Listener comments!

🥀 ♥ 2:59pm
: Mona! Monatones!   3:01pm
Liverpool Andrea: Hi Mona and all from Liverpool UK 🖤 ♥ 3:02pm
PC77: Hello Jon & all those keeping cool here today! ☀️ 🥀 ♥ 3:02pm
winston legthigh: mona take me away! 🥀 ♥ 3:03pm
∫ydniuß: Jon Spencer! Mona! Calgon! ♥ 3:03pm
bradford: Hey there Mona & all!   3:04pm
Kat in the chat: Well this is exciting! 🥀 ♥ 3:05pm
Bobby: I am so stoked 🥀 ♥ 3:05pm
DanFA: Heyyy Mona 🥀 ♥ 3:05pm
Ironside: Hey Mona! Jon Spencer?? FUCK YEAH ♥ 3:05pm
PC77: Hi Mona! ♥ 3:06pm
common: mona! all! mr. spencer! 🥀 ♥ 3:06pm
joe mulligan: I'm somthin new, I'm a NO BROWWWWW!! 🥀 ♥ 3:06pm
DanFA:

↳ Song: "Interview" by "Jon Spencer"

Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. Mona is number one, ladies and gentlemen. 🥀 ♥ 3:07pm
DaveMiß: No brows unite! 🥀 ♥ 3:08pm
Bobby:

↳ DanFA @3:06

THANK YA 🥀 ♥ 3:09pm
∫ydniuß: wisdom.   3:09pm
Marie de Chicago: Hi Mona, hi All! ♥ 3:10pm
Kat in the chat: smart words from a "lowbrow" 🖤 ♥ 3:10pm
PC77: Exactly. ♥ 3:10pm
Kat in the chat: A "nobrow" that is! 🥀 ♥ 3:11pm
DanFA:

↳ DaveMiß @3:07

What's all this no brow talk about?   3:11pm
ledzeppelinsucks: Saw Jesus Lizard and Jon Spencer Blues Explosion at The old 75 person capacity Casbah in San Diego on November 15, 1992. 🥀 ♥ 3:11pm
DaveMiß:

↳ DaveMiß @3:07

dyslexics untie! 3:11pm
nfrae: little richard is no freak 🥀 ♥ 3:11pm
DanFA:

↳ nfrae @3:11

Freak in a good way 🥀 ♥ 3:12pm
DaveMiß:

↳ DanFA @3:11

your man Spencer quoted Fools Paradise sound bite 🥀 ♥ 3:12pm
DanFA:

↳ ledzeppelinsucks @3:11

Did you get David Yow and Jon Spencer's sweat on you? 🥀 ♥ 3:12pm
DanFA:

↳ DaveMiß @3:12

Oh, I missed that. 🥀 ♥ 3:13pm
DjLorraine:

↳ Song: "Interview" by "Jon Spencer"

I'm loving this picture 🥀 ♥ 3:13pm
Mi-rgod: Just tuned in - cool interview and look forward to going back to hear the rest. Fun fact, I went to the same high school as Jon Spencer. I had the tiniest roles in a play he adapted. 🥀 ♥ 3:17pm
Mi-rgod:

↳ Mi-rgod @3:13

Glad to hear he appreciates FMU too! 🥀 ♥ 3:19pm
Ken From Hyde Park: Hi, Mona and today's special guest star! ♥ 3:20pm
coelacanth∅: "since" reagan ...BECAUSE of reagan.
(and the bush family)   3:20pm
ledzeppelinsucks: I had David Yow’s soaked shirt in a paper bag for years. It’s gone now. Don’t remember what show it was. Medium cowboy style button shirt.   3:20pm
Marie de Chicago: The UFC match is so …. messed up! 🥀 ♥ 3:22pm
DanFA:

↳ Marie de Chicago @3:20

I think it's great, but not for the reason most people might think. ♥ 3:22pm
coelacanth∅:

↳ Song: "Mr. Lion" by "Jon Spencer"

oh no... why insult the lion?   3:23pm
Marie de Chicago: It’s a whole right wing movement and they changed the supreme court and the supreme court changed all these key things like campaigh finance, government having power to regulate industry, voting rights... 🥀 ♥ 3:23pm
AB in Catskill:

↳ Marie de Chicago @3:20

Sooo f'ing messed up for multiple reasons...same with the coins sales. Leave it to the white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchy mentality. 🥀 ♥ 3:24pm
winston legthigh: meow meow meow   3:24pm
Marie de Chicago:

