All Swiss Music All the Time. Except Some of the Time. : Ken's show

Listener comments!

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6:39am Ken:

Howdy folks.

6:41am cory:

mornin' Ken and fellow Kenkateers

7:05am Mark S:

What up

7:09am cory:

not much here, Mark. how are things going on your side?

7:18am Ellirb:

Top o' the mornin' to ya kEn

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8:21am Ken:

Wouldnt you know it. Somebody took the $5 bill I put inside the Jandek boxed set. And they STILL didnt pkay Jandek, they just took the five bucks. Motherfucker.

8:22am groucho:

Hello from England. I have just eaten a crab.

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8:23am Ken:

Good for you Groucho. I love the crabmeat. Like crabs too but like the crabmeat better.

8:24am groucho:

They must have heard the show! which means most likely they'll be listening today too. a traitor in your midsts!

8:24am groucho:

Same, some of my best friends are crabs.

8:25am Mark S:

things are fine here cory

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8:25am Guido from Cologne:

Good morning Ken!
SWAG ARRIVED!
It#s like Xmass in mid-summer!

Will you play more German or for a change some Tahitian music today?
Or some Van Der Graaf Generator ?
"The Aerosol Grey Machine" is great indeed

8:32am groucho:

I've been listening to a lot of Withered Hand this week, I bought tickets to see them in Newcastle in September and haven't stopped listening to them since. You should play them. Love In The Time Of Ecstasy is a good song, or Religious Song, or Heart Heart.

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8:33am Guido from Cologne:

... thinking about it, it's time for some Palestinesian Heavy Metal ... problem is i cannot recommend anything specific.

9:00am common:

ken! all!

9:00am common:

hey! horsey heads!

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9:03am Ken:

Hello again everybody, Happy Horseheads!

9:07am βrian:

Everybody should have a bathysphere in his/her bathtub.

9:08am jpow:

congrats on the new performance hall

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9:09am Ken:

Thank you jpow!

9:09am βrian:

Yes, indeed. May your Monty be full.

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9:10am Webhamster Henry:

Ken, you might want to try out the Shouty voice:
www.cepstral.com...

9:12am w41:

Shit I can't listen to the stream right now, still hi all, rock on Ken etc. Also, what jpow said, of course.

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9:13am Guido from Cologne:

Oh yes, good luck with the Ground Floor!
Maybe you just keep that working name!
Such names are often appear the most stable and best remebered!

9:14am Sem Chumbo:

Hiya, Ken, and all.

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9:18am Guido from Cologne:

Vogel : same tune as "Flaschenzug" (= "pulley") on 1981 Recommended Records Sampler ... while this is just named "arsehole".

9:19am f≡f≡ (:

Hello Ken, all!

I think I have an idea on how to make any DJ to play the new Jandek CD!

Do you think a DJ would play a Jandek song from its CD if it were inside the jewel case of another band they like, and had its label taken off?

Say you find the Satanicpornocultshop CD jewel case in front of you just before the start of the show. The CD inside will be the one from Jandek but it will have no label and obviously you wouldn't know. Now imagine one Winged Monkeys ask the DJ in the comment section to play something from the new Satanicpornocultshop. Imagine other two winged monkeys approve of the request. Would you play a song from it ?

I think most of the DJ would fall for the trick. I actually think the Winged Monkeys can prank several of the DJS of the station in order to play the entire Jandek album on WFMU!!!

It would be like a 'Winged Monkey Operation Sabotage'. Jandek needs WFMU, and WFMU needs Jandek! The co-habit must continue! What do you guys think?

9:20am Lewis:

i love it when I go to put a little star on a song and it is already there...

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9:21am Ken:

I think that is cheating f0f0. I cant believe you would propose such a thing.

9:22am f≡f≡ (:

I would say stealing $5 and not playing Jandek is cheating.

9:24am f≡f≡ (:

Well, taking 5 dollars out of a CD jewel case isn't exactly cheating because there was no agreement to play anything from it for that amount of money...

