WFMU: Irwin Chusid: Playlist from August 7, 2024

Listener comments!
	8/1 6:46am Irwin: Reason for two-week absence: 1) took a vacation. 2) returned to so much backlogged work, I needed a vacation.
	👻 8/3 1:18pm rrg: Welcome back. We understand. It's okay this time (we all agree) but it mustn't happen again!
	👻 8/3 1:20pm rrg: I'm guessing that photo by Laura is found footage, but it's still great even if she set it up.
	2:35pm Listener Robert: ↳ rrg @1:20 My reaction would be very negative if she set it up. People are going to step in it and track it all over. The loop at the end is a clue that it was not accidental, whoever did it. The paste had to be equeezed out beginning at that doubled-back end, probably from directly above or close. Then the tube had to be moved. I'm thinking someone with a steady hand traced out that path. Years of science research and consuming detective fiction.
	👻 2:51pm rrg: ↳ Listener Robert @2:35 It looks like it's Crest, and it might even have fluoride. That's something, at least. And even if she set it up she might have wiped it up as soon as she got the shot. I certainly would have (especially knowing that you'll be watching now).
	2:54pm Laura L: ↳ rrg @1:20 An unusual situation I saw on the uptown Spring St. platform of the Lexington line. I never go anywhere without my camera--I've seen a lot of odd things on the MTA, but never before anything involving a tube of Crest. Nope, I'm not the perpetrator, just the observer.
	3:00pm Triple G: Hello Irwin, hello all
	3:01pm Handy Haversack: Irwin. Irwineers. Irwinners.
	3:01pm Dean: Somebody needs to get out there and put that toothpaste back in the tube!
	👻 3:01pm Ken From Hyde Park: Whitening, Brightening and Irwinning!
	3:01pm bradford: Hey there Irwin & folks.
	3:02pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: Its like the toothpaste-or its user-got draggged along by the train.
	3:03pm listener 126464: Very nice composition.
	3:03pm Binky: Best. Photo. Ever.
	3:03pm Dean: Your right, Binky. Four out of five dentists recommend it.
	3:04pm Irwin: ↳ Laura L @2:54 And by "camera," LL means camera, not phone.
	3:04pm Listener Robert: ↳ Laura L @2:54 Well, thanks for the documentation, anyway.
	👻 3:05pm winston legthigh: hey irwin, gus, and all!
	3:05pm bixa (𝘣𝘦𝘦-𝘩𝘢): ↳ Song: "I Guess Time Just Makes Fools of Us All" by "Fath... hahahaaaaa my older bro was fjm's personal chef for a few years
	3:05pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: I once photographed a dog turd-balanced on its end-in Manhattan. That's one in million right there. Amazed it did not tip over.
	3:06pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...9 out of 10 Brutalists recommend new brand Troothpaste ...for no artifice in yer dentrifice...
	3:07pm Handy Haversack: ↳ bixa (𝘣𝘦𝘦-𝘩𝘢) @3:05 Well, it doesn't sound like it's about food making a fool of him, at least.
	3:08pm Dean: NPR hosts talk like that. Drives me nuts. And yet it shouldn't, because I don't listen to NPR.
	3:08pm kc: Has anyone else watched loudermilk? I’ve been hooked since I heard it on here
	3:08pm Laura L: ↳ Binky @3:03 Hi Binky!
	3:09pm clapper: Is that Michelle?
	3:09pm Chris in Kensington Bklyn: Greetings, Irwin and all!
	3:09pm steveo: ↳ clapper @3:09 with 3 Ls?
	3:09pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: ↳ Dean @3:08 The croaking sound is vocal fry. Its an epidemic amongst teens.
	👻 3:11pm winston legthigh: gus was watching the olympics for 2 weeks.
	3:11pm bixa (𝘣𝘦𝘦-𝘩𝘢): ↳ Handy Haversack @3:07 i wonder if he will ever release "I guess Fino just makes food for us all"
	3:12pm Handy Haversack: ↳ bixa (𝘣𝘦𝘦-𝘩𝘢) @3:11 Maybe it's the B-side.
	3:12pm Laura L: ↳ Irwin @3:04 I don't carry a phone. Like Otis once said, I'm livin' like it's 1985!
	3:13pm JoeChrisMorris: Afternoon all! Hope all are keeping dry in this rotter of a day!
	3:14pm JoeChrisMorris: ↳ Irwin @6:46 take a vacation from your problems why don't you?
	3:15pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Laura L @3:12 Same here, Laura!
	3:15pm Marie in Chicago: Welcome back, Irwin. I love that pic. Hi everybody!
	3:18pm Dean: C.1985 a friend of mine installed a mobile phone in his car. It didn't work, but it was worth the looks he would attract from nearby drivers who saw him on it while speeding on Interstate 10 in Southern California.
	3:20pm PaulRobeson1924: ↳ Song: "So Long, Marianne" by "Christy Dignam" Good stereo separation in the truck
	3:20pm PaulRobeson1924: ↳ Song: "So Long, Marianne" by "Christy Dignam" A +
	3:23pm Irwin: ↳ PaulRobeson1924 @3:20 You gotta truck? Whatcha truckin'?
	3:25pm RB: Great Chrisy Dignam tune !
	3:25pm Laura L: ↳ Handy Haversack @3:15 Lots of people find it weird, right? Even if it is, it doesn't feel weird, totally normal.
	3:27pm Irwin: ↳ Laura L @3:25 "Weird"? You, Laura? Excuse me? No, you're not weird at all. No, not a bit. Nah.
	3:29pm Laura L: ↳ Irwin @3:27 As Jimmie Dale Gilmore said, Where I come from, being called weird is a compliment. Thank you.
	3:29pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Laura L @3:25 Yes, most people find it weird -- I like to counter with something like, "If someone told you fifteen years ago that you would spend all your time obsessively checking a tracking device that you spent hundreds of dollars on, would you believe it?" Some people say they're envious.
	👻 3:30pm winston legthigh: I blame plus.
	3:30pm PaulRobeson1924: ↳ Irwin @3:23 16ft with a lift gate
	👻 3:31pm winston legthigh: ↳ PaulRobeson1924 @3:30 what's innit?
	3:33pm Dean: What's weird is that "weird" is a meme.
	3:34pm Laura L: ↳ Handy Haversack @3:29 I too have gotten the envy comment... but never have known anyone who decided to ditch it.
	3:34pm pmcWhenever: 333
	3:35pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Laura L @3:34 Right?
	3:36pm Dean: I use a flip phone, and I resent even that. But a friend who was reluctantly smartphoned recently abandoned it for a new species of phone that avoids the privacy and tracking issues of those hideous beasts. Nobody ever questions my preference.
	👻 3:38pm winston legthigh: old man duncan.
	3:38pm Irwin: ↳ winston legthigh @3:38 Codger crony.
	3:40pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: Kosher Phones are a thing. Dumbed down smartphones. Steeleye Span indeed.
	👻 3:42pm winston legthigh: go fund yourself indeed.
	3:42pm xangoir: gluten-free 5G
	3:43pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: "Go fund yourself" LOL! Who IS Gus Bodenheim anyway??! Is it YOU Irwin?!
	3:44pm Deano de los Muertos: always smart to bring Free Entree along
	3:46pm fred: I'm still phone-free. Not for long though, as a long delayed EU smartphone mandate will eventually kick in (requiring biometrics)
	3:47pm Irwin: ↳ Deano de los Muertos @3:44 I think his name is Friantre.
	3:47pm PaulRobeson1924: ↳ winston legthigh @3:31 Three guesses
	3:47pm PaulRobeson1924: It’s not Liquor
	👻 3:49pm winston legthigh: ↳ Wild Neil\|\|Peace All @3:43 from r/wfmu: Even some insiders at WFMU don't know much about Gus. Gus is a mysterious friend of Irwin. I know literally nothing else about him. Irwin is the longest-running DJ at WFMU, having been there since 1975, and I get the impression that he used to do more offbeat comedy bits and voices. (You can still hear him meow occasionally -- he's great at cat noises.) Irwin is clearly not Gus, but (warning: pure speculation follows) I wonder if Gus started out as a concept "voice" developed by Irwin, and then he decided it was too rough on his geezer* larynx (or too obvious) and the character sort of got spun off.
	3:50pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: ↳ winston legthigh @3:49 Joe Frank was "spoken word" that was on for some years. Joe evntually passed a few years ago.
	3:51pm spodiodi: Greetings, Irwin and all
	3:51pm steveo: Gus is all of us
	👻 3:53pm winston legthigh: ↳ PaulRobeson1924 @3:47 glockenspiels
	👻 3:54pm Gregosaurus: ↳ steveo @3:51 Gus is our Spirit Curmudgeon.
