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Favoriting July 20, 2009: Reverend Billy Talen

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Ramones  We Want the Airwaves   Favoriting Anthology: Hey Ho, Let's Go! 
The Stop Shopping Gospel Choir and the Not Buying It Band!  Push Back   Favoriting The Shopocalypse 
Ramones  We Want the Airwaves   Favoriting Anthology: Hey Ho, Let's Go! 


Listener comments!

  6:00pm
Charlesd-A.:

Tonight we have Reverend Billy Talen preaching about NYC neighborhoods via revbilly.com
  6:04pm
Charles-A.:

Amen, Reverend Billy, in the house.
  6:06pm
Charles-A.:

Its all about living in the hood, not existing strapped to a hood.
  6:07pm
Charles-A.:

Amen brother. Its all about local economies...
  6:11pm
Charles-A.:

Like Shrub Bush said: "When the tough get shot at, the tough go shopping." Uh, for Kalahnokovs? No silly, buy a boat, you'll wish you had in Nor-leenz, bubba.
  6:14pm
Charles-A.:

What we're doing is getting fed up. People are making do because the have to. The corporation are doing a f*ckin' thing.
  6:17pm
Charles-A.:

Threats is what they expect. Being nice and reasonab;e throws them for a loop.
  6:19pm
Charles-A.:

New Yorkers after 9/11 were actually pretty decent human beings. Now meh. Not so much.
  6:22pm
Charles-A.:

Corporations are just great. And United Breaks Guitars. (Google it :-) Its might even be staged, or I could just be cynical...
  6:25pm
Charles-A:

Protest songs are a double edged sword. (Cause the cops are playing their own music [and the percussion is usually followed by concussion.])
  6:29pm
Charles-A.:

Were going into the second half of the show with Douglas Rushkoff and featuring Reverend Billy Talen
  6:32pm
Charles-A.:

I'd be afraid of her too. :-)
  6:35pm
Charles-A.:

Rich White Guilt getting you down?

Send them out to shop for shoes, and a jacket.

The good part of the economic meltdown is that we're all broke-ass poor. (It just some of us are REALLY poor.)
  6:38pm
Charles-A.:

The world doesn't belong to pre-pubescent youths. If only it did...
  6:41pm
Charles-A.:

Its not food, its the "promise" of food.

Wall street, where I worked, rapes and paves the neighborhood and makes it all into a strip mall. (And you're the one being stripped.)
  6:45pm
Charles-A.:

Now the cop is a white 20-something parachuted from the burbs into the great dirty unknown. (And people get their asses shot.)
  6:47pm
Charles-A.:

The old characters of the fifties have been replaced by the slave laborers of the aughts.
  6:49pm
Charles-A.:

Get angry and laugh, low, loud and "in your face."
  6:51pm
Charles-A.:

Its useless to get angry, that's what they're geared up to fight.

Buy 'em a beer, invite 'em to a barbeque, and be unashamed to be reasonable.
  6:56pm
Charles-A.:

Just tell 'em you're broke. Starbucks will go away.
  6:58pm
Charles-A.:

Don't get me started on health care...
  7:00pm
Charles-A.:

We're done for this week.
  10:55pm
Brian Oregon:

Great show! Rev Billy and Savitri are spot on and very inspiring.
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