↳ DanFA @3:22

Hey Dan! Why do you think it’s great? 🥀 ♥ 3:25pm
Bklyn_Dutch:

↳ coelacanth∅ @3:20

Anytime a toad or troll speaks to Reagan was the best I go blank. As in:you're shitting me, right?!?!?
Reagan absolutely started us on the road down to where we exist now - he fuqn sucked. Definitely not a hero but definitely an American actor. 🥀 ♥ 3:25pm
prof.fuzz: will this record be available on bandcamp in the us? i see a european release page for it, but nothing stateside.   3:25pm
Marie de Chicago:

↳ AB in Catskill @3:23

yeah, and they want to piss people off 🥀 ♥ 3:26pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

↳ coelacanth∅ @3:22

Maybe it's really trying to say "Mr. Lyin'"? 🥀 ♥ 3:26pm
prof.fuzz:

↳ prof.fuzz @3:25

nevermind! he just mentioned the label and it’s on the label page:
shoverecords.bandcamp.com... 🥀 ♥ 3:28pm
AB in Catskill:

↳ Marie de Chicago @3:25

True - I feel if the public wasn't already pissed prior their complacent. So many distractions to scramble public attention away from what we should rally against. Total chaos theory played out.   3:28pm
Marie de Chicago: I met a singer here who saw Henry Rollins perform here in Chicago (in the 90s/late 80?) and he was taking the bus back to his hotel (so she gave him a ride)   3:29pm
Marie de Chicago:

↳ AB in Catskill @3:28

Yeah, I hear ya’, and it is like people needed to see the Iran fiasco and gas prices to cement the disapproval... 🥀 ♥ 3:31pm
Ken From Hyde Park: Vote the bums out in November to start turning things for the better. 🥀 ♥ 3:32pm
AB in Catskill:

↳ Marie de Chicago @3:29

The irony of the gas issue was MAGA loosing it when it went up during Biden and now...crickets. And I hear congress just approved the increase of ethanol in the tank to 15% to water it down... ♥ 3:33pm
coelacanth∅:

↳ Bklyn_Dutch @3:25

agree. i thought he was a piece of shit at the time, yet so many american puppets that had they been slightly intelligent would've hated him, got behind him - with the fantasy that they're going to one day be on the "winning" side.
but it was so obvious! 🥀 ♥ 3:34pm
AB in Catskill: Just saying - I would LOVE to not have another president and get rid of the executive branch all together...the electoral college can go too. ALSO major dream wish is for TERM LIMITS. ♥ 3:34pm
coelacanth∅:

↳ Ken From Hyde Park @3:26

right... like "Dianne, Dianne, dyin'"   3:34pm
Marie de Chicago:

↳ AB in Catskill @3:32

Absolutely. The high pitch criticism of Biden never stopped and it seemed like the media was actinlg like a tool and amplifying it 🥀 ♥ 3:36pm
Bobby: Come to the Jon Spencer show at No Fun in September I’ll see you all there 🥀 ♥ 3:36pm
Bklyn_Dutch:

↳ coelacanth∅ @3:33

Oh yea really obvious.
I also hated his macho tough guy crap directed at Russia. Stupid ass Rapepublicans with their anxious hatred of commies also got us into VN in the 60s another quagmire they won't take responsibility for. ♥ 3:36pm
StringOFperils: I'll have to try to catch this band when they come back to Toronto in the fall. Haven't seen them for eons   3:37pm
Steve: Hey I'm a friend of Jon's cousin Chris your music is dope ♥ 3:38pm
coelacanth∅:

↳ Marie de Chicago @3:34

the media is mortally threatened. they will cave, or they will disappear.
...we need people with spines; or maybe, and sadly, *nothing to lose* - to take over the media. 🥀 ♥ 3:40pm
DanFA:

↳ Marie de Chicago @3:24

I think it's all horrible and depressing, BUT I'm glad it's all out in the open and it shows how much these types of people in government for decades paid lip service to things like honor, integrity, and the sanctity of traditions to now finally show their true colors and they never believed in anything to begin with so long as it got them power. And that younger generations can see this for themselves and can never be fooled. 🥀 ♥ 3:41pm
AB in Catskill:

↳ coelacanth∅ @3:38

agreed! That's why supporting independent media is essential! Get rid of the industrial CEOs that own the press. ♥ 3:41pm
Kat in the chat: Kicks ass   3:41pm
Marie de Chicago:

↳ coelacanth∅ @3:38

oh man, it is a real problem… but I think people who get thier news from right wing media are stupid—i no longer defend them as ignorant. There’s no good excuse to watch that garbage and believe it’s true. There are alternatives!   3:42pm
jjbum: This sounds so great.. live! it’ll be insane… can’t wait to see them again 🥀 ♥ 3:42pm
Bklyn_Dutch:

↳ Marie de Chicago @3:41

Where "truth" is a choice not a circumstance here in America. 🥀 ♥ 3:42pm
regina j: Thank you Mona & Jon! Great interview.   3:42pm
Marie de Chicago:

↳ DanFA @3:40

I hear what you’re saying but I think a lot of people in the governemtn and politics have thier hearts in the right places (not these ass-kissing republicans, fer sher) ♥ 3:43pm
PoL in Berlin: Jon's right! I don't have a tv and FMU is on from 8 am to midnight.   3:43pm
Marie de Chicago:

↳ Bklyn_Dutch @3:42

too true 🥀 ♥ 3:44pm
DanFA:

↳ Marie de Chicago @3:42

Yeah, I'm talking about conservatives and republicans of all shades, and conservative democrats.   🥀 ♥ 3:44pm
Sean T-Rex:

↳ PoL in Berlin @3:43

I have one and hardly use it now. FMU is almost on 24 hrs now, even with a low volume ♥ 3:45pm
PoL in Berlin:

↳ Sean T-Rex @3:44

rock on Brother! 🥀 ♥ 3:45pm
2/3 of the Perrin Family: too many synchronistic stuff for my comment ability, wait till the wife hears this! 🥀 ♥ 3:45pm
AB in Catskill: Letting go of ego comes from age 100% - I have been actively killing mine for almost a year. 🥀 ♥ 3:46pm
Bklyn_Dutch:

↳ DanFA @3:44

Who ever heard of a moderate democrat anyway wtf does that signify? Fuqn morons. 🥀 ♥ 3:47pm
DjLorraine: My friend knows a bit about his music from Jon Spencer & the Blues Explosion 🥀 ♥ 3:47pm
∫ydniuß: organic?! nucleophilic! 🥀 ♥ 3:47pm
DanFA:

↳ Bklyn_Dutch @3:46

Are you calling me a moron? ♥ 3:48pm
Barney Grubbs: Thank you! I taught chemistry with Tom from 2001-2008. He was great. Much love to Jon & the family. 🥀 ♥ 3:49pm
Bklyn_Dutch:

↳ DanFA @3:47

Are you multiple people??? Notice the plural, Dan. 🥀 ♥ 3:50pm
∫ydniuß: thx for this Jon 🌈 🥀 ♥ 3:50pm
DanFA:

↳ Bklyn_Dutch @3:49

Sometimes in my head. ♥ 3:50pm
PC77: Excellent interview & tunes- thanks Jon! ♥ 3:52pm
Kat in the chat: Really nice interview. Thanks Jon and Mona! Respect. ♥ 3:52pm
common: thanks mona! jon 🥀 ♥ 3:53pm
Tenacious Crow: Hello Mona and friends!

I only caught the tail end of it but what a great interview.

🥀 ♥ 3:54pm
AB in Catskill: Great interview! Thanks Mona! 🥀 ♥ 3:54pm
prof.fuzz: thx mona! jon! 🥀 ♥ 3:55pm
DjLorraine: Thanks Mona
Thanks Jon Spencer 🥀 ♥ 3:55pm
Fishtown Mike: Great interview, Mona! Thanks to you & Jon! 🥀 ♥ 3:58pm
Sera the Fern: Thanks Mona! So star struck by Jon Spencer 3:58pm
Joe B: thanks Mona and Jon! ♥ 3:58pm
maurer: thanks mona! bluuuuuues explosion! 🥀 ♥ 3:59pm
DanFA: Mona, you are a true blue rocker, so of course Jon Spencer belongs on your show. Terre T, Suzy, and Todd O Phonic do not have a monopoly on the rock. 🥀 ♥ 4:00pm
DanFA:

↳ Joe B @3:58

The B in Joe Belock stands for bellbottoms. Bellbottoms. Bellbottoms. ♥ 4:00pm
StringOFperils: Sounding remarkably like Dinah Washington on this 🥀 ♥ 4:02pm
Bklyn_Dutch: Thank you Mona and John! Good interview, been looking forward to this all week.
Looks like I'll be digging into the the new album tonight.
How come we never hear anything from Plastic Fang? Completely overlooked album, folks. ♥ 4:04pm
chresti: Mona and mes amis! 🥀 ♥ 4:05pm
winston legthigh: chrestikins! ♥ 4:05pm
leshwatt: Thanks for the show, great interview. New stuff sounds real good! ♥ 4:06pm
chresti: winstonkins!   4:09pm
Gaston: Saw Iggy and Ziggy at the Academy of Music do this. Opening act was Blondie. TAKE ME BACK, MR. PEABODY. SET THE WAYBACK TO 1977(?) OR SO   4:10pm
Daybreak!: I hear that band is truly outrageous.
Truly, truly outreach! 🥀 ♥ 4:10pm
DjLorraine: Songs of Personal Loss and Protest is a memorable album title 🥀 ♥ 4:10pm
∫ydniuß:

↳ DjLorraine @4:10

💯 🥀 ♥ 4:12pm
winston legthigh: gawd how i miss the 70s. leaded gas, asbestos, beatings, hamburger helper. 🥀 ♥ 4:12pm
∫ydniuß:

↳ winston legthigh @4:12

mercurochrome   4:12pm
Daybreak!: Outrageous. Dictation made it outreach.
Ruining a good Jem and the holograms joke 🥀 ♥ 4:12pm
Krys O.: Just tuned in. Will have to check the archives for your interview. 🥀 ♥ 4:12pm
2/3 of the Perrin Family: Mona, the wife got a chance to talk to you at the prom, love your show! she has a connection with the old drummer Jon worked with and the current drummer . 🥀 ♥ 4:13pm
Handy Haversack: Hey, Mona, we're going to 79.5 tonight. You? ♥ 4:13pm
Random Control: The Silicon Teens! I had this album! 🥀 ♥ 4:14pm
DanFA:

↳ Song: "Memphis Tennessee" by "Silicon Teens"

This is Mona's boss. 🥀 ♥ 4:15pm
DanFA: WFMU prom photos are up www.flickr.com...   4:15pm
Daybreak!: Speaking of Memphis, TN.
If any of you are Instagram users, you should check out my retired colleague friend Chip Phillips @ NorthernSon2026.
He was interviewed on time out with PJ over on the rock and soul stream.
He is currently about a week and 90 miles down the Mississippi river after leaving Hannibal, Missouri on his entirely homemade raft about a week ago.
I'll be joining him on the raft right around July 7th. He will be sailing down the Mississippi on until late August.
Sadly, my 10 days on the raft won't end as I originally hoped in Memphis, Tennessee 🥀 ♥ 4:16pm
Krys O.:

↳ Song: "Kollaps" by "Einstürzende Neubauten"

Yes 🥀 ♥ 4:17pm
AB in Catskill:

↳ Handy Haversack @4:13

I do not mean to insert myself - but I wish I could go! I know Kate Mattison of 79.5 personally. We both went to Kent State together over 20 years ago. I miss her so much! I am so impressed by what she has accomplished - she's always been talented and has that hustle! ENJOY! I wish I could join! 🥀 ♥ 4:18pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ AB in Catskill @4:17

Oh, very cool! We were going to see them a couple of years back but one of us got sick, so we're glad for the chance tonight. 🥀 ♥ 4:19pm
AB in Catskill:

↳ Daybreak! @4:15

That sounds incredible! ♥ 4:19pm
PaulRobeson1926: Special time 🥀 ♥ 4:20pm
joe mulligan:

↳ Krys O. @4:16

Yü-Gung on Sugarshit Sharp by Pussy Galore is my all time favorite cover song 🥀 ♥ 4:21pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ DanFA @4:15

www.flickr.com...

What winston said!

♥ 4:21pm
Andrew Waterloo: I hope Jon Spencer comes around my neck of the woods again. 🥀 ♥ 4:21pm
AB in Catskill:

↳ Handy Haversack @4:18

She's so smooth on those keys! Glad you are both doing good and can go out and enjoy. I love Pianos. Cheers! 🥀 ♥ 4:22pm
DanFA:

↳ Handy Haversack @4:21

Is that you as a Ramone? 🥀 ♥ 4:22pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ DanFA @4:22

That's the band, Rockaway Bitch.

We never even made it over to the photo booth. Didn't occur to us somehow.

🥀 ♥ 4:23pm
∫ydniuß: 🔥   4:23pm
Erik dwells VT:

↳ Song: "Sister Midnight" by "Iggy Pop"

this is still so strong 💪. fans of the Igg-ster & Bowie shall be thoroughly rewarded by rabbit-hole-ing 🐇…🕳️ the restored footage of Iggy & Bowie on the Dinah Shore show circa 1977 (after their collaboration on the great albums The Idiot & Lust for Life) 🤩 fun viewing!
- Iggy on fire 🔥 (as usual),
- Bowie as piano backup on upright,
- & the stellar (soupy) Sales brothers (hunt & tony) as rhythm section!
👏🥳👏 🥀 ♥ 4:24pm
DanFA:

↳ Handy Haversack @4:22

Oh man. 🥀 ♥ 4:25pm
winston legthigh:

↳ Handy Haversack @4:21

were you dancing on that bum hoof?musta been fun!   4:25pm
ben & Reba: Thanks a lot Mona, happy Friday to everyone. Peace from Butler, PA. 🥀 ♥ 4:25pm
2/3 of the Perrin Family:

↳ DanFA @4:15

Thanks!!! ♥ 4:26pm
PC77:

↳ Song: "Kollaps" by "Einstürzende Neubauten"

Industrial, but more. Muito foda. 🥀 ♥ 4:26pm
DanFA:

↳ 2/3 of the Perrin Family @4:25

I just wish they included the names of the people in the photos. ♥ 4:27pm
The Oscar:

↳ Song: "Ghostrider" by "Rollins Band"

I like that Henry makes it explicit that the song is about the Marvel superhero.   ♥ 4:27pm
1010w: i bet danzig convinced him to write this song 🥀 ♥ 4:27pm
∫ydniuß:

↳ The Oscar @4:27

🏍️🔥 🥀 ♥ 4:28pm
DanFA:

↳ 1010w @4:27

This is a cover of a song by the band Suicide.   ♥ 4:28pm
1010w: oh oh   ♥ 4:29pm
1010w: assuming this is one too 🥀 ♥ 4:29pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ winston legthigh @4:25

I danced when Mona played our song (mine and K8's). Otherwise, I just hung out and acted insouciant. 🥀 ♥ 4:29pm
DanFA:

↳ 1010w @4:28

Suicide was an early electronic group so it's obviously very different www.youtube.com... 🥀 ♥ 4:30pm
Chris in Kensington Bklyn: Greetings, Mona and all. Usually trapped in an office and can't hop on for Fridays but I got out early early today, it's a Mona Miracle!   4:30pm
Erik dwells VT:

↳ Song: "Thinkin' About My Mother" by "Little Richard"

btw: loved & appreciated this tune 🎶   4:31pm
Erik dwells VT:

↳ Song: "La Llorona" by "Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds"

& this follow-up as well, just great 😊   4:31pm
Daybreak!: Imagine what women would have made if they were not subjugated.
And of course remember what women made in spite of all efforts at subjugation 4:32pm
DonJuanTijuana: More Spencer please 🙏 🥀 ♥ 4:32pm
disco_nap_: Greetings, citizens of Mona Nation! 👽🛸 🥀 ♥ 4:34pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ disco_nap_ @4:32

Yo, disco_nap_! 🥀 ♥ 4:36pm
disco_nap_:

↳ Handy Haversack @4:34

Happy Friday dude! 🥀 ♥ 4:37pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Song: "Where Is My Mind?" by "Pixies"

They put a sticker over the image on the cassette at Turtles. 🥀 ♥ 4:37pm
DanFA:

↳ Song: "Where Is My Mind?" by "Pixies"

The first rule of WFMU. Do not talk about WFMU.   4:37pm
9lb_Hammer: Perfect song to hit standstill traffic to 🥀 ♥ 4:37pm
DanFA:

↳ Handy Haversack @4:37

Those sunsabitches. 🥀 ♥ 4:38pm
winston legthigh: canadida is losing 😲 🥀 ♥ 4:39pm
Bklyn_Dutch:

↳ Song: "Where Is My Mind?" by "Pixies"

Takes me back. This will randomly pop into your head these days. ♥ 4:39pm
S_P_G: Hi Mona and Monanites! 🥀 ♥ 4:39pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ winston legthigh @4:38

Although the ball seems to live on B-H's side of the field.

("Ya go to B&H!")

🥀 ♥ 4:40pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Handy Haversack @4:39

And just like that, winston is wrong! ♥ 4:40pm
S_P_G:

↳ Bklyn_Dutch @4:39

Begs the question, “Where IS my mind?" 🥀 ♥ 4:41pm
winston legthigh: oh canadida glorious and tied! 🥀 ♥ 4:41pm
Bobby:

↳ winston legthigh @4:38

Equalizer 🥀 ♥ 4:41pm
Bklyn_Dutch:

↳ S_P_G @4:40

Where is it? Not here and now. ♥ 4:41pm
Kat in the chat: Ultra Vivid Scene! 🥀 ♥ 4:45pm
Ken From Hyde Park: Canada is fighting back in their World Cup opener. About ten minutes to go. 🇨🇦   4:45pm
thea: rest in peace trevor dietz . love to fontaines dc   4:47pm
Marie de Chicago: Hey, loving this set. Great interview! 🥀 ♥ 4:47pm
Bklyn_Dutch:

↳ Song: "Big" by "Fontaines D.C."

Dogrel is a darn good record.   4:49pm
bbxtina: Killing it Mona 🥀 ♥ 4:50pm
Michael G from Windsor Terrace: Yo Mona and everyone! 🥀 ♥ 4:51pm
winston legthigh: thanks mona and moniacs. happy weekend. we believe that we will win! 🥀 ♥ 4:51pm
Michael G from Windsor Terrace: Your Marjane Satrapi tribute last week got me rereading Persepolis. Back at the drawing board for the second part of the show! ♥ 4:52pm
Mona:

↳ Michael G from Windsor Terrace @4:51

if i may recommend persepolis 2! it's just as good...didn't realize there was a second one til i saw it last year in a shop 🥀 ♥ 4:53pm
patrick321: Hey Mona and all,
I'v been away from the comments but enjoying these power hours! 🥀 ♥ 4:55pm
mrdonutsu:

↳ Song: "Bring The Noise" by "Public Enemy"

Good god did I need this right now! 🥀 ♥ 4:55pm
chris in the redwoods: oh, it's way loud in here now! ♥ 4:55pm
S_P_G:

↳ Song: "Bring The Noise" by "Public Enemy"

This is hitting the spot for me   🥀 ♥ 4:55pm
vinyl hero of Lenox, MA...in the Berkshires!: Should definitely listen to that prophet Farrakhan... 4:55pm
Jesse Dorris: He-he-helloooooooo Mona and everyone, ferocious show this week! 🥀 ♥ 4:56pm
DanFA: Does anyone know why Sonny Bono is name checked? 🥀 ♥ 4:57pm
chris in the redwoods:

↳ DanFA @4:56

rhymed with Yoko Ono <shrugs> ♥ 4:57pm
ßizco ßey: Bum rush the show!   4:58pm
Brian: Calling Public Enemy geniuses is to still underrate them… ♥ 4:58pm
S_P_G:

↳ chris in the redwoods @4:57

That is no easy rhyme.   4:59pm
ryansterlingvirtue: Hi Mona. Cabaret Voltaire was amazing. We would have danced our peaches off. Tuned in ADHD levels for your last hour 😊   5:00pm
Brian: Public Enemy name-dropped Sonny Bono in their 1987 track "Bring the Noise" as a deliberate "shout-out" to someone whose career arc was impossible to ignore.

Here is the specific context for the mention:

· Unusual Tribute: The song famously shouts out punk/metal band Anthrax and Yoko Ono, but Bono’s inclusion was striking because he represented old-school establishment fame, not the emerging hip-hop scene .
· The "Comeback" Factor: In 1987–1988, Bono was not just a 60s relic; he was reinventing himself. He had just been elected Mayor of Palm Springs (April 1988), successfully transitioning from pop star to serious politician .
· Respect for Longevity: Public Enemy's Chuck D respected iconoclasts who defied expectations. Bono had survived a massive career crash after his divorce from Cher and rebuilt himself as a restaurateur and political force .

🥀 ♥ 5:00pm
DanFA: It's a Mona's Mona's Mona's World 🥀 ♥ 5:01pm
DanFA:

↳ Brian @5:00

Thank you, Brian. 🥀 ♥ 5:02pm
DanFA: How do I get to the Porcheestas show? Axe Alan. 🥀 ♥ 5:04pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ AB in Catskill @4:17

If we chat with Kate, should we say hi for you? 🥀 ♥ 5:05pm
chris in the redwoods: thanks, Brian! 5:05pm
Jesse Dorris:

↳ Song: "That's All I Ask HAAi Remix Extended Edit" by "Ni...

ooooooh omg this is out?! 🥀 ♥ 5:05pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

↳ DanFA @5:02

Axe Alan's web site! www.theporchistas.com... 🥀 ♥ 5:05pm
DaveMiß:

↳ Song: "Bring The Noise" by "Public Enemy"

Always gets me motivated   5:07pm
Brian: For all of Public Enemy’s “Blackness” scaring mainstream America to namedrop Sonny Bono is pretty punk. Chuck D is on record as saying his dis of Elvis was essentially in their classic banger because it fit lyrically. Said he has nothing against him….. not sure I believe that lol 🥀 ♥ 5:11pm
DaveMiß:

↳ Song: "That's All I Ask HAAi Remix Extended Edit" by "Ni...

