WFMU: This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from January 12, 2017

Listener comments!
	9:02am annie: morning, trouble!!
	♥ 9:03am Trouble: good grey morning, world!
	♥ 9:04am MD: Good Morning T...and Pepsi fans out there...XO!
	9:04am Cliff in Prague: I hate Pepsi.
	♥ 9:07am Trouble: i am sorry to have to tell you, i fear ken has lost his mind... just saying
	♥ 9:07am rebuketodali: Gorgeous art today, Trouble!
	♥ 9:07am MD: That's why we love him so!!!
	♥ 9:08am MD: Ken...Our Ken...Our Fearless Leader...!!!
	♥ 9:09am MD: Creating FMU Fans...one Commuter at a time!!!
	9:09am sugarwolf: Hello!!
	♥ 9:09am Ken From Hyde Park: Who's up for a nice cold, refreshing Pepsi! I know I am, for some strange reason.
	9:10am Bronwyn Bishop: hi trouble and everyone!
	♥ 9:13am Sem Chumbo: Hello, and good morning, Trouble, and Modern folk.
	♥ 9:19am Trouble: this morning's artwork is by belkis ayon.
	♥ 9:20am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Home for some Trouble ! ...Surely Ken has long been an Insane Genius...
	9:27am Rev. Turnip Druid: FOKES!
	9:27am Rev. Turnip Druid: GAK. Missed GenKen; Must now punch self INNAFACE. With bonus punchy. It's been a while.
	9:31am kevlicki: Morning trouble and all.
	9:38am sphere: hi folks
	9:38am Hugh: quell here y til (auto correct)
	♥ 9:39am Webhamster Henry: $300 is a little stiff for strings, but if they can fix the pegs if they are uncooperative, it might be worth it!
	9:39am meredith: Whaaaat? $300 for cello strings? Maybe the high school tennis team can help you out and give you a better price. :D. Dang. Our kids and their expensive hobbies.
	9:40am Bronwyn Bishop: WORD, trouble!
	♥ 9:41am Planet Tyler: Polls show most people dont want the ACA repealed - they only want it appealed when it's called "Obamacare." LOL, but not LOL
	♥ 9:41am Planet Tyler: repealed dang I need coffee
	9:41am Chris from DC: Cellos in general are really expensive. A good bow can cost a lot too.
	♥ 9:42am Planet Tyler: and by ACA i meant Affordable Cello Act
	♥ 9:43am Ken From Hyde Park: Instead of "Repeal Obamacare," they should be forced to refer to it as "Tax cuts for billionaires while cutting off healthcare for millions of Americans."
	♥ 9:44am Trouble: maybe if we called it republocare they would let it stay
	9:45am kevlicki: What blows my mind is why would any insurance company want to repeal healthcare it's a shitload of subsidies for them!
	9:45am Terry NB: Thank you for speaking up for affordable care - big rally in support of it at Columbia on Sunday. Also town hall in Jersey City, meeting with Senators Booker and Menendez and others in Newark, and more! We are waking up and fighting back. Lets do this!! More at https://berniesanders.com/ourfirststand/
	♥ 9:46am steveo: yay, it's Trouble-day!
	♥ 9:46am Planet Tyler: There's a good chance Obamacare will stay simply because that ship of fools dont know how to get things done in govt
	9:47am g: affordable? my premium for a policy with a 6k deductible is 500 a month. that's for one person. call it what it is... by force of law my premiums and deductibles allow the working poor free healthcare. these people do not HAVE health insurance, they were GIVEN health insurance. big difference.
	9:48am Terry NB: Dear Planet Tyler - unfortunately that's what they said repeatedly about Adolf Hitler and the Nazis between 1923 and 1940.
	9:49am Bronwyn Bishop: the problem with listening to fmu at work is that there's always an amazing song that comes on right when i have to get up from my desk.
	9:50am Terry NB: Don't blame ACA for rising costs. Health care costs more than tripled between 1990 and 2012. Hyperinflation is a complex topic in healthcare but one thing universally agreed on was that the initial effects of ACA were to reduce the rate of inflation.
	♥ 9:53am Planet Tyler: @Terry - Really? I mean I agree it looks like 1933 Germany in many ways. Didn't know that thou. Damn AND RIGHT - ACA hasn't caused rising premiums - is everyone's memory so short that they don't remember it rising like crazy every year anyway? ACA at least puts a limit on how much of the premium can be JUST profit
	♥ 9:53am Trouble: check out salary increases for ceo's in the healthcare industry over the last 15 years, staggering
	♥ 9:55am Planet Tyler: The salary increases of every CEO in every industry over the last 15 years has been disgraceful...
	9:55am g: @TerryNB: how do you tease apart ACA & inflation? is it inflation that causes an insurer to withdraw from a market?
	9:58am Kurt: Is $800/mo for a $10K deductible plan affordable? It was $400 3 years ago. Where is the affordable in ACA?
	9:58am g: @Trouble: sum the compensation of every health insurance CEO and compare that number to the 18% of GDP spent on healthcare.
	10:00am Terry NB: You look at the rising costs of medications (this past year there have been several medications of questionable effectiveness approved at a cost of $500K to $1M/year). Hospital costs keep rising and now average $5K to more than $10K/day (why not just stay at Trump Tower - cheaper BOB:Y). ACA caps insurance overhead at 15% - several insurers were much higher previously.
