No bull! Take flight into the mushrooming field of baggage handling. If you take a bath in that, say harlow to fishing. If that's too much of a mouthful, you're shore to emerge from the fog jumping for joy if you just take things by the hand.
In a stunning turn of events, I am here and awake. Robert I did get your email, I just never got around to replying, perhaps this weekend, we will see. Ken, since I won SSD last week, how can I win this show this week, or if I am feeling really bold, how cam I win the State of the Station tonight?
Any requests? Hurry Hurry! Hazmat coming up on wake and bake.. Aaron, you win State of the Station by asking the best question or making the bestest comment. Winner gets an old WFMU transmitter fan.
Boiler story: I had to take a day off for a "tech" guy to come over for boiler maintenance after I reported a leak. Guy comes in, barely takes a lot and says "that thing is too old, I don't even have parts for it". And just leaves. I wasted a vacation day, the boiler is still leaking, and I'll have to waste more time, eventually/hopefully. Boring, I know, but it involved a boiler, so I thought I would be relevant on this show
@Fred-it is not too hard to replace a water heater (if that is what a boiler is. If its a furnace, not so much!). Shark bite connectors are your friends!
9:18am
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YET ANOTHER BOILER STORY:
The staff at my gym haven't fixed the swimming pool boiler. It has been too warm for more than a week already. "It is not only dangerous for our health but also, it must cost them a fortune. Why they haven't fixed it yet?", a swimmer asked. "I don't know", replied another.
@Ken: I'm a mere tenant, so I don't get a choice. I'll have to call the landlord and wait and wait. I expected something like this. But having a boiler issue on a Wednesday... I had to share on this playlist
@AAN-yes NEVER inside a wall for instance! They supposedly can last 10 or 15 years, so out in the open is best practice. Inside walls, always solder pipe connections.
Guys, I live in a rent-controlled area. The landlord is basically the government. I'm not allowed to do anything about it or I'd get kicked out. The rent is lower than anything I could get for even half the space though, and I get to live in a mixed area with Muslim neighbors.
Sharkbites make for a good quick-fix but should only really been used when you’re in a jam or something. A sure sign of a homeowner or fly-by-night handyman fix is a slew of pipes sharkbitten together.
@Plumber Joe E-I had a licenced master plumber with 20 years experience install a laundry sink in my basement with Pex and I think Sharbites. Was he a shitty plumber? The Pex is all exposed and out in the open.
@Brian C.: At least Matt Warwick doesn't have an Eagles tatoo
9:34am
Morphe:
Simon did not go to school today(fever/bellyache)..so listening live ...Just heard you/Ken screaming "STUDID>>>" repeatedly... I said, "Ken is going crazy today." Simon said, "KEN IS ALWAYS CRAZY!!!" Out of the mouth of 6.8 year olds comes WISDOM!!! Thanks Ken and all!!!
@fred: Never knew NYC tennant rights rules were more stringent then France's. (A leak, a landlord will have someone there pronto). Now there was the time in November when our boiler broke in late November, but didn't leak, so, I went over a week w/o heat or hot water.
A few years ago, my 30-gallon electric hot water heater konked out. Ordered a 40-gallon replacement. At delivery time, they said they didn't have any 40s in stock, so I got a 50-gallon installed for the 40's price.
@NGH: I live in an immigrant neighborhood, so there are no rules or laws. I want to stay there, it keeps me in touch with reality, and it's cheap, so I can give to the station
I think we all know the state of the station. "Need money blah blah blah." Can we have an hour of boiler stories at 6PM tonight instead?
9:46am
The Space shuttle:
@geo: Retirement is sweet, I play a lot of golf and hang out with the grandkids. Nice not having to worry about burning up in re-entry anymore. I do miss the view sometimes and making random banging noises on orbit to prank my coworkers.
9:48am
Plumber Joe E.:
@Wild Neil - I wouldn’t necessarily call him a shitty plumber. There’s a time and a place for everything. sharkbites make for a good way to transition from copper to pex. If he used sharkbites for EVERYTHING, than it probably just ended up costing you more money - sharkbites aren’t cheap. As far as reliability is concerned, they’ll hold up for a while. I wouldn’t worry...
I recently changed my 40 gallon water heater. It took me from 6 am to 4:30 pm with all the trips to Home Depot and Ace Hardware and stuff. I think I went 5 or 6 times! Thats over 2 hours spent just driving there and back! 6 trips x 10 minutes each way x 2 ways + 2 hours!
I saw a boiler repair guy punch out another boiler repair guy in front of their boiler repair shop. They we both covered with filth. That is a dirty job. The old ones you have to climb inside and chop away layers of black death with an axe I think.
Years ago, when my boiler conked out, I mentioned it to a guy on my softball team. He said, "check your homeowners ins. policy. If you have paragraph 7 [or some such clause], it's covered. In most policies you won't find it though." I looked, it was there, ins. covered it, and I saved $7000! I had no idea. Thank you Larry, wherever you are
Legal ID coming up! 201-209-9368: This is WFMU East Orange, WMFU Mount Hope, in New York City and Rockland County at 91.9 FM and online at wfmu dot org. Keep in mind WMFU has an M before the F but dont announce this part right her. The legal ID ended many words ago. If I have read this far, it is time to turn back. TURN BACK. (SCREAM) TURN BACK NOW!!! OH GOD ITS TOOO LATE!! TOOOOOO LAAAAAATTTTTTEEEE (Scream to fade)
My uncle once was checking why his boiler wasn't working. While he was having a look at it, it exploded in his face. He suffered third degree burns and vouched to take only cold showers for eternity.
@Tom@9:02, for earworms, my strategy has always been to mentally fold, spindle, and mutilate the song in my mind using the Terry Riley method. Do to the song what Riley did to Harvey Averne's "You're No Good." It works for me, anyway. Your mileage may vary.
I think it was pretty out of tune, could have been better
10:06am
Plumber Joe E.:
My boiler nearly killed me this winter. Another plumber had hotwired the boiler
By bypassing all the safeties. (I rent a house) the boiler should’ve turned itself off when the fumes stopped going up the chimney...but it continued to run, filling the house up with carbon monoxide. I was on my couch, falling asleep, thinking I was just hungover, when the CO alarms on the second floor started going off. fire department came and said their CO meters were pinned on the max reading.
A narrow escape!
10:06am
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Sam is a genius! His IQ is the highest! He is also the handsomest man on earth! So NO DOUBT he didn't like the Artificial Intelligence 7SD show, right? RIGHT?!!?!
10:07am
Morphe:
East 8th Street Boiler story -1980 - We took over a building (HDFC not a squat). The boiler malfunctioned most mornings. Most people awake from the noise/clanking of the steam rising. I used to wake because there was no noise = not hot water before work... I had to go down and throw burning newspaper into the burner to light the oil (Grade #4)... Henry Gifford is the NYC boiler genius https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/03/17/the-boiler-man: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/03/17/the-boiler-man: www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/03/17/the-boiler-man
I stayed at a house with a coal furnace. It sucked. I had to light it every morning and there was coal dust everywhere all over in the house. Yuk. It is cheap, though.
10:08am
Sam:
Make sure tonight's show is good
10:10am
queems:
i’m in the process of getting my work to shell out to you people
10:10am
Plumber Joe E.:
@Sam does the 7SD insurance apply to the state of the station?
No Sam, it's a fill-in. One show filling in for another. If there aint no Seven Second Delay playlist and there aint no Andy, it aint no Seven Second Delay.
10:16am
Sam:
Ok fine. I was hoping I could pressure you into doing a really really funny state of the station, but you don't have to.
@Sam: The way the station fell short of the goal this marathon, I think it would take a lot to make it funny. Now if you have a few hundred thousands to spare, I'm sure it can happen
My contribution to the new WFMU show "Boiler Talk": Long ago, I worked for a company that serviced boilers and air conditioner chillers. After several years of hard work the company won a long-term contract for a very large miltary base, worth millions of dollars per year and hundreds of thousands for the agent who was to supervise the work. The agent, a long time employee of the company, promptly starting having subcontractors do (relatively) penny-ante work on his house like building a deck, cleaning his pool, etc. and charging it to the contract. This went on for a couple of years until a military audit found out, cancelled the contract, the company never recovered and was sold and broken up about a year later. Don't know what happened to the idiot agent.
@KFHP, usually when I want to insult an electronic device, I tell it that its mama was a toaster oven and its daddy was a busted Realistic clock radio, or a TRS-80. But now I'm going to go with boiler instead of toaster oven. Or maybe boiler instead of TRS-80.
One of the reasons the Girls' song is fantastically creepy AF is because Jeffrey was the singer's younger brother. He died when he was a little boy AND the cover album is a old, phantasmagoric picture of the boy.
Legal ID coming up! 201-209-9368: This is WFMU East Orange, WMFU Mount Hope, in New York City and Rockland County at 91.9 FM and online at wfmu dot org. Keep in mind WMFU has an M before the F but dont announce this part right here. [SCREAM} AVENGE ME [Whisper] Im Inside the House [SCREAM] STELLLA [now sob to fadeout]
Ha! The Good Cop was shooting a block away form my office a couple weeks ago.
No sign of Andy, tho I saw one of those high-fallutin' folding director-type chairs in the street with his name on it.
I used to raid those movie-set food tables when I was a bike messenger in the 80's. Swoop in, bagels and candy bars in the bag, shove a cookie in the mouth, and be off before the guy could come around the thing.
i've been listening to wesley wilis songs desperately hunting for one where he ends it with "rock over london, rock on chicago, [insert a certain famous french cosmetics company's famous slogan here]" so i can somehow program it to play every time i open my laptop at work
@berbo, I think inside-out oreos is the perfect description but the frosting comes on the side
11:18am
Sam:
When you're alone and life is making you lonely you can always go
To Duane Reade!
When you feel worried, all the noise and the hurry seem to help I know
At Duane Reade!
@BronwynB: - once worked for a similar and possibly the same CERTAIN FAMOUS FRENCH COSMETICS COMPANY doing some data entry bs. I left for my lunch break one day and went on a 2 week road trip. They never even called to ask what happened
Spent the early morning hours cranking old Spike Jones & His City-Slickers rekkids. Convinced old Spike qualifies as pre-proto-punk. Or just epic cocaine consumers: the tempos are ridiculous.
I've heard the E.C. rake too! // Was that Wesley Willis?
11:26am
berbo:
I saw Eugene with Jimmy Carl Black in Madison, before Black passed away.
11:27am
Daybreak the Teacher.:
Started strong then fell apart on my the jingles. At least it made a good Yo LT Transition.
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Me too, The Oscar. Especially his approach to film production. All those Netflix complex multimillion dollar algorithms to produce a profitable movie? He has them all (in his head).
@ TDK re:movie food: if you just walk up and start making a cup of coffee, they sometimes don't even say anything. So many people work on those things. Of course it helps if you can feign a sort of Courtney Barnett hang-dog insouciance. That way you seem important.
Nice screen shot of yesterday's debacle on Garbage Time. What a great time that was had. I was late to all of my appointments because of the last half hour of that show. GO KEN!
@berbo: I saw Jimmy Carl Black with Chadbourne in 2005. Great show. I've seen Chadbourne a few times since, but I haven't been into these gigs much, he does too much for me
11:42am
tomloops in minneapolis:
Do you know the Cheese Song from the UK TV show, The Mighty Boosh? I think you should.
I was "there" for Garbage Matt's show yesterday; some commenters actually got aroused.
11:43am
Passionate objective batman fan:
Senator Schumer
You are a very very excellent Senator
Always going to vote on bills and represent your
Constituents who love you
Because you are a Senator
And you are so good at representing all the people
Who voted for you and who live in your district
I'm still confused as to why you'd want Satan *behind* you. He might o butt stuff to you back there! Keep him up front where you can keep an eye on him!
Did my radio suddenly get tuned to one of those weird AM stations?
11:51am
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Cliff,
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Thanks, Ken! Great show, music, GIFs, comments as usual! Till next episode and remember: Be happy!! Nope. Not that happy. MUCH MORE HAPPY GODDAMMIT!! >:\
12:03pm
bobo:
I finally made it! And it's still two minutes to 12pm! What about a 1 minute song request?