Whipping Post: Ken's show

Listener comments!

♥ 6:38am -Ken:

Morning Folks!

♥ 7:03am AnAnonymousParty:

Umm, well .... okay, morning. We'll see how it goes.

7:05am cory:

mornin all

7:43am Listener Robert:

Oh, that's a musical instrument! Until I read the GIF name, I'd thought it was a prosthesis for a cleft palate.

Took me half an hour to get that comment on, because I had to re-uninstall Norton Antivirus, which is a virus, which was restored unbidden to this computer after a recent OS refresh.

7:46am Listener Robert:

Can I take it the visual metaphor was inspired by Nachum's remarks to you?

♥ 8:06am Ken From Hyde Park:

For what it's worth, Drumpf is Time's Person of the Year. The perfect gift for the man who has everything.

♥ 8:26am AnAnonymousParty:

Am I the only one who thinks that, as a little boy, Trump got bullied on the playground after kids made fun of a bad haircut his mom gave him and he stormed off, yelling, "Oh yeah? Just wait, someday I'll be president and then you'll all be sorry!" ... and sure enough, 60 years later he's president, and now we're all sorry.

8:33am glenn:

of course i'm not a trump fan, but realistically, who else would be time's man of the year? and in honour of trump, could i request springtime for hitler?

♥ 8:44am -Ken:

Enough Trump talk y'all. Hold your fire until the revolution begins

♥ 8:45am -Ken:

Any other requests?

8:45am glenn:

steve earle. the revolution starts now.

♥ 8:49am pantz:

How about some Ween. Ken?

♥ 8:49am -Ken:

There we go. thanks

♥ 8:55am Ken From Hyde Park:

Howzabout some Frank Zappa, please?

♥ 8:56am AnAnonymousParty:

I'd like to hear Narada Michael Walden "Dance of Life", but only because I'm off work today.

8:58am glenn:

i was just watching frank zappa play the bicycle on the steve allen show.

9:02am melinda:

Morgen

♥ 9:03am Sem Chumbo:

Hiya, SM Ken,

♥ 9:03am doctorjazz:

I'll second the Steve Earle!

♥ 9:08am -Ken:

Oh My God really? Steve Earle?!

♥ 9:09am AnAnonymousParty:

At least I didn't ask for Kansas. Learned my lesson, that.

9:10am Losermom:

I just heard a great Killdozer tune - I am I said. Neil Diamond at the most listenable.

♥ 9:10am Asheville Jon:

how about some Michael Landon

♥ 9:12am -Ken:

Oh My God, Am I Here All Alone?

9:12am Mark Williams:

let's do Killdozer's cover of "When the Levee Breaks" for a change. People like change, right?

♥ 9:14am AnAnonymousParty:

I'd go for songs from guys (or gals) named Mike. Michael White "Red Planet", Michael Hedges "All Along the Watchtower", Michael Brecker "Itsbynne Reel", Michael Nelson "Patrick Swayze Christmas", things like that.

9:17am Losermom:

I'll say anything Killdozer, except for Knuckles, we've heard that one a lot.

♥ 9:19am Asheville Jon:

how about some RenElvis

♥ 9:20am Lizardner Dave:

Clarence Carter or Rush, either is fine.

9:20am Roberto:

I'll throw "You Get What You Give" out there again.

♥ 9:21am MD:

Good Morning All! Ken Ya Hear Me?

♥ 9:21am Asheville Jon:

I mean, he IS the Filipino Elvis

♥ 9:24am AnAnonymousParty:

Just added Ken to my list of folks to call when I'm naked.

♥ 9:25am Asheville Jon:

www.renelvis.com

♥ 9:29am -Ken:

Good morning MD~! I hear you.

9:31am JakeGould:

I just had an apple turnover. Horribly messy choice.

♥ 9:31am Asheville Jon:

tommorow is jim morrison's birthday. how about the rest of the show being bad doors songs or crappy doors covers

♥ 9:32am doctorjazz:

How about, "I Misunderstood", Richard Thompson?
(OK, I like those old folk rocker oldies...)

♥ 9:35am Dave in Vermont:

Do you have any field recordings of people clipping toe or finger nails?

♥ 9:36am doctorjazz:

This Schickert track actually reminds me (instrumentally) of Richard Thompson...

