WFMU: Continental Subway with David Dichelle: Playlist from October 1, 2020

Listener comments!
	12:01pm kuba: hello, chat, where are you?
	🚂 12:01pm Carmichael: Hola Dah-VEED y personas.
	12:01pm doctorjazz: Hi David And Riders!
	12:02pm kuba: ok, looks like this was my first first. helloo people
	12:03pm David Dichelle: Bienvenidos, Kuba, Carmichael, Doc!
	🚂 12:04pm Carmichael: That's all the Spanish I know. At least until we start cursing ...
	12:04pm Really Lisa: Hi David and all.
	12:05pm David Dichelle: Hola Lisa!
	12:06pm kuba: so you spin the globe tonight? is that right?
	12:07pm David Dichelle: This is, by the way, the first edition of a new opening hour-long segment, Random Road, here to mark the October fundraiser. Each week the show will start with music from a country chosen completely at random.
	12:07pm David Dichelle: Kuba, great timing with your question!
	12:08pm David Dichelle: And no Kuba, it's not Cuba today, although that would have been a wonderful coincidence.
	12:09pm coelacanth∅: greetings David, subterranean Freedom Riders
	🚂 12:09pm chresti: Hi David and Continentals!
	12:09pm Sem: Hello, David, and all aboard. Toque Profundo: headwear w/ philosophical gravitas for the ruminative hoser.
	🚂 12:09pm Handy Haversack: David, friends, hope I haven't missed the express!
	🚂 12:10pm βrian: Hoy soy tamari.
	🚂 12:10pm WR: Hi all. chresti, I repeat. Eeek! Snakes!
	12:10pm David Dichelle: Buenos dias Coel, Chresti y Sem - Handy y ßrian!
	12:10pm David Dichelle: Y WR también!
	12:11pm David Dichelle: Good one, Sem!
	🚂 12:13pm WR: So we Latin music neophytes are to guess your randomly chosen country for today?
	🚂 12:14pm βrian: Busco a Penélope Cruz. Ella esta aqui?
	🚂 12:14pm chresti: Hi WR, my coworker who works the afternoon shift spotted 4 rattlesnakes the other day. Have to be careful when it's real hot, they hide in the shade.
	12:15pm David Dichelle: WR: If you like - I will reveal it shortly of course.
	🚂 12:15pm Handy Haversack: Whoa, chresti, that's wild! Also: hi!
	🚂 12:15pm chresti: Hi Handy!
	🚂 12:16pm WR: Fun for a moment.
	12:17pm Hubig Pie: I make wild guess, Columbia?
	🚂 12:17pm YETI BOB: The mathematician in me is wondering how one chooses a country at random, in a fair way. Any method that involves pointing at a map will bias toward countries with larger area. And then there's the distortion caused by the map projection (well-known Greenland effect on old Mercator maps). But even spinning the globe and pointing, I think, will create a bias toward the countries closer to the poles - if you're choosing both latitude and longitude at random, there's the same amount of longitude spread over more miles at the Equator. So the best way is probably just to pick from a list of names.
	🚂 12:17pm βrian: This reminds me, isn't it about time the state of Indiana changed it's name?
	12:18pm David Dichelle: Hey there Hubig Pie and Yeti Bob!
	🚂 12:18pm WR: Ha. DR was not one of the countries I was considering.
	12:18pm Really Lisa: Yeti Bob, beat me to it. I was just going to ask in Spanish.. Entonces, David, ¿compartirás cómo eliges este país? Mencionaste la semana pasada que esto fue completamente aleatorio.
	🚂 12:20pm βrian: "Is your projection distorted or are you glad to see me?"
	🚂 12:20pm dutchtheo: Hola, David, y viajeros. Próxima estación, comida...
	12:21pm Hubig Pie: Oh, that was my second guess, dammit. Me gusta ritmo caribbeano
	12:23pm Stanley: Hi David and denizens of the subway. When I was a kid, to put me asleep, my father used to spin the globe and I would stop it with my finger on a random country. We would read the country's entry in the children's encyclopedia and I would fall asleep dreaming about that country. No wonder I developed a great desire to travel later in life.
	🚂 12:23pm Handy Haversack: @YB: Numbered alphabetical list of countries, random.org to generate an integer in that range. Is how I'd do it.
	🚂 12:24pm YETI BOB: $ python -c 'import pycountry,random; print(random.choice(list(pycountry.countries)))'
	12:24pm David Dichelle: Handy: You got it!
	🚂 12:25pm Handy Haversack: Ha! Full marks first try! This might be my peak moment.
	🚂 12:25pm YETI BOB: And the winner is - 'Federated States of Micronesia'.
	12:25pm David Dichelle: Y bienvenidos Dutchtheo y Stanley!
	12:25pm David Dichelle: Yeti Bob - can't wait!
	🚂 12:26pm Handy Haversack: (Of course, if the number of choices were any easy multiple of 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, or 20, I'd use dice! I mean, I have a LOT of dice.)
	12:28pm David Dichelle: Footnote: I'm using a list of territories by internet ISO code, avoiding any political distinctions of recognition etc.
	🚂 12:28pm YETI BOB: @HH: Roll 2 20-sided dice. Compute N = 20*(D1-1) + D2. If N > 249, try again.
	12:29pm David Dichelle: I just rolled a +3 mage.
	🚂 12:31pm Handy Haversack: See? The system works!
