Listener comments!

🤖 ♥ 5:57pm
: Mark! Techtavenots! 🤖 ♥ 6:00pm
Spikey BXL: Mark, luddites 🤖 ♥ 6:00pm
Deano de los Muertos: Wazzap Mark, and gang 🤖 ♥ 6:00pm
Handy Haversack: Mark and the Techyons!   6:01pm
malĥerbo (nl): Hi Mark! And fellow Tochtenicans! 🤖 ♥ 6:01pm
tim: Hi Mark and everyone! ♥ 6:01pm
Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Goo evening Mark and techies. Or anti-techies. 🤖 ♥ 6:02pm
Hugo (NL): Hi everyone! 🤖 ♥ 6:03pm
Bas NL: Hi Mark! Hi all! ♥ 6:03pm
PaulRobeson1925: Hi Hi Hi   ♥ 6:06pm
New Dave: Its now the "whorehouse" ♥ 6:07pm
dale: they did no asbestos remediation either. just knocked it down and let the stuff go airborne. 🤖 ♥ 6:07pm
Ken From Hyde Park: Those rich tech weenies did what Al-Qaeda failed to do on September 11. 🤖 ♥ 6:08pm
tim:

↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:07

Whoa! That's food for thought. ♥ 6:08pm
Mark Hurst: Hi ultra, Spikey, Deano, Handy, malĥerbo, tim, Peter, Hugo, Bas, PaulR, New Dave, dale, KfHP - thanks for joining! ♥ 6:09pm
San Pedro Girl: Hi Mark and everyone. ♥ 6:09pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ San Pedro Girl @6:09

hi SPG, thanks for joining   6:09pm
chresti: Ew Disney World 🤖 ♥ 6:09pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

↳ tim @6:08

I also saw an image online where the new wing is the Kremlin.   6:11pm
chresti: Hi Mark and techtoniques! 🤖 ♥ 6:11pm
tim:

↳ San Pedro Girl @6:09

Hey San Pedro Girl. ♥ 6:12pm
San Pedro Girl:

↳ tim @6:11

Hi Tim! ♥ 6:15pm
MIster Mark: This is relating to the looming SPECTRE of dynamic pricing coming soon 2 a grocery store 👁️ near you keep an eye out 4 this garbage 👀🧐 🤖 ♥ 6:15pm
Bas NL: Very Important Poor (to be) 6:15pm
morphe': There are some great older books about Disney =
"Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the World "
and
"Vinyl Leaves: Walt Disney World and America (Institutional Structures of Feeling)"
and

a title I canna' remember ...

♥ 6:16pm
MIster Mark: 🔥👁️🔥 pledge.wfmu.org... ♥ 6:16pm
Folsom: Hello Mark! ♥ 6:17pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Folsom @6:16

hi Folsom, Mr Mark, morphe' 6:18pm
morphe':

↳ morphe' @6:15

3rd Title:

Inside the Mouse:
Work and Play at Disney World

♥ 6:18pm
MIster Mark:

↳ MIster Mark @6:15

We still stroll thru stores N95 mask and phone wi-fi and location settings off   6:19pm
Marie in Chicago: I missed a flight around Christmastime at LaGuardia once and I was bumped around all day because I didn't have any kind of special status/membership. They asked me for that at every counter, first thing ♥ 6:21pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Marie in Chicago @6:19

perfect example 🤖 ♥ 6:22pm
tim:

↳ Marie in Chicago @6:19

Hey Marie! ♥ 6:22pm
MIster Mark: kinda ticked our adult labour years helped create several of those super affluent crapitalist families thought they were just cool bosses at the time 🤷   6:22pm
Marie in Chicago:

↳ Mark Hurst @6:21

tx, HI! @)   6:22pm
Marie in Chicago:

↳ tim @6:22

Hi Tim! 🤖 ♥ 6:22pm
Webhamster Henry: I can summarize a story: a community not for profit whose leader discovered that it was way more time consuming and expensive to go after small donors in their community than to go after a few really big ones. The board booted him. ♥ 6:23pm
San Pedro Girl:

↳ Marie in Chicago @6:22

Hi Marie! ♥ 6:23pm
MIster Mark: trying 2 remember who did the "DATA! MORE DATA! WE NEED MORE DATA! movie(?) clip.. Albert Brooks? 🤖 ♥ 6:23pm
Sara Clemens: This interview is so my jam – the hubs is from LA and we enjoy turning a day trip to Disneyland into a game of how to ride everything we want, eat everyting we want, and usually score some exclusive or elusive trinket, too (we've become really good at it, though we've found we have to pay the premium price to get everything we want done in one day). But on an observational level, I find the ever-changing and weird class stratifications at Disney so fascinating. ♥ 6:24pm
MIster Mark: Think about how much 💸 is still needlessly skimmed by kredit kard kompanies   6:24pm
Marie in Chicago: I believe some of this unequal wealth distribution really took off in the 90s with the loss of unions and good-paying labor jobs. Then there was the amazing wealth accumulation by some of population in the Stockmarket.. and I think tax laws were changed to lower taxes for the wealthy 🤖 ♥ 6:25pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ morphe' @6:18

Not to mention "How to Read Donald Duck" by Ariel Dorfman (en.wikipedia.org...) ♥ 6:25pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Sara Clemens @6:23

glad you're enjoying it, Sara - interesting that you've seen this in the park, too 🤖 ♥ 6:26pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Marie in Chicago @6:24

I refer to the oft posted chart of American wages vs productivity since 1970. www.epi.org... ♥ 6:27pm
MIster Mark: Artificial scarcity coming faster and harder in just a couple days please help your neighbors who are struggling to afford groceries etc. ♥ 6:27pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Webhamster Henry @6:26

that's a good one 🤖 ♥ 6:29pm
tim: Do the elites also lose their privacy when they purchase the premium s? ♥ 6:29pm
MIster Mark:

↳ MIster Mark @6:27

rope lines 4 waiting in line..
hyped event not enuff room..
due the math   6:30pm
chresti: Disney stinks! ♥ 6:30pm
MIster Mark:

↳ tim @6:29

likely they don't need 2 care they're not in the crosshairs and/or they're profiting coming *and* going 6:30pm
Fredericks:

↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:07

Destroy America? 🤖 ♥ 6:32pm
Bas NL: A local concerthall has an option to pay a little extra on a ticket to sponsor someone less fortunate to get a discount or free ticket. ♥ 6:32pm
MIster Mark: honestly done with summer music festivals with tiered VIP sections etc. time 2 go back 2 one low entry fee doesn't mean you have 2 have breakfast in bed inn the mud mind U ♥ 6:32pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Bas NL @6:32

that's a good idea   6:33pm
Marie in Chicago:

↳ Webhamster Henry @6:26

hey, Henry! What a great article--so much data/info. Looks like a great site too. I know some people on the right have wanted just this kind of situation.They want more of a third-world version of the US. Thanks for sharing! 🤖 ♥ 6:34pm
Sara Clemens:

↳ Mark Hurst @6:25

Dan's right that they're really good at hiding it if they have to opportunity to, which is in itself interesting!   6:35pm
Marie in Chicago:

↳ chresti @6:30

Yeah, Disney sucks! What's the big deal? 🤖 ♥ 6:35pm
tim: Do you pull on Dumbo's ear to reveal the Club 33 entrance? ♥ 6:38pm
MIster Mark:

↳ tim @6:35

If you rub Abe Lincoln's bronze statue nose Springfield, IL on field trips they let you graduate grammar school 🤖 ♥ 6:40pm
tim: I refuse to patronize places that does not take cash. 🤖 ♥ 6:40pm
herb.nyc: Hola. Not a fan of Disney. Now even less. Our society is so classist.

And “Disney is an analytics…” is a spinoff of what Phil knight said of Nike, “we’re not a shoe company. We’re a marketing company”. (I think Phil said this, many years ago)

♥ 6:40pm
MIster Mark: p.s. when your olders elders crankily complain about QR code menus at restaurants they're not wrong 🤖 ♥ 6:41pm
tim:

↳ MIster Mark @6:40

Complain about QR code menus. Screw that crap! 🤖 ♥ 6:41pm
Sara Clemens: I hate being expected to use our phones for everything these days!   6:41pm
Marie in Chicago: I can't access my workplace systems without an authenticator app on my phone that requires internet access 🤖 ♥ 6:42pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Marie in Chicago @6:33

Thanks! I'm nothing if not an inveterate linker! ♥ 6:42pm
MIster Mark:

↳ herb.nyc @6:40

bingo on the Nike connection.. they're this close 2 destructo mode ♥ 6:42pm
dale: it's like how the insurance companies charge you a higher rate if you have a good credit score.   6:42pm
Marie in Chicago: hee hee hee @) 🤖 ♥ 6:42pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ herb.nyc @6:40

Well, decades ago, GM said they weren't a car company, they were a car-loan company. ♥ 6:43pm
MIster Mark:

↳ Webhamster Henry @6:42

GM proving it ever since ♥ 6:43pm
MIster Mark:

↳ MIster Mark @6:43

except we the sheeple are the loan backers for every bailout 🤖 ♥ 6:43pm
herb.nyc:

↳ Song: "Theme from Techtonic" by "Kirk Pearson"

re the east wing demolition, some are saying theres a secret bunker under the site. And that it will be updated. Crazy tawk, or true?   6:44pm
Marie in Chicago: I believe in San Fran some websites were showing shifting apartment rental prices for individuals. ♥ 6:44pm
MIster Mark: Delta CEO 2021 is why mask and Covid precautions were rolled back in search of ever more 💸💸💸 🤖 ♥ 6:45pm
Bas NL: I had a discussion about a locker to be payed with an online google pay account. It was four euro.. As an alternate i could pay 2 euro by debit card.. and received a two euro coin to use on an old money-only locker... :) ♥ 6:46pm
dale:

↳ herb.nyc @6:43

pretty sure there is a shelter underneath. fallout or bugout, you decide. ♥ 6:46pm
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MIster Mark: Private concierges are just slaves by another name   6:47pm
Bea: Hyper personalization - so creepy!!! 🤖 ♥ 6:47pm
Sara Clemens:

↳ MIster Mark @6:46

Yeah! Let's raise some hell! 6:47pm
morphe':

↳ herb.nyc @6:43

I read = in the Guardian or Politico or ? that indeed Gov't/Military workers will be doing the underground changes/demo for security reasons.. ♥ 6:47pm
MIster Mark:

↳ MIster Mark @6:47

Hyper bespoke narcissisms R US 🤖 ♥ 6:48pm
Webhamster Henry: That birthday present service was a funny plot point in The Devil Wears Prada. ♥ 6:48pm
Mark T: Let me state the obvious. The economy is controlled by truly evil human beings. The filth at the top tiers of these companies and the biggest investors are money worshipping filth and scum. These entities will do ANYTHING to ANYONE for money. 💵 💴 💰 ♥ 6:48pm
MIster Mark: "Leaving money on the table" that same phrase when the TicketBastards etc. manipulate concert seating 🤖 ♥ 6:49pm
Ken From Hyde Park: The Haves, the Have-nots and the No-thank-yous. 🤖 ♥ 6:49pm
herb.nyc:

↳ MIster Mark @6:48

I get a small consolation when I’m able to buy tix at < retail 🤖 ♥ 6:50pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ MIster Mark @6:48

Yes - the line I've read is: a sold out show means the ticket prices aren't high enough. 🤖 ♥ 6:51pm
Webhamster Henry: I'm just throwing in a little low-key plug for the WFMU Hellraiser here. Money Well Spent! 🤖 ♥ 6:51pm
Bas NL: It's all like living in the Middle Ages again.   6:52pm
pizzacrank: tragic that we prolly have the ability to solve almost every problem in the world but we get all this instead   6:52pm
Marie in Chicago: In terms of healthcare, all we have to do is look up North (Canada) for a darn good system ♥ 6:52pm
MIster Mark:

↳ Mark T @6:48

🎯 and wouldn't it be lovely to break these cycles of abuse? Put a little pressure on billionaires and the super affluent? Along with a *slight* tax increase? And Medicare 4 All?

www.youtube.com...

6:53pm
morphe':

↳ Webhamster Henry @6:25

Ah yes ... "How to Read Donald Duck" by Ariel Dorfman ..I still have my copy ... The books above though are very specifically about physical space, employment practices and such ... 🤖 ♥ 6:53pm
Ken From Hyde Park: Yay, for-profit health care! Won't anyone think of the shareholders? ♥ 6:53pm
MIster Mark: Thank you, Mark! And WFMU!

