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Two hours of genre-blending sounds hosted by a cyborg DJ programming audio inspired by lingering human memories of Salvador Dali’s iconically glistening 'stache. Mr. Moistache’s Menagerie is a psychedelic and metaphysical journey into the cyborg mind.

Tuesday 6 - 8pm (EDT) | On WFMU's Sheena's Jungle Room
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Favoriting July 1, 2025: Your 5th trip into Mr. Moistache's Menagerie
Today Mr. Moistache is sick so his shop hand BOB will be filling in. on today's show Mr. Moistache left BOB very specific notes. The featured item is an impossible gumball machine. If BOB can hold it together he has been instructed to share a Beet Slaw recipe and Mr. Moistache will follow up next week with its pairing, pistachio butter.

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Today's featured item an Impossible Gumball Machine
Today's featured item an Impossible Gumball Machine
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Today's featured item an Impossible Gumball Machine

Artist Track Album Approx. start time
The Fireman  Watercolour Guitars   Favoriting Rushes   
BCUC (Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness)  Pieces of Isht   Favoriting The Woods  0:07:01 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Los Sharps  Gloria   Favoriting Rare Mexican Cuts From the Sixties  0:09:57 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Sgt. Papers  Malos Ratos   Favoriting SGTP  0:11:28 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Motrik  Girl You Want   Favoriting Koan  0:15:37 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Moon Duo  The Crystal World   Favoriting Occult Architecture Vol. 2  0:18:50 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Electronic Concept Orchestra  Windmills Of Your Mind   Favoriting Moog Groove  0:29:35 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Belbury Poly  Designated Wizard Practice Area   Favoriting A Psychedelic Guide To Monsterism Island  0:30:36 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Los Pakines  Tema de Amor / Cuando, Cuando / Solo Tú - Instrumental   Favoriting Peruvian Psychedelic Songs  0:35:02 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Orquestra Pacifico Tropical  Flor de Oro   Favoriting El Tren  0:40:16 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Los Dexters De Uchiza  Roxana   Favoriting Tesoros Esconditos: Infopesa Hidden Gems  0:42:13 (MP3 | Pop-up)
BCUC (Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness)  Ramaphosisa   Favoriting Millions of Us (Part 3)  0:45:19 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Pye Corner Audio  Dead Ends   Favoriting Balance 029  0:56:35 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Lord Melody  Booboo Man (Mama, Look at Bubu)   Favoriting Calypso Awakening From The Emory Cook Collection  1:04:07 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Brazillian Girls  Nouveau Americain   Favoriting New York City  1:08:55 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Juaneco y Su Combo  Volando   Favoriting Cumbias Chichadelicas: Peruvian Psychedelic Chicha  1:11:40 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Belbury Poly  The New Harmony   Favoriting New Ways Out  1:14:35 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Motrik  Tragector   Favoriting Motrik  1:24:57 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Electronic Concept Orchestra  Oh Happy Day   Favoriting Moog Groove  1:30:55 (MP3 | Pop-up)
BCUC (Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness)  Asazani   Favoriting Our Truth  1:34:26 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Hot Butter's Sound  Pa-Pa-Pa   Favoriting Back to Peru Vol 1  1:51:15 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Orquestra Pacifico Tropical  Rio Frio   Favoriting PDX Pop Now! 2014  1:54:33 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Smog  Wicked Man   Favoriting Back to Peru Vol 1  2:00:15 (MP3 | Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 5:46pm
Mr Moistache:

hi all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:59pm
Herbie:

Hi "BOB" - have a great show!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:00pm
Aitch:

Hey BOB.
Avatar 6:01pm
Mr Moistache:

↳ Herbie @5:59
thanks Herbie. And Hello Aitch
Avatar 6:02pm
Mr Fab:

if this is BOB from "Twin Peaks," I'm a little nervous. But intrigued.
Avatar 6:03pm
Mr Moistache:

↳ Mr Fab @6:02
This is not BOB from Twin Peaks but I do see how you could think that. Also Mr. Moistache is allowing me to speak as him in the chat
Avatar 6:19pm
Mr Moistache:

2 garlic cloves smashed and peeled

1/2 cup golden rasins

2 tbsp white vinegar

2 lbs beets

2 tbsp lemon juice

1/2 cup flat-leaf parsley

1/4 cup mint leaves

1/2 tsp chili flakes

Kosher salt and black pepper to taste

extra-virgin olive oil
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:22pm
Krys O.:

Howdy!
Avatar 6:25pm
Mr Moistache:

↳ Krys O. @6:22
Hiya Krys! thanks for stopping by. this is BOB by the way. Mr. Moistache is feeling ill today and asked me to fill in
Avatar 6:32pm
Mr Moistache:

↳ Mr Moistache @6:19
this is a beet slaw recipe. i will be sharing how to prepare it in a little bit
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:32pm
Austin Rich:

Good Hello.
Avatar 6:33pm
Mr Moistache:

hello sir. thanks for stopping by. would you care for an impossible gumball machine
Avatar 6:34pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Song: "Malos Ratos" by "Sgt. Papers"
Herbie & I saw Sgt Papers live. We'd never heard of them before, but they rocked.
Avatar 6:34pm
Mr Moistache:

No refunds for not being able to access the gumballs
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:35pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Moistache @6:33
Sure. It'll make a good White Mammoth gift, the next time we have one of THOSE parties.
Avatar 6:36pm
Mr Moistache:

↳ Mr Fab @6:34
same here 2 years ago at Pickathon in PDX! I had listened to their music in the lead up to the show but damn they are a heavy duo
Avatar 6:38pm
Mr Moistache:

↳ Mr Moistache @6:36
I was not ready for the show they put on. It seriously blew my ears and body to pieces.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:38pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @6:34
Sgt. Papers Stoney Rock Out Band?
Avatar 6:38pm
Mr Moistache:

krauty mexican psych punk
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:40pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Moistache @6:38
That sounds delightful.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:40pm
Krys O.:

Are there any incorrigible gumball machines?

I love beet salad. It reminds me of summer and my Polish family.
Avatar 6:41pm
Mr Moistache:

↳ Austin Rich @6:40
it really is!
Avatar 6:42pm
Mr Moistache:

↳ Krys O. @6:40
this beet slaw recipe is great. and paired with the pistachio butter on a brat it is a summer delight for me (BOB)
Avatar 6:42pm
Mr Moistache:

I guess I should have let you know to expect very summery sounds today
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:43pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Krys O. @6:40
What about an improbable gumball machine?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:43pm
Krys O.:

↳ Mr Moistache @6:42
Nice. WFMU DJ Donna Blicharz is a excellent cook, and she turned me on to golden beets years ago.
Avatar 6:43pm
Mr Moistache:

okay, jammer time. i gotta check on the shop and make sure no one has walked away with the gumball machine
Avatar 6:46pm
Mr Moistache:

↳ Krys O. @6:43
I think you and Mr Fab talked Mr Moistache into featuring a recipe accidentally
Avatar 6:47pm
Mr Moistache:

↳ Mr Moistache @6:46
Now it’s his favorite part of the show! Once again this is BOB using Moistache’s chat account to interact with the comments board
Avatar 6:48pm
Mr Moistache:

He’s not speaking in 3rd person although he’s not really a person anyway. More of an organic cybernetic conflagration
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:56pm
Austin Rich:

Those AI Love Robots might be fun, but they are only programmed to say those things to you. They don't really mean them.

Unfortunately.
Avatar 6:57pm
Imaginos:

Ahoy
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:58pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @6:57
Nice to see you in the Digital Salon. I hope you are well.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:58pm
Austin Rich:

Those Beats are Great.

... or did you mean something else?
Avatar 6:59pm
Imaginos:

↳ Austin Rich @6:58
I am
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:59pm
Aitch:

↳ Austin Rich @6:58
the beet goes on
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:00pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Aitch @6:59
I think it was X who used to say, "B E E T S, Not B E A T S."
Avatar 7:00pm
Imaginos:

↳ Austin Rich @6:56
Aren't we all programmed to respond in certain ways by our environments and the people we meet
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @7:00
Yeah, when people are programmed by their parents and our culture, it's okay. But when robots are programmed to love, for some reason it crosses some moral and ethical boundary.
Avatar 7:03pm
Mr Moistache:

it has to do with who designed them and for what purpose
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:04pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Moistache @7:03
That's a good point. Aside from the four year life span, I've found the Tyrell Corporation products to be very good for almost any use, moral or otherwise.
Avatar 7:05pm
Mr Moistache:

↳ Austin Rich @7:02
unfortunately most AI is designed for money making and in turn nefarious ends
Avatar 7:06pm
Mr Moistache:

↳ Austin Rich @7:04
There are considerate developers out there but like almost everything else they are far outnumbered
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:06pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Moistache @7:05
Are you sure? Because my AI girlfriend said she only needed two different credit card numbers because she loved me twice as much as the average AI Girlfriend. That makes sense, right?
Avatar 7:07pm
Imaginos:

↳ Mr Moistache @7:05
I use AI for creating music for my lyrics and for riffing my fanfics because I can't afford to have professionals do it
Avatar 7:07pm
Mr Moistache:

↳ Austin Rich @7:06
that totally checks out. I mean that is how numbers work
Avatar 7:08pm
Mr Moistache:

↳ Imaginos @7:07
it's not your fault, to quote Brazilian Girls
  7:08pm
zzmz:

nice
Avatar 7:09pm
Mr Moistache:

↳ Imaginos @7:07
and hello!!! thanks for returning to the Menagerie
Avatar 7:09pm
Imaginos:

↳ Mr Moistache @7:09
Glad to be here
Avatar 7:10pm
Mr Moistache:

↳ zzmz @7:08
thanks for joining us! glad you have found this little shop
Avatar 7:10pm
Mr Moistache:

↳ Imaginos @7:09
😍
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
Austin Rich:

There was a band in PDX about 10 years ago called Million Brazilians, and I thought that was pretty great.
Avatar 7:11pm
Mr Fab:

Is it an impossible gumball, because it’s vegetarian, like those impossible burgers?

I dunno, I do like my meat candy gumballs.
Avatar 7:11pm
Mr Moistache:

↳ Austin Rich @7:10
thanks for reminding me!!! i forgot about them. that was for sure a bush dig
Avatar 7:12pm
Mr Moistache:

↳ Mr Fab @7:11
check the picture in the playlist and let me know if you think their vegitarian
Avatar 7:12pm
Mr Fab:

I remember looking up Brazillian Girls some years back. Oops. Sure got a lot of non-music websites.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:12pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @7:11
I'm not sure about those impossible gumballs. Do they have any beyond gumballs?
Avatar 7:12pm
Imaginos:

↳ Mr Fab @7:11
I recently encountered the dumbest thing in the supermarket. Vegetarian potatoes
Avatar 7:13pm
Imaginos:

As in they used another vegetable to make substitute potatoes
Avatar 7:13pm
Mr Moistache:

meat candy is pretty nice. candied bacon is a dream. that will for sure be a recipe Mr Moistache will share
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:14pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @7:12
There is a band, Schlong, and they have an album, Tumors, and let me tell you what you do NOT want to search for without a few other keywords...
Avatar 7:14pm
Mr Moistache:

he has a note here that he has only shared meat recipes so far besides the peanut butter and jelly so wanted to give one up to the vegans
Avatar 7:15pm
Imaginos:

↳ Mr Moistache @7:13
Jack Links has Dr Pepper flavored beef sticks
Avatar 7:16pm
Mr Moistache:

↳ Imaginos @7:15
oh boy, dr pepper flavored schlong tumors? hard pass
Avatar 7:16pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Austin Rich @7:14
Haha, I cringe thinking about it.
Avatar 7:17pm
Imaginos:

↳ Mr Moistache @7:16
That's ok. I'll eat the ones you don't want
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:17pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @7:16
On the other end of the spectrum, there's always those albums that are really hard to Google. I think about the band, "Weekend," and their album, "Sports," and how searching for Weekend Sports is nearly impossible without looking for it another way.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:17pm
Aitch:

↳ Song: "The New Harmony" by "Belbury Poly"
Liking Belbury Poly, new to me
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:18pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Aitch @7:17
Yeah, they sort of have a Stereolab sort of thing going that I like.
Avatar 7:19pm
Mr Moistache:

↳ Aitch @7:17
Hearing Ghost Box artist on Friendly Persuasion with Otis Fodder made Mr Moistache to want to dj here. it's taken 5 episodes to heavily represent the GB catalogue
Avatar 7:20pm
Mr Moistache:

↳ Mr Moistache @7:19
Maybe heavily is a little too heavy handed as I've only played Pye Corner Audio and Belbury Poly. But expect more of this sound in the future on this show
Avatar 7:20pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Song: "The New Harmony" by "Belbury Poly"
I keep thinking they're going to do The Carpenters' "Sing."
  7:21pm
captain scabheart:

Yohoooowwww it’s mostly in this chat room!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:21pm
Aitch:

↳ Mr Moistache @7:19
Otis is inspirational, nice Mr M was persuaded
Avatar 7:21pm
Mr Moistache:

↳ Mr Fab @7:20
I hear that
  7:21pm
captain scabheart:

✨🍉✨🍉✨🍉
Avatar 7:21pm
Mr Moistache:

Hello fine Captain!
  7:22pm
captain scabheart:

Moist moist moist!
  7:23pm
captain scabheart:

Schlong tumors!??? What did I miss
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:23pm
Austin Rich:

↳ captain scabheart @7:23
Only the finest in Digital Salon conversations.
Avatar 7:24pm
Mr Moistache:

↳ captain scabheart @7:23
Lots, this is your reminder to tune in early if you can.
Avatar 7:26pm
Imaginos:

I sent you another song today, Austin
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:26pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Moistache @7:24
Listening to Mr. Moistache is like voting: you should do it early, and often.
Avatar 7:26pm
Mr Moistache:

↳ Austin Rich @7:23
Impossible gumballs, Beet slaw, schlong tumors, Devo covers. It's been a show, and thank you all for joining me for it. Mr Moistache will be back next week. I hope you didn't mind a human while the good Moistache is recovering from an AI lovebot virus
Avatar 7:26pm
Imaginos:

↳ captain scabheart @7:23
Ahoy, Captain
  7:27pm
captain scabheart:

Motrik is full force vortex
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:27pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @7:26
I saw that. Thank you.
Avatar 7:27pm
Mr Moistache:

↳ captain scabheart @7:27
It's Moistache's favorite contemporary Krautrock group
Avatar 7:28pm
Imaginos:

↳ Austin Rich @7:27
You're welcome. It was inspired by Richard Diamond
Avatar 7:28pm
Mr Moistache:

↳ Imaginos @7:28
Oh wow! i'm very intrigued
Avatar 7:29pm
Imaginos:

↳ Mr Moistache @7:28
I also have it on YouTube
Avatar 7:30pm
Imaginos:

youtu.be...
  7:31pm
captain scabheart:

Venereal disease from a bot no doubt
Avatar 7:33pm
Mr Moistache:

↳ captain scabheart @7:31
he's a cyborg so who knows what those things can contract
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:34pm
Austin Rich:

It might be one of those viruses that just "bricks" your genitals, and then you can't use them until you pay the ransom.
  7:36pm
zzmz:

im playing back by PC & mobile bluetooth surround sound gooud.
Avatar 7:36pm
Imaginos:

↳ captain scabheart @7:31
Tom Servo had nothing to do with it
Avatar 7:37pm
Mr Moistache:

↳ Imaginos @7:36
Crow on the other hand may have had a large part
Avatar 7:38pm
Mr Moistache:

↳ Mr Moistache @7:37
Funny story, I actually had crows try to attack me last week
Avatar 7:39pm
Imaginos:

Who remembers Eliza Doctor?
Avatar 7:39pm
Mr Moistache:

I BOB not moistache am a 6’5” dude with a man bun at work so I think the bun had something to do with it
Avatar 7:40pm
Mr Moistache:

↳ Imaginos @7:39
Not from MAT3k right?
Avatar 7:40pm
Imaginos:

↳ Mr Moistache @7:39
Man bun? Brunnen-G?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:41pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @7:39
It was an early AI "talk therapy," command line "Doctor." Sometime in the 90's, right?
Avatar 7:41pm
Imaginos:

↳ Mr Moistache @7:40
Right. Old 80s mock ai
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:41pm
Austin Rich:

Oh, it's even older than I thought! 1966!

en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar 7:42pm
Imaginos:

Come come! Elucidate your thoughts
Avatar 7:43pm
Mr Moistache:

↳ Imaginos @7:41
Not familiar but yeah AI has been around for a while crude as it was it was still there. Watson was the first big contemporary AI and what most of what we know AI now was built on
Avatar 7:44pm
Mr Moistache:

Wild world we’ve made huh?
Avatar 7:44pm
Imaginos:

And whoever could forget this computer classic "You are in a maze of twisting turning passages, all alike"
Avatar 7:45pm
Mr Moistache:

I know Mr M wanted to highlight the human but also kind of embrace the robot he’s become so I’ll leave some notes for him after today’s show
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:46pm
Krys O.:

My older brother had computer science classes in high school in the early 1970s. They were connected via phone lines to the SUNY system. I'll never forget when he brought home a printout of Snoopy that was created with code on green and white computer pin-feed paper.
Avatar 7:46pm
Imaginos:

↳ Mr Moistache @7:43
I find it interesting that it shares its name with an unreliable narrator
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:47pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Krys O. @7:46
That's awesome! I would have loved that, too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:47pm
Krys O.:

↳ Austin Rich @7:47
I was about 9 years old.
Avatar 7:48pm
Mr Moistache:

Oh man!! I miss that old pin feed paper. My dad was a civil engineer and always was making those big plot point maps with that paper
Avatar 7:50pm
Mr Moistache:

↳ Mr Moistache @7:48
this was in response to Krys O. and I was about the same age but that was like '90'/'91
Avatar 7:51pm
Mr Moistache:

↳ Mr Moistache @7:48
i learned a little about city planning and a whole lot about art that my dad didn't care about back then
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:52pm
Krys O.:

↳ Mr Moistache @7:51
That's great! I used pin-feed paper at a couple of jobs even up to the early 90s.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:53pm
Krys O.:

Coming up on the Wiggle Room is an interview with Martha Raye from 1976, and a short radio show from Red Foley from the 1950s.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:54pm
Krys O.:

Thanks, BOB! Get well soon, Mr. Moistache.
Avatar 7:54pm
Mr Moistache:

↳ Krys O. @7:52
I'm an old millenial or however the hell you spell it and am so grateful for the crazy amount of old and new technology i was exposed to as a youngster
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:55pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Song: "Rio Frio" by "Orquestra Pacifico Tropical"
Man, those PDX Pop Now! shows used to be a lot of fun. When I worked at KPSU, we would often end up volunteering or working those shows. It's been a long time, so I haven't been to one in about 10+ years or so?
Avatar 7:55pm
Mr Fab:

Really diggin the afro/calypso/latin thangs. Always up for them exotic grooves.
Avatar 7:56pm
Mr Moistache:

↳ Mr Fab @7:55
that's all Mr. Moistache's guidence. I'm just here while he's "sick" He should be back to full health next week.
Avatar 7:57pm
Mr Moistache:

thanks everyone for popping into the Menagerie this week. It's been a pleasure holdingg it down for the bossman
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
WR:

Thank you! Mr Moistache. Onward!
  8:00pm
captain scabheart:

👏 😎
Avatar 8:00pm
Mr Moistache:

stick around for the Wiggle Room and thanks for joining me!!!
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