	♥ 10:01am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Health Care is reportedly fully 1/6th of the total U.S. Economy. Obama wasn't gonna get all he wanted from that Big Money cartel (Insurance, Big Pharma). Watch PBS's 'Frontline' called 'Obama's Deal' to see what went down : www.pbs.org... Every other Developed Nation has figured out that a.) Health Care is expensive, & b.) Everyone will need it! The great USA is the global lagwagon here - as we increasingly are in most critical issues... ...& it was RomneyCare in Mass. first anyhow - so it was RepubliCare, in fact...Can you say 'obstruction' ?...People have tried to get something - anything done on this since I think Teddy Roosevelt fergawdsake...If Human Beings don't see Health Care as a Right, but only a moneyed Privilege - then take your Capitalism @ All Costs & shove it where the cancer grows. It don't work - not for you & me.
	♥ 10:03am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...there's medicine people get from Canada for 1/10th the price it is in the U.S. - c'mon already...
	10:03am g: @TerryNB: would you like to make 15% on 100,000 or 15% on 10,000,000 ?
	♥ 10:06am Priscilla: Dove
	10:06am Roberto: Paloma = Dove
	♥ 10:07am Planet Tyler: @ Revolution - and before it was Romneycare it was something the Heritage Foundation cooked up when the Clintons were threatened single-payer. I always found it amusing that the Republicans opposed it so since it was absolutely Republicare!
	10:07am βrian: Paloma = the nice woman who lives down the street.
	10:07am Roberto: Coincidentally, I'm feeling a bit ghebleh today.
	10:09am annie: also- paloma=dove
	10:09am g: let's go to the mattresses in the name of dem/repub. that always makes the conversation clear and accurate.
	10:11am Bronwyn Bishop: what a great album (well, compilation) title.
	♥ 10:13am steveo: current status: leaning back on my radio oh-oh.
	♥ 10:13am Planet Tyler: O boy CC doing Bowie. I'm glad I didnt know this before!
	10:14am Chris from DC: Huh, yeah, never knew this existed.
	♥ 10:14am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The Gingrich-Karl Rove 'Republican Revolution' was a major turning point in ending functioning cooperative bipartisan government. The Dems tried to play along & deal w/ the NeoCons & became NeoLiberals. There is no 'Left' & there is no 'Center' in U.S. politics. There is increasingly only Up & Down : as George Carlin said - it's a small club - & we ain't in it. Keeping us healthy is simply not in their interests - sucking capital out of the working & poor is.
	♥ 10:15am steveo: CC appears to be from 1999
	♥ 10:15am Whosondephone: Not bad. But I'll only allow David Bowie to record this song.
	10:19am egal: Kim is lord.
	10:19am sphere: actually, has anybody ever covered a Bowie song successfully? i'm trying to recall....
	♥ 10:20am Andrew Waterloo: Nirvana did a great job of The Man Who Sold The World
	10:20am sphere: they did.
	♥ 10:22am Passaic River Blues: So lovely!
	♥ 10:23am Webhamster Henry: Seu Jorge's Bowie covers are worthy.
	10:24am βrian: Hey, I have a cocotte!
	♥ 10:24am Priscilla: Seu Jorge
	10:24am g: @RevolutionRabbit: is there no way that all of the doctors, nurses, clerks & technicians can't sell their services to people in need of them?
	10:25am egal: @sphere Kerenn Ann - Life on Mars?
	♥ 10:25am Webhamster Henry: Great audio spelunking today, Trouble!
	♥ 10:26am Planet Tyler: Ah, the real deal thank dawg
	10:27am meredith: Ah yeah, thanks for the Bowie. 1 year later :(
	♥ 10:27am tadpoles: Bowie did tons of great covers of others songs.
	♥ 10:28am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: @g: How can people become Professionals w/ inescapable life-long student debt? The U.S. has this pathological fear of Socialism - but we are a Society.
	10:28am Bronwyn Bishop: i love his jacques brel covers.
	♥ 10:28am Trouble: Bowie, always ahead of his time "Someone to claim us, someone to follow Someone to shame us, some brave Apollo Someone to fool us, someone like you We want you, Big Brother Big Brother!"
	10:29am Parq: Bowie at his most traditionally theatrical. Way more Anthony Newly than Elvis in this performance.
	♥ 10:29am Planet Tyler: Bowie's best cover is Im Waiting for the Man. Lou's version is about heroin, but Bowie's is about sex for sure!
	10:29am Chris from DC: Chameleons did a good version of John I'm Only Dancing.
	♥ 10:30am Planet Tyler: @Trouble - well, Diamond Dogs was going to be called 1984 cos he based it on the book
	♥ 10:31am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: @tadpoles: 'Pin-Ups'! That was important in informing before everything became more accessible. 'Diamond Dogs' self-produced. An album or two every year - he was cycling thru styles & sound so rapidly...
	♥ 10:31am cosmic matrix: you just woke my ass UP with one of my FAVORITE SONGS!!!!! thanks
	10:31am meredith: Oh! I didn't know that @Planet Tyler!!
	♥ 10:32am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...always say - most struggle to just write songs - Bowie put short stories into Pop...& it sold!...
	10:32am g: @RevolutionRabbit: from each according to ability, to each according to need. if you have more ability than need, then show us all how it's done; you first.
	10:35am Bronwyn Bishop: i highly approve of this song
	10:35am upsetter5001: Revolution rabbit at 10:14 is so right.
	♥ 10:35am Planet Tyler: @Meredith - and then there's the 1980-Floor Show. Tacky and brilliant at the same time. Probably on youtube somewhere
	10:36am upsetter5001: Good morning Modern World!