	3:56pm steveo: evrybody's got a hungry hippo
	👻 3:57pm Gregosaurus: ↳ Song: "Guitar Jam" by "Ron Livingston (Sam), Laura Menne... I'm with this guy on Monster.
	3:57pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: This show is very freeform today. Big Data was sublime.
	3:58pm Dean: From the Chicago Daily Tribune, Nov. 8, 1912: "Miss Anna Apter, daughter of Michael S. Apter, 636 East 50th Street, a stenographer, and Gus Bodenheim of Milwaukee, a mailing clerk, became acquainted as employes [sic] in the national headquarters of the Progressive party and the acquaintance is to lead to their wedding...."
	3:58pm PaulRobeson1924: Though horseflies and mosquitoes made him dance with their stings, though he felt light-headed from loss of blood and sick from thirst, though the gash that leapt across his right eye, exposed the bone beneath it and opened up the flesh all the way to the hinge of his jaw felt as if it were being probed with hot needles, he never said a word.
	3:59pm pmcWhenever: Use to be a Fascination near me in Hull MA, remnant from the mighty Paragon Park… it came from the original Coney Island site, just read about this, prompted by Gus — i had assumed Fascination was just a Hull thing, it was fun and basically a game of chance… (not unlike radio) Wildwood NJ still has one?
	4:10pm Picante Mint: ↳ Song: "Aren't You Glad" by "Spirit" SPIRIT!
	4:10pm Larry in Merrlin: ↳ Song: "Aren't You Glad" by "Spirit" Great to hear this again.
	4:11pm milk t: ↳ Song: "I'm Not Okay" by "Adam Melchor" omg
	4:12pm Irwin: ↳ milk t @4:11 Somebody gets it.
	👻 4:13pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "I'm Not Okay" by "Adam Melchor" Great song. As someone once said, sometimes it's OK to be not OK. If I recall, it was someone on the WFMU comments board.
	4:14pm Irwin: ↳ Irwin @4:12 First time I heard it I didn't even know what it was.
	4:14pm Irwin: ↳ Irwin @4:14 Then I heard the original. omg.
	4:14pm Triple G: ↳ Irwin @4:14 Surprising and pleasant cover
	4:15pm milk t: idk if my brain is just offline or it's just so different from the og but it took me a couple seconds to place
	4:16pm Triple G: ↳ Song: "Kid Muscle" by "Sex Week" Other tracks on the album are "Naked" and "Cockpit" Don't shoot the messenger!
	4:17pm The Oscar: ↳ Triple G @4:16 File under "I dig, but I'm terrified to google!"
	4:18pm Irwin: ↳ Triple G @4:14 Melchor is a terrific singer, songwriter and recording artist. Don't know why he's gotten no traction at WFMU.
	4:19pm Steevee: There was a Fascination in Rochester, NY in Seabreeze Amusement Park on Lake Ontario. I worked the Fascination parlor one summer during college, circa '82? handing out the prizes. Not the best job I ever had, but not the worst, thinking on it. Seabreeze is home of the Jack Rabbit, one of the oldest wood frame roller coasters in the US, "longest continuously operating roller coaster in the world" says google, worth the trip.
	👻 4:22pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "When the Bridegroom Comes" by "Judee Sill" She had a beautiful voice and wrote some good songs. Died tragically young and unknown. It's good that her music is enjoying some favorable attention now.
	4:27pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: ↳ Irwin @4:18 Adam Melchor is really pretty fantastic. Thanks for playing it Irwin. I think other DJs would notice you play it and also play it on their shows too.
	4:28pm Matt from Springfield: HI Irwin and Hiatusans and Verboten Time with Bodenheimers! Caught that bit earlier on the app - but just missed a Judee Sill I haven't head of!! Will check that one later.
	4:30pm spodiodi: ↳ Matt from Springfield @4:28 hi, Matt!
	4:31pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Song: "Wonderful" by "The Beach Boys" Brian Wilson's Mission from God - to unite Surfing with the Four Freshmen.
	4:31pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ spodiodi @4:30 Howdy spodiodi!
	👻 4:31pm βrian: My favorite Beach Boys album is the same as my least favorite, as it happens.
	4:33pm fred: ↳ Wild Neil\|\|Peace All @4:27 Maybe not. I mean, Irwin played Jandek and the station had to get new shelves
	4:34pm Jason Lee: That was a killer set, let's see what this one got...
	4:35pm morphe': ↳ Song: "When the Bridegroom Comes" by "Judee Sill" "Ok you Mother Stickers .... This is a Fuck Up!!!! "
	4:35pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Song: "Jet Silver and the Dolls of Venus" by "Jason Falk... Nice! A 70sNot70s kinda track.
	4:35pm morphe': ↳ Song: "When the Bridegroom Comes" by "Judee Sill" ps.... "I have a Gub..."
	4:35pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ morphe' @4:35 Hey morphe'! Eggscellent! Sounds like a long lost comedy album bit.
	4:36pm bPCkll: ↳ Song: "Jet Silver and the Dolls of Venus" by "Jason Falk... BE BOP DE LUXE!!
	4:36pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: Irwieners. Ear Weiners.
	4:37pm morphe': ↳ Matt from Springfield @4:35 Never saw the full doc but is apparently true ... she was robbing liquor stores and ????
	4:38pm paddy in matawan: ↳ Wild Neil\|\|Peace All @4:36 weeners, even.
	4:38pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Wild Neil\|\|Peace All @4:36 Listen with relish! And...sometimes stinky kraut...
	4:39pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ morphe' @4:37 Yep, sent to girls reform school, a bank/liquor/or otherwise armed robber, living in her car, songwriter, then a singer and the very first album released on Geffen, slipped further into drugs, and a tragic young death.
	4:39pm Irwin: ↳ morphe' @4:37 She did everything awful. And a lot of beautiful things too.
	4:40pm C Michael Swing! STL: ↳ Wild Neil\|\|Peace All @4:36 Ear Winners
	4:40pm Triple G: ↳ Song: "For the Guilty" by "DIIV" Seeing them perform in Brooklyn a few hours from now
	4:43pm C Michael Swing! STL: is the rest of the toothpaste in that tube still good? asking for a friend
	4:43pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: Girl Scout is EPIC. YES! EAR WINNERS!
	4:44pm Ochre Ogre: Hi Irwin!
	4:46pm Ochre Ogre: ↳ Wild Neil\|\|Peace All @4:43 YEAH man! I concur, whoa.
	4:47pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: WOW ! Jandek!!! en.wikipedia.org...
	4:47pm JohnnyReno: ↳ Song: "Claire Is Not a Lesbian" by "Ron Livingston (Sam)... I liked this episode. Lots of good jokes.
	4:47pm ?: lesbos rock
	4:47pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Song: "Claire Is Not a Lesbian" by "Ron Livingston (Sam)... Curie is an Experimenter.
	4:48pm Picante Mint: ↳ Song: "Everyone's a V.I.P. to Someone" by "The Go! Team" digging this
	4:48pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ @4:47 Lesbos rock(s): en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 4:54pm winston legthigh: thanks irwin, good night to all.
	👻 4:56pm Tom in St. Paul: ↳ Song: "JJ" by "Wand" this sure sounds like mid-career Radiohead. just sayin'
	4:56pm Ochre Ogre: Still a little left in that tube! But nah, not quite enough to bother with.
	4:56pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Song: "East Texas Son" by "Amy Annelle" Amy Annelle 💖
	4:57pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Song: "East Texas Son" by "Amy Annelle" Sounds similar in voice to Tristen, whom we also discovered on Irwin's show. Hey, Matt!
	4:58pm Ochre Ogre: ↳ Song: "East Texas Son" by "Amy Annelle" Amy A good, and The Places!
	5:03pm Listener Robert: A similar concept to upcycled bananas is reconditioned food. Food reconditioning is a real thing that achieves approximately what Irwin's describing.
	5:03pm Harry Corvair: Upcycled meat? Who doesn't love a hot dog?
	5:03pm Matt from Springfield: "Upcycling, also known as creative reuse, is the process of transforming by-products, waste materials, useless, or unwanted products into new materials or products perceived to be of greater quality, such as artistic value or environmental value." Whereas "downcycling" implies recycling into materials of lesser perceived value. I say, what's with this bias and judgment?? Anything is valuable, when it goes into my belly.
	5:04pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Handy Haversack @4:57 Afternoon, Handy!
	5:04pm spodiodi: had the domain name Vintagemeat.com for a bit last century
	5:04pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: "see what happens when you leave the cap off". I heard you can buy ugly food that is cosmetically not sellable, but perfectly fine to eat. Maybe THAT is upcycling?