But, hey, this is pranking for a good cause!

9:26am bobdoesthings:

gooodmorningalll

9:27am Dan B From Upstate:

Wow. Great name ideas. I think I would've voted for Liberty Realty, but Monty Hall is probably the best. The Ground Floor is second best.

9:28am f≡f≡ (:

"The Beatles" only got one vote!! Ha!

9:31am Mark S:

"We buy gold" would have been a good name for the ground floor space

9:31am Okasa:

Morning Ken(s). Morning non-Kens.

9:32am jpow:

I would like to hear some Walk Like A Giant today, if you have 14 minutes or so to squeeze that in todays episode...

9:33am northguineahills:

I dig Mark's suggestion.

9:33am MD:

Have a Jim Beam with Harry Dean!!!

9:34am Neg-guh-tor:

Take the weapon from my hand....

9:35am Yvang:

Good morning americans, good afternoon europeans, good evening asians...

9:35am Okasa:

Anybody know where the gif at the top of the page is from? (You too use Tumbler eh?) It looks vaguely familiar...

9:35am adrian in mpls:

wait, it's not right?

9:35am DCE:

sicksicksick

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9:36am Webhamster Henry:

This reminds me of John Osborne's GREAT PRETENDER.

9:37am f≡f≡ (:

Of course I know this song. Is in my top 10 Most Horrifying Songs Ever. It features a small child singing like an adult! How scary can you go?!

9:37am still b/p:

Help me make it through a stanza.

9:37am common:

yes ken. yes!

9:37am Dan B From Upstate:

Is this Qunnissa Rose, Age 6?

9:40am f≡f≡ (:

I read somewhere Harry Dean Stanton is some sort of a philosophical genius.

9:41am blee:

Could you play the new Satanicpornocultshop LP? It may or may not be right there in front of you. (wink, wink)

9:42am Dan B From Upstate:

This Neil Young cover record is turning out some interesting stuff.

9:43am holland oats:

isn't vinyl $26 or something? meh

9:44am Sem Chumbo:

This is Neil's subtle suggestion to another Winnipeg boy, Monty Halparin, to hear what he thinks of the new name for the FMU performance space.

9:52am Mark S:

oh dear I see a future where Robert's comments disappear

9:55am blee:

The gritty, overdriven guitar solo on the Jolie Holland song you played was enlightening.

9:56am northguineahills:

Control Machete, from Monterrey, Mexico!

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9:56am Ken:

What is the name of the new Satanicpornocultshop CD? I think I do have it here somewhere.

9:57am Jack:

Tickle my platypus!

9:57am Andrew Waterloo:

I did listen to a cool band called Porn this morning

9:59am adrian in mpls:

that platypus is about the cutest thing ever

10:00am Dieter:

Ken – are you excited as I am for the Murdoch buyout of TimeWarner?

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10:00am Ken:

Mark S, it's like you can see into the future or something.

10:00am bobdoesthings:

@adrian.. I thought opposite.. it looks like its being tortured

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10:01am Ken:

Torture? Maybe the tickle torture - that platypus wrangler found it's SPOT!

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10:01am cklequ:

The new Satanicpornocultshop is called AtoZ!!!2

(naturally)

10:02am f≡f≡ (:

Mark S*

*Soothsayer

10:03am Mark S:

Amazing huh? I'm physic I can predict all your future movements

10:07am natch!:

cumbia time

10:07am blee:

Yes, I believe as well that it is called AtoZ!!!2. Can we give it a whirl? (tee hee hee)

10:07am northguineahills:

That must be a female platypus, b/c the males have venom in their ankle spurs.

10:09am northguineahills:

just noticed the Frida gif, jajaja.

10:09am northguineahills:

During the WC, I saw a Mexican fan (at the game)dressed like Frida.

10:11am Sam:

I'm just expecting Irwin to start talking over this music, with that lush silky voice of his.

