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Favoriting May 14, 2023: "I'd studied your cartoons, radio, music, TV, movies, magazines..."
Ben Ehrenreich's work: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n08/ben-ehrenreich/short-cuts https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v38/n06/ben-ehrenreich/diary

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A Certain Ratio  Waiting on a Train (feat. Ellen Beth Abdi & Chunky)   Favoriting 1982  Mute Artists    0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Debby Friday  I GOT IT (FEAT. UÑAS)   Favoriting Good Luck  Sub Pop    0:03:18 (Pop-up)
Special Interest  Kurdish Radio   Favoriting Endure  Rough Trade Records    0:07:05 (Pop-up)
Charlotte Abigery and Bolis Pupul  Mantra   Favoriting Topical Dancer  Deewee    0:10:06 (Pop-up)
Cycheouts  Hit Man (Jungle Assassin Mix)   Favoriting Cycheouts' Counterattack: Best Cuts 1995​-​2000  EM    0:14:16 (Pop-up)
REM  What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?   Favoriting Monster  Warner Bros.    0:19:18 (Pop-up)
Model Citizens  My TV Is On   Favoriting NYC 1978-1979  Modern Harmonic    0:23:16 (Pop-up)
Tanukichan  Take Care   Favoriting Gizmo  Company Records    0:26:00 (Pop-up)
The Feelies  Tomorrow Today   Favoriting The Good Earth  Coyote/Twin/Tone Records    0:29:40 (Pop-up)
Os Mutantes  O Careca   Favoriting Haih or Amortecedor  Anti-  https://www.npr.org/2023/05/10/1175252876/rita-lee-os-mutantes-brazilian-singer-obituary  0:35:10 (Pop-up)
n/a  Clip: Fox26-Charges for man who allegedly ran over migrants with car in Texas   Favoriting n/a  n/a    0:39:06 (Pop-up)
The Cradle  It’s Not Related   Favoriting Radio Wars  NNA Tapes    0:40:20 (Pop-up)
n/a  Clip: France24-AFP reporter killed in Ukraine   Favoriting n/a  n/a    0:46:00 (Pop-up)
The Doors  Unknown Soldier   Favoriting Waiting for the Sun  Elektra/Rhino    0:46:38 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
City of Glasgow Police Pipe Band 

Side 2   Favoriting

Scottish Pipes! 

Capitol Records 

 

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Dead Shaman  Trying To Keep Control   Favoriting Under The Influence  Sixteentimes Music    0:59:37 (Pop-up)
 
Rolling Stones  Going Home   Favoriting Aftermath  London Records    1:06:31 (Pop-up)
 
Creedence Clearwater Revival  Porterville   Favoriting Creedence Clearwater Revival  Fantasy    1:18:34 (Pop-up)
Emma Tricca  Through The Poet’s Eyes   Favoriting Aspirin Sun  Bella Union    1:20:53 (Pop-up)
n/a  Clip: CBS-Photojournalist among arrested in NYC protests   Favoriting n/a  n/a    1:26:43 (Pop-up)
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros  Forbidden City   Favoriting Rock Art and the X-Ray Style  Hellcat Records  38th anniversary of MOVE bombing in Philly: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/12/philadelphia-move-bombing-mike-africa  1:27:35 (Pop-up)
n/a  Clip: France24-Vigilante linchings in Haiti   Favoriting n/a  n/a    1:32:22 (Pop-up)
SONS OF ZOKU  Möönlight   Favoriting Bandcamp  Bandcamp    1:33:42 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
City of Glasgow Police Pipe Band 

Side 2   Favoriting

Scottish Pipes! 

Capitol Records 

 

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Issei Herr  Fugato (Night’s Transfiguration)   Favoriting Distant Intervals  NNA Tapes    1:49:46 (Pop-up)
n/a  Clip: CBS-Protests in Pakistan following arrest of former PM   Favoriting n/a  n/a    1:55:21 (Pop-up)
Departure Street  Walking on Earth   Favoriting Walking on Earth  Somewhere Cold Records    1:56:32 (Pop-up)
Colpitts  Recovery   Favoriting Music from the Accident  Thrill Jockey    2:03:42 (Pop-up)
David Bowie  Mother   Favoriting 45  ISO/Parlophone    2:20:17 (Pop-up)
n/a  Clip: Sky News-Fentanyl crisis in San Francisco   Favoriting n/a  n/a    2:25:16 (Pop-up)
Donald Harrison and Terence Blanchard  Let's Go Off   Favoriting Nascence  CBS    2:26:54 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
City of Glasgow Police Pipe Band 

Side 2   Favoriting

Scottish Pipes! 

Capitol Records 

 

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nil  0622.7   Favoriting 01  Intangible Arts    2:37:21 (Pop-up)
Storm the Palace  Dream House   Favoriting La Bete Blanche  Abandoned Love Records    2:41:59 (Pop-up)
Gwenno  N.Y.C.A.W.   Favoriting Tresor  Heavenly/Pias    2:48:07 (Pop-up)
Mohamad Zatari Trio  Desire   Favoriting Istehial  Zehra    2:52:34 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:03am
tom tom the pipers son:

hi brian ... ben ehrenreich, any relation to barbara?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:04am
fred:

Good morning Brian and listeners
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:05am
Brian D:

Fred! Tom Tom! Everyone! Ben is Barbara's son. He'll be with me next week!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:05am
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Song: "Waiting on a Train (feat. Ellen Beth Abdi & Chunk...
seems ahead of its time

hi fred!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:06am
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Brian D @3:05
oh!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:07am
Brian D:

Sorry for the exclamation marks! Don't know what's gotten into me!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:08am
fred:

An article about wildfires in NJ I just read: nymag.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:11am
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ fred @3:08
yes suppedly sparked by faulty trains and communities trying to get the train companies to pay for damage. story has sort of fallen from view... will read
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:13am
tom tom the pipers son:

supposedly*
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Don in Tampere:

Good morning Brian, Fred, Tom Tom and whoever else is listening. Tampere was a zoo last night between the ice hockey world cup being held here and people going nuts over the Eurovision contest for the most insipid pop song of the year. Had to take several detours to get home from our gig. Luckily it was held in a hockey- and Eurovision-free zone....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:13am
Brian D:

↳ fred @3:08
Yeah, Fred. Things ain't pretty. I'll be talking to Ben Ehrenreich a bit about that next week as he's written a lot about the climate crisis.
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Fox:

Hey, this is amusing. I was catching up on the archives and first realized that the story you were playing about people fearing the rush at the border in the near future happened to be THAT EXACT DAY I was then listening to it, having watched that very morning news stories of gun fights across a Mexico / Texas bridge, and not understanding why.....

And then heard that you'd played a Big Brave song for me, which was AWESOME! And even awesomer because the week before I'd played a Big Brave song and credited you for it in my playlist, totally oblivious of A Song for Foxes!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:16am
Brian D:

↳ Don in Tampere @3:13
Greetings Don. You'll be disappointed to learn I've been watching the hockey. But sorry for its disruption.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:18am
Brian D:

↳ Fox @3:16
Hey Fox! Yeah, Big | Brave rule. I try to stay ahead of the headlines here.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:25am
fred:

There was an intriguing short story on n+1 this week, the premise was a site for profiles of poor people for use as leads for journalists. I don't think it went all that well throughout, but I thought it could be relevant here.
www.nplusonemag.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:28am
Brian D:

↳ fred @3:25
Thanks for sharing that, Fred. I'll have to read it later. Sadly, there's no need for an app. Such sources aren't hard to find.
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Michael of Cologne:

Good morning Brian, Tom Tom, Fred, Don, Fox & all.
  3:30am
devlawn:

My favorite pair of Levis jeans are proudboy Khaki colored. I need to dye them tye dye or green or something else.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:30am
Brian D:

↳ Fox @3:16
I haven't listened to your "May the Fourth" show yet, hence I missed the credit.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:32am
fred:

↳ Brian D @3:28
In the story, the app is called "Source", so you get the point
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:36am
Brian D:

Greetings Michael. Dev.
Avatar 3:37am
Fox:

↳ fred @3:25
I was a token poor person in a political group I worked for for two years. It started off with good intentions; dudes who had been in the peace corp who wanted to keep doing good, so they started essentially a lobby group of volunteers to push for laws to eradicate poverty. But by the time I got involved decades later it was drowned in bureaucracy, and all the young people involved seemed more interested in using the experience as a networking and resume advantage.

I was part of the cohort euphemistically titled "Experts on Poverty" thanks to my "lived experience"
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Fox:

And once a year, everyone gets to go to Washington DC and take part in conferences and lectures that are mostly bullshit, and then the last day we go in teams to talk to our representative's office staff. At no point were we, as poor people, asked for our expertise to inform the laws for which we were to advocate. No, we were there to "tell our story". Somehow we were to fit our life of poverty into a scenario that would tell a compelling story to sway the listener to our side.
Avatar 3:43am
Fox:

It sucked to be in DC fighting for housing projects when I HATE the idea of projects and as a poor person, I know that Section 8 is a FAR better solution.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:43am
tom tom the pipers son:

sourcing for hard luck stories reminds me of a local nbc reporter, melissa colorado, who after reporting tragic and hardluck stories always closes with a half smirk, half sour ball in mouth expression that says life sure does suck doesn't it
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:44am
Brian D:

↳ Fox @3:43
What a depressing circle of hell...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:44am
Brian D:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:43
Grim...
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Fox:

↳ Brian D @3:30
My last two shows haven't been great, I'll be honest. My health has been dragging lately. But May the Fourth DOES have a really excellent radio play. One of my all time favorite ever dramatic recordings!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:48am
fred:

↳ Fox @3:45
Your shows don't have to be great every week, as long as they're yours
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Fox:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:43
I was poached by BBC's World Have Your Say, like eighteen years ago or so? I tweeted something, and they found it, messaged me, asked me to email them a voicemail stating basically what I'd written. I did so. They edited out half of it.

Everything about the experience totally shattered my trust in the BBC News.
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Fox:

↳ fred @3:48
Thanks, dude!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:49am
Brian D:

↳ Fox @3:45
I liked this week's!!!!
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Fox:

↳ Brian D @3:49
Thanks! but oh, it was such a mess. I nearly called out sick. I ended up going to the ER the next day. I had so much more content for thematic flow, but I was so out of it trying to get out of the house I fucked up the files. I spent so much time isolating bits of dialogue from radio plays and then forgot them!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:52am
tom tom the pipers son:

really sad to hear you're not in good health fox...
  3:53am
katharsis:

Hellos guide me home
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Don in Tampere:

Sorry to hear about your health problems Fox, especially knowing how effed up the US helth system is.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:56am
fred:

↳ Fox @3:51
That's the beauty of WFMU, it's real people doing real radio. And even though it doesn't help with actual health, the long distance connection might have benefits
Avatar 3:57am
Don in Tampere:

Mother's Day is less chaotically disributed around the world than Father's Day. MD is also today at least in Finland and Germany. I know the day is different in Britain where it's called Mothering Sunday.
Father's Day is all over the place, and while my parents were alive I could never remember when to call my dad. The weirdest one is Germany, where Vatertag is on Ascension Day and instead of it being a day where the family do nie things together with the father, the men go off together into the countryside pulling a cart full of booze and get shitfaced.
  3:58am
Robm:

@Fox hope you feel better soon, try to catch your show live and if not i listen to the archives , so hang in there
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:58am
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Fox @3:48
one good thing about bbc world news compared to us broadcasts is that when the anchors sign off they avert their gaze downward away from the camera where in the us they stare you down as a sort of cannibalization of the gaze
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Fox:

↳ Brian D @3:44
Oh! The worst most ironic fucking part of my DC visit:

It was the day that we were actually meeting with the politicians. I brought my own snacks because I can't eat most common American foodstuffs. Between meetings, we went to the closest cafeteria, which was in the basement (near the senator-only subway!). And everyone in my group went to get food and sit down, but I instead wandered around the perimeter of the cafeteria trying desperately to find a recycling bin for my trash.

I could find none.

Eventually I sat with the compatriots at their table, defeated.

"Did you see Bernie?!?"

What?

"Bernie Sanders! He was just here!"

... what?

"We each got selfies with him, see?!"

.......WHAT?!

So yeah. I missed meeting Bernie Sanders AT THE CAPITOL CAFETERIA because I was looking for a recycling bin.
  3:59am
Robm:

↳ fred @3:56
Fred the technical difficulties are what makes the magic factory great.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:03am
Brian D:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:58
And US news always insists on signing off with a "happy story" -- regardless of whether such a story is really appropriate.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:04am
fred:

↳ Fox @3:59
Get him on your show!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:05am
Brian D:

↳ Fox @3:59
Loaded with irony, there.
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Fox:

↳ fred @4:04
I never thought of that! Well, we shall see if I remain on the schedule. I'd like to do more talking to people.
  4:06am
Robm:

↳ Brian D @4:03
Don’t get me started on local news or cable news, i would rather listen to the BBC then hear the latest so called outrage
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Fox:

↳ Brian D @4:05
Also, there's not one recycling bin in any of the captiol buildings.
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Fox:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:58
I think it's the newscaster's desperate silent plea for help.
  4:07am
Robm:

↳ Fox @4:06
Interesting sort of summons up DC these days
  4:09am
Katharsis:

Home
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:10am
fred:

↳ Fox @4:05
You belong here. I didn't even think you could be off
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:10am
Brian in UK:

Hello Brian & early birds.

Think that Arthur Lee took inspiration from 'Revelation' on Da Capo. In the same way that Jagger used 'She Comes in Colours' title from the same album.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:11am
Brian D:

↳ Katharsis @4:09
With musical accompaniment, Katharsis.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:11am
Brian D:

↳ fred @4:10
Agreed, Fred. No way you come off the sked Fox.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:12am
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Fox @4:07
for the bbc or us broadcasts? with the bbc anchors i look at it as more of a" flattening" effect and a respect for the viewer as something separate and a recognition of the screen between them and us
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:12am
Brian D:

↳ Brian in UK @4:10
Greetings Brian. You might be on to something...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:13am
Brian in UK:

Our Home Secretary insists that there is an invasion of refugees. I believe that the figures are not significantly higher than previous years. The people are not being processed so there is a backup.
  4:14am
Katharsis:

Well it was mostly your voice, sorry to miss feelies and rem. (((fox))) I have no idea what’s going on for you. I will scroll back.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:15am
Brian D:

↳ Brian in UK @4:13
The strategy seems to be to initiate fear and panic as opposed to, say, dealing with this as a human problem.
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Michael of Cologne:

↳ Song: "Going Home" by "Rolling Stones"
What a wonderful, rare surprise!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:16am
Brian in UK:

↳ Brian D @4:15
But ofcourse. These people are so fucking useless & blame everyone else.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:16am
fred:

↳ Brian D @4:15
The worst thing about this strategy is that it works
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:17am
Brian D:

↳ fred @4:16
Sadly, you are correct, sir.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:18am
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Brian D @4:17
it helps the status quo. " come to papa"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:20am
Brian in UK:

Aftermath is one of the best Rolling Stones records, I think. Despite the misogynistic songs.
Avatar 4:21am
Fox:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:12
It was for the BBC World Service's program World Have Your Say. I used to listen to BBC News for like four hours a day, at least.
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Guy in Solihull UK:

↳ Brian in UK @4:16
Totally. They can all get in the sea.

I might as put my vote in the bin every election where I live.
Depressing.
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Michael of Cologne:

↳ Brian D @4:15
Human resources (Menschenmaterial) that are not needed at the moment to fatten capital which, by contrast, has free global movement and can pick & choose the HR it wants to deploy under its own terms & conditions.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:22am
Brian in UK:

↳ Guy in Solihull UK @4:22
Same here in South Shropshire. Rural & Blue.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:23am
Brian in UK:

↳ Fox @4:21
Fox, that is why the integrity of the BBC must be maintained.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:23am
Brian D:

↳ Brian in UK @4:20
It may be my fave, although that's a moving target.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:24am
Brian D:

↳ Fox @4:21
As did I. Basically, whenever I wasn't listening to FMU. There are still good reporters there...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:25am
Brian in UK:

↳ Brian D @4:23
Brian Jones added so many great touches. Marimbas & sitars.
Shame he was such a mess.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:26am
Brian D:

↳ Brian in UK @4:25
Yes and yes and yes.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:26am
fred:

The Monty Python ad is my fave Stones outing
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Fox:

↳ Brian D @4:24
I miss Owen Bennett Jones. He was my favorite.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:29am
Brian D:

↳ fred @4:26
Charlie Watts as straight man.
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Fox:

↳ Brian in UK @4:23
I thought like half of the BBC went to Al Jazeera when they started?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:30am
Brian D:

↳ Fox @4:28
Yes, agreed. Haven't heard him since he left.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:34am
Brian in UK:

↳ Fox @4:30
Some good journalists have departed recently. Guess that they feel the need to say it how it is. This might change now Richard Sharp has gone.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:36am
Brian D:

Al Jazeera has its own issues. But there's some great journalism there, too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:44am
Paulo AD:

What's up crafty currents crew?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:46am
Paulo AD:

Trying to catch up with everything. When I lived it Brighton it was odd half the town votes green, the other tory!! Crazyness
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Fox:

The cops running a fundraiser for the subway murderer's legal defense feels far too blatantly partisan for a theoretically neutral arm of the law to do.
  4:50am
Katharsis:

Ah rats streaming challenged on my end back now
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:50am
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Fox @4:48
did not know, that's really gobsmacking.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:50am
fred:

@Paulo: Did you catch Mona's show?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:51am
Brian D:

↳ Paulo AD @4:44
Paulo!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:52am
Brian D:

↳ Fox @4:48
Subtlety not their strong suit.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:52am
Paulo AD:

↳ fred @4:50
Yup, I listened this morning prepping my food for the week. Absolutely loved it.
I was chatting to her and she said she only did the interview after told her abiut the book, I feel honoured
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:52am
Paulo AD:

↳ Brian D @4:51
What is up big man :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:53am
Brian D:

↳ Paulo AD @4:52
Mona's show is always great but Friday was... wow!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:54am
Paulo AD:

↳ Brian D @4:53
I've been banging on about that History of Goth books for weeks now. Maybe now people will listen to me haha
I was reading it on the beach yesterday, decidedly un goth haha
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Fox:

↳ Paulo AD @4:54
Not necessarily! c4.wallpaperflare.com...
  4:58am
wenzo got it’s bike back:

Good morrow fine people of radioland
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:58am
Brian D:

↳ Fox @4:57
Nice one, Fox. Hello Wenzo!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:05am
Paulo AD:

↳ Fox @4:57
True hah My wife did burn in the shade yesterday. It's bloody hot already
  5:08am
Katharsis:

i’m reading the story about the fire now-in small doses. I can’t even…I was out west for six years and got out as soon as I could after covid. I’ll take winter or hurricanes over that. It was so scary. James Hillman A Terrible Love of War anyone?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:09am
fred:

↳ Paulo AD @4:54
You are the AD goth scene I guess
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:10am
Paulo AD:

↳ fred @5:09
Yeah pretty much hahaha
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:12am
fred:

↳ Paulo AD @5:10
So you make the rules
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:15am
Paulo AD:

↳ fred @5:12
I'm like judge dress out here, I am the law
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:16am
Paulo AD:

Bloody phone, dredd
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:16am
Paulo AD:

Though judge dress could be a good drag name
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:17am
Brian D:

↳ Paulo AD @5:16
Was going to say... copyright that.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:17am
tom tom the pipers son:

getting light nyc quarter after five!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:18am
Brian D:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:17
'Tis.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:19am
fred:

↳ Paulo AD @5:15
Did Anthrax do I am the law?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:22am
Brian D:

Here is Ben Ehrenreich's latest from the London Review of Books. He'll be my guest next week. www.lrb.co.uk...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:23am
Brian D:

And an older one: www.lrb.co.uk...
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Fox:

I also have a mother. And depending on how I feel in about six or seven hours from now, I might spend the day with her for the first time in... decades?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:27am
Brian D:

↳ Fox @5:25
Good luck with that.
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Michael of Cologne:

↳ Song: "Mother" by "David Bowie"
Another surprise. Lennon's version somewhat rawer?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:29am
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Song: "Clip: Sky News-Fentanyl crisis in San Francisco" ...
chatted with someone from the bay area who said san francisco has turned into a real shithole
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Fox:

↳ Brian D @5:27
Thanks!
  5:29am
wenzo got it’s bike back:

Wowza
  5:29am
wenzo got it’s bike back:

Wow Fox… good luck with that
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:30am
Brian D:

↳ Michael of Cologne @5:27
Perhaps. Bowie's more desperate?
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Fox:

I saw a video of .... somewhere on the West Coast, where white people had a van in some shitty neighborhood for "outreach" and if you asked for a crackpipe, they'd just give you a fresh clean glass pipe.

Madness. Like, syringes is one thing. That was to prevent AIDS as secondary to heroin. It wasn't just to be nice to junkies.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:31am
Brian D:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:29
Haven't been myself since 2016. Drugs and houselessness are not new "problems" there, though.
Avatar 5:32am
Fox:

These people have this notion of "compassion" that is utterly beyond any realistic understanding of drug addicts and is based on ego and savior complex. It's so gross.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:33am
Brian D:

Yeah, crack pipes seems a bit much. Though crack, man... wow.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:34am
Brian D:

↳ Fox @5:32
I still believe needle exchanges and rehab over incarceration.
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Fox:

People in charge of taking care of the drug crisis should be a team made from every drug counselor and manager of a halfway house with a criminal record.

Those are the people who know that junkies lie. And also know that they are still human. But again, "never trust a junkie."
  5:37am
wenzo got it’s bike back:

Don’t forget da xylazine
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Fox:

↳ Brian D @5:34
But what do you do with people who are mentally damaged and antisocial and violent who live on the street and do crack? If free, they will only smoke and be crazy.

Bring back asylums? That's only going to turn into state run horror shows of abuse.
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fred:

There's a crack hotspot in Paris. It's sad, but these guys are hostile and I just avoid them. Not proud of that
  5:39am
wenzo got it’s bike back:

Not everyone who smokes crack is violent or hostile tho. Just saying.
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Brian D:

↳ Fox @5:37
Crack is a different animal. But agree with you on the counselor/halfway house/criminal record approach.
  5:41am
wenzo got it’s bike back:

I agree passing out crack pipes seems stupid and misguided and pointless
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Brian D:

↳ wenzo got it’s bike back @5:39
True. But they can be. The drug brings that out in lots of people.
  5:43am
wenzo got it’s bike back:

What I’ve heard from crackheads is that every crackhead(crack smoking American? What’s the pc term? Heh heh) has their “tweak” (repetitive habit, thing they do when smoking) all different. Then of course there’s the behavior they engage in to make money, some may be violent sure, many are not at all.
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Brian D:

↳ wenzo got it’s bike back @5:43
Yep. We're on the same page, wenzo.
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fred:

↳ wenzo got it’s bike back @5:39
Yeah, drunks are an issue as well when walking at night. Crackheads have a short fuse though, so spotting them from afar is important
  5:45am
wenzo got it’s bike back:

I live in a pretty heavy crack area… petty theft is definitely a problem, not saying there’s no violence either but I don’t see much and none directed at me… the violence I experienced was more a result of poverty, youthful anger imo.
  5:47am
wenzo got it’s bike back:

I’m a bit more freaked out by meth cause it’s more new to the area and provokes sleep deprivation which is terrible for the brain…
  5:48am
wenzo got it’s bike back:

Not that crack doesn’t keep people up… but I think you gotta keep smoking it whereas you can smoke meth once or twice and be up for days(or so I’ve heard idk if that’s an exaggeration)
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Brian D:

↳ wenzo got it’s bike back @5:47
I encountered my first meth head in San Juan years ago. Man.
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Pablexa™:

Morning
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:49am
fred:

↳ wenzo got it’s bike back @5:45
I agree, but being a small guy I have to be careful. I'm more afraid of soccer fans than crackheads though
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Brian D:

↳ Pablexa™ @5:48
Greetings Pab.
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Brian D:

↳ fred @5:49
And rightly so, with PSG around.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:51am
fred:

↳ Brian D @5:50
These are the worst
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tom tom the pipers son:

a while back was in n california and there was a town known for meth heads, they were called 'tweakers" appropriately enough cause they certainly were tweaked
  5:51am
wenzo got it’s bike back:

I mean the only meth head I’ve for sure encountered recently was completely harmless(at that moment) but I’m still disturbed that it’s making incursions… any new hardcore drug being sold in the area is not good. Not looking forward to xylazine arriving on the scene. That shit killed my favorite cousin last year. Think he was looking for Ketamine… got sold xylazine mixed with fentanyl and Xanax. Super lethal.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:52am
Brian D:

↳ wenzo got it’s bike back @5:51
I'm glad I'm (knock wood) clean and sober these days. Scary out there.
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tom tom the pipers son:

thanks brian, have a good week...
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Brian D:

Thank YOU ALL. Great discussion on here this week. Stay safe and have a great week. Ben Ehrenreich joins me next week.
  5:57am
wenzo got it’s bike back:

Been on a sober kick myself for 5 months… not that I did much before mostly just weed & mushrooms… occasional social drinking… now I’m straight edge… unless you have to be vegan to qualify in which case I’m not at all lol
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fred:

PSG is weird, a fascist fanbase with an arab ownership, united by hatred for jews. A cesspool
  5:57am
wenzo got it’s bike back:

Currently eating pizza… the drug of foods…
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:58am
Brian D:

↳ fred @5:57
Still the only time I have ever feared for my safety at a football match...
  5:58am
wenzo got it’s bike back:

Fascinating Fred… I was not aware… looking up now
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:59am
fred:

Thanks Brian, sorry for hogging the playlist with irrelevant links
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Brian D @5:58
went to yankee stadium in late 90's and thought so this is where all the scary people from high school ended up
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