	5:05pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Song: "Fly" by "Krom" Surprisingly jaunty for a band potentially named after Conan's god. Yo, Spodi!
	5:06pm Ike: Aren't all smoothies made from fruit that's "on life support", or ugly fruit? Not to mention dried fruit snacks, etc. Not to mention everything containing whey, which is otherwise just dumped into rivers by yogurt producers, where it then kills the fish, etc.
	5:06pm spodiodi: yo, Handy!
	5:06pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Wild Neil\|\|Peace All @5:04 I get Vegenaise made out of grapeseed oil, which is a normally discarded byproduct of wine making. Upcycling makes it into a spread better than "real" mayo.
	5:06pm Ochre Ogre: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:03 Hi Matt! Yep, there are organizations that do that with supplies for schools and such.
	5:07pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: Vegemite is made from beer by-products I hear.
	5:07pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Listener Robert @5:03 Now "reconditioning" sounds like a good term: they've always found ways to recycle damaged or aging food into other food products that can be used.
	5:07pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:07 Like feeding the ugly cows to other cows. Nothing could possiblye go wrong.
	5:08pm Dean: My local superdupermarket, Berkeley Bowl West devotes an entire room (see the last photo) to barely unsightly produce: https://www.berkeleyside.org/2023/04/04/berkeley-bowl-shopping-guide
	5:08pm Mailman Tom: ↳ Ike @5:06 Thanks for confirming my suspicions!
	5:08pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Ochre Ogre @5:06 Hi Ochre! "Reconditioning" is another good use for equipment, such as school supplies. Gets another life out of old stuff!
	5:09pm Dean: Isn't anything other than "throw it away and buy a new one" unAmerican?
	5:11pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Handy Haversack @5:07 Almost line-for-line from Treehouse of Horror XX, Krusty Burger's "Burger²". Too recent for Frinkiac, but: simpsons.fandom.com...
	5:12pm Handy Haversack: Ultimate!
	5:13pm Binky: Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
	5:13pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:11 Feeding beef to cows? Did that really happen?
	5:13pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Song: "Space Truckin'" by "Deep Purple" Deep August of Deep Purple!
	5:13pm Irwin: ↳ Binky @5:13 Binky GETS it. All Purple and Deep and stuff.
	👻 5:14pm βrian: ↳ Wild Neil\|\|Peace All @5:13 Oh yeah.
	5:14pm Ochre Ogre: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:08 I have donated to the Materials for the Arts, they have a big storage place in Lg Is City.
	👻 5:14pm NC Mark: I think the jazz police will begrudgingly approve.
	5:14pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Dean @5:09 “Use it up wear it out make it do or do without” Used to be the New England philosophy, and especially during the Depression and WWII. After the War - out the window, especially by the time "planned obsolescence" became the way. "Today we call that “repurposing” or “upcycling.” " says the FDR Presidential Library & Museum. Wait a minute...this goes all the way to the Top!!!
	5:15pm Laura L: ↳ Irwin @5:13 And outer spacey too!
	👻 5:16pm βrian: ↳ Song: "Space Truckin'" by "Deep Purple" Those lyrics! That wry commentary!
	5:16pm Irwin: ↳ Irwin @5:13 You know who else loves Deep Purple? PLUSH POLAR BEARS.
	5:16pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Wild Neil\|\|Peace All @5:13 Bovine spongiform encephalopathy: en.wikipedia.org... "Cattle are believed to have been infected by being fed meat-and-bone meal (MBM) that contained either the remains of cattle who spontaneously developed the disease or scrapie-infected sheep products".
	5:17pm Marie in Chicago: ↳ Song: "Space Truckin'" by "Deep Purple" it's a rocker. I like the drumming. Great album title
	5:18pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:16 So, is Delbarton™ planning to create a trendy new line of MBM Packs™, for delivering protein-on-the-go??...
	👻 5:18pm βrian: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:16 Gives new meaning to those John Prine lyrics, "There were spaces between Donald and whatever he said." Literal spaces.
	5:18pm Chris in Kensington Bklyn: ↳ Ochre Ogre @5:14 I hear Materials for the Arts is amazing. My wife gets over there from time to time.
	5:18pm steveo: ↳ Song: "Space Truckin'" by "Deep Purple" I think this may be the worst song I've ever heard on this station, and I've been listening for 25 years
	5:19pm Dean: “Use it up wear it out make it do or do without” This tends to be my approach to stuff, sometimes to a fault, e.g., socks, t-shirts, underwear...
	5:19pm Ochre Ogre: ↳ Ochre Ogre @5:14 When the stuff I donated was taken, I received thank you letters from the schools and a theater.
	5:19pm Irwin: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:18 Business at Delbarton Industries has flatlined now that they don't have a WFMU program to sponsor.
	👻 5:19pm βrian: ↳ steveo @5:18 Don't lose patience.
	5:20pm Irwin: ↳ steveo @5:18 Deep Purple is flattered at the distinction.
	5:20pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Irwin @5:19 They'll just have to get the word out through viral marketing instead, if ya catch my drift!
	5:20pm steveo: it's good to be #1 at something
	5:22pm Ochre Ogre: ↳ Marie in Chicago @5:17 Wore the grooves out of it back then. It's the LP with "Smoke on the Water."
	5:23pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Ochre Ogre @5:19 Cool! That's pretty "Righteous!", for when you do a righteous thing.
	5:24pm Irwin: ↳ Ochre Ogre @5:22 "Smoke," like "Stairway," overstayed its welcome.
	5:25pm Dean: Worst song? Not even close. I'd start with Don Felder's "Heavy Metal (Takin' a Ride)."
	5:26pm Dean: "Smoke on the Stairway"? "Stairway to Water"?
	5:28pm βrian: ↳ Dean @5:25 Ameni.
	5:28pm Irwin: ↳ Dean @5:25 Worse than "We Didn't Start the Fire"?
	5:28pm Ochre Ogre: ↳ Irwin @5:24 Oh God yeah, and Hotel CA and quite a few other tunes.
	5:29pm dale: hey now. is this the first miranda lambert airing on the station?
	5:29pm Handy Haversack: ↳ dale @5:29 I have to disconnect my VPN in order to answer that question. Ken said they had to "throttle back" the search function.
	5:30pm Ochre Ogre: ↳ Irwin @5:28 Agh, anything by Jilly Boel.
	5:30pm dale: got any kellie pickler irwin?
	5:30pm Dean: Now we're plumbing the subconscious. I am no fan of either The Eagles or Billy Joel, but if I had to prefer one song over the other, it would probably be that insufferable piano man's detritus, if only because I really can't bear The Eagles, and am only mildly irritated by BJ.
	👻 5:31pm βrian: ↳ Handy Haversack @5:29 When I ordered scotch neat, the bartender offered a "throttle back."
	5:31pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Dean @5:30 Yeah ... there's a kitsch aspect to BJ that I can at least acknowledge. Whereas the Eagles are just so self-satisfiedly godawful.
	5:32pm dale: holding you to that.
	5:32pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Song: "I Like What You Bring Out in Me" by "Bored at My ... Lack of apostrophe [sic]? Ah, thanks for answering.
	5:34pm Handy Haversack: K8 reports that Glenn Jones has played "We Didn't Start the Fire." Though steveo certainly might not have heard it. I avoid Glenn for very similar reasons.
	5:34pm Chris in Kensington Bklyn: ↳ Song: "The Ruby and the Pearl" by "Tina Brooks" That was great, almost a Hank Mobley vibe going on there?
	5:34pm Dean: Perfectly put, Handy! Anyway, long ago I noticed that a barista on whom I had a bit of a crush drove around in a car with a license plate frame that reads, "I'd Sell My Soul For Billy Joel." I figured he can't be all bad.
	5:35pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Song: "Gus Attempts a Third-Party Ploy" by "Gus Bodenheim" Love the Buckeroo! Loving whiskey and [Mexican] Coke as I do..
	5:35pm Ike: ↳ Dean @5:25 Ding ding ding ding ding! We have a winner! Or rather, loser. Don Felder is far worse. Billy Joel is not even that objectionable — silly, but tolerable. I’d even go so far as to say “We Didn’t Start the Fire” approaches being… serviceable?
	5:35pm Dean: I actually enjoy Billy Joel's "Say Goodbye to Hollywood."
	5:36pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Song: "Gus Attempts a Third-Party Ploy" by "Gus Bodenheim" Index of Bodenshpiels
	5:37pm Ochre Ogre: ↳ Chris in Kensington Bklyn @5:18 Cool! I think there are couple similar donation groups too.
	👻 5:37pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Gus Attempts a Third-Party Ploy" by "Gus Bodenheim" From the bottom of his heart or the bottom of some other anatomical portion.