10:12am MichelleinGreenBay:

Morning, Kenophiles! I've missed being able to listen to this show!

10:12am f≡f≡ (:

Little know fact is that Frida Kahlo is kind of German.

10:13am bobdoesthings:

Stuff you should know talk in length about how weird the duckbill platypus is as an animal -- www.stuffyoushouldknow.com...

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10:14am Ken From Hyde Park:

Some snack food company is going to have a trial run of cappuccino-flavored potato chips this summer. I wonder how successful that will be.

10:14am f≡f≡ (:

Hey, it's MichelleinGreenBay, the greatest co-host Ken's show has ever had!!!

10:15am Marcel M:

It does seem like talk over music. I was expecting a voice also..

10:15am MichelleinGreenBay:

:-D

10:15am still b/p:

I want venomous ankle spurs. Also, Venomous Spurs or Venomous Purrs is a...you know..

10:16am Marcel M:

@North: good thing you specified at the game, I would have thought you meant out the window while you watched at home :-)

10:17am natch!:

Adelle Nazeem

10:19am holland oats:

mouse of yesterday

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10:19am Ken From Hyde Park:

Surface noise? That's Joe McGasko's specialty.

10:19am Dan B From Upstate:

A microphone one week, a mouse another week. If you're not careful, the station manager is going to suspend you.

10:19am βrian:

A brow united will not fall!

10:19am northguineahills:

(probably should also specify I wasn't at the game, I just saw the fan via the stream of the game).

10:20am ᏠЄႶႶỊѺµЄ:

@northguineahills - At the World Cup final game I saw (on tv in a bar) a fan dressed as Pope Francis!

10:20am Sam:

Monty Hall? I guess Mr. Burns made a generous donation.

10:21am bobdoesthings:

Where did the name Monty Hall come from?

10:21am ?:

Where Gaylord Fields is involved, hypnotic control is a given.

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10:21am Guido from Cologne:

Thank you thank you ... i did not play!
I just watched and drank some beer!

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10:22am Guido from Cologne:

WertTraumForscher is SWISS !!!!

10:22am βrian:

It came from Canada originally.

10:22am northguineahills:

I saw that too, ᏠЄႶႶỊѺµЄ!

10:22am f≡f≡ (:

Thanks for clarifying, northguineahills.

bobdoesthings,
Wikipedia Monty Hall. that's what I did. Now I can't stop thiking about the damn goats.

10:22am Sam:

"In your son's case, we would need an international airport. Yale could use an international airport."

10:23am tikk:

At Monty Hall will there be three separate curtains with an array of prizes of varying quality behind each one?

10:23am ᏠЄႶႶỊѺµЄ:

Funny I did not see any fans dressed as Pope Benedict XVI. Maybe that's why they won?

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10:23am Ken:

Weltrumforscher only think they are Swiss. They are really German.

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10:25am Ken From Hyde Park:

Listener KP pointed out the other day that the station is on Montgomery Street.
Montgomery ~ Monty

10:26am still b/p:

@ tikk -- ...or musical acts of varying quality?

10:27am Sam:

You should have called it CitiHall or the Costco Center or something, just to be ironic.

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10:27am Ken:

Yes. We often refer to the buidling itself as 862 Monty because that is our street address. That is also the address where we clean our guns and stuff.

10:27am Marcel M:

Ahhhh Montgomery st... That MUST be it.

10:27am ᏠЄႶႶỊѺµЄ:

When I watched Let's Make A Deal as a kid and saw a contestant lose, looking behind the curtain to see a someone holding a goat on a leash, I thought, "Wow, they won a pet goat! Cool!"

10:28am βrian:

I like Anony Mall. A Baby Anony Mall.

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10:28am Ken:

Also where we do our target practice and ninja exercises. Same Place. It's big and high up on a hill.

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10:29am Guido from Cologne:

The purpose to call your Monty Hall Upsala College had also something ...

