WFMU: Currents with Brian D: Playlist from February 3, 2024

Listener comments!
	6:02am dday: ↳ Song: "Back to the Island" by "Brett McKenzie and the Pr... Morning. Nice version of a Leon Russell classic to open with. Amazing musician & songwriter.
	⚡ 6:02am tom tom the pipers son: good morning brian and people...
	6:05am LiXiviated Life: “Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.” - T Pynchon
	6:06am Robm: morning fellow currents listeners
	6:07am dday: ↳ LiXiviated Life @6:05 Morning Lix...Can I join them ?
	6:09am Brian D: Good morning dday, Tom Tom, Lix and Robm -- and all.
	6:11am dday: ↳ Brian D @6:09 Good Morning Brian. Is the Lucy Webster interview pre-recorded ? Very interested being in that camp (though not a woman)
	6:12am Brian D: ↳ dday @6:11 Yes, pre-recorded. I'm in that camp too.
	6:13am LiXiviated Life: @dday Absolutely
	6:13am dday: ↳ Brian D @6:12 So then you know "the ropes" as it relates to "the system" I presume? Quite the education as I found out
	6:14am Brian D: ↳ dday @6:13 I do, though I consider myself very fortunate in that I don't ALWAYS need accessibility infrastructure. But I'm certainly conscious when it's not there.
	6:15am dday: ↳ LiXiviated Life @6:13 In the 70's when I worked at a local bar, I used to say I had my "weirdo beacon" on. There was always that one person that after a few drinks would get "that look" in their eyes & decide "I need to empy my brain all over Dan over there." I got some harrowing tales & some really funny ones too.
	6:16am JohnEBGood: GM DJ Brian, NJoying the currents here in New Port Richey, FL USA. Peace : )
	6:17am Brian D: ↳ JohnEBGood @6:16 Good morning, John. Right back at ya.
	6:17am dday: ↳ Brian D @6:14 Same here. It's been 17 years & though in my case things have improved very slightly, I will almost never even park in a handicap space. I figure someone else may need it more
	6:18am Brian D: ↳ dday @6:17 My philosophy in a nutshell.
	6:21am LiXiviated Life: Given the choice, I lean toward your everyday run of the mill weirdo However, The depraved rub me the wrong way
	6:23am dday: ↳ LiXiviated Life @6:21 Today it's getting harder to tell them apart.
	6:25am LiXiviated Life: @ dday I look for the hats. Tin foil = 👍 Red cap = approach with caution
	6:28am LiXiviated Life: Ok all me & Mrs Lix got grandchild duty today way up state (I’m pretty sure I can see Canada ) The child is awake and calling. So I’m off the chat. I’ll be listening ✌🏼
	6:30am fred: Good morning Brian and weirdos
	6:32am Robm: ↳ fred @6:30 i resemble that remark:)
	⚡ 6:32am Don in Tampere: Hi Brian and all, just back from meeting the German butcher who passes through sev eral times a year to get sausage and beer, then a fruitless search for gluten flour, which seems to have disappeared from Finland. But the search at least took me to the central square in town, where iut turned out there were the "snow tango world championships" going on and a bunch of people in odd costumers were fancing on the snow-covered square to Finnish tango.
	⚡ 6:33am tom tom the pipers son: sorry missed the northern ireland story,.... lessening influence of westminster?
	6:33am radioronan: Good morning Brian & all!
	6:35am dday: ↳ Don in Tampere @6:32 There is something highly erotic in those words "snow Tango" (to me anyway) Video? :)
	6:37am Brian D: Greetings Don, Fred, Ronan.
	6:37am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @6:32 That sounds lovely.
	6:38am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:33 Not really. First new power-sharing govt since Brexit, with Sinn Fein the controlling party. That's a first.
	⚡ 6:39am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Song: "Mother of Exiles" by "Linda Dusman" Now that's interesting! Noonday greetings to Biran, Tom Tom, Don, Fred et al. from Cologne.
	⚡ 6:41am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @6:38 oh, thanks, brian hello michael...
	6:42am dday: ↳ Brian D @6:38 A late friend was involved in Sinn Fein both here in the States and in Ireland. RIP Gary D.
	6:44am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @6:39 Hello Michael!
	6:46am Brian D: ↳ dday @6:42 My grandfather was a "Sinner" (SH sound at the beginning of that for clarification). Though I guess both words apply.
	⚡ 6:46am Don in Tampere: ↳ dday @6:35 I did get a few seconds of video, but I've only posted it to my Facebook and IG accpounts, so you'd need to send a follow request to www.instagram.com... Brian, Spikey and Paolo can all aready see it if they want to.
	6:48am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @6:46 I'll check it out in a bit!
	⚡ 6:50am tom tom the pipers son: @ michael, a cologne artist showing in ny, work from late 70's and late 80's/early 90's, astrid klein, in general i like it... spruethmagers.com...
	6:50am dday: ↳ Brian D @6:46 Yes. (SH). Gary was on the State Dept. watchlist for a time because of his involvement which lasted for decades, right up to his death a few years ago. (Don't smoke cigarettes kids. Gary's 6thsmoking related heart attack finally got him). A very dangerous cartoon artist and harp player for the long defunkt "Lucky 7 Blues Band" from Port Jervis. NY, was Gary.
	6:53am dday: ↳ Brian D @6:48 Couldn't resist. Video from 2019: www.youtube.com...
	⚡ 6:54am tom tom the pipers son: oh no, for mrs. currents
	6:55am rich in angleton: good morning Brian and everyone in radioland!
	6:56am Brian D: ↳ dday @6:50 That's quite a life there. Tragically short.
	6:56am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:54 Yeah, it's a "minor" procedure (it's only minor when someone else is having it), but still.
	6:57am Brian D: ↳ rich in angleton @6:55 Rich!
	6:57am dday: ↳ Brian D @6:56 As we recently found out, no "procedure" is "minor" Hang in there and much love & healing to you both
	⚡ 6:59am Don in Tampere: ↳ dday @6:53 nice one!
	6:59am Brian D: ↳ dday @6:57 Thank you. It's her second procedure in as many weeks. Sorry for your troubles.
	6:59am Robm: ↳ Song: "Everybody Knows" by "Leonard Cohen" any time i hear leonard is a good day
	7:00am dday: ↳ Don in Tampere @6:59 Maybe one day my love & I will participate though I have 3 left feet :)
	⚡ 7:00am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @6:56 yes, was going to say when you have the under anesthesia, it's significant, are you getting fruit/etc. baskets sent to the house, food that mrs currents could distract herself with...?