	♥ 10:37am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: @g: Each relies on Society - Education, Health, the Justice system. It's clear we all have to grow up & become more involved in governing ourselves - & can no longer take the enterprise of American Democracy for granted. I don't claim to have more ability than need - but I don't think I'm exceptional in that - or that we should be divided & isolated into submission - w/out representation. Bernie Sanders: 'Not me - us!'
	♥ 10:40am Greg from ZONE 5: They are indeed. Morning, Trouble & people!
	10:44am jamesie: checking in, motivated by Stevie! xxx
	10:44am blee: STEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVVVVVIIIIIIIIIEEEEEE!
	10:47am g: @RevolutionRabbit: yes. there are things that are factored out (socialized, if you will): fire dept, military, police, ASTM standards, roads, FAA, power easements, primary education, public health, etc. there is a never-silent choir that insists that the government dictate how people associate. if there is a scarcity of healthcare providers then explore the issue... don't cry for the government.
	10:51am sphere: @g - some problems are systemic and require the government to handle them. i think health care is one of those problems.
	10:52am βrian: Qawwali takes me back to the halcyon years ...
	10:54am Rev. Turnip Druid: great stuff, th'qawwali. Infinite thanks.
	♥ 10:54am Andrew Waterloo: Explore the issue, write books about it, complain during tea time. Eventually the problem will be fixed by someone.
	10:55am βrian: So the first order of business is creating tea time, then.
	10:57am g: @sphere: i can respect that opinion. (disclaimer: i've worked in biotech and healthcare for years, but not now). my opinion is that the government does not try to solve problems of efficiency. the government redistributes wealth... and at all cost.
	10:57am Gary Kahn: That last song was great. Love the Stevie Wonder -> qwalli. The artist should be Najma Khanum.
	♥ 10:59am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: @g: Scarcity isn't the issue as such - paying for Health Care is. Free Enterprise is great for some things - but not for others. When 1/10th of 1% own more than the rest of us combined - we can only speak of a 'Free Market' if engaging in Orwellian doublespeak. Criticizing struggling individuals who are trying to understand & articulate the societal collapse around them is victim blaming - relying on the American Dream of the New World pioneers & rugged individualism that expired before Teddy Roosevelt busted the railroad barons - @ least since the post-war prosperity faltered under too many right-wing assaults by the greedheads. ...That's good AndrewW!...We matter, I think. Tea sounds good. @g: Money doesn't automatically equal efficiency - that's true. I think a more fundamenta; issue is that they're trying to sell us the nightmare that isn't enuff wealth & it's our fault somehow. That - is a lie.
	♥ 11:00am cosmic matrix: also movies kinda suck nowadays, but hey
	11:00am βrian: "L'enfer, c'est l'autre radio."
	11:01am βrian: Sounds like kitty ate the bird.
	♥ 11:01am Rich in Washington: I was listening to WFMU when Bowie passed and watched it play out via listener/DJ comments. It DOES seem like it was just weeks ago.
	♥ 11:01am Webhamster Henry: What are you feeding those birds?
	11:01am Bill W: hail tiger
	♥ 11:03am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'Loyalty is valuable - but our lives are valuable too.' - Bowie
	♥ 11:06am Passaic River Blues: Thank you for the reading, Trouble. I love serendipitous textual discovery!
	11:06am g: @RevolutionRabbit: why does supply/demand work for every other occupation but care providers? and, wealth is not a sum of money... it is not a zero sum entity. wealth is the freedom to pursue your interests... provided they do not infringe on another's freedom to pursue their interests. faith in government is misplaced. work on yourself and help your friends... nobody else cares about you.
	♥ 11:06am Planet Tyler: @ Revolution - "We'll get by, I suppose"
	♥ 11:07am Planet Tyler: It's a very MODERN WORLD
	♥ 11:08am Planet Tyler: I just made the connection Trouble lol
	♥ 11:12am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: @g: Who's wealthy enuff for Health Care? Lots of people you know? If the Free Market is a Natural State - can I pay for Health Care w/ oak leaves? Or even honest labor 40hrs./week? No - money is created & regulated by its' very existence. So - how is it working for us? How is it a Free Market when wealth is concentrated in the oligarchy? Go ahead - try & start a business - we'll own you anyhow - your rent, your customer's incomes, your resources to run...In a sense we may agree - in believing most Institutions - as they are - have run their course in real usefulness to us...
	11:13am Chris from DC: Digging this Annette Peacock a lot.
	11:15am g: @RevolutionRabbit: what is your cure for free markets and free association ?
	♥ 11:16am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'Work on yourself...nevermind the state of Health Care - the Economy - Jobs - Education - the water & the air & the climate - the future - the Police' - nobody is impacted by that stuff!...Because - 'nobody else cares about you' - & that's the crux of the biscuit - isn't it?
	♥ 11:17am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Free Association is guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Surrealist Manifesto.
	11:19am Bill W: My Hardy-like discovery of the past week is that Gloria Steinem worked for the CIA.
	11:20am g: @RevolutioRabbit: no, the crux is that the powerful elite (the government) never have & never will care about you. they will not solve your problems for you. the saddest thing is the reflex answer: ' the government will take care of it for me'.
	♥ 11:21am Trouble: good morning and what @ bill w!? where did you read that?
	11:21am steve: hi Trouble! enjoying the show.
	♥ 11:23am Trouble: thanks @ steve!
