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The Polka Kings  Hoopai Shoopai Polka   Favoriting Let's All Polka  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
 
The Dynatones  Speaking Polish Polka   Favoriting Where's Your Portki?  0:06:10 (Pop-up)
Frank Wojnarowshi i Jego Orkiestra  Fiu, Fiu Polka   Favoriting Polskie Piosenki  0:08:51 (Pop-up)
Orkiestra Polskiei Karuzeli  Kuku-Kuku (Kokoszka)   Favoriting 78 single  0:11:42 (Pop-up)
Jerry Lewis  Pa-Pa-Pa-Pa Polka   Favoriting Capitol Collectors Series  0:14:33 (Pop-up)
Jerry Lewis  I Like It - I Like It   Favoriting Capitol Collectors Series  0:16:44 (Pop-up)
Don Robertson  The Happy Whistler   Favoriting 45 single  0:19:10 (Pop-up)
Earle Hagen & His Orchestra  The Fishing Hole   Favoriting mp3  0:21:33 (Pop-up)
Fred Lowrey  William Tell Overature   Favoriting Whistle a Happy Tune!  0:23:49 (Pop-up)
 
Bernie Witkowshki and His Silver Bell Orchestra  Atlantic City Polka   Favoriting 78 single  0:27:52 (Pop-up)
Lorna Anderson  Dark Eyes   Favoriting Remembers the Accordion's Golden Age  0:30:29 (Pop-up)
Dick Contino  Lady of Spain   Favoriting Yours, Dick Contino  0:34:09 (Pop-up)
Trevor Taylor & Allan Quennell  The Jolly Cabellero   Favoriting Interfusion  0:35:58 (Pop-up)
 
Joan Mayno  Pin-Up Polka   Favoriting 78 single  0:40:09 (Pop-up)
Stanley Pulaski and His Orchestra  Strip Polka   Favoriting Polka Party Vol. 2  0:42:30 (Pop-up)
Art Van Damme  Blue Lou   Favoriting Martini Time  0:45:39 (Pop-up)
 
Joe Princie  My Mother-in-Law   Favoriting 78 single  0:49:28 (Pop-up)
Lonnie Johnson  My Mother's Eyes   Favoriting The Complete Folkways Recordings  0:51:49 (Pop-up)
 
Gene Wisniewski Harmony Bells Orkiestra  Dobra Noc (Good Night)   Favoriting 78 single  0:56:49 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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Miss G:

Yipolski!
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Asheville Jon:

Ray Dio!
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karlward:

Really shouldn’t have this much martini in me at 9 AM on a Monday
  6:01pm
chuck friendly:

What is happening? It’s not 9am.
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listener james from westwood:

Double-McGasko week!
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Stashu:

Sending love and love
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Threemoons:

WOOT! Double Yip Yip Week!
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LastWhiteRhino:

Yip, Yip Hooray !
  6:02pm
P-90:

McGaskoooooooooooooooooooo!
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Richard S:

Polka Joe!
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Stashu:

Thank you Joe!
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Miss G:

Had a great time from 3-6 not doing what I was supposed to do, and look forward to same for the next hour! Have fun wherever you are DJ Stashu!
  6:03pm
DAD:

Hi Myszka !!!
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steveo:

Whoa that weekend feels like it never happened. Hahahaha. Oh no wait it's polkas hurrah.
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Ding dong! Whoops, wait. Yip yip!
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Joe McG:

Hey everybody, welcome to the polka party! Thanks to you, Stashu, for letting me fill in tonight! Much love!
  6:04pm
lazy pierogi:

☺︎☺︎☺︎
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rx scabin:

Good evening, Joe and Everyone. My 93 year-old Polish mom is listening, so we are counting on you. Her name is Margot, and she says "hello."
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tim from washington:

Bowlin' Joe McGasko! I love this guy!
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tim from washington:

Hello Mrs Scabin! Yakshi mash?
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karlward:

I call it “polka liberation”
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Miss G:

Greetings to your mom rx scabin! Her name is a common one in my family, albeit on the Irish and not Polish side.
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swivs:

Cześć!
  6:07pm
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Joe, if you have time “New York traffic polka” by Smorgasbandet - sköl!
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Carmichael:

Heya Joe and polkateers!
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Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜:

And for peeps who haven't seen the news about Bryce yet, please go here... www.gofundme.com...
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Carmichael:

One of the Warsaw McGaskos ...
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swivs:

VIVA MCGASKO!
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DjLorraine:

See..wfmu is like a polka college! Hi Joe and the McGasko-ko dancers
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tim from washington:

Piwo? Kieshkas?
  6:10pm
Rachel Bo Bachel:

Why Joe! Fancy!!! :D
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TroyD8:

Is about eating beans?
  6:11pm
lazy pierogi:

they’re singing about how all their instruments are out of tune
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dale:

apple peaches pumpkin pie!
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Joe McG:

You're all correct!
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LastWhiteRhino:

I'm Kuku for CoCo Puffs !
  6:13pm
Healing Slav:

How do you say 'A victory for the unborn!' in Polish? I'm sure most of these artists would have been cheering this past week!!
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(Murakami Whywolf))):

Is it about a guy who's too short? I hear complaint and 'kratkoi', and 'kratkoya' is 'short' in Russian….
  6:15pm
thin slice:

Are these pre-WW2? Recorded in Poland?
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dale:

i have the album 'jerry lewis - just sings' and it's supposed to be him TRYING to sing well. it's not that far off from this.
  6:17pm
billyLondon:

Thanks for providing the polka party Joe!
  6:17pm
morphe':

Last night a genuine Mariachi band played in Bryant Park - polkas included ..
Polka was international in the 40s???? My mother was born in rural Ireland in 1930 and loved Polkas???
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LastWhiteRhino:

Jerry Lewis was born in Newark, NJ.
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Joe McG:

Happy to be here!
  6:18pm
Panther:

Polka Joe Rocks!!!
  6:18pm
thin slice:

The hey LAAAAdy polka
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JeremyB:

I like it!
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ParUbi:

Quality tuneage!
  6:19pm
ek:

Healing Slav, am with you on that sentiment.
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tim from washington:

morphe' - I could be wrong but I think the polka cross-polination happened due to a world's fair in the late 19th century.
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ParUbi:

Hello Joe, hi everyone! How’s Bryce?
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dale:

double dip after dark?
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Richard S:

Is it suddenly Saturday morning? This sounds like Double Dip Recess!
  6:21pm
morphe':

Tim = Chicago? That would make sense with the Polish Pop. there ... Ireland had the squeeze box so the accordion spooned followed..
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Rock Ridge Chess Club:

I'm quite turned around and upside down,.
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chresti:

Hi Joe and surface dancers!
  6:22pm
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Hey, where'd the lyrics go? Two oh one three eight oh, one oh four three
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Dr. Jobygaxx:

Thanks, I was just thinking I never hear this so clean bc DDR uses it for bed music.
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Carmichael:

Opie Cunningham ...
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LastWhiteRhino:

Whistler's Mother's Day Greetings.
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diciassette:

Ahoy! I'll bet you're whistling along to this innit
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dale:

there ARE lyrics to this song....

Well now, take down your fishing pole
And meet me at the fishing hole
We may not get a bite all day
But don't you rush away
What a great place to rest your bones
And mighty fine for skipping stones
You'll feel fresh as a lemonade a-setting in the shade
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Dr. Jobygaxx:

And "The Fishing Hole" was my first, incorrect guess after 3 notes of "The Happy Whistler"...
  6:23pm
morphe':

Andy Griffith...
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Joe McG:

Whistle along at home!
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Rock Ridge Chess Club:

This is currently being blasted out onto a mountainside in Boone NC. One can only hope the neighbors are pleasantly confused.
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LastWhiteRhino:

I need to wet my whistle after that.
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Carmichael:

They think you have Nick at Nite on.
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Richard S:

What's next, yodeling???
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LastWhiteRhino:

Got any knuckle-cracking tunes, Joe ?
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dale:

i'll bet session whistlers get a lot of free drinks and tail.
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(((Murakami Whywolf):

tim from washington:
I'm not sure: there were suddenly a _lot_ of Poles (well, Polish Russians back then) and other Central European people in the U.S. back then, and they weren't working 100% of their waking hours, even though Carnegie and Mellon et al probably would've wanted them to be so; there were a lot of Czechs in Texas. They weren't all dancing the waltz.

It's entirely possible there was a lot of polka around but the whitest people didn't know about it until some break-out event, just as the vary gay and black disco scene was huge in N.Y. and San Francisco for years but it took "Saturday Night Fever" for most of America to know [a somewhat bastardised version of ]it.
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Carmichael:

This dude's got the pipes ...
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Micheal:

We’re all whistling here, Joe! Excellent!
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Vanessa bikes:

yay whistle practice love it
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tim from washington:

@Murakami - good points! There was a sizable 19th century German immigration to Mexico. Oompa and polka aren't too different.
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LastWhiteRhino:

Hitting AC on Tuesday baby ! Let the good times roll.
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Richard S:

(((Murakami Whywolf) and tim from washington:
There was a significant effort by Germans to settle in Texas in the early-mid 1800s. That might explain the similarities between polka and mariachi music...
  6:29pm
ek:

Habsburgs had ties to Mexico too.
  6:30pm
ek:

Habsburgs had ties to Mexico too.
  6:30pm
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Reminds me of Säkkijärven polka!
  6:31pm
thin slice:

My intro to polka and conjunto and norteño was Brave Combo concerts in the 80s and 90s. They just mixed it all together. So much fun
  6:31pm
yippie:

I was born in Atlantic City
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Asheville Jon:

i'd rather play the Theremin
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dale:

only the cool children.
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Carmichael:

I was born to accord.
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Miss G:

Ask ANY child, what instrument they'd like to play! Accordion!
  6:32pm
Danne D:

Miss America saved best for last obv
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dale:

myron floren was probably considered a god to 70 year old women. and rightfully so.
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tim from washington:

Roll over Chuck Berry and tell Carl Perkins the news! Accordians are in, electric guitars are out.
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diciassette:

Good grief. Does anybody want this electric bass?
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dale:

she's tearing it a new bellows!
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LastWhiteRhino:

Squeezebox perfection !
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Asheville Jon:

i'm sure there were places in america at the time, where kids really did want to play the accordion.
  6:35pm
Danne D:

Stashu is our Miss America :)
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Carmichael:

Speed metal accordion.
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Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜:

My MOM played accordion in high school! For reals! She gave it away when my Mom got remarried and we moved. I can still see it in my mind's eye though!
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Richard S:

Video of that Lorna Anderson performance: www.youtube.com...
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dale:

my wife wanted one 20 years ago. i bought her two. she's barely touched them.
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Joe McG:

@Richard S: Ooh, that's great, thanks for posting!
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Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜:

Mom's was this huge sparkly red thing with white buttons....
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Asheville Jon:

may i recommend an Eddie Layton & Dick Contino album for your pleasure
www.youtube.com...
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dale:

we have the red sparkly hohner threemoons.
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dale:

it's not polka, but i can hear thumbs carlisle doing caravan after this.
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(Murakami Whywolf))):

dale:
Is cannabis legal in your state? Many a woman (and man) has found their resistance to accordioning reduced by what I gather The Kids call 'The Natural Mister', 'Roofer', and (of course) 'Muggles of Med Mock'.
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Richard S:

Eddie "The King of the Hammond Organ" Layton AND Dick "Mr. Accordion" Contino? SIGN ME UP!
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Carmichael:

I have a Hohner squeezbox (concertina). I'm not very good.
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tim from washington:

You sure this isn't a Gus Bodenheimski production?
  6:41pm
Saltonstall:

This guy has got the same inflection and cadence as Stashu
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Asheville Jon:

Eddie Layton is awesome, and has some fantastic organ lp's
  6:42pm
ek:

Sounds like Gus alright
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dday:

Hi Joe. Poking the pinups I see :)
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Asheville Jon:

this is so risqué!
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Mokka Matti:

Oh, no Stashu again. Welp, I guess it's a good thing I'm working and I can't listen.
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dale:

whywolf - i will look up those accordian songs!
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Miss G:

Joe, I am really shocked! Queenie the Cutie, I wish that were my nickname
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LastWhiteRhino:

This is rather Jim Berle-esque.
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DjLorraine:

So exciting!
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dday:

The cats are amazingly nonplussed with this playing
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tim from washington:

Uh, Joe, I don't think it's technically 'safe harbor' hours. Ixnay on the strippingski songskis!
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Carmichael:

Jean Claude's brother.
  6:46pm
Saltonstall:

FCC is gonna come knocking. This is filth polka!
  6:47pm
Saltonstall:

Porno Polka
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tim from washington:

Hey Saltonstall!
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dday:

I keep picking up my piano & squeezing it but never get that accordion sound. Is it my technique? My back hurts
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TroyD8:

Great job spinning the tunes today Joe!
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tim from washington:

dday - use your shoulders not your back.
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dday:

Thank you Tim :)
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Carmichael:

Here you go: www.gofundme.com...
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Joe McG:

Ah, thanks! We love Bryce, so we want to help him out.
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chresti:

It's Orson Welles' birthday!
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Queenie G:

What fun Joe McG! Thank you for all the high powered fun! Wow look at Bryce's GoFundMe page, getting better all the time! Listeners will keep going, I'm sure!
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tim from washington:

Sounds like Joe Princie has a wandering eye.
  6:52pm
Saltonstall:

@tim I was just in Kalamazoo the other day- Satellite Records, Tiffany’s, Crows Nest, Michigan News Agency, Jacks Party Store. All the top tourist destinations
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Joe McG:

@tim: Ewwww!
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van chinski:

Donated. Hope things get better soon for Bryce.
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(((Murakami Whywolf):

"My Mother-in-Law" is also known as "The Rule 34 Polka".
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Richard S:

If Bryce's GoFundMe hits six million dollars, can we get the bionic upgrade?
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Queenie G:

Thank you chresti! Maybe tonight's a good night for one of my favorite films, "Touch of Evil."
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Joe McG:

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there...especially mine!
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tim from washington:

@Saltonstall - How's the News Agency holding up these days? That place (and Jack's) is a real gem.
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Thanks, Joe. Up next is Joe Block. Whoops, wait. Billy Jam.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:55pm
Richard S:

Have a great weekend everyone! Stay safe and dry!
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Ken From Hyde Park:

(Belock ... stupid autocorrect!)
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radioronan:

Thanks for the fill-in, Polka Joe!
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diciassette:

Happy Mother's day! Thank you Joe
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chris in the redwoods:

thanks, Joe! enjoyed the selections and the sentiments this evening.
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tim from washington:

Thanks Polka Joe! Happy mothers day all you mothers!
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chresti:

Thanks Joe! I always like your polka shows.
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Micheal:

Great show! Thanks, Joe!
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LastWhiteRhino:

A most enjoyable show tonight, thanks Joe.
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Carmichael:

Thanks Joe. And thanks to all the beautiful people who donated to Bryce's face-saving fund.
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Joe McG:

Thanks for listening, everybody! See you on Monday!
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DjLorraine:

Thanks Joe, and whistling polka pinups.
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joe mulligan:

thanks Joe! also thanks for that AC polka.. learned to surf in AC NJ!
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