♥ 9:37am Ken From Hyde Park:

The 7SD graphic novel is coming along, you say?

9:40am Rarouse:

Mmm...that GIF, though

♥ 9:41am -Ken:

It is Ken from HP.

♥ 9:43am pantz:

Got any Richard Cheese?

♥ 9:44am AnAnonymousParty:

Got any String Cheese Incident?

♥ 9:46am -Ken:

One would never have guessed that Ken from HP's tongue would be that well maintained and limber, but there you go.

♥ 9:54am MD:

That Charlie is a Great Dancer!!!

9:54am βrian:

Damn, I just barely missed La Femme. I hope it's not fatale.

♥ 9:55am -Ken:

Those are his Karate moves, MD. You should see him dance! He moves like Joey Heatherton.

♥ 9:55am MD:

I don't know about yous guys...but I hate whan my face explodes and shoots out Purple smoke!!!!

9:56am βrian:

That gif: Free your mind, and your ass will follow.

♥ 9:56am MD:

Charles's been out of the news these Daze!?!?! I wonder if he is still writing songs?

♥ 9:58am MD:

That last GIF works with the song!!! Great job!!!

♥ 9:58am AnAnonymousParty:

That's weird, I always look forward to the purple smoke. Diff'rent strokes, I guess. Life's funny like that.

9:58am Paul D:

Hello! so is JM in the AM off in the mornings now?

9:59am Listener142985:

Joey Heatherton + Lance Rentzel = bliss

9:59am themutante:

Love this, Free-Dum thing. Brilliant!

9:59am alias pail:

nice! has fishmans chill vibe

♥ 10:00am -Ken:

Yes, Paul, that is correct.

♥ 10:00am AnAnonymousParty:

Now is the time on Sprockets when we DAN.CE!

10:01am Paul D:

interesting! Sad to lose the funding but should be exciting to see whats new in the morning.

10:03am Polyus:

All those noses, singing out as one.

♥ 10:03am Barney Grubbs:

pickups for noseflutes! nose-flute.blogspot.com...

10:04am βrian:

I wonder if there is meant to be a comma after "Ogre." I guess Ogre could be a verb, but ...

10:05am fxo:

Goob Morning, Ken. Thanks for the daily tweets.

10:05am lucy:

I believe it's from Revenge of the Nerds, the character Ogre comes on stage near the end and says that.

10:05am Jeff:

WFMU Soldiers of the Nose-Flute:

www.flickr.com...

10:06am Sam:

You're playing with fire Ken!

10:06am Sam:

You're risking pissing off all your big donors!

10:08am Sam:

How about Andy sends the email, and then he has a team of winged monkeys that tries to stop Ken from unsending it. There could be a lot of tickling involved.

10:08am Paul D:

i wish yo la tengo would do another new years eve show

♥ 10:10am pantz:

I don't think you get as many as 10 seconds, Ken. Might want to test that before you offend everyone you know.

♥ 10:12am -Ken:

I agree Pantz - How much time do I get?

10:13am Rarouse:

I have mine set to be able to "undo" messages for 30 seconds, you go into settings

10:14am Nick from Indy:

It looks like a Monty Python's Gumby dance off. The guy on the right is the winner.

♥ 10:15am pantz:

Yes, it's in Gmail settings. Not sure what the default is.

10:16am Rarouse:

Click enable Undo, then toggle to 30 seconds

10:16am pocket vito:

Ooh, set it to like an hour, but don't tell Andy! Then you can act all nonchalant and he won't understand.

10:17am Rarouse:

30 seconds is the most that Gmail allows. Prolly with good reasons. HesusChristo agrees.

♥ 10:18am melinda:

Foreign language JCS, yes!

♥ 10:18am Sem Chumbo:

That's one mucho malo Judas.

10:19am pocket vito:

It's hard to imagine this being sung by actual non-muppets at this point

10:19am Losermom:

I must say that you playing the Muppets Jesus Christ Superstar completely transformed my kids. They are in complete awe that such a thing exists. WFMU converts. I hope they someday find solace in this chat board, as I often do.

10:27am Nick from Indy:

KILLDOZER! "You gotta be a man, to be a man, to be a man..."

10:29am Nick from Indy:

Laibach "sympathy for the devil" next please

♥ 10:29am AnAnonymousParty:

Killed the guitar solo!

♥ 10:31am MD:

He had to die before all his prophesies came to BE!!!!

10:31am themutante:

Nose flute!

♥ 10:31am MD:

In the Future....
Things are sliding now!!!

♥ 10:31am dale:

i like leonard cohen's old stuff, but this asthmatic croaking!

♥ 10:32am Asheville Jon:

losermom: my kids like FMU, and my youngest began posting on the chatboard when she was 4

10:34am Roberto:

ScheisseCohen!

10:34am Losermom:

Ashville Jon, my kids check out the boards but don't post. They shy from social media as a statement on today's youth culture. We'll see how long that lasts . . . .

10:35am Rarouse:

Hey Asheville Jon, I'm in Asheville, too. Howdy neighbor

10:35am themutante:

Skills with nose flute, Ken.

♥ 10:35am pantz:

Is that St Gabriel's noseflute I hear? The end is nigh!

♥ 10:35am Sem Chumbo:

@ dale: Leonard won best vocalist of the year Juno in Canada some years ago. He accepted and wondered aloud about the vocal abilities of Canucks generally:-D

♥ 10:35am -Ken:

I like Leonard Cohen's asthmatic croaking. That old stuff makes him sound like Kenny Rankin or sumthun

♥ 10:36am dale:

ken is EASILY a level three nasal flautist.

♥ 10:36am Asheville Jon:

Hey Rarouse. nice to see a neighbor. if you see a white gmc safari van with a WFMU sticker on the driver side rear window, that's me. I'm usually in the west asheville area...

10:36am Listener142985:

white men dancing can be unsightly

♥ 10:36am MD:

Ken...My question is....are there problems with Booger clogs...???

♥ 10:37am Asheville Jon:

losermom: my daughter rarely posts, but does thank a "dj" if they play something she likes

10:37am Canadians:

Oh yah, we've been self-conscious about our voices ever since, eh?

♥ 10:38am MD:

Thank you Satan...For LAIBACH!!!

10:38am Nick from Indy:

YES!

♥ 10:39am Yvang:

Perfect soundtrack for inauguration day.

10:39am (Murakami Whywolf))):

In performance, I believe Cohen replaced 'anal sex' with 'aimless sex' because, I'm guessing, he decided that anal sex qua anal sex weren't something reprehensible.

10:40am Nick from Indy:

I really think that Billy Laughlin was not killed in a truck accident. It was a cover up. Froggy is really the singer in Laibach.

♥ 10:41am AnAnonymousParty:

Ohh! ooh! Is your name Timmy? Is it? Is it? Did I win?

10:41am (Murakami Whywolf))):

Ken: links to the gigantic, gigantic, big-big images I missed? Thanks.

10:42am Losermom:

Asheville Jon, teaching her right.

10:43am The Devil:

Yeah, my name is Timmy. You win.

10:45am Roberto:

Timelessly good advice from the Mickster.

10:48am Losermom:

WOW

10:48am Jack:

It sounds like Mr. Bill!

10:49am Roberto:

Ken, you should always back announce via scheisseflote.

10:49am Listener142985:

Yale boys get boisterous about anal sex. Enough said.

10:49am βrian:

That slab o' dead meat is nearly the shape of Wisconsin.

10:50am PortableAnarchy:

Digiridoo players use circular breathing

♥ 10:50am AnAnonymousParty:

Wha ... I thought Wisconsin was made of cheese?

10:51am Rarouse:

Asheville Jon I'm in the Silver Odyssey minivan with the WFMU stickers and a Roswell NM sticker on the back. I'll wave if I see you. I tell everyone about WFMU here, little do the locals know...

10:53am Listener Robert:

I recently learned the broadcasting jargon for the interim programming you're doing 6-9 AM: stunting.

And if someone complains about your saying JM in the AM is no longer on the air, stand on the technical distinction between "on the air" and "on the wire".

10:54am Jeff:

Nose Flutes Over Berlin!

10:54am Neil deGrasse Tyson:

It's true, Wisconsin IS made mostly of cheese, remnants of the giant asteroid that smashed into the Earth and later formed the moon billions, and billions of years ago.