	♥ 11:27am Planet Tyler: @g - the Govt is NOT the wealthy elite! It's been infiltrated by them but that is not the purpose of govt and I think we all know it wont take care of anyone very well.
	11:27am Bill W: I don't remember, Trouble, but you can read about it here and other links from Steinem's Wikipedia page. http://indiafacts.org/religious-crusades-cia/
	11:28am Bronwyn Bishop: Mina singing Morricone = the best!
	♥ 11:29am Trouble: i just read her 'my life on on the road' memoir and i don't remeber her mentioning it then, wow
	11:29am g: @RevolutionRabbit: i ask: besides voting, what have you done to address the issues you speak of? have you trained in medical science or criminal justice or education? have you reduced your consumption of fossil fuels, plastics, water & non-seasonal foods? if not, who will you force to do these things?
	11:31am Bill W: For those interested, there is a protest against the now-ongoing GOP gutting of healthcare Sunday at 12:30 at the Trump Hotel in Columbus Circle. Join Rise & Resist at 1 Central Park West on the park side of the hotel for a protest to tell Trump, Ryan and Price to not destroy our healthcare!
	11:33am Bill W: Wiki: "Though she acknowledged having worked for the CIA-financed foundation in the late 1950s and early 1960s in interviews given to the New York Times and Washington Post in 1967 in the wake of the Ramparts magazine CIA exposures (nearly two years before Steinem attended her first Redstockings or feminist meeting), Steinem in 1975 denied any continuing involvement."
	♥ 11:36am Uncle Michael: Have to step up and thank you for playing this Googoosh!
	11:37am Chud: I can't help but hear Matt Berry's ADBC
	♥ 11:37am Planet Tyler: Yeah, the Googosh is great.............
	11:43am steve: wow great set. looove Basheeba. i gotta tune in more often.
	11:46am sphere: trouble is one of my fave shows.
	♥ 11:47am Priscilla: Oh man! I remember this one!
	♥ 11:47am steveo: that riff again...
	11:47am Bronwyn Bishop: im glad that heaven on their minds, which is one of the greatest musical theatre songs of all time and made me say WOW! the first time i heard it, gets so much love on fmu.
	♥ 11:47am Webhamster Henry: Nice - I was getting tired of the Muppet parody!
	11:49am Chud: www.youtube.com...
	♥ 11:49am Webhamster Henry: Jonathan Toubin / Soul Clap is coming to Kingston NY's BSP Feb 18.
	11:52am MenfussMike: Ian Gillan of Deep Purple and Black Sabbath fame
	♥ 11:53am Patrick: Trouble, Loved the show today! happy new year!
	♥ 11:56am Trouble: hello patrick!! merci! and i still am waiting for an email from you about your new life...
	11:56am Faye: it's funny- hearing that Jesus Christ Superstar song... it really sounds like a Belle & Sebastian melody that would've been on Dear Catastrophe Waitress or something. I feel like it must have been an influence! FASCINATING!!! also great show ILYSM Trouble!
	11:57am Dean: Vocalist on "Heaven on Their Minds" was Murray Head, no? (Wasn't listening to back-announce. Sorry if you already mentioned this.)
	11:59am steve: LOL - so true Faye

This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from January 12, 2017

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	New	Approx. start time
the cannanes	white rabbit "white rabbit" by "the cannanes"	caveat emptor				0:00:00 (Pop-up)
gen ken montgomery	solar distress	kosmiczny poliar 68-523	richochet dream		*	0:01:54 (Pop-up)
sepi kuu	muuratut kasvot "muuratut kasvot" by "sepi kuu"	Now That's What I Call Music 1980: Nick Name's 2016 WFMU Marathon Premium (V/A)			*	0:06:03 (Pop-up)
ruth	she brings the rain "she brings the rain" by "ruth"	polaroid/roman/photo				0:10:48 (Pop-up)
nancy lesh	alap, jor & jhala "alap, jor & jhala" by "nancy lesh"	nancy lesh				0:16:10 (Pop-up)

foret	la cage "la cage" by "foret"	foret				0:39:36 (Pop-up)
eddie hazel	physical love "physical love" by "eddie hazel"	Game, Dames, and Guitar Thangs				0:42:35 (Pop-up)
nooshafarin	ghebleh "ghebleh" by "nooshafarin"	Zendooni: Funk, Psychedelia and Pop from the Iranian Pre-Revolution Generation				0:47:12 (Pop-up)
Silvestre Montez y Sus Guantanameros	el pararito	Gozalo Bugulu Tropical v 3 v/a				0:51:51 (Pop-up)
sandie shaw	mama roux "mama roux" by "sandie shaw"	Reviewing The Situation				0:54:32 (Pop-up)
Antonio Maria Romeu al piano	La Verbena De La Paloma	La Habana Era Una Fiesta: Original Recordings from the Golden Age of Cuban Radio				0:57:28 (Pop-up)
udi neset bey	setaraban taksim "setaraban taksim" by "udi neset bey"	scratch your heart early recordings from istanbul v/a	Honest Jon's			1:01:40 (Pop-up)

the shangri-las	past, present and future	Myrmidons of Melodrama: The Definitive Collection				1:08:49 (Pop-up)
culture club	starman "starman" by "culture club"					1:11:03 (Pop-up)
sonic youth	little trouble girl "little trouble girl" by "sonic youth"	washing machine				1:16:00 (Pop-up)
louise bourgeois	otte "otte" by "louise bourgeois"	otte				1:20:25 (Pop-up)
david bowie	big brother/ chant of the ever circling skeletal family	diamond dogs				1:25:05 (Pop-up)
shango dance band	women are great	shango dance band				1:29:55 (Pop-up)
glen francis	hold my hand "hold my hand" by "glen francis"	Put No Blame On The Master - Jamaican Gospel Volume Two				1:40:05 (Pop-up)
stevie wonder	maybe your baby "maybe your baby" by "stevie wonder"	talking book				1:42:27 (Pop-up)
qawwali of amir khusrou	roop saroop jalwa fadan	land of the sufis/soul music from the indus valley				1:49:59 (Pop-up)
Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens	it's a cold , cold world	cold world				1:54:15 (Pop-up)

francoise hardy	la question "la question" by "francoise hardy"	la question				2:04:04 (Pop-up)
annette peaccock & paul bley	M.J.	dual unity	bamboo	1972	*	2:06:37 (Pop-up)
tigerbaby	one day it's you "one day it's you" by "tigerbaby"	lost in you				2:24:06 (Pop-up)
mina	se telefondo "se telefondo" by "mina"	Ricordare: The Songs of Ennio Morricone v/a	ace		*	2:27:19 (Pop-up)
the limiñanas	kostas "kostas" by "the limiñanas"	malamore				2:30:12 (Pop-up)
googosh	talagh "talagh" by "googosh"	Pomegranates: Persian Pop, Funk, Folk, and Psych of The 60s and 70s				2:35:05 (Pop-up)
squatty and the bottys	soul "soul" by "squatty and the bottys"	Jonathan Toubin's New York Night Train: Souvenirs of the Soul Clap Vol. 5 (V/A)	norton		*	2:39:12 (Pop-up)
angel rada	basheeba "basheeba" by "angel rada"	Venezuela 70 - Cosmic Visions Of A Latin American Earth: Venezuelan Experimental Rock In The 1970s (V/A)	soul jazz		*	2:41:10 (Pop-up)
	heaven on their minds "heaven on their minds"	ost jesus christ superstar				2:45:29 (Pop-up)

noveller	rituals "rituals" by "noveller"	a pink sunset for no one	fire		*	2:53:17 (Pop-up)
adventures in stero	cry your love away					2:57:34 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:02am annie: morning, trouble!!
	♥ 9:03am Trouble: good grey morning, world!
	♥ 9:04am MD: Good Morning T...and Pepsi fans out there...XO!
	9:04am Cliff in Prague: I hate Pepsi.
	♥ 9:07am Trouble: i am sorry to have to tell you, i fear ken has lost his mind... just saying
	♥ 9:07am rebuketodali: Gorgeous art today, Trouble!
	♥ 9:07am MD: That's why we love him so!!!
	♥ 9:08am MD: Ken...Our Ken...Our Fearless Leader...!!!
	♥ 9:09am MD: Creating FMU Fans...one Commuter at a time!!!
	9:09am sugarwolf: Hello!!
	♥ 9:09am Ken From Hyde Park: Who's up for a nice cold, refreshing Pepsi! I know I am, for some strange reason.
	9:10am Bronwyn Bishop: hi trouble and everyone!
	♥ 9:13am Sem Chumbo: Hello, and good morning, Trouble, and Modern folk.
	♥ 9:19am Trouble: this morning's artwork is by belkis ayon.
	♥ 9:20am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Home for some Trouble ! ...Surely Ken has long been an Insane Genius...
	9:27am Rev. Turnip Druid: FOKES!
	9:27am Rev. Turnip Druid: GAK. Missed GenKen; Must now punch self INNAFACE. With bonus punchy. It's been a while.
	9:31am kevlicki: Morning trouble and all.
	9:38am sphere: hi folks
	9:38am Hugh: quell here y til (auto correct)
	♥ 9:39am Webhamster Henry: $300 is a little stiff for strings, but if they can fix the pegs if they are uncooperative, it might be worth it!
	9:39am meredith: Whaaaat? $300 for cello strings? Maybe the high school tennis team can help you out and give you a better price. :D. Dang. Our kids and their expensive hobbies.
	9:40am Bronwyn Bishop: WORD, trouble!
	♥ 9:41am Planet Tyler: Polls show most people dont want the ACA repealed - they only want it appealed when it's called "Obamacare." LOL, but not LOL
	♥ 9:41am Planet Tyler: repealed dang I need coffee
	9:41am Chris from DC: Cellos in general are really expensive. A good bow can cost a lot too.
	♥ 9:42am Planet Tyler: and by ACA i meant Affordable Cello Act
	♥ 9:43am Ken From Hyde Park: Instead of "Repeal Obamacare," they should be forced to refer to it as "Tax cuts for billionaires while cutting off healthcare for millions of Americans."
	♥ 9:44am Trouble: maybe if we called it republocare they would let it stay
	9:45am kevlicki: What blows my mind is why would any insurance company want to repeal healthcare it's a shitload of subsidies for them!
	9:45am Terry NB: Thank you for speaking up for affordable care - big rally in support of it at Columbia on Sunday. Also town hall in Jersey City, meeting with Senators Booker and Menendez and others in Newark, and more! We are waking up and fighting back. Lets do this!! More at https://berniesanders.com/ourfirststand/
	♥ 9:46am steveo: yay, it's Trouble-day!
	♥ 9:46am Planet Tyler: There's a good chance Obamacare will stay simply because that ship of fools dont know how to get things done in govt
	9:47am g: affordable? my premium for a policy with a 6k deductible is 500 a month. that's for one person. call it what it is... by force of law my premiums and deductibles allow the working poor free healthcare. these people do not HAVE health insurance, they were GIVEN health insurance. big difference.
	9:48am Terry NB: Dear Planet Tyler - unfortunately that's what they said repeatedly about Adolf Hitler and the Nazis between 1923 and 1940.
	9:49am Bronwyn Bishop: the problem with listening to fmu at work is that there's always an amazing song that comes on right when i have to get up from my desk.
	9:50am Terry NB: Don't blame ACA for rising costs. Health care costs more than tripled between 1990 and 2012. Hyperinflation is a complex topic in healthcare but one thing universally agreed on was that the initial effects of ACA were to reduce the rate of inflation.
	♥ 9:53am Planet Tyler: @Terry - Really? I mean I agree it looks like 1933 Germany in many ways. Didn't know that thou. Damn AND RIGHT - ACA hasn't caused rising premiums - is everyone's memory so short that they don't remember it rising like crazy every year anyway? ACA at least puts a limit on how much of the premium can be JUST profit
	♥ 9:53am Trouble: check out salary increases for ceo's in the healthcare industry over the last 15 years, staggering
	♥ 9:55am Planet Tyler: The salary increases of every CEO in every industry over the last 15 years has been disgraceful...
	9:55am g: @TerryNB: how do you tease apart ACA & inflation? is it inflation that causes an insurer to withdraw from a market?
	9:58am Kurt: Is $800/mo for a $10K deductible plan affordable? It was $400 3 years ago. Where is the affordable in ACA?
	9:58am g: @Trouble: sum the compensation of every health insurance CEO and compare that number to the 18% of GDP spent on healthcare.
	10:00am Terry NB: You look at the rising costs of medications (this past year there have been several medications of questionable effectiveness approved at a cost of $500K to $1M/year). Hospital costs keep rising and now average $5K to more than $10K/day (why not just stay at Trump Tower - cheaper BOB:Y). ACA caps insurance overhead at 15% - several insurers were much higher previously.
	♥ 10:01am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Health Care is reportedly fully 1/6th of the total U.S. Economy. Obama wasn't gonna get all he wanted from that Big Money cartel (Insurance, Big Pharma). Watch PBS's 'Frontline' called 'Obama's Deal' to see what went down : www.pbs.org... Every other Developed Nation has figured out that a.) Health Care is expensive, & b.) Everyone will need it! The great USA is the global lagwagon here - as we increasingly are in most critical issues... ...& it was RomneyCare in Mass. first anyhow - so it was RepubliCare, in fact...Can you say 'obstruction' ?...People have tried to get something - anything done on this since I think Teddy Roosevelt fergawdsake...If Human Beings don't see Health Care as a Right, but only a moneyed Privilege - then take your Capitalism @ All Costs & shove it where the cancer grows. It don't work - not for you & me.
	♥ 10:03am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...there's medicine people get from Canada for 1/10th the price it is in the U.S. - c'mon already...
	10:03am g: @TerryNB: would you like to make 15% on 100,000 or 15% on 10,000,000 ?
	♥ 10:06am Priscilla: Dove
	10:06am Roberto: Paloma = Dove
	♥ 10:07am Planet Tyler: @ Revolution - and before it was Romneycare it was something the Heritage Foundation cooked up when the Clintons were threatened single-payer. I always found it amusing that the Republicans opposed it so since it was absolutely Republicare!
	10:07am βrian: Paloma = the nice woman who lives down the street.
	10:07am Roberto: Coincidentally, I'm feeling a bit ghebleh today.
	10:09am annie: also- paloma=dove
	10:09am g: let's go to the mattresses in the name of dem/repub. that always makes the conversation clear and accurate.
	10:11am Bronwyn Bishop: what a great album (well, compilation) title.
	♥ 10:13am steveo: current status: leaning back on my radio oh-oh.
	♥ 10:13am Planet Tyler: O boy CC doing Bowie. I'm glad I didnt know this before!
	10:14am Chris from DC: Huh, yeah, never knew this existed.
	♥ 10:14am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The Gingrich-Karl Rove 'Republican Revolution' was a major turning point in ending functioning cooperative bipartisan government. The Dems tried to play along & deal w/ the NeoCons & became NeoLiberals. There is no 'Left' & there is no 'Center' in U.S. politics. There is increasingly only Up & Down : as George Carlin said - it's a small club - & we ain't in it. Keeping us healthy is simply not in their interests - sucking capital out of the working & poor is.
	♥ 10:15am steveo: CC appears to be from 1999
	♥ 10:15am Whosondephone: Not bad. But I'll only allow David Bowie to record this song.
	10:19am egal: Kim is lord.
	10:19am sphere: actually, has anybody ever covered a Bowie song successfully? i'm trying to recall....
	♥ 10:20am Andrew Waterloo: Nirvana did a great job of The Man Who Sold The World
	10:20am sphere: they did.
	♥ 10:22am Passaic River Blues: So lovely!
	♥ 10:23am Webhamster Henry: Seu Jorge's Bowie covers are worthy.
	10:24am βrian: Hey, I have a cocotte!
	♥ 10:24am Priscilla: Seu Jorge
	10:24am g: @RevolutionRabbit: is there no way that all of the doctors, nurses, clerks & technicians can't sell their services to people in need of them?
