WFMU: Irwin Chusid: Playlist from April 8, 2020

Listener comments!
	♥ 2:50pm Irwin: Happy Disease Holiday! On today's program: a 1995 interview with legendary Cuban bandleader Ray Batado, an homage to Bob Dylan's JFK epic, and a tribute to the late Hal Willner. Plus some surprises, with scattered insolence.
	♥ 3:00pm Carmichael: Heya Irwin and future people.
	♥ 3:01pm Asheville Jon: wow, off to an awesome start! hi Irwin and everyone else!
	3:01pm brainiac: I'm down with the insolence. Hi everybody.
	♥ 3:01pm Handy Haversack: Hey, everyone. Hi, Irwin.
	♥ 3:01pm Irwin: Someone requested this song last week. It radiates POSITIVITY.
	♥ 3:02pm Dominick: Hi everyone
	🎸 ♥ 3:02pm chris: thanks for the helpful Venn diagram, Irwin. and, no, YOU, are the best thing in the world.
	♥ 3:02pm Kat in Chicago: Nobody insolents like Irwin!
	♥ 3:02pm mariano: Hi Irwin, crew, everyone! Was just thinking that we hadn't heard "Murder Most Foul" enough times lately... ;)
	♥ 3:02pm KevinfromBayRidge: Wow Irwin! Packin' the show like a TOPT.
	3:02pm Laura L: Hello to all you Best Things in the World!
	♥ 3:02pm ynod: Thanks Irwin!
	🎸 ♥ 3:02pm βrian: Demo is short for demolition.
	♥ 3:03pm Asheville Jon: i love the "i found this unlabeled cassette at goodwill, let's buy it and see what's on it" lo-fi quality of this!
	♥ 3:04pm Handy Haversack: It's like someone tore the bridle right off this song's positivity.
	♥ 3:04pm Irwin: Venn diagram stolen off the web. Don't have attribution.
	3:04pm Itzall Gön'gett-Bettresuhnn: Well of course I had previously "liked" this gem! Hi Irwin, hello everyone.
	3:04pm Keith in Vermont: Is that album cover a nod to The Replacement's "Let it Be?"
	3:04pm brainiac: When all the greatest Dylan tracks are recounted, MMF will not be among them, Criswell predicts.
	♥ 3:04pm ackthpfft: Isn't that cover a Minor Threat EP?
	♥ 3:05pm Irwin: Freedom Monday: Lee Morgan: trumpet Freddie Hubbard: trumpet Gary Bartz: alto sax John Hicks: piano Victor Sproles: bass Art Blakey: drums Limelight Records, 1965 (both trumpeters are listed for this track)
	3:05pm The Butterman: That was sweet!
	3:05pm ?: this is the best song in the world
	♥ 3:06pm Irwin: I'm with Criswell.
	♥ 3:07pm Irwin: I'd never heard of a Euler diagram: en.wikipedia.org...
	3:09pm brainiac: It's Euler's day off
	♥ 3:10pm Carmichael: Boole's Inequality ... ?
	♥ 3:11pm ackthpfft: DeMorgan's Law?
	♥ 3:12pm mariano: Lol, brainiac: Ferris Euler's Day Off!
	♥ 3:13pm ackthpfft: Wishing the Eulers were skating these days.
	♥ 3:14pm Mr. Pumpy: Hello Irwin and the Gang...
	♥ 3:15pm David (in London): Evening Irwin and all Irwinians. Handy, mariano, Pumpmeister.
	♥ 3:15pm Mr. Pumpy: Damn...missed Art Blakey. I'll have to go to one of my Messengers bootlegs I got off a shady trade with White Ray.
	♥ 3:15pm Mr. Pumpy: Hi Dave!
	♥ 3:16pm mariano: Hi David, good to see you.
	♥ 3:16pm Handy Haversack: Hey, David. How were the bees?
	♥ 3:16pm David (in London): That was the squeaky sound from Grauzone's 'Eis Bar'. I LOVE that squeaky sound.
	3:16pm brainiac: Good news everybody! The Orange Oaf says, "My daughter Ivanka Trump... created over 15 million jobs." Now get to work, you clicking chickens!
	♥ 3:17pm mrdonutsu: Oh yeah
	♥ 3:17pm David (in London): Handy, the bees were great. It was so nice outside today. Mr Squirrel was also performing ludicrous antics along the fence.
	♥ 3:17pm Handy Haversack: Love that guy, @DIL.
	🎸 ♥ 3:20pm Lizardner Dave 2: From the same company that brought you Grove's Emulsified Nose Drops?
	3:20pm brainiac: Get me my goddamn liver pills, goddamn it.
	3:20pm Mister Dobalina: I'll take some Lil Liver Pillz.
	♥ 3:21pm Mr. Pumpy: mariano...I was amazed at how late you were on last night, then I think I may have outlasted you. the post 3AM tunes were kicking!
	♥ 3:21pm dave wuz here: my humours are out of sorts
	♥ 3:22pm Irwin: I'm gonna make a pot of coffee. Anyone want? Let me know how you take it.
	3:22pm BH: checking in from the midwest where it's comparatively quiet. Also I could hear my neighbor playing "I Got Five on It" from 250ft away. So somebody probably called the cops on them for a suburban social distancing violation.
	♥ 3:22pm David (in London): Irwin, with a shot of dark rum please.
	♥ 3:23pm Handy Haversack: "With a Ding-Dong in it."
	3:25pm Itzall Gön'gett-Bettresuhnn: Thank you sir, I just fired up the Bodum, I'm good.
	♥ 3:25pm David (in London): Handy, as the great Leslie Phillips used to say "Ding dong, you're not wrong."
	3:26pm Ochre Ogre: Greetings Irwin, "The Eyes of Darkness" by Dean Koontz would also fit nicely in that diagram.
	3:26pm Mister Dobalina: With two shots of lite rum, gracias.
	♥ 3:27pm ackthpfft: One shot of grappa, please.
	♥ 3:28pm Mr. Pumpy: Like my granny used to say, "There's a Venn diagram critic in every crowd."
	3:28pm mb: Irwin
	♥ 3:29pm David (in London): Your grandma knew her distribution patterns Pumpy.
	♥ 3:31pm Mr. Pumpy: She was good like that, David. Also a bit of a racist...but we loved her.
	3:31pm listener phillip in the bronx: IRWIN IS LIVE!!! that's GREAT!!! finally
	3:31pm Ochre Ogre: @Mr. Pumpy- Haw, my granny use to say that too. She lived to be 97 and never used glasses, drank straight from the bottle!
	♥ 3:32pm Mr. Pumpy: @Ochre...respect
	♥ 3:33pm Carmichael: Irwin, could you Irish mine up a little?
	♥ 3:33pm KevinfromBayRidge: See that Weequahic (Newark) born Allen Garfield (Goorwitz) is another Covid-19 victim.
	♥ 3:34pm dave wuz here: black with a piece of the true cross
	♥ 3:34pm mariano: Mr. Pumpy - yeah, I was on pretty late, but then I slept till 1pm today. I seem to give the impression of never sleeping, but I've been getting some of the best sleep of my life during the quarantine.
	3:34pm listner phillip in the bronx: I guess we can't ask about the secret location. does it have running water a lot of porcelain and a big mirror:)
	3:35pm BH: My grandparents bought a proud habit of never throwing out anything because they all grew up during the Great Depression. These days, people who can turn empty jars into drinking glasses and people who can create facemasks are in high demand
	♥ 3:35pm Irwin: I'm on David Geffen's super-yacht.
	3:35pm Ochre Ogre: Hey marino, was wondering if u ever sleep?
	3:35pm Listener Robert: Why would anyone put DARK rum in coffee? Once it's mixed, you can't taste the difference with the cheap stuff.
	♥ 3:36pm KevinfromBayRidge: Just don't tell Neil Young, Irwin!
	♥ 3:36pm Mr. Pumpy: One of my absolute favorite WHO tracks. Cool cover!
	♥ 3:38pm Mr. Pumpy: mariano...I didn't close the lids until 5 and was up just after 10. I think I'm done with work for the day...and some napping may be in order.
	3:39pm Listener Robert: I sense a theme with the last 4 selections. Someone have a baby?
	3:39pm brainiac: Was that Alice Cooper singing "I'm A Boy"?
	♥ 3:39pm Mr. Pumpy: Nailing Axl
	3:39pm berbo: Oh yeah, well I'm on Elon Musk's submarine - prepare to be Bored!
	🎸 ♥ 3:39pm Mark Hurst: Mr. Chusid! Love the playlist image.
	♥ 3:39pm Handy Haversack: Yeah, you can chill, Mr. P. We are closing operations. It's twilight time. Perhaps you can find a squirrel's antics to watch? It's recommended.
	♥ 3:40pm dave wuz here: better than the chipmunks
	3:40pm Ochre Ogre: @ David in London- Any word over there on marianne Faithful's condition?
	♥ 3:40pm Irwin: brain: yep, he's a charter member of the HV's. Great first album, not so great second.
	3:41pm listener Phillip in the Bronx: well I'm happy!! a live IRWIN is much better than a pre recorded Irwin. wait a minute? did I just hear a toilet flush over the airwaves:-)
	3:41pm wendy del formaggio: Ha! I was just gazing at my Michelle Lemay CD earlier today, contemplating blasting it from the car as I run apocalypse-era errands. Big thanks to Otis Fodder for sending me the CD a million years ago.
	♥ 3:41pm Mr. Pumpy: Counting squirrels...it's imminent
	3:41pm Marissa: This sounds like Cindi Lauper without puberty
	♥ 3:42pm mariano: Hey, at least the backing band is really good.
	♥ 3:43pm David (in London): @Ochre Ogre - Hey there. Her manager released a statement yesterday saying that she was comfortable and stable, but I haven't seen any update today.
	♥ 3:43pm Handy Haversack: Where can we go now?
	♥ 3:44pm Mr. Pumpy: The bathroom, the kitchen, the bedroom, ad infinitum..
	3:44pm Ochre Ogre: mariano- Right, the guitarist sounds just like Axel
	♥ 3:46pm Handy Haversack: Irwin's Law.
	3:47pm Ochre Ogre: David- Fingers crossed, the woman has been through a lot.
	3:47pm BH: Kinda concerning how quickly various corporations dipped into their stock footage archives to create "things have changed now" commercials
	3:48pm brainiac: This is the stuff. Right there, oh yeah, Malinda, don't stop.
	♥ 3:49pm Handy Haversack: @brainiac: Next, the Michelle Lemay cover version!
	♥ 3:49pm Dominick: !
	3:50pm brainiac: My nipples explode with pleasure
	♥ 3:50pm mariano: Lol, Ocre Ogre!
	♥ 3:50pm David (in London): Ochre Orge, meanwhile Keef blasts on as usual...
	3:51pm Keith in Vermont: I heart Thomas.
	3:52pm Itzall Gön'gett-Bettresuhnn: And "this plan" involves ropes, chloroform and a padlocked door, MY DARLIN.
	🎸 ♥ 3:53pm The Oscar: Afternoon! Thomas seems to be simultaneously channeling Dean Martin and Charles Manson.
	3:53pm Mister Dobalina: I keep sending the significant other gif's of corgi butts, that's cool right?
	♥ 3:53pm Carmichael: Thomas must have a friggin' warehouse full of tunes.
	3:53pm Ochre Ogre: @David- Right, bless the bugger.
	3:54pm Hammy: Little umbrellas!!!!! Yesssssss
	♥ 3:55pm Mr. Pumpy: This is a desert island track for me. Hell...desert island album, without a doubt!
	3:55pm brainiac: @Mister Dobalina: In case you want to switch it up... giphy.com...
	♥ 3:55pm Mr. Pumpy: The outtake is killer as well.
	♥ 3:55pm David (in London): Hot rats, hot rits, hot zoots. This is just such a titanic album.
	🎸 ♥ 3:55pm The Oscar: Back in my record store days I once helped a woman looking for an unconventional album of instrumental music she could play at her business function. I played her some of Hot Rats, which she thought was perfect and bought. It wasn't until later that I realized that those executives were in for a shock once Willie the Pimp showed up.
	♥ 3:56pm Mr. Pumpy: David...it's a giant among protozoa.
	♥ 3:56pm Irwin: Aliens: Twinkeyz cover
	♥ 3:56pm Handy Haversack: Yeah. Hot Rats blows the top off.
	3:56pm Mister Dobalina: @brainiac...thanks, my text client on my phone links me directly to that site service. It's a beautiful thing. Unlimited corgi butt gifs.
	♥ 3:56pm Mr. Pumpy: @Oscar...no worry, I'm sure many of them at paid for a grunt with a third party check!
	3:57pm Karen in Sleepy Hollow: Wussy is doing a FaceBook live this Friday!
	♥ 3:57pm David (in London): The Oscar - Ha ha, great story. Perhaps it gave them some ideas for business stream diversification...
	3:57pm brainiac: You can never have too many gifs. Just ask Station Manager Ken.
	♥ 3:58pm David (in London): Especially if those GIFs involve a talking fried egg.
	♥ 3:58pm Handy Haversack: Weasels Ripped My Flesh is huge in the Wharton MBA crowd.
	3:59pm Ochre Ogre: @David- Saw Keef doing a photo shoot in NYC '89, gave him a raised fist, he returned it with a smile, made my week!
	4:01pm Mister Dobalina: Truth be told, brainiac!
	4:01pm Ochre Ogre: Hot Rats short naps Always have two cats
	4:01pm Hammy: Totally @mr. pumpy! Best desert island ever
	4:02pm brainiac: You jus have to be sure you pronounce it correctly d.newsweek.com...
	♥ 4:02pm mariano: Speaking of Zappa, found some interesting clips a while back: On UK TV in 1968 with the Mothers playing King Kong (www.youtube.com...) and a really interesting clip of a short-haired, suit-wearing Zappa on the Steve Allen Show in 1963 using a bicycle as a musical instrument (www.youtube.com...).
	♥ 4:03pm David (in London): Ochre Ogre - Oh man, that's a great spot. I always remember Tom Waits talking about going to a business meeting with Keef at some Sony (?) building or other, and Keef just bounded up the stairs to the top floor, two steps at a time whilst Waits was waiting for the lift. The man is a force of nature.
	🎸 ♥ 4:03pm Steve from Dunwoody: gene tierney, hot cha!
	♥ 4:03pm Mr. Pumpy: Hammy...yup yup. By the way, my best bud and I have an unhealthy ham fixation. Fascinated with all things ham. Therefore...I am jealous of your handle. Sir Hammy...
	♥ 4:03pm Roberto: HUH
	🎸 ♥ 4:05pm Mark Hurst: "So few people have heard of him" - heh
	4:05pm Ochre Ogre: David- Excellent. Indeed!
	4:05pm brainiac: Irwin, you were so much older then.
	♥ 4:05pm mrdonutsu: This is the same guy who did the "Jackie Starr" gag I think.
	♥ 4:06pm David (in London): mariano - I came across this a while back. Zappa playing Interstellar Overdrive with the Floyd in '69. Before I realised who it was I was indignant: "Who could possibly EVER play Syd's role. Oh. Zappa? Hmm, well, OK. OK. Yes" www.youtube.com...
	♥ 4:06pm mrdonutsu: www.facebook.com...
	4:07pm Itzall Gön'gett-Bettresuhnn: Guess all of his 2020 live shows have all been cancelled due to his non-existence and the virusees.
	♥ 4:07pm mariano: Oh wow, David - that is quite a find, thanks.
	4:07pm Ochre Ogre: brainiac- He's much younger then that now.
	4:08pm Dean: Schone, Mark, Easy come... Village Voice. 11/21/95, Vol. 40 Issue 47, p55. 3p. Reports on the controversy surrounding a hoax perpetrated by Los Angeles musician Joey Altruda to cash in on the boom of exotica revival. Transfer of test pressing of Altruda's forthcoming solo album to acetate that created Ray Batado; Host Chris Douridas' possession of Batado acetate, now called `El Toscado'; Interview with a Batado impersonator; Release of `El Toscado' under its real name `Cocktails With Joey.'
	4:09pm BH: you'd think not existing would lower his risk of contracting the virus though
	♥ 4:11pm Irwin: Batado's female vocalist was named Crista Ritas.
	4:12pm Laura L: I remember seeing Joey Altruda the only time I ever was in Tavern on the Green--Irwin, I think you might have been there?
	♥ 4:13pm David (in London): Irwin, what was his optometrist called?
	4:13pm Itzall Gön'gett-Bettresuhnn: BH, it's a consideration for his many fans, most likely.
	♥ 4:14pm Rich in Washington: OMG, Irwin! You've solved a mystery for me! I've been trying to remember this artist's name!
	4:15pm BH: wonder who'll be the first musician/group to start offering pay per view empty venue "concerts" (before people realize that they can listen to their music for free)
	♥ 4:16pm mrdonutsu: Ha, and Joey Altruda has recordings that feature Jackie Starr! www.allmusic.com...
	4:16pm brainiac: Ray sounds like Esteban Vihaio from Kill Bill
	4:17pm fofo (: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-09-27-ca-50417-story.html Play It Again, Chris: Chris Douridas, host of “Morning Becomes Eclectic” on radio station KCRW-FM (89.9), will continue to play the music of a Southland musician who concocted an elaborate hoax that embarrassed the radio personality while generating interest in the artist. Joey Altruda, composer and arranger of what Douridas described as a “kitschy Cuban jazz” record called “Cocktails for Joey,” delivered his music to Douridas last week in the form of a vinyl acetate, presenting it as a never-before-released 33-year-old album from a Cuban bandleader who was in failing health. Then, in a live phone interview that aired Monday, Douridas spoke unknowingly to actors who had been retained by Altruda to perpetuate the story of the dying bandleader. On Tuesday, Altruda apologized on the air to Douridas and his audience. “One side of me thought, ‘That was a brilliant publicity stunt,’ ” Douridas said, “but the other side of me kept coming back to [feeling offended]. . . . I felt used.”
	4:18pm Hammy: This is Dame Hammy, Sir Hammy exists only in fiction, ham prevail!
	4:19pm Rudy: Damn, as a non-native English speaker, Ray's foreign accent was pretty convincing!
	♥ 4:19pm Irwin: Ray is played by actor Al Israel.
	♥ 4:20pm mariano: Next we're gonna find out that Buena Vista Social Club was an elaborate hoax by Ry Cooder. Irwin: Yes, Al Israel, who was the Colombian drug dealer at the beginning of Scarface, the one who chainsawed Scarface's friend to death.
	4:21pm Listener Robert: The persona is fake but the music is real, right? Or do I have it backwards?
	♥ 4:21pm Irwin: The music is by Joey Altruda. See fofo above.
	4:21pm Dean: Fake persona, fake music, fake news
	♥ 4:21pm Rich in Washington: This was driving me nuts for years. I couldn't remember where I had read about it. I thought maybe the Re/Search book Pranks, or perhaps Cool and Strange Music. Such an epic troll.
	4:22pm brainiac: That's a lot of bass response. Fatal flaw for a hoax </killjoy>
	🎸 ♥ 4:22pm Mark Hurst: Next you're gonna tell me that those documentaries listed in the Venn diagram above are actually fictional movies. Pfff, yeah RIGHT
	4:24pm Dean: And to think it was just yesterday that we were ragging on Morning Becomes Electric.
	♥ 4:25pm dave wuz here: always wondered what instument makes that boner sound
	4:26pm BH: should we take it as a good sign or a bad sign that Omega Man/I Am Legend didn't make the diagram?
	4:26pm ?: Enjoying this show. Will there be a show honoring the music of John Prine next week?
	♥ 4:27pm mrdonutsu: I met Charo. She did talk alot.
	4:27pm fofo (: Hmmm... Whoever does Ray sounds like a native Spanish speaker. Does Al Israel speaks Spanish so fluently?
	4:27pm ?: Could have sworn I heard Clay or Ken mention this John Prine tribute show this morning.
	♥ 4:28pm Irwin: Al is an actor. Good actors do accents well.
	♥ 4:28pm Carmichael: An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, inside a conundrum.
	4:28pm PJ: @BH: Omega Man is the movie I most think about when I am walking down these empty streets. The only thing missing is old newspapers blowing around - another reason to resent the Internet.
	4:28pm Listening Out There: ...ergo, Al is not a good actor...
	4:29pm PJ: Who is the interviewer for this piece? Was he in on the joke?
	♥ 4:30pm Irwin: PJ: The interviewer doesn't sound familiar?
	🎸 ♥ 4:30pm Alison Porchnik: It's young Irwin Chusid, fresh out of J-school!
	4:30pm P-90: Blame Castro. (Usually works)
	4:30pm Androu B.: Hello again, friends! Just noticing the heading jpg image, I can see some room for a few other classic sci-fi movies that would fit among the parables to this paradoxical dystopian nightmare we're trapped in now. (I won't bother mentioning any obvious choices here.)
	4:30pm Listening Out There: The actor portraying the interviewer does an okay job, however...
	4:31pm fofo (: The interviewer has a strong Irwin accent.
	4:31pm Listening Out There: ...it's almost convincing. Almost...
	4:31pm PJ: @Irwin, @Alison: Irwin's voice has changed!
	🎸 ♥ 4:31pm Alison Porchnik: It's all the whiskey and cigars
	4:32pm P-90: Name Rykodisc. (Usually works)
	🎸 ♥ 4:32pm Alison Porchnik: And years of Primal Scream therapy
	♥ 4:33pm Irwin: The recordings (sans scratches) were issued on: www.discogs.com...
	4:33pm PJ: @Irwin, @Alison: There's a more bass and less high end in the voice now.
	♥ 4:34pm Handy Haversack: I was doing entirely too much work through that whole segment.
	4:35pm PJ: I guess 25 years of hard living will take their toll.
	4:35pm fofo (: https://doran.blogspot.com/2006/01/chris-douridas-busted-for-roofies.html Chris Douridas Busted for Roofies! KCRW's superstar DJ, Chris Douridas was reportedly arrested on January 6 in an incident at the Circle Bar involving alcohol, roofies, and a 14 year old girl who had to be taken to a local hospital. He was released after posting $1,000,000 bail. Anonymous wrote in the comment section: Hey, anybody remember Crispy Doritos'last caper? His supposed discovery of a Cuban band leader, Ray Batado? September 1995. Read all about it 'cause it exposed him for the pompous cheating fraud he really is. See Los Angeles Times, L.A. Weekly, Jill Stewart in The L.A. Reader and the book by Garreth Branwyn "Jamming the Media". The prank involved lounge pioneers Joey Altruda,Joey Cheezhee, Pat Tierney and Scarface actor Al Israel and left pie all over Dourida's face when it not only exposed his lack of musical knowlege, but his conflict of interest featuring bands he represented at Dreamworks on the supposedly "non- profit radio station K[S]CR[E]W. He disapeared for awhile to lick his wounds, then crept back to prominance when the laughter died down. Look for the "Ray Batado/Chrispy Doritos Prank" coming soon to a record store near you.
	♥ 4:36pm mariano: Can confirm the accent. There's a Cuban branch of my extended family and Al sounded just like them. Pacino on the other hand... no comment.
	4:37pm brainiac: Hoochee mama, wotta album cover a2-images.myspacecdn.com...
	♥ 4:39pm David (in London): Brainiac - That's just an average evening chez moi.
	♥ 4:39pm Handy Haversack: OH NO! It's like Heavy Metal all over again!
	4:39pm Lewis: you are a very naughty disc jockey
	♥ 4:39pm Crudbringer: CAREFUL!! www.youtube.com...
	4:39pm PJ: ha! so much for shellac
	4:40pm Listener Robert: Was that someone filling in at 4 for Bob Brainen?
	4:40pm PJ: How soon after this interview was the Chris Douridas one done?
	♥ 4:41pm David (in London): I mean to add 'I wish', on the end there.
	♥ 4:42pm Irwin: The Douridas interview was actually two months prior. They sent me a tape of it, which is on the other side of the cassette of my WFMU aircheck.
	4:43pm brainiac: We all have those secret dreams, David. Best to keep them that way.
	♥ 4:43pm mrdonutsu: From now perspective, that music does not sound vintage at all.
	♥ 4:44pm mariano: Oof, Crudbringer: that clip still makes me wince and laugh in equal measure.
	♥ 4:44pm Handy Haversack: David, I fully believe that one day beautiful people will regularly come to your home to shoot fake album covers. The dream is real.
	4:45pm brainiac: Only kings and fools try to make them come true.
	♥ 4:45pm David (in London): Oh Jesus, I've never seen that wax cylinder clip before. Man, that made me hoot.
	4:45pm Dean: I could never stomach Douridas, and I generally paid no attention to him or his stupid show, but the bit up-thread about the roofies appears not to have resulted in charges. Later that same year, his 14YO daughter drowned. Like his work as a DJ or not, I can't imagine...
	🎸 ♥ 4:45pm spodiodi: hi Irwin (and the Irwinians)
	4:46pm P-90: Is that really 25 years ago? Ulp...
	♥ 4:46pm David (in London): Handy, rates a very reasonable £30 a session!
	♥ 4:46pm David (in London): Hey spodiodi.
	♥ 4:47pm Handy Haversack: See? They can't afford not to!
	♥ 4:47pm mrdonutsu: Ah, so Tierney was Jackie Starr.
	4:48pm RustyTiki: It isn’t April 1st. Lol. Great little “interview”. Love the part about the firing line!
	♥ 4:49pm mariano: Hey spodiodi.
	♥ 4:51pm Handy Haversack: How goes, spodiodi?
	4:52pm Lewis: ok - that was weird...
	♥ 4:53pm mariano: Ooh, "Sisters"! There'a a De Palma movie I haven't seen in decades, should add it to the quarantine queue.
	🎸 ♥ 4:53pm spodiodi: hola DiL, mariano, Handy... still kiackin' -- tryna stay + and you? just back from visiting 2 banks -- Chinatown is busier than it was in recent days, but still a ghost town for the most part.
	♥ 4:54pm Crudbringer: Glad I was able to provoke an emotional response. I am your Voight-Kampff tester. (And yeah, I googled words I heard and found Sisters too, looks good!)
	4:55pm fofo (: I liked the Ray Batado hoax. But now I wonder if the interview with Kevin Calabro from Royal Potato Family Records was an hoax.
	4:55pm P-90: That there is no easily searchable quote from Perez Prado claiming that he gave Batado “his first real job” is proof of Batado’s nonexistence.
	♥ 4:55pm David (in London): I went to look at Meek's old studio at 304 Holloway Road a few years back. There's a memorial bench outside which is good.
	♥ 4:56pm Handy Haversack: Remember that the Golgafrinchams were wiped out by a virulent disease caught from a dirty telephone after they sent our ancestors out on Ark Ship B. Was very pleased to see Ken taking this risk seriously at the end of Marathon! Telephone sanitizers: from them we evolved -- in them we find our salvation!
	♥ 4:57pm David (in London): Handy - We never did find out what happened to the giant mutant star goat, did we?
	♥ 4:58pm Handy Haversack: I had heard it was to be a planetary invasion by twelve-foot pirannha bees?
	♥ 5:00pm Rich in Washington: I think of the Golgafrinchams often, HH. Especially now.
	♥ 5:00pm Handy Haversack: SOPS
	5:00pm BH: excited for the cheese family movie about parents forced to suddenly parent because of the coronavirus
	🎸 ♥ 5:00pm Phillippe Bastille: Howdy. Keeping it moist over here?
	5:01pm Dean: There's a remedy for SOPS, too. It's the difference between the current age of each kid and 18.
	🎸 ♥ 5:01pm βrian: Re SOPS: you have to make the moist of it.
	♥ 5:01pm Handy Haversack: Don't worry, Rich. Telephone sanitizing is in our DNA! Hi, Phillippe! Is your phone clean?
	5:01pm Lewis: Sudden Onset Parents Syndrome -> SOPS
	5:02pm brainiac: Ha, ha, good one @βrian!
	5:02pm Lewis: a bit slow to the party I see... ah well somethings never change...
	♥ 5:02pm Handy Haversack: Every time I talk to a friend who has kids these days I want to thank my vasectomy dr. all over again.
	5:04pm ?: Irwin, I am a school teacher in Texas and for some time I have suspected that all blessings are mixed, that is , getting it wrong looks like a curse. Man up parents and welcome to our world.
	5:04pm Dean: Trust me, kids are the least of my concerns during this "challenging time." Other parents, OTOH...
	🎸 ♥ 5:04pm βrian: In our case, the kid was air-dropped into our lap. No urologist is gonna fix that. (Not to say she isn't lovely ...)
	5:05pm jan: Irwin- Great show today. thanks for being there for us!
	🎸 ♥ 5:05pm βrian: "L'enfer c'est les autre parents."
	♥ 5:06pm Handy Haversack: I think when we get out of this, @ βrian, an Airborne Urologist Corps is going to shoot to the top of national priorities! Or Space Force: Urethra, if you're into manga.
	♥ 5:06pm Irwin: Thanks, Jan! You've been there for us for decades.
	5:08pm Dean: That was Sartre's Time Out, right, βrian?
	🎸 ♥ 5:08pm βrian: What, a paroxysm of vasectomies?
	🎸 ♥ 5:09pm Phillippe Bastille: @Handy Phone is clean! Regarding the kid thing -- we have two young adult kids at home. Not sure which did it, but rather than empty the overflowing trash can, he put empty egg shells back in the carton and the carton with the shells back in fridge.
	🎸 ♥ 5:10pm βrian: Maybe Time Outs will spur sales of walk-in coolers.
	5:11pm brainiac: @Phillippe: a stoke of genius. You must be proud!
	♥ 5:11pm Handy Haversack: This very much explains the detached office-shack, Phillippe!
	🎸 ♥ 5:12pm Phillippe Bastille: Anticipating "Do we have any eggs?"
	🎸 ♥ 5:12pm βrian: Cuz it won't be long before those egg shells will be looking pretty appealing.
	🎸 ♥ 5:12pm spodiodi: Most Foul
	🎸 ♥ 5:13pm Webhamster Henry: Dylan's first #1 hit.
	5:13pm BH: Murder Most Foul is the magic bullet of songs
	5:13pm yippie: i was playing pictionary and the game told me to draw god
	5:13pm Dean: I'd make a broth out of them. Great base for egg flower soup.
	🎸 ♥ 5:13pm PMD: Egg Shell Soup!
	♥ 5:13pm WoodsOfNH: Oh...Irwin. Ha!
	♥ 5:14pm Irwin: Murder Most Fowl by Blind Boy Grunt lyrics by Lane Steinberg It was the summer of 1921 Lounging in the San Francisco sun Fatty Arbuckle was riding high He could name his price, the limit was the sky His latest film was a box office smash So to celebrate he had a Labor Day bash But by the end of the week he was sitting in a cell His heavenly life had turned into hell
	🎸 ♥ 5:14pm PMD: @yippie, I'd love to see what you drew
	🎸 ♥ 5:14pm spodiodi: Blind Boy Grunt <3
	♥ 5:14pm Irwin: In cell number 12 on felony row Held without bail, Fatty sank low His movies banned both far and wide He felt like he'd already died Now a puddle of girth and fear He had no money, they killed his career
	🎸 ♥ 5:14pm Phillippe Bastille: @Dean a better idea than mine
	5:14pm ChrisB.: Oh, Irwin.
	♥ 5:14pm Irwin: Now jump to the 20th century Hong Kong wasn't the place to be Chickens were sick, dying from flu There was only one thing that they could do They grabbed every chicken young and old What happened next was a horror I'm told The smoke went up and the dogs did howl The end of them chickens It was a murder most fowl
	5:15pm ?: Consider, reproductive systems are not essential to live, a happy joyful life does not depend on sex, only the persistence of the species. F*ck it.
	5:15pm PJ: @Irwin: I appreciate the prompt appearance of the lyrics, much better than RapGenius.
	5:15pm Dean: Which came first, the fowl or the egg? One day at lunch in downtown LA I strolled to the central public library and read a book about the Arbuckle scandal.
	5:15pm yippie: i think its called most most foul just ask spazz
	5:15pm sufferwords: puddle of girth and fear
	♥ 5:15pm Irwin: An actress was dead, Virginia Rappe They found her taking an eternal nap The prosecution's witness, her name was Maude They knew she was most likely a fraud
	🎸 ♥ 5:15pm spodiodi: bgawk
	5:15pm brainiac: the persistence of chickens
	♥ 5:15pm Irwin: In the days leading up to the alleged crime Fatty wasn't having the best of times He went to the station to service his car It was near his house he didn't go far An acid soaked rag was on a seat And when he sat down he felt the heat A nasty burn on both his cheeks From a mile away they heard the shrieks Still that party was booked and set The pain in his pants Fatty would forget San Francisco, the St. Francis Drake They had all the booze, the food, the cake
	♥ 5:16pm mariano: I'm sure most of y'all know this already, but Paul Simon got the title to "Mother and Child Reunion" from a menu at a Chinese restaurant; the dish in question containing both chicken and egg.
	♥ 5:16pm Irwin: Back in Hong Kong they didn't know what to do To stop the spread of the Avian flu Those poor chickens, they weren't to blame They were all just merely pawns in the game They destroyed every carcass from the beak to the bowel No chicken tonight, it was a murder most fowl
	♥ 5:16pm David (in London): Gotta duck out now. Thanks Irwin. Good night folks.
	5:16pm PJ: Better rhymes than Dylan's
	🎸 ♥ 5:16pm Phillippe Bastille: @mariano no shells?
	♥ 5:17pm Irwin: The band was loud and the people were drunk A roast beef came around, Fatty grabbed a hunk With the other hand he motioned for Rappe She gave him a smile, as she tipped her hat She followed him up the stairs holding a cup Fatty didn't know he was being set up They got in the room and she started to scream Tearing off her clothes like in her crazy dream Chicken's always been bred for food Lotsa meat, they taste real good But the breeders got greedy packed 'em in too tight Got all stressed, couldn't sleep at night
	5:17pm brainiac: DUCK OUT
	5:17pm Dean: Yeah, now it's called the Kimpton Sir Francis Drake.
	🎸 ♥ 5:17pm Ken From Hyde Park: I'm not hearing the chimp chorus here.
	♥ 5:17pm Handy Haversack: Flying the coop, David? Have a good one!
	♥ 5:17pm Barney Grubbs: do i have to make my own monkey noises
	🎸 ♥ 5:17pm Phillippe Bastille: Chicken out
	5:17pm brainiac: 'bye David
	♥ 5:17pm mariano: Bye David, take care!
	♥ 5:18pm Irwin: A doctor was summoned, mad as a hatter He said Fatty Arbuckle crushed the girl's bladder They put him in cuffs and took him the station Soon the news was all going around the nation The Hong Kong people did damage control They had authority and played that role The old birds gone, they'll now breed new Ones that are free of the avian flu The doctor applied to Rappe a warm towel He was sure he had witnessed a murder most fowl
	♥ 5:18pm mariano: Phillippe: Lol. Pretty sure no shells.
	♥ 5:18pm Irwin: A mysterious woman named Madame Black She was the one behind Fatty's attack That poor naive actress was duped into dyin' And Fatty was taken out shakin' and cryin' The trial ensued and Fatty went broke Defending himself, he was strong when he spoke The jury was deadlocked, they tried him again This time the jury prosecutors couldn't bend A full out acquittal, but his fate had been sealed The damage was done and could not be repealed
	5:18pm Dean: Was this written before or after "Hurricane"?
	🎸 ♥ 5:19pm Phillippe Bastille: @mariano I got ya covered if you need them
	♥ 5:19pm Irwin: Fatty changed his name to William B. Goode Tried to find work as best as he could Started directing, barely scraped by His spirt was broken, and he started to die
	♥ 5:20pm Irwin: Back in old Hong Kong, the people ate pork Not a shred of chicken on a chopstick or fork They vacuumed out cages, cleaned all the farms Word was all over, they sounded alarms If you got a chicken, that bird's gotta die Don't ask for a reason, ain't gonna say why This comes from above, so don't give me no scowl Few birds will be left, we gotta murder most fowl
	♥ 5:20pm WoodsOfNH: If this shows up for the next 3 hours of Music To Spazz By....
	♥ 5:20pm Irwin: Now between Fatty's fall and the avian flu Lotsa things happened, I'll just name a few The Beatles, the Flintstones, and old Cassius Clay Dorothy Lamour and the Road to Mandalay Walks on the moon, satellites in space Special tanning creams for your face Twister, Monopoly, the self-winding watch Skippy peanut butter, pants that fit in the crotch Stereo records, the first can of beer Speakers that fit over your ears Telephone, cortisone, a recording machine Slinkys, Lucky Charms, the first submarine
	♥ 5:21pm Irwin: Ten years after the end of his trial Fatty finally found a good reason to smile A two-picture deal, they wanted him back All was forgiven, his life back on track He went out to celebrate with his faithful wife And told everyone it was the best day of his life He ate a big meal and went off to bed In the morning they found him lifeless and dead
	🎸 ♥ 5:21pm Phillippe Bastille: We're enjoying the last nice weather day for the next week, heading out to enjoy it. Thanks Irwin, catch y'all later everyone!
	♥ 5:22pm Irwin: Now wolves guard the farms where there used to be chickens They all fighting for scraps, these days its slim pickin's At night you can hear them, they bark and they howl There's not much to eat because they murdered most fowl youtu.be...
	5:22pm queems: this is really somethng
	🎸 ♥ 5:22pm spodiodi: not nearly enough songs about Fatty. this was so needed. thank you, Irwin
	5:22pm Dean: Wait, the telephone was around way before Arbuckle's trouble.
	5:22pm brainiac: spectacular
	5:22pm Fredericks: I listened to the beginning of this Dylan song when it came out, and thought maybe when I have the time. I guess I have the time. But I'm only half listening.
	🎸 ♥ 5:22pm spodiodi: standing O
	♥ 5:23pm radioronan: Do we get the chirping chicken mix next?
	5:23pm Itzall Gön'gett-Bettresuhnn: Is there really ANY reason to listen to the other version now?
	♥ 5:23pm Dominick: Bravo
	5:23pm Dean: Neither Phish nor fowl..
	🎸 ♥ 5:23pm βrian: Murder most fowl implies schmaltz.
	5:23pm mb: Treydawg!!
	5:23pm Fredericks: Thanks for the lyrics, Irwin.
	♥ 5:24pm Irwin: The perp was Lane Steinberg.
	5:24pm Andres: Yes, we have no chickens. We have no chickens today.
	5:24pm prudy: great parody...Dylan's piece struck me as overblown rehashed reflections, not one of his better works...
	5:25pm Thelma Blitz: "I offered up my innocence, I was repaid with....parody." This was silly but less obnoxious than Colbert's attempt.
	5:25pm ?: Legend, or myth has it that Roscoe grew up in the house next door to me.
	5:26pm P-90: Steinberg! I should have recognized his handiwork.
	🎸 ♥ 5:26pm βrian: I don't mind that is was rehashed, but I wanted it to be a little more, well, moist.
	5:27pm otto: TREY LIVES
	5:27pm ?: Hannibal Lector said that too.
	♥ 5:29pm Irwin: Lane's "Murder Most Fowl" is on YT: youtu.be...
	♥ 5:31pm mariano: Ok y'all, I'm out for a bit - thanks Irwin and crew, take care everyone!
	♥ 5:32pm Handy Haversack: Take it easy, mariano!
	5:32pm Thelma Blitz: Colbert's attempt at Dylan mockery :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMTDOEvY3R0
	♥ 5:33pm steveo: If a man hears Phish on the radio, but doesn't know it was Phish until several minutes later, has he really ever heard Phish at all?
	♥ 5:34pm Yes: oh, he has
	🎸 ♥ 5:35pm PNX: But does he now know how to Phish for the rest of his life?
	5:38pm flashbazbo: If you teach a man about Phish, he may fall asleep, but if you teach him to talk about Phish he will start again every time he wakes up.
	♥ 5:39pm radioronan: worked in music & radio biz since I was a teenager and I've somehow never heard a phish song. until today. (unless it's like steveo said) never know what wfmu will bring to your ears next.
	🎸 ♥ 5:39pm βrian: I still think of Phish as a local band.
	5:39pm flashbazbo: Still working on that one.
	🎸 ♥ 5:39pm spodiodi: you're still a virgin in the eyes of the lord in that case, steveo
	🎸 ♥ 5:41pm spodiodi: it also doesn't count if you forgot you've heard (or seen, even live)
	5:41pm Dean: Phish (and Leftover Salmon et al.) got tons of play on Friday nights on LA's KPFK during the '90s, a show called Thursday Lunch.
	5:41pm Andres: Teach a man to Phish.
	5:43pm ?: Spam, spam, spam...
	♥ 5:44pm Mr. Pumpy: Ducking back in...Jamal! So great.
	5:46pm Dean: Always wondered whether Frisell ever played clarinet, his first instrument, on any of his records. Did a search. Yeah, he did! https://www.discogs.com/Bill-Frisell-Is-That-You/release/9901663
	♥ 5:47pm Mr. Pumpy: Irwin...got a little Bucky Pizzarelli?
	5:47pm Fredericks: This Frisell is a monster.
	♥ 5:49pm Mr. Pumpy: Yeah...Frisell really knows how to torture six...
	♥ 5:50pm WoodsOfNH: Weird Nightmare is such a great record.
	5:50pm mb: Fine show today, Irwin. Many thanks and i bid you a good day, sir! And thx for the new Phish tune! Aces.
	🎸 ♥ 5:51pm 12539: Thank you, Irwin. Stay safe.
	♥ 5:52pm ultradamno: RIP Hal Willner And I agree with Pumpy 'bout Jamal. Awesome.
	♥ 5:52pm Irwin: Next week I hope to pay tribute to birthday boy James Creighton.
	🎸 ♥ 5:53pm spodiodi: thanks, Irwin! really glad you're out there
	♥ 5:53pm WoodsOfNH: The thing I love about Frisell is that he's so awe-shucks unassuming and then he plays this _impossible_ stuff. He did a Beatles Tiny Desk thing that was just nuts.
	5:53pm Fredericks: And so is this Robbie Robertson. You can hear the influence of Roy Buchanan in his playing.
	♥ 5:53pm Carmichael: @David, Derek Smalls' dad was a phone sanitizer by trade. Now more than ever ...
	5:55pm Laura L: Thank you, Irwin.
	5:56pm choggie: speaking of our favorite Mingus album, Mingus Moves .....love that out
	♥ 5:56pm Carmichael: Find the clip of Frisell on Sanborn's Night Music, with Joey Barone, Hank Roberts and Kermit Driscoll. Stunning.
	♥ 5:56pm Irwin: Willner was something of a role model for me. At a time when I was struggling professionally, he demonstrated that a creative person could make a living doing what he loved with music, and do it in so many different ways. Before there was a gig economy, he prospered on gigs. He didn't have a job title. He was Hal Willner.
	♥ 5:57pm WoodsOfNH: @Carmichael Don't know about you but I'd certainly pay for a dvd reissue of that show.
	5:57pm Duane: Thank you Irwin! Hal Wilner was a steady Other Music customer and he was such a great guy and had the best taste in music. The shows he did with Lou Reed on BBC were wonderful too
	5:57pm choggie: night music was such an incredible program Screamin Jay Hawkins one of my favorite also Pharoah Sanders Thembi with Sanborn playing out there with him awesome
	5:58pm brainiac: Ken just blew up the drummer stream and the Hindenburg just crashed here. Chag Pesach samech everybody.
	♥ 5:58pm Brian in UK: Gig is short for giggle.
	♥ 5:58pm radioronan: Everything Hal did was fantastic. huge influence. Sorry you lost your friend. Thanks Irwin.
	🎸 ♥ 5:58pm spodiodi: thanks Skeleton crew!
	♥ 5:58pm ultradamno: Residents with Conway Twitty!
	🎸 ♥ 5:59pm PMD: Thanks Irwin~
	5:59pm choggie: I just made a half gallon of homemade Purell with Everclear and aloe vera

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April 8, 2020: There is a future. I have seen it!

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Artist	Track	Album	Approx. start time
unknown	You Are the Best Thing in the World	demo tape	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers	Freedom Monday	Soul Finger	0:04:59 (Pop-up)
Peel Dream Magazine	Eyeballs "Eyeballs" by "Peel Dream Magazine"	Agitprop Alterna	0:11:12 (Pop-up)
Grand National vs. Chemical Brothers	By the Time I Get Lost There Won't Be Much of a K Hole	ToToM mashup	0:16:15 (Pop-up)
Kansas Smitty’s	Sunnyland "Sunnyland" by "Kansas Smitty’s"	Things Happened Here	0:20:30 (Pop-up)

Bombay Bike Club	I Can Hardly Speak	Everything Else Has Gone Wrong	0:26:23 (Pop-up)
Crisman	Surprise "Surprise" by "Crisman"	Crisman	0:30:52 (Pop-up)
Lee Scott	That Kind of Girl "That Kind of Girl" by "Lee Scott"	song-poem	0:33:13 (Pop-up)
Hollywood Vampires	I'm a Boy "I'm a Boy" by "Hollywood Vampires"	Hollywood Vampires	0:35:17 (Pop-up)
Michelle Lemay	Sweet Child of Mine	Burning Up!!! Red Hot Covers of Today's Hottest Hits	0:37:47 (Pop-up)
Tape Beatles	Scientists Are Working	Music with Sound	0:43:28 (Pop-up)
Chad Kinsey & Ju-Ping Song	Knock 'Em Back III.	Toy	0:44:12 (Pop-up)

Congress-Woman Malinda Jackson Parker	Nana-Kroo	Songs Played and Sung by Mrs. Malinda Jackson Parker	0:47:02 (Pop-up)
Thomas	It's Now or Never "It's Now or Never" by "Thomas"	Thomas Sings	0:49:44 (Pop-up)
Frank Zappa	Little Umbrellas (1969 Mix Outtake)	The Hot Rats Sessions	0:52:40 (Pop-up)
Wussy	Aliens in Our Midst "Aliens in Our Midst" by "Wussy"	What Heaven is Like	0:55:43 (Pop-up)

INTERVIEW WITH RAY BATADO	Legendary Cuban bandleader and unreleased recordings	WFMU aircheck from November 1995	1:14:03 (Pop-up)
Ray Batado	Ray Batado interview seg 1		1:04:22 (Pop-up)
Ray Batado y su Orquesta	Tropical Espionage	unreleased recording (1961)	1:08:43 (Pop-up)
Ray Batado	Ray Batado interview seg 2		1:13:04 (Pop-up)
Ray Batado y su Orquesta	April in Portugal	unreleased recording (1961)	1:20:23 (Pop-up)
Ray Batado	Ray Batado interview seg 3		1:25:08 (Pop-up)
Ray Batado y su Orquesta	Mucci's Jag	unreleased recording (1962)	1:32:13 (Pop-up)
Irwin	conclusion of Ray Batado interview		1:38:04 (Pop-up)
Thelonious Monk with the Clark Terry Quartet	Let's Cool One	In Orbit	1:39:20 (Pop-up)

Diet Cigs	Night Terrors "Night Terrors" by "Diet Cigs"	Do You Wonder About Me?	1:48:13 (Pop-up)
Desertion Trio	I Hear a New World (comp. Joe Meek)	Twilight Time	1:52:07 (Pop-up)

John Cale & Terry Riley	Ides of March	Church of Anthrax	2:00:45 (Pop-up)
Irwin	The Epic Event of Our Time: Bob Dylan's New Single		2:12:07 (Pop-up)
Blind Boy Grunt	Murder Most Fowl "Murder Most Fowl" by "Blind Boy Grunt"	Murder Most Fowl	2:13:16 (Pop-up)
Phish	Evening Song "Evening Song" by "Phish"	Sigma Oasis	2:22:35 (Pop-up)
Hollow Ship	We Were Kings "We Were Kings" by "Hollow Ship"	Future Remains	2:27:04 (Pop-up)

Pete Galub and Matt Kanelos	Artificial Weather	Artificial Weather	2:33:04 (Pop-up)
Ahmad Jamal	This Terrible Planet "This Terrible Planet" by "Ahmad Jamal"	Extensions	2:36:10 (Pop-up)
Bill Frisell	Pithecanthropus Erectus	Hal Willner Presents Weird Nightmare: Meditations on Mingus	2:44:10 (Pop-up)
Robbie Robertson	Another Weird Nightmare Interlude	Hal Willner Presents Weird Nightmare: Meditations on Mingus	2:49:51 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	♥ 2:50pm Irwin: Happy Disease Holiday! On today's program: a 1995 interview with legendary Cuban bandleader Ray Batado, an homage to Bob Dylan's JFK epic, and a tribute to the late Hal Willner. Plus some surprises, with scattered insolence.
	♥ 3:00pm Carmichael: Heya Irwin and future people.
	♥ 3:01pm Asheville Jon: wow, off to an awesome start! hi Irwin and everyone else!
	3:01pm brainiac: I'm down with the insolence. Hi everybody.
	♥ 3:01pm Handy Haversack: Hey, everyone. Hi, Irwin.
	♥ 3:01pm Irwin: Someone requested this song last week. It radiates POSITIVITY.
	♥ 3:02pm Dominick: Hi everyone
	🎸 ♥ 3:02pm chris: thanks for the helpful Venn diagram, Irwin. and, no, YOU, are the best thing in the world.
	♥ 3:02pm Kat in Chicago: Nobody insolents like Irwin!
	♥ 3:02pm mariano: Hi Irwin, crew, everyone! Was just thinking that we hadn't heard "Murder Most Foul" enough times lately... ;)
	♥ 3:02pm KevinfromBayRidge: Wow Irwin! Packin' the show like a TOPT.
	3:02pm Laura L: Hello to all you Best Things in the World!
	♥ 3:02pm ynod: Thanks Irwin!
	🎸 ♥ 3:02pm βrian: Demo is short for demolition.
	♥ 3:03pm Asheville Jon: i love the "i found this unlabeled cassette at goodwill, let's buy it and see what's on it" lo-fi quality of this!
	♥ 3:04pm Handy Haversack: It's like someone tore the bridle right off this song's positivity.
	♥ 3:04pm Irwin: Venn diagram stolen off the web. Don't have attribution.
	3:04pm Itzall Gön'gett-Bettresuhnn: Well of course I had previously "liked" this gem! Hi Irwin, hello everyone.
	3:04pm Keith in Vermont: Is that album cover a nod to The Replacement's "Let it Be?"
	3:04pm brainiac: When all the greatest Dylan tracks are recounted, MMF will not be among them, Criswell predicts.
	♥ 3:04pm ackthpfft: Isn't that cover a Minor Threat EP?
	♥ 3:05pm Irwin: Freedom Monday: Lee Morgan: trumpet Freddie Hubbard: trumpet Gary Bartz: alto sax John Hicks: piano Victor Sproles: bass Art Blakey: drums Limelight Records, 1965 (both trumpeters are listed for this track)
	3:05pm The Butterman: That was sweet!
	3:05pm ?: this is the best song in the world
	♥ 3:06pm Irwin: I'm with Criswell.
	♥ 3:07pm Irwin: I'd never heard of a Euler diagram: en.wikipedia.org...
	3:09pm brainiac: It's Euler's day off
	♥ 3:10pm Carmichael: Boole's Inequality ... ?
	♥ 3:11pm ackthpfft: DeMorgan's Law?
	♥ 3:12pm mariano: Lol, brainiac: Ferris Euler's Day Off!
	♥ 3:13pm ackthpfft: Wishing the Eulers were skating these days.
	♥ 3:14pm Mr. Pumpy: Hello Irwin and the Gang...
	♥ 3:15pm David (in London): Evening Irwin and all Irwinians. Handy, mariano, Pumpmeister.
	♥ 3:15pm Mr. Pumpy: Damn...missed Art Blakey. I'll have to go to one of my Messengers bootlegs I got off a shady trade with White Ray.
	♥ 3:15pm Mr. Pumpy: Hi Dave!
	♥ 3:16pm mariano: Hi David, good to see you.
	♥ 3:16pm Handy Haversack: Hey, David. How were the bees?
	♥ 3:16pm David (in London): That was the squeaky sound from Grauzone's 'Eis Bar'. I LOVE that squeaky sound.
	3:16pm brainiac: Good news everybody! The Orange Oaf says, "My daughter Ivanka Trump... created over 15 million jobs." Now get to work, you clicking chickens!
	♥ 3:17pm mrdonutsu: Oh yeah
	♥ 3:17pm David (in London): Handy, the bees were great. It was so nice outside today. Mr Squirrel was also performing ludicrous antics along the fence.
	♥ 3:17pm Handy Haversack: Love that guy, @DIL.
	🎸 ♥ 3:20pm Lizardner Dave 2: From the same company that brought you Grove's Emulsified Nose Drops?
	3:20pm brainiac: Get me my goddamn liver pills, goddamn it.
	3:20pm Mister Dobalina: I'll take some Lil Liver Pillz.
	♥ 3:21pm Mr. Pumpy: mariano...I was amazed at how late you were on last night, then I think I may have outlasted you. the post 3AM tunes were kicking!
	♥ 3:21pm dave wuz here: my humours are out of sorts
	♥ 3:22pm Irwin: I'm gonna make a pot of coffee. Anyone want? Let me know how you take it.
	3:22pm BH: checking in from the midwest where it's comparatively quiet. Also I could hear my neighbor playing "I Got Five on It" from 250ft away. So somebody probably called the cops on them for a suburban social distancing violation.
	♥ 3:22pm David (in London): Irwin, with a shot of dark rum please.
	♥ 3:23pm Handy Haversack: "With a Ding-Dong in it."
	3:25pm Itzall Gön'gett-Bettresuhnn: Thank you sir, I just fired up the Bodum, I'm good.
	♥ 3:25pm David (in London): Handy, as the great Leslie Phillips used to say "Ding dong, you're not wrong."
	3:26pm Ochre Ogre: Greetings Irwin, "The Eyes of Darkness" by Dean Koontz would also fit nicely in that diagram.
	3:26pm Mister Dobalina: With two shots of lite rum, gracias.
	♥ 3:27pm ackthpfft: One shot of grappa, please.
	♥ 3:28pm Mr. Pumpy: Like my granny used to say, "There's a Venn diagram critic in every crowd."
	3:28pm mb: Irwin
	♥ 3:29pm David (in London): Your grandma knew her distribution patterns Pumpy.
	♥ 3:31pm Mr. Pumpy: She was good like that, David. Also a bit of a racist...but we loved her.
	3:31pm listener phillip in the bronx: IRWIN IS LIVE!!! that's GREAT!!! finally
	3:31pm Ochre Ogre: @Mr. Pumpy- Haw, my granny use to say that too. She lived to be 97 and never used glasses, drank straight from the bottle!
	♥ 3:32pm Mr. Pumpy: @Ochre...respect
	♥ 3:33pm Carmichael: Irwin, could you Irish mine up a little?
	♥ 3:33pm KevinfromBayRidge: See that Weequahic (Newark) born Allen Garfield (Goorwitz) is another Covid-19 victim.
	♥ 3:34pm dave wuz here: black with a piece of the true cross
	♥ 3:34pm mariano: Mr. Pumpy - yeah, I was on pretty late, but then I slept till 1pm today. I seem to give the impression of never sleeping, but I've been getting some of the best sleep of my life during the quarantine.
	3:34pm listner phillip in the bronx: I guess we can't ask about the secret location. does it have running water a lot of porcelain and a big mirror:)
	3:35pm BH: My grandparents bought a proud habit of never throwing out anything because they all grew up during the Great Depression. These days, people who can turn empty jars into drinking glasses and people who can create facemasks are in high demand
	♥ 3:35pm Irwin: I'm on David Geffen's super-yacht.
	3:35pm Ochre Ogre: Hey marino, was wondering if u ever sleep?
	3:35pm Listener Robert: Why would anyone put DARK rum in coffee? Once it's mixed, you can't taste the difference with the cheap stuff.
	♥ 3:36pm KevinfromBayRidge: Just don't tell Neil Young, Irwin!
	♥ 3:36pm Mr. Pumpy: One of my absolute favorite WHO tracks. Cool cover!
	♥ 3:38pm Mr. Pumpy: mariano...I didn't close the lids until 5 and was up just after 10. I think I'm done with work for the day...and some napping may be in order.
	3:39pm Listener Robert: I sense a theme with the last 4 selections. Someone have a baby?
	3:39pm brainiac: Was that Alice Cooper singing "I'm A Boy"?
	♥ 3:39pm Mr. Pumpy: Nailing Axl
	3:39pm berbo: Oh yeah, well I'm on Elon Musk's submarine - prepare to be Bored!
	🎸 ♥ 3:39pm Mark Hurst: Mr. Chusid! Love the playlist image.
	♥ 3:39pm Handy Haversack: Yeah, you can chill, Mr. P. We are closing operations. It's twilight time. Perhaps you can find a squirrel's antics to watch? It's recommended.
	♥ 3:40pm dave wuz here: better than the chipmunks
	3:40pm Ochre Ogre: @ David in London- Any word over there on marianne Faithful's condition?
	♥ 3:40pm Irwin: brain: yep, he's a charter member of the HV's. Great first album, not so great second.
	3:41pm listener Phillip in the Bronx: well I'm happy!! a live IRWIN is much better than a pre recorded Irwin. wait a minute? did I just hear a toilet flush over the airwaves:-)
	3:41pm wendy del formaggio: Ha! I was just gazing at my Michelle Lemay CD earlier today, contemplating blasting it from the car as I run apocalypse-era errands. Big thanks to Otis Fodder for sending me the CD a million years ago.
	♥ 3:41pm Mr. Pumpy: Counting squirrels...it's imminent
	3:41pm Marissa: This sounds like Cindi Lauper without puberty
	♥ 3:42pm mariano: Hey, at least the backing band is really good.
	♥ 3:43pm David (in London): @Ochre Ogre - Hey there. Her manager released a statement yesterday saying that she was comfortable and stable, but I haven't seen any update today.
	♥ 3:43pm Handy Haversack: Where can we go now?
	♥ 3:44pm Mr. Pumpy: The bathroom, the kitchen, the bedroom, ad infinitum..
	3:44pm Ochre Ogre: mariano- Right, the guitarist sounds just like Axel
	♥ 3:46pm Handy Haversack: Irwin's Law.
	3:47pm Ochre Ogre: David- Fingers crossed, the woman has been through a lot.
	3:47pm BH: Kinda concerning how quickly various corporations dipped into their stock footage archives to create "things have changed now" commercials
	3:48pm brainiac: This is the stuff. Right there, oh yeah, Malinda, don't stop.
	♥ 3:49pm Handy Haversack: @brainiac: Next, the Michelle Lemay cover version!
	♥ 3:49pm Dominick: !
	3:50pm brainiac: My nipples explode with pleasure
	♥ 3:50pm mariano: Lol, Ocre Ogre!
	♥ 3:50pm David (in London): Ochre Orge, meanwhile Keef blasts on as usual...
	3:51pm Keith in Vermont: I heart Thomas.
	3:52pm Itzall Gön'gett-Bettresuhnn: And "this plan" involves ropes, chloroform and a padlocked door, MY DARLIN.
	🎸 ♥ 3:53pm The Oscar: Afternoon! Thomas seems to be simultaneously channeling Dean Martin and Charles Manson.
	3:53pm Mister Dobalina: I keep sending the significant other gif's of corgi butts, that's cool right?
	♥ 3:53pm Carmichael: Thomas must have a friggin' warehouse full of tunes.
	3:53pm Ochre Ogre: @David- Right, bless the bugger.
	3:54pm Hammy: Little umbrellas!!!!! Yesssssss
	♥ 3:55pm Mr. Pumpy: This is a desert island track for me. Hell...desert island album, without a doubt!
	3:55pm brainiac: @Mister Dobalina: In case you want to switch it up... giphy.com...
	♥ 3:55pm Mr. Pumpy: The outtake is killer as well.
	♥ 3:55pm David (in London): Hot rats, hot rits, hot zoots. This is just such a titanic album.
	🎸 ♥ 3:55pm The Oscar: Back in my record store days I once helped a woman looking for an unconventional album of instrumental music she could play at her business function. I played her some of Hot Rats, which she thought was perfect and bought. It wasn't until later that I realized that those executives were in for a shock once Willie the Pimp showed up.
	♥ 3:56pm Mr. Pumpy: David...it's a giant among protozoa.
	♥ 3:56pm Irwin: Aliens: Twinkeyz cover
	♥ 3:56pm Handy Haversack: Yeah. Hot Rats blows the top off.
	3:56pm Mister Dobalina: @brainiac...thanks, my text client on my phone links me directly to that site service. It's a beautiful thing. Unlimited corgi butt gifs.
	♥ 3:56pm Mr. Pumpy: @Oscar...no worry, I'm sure many of them at paid for a grunt with a third party check!
	3:57pm Karen in Sleepy Hollow: Wussy is doing a FaceBook live this Friday!
	♥ 3:57pm David (in London): The Oscar - Ha ha, great story. Perhaps it gave them some ideas for business stream diversification...
	3:57pm brainiac: You can never have too many gifs. Just ask Station Manager Ken.
	♥ 3:58pm David (in London): Especially if those GIFs involve a talking fried egg.
	♥ 3:58pm Handy Haversack: Weasels Ripped My Flesh is huge in the Wharton MBA crowd.
	3:59pm Ochre Ogre: @David- Saw Keef doing a photo shoot in NYC '89, gave him a raised fist, he returned it with a smile, made my week!
	4:01pm Mister Dobalina: Truth be told, brainiac!
	4:01pm Ochre Ogre: Hot Rats short naps Always have two cats
	4:01pm Hammy: Totally @mr. pumpy! Best desert island ever
	4:02pm brainiac: You jus have to be sure you pronounce it correctly d.newsweek.com...
	♥ 4:02pm mariano: Speaking of Zappa, found some interesting clips a while back: On UK TV in 1968 with the Mothers playing King Kong (www.youtube.com...) and a really interesting clip of a short-haired, suit-wearing Zappa on the Steve Allen Show in 1963 using a bicycle as a musical instrument (www.youtube.com...).
	♥ 4:03pm David (in London): Ochre Ogre - Oh man, that's a great spot. I always remember Tom Waits talking about going to a business meeting with Keef at some Sony (?) building or other, and Keef just bounded up the stairs to the top floor, two steps at a time whilst Waits was waiting for the lift. The man is a force of nature.
	🎸 ♥ 4:03pm Steve from Dunwoody: gene tierney, hot cha!
	♥ 4:03pm Mr. Pumpy: Hammy...yup yup. By the way, my best bud and I have an unhealthy ham fixation. Fascinated with all things ham. Therefore...I am jealous of your handle. Sir Hammy...
	♥ 4:03pm Roberto: HUH
	🎸 ♥ 4:05pm Mark Hurst: "So few people have heard of him" - heh
	4:05pm Ochre Ogre: David- Excellent. Indeed!
	4:05pm brainiac: Irwin, you were so much older then.
	♥ 4:05pm mrdonutsu: This is the same guy who did the "Jackie Starr" gag I think.
	♥ 4:06pm David (in London): mariano - I came across this a while back. Zappa playing Interstellar Overdrive with the Floyd in '69. Before I realised who it was I was indignant: "Who could possibly EVER play Syd's role. Oh. Zappa? Hmm, well, OK. OK. Yes" www.youtube.com...
	♥ 4:06pm mrdonutsu: www.facebook.com...
	4:07pm Itzall Gön'gett-Bettresuhnn: Guess all of his 2020 live shows have all been cancelled due to his non-existence and the virusees.
	♥ 4:07pm mariano: Oh wow, David - that is quite a find, thanks.
	4:07pm Ochre Ogre: brainiac- He's much younger then that now.
	4:08pm Dean: Schone, Mark, Easy come... Village Voice. 11/21/95, Vol. 40 Issue 47, p55. 3p. Reports on the controversy surrounding a hoax perpetrated by Los Angeles musician Joey Altruda to cash in on the boom of exotica revival. Transfer of test pressing of Altruda's forthcoming solo album to acetate that created Ray Batado; Host Chris Douridas' possession of Batado acetate, now called `El Toscado'; Interview with a Batado impersonator; Release of `El Toscado' under its real name `Cocktails With Joey.'
	4:09pm BH: you'd think not existing would lower his risk of contracting the virus though
	♥ 4:11pm Irwin: Batado's female vocalist was named Crista Ritas.
	4:12pm Laura L: I remember seeing Joey Altruda the only time I ever was in Tavern on the Green--Irwin, I think you might have been there?
	♥ 4:13pm David (in London): Irwin, what was his optometrist called?
	4:13pm Itzall Gön'gett-Bettresuhnn: BH, it's a consideration for his many fans, most likely.
	♥ 4:14pm Rich in Washington: OMG, Irwin! You've solved a mystery for me! I've been trying to remember this artist's name!
	4:15pm BH: wonder who'll be the first musician/group to start offering pay per view empty venue "concerts" (before people realize that they can listen to their music for free)
	♥ 4:16pm mrdonutsu: Ha, and Joey Altruda has recordings that feature Jackie Starr! www.allmusic.com...
	4:16pm brainiac: Ray sounds like Esteban Vihaio from Kill Bill
	4:17pm fofo (: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-09-27-ca-50417-story.html Play It Again, Chris: Chris Douridas, host of “Morning Becomes Eclectic” on radio station KCRW-FM (89.9), will continue to play the music of a Southland musician who concocted an elaborate hoax that embarrassed the radio personality while generating interest in the artist. Joey Altruda, composer and arranger of what Douridas described as a “kitschy Cuban jazz” record called “Cocktails for Joey,” delivered his music to Douridas last week in the form of a vinyl acetate, presenting it as a never-before-released 33-year-old album from a Cuban bandleader who was in failing health. Then, in a live phone interview that aired Monday, Douridas spoke unknowingly to actors who had been retained by Altruda to perpetuate the story of the dying bandleader. On Tuesday, Altruda apologized on the air to Douridas and his audience. “One side of me thought, ‘That was a brilliant publicity stunt,’ ” Douridas said, “but the other side of me kept coming back to [feeling offended]. . . . I felt used.”
	4:18pm Hammy: This is Dame Hammy, Sir Hammy exists only in fiction, ham prevail!
	4:19pm Rudy: Damn, as a non-native English speaker, Ray's foreign accent was pretty convincing!
	♥ 4:19pm Irwin: Ray is played by actor Al Israel.
	♥ 4:20pm mariano: Next we're gonna find out that Buena Vista Social Club was an elaborate hoax by Ry Cooder. Irwin: Yes, Al Israel, who was the Colombian drug dealer at the beginning of Scarface, the one who chainsawed Scarface's friend to death.
	4:21pm Listener Robert: The persona is fake but the music is real, right? Or do I have it backwards?
	♥ 4:21pm Irwin: The music is by Joey Altruda. See fofo above.
	4:21pm Dean: Fake persona, fake music, fake news
	♥ 4:21pm Rich in Washington: This was driving me nuts for years. I couldn't remember where I had read about it. I thought maybe the Re/Search book Pranks, or perhaps Cool and Strange Music. Such an epic troll.
	4:22pm brainiac: That's a lot of bass response. Fatal flaw for a hoax </killjoy>
	🎸 ♥ 4:22pm Mark Hurst: Next you're gonna tell me that those documentaries listed in the Venn diagram above are actually fictional movies. Pfff, yeah RIGHT
	4:24pm Dean: And to think it was just yesterday that we were ragging on Morning Becomes Electric.
	♥ 4:25pm dave wuz here: always wondered what instument makes that boner sound
	4:26pm BH: should we take it as a good sign or a bad sign that Omega Man/I Am Legend didn't make the diagram?
	4:26pm ?: Enjoying this show. Will there be a show honoring the music of John Prine next week?
	♥ 4:27pm mrdonutsu: I met Charo. She did talk alot.
	4:27pm fofo (: Hmmm... Whoever does Ray sounds like a native Spanish speaker. Does Al Israel speaks Spanish so fluently?
	4:27pm ?: Could have sworn I heard Clay or Ken mention this John Prine tribute show this morning.
	♥ 4:28pm Irwin: Al is an actor. Good actors do accents well.
	♥ 4:28pm Carmichael: An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, inside a conundrum.
	4:28pm PJ: @BH: Omega Man is the movie I most think about when I am walking down these empty streets. The only thing missing is old newspapers blowing around - another reason to resent the Internet.
	4:28pm Listening Out There: ...ergo, Al is not a good actor...
	4:29pm PJ: Who is the interviewer for this piece? Was he in on the joke?
	♥ 4:30pm Irwin: PJ: The interviewer doesn't sound familiar?
	🎸 ♥ 4:30pm Alison Porchnik: It's young Irwin Chusid, fresh out of J-school!
	4:30pm P-90: Blame Castro. (Usually works)
	4:30pm Androu B.: Hello again, friends! Just noticing the heading jpg image, I can see some room for a few other classic sci-fi movies that would fit among the parables to this paradoxical dystopian nightmare we're trapped in now. (I won't bother mentioning any obvious choices here.)
	4:30pm Listening Out There: The actor portraying the interviewer does an okay job, however...
	4:31pm fofo (: The interviewer has a strong Irwin accent.
	4:31pm Listening Out There: ...it's almost convincing. Almost...
	4:31pm PJ: @Irwin, @Alison: Irwin's voice has changed!
	🎸 ♥ 4:31pm Alison Porchnik: It's all the whiskey and cigars
	4:32pm P-90: Name Rykodisc. (Usually works)
	🎸 ♥ 4:32pm Alison Porchnik: And years of Primal Scream therapy
	♥ 4:33pm Irwin: The recordings (sans scratches) were issued on: www.discogs.com...
	4:33pm PJ: @Irwin, @Alison: There's a more bass and less high end in the voice now.
	♥ 4:34pm Handy Haversack: I was doing entirely too much work through that whole segment.
	4:35pm PJ: I guess 25 years of hard living will take their toll.
	4:35pm fofo (: https://doran.blogspot.com/2006/01/chris-douridas-busted-for-roofies.html Chris Douridas Busted for Roofies! KCRW's superstar DJ, Chris Douridas was reportedly arrested on January 6 in an incident at the Circle Bar involving alcohol, roofies, and a 14 year old girl who had to be taken to a local hospital. He was released after posting $1,000,000 bail. Anonymous wrote in the comment section: Hey, anybody remember Crispy Doritos'last caper? His supposed discovery of a Cuban band leader, Ray Batado? September 1995. Read all about it 'cause it exposed him for the pompous cheating fraud he really is. See Los Angeles Times, L.A. Weekly, Jill Stewart in The L.A. Reader and the book by Garreth Branwyn "Jamming the Media". The prank involved lounge pioneers Joey Altruda,Joey Cheezhee, Pat Tierney and Scarface actor Al Israel and left pie all over Dourida's face when it not only exposed his lack of musical knowlege, but his conflict of interest featuring bands he represented at Dreamworks on the supposedly "non- profit radio station K[S]CR[E]W. He disapeared for awhile to lick his wounds, then crept back to prominance when the laughter died down. Look for the "Ray Batado/Chrispy Doritos Prank" coming soon to a record store near you.
	♥ 4:36pm mariano: Can confirm the accent. There's a Cuban branch of my extended family and Al sounded just like them. Pacino on the other hand... no comment.
	4:37pm brainiac: Hoochee mama, wotta album cover a2-images.myspacecdn.com...
	♥ 4:39pm David (in London): Brainiac - That's just an average evening chez moi.
	♥ 4:39pm Handy Haversack: OH NO! It's like Heavy Metal all over again!
	4:39pm Lewis: you are a very naughty disc jockey
	♥ 4:39pm Crudbringer: CAREFUL!! www.youtube.com...
	4:39pm PJ: ha! so much for shellac
	4:40pm Listener Robert: Was that someone filling in at 4 for Bob Brainen?
	4:40pm PJ: How soon after this interview was the Chris Douridas one done?
	♥ 4:41pm David (in London): I mean to add 'I wish', on the end there.
	♥ 4:42pm Irwin: The Douridas interview was actually two months prior. They sent me a tape of it, which is on the other side of the cassette of my WFMU aircheck.
	4:43pm brainiac: We all have those secret dreams, David. Best to keep them that way.
	♥ 4:43pm mrdonutsu: From now perspective, that music does not sound vintage at all.
	♥ 4:44pm mariano: Oof, Crudbringer: that clip still makes me wince and laugh in equal measure.
	♥ 4:44pm Handy Haversack: David, I fully believe that one day beautiful people will regularly come to your home to shoot fake album covers. The dream is real.
	4:45pm brainiac: Only kings and fools try to make them come true.
	♥ 4:45pm David (in London): Oh Jesus, I've never seen that wax cylinder clip before. Man, that made me hoot.
	4:45pm Dean: I could never stomach Douridas, and I generally paid no attention to him or his stupid show, but the bit up-thread about the roofies appears not to have resulted in charges. Later that same year, his 14YO daughter drowned. Like his work as a DJ or not, I can't imagine...
	🎸 ♥ 4:45pm spodiodi: hi Irwin (and the Irwinians)
	4:46pm P-90: Is that really 25 years ago? Ulp...
	♥ 4:46pm David (in London): Handy, rates a very reasonable £30 a session!
	♥ 4:46pm David (in London): Hey spodiodi.
	♥ 4:47pm Handy Haversack: See? They can't afford not to!
	♥ 4:47pm mrdonutsu: Ah, so Tierney was Jackie Starr.
	4:48pm RustyTiki: It isn’t April 1st. Lol. Great little “interview”. Love the part about the firing line!
	♥ 4:49pm mariano: Hey spodiodi.
	♥ 4:51pm Handy Haversack: How goes, spodiodi?
	4:52pm Lewis: ok - that was weird...
	♥ 4:53pm mariano: Ooh, "Sisters"! There'a a De Palma movie I haven't seen in decades, should add it to the quarantine queue.
	🎸 ♥ 4:53pm spodiodi: hola DiL, mariano, Handy... still kiackin' -- tryna stay + and you? just back from visiting 2 banks -- Chinatown is busier than it was in recent days, but still a ghost town for the most part.
	♥ 4:54pm Crudbringer: Glad I was able to provoke an emotional response. I am your Voight-Kampff tester. (And yeah, I googled words I heard and found Sisters too, looks good!)
	4:55pm fofo (: I liked the Ray Batado hoax. But now I wonder if the interview with Kevin Calabro from Royal Potato Family Records was an hoax.
	4:55pm P-90: That there is no easily searchable quote from Perez Prado claiming that he gave Batado “his first real job” is proof of Batado’s nonexistence.
	♥ 4:55pm David (in London): I went to look at Meek's old studio at 304 Holloway Road a few years back. There's a memorial bench outside which is good.
	♥ 4:56pm Handy Haversack: Remember that the Golgafrinchams were wiped out by a virulent disease caught from a dirty telephone after they sent our ancestors out on Ark Ship B. Was very pleased to see Ken taking this risk seriously at the end of Marathon! Telephone sanitizers: from them we evolved -- in them we find our salvation!
	♥ 4:57pm David (in London): Handy - We never did find out what happened to the giant mutant star goat, did we?
	♥ 4:58pm Handy Haversack: I had heard it was to be a planetary invasion by twelve-foot pirannha bees?
	♥ 5:00pm Rich in Washington: I think of the Golgafrinchams often, HH. Especially now.
	♥ 5:00pm Handy Haversack: SOPS
	5:00pm BH: excited for the cheese family movie about parents forced to suddenly parent because of the coronavirus
	🎸 ♥ 5:00pm Phillippe Bastille: Howdy. Keeping it moist over here?
	5:01pm Dean: There's a remedy for SOPS, too. It's the difference between the current age of each kid and 18.
	🎸 ♥ 5:01pm βrian: Re SOPS: you have to make the moist of it.
	♥ 5:01pm Handy Haversack: Don't worry, Rich. Telephone sanitizing is in our DNA! Hi, Phillippe! Is your phone clean?
	5:01pm Lewis: Sudden Onset Parents Syndrome -> SOPS
	5:02pm brainiac: Ha, ha, good one @βrian!
	5:02pm Lewis: a bit slow to the party I see... ah well somethings never change...
	♥ 5:02pm Handy Haversack: Every time I talk to a friend who has kids these days I want to thank my vasectomy dr. all over again.
	5:04pm ?: Irwin, I am a school teacher in Texas and for some time I have suspected that all blessings are mixed, that is , getting it wrong looks like a curse. Man up parents and welcome to our world.
	5:04pm Dean: Trust me, kids are the least of my concerns during this "challenging time." Other parents, OTOH...
	🎸 ♥ 5:04pm βrian: In our case, the kid was air-dropped into our lap. No urologist is gonna fix that. (Not to say she isn't lovely ...)
	5:05pm jan: Irwin- Great show today. thanks for being there for us!
	🎸 ♥ 5:05pm βrian: "L'enfer c'est les autre parents."
	♥ 5:06pm Handy Haversack: I think when we get out of this, @ βrian, an Airborne Urologist Corps is going to shoot to the top of national priorities! Or Space Force: Urethra, if you're into manga.
	♥ 5:06pm Irwin: Thanks, Jan! You've been there for us for decades.
	5:08pm Dean: That was Sartre's Time Out, right, βrian?
	🎸 ♥ 5:08pm βrian: What, a paroxysm of vasectomies?
	🎸 ♥ 5:09pm Phillippe Bastille: @Handy Phone is clean! Regarding the kid thing -- we have two young adult kids at home. Not sure which did it, but rather than empty the overflowing trash can, he put empty egg shells back in the carton and the carton with the shells back in fridge.
	🎸 ♥ 5:10pm βrian: Maybe Time Outs will spur sales of walk-in coolers.
	5:11pm brainiac: @Phillippe: a stoke of genius. You must be proud!
	♥ 5:11pm Handy Haversack: This very much explains the detached office-shack, Phillippe!
	🎸 ♥ 5:12pm Phillippe Bastille: Anticipating "Do we have any eggs?"
	🎸 ♥ 5:12pm βrian: Cuz it won't be long before those egg shells will be looking pretty appealing.
	🎸 ♥ 5:12pm spodiodi: Most Foul
	🎸 ♥ 5:13pm Webhamster Henry: Dylan's first #1 hit.
	5:13pm BH: Murder Most Foul is the magic bullet of songs
	5:13pm yippie: i was playing pictionary and the game told me to draw god
	5:13pm Dean: I'd make a broth out of them. Great base for egg flower soup.
	🎸 ♥ 5:13pm PMD: Egg Shell Soup!
	♥ 5:13pm WoodsOfNH: Oh...Irwin. Ha!
	♥ 5:14pm Irwin: Murder Most Fowl by Blind Boy Grunt lyrics by Lane Steinberg It was the summer of 1921 Lounging in the San Francisco sun Fatty Arbuckle was riding high He could name his price, the limit was the sky His latest film was a box office smash So to celebrate he had a Labor Day bash But by the end of the week he was sitting in a cell His heavenly life had turned into hell
	🎸 ♥ 5:14pm PMD: @yippie, I'd love to see what you drew
	🎸 ♥ 5:14pm spodiodi: Blind Boy Grunt <3
	♥ 5:14pm Irwin: In cell number 12 on felony row Held without bail, Fatty sank low His movies banned both far and wide He felt like he'd already died Now a puddle of girth and fear He had no money, they killed his career
	🎸 ♥ 5:14pm Phillippe Bastille: @Dean a better idea than mine
	5:14pm ChrisB.: Oh, Irwin.
	♥ 5:14pm Irwin: Now jump to the 20th century Hong Kong wasn't the place to be Chickens were sick, dying from flu There was only one thing that they could do They grabbed every chicken young and old What happened next was a horror I'm told The smoke went up and the dogs did howl The end of them chickens It was a murder most fowl
	5:15pm ?: Consider, reproductive systems are not essential to live, a happy joyful life does not depend on sex, only the persistence of the species. F*ck it.
	5:15pm PJ: @Irwin: I appreciate the prompt appearance of the lyrics, much better than RapGenius.
	5:15pm Dean: Which came first, the fowl or the egg? One day at lunch in downtown LA I strolled to the central public library and read a book about the Arbuckle scandal.
	5:15pm yippie: i think its called most most foul just ask spazz
	5:15pm sufferwords: puddle of girth and fear
	♥ 5:15pm Irwin: An actress was dead, Virginia Rappe They found her taking an eternal nap The prosecution's witness, her name was Maude They knew she was most likely a fraud
	🎸 ♥ 5:15pm spodiodi: bgawk
	5:15pm brainiac: the persistence of chickens
	♥ 5:15pm Irwin: In the days leading up to the alleged crime Fatty wasn't having the best of times He went to the station to service his car It was near his house he didn't go far An acid soaked rag was on a seat And when he sat down he felt the heat A nasty burn on both his cheeks From a mile away they heard the shrieks Still that party was booked and set The pain in his pants Fatty would forget San Francisco, the St. Francis Drake They had all the booze, the food, the cake
	♥ 5:16pm mariano: I'm sure most of y'all know this already, but Paul Simon got the title to "Mother and Child Reunion" from a menu at a Chinese restaurant; the dish in question containing both chicken and egg.
	♥ 5:16pm Irwin: Back in Hong Kong they didn't know what to do To stop the spread of the Avian flu Those poor chickens, they weren't to blame They were all just merely pawns in the game They destroyed every carcass from the beak to the bowel No chicken tonight, it was a murder most fowl
	♥ 5:16pm David (in London): Gotta duck out now. Thanks Irwin. Good night folks.
	5:16pm PJ: Better rhymes than Dylan's
	🎸 ♥ 5:16pm Phillippe Bastille: @mariano no shells?
	♥ 5:17pm Irwin: The band was loud and the people were drunk A roast beef came around, Fatty grabbed a hunk With the other hand he motioned for Rappe She gave him a smile, as she tipped her hat She followed him up the stairs holding a cup Fatty didn't know he was being set up They got in the room and she started to scream Tearing off her clothes like in her crazy dream Chicken's always been bred for food Lotsa meat, they taste real good But the breeders got greedy packed 'em in too tight Got all stressed, couldn't sleep at night
	5:17pm brainiac: DUCK OUT
	5:17pm Dean: Yeah, now it's called the Kimpton Sir Francis Drake.
	🎸 ♥ 5:17pm Ken From Hyde Park: I'm not hearing the chimp chorus here.
	♥ 5:17pm Handy Haversack: Flying the coop, David? Have a good one!
	♥ 5:17pm Barney Grubbs: do i have to make my own monkey noises
	🎸 ♥ 5:17pm Phillippe Bastille: Chicken out
	5:17pm brainiac: 'bye David
	♥ 5:17pm mariano: Bye David, take care!
	♥ 5:18pm Irwin: A doctor was summoned, mad as a hatter He said Fatty Arbuckle crushed the girl's bladder They put him in cuffs and took him the station Soon the news was all going around the nation The Hong Kong people did damage control They had authority and played that role The old birds gone, they'll now breed new Ones that are free of the avian flu The doctor applied to Rappe a warm towel He was sure he had witnessed a murder most fowl
	♥ 5:18pm mariano: Phillippe: Lol. Pretty sure no shells.
	♥ 5:18pm Irwin: A mysterious woman named Madame Black She was the one behind Fatty's attack That poor naive actress was duped into dyin' And Fatty was taken out shakin' and cryin' The trial ensued and Fatty went broke Defending himself, he was strong when he spoke The jury was deadlocked, they tried him again This time the jury prosecutors couldn't bend A full out acquittal, but his fate had been sealed The damage was done and could not be repealed
	5:18pm Dean: Was this written before or after "Hurricane"?
	🎸 ♥ 5:19pm Phillippe Bastille: @mariano I got ya covered if you need them
	♥ 5:19pm Irwin: Fatty changed his name to William B. Goode Tried to find work as best as he could Started directing, barely scraped by His spirt was broken, and he started to die
	♥ 5:20pm Irwin: Back in old Hong Kong, the people ate pork Not a shred of chicken on a chopstick or fork They vacuumed out cages, cleaned all the farms Word was all over, they sounded alarms If you got a chicken, that bird's gotta die Don't ask for a reason, ain't gonna say why This comes from above, so don't give me no scowl Few birds will be left, we gotta murder most fowl
	♥ 5:20pm WoodsOfNH: If this shows up for the next 3 hours of Music To Spazz By....
	♥ 5:20pm Irwin: Now between Fatty's fall and the avian flu Lotsa things happened, I'll just name a few The Beatles, the Flintstones, and old Cassius Clay Dorothy Lamour and the Road to Mandalay Walks on the moon, satellites in space Special tanning creams for your face Twister, Monopoly, the self-winding watch Skippy peanut butter, pants that fit in the crotch Stereo records, the first can of beer Speakers that fit over your ears Telephone, cortisone, a recording machine Slinkys, Lucky Charms, the first submarine
	♥ 5:21pm Irwin: Ten years after the end of his trial Fatty finally found a good reason to smile A two-picture deal, they wanted him back All was forgiven, his life back on track He went out to celebrate with his faithful wife And told everyone it was the best day of his life He ate a big meal and went off to bed In the morning they found him lifeless and dead
	🎸 ♥ 5:21pm Phillippe Bastille: We're enjoying the last nice weather day for the next week, heading out to enjoy it. Thanks Irwin, catch y'all later everyone!
	♥ 5:22pm Irwin: Now wolves guard the farms where there used to be chickens They all fighting for scraps, these days its slim pickin's At night you can hear them, they bark and they howl There's not much to eat because they murdered most fowl youtu.be...
	5:22pm queems: this is really somethng
	🎸 ♥ 5:22pm spodiodi: not nearly enough songs about Fatty. this was so needed. thank you, Irwin
	5:22pm Dean: Wait, the telephone was around way before Arbuckle's trouble.
	5:22pm brainiac: spectacular
	5:22pm Fredericks: I listened to the beginning of this Dylan song when it came out, and thought maybe when I have the time. I guess I have the time. But I'm only half listening.
	🎸 ♥ 5:22pm spodiodi: standing O
	♥ 5:23pm radioronan: Do we get the chirping chicken mix next?
	5:23pm Itzall Gön'gett-Bettresuhnn: Is there really ANY reason to listen to the other version now?
	♥ 5:23pm Dominick: Bravo
	5:23pm Dean: Neither Phish nor fowl..
	🎸 ♥ 5:23pm βrian: Murder most fowl implies schmaltz.
	5:23pm mb: Treydawg!!
	5:23pm Fredericks: Thanks for the lyrics, Irwin.
	♥ 5:24pm Irwin: The perp was Lane Steinberg.
	5:24pm Andres: Yes, we have no chickens. We have no chickens today.
	5:24pm prudy: great parody...Dylan's piece struck me as overblown rehashed reflections, not one of his better works...
	5:25pm Thelma Blitz: "I offered up my innocence, I was repaid with....parody." This was silly but less obnoxious than Colbert's attempt.
	5:25pm ?: Legend, or myth has it that Roscoe grew up in the house next door to me.
	5:26pm P-90: Steinberg! I should have recognized his handiwork.
	🎸 ♥ 5:26pm βrian: I don't mind that is was rehashed, but I wanted it to be a little more, well, moist.
	5:27pm otto: TREY LIVES
	5:27pm ?: Hannibal Lector said that too.
	♥ 5:29pm Irwin: Lane's "Murder Most Fowl" is on YT: youtu.be...
	♥ 5:31pm mariano: Ok y'all, I'm out for a bit - thanks Irwin and crew, take care everyone!
	♥ 5:32pm Handy Haversack: Take it easy, mariano!
	5:32pm Thelma Blitz: Colbert's attempt at Dylan mockery :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMTDOEvY3R0
	♥ 5:33pm steveo: If a man hears Phish on the radio, but doesn't know it was Phish until several minutes later, has he really ever heard Phish at all?
	♥ 5:34pm Yes: oh, he has
	🎸 ♥ 5:35pm PNX: But does he now know how to Phish for the rest of his life?
	5:38pm flashbazbo: If you teach a man about Phish, he may fall asleep, but if you teach him to talk about Phish he will start again every time he wakes up.
	♥ 5:39pm radioronan: worked in music & radio biz since I was a teenager and I've somehow never heard a phish song. until today. (unless it's like steveo said) never know what wfmu will bring to your ears next.
	🎸 ♥ 5:39pm βrian: I still think of Phish as a local band.
	5:39pm flashbazbo: Still working on that one.
	🎸 ♥ 5:39pm spodiodi: you're still a virgin in the eyes of the lord in that case, steveo
	🎸 ♥ 5:41pm spodiodi: it also doesn't count if you forgot you've heard (or seen, even live)
	5:41pm Dean: Phish (and Leftover Salmon et al.) got tons of play on Friday nights on LA's KPFK during the '90s, a show called Thursday Lunch.
	5:41pm Andres: Teach a man to Phish.
	5:43pm ?: Spam, spam, spam...
	♥ 5:44pm Mr. Pumpy: Ducking back in...Jamal! So great.
	5:46pm Dean: Always wondered whether Frisell ever played clarinet, his first instrument, on any of his records. Did a search. Yeah, he did! https://www.discogs.com/Bill-Frisell-Is-That-You/release/9901663
	♥ 5:47pm Mr. Pumpy: Irwin...got a little Bucky Pizzarelli?
	5:47pm Fredericks: This Frisell is a monster.
	♥ 5:49pm Mr. Pumpy: Yeah...Frisell really knows how to torture six...
	♥ 5:50pm WoodsOfNH: Weird Nightmare is such a great record.
	5:50pm mb: Fine show today, Irwin. Many thanks and i bid you a good day, sir! And thx for the new Phish tune! Aces.
	🎸 ♥ 5:51pm 12539: Thank you, Irwin. Stay safe.
	♥ 5:52pm ultradamno: RIP Hal Willner And I agree with Pumpy 'bout Jamal. Awesome.
	♥ 5:52pm Irwin: Next week I hope to pay tribute to birthday boy James Creighton.
	🎸 ♥ 5:53pm spodiodi: thanks, Irwin! really glad you're out there
	♥ 5:53pm WoodsOfNH: The thing I love about Frisell is that he's so awe-shucks unassuming and then he plays this _impossible_ stuff. He did a Beatles Tiny Desk thing that was just nuts.
	5:53pm Fredericks: And so is this Robbie Robertson. You can hear the influence of Roy Buchanan in his playing.
	♥ 5:53pm Carmichael: @David, Derek Smalls' dad was a phone sanitizer by trade. Now more than ever ...
	5:55pm Laura L: Thank you, Irwin.
	5:56pm choggie: speaking of our favorite Mingus album, Mingus Moves .....love that out
	♥ 5:56pm Carmichael: Find the clip of Frisell on Sanborn's Night Music, with Joey Barone, Hank Roberts and Kermit Driscoll. Stunning.
	♥ 5:56pm Irwin: Willner was something of a role model for me. At a time when I was struggling professionally, he demonstrated that a creative person could make a living doing what he loved with music, and do it in so many different ways. Before there was a gig economy, he prospered on gigs. He didn't have a job title. He was Hal Willner.
	♥ 5:57pm WoodsOfNH: @Carmichael Don't know about you but I'd certainly pay for a dvd reissue of that show.
	5:57pm Duane: Thank you Irwin! Hal Wilner was a steady Other Music customer and he was such a great guy and had the best taste in music. The shows he did with Lou Reed on BBC were wonderful too
	5:57pm choggie: night music was such an incredible program Screamin Jay Hawkins one of my favorite also Pharoah Sanders Thembi with Sanborn playing out there with him awesome
	5:58pm brainiac: Ken just blew up the drummer stream and the Hindenburg just crashed here. Chag Pesach samech everybody.
	♥ 5:58pm Brian in UK: Gig is short for giggle.
	♥ 5:58pm radioronan: Everything Hal did was fantastic. huge influence. Sorry you lost your friend. Thanks Irwin.
	🎸 ♥ 5:58pm spodiodi: thanks Skeleton crew!
	♥ 5:58pm ultradamno: Residents with Conway Twitty!
	🎸 ♥ 5:59pm PMD: Thanks Irwin~
	5:59pm choggie: I just made a half gallon of homemade Purell with Everclear and aloe vera

Irwin Chusid: Playlist from April 8, 2020

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