Banger! 5:15pm
Jesse Dorris:

↳ Song: "Go Down" by "Big Freedia, SOPHIE"

yasssssssssss 🥀 ♥ 5:17pm
chris in the redwoods:

↳ Song: "Go Down" by "Big Freedia, SOPHIE"

i had such a great time seeing Big Freedia on stage in Napa several years back. what a joy. had no idea who they were and the whole place was just a party! ♥ 5:17pm
cosmic matrix:

↳ Song: "Go Down" by "Big Freedia, SOPHIE"

mmm hhmmm! 🥀 ♥ 5:19pm
DanFA:

↳ Brian @5:07

I don't know, sounds like revisionist history to me. 5:19pm
Jesse Dorris:

↳ Song: "Hit That Perfect Beat" by "Bronski Beat"

the way this song is about what this song is doing ♥ 5:20pm
Kat in the chat: yes Jesse ♥ 5:22pm
Mona:

↳ chris in the redwoods @5:17

i had the same experience discovering big freedia at sxsw 10 years ago...i was like WHO IS THIS MY LITTLE PONY UNICORN I WILL FOLLOW HER ANYWHERE 🥀 ♥ 5:23pm
Krys O.: Loving this, Mona. Thank you! Used to play Bronski Beat and Communards on my show in the 80s

Feeling old today. Just found out my grand-nephew is graduating high school today.

♥ 5:24pm
HumanPanther: damn this show is fabulous! 🥀 ♥ 5:25pm
joe mulligan:

↳ Brian @5:07

I would have loved to see Public Enenmy and all the others but back then in Philly you'd get jumped in the Spectrum parking lot 🥀 ♥ 5:26pm
Eric the Hat:

↳ Song: "I'll Always Let You Down" by "Choir Boy"

Choir Boy always rules it. So dope. Super swell show today Mona. Thank you! ♥ 5:28pm
cosmic matrix: that’s me! ♥ 5:29pm
cosmic matrix: i mean i live in the mountains. great show mona!! ♥ 5:30pm
PC77: Hey....kids...... 🥀 ♥ 5:31pm
Bklyn_Dutch:

↳ Song: "Rock On" by "David Essex"

The song that made me feel funky as a kid when it came on the radio. 🥀 ♥ 5:32pm
Krys O.: Ooooh   5:32pm
JIm: This one gets a big thumbs up! ♥ 5:33pm
Listener Bop Monroe:

↳ Song: "Rock On" by "David Essex"

greetings from quick rainshower Tannersville DJMona and all.
and where do we go from here...? ♥ 5:34pm
PC77:

↳ Song: "Rock On" by "David Essex"

From 1973 to 1994, he had nineteen Top-40 singles in the UK (including two number ones) and sixteen Top-40 albums. -wiki 🥀 ♥ 5:34pm
joe mulligan:

↳ Song: "If This Is Hell (feat. Deuén)" by "Space Afrika"

this is gonna be an excellent album, my Sportifi has a 110 day countdown till release 🥀 ♥ 5:34pm
Handy Haversack: Sitting out back with the bathroom boombox blaring. Thanks, Mona! ♥ 5:35pm
steveo: ooh ooh I want a thunderstorm... maybe the one that's out by Stroudsburg ♥ 5:35pm
HyperDose:

↳ Song: "If This Is Hell (feat. Deuén)" by "Space Afrika"

what is happening here 🔊😵‍💫 🥀 ♥ 5:35pm
patrick321: First time I was in London, 1985, I was only on the street for an hour maybe two when saw David Essex walk out the back door of a theatre, might've been a soundcheck I never found out.
Not like it was the greatest celeb sighting it was more the timing that I'd just gotten there.
Didn't see anyone else over the next 3 weeks, btw ;) 🥀 ♥ 5:35pm
Krys O.:

↳ PC77 @5:34

He's a fine actor too. That'll Be the Day and Stardust are cool movies. ♥ 5:36pm
Listener Bop Monroe:

↳ steveo @5:35

here's realtime. is it headed towards you?

www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov...