10:55am NotARealDoctor:

Has anyone suggested the titles Kay-en in the AM or Muppet Christ and the Magical Nose Flute?

♥ 10:55am -Ken:

No Robert, we are not stunting.

10:56am (Murakami Whywolf))):

Jeff:
That's the literal translation; the official English name is "Noseflutes of Desire".

10:56am Carl Sagan:

Cut it out Neil, "billions and billions" was my schtick.

10:57am themutante:

Nose Flute Kegger

10:57am dave:

this is very ELO ish...

10:57am (((Murakami Whywolf):

Who'd suggest an unseemly name like 'Dingo and the Baby'?

♥ 10:58am dale:

i thought it was bowie-like.

♥ 10:58am foofs:

A two-way noseflute shouldn't be hard to rig. One nostril in, one out, kind of thing.

But I suppose that's a bit unwieldy for a programme name.

♥ 10:59am -Ken:

You're right, Murakami - "Nose Flute Kegger with Dingo and The Baby" has a very nice ring to it.

10:59am McDonalds:

Mr. Sagan and Mr. Tyson, you'll both be receiving C&D letters from our attorneys shortly.

♥ 11:00am ironybread:

Little-known fact: Neil DeGrasse Tyson recently reviewed the new "Everything You Know Is Wrong" DVD by Firesign Theatre by saying "Obviously EVERYTHING you know isn't wrong, that's an exaggeration." This is little-known because it is completely made-up garbage

♥ 11:00am ironybread:

You can forward me the C&D via A Chinese Surplus Music Deal, Burbank

11:02am Murakami Whywolf)))):

N.d.G.T.: The late Sir Terry Pratchett's solicitor would like a word with you.

11:03am JakeGould:

I love the heroin addicts needle song!

11:03am Chris M.:

this is the catchiest one i've heard by this guy yet.

11:03am Tony Mason Cox:

Wait, I'm not Gordon Thomas?

11:04am pocket vito:

Not to split hairs, but don't you inject heroin into your arteries, not your veins?

♥ 11:05am MD:

The United States of Addiction...weather it be The Celebrity Apprentice or Dope...

♥ 11:05am pantz:

Oh that's from Gervaise's Extras! Such a hilarious scene. Bowie has a good sense of humor. Was there anything he couldn't do?

11:05am ((((Murakami Whywolf:

ironybread:
Also little known: 9 November, Neil deGrasse Tyson explained that for much of the electorate, 'their brains are not the boss'.

11:10am themutante:

Love that V & S track. Hint of Bjork/Matmos to it.

11:11am (Murakami Whywolf))):

Hmmm, when I signed-in via the link in the 'Comments' pane, it lasted for only a couple of comments, the I lost my nym's highlighting and had to do arithmetic to comment. Signed-in now from the largest pane, let's see….

♥ 11:11am -Ken:

Thanks Herr mutante. I love that track too..

11:12am ?:

Still can't figure out how you WFMU DJedis do this?... Impressive...Most Impressive!

♥ 11:15am AnAnonymousParty:

"Later, we'll be paging Mr. Herman . . ."

11:15am JakeGould:

Billboard's Optimism charts are fixed.

♥ 11:16am dale:

no good stuff on the shortwave like this anymore.

11:17am Polyus:

I want to hear a chord so dark that no light can escape it.

11:18am (Murakami Whywolf))):

Tony Mason Cox:
Veins are more typical, though many evidently start kind of randomly and shallow ('skin-popping', supposedly slang fifty years ago). People with collapsed veins, people trying to get stuff immediately to their brains, and incompetents do hit arteries, but it's evidently very easy to get wrong, that's a lot of pressure against which to work.

11:18am Roberto:

Oh goody, my Dokaka request from two weeks ago is here!

♥ 11:18am AnAnonymousParty:

It was only a matter of time before Los Angeles acquiesced to Bobby McFerrin's plea.

11:19am Carmichael:

This Dokaka more than makes up for your crappy flute playing.

11:20am (Murakami Whywolf))):

Oops, that hype stuff was in response to 'pocket vito', not 'Tony Mason Cox'. I blame the heroin.

11:21am Cheri Pi:

I missed the crappy flute playing, please repeat until I'm satisfied.

11:21am Listener Robert:

Ken, is there some negative connotation to "stunting"? Another DJ on these comment lines also denied that's what you were doing, but it seems to fit quite well the description in the Wikipedia entry,

♥ 11:22am -Ken:

Robert, there is no stunting - the web only 6-9am slots took over. In what way is that a stunt? Playing all Led Zeppelin, THAT'S a stunt.

♥ 11:23am AnAnonymousParty:

No, that's a prank.

♥ 11:24am Ike:

It's not stunting because it's the regular programming from before JM in the AM left. True, it was usually web-only before, but not when there were major Jewish holidays.

11:24am Carmichael:

Zappa has a great live version of Whipping Post.

♥ 11:24am -Ken:

Thank you for the manplanation Ike. I didnt have it in me

♥ 11:25am Ike:

Stunting is usually the same as pranking (the same song again and again for 72 hours), or a temporary format, often something silly or attention-grabbing (one big NYC commercial station went all-Broadway for several days as a stunt in the 90s).

11:25am Listener142985:

at this speed ''mountain jam'' would take all weekend

11:26am Chris M.:

this is great

11:26am Cheri Pi:

NICE

11:26am themutante:

Who knows? Ken, NOSE!

♥ 11:26am MD:

The nose That Nose!!! KNOW WHAT I MEAN???

♥ 11:28am PMD:

I wonder how many times the web only people have had to use the dump button since they aren't used to having to worry about it.

11:28am Hams:

somehow it's more rockin' slowed down.

♥ 11:28am AnAnonymousParty:

At his speed you can really hear the whistle that is usually lost in the mix .

11:28am themutante:

Nailed it! #KenNose

11:29am Seanbelly:

I just said aloud, 'It's whipping post slowed down with a nose whistle, duh.'

11:29am Parq:

< holds up match, very slowly >

♥ 11:30am Rich in Washington:

this subtly slowed down song reminds me that last night i was watching someone's upload of Decline of the Western Civilization on YouTube. For copyright cop evasion reasons, they cranked the speed up on it just slightly. I am so intimately familiar with its soundtrack - due to listening to it incessantly as a teenager - so it drove me nuts.
But I was too lazy to dig up my DVD and stick it in a player.

11:31am JakeGould:

@Ike: Hey! Suddenly with "JM
in the AM" off the air, there are pirates in Kensington broadcasting Yiddish stuff. Up in the high 100s. http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/39/50/dtg-kensington-jewish-pirate-radio-2016-12-09-bk.html

♥ 11:32am pantz:

Ween! Ween! Ween! for my Spleen! Spleen! Spleen!

♥ 11:33am Rich in Washington:

That's amazing, JakeGould!

11:34am Bronwyn Bishop:

Hi Ken, hi everyone!

♥ 11:36am Irwin:

Tony Mason-Cox is not listening. He died about 10 years ago.

11:37am pocket vito:

You can't get more old school than an old school bus!

11:37am Roberto:

It was worth it.

11:37am themutante:

Keep tootin' und flootin' Ken!

♥ 11:38am Sem Chumbo:

Any plans for presenting Die Zauber (Nose) flöte at Monty Hall?

♥ 11:38am Ike:

Wow, thanks Jake. Good article, but Mr. Shultis didn't seem to know that there's two long-time Jewish Orthodox pirates at 88.7 (in Hebrew) and 95.1 (mostly in English) in southern Brooklyn. Brooklyn Pirate Watch could've told him that.

♥ 11:38am MD:

@ Dale...I still listen to Radio Australia on 9580KHZ...and China is everywhere...that listening should heat up real soon!!!

♥ 11:38am -Ken:

Trust me Irwin, Tony is listening/

♥ 11:39am Asheville Jon:

THE WORLD IS HALF DEAD!

♥ 11:40am MD:

The world is HALF BAKED!!!

11:41am Listener Robert:

Ken & Ike, maybe you should edit the Wikipedia entry Stunting_(broadcasting) to draw the distinction you're making.

♥ 11:41am ironybread:

The Half and the Half Not!

♥ 11:41am AnAnonymousParty:

Well, I'm confused. I thought the optimists thought the world was half living while the pessimists thought the world was half dead. So it's really the other way around?

11:41am FƢFƢ (:

Hi, Ken, people!

I'm so late today! Well, I guess it's time to catch up!

TONY MASOOON COOOX!
SCHLAMPEITZIGEEEEEEEEEEEER!!!
CAMILOOO SESSTOOOOOOO!!!
LAIBAAAAACH!!!
JOKERFAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!
DAAAN WILSOOOON (NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH THE OTHER DAAN WILSOOOON!!!!!)
and of course...
POOOOOREESSSSTTT!!!

11:42am Listening Out There:

The Hello World is half optimistic...too much kulture...

♥ 11:43am -Ken:

Oh my God f0f0 we have missed you so much! Im so relieved you are here. I am serious.

♥ 11:43am MD:

cULTURE cLUB!!!

11:44am Losermom:

Is that GWB's Putin portrait?

♥ 11:45am MD:

Yo I am DOWN WIT CULTURE!!!

11:45am geezerette:

canned chicken!

11:45am pocket vito:

He say go to hell
And the cheeken go to hell
Everybody go to hell

♥ 11:47am MD:

HAVE A FEAR WIT BEER!!!

11:48am FƢFƢ (:

I'd like to nominate Porest's 'Modern Journal of Popular Savagery' for the Album of the Year 2016. And Optimized's 'Parallel Broadcasts' the Best Track of the Year 2016.

♥ 11:48am MD:

I like chocolate and Lemon Ices!!!

11:48am Listener Robert:

Ken & Ike, maybe you should edit the Wikipedia entry Stunting_(broadcasting) to draw the distinction you're making.

♥ 11:48am Marcel M:

Hahaha... ISIS in W Burg.

Hi Ken.

11:49am FƢFƢ (:

Oh, thanks, Ken!

11:49am geezerette:

democracy,love it and leave it. daily negation.
I feel so much worser! :)

♥ 11:49am Ike:

Wikipedia is good... for my cat to poop on.

♥ 11:50am AnAnonymousParty:

And I think this is what the first AI radio station might sound like.

11:50am geezerette:

hahaha

11:51am Parq:

Porest - the wonder of it all.

♥ 11:53am ironybread:

My comments on this message board enhance the national conversation

11:53am geezerette:

O.K. Yeah. Ha Ha Ha.

11:53am themutante:

Anarchy is wrong, but democracy is wronger.

♥ 11:54am pantz:

Thanks for the Ween, Ken. You da man!

♥ 11:54am courtneynoir:

I did not get any work done during that Porest bit. Just sat there and stared at my computer...

♥ 11:54am Rich in Washington:

Porest sort of reminds me of Xavier Renegade Angel. I am not sure why. Maybe the text-to-speech voices are someone analogous to the intentionally crappy CGI of that show.

11:55am pocket vito:

I spent a year immersed in yogurt so I could try to understand yogurt culture.

♥ 11:55am ironybread:

Freedom is sticky

11:56am themutante:

What doth life, Rich?

♥ 11:56am Rich in Washington:

Liiiffee!

11:57am Brendan:

I studied the subculture of mold growth in submarines .

♥ 11:57am Rich in Washington:

I keep watching that show hoping it'll break my brain and self-generate new episodes out of my dying synapses.

11:57am FƢFƢ (:

courtneynoir,

That's the power of Porest! Isn't his work fantastic?

♥ 11:58am Rich in Washington:

It took me a while but the Porest thing grew on me like bacteria culture in a petri dish.

11:59am FƢFƢ (:

Perhaps Porest use of the text-to-speech was inspired by the Ken' routine because People Like Us rerfers to it as Andy's voice in her interview with Porest.

♥ 11:59am Rich in Washington:

Thanks, Ken!
DOWN WITH CULTURE!

11:59am (Murakami Whywolf))):

I'm actually down with Down With Culture. A lot of traditional culture is kruft or worse.

And for all of democracy's flaws, don't you wish you lived in more of one? (Note: I say all this even though Mr Soros' cheque is late this week.)

♥ 11:59am -Ken:

Bye everybody! Thanks for hanging

12:00pm FƢFƢ (:

Thanks, Ken, people! Till next episode!

12:00pm Losermom:

GREAT SHOW!!