10:30am Sam:

Club LBJ is funny

10:30am Jervix:

Hi Ken! Howdy folks! Glad I could make it to an intertoobe outlet to catch yer show.

10:31am JakeGould:

Hello! Laundry day. How’s by youse?

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10:33am Guido from Cologne:

Just in order to avoid misunderstandings: Messer Chups are Russian! an offshoot from Messer für Frau Müller (also Russian). Just sayin'.

10:35am jpow:

gingers

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10:35am Ken:

Guido. You sounds like you are speaking Swiss or something.

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10:35am Ken:

They are half russian, half german and half LOVE MACHINE.

10:36am natch!:

hey ken, got any booty gifs?

10:37am adrian in mpls:

i leave and come back to meridian bros -- nice!

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10:38am ken:

I do, but the policy is to never post booty GIFs if somebody requests them. Im sorry. I do not make the rules.

10:39am Asheville Jon:

hello

10:39am Sem Chumbo:

@mgr. Ken: !:P)

10:39am βrian:

"What is the sound of one booty slapping?"

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10:40am Guido from Cologne:

Speaking Swiss?
.... hehehe ...
Das ist Switzerdütsch .... which is is pretty much a language of itself.

10:41am natch!:

oh, rules. Feh!

10:43am Jervix:

"Like a boot stuck in mud..."

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10:45am Guido from Cologne:

Die Welttraumforscher is one guy, Christoph Pflüger.

10:46am Asheville Jon:

hmm, the intrigue and mystery of why Ken and Andy have not been speaking may actually force me to listen tonight......

10:48am βrian:

Good Lord. Julie Andrews shilling for the NRA!

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10:50am Guido from Cologne:

Christian Pfluger ... sorry ... memory void.
aus Zürch where all the heroin addicts hang out ...

10:51am f≡f≡ (:

Why you say that, Asheville Jon? Last week Ken said Andy was under the weathter.

10:51am f≡f≡ (:

*wheatherh

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10:52am ken:

Christian and Christoph Pfluger were brothers and they also had their other brother Sven in the band and a Flemish drifter named Helga who was not related to the Pflugers although everybody thought she was.

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10:55am Guido from Cologne:

I'm learning Ken! :-)

Why do "The Notwist" sound better on WFMU than on German TeeVee? Tried to watch one of their concerts and got absolutely bored. Dunno ... maybe Ken can explain?

10:55am Sem Chumbo:

Guns don't kill people, venomous ankle spurs do.

10:56am northguineahills:

I'll have to remember that one Sem, for the next gun thread I fall into.

10:58am βrian:

@Sem: Now you're just spouting platytudes.

10:58am jpow:

this reminds me a bit of Solvent. I love Solvent

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10:58am Guido from Cologne:

... uh ... i feel so 70ies ...
... guess this is something with harald Grosskopf on Drums.

10:59am Mike Noble:

this is prog synth solo par excellence

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11:00am Guido from Cologne:

grauzone:
also SWISS band!
;-)

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11:02am Guido from Cologne:

First appearance of that track was on this comp:
www.discogs.com...

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11:03am Ken:

I am trying to play only Swiss bands today Guido. Im not batting 1000 but Im doing OK.

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11:03am Ken:

Sorry about the baseball metaphor. Im sick.

11:04am Mark S:

The second Eno/Karl Hyde collaboration "High Life" is much better than the first

11:05am Marcel M:

@Mark: oh yeah? I wasn't going to bother with the second cuz I hared the first... Couldn't make it past the first side.

11:05am Marcel M:

Hated*

11:07am Mark S:

Marcel, much better, night and day difference

11:07am holland oats:

pfft

11:07am holland oats:

chortle

11:07am f≡f≡ (:

Kleenex is from Switzerland! Therefore we are in luck today!

11:08am Nick from Indy:

Need more Dogstep. loved The Velvet Underdogs last week.

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11:08am Webhamster Henry:

Dylan Hears a Who?