🥀 ♥ 5:38pm
joe mulligan:

↳ HyperDose @5:35

I really like the way she has gone beyond the standard poetry-slam cadence ♥ 5:39pm
steveo:

↳ Listener Bop Monroe @5:36

maybe! 🥀 ♥ 5:39pm
Bobby: Have a good weekend, friends. Big love, Mona! 5:40pm
Paul Tamale: Seems to be channeling Mark E. SMITH. 🥀 ♥ 5:41pm
TheKidLunch: Heyyyyy umm tuning in late, Jon Spencer's bday or did something tragic happen????!?!? ♥ 5:41pm
common:

↳ Paul Tamale @5:40

indeed! ♥ 5:42pm
Mona:

↳ TheKidLunch @5:41

new album out today! 🥀 ♥ 5:42pm
TheKidLunch:

↳ Mona @5:42

yay thanks!!!! 🥀 ♥ 5:44pm
Krys O.: Squier! 🥀 ♥ 5:45pm
Krys O.: Thanks, Mona!   ♥ 5:45pm
WantageInsomniac: Hey the Mt. Hope signal is dead we just had t'storms roll through 5:46pm
morphe': Thanks Mona and all ... ♥ 5:46pm
Tome: this had been a lovely Show indeed !<>! ♥ 5:46pm
HyperDose:

↳ joe mulligan @5:38

Which led to a completely new and original sound. Take chances! 🥀 ♥ 5:46pm
joe mulligan:

↳ TheKidLunch @5:41

she ahd an interview and thankfully he's very alive and well ♥ 5:47pm
rsj: i thought this is what was gonna play the first time 5:47pm
Jesse Dorris:

↳ Song: "Fix Up, Look Sharp (Clean)" by "Dizzee Rascal"

WHOO! ♥ 5:47pm
PC77:

↳ Krys O. @5:35

I had no idea- I'll check them out 🥀 ♥ 5:47pm
joe mulligan:

↳ Song: "Fix Up, Look Sharp (Clean)" by "Dizzee Rascal"

we hear what you did Mona, and thanks for the show today! ♥ 5:47pm
chresti: Thanks Mona! ♥ 5:48pm
rsj: i miss the tricky covers ♥ 5:48pm
Tome: air is like pea soup here now , hope it rains soon ,, IF ,, !<>! ♥ 5:48pm
Listener Bop Monroe: nice mash up! ♥ 5:49pm
chresti: I was wondering about Dizzee ♥ 5:51pm
Mona: thanks for listening! see you next week! <3 🥀 ♥ 5:52pm
Bklyn_Dutch: Thanks so much, Mona! You really know how to flip Friday afternoon to weekend here on the air.
Much appreciated. 🥀 ♥ 5:52pm
chris in the redwoods: thanks, Mona! see ya then! 🥀 ♥ 5:52pm
Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Mona. Have a fantastic weekend! ♥ 5:52pm
chresti:

↳ chresti @5:49

Diplo is another 🥀 ♥ 5:52pm
Sera the Fern:

↳ Song: "The Big Beat" by "Billy Squier"

Mona you are a queen 5:52pm
Jesse Dorris: We're singing for Mona! 🥀 ♥ 5:53pm
Fishtown Mike: Loved the show, Mona! Thanks for the interview and all the great songs! 🥀 ♥ 5:55pm
DaveMiß: Another legendary show in the books. Happy weekend everyone. ♥ 5:55pm
Deano de los Muertos: Thank you, Mona 🥀 ♥ 5:55pm
Chris in Kensington Bklyn: Thanks, Mona!!   5:56pm
Andres: No WC games in Detroit otherwise we’d see Jack White belting out his jam pre-game. 🥀 ♥ 5:57pm
DanFA: Reunited ♥ 5:57pm
radioronan: Thanks Mona..cheers y'all! ♥ 5:58pm
bradford: Thank you, Mona!   5:58pm
Marie de Chicago: Thanks, Mona! ♥ 5:58pm
PC77: Thanks Mona- have a great week 🥀 ♥ 5:58pm
patrick321: Thanks Mona! ♥ 5:58pm
steveo: rock on, Mona! 🥀 ♥ 5:59pm
disco_nap_:

↳ Mona @4:52

Omg I need to listen to the show from last week! Love Persepolis 1 + 2 ♥ 5:59pm
Listener Bop Monroe: thnx DJMona!
kep cool! 🥀 ♥ 6:03pm
disco_nap_: Jesus the trains are sooooo fucked up today   6:10pm
Joe in Bushwick: Oh my god first Bronski Beat and Now Peter Godwin you're killllinnngggg meeeeee   6:13pm
Anon: “My guy” idk about that   6:32pm
FattyZeppoli: Dear Lord, thank you for hanging up on that creepmachine!   6:34pm
FattyZeppoli: Ewwww... so many of these men are just disgustingly sleezy sounding.