	👻 5:38pm βrian: The Effluent Economy.
	5:39pm Ochre Ogre: Dont squeeze the..
	5:40pm Matt from Springfield: Nothing too outre... But nothing's too much for W Outre U!!! (And don't purchase hWhipple products, you don't know where they've been.)
	👻 5:40pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Gus Attempts a Third-Party Ploy" by "Gus Bodenheim" Please don't squeeze the Bodenheim.
	5:41pm Handy Haversack: We're going to meet Karl -- yes, THAT Karl! -- to see a show. Must depart. Thanks, Irwin! A fine, fine time! Keep winning, Irwinners!
	5:42pm Ochre Ogre: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:40 Especially the upcycled products!!
	5:42pm spodiodi: ↳ spodiodi @5:06 cya, Handy! have fun
	5:42pm Chris in Kensington Bklyn: ↳ Song: "Gus Attempts a Third-Party Ploy" by "Gus Bodenheim" Top shelf installment. Two questions: when is the Delbarton 30 year getting released? And what was the name of that cocktail again?
	5:43pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Song: "Galactico" by "Joe Tatton Trio" Orrg in!
	5:43pm Ochre Ogre: ↳ Handy Haversack @5:41 Cheers Handy!
	5:43pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Ochre Ogre @5:42 Yes, those are cycled up, they've been cycled up good...
	👻 5:44pm NC Mark: ↳ Chris in Kensington Bklyn @5:42 Buckaroo
	5:45pm Pappy with the Khaki Sweatband: Canadian over here bopping to TPOH
	5:45pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: ↳ Irwin @5:28 We Built this city on Rock and Roll is arguably one of the worst songs ever by anybody.
	5:46pm royvis: TPOH FTW!
	5:46pm Harry Corvair: ↳ Song: "Cigarette Dangles" by "The Pursuit of Happiness" Backing vocals! Guitar!
	5:47pm Pappy with the Khaki Sweatband: Moe Berg of TPOH rocking in The TransCanadaHighwaymen transcanadahighwaymen.ca
	5:47pm paddy in matawan: clickys
	5:47pm Irwin: ↳ Wild Neil\|\|Peace All @5:45 I heard Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" on the Uber ride over. Can I nominate it for Top 10 inclusion?
	5:48pm Irwin: ↳ Irwin @5:47 I don't get Gaga. Never got Gaga.
	5:48pm Dean: "Bad Romance" is one of my favorite Lady Gaga songs! Dug it from the get-go, mostly because of the tizzy synthesizers.
	5:49pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Song: "Hot Calypso" by "Quintetto lo Greco" So Jazz, So Calypso, So Hot! So Nice.
	5:49pm Irwin: ↳ Dean @5:48 See above.
	5:49pm steveo: the original "we didn't start the fire" has not been played on this station (during the playlist era) (unless the dj lied by omission) (i'm gaga for cocoa puffs)
	5:51pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Irwin @5:48 she's not great...but you gotta admit there are countless performers - almost every one that's entered the billboard top 40 in the past 20 years, at least, that put out album after album of nothing but the worst songs ever by anybody.
	5:51pm Ochre Ogre: ↳ Irwin @5:48 Lady G is cool compared to some I think and a NYC home girl. Eh, she's doin that Cher thing all over again.
	5:55pm bradford: Thanks, Irwin.
	5:55pm Dean: Because my kids are 13 and 18, I have been exposed to a world of pop music I never would have entertained. As a result it's fair to say I'm a fan of LG, Taylor Swift, Cardi B, and so forth. My kids also turned me on to Stephen Sanchez, whom I know you have played, Irwin. His album is a lot of fun, truly lovely at times.
	5:55pm coelacanth∅: (Welcome back, by the way)
	👻 5:55pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Irwin. See your dentist regularly! 🪥
	5:55pm Deano de los Muertos: the excess fat trimmings/bone/garbage meat gets upcycled into biofuel at work
	5:56pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: ↳ Irwin @5:47 Top ten sure -lyrics are escpecially stupid and self-destructive -but I still think that noise version of wake up Little Suzy by that professer on one of the other shows is worse. Pop music is one of my guilty pleaseures, I find it catchy, just like I find Taylor Swift interesting.
	5:57pm Ochre Ogre: Irwin please put some George Thorogood in that worst top 10. Upcycler of John L Hooker!
	5:57pm spodiodi: thanks, Irwin!
	5:58pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ coelacanth∅ @5:51 I like Gaga..."personally". She's a great person! I don't listen to most of the Top charts music, but someone once pointed out that the kidz nowadays love dancing to that music; whereas those like me who like to sit and listen to music, don't find it appealing at all. It could be a personality/style type that determines the kind of music you prefer to listen to.
	5:58pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: My 14 year old son listens to Phonk which is like darkwave meets techno.
	5:58pm Ochre Ogre: Thanks Irwin! Cheers all
	5:58pm Matt from Springfield: THANKS Irwin! Fun show! Have a good evening, everyone!
	👻 5:59pm 12539: Thanks Irwin!
	5:59pm coelacanth∅: as recycled, and often bland as it is, nothing George Thorogood has done makes it into the top 3000 worst songs
	6:00pm Ochre Ogre: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:58 At a recent wedding reception I didn't recognize a single song!
	6:02pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:58 i've always liked her as a person -from what i've heard/read...just haven't heard any music by her that i'd care to hear again. Swifty's another...seems like a fairly decent person, but not atr all good musically; and kind of a crappy "role model" for young girls. -but a very clever marketer
	👻 4:17pm DjLorraine: Caption for the picture: flouride free now ;)

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Father John Misty	I Guess Time Just Makes Fools of Us All	Mahashmashana	Sub Pop
Ron Livingston (Sam), Maddie Phillips (barista)	Voice Affectation	Loudermilk (S2E1)	Loudermilk	0:08:08 (Pop-up)
Balthvs	Mango Season "Mango Season" by "Balthvs"	Harvest	Mixto Records	0:09:23 (Pop-up)
Soccer Mommy	M "M" by "Soccer Mommy"	M	Loma Vista	0:11:30 (Pop-up)
Christy Dignam	So Long, Marianne "So Long, Marianne" by "Christy Dignam"	The Man Who Stayed Alive	Taranis	0:15:29 (Pop-up)
Marc Cary (ft. Focus Trio)	12 Stories (for Moseka)	Cosmic Indigenous	Cary Out Productions	0:21:26 (Pop-up)
World Brain	Open "Open" by "World Brain"	Open	Mansions and Millions	0:25:50 (Pop-up)

Gus Bodenheim	Gus Returns from Hiatus and Is Agog with Fascination	The Bodenheim Chronicles	Delbarton Media	0:35:00 (Pop-up)
Teddy Powell & His Orchestra	Jamaica Jam	Ridin' the Subways	Hep	0:41:37 (Pop-up)
White Noise	Here Come the Fleas "Here Come the Fleas" by "White Noise"	An Electric Storm	Island	0:44:28 (Pop-up)
Joe Jackson & Max Champion	What a Racket!	Mr. Joe Jackson presents Max Champion in 'What a Racket!'	Ear Music	0:46:37 (Pop-up)
Big Data (ft. Joywave)	Dangerous "Dangerous" by "Big Data (ft. Joywave)"	Dangerous	Wilcassettes LLC	0:48:57 (Pop-up)
Ron Livingston (Sam), Laura Mennell (Allison), Emma Tremblay (Lizzie)	Guitar Jam	Loudermilk (S1E8)	Loudermilk	0:53:37 (Pop-up)
Pearl & the Oysters	Big Time "Big Time" by "Pearl & the Oysters"	Planet Pearl	Stones Throw Records	0:55:47 (Pop-up)

Dum Dum Girls	Under These Hands "Under These Hands" by "Dum Dum Girls"	Too True	Sub Pop	1:02:11 (Pop-up)
Spirit	Aren't You Glad "Aren't You Glad" by "Spirit"	The Family That Plays Together	Ode	1:05:26 (Pop-up)
Adam Melchor	I'm Not Okay "I'm Not Okay" by "Adam Melchor"	Melchor Lullaby Hotline, Vol. 1	Coquito Records	1:11:07 (Pop-up)