	12:32pm David Dichelle: I wonder if I still have my 10- and 4-sided somewhere.
	12:34pm Really Lisa: K, I'll just be listening, and gazing out the window. Me + math < ideal.
	12:36pm David Dichelle: Stanley: Almost missed your comment - what a wonderful reminiscence!
	🚂 12:37pm YETI BOB: @Stanley: I'll bet your father's finger never landed on 'Federated States of Micronesia' ! :)
	🚂 12:38pm YETI BOB: (or your finger)
	🚂 12:41pm Handy Haversack: David, the most common and therefore useful way to find a d4 is to step on it.
	🚂 12:41pm YETI BOB: @ReallyLisa: I could talk about math for hours - bit of a character defect, really. I'm happy for a different topic though!
	🚂 12:41pm Bas NL: Hi David! Trainees!
	12:43pm David Dichelle: Hey there, Bas!
	12:43pm Sem: Trainees! First sighting of that one, Bas. Nice, nice.
	🚂 12:44pm YETI BOB: @HH: The point is that the number doesn't have to be divisible. Just round up to something that is, and roll again if the roll is too high. It's perfectly fair, introduces no bias. (And it's a standard technique in math&physics).
	🚂 12:45pm Michael 98145: onward!
	12:46pm David Dichelle: Welcome, Michael!
	🚂 12:47pm βrian: Our little human is taking her first math test ever, as we speak.
	12:48pm Really Lisa: @Yeti B. I'd be thrilled if I had such an affliction. Anything beyond the basics gets overwhelmingly confusing. Yet I recall I excelled at a differential calculus class ages ago. It's gone now..
	🚂 12:49pm YETI BOB: Running my one-line random-country program (see above) I just learned that Bouvet Island is a country - it is an uninhabited subantarctic high island - "The most remote island in the world". Probably not much of a music scene there!!
	12:50pm David Dichelle: YB: I could play an hour of wind sounds, I suppose.
	🚂 12:51pm Michael 98145: @YB, where there is shellac, there is music
	🚂 12:52pm βrian: Gotta have lac bugs before you can make shellac.
	🚂 12:52pm Handy Haversack: @YB, I do it all the time! There are lists that do not at all conform to the dice I have at hand quite frequently. Because of course there are 34 first-level magician spells.
	12:54pm Doug Schulkind: In some ways Wilfrido Vargas is my ideal selection to represent the D.R. There was a period in Nueva York (mid 1980s), when Wilfrido's music was, in certain neighborhoods, seemingly...EVERYWHERE. Dios mío, it was wonderful!
	🚂 12:59pm YETI BOB: Well, Bouvet Island it's a "dependency of Norway", so maybe it shouldn't count. But it's listed in ISO 3166-1 (which lists 249 "countries, territories, or areas of geographical interest"), probably the same list David is using.
	🚂 12:59pm Handy Haversack: Way to go, Bas and Really Lisa!
	12:59pm Really Lisa: Thank *you, David. Sincerely.
	🚂 12:59pm chresti: Yay Bas and Really Lisa!
	🚂 1:00pm Bas NL: Last colleague has just left! Volume UP!
	🚂 1:01pm YETI BOB: "The dependency status entails that the island is not part of the Kingdom of Norway, but is still under Norwegian sovereignty." .... am I over-thinking this yet?
	1:01pm Stanley: Yeti Bob - no but I have vivid memories of 'hula-hula' girls, as he described them, from Hawaii
	1:01pm David Dichelle: Thanks again Bas and Lisa!
	1:01pm David Dichelle: And greetings, Doug!
	🚂 1:02pm YETI BOB: Maybe I just have to go down there and check it out for myself.
	1:03pm David Dichelle: YB: I think I'll try to stick to the list, sans uninhabited rocks, of course.
	🚂 1:03pm Handy Haversack: YB, it's the only way to be sure.
	🚂 1:03pm Michael 98145: never too many hula-hula girls
	🚂 1:05pm YETI BOB: I'll be back in a bit.
	🚂 1:05pm Handy Haversack: That's what the wind says on Bouvet Island, Michael.
	1:11pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): @YETI BOB: I've enjoyed your math today
	1:12pm David Dichelle: Hey there, Kenzo!
	1:13pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Rhapsodizingly, David.
	🚂 1:16pm Yvang: Jumping on the train! Hello David D. and listeners!
	🚂 1:16pm Carmichael: OK, 3 Skype meetings later ...
	1:18pm David Dichelle: Hop on aboard, Yvang!
	🚂 1:21pm Bas NL: Quick dash home.. I'll be back!
	1:22pm David Dichelle: Welcome back, Carmichael, and see you later Bas and Yeti Bob...
	1:23pm Cmurtha: Hello Spooky subway dwellers.
	🚂 1:24pm YETI BOB: Oh, I was just joking about being off to Bouvet Island. In truth, I'm still here listening to this great show. (I decided it was a bit too far to go in my kayak)
	1:26pm David Dichelle: Buenos dias, Cmurtha!
	1:27pm David Dichelle: Thanks, YB, having checked the weather report for Bouvet, glad you decided to stay!
	🚂 1:28pm Brian in UK: Hello David & fellow travellers. Autumn in the photograph. Leaves are starting to tumble.
	🚂 1:32pm βrian: @YB: But Bouvet Island bragging rights would be something.
	1:37pm David Dichelle: Hello Brian: It is actually a photo from earlier in the year, trees still in their full summer glory over here.
	🚂 1:38pm Brian in UK: I went to possibly the second most northerly record shop in the vaguely known universe in Tromso called Backbeat. Oh and the potato field has been lifted nearby so lots of taties if you happen to be passing that were missed.
	🚂 1:40pm Carmichael: I finally get to hear a Roud session in real time!
	1:40pm David Dichelle: Brian: Sounds like fun - but what is the first?
	1:40pm David Dichelle: Carmichael: Glad it works for you!
	🚂 1:41pm Brian in UK: @YETI BOB, do you think that comprehension of mathematics is kind of intuitive, it is wired there already. Not to say that it cannot be learned.
	🚂 1:48pm Brian in UK: David, it is further up the coast. Norweigens speak the best English without an accent, certainly better than most folks over here.
	🚂 1:49pm Carmichael: I think this song was used in The Commitments by someone trying out for the soul band.
	🚂 1:50pm Handy Haversack: I think you might be right, Carm -- I'd never have remembered unless you said something!
	1:50pm David Dichelle: Carmichael: Wow, great reference - haven't seen it since it was new.
	🚂 1:51pm Carmichael: The mom was smiling and mouthing the words, while Jimmy Rabbitte had his head in his hands.
	1:51pm David Dichelle: Brian: Sounds like a good excuse to head up that way.
	1:52pm David Dichelle: Always wanted to experience the full midnight sun.
	1:54pm grillwhatufeel: why u gotta make me cry bro
	1:56pm David Dichelle: grillwhatufeel: :)
	🚂 1:58pm Bas NL: And back home!
	🚂 1:59pm YETI BOB: @BrianInUK: Good question but I don't have much light to shed on it. I do know that some people just seem to be better at it, but you could say the same about playing drums, learning Chinese, etc.
	1:59pm David Dichelle: Welcome home on board, Bas!
	🚂 2:04pm Bas NL: Word.
	🚂 2:05pm Listening Out There: Time for Busy Subwaying to Nothing....
	2:08pm David Dichelle: Hey there, LOT!
	2:10pm Charlie: Thanks for the shout-out David! Thrilled to be following you today:)
	🚂 2:11pm Bas NL: Why.. i've never seen the ḁ character before?!
	2:11pm David Dichelle: So glad to have you back again, Charlie!
	2:12pm Phillippe Bastille: Hey there!
	2:12pm Doug Schulkind: Busy Doings with Charlie, coming up!! Nothing will be happening, HERE: wfmu.org...
	2:12pm David Dichelle: Greetings, PB!
	🚂 2:12pm Listening Out There: Greeting, Charlie! Have enjoyed hearing you again on the FMU lately. Hope all's going well in the real world...
	2:14pm Charlie: Hi, LOT, yup, everything's cool with me:)
	2:15pm David Dichelle: Bas: Good question - it could be a local dialect thing, not entirely sure.
	🚂 2:21pm YETI BOB: @Brian in UK: Did you see the Northern Lights?
	2:26pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): @David D: This has all been Very Fine. Thank you.
	2:26pm David Dichelle: Thanks, Kenzo, my pleasure!
	🚂 2:29pm YETI BOB: I just found a map of every record store in the world: blog.discogs.com... . The northernmost is in Alta, Norway; the southernmost is in Invercargill, New Zealand.
	2:31pm David Dichelle: Thanks, Yeti Bob, that is a great link!
	🚂 2:32pm YETI BOB: I'm doing a lot of armchair traveling lately. This map also shows some other interesting stats, such as clusters of record stores (defined as a collection of stores where there is at most one kilometer from one store to another). Not too surprised that the biggest cluster in the world is Berlin (some day I'll make it over there!). But also, the biggest cluster in North America is NOT in NYC, it's in Toronto! And I still haven't been to Toronto even though it's not that far from Chicago.
	🚂 2:32pm Brian in UK: @YETI BOB, we were there for three nights and saw them on the second night, just after a husky sleigh ride, just as we stopped they came out. You blink and they have moved. Very moving.
	🚂 2:32pm Bas NL: That's good fun @YETI BOB!
	2:37pm Really Lisa: Speaking of travel.. does anyone know a reliable site/source for up to date info on US to anywhere in Europe travel restrictions? I have tried checking by embassy, by airline, etc.. And I refer to pandemic related restrictions.. not general stereotypical Americans are such rude buffoons we wish we could stop them from traveling here kinda thing :-/
	🚂 2:38pm Brian in UK: There are 11 record shops in China and 2 in Cuba. Nuts.
	🚂 2:39pm Brian in UK: Really Lisa I think that the list is smaller than a small thing.
	🚂 2:40pm Brian in UK: Seems like e have just added Turkey & Poland to the no-go list.
	🚂 2:41pm Brian in UK: e = UK
	2:41pm David Dichelle: Lisa: not sure, but last I checked, it was very restricted to a long list of countries, unfortunately including the US.
	🚂 2:42pm Handy Haversack: Loving the show so much today, David!
	2:42pm David Dichelle: Thanks so much, Handy!
	🚂 2:44pm YETI BOB: @Brian in UK: Hard to believe only 2 record stores in Cuba, considering how much musical heritage they have. But doing a quick search seems to confirm that there are very few record stores and records are mostly just sold in street markets (in terrible condition). Also found this fun article: "I Tried to Find a Record Store in Cuba and Ended Up Participating in a Santeria Ritual" - www.vice.com...
	2:48pm Really Lisa: Thanks, David. I sure can't determine from the marketing emails I receive. E.g. one just now pitched airfare rewards points for a KLM / Air France loyalty programme if I book certain hotels. It's such a tease.
	2:49pm David Dichelle: Lisa: Maybe it's for far in advance? Otherwise kind of inconsiderate making offers like that...
	🚂 2:50pm Bas NL: Dutch KLM is very happy to receive you on board @Really Lisa. I've seen so many KLM planes idling at Schiphol airport..
	🚂 2:52pm Brian in UK: Great mix, David.
	🚂 2:52pm Carmichael: Freaky fun!
	🚂 2:53pm Michael 98145: @YBob, that would be a great t-shirt logo!
	2:54pm Really Lisa: Could be, David. Some marketing emails know to frame the content as such. Bas, yes, KLM is part of a 'Flying Blue' loyalty programme.. Ever since my last trip out of the US, to Northern France, they've been trying to wear me down :) My understanding is 'essential travel' is permitted, but one would have to prove it's essential, and have the flexibility (cushy job perks) to quarantine for 14 days at arrival airport vicinity. Not the case for me. So here I sit.
	2:55pm Really Lisa: Thanks again, David for this and every Subway ride! Peace, all.
	🚂 2:55pm YETI BOB: @Lisa: you can look up by country here: travel.state.gov... but it's a pretty crappy website
	🚂 2:55pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, David! So glad to have been here. Be well, all.
	🚂 2:56pm Bas NL: Thanks David! So many great sounds.. I'll catch up on the archives!
	2:56pm Really Lisa: @Yeti B, thanks! I will give it a try.
	🚂 2:57pm YETI BOB: Bye everyone, this has been fun.
	🚂 2:57pm Michael 98145: Thanks again, David D
	🚂 2:57pm chresti: Thanks David!
	🚂 2:59pm WR: 2 record stores in Cuba is wrong, i've been to several in Havana and Santiago. And every performer also actively sell their own CDR. Book stores also sell recordings. Of course this is all focused on Cuban music. International pop has a different generally known but officially underground means. All digital.
	2:59pm David Dichelle: Thanks everyone - have a great week!
	🚂 2:59pm dutchtheo: thanks, David!
	🚂 3:00pm WR: And thank you David.
	🚂 3:03pm YETI BOB: WR: If you know some more record stores in Cuba, you can add them to the database! vinylhub.discogs.com
	3:40pm coelacanth∅: Thanks David!

Continental Subway with David Dichelle: Playlist from October 1, 2020

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October 1, 2020: Random road ahead

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Artist	Track	Album	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Continental Subway	Intro "Intro" by "Continental Subway"
Random Road 1: Dominican Republic "Random Road 1: Dominican Republic"
Los Enanitos Verdes	Te ví en un tren	Habitaciones Extrañas	1987		0:00:11 (Pop-up)
Toque Profundo	Viajero (Acústico)	Cría cuervos	1999		0:04:08 (Pop-up)
Luis Días	De Bufeo en Bufeo "De Bufeo en Bufeo" by "Luis Días"	El Accidente	1998		0:07:53 (Pop-up)
Aljadaqui	Quieres Calor "Quieres Calor" by "Aljadaqui"	Toma Uno	1999		0:11:42 (Pop-up)
Rita Indiana y los Misterios	Los Poderes		2010		0:15:35 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Bartolo Alvarado	Merengue instrumental				0:18:42 (Pop-up)
Fausto Rey	Santo Domingo "Santo Domingo" by "Fausto Rey"	Latino	1975		0:23:28 (Pop-up)
Cheche Abreu y Sus Colosos	Así Es Mi Tierra	Así Es Mi Tierra	1979		0:27:02 (Pop-up)
El Cieguito de Nagua	Acotejame "Acotejame" by "El Cieguito de Nagua"	Lo Típico Dominicano	1979		0:30:43 (Pop-up)
Musiquito y su Orquesta	El dengue	El Rajaito	1982		0:34:03 (Pop-up)
Los Hijos del Rey	Vengo Botando Candela	Fernandito & Raulin	1978		0:37:25 (Pop-up)
José Alberto & Su Orquesta	Supon Que Si, Su Pon Que No	Canta Canario	1984		0:42:50 (Pop-up)
Nini Cáffaro	Cada Vez Más "Cada Vez Más" by "Nini Cáffaro"	Que Grande Es El Amor!	1967		0:46:46 (Pop-up)
Wilfrido Vargas	Eso Ya Viene Por Ahí	El Pájaro Chowi	1976		0:49:17 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Bartolo Alvarado	Merengue instrumental				0:53:30 (Pop-up)
Rubén González	Román E. Peña: El Cañaveral	Clásicos Dominicanos, Vol. 8: Música para guitarra de compositores dominicanos	2020	Román E. Peña (7 September 1920 - 28 May 2003)	1:00:36 (Pop-up)
Michel Camilo	Caribe "Caribe" by "Michel Camilo"	Michel Camilo	1988		1:03:07 (Pop-up)
Elioenai Medina, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional, Dante Cucurullo	Luis Rivera: Rapsodia dominicana no.1 para piano y orquesta	Clásicos Dominicanos, Vol. 1: Música y canto en Luis Rivera	2020	Luis Rivera (22 June 1901– 16 September 1986) (composed in 1941)	1:11:03 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Los Holy's	El Gran Chaparral / Show Me		1967		1:29:02 (Pop-up)
Roud 87: The Water Is Wide / Waly, Waly
June Tabor	Waly Waly "Waly Waly" by "June Tabor"	Airs and Graces	1976		1:36:03 (Pop-up)
Martin Simpson	Waly Waly "Waly Waly" by "Martin Simpson"	Vagrant Stanzas	2013		1:40:58 (Pop-up)
Moira Craig	Waly Waly "Waly Waly" by "Moira Craig"	Celtic Songs of Love	1997		1:47:26 (Pop-up)
Pete Seeger	The Water is Wide "The Water is Wide" by "Pete Seeger"	American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 2	1958		1:49:18 (Pop-up)
Petra Černocká	Rákosí "Rákosí" by "Petra Černocká"	Náklaďák	1994		1:52:47 (Pop-up)
Hachè Costa & Isa BoCa	The Water Is Wide	Mamihlapinatapai Soundtrack	2020		1:56:16 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Stewy von Wattenwyl	Amsterdam After Dark	Wabash	2008		2:00:31 (Pop-up)
Corin Curschellas with Hans Hasler	Manche freilich	Rḁppa Nomada	1995		2:07:24 (Pop-up)
Stockholm Lisboa Project	Istunpa sänkys laitalla	Janela	2016		2:11:10 (Pop-up)
Coreyah	Good Dreams "Good Dreams" by "Coreyah"	Clap&Applause	2020		2:15:46 (Pop-up)
Mercanti di Liquore	Non siamo mai stati sulla luna	Che / Cosa / Te / Ne / Fai / Di / Un / Titolo	2005		2:22:04 (Pop-up)
Kam’yaniy Gist’	Vershniki Grozi	70/80	2015	Кам'яний гість / Вершники грози	2:25:52 (Pop-up)
This Ascension	Isabella "Isabella" by "This Ascension"		1989		2:30:27 (Pop-up)
Ásgeir Trausti	Þennan dag "Þennan dag" by "Ásgeir Trausti"	Dýrð í dauðaþögn	2012		2:35:57 (Pop-up)
Fe 59	Estoy Brillando "Estoy Brillando" by "Fe 59"		1973		2:39:37 (Pop-up)
Matadors	Malej Zvon Co Mám "Malej Zvon Co Mám" by "Matadors"		1966		2:43:04 (Pop-up)
Flamengo	Zavraždil Jsem Lásku "Zavraždil Jsem Lásku" by "Flamengo"		1968		2:46:48 (Pop-up)
Pepe & Paradise	Sotilaat, kansat, maat - Joy to the World	Pepe & Paradise	1968		2:50:05 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Duke Ellington	Take the "A" Train				2:52:58 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	12:01pm kuba: hello, chat, where are you?
	🚂 12:01pm Carmichael: Hola Dah-VEED y personas.
	12:01pm doctorjazz: Hi David And Riders!
	12:02pm kuba: ok, looks like this was my first first. helloo people
	12:03pm David Dichelle: Bienvenidos, Kuba, Carmichael, Doc!
	🚂 12:04pm Carmichael: That's all the Spanish I know. At least until we start cursing ...
	12:04pm Really Lisa: Hi David and all.
	12:05pm David Dichelle: Hola Lisa!
	12:06pm kuba: so you spin the globe tonight? is that right?
	12:07pm David Dichelle: This is, by the way, the first edition of a new opening hour-long segment, Random Road, here to mark the October fundraiser. Each week the show will start with music from a country chosen completely at random.
	12:07pm David Dichelle: Kuba, great timing with your question!
	12:08pm David Dichelle: And no Kuba, it's not Cuba today, although that would have been a wonderful coincidence.
	12:09pm coelacanth∅: greetings David, subterranean Freedom Riders
	🚂 12:09pm chresti: Hi David and Continentals!
	12:09pm Sem: Hello, David, and all aboard. Toque Profundo: headwear w/ philosophical gravitas for the ruminative hoser.
	🚂 12:09pm Handy Haversack: David, friends, hope I haven't missed the express!
	🚂 12:10pm βrian: Hoy soy tamari.
	🚂 12:10pm WR: Hi all. chresti, I repeat. Eeek! Snakes!
	12:10pm David Dichelle: Buenos dias Coel, Chresti y Sem - Handy y ßrian!
	12:10pm David Dichelle: Y WR también!
	12:11pm David Dichelle: Good one, Sem!
	🚂 12:13pm WR: So we Latin music neophytes are to guess your randomly chosen country for today?
	🚂 12:14pm βrian: Busco a Penélope Cruz. Ella esta aqui?
	🚂 12:14pm chresti: Hi WR, my coworker who works the afternoon shift spotted 4 rattlesnakes the other day. Have to be careful when it's real hot, they hide in the shade.
	12:15pm David Dichelle: WR: If you like - I will reveal it shortly of course.
	🚂 12:15pm Handy Haversack: Whoa, chresti, that's wild! Also: hi!
	🚂 12:15pm chresti: Hi Handy!
	🚂 12:16pm WR: Fun for a moment.
	12:17pm Hubig Pie: I make wild guess, Columbia?
	🚂 12:17pm YETI BOB: The mathematician in me is wondering how one chooses a country at random, in a fair way. Any method that involves pointing at a map will bias toward countries with larger area. And then there's the distortion caused by the map projection (well-known Greenland effect on old Mercator maps). But even spinning the globe and pointing, I think, will create a bias toward the countries closer to the poles - if you're choosing both latitude and longitude at random, there's the same amount of longitude spread over more miles at the Equator. So the best way is probably just to pick from a list of names.
	🚂 12:17pm βrian: This reminds me, isn't it about time the state of Indiana changed it's name?
	12:18pm David Dichelle: Hey there Hubig Pie and Yeti Bob!
	🚂 12:18pm WR: Ha. DR was not one of the countries I was considering.
	12:18pm Really Lisa: Yeti Bob, beat me to it. I was just going to ask in Spanish.. Entonces, David, ¿compartirás cómo eliges este país? Mencionaste la semana pasada que esto fue completamente aleatorio.
	🚂 12:20pm βrian: "Is your projection distorted or are you glad to see me?"
	🚂 12:20pm dutchtheo: Hola, David, y viajeros. Próxima estación, comida...
	12:21pm Hubig Pie: Oh, that was my second guess, dammit. Me gusta ritmo caribbeano
	12:23pm Stanley: Hi David and denizens of the subway. When I was a kid, to put me asleep, my father used to spin the globe and I would stop it with my finger on a random country. We would read the country's entry in the children's encyclopedia and I would fall asleep dreaming about that country. No wonder I developed a great desire to travel later in life.
	🚂 12:23pm Handy Haversack: @YB: Numbered alphabetical list of countries, random.org to generate an integer in that range. Is how I'd do it.
	🚂 12:24pm YETI BOB: $ python -c 'import pycountry,random; print(random.choice(list(pycountry.countries)))'
	12:24pm David Dichelle: Handy: You got it!
	🚂 12:25pm Handy Haversack: Ha! Full marks first try! This might be my peak moment.
	🚂 12:25pm YETI BOB: And the winner is - 'Federated States of Micronesia'.
	12:25pm David Dichelle: Y bienvenidos Dutchtheo y Stanley!
	12:25pm David Dichelle: Yeti Bob - can't wait!
	🚂 12:26pm Handy Haversack: (Of course, if the number of choices were any easy multiple of 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, or 20, I'd use dice! I mean, I have a LOT of dice.)
	12:28pm David Dichelle: Footnote: I'm using a list of territories by internet ISO code, avoiding any political distinctions of recognition etc.
	🚂 12:28pm YETI BOB: @HH: Roll 2 20-sided dice. Compute N = 20*(D1-1) + D2. If N > 249, try again.
	12:29pm David Dichelle: I just rolled a +3 mage.
	🚂 12:31pm Handy Haversack: See? The system works!
	12:32pm David Dichelle: I wonder if I still have my 10- and 4-sided somewhere.
	12:34pm Really Lisa: K, I'll just be listening, and gazing out the window. Me + math < ideal.
	12:36pm David Dichelle: Stanley: Almost missed your comment - what a wonderful reminiscence!
	🚂 12:37pm YETI BOB: @Stanley: I'll bet your father's finger never landed on 'Federated States of Micronesia' ! :)
	🚂 12:38pm YETI BOB: (or your finger)
	🚂 12:41pm Handy Haversack: David, the most common and therefore useful way to find a d4 is to step on it.
	🚂 12:41pm YETI BOB: @ReallyLisa: I could talk about math for hours - bit of a character defect, really. I'm happy for a different topic though!
	🚂 12:41pm Bas NL: Hi David! Trainees!
	12:43pm David Dichelle: Hey there, Bas!
	12:43pm Sem: Trainees! First sighting of that one, Bas. Nice, nice.
	🚂 12:44pm YETI BOB: @HH: The point is that the number doesn't have to be divisible. Just round up to something that is, and roll again if the roll is too high. It's perfectly fair, introduces no bias. (And it's a standard technique in math&physics).
	🚂 12:45pm Michael 98145: onward!
	12:46pm David Dichelle: Welcome, Michael!
	🚂 12:47pm βrian: Our little human is taking her first math test ever, as we speak.
	12:48pm Really Lisa: @Yeti B. I'd be thrilled if I had such an affliction. Anything beyond the basics gets overwhelmingly confusing. Yet I recall I excelled at a differential calculus class ages ago. It's gone now..
	🚂 12:49pm YETI BOB: Running my one-line random-country program (see above) I just learned that Bouvet Island is a country - it is an uninhabited subantarctic high island - "The most remote island in the world". Probably not much of a music scene there!!
	12:50pm David Dichelle: YB: I could play an hour of wind sounds, I suppose.
	🚂 12:51pm Michael 98145: @YB, where there is shellac, there is music
	🚂 12:52pm βrian: Gotta have lac bugs before you can make shellac.
	🚂 12:52pm Handy Haversack: @YB, I do it all the time! There are lists that do not at all conform to the dice I have at hand quite frequently. Because of course there are 34 first-level magician spells.
	12:54pm Doug Schulkind: In some ways Wilfrido Vargas is my ideal selection to represent the D.R. There was a period in Nueva York (mid 1980s), when Wilfrido's music was, in certain neighborhoods, seemingly...EVERYWHERE. Dios mío, it was wonderful!
	🚂 12:59pm YETI BOB: Well, Bouvet Island it's a "dependency of Norway", so maybe it shouldn't count. But it's listed in ISO 3166-1 (which lists 249 "countries, territories, or areas of geographical interest"), probably the same list David is using.
	🚂 12:59pm Handy Haversack: Way to go, Bas and Really Lisa!
	12:59pm Really Lisa: Thank *you, David. Sincerely.
	🚂 12:59pm chresti: Yay Bas and Really Lisa!
	🚂 1:00pm Bas NL: Last colleague has just left! Volume UP!
	🚂 1:01pm YETI BOB: "The dependency status entails that the island is not part of the Kingdom of Norway, but is still under Norwegian sovereignty." .... am I over-thinking this yet?
	1:01pm Stanley: Yeti Bob - no but I have vivid memories of 'hula-hula' girls, as he described them, from Hawaii
	1:01pm David Dichelle: Thanks again Bas and Lisa!
	1:01pm David Dichelle: And greetings, Doug!
	🚂 1:02pm YETI BOB: Maybe I just have to go down there and check it out for myself.
	1:03pm David Dichelle: YB: I think I'll try to stick to the list, sans uninhabited rocks, of course.
	🚂 1:03pm Handy Haversack: YB, it's the only way to be sure.
	🚂 1:03pm Michael 98145: never too many hula-hula girls
	🚂 1:05pm YETI BOB: I'll be back in a bit.
	🚂 1:05pm Handy Haversack: That's what the wind says on Bouvet Island, Michael.
	1:11pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): @YETI BOB: I've enjoyed your math today
	1:12pm David Dichelle: Hey there, Kenzo!
	1:13pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Rhapsodizingly, David.
	🚂 1:16pm Yvang: Jumping on the train! Hello David D. and listeners!
	🚂 1:16pm Carmichael: OK, 3 Skype meetings later ...
	1:18pm David Dichelle: Hop on aboard, Yvang!
	🚂 1:21pm Bas NL: Quick dash home.. I'll be back!
	1:22pm David Dichelle: Welcome back, Carmichael, and see you later Bas and Yeti Bob...
	1:23pm Cmurtha: Hello Spooky subway dwellers.
	🚂 1:24pm YETI BOB: Oh, I was just joking about being off to Bouvet Island. In truth, I'm still here listening to this great show. (I decided it was a bit too far to go in my kayak)
	1:26pm David Dichelle: Buenos dias, Cmurtha!
	1:27pm David Dichelle: Thanks, YB, having checked the weather report for Bouvet, glad you decided to stay!
	🚂 1:28pm Brian in UK: Hello David & fellow travellers. Autumn in the photograph. Leaves are starting to tumble.
	🚂 1:32pm βrian: @YB: But Bouvet Island bragging rights would be something.
	1:37pm David Dichelle: Hello Brian: It is actually a photo from earlier in the year, trees still in their full summer glory over here.
	🚂 1:38pm Brian in UK: I went to possibly the second most northerly record shop in the vaguely known universe in Tromso called Backbeat. Oh and the potato field has been lifted nearby so lots of taties if you happen to be passing that were missed.
	🚂 1:40pm Carmichael: I finally get to hear a Roud session in real time!
	1:40pm David Dichelle: Brian: Sounds like fun - but what is the first?
	1:40pm David Dichelle: Carmichael: Glad it works for you!
	🚂 1:41pm Brian in UK: @YETI BOB, do you think that comprehension of mathematics is kind of intuitive, it is wired there already. Not to say that it cannot be learned.
	🚂 1:48pm Brian in UK: David, it is further up the coast. Norweigens speak the best English without an accent, certainly better than most folks over here.
	🚂 1:49pm Carmichael: I think this song was used in The Commitments by someone trying out for the soul band.
	🚂 1:50pm Handy Haversack: I think you might be right, Carm -- I'd never have remembered unless you said something!
	1:50pm David Dichelle: Carmichael: Wow, great reference - haven't seen it since it was new.
	🚂 1:51pm Carmichael: The mom was smiling and mouthing the words, while Jimmy Rabbitte had his head in his hands.
	1:51pm David Dichelle: Brian: Sounds like a good excuse to head up that way.
	1:52pm David Dichelle: Always wanted to experience the full midnight sun.
	1:54pm grillwhatufeel: why u gotta make me cry bro
	1:56pm David Dichelle: grillwhatufeel: :)
	🚂 1:58pm Bas NL: And back home!
	🚂 1:59pm YETI BOB: @BrianInUK: Good question but I don't have much light to shed on it. I do know that some people just seem to be better at it, but you could say the same about playing drums, learning Chinese, etc.
	1:59pm David Dichelle: Welcome home on board, Bas!
	🚂 2:04pm Bas NL: Word.
	🚂 2:05pm Listening Out There: Time for Busy Subwaying to Nothing....
	2:08pm David Dichelle: Hey there, LOT!
	2:10pm Charlie: Thanks for the shout-out David! Thrilled to be following you today:)
	🚂 2:11pm Bas NL: Why.. i've never seen the ḁ character before?!
	2:11pm David Dichelle: So glad to have you back again, Charlie!
	2:12pm Phillippe Bastille: Hey there!
	2:12pm Doug Schulkind: Busy Doings with Charlie, coming up!! Nothing will be happening, HERE: wfmu.org...
	2:12pm David Dichelle: Greetings, PB!
	🚂 2:12pm Listening Out There: Greeting, Charlie! Have enjoyed hearing you again on the FMU lately. Hope all's going well in the real world...
	2:14pm Charlie: Hi, LOT, yup, everything's cool with me:)
	2:15pm David Dichelle: Bas: Good question - it could be a local dialect thing, not entirely sure.
	🚂 2:21pm YETI BOB: @Brian in UK: Did you see the Northern Lights?
	2:26pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): @David D: This has all been Very Fine. Thank you.
	2:26pm David Dichelle: Thanks, Kenzo, my pleasure!
	🚂 2:29pm YETI BOB: I just found a map of every record store in the world: blog.discogs.com... . The northernmost is in Alta, Norway; the southernmost is in Invercargill, New Zealand.
	2:31pm David Dichelle: Thanks, Yeti Bob, that is a great link!
	🚂 2:32pm YETI BOB: I'm doing a lot of armchair traveling lately. This map also shows some other interesting stats, such as clusters of record stores (defined as a collection of stores where there is at most one kilometer from one store to another). Not too surprised that the biggest cluster in the world is Berlin (some day I'll make it over there!). But also, the biggest cluster in North America is NOT in NYC, it's in Toronto! And I still haven't been to Toronto even though it's not that far from Chicago.
	🚂 2:32pm Brian in UK: @YETI BOB, we were there for three nights and saw them on the second night, just after a husky sleigh ride, just as we stopped they came out. You blink and they have moved. Very moving.
	🚂 2:32pm Bas NL: That's good fun @YETI BOB!
	2:37pm Really Lisa: Speaking of travel.. does anyone know a reliable site/source for up to date info on US to anywhere in Europe travel restrictions? I have tried checking by embassy, by airline, etc.. And I refer to pandemic related restrictions.. not general stereotypical Americans are such rude buffoons we wish we could stop them from traveling here kinda thing :-/
	🚂 2:38pm Brian in UK: There are 11 record shops in China and 2 in Cuba. Nuts.
	🚂 2:39pm Brian in UK: Really Lisa I think that the list is smaller than a small thing.
	🚂 2:40pm Brian in UK: Seems like e have just added Turkey & Poland to the no-go list.
	🚂 2:41pm Brian in UK: e = UK
	2:41pm David Dichelle: Lisa: not sure, but last I checked, it was very restricted to a long list of countries, unfortunately including the US.
	🚂 2:42pm Handy Haversack: Loving the show so much today, David!
	2:42pm David Dichelle: Thanks so much, Handy!
	🚂 2:44pm YETI BOB: @Brian in UK: Hard to believe only 2 record stores in Cuba, considering how much musical heritage they have. But doing a quick search seems to confirm that there are very few record stores and records are mostly just sold in street markets (in terrible condition). Also found this fun article: "I Tried to Find a Record Store in Cuba and Ended Up Participating in a Santeria Ritual" - www.vice.com...
	2:48pm Really Lisa: Thanks, David. I sure can't determine from the marketing emails I receive. E.g. one just now pitched airfare rewards points for a KLM / Air France loyalty programme if I book certain hotels. It's such a tease.
	2:49pm David Dichelle: Lisa: Maybe it's for far in advance? Otherwise kind of inconsiderate making offers like that...
	🚂 2:50pm Bas NL: Dutch KLM is very happy to receive you on board @Really Lisa. I've seen so many KLM planes idling at Schiphol airport..
	🚂 2:52pm Brian in UK: Great mix, David.
	🚂 2:52pm Carmichael: Freaky fun!
	🚂 2:53pm Michael 98145: @YBob, that would be a great t-shirt logo!
	2:54pm Really Lisa: Could be, David. Some marketing emails know to frame the content as such. Bas, yes, KLM is part of a 'Flying Blue' loyalty programme.. Ever since my last trip out of the US, to Northern France, they've been trying to wear me down :) My understanding is 'essential travel' is permitted, but one would have to prove it's essential, and have the flexibility (cushy job perks) to quarantine for 14 days at arrival airport vicinity. Not the case for me. So here I sit.
	2:55pm Really Lisa: Thanks again, David for this and every Subway ride! Peace, all.
	🚂 2:55pm YETI BOB: @Lisa: you can look up by country here: travel.state.gov... but it's a pretty crappy website
	🚂 2:55pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, David! So glad to have been here. Be well, all.
	🚂 2:56pm Bas NL: Thanks David! So many great sounds.. I'll catch up on the archives!
	2:56pm Really Lisa: @Yeti B, thanks! I will give it a try.
	🚂 2:57pm YETI BOB: Bye everyone, this has been fun.
	🚂 2:57pm Michael 98145: Thanks again, David D
	🚂 2:57pm chresti: Thanks David!
	🚂 2:59pm WR: 2 record stores in Cuba is wrong, i've been to several in Havana and Santiago. And every performer also actively sell their own CDR. Book stores also sell recordings. Of course this is all focused on Cuban music. International pop has a different generally known but officially underground means. All digital.
	2:59pm David Dichelle: Thanks everyone - have a great week!
	🚂 2:59pm dutchtheo: thanks, David!
	🚂 3:00pm WR: And thank you David.
	🚂 3:03pm YETI BOB: WR: If you know some more record stores in Cuba, you can add them to the database! vinylhub.discogs.com
	3:40pm coelacanth∅: Thanks David!

Continental Subway with David Dichelle: Playlist from October 1, 2020

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