11:09am bobdoesthings:

@nick - shut up.

11:10am f≡f≡ (:

Look! Cher was still alive even back then!

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11:10am Ken:

That's a different Cher, f0f0

11:10am Marcel M:

@Mark: will def check it out then thanks

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11:11am Guido from Cologne:

If it helps: Harald Grosskopf is NOT SWISS !
(you see I just avoid working playing the smart alec here)

And ZK from Düsseldorf are the later to become Toten Hosen.
"Verschwende Deine Jugend" : Best comp with the REAL N.D.W.
Yep! Are there English liner notes available? and is there an English version of the book?

11:11am tadpoles:

Hi Ken. If you want to celebrate the German win try Vorgruppe's Footballstars:

www.youtube.com... Hope it's positive - I don't sprechen ze Deutsch

11:12am Dan B From Upstate:

Back when there was a thing called local DJs, we had a morning guy up here who did Bob Dylan backwards. It was every line from this song in reverse order (Feel It Does Hoooooow!). It was pretty quality.

11:12am KP:

Keep it Rollin'

11:12am Asheville Jon:

with a plastic dog bone
like a green telephone
being shot by a drone
like reaming with a hone
kicking a garden gnome
how does it feel?

11:13am Sem Chumbo:

I seem to recall doing the sad-eyed lady of the lowlands backwards.

11:16am brendan:

Incubus for infants

11:17am Marcel M:

I love that story about the organ in that song. The organ makes the song so great. He wasn't sure what to play so he plays behind the music a bit and its damn cool.

11:18am Nick from Indy:

We need some Horsestep

11:18am Marcel M:

Cool I didn't realize I could understand Swiss perfectly!

11:20am Jack:

Ken, remember that stolen Jandek $5 next Marathon.

11:21am Asheville Jon:

hey Ken, can you play some Jandek? I also heard that someone put $20 in the new box set, so you could come out ahead on the deal financially too. play some jandek, get $20! what a deal

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11:21am Guido from Cologne:

Maybe pay $ 5 to the record company to make them take the box set back?
Payola perversion! this cannot be!

11:21am f≡f≡ (:

That sounds like a great concept for a SSD show, Dan From Upstate!

Ken and Andy could read backwards the transcript of a previous show. Doesn't sounds like a lot of fun but at least we would be left with a reverse Trainwreck!

11:22am brendan:

Re-diaper

11:23am brendan:

Song

11:23am still b/p:

Remember to put the secret delayed-reaction dye on the bill to mark & catch the sneaky fingers!

11:24am bobdoesthings:

ah.. if the money goes missing again - nickname is prime suspect now.

11:24am listener mark:

Shocked and appalled that a WFMU DJ would lower one's moral standards so far as to do something as reprehensible as taking a free five dollar bill. At least it wasn't a family member or friend of a DJ who took the money because we are not allowed in the second floor music library.

11:24am f≡f≡ (:

But what if they take the $20 note and play it..at home?!

11:25am Dan B From Upstate:

Interesting. The train leaves the train wreck gorge and winds up back on the track.

11:25am bobdoesthings:

Imagine going to the bank and getting back a $20 that says "PLAY THE NEW JANDEK!"

11:27am rw:

I'm going to write PLAY THE NEW JANDEK on all the bills in my wallet

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11:28am Kn:

It's so fucked up. I even emailed the entire staff saying that I lost some money and I may have accidentally left it inside the new Jandek boxed set and did anybody find it please let me know because I really need that money which I lost

11:28am Nick from Indy:

"In Jandek we trust."

11:29am bobdoesthings:

YES! love this cover! clicky clicky!

11:30am still b/p:

I'm going to write it on my bitcoins.

11:32am MichelleinGreenBay:

This cover catches me off guard every time...

11:32am Chris M.:

this is amazing

11:32am f≡f≡ (:

Please send me all your bitcoins and I will play Jandek all day on my phone. I promise you I will play him. Really.

