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Favoriting May 11, 2020: It's all up in the clouds today.

Sunset District, San Francisco

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Artist Track Album Label Approx. start time
Theo Bleckmann  Comedy Tonight   Favoriting Elegy  ECM Records    
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds  The Carney   Favoriting The Best of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds  Reprise/WEA  0:03:57 (Pop-up)
John Scofield  Bill Me   Favoriting Grace Under Pressure  Blue Note  0:11:51 (Pop-up)
Penguin Café Orchestra  Air   Favoriting Broadcasting From Home  Editions EG  0:20:26 (Pop-up)
George Harrison  Beware of Darkness   Favoriting All Things Must Pass  Apple  0:24:42 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Jon Hassell 

Abu Gil   Favoriting

Last Night the Moon Came Dropping its Clothes in the Street 

ECM Records  

0:28:35 (Pop-up)
Elton John  Madman Across the Water   Favoriting Madman Across the Water  Uni  0:35:19 (Pop-up)
Bill Fay  The Sun Is Bored   Favoriting Bill Fay  Eclectic Discs  0:41:07 (Pop-up)
Rachel Grimes (Joan Shelley, voice)  There is No Other   Favoriting The Way Forth  Temporary Residence Ltd.  0:43:41 (Pop-up)
Sontag Shogun  Averyron   Favoriting It Billows Up  Youngbloods  0:46:58 (Pop-up)
Arthur Moon  Lately   Favoriting (Unmastered demo)  Arthur Moon  0:56:01 (Pop-up)
Cosmo Sheldrake  Green Grass (Live in Fingerhoe Wick)(Tm Waits cover)   Favoriting Nightingale Wake Up Call  Cosmo Sheldrake  0:58:22 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Jon Hassell 

Abu Gil   Favoriting

Last Night the Moon Came Dropping its Clothes in the Street 

ECM Records  

1:01:20 (Pop-up)
Syd Barrett  Dominos   Favoriting The Madcap Laughs / Barrett  Harvest  1:11:17 (Pop-up)
Robyn Hitchcock  Wined and Dined   Favoriting (Performed at a safe distance from home)  Robyn Hitchcock  1:15:15 (Pop-up)
Soft Boys  Vegetable Man   Favoriting Underwater Moonlight  Glass Fish Records  1:18:17 (Pop-up)
The Mock Turtles  No Good Trying (Barrett)   Favoriting Turtle Soup  Cherry Red  1:21:13 (Pop-up)
Pink Floyd  Bike   Favoriting The Piper at the Gates of Dawn  Harvest  1:24:47 (Pop-up)
The Beatles  What's the New Mary Jane?   Favoriting Anthology 3  Apple Records  1:27:53 (Pop-up)
Bonzo Dog Band  Rhinocratic Oaths   Favoriting The Doughnut In Granny's Greenhouse  Liberty  1:34:03 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Jon Hassell 

Abu Gil   Favoriting

Last Night the Moon Came Dropping its Clothes in the Street 

ECM Records  

1:37:21 (Pop-up)
Randy Newman  Stay Away   Favoriting (digital single)  Nonesuch  1:48:50 (Pop-up)
Elysian Fields  Shelter In Place   Favoriting (digital single)  Elysian Fields  1:50:34 (Pop-up)
Timo Andres  Evening Song No. 2   Favoriting I Still Play  Nonesuch  1:55:41 (Pop-up)
Pedro Martins  Venus 13   Favoriting VOX  Heartcore  2:00:16 (Pop-up)
Helado Negro feat. Xenia Rubinos  I Fell in Love   Favoriting (digital single)  Helado Negro  2:05:42 (Pop-up)
Emily Wells  Come on Doom, Lets Party   Favoriting The World is Too____For You  Thesis & Instinct  2:09:59 (Pop-up)
Dave Douglas  Seven Minutes for Kenny   Favoriting (In support of the UK Musicians Union)  Greenleaf Music   2:13:33 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Jon Hassell 

Abu Gil   Favoriting

Last Night the Moon Came Dropping its Clothes in the Street 

ECM Records  

2:19:56 (Pop-up)
Monkeyworks  Shutter to Think   Favoriting Where's Somewhere  Monkeyworks  2:29:53 (Pop-up)
Larry Coryell  Chris   Favoriting Spaces  Vanguard  2:35:52 (Pop-up)
The Marian McPartland Trio  Glimpse   Favoriting The Marion McPartland Trio  Halcyon  2:44:51 (Pop-up)
Seabuckthorn (w/Gareth Davis)  Place Memory   Favoriting Through a Vulnerable Occur  IIKKI  2:51:22 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Jon Hassell 

Abu Gil   Favoriting

Last Night the Moon Came Dropping its Clothes in the Street 

ECM Records  

2:57:40 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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Sean in Bristol UK:

Hi Irene, hello one and all. I am over the moon to be able to listen to you live, Irene, happy, happy days. Hope everyone is safe and well
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:58am
Irene Trudel:

Hi Sean! You're number one commenter today. So glad you can join us!
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βrian:

Ah, I've finally made it here.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:00pm
listener james from westwood:

Afternoon, Irene and all!!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:01pm
Webhamster Henry:

Did you know there's a Sondheim Disco record that just came out?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:02pm
Webhamster Henry:

It must be Irene Monday!
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TDK60:

Hello Irene. I have this Theo B. album. Very moving album (especially now, with so many in grief).
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:03pm
Irene Trudel:

Hi βrian, james, Henry and TDK60! Glad you're here too!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:04pm
Irene Trudel:

TDK60, Theo's version of Comedy Tonight really hit me recently. Love this album too!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:05pm
fred:

Good afternoon Irene and listeners
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:06pm
Sean in Bristol UK:

The Theo Bleckmann track was a thing of beauty
  12:06pm
Dean:

Heard Theo in SF this past January, an assortment of German cabaret tunes. Pretty stunning.
Avatar 12:07pm
TDK60:

Hello Sean, Got to visit your city two years ago.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:08pm
chresti:

Hello Irene, from 9am-ish time
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:09pm
Sean in Bristol UK:

@TDK60, would have loved to have met up, what a shame. Maybe when travel resumes to some kind of normalcy we can
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:09pm
ParUbi:

Hey guys
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:09pm
Irene Trudel:

Hi fred, Dean and Chresti! Glad to have you all checking in.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:11pm
doctorjazz:

Hi Irene and alli out there!
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TDK60:

Sean, didn't know you then. Stayed with friends in the St. George area. Got to the M-Shed museum, St. Nicholas Market, etc. You have a fine town there.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:13pm
Sean in Bristol UK:

In no way am I going to get into Baseball and how much I miss it but last September I got to see my beloved Metsies and got some cool Mets gear for my pup, Lola who you see as my avatar. I am watching live ball from South Korea so getting my fix!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:14pm
Irene Trudel:

Dean, Theo is a great interpreter of German cabaret, as he is originally from there. He's an amazing performer and I've had him on a number of times live. Hey also to you, ParUbi and doctor jazz.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:14pm
doctorjazz:

Scofield is one of those guitarists you can pick out after a few notes.
  12:14pm
Peter K.:

What a brilliant segue from Nick Cave to John Scofield. Perfect -- just like you!
  12:16pm
Dan O'D:

Hi Irene! {waves} Coming in loud and clear allllllll the way over here in .... Brooklyn....
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:16pm
Sean in Bristol UK:

@TDK60, thank you so much for saying that, before this all kicked off you couldn't get from one end of the town to the other without losing the will to live, traffic was brutal but not in the same league as NYC
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:16pm
Irene Trudel:

Thanks Peter, and Hi to you, Dan O'D!
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TDK60:

Sean, and oh yeah, visited the Exchange punk cafe/record store/venue on Old Market St.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:19pm
Sean in Bristol UK:

@TDK60, oh wow, I was going to see Lief Vollebekk last month but has been rescheduled for November. As always thank you, Irene, for introducing me to this fine artist
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:21pm
Doug Schulkind:

Hooray for Irene Day!
  12:21pm
Dean:

Bleckmann is a great interpreter of song. One of my favorite tracks of his is a cover of Tom Waits' "Take It with Me" on an album by Moss, a vocal quintet.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:22pm
Sean in Bristol UK:

Forget to mention the venue is The Exchange, what's the place like TDK60?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:24pm
Sean in Bristol UK:

@Dean, my favourite album of Theo's is the Kate Bush covers he did which I knew nothing about until tuning in to Her Goddess' show
Avatar 12:24pm
TDK60:

Sean, I was just off the train from Temple Meads railway station, walking into the city in heavy rain with my knapsack and saw it, stopped in for a coffee. What luck. Friendly folks.
  12:24pm
Dean:

I still need to get that Kate Bush album!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:25pm
listener james from westwood:

George!
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TDK60:

"Watch out" folks. Irene knows how to unleash tunes that make you pause...
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TDK60:

Sean, the cafe was humble but good, record store good. The performance part wasn't open.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:27pm
Sean in Bristol UK:

@TDK60, moments like that is something to treasure, good on you, my friend
  12:34pm
Alan Cynics:

Makes me very happy to listen today....makes a lockdown Monday much, much better :)
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uuee:

Irene! Monday afternoons again. Love it!
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TDK60:

Like I said...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:36pm
Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em):

Good day, Irene! Greetings WFMU kin. So happy to be here together.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:38pm
Irene Trudel:

uuee and Granny! I'm loving being back on Mondays to play tunes for all of you.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:39pm
Irene Trudel:

And Alan! Good to have you all locked down in this virtual bunker.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:39pm
Sean in Bristol UK:

@uuee, isn't it wonderful, this was my perfect start to the week, it made the Monday blues totally a thing of the past. And it's the perfect time to listen whilst I cook dinner, life has gone from 'ass wiping bad" to 'finger linkin' good"!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:43pm
StringOFperils:

Hello everyone. Happy Monday
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Stork:

Hey all - just getting on the ball here! What a beautiful photo - though a bit sober with those distancing figures... Hi Irene!!!
Avatar 🥁 12:46pm
Stork:

Aww.. did you dedicate Madman Across the Water to me here in Germany?!? I'm touched. No, really, I'm "tetched."
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fleep:

Good morning, Irene, I'm going to take you outside and make some weeds go away.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:48pm
Sean in Bristol UK:

@Stork, Guten tag, wie geht es ihnen?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:54pm
Irene Trudel:

Hey Stork! I had a different Madman in mind, but I will dedicate it to you also. Hi fleep!, I like that idea. Wish I has an outdoor garden to do that with.
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Stork:

Hallo Sean,
O sagen wir lieber Du! Es geht mir geschäftlich sehr schlecht, aber Hauptsache sind wir gesund geblieben! Und Du?
I am very badly off on business, but the main thing is that we have remained healthy! And you?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:56pm
chris:

hi, Irene and folks. really digging this Sontag Shogun track.
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Hubig Pie:

Dreamy.......spacey
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:58pm
Sean in Bristol UK:

Back in the eighties my German was decent, not so much so can I reply in English? I work as a delivery driver for a well known supermarket chain here in the UK. it's been the seventh circle of hell but I have to be gratefiul that I have a job to go to.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:58pm
Phillippe Bastille:

Hey Irene and everyone! Not chattin' but listening!
  1:03pm
Peter K.:

What a magnificent first hour. The world is a much, much better place now that Irene Trudel is back on the air!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:03pm
Doug Schulkind:

@Sean in Bristol, UK
So many people are so grateful to you. And so are we.
  1:04pm
Dean:

Malcolm Cecil?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:05pm
Sean in Bristol UK:

@Doug Schulkind, that means the world to me, thank you so much
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Stork:

YESS!! I WIN THE MADMAN SWEEPSTAKES YET AGAIN!!
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Stork:

Love and appreciation to you, Sean. Did you live in Germany back when?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:11pm
Sean in Bristol UK:

Back in the bad old days of the Cold War, ex Forces musician, 1979-1987
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Stork:

Wow. Where were you stationed?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:15pm
Sean in Bristol UK:

Munster, Westphalia, Hohne-Belsen and Wolfenbüttel
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Hubig Pie:

I'm here for the Robyn Hitchcock song of the day
Avatar 🥁 1:19pm
Stork:

Holy shit, I live in Münster!! You were in the barracks in Gievenbeck, right?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:21pm
Brian in UK:

Hello Irene, so good that you are letting us listen to your selections.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:21pm
Irene Trudel:

Hi Humbig Pie , chris and Phillippe! Wow, Sean, I had no idea about that side of your life!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:24pm
Sean in Bristol UK:

@Stork, I loved Munster and would love to revisit, I can't remember the barracks I was in but it was close to York barracks, oh happy memories of going to Rosenplatz for a night out, the home of The Odeon, my first introduction to hearing Frank Zappa on the music system there
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:27pm
Sean in Bristol UK:

@Irene, I played clarinet to a decent level, grade eight for people who know of our grading here. I need to brush off a huge level of dust to get back to playing, pretty disgraceful for my part
  1:30pm
Peter K.:

My favorite Beatles song!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:33pm
Irene Trudel:

@Sean, I also once played clarinet in high school marching band. I was pretty bad, and never quite learned to read music. If I heard someone else play the part, I could mimic well enough to get by.
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Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em):

BONZO! YAY!
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Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em):

(and it wasn't MY greenhouse, btw)
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Brian in UK:

Ron Shirt rules.
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Stork:

Vive le Viv!!!
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Stork:

Sean,

if we survive, and you ever make it to Münster, we're going to Pinkus, and many other Kneipen besides!!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:39pm
Brian in UK:

I think the 'Doughnut in....' was a euphemism for an outside toilet.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:39pm
Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em):

St Viv
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:40pm
Hopey Sockmonkey:

Oh no, I did not realize that Neil Innes had died. That's very sad.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:42pm
Sean in Bristol UK:

@Stork, Pinkus, happy memories, my first smell of a 'jazz cigarette', life got better after that!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:44pm
Phillippe Bastille:

I love the scene in Take the Money and Run where Woody Allen played the cello in the marching band
Avatar 🥁 1:45pm
Stork:

Sean-I wish the hell they'd make jazz cigarettes legal over here already.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:46pm
Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em):

Irene, what glee your arrival on the Drummer Stream has caused!
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fleep:

Using white vinegar on weeds makes everything smell like an antipasto ... thank you, weeds, for giving me something to do, now die.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:49pm
Doug Schulkind:

I have to jump off for a conference Zoom with work. Thanks for the sonic perfection, Irene!
Avatar 🥁 1:49pm
βrian:

White vinegar? Really?
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Michael 98145:

Yup. Weeds don't like no vinegar.
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βrian:

"Don't mitigate glee, " I say.
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Brian in UK:

We use Balsamic over here. Ten year old is best.
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Stork:

Glee should always be intensified.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:52pm
Irene Trudel:

Thanks Doug! Couldn't have done it without your guidance.
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Hubig Pie:

If you really want to torture your weeds, hit them with some Essig Essenz, 25% acid vinegar
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:55pm
Irene Trudel:

fleep, I didn't know that vinegar was a good weedkiller. Gotta be a lot more eco-friendly. Agreed, Stork-- glee should be intensified. I do wish jazz cigarettes were legal to help boot the glee in NYC, where it is sorely lacking.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:58pm
Webhamster Henry:

This is close to the Phil Glass Glassworks pieces.
Avatar 🥁 1:59pm
Stork:

Reminded me of a Max Richter piece - and a John Adams piece. Loverly.
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redkayak:

Good afternoon all :)
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Stork:

How ya paddlin', redkayak?
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Sean in Bristol UK:

@Irene, did you play the Boehm or the simple system, I played the Boehm method
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redkayak:

@stork - Ahoy there! In dry dock today, grading assignments I'm afraid....
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redkayak:

.....students are fortunate that Ms.Trudel is playing tunes to soothe the soul. Might translate to a few extra points, lol....
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Stork:

Lovely, this Helado Negro.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:10pm
Brian in UK:

Hello redkayak. Invested in a coracle yet?
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redkayak:

@Brian - Ahoy to you too! Not yet, ahem, but have been spying skin on frame plans. :)
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redkayak:

@Brian - Check this out:

shawn-brigman.squarespace.com...
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redkayak:

.....saw this yesterday. Pretty amazing!
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chris:

those canoes are beautiful! one of my anchors for pre-lock-down joy: kayaking the Hanalei River on Kauai in early March. the warm rain falling, the views of the waterfalls in the mountains, and not a care in the world. sigh.
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βrian:

"Bullock hide" is said to be used for those coracles. That seems awfully specific ...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:19pm
Brian in UK:

redkayak, lovely skills. Oh for an electric plane, no, a cordless electric plane.
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redkayak:

@chris/Brian: Looking forward to warmer temps to get back out! Not sure my short term plans include a boat project. Need to focus on keeping my business afloat, heh....
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Brian in UK:

Pragmatism rules.
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redkayak:

@Brian- If our wishes were dishes what a set we'd have ;)
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redkayak:

Indeed. Better days are coming!
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redkayak:

Until then......hmmm
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redkayak:

OK, back to work for me.
Stay well all!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:23pm
Webhamster Henry:

@Irene Could you maybe list these patreons in the playlist?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:26pm
Irene Trudel:

Hey redkayak!
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Summer and Michael and Sylvia:

Good morning/afternoon, Irene!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:34pm
Irene Trudel:

Henry, Ihere is Robyn Hitchcock's Patreon: www.patreon.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:36pm
Irene Trudel:

I may not have time to search for the others.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:37pm
Irene Trudel:

Hi Summer and Michael and Sylvia!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:37pm
Webhamster Henry:

That's fine. Thanks!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:39pm
KevinfromBayRidge:

Hey Irene and Trudelites. Missed most of the show but I'll be archiving it up. Joe was doing a great tribute to Mark Barkan. Definitely archive "worthy".
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:45pm
doctorjazz:

Been busy, but enjoyed the show. Thanks, Irene!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:47pm
Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em):

i like this
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:48pm
Irene Trudel:

That's okay Kevin! You don't recommend listening to two shows at once. That is indeed what the archives are for. Thank you doctorjazz for being here.
  2:52pm
van:

thank you Sean. Welcome back Irene. Hope you, and all, are well and happy.
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redkayak:

@Irene - this is awesome!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:55pm
Sean in Bristol UK:

Hey Van
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:56pm
Irene Trudel:

Hi van! Good to get you in at the end.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:57pm
Sean in Bristol UK:

Irene, awesome, awesome show as always, thank you so much
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listener james from westwood:

Always a treat and glad it's a regular one again! Thanks!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:59pm
chris:

thanks, Irene!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:00pm
Irene Trudel:

Thanks everyone for joining me with your great comments. Catch you next Monday at noon!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:04pm
chresti:

Thanks Irene!
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