WFMU: Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael: Playlist from July 4, 2025

Listener comments!
	♥ 7/2 7:57pm Uncle Michael: Hinky Dinky Time has a new phone number since Skype is shutting down. Please disregard the old number where you see it on old playlists. The new number is (785) 251-3397‬. I'm soliciting fresh show IDs. If you'd like to record one, please use the new number. The format is "This is [listener name] and you're listening to Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio", or you can be creative and write your own. I may gently edit some submissions. Thanks!
	🛒 ♥ 11:38am A.J. MACHETE: Loading the page for one-click access after Doug's show.
	11:54am DOO: Looking at your front yard
	11:55am DOO: posts are working today
	♥ 11:56am Uncle Michael: Hey, Pop.
	11:59am DOO: volume is low on purpose?
	12:00pm dan: Saturday In The Park, I think it was the Fourth of July.
	♥ 12:01pm coelacanth∅: 'morning Uncle M and dinklers
	♥ 12:04pm Uncle Michael: dan! coel!
	🛒 ♥ 12:04pm listener james from westwood: Good Friday, UM and all firecrackers!
	🛒 ♥ 12:05pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ Song: "4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) Alt. Take" by "B... Fabulous first cut, Unk M.
	12:05pm dan: I saw an amazing documentary about the piano player Nicky Hopkins. I had no idea of the recordings he played on like Jefferson Airplane's "Volunteers" and "Wooden Ships".
	♥ 12:06pm Uncle Michael: james! Bill!
	12:07pm dan: The next song needs to be Tom Waits' "Jersey Girl"
	12:07pm Webhamster Henry: Speaking of sandy, Im at Kingston point beach on the Hudson River.
	🛒 ♥ 12:07pm WR: ↳ dan @12:05 long time appreciator of Nicky Hopkins rock piano contributions. I'll look for that doc, thanks for mentioning it.
	♥ 12:07pm Listener Robert: I feel at home now with that vid feed because my friend got 2 disassembled multi-speed bikes that he salvaged into my car to take here and get fixed...eventually.
	♥ 12:07pm Uncle Michael: ↳ dan @12:07 No, it really doesn't.
	♥ 12:07pm Rich in Washington: Howdy, UM!
	♥ 12:08pm Uncle Michael: Henry! WR! Robert! Rich!
	12:10pm dan: ↳ Song: "4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) Alt. Take" by "B... Ironically, I just posed on the I Hate Bruce Springsteen page on Facebook a clip of Meat Loaf singing Two Out of Three Ain't Bad. According to Todd Rundgren, Meat Loaf's "Bat Out of Hell" was the anti-Springsteen, even though Roy Bittan and Max Weinberg from the E Street Band were on the record.
	🛒 ♥ 12:10pm StringOFperils: Hey UM and all! Huffing the intoxicating fumes at this illusory safe distance today. *Actually think this bulls-eye on me makes me look kinda Mod.
	♥ 12:11pm Uncle Michael: SOp!
	🛒 ♥ 12:13pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ Song: "A Real American Joe" by "Little Doug Sahm" Sir Douglas as a young lad! I had not known.
	12:13pm DOO: little Doug sounds like P to me
	12:14pm Kat in the chat: Little Doug Sahm hitherto unknown to me as well
	🛒 ♥ 12:14pm StringOFperils: ↳ (Mr) Bill @12:13 Nor did I. Amazing....sounds like Little Jimmy Dickens.
	♥ 12:16pm Uncle Michael: Kat!
	12:17pm DOO: your selections have gone country ever since we went to Nashville
	12:17pm still b/p: ↳ dan @12:10 I've wondered about the relative small amount of Springsteen hate I've ever encountered, because I was sure more was out there, and because the size and endurance of his success would be enough to fuel hostility. Can you give a few bullet points on Reasons for Bruce Hate? I'm not distinctly a fan, but certainly not a hater or dismisser. And...I'm not on Facebook.
	♥ 12:17pm Uncle Michael: ↳ DOO @12:17 ya think?
	🛒 ♥ 12:17pm dutchtheo: Bonjour uncle and comfort shoppers. Tomorrow is the "Jour de Fête"
	♥ 12:18pm Uncle Michael: ↳ still b/p @12:17 Oh, hell...please, no.
	♥ 12:18pm Uncle Michael: Theo!
	🛒 ♥ 12:18pm Jeff Golick: Can I kick it?
	♥ 12:19pm Uncle Michael: Jeff! Count us off.
	12:19pm still b/p: I withdraw the question, your honor.
	🛒 ♥ 12:20pm Asheville Jon: howdy UM and everyone else
	♥ 12:20pm Uncle Michael: ↳ still b/p @12:19 Thank you. Answers will be removed.
	♥ 12:20pm Uncle Michael: Jon!
	🛒 ♥ 12:20pm StringOFperils: ↳ still b/p @12:17 Surely you can manage hate all on your own. Everyone else is! *But basically, if you get successful or happy, you'll get hated.
	🛒 ♥ 12:20pm Jeff Golick: "Unos, dos, tres, catorce!"
	♥ 12:21pm Uncle Michael: I wasn't kidding, dan.
	♥ 12:22pm Roberto: Twitch FTW!
	♥ 12:22pm Uncle Michael: Roberto!
	♥ 12:22pm Roberto: The faithful have found ways around the technical issues.
	🛒 ♥ 12:24pm StringOFperils: Yeah! JBU!! Nice.
	🛒 ♥ 12:24pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ Song: "America Eats Its Young" by "Funkadelic" I'm upper-middle-class White, and it makes me wanna holler. This IS America.
	♥ 12:25pm coelacanth∅: i'm experiencing no technical issues with wfmu, except yesterday i couldn't post a comment until after closing and reopening firefux. i can't relate.
	🛒 ♥ 12:25pm DjLorraine: Hey my friends. UM u went to 2 field day events for ARRL! No ham radio yet.
	🛒 ♥ 12:25pm DjLorraine: I
	♥ 12:25pm Uncle Michael: DJL! That's cool. Are you learning stuff and liking it?
	♥ 12:27pm Roberto: ↳ Song: "Are You Glad to Be in America?" by "James 'Blood'... Let me get back to you on that.
	🛒 ♥ 12:29pm Asheville Jon: i'm not glad. just went for a nice long ride, strava didn't record over half of it.
	12:29pm dan: Another documentary I recommend besides the Nicky Hopkins one is "Family Band: The Cowsills Story". Another great portrait of a group that should have been bigger.
	♥ 12:30pm Roberto: Not just its young.
	♥ 12:31pm Roberto: America would be great if it didn't suck. I blame the stupid people.
	♥ 12:33pm Uncle Michael: ↳ Asheville Jon @12:29 ouch!
	♥ 12:33pm Roberto: ↳ Roberto @12:31 Emphasis on the "stu" in that last post.
	🛒 ♥ 12:34pm PAULS: Hey UM and everyone, enjoy the D/O and careful wit da fireworks!!
	♥ 12:34pm coelacanth∅: the one good thing about fireworks is that they're more likely to take out dumbass maga mofos than intelligent, less selfish people.
	🛒 ♥ 12:35pm PAULS: ↳ coelacanth∅ @12:34 Excellent point, coel ☝️🤓
	12:37pm dan: ↳ Song: "American Squirm" by "Nick Lowe" The 1970s version of "I Kissed A Girl, And I Liked It"
	🛒 ♥ 12:37pm Asheville Jon: ↳ Uncle Michael @12:33 yeah, i'm pretty p!ssed, you might notice on the strava club post
	♥ 12:38pm Uncle Michael: PAULS!
	🛒 ♥ 12:38pm doctorjazz: Missed a cool set...😓 Hi UM, Hinks and Dinks!
	12:39pm still b/p: Woman in small town in Maine keeps horses. Fireworks from neighbor's annual private show terrify and endanger horses. She went the petition and ordinance route to prohibit fireworks within certain distance of livestock, and succeeded. Mr. Pyropants is going the same route with repeal effort.
	♥ 12:39pm Uncle Michael: Doc! More cool sets to come. I promise.
	🛒 ♥ 12:39pm DjLorraine: ↳ Uncle Michael @12:25 Yes. I saw antennas, cables for those with hoa s, satelite towers. I met 2 different teachers. I was a dj and a singer, and PBX operator in the 80's but im trying to get my voice confident again. Passing a test will be easier than the cognitive and hands on stuff
	🛒 ♥ 12:40pm adamdoesit: Hi Uncle Michael and hinky-dinky shoppers. Happy Grand Départ weekend and uh have an icey lager for Concentration Camp Day?
	♥ 12:41pm Uncle Michael: adam!
	12:41pm dan: I'm all for fireworks on the Fourth of July and at special events, but not when I'm trying to sleep at 1am like what happened earlier today. Some people are just inconsiderate and play by their own rules.
	12:41pm johnk77: possibly now able to comment after switching browsers key move pasting this show url https://freeform.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/153736
	♥ 12:41pm Uncle Michael: ↳ DjLorraine @12:39 Keep us posted. It sounds interesting, and personally challenging.
	♥ 12:42pm Uncle Michael: john!
	🛒 ♥ 12:43pm doctorjazz: My town likes to beat the rush, did the fireworks Wednesday night (does set off a panic in our poor pooches, though...)
	🛒 ♥ 12:43pm Asheville Jon: ↳ Song: "Stone Deaf In The USA" by "Motorhead" this is great to help drown my frustration right now (along with the coffee and chocolate i am downing)
	12:44pm johnk77: on point selecting today doug sahm moved to the bay area met jerry garcia thru dan healy got brian rohan as his lawyer later moved back to san antone and then austin
	🛒 ♥ 12:49pm adamdoesit: ↳ Song: "July 4, 1975 Parade - Wally Ballew & Artie Scherm... -eyed Wally Ballou!
	🛒 ♥ 12:49pm adamdoesit: ↳ adamdoesit @12:49 *Ballew.
	🛒 ♥ 12:51pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ Song: "July 4, 1975 Parade - Wally Ballew & Artie Scherm... Oh my Bob and Ray!
	🛒 ♥ 12:52pm Franco Twinkie: Hey Michael.
	♥ 12:53pm Uncle Michael: Franco!
	🛒 ♥ 12:54pm StringOFperils: Fireworks seem anti-climactic after watching the Iron Dome cross-hatching the sky every day at 3 seconds to final midnight. Maybe it's just me.
	🛒 ♥ 12:55pm adamdoesit: ↳ StringOFperils @12:54 O say can you see, SOp.
	🛒 ♥ 12:58pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ StringOFperils @12:54 My sister and I went in circles yesterday about the fireworks in her neighborhood(full on assault) Potato salad be damned, Chresti and I decided to stay home.
	♥ 12:59pm Roberto: ↳ Song: "July 4, 1975 Parade - Wally Ballew & Artie Scherm... Bob's son and granddaughter keeping his legacy alive.
	🛒 ♥ 12:59pm (Mr) Bill: New to me. I love this type of waltz.
	♥ 1:00pm Uncle Michael: ↳ Roberto @12:59 I know nothing of the granddaughter.
	🛒 ♥ 1:00pm adamdoesit: Dear Bikey Dinky Time: I'm fixating on building up a gravel bike with rim brakes, a second copy of a frame I already have, and obsolete Shimano 10-speed bits. This seems backwards in several ways. Please talk me out of it.
	1:01pm KWilde: Happy Holiday
	♥ 1:01pm Uncle Michael: ↳ adamdoesit @1:00 I could.
	♥ 1:02pm Uncle Michael: KWilde!
	🛒 ♥ 1:03pm doctorjazz: Will be going out biking in a bit (building up to a bike tour in Sweden in about a month, have gotten out of biking shape, concentrating more on core strength for my back these days...)
	♥ 1:05pm Uncle Michael: ↳ doctorjazz @1:03 I wanna know about the Swedish trip!
	🛒 ♥ 1:06pm PAULS: ↳ Uncle Michael @1:00 One of Bob's granddaughters is is Abby Elliott -- currently plays Carmy's sister Sugar on The Bear, if you've seen any of that.
	♥ 1:06pm spodiodi: Greetings, UM and all
	♥ 1:07pm Uncle Michael: spodi!
	♥ 1:07pm Uncle Michael: ↳ PAULS @1:06 oddly, I have not
	♥ 1:08pm Roberto: ↳ Uncle Michael @1:00 Abby Elliott, former SNL regular.
	🛒 ♥ 1:08pm doctorjazz: ↳ Uncle Michael @1:05 It's a VBT Denmark/Sweden tour-took one of theirs about 7 years ago, Vietnam, had a great time!
	♥ 1:09pm Uncle Michael: ↳ doctorjazz @1:08 got a link?
	1:09pm Kat in the chat: Old favorite Galaxie 500
	🛒 ♥ 1:10pm PAULS: ↳ Uncle Michael @1:07 that IS odd cuz you've got some Chicago in you, correct?
	♥ 1:10pm Uncle Michael: ↳ doctorjazz @1:08 I'd like to do Belgium and the Netherlands.
	♥ 1:10pm Uncle Michael: ↳ PAULS @1:10 I suffer from popularity aversion syndrome.
	🛒 ♥ 1:11pm StringOFperils: ↳ PAULS @1:06 Did not know that. So wrapped up in the food porn.
	🛒 ♥ 1:11pm PAULS: ↳ Uncle Michael @1:10 understood!
	🛒 ♥ 1:12pm doctorjazz: ↳ Uncle Michael @1:09 Here it is: www.vbt.com...
	♥ 1:13pm Uncle Michael: ↳ doctorjazz @1:12 thanks
	🛒 ♥ 1:14pm doctorjazz: Having a really hard time posting, so slow...
	🛒 ♥ 1:15pm doctorjazz: ↳ Uncle Michael @1:10 Those sound great as well (but been to both of them not that long ago, but not on bicycles).
	🛒 ♥ 1:16pm doctorjazz: Spent a little time in Copenhagen last summer (shudda been more, long, sad story). More bicycles on the road than cars, was amazing to see)
	🛒 ♥ 1:17pm adamdoesit: ↳ doctorjazz @1:16 The way it oughta be.
	♥ 1:18pm Uncle Michael: I'd have to do the sort of trip where bringing my own bike is the norm, not a special accommodation. Haven't found the right company.
	1:18pm dan: ↳ Song: "Declaration Of Independence" by "The Insect Trust" A mix between Neil Young and Schoolhouse Rock.
	1:19pm still b/p: ↳ doctorjazz @1:16 Until we get to those kinds of numbers/ratios in the US, bikers will be in danger and motor vehicle drivers will be impatient and gripey.
	🛒 ♥ 1:22pm doctorjazz: ↳ dan @1:18 On the Vietnam trip, a biking couple from California brought their clipless pedals, which the guides put on their VBT bikes, but that was the closest I've seen (I've done these tours in the US, Vermont, where you brought your own bike, also Canada, though that was a loooooong time ago).
	♥ 1:26pm Roberto: Traumatizing vulnerable communities is what makes me patriotic. Oh wait, that's Republicans.
	♥ 1:27pm Roberto: Some bastards are fine people. How about "not let the scumbags win"?
	🛒 ♥ 1:27pm (Mr) Bill: Hear, hear! UM, you sound great from your streaming soapbox.
	♥ 1:29pm Roberto: ↳ Roberto @1:27 I also don't like the term "spineless" to refer to morally weak people. Many species that are literally spineless are beneficial to our survival.
	♥ 1:30pm Roberto: ↳ Roberto @1:29 "Vertebraelly challenged"
	🛒 ♥ 1:31pm doctorjazz: Ok, will have to catch the archives, Echo Lake Park awaits! Thanks UM, great weekend all!
	🛒 ♥ 1:32pm (Mr) Bill: Criticizing, opposing, and resisting the government when it violates the Constitution and the law is what makes me patriotic. Aren't I something? (Why is it "Aren't I," not "Am't I"? We say, "Am I not something?," not "Are I not something?")
	🛒 ♥ 1:34pm StringOFperils: You can say amn't I if you like. Only a matter of time 'til it's correct.
	🛒 ♥ 1:37pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ StringOFperils @1:34 Thanks for responding, and for correcting my misspelling of "Amn't" without saying so.
	🛒 ♥ 1:38pm chresti: I'm mad as hell and I amn't gonna take it anymore
	🛒 ♥ 1:38pm StringOFperils: Ha ha ha
	1:39pm dan: ↳ Song: "Declaration of Independence" by "We The People" The opening sounded like Frank Zappa's "Dirty Love" for a second.
	♥ 1:39pm Uncle Michael: I'm mad as hell and I'mn't gonna take it anymore
	🛒 ♥ 1:39pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ chresti @1:38 Too bad Paddy Chavesky didn't think of this version when he wrote the "Network" screenplay.
	♥ 1:39pm Roberto: Amn't I?
	🛒 ♥ 1:40pm StringOFperils: And In Memory of Elizabeth Reed for a second second. Anyone else?
	🛒 ♥ 1:40pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ Uncle Michael @1:39 You made me laugh. Out loud. Unthinkable just two minutes ago.
	♥ 1:42pm Roberto: Or, as the Weatherman says during every Hour of Crap broadcast: "you may haven't asked for it"
	♥ 1:43pm Stork: Yo Unky M with the Hinks and the Dinks! BOOyah!
	1:44pm dan: ↳ (Mr) Bill @1:39 Best movie ever in my book
	♥ 1:44pm Uncle Michael: Shtork!
	🛒 ♥ 1:46pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ Song: "Fourth of July" by "Dave Alvin" I was waiting for this. A truly sad indictment of this insufferable holiday.
	1:47pm Sufferwords: Lena Horne Still Sings Stormy Weather- Thelonious Monster- fave political song
	1:50pm Parq, who doesn't have a sign-in link: Well, that explains it, I guess. Digging the show, UM.
	🛒 ♥ 1:50pm WR: Hope the IT team gets to take a break with refreshments of their preference.
	♥ 1:52pm Uncle Michael: Sufferwords!
	♥ 1:52pm Uncle Michael: Parq!
	1:52pm dan: ↳ Song: "yes, please" by "Uncle Michael" I think I know who the artist you saw in concert was, but I'll keep quiet so it's not to spoil the surprise.
	🛒 ♥ 1:53pm chresti: ↳ Parq, who doesn't have a sign-in link @1:50 freeform.wfmu.org...
	♥ 1:54pm Roberto: ↳ Song: "Freelance Fireworks Hall Of Fame" by "Rhett & Link" My daughter follows R&T!
	🛒 ♥ 1:55pm KevinfromBayRidge: Happy(as we can be) 4th Hinky Dinkyland. Finally got on the comments.
	♥ 1:56pm Roberto: ↳ Roberto @1:54 *Rhett & Tink
	♥ 1:58pm Uncle Michael: Kevin!
	1:59pm dan: ↳ Song: "Indoor Fireworks (Solo Demo)" by "Elvis Costello" Just as I suspected, you saw Elvis Costello. Thank you Setlist Wiki
	🛒 ♥ 2:00pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ dan @1:44 It is way up there, for sure.
	2:01pm Parq, who doesn't have a sign-in link: ↳ chresti @1:53 That's exactly where I am. I've tried reloading three times, and even cold-booted the laptop. What can I say? It also takes three minutes for these comments to load.
	🛒 ♥ 2:03pm chresti: ↳ Song: "Freelance Fireworks Hall Of Fame" by "Rhett & Link" Pismo Beach was the place for firecracker injuries on the fourth 0f July, when we lived in Santa Maria, ca.
	2:04pm dan: ↳ Song: "Kiss Me, Miss Liberty" by "John Wesley Harding" And this guy sounds like a mix between Elvis Costello and Cat Stevens.
	2:08pm Doo Da: still at it
	2:09pm still b/p: ↳ Song: "Firework (Katie Perry cover)" by "Puddles Pity Pa... Puddles did a residency at Caesar's Palace in Vegas.
	♥ 2:10pm Uncle Michael: ↳ still b/p @2:09 Yep.
	🛒 ♥ 2:11pm PAULS: ↳ Song: "Fireworks On TV" by "Bill Janovitz And Crown Vict... Your old friend Bill the Biographer! I was not familiar with this incarnation but my ears were like "I know this voice... "
	🛒 ♥ 2:12pm chresti: ↳ Parq, who doesn't have a sign-in link @2:01 You don't see a sign-in link at the top of the page?
	🛒 ♥ 2:13pm StringOFperils: Guitar bass drums going nuts
	🛒 ♥ 2:14pm adamdoesit: ↳ Song: "God Bless America for What" by "Swamp Dogg" Swamp Dogg 4eva. His new cookbook is out: "If You Can Kill It, I Can Cook It"
	2:14pm Doo Da: recorded a listener ID. Did not know how to end the message. I jus hung up after waiting awhile
	🛒 ♥ 2:15pm PAULS: ↳ Song: "God Bless America for What" by "Swamp Dogg" Dear lord this documentary was simply amazing.
	🛒 ♥ 2:15pm StringOFperils: Now I need to hear Jackie Wilson's Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher and Higher
	🛒 ♥ 2:15pm PAULS: ↳ PAULS @2:15 trailer www.youtube.com...
	♥ 2:15pm Roberto: ↳ Song: "God Bless America for What" by "Swamp Dogg" Swamp for prez!
	♥ 2:15pm Uncle Michael: ↳ Doo Da @2:14 thank you!
	🛒 ♥ 2:16pm StringOFperils: ↳ Roberto @2:15 Rat on!
	🛒 ♥ 2:16pm adamdoesit: ↳ PAULS @2:15 Whoa
	2:16pm Doo Da: Is Swamp Dogg Snoop's dad?
	2:17pm inn ⚙️ knee toe: “Love, that’s America” by Melvin van Peebles (‘watermelon man’ soundtrack) ! 👏= Swamp Dogg.
	♥ 2:17pm Uncle Michael: ↳ Doo Da @2:16 uhhh...figuratively speaking?
	🛒 ♥ 2:17pm PAULS: ↳ adamdoesit @2:16 you gotta gotta see it! so good
	♥ 2:18pm Uncle Michael: SD was here in Lawrence for a screening that I had to miss.
	♥ 2:18pm Roberto: Swamp always makes me think of my dear departed father-in-law, who was a huge fan of his.
	🛒 ♥ 2:19pm adamdoesit: ↳ PAULS @2:17 thanks dogg
	🛒 ♥ 2:19pm PAULS: ↳ Uncle Michael @2:18 I too missed the one he and his daughter and the director attended and did q&a here in Austin
	🛒 ♥ 2:20pm chresti: ↳ Parq, who doesn't have a sign-in link @2:01 wfmu.org...
	2:20pm dan: ↳ Song: "Living In America" by "James Brown" I wonder if James Brown ever suffered from a hernia.
	🛒 ♥ 2:21pm PAULS: ↳ PAULS @2:19 A friend was there and said they were hilarious, just riffing woof adamdoesit!
	2:35pm dan: ↳ Song: "I Am a Patriot" by "Little Steven" Looking this record up, Dino Danelli of The Rascals on drums. Going from Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich jazz beats to reggae. That's a wide breadth of musicality.
	♥ 2:37pm Uncle Michael: I saw L.S. live on the Voice of America tour with Dino in the band as well as Jean Beauvoir from the Plasmatics.
	2:37pm dan: ↳ Song: "American Tune" by "Allen Toussaint & Elvis Costello" When I saw Tommy Emmanuel in concert, this and Waltzing Matilda in a medley was the encore finale.
	2:38pm dan: ↳ Uncle Michael @2:37 I got to see Dino on stage in the Rascals reunion at Jones Beach.
	2:42pm dan: US Blues needs to be next
	2:44pm still b/p: Doug's gif of conductor catching the detached upflung mallet head reminded me of a movie number (I'll Take Tallulah, '42) I almost recommended, of Eleanor Powell and a crowd and a band around a pool, with Buddy Rich on drums, and there's a couple drumstick bounce and toss and catch moments between Buddy and Eleanor. All that's to say Buddy Rich, mentioned in HD comments, has visited my July 4th twice today. What does this mean?
	2:45pm dan: ↳ dan @2:42 Am I good or what?
	♥ 2:46pm Uncle Michael: ↳ still b/p @2:44 It means potrzebie.
	♥ 2:47pm Uncle Michael: ↳ dan @2:45 Career batting average well below the Mendoza line.
	🛒 ♥ 2:47pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ Song: "U.S. Blues" by "Grateful Dead" This is more like it. Acerbic and cynical. Not really in the Dead's wheelhouse, but what ever.
	♥ 2:48pm Uncle Michael: ↳ Franco Twinkie @2:47 It was this or Ship of Fools. I felt like dancing.
	🛒 ♥ 2:49pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ Uncle Michael @2:48 You made the right choice, both musically and in terms of the calendar.
	🛒 ♥ 2:53pm WR: ↳ still b/p @2:44 I watched that last night during my once a month doom scrolling of my instagram feed. Quite a dance routine, entertaining, watched it a few times. I wonder how many takes it took, not retakes, but how many different setups for cameras and segments of the routine.
	2:53pm KWilde: This tune sounds familiar
	2:55pm Webhamster Henry: Still at the beach - i was timing my sunning turnovers by mic breaks.
	🛒 ♥ 2:56pm WR: ↳ KWilde @2:53 Kris Holmes used it as the Long Way Home on the drummer stream opening theme when Trump was elected the first time.
	♥ 2:56pm Doug Schulkind: Thanks, Uncle M. That was fun!
	🛒 ♥ 2:57pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ Uncle Michael @2:48 Forty nine years ago today, when payphones were the standard means of communication, two of my roommates and I drove to drove from Santa Cruz to San Francisco on the rumor that The Dead were going to do a free concert in Golden Gate Park. When he got there, a bunch of hapless people were walking in circles in the fog. We went to the aquarium then back to 'Cruz. Nothing else to do but go to the beach and get stoned.
	♥ 2:57pm Roberto: Have a libertous 4th, everyone!
	♥ 2:57pm spodiodi: Thanks, UM
	2:58pm Listener Scott: Aw, it's over already? Great show, thanks UM.
	2:58pm still b/p: ↳ WR @2:53 Busy busy number. I did wonder about rehearsals and REtakes. And, hey, ya can't go wrong with Bert Lahr in a beret!
	🛒 ♥ 2:58pm adamdoesit: Thanks UM.
	🛒 ♥ 2:59pm (Mr) Bill: Thanks for your timely and salubrious musical and sociopolitical avuncularity, UM.
	🛒 ♥ 2:59pm StringOFperils: All God's chillun needs their free dumb. Time for some fresh air.....thanks UM. Enjoy the rest of the day folks.
	🛒 ♥ 3:00pm PAULS: thanks UM!!!
	♥ 3:01pm Uncle Michael: bye everyone!

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
Uncle Michael	Hinky Dinky Time Open
Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band	4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) Alt. Take	prev. unr.	n/a	1973	0:03:13 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Aimee Mann	4th Of July "4th Of July" by "Aimee Mann"	Whatever	Imago	1993	0:08:46 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Little Doug Sahm	A Real American Joe	shellac 10" (b/w Rollin' Rollin')	Sarg	1955	0:12:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tom T. Hall	America the Ugly "America the Ugly" by "Tom T. Hall"	I Witness Life	Mercury	1970	0:14:42 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Funkadelic	America Eats Its Young	America Eats Its Young	Westbound	1972	0:18:11 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
James 'Blood' Ulmer	Are You Glad to Be in America?	Are You Glad to Be in America?	Rough Trade	1980	0:24:55 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Uncle Michael	yes, please "yes, please" by "Uncle Michael"	unreleased	HDT	2022	0:28:30 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Boston	Star Spangled Banner/4th of July Reprise	The Star-Spangled Banner / 4th Of July Reprise	self-released	1994	0:32:20 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Nick Lowe	American Squirm "American Squirm" by "Nick Lowe"	single (b/w Nick Lowe And His Sound–What's So Funny, 'Bout (Peace, Love And Understanding))	Radar	1978	0:34:37 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Elliott Smith	Independence Day "Independence Day" by "Elliott Smith"	XO	Bong Load	1998	0:37:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Motorhead	Stone Deaf In The USA "Stone Deaf In The USA" by "Motorhead"	Rock'N' Roll	GWR	1987	0:39:57 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Albert Brooks	Phone Call to Americans	A Star Is Bought	Asylum	1975	0:44:34 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bob & Ray	July 4, 1975 Parade - Wally Ballew & Artie Schermerhorn	WOR-AM 1975 Tape 5	WOR	1975	0:48:45 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Paul Thorn	Mission Temple Fireworks Stand	Mission Temple Fireworks Stand	Back Porch	2002	0:51:45 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Uncle Michael	yes, please "yes, please" by "Uncle Michael"	unreleased	HDT	2022	1:00:55 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Pete Droge	Fourth Of July "Fourth Of July" by "Pete Droge"	Necktie Second	American Recordings	1994	0:57:53 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Count Five	Declaration Of Independence	single (b-side to Revelation In Slow Motion)	Double Shot	1968	1:03:43 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Galaxie 500	Fourth of July "Fourth of July" by "Galaxie 500"	single (b/w Here She Comes Now)	Rough Trade	1990	1:06:07 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Paul Kantner (feat. China)	Declaration Of Independence	The Planet Earth Rock And Roll Orchestra	RCA	1983	1:11:37 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Wings	4th of July "4th of July" by "Wings"	Venus and Mars (bonus track)	Capitol	1975	1:13:12 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Insect Trust	Declaration Of Independence	The Insect Trust	Capitol	1968	1:16:54 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Fatso Bently	Fourth Of July Boogie	shellac 10" (b-side to June-Teenth Jamboree)	Swing Time	1953	1:19:19 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Uncle Michael	yes, please "yes, please" by "Uncle Michael"	unreleased	HDT	2022	1:22:17 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Georgia Yellow Hammers	Fourth of July At a Country Fair	shellac 10" (b/w Going To Ride That Midnight Train)	Victor	1927	1:27:27 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Lol Creme/Kevin Godley	Fireworks "Fireworks" by "Lol Creme/Kevin Godley"	Consequences	Mercury	1977	1:30:06 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Joe Byrd and the Field Hippies	Mister 4th Of July	The American Metaphysical Circus	Columbia Masterworks	1969	1:31:01 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Exterminators	Declaration Of Independence '65	single (b-side to Voo-Doo)	Quill	1965	1:32:41 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Roy Eldridge	Fireworks "Fireworks" by "Roy Eldridge"	Roy Eldridge And His "Little Jazz"	Vogue	1951	1:35:09 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
We The People	Declaration of Independence	St. John's Shop (EP)	London	1967	1:37:58 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Louis Armstrong	Fireworks "Fireworks" by "Louis Armstrong"	shellac 10" (b-side to West End Blues)	Okeh	1928	1:40:13 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Dave Alvin	Fourth of July "Fourth of July" by "Dave Alvin"	Romeo's Escape	Epic	1987	1:43:13 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Uncle Michael	yes, please "yes, please" by "Uncle Michael"	unreleased	HDT	2022	1:47:01 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Rhett & Link	Freelance Fireworks Hall Of Fame	Websongs, Vol.1	Self-released	2006	1:51:34 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Shel Silverstein	June 25 At The Fourth Of July	The Great Conch Train Robbery	Flying Fish	1980	1:54:53 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Elvis Costello	Indoor Fireworks (Solo Demo)	King Of America (Bonus Track)	F-Beat	1986	1:57:18 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
John Wesley Harding	Kiss Me, Miss Liberty	New Deal	Forward	1996	2:01:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Puddles Pity Party	Firework (Katie Perry cover)	(It's on the Internet)	Self-Released	2017	2:05:27 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bill Janovitz And Crown Victoria	Fireworks On TV	Fireworks On TV!	Q Division	2004	2:09:22 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Swamp Dogg	God Bless America for What	Rat On!	Elektra	1971	2:13:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
James Brown	Living In America "Living In America" by "James Brown"	12" single (b/w Vince DiCola– Farewell)	Scotti Bros.	1985	2:19:14 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Uncle Michael	yes, please "yes, please" by "Uncle Michael"	unreleased	HDT	2022	2:23:55 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

The Impressions	This Is My Country	This Is My Country	Curtom	1968	2:29:59 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Little Steven	I Am a Patriot "I Am a Patriot" by "Little Steven"	Voice Of America	EMI America	1984	2:32:28 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Allen Toussaint & Elvis Costello	American Tune	Hommage À/ Tribute To Paul Simon	Du Rêve... Et Des Disques	2006	2:35:47 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Persuasions	Liberty "Liberty" by "The Persuasions"	Might As Well: The Persuasions Sing Grateful Dead	Grateful Dead	2000	2:39:38 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Grateful Dead	U.S. Blues "U.S. Blues" by "Grateful Dead"	From The Mars Hotel	Grateful Dead	1974	2:44:49 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
MC5	The American Ruse "The American Ruse" by "MC5"	Back In The USA	Atlantic	1970	2:49:23 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Honeydrippers	Impeach The President	single (b/w Roy C.'s Theme Song)	Alaga	1973	2:51:49 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Lou Gehrig	Farewell Speech: July 4, 1939	prev. unr.	n/a	1939	2:55:01 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mandy Miller	Nellie The Elephant "Nellie The Elephant" by "Mandy Miller"	shellac 10" (b/w It's Time To Dream)	Parlophone	1956	2:55:23 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Fleetwood Mac	Albatross "Albatross" by "Fleetwood Mac"	single (b/w Jigsaw Puzzle Blues)	Blue Horizon	1968	2:57:41 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	♥ 7/2 7:57pm Uncle Michael: Hinky Dinky Time has a new phone number since Skype is shutting down. Please disregard the old number where you see it on old playlists. The new number is (785) 251-3397‬. I'm soliciting fresh show IDs. If you'd like to record one, please use the new number. The format is "This is [listener name] and you're listening to Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio", or you can be creative and write your own. I may gently edit some submissions. Thanks!
	🛒 ♥ 11:38am A.J. MACHETE: Loading the page for one-click access after Doug's show.
	11:54am DOO: Looking at your front yard
	11:55am DOO: posts are working today
	♥ 11:56am Uncle Michael: Hey, Pop.
	11:59am DOO: volume is low on purpose?
	12:00pm dan: Saturday In The Park, I think it was the Fourth of July.
	♥ 12:01pm coelacanth∅: 'morning Uncle M and dinklers
	♥ 12:04pm Uncle Michael: dan! coel!
	🛒 ♥ 12:04pm listener james from westwood: Good Friday, UM and all firecrackers!
	🛒 ♥ 12:05pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ Song: "4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) Alt. Take" by "B... Fabulous first cut, Unk M.
	12:05pm dan: I saw an amazing documentary about the piano player Nicky Hopkins. I had no idea of the recordings he played on like Jefferson Airplane's "Volunteers" and "Wooden Ships".
	♥ 12:06pm Uncle Michael: james! Bill!
	12:07pm dan: The next song needs to be Tom Waits' "Jersey Girl"
	12:07pm Webhamster Henry: Speaking of sandy, Im at Kingston point beach on the Hudson River.
	🛒 ♥ 12:07pm WR: ↳ dan @12:05 long time appreciator of Nicky Hopkins rock piano contributions. I'll look for that doc, thanks for mentioning it.
	♥ 12:07pm Listener Robert: I feel at home now with that vid feed because my friend got 2 disassembled multi-speed bikes that he salvaged into my car to take here and get fixed...eventually.
	♥ 12:07pm Uncle Michael: ↳ dan @12:07 No, it really doesn't.
	♥ 12:07pm Rich in Washington: Howdy, UM!
	♥ 12:08pm Uncle Michael: Henry! WR! Robert! Rich!
	12:10pm dan: ↳ Song: "4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) Alt. Take" by "B... Ironically, I just posed on the I Hate Bruce Springsteen page on Facebook a clip of Meat Loaf singing Two Out of Three Ain't Bad. According to Todd Rundgren, Meat Loaf's "Bat Out of Hell" was the anti-Springsteen, even though Roy Bittan and Max Weinberg from the E Street Band were on the record.
	🛒 ♥ 12:10pm StringOFperils: Hey UM and all! Huffing the intoxicating fumes at this illusory safe distance today. *Actually think this bulls-eye on me makes me look kinda Mod.
	♥ 12:11pm Uncle Michael: SOp!
	🛒 ♥ 12:13pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ Song: "A Real American Joe" by "Little Doug Sahm" Sir Douglas as a young lad! I had not known.
	12:13pm DOO: little Doug sounds like P to me
	12:14pm Kat in the chat: Little Doug Sahm hitherto unknown to me as well
	🛒 ♥ 12:14pm StringOFperils: ↳ (Mr) Bill @12:13 Nor did I. Amazing....sounds like Little Jimmy Dickens.
	♥ 12:16pm Uncle Michael: Kat!
	12:17pm DOO: your selections have gone country ever since we went to Nashville
	12:17pm still b/p: ↳ dan @12:10 I've wondered about the relative small amount of Springsteen hate I've ever encountered, because I was sure more was out there, and because the size and endurance of his success would be enough to fuel hostility. Can you give a few bullet points on Reasons for Bruce Hate? I'm not distinctly a fan, but certainly not a hater or dismisser. And...I'm not on Facebook.
	♥ 12:17pm Uncle Michael: ↳ DOO @12:17 ya think?
	🛒 ♥ 12:17pm dutchtheo: Bonjour uncle and comfort shoppers. Tomorrow is the "Jour de Fête"
	♥ 12:18pm Uncle Michael: ↳ still b/p @12:17 Oh, hell...please, no.
	♥ 12:18pm Uncle Michael: Theo!
	🛒 ♥ 12:18pm Jeff Golick: Can I kick it?
	♥ 12:19pm Uncle Michael: Jeff! Count us off.
	12:19pm still b/p: I withdraw the question, your honor.
	🛒 ♥ 12:20pm Asheville Jon: howdy UM and everyone else
	♥ 12:20pm Uncle Michael: ↳ still b/p @12:19 Thank you. Answers will be removed.
	♥ 12:20pm Uncle Michael: Jon!
	🛒 ♥ 12:20pm StringOFperils: ↳ still b/p @12:17 Surely you can manage hate all on your own. Everyone else is! *But basically, if you get successful or happy, you'll get hated.
	🛒 ♥ 12:20pm Jeff Golick: "Unos, dos, tres, catorce!"
	♥ 12:21pm Uncle Michael: I wasn't kidding, dan.
	♥ 12:22pm Roberto: Twitch FTW!
	♥ 12:22pm Uncle Michael: Roberto!
	♥ 12:22pm Roberto: The faithful have found ways around the technical issues.
	🛒 ♥ 12:24pm StringOFperils: Yeah! JBU!! Nice.
	🛒 ♥ 12:24pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ Song: "America Eats Its Young" by "Funkadelic" I'm upper-middle-class White, and it makes me wanna holler. This IS America.
	♥ 12:25pm coelacanth∅: i'm experiencing no technical issues with wfmu, except yesterday i couldn't post a comment until after closing and reopening firefux. i can't relate.
	🛒 ♥ 12:25pm DjLorraine: Hey my friends. UM u went to 2 field day events for ARRL! No ham radio yet.
	🛒 ♥ 12:25pm DjLorraine: I
	♥ 12:25pm Uncle Michael: DJL! That's cool. Are you learning stuff and liking it?
	♥ 12:27pm Roberto: ↳ Song: "Are You Glad to Be in America?" by "James 'Blood'... Let me get back to you on that.
	🛒 ♥ 12:29pm Asheville Jon: i'm not glad. just went for a nice long ride, strava didn't record over half of it.
	12:29pm dan: Another documentary I recommend besides the Nicky Hopkins one is "Family Band: The Cowsills Story". Another great portrait of a group that should have been bigger.
	♥ 12:30pm Roberto: Not just its young.
	♥ 12:31pm Roberto: America would be great if it didn't suck. I blame the stupid people.
	♥ 12:33pm Uncle Michael: ↳ Asheville Jon @12:29 ouch!
	♥ 12:33pm Roberto: ↳ Roberto @12:31 Emphasis on the "stu" in that last post.
	🛒 ♥ 12:34pm PAULS: Hey UM and everyone, enjoy the D/O and careful wit da fireworks!!
	♥ 12:34pm coelacanth∅: the one good thing about fireworks is that they're more likely to take out dumbass maga mofos than intelligent, less selfish people.
	🛒 ♥ 12:35pm PAULS: ↳ coelacanth∅ @12:34 Excellent point, coel ☝️🤓
	12:37pm dan: ↳ Song: "American Squirm" by "Nick Lowe" The 1970s version of "I Kissed A Girl, And I Liked It"
	🛒 ♥ 12:37pm Asheville Jon: ↳ Uncle Michael @12:33 yeah, i'm pretty p!ssed, you might notice on the strava club post
	♥ 12:38pm Uncle Michael: PAULS!
	🛒 ♥ 12:38pm doctorjazz: Missed a cool set...😓 Hi UM, Hinks and Dinks!
	12:39pm still b/p: Woman in small town in Maine keeps horses. Fireworks from neighbor's annual private show terrify and endanger horses. She went the petition and ordinance route to prohibit fireworks within certain distance of livestock, and succeeded. Mr. Pyropants is going the same route with repeal effort.
	♥ 12:39pm Uncle Michael: Doc! More cool sets to come. I promise.
	🛒 ♥ 12:39pm DjLorraine: ↳ Uncle Michael @12:25 Yes. I saw antennas, cables for those with hoa s, satelite towers. I met 2 different teachers. I was a dj and a singer, and PBX operator in the 80's but im trying to get my voice confident again. Passing a test will be easier than the cognitive and hands on stuff
	🛒 ♥ 12:40pm adamdoesit: Hi Uncle Michael and hinky-dinky shoppers. Happy Grand Départ weekend and uh have an icey lager for Concentration Camp Day?
	♥ 12:41pm Uncle Michael: adam!
	12:41pm dan: I'm all for fireworks on the Fourth of July and at special events, but not when I'm trying to sleep at 1am like what happened earlier today. Some people are just inconsiderate and play by their own rules.
	12:41pm johnk77: possibly now able to comment after switching browsers key move pasting this show url https://freeform.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/153736
	♥ 12:41pm Uncle Michael: ↳ DjLorraine @12:39 Keep us posted. It sounds interesting, and personally challenging.
	♥ 12:42pm Uncle Michael: john!
	🛒 ♥ 12:43pm doctorjazz: My town likes to beat the rush, did the fireworks Wednesday night (does set off a panic in our poor pooches, though...)
	🛒 ♥ 12:43pm Asheville Jon: ↳ Song: "Stone Deaf In The USA" by "Motorhead" this is great to help drown my frustration right now (along with the coffee and chocolate i am downing)
	12:44pm johnk77: on point selecting today doug sahm moved to the bay area met jerry garcia thru dan healy got brian rohan as his lawyer later moved back to san antone and then austin
	🛒 ♥ 12:49pm adamdoesit: ↳ Song: "July 4, 1975 Parade - Wally Ballew & Artie Scherm... -eyed Wally Ballou!
	🛒 ♥ 12:49pm adamdoesit: ↳ adamdoesit @12:49 *Ballew.
	🛒 ♥ 12:51pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ Song: "July 4, 1975 Parade - Wally Ballew & Artie Scherm... Oh my Bob and Ray!
	🛒 ♥ 12:52pm Franco Twinkie: Hey Michael.
	♥ 12:53pm Uncle Michael: Franco!
	🛒 ♥ 12:54pm StringOFperils: Fireworks seem anti-climactic after watching the Iron Dome cross-hatching the sky every day at 3 seconds to final midnight. Maybe it's just me.
	🛒 ♥ 12:55pm adamdoesit: ↳ StringOFperils @12:54 O say can you see, SOp.
	🛒 ♥ 12:58pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ StringOFperils @12:54 My sister and I went in circles yesterday about the fireworks in her neighborhood(full on assault) Potato salad be damned, Chresti and I decided to stay home.
	♥ 12:59pm Roberto: ↳ Song: "July 4, 1975 Parade - Wally Ballew & Artie Scherm... Bob's son and granddaughter keeping his legacy alive.
	🛒 ♥ 12:59pm (Mr) Bill: New to me. I love this type of waltz.
	♥ 1:00pm Uncle Michael: ↳ Roberto @12:59 I know nothing of the granddaughter.
	🛒 ♥ 1:00pm adamdoesit: Dear Bikey Dinky Time: I'm fixating on building up a gravel bike with rim brakes, a second copy of a frame I already have, and obsolete Shimano 10-speed bits. This seems backwards in several ways. Please talk me out of it.
	1:01pm KWilde: Happy Holiday
	♥ 1:01pm Uncle Michael: ↳ adamdoesit @1:00 I could.
	♥ 1:02pm Uncle Michael: KWilde!
	🛒 ♥ 1:03pm doctorjazz: Will be going out biking in a bit (building up to a bike tour in Sweden in about a month, have gotten out of biking shape, concentrating more on core strength for my back these days...)
	♥ 1:05pm Uncle Michael: ↳ doctorjazz @1:03 I wanna know about the Swedish trip!
	🛒 ♥ 1:06pm PAULS: ↳ Uncle Michael @1:00 One of Bob's granddaughters is is Abby Elliott -- currently plays Carmy's sister Sugar on The Bear, if you've seen any of that.
	♥ 1:06pm spodiodi: Greetings, UM and all
	♥ 1:07pm Uncle Michael: spodi!
	♥ 1:07pm Uncle Michael: ↳ PAULS @1:06 oddly, I have not
	♥ 1:08pm Roberto: ↳ Uncle Michael @1:00 Abby Elliott, former SNL regular.
	🛒 ♥ 1:08pm doctorjazz: ↳ Uncle Michael @1:05 It's a VBT Denmark/Sweden tour-took one of theirs about 7 years ago, Vietnam, had a great time!
	♥ 1:09pm Uncle Michael: ↳ doctorjazz @1:08 got a link?
	1:09pm Kat in the chat: Old favorite Galaxie 500
	🛒 ♥ 1:10pm PAULS: ↳ Uncle Michael @1:07 that IS odd cuz you've got some Chicago in you, correct?
	♥ 1:10pm Uncle Michael: ↳ doctorjazz @1:08 I'd like to do Belgium and the Netherlands.
	♥ 1:10pm Uncle Michael: ↳ PAULS @1:10 I suffer from popularity aversion syndrome.
	🛒 ♥ 1:11pm StringOFperils: ↳ PAULS @1:06 Did not know that. So wrapped up in the food porn.
	🛒 ♥ 1:11pm PAULS: ↳ Uncle Michael @1:10 understood!
	🛒 ♥ 1:12pm doctorjazz: ↳ Uncle Michael @1:09 Here it is: www.vbt.com...
	♥ 1:13pm Uncle Michael: ↳ doctorjazz @1:12 thanks
	🛒 ♥ 1:14pm doctorjazz: Having a really hard time posting, so slow...
	🛒 ♥ 1:15pm doctorjazz: ↳ Uncle Michael @1:10 Those sound great as well (but been to both of them not that long ago, but not on bicycles).
	🛒 ♥ 1:16pm doctorjazz: Spent a little time in Copenhagen last summer (shudda been more, long, sad story). More bicycles on the road than cars, was amazing to see)
	🛒 ♥ 1:17pm adamdoesit: ↳ doctorjazz @1:16 The way it oughta be.
	♥ 1:18pm Uncle Michael: I'd have to do the sort of trip where bringing my own bike is the norm, not a special accommodation. Haven't found the right company.
	1:18pm dan: ↳ Song: "Declaration Of Independence" by "The Insect Trust" A mix between Neil Young and Schoolhouse Rock.
	1:19pm still b/p: ↳ doctorjazz @1:16 Until we get to those kinds of numbers/ratios in the US, bikers will be in danger and motor vehicle drivers will be impatient and gripey.
	🛒 ♥ 1:22pm doctorjazz: ↳ dan @1:18 On the Vietnam trip, a biking couple from California brought their clipless pedals, which the guides put on their VBT bikes, but that was the closest I've seen (I've done these tours in the US, Vermont, where you brought your own bike, also Canada, though that was a loooooong time ago).
	♥ 1:26pm Roberto: Traumatizing vulnerable communities is what makes me patriotic. Oh wait, that's Republicans.
	♥ 1:27pm Roberto: Some bastards are fine people. How about "not let the scumbags win"?
	🛒 ♥ 1:27pm (Mr) Bill: Hear, hear! UM, you sound great from your streaming soapbox.
	♥ 1:29pm Roberto: ↳ Roberto @1:27 I also don't like the term "spineless" to refer to morally weak people. Many species that are literally spineless are beneficial to our survival.
	♥ 1:30pm Roberto: ↳ Roberto @1:29 "Vertebraelly challenged"
	🛒 ♥ 1:31pm doctorjazz: Ok, will have to catch the archives, Echo Lake Park awaits! Thanks UM, great weekend all!
	🛒 ♥ 1:32pm (Mr) Bill: Criticizing, opposing, and resisting the government when it violates the Constitution and the law is what makes me patriotic. Aren't I something? (Why is it "Aren't I," not "Am't I"? We say, "Am I not something?," not "Are I not something?")
	🛒 ♥ 1:34pm StringOFperils: You can say amn't I if you like. Only a matter of time 'til it's correct.
	🛒 ♥ 1:37pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ StringOFperils @1:34 Thanks for responding, and for correcting my misspelling of "Amn't" without saying so.
	🛒 ♥ 1:38pm chresti: I'm mad as hell and I amn't gonna take it anymore
	🛒 ♥ 1:38pm StringOFperils: Ha ha ha
	1:39pm dan: ↳ Song: "Declaration of Independence" by "We The People" The opening sounded like Frank Zappa's "Dirty Love" for a second.
	♥ 1:39pm Uncle Michael: I'm mad as hell and I'mn't gonna take it anymore
	🛒 ♥ 1:39pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ chresti @1:38 Too bad Paddy Chavesky didn't think of this version when he wrote the "Network" screenplay.
	♥ 1:39pm Roberto: Amn't I?
	🛒 ♥ 1:40pm StringOFperils: And In Memory of Elizabeth Reed for a second second. Anyone else?
	🛒 ♥ 1:40pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ Uncle Michael @1:39 You made me laugh. Out loud. Unthinkable just two minutes ago.
	♥ 1:42pm Roberto: Or, as the Weatherman says during every Hour of Crap broadcast: "you may haven't asked for it"
	♥ 1:43pm Stork: Yo Unky M with the Hinks and the Dinks! BOOyah!
	1:44pm dan: ↳ (Mr) Bill @1:39 Best movie ever in my book
	♥ 1:44pm Uncle Michael: Shtork!
	🛒 ♥ 1:46pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ Song: "Fourth of July" by "Dave Alvin" I was waiting for this. A truly sad indictment of this insufferable holiday.
	1:47pm Sufferwords: Lena Horne Still Sings Stormy Weather- Thelonious Monster- fave political song
	1:50pm Parq, who doesn't have a sign-in link: Well, that explains it, I guess. Digging the show, UM.
	🛒 ♥ 1:50pm WR: Hope the IT team gets to take a break with refreshments of their preference.
	♥ 1:52pm Uncle Michael: Sufferwords!
	♥ 1:52pm Uncle Michael: Parq!
	1:52pm dan: ↳ Song: "yes, please" by "Uncle Michael" I think I know who the artist you saw in concert was, but I'll keep quiet so it's not to spoil the surprise.
	🛒 ♥ 1:53pm chresti: ↳ Parq, who doesn't have a sign-in link @1:50 freeform.wfmu.org...
	♥ 1:54pm Roberto: ↳ Song: "Freelance Fireworks Hall Of Fame" by "Rhett & Link" My daughter follows R&T!
	🛒 ♥ 1:55pm KevinfromBayRidge: Happy(as we can be) 4th Hinky Dinkyland. Finally got on the comments.
	♥ 1:56pm Roberto: ↳ Roberto @1:54 *Rhett & Tink
	♥ 1:58pm Uncle Michael: Kevin!
	1:59pm dan: ↳ Song: "Indoor Fireworks (Solo Demo)" by "Elvis Costello" Just as I suspected, you saw Elvis Costello. Thank you Setlist Wiki
	🛒 ♥ 2:00pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ dan @1:44 It is way up there, for sure.
	2:01pm Parq, who doesn't have a sign-in link: ↳ chresti @1:53 That's exactly where I am. I've tried reloading three times, and even cold-booted the laptop. What can I say? It also takes three minutes for these comments to load.
