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The program formerly known as Dinner at Andy's, The Fuzzy Glove Hour, Whores, and The Happiness Hut. Ken and Andy, also known as The Enema Boys, further lower WFMU's already abysmal standards on a weekly basis. Stunt radio which subjects the radio audience to concepts and topics which mature adults should not have to endure. Find the fatal flaw. (Visit homepage.)

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Listener comments!

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dale:

evening. has andy got the help to come in and sanitize the masturbatorium?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:01pm
full metal monkey:

Ok let’s get this ridiculous show going. Hello Ken and Andy.
Avatar 🚂 Swag For Life Member 6:02pm
geoff mcq:

*assumes brace position*
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DJ Guin:

Always look on the Bright Side of Life...whistle whistle whistle whistley
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:03pm
Dave in Vermont:

i am so glad we don't have to hear the theme song
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:03pm
full metal monkey:

Yeah that theme song is like 20 minutes long
  6:04pm
Aaron in Minneapolis:

Is this the censored version?
  6:04pm
Earth Walker:

This is to cool. I commented earlier
Always look on the bright side of life !
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:04pm
Handy Haversack:

There must have been a moment when we could have said "no" ...

Evening, all! I already had nachos, so not sure what my escape valve would be tonight!
  6:04pm
queems:

oh lord
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brainiac:

Please get the live video stream up again, Ken. To give us all proof that you're, you know, alive
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:04pm
dale:

shit - there. it's been said.
  6:05pm
Aaron in Minneapolis:

Yes yes it is the censored version
  6:05pm
morphe':

Wow.. extreme times - new tune!!!!!
almost frightening...
ps Thanks Ken SERIOUSLY - for all yer work
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People Like Us:

life's a piece of blank
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:05pm
Handy Haversack:

Truer words, @People Like Us!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:06pm
Dave in Vermont:

when you really look at blank
  6:06pm
Jett:

Ozzy did it!
  6:06pm
yippie:

eat a bat. doesn't sound kosher
  6:06pm
Earth Walker:

Hey Morphe
How’s it going
Avatar 6:06pm
DJ Guin:

Is it too soon to ask people to add WFMU to their Last Will & Testament?
  6:06pm
upstairs dave:

This is the strangest of all kismets. I've been singing that song to myself all waking day. I will now watch the film
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cuteCloud:

:(
  6:07pm
queems:

spoiler alert!!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:07pm
melinda:

Is Contagion worth watching when you're actually in the middle of a pandemic, or is it scary and depressing?
  6:08pm
Earth Walker:

Howdy Handy
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:08pm
Handy Haversack:

Worth watching, I think, Melinda.

Hey, Earth Walker!
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DJ Guin:

@melinda..the Goopster DIES in the opening 10 minutes...so, it is more akin to a Fantasy, than Horror
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:08pm
cosmic matrix:

hi melinda. cosmic matrix hunkered down!
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brainiac:

@melinda: It's gotta be better than "Pandemic"
  6:08pm
Gary Nodge:

Not true
The bat in Contagion dropped a piece of fruit, the pig ate it, paltrow ate the pig at a casino in Macau

Spoiler alert
Avatar 🚂 Swag For Life Member 6:08pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Pro tip: Velvet paintings can be used as emergency toilet paper.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:09pm
melinda:

hi cosmic!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:09pm
cosmic matrix:

yo melinda!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:10pm
full metal monkey:

The silver lining. I’ve been stoned out of my mind all week.
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DJ Guin:

@Gary..if I recall..the Pig was named Richard, or Dick for short, so Paltrow ate Dick in the film
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:10pm
melinda:

I predict an uptick in reusable pee-wipe stock.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:10pm
cosmic matrix:

they closed the school where i work(ed). lots of free time now.
  6:10pm
Dave Miss:

When does Andy stop doing the Al Goldstein shtick
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Danne D:

I assume Ken has like a 3-year supply of cannabis at all times
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:12pm
melinda:

Even 40-60 is considered higher-risk than under 40.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:12pm
full metal monkey:

Hoboken locked down lol
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brainiac:

@Dave Miss: It's the only one he's got
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:12pm
Handy Haversack:

Ooops -- my sister is on the phone ...
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Jennica:

YES! It's the PEOPLE I'm worried about.
  6:13pm
CC:

my mother was born in 1931 she still drives all over the place goes into stores and invites the family over for card games and babysits the kids..!..you can't tell her what to do!!!
  6:13pm
queems:

use the drive through window andy god
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DJ Guin:

"I just can't."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:13pm
dale:

melinda -stick with films about giant creatures from nuclear testing like them and giant gila monster.
Avatar 🚂 Swag For Life Member 6:14pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Endorse the check to WFMU and send it to Ken. Solved!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:14pm
dale:

don't they deduct money for sgt bilko?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:16pm
melinda:

I went to deposit a check at an ATM and couldn't because I didn't have my account number, so out of practice am I. The only ATM for my credit union is right outside the building so for years I've just walked in.
  6:17pm
morphe':

Handy - in response to my Large shopping bag decoy Vs Madrid police (FYI - I make no contact with people - just walking. I am crazy but careful).. But, HANDY decoy schemes.. In the late 80s I smuggled punk cassettes and fanzines from A'dam into
E. Berlin and Praha...
PunkSpyKraft:In case of gov't pursuit, always wear glasses and a hat(to be discarded in a side street) Always wear a bright shirt (red, pink blue) already ripped up the back
with a white T underneath, carry a book behind in yer trousers like a 357 in a film.
Fleeing the MAN/WoMAn.. find a side street..change the git put the book in yer hand and walk directly into the pusuing cops... It worked once.. Luckily i only had to do it the once..
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DJ Guin:

@Melinda..take a pic of it..deposit thru your Smartphone
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:18pm
melinda:

@DJ it might come to that but I'm trying to minimize apps.
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Jennica:

@morphe': whoa!
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DJ Guin:

the station should play the Emergency Broadcast System tone during this time slot.
  6:20pm
queems:

oh shit i’m a single occupancy listener
  6:20pm
morphe':

Earth.. I will send you (email) a great Weasel Kane story I just remembered today about being on beach Bay 14?? Riis Park after an all nighter in Bay Ridge bar.. Skinflints??? to yer email..
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:20pm
ultradamno:

People who live with others call this station? What?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:21pm
Doug in JC:

Why don't you take the light rail, ken?
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brainiac:

@DJ Guin: An excellent idea for a new show for a open time slot on the Ichiban stream
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:21pm
melinda:

I like that there is a loner hotline.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:22pm
G:

To channel someone like Courtney T. Edison:

Thin the herd. There's yer damn upside.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:22pm
cosmic matrix:

Ha Zane! Wonder if I'll see you at CCG this year!
  6:23pm
CC:

the Spanish Flu started in the winter and spring and subsided in the summer and came back in the fall after it morphed into something more terrible and that's when it killed people...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:26pm
cosmic matrix:

@CC damn.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:27pm
Handy Haversack:

OK, it's after 6 PM, I have talked to family, and Andy is talking about WWII -- I'm allowed to start drinking now, right?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:27pm
ultradamno:

We're all together in the best way; far, far apart.
  6:28pm
Dave Miss:

Ken, You said you would never forget.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:28pm
Handy Haversack:

@morphe': You're a tactician!
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Mailman Tom:

3 days of mourning when JFK got shot.
  6:28pm
queems:

nobody walking around??? wtf, out by me people are all over the damn place taking walks and biking
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Danne D:

CoronaMatch.Com
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p20:

@Handy Haversack: You have my permission. In fact, I'll join you.
  6:29pm
JakeGould:

Hurricane Sandy and 9-11 were immediate events and then it clearly receded into recovery. Now with this Coronavirus stuff it’s dead with no clear end in sight.

Also, the deadness and silence in some areas during the day is even deader and quieter than 3:00am.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:29pm
dale:

yes - unemployment is such a HUGE amount.
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Danne D:

I might go out for a little while - trying to carefully stay across the street from every damn person.

Thought I actually walked 9 miles yesterday b/c I got my car fixed and couldn't go to a starbucks or anything to wait for the repair
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:30pm
Handy Haversack:

Whew! Thanks, @P20!

It's *love* of money that is the root of all evil -- according to the literature.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:30pm
melinda:

@queems same here, it's like a Saturday with all the walkers and joggers on the Back Cove Trail.
  6:30pm
CC:

I wonder if they're going to do anything special with all the homeless people???
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:30pm
Handy Haversack:

Yeah, fairly bustling in my neighborhood. And the gentrification construction crews are taking no time off!
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p20:

@queems: here (Chicago) the streets seem pretty quiet. Most of the people out walking are walking dogs, or walking to/from the store for survival supplies
  6:31pm
ignatatus666:

That lady had no silver lining.
  6:31pm
queems:

found the total moron
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:31pm
melinda:

I saw a lot of people walking around with grocery totes.
  6:32pm
?:

it's HIS world! back off!
  6:32pm
JakeGould:

@queems: It depends on the neighborhood. In Union Square it’s relatively dead… Like only the farmer’s market stuff and the homeless and occasional real people. But in an hour or so it will be utterly desolate.

@CC: They are ignoring the homeless and there are a few folks I have seen on the subway who were very aggro: One guy punching the train doors when he only got a few dollars and another shouting, “I’m, going to f**king kill somebody if I don’t get money for tonight!”
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Danne D:

WTF this guy doesn't poop?
  6:32pm
Die Fledermaus:

28, healthy and stupid.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:33pm
dale:

andy is like dale robertson in charlie tonight - savant x 10!
  6:33pm
Die Fledermaus:

All the s*** stays in his head.
  6:33pm
queems:

FYI they buy the good toilet paper at wfmu
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Danne D:

Queems is correct
  6:34pm
morphe':

Handy - I said HANDY decoy schemes because in Ireland - HANDY has a very good meanibg = anything unusual that works well (a piece of string, holding up a hose so it does not leak in the cow shed)- Folks say - "Jesus, that's really HANDY..
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:34pm
Handy Haversack:

I earmarked all my pledge dollars to toilet paper rather than specific shows.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:35pm
Handy Haversack:

@morphe': Good to know! Would that I could live up to it!
  6:36pm
bloodyturd:

Pet peeves? I don’t like the word peeve.
  6:36pm
queems:

@handy i’ve actually done that
  6:36pm
Die Fledermaus:

The heartbreak of psoriasis.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:37pm
Handy Haversack:

@queems, because you're a pro!
  6:37pm
queems:

strep throat is 100% bacterial, what the hell is everyone smoking tonight
  6:37pm
Eric from Lake Hiawatha:

Strep is a bacteria
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p20:

@b*t*rd: I think the word is designed to get on your nerves. Like onomotopoeia but conceptual.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:37pm
full metal monkey:

I’m smokin diesel something
  6:37pm
Die Fledermaus:

Seboreah was that band with the guy from Dinosaur, Jr.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:38pm
Handy Haversack:

Viruses don't work on bacteria.
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Marshall Stacks:

Right. Streptococcus bacteria. Time for a new doctor?
  6:38pm
bloodyturd:

Pet peeve: I don’t like how people call sherbet, “sherbert” or how they turn height into “heighth”. Those are some word peeves of mine.
  6:38pm
JakeGould:

@queems: You are shocked that WFMU listeners have crazy to dubious to horrible health advice?
  6:38pm
Die Fledermaus:

If you're looking for sound medical science on FMU...
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p20:

@fmm: Space Dawg in the haus
  6:39pm
P-90:

Penicillin and Amoxicillin are the antibiotics usually used to treat strep throat
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:39pm
dale:

i've recently learned to peel over ripe bananas from the bottom srump.
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(Murakami Whywolf))):

Streptococcus is a bacterium; penicillin was insanely efficacious against it at first, then some versions of it learned how to pump it out. Azithromycin, I think, is still considered the first-line drug for it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:39pm
full metal monkey:

P20. Nice
  6:39pm
castor:

People have to realize that about 3,000 pple have died in Italy so far, not just the elderly, and it will be thousands more, because folks there didn't take it seriously soon enough. They are 10 days ahead of us, and we are even less prepared than them to help all the sick people. But you know what? Maybe we deserve it, better for the future of the planet indeed. The Boomer Remover is the earth fighting back!
  6:39pm
Dave Miss:

Queems is right.
  6:39pm
annette:

tv on. sound turned down. video taping the newscasters with ken and andy's voices in backround.
  6:39pm
CC:

if you have a h pylori count that is extremely high you're also at risk!!!
  6:39pm
JakeGould:

It’s times like these I am very happy to have cut off “health nuts” who have advised me to drink my own urine.
  6:40pm
queems:

@jake i’m not shocked, just disappointed
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:40pm
full metal monkey:

I think I might be too high right now for this show
  6:40pm
morphe':

True Science - no joke .. It is me Morphe' but no joke ..SERIOUS Strep Throat can turn to Scarlett Fever = Heart Aliments... and death ... My father's young brother died as such in Ireland ..This is true.. Not arguing for ANTI_BIOTICS ..but caller - do take care
  6:40pm
Die Fledermaus:

Make a hotline for Doomsday Preppers!
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PMD:

Fake lemonade or fresh squeezed
  6:40pm
JakeGould:

@queems: Hate to say this, but these days will really make people realize who their friends are and who the loons are.
  6:41pm
Marlon:

I too am excited for my political opposites to die, they're such jerks
  6:41pm
bloodyturd:

Pet peeve 3: when NASA is pronounced as “nasau”. By a dummy.
  6:41pm
ignatatus666:

I was in Chinatown and Brooklyn all last night up until 2:30 this afternoon. I can’t say in the late nights there was much of a difference for a Tuesday night. In Brooklyn there was no difference at all( East NY)
Battery park (West Side Manhattan) no difference at all. Midtown was missing bar patrons entirely.Lower East side all the smaller market/flower shops were still open. All the .99 pizza joints were open and Papaya King was open
I also went to the Ridgewood Pork store today, they were open and most establishments appeared open.
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(((Murakami Whywolf):

bloodyturd:
Can you stand even one minute of Clay Pigeon? He adds extra 'sh' ('ʃ') sounds all over the place, it's like sand-paper (80 grit, wet/dry) on my eardrums.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:41pm
Dave in Vermont:

by only listening while doing the show you may be lacking objectivity
  6:42pm
queems:

@jake i agree, i’m sick of everyone’s shit
  6:42pm
bloodyturd:

Pet peeve 4: when someone cradles food in their mouth and talk around it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:43pm
full metal monkey:

The wheels are off this bus again.
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p20:

@b*t*rd: that's a pretty solid set of linguistic peeves. i share most of them, especially "heighth"
  6:43pm
queems:

i definitely had scarlet fever when i was a kid. serious business
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:43pm
dale:

this was a bus?
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Marshall Stacks:

Scott Paper went bankrupt in 1995. If only they knew what a bonanza awaited them.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:43pm
dale:

felt more like a go kart.
  6:43pm
bloodyturd:

Murakami,
I like clay pigeon, to be fair I’ve heard his show once ish.
  6:44pm
Listener Robert:

At least Scott didn't burn up like Marcal.
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p20:

@b*t*rd: oh, you wouldn't like eating with me. i am guilty of talking with food in my mouth. i know it's wrong. but i like to eat and i like to talk and sometimes i don't like to wait.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:44pm
full metal monkey:

Skateboard at best. Maybe
  6:44pm
queems:

i’m psyched to be living alone because a. i don’t like anyone b. i know who i’ve been in contact with
  6:45pm
CC:

Jeremy and I are in quarantine we are only seeing my mother at a safe distance!!!
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brainiac:

I am flabbergasted that people actually say "supposably" when they mean "supposedly"
  6:46pm
P-90:

I hear that the bespoke disinfectant works GREAT on bicycle wheels
  6:46pm
CC:

Lysol or a cheap disinfectant spray works well!!!
  6:46pm
annette:

dont attack Clay. he would not judge you. we enjoy his midwest verbal personality. you are outnumbered . now say you are sorry.
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p20:

@Murakami: I find Clay's voice comforting. Not saying you are wrong. Just that we are all very different and are annoyed by different things.
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brainiac:

Rubbing alcohol and bleach: When blended, this combination makes chloroform. Not such a good idea.
  6:47pm
Listener Robert:

Of course that Marcal fire was widely anticipated and expected to be profitable. What good is insurance otherwise?
  6:47pm
bloodyturd:

Pet peeve 5: when someone clicks from the back corner of their mouth after explaining something to you and they give a slight wink or finger point as if saying “and bob’s you’re uncle” that other annoying European saying. I’m sure if I lived over there it would have made my top 5. But it kind of did make my top 5 just now.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:47pm
melinda:

@queems me too, hoping my isolated lifestyle works in my favor.
  6:48pm
bloodyturd:

P20 I’d love to eat with you.
  6:48pm
queems:

@melinda me too! take care of yourself!!
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PMD:

What's the not living alone number?
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p20:

@Murakami: But I wonder, how can you stand Andy's voice?
  6:49pm
queems:

this show is wild tonight, i have no idea what is going on
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:49pm
full metal monkey:

What just happen on this show
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p20:

@b*t*rd: aww that's sweet. maybe when this whole social distancing thing is over.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:50pm
full metal monkey:

@queems. Yeah where are we
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melinda:

Tolerance of atheism definitely varies be region and community.
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Ignatatus666:

@Bloodyturd
I think the DJ you referred to is basically in Character when he speaks like that. I’m not defending him. We will not like every DJ and vice versa. Same with other listeners on the chat.
  6:50pm
Die Fledermaus:

Somebody tell the Chinese elites about science. They think eating bear testicles will give 'em a big woody.
  6:51pm
morphe':

Disinfectant - i generaly use just water but in these days - I sometimes use my organic window spay cleanser coming from outdoors =3.29 euro for a litre of mist..
  6:52pm
bloodyturd:

Ignatus666: yeah no prob.
  6:52pm
bloodyturd:

P20: see you then.
  6:52pm
queems:

i’m missing 2 weddings next month so that’s something
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Ignatatus666:

@P20 I like Andy’s voice when he loses .17 cents online gambling
  6:52pm
JakeGould:

@DieFledermaus: And Americans believe Spanish Fly makes women horny.
  6:53pm
CC:

if you mix stale beer Epsom salt and blue mouthwash together that's supposed to keep mosquitoes away???
  6:54pm
bloodyturd:

Pet peeve 6: when someone at work still says “it’s hump day” all enthusiastically looking around excited that they said the things that everyone is saying.
  6:54pm
morphe':

I will defend CLAY.. he is great - like the best of the best - is is super honest and sincere and loving and kind AND he can also be super goofy and silly and not woried about criticism... We fly with the Pidge!!!!
  6:54pm
annette:

liverwurst is the answer.
  6:55pm
yay:

deep cleaning and deep cooking
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:55pm
melinda:

@morphe' I'm with you.
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p20:

@morphe': yeah he's a lot better than these two nut-jobs that are on now :)
  6:55pm
bloodyturd:

Stephen hawking didn’t have anything wrong with him, he was just really, really lazy.
  6:55pm
flashbazbo:

Petrie having a good time
  6:55pm
CC:

Democrats are loving this because Republicans are acting like socialists more than ever!!!...lol...
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Ignatatus666:

Yawn
The listener has a pet peeve with a speech pattern of that host/DJ that’s his personal pet peeve. He didn’t mention anything bad about that DJ
  6:56pm
Die Fledermaus:

@JakeGould Only Bill Cosby at this point!
  6:57pm
morphe':

P20 - there was a great FMU dj named William Berger - now dead - he always said - "if not happy...change yer station..."
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p20:

If you feed your pet peeves they will grow.
  6:57pm
Die Fledermaus:

But yeah, we all have our stupid myths and superstitions. They don't always cause global mayhem. Except for religious purges, ethnic cleansing...
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p20:

oh yes - I rememeber the good Wm. Berger - listened many times
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p20:

RIP
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Handy Haversack:

L8r, Sk8rs.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:00pm
cosmic matrix:

be wellers, smellers.
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p20:

@morphe': I'm happy
  7:00pm
bloodyturd:

I love my pet peeves. Gives me a safe place to quietly dump my hatred.
  7:06pm
Earth Walker:

Morphe sounds cool. I told you I worked across the street from Skinflints once known as Dingbats Lots of Hell’s Angels along with Sonny Barger We were to young to get in we sat on the dumpsters outside and got high I remember Breezy point they had rinkey dinks or security guards Duffy used to beat them up
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