Sex Week	Kid Muscle "Kid Muscle" by "Sex Week"	Kid Muscle	Sex Week/Grand Jury	1:13:43 (Pop-up)
Judee Sill	When the Bridegroom Comes	Heart Food	Asylum	1:19:05 (Pop-up)
The Beach Boys	Wonderful "Wonderful" by "The Beach Boys"	The SMiLE Sessions	Brother	1:23:09 (Pop-up)
Georgia Gets By	Some Kind of Angel	Some Kind of Angel/Split Lip	Luminelle / Fat Possum	1:25:11 (Pop-up)

Jason Falkner	Jet Silver and the Dolls of Venus	All Quiet on the Noise Floor	Noise McCartney Records	1:34:33 (Pop-up)
DIIV	For the Guilty "For the Guilty" by "DIIV"	Deceiver	Captured Tracks Records	1:37:57 (Pop-up)
Girl Scout	I Just Needed You to Know	I Just Needed You to Know	235 Music	1:41:23 (Pop-up)
Ron Livingston (Sam), Anja Savcic (Claire), Brian Regan (Mugsy), Viv Leacock (Stevie)	Claire Is Not a Lesbian	Loudermilk (S2E1)	Loudermilk	1:46:03 (Pop-up)
The Go! Team	Everyone's a V.I.P. to Someone	Everyone's a V.I.P. to Someone (Cornershop Remix) - EP	Memphis Industries	1:47:38 (Pop-up)
Wand	JJ "JJ" by "Wand"	Vertigo	Drag City	1:52:02 (Pop-up)
Amy Annelle	East Texas Son "East Texas Son" by "Amy Annelle"	The Toll	High Plains Sigh	1:56:11 (Pop-up)

Krom	Fly "Fly" by "Krom"	Krom	KROMusic	2:03:36 (Pop-up)
Tina Brooks	The Ruby and the Pearl	Back to the Tracks	Blue Note	2:07:29 (Pop-up)
Deep Purple	Space Truckin' "Space Truckin'" by "Deep Purple"	Machine Head	Purple Records	2:13:08 (Pop-up)
Lame Drivers	Running Scared "Running Scared" by "Lame Drivers"	Become an Island	Jigsaw	2:17:21 (Pop-up)
The Hard Quartet	Earth Hater "Earth Hater" by "The Hard Quartet"	Earth Hater	Matador	2:22:16 (Pop-up)
Bored at My Grandmas House	I Like What You Bring Out in Me	Show & Tell	EMI North	2:24:36 (Pop-up)
Miranda Lambert	Wranglers "Wranglers" by "Miranda Lambert"	Wranglers	Vanner	2:28:30 (Pop-up)

Gus Bodenheim	Gus Attempts a Third-Party Ploy	Advertisements for Himself	Delbarton Media	2:34:50 (Pop-up)
Joe Tatton Trio	Galactico "Galactico" by "Joe Tatton Trio"	Galactico	Rodina Music	2:40:08 (Pop-up)
The Pursuit of Happiness	Cigarette Dangles	The Downward Road	Mercury	2:44:32 (Pop-up)
Quintetto lo Greco	Hot Calypso "Hot Calypso" by "Quintetto lo Greco"	So Jazz So Nice	Irma	2:47:01 (Pop-up)
Bo Diddley	Diddy Wah Diddy "Diddy Wah Diddy" by "Bo Diddley"	I'm a Man	Chess	2:53:56 (Pop-up)
Ron Livingston (Sam), Trevor Gretzky (drunk bro)	Drunken Bro	Loudermilk (S2E1)	Loudermilk	2:56:15 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	8/1 6:46am Irwin: Reason for two-week absence: 1) took a vacation. 2) returned to so much backlogged work, I needed a vacation.
	👻 8/3 1:18pm rrg: Welcome back. We understand. It's okay this time (we all agree) but it mustn't happen again!
	👻 8/3 1:20pm rrg: I'm guessing that photo by Laura is found footage, but it's still great even if she set it up.
	2:35pm Listener Robert: ↳ rrg @1:20 My reaction would be very negative if she set it up. People are going to step in it and track it all over. The loop at the end is a clue that it was not accidental, whoever did it. The paste had to be equeezed out beginning at that doubled-back end, probably from directly above or close. Then the tube had to be moved. I'm thinking someone with a steady hand traced out that path. Years of science research and consuming detective fiction.
	👻 2:51pm rrg: ↳ Listener Robert @2:35 It looks like it's Crest, and it might even have fluoride. That's something, at least. And even if she set it up she might have wiped it up as soon as she got the shot. I certainly would have (especially knowing that you'll be watching now).
	2:54pm Laura L: ↳ rrg @1:20 An unusual situation I saw on the uptown Spring St. platform of the Lexington line. I never go anywhere without my camera--I've seen a lot of odd things on the MTA, but never before anything involving a tube of Crest. Nope, I'm not the perpetrator, just the observer.
	3:00pm Triple G: Hello Irwin, hello all
	3:01pm Handy Haversack: Irwin. Irwineers. Irwinners.
	3:01pm Dean: Somebody needs to get out there and put that toothpaste back in the tube!
	👻 3:01pm Ken From Hyde Park: Whitening, Brightening and Irwinning!
	3:01pm bradford: Hey there Irwin & folks.
	3:02pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: Its like the toothpaste-or its user-got draggged along by the train.
	3:03pm listener 126464: Very nice composition.
	3:03pm Binky: Best. Photo. Ever.
	3:03pm Dean: Your right, Binky. Four out of five dentists recommend it.
	3:04pm Irwin: ↳ Laura L @2:54 And by "camera," LL means camera, not phone.
	3:04pm Listener Robert: ↳ Laura L @2:54 Well, thanks for the documentation, anyway.
	👻 3:05pm winston legthigh: hey irwin, gus, and all!
	3:05pm bixa (𝘣𝘦𝘦-𝘩𝘢): ↳ Song: "I Guess Time Just Makes Fools of Us All" by "Fath... hahahaaaaa my older bro was fjm's personal chef for a few years
	3:05pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: I once photographed a dog turd-balanced on its end-in Manhattan. That's one in million right there. Amazed it did not tip over.
	3:06pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...9 out of 10 Brutalists recommend new brand Troothpaste ...for no artifice in yer dentrifice...
	3:07pm Handy Haversack: ↳ bixa (𝘣𝘦𝘦-𝘩𝘢) @3:05 Well, it doesn't sound like it's about food making a fool of him, at least.
	3:08pm Dean: NPR hosts talk like that. Drives me nuts. And yet it shouldn't, because I don't listen to NPR.
	3:08pm kc: Has anyone else watched loudermilk? I’ve been hooked since I heard it on here
	3:08pm Laura L: ↳ Binky @3:03 Hi Binky!
	3:09pm clapper: Is that Michelle?
	3:09pm Chris in Kensington Bklyn: Greetings, Irwin and all!
	3:09pm steveo: ↳ clapper @3:09 with 3 Ls?
	3:09pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: ↳ Dean @3:08 The croaking sound is vocal fry. Its an epidemic amongst teens.
	👻 3:11pm winston legthigh: gus was watching the olympics for 2 weeks.
	3:11pm bixa (𝘣𝘦𝘦-𝘩𝘢): ↳ Handy Haversack @3:07 i wonder if he will ever release "I guess Fino just makes food for us all"
	3:12pm Handy Haversack: ↳ bixa (𝘣𝘦𝘦-𝘩𝘢) @3:11 Maybe it's the B-side.
	3:12pm Laura L: ↳ Irwin @3:04 I don't carry a phone. Like Otis once said, I'm livin' like it's 1985!
	3:13pm JoeChrisMorris: Afternoon all! Hope all are keeping dry in this rotter of a day!
	3:14pm JoeChrisMorris: ↳ Irwin @6:46 take a vacation from your problems why don't you?
	3:15pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Laura L @3:12 Same here, Laura!
	3:15pm Marie in Chicago: Welcome back, Irwin. I love that pic. Hi everybody!
	3:18pm Dean: C.1985 a friend of mine installed a mobile phone in his car. It didn't work, but it was worth the looks he would attract from nearby drivers who saw him on it while speeding on Interstate 10 in Southern California.
	3:20pm PaulRobeson1924: ↳ Song: "So Long, Marianne" by "Christy Dignam" Good stereo separation in the truck
	3:20pm PaulRobeson1924: ↳ Song: "So Long, Marianne" by "Christy Dignam" A +
	3:23pm Irwin: ↳ PaulRobeson1924 @3:20 You gotta truck? Whatcha truckin'?
	3:25pm RB: Great Chrisy Dignam tune !
	3:25pm Laura L: ↳ Handy Haversack @3:15 Lots of people find it weird, right? Even if it is, it doesn't feel weird, totally normal.
	3:27pm Irwin: ↳ Laura L @3:25 "Weird"? You, Laura? Excuse me? No, you're not weird at all. No, not a bit. Nah.
	3:29pm Laura L: ↳ Irwin @3:27 As Jimmie Dale Gilmore said, Where I come from, being called weird is a compliment. Thank you.