	🛒 ♥ 2:03pm chresti: ↳ Song: "Freelance Fireworks Hall Of Fame" by "Rhett & Link" Pismo Beach was the place for firecracker injuries on the fourth 0f July, when we lived in Santa Maria, ca.
	2:04pm dan: ↳ Song: "Kiss Me, Miss Liberty" by "John Wesley Harding" And this guy sounds like a mix between Elvis Costello and Cat Stevens.
	2:08pm Doo Da: still at it
	2:09pm still b/p: ↳ Song: "Firework (Katie Perry cover)" by "Puddles Pity Pa... Puddles did a residency at Caesar's Palace in Vegas.
	♥ 2:10pm Uncle Michael: ↳ still b/p @2:09 Yep.
	🛒 ♥ 2:11pm PAULS: ↳ Song: "Fireworks On TV" by "Bill Janovitz And Crown Vict... Your old friend Bill the Biographer! I was not familiar with this incarnation but my ears were like "I know this voice... "
	🛒 ♥ 2:12pm chresti: ↳ Parq, who doesn't have a sign-in link @2:01 You don't see a sign-in link at the top of the page?
	🛒 ♥ 2:13pm StringOFperils: Guitar bass drums going nuts
	🛒 ♥ 2:14pm adamdoesit: ↳ Song: "God Bless America for What" by "Swamp Dogg" Swamp Dogg 4eva. His new cookbook is out: "If You Can Kill It, I Can Cook It"
	2:14pm Doo Da: recorded a listener ID. Did not know how to end the message. I jus hung up after waiting awhile
	🛒 ♥ 2:15pm PAULS: ↳ Song: "God Bless America for What" by "Swamp Dogg" Dear lord this documentary was simply amazing.
	🛒 ♥ 2:15pm StringOFperils: Now I need to hear Jackie Wilson's Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher and Higher
	🛒 ♥ 2:15pm PAULS: ↳ PAULS @2:15 trailer www.youtube.com...
	♥ 2:15pm Roberto: ↳ Song: "God Bless America for What" by "Swamp Dogg" Swamp for prez!
	♥ 2:15pm Uncle Michael: ↳ Doo Da @2:14 thank you!
	🛒 ♥ 2:16pm StringOFperils: ↳ Roberto @2:15 Rat on!
	🛒 ♥ 2:16pm adamdoesit: ↳ PAULS @2:15 Whoa
	2:16pm Doo Da: Is Swamp Dogg Snoop's dad?
	2:17pm inn ⚙️ knee toe: “Love, that’s America” by Melvin van Peebles (‘watermelon man’ soundtrack) ! 👏= Swamp Dogg.
	♥ 2:17pm Uncle Michael: ↳ Doo Da @2:16 uhhh...figuratively speaking?
	🛒 ♥ 2:17pm PAULS: ↳ adamdoesit @2:16 you gotta gotta see it! so good
	♥ 2:18pm Uncle Michael: SD was here in Lawrence for a screening that I had to miss.
	♥ 2:18pm Roberto: Swamp always makes me think of my dear departed father-in-law, who was a huge fan of his.
	🛒 ♥ 2:19pm adamdoesit: ↳ PAULS @2:17 thanks dogg
	🛒 ♥ 2:19pm PAULS: ↳ Uncle Michael @2:18 I too missed the one he and his daughter and the director attended and did q&a here in Austin
	🛒 ♥ 2:20pm chresti: ↳ Parq, who doesn't have a sign-in link @2:01 wfmu.org...
	2:20pm dan: ↳ Song: "Living In America" by "James Brown" I wonder if James Brown ever suffered from a hernia.
	🛒 ♥ 2:21pm PAULS: ↳ PAULS @2:19 A friend was there and said they were hilarious, just riffing woof adamdoesit!
	2:35pm dan: ↳ Song: "I Am a Patriot" by "Little Steven" Looking this record up, Dino Danelli of The Rascals on drums. Going from Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich jazz beats to reggae. That's a wide breadth of musicality.
	♥ 2:37pm Uncle Michael: I saw L.S. live on the Voice of America tour with Dino in the band as well as Jean Beauvoir from the Plasmatics.
	2:37pm dan: ↳ Song: "American Tune" by "Allen Toussaint & Elvis Costello" When I saw Tommy Emmanuel in concert, this and Waltzing Matilda in a medley was the encore finale.
	2:38pm dan: ↳ Uncle Michael @2:37 I got to see Dino on stage in the Rascals reunion at Jones Beach.
	2:42pm dan: US Blues needs to be next
	2:44pm still b/p: Doug's gif of conductor catching the detached upflung mallet head reminded me of a movie number (I'll Take Tallulah, '42) I almost recommended, of Eleanor Powell and a crowd and a band around a pool, with Buddy Rich on drums, and there's a couple drumstick bounce and toss and catch moments between Buddy and Eleanor. All that's to say Buddy Rich, mentioned in HD comments, has visited my July 4th twice today. What does this mean?
	2:45pm dan: ↳ dan @2:42 Am I good or what?
	♥ 2:46pm Uncle Michael: ↳ still b/p @2:44 It means potrzebie.
	♥ 2:47pm Uncle Michael: ↳ dan @2:45 Career batting average well below the Mendoza line.
	🛒 ♥ 2:47pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ Song: "U.S. Blues" by "Grateful Dead" This is more like it. Acerbic and cynical. Not really in the Dead's wheelhouse, but what ever.
	♥ 2:48pm Uncle Michael: ↳ Franco Twinkie @2:47 It was this or Ship of Fools. I felt like dancing.
	🛒 ♥ 2:49pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ Uncle Michael @2:48 You made the right choice, both musically and in terms of the calendar.
	🛒 ♥ 2:53pm WR: ↳ still b/p @2:44 I watched that last night during my once a month doom scrolling of my instagram feed. Quite a dance routine, entertaining, watched it a few times. I wonder how many takes it took, not retakes, but how many different setups for cameras and segments of the routine.
	2:53pm KWilde: This tune sounds familiar
	2:55pm Webhamster Henry: Still at the beach - i was timing my sunning turnovers by mic breaks.
	🛒 ♥ 2:56pm WR: ↳ KWilde @2:53 Kris Holmes used it as the Long Way Home on the drummer stream opening theme when Trump was elected the first time.
	♥ 2:56pm Doug Schulkind: Thanks, Uncle M. That was fun!
	🛒 ♥ 2:57pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ Uncle Michael @2:48 Forty nine years ago today, when payphones were the standard means of communication, two of my roommates and I drove to drove from Santa Cruz to San Francisco on the rumor that The Dead were going to do a free concert in Golden Gate Park. When he got there, a bunch of hapless people were walking in circles in the fog. We went to the aquarium then back to 'Cruz. Nothing else to do but go to the beach and get stoned.
	♥ 2:57pm Roberto: Have a libertous 4th, everyone!
	♥ 2:57pm spodiodi: Thanks, UM
	2:58pm Listener Scott: Aw, it's over already? Great show, thanks UM.
	2:58pm still b/p: ↳ WR @2:53 Busy busy number. I did wonder about rehearsals and REtakes. And, hey, ya can't go wrong with Bert Lahr in a beret!
	🛒 ♥ 2:58pm adamdoesit: Thanks UM.
	🛒 ♥ 2:59pm (Mr) Bill: Thanks for your timely and salubrious musical and sociopolitical avuncularity, UM.
	🛒 ♥ 2:59pm StringOFperils: All God's chillun needs their free dumb. Time for some fresh air.....thanks UM. Enjoy the rest of the day folks.
	🛒 ♥ 3:00pm PAULS: thanks UM!!!
	♥ 3:01pm Uncle Michael: bye everyone!

Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael: Playlist from July 4, 2025

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