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  6:53pm
Marie in Chicago: The sad thing is, is if working and middle class people keep voting for people who are not looking out for thier financial interests, none of this will change ♥ 6:54pm
dale: that tiny little class will run out of customers soon. 6:54pm
MarciB: Seems like the goal of the current regime is to privatize everything. ♥ 6:54pm
MIster Mark:

↳ MarciB @6:54

🎯   6:55pm
Marie in Chicago: Sorry to get political here but the republican party is NOT the friend of the working or middle class ♥ 6:55pm
Peter from Saranac Lake NY: I'm on Medicare. I'd love to have only a 7% premium increase. Next year, my supplemental health insurance premium will go up 19%. My prescription drug insurance will rise 45%. Anyone here gotten a 45% raise? Asing for a friend. ♥ 6:55pm
MIster Mark:

↳ Marie in Chicago @6:53

🎯 ♥ 6:55pm
Peter from Saranac Lake NY:

↳ Marie in Chicago @6:55

Don't be sorry. Not an insult when it's true. ♥ 6:55pm
MIster Mark:

↳ Peter from Saranac Lake NY @6:55

Stay safe, Peter, blessings 2 you 🤖 ♥ 6:56pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Marie in Chicago @6:53

"Voting" is heavily reliant on a primary process to run people worth voting for. And "the people" are usually cut out of that process, which is why Mamdani's primary win is the right direction for political change. Getting ranked choice voting everywhere will also help. ♥ 6:56pm
MIster Mark:

↳ Marie in Chicago @6:55

sorry to say the obvious rethuglicans are nazis 6:56pm
MarciB:

↳ Marie in Chicago @6:53

The R's long term goal was to eradicate critical thinking and ethics classes in public high schools...so the R are reaping the benefits of a much dumber population now   6:56pm
Marie in Chicago:

↳ Peter from Saranac Lake NY @6:55

thank you. I get the impression that a lot of WFMU listeners lump all politicians together and think there is no difference between the parties. If you think that you are not paying attention ♥ 6:56pm
B R M: This show grows more essential year after year, unfortunately. Thank you, Mark. 6:57pm
morphe':

↳ Peter from Saranac Lake NY @6:55

Ya should watch the last John Oliver episode = all about Medicare... 🤖 ♥ 6:57pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ morphe' @6:57

Or rather Medicare Advantage. But also Medicare. ♥ 6:57pm
Mike Sin: What's amazing about all of this, if you've lived long enough, is how, say, about 40 years ago, necessities were cheap, but luxuries were expensive as hell. I think the TV my father bought in 1984 was way more expensive than his employer-based health insurance. The diversions were made a lot cheaper for a reason! But healthcare and education is out of reach now.... ♥ 6:58pm
bleubombersune: Mark and Dan thanks   6:58pm
Marie in Chicago: Yes, they want a third world county with a permanent underclass and no government aid ♥ 6:58pm
MIster Mark:

↳ Mike Sin @6:57

🎯 🤖 ♥ 6:58pm
Bas NL: Thanks Mark! Thanks Dan! 🤖 ♥ 6:58pm
Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Mark. Tell people "May you enjoy living under the system you voted for." 6:58pm
morphe': Thanks Mark and all ...   6:58pm
Marie in Chicago:

↳ MarciB @6:56

Hi, above comment meant to reply to you 🤖 ♥ 6:58pm
Tim: Thanks, Mark! 🤖 ♥ 6:59pm
chresti: 10 Bucks!

Thanks Mark!

♥ 6:59pm
Mark T: Thanks for the free link 6:59pm
phancy: Thanks for another great show Mark. I am reading Bad Company now thanks to you.   6:59pm
pizzacrank: the democratic party is certainly better but they have definitely failed us. they're still capitalists and protecting their interests 🤖 ♥ 6:59pm
Deano de los Muertos: Thank you, Mark 🤖 ♥ 6:59pm
Webhamster Henry: Thanks Mark, Dan & listeners! ♥ 7:00pm
MIster Mark:

↳ pizzacrank @6:59

🎯 🤖 ♥ 7:00pm
Blobs: Bitcoin 7:00pm
MarciB:

↳ Marie in Chicago @6:58

Yes 100%!   7:00pm
pizzacrank: gn! ♥ 7:00pm
Mark Hurst: Thanks, everyone! 🤖 ♥ 7:00pm
Blobs: Thank you, Mark!   7:01pm
Marie in Chicago:

↳ pizzacrank @6:59

I wouldn't say the failed us. I would say that the people failed us. Ignorant people who vote against their own interests 🤖 ♥ 7:26pm
Handy Haversack: Thanks, Mark!