Listener comments!

  6:00pm
: good show today Mac   6:02pm
?: thanks   6:03pm
Michal: This entire story is true. ♥ 6:06pm
zachary: Evening everyone.

I want to know who on the WFMU staff is picking these cuts?

Irwin?

Anyone else feel like all of these episodes are speaking to the current moment?

  6:07pm
Michal: It was I! ♥ 6:08pm
erik:

↳ Michal @6:07

nice selections   6:09pm
Beulah Fongula: I hope FMU will keep airing Joe Frank.There are certain shows that still haunt me, but the titles of the shows tells me nothing as to the content of the show. Thank you for aiiring ANY of these shows!   6:09pm
Michal: Thanks. I worked on it! ( it was a very difficult task...) 6:10pm
Chris from Brooklyn: Hello Michal. We still love you both   6:10pm
?:

↳ zachary @6:06

its a trade secret   6:11pm
Michal: :-)
I hope they'll pick it up, too. Be sure to call and ask them to! ♥ 6:11pm
chresti: Ear plugs ♥ 6:11pm
chris in the redwoods: what Chris from BK said!
thanks so much for helping make this happen, Michal!   6:12pm
asheville jon: This is a great Joe Frank episode 6:12pm
Chris from Brooklyn: I had the great fortune of living in Santa Monica and listening to KCRW in 85 86.

And then. Audio art embraced me.

Throttled me.

Made me so ..... intrigued

♥ 6:12pm
Jeff formerly of Harrison:

↳ zachary @6:06

I think it's just the magic of Joe. Every episode can speak to you ♥ 6:12pm
joe mulligan: don't do it Joe! 6:12pm
Chris from Brooklyn: The OG podcaster

With genius

  6:13pm
?:

↳ chris in the redwoods @6:11

your welcome   6:13pm
Michal:

↳ Jeff formerly of Harrison @6:12

Absolutely Jeff! ♥ 6:13pm
zachary:

↳ @6:10

Hmmm. Does that mean you won't be sharing any more details about it? ♥ 6:13pm
erik: a sick animal hater shot my dog when I was 5 years old. It's true. ♥ 6:14pm
Ken From Hyde Park: Imagine the out-of-towner turning the dial and lander here. ♥ 6:14pm
zachary:

↳ Jeff formerly of Harrison @6:12

Agreed. Joe is magical.

But this time it feels...different. You?

Anyone else?

♥ 6:14pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:14

*landing here   6:15pm
Michal: omg this makes me laugh still... after listening a million times. 6:15pm
Chris from Brooklyn: Tuned in late. For a moment I wasn't sure if this was "No Show"

Hope it comes on this summer

  6:15pm
Little Fyodor: Love Joe Frank, LOVE him, but Joe, CALL THE COPS! Barking dog is Disturbing the Peace!!   6:16pm
ben & Reba: Thanks Joe, the dog story was important. Peace, from Butler, PA ♥ 6:16pm
erik:

↳ zachary @6:14

1991 and 2026, both have Gulf Wars.   6:16pm
?: gene wilder showed up ♥ 6:16pm
zachary: This is the single most greatest self-talk tape ever. ♥ 6:17pm
Jeff formerly of Harrison:

↳ zachary @6:14

I remember listening to this episode when I had nightmare neighbors living above me and could relate real hard haha ♥ 6:17pm
∫ydniuß: 🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾 ♥ 6:18pm
chris in the redwoods:

↳ @6:16

ha! was thinking same. :) 6:18pm
Chris from Brooklyn: Back in the day. I played Joe for all my friends.

Only one guy understood. He is blind.

His take:

"Audio Art."

He got it.

♥ 6:18pm
chresti: Shows that were on a reel to reel tape that listener newton digitized ♥ 6:19pm
zachary:

↳ erik @6:16

Residual influence. The 1991 Gulf War ended in January of 1991. This episode is from December 1991:

www.joefrank.com...

But now I'm hungry.

♥ 6:20pm
zachary:

↳ Jeff formerly of Harrison @6:17

The nightmare neighbors never end. They just are father away at times. 6:21pm
Chris from Brooklyn: My cassettes from when WFMU played him weekly linger in need of a dependable deck.

One that won't eat them.

  6:23pm
Astoria glistener: used to listen to JF back in 1999/2000 in the car every week
Nice to hear him again ♥ 6:24pm
chresti:

↳ chresti @6:18

New to wfmu ♥ 6:25pm
∫ydniuß: do like a good squeal   6:26pm
Hammy: Accept you isolation, prince, like a good boy. ♥ 6:26pm
Bas NL: Moooo...   6:27pm
Beulah Fongula:

↳ Bas NL @6:26

WOOF Moo . . . 6:27pm
Chris from Brooklyn: Oh no! Stream drops!   6:27pm
Michal: Well, this is dated! 6:28pm
Chris from Brooklyn: Always timeless Michal   6:28pm
Michal: the post office is definitely my reality at times!   6:30pm
Beulah Fongula: I worked in USPS for about 30 years. People's ideas about USPS are s o o o off. You're a slave and lucky to get to a bathroom. For real. Plus more I don't wanna remember.   6:30pm
wimpy: joe’s falling down arc ♥ 6:30pm
chresti: My parents ditched the house we lived in Illinois
and moved to California in this truck house (my avatar) 6:31pm
Fredericks:

↳ Michal @6:28

Good evening, Michal.How does one pronounce your name correctly?   6:31pm
Michal: Just like the guy   6:32pm
?: gene wilder is back   6:32pm
harangued: I love Joe Frank. I'm one of his biggest fans, may he rest in peace. The Karma series?? AMAZING. but some of this has not aged well. 6:33pm
Fredericks:

↳ Michal @6:31

That's simple. Will do. Thanks.   6:34pm
wimpy:

↳ @6:32

you know what this is excerpted from?   6:35pm
Michal:

↳ wimpy @6:34

this is the show "On the Edge" (the original one) ♥ 6:37pm
chresti:

↳ Song: "On The Edge" by "Joe Frank"

This is a good one   6:38pm
Smokey the Bear: Only YOU. ♥ 6:38pm
Hunterