paradise with Rex: Playlist from January 8, 2022

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