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11:32am Guido from Cologne:

Would you believe that Les Reines Prochaines are a SWISS band!
They are! Hard to believe but true!

11:32am bobdoesthings:

makes me think of the Amanda tapes irwin plays from time to time.. haha

11:32am rw:

This cover is pretty good. The guitar kind of makes it.

11:32am adrian in mpls:

click click click

11:33am P-90:

Is that Oogie from the Uncle Floyd Show singing Wicked Game?

11:33am mythopeic_industries:

beautiful drunk screaming

11:34am βrian:

I'm getting a hankering for goulash ...

11:34am Sem Chumbo:

So, if Kleenex is a Swiss word, the band is?

11:35am f≡f≡ (:

I once read a study that said that the Swiss are the most difficult Europeans to make friends with (i.e. Unless you met them when you were kids you have 0 chances they will accept your friendship).

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11:35am Guido from Cologne:

The band is!
Must that be said?
Love the track!

11:36am f≡f≡ (:

*ahem*

KLEEEENEEEEEEEXX!!!

Thanks, Ken! Great song.

11:37am adrian in mpls:

Hurray for Kleenex!

11:38am egal:

There is no life after Tori Amos.

11:38am Cheri Pi:

KLEEEEEEEENNNNNNNEEEEEEXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

11:40am natch!:

ahhhhhh, music!

11:40am brendan:

Ken have you ever played some of the 'numbers stations' shortwave broadcasts from the cold war. Just a series of numbers read . Kind of like sesame st on acid.

11:41am tadpoles:

Kleenex the Brand forced Kleenex the Band to change their name to Lilliput. Just as the Glaxo Babies were Gl*xo Babies because of the power of the Corporation!

11:41am northguineahills:

@f≡f≡ (: I have a friend who was born in Brooklyn, met a Swiss girl, and moved to Switzerland w/ her after they married.

11:41am holland oats:

ah, juicy fruit

11:41am f≡f≡ (:

There's Theatre after Tori Amos. That is, she made a theatre play and presented it in London quite recently.

11:42am MichelleinGreenBay:

Ahhhhhh...

11:44am βrian:

@Michelle: Do you put the stress on "bay" or on "green" when you pronounce the place name?

11:45am still b/p:

Another battle of the brands: John Wayne's family wants to market Duke Whiskey. Duke University is trying to say nuhh-uh!

11:46am listener mark:

Thank you Ken. This episode of your radio program was enjoyable and not in the least way irritating.

11:47am βrian:

Il Duce in a bottle.

11:47am f≡f≡ (:

northguineahills,

Thanks for pointing my sweeping generalisation out.

11:48am brendan:

I met a german girl in england who was going to school in France

11:48am egal:

I met my Frau in Germany. But she is American.

11:50am brendan:

Heres a porcupine tree song with a numbers station sampled at the end http://youtu.be/mRtWQkhyh24

11:50am Lizardner Dave:

Showers good. Fire bad.

11:50am listener mark:

What about the tides? When do we sail Captain!

11:51am bobdoesthings:

thanks ken! great show.

11:51am Mark S:

ooh the shipping forecast

11:51am Lizardner Dave:

Can you help me with my melons?

11:52am brendan:

The mammal baby rocks!

11:52am f≡f≡ (:

Did you know that the BBC shipping forecast radio message was interrupted for few minutes for the very first time like in a 100 years just three or four weeks ago ? Even some shipmen feared Britain was under a nuclear attack when they failed to hear the message. I promise you this is my last useless trivia fact...as for today.

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11:56am Guido from Cologne:

Peter Wahlbeck isn't SWISS!
He's dutch!
Holy crap!

11:56am Cecile:

BABy AnimAL

11:57am brendan:

Yeah baby

11:57am f≡f≡ (:

Peter Wahlbeck is from Sweden! I believe the baby animal is from Switzerland.

11:57am northguineahills:

Good fun Ken, Thanks!

11:58am brendan: