WFMU: Mona: Playlist from July 4, 2025

Listener comments!
	🥀 ♥ 2:57pm Adi From Sheffield: Hello ibb.co...
	🥀 ♥ 3:01pm Handy Haversack: Mona! Pastoral Monadists!
	3:08pm dana: Happy 4th to all
	3:10pm MosDefMF: Here to hear with my Mona ears.
	🥀 ♥ 3:15pm bixa (𝘣𝘦𝘦-𝘩𝘢): loving the show already mona
	♥ 3:22pm Mark T: Good afternoon all. As we celebrate our independence yet suffer from excess taxation. Lol Hmm, who got the last laugh? 😆
	3:25pm Vrykoluka: Greetings. Listening in this week from Toxotes, Greece. Mona knows no boundaries.
	♥ 3:25pm Hunterian: ↳ Adi From Sheffield @2:57 The Betsy Empire Strikes Back—on Independence Day!
	3:26pm Old Dave: Reminds me of The Hip
	♥ 3:28pm Carmichael: Heya Mona and folks. Can you play some "replacing my Nook battery" music? You know, frustrating but necessary HA HA
	🥀 ♥ 3:28pm Adi From Sheffield: ↳ Hunterian @3:25 Her empire is very small. A handful of people in New Jersey and a sprinkle of folks in South Yorkshire. It's a quality audience though. 😉
	🥀 ♥ 3:29pm Adi From Sheffield: ↳ Song: "Downtown Rockers E-Dub Mix" by "Tom Tom Club" First band I ever saw live.
	♥ 3:30pm Hunterian: ↳ Adi From Sheffield @3:28 I know for a fact that there are Betsy Loyalists in Brooklyn as well!
	3:32pm DjLorraine: I heard there were fires on the mainland of Greece
	🥀 ♥ 3:32pm Adi From Sheffield: ↳ Hunterian @3:30 This pleases me no end 🙏, she's very much a labour of love
	♥ 3:38pm DanFA: Hello Mona. The WFMU homepage is taking me back to 2008/2009 when I first discovered the station.
	3:38pm Vrykoluka: ↳ DjLorraine @3:32 The fires are mainly on the island of Crete, and just south of Athens. I'm in the northeast, near Bulgaria. This is sadly a worsening problem here every year due to global warming exacerbating the conditions in an already hot and dry country.
	♥ 3:45pm Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ Song: "Pass the Dutchie" by "Musical Youth" I don't think I've heard this song since college.
	♥ 3:45pm Carmichael: ↳ Song: "Pass the Dutchie" by "Musical Youth" The dutchie, NOT the kutchie. There are kids listening, for goodness' sake .. 😊
	3:49pm ?: ↳ Carmichael @3:45 doesn't matter
	3:52pm Busbiker: ↳ Song: "Mujer" by "Joe Bataan" Dang, that reminds me of my youth days in east Harlem
	🥀 ♥ 3:52pm Adi From Sheffield: The show this evening makes me feel like I'm in a Speakeasy of some nature.
	🥀 ♥ 3:56pm Doug in MP: RIP to Mark Snow, composer of the X-Files theme variety.com...
	♥ 3:57pm DanFA: ↳ Doug in MP @3:56 Damn.
	4:00pm Saltonstall: Joe Bataan live at Millenium Park- Pritzker Pavillion in Chicago July 21! FREE!!!!!!
	♥ 4:01pm DanFA: Murica!!!
	♥ 4:01pm DanFA: Older version of the website's player is working just fine.
	4:03pm goes211: Sounding GREAT, Mona!!!
	🥀 ♥ 4:05pm bixa (𝘣𝘦𝘦-𝘩𝘢): ↳ Doug in MP @3:56 ):
	🥀 ♥ 4:08pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hi, Mona and Monacretes!
	🥀 ♥ 4:09pm Adi From Sheffield: I quite like the older version of the website its rather charming.
	4:09pm ?: ↳ Doug in MP @3:56 yeah, and Michael Madsen
	🥀 ♥ 4:10pm Adi From Sheffield: ↳ Song: "Trip to Your Heart" by "Sly & the Family Stone" This became one of my favourite sample uses ever 😀
	4:13pm Busbiker: ↳ Song: "Trip to Your Heart" by "Sly & the Family Stone" Always nice to hear where the samples came from…hopefully sly got paid
	4:13pm Dave Miss: Def an inspiration for Mama said Knock you Out
	♥ 4:14pm DanFA: ↳ Dave Miss @4:13 Mona said knock you out
	♥ 4:14pm Carmichael: ↳ Song: "Fight the Power" by "Public Enemy" Nice re-interpretation of a Tareyton cigarette ad
	4:14pm People Like Us: ↳ Dave Miss @4:13 sampled it!
	♥ 4:15pm Carmichael: ↳ Carmichael @4:14 Not Public Enemy, but the speaker before, presumably Malcolm X.
	4:15pm Andres: ↳ Song: "Fight the Power" by "Public Enemy" As powerful as ever!
	🥀 ♥ 4:15pm Doug in MP: I'm digging the old homepage too. Let's pull up the Summer 2010 schedule. Night People was still on! freeform.wfmu.org...
	♥ 4:15pm Hunterian: ↳ Carmichael @4:14 "I'd rather scratch than itch"
	4:18pm Kirsten (not that Kirsten): oh no I did not want to hear that voice 🤣😭 three cheers for comrade mamdani!
	🥀 ♥ 4:19pm bixa (𝘣𝘦𝘦-𝘩𝘢): lol
	4:20pm Liverpool Andrea: Soup Dragons taking me back to my early teens listening to this on an ‘Awesome’ tape comp I bought from Woolworths 🥰
	♥ 4:20pm DanFA: ↳ Doug in MP @4:15 That takes me back.
	4:21pm ledzeppelinsucks: I’m Free was abused by 91x in about 1991
	🥀 ♥ 4:22pm Adi From Sheffield: I saw the Gaza documentary on Channel 4 in the UK this week, not an easy watch but an important one www.basementfilms.co.uk
	4:22pm You: Wordswordswords
	4:24pm headcleaner: ↳ Song: "Fight the Power" by "Public Enemy" Now more than ever
	🥀 ♥ 4:26pm chinn: This show is 🔥🔥🔥 Mona
	4:29pm Kirsten (not that Kirsten): yaaaas leonard!
	♥ 4:31pm Mona: Thank you @chinn...in case anyone hasn't heard your show yet, it's a must listen: www.wfmu.org...
	♥ 4:32pm DanFA: ↳ chinn @4:26 Is that you, Jarvis Cocker?
	♥ 4:33pm DanFA: ↳ Mona @4:31 Mona, I watched the Pulp movie this past week and I definitely recommend it to you.
	♥ 4:33pm Mona: ↳ DanFA @4:33 the supermarkets one? I LOVE THAT ONE
	4:34pm Kirsten (not that Kirsten): omg MONA I love this dolly song! 🌼
	♥ 4:36pm Mona: ↳ Kirsten (not that Kirsten) @4:34 glad i could redeem myself from playing that hideous voice lol
	♥ 4:36pm DanFA: ↳ Mona @4:33 Yup.
	4:36pm traven: "What led me to this town?"
	🥀 ♥ 4:39pm Adi From Sheffield: ↳ Mona @4:33 That really does a nice job of capturing Sheff. I was actually at that gig 😀
	♥ 4:39pm DanFA: ↳ Adi From Sheffield @4:39 Are you in the movie?
	4:40pm DjLorraine: Is that what the kids are calling it now?
	4:40pm Cajun accordion Phil: Great friggen show todayyyyy
	🥀 ♥ 4:40pm Adi From Sheffield: ↳ DanFA @4:39 Nah. 😀
	4:42pm Vt Knit Girl: Amazing show Mona! Just want we need for this holiday.
	🥀 ♥ 4:42pm The Butterman: Whoa! Just made it back from a pool party/barbecue! Mona!
	♥ 4:42pm DanFA: ↳ Adi From Sheffield @4:40 I loved the two older ladies who are interviewed.
	🥀 ♥ 4:43pm The Butterman: Lloyd Christmas!
	🥀 ♥ 4:43pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "The KKK Took My Baby Away" by "The Ramones" So this was a cautionary tale. Dang. Great set, Mona.
	4:43pm ryansterlingvirtue: Great siouxsie song!
	🥀 ♥ 4:44pm Adi From Sheffield: ↳ DanFA @4:42 Yeah. They were proper old school market ladies. I'm not one for nostalgia but I do miss that aspect of the city.
	♥ 4:45pm Mona: thank you for tuning in friends, always so happy to ring in the weekend with you <3
	4:45pm Guy in Solihull UK: ↳ Song: "Fireworks 12"" by "Siouxsie & The Banshees" Absolutely love this, Siouxsie at her greatest
	♥ 4:47pm RevErie: ↳ chinn @4:26 I'd have to agree!
	🥀 ♥ 4:48pm chinn: ↳ DanFA @4:32 Haha! Flattered
	🥀 ♥ 4:52pm zachary: Happy Fourth of July Mona and listeners!
	4:54pm BillfromRockTavern: What a fantastic July 4 show ... for us . I have that Siouxsie 12 inch and it never ceases to amaze.
	4:59pm traven: "Too late for hope, but a dream remembered . . ."
	♥ 4:59pm DanFA: Tom Sawyer by Rush should be in this non-American 4th of July starter pack.
	♥ 5:00pm DanFA: Everyone be careful, don't blow your fingers off.
	5:01pm Kirsten (not that Kirsten): mona please do a ted talk on it
	♥ 5:01pm DanFA: No one report Mona. Snitches get stitches.
	5:02pm luker duker: Can we talk about how visually maximalist & amazing the Creed half time show is? lol. Truly
	5:02pm Busbiker: Halftime show business
	5:03pm MrDeb: What Kirsten said and also: I was already thinking Mona ONCE AGAIN turning my frown upside down on a dark day and then woomp icing on the cake this Kendrick performance 💯 thank you sister
	5:03pm The Butterman: Hey! Whitney’s Super Bowl, Star Spangled Banner IS THE greatest rendition of our national Anthem EVER sung!
	5:03pm jessicaiscool: ↳ Song: "Super Bowl Halftime Show" by "Kendrick Lamar" YES MONA!!!!!! Literally needing this
	5:03pm jt: 🔥 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Kendrick upped the bar for years to come
	♥ 5:03pm DanFA: ↳ Song: "Super Bowl Halftime Show" by "Kendrick Lamar" All the WFMU volunteers have stopped stuffing envelopes and turned the conference room into a dance party.
	♥ 5:05pm DanFA: ↳ jt @5:03 He really got the entire crowd to call Drake a youknowwhat.
	♥ 5:09pm Deano de los Muertos: Remember when Bruce mashed his junk into the camera during his halftime show?
	♥ 5:09pm Mona: ↳ Deano de los Muertos @5:09 LOL that was so weird. remember when prince sang purple rain in the actual rain?
	♥ 5:11pm DanFA: ↳ Mona @5:09 I hope you're using this time to write the script for your TED Talk like Therese did. www.youtube.com...
	♥ 5:11pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ Mona @5:09 Prob my fav
	♥ 5:13pm Hunterian: ↳ Mona @5:09 Yeah, that's gotta be my #1 halftime show ("Can you make it rain more?"), those this one is likely my #2.
	🥀 ♥ 5:16pm Handy Haversack: Mona, you have been getting us through some very annoying and long-overdue apartment tasks. This would have been a real miserable day with FMU!
	🥀 ♥ 5:17pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Handy Haversack @5:16 Er, *without FMU! We are also using vodka to get us through.
	♥ 5:17pm Hunterian: ↳ Handy Haversack @5:17 Ha!
	5:18pm Andres: Janet Jackson halftime showwas a fall off the couch WTF finish!!
	♥ 5:18pm chresti: Hey M O N A!
	♥ 5:20pm Mona: ↳ Handy Haversack @5:17 lol a vodka and mona afternoon can be a powerful elixir. thank you for trusting me with your ears.
	🥀 ♥ 5:21pm Adi From Sheffield: Staying till the end but coming off the boards for bed. Thank you as ever Mona.Have a lovely weekend everyone. 🙏
	5:22pm People Like Us: most excellent show, Mona
	♥ 5:24pm Mona: ↳ People Like Us @5:22 thank you maestro!
	♥ 5:24pm fred: ↳ Handy Haversack @5:17 Both radios can cheer up both of you I guess (vodka can help as well)
	♥ 5:24pm DanFA: ↳ People Like Us @5:22 Hi Vicki. Oh how I have missed your fine program.
	♥ 5:24pm 2/3 of the Perrin Family: Mona! The soundtrack of our soul. Thanks for rocking our spirit every freaking Friday!
	♥ 5:25pm chresti: ↳ chresti @5:18 And moners! I am out hear ripping sockets on the dance floor
	5:25pm Andres: ↳ Song: "You Can't Be Funky" by "Bush Tetras" I can try.
	♥ 5:26pm DanFA: The show today has been wild with the song choices.
	5:26pm People Like Us: ↳ DanFA @5:24 Thank you! There are many many many in the archives though :) And People Like Us stuff...
	5:26pm The Butterman: It’s Gumby, dammit!
	5:26pm riceandbeansandsoysauce: I’m cannot not dance to this! Try to stop me!
	♥ 5:27pm p_glow: 🗽🚽
	5:29pm Andres: ↳ Song: "Party All the Time" by "Eddie Murphy" Snowed in at Rick James’ house!
	♥ 5:29pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ Andres @5:29 Was just gonna say 🌨️
	♥ 5:33pm common: mona, all
	5:33pm Andres: ↳ Song: "Wishing on a Star (12" Version)" by "The Cover Gi... JAM!!
	5:37pm maestroso: How are you all signing in? It just doesn't work for me.
	5:38pm AlanThePainter: Mona! Great show you are supreme! Happy fourth of Deception!
	5:38pm heinseng: atsa groove
	🥀 ♥ 5:38pm Handy Haversack: Wait, is it Monday?
	🥀 ♥ 5:38pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Mona @5:20 Ain't much we wouldn't trust you with!
	5:39pm People Like Us: ↳ maestroso @5:37 once you make one comment is seems to come up as an option in the Comment box
	🥀 ♥ 5:41pm Handy Haversack: ↳ maestroso @5:37 Reload the sign-in page a few times, too. wfmu.org... Then complete your user name and PW.
	🥀 ♥ 5:45pm Handy Haversack: I like Joe Belock a lot!
	5:46pm riceandbeansandsoysauce: This show is speaking to me!!!
	♥ 5:48pm Mona: thanks for listening! see you all next friday! til then take care of yourselves <3
	♥ 5:49pm RevErie: Thanks Mona! Stay Safe
	5:51pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Sign in might work better now as of a minute ago. Test things for me, please!
	5:52pm DjLorraine: I reported to the dance floor anyways
	♥ 5:52pm Deano de los Muertos: Thanks Mona
	🥀 ♥ 5:52pm chinn: ↳ Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever) @5:51 Kenzo! Doing the heavy lifting on a holiday, bless you! Things seem to be a little snappier for me...
	♥ 5:53pm chresti: Thanks Mona! Kenzo
	♥ 5:53pm DanFA: ↳ Song: "New York" by "Micro Chip League" This sounds like the score to some cold war era spy movie.
	🥀 ♥ 5:53pm chinn: ↳ chinn @5:52 Comments still lag, but not as bad. Sign in definitely seems improved.
	5:54pm Kenny T: Dang. This song is a banger!
	♥ 5:54pm DanFA: ↳ Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever) @5:51 Bless you, Kenzo.
	🥀 ♥ 5:54pm chinn: Thanks Mona, it's been a wonderful show.
	5:54pm Andres: ↳ Song: "New York" by "Micro Chip League" CFNY hitlist mainstay!
	5:54pm HurstBot: I love technical difficulties
	🥀 ♥ 5:55pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, Mona! You're the best there is!
	♥ 5:55pm Ike: Go Kenzo go! Go Mona go!
	🥀 ♥ 5:55pm Handy Haversack: Working OK on this end, Kenzo. Thanks!
	🥀 ♥ 5:56pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever) @5:51 Signing in is quick for me on the laptop.
	♥ 5:56pm Deano de los Muertos: Thanks Kenzo
	♥ 5:56pm fred: ↳ Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever) @5:51 I tried from the home page, the playlist, and even just with that minimal URL: wfmu.org... No issue (except the last one with gave me a 503) Then again, I had no issue before and closed the browser between tests (which clears all cookies for me)
	♥ 5:57pm chresti: Normally the comments lag a bit with the duckduckgo browzer
	♥ 5:58pm DanFA: The entire world has been nuked and the only people left are Bucci and Mona. Just like Night of the Comet.
	🥀 ♥ 5:58pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @5:56 Quick on cell phone as well. Thanks, Mona!
	5:59pm traven: ↳ DanFA @5:58 Perish forbid!
	5:59pm Busbiker: Play all that revolutionary music but watch people throw up on a hot dog eating contest 🤦🏾‍♂️
	♥ 6:00pm fred: ↳ fred @5:56 I just retried the minimal URL, it worked fine, so I guess the 503 was the redirection to the home page after logging in (even then I was logged in)
	6:00pm Busbiker: All show bizness
	🥀 ♥ 6:01pm Handy Haversack: ↳ fred @6:00 Yeah, wfmu.org seems to redirect fine for me.

Mona: Playlist from July 4, 2025

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Mona brings you synthpop, disco, darkwave, electronic, new romantic, queer anthems, dance classics, post punk, soul, goth, shoegaze, industrial, britpop, retro r&b, breaks, and more...

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Upcoming events:

Fri. Jul 25th, 3pm - 6pm: singer/guitarist/polyglot Kilynn Lunsford (More info...)
Mona welcomes singer/guitarist/polyglot Kilynn Lunsford for a live performance, bringing her witchy brew of tempered dub, magnetic incantations and left field audio sorcery to the airwaves. Her new album Promiscuous Genes is out now on Feel It Records.

July 4, 2025: 4th of July (un)Spectacular

Listen to this show: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up listen Pop-up player!

Artist	Track	Album	Approx. start time
Bo Diddley	Mona "Mona" by "Bo Diddley"	20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Bo Diddley	0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jenny Hval	The Revolution Will Not Be Owned	Classic Objects	0:02:39 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Rosa Anschütz	Chase Pioneers "Chase Pioneers" by "Rosa Anschütz"	Sabbatical	0:07:16 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Nation of Language	I'm Not Ready for the Change	Dance Called Memory	0:10:04 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Loveliescrushing	babysbreath "babysbreath" by "Loveliescrushing"	bloweyelashwish	0:14:43 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Just Mustard	POLLYANNA "POLLYANNA" by "Just Mustard"	POLLYANNA	0:19:14 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Interpol	Obstacle 1 (Arthur Baker's Return to New York Mix)	Obstacle 1 (Arthur Baker Remix)	0:22:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tom Tom Club	Downtown Rockers E-Dub Mix	Downtown Rockers	0:28:42 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Specials	War Crimes "War Crimes" by "The Specials"	The Singles Collection	0:35:13 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Juanita & Juan	Put Down Your Weapons	Jungle Cruise	0:39:12 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Musical Youth	Pass the Dutchie "Pass the Dutchie" by "Musical Youth"	7"	0:42:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Dr Maya Angelou	Be a Rainbow in Someone Else's Cloud		0:45:19 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Joe Bataan	Mujer "Mujer" by "Joe Bataan"	St. Latin's Day Massacre	0:47:03 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru	Ballad of the Spirits	Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru	0:51:25 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: MFSB	Love Is the Message "Love Is the Message" by "MFSB"		0:57:13 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Roger Miller	King of the Road "King of the Road" by "Roger Miller"		1:01:46 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Alan Vega	Jukebox Babe "Jukebox Babe" by "Alan Vega"		1:04:04 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Sly & the Family Stone	Trip to Your Heart	A Whole New Thing	1:08:39 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Public Enemy	Fight the Power "Fight the Power" by "Public Enemy"	Fear Of A Black Planet	1:12:18 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Soup Dragons	I'm Free "I'm Free" by "Soup Dragons"	Lovegod	1:17:29 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jesse Jackson	I Am Somebody "I Am Somebody" by "Jesse Jackson"		1:20:46 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Nina Simone	I Wish I Knew How It Felt To Be Free	Silk & Soul	1:22:04 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Paul Bergmann	Old Dream "Old Dream" by "Paul Bergmann"		1:25:05 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Leonard Cohen	So Long, Marianne "So Long, Marianne" by "Leonard Cohen"	Songs of Leonard Cohen	1:27:16 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris	Wildflowers		1:33:36 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Replacements	Kiss Me on the Bus	Tim	1:36:12 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Ramones	The KKK Took My Baby Away	Pleasant Dreams	1:38:57 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Siouxsie & The Banshees	Fireworks 12"	12"	1:42:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Shona Laing	(Glad I'm Not) a Kennedy	South	1:46:17 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Hidden Cameras	Undertow (Vince Clarke Remix)		1:49:26 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
VLURE	Better Days "Better Days" by "VLURE"		1:52:52 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Kendrick Lamar	Super Bowl Halftime Show		2:00:25 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Gil Scott‐Heron	The Revolution Will Not Be Televised		2:13:09 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
JFK	Independence Hall Speech July 4, 1962		2:16:13 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Isley Brothers	Fight the Power, Pts. 1 & 2	The Heat Is On	2:16:49 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bush Tetras	You Can't Be Funky "You Can't Be Funky" by "Bush Tetras"		2:22:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Eddie Murphy	Party All the Time "Party All the Time" by "Eddie Murphy"	How Could It Be	2:24:26 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Cover Girls	Wishing on a Star (12" Version)		2:28:57 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
James Baldwin	Love Has Never Been A Popular Movement		2:33:11 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jalen Ngonda	Come Around and Love Me	Come Around and Love Me	2:34:22 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Primal Scream	Loaded "Loaded" by "Primal Scream"	Screamadelica	2:37:24 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Cramps	Uranium Rock "Uranium Rock" by "The Cramps"	Off The Bone	2:44:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
C.C.C.P.	American Soviets "American Soviets" by "C.C.C.P."		2:46:46 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Micro Chip League	New York "New York" by "Micro Chip League"	New York	2:51:29 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
MFSB	Love Is the Message "Love Is the Message" by "MFSB"		2:56:56 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🥀 ♥ 2:57pm Adi From Sheffield: Hello ibb.co...
	🥀 ♥ 3:01pm Handy Haversack: Mona! Pastoral Monadists!
	3:08pm dana: Happy 4th to all
	3:10pm MosDefMF: Here to hear with my Mona ears.
	🥀 ♥ 3:15pm bixa (𝘣𝘦𝘦-𝘩𝘢): loving the show already mona
	♥ 3:22pm Mark T: Good afternoon all. As we celebrate our independence yet suffer from excess taxation. Lol Hmm, who got the last laugh? 😆
	3:25pm Vrykoluka: Greetings. Listening in this week from Toxotes, Greece. Mona knows no boundaries.
	♥ 3:25pm Hunterian: ↳ Adi From Sheffield @2:57 The Betsy Empire Strikes Back—on Independence Day!
	3:26pm Old Dave: Reminds me of The Hip
	♥ 3:28pm Carmichael: Heya Mona and folks. Can you play some "replacing my Nook battery" music? You know, frustrating but necessary HA HA
	🥀 ♥ 3:28pm Adi From Sheffield: ↳ Hunterian @3:25 Her empire is very small. A handful of people in New Jersey and a sprinkle of folks in South Yorkshire. It's a quality audience though. 😉
	🥀 ♥ 3:29pm Adi From Sheffield: ↳ Song: "Downtown Rockers E-Dub Mix" by "Tom Tom Club" First band I ever saw live.
	♥ 3:30pm Hunterian: ↳ Adi From Sheffield @3:28 I know for a fact that there are Betsy Loyalists in Brooklyn as well!
	3:32pm DjLorraine: I heard there were fires on the mainland of Greece
	🥀 ♥ 3:32pm Adi From Sheffield: ↳ Hunterian @3:30 This pleases me no end 🙏, she's very much a labour of love
	♥ 3:38pm DanFA: Hello Mona. The WFMU homepage is taking me back to 2008/2009 when I first discovered the station.
	3:38pm Vrykoluka: ↳ DjLorraine @3:32 The fires are mainly on the island of Crete, and just south of Athens. I'm in the northeast, near Bulgaria. This is sadly a worsening problem here every year due to global warming exacerbating the conditions in an already hot and dry country.
	♥ 3:45pm Cheryl The Nerd: ↳ Song: "Pass the Dutchie" by "Musical Youth" I don't think I've heard this song since college.
	♥ 3:45pm Carmichael: ↳ Song: "Pass the Dutchie" by "Musical Youth" The dutchie, NOT the kutchie. There are kids listening, for goodness' sake .. 😊
	3:49pm ?: ↳ Carmichael @3:45 doesn't matter
	3:52pm Busbiker: ↳ Song: "Mujer" by "Joe Bataan" Dang, that reminds me of my youth days in east Harlem
	🥀 ♥ 3:52pm Adi From Sheffield: The show this evening makes me feel like I'm in a Speakeasy of some nature.
	🥀 ♥ 3:56pm Doug in MP: RIP to Mark Snow, composer of the X-Files theme variety.com...
	♥ 3:57pm DanFA: ↳ Doug in MP @3:56 Damn.
	4:00pm Saltonstall: Joe Bataan live at Millenium Park- Pritzker Pavillion in Chicago July 21! FREE!!!!!!
	♥ 4:01pm DanFA: Murica!!!
	♥ 4:01pm DanFA: Older version of the website's player is working just fine.
	4:03pm goes211: Sounding GREAT, Mona!!!
	🥀 ♥ 4:05pm bixa (𝘣𝘦𝘦-𝘩𝘢): ↳ Doug in MP @3:56 ):
	🥀 ♥ 4:08pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hi, Mona and Monacretes!
	🥀 ♥ 4:09pm Adi From Sheffield: I quite like the older version of the website its rather charming.
	4:09pm ?: ↳ Doug in MP @3:56 yeah, and Michael Madsen
	🥀 ♥ 4:10pm Adi From Sheffield: ↳ Song: "Trip to Your Heart" by "Sly & the Family Stone" This became one of my favourite sample uses ever 😀
	4:13pm Busbiker: ↳ Song: "Trip to Your Heart" by "Sly & the Family Stone" Always nice to hear where the samples came from…hopefully sly got paid
	4:13pm Dave Miss: Def an inspiration for Mama said Knock you Out
	♥ 4:14pm DanFA: ↳ Dave Miss @4:13 Mona said knock you out
	♥ 4:14pm Carmichael: ↳ Song: "Fight the Power" by "Public Enemy" Nice re-interpretation of a Tareyton cigarette ad
	4:14pm People Like Us: ↳ Dave Miss @4:13 sampled it!
	♥ 4:15pm Carmichael: ↳ Carmichael @4:14 Not Public Enemy, but the speaker before, presumably Malcolm X.
	4:15pm Andres: ↳ Song: "Fight the Power" by "Public Enemy" As powerful as ever!
	🥀 ♥ 4:15pm Doug in MP: I'm digging the old homepage too. Let's pull up the Summer 2010 schedule. Night People was still on! freeform.wfmu.org...
	♥ 4:15pm Hunterian: ↳ Carmichael @4:14 "I'd rather scratch than itch"
	4:18pm Kirsten (not that Kirsten): oh no I did not want to hear that voice 🤣😭 three cheers for comrade mamdani!
	🥀 ♥ 4:19pm bixa (𝘣𝘦𝘦-𝘩𝘢): lol
	4:20pm Liverpool Andrea: Soup Dragons taking me back to my early teens listening to this on an ‘Awesome’ tape comp I bought from Woolworths 🥰
	♥ 4:20pm DanFA: ↳ Doug in MP @4:15 That takes me back.
	4:21pm ledzeppelinsucks: I’m Free was abused by 91x in about 1991
	🥀 ♥ 4:22pm Adi From Sheffield: I saw the Gaza documentary on Channel 4 in the UK this week, not an easy watch but an important one www.basementfilms.co.uk
	4:22pm You: Wordswordswords
	4:24pm headcleaner: ↳ Song: "Fight the Power" by "Public Enemy" Now more than ever
	🥀 ♥ 4:26pm chinn: This show is 🔥🔥🔥 Mona
	4:29pm Kirsten (not that Kirsten): yaaaas leonard!
	♥ 4:31pm Mona: Thank you @chinn...in case anyone hasn't heard your show yet, it's a must listen: www.wfmu.org...
	♥ 4:32pm DanFA: ↳ chinn @4:26 Is that you, Jarvis Cocker?
	♥ 4:33pm DanFA: ↳ Mona @4:31 Mona, I watched the Pulp movie this past week and I definitely recommend it to you.
	♥ 4:33pm Mona: ↳ DanFA @4:33 the supermarkets one? I LOVE THAT ONE
	4:34pm Kirsten (not that Kirsten): omg MONA I love this dolly song! 🌼
	♥ 4:36pm Mona: ↳ Kirsten (not that Kirsten) @4:34 glad i could redeem myself from playing that hideous voice lol
	♥ 4:36pm DanFA: ↳ Mona @4:33 Yup.
	4:36pm traven: "What led me to this town?"
	🥀 ♥ 4:39pm Adi From Sheffield: ↳ Mona @4:33 That really does a nice job of capturing Sheff. I was actually at that gig 😀
	♥ 4:39pm DanFA: ↳ Adi From Sheffield @4:39 Are you in the movie?
	4:40pm DjLorraine: Is that what the kids are calling it now?
	4:40pm Cajun accordion Phil: Great friggen show todayyyyy
	🥀 ♥ 4:40pm Adi From Sheffield: ↳ DanFA @4:39 Nah. 😀
	4:42pm Vt Knit Girl: Amazing show Mona! Just want we need for this holiday.
	🥀 ♥ 4:42pm The Butterman: Whoa! Just made it back from a pool party/barbecue! Mona!
	♥ 4:42pm DanFA: ↳ Adi From Sheffield @4:40 I loved the two older ladies who are interviewed.
	🥀 ♥ 4:43pm The Butterman: Lloyd Christmas!
	🥀 ♥ 4:43pm Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "The KKK Took My Baby Away" by "The Ramones" So this was a cautionary tale. Dang. Great set, Mona.
	4:43pm ryansterlingvirtue: Great siouxsie song!
	🥀 ♥ 4:44pm Adi From Sheffield: ↳ DanFA @4:42 Yeah. They were proper old school market ladies. I'm not one for nostalgia but I do miss that aspect of the city.
	♥ 4:45pm Mona: thank you for tuning in friends, always so happy to ring in the weekend with you <3
	4:45pm Guy in Solihull UK: ↳ Song: "Fireworks 12"" by "Siouxsie & The Banshees" Absolutely love this, Siouxsie at her greatest
	♥ 4:47pm RevErie: ↳ chinn @4:26 I'd have to agree!
	🥀 ♥ 4:48pm chinn: ↳ DanFA @4:32 Haha! Flattered
	🥀 ♥ 4:52pm zachary: Happy Fourth of July Mona and listeners!
	4:54pm BillfromRockTavern: What a fantastic July 4 show ... for us . I have that Siouxsie 12 inch and it never ceases to amaze.
	4:59pm traven: "Too late for hope, but a dream remembered . . ."
	♥ 4:59pm DanFA: Tom Sawyer by Rush should be in this non-American 4th of July starter pack.
	♥ 5:00pm DanFA: Everyone be careful, don't blow your fingers off.
	5:01pm Kirsten (not that Kirsten): mona please do a ted talk on it
	♥ 5:01pm DanFA: No one report Mona. Snitches get stitches.
	5:02pm luker duker: Can we talk about how visually maximalist & amazing the Creed half time show is? lol. Truly
	5:02pm Busbiker: Halftime show business
	5:03pm MrDeb: What Kirsten said and also: I was already thinking Mona ONCE AGAIN turning my frown upside down on a dark day and then woomp icing on the cake this Kendrick performance 💯 thank you sister
	5:03pm The Butterman: Hey! Whitney’s Super Bowl, Star Spangled Banner IS THE greatest rendition of our national Anthem EVER sung!
	5:03pm jessicaiscool: ↳ Song: "Super Bowl Halftime Show" by "Kendrick Lamar" YES MONA!!!!!! Literally needing this
	5:03pm jt: 🔥 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Kendrick upped the bar for years to come
	♥ 5:03pm DanFA: ↳ Song: "Super Bowl Halftime Show" by "Kendrick Lamar" All the WFMU volunteers have stopped stuffing envelopes and turned the conference room into a dance party.
	♥ 5:05pm DanFA: ↳ jt @5:03 He really got the entire crowd to call Drake a youknowwhat.
	♥ 5:09pm Deano de los Muertos: Remember when Bruce mashed his junk into the camera during his halftime show?
	♥ 5:09pm Mona: ↳ Deano de los Muertos @5:09 LOL that was so weird. remember when prince sang purple rain in the actual rain?
	♥ 5:11pm DanFA: ↳ Mona @5:09 I hope you're using this time to write the script for your TED Talk like Therese did. www.youtube.com...
	♥ 5:11pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ Mona @5:09 Prob my fav
	♥ 5:13pm Hunterian: ↳ Mona @5:09 Yeah, that's gotta be my #1 halftime show ("Can you make it rain more?"), those this one is likely my #2.
	🥀 ♥ 5:16pm Handy Haversack: Mona, you have been getting us through some very annoying and long-overdue apartment tasks. This would have been a real miserable day with FMU!
	🥀 ♥ 5:17pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Handy Haversack @5:16 Er, *without FMU! We are also using vodka to get us through.
	♥ 5:17pm Hunterian: ↳ Handy Haversack @5:17 Ha!
	5:18pm Andres: Janet Jackson halftime showwas a fall off the couch WTF finish!!
	♥ 5:18pm chresti: Hey M O N A!
	♥ 5:20pm Mona: ↳ Handy Haversack @5:17 lol a vodka and mona afternoon can be a powerful elixir. thank you for trusting me with your ears.
	🥀 ♥ 5:21pm Adi From Sheffield: Staying till the end but coming off the boards for bed. Thank you as ever Mona.Have a lovely weekend everyone. 🙏
	5:22pm People Like Us: most excellent show, Mona
	♥ 5:24pm Mona: ↳ People Like Us @5:22 thank you maestro!
	♥ 5:24pm fred: ↳ Handy Haversack @5:17 Both radios can cheer up both of you I guess (vodka can help as well)
	♥ 5:24pm DanFA: ↳ People Like Us @5:22 Hi Vicki. Oh how I have missed your fine program.