	7:01am dday: ↳ Brian D @6:59 Aye yi yi. Ughh. Stressful I'm sure
	7:01am Aaron Working In Newark: Good morning
	7:01am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:00 Yes, but nothing healthy unfortunately.
	7:02am dday: ↳ Robm @6:59 Morning Robm. Having listened to Leonard for years, he's no doubt my direct link to loving Nick Cave
	7:02am fred: I would like to hear Laibach covering First We Take Manhattan
	⚡ 7:02am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @7:01 balducci's used to do a good basket...:((
	7:03am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:02 Yes, they did. I'm getting fruit myself, though.
	7:05am Robm: ↳ dday @7:02 i love nick too dday
	7:06am Strandlund: Good Morning Brian and all the currents Listeners!!
	⚡ 7:07am Michael of Cologne: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:50 Cologne has spawned numerous female artists, the most famous being Rosemary Trockel with her witty, ironical knitted works (now lives near Berlin). Yesterday was in an exhibition of works by women artists showing 51 works: galerie-karsten-greve.com... Louise Bourgeois is probably the most famous, but Leiko Ikemura is on her way (Japanese, born 1951, lived a long time in Cologne; now in Berlin). The U.S. artist Kathleen Jacobs, new to the gallery, makes obscenely beautiful frottage paintings.
	⚡ 7:08am Don in Tampere: ↳ Brian D @6:59 This may be the wrong show, but lots of pixie dust for your wife.
	⚡ 7:08am Don in Tampere: ↳ fred @7:02 so would I!
	7:10am Brian D: Hello Strand!
	7:11am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @7:08 We'll take it, Don, thank you.
	⚡ 7:11am tom tom the pipers son: @ fred: david weinstein played a better version of the julius eastman piece you recommended on bandcamp a while ago , with eastman on piano a much fiercer attack than on bandcamp, maybe you know about iot already... www.youtube.com...
	7:16am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:11 That's from a 3-CD set called Unjust Malaise, which I highly recommend
	7:17am TDK60: Good morning.
	7:18am dday: ↳ Robm @7:05 Working on obtaining the back catalog. Ordered used copies of Ghosteen & Skeleton Tree earlier this morning. Purchased The Lyre of Orpheus & Idiot Prayer Live at Alexandra hall recently. Both fantastic discs.
	⚡ 7:20am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @7:16 yes, that's also on yt amazingly enough, weinstein played it off of unjust malase and just searching for it, waqs surprised to see how much eastman is on yt
	7:23am Reagan NY ZEN RN: Good morning all
	7:23am dday: ↳ Reagan NY ZEN RN @7:23 Morning Reagan> How's things?
	7:23am Strandlund: ↳ Brian D @7:10 I'm with Don...Sending love and pixie to you and yours, Brian!!
	7:25am Reagan NY ZEN RN: ↳ dday @7:23 Moving along I just emailed you. Sending love.
	7:26am Reagan NY ZEN RN: ↳ Robm @6:59 Good morning Robm. I was just thinking the other day, I never hear Leonard on Wake. I love Leonard. How are you today?
	7:27am fred: I think the late composer Emmanuel Nunes had cerebral palsy (or something closely related). He was fond of telling about the shock on cop faces he got a few times when he got stopped for speeding (he liked to drive) and he struggled to talk or get out of his car
	⚡ 7:29am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Michael of Cologne @7:07 looks like an interesting show, speaking of bourgeois i saw this dorothea tanning work (online) that is prescient of bourgeois fabric work from the 90's www.selvedge.org...
	⚡ 7:31am tom tom the pipers son: wow, sun is out in nyc for the first time in a week, it feels
	7:32am Fox: I'm glad I couldn't sleep.
	⚡ 7:33am tom tom the pipers son: yes, accessibilty for the disabled, elderly, and people with children in strollers
	7:33am Brian D: ↳ Fox @7:32 Hey! I'm glad you couldn't either -- I guess.
	7:36am Fox: What a good question.
	⚡ 7:36am Michael of Cologne: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:29 That textile object is disturbingly suggestive, polyvalent. Do you have any of Bourgeois' giant spiders nearby in NY?
	7:42am Fox: I imagine doctors, majority male, have more compassion for disabled men, because they assume women can be comfortable in the role of submission and needing to be looked after.
	7:42am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:29 Annette Messager is another artist who has worked with fabric, knitting and embroidery
	7:43am StringOFperils: Good morning, Brian and all. Congratulations! You made it to Saturday!
	⚡ 7:44am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Michael of Cologne @7:36 un fortunately no, but laid out a display room while working at an auction house and positioned a small spider in front of a soft fabric couch which i thought was a nice contrast of soft/hard and 'surreal'/ domestic
	7:44am dale: had my ears on brian. great show.
	⚡ 7:44am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @7:42 yes but was it focused on the figure? i forget
	⚡ 7:45am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:44 it=her work
	7:46am Brian D: ↳ Fox @7:42 Male doctors are also less empathetic to pain and other symptoms in women. Studies have shown that.
	7:46am Brian D: ↳ StringOFperils @7:43 Good day String.
	7:47am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:45 I guess no. Though in some works there is deliberate space for a figure that is missing
	7:47am Brian D: ↳ dale @7:44 Thanks dale!
	⚡ 7:47am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:44 oh yes, sort of i see...
	⚡ 7:49am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:47 meant there are symbolic 'figures'
	⚡ 7:55am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @7:46 ironic because women have a higher threshhold for pain, apparently, in native american 'sun ceremony' men pull large rocks from hooks in there backs until they tear out to feel the pain of women during childbirth
	7:58am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:55 Right. Carol Burnett used to tell a joke about the pain of childbirth...
	7:59am Fox: I too have given up seeking romance. Because it's all turned into self advertisement on apps. I don't want to lie, but I look like shit on paper.
	8:00am Brian D: ↳ Fox @7:59 No, you don't, for the record. But I can understand the frustration. I could never do the app thing.
	8:01am alanSixº: G’morning
	8:01am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:55 Many accepted ideas about innate pain thresholds have been debunked. A lot seems to be getting habituated to pain (that is ignored or downplayed) over years
	8:01am Fox: ↳ Brian D @7:58 Yeah, I didn't realize how much pain I'm actually always in until I had to suffer pain that I could compare to others. Broken ribs, fractured foot, punctured lung, no big deal.
	8:02am StringOFperils: ↳ Fox @7:59 It will find you. The co-opting of the process of mutual engagement by digital tech is what looks like shit on paper at this point. My feeling is that you should keep doing radio....and things will work out. They are working out. Myriad ways to live. No set paths. No schedule.
	8:03am dday: ↳ Fox @7:42 You are dead on Fox. I'm currently reading "Blood" by Dr. Jen Gunter & the depth of misogyny in the medical world is unbelievable. From centuries ago until today
	⚡ 8:04am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @8:01 u huh... wasn't sure, that's why i wrote 'apparently'
	8:04am Fox: ↳ StringOFperils @8:02 Yeah, that's my view. I don't want to end up in a relationship based on some kind of job interview scenario, which is what modern app dating looks like to me.
	8:04am Brian D: ↳ Fox @8:01 I broke my finger on my right (bad) hand a few years ago and didn't even realize it for weeks. The pain was nothing. I hurt more getting out of bed in the morning.
	8:04am alanSixº: Great stuff Brian
	8:05am StringOFperils: ↳ Fox @8:04 Right? How can that possibly work out?
	8:05am dday: ↳ fred @7:42 As does my love. Enjoy the view. www.mefgannon.com
	8:05am Brian D: ↳ alanSixº @8:04 High praise from you, sir. Thank you. Lucy is awesome: lucy-webster.com
	8:06am TDK60: Thanks for the interview.
	8:06am HyperDose: ↳ Song: "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" by "Arctic... Excellent way to wake up
	8:07am Fox: I recently got a story in my feed about how in the UK, if one is in a catastrophic accident that will take months to recover from, they are now making people move into care centers for rehab instead of letting them stay home and have home care. The US model is picking up more and more steam in the UK, and that's a bummer.
	8:07am Brian D: Lucy's substack: lucywebster.substack.com
	8:08am Brian D: And her wonderful book: www.goodreads.com...
	8:08am dday: ↳ Brian D @8:04 Chronic pain overriding acute pain? I know it well
	8:09am alanSixº: ↳ Fox @8:07 Those rehab centers are terrifying - at least the few I have seen in NJ
	8:11am fred: ↳ Brian D @8:04 It's something I have to be careful about. A year ago I felt pain and liquid in my bad ear and ignored it. I got to work and alarmed coworkers told me I had blood dripping down my neck (staining a fine WFMU T-shirt in the process). I wasn't even listening to Oasis at the time :)
	8:12am Fox: ↳ alanSixº @8:09 It's what they do. It's linked to the read estate grab of banks. If you get sick and need medical care to stay alive, the government will liquidate your assets to pay for your medical care, sell your house to a bank, then stick you on Medicaid and house you in a care home and give you a stipend of like $40 a month.
	⚡ 8:12am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @8:11 ha ha, to the kicker only....
	8:13am Fox: ↳ Fox @8:12 *read = real
	8:13am Fox: ↳ fred @8:11 AAAAAHHHHH.
	8:13am alanSixº: ↳ Fox @8:12 My mom was in one a few weeks before she died - long story short there was one nurse to 12 patients
	8:15am alanSixº: I gotta get the boy on a walk - I’ll be tuned in from the beats - thanx for the show Brian - fantastic
	8:16am Brian D: ↳ fred @8:11 Ha!
	8:16am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:12 Right. Should have specified that.
	8:17am Krys O.: Hello!!
	8:18am TDK60: Morning, Krys O.
	8:22am Krys O.: ↳ Fox @8:12 My oldest sister went into a nursing home last year. She has cognitive and physical issues at age 76 with a seizure disorder. Her son was able to place her in a good facility. She is on Medicaid. She's getting dentures very soon too. My sister was my mother's caregiver for 9 years. Mom passed away at age 97 in December. We were able to have Mom at home for a long time. She actually was in great shape physically until the very end. So much upheaval.
	8:24am HyperDose: ↳ Krys O. @8:17 Morning, Krys. Last week's Polish music show was superb. Can't wait to see what you put together for us later!
	8:24am Krys O.: A dear friend is a home health care aide for a CP patient. He does his best to make his patient comfortable and happy. My friend is a gem.
	8:24am Krys O.: ↳ HyperDose @8:24 Thank you! See you then.
	8:34am Brian D: ↳ Krys O. @8:24 I bet he is. The world needs more home health aides -- and more men doing that work, actually (Lucy Webster mentions that in her book). Kudos to your friend.
	8:34am gnarly_gnarwhal: Hey Brian! I donated blood yesterday for the first time in many years thanks to your playing that report a few weeks back. Cheers to your benevolence and fantastic tunes.
	8:34am Fox: ↳ alanSixº @8:13 I'm not surprised. That's probably the average.
	⚡ 8:36am Brian in UK: Hello Brian. There used to be a radio programme over here called 'Does He Take Sugar'. Th essence of it being that disabled people need someone to talk for them. When in fact, surprise, surprise they can talk for themselves.
	8:36am Fox: ↳ Krys O. @8:22 I'm glad your mom could stay home. Everyone should know about the option of putting your home in a trust so that you don't techinically own it but can stull stay living there adn the government can't sell it as part of your assets to get on Medicaid.
	8:36am StringOFperils: It is true that 'health care' is a business. So it has a profit motive, and it deals in investment capital. In tandem with that is a societal component that is arguably worse: We tacitly disallow the differently-abled, the sick, the wounded and the aged, and we sweep them under the rug; we hide them away, because they're in the way of achieving whatever goals we've set for ourselves. i.e. they are inconvenient. Somehow our culture has moved away from caring and community and what has been called the 'nuclear family', but more importantly the idea of family. Any kind of family. An element of core societal resilience has been eroded away, so that when difficulty comes our way, we look upward, placatingly, to machine-mother for succour, while those 'close to us' turn away to their daily applications. So you end up with underfunded, overburdened, improperly staffed holding chambers for the inconvenient and the doomed. Except for the many who will have nowhere to go at all. This is a generalization, of course, as evidenced in the comments above that prove otherwise....but society is complicit in hollowing out extended-care; it isn't exclusively the banks.
	8:37am Re6ecca: I have a friend who recently had knee surgery. Since November she’s been immobile. She’s asked repeatedly to be put in a rehab facility but gets turned down. The past two physical therapy sessions she missed due to her severe pain. The doctor blames her instead of looking further as to what could be causing this. Before all this she was very active. It’s very sad the way she’s being treated. As of yesterday she was looking again for a rehab facility that would help her.
	8:38am TDK60: Upheaval in the Red Sea? How about a ceasefire in Gaza?! (Hear me Biden?)
	⚡ 8:40am tom tom the pipers son: thx fox and string of perils for your comments
	8:42am dday: ↳ Re6ecca @8:37 The work of the Medical Insurance Industrial Complex. Sorry you & she are dealing with this
	8:42am Brian D: ↳ Brian in UK @8:36 Brian, good morning. There's also the show "Last Legs."
	8:43am Brian D: ↳ Re6ecca @8:37 Sorry to hear this, Rebecca. As Lucy noted in our interview, most disability is acquired. Either way, it is too often ignored or poorly treated.
	8:44am fred: ↳ Re6ecca @8:37 Yep, I got blamed for bleeding that turned out to be caused by a genetic clotting anomaly. I don't blame doctors and nurses who have to rush through patients (sorry, "customers"). As always, I hold the bosses guilty until proven innocent, and good luck with that
	8:45am dday: ↳ StringOFperils @8:36 You neglected to mention the politicians at all higher levels whose grubby paws & pockets are being mightily enriched by the policies they put in place. What do they care? We pay for the "cadillac health insurance plans" The sick & injured are useless to them, a burden..No longer called "patients" but '"consumers" of health care.
	8:46am fred: ↳ Song: "Avert Your Eyes" by "Tremosphere" Listener Sylvia there!
	8:47am dday: ↳ dday @8:45 their cadillac
	⚡ 8:47am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @8:44 patients were being referred to as 'consumers' here for a while not sure if that's still the case
	8:48am Brian D: ↳ fred @8:46 Indeed.
	8:49am dday: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:47 I first encountered the "consumers" term while servicing Advoserve & The ARC group homes in NJ between 2005 and 2010. I find the term appalling.
	8:49am Fox: ↳ dday @8:45 My favorite doctor was fired because he took the cases like me, that weren't easily resolved.
	8:51am fred: ↳ Fox @8:49 Isn't that what you did with your dating app?
	8:51am dday: ↳ Fox @8:49 Yep. If you find a good one hang on to her or him. They have it hard in the corporate environment of modern day medical care. Many, many good docs, hamstringed by corporate management
	8:51am dday: ↳ Song: "Needs Fixing" by "I Think Like Midnight" This has a Zappa like feel to it. Nice
	⚡ 8:51am tom tom the pipers son: the profit motive in medicine seems to be a domestic analogy to the profit motive of war, it's the war at home
	⚡ 8:52am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ dday @8:49 that's the word for it
	8:54am StringOFperils: ↳ dday @8:45 'Health-consumers' are a market Health is a product. Politics is a brokerage. Probably good to recognize that up front. Rhetoric doesn't count for much after election day...when the chips are down. Maybe independent collectives of people will evolve out of this morass of emptiness, who knows? Older, Indigenous ways of being may prove to be part of a solution. But rest assured, money will try to kill that in the cradle too.
	8:54am Brian D: Alright, folks. That's about it for me. Thanks for the lively discussion, and my thanks to Lucy Webster as well. Do get her book: The View from Down Here. Back in a fortnight. Stay safe until then.
	⚡ 8:55am tom tom the pipers son: thanks, brian
	8:55am dday: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:51 Both highly profitable. Wars are started by govts. fought by it's brainwashed & suffered by all except those who started it. Health care feels the same to me. No regard for those at the bottom of the chain
	8:55am TDK60: Thanks, Brian.
	8:55am HyperDose: Thanks, Brian and Lucy! Stay as healthy as the government will permit, y'all!
	8:55am fred: Thanks Brian, and a speedy recovery to Ms Currents
	⚡ 8:57am tom tom the pipers son: yes best healthy wishes to mrs currents
	8:57am rich in angleton: thanks Brian great interview and great show. and as always the comments board is so informative I learn so much every week during this show. have a great weekend everybody!
	8:57am StringOFperils: Thank you, Brian. That was a good interview. Really hard to get a platform when your speech is palsied. Kudos to Lucy Webster.
	8:57am dday: ↳ StringOFperils @8:54 Trust me. I am well aware of all of that you say. I don't begrudge anyone a living but at what cost to society overall? Medical bankruptcy is currently at 66.5% and rising. www.retireguide.com...
	8:58am dday: Brian thanks & good luck for your wife & yourself next week
	8:59am listener 126464: Thank you, Brian D. and Lucy.
	8:59am Re6ecca: Great show as always Brian! Thanks ! Well wishes to Mrs. Currents!
	9:00am Ballpark Frank: Great show!

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Brett McKenzie and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band	Back to the Island	A Song for Leon: A Tribute to Leon Russell		0:00:00 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
Blind Faith	Can't Find My Way Home	Blind Faith		0:04:43 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
Linda Dusman	Mother of Exiles "Mother of Exiles" by "Linda Dusman"	Flashpoint		0:08:55 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
	Clip: BBC-British museums return seized artefacts to Ghana			0:19:15 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
Bhajan Bhoy	Won’t You Wait "Won’t You Wait" by "Bhajan Bhoy"	Shanti Shanti Shanti		0:20:44 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
	Clip: Sky News-new government forms in the north of Ireland			0:27:30 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
Amby Downs	I Am Holding My Breath	Ngunmal		0:28:53 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
Resavoir	Plantasy "Plantasy" by "Resavoir"	Resavoir		0:53:59 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
Leonard Cohen	Everybody Knows "Everybody Knows" by "Leonard Cohen"	I'm Your Man		0:58:29 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
PART 1—INTERVIEW WITH LUCY WEBSTER "PART 1—INTERVIEW WITH LUCY WEBSTER"
Florence and the Machine	Grace "Grace" by "Florence and the Machine"	High As Hope		1:19:20 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
Wu Lyf	We Bros "We Bros" by "Wu Lyf"	Go Tell Fire to the Mountain		1:24:10 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
PART 2—INTERVIEW WITH LUCY WEBSTER "PART 2—INTERVIEW WITH LUCY WEBSTER"
Johanna Samuels	Holy Mothers "Holy Mothers" by "Johanna Samuels"	Bystander		1:42:26 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
Eki Shola	Not Afraid to Hope "Not Afraid to Hope" by "Eki Shola"	Kaeru		1:46:56 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
PART 3—INTERVIEW WITH LUCY WEBSTER "PART 3—INTERVIEW WITH LUCY WEBSTER"
Arctic Monkeys	I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor	Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not		2:04:03 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
Oasis	Morning Glory "Morning Glory" by "Oasis"	(What's The Story) Morning Glory?		2:06:55 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
Divine Horsemen	Bitter End "Bitter End" by "Divine Horsemen"	Bitter End of a Sweet Night		2:14:47 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
John Doe	A Step Outside "A Step Outside" by "John Doe"	The Best of John Doe This Far		2:18:54 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
Dirt Buyer	Shame "Shame" by "Dirt Buyer"	II		2:22:45 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
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Cat Mountain	Lonely Little Sunlight	II		2:26:10 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
Saint Black	Alex "Alex" by "Saint Black"	Alex EP		2:29:01 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
Pavement	Our Singer "Our Singer" by "Pavement"	Slanted & Enchanted		2:32:43 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
Barbara Manning	Heart Needs A Home	Charm of Yesterday… Convenience of Tomorrow	Richard and Linda Thompson cover	2:37:34 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
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Tremosphere	Avert Your Eyes "Avert Your Eyes" by "Tremosphere"	Single		2:44:27 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
I Think Like Midnight	Needs Fixing	Microtonal Honkytonk	Western officials in protest over Israel Gaza policy: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68177357	2:48:19 (Pop-up \| Pop-up)
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Listener comments!
	6:02am dday: ↳ Song: "Back to the Island" by "Brett McKenzie and the Pr... Morning. Nice version of a Leon Russell classic to open with. Amazing musician & songwriter.
	⚡ 6:02am tom tom the pipers son: good morning brian and people...
	6:05am LiXiviated Life: “Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.” - T Pynchon
	6:06am Robm: morning fellow currents listeners
	6:07am dday: ↳ LiXiviated Life @6:05 Morning Lix...Can I join them ?
	6:09am Brian D: Good morning dday, Tom Tom, Lix and Robm -- and all.
	6:11am dday: ↳ Brian D @6:09 Good Morning Brian. Is the Lucy Webster interview pre-recorded ? Very interested being in that camp (though not a woman)
	6:12am Brian D: ↳ dday @6:11 Yes, pre-recorded. I'm in that camp too.
	6:13am LiXiviated Life: @dday Absolutely
	6:13am dday: ↳ Brian D @6:12 So then you know "the ropes" as it relates to "the system" I presume? Quite the education as I found out
	6:14am Brian D: ↳ dday @6:13 I do, though I consider myself very fortunate in that I don't ALWAYS need accessibility infrastructure. But I'm certainly conscious when it's not there.
	6:15am dday: ↳ LiXiviated Life @6:13 In the 70's when I worked at a local bar, I used to say I had my "weirdo beacon" on. There was always that one person that after a few drinks would get "that look" in their eyes & decide "I need to empy my brain all over Dan over there." I got some harrowing tales & some really funny ones too.
	6:16am JohnEBGood: GM DJ Brian, NJoying the currents here in New Port Richey, FL USA. Peace : )
	6:17am Brian D: ↳ JohnEBGood @6:16 Good morning, John. Right back at ya.
	6:17am dday: ↳ Brian D @6:14 Same here. It's been 17 years & though in my case things have improved very slightly, I will almost never even park in a handicap space. I figure someone else may need it more
	6:18am Brian D: ↳ dday @6:17 My philosophy in a nutshell.
	6:21am LiXiviated Life: Given the choice, I lean toward your everyday run of the mill weirdo However, The depraved rub me the wrong way
	6:23am dday: ↳ LiXiviated Life @6:21 Today it's getting harder to tell them apart.
	6:25am LiXiviated Life: @ dday I look for the hats. Tin foil = 👍 Red cap = approach with caution
	6:28am LiXiviated Life: Ok all me & Mrs Lix got grandchild duty today way up state (I’m pretty sure I can see Canada ) The child is awake and calling. So I’m off the chat. I’ll be listening ✌🏼
	6:30am fred: Good morning Brian and weirdos
	6:32am Robm: ↳ fred @6:30 i resemble that remark:)
	⚡ 6:32am Don in Tampere: Hi Brian and all, just back from meeting the German butcher who passes through sev eral times a year to get sausage and beer, then a fruitless search for gluten flour, which seems to have disappeared from Finland. But the search at least took me to the central square in town, where iut turned out there were the "snow tango world championships" going on and a bunch of people in odd costumers were fancing on the snow-covered square to Finnish tango.
	⚡ 6:33am tom tom the pipers son: sorry missed the northern ireland story,.... lessening influence of westminster?
	6:33am radioronan: Good morning Brian & all!
	6:35am dday: ↳ Don in Tampere @6:32 There is something highly erotic in those words "snow Tango" (to me anyway) Video? :)
	6:37am Brian D: Greetings Don, Fred, Ronan.
	6:37am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @6:32 That sounds lovely.
	6:38am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:33 Not really. First new power-sharing govt since Brexit, with Sinn Fein the controlling party. That's a first.
	⚡ 6:39am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Song: "Mother of Exiles" by "Linda Dusman" Now that's interesting! Noonday greetings to Biran, Tom Tom, Don, Fred et al. from Cologne.
	⚡ 6:41am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @6:38 oh, thanks, brian hello michael...
	6:42am dday: ↳ Brian D @6:38 A late friend was involved in Sinn Fein both here in the States and in Ireland. RIP Gary D.
	6:44am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @6:39 Hello Michael!
	6:46am Brian D: ↳ dday @6:42 My grandfather was a "Sinner" (SH sound at the beginning of that for clarification). Though I guess both words apply.
	⚡ 6:46am Don in Tampere: ↳ dday @6:35 I did get a few seconds of video, but I've only posted it to my Facebook and IG accpounts, so you'd need to send a follow request to www.instagram.com... Brian, Spikey and Paolo can all aready see it if they want to.
	6:48am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @6:46 I'll check it out in a bit!
	⚡ 6:50am tom tom the pipers son: @ michael, a cologne artist showing in ny, work from late 70's and late 80's/early 90's, astrid klein, in general i like it... spruethmagers.com...
	6:50am dday: ↳ Brian D @6:46 Yes. (SH). Gary was on the State Dept. watchlist for a time because of his involvement which lasted for decades, right up to his death a few years ago. (Don't smoke cigarettes kids. Gary's 6thsmoking related heart attack finally got him). A very dangerous cartoon artist and harp player for the long defunkt "Lucky 7 Blues Band" from Port Jervis. NY, was Gary.
	6:53am dday: ↳ Brian D @6:48 Couldn't resist. Video from 2019: www.youtube.com...
	⚡ 6:54am tom tom the pipers son: oh no, for mrs. currents
	6:55am rich in angleton: good morning Brian and everyone in radioland!
	6:56am Brian D: ↳ dday @6:50 That's quite a life there. Tragically short.
	6:56am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:54 Yeah, it's a "minor" procedure (it's only minor when someone else is having it), but still.
	6:57am Brian D: ↳ rich in angleton @6:55 Rich!
	6:57am dday: ↳ Brian D @6:56 As we recently found out, no "procedure" is "minor" Hang in there and much love & healing to you both
	⚡ 6:59am Don in Tampere: ↳ dday @6:53 nice one!
	6:59am Brian D: ↳ dday @6:57 Thank you. It's her second procedure in as many weeks. Sorry for your troubles.
	6:59am Robm: ↳ Song: "Everybody Knows" by "Leonard Cohen" any time i hear leonard is a good day
	7:00am dday: ↳ Don in Tampere @6:59 Maybe one day my love & I will participate though I have 3 left feet :)
	⚡ 7:00am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @6:56 yes, was going to say when you have the under anesthesia, it's significant, are you getting fruit/etc. baskets sent to the house, food that mrs currents could distract herself with...?
	7:01am dday: ↳ Brian D @6:59 Aye yi yi. Ughh. Stressful I'm sure
	7:01am Aaron Working In Newark: Good morning
	7:01am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:00 Yes, but nothing healthy unfortunately.
	7:02am dday: ↳ Robm @6:59 Morning Robm. Having listened to Leonard for years, he's no doubt my direct link to loving Nick Cave
	7:02am fred: I would like to hear Laibach covering First We Take Manhattan
	⚡ 7:02am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @7:01 balducci's used to do a good basket...:((
	7:03am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:02 Yes, they did. I'm getting fruit myself, though.
	7:05am Robm: ↳ dday @7:02 i love nick too dday
	7:06am Strandlund: Good Morning Brian and all the currents Listeners!!
	⚡ 7:07am Michael of Cologne: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:50 Cologne has spawned numerous female artists, the most famous being Rosemary Trockel with her witty, ironical knitted works (now lives near Berlin). Yesterday was in an exhibition of works by women artists showing 51 works: galerie-karsten-greve.com... Louise Bourgeois is probably the most famous, but Leiko Ikemura is on her way (Japanese, born 1951, lived a long time in Cologne; now in Berlin). The U.S. artist Kathleen Jacobs, new to the gallery, makes obscenely beautiful frottage paintings.
	⚡ 7:08am Don in Tampere: ↳ Brian D @6:59 This may be the wrong show, but lots of pixie dust for your wife.
	⚡ 7:08am Don in Tampere: ↳ fred @7:02 so would I!
	7:10am Brian D: Hello Strand!
	7:11am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @7:08 We'll take it, Don, thank you.
	⚡ 7:11am tom tom the pipers son: @ fred: david weinstein played a better version of the julius eastman piece you recommended on bandcamp a while ago , with eastman on piano a much fiercer attack than on bandcamp, maybe you know about iot already... www.youtube.com...
	7:16am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:11 That's from a 3-CD set called Unjust Malaise, which I highly recommend
	7:17am TDK60: Good morning.
	7:18am dday: ↳ Robm @7:05 Working on obtaining the back catalog. Ordered used copies of Ghosteen & Skeleton Tree earlier this morning. Purchased The Lyre of Orpheus & Idiot Prayer Live at Alexandra hall recently. Both fantastic discs.
	⚡ 7:20am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @7:16 yes, that's also on yt amazingly enough, weinstein played it off of unjust malase and just searching for it, waqs surprised to see how much eastman is on yt
	7:23am Reagan NY ZEN RN: Good morning all
	7:23am dday: ↳ Reagan NY ZEN RN @7:23 Morning Reagan> How's things?
	7:23am Strandlund: ↳ Brian D @7:10 I'm with Don...Sending love and pixie to you and yours, Brian!!
	7:25am Reagan NY ZEN RN: ↳ dday @7:23 Moving along I just emailed you. Sending love.
	7:26am Reagan NY ZEN RN: ↳ Robm @6:59 Good morning Robm. I was just thinking the other day, I never hear Leonard on Wake. I love Leonard. How are you today?
	7:27am fred: I think the late composer Emmanuel Nunes had cerebral palsy (or something closely related). He was fond of telling about the shock on cop faces he got a few times when he got stopped for speeding (he liked to drive) and he struggled to talk or get out of his car
	⚡ 7:29am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Michael of Cologne @7:07 looks like an interesting show, speaking of bourgeois i saw this dorothea tanning work (online) that is prescient of bourgeois fabric work from the 90's www.selvedge.org...
	⚡ 7:31am tom tom the pipers son: wow, sun is out in nyc for the first time in a week, it feels
	7:32am Fox: I'm glad I couldn't sleep.
	⚡ 7:33am tom tom the pipers son: yes, accessibilty for the disabled, elderly, and people with children in strollers
	7:33am Brian D: ↳ Fox @7:32 Hey! I'm glad you couldn't either -- I guess.
	7:36am Fox: What a good question.
	⚡ 7:36am Michael of Cologne: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:29 That textile object is disturbingly suggestive, polyvalent. Do you have any of Bourgeois' giant spiders nearby in NY?
	7:42am Fox: I imagine doctors, majority male, have more compassion for disabled men, because they assume women can be comfortable in the role of submission and needing to be looked after.
	7:42am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:29 Annette Messager is another artist who has worked with fabric, knitting and embroidery
	7:43am StringOFperils: Good morning, Brian and all. Congratulations! You made it to Saturday!
	⚡ 7:44am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Michael of Cologne @7:36 un fortunately no, but laid out a display room while working at an auction house and positioned a small spider in front of a soft fabric couch which i thought was a nice contrast of soft/hard and 'surreal'/ domestic
	7:44am dale: had my ears on brian. great show.
	⚡ 7:44am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @7:42 yes but was it focused on the figure? i forget
	⚡ 7:45am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:44 it=her work
	7:46am Brian D: ↳ Fox @7:42 Male doctors are also less empathetic to pain and other symptoms in women. Studies have shown that.
	7:46am Brian D: ↳ StringOFperils @7:43 Good day String.
	7:47am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:45 I guess no. Though in some works there is deliberate space for a figure that is missing
	7:47am Brian D: ↳ dale @7:44 Thanks dale!
	⚡ 7:47am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:44 oh yes, sort of i see...
	⚡ 7:49am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:47 meant there are symbolic 'figures'
	⚡ 7:55am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @7:46 ironic because women have a higher threshhold for pain, apparently, in native american 'sun ceremony' men pull large rocks from hooks in there backs until they tear out to feel the pain of women during childbirth
	7:58am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:55 Right. Carol Burnett used to tell a joke about the pain of childbirth...
	7:59am Fox: I too have given up seeking romance. Because it's all turned into self advertisement on apps. I don't want to lie, but I look like shit on paper.
	8:00am Brian D: ↳ Fox @7:59 No, you don't, for the record. But I can understand the frustration. I could never do the app thing.
	8:01am alanSixº: G’morning
	8:01am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:55 Many accepted ideas about innate pain thresholds have been debunked. A lot seems to be getting habituated to pain (that is ignored or downplayed) over years
	8:01am Fox: ↳ Brian D @7:58 Yeah, I didn't realize how much pain I'm actually always in until I had to suffer pain that I could compare to others. Broken ribs, fractured foot, punctured lung, no big deal.
	8:02am StringOFperils: ↳ Fox @7:59 It will find you. The co-opting of the process of mutual engagement by digital tech is what looks like shit on paper at this point. My feeling is that you should keep doing radio....and things will work out. They are working out. Myriad ways to live. No set paths. No schedule.
	8:03am dday: ↳ Fox @7:42 You are dead on Fox. I'm currently reading "Blood" by Dr. Jen Gunter & the depth of misogyny in the medical world is unbelievable. From centuries ago until today
	⚡ 8:04am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @8:01 u huh... wasn't sure, that's why i wrote 'apparently'
	8:04am Fox: ↳ StringOFperils @8:02 Yeah, that's my view. I don't want to end up in a relationship based on some kind of job interview scenario, which is what modern app dating looks like to me.
	8:04am Brian D: ↳ Fox @8:01 I broke my finger on my right (bad) hand a few years ago and didn't even realize it for weeks. The pain was nothing. I hurt more getting out of bed in the morning.
	8:04am alanSixº: Great stuff Brian
	8:05am StringOFperils: ↳ Fox @8:04 Right? How can that possibly work out?
	8:05am dday: ↳ fred @7:42 As does my love. Enjoy the view. www.mefgannon.com
	8:05am Brian D: ↳ alanSixº @8:04 High praise from you, sir. Thank you. Lucy is awesome: lucy-webster.com
	8:06am TDK60: Thanks for the interview.
	8:06am HyperDose: ↳ Song: "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" by "Arctic... Excellent way to wake up
	8:07am Fox: I recently got a story in my feed about how in the UK, if one is in a catastrophic accident that will take months to recover from, they are now making people move into care centers for rehab instead of letting them stay home and have home care. The US model is picking up more and more steam in the UK, and that's a bummer.
	8:07am Brian D: Lucy's substack: lucywebster.substack.com
	8:08am Brian D: And her wonderful book: www.goodreads.com...
	8:08am dday: ↳ Brian D @8:04 Chronic pain overriding acute pain? I know it well
	8:09am alanSixº: ↳ Fox @8:07 Those rehab centers are terrifying - at least the few I have seen in NJ
	8:11am fred: ↳ Brian D @8:04 It's something I have to be careful about. A year ago I felt pain and liquid in my bad ear and ignored it. I got to work and alarmed coworkers told me I had blood dripping down my neck (staining a fine WFMU T-shirt in the process). I wasn't even listening to Oasis at the time :)
	8:12am Fox: ↳ alanSixº @8:09 It's what they do. It's linked to the read estate grab of banks. If you get sick and need medical care to stay alive, the government will liquidate your assets to pay for your medical care, sell your house to a bank, then stick you on Medicaid and house you in a care home and give you a stipend of like $40 a month.
	⚡ 8:12am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @8:11 ha ha, to the kicker only....
	8:13am Fox: ↳ Fox @8:12 *read = real
	8:13am Fox: ↳ fred @8:11 AAAAAHHHHH.
	8:13am alanSixº: ↳ Fox @8:12 My mom was in one a few weeks before she died - long story short there was one nurse to 12 patients
	8:15am alanSixº: I gotta get the boy on a walk - I’ll be tuned in from the beats - thanx for the show Brian - fantastic
	8:16am Brian D: ↳ fred @8:11 Ha!
	8:16am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:12 Right. Should have specified that.
	8:17am Krys O.: Hello!!
	8:18am TDK60: Morning, Krys O.
	8:22am Krys O.: ↳ Fox @8:12 My oldest sister went into a nursing home last year. She has cognitive and physical issues at age 76 with a seizure disorder. Her son was able to place her in a good facility. She is on Medicaid. She's getting dentures very soon too. My sister was my mother's caregiver for 9 years. Mom passed away at age 97 in December. We were able to have Mom at home for a long time. She actually was in great shape physically until the very end. So much upheaval.
	8:24am HyperDose: ↳ Krys O. @8:17 Morning, Krys. Last week's Polish music show was superb. Can't wait to see what you put together for us later!
	8:24am Krys O.: A dear friend is a home health care aide for a CP patient. He does his best to make his patient comfortable and happy. My friend is a gem.
	8:24am Krys O.: ↳ HyperDose @8:24 Thank you! See you then.
	8:34am Brian D: ↳ Krys O. @8:24 I bet he is. The world needs more home health aides -- and more men doing that work, actually (Lucy Webster mentions that in her book). Kudos to your friend.
	8:34am gnarly_gnarwhal: Hey Brian! I donated blood yesterday for the first time in many years thanks to your playing that report a few weeks back. Cheers to your benevolence and fantastic tunes.
	8:34am Fox: ↳ alanSixº @8:13 I'm not surprised. That's probably the average.
	⚡ 8:36am Brian in UK: Hello Brian. There used to be a radio programme over here called 'Does He Take Sugar'. Th essence of it being that disabled people need someone to talk for them. When in fact, surprise, surprise they can talk for themselves.
	8:36am Fox: ↳ Krys O. @8:22 I'm glad your mom could stay home. Everyone should know about the option of putting your home in a trust so that you don't techinically own it but can stull stay living there adn the government can't sell it as part of your assets to get on Medicaid.
	8:36am StringOFperils: It is true that 'health care' is a business. So it has a profit motive, and it deals in investment capital. In tandem with that is a societal component that is arguably worse: We tacitly disallow the differently-abled, the sick, the wounded and the aged, and we sweep them under the rug; we hide them away, because they're in the way of achieving whatever goals we've set for ourselves. i.e. they are inconvenient. Somehow our culture has moved away from caring and community and what has been called the 'nuclear family', but more importantly the idea of family. Any kind of family. An element of core societal resilience has been eroded away, so that when difficulty comes our way, we look upward, placatingly, to machine-mother for succour, while those 'close to us' turn away to their daily applications. So you end up with underfunded, overburdened, improperly staffed holding chambers for the inconvenient and the doomed. Except for the many who will have nowhere to go at all. This is a generalization, of course, as evidenced in the comments above that prove otherwise....but society is complicit in hollowing out extended-care; it isn't exclusively the banks.
	8:37am Re6ecca: I have a friend who recently had knee surgery. Since November she’s been immobile. She’s asked repeatedly to be put in a rehab facility but gets turned down. The past two physical therapy sessions she missed due to her severe pain. The doctor blames her instead of looking further as to what could be causing this. Before all this she was very active. It’s very sad the way she’s being treated. As of yesterday she was looking again for a rehab facility that would help her.
	8:38am TDK60: Upheaval in the Red Sea? How about a ceasefire in Gaza?! (Hear me Biden?)
	⚡ 8:40am tom tom the pipers son: thx fox and string of perils for your comments
	8:42am dday: ↳ Re6ecca @8:37 The work of the Medical Insurance Industrial Complex. Sorry you & she are dealing with this
	8:42am Brian D: ↳ Brian in UK @8:36 Brian, good morning. There's also the show "Last Legs."
	8:43am Brian D: ↳ Re6ecca @8:37 Sorry to hear this, Rebecca. As Lucy noted in our interview, most disability is acquired. Either way, it is too often ignored or poorly treated.
	8:44am fred: ↳ Re6ecca @8:37 Yep, I got blamed for bleeding that turned out to be caused by a genetic clotting anomaly. I don't blame doctors and nurses who have to rush through patients (sorry, "customers"). As always, I hold the bosses guilty until proven innocent, and good luck with that
	8:45am dday: ↳ StringOFperils @8:36 You neglected to mention the politicians at all higher levels whose grubby paws & pockets are being mightily enriched by the policies they put in place. What do they care? We pay for the "cadillac health insurance plans" The sick & injured are useless to them, a burden..No longer called "patients" but '"consumers" of health care.
	8:46am fred: ↳ Song: "Avert Your Eyes" by "Tremosphere" Listener Sylvia there!
	8:47am dday: ↳ dday @8:45 their cadillac
	⚡ 8:47am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @8:44 patients were being referred to as 'consumers' here for a while not sure if that's still the case
	8:48am Brian D: ↳ fred @8:46 Indeed.
	8:49am dday: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:47 I first encountered the "consumers" term while servicing Advoserve & The ARC group homes in NJ between 2005 and 2010. I find the term appalling.
	8:49am Fox: ↳ dday @8:45 My favorite doctor was fired because he took the cases like me, that weren't easily resolved.
	8:51am fred: ↳ Fox @8:49 Isn't that what you did with your dating app?
	8:51am dday: ↳ Fox @8:49 Yep. If you find a good one hang on to her or him. They have it hard in the corporate environment of modern day medical care. Many, many good docs, hamstringed by corporate management
	8:51am dday: ↳ Song: "Needs Fixing" by "I Think Like Midnight" This has a Zappa like feel to it. Nice
	⚡ 8:51am tom tom the pipers son: the profit motive in medicine seems to be a domestic analogy to the profit motive of war, it's the war at home
	⚡ 8:52am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ dday @8:49 that's the word for it
	8:54am StringOFperils: ↳ dday @8:45 'Health-consumers' are a market Health is a product. Politics is a brokerage. Probably good to recognize that up front. Rhetoric doesn't count for much after election day...when the chips are down. Maybe independent collectives of people will evolve out of this morass of emptiness, who knows? Older, Indigenous ways of being may prove to be part of a solution. But rest assured, money will try to kill that in the cradle too.
	8:54am Brian D: Alright, folks. That's about it for me. Thanks for the lively discussion, and my thanks to Lucy Webster as well. Do get her book: The View from Down Here. Back in a fortnight. Stay safe until then.
	⚡ 8:55am tom tom the pipers son: thanks, brian
	8:55am dday: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:51 Both highly profitable. Wars are started by govts. fought by it's brainwashed & suffered by all except those who started it. Health care feels the same to me. No regard for those at the bottom of the chain
	8:55am TDK60: Thanks, Brian.
	8:55am HyperDose: Thanks, Brian and Lucy! Stay as healthy as the government will permit, y'all!
	8:55am fred: Thanks Brian, and a speedy recovery to Ms Currents
	⚡ 8:57am tom tom the pipers son: yes best healthy wishes to mrs currents
	8:57am rich in angleton: thanks Brian great interview and great show. and as always the comments board is so informative I learn so much every week during this show. have a great weekend everybody!
	8:57am StringOFperils: Thank you, Brian. That was a good interview. Really hard to get a platform when your speech is palsied. Kudos to Lucy Webster.
	8:57am dday: ↳ StringOFperils @8:54 Trust me. I am well aware of all of that you say. I don't begrudge anyone a living but at what cost to society overall? Medical bankruptcy is currently at 66.5% and rising. www.retireguide.com...
	8:58am dday: Brian thanks & good luck for your wife & yourself next week
	8:59am listener 126464: Thank you, Brian D. and Lucy.
	8:59am Re6ecca: Great show as always Brian! Thanks ! Well wishes to Mrs. Currents!
	9:00am Ballpark Frank: Great show!

Currents with Brian D: Playlist from February 3, 2024

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