	10:25am egal: @sphere Kerenn Ann - Life on Mars?
	♥ 10:25am Webhamster Henry: Great audio spelunking today, Trouble!
	♥ 10:26am Planet Tyler: Ah, the real deal thank dawg
	10:27am meredith: Ah yeah, thanks for the Bowie. 1 year later :(
	♥ 10:27am tadpoles: Bowie did tons of great covers of others songs.
	♥ 10:28am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: @g: How can people become Professionals w/ inescapable life-long student debt? The U.S. has this pathological fear of Socialism - but we are a Society.
	10:28am Bronwyn Bishop: i love his jacques brel covers.
	♥ 10:28am Trouble: Bowie, always ahead of his time "Someone to claim us, someone to follow Someone to shame us, some brave Apollo Someone to fool us, someone like you We want you, Big Brother Big Brother!"
	10:29am Parq: Bowie at his most traditionally theatrical. Way more Anthony Newly than Elvis in this performance.
	♥ 10:29am Planet Tyler: Bowie's best cover is Im Waiting for the Man. Lou's version is about heroin, but Bowie's is about sex for sure!
	10:29am Chris from DC: Chameleons did a good version of John I'm Only Dancing.
	♥ 10:30am Planet Tyler: @Trouble - well, Diamond Dogs was going to be called 1984 cos he based it on the book
	♥ 10:31am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: @tadpoles: 'Pin-Ups'! That was important in informing before everything became more accessible. 'Diamond Dogs' self-produced. An album or two every year - he was cycling thru styles & sound so rapidly...
	♥ 10:31am cosmic matrix: you just woke my ass UP with one of my FAVORITE SONGS!!!!! thanks
	10:31am meredith: Oh! I didn't know that @Planet Tyler!!
	♥ 10:32am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...always say - most struggle to just write songs - Bowie put short stories into Pop...& it sold!...
	10:32am g: @RevolutionRabbit: from each according to ability, to each according to need. if you have more ability than need, then show us all how it's done; you first.
	10:35am Bronwyn Bishop: i highly approve of this song
	10:35am upsetter5001: Revolution rabbit at 10:14 is so right.
	♥ 10:35am Planet Tyler: @Meredith - and then there's the 1980-Floor Show. Tacky and brilliant at the same time. Probably on youtube somewhere
	10:36am upsetter5001: Good morning Modern World!
	♥ 10:37am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: @g: Each relies on Society - Education, Health, the Justice system. It's clear we all have to grow up & become more involved in governing ourselves - & can no longer take the enterprise of American Democracy for granted. I don't claim to have more ability than need - but I don't think I'm exceptional in that - or that we should be divided & isolated into submission - w/out representation. Bernie Sanders: 'Not me - us!'
	♥ 10:40am Greg from ZONE 5: They are indeed. Morning, Trouble & people!
	10:44am jamesie: checking in, motivated by Stevie! xxx
	10:44am blee: STEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVVVVVIIIIIIIIIEEEEEE!
	10:47am g: @RevolutionRabbit: yes. there are things that are factored out (socialized, if you will): fire dept, military, police, ASTM standards, roads, FAA, power easements, primary education, public health, etc. there is a never-silent choir that insists that the government dictate how people associate. if there is a scarcity of healthcare providers then explore the issue... don't cry for the government.
	10:51am sphere: @g - some problems are systemic and require the government to handle them. i think health care is one of those problems.
	10:52am βrian: Qawwali takes me back to the halcyon years ...
	10:54am Rev. Turnip Druid: great stuff, th'qawwali. Infinite thanks.
	♥ 10:54am Andrew Waterloo: Explore the issue, write books about it, complain during tea time. Eventually the problem will be fixed by someone.
	10:55am βrian: So the first order of business is creating tea time, then.
	10:57am g: @sphere: i can respect that opinion. (disclaimer: i've worked in biotech and healthcare for years, but not now). my opinion is that the government does not try to solve problems of efficiency. the government redistributes wealth... and at all cost.
	10:57am Gary Kahn: That last song was great. Love the Stevie Wonder -> qwalli. The artist should be Najma Khanum.
	♥ 10:59am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: @g: Scarcity isn't the issue as such - paying for Health Care is. Free Enterprise is great for some things - but not for others. When 1/10th of 1% own more than the rest of us combined - we can only speak of a 'Free Market' if engaging in Orwellian doublespeak. Criticizing struggling individuals who are trying to understand & articulate the societal collapse around them is victim blaming - relying on the American Dream of the New World pioneers & rugged individualism that expired before Teddy Roosevelt busted the railroad barons - @ least since the post-war prosperity faltered under too many right-wing assaults by the greedheads. ...That's good AndrewW!...We matter, I think. Tea sounds good. @g: Money doesn't automatically equal efficiency - that's true. I think a more fundamenta; issue is that they're trying to sell us the nightmare that isn't enuff wealth & it's our fault somehow. That - is a lie.
	♥ 11:00am cosmic matrix: also movies kinda suck nowadays, but hey
	11:00am βrian: "L'enfer, c'est l'autre radio."
	11:01am βrian: Sounds like kitty ate the bird.
	♥ 11:01am Rich in Washington: I was listening to WFMU when Bowie passed and watched it play out via listener/DJ comments. It DOES seem like it was just weeks ago.
	♥ 11:01am Webhamster Henry: What are you feeding those birds?
	11:01am Bill W: hail tiger
	♥ 11:03am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'Loyalty is valuable - but our lives are valuable too.' - Bowie
	♥ 11:06am Passaic River Blues: Thank you for the reading, Trouble. I love serendipitous textual discovery!
	11:06am g: @RevolutionRabbit: why does supply/demand work for every other occupation but care providers? and, wealth is not a sum of money... it is not a zero sum entity. wealth is the freedom to pursue your interests... provided they do not infringe on another's freedom to pursue their interests. faith in government is misplaced. work on yourself and help your friends... nobody else cares about you.
	♥ 11:06am Planet Tyler: @ Revolution - "We'll get by, I suppose"
	♥ 11:07am Planet Tyler: It's a very MODERN WORLD
	♥ 11:08am Planet Tyler: I just made the connection Trouble lol
	♥ 11:12am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: @g: Who's wealthy enuff for Health Care? Lots of people you know? If the Free Market is a Natural State - can I pay for Health Care w/ oak leaves? Or even honest labor 40hrs./week? No - money is created & regulated by its' very existence. So - how is it working for us? How is it a Free Market when wealth is concentrated in the oligarchy? Go ahead - try & start a business - we'll own you anyhow - your rent, your customer's incomes, your resources to run...In a sense we may agree - in believing most Institutions - as they are - have run their course in real usefulness to us...
	11:13am Chris from DC: Digging this Annette Peacock a lot.
	11:15am g: @RevolutionRabbit: what is your cure for free markets and free association ?
	♥ 11:16am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'Work on yourself...nevermind the state of Health Care - the Economy - Jobs - Education - the water & the air & the climate - the future - the Police' - nobody is impacted by that stuff!...Because - 'nobody else cares about you' - & that's the crux of the biscuit - isn't it?
	♥ 11:17am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Free Association is guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Surrealist Manifesto.
	11:19am Bill W: My Hardy-like discovery of the past week is that Gloria Steinem worked for the CIA.
	11:20am g: @RevolutioRabbit: no, the crux is that the powerful elite (the government) never have & never will care about you. they will not solve your problems for you. the saddest thing is the reflex answer: ' the government will take care of it for me'.
	♥ 11:21am Trouble: good morning and what @ bill w!? where did you read that?
	11:21am steve: hi Trouble! enjoying the show.
	♥ 11:23am Trouble: thanks @ steve!
	♥ 11:27am Planet Tyler: @g - the Govt is NOT the wealthy elite! It's been infiltrated by them but that is not the purpose of govt and I think we all know it wont take care of anyone very well.
	11:27am Bill W: I don't remember, Trouble, but you can read about it here and other links from Steinem's Wikipedia page. http://indiafacts.org/religious-crusades-cia/
	11:28am Bronwyn Bishop: Mina singing Morricone = the best!
	♥ 11:29am Trouble: i just read her 'my life on on the road' memoir and i don't remeber her mentioning it then, wow
	11:29am g: @RevolutionRabbit: i ask: besides voting, what have you done to address the issues you speak of? have you trained in medical science or criminal justice or education? have you reduced your consumption of fossil fuels, plastics, water & non-seasonal foods? if not, who will you force to do these things?
	11:31am Bill W: For those interested, there is a protest against the now-ongoing GOP gutting of healthcare Sunday at 12:30 at the Trump Hotel in Columbus Circle. Join Rise & Resist at 1 Central Park West on the park side of the hotel for a protest to tell Trump, Ryan and Price to not destroy our healthcare!
	11:33am Bill W: Wiki: "Though she acknowledged having worked for the CIA-financed foundation in the late 1950s and early 1960s in interviews given to the New York Times and Washington Post in 1967 in the wake of the Ramparts magazine CIA exposures (nearly two years before Steinem attended her first Redstockings or feminist meeting), Steinem in 1975 denied any continuing involvement."
	♥ 11:36am Uncle Michael: Have to step up and thank you for playing this Googoosh!
	11:37am Chud: I can't help but hear Matt Berry's ADBC
	♥ 11:37am Planet Tyler: Yeah, the Googosh is great.............
	11:43am steve: wow great set. looove Basheeba. i gotta tune in more often.
	11:46am sphere: trouble is one of my fave shows.
	♥ 11:47am Priscilla: Oh man! I remember this one!
	♥ 11:47am steveo: that riff again...
	11:47am Bronwyn Bishop: im glad that heaven on their minds, which is one of the greatest musical theatre songs of all time and made me say WOW! the first time i heard it, gets so much love on fmu.
	♥ 11:47am Webhamster Henry: Nice - I was getting tired of the Muppet parody!
	11:49am Chud: www.youtube.com...
	♥ 11:49am Webhamster Henry: Jonathan Toubin / Soul Clap is coming to Kingston NY's BSP Feb 18.
	11:52am MenfussMike: Ian Gillan of Deep Purple and Black Sabbath fame
	♥ 11:53am Patrick: Trouble, Loved the show today! happy new year!
	♥ 11:56am Trouble: hello patrick!! merci! and i still am waiting for an email from you about your new life...
	11:56am Faye: it's funny- hearing that Jesus Christ Superstar song... it really sounds like a Belle & Sebastian melody that would've been on Dear Catastrophe Waitress or something. I feel like it must have been an influence! FASCINATING!!! also great show ILYSM Trouble!
	11:57am Dean: Vocalist on "Heaven on Their Minds" was Murray Head, no? (Wasn't listening to back-announce. Sorry if you already mentioned this.)
	11:59am steve: LOL - so true Faye

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