	♥ 5:24pm 2/3 of the Perrin Family: Mona! The soundtrack of our soul. Thanks for rocking our spirit every freaking Friday!
	♥ 5:25pm chresti: ↳ chresti @5:18 And moners! I am out hear ripping sockets on the dance floor
	5:25pm Andres: ↳ Song: "You Can't Be Funky" by "Bush Tetras" I can try.
	♥ 5:26pm DanFA: The show today has been wild with the song choices.
	5:26pm People Like Us: ↳ DanFA @5:24 Thank you! There are many many many in the archives though :) And People Like Us stuff...
	5:26pm The Butterman: It’s Gumby, dammit!
	5:26pm riceandbeansandsoysauce: I’m cannot not dance to this! Try to stop me!
	♥ 5:27pm p_glow: 🗽🚽
	5:29pm Andres: ↳ Song: "Party All the Time" by "Eddie Murphy" Snowed in at Rick James’ house!
	♥ 5:29pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ Andres @5:29 Was just gonna say 🌨️
	♥ 5:33pm common: mona, all
	5:33pm Andres: ↳ Song: "Wishing on a Star (12" Version)" by "The Cover Gi... JAM!!
	5:37pm maestroso: How are you all signing in? It just doesn't work for me.
	5:38pm AlanThePainter: Mona! Great show you are supreme! Happy fourth of Deception!
	5:38pm heinseng: atsa groove
	🥀 ♥ 5:38pm Handy Haversack: Wait, is it Monday?
	🥀 ♥ 5:38pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Mona @5:20 Ain't much we wouldn't trust you with!
	5:39pm People Like Us: ↳ maestroso @5:37 once you make one comment is seems to come up as an option in the Comment box
	🥀 ♥ 5:41pm Handy Haversack: ↳ maestroso @5:37 Reload the sign-in page a few times, too. wfmu.org... Then complete your user name and PW.
	🥀 ♥ 5:45pm Handy Haversack: I like Joe Belock a lot!
	5:46pm riceandbeansandsoysauce: This show is speaking to me!!!
	♥ 5:48pm Mona: thanks for listening! see you all next friday! til then take care of yourselves <3
	♥ 5:49pm RevErie: Thanks Mona! Stay Safe
	5:51pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Sign in might work better now as of a minute ago. Test things for me, please!
	5:52pm DjLorraine: I reported to the dance floor anyways
	♥ 5:52pm Deano de los Muertos: Thanks Mona
	🥀 ♥ 5:52pm chinn: ↳ Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever) @5:51 Kenzo! Doing the heavy lifting on a holiday, bless you! Things seem to be a little snappier for me...
	♥ 5:53pm chresti: Thanks Mona! Kenzo
	♥ 5:53pm DanFA: ↳ Song: "New York" by "Micro Chip League" This sounds like the score to some cold war era spy movie.
	🥀 ♥ 5:53pm chinn: ↳ chinn @5:52 Comments still lag, but not as bad. Sign in definitely seems improved.
	5:54pm Kenny T: Dang. This song is a banger!
	♥ 5:54pm DanFA: ↳ Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever) @5:51 Bless you, Kenzo.
	🥀 ♥ 5:54pm chinn: Thanks Mona, it's been a wonderful show.
	5:54pm Andres: ↳ Song: "New York" by "Micro Chip League" CFNY hitlist mainstay!
	5:54pm HurstBot: I love technical difficulties
	🥀 ♥ 5:55pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, Mona! You're the best there is!
	♥ 5:55pm Ike: Go Kenzo go! Go Mona go!
	🥀 ♥ 5:55pm Handy Haversack: Working OK on this end, Kenzo. Thanks!
	🥀 ♥ 5:56pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever) @5:51 Signing in is quick for me on the laptop.
	♥ 5:56pm Deano de los Muertos: Thanks Kenzo
	♥ 5:56pm fred: ↳ Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever) @5:51 I tried from the home page, the playlist, and even just with that minimal URL: wfmu.org... No issue (except the last one with gave me a 503) Then again, I had no issue before and closed the browser between tests (which clears all cookies for me)
	♥ 5:57pm chresti: Normally the comments lag a bit with the duckduckgo browzer
	♥ 5:58pm DanFA: The entire world has been nuked and the only people left are Bucci and Mona. Just like Night of the Comet.
	🥀 ♥ 5:58pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @5:56 Quick on cell phone as well. Thanks, Mona!
	5:59pm traven: ↳ DanFA @5:58 Perish forbid!
	5:59pm Busbiker: Play all that revolutionary music but watch people throw up on a hot dog eating contest 🤦🏾‍♂️
	♥ 6:00pm fred: ↳ fred @5:56 I just retried the minimal URL, it worked fine, so I guess the 503 was the redirection to the home page after logging in (even then I was logged in)
	6:00pm Busbiker: All show bizness
	🥀 ♥ 6:01pm Handy Haversack: ↳ fred @6:00 Yeah, wfmu.org seems to redirect fine for me.

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