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Favoriting November 4, 2023: "When it comes to our future..."

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Kraftwerk  Radioactivity   Favoriting Radio-Activity  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
David Bowie  Weeping Wall   Favoriting Low  0:06:30 (Pop-up)
William Tyler and the Impossible Truth  Highway Anxiety / Radioactivity   Favoriting Secret Stratosphere  0:11:16 (Pop-up)
  Clip: Democracy Now!-UAW settles with automotive manufacturers     0:24:18 (Pop-up)
Amanda Palmer & Jherek Bischoff  Heroes (featuring John Cameron Mitchell)   Favoriting Strung Out In Heaven: A Tribute to David Bowie & Prince  0:25:03 (Pop-up)
Dylan Howe  Neuköln   Favoriting Subterranean - New Designs On Bowie's Berlin  0:28:36 (Pop-up)
  Clip: NEWS9-Live-Germany changes policy on migrants     0:34:06 (Pop-up)
Alva Noto feat. Martin L. Gore & William Basinski  Subterraneans   Favoriting Subterraneans  0:36:05 (Pop-up)
Jaoa Gilberto  Outra Vez   Favoriting Bosa Nova at Carnegie Hall  0:49:24 (Pop-up)
Oscar Casto-Neves Quartet  Nao Faz Assim   Favoriting Bosa Nova at Carnegie Hall  0:53:49 (Pop-up)
 
Part I of interview with author Joseph Kanon
Lou Reed  Berlin   Favoriting Berlin  1:21:03 (Pop-up)
Iggy Pop  Fall In Love With Me   Favoriting Lust for Life  1:24:29 (Pop-up)
 
Part II of interview with Joseph Kanon
Nico  Heroes   Favoriting Do or Die  2:01:13 (Pop-up)
Beck  Sound and Vision   Favoriting MP3  2:07:11 (Pop-up)
Susanna Hoffs  Boys Keep Swinging   Favoriting When You're A Boy  2:19:11 (Pop-up)
Danny Michel  Sons of the Silent Age   Favoriting Loving the Alien (The Songs of David Bowie)  2:24:00 (Pop-up)
  Clip: NBC6-Miami-poster wars in Florida     2:26:42 (Pop-up)
Einstürzende Neubauten  Diverse Lokationen (Berlin West 1980-1983, Performance 2006)   Favoriting Kassetten (Musterhaus #5)  2:27:31 (Pop-up)
Deeper  Fame   Favoriting Careful!  2:35:55 (Pop-up)
  Clip: BBC-effects of Gaza war on oil and gold prices     2:39:13 (Pop-up)
Squid  After the Flash   Favoriting O Monolith  2:39:49 (Pop-up)
Wimps  City Lights   Favoriting City Lights  2:45:28 (Pop-up)
Zea  Our Hearts in the Sun (with OLOLOLOP and Arakawa Atsushi))   Favoriting We Are Still Each Other’s Only Hope  2:47:51 (Pop-up)
Spring Breeding  Gina Sleeps All Day   Favoriting Zum Audio Vol. 5  2:51:54 (Pop-up)
Set  Eisen   Favoriting Ost-Kraut! - Progressives Aus Den DDR-Archiven 1970-1975 Teil 1  2:55:51 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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Aaron Working In Newark:

Yo! Good Morning
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tom tom the pipers son:

good morning brian, people...
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alan the painter:

good morning
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fred:

Good morning Brian and listeners
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Brian D:

Good morning, folks! Happy Saturday.
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alan the painter:

did the b52s borrow the beep beep from kraftwerk for one of there songs?
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Brian D @6:05
the end of the marathon was really something, a massive amount raised on last day...
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alan the painter:

i love this album flip side the best
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Brian D:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:07
Yes. I was worried it wouldn't happen. The WFMU community is incredible.
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alan the painter:

FMU is incredible and keeps us
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fred:

↳ Song: "Highway Anxiety / Radioactivity" by "William Tyle...
The Radioactivity part is a pretty good cover
  6:14am
Chris Crisco:

Cheers Brian & everyone congratulations on reaching your goal and FMU too!
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rich in angleton:

good morning!!
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StringOFperils:

Hello, and good morning!
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Brian D:

↳ Chris Crisco @6:14
Chris. Good to "see" you.
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Brian D:

↳ rich in angleton @6:14
Rich up early!
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Brian D:

↳ fred @6:13
Don't overlook the bass.
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Brian D:

↳ StringOFperils @6:14
Greetings String.
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fred:

↳ Brian D @6:19
indeed
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tom tom the pipers son:

shortly before visiting berlin for the first time, i bought a book of photographs taken in berlin from the late 20's to early 50's. the book included post war images of statues of, i guess, notable germans that were damaged and knocked off their plinths. sometime after arriving in berlin, i was walking near potsdamerplatz, and walked passed this small, sort of old, municipal building, there was a narrow alley way next to the building, and i decided to have a look. at the rear of. the building, were the statues i had seen in the book from 1945, all stacked, haphazardly against each other just like in the images in the book i had.
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Don in Tampere:

Hi Brian and all! I forgot that you haven't set your clocks back yet so was surprised to see you already on air. I am moved into the new house but there is still a fair amount to get from the old place, and a hell of a lot to unpack an reassemble here.
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Brian D:

↳ Don in Tampere @6:29
Hello Don! Congrats on the move. Officially retired?
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radioronan:

Good morning Brian & all. Happy to be up and catching the program!
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Don in Tampere:

↳ Brian D @6:31
Still employed until the end of the year and the last two months look very busy.
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Brian D:

↳ Don in Tampere @6:36
Ah. Well, you're in the home stretch.
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Brian D:

↳ radioronan @6:33
Good morning. Happy to be throwing the program to you.
  6:43am
Cooh John:

Good morning Brian and current eventers.
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Juli:

Good Morning:::}
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Brian D:

Hello Cooh John and Juli.
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Brian D:

For more information on my guest next week, Andrew McCormick of Covering Climate Now: coveringclimatenow.org
  6:52am
Hawkeye:

Good morning
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tom tom the pipers son:

speaking of climate, saw on a news broadcast, that winter is coming to mideast making situation in gaza even worse
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Brian D:

Hey Hawkeye.
  6:55am
LiXiviated Life:

“So nice to wake up to” 🎶🎵
  6:57am
Barbie:

Morning Brian
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Juli:

So good!
Amazing
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Brian D:

↳ LiXiviated Life @6:55
Hey Lix!
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Brian D:

↳ Barbie @6:57
Hi Barbie! You may be seeing my missus later.
  7:00am
concert on film:

1. Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii is a 1972 concert film directed by Adrian Maben filmed over four days in October 1971. ¿Has anybody watched this apparently visual experience? Considering attending a rare theatrical screening(an hour drive away).
2. Anybody else hear news of a “vintage?” Bowie live concert film being re-released due to the success of ‘Stop Making Sense’ and the unfathomable popularity of the 3hour Taylor Swift Eras placebo. Curious minds wanna know.
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Juli:

↳ concert on film @7:00
I've seen it!

It is amaze
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Juli:

I saw it on a projector at the
Artist Alex Grey's place in the Hudson Valley:::{LSD cults} lol

Anyway yes if you like Pink Floyd it's a lot of interview and play in beautiful vintage film
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dday:

↳ concert on film @7:00
PF in Pompei was interesting as I recall. Saw it many years ago. Maybe there's more footage now. I recall there being no dialog at all.

If Bowie in question is from an 80's tour of Japan stay away. It's horribly shot. They ran a bit of it on PBS recently. Looks like it was done by an amateur. Horrible.
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Juli:

↳ dday @7:03
Maybe I saw the Theatrical Cut but mine had documentary in Pompeii
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dday:

↳ Juli @7:05
Very possible. There's many versions of everything anymore.
People looking for ways to make a buck via re-treading.
Great if they do a good job of it :)
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StringOFperils:

↳ concert on film @7:00
Saw it in 1972 at a midnight screening (the only slot it would ever get, where I lived, and at that time in history when stuff like that wasn't on the radio or TV ever). Not strictly a concert film. NO audience, just the band performing in an ancient space, outside of time). More of an 'art' film. I loved it, as a 15 (?) year old, and I think I'd still love it now.
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dday:

↳ StringOFperils @7:06
That's how I remember it.
Of course when I saw it a midnight screening as well (aged 15 or so) I was probably chemically altered as well ;)

It has been run on PBS several times during pledge drives but it's very cut up
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Juli:

The documentary is amazing try to see it:::they speak so cute & talk about how their parents bought their instruments to start the band lol
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Juli:

They seemed very "punk rock" in their attitudes
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StringOFperils:

↳ dday @7:08
Oh, too bad...I liked the inserts of them ordering pie and coffee etc in a cafe, etc. It's a very arty film. Dumb and pathetic that they'd cut it to pieces
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dday:

Of course you can find it on the toobs of U:

www.youtube.com...
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Juli:

Too bad my parents don't believe in
Rock & Roll


I have to go back & listen to this interview because I am now thinking of PF lol
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dday:

↳ Juli @7:12
Mine did.
My younger brother got their full support as a heavy metal front man in the 80's
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sydniuß:

↳ Juli @7:12
call to you across the skyyyy
‘morn Juli!
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Juli:

↳ dday @7:13
Ooof to be born again
Or to make money yourself lol
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Juli:

↳ sydniuß @7:13
Morning!
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ StringOFperils @7:10
wonder if doing the 'more' soundtrack, set in ibiza, inspired them to film a performance, also on the mediterranean
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dday:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:14
the scene of the guy sitting on the rail of the moving boat is dizzying
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StringOFperils:

Outside of purely musical concerns, Roger Waters strikes me as someone who has always tried to locate his own place in history. His mother's social concerns, his father's self-sacrifice at Anzio...I suspect it was him, trying to touch the past's mysteries. Not just music, but the history of performance itself...in an ancient amphitheatre
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Michael of Cologne:

Morning Brian & all from rainy Cologne. Learning from history?? Thanks for interview.
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ dday @7:18
ah, i can't remember many details, it's been a while, i can still sense the general atmosphere
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ StringOFperils @7:20
that sounds like a good theory
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Brian D:

↳ Michael of Cologne @7:20
Hello Michael!
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Spikey BXL:

↳ Song: "Part I of interview with author Joseph Kanon"
Devastatingly interesting!
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Michael of Cologne @7:20
hi michael...
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Michael of Cologne:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:23
Hey Tom Tom!
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Brian D:

For more about Joseph Kanon and his work: josephkanon.com
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StringOFperils:

If you want to read a good history book (not a novel) about how 'we' got to Berlin in the 1940s in the first place, Margaret MacMillan's 'Paris 1919' is excellent. And just as captivating as any good novel....and maybe a study of how history might tend to be doomed to repeat itself. Doomed by the complexity of politics at least. ***Lust for Life...soooo good,
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dday:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:21
hitchhiking, drugs, sex..you know a 60's movie ;)
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Song: "Fall In Love With Me" by "Iggy Pop"
funny iggy singing about white wine, he doesn't strike me as a white wine drinker, i think its sardonic
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ dday @7:27
yes, personified by mimsy farmer...
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dday:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:29
Honestly, the only reason I bothered to see it was because I knew Floyd did the soundtrack
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Juli:

They think it is cool.
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Juli:

The Bad
guys think it is cool to be bad.
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ dday @7:30
there's barbet schroeder's involvement too
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Juli:

They also may be scared of being inferior
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Spikey BXL:

Impossible to answer probably, but which book would you recommend as a first JK read?
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Juli:

I have studied racists:::
They are afraid
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sydniuß:

↳ Juli @7:36
loss of privilege feels like oppression to the oppressors
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Juli:

Or they think they are real real cool
Like Batman villains but less backstory
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dday:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:35
Again to be honest..I had no idea who he was at the time & still know little about him today
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Juli:

Yes!
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Juli:

This is how I write my film.
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Juli:

& Plan my
Art
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Strandlund:

Good Morning everybody!!
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ dday @7:38
i saw 'more' for the first time maybe 15 yrs ago, so i knew the name, seems he may be more notable for films he produced, rather than directed
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tom tom the pipers son:

someone told me that crossing from west berlin into east berlin was going from technicolor to black and white movie
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StringOFperils:

Valuable lessons to be dramatized in novels that can lead readers through experience that can make understanding possible. Germany, then: A country where, say, one part of its citizens decided that the other part of its citizens were not the kind of people they wanted to even call citizens. So a big part of the Germans rounded up the other big part of the Germans, and put them in camps, and tortured and killed them. The Germans killed the Germans. Sure, they were Jews, and Catholics, and homosexuals, and communists....pretty much everyone they didn't agree with, really. Everyone they didn't want to include in the ongoing story of Germany. They decided they only wanted people that they thought were just like them. No on else allowed. EVen if they were Germans.....well, they weren't really Germans at all, they said. They are not patriots. They're losers. The self-defned 'real' Germans decided the time had come to more clearly define their values, and to vote in some essential corrections. And to take over the courts, to make those changes stick. And wherever it met with resistance, there was force. And fear. And death. Now think MAGA.
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Brian D:

↳ Spikey BXL @7:36
Istanbul Passage is my personal favorite -- because I read it during my visit to Istanbul in 2013. But any and all are great. Stardust is also topical, in a way.
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Brian D:

↳ Strandlund @7:41
Hello Strand!
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Spikey BXL:

↳ Brian D @7:46
Thanks Brian, I'll check those two first on goodreads and pick one. Super interview!
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Brian D:

↳ Spikey BXL @7:48
Thanks, Spikey. You can't go wrong with Joe in my opinion.
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↳ Song: "Part II of interview with Joseph Kanon"
Sounds like Mr. Kanon is stuck in that can. Maybe he's hanging out with Stashu in there
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Michael of Cologne:

↳ StringOFperils @7:44
Yes, the template is well-established and can be used over and over again like a cookie cutter.
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tom tom the pipers son:

sense of 'place' is a funny thing, on the one hand, 'real', on the other abstract
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StringOFperils:

↳ Michael of Cologne @7:49
It would probably freak me out less if there weren't so many people fighting to put those cookies in the oven right away.
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Onion:

Germans pejoratively refer to the Dutch as "Swamp Germans".
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sydniuß:

↳ StringOFperils @7:51
ha they don’t know I turned the oven to 550° muahaha
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JohnEBGood:

You cool B. Dr Jimmy and Mr Jim!!
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Spikey BXL:

↳ Onion @7:51
And point to their reluctance to spend money by expanding the NL on their cars to: nur Limonade
  7:53am
concert on film/Vt:

↳ Juli @7:03
@Juli/dday/SofP/tom: thanks for all y’all’s ‘feedback’ on Pink Floyd Pompeii, & etc. appreciated. (Apologies Brian et al for taking folks off-topic re the fine audio on at ear).
Juli, you sent me to wiki the fascinating art world of Alex Grey!! Thank you. Was only familiar via Nirvana & David Byrne albums. Y’all are the best people. 🙌🫶🙏
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StringOFperils:

I worked once with on old Dutch carpenter who remembered running across a field with his brother, being strafed by a German plane
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Michael of Cologne @7:49
template, well established and adaptable, in germany it was industrial age murder, in post industry age perhaps the process of disenfranchisement of others is being done through media
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JohnEBGood:

Lets get rid of political opinions on WFMU. The great Tom Sharpling would tell SringofPearls Lifetime Ban!!!Haa haaaa!
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StringOFperils:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:59
It's a media-assist. Mass-hypnosis, if you will The flesh and blood is still rounded up and executed. All around the globe.
  8:04am
rich in angleton:

Brian - that was a fantastic interview! thank you for this.
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sydniuß:

↳ JohnEBGood @8:00
DJ Topic excepted. I love being a rabid atheist on Ken’s show.
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Brian D:

↳ rich in angleton @8:04
Thank you, Rich. Glad you enjoyed.
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Michael of Cologne:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:59
Yes, adaptable, adjustable to suit the historical situation. The template is a set of ideas aka an ideology that sets out, among other things, how others are to be (mis)estimated and (mis)esteemed. How we value and devalue each other through certain ideas is at the core. Political leaders cannot do without such ideological templates.
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JohnEBGood:

Lifetime bannn! Who hoo : )
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StringOFperils:

Fuck Tom Scharpling. He has no hegemony on being a big-mouth. Banning political opinion IS a political opinion.
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dday:

↳ StringOFperils @8:01
Read Canadian singer / songwriter & activist Bruce Cockburn's book "Rumours of Glory"

Eye opening accounts of human's inhumanity to each other around the globe.
  8:09am
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Michael of Cologne @8:06
'Political leaders cannot do without such ideological templates.'... makes me think of biden's refusal to acknowledge palestinian death toll
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StringOFperils:

↳ dday @8:07
I got the media up the wazoo for that, dday. I'm drowning in accounts of inhumanity. I used to see Bruce around, now and then. He's really at his best behind an acoustic guitar, despite his social conscience. Great player.
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dday:

↳ StringOFperils @8:10
I like the book becuase it's firsthand. No spin as "media" often does (badly)
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sydniuß:

↳ dday @8:07
for the record: I don’t have a rocket launcher
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dday:

↳ sydniuß @8:13
That's nice :)
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Brian D:

↳ sydniuß @8:13
I have one... IN MY PANTS (sorry).
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Song: "Sound and Vision" by "Beck"
love this song, great evolution of thin white duke period
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Brian D @8:14
or are you happy to see us .. sorry too
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Brian D:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:14
Both!
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StringOFperils:

↳ dday @8:12
I hear you. Cockburn has seen a lot of unpleasant world things first-hand, in his travels. Like novels (as per our guest today), first-hand accounts can convey a lot more experience than a cold news story, for sure. Experience-lived is much more than experience-reported. There's emotional investment. And empathy.
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dday:

↳ Brian D @8:14
When I had my heart attack in 2017 & was in the ER, two docs one an older guy & one a stunning redheaded female were about to put a ballon cathter up the vein(?) in my thigh.

I was pretty doped up by then when the guy doc said "Ok, you might feel a little prick down there"

Instinctively I said "So might you"

They both stopped in their tracks & cracked up.
I made their day
  8:20am
Barbie:

Do you and mrs currents, an avid reader, ever read the same books?
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Brian D:

↳ dday @8:17
Ha! Reminds me of when I last went to the dentist (I'm overdue) and they injected the painkiller in my gums and I said, "Feels like a cocaine freeze." Everything stopped.
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dday:

↳ Brian D @8:20
hahahahah :)
Gotta keep'em laughing!
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Brian D:

↳ Barbie @8:20
Now and then. We both just read Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave and Sean O'Hagan (great, by the way). And we both read Ben Ehrenreich's (former guest of this program) The Way to the Spring.
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tom tom the pipers son:

bowie did successfully adapt disco tropes into rock music
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dday:

↳ Brian D @8:22
Reading that one (Cave) for the third time right now. Excellent
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McGroovey:

I'm waking up in Harrisburg, PA, to Bowie covers, and I don't know why, but that's OK.
  8:24am
WSJ:

Great version by Susannah!
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Michael of Cologne:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:10
Seems to me that many of these ideological templates have to do with boosting and shoring up the who-standing of supporters and depreciating the who-standing of opponents, the other, the alien. No matter if the boost to who-standing is a manipulative delusion, especially one that takes supporters for suckers. It still works. Flattery.
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dday:

↳ Song: "Boys Keep Swinging" by "Susanna Hoffs"
The late John Entwistle played bass on that track
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fred:

When I got my covid booster I asked "so when do I get 5G?". The pharmacist laughed and said "not yet, you only had 4 shots". There was an elderly couple waiting to get a flu shot who refused to get the covid one, the look on their face at that joke was startling. They really believed that crap
  8:27am
Toothgrinder Tom:

I should really go for a run but I don’t want to miss anything.
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Brian D:

↳ McGroovey @8:24
Good morning! I spent two weeks in Harrisburg one night.
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Michael of Cologne @8:25
yes it seems biden is looking ahead to 2024 and thinking he's placing the right bet no matter how many lives are lost in gaza
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dday:

↳ fred @8:26
I like that bit about 5G :)
When someone started yapping to me about that microchip nonsense once I said " hell I don't even own a cell phone so if they put a chip in me maybe I don't need one after all"
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Brian D:

↳ fred @8:26
Funny Fred and then not so funny.
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Michael of Cologne:

↳ fred @8:26
Funny, just last week I got my sixth COVID booster and turned down the offer of a flu shot.
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fred:

↳ dday @8:30
I don't have a phone either, though it's becoming harder every day
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Barbie:

I received the flu, covid, pneumonia, and RSV vaccines no side effects what so ever.
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Brian D:

↳ Michael of Cologne @8:35
Why give Fauci your money? (rimshot)
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ fred @8:35
do you know whether or not they still have the 'iconic' phone booths in london?
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Erik & Film’d Concerts:

↳ dday @8:17
Ha,LOL; putting aside your serious situation, that is a very humorous and spontaneous moment that i would be pleased with, if I could be that lucid in such a situation.
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Michael of Cologne:

↳ fred @8:35
Harder and harder to abstain from immersion in the cyberworld and the dictatorship of the algorithms.
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dday:

↳ fred @8:35
It is.

I want a phone that just makes phone calls. I carry a junk phone with no service plan just to be able to call 911 if I need to.

Don't need all the other stuff, but
the plans I see cost the same no matter what (data,text etc.)

I'm retired now but at my last job I had two phones & two, two way radios on my hips everyday.

Once I called it quits I said "if you want to talk to me call me at home or send me an email or egads! an actual letter".

I miss letter writing, a lost art form.
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dday:

↳ Erik & Film’d Concerts @8:38
Thanks.
I was so high from whatever they had already given me it just came out :)
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fred:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:38
No idea, I'haven't been there in over 30 years. Phone booths have been gone in France for 20 years or so
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dday:

↳ Barbie @8:38
Same here. Over & over.
I joke with the jabbers are you guys just giving me water shots?
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Juli:

Mixing this w other music & it is epic lol
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sydniuß:

↳ dday @8:42
you jabber joker you 🤣
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Juli:

It is also epic on own:::}
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Michael of Cologne:

↳ Brian D @8:38
Fauci is out of bounds here, and COVID inoculation is still free here. Too many in my circle of acquaintances have gotten major problems with long-term COVID after being infected; others have been allergic to the inoculation itself. Fortunately, no symptoms for me from the injection, and haven't yet been infected by the disease...
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dday:

↳ sydniuß @8:44
“Beware the Jabberjoker, my son
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”
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fred:

↳ Michael of Cologne @8:39
There's this delayed EU law that will make smartphones with biometric ID mandatory for banking (meaning essential stuff like pledging to WFMU). I'll have to yield then
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Erik Filmed Concerts:

After the Flash by Squid 🦑 = gee, seriously thought this was some sorta Colin Newman (wire) project.
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fred:

↳ Juli @8:45
How is the film going?
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sydniuß:

↳ Michael of Cologne @8:45
I’m 4x jabbed as we all are, wife caught it anyway 2x!! I am seemingly hyper immune wøøt
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ fred @8:42
oh, thx, thought you may have traveled for dance perfs... think we held on to pay phones a little longer, but were no longer serviced by major telecoms and were usually not working
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sydniuß:

↳ dday @8:46
gimbling and gaving over here
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fred:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:47
I don't travel (money and health issues). But if I did, I'd probably hit Brussels more often than London anyway
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StringOFperils:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:38
I think there may be some red phone boxes left, for tourist photo-ops....next to Westminster and places like that. Otherwise, they are broadly decommissioned.
www.theguardian.com...
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tom tom the pipers son:

ah, thanks...
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dday:

↳ sydniuß @8:47
I've been curious to know if perhaps blood type plays into infection. Just a thought. I have not done any research but it would be interesting to know if certain blood types are more or less resistant to Covid
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dday:

↳ fred @8:46
What could possibly go wrong?
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sydniuß:

↳ dday @8:50
A-, for your study
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dday:

↳ sydniuß @8:51
:(
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StringOFperils:

I blame the anti-masker gene. It's a genetic marker for dumb-assness
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Michael of Cologne:

↳ fred @8:46
The stranglehold of the algorithms gets tighter from year to year, and a frightening proportions even welcomes it -- for the sake of 'convenience'. To say nothing of the 'enhancement' of the State's control over its population (if the algorithms don't fuck up).
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Gary K:

Hey DJ are you OK? Why are you assaulting us like this on a Saturday morning? Was it something we said?
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fred:

↳ Song: "Our Hearts in the Sun (with OLOLOLOP and Arakawa ...
Is that The Ex's Zea?
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Michael of Cologne:

↳ sydniuß @8:47
Seems this vaccine is a bit hit-and-miss, for sure.
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Erik & Film’d Concerts:

↳ fred @8:48
“Don’t travel” & still able to attend 60 or so dance concerts per year?! Wow, lucky to live in an area that is “dance central”! Apologies, I forget, Is that Paris?
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tom tom the pipers son:

thanks brian, have a good week
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StringOFperils:

↳ Michael of Cologne @8:53
Not to mention the Starlink panopticon. Thank you Jeremy Bentham. Nice one.
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sydniuß:

↳ Michael of Cologne @8:55
well for infection yes effects are far worse for the uninoculated
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fred:

↳ Erik & Film’d Concerts @8:55
I work there, and live nearby
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Brian D:

↳ fred @8:54
Oui.
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sydniuß:

we know 4 hospitalized for covid pneumonia, all unjabbed.
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McGroovey:

↳ StringOFperils @8:53
I'M TIRED OF STUPID PEOPLE.

There was a guy at a rest stop last night driving a new $50 Jeep with TRUMP on his personalized plates. Ugh. I guess I AM F-ING STUPID wouldn't have fit.
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Brian D:

Thank you all. And my thanks to Joseph Kanon. Stay safe and have a great week.
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fred:

↳ fred @8:56
Also, I like going to see people I don't know. That expands the field considerably
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Barbie:

Thanks for the great show, I’m off to see the ceo of wsp sdr
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StringOFperils:

↳ McGroovey @8:57
No accounting for self-destruction. O_O *shrugs
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Michael of Cologne:

↳ StringOFperils @8:55
And Bentham's calculus for the maximization of happiness of the greatest number. Only a Brit could come up with that. Thanks Brian for the program.
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rich in angleton:

thx Brian!! great show today!
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dday:

↳ Michael of Cologne @8:55
It easy to say that but based on what comparisons?

This is really the first "modern day" pandemic that we have been collection extreme amounts of statistical data on, both on infection & vaccine efficacy.

Polio, smallpox and others etc. all did lots of damage until vaccines were used to combat them but we didn't keep the kind of statistics we do now.

Just a thought
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StringOFperils:

Thanks, Brian. And thanks everyone else here on The Raft of the Medusa. Glu glub glub...sputter...
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fred:

↳ Michael of Cologne @8:58
The irony of that when the British and French empires did so much to maximize misery
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StringOFperils:

Did? Hey, have you met Rishi?
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