	3:29pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Laura L @3:25 Yes, most people find it weird -- I like to counter with something like, "If someone told you fifteen years ago that you would spend all your time obsessively checking a tracking device that you spent hundreds of dollars on, would you believe it?" Some people say they're envious.
	👻 3:30pm winston legthigh: I blame plus.
	3:30pm PaulRobeson1924: ↳ Irwin @3:23 16ft with a lift gate
	👻 3:31pm winston legthigh: ↳ PaulRobeson1924 @3:30 what's innit?
	3:33pm Dean: What's weird is that "weird" is a meme.
	3:34pm Laura L: ↳ Handy Haversack @3:29 I too have gotten the envy comment... but never have known anyone who decided to ditch it.
	3:34pm pmcWhenever: 333
	3:35pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Laura L @3:34 Right?
	3:36pm Dean: I use a flip phone, and I resent even that. But a friend who was reluctantly smartphoned recently abandoned it for a new species of phone that avoids the privacy and tracking issues of those hideous beasts. Nobody ever questions my preference.
	👻 3:38pm winston legthigh: old man duncan.
	3:38pm Irwin: ↳ winston legthigh @3:38 Codger crony.
	3:40pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: Kosher Phones are a thing. Dumbed down smartphones. Steeleye Span indeed.
	👻 3:42pm winston legthigh: go fund yourself indeed.
	3:42pm xangoir: gluten-free 5G
	3:43pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: "Go fund yourself" LOL! Who IS Gus Bodenheim anyway??! Is it YOU Irwin?!
	3:44pm Deano de los Muertos: always smart to bring Free Entree along
	3:46pm fred: I'm still phone-free. Not for long though, as a long delayed EU smartphone mandate will eventually kick in (requiring biometrics)
	3:47pm Irwin: ↳ Deano de los Muertos @3:44 I think his name is Friantre.
	3:47pm PaulRobeson1924: ↳ winston legthigh @3:31 Three guesses
	3:47pm PaulRobeson1924: It’s not Liquor
	👻 3:49pm winston legthigh: ↳ Wild Neil\|\|Peace All @3:43 from r/wfmu: Even some insiders at WFMU don't know much about Gus. Gus is a mysterious friend of Irwin. I know literally nothing else about him. Irwin is the longest-running DJ at WFMU, having been there since 1975, and I get the impression that he used to do more offbeat comedy bits and voices. (You can still hear him meow occasionally -- he's great at cat noises.) Irwin is clearly not Gus, but (warning: pure speculation follows) I wonder if Gus started out as a concept "voice" developed by Irwin, and then he decided it was too rough on his geezer* larynx (or too obvious) and the character sort of got spun off.
	3:50pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: ↳ winston legthigh @3:49 Joe Frank was "spoken word" that was on for some years. Joe evntually passed a few years ago.
	3:51pm spodiodi: Greetings, Irwin and all
	3:51pm steveo: Gus is all of us
	👻 3:53pm winston legthigh: ↳ PaulRobeson1924 @3:47 glockenspiels
	👻 3:54pm Gregosaurus: ↳ steveo @3:51 Gus is our Spirit Curmudgeon.
	3:56pm steveo: evrybody's got a hungry hippo
	👻 3:57pm Gregosaurus: ↳ Song: "Guitar Jam" by "Ron Livingston (Sam), Laura Menne... I'm with this guy on Monster.
	3:57pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: This show is very freeform today. Big Data was sublime.
	3:58pm Dean: From the Chicago Daily Tribune, Nov. 8, 1912: "Miss Anna Apter, daughter of Michael S. Apter, 636 East 50th Street, a stenographer, and Gus Bodenheim of Milwaukee, a mailing clerk, became acquainted as employes [sic] in the national headquarters of the Progressive party and the acquaintance is to lead to their wedding...."
	3:58pm PaulRobeson1924: Though horseflies and mosquitoes made him dance with their stings, though he felt light-headed from loss of blood and sick from thirst, though the gash that leapt across his right eye, exposed the bone beneath it and opened up the flesh all the way to the hinge of his jaw felt as if it were being probed with hot needles, he never said a word.
	3:59pm pmcWhenever: Use to be a Fascination near me in Hull MA, remnant from the mighty Paragon Park… it came from the original Coney Island site, just read about this, prompted by Gus — i had assumed Fascination was just a Hull thing, it was fun and basically a game of chance… (not unlike radio) Wildwood NJ still has one?
	4:10pm Picante Mint: ↳ Song: "Aren't You Glad" by "Spirit" SPIRIT!
	4:10pm Larry in Merrlin: ↳ Song: "Aren't You Glad" by "Spirit" Great to hear this again.
	4:11pm milk t: ↳ Song: "I'm Not Okay" by "Adam Melchor" omg
	4:12pm Irwin: ↳ milk t @4:11 Somebody gets it.
	👻 4:13pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "I'm Not Okay" by "Adam Melchor" Great song. As someone once said, sometimes it's OK to be not OK. If I recall, it was someone on the WFMU comments board.
	4:14pm Irwin: ↳ Irwin @4:12 First time I heard it I didn't even know what it was.
	4:14pm Irwin: ↳ Irwin @4:14 Then I heard the original. omg.
	4:14pm Triple G: ↳ Irwin @4:14 Surprising and pleasant cover
	4:15pm milk t: idk if my brain is just offline or it's just so different from the og but it took me a couple seconds to place
	4:16pm Triple G: ↳ Song: "Kid Muscle" by "Sex Week" Other tracks on the album are "Naked" and "Cockpit" Don't shoot the messenger!
	4:17pm The Oscar: ↳ Triple G @4:16 File under "I dig, but I'm terrified to google!"
	4:18pm Irwin: ↳ Triple G @4:14 Melchor is a terrific singer, songwriter and recording artist. Don't know why he's gotten no traction at WFMU.
	4:19pm Steevee: There was a Fascination in Rochester, NY in Seabreeze Amusement Park on Lake Ontario. I worked the Fascination parlor one summer during college, circa '82? handing out the prizes. Not the best job I ever had, but not the worst, thinking on it. Seabreeze is home of the Jack Rabbit, one of the oldest wood frame roller coasters in the US, "longest continuously operating roller coaster in the world" says google, worth the trip.
	👻 4:22pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "When the Bridegroom Comes" by "Judee Sill" She had a beautiful voice and wrote some good songs. Died tragically young and unknown. It's good that her music is enjoying some favorable attention now.
	4:27pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: ↳ Irwin @4:18 Adam Melchor is really pretty fantastic. Thanks for playing it Irwin. I think other DJs would notice you play it and also play it on their shows too.
	4:28pm Matt from Springfield: HI Irwin and Hiatusans and Verboten Time with Bodenheimers! Caught that bit earlier on the app - but just missed a Judee Sill I haven't head of!! Will check that one later.
	4:30pm spodiodi: ↳ Matt from Springfield @4:28 hi, Matt!
	4:31pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Song: "Wonderful" by "The Beach Boys" Brian Wilson's Mission from God - to unite Surfing with the Four Freshmen.
	4:31pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ spodiodi @4:30 Howdy spodiodi!
	👻 4:31pm βrian: My favorite Beach Boys album is the same as my least favorite, as it happens.
	4:33pm fred: ↳ Wild Neil\|\|Peace All @4:27 Maybe not. I mean, Irwin played Jandek and the station had to get new shelves
	4:34pm Jason Lee: That was a killer set, let's see what this one got...
	4:35pm morphe': ↳ Song: "When the Bridegroom Comes" by "Judee Sill" "Ok you Mother Stickers .... This is a Fuck Up!!!! "
	4:35pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Song: "Jet Silver and the Dolls of Venus" by "Jason Falk... Nice! A 70sNot70s kinda track.
	4:35pm morphe': ↳ Song: "When the Bridegroom Comes" by "Judee Sill" ps.... "I have a Gub..."
	4:35pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ morphe' @4:35 Hey morphe'! Eggscellent! Sounds like a long lost comedy album bit.
	4:36pm bPCkll: ↳ Song: "Jet Silver and the Dolls of Venus" by "Jason Falk... BE BOP DE LUXE!!
	4:36pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: Irwieners. Ear Weiners.
	4:37pm morphe': ↳ Matt from Springfield @4:35 Never saw the full doc but is apparently true ... she was robbing liquor stores and ????
	4:38pm paddy in matawan: ↳ Wild Neil\|\|Peace All @4:36 weeners, even.
	4:38pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Wild Neil\|\|Peace All @4:36 Listen with relish! And...sometimes stinky kraut...
	4:39pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ morphe' @4:37 Yep, sent to girls reform school, a bank/liquor/or otherwise armed robber, living in her car, songwriter, then a singer and the very first album released on Geffen, slipped further into drugs, and a tragic young death.
	4:39pm Irwin: ↳ morphe' @4:37 She did everything awful. And a lot of beautiful things too.
	4:40pm C Michael Swing! STL: ↳ Wild Neil\|\|Peace All @4:36 Ear Winners
	4:40pm Triple G: ↳ Song: "For the Guilty" by "DIIV" Seeing them perform in Brooklyn a few hours from now
	4:43pm C Michael Swing! STL: is the rest of the toothpaste in that tube still good? asking for a friend
	4:43pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: Girl Scout is EPIC. YES! EAR WINNERS!
	4:44pm Ochre Ogre: Hi Irwin!
	4:46pm Ochre Ogre: ↳ Wild Neil\|\|Peace All @4:43 YEAH man! I concur, whoa.
	4:47pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: WOW ! Jandek!!! en.wikipedia.org...
	4:47pm JohnnyReno: ↳ Song: "Claire Is Not a Lesbian" by "Ron Livingston (Sam)... I liked this episode. Lots of good jokes.
	4:47pm ?: lesbos rock
	4:47pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Song: "Claire Is Not a Lesbian" by "Ron Livingston (Sam)... Curie is an Experimenter.
	4:48pm Picante Mint: ↳ Song: "Everyone's a V.I.P. to Someone" by "The Go! Team" digging this
	4:48pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ @4:47 Lesbos rock(s): en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 4:54pm winston legthigh: thanks irwin, good night to all.
	👻 4:56pm Tom in St. Paul: ↳ Song: "JJ" by "Wand" this sure sounds like mid-career Radiohead. just sayin'
	4:56pm Ochre Ogre: Still a little left in that tube! But nah, not quite enough to bother with.
	4:56pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Song: "East Texas Son" by "Amy Annelle" Amy Annelle 💖
	4:57pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Song: "East Texas Son" by "Amy Annelle" Sounds similar in voice to Tristen, whom we also discovered on Irwin's show. Hey, Matt!
	4:58pm Ochre Ogre: ↳ Song: "East Texas Son" by "Amy Annelle" Amy A good, and The Places!
	5:03pm Listener Robert: A similar concept to upcycled bananas is reconditioned food. Food reconditioning is a real thing that achieves approximately what Irwin's describing.
	5:03pm Harry Corvair: Upcycled meat? Who doesn't love a hot dog?
	5:03pm Matt from Springfield: "Upcycling, also known as creative reuse, is the process of transforming by-products, waste materials, useless, or unwanted products into new materials or products perceived to be of greater quality, such as artistic value or environmental value." Whereas "downcycling" implies recycling into materials of lesser perceived value. I say, what's with this bias and judgment?? Anything is valuable, when it goes into my belly.
	5:04pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Handy Haversack @4:57 Afternoon, Handy!
	5:04pm spodiodi: had the domain name Vintagemeat.com for a bit last century
	5:04pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: "see what happens when you leave the cap off". I heard you can buy ugly food that is cosmetically not sellable, but perfectly fine to eat. Maybe THAT is upcycling?
	5:05pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Song: "Fly" by "Krom" Surprisingly jaunty for a band potentially named after Conan's god. Yo, Spodi!
	5:06pm Ike: Aren't all smoothies made from fruit that's "on life support", or ugly fruit? Not to mention dried fruit snacks, etc. Not to mention everything containing whey, which is otherwise just dumped into rivers by yogurt producers, where it then kills the fish, etc.
	5:06pm spodiodi: yo, Handy!
	5:06pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Wild Neil\|\|Peace All @5:04 I get Vegenaise made out of grapeseed oil, which is a normally discarded byproduct of wine making. Upcycling makes it into a spread better than "real" mayo.
	5:06pm Ochre Ogre: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:03 Hi Matt! Yep, there are organizations that do that with supplies for schools and such.
	5:07pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: Vegemite is made from beer by-products I hear.
	5:07pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Listener Robert @5:03 Now "reconditioning" sounds like a good term: they've always found ways to recycle damaged or aging food into other food products that can be used.
	5:07pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:07 Like feeding the ugly cows to other cows. Nothing could possiblye go wrong.
	5:08pm Dean: My local superdupermarket, Berkeley Bowl West devotes an entire room (see the last photo) to barely unsightly produce: https://www.berkeleyside.org/2023/04/04/berkeley-bowl-shopping-guide
	5:08pm Mailman Tom: ↳ Ike @5:06 Thanks for confirming my suspicions!
	5:08pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Ochre Ogre @5:06 Hi Ochre! "Reconditioning" is another good use for equipment, such as school supplies. Gets another life out of old stuff!
	5:09pm Dean: Isn't anything other than "throw it away and buy a new one" unAmerican?
	5:11pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Handy Haversack @5:07 Almost line-for-line from Treehouse of Horror XX, Krusty Burger's "Burger²". Too recent for Frinkiac, but: simpsons.fandom.com...
	5:12pm Handy Haversack: Ultimate!
	5:13pm Binky: Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
	5:13pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:11 Feeding beef to cows? Did that really happen?
	5:13pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Song: "Space Truckin'" by "Deep Purple" Deep August of Deep Purple!
	5:13pm Irwin: ↳ Binky @5:13 Binky GETS it. All Purple and Deep and stuff.
	👻 5:14pm βrian: ↳ Wild Neil\|\|Peace All @5:13 Oh yeah.
	5:14pm Ochre Ogre: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:08 I have donated to the Materials for the Arts, they have a big storage place in Lg Is City.
	👻 5:14pm NC Mark: I think the jazz police will begrudgingly approve.
	5:14pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Dean @5:09 “Use it up wear it out make it do or do without” Used to be the New England philosophy, and especially during the Depression and WWII. After the War - out the window, especially by the time "planned obsolescence" became the way. "Today we call that “repurposing” or “upcycling.” " says the FDR Presidential Library & Museum. Wait a minute...this goes all the way to the Top!!!
	5:15pm Laura L: ↳ Irwin @5:13 And outer spacey too!
	👻 5:16pm βrian: ↳ Song: "Space Truckin'" by "Deep Purple" Those lyrics! That wry commentary!
	5:16pm Irwin: ↳ Irwin @5:13 You know who else loves Deep Purple? PLUSH POLAR BEARS.
	5:16pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Wild Neil\|\|Peace All @5:13 Bovine spongiform encephalopathy: en.wikipedia.org... "Cattle are believed to have been infected by being fed meat-and-bone meal (MBM) that contained either the remains of cattle who spontaneously developed the disease or scrapie-infected sheep products".
	5:17pm Marie in Chicago: ↳ Song: "Space Truckin'" by "Deep Purple" it's a rocker. I like the drumming. Great album title
	5:18pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:16 So, is Delbarton™ planning to create a trendy new line of MBM Packs™, for delivering protein-on-the-go??...
	👻 5:18pm βrian: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:16 Gives new meaning to those John Prine lyrics, "There were spaces between Donald and whatever he said." Literal spaces.
	5:18pm Chris in Kensington Bklyn: ↳ Ochre Ogre @5:14 I hear Materials for the Arts is amazing. My wife gets over there from time to time.
	5:18pm steveo: ↳ Song: "Space Truckin'" by "Deep Purple" I think this may be the worst song I've ever heard on this station, and I've been listening for 25 years
	5:19pm Dean: “Use it up wear it out make it do or do without” This tends to be my approach to stuff, sometimes to a fault, e.g., socks, t-shirts, underwear...
	5:19pm Ochre Ogre: ↳ Ochre Ogre @5:14 When the stuff I donated was taken, I received thank you letters from the schools and a theater.
	5:19pm Irwin: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:18 Business at Delbarton Industries has flatlined now that they don't have a WFMU program to sponsor.
	👻 5:19pm βrian: ↳ steveo @5:18 Don't lose patience.
	5:20pm Irwin: ↳ steveo @5:18 Deep Purple is flattered at the distinction.
	5:20pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Irwin @5:19 They'll just have to get the word out through viral marketing instead, if ya catch my drift!
	5:20pm steveo: it's good to be #1 at something
	5:22pm Ochre Ogre: ↳ Marie in Chicago @5:17 Wore the grooves out of it back then. It's the LP with "Smoke on the Water."
	5:23pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Ochre Ogre @5:19 Cool! That's pretty "Righteous!", for when you do a righteous thing.
	5:24pm Irwin: ↳ Ochre Ogre @5:22 "Smoke," like "Stairway," overstayed its welcome.
	5:25pm Dean: Worst song? Not even close. I'd start with Don Felder's "Heavy Metal (Takin' a Ride)."
	5:26pm Dean: "Smoke on the Stairway"? "Stairway to Water"?
	5:28pm βrian: ↳ Dean @5:25 Ameni.
	5:28pm Irwin: ↳ Dean @5:25 Worse than "We Didn't Start the Fire"?
	5:28pm Ochre Ogre: ↳ Irwin @5:24 Oh God yeah, and Hotel CA and quite a few other tunes.
	5:29pm dale: hey now. is this the first miranda lambert airing on the station?
	5:29pm Handy Haversack: ↳ dale @5:29 I have to disconnect my VPN in order to answer that question. Ken said they had to "throttle back" the search function.
	5:30pm Ochre Ogre: ↳ Irwin @5:28 Agh, anything by Jilly Boel.
	5:30pm dale: got any kellie pickler irwin?
	5:30pm Dean: Now we're plumbing the subconscious. I am no fan of either The Eagles or Billy Joel, but if I had to prefer one song over the other, it would probably be that insufferable piano man's detritus, if only because I really can't bear The Eagles, and am only mildly irritated by BJ.
	👻 5:31pm βrian: ↳ Handy Haversack @5:29 When I ordered scotch neat, the bartender offered a "throttle back."
	5:31pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Dean @5:30 Yeah ... there's a kitsch aspect to BJ that I can at least acknowledge. Whereas the Eagles are just so self-satisfiedly godawful.
	5:32pm dale: holding you to that.
	5:32pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Song: "I Like What You Bring Out in Me" by "Bored at My ... Lack of apostrophe [sic]? Ah, thanks for answering.
	5:34pm Handy Haversack: K8 reports that Glenn Jones has played "We Didn't Start the Fire." Though steveo certainly might not have heard it. I avoid Glenn for very similar reasons.
	5:34pm Chris in Kensington Bklyn: ↳ Song: "The Ruby and the Pearl" by "Tina Brooks" That was great, almost a Hank Mobley vibe going on there?
	5:34pm Dean: Perfectly put, Handy! Anyway, long ago I noticed that a barista on whom I had a bit of a crush drove around in a car with a license plate frame that reads, "I'd Sell My Soul For Billy Joel." I figured he can't be all bad.
	5:35pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Song: "Gus Attempts a Third-Party Ploy" by "Gus Bodenheim" Love the Buckeroo! Loving whiskey and [Mexican] Coke as I do..
	5:35pm Ike: ↳ Dean @5:25 Ding ding ding ding ding! We have a winner! Or rather, loser. Don Felder is far worse. Billy Joel is not even that objectionable — silly, but tolerable. I’d even go so far as to say “We Didn’t Start the Fire” approaches being… serviceable?
	5:35pm Dean: I actually enjoy Billy Joel's "Say Goodbye to Hollywood."
	5:36pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Song: "Gus Attempts a Third-Party Ploy" by "Gus Bodenheim" Index of Bodenshpiels
	5:37pm Ochre Ogre: ↳ Chris in Kensington Bklyn @5:18 Cool! I think there are couple similar donation groups too.
	👻 5:37pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Gus Attempts a Third-Party Ploy" by "Gus Bodenheim" From the bottom of his heart or the bottom of some other anatomical portion.
	👻 5:38pm βrian: The Effluent Economy.
	5:39pm Ochre Ogre: Dont squeeze the..
	5:40pm Matt from Springfield: Nothing too outre... But nothing's too much for W Outre U!!! (And don't purchase hWhipple products, you don't know where they've been.)
	👻 5:40pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Gus Attempts a Third-Party Ploy" by "Gus Bodenheim" Please don't squeeze the Bodenheim.
	5:41pm Handy Haversack: We're going to meet Karl -- yes, THAT Karl! -- to see a show. Must depart. Thanks, Irwin! A fine, fine time! Keep winning, Irwinners!
	5:42pm Ochre Ogre: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:40 Especially the upcycled products!!
	5:42pm spodiodi: ↳ spodiodi @5:06 cya, Handy! have fun
	5:42pm Chris in Kensington Bklyn: ↳ Song: "Gus Attempts a Third-Party Ploy" by "Gus Bodenheim" Top shelf installment. Two questions: when is the Delbarton 30 year getting released? And what was the name of that cocktail again?
	5:43pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Song: "Galactico" by "Joe Tatton Trio" Orrg in!
	5:43pm Ochre Ogre: ↳ Handy Haversack @5:41 Cheers Handy!
	5:43pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Ochre Ogre @5:42 Yes, those are cycled up, they've been cycled up good...
	👻 5:44pm NC Mark: ↳ Chris in Kensington Bklyn @5:42 Buckaroo
	5:45pm Pappy with the Khaki Sweatband: Canadian over here bopping to TPOH
	5:45pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: ↳ Irwin @5:28 We Built this city on Rock and Roll is arguably one of the worst songs ever by anybody.
	5:46pm royvis: TPOH FTW!
	5:46pm Harry Corvair: ↳ Song: "Cigarette Dangles" by "The Pursuit of Happiness" Backing vocals! Guitar!
	5:47pm Pappy with the Khaki Sweatband: Moe Berg of TPOH rocking in The TransCanadaHighwaymen transcanadahighwaymen.ca
	5:47pm paddy in matawan: clickys
	5:47pm Irwin: ↳ Wild Neil\|\|Peace All @5:45 I heard Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" on the Uber ride over. Can I nominate it for Top 10 inclusion?
	5:48pm Irwin: ↳ Irwin @5:47 I don't get Gaga. Never got Gaga.
	5:48pm Dean: "Bad Romance" is one of my favorite Lady Gaga songs! Dug it from the get-go, mostly because of the tizzy synthesizers.
	5:49pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Song: "Hot Calypso" by "Quintetto lo Greco" So Jazz, So Calypso, So Hot! So Nice.
	5:49pm Irwin: ↳ Dean @5:48 See above.
	5:49pm steveo: the original "we didn't start the fire" has not been played on this station (during the playlist era) (unless the dj lied by omission) (i'm gaga for cocoa puffs)
	5:51pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Irwin @5:48 she's not great...but you gotta admit there are countless performers - almost every one that's entered the billboard top 40 in the past 20 years, at least, that put out album after album of nothing but the worst songs ever by anybody.
	5:51pm Ochre Ogre: ↳ Irwin @5:48 Lady G is cool compared to some I think and a NYC home girl. Eh, she's doin that Cher thing all over again.
	5:55pm bradford: Thanks, Irwin.
	5:55pm Dean: Because my kids are 13 and 18, I have been exposed to a world of pop music I never would have entertained. As a result it's fair to say I'm a fan of LG, Taylor Swift, Cardi B, and so forth. My kids also turned me on to Stephen Sanchez, whom I know you have played, Irwin. His album is a lot of fun, truly lovely at times.
	5:55pm coelacanth∅: (Welcome back, by the way)
	👻 5:55pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Irwin. See your dentist regularly! 🪥
	5:55pm Deano de los Muertos: the excess fat trimmings/bone/garbage meat gets upcycled into biofuel at work
	5:56pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: ↳ Irwin @5:47 Top ten sure -lyrics are escpecially stupid and self-destructive -but I still think that noise version of wake up Little Suzy by that professer on one of the other shows is worse. Pop music is one of my guilty pleaseures, I find it catchy, just like I find Taylor Swift interesting.
	5:57pm Ochre Ogre: Irwin please put some George Thorogood in that worst top 10. Upcycler of John L Hooker!
	5:57pm spodiodi: thanks, Irwin!
	5:58pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ coelacanth∅ @5:51 I like Gaga..."personally". She's a great person! I don't listen to most of the Top charts music, but someone once pointed out that the kidz nowadays love dancing to that music; whereas those like me who like to sit and listen to music, don't find it appealing at all. It could be a personality/style type that determines the kind of music you prefer to listen to.
	5:58pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: My 14 year old son listens to Phonk which is like darkwave meets techno.
	5:58pm Ochre Ogre: Thanks Irwin! Cheers all
	5:58pm Matt from Springfield: THANKS Irwin! Fun show! Have a good evening, everyone!
	👻 5:59pm 12539: Thanks Irwin!
	5:59pm coelacanth∅: as recycled, and often bland as it is, nothing George Thorogood has done makes it into the top 3000 worst songs
	6:00pm Ochre Ogre: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:58 At a recent wedding reception I didn't recognize a single song!
	6:02pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:58 i've always liked her as a person -from what i've heard/read...just haven't heard any music by her that i'd care to hear again. Swifty's another...seems like a fairly decent person, but not atr all good musically; and kind of a crappy "role model" for young girls. -but a very clever marketer
	👻 4:17pm DjLorraine: Caption for the picture: flouride free now ;)

Irwin Chusid: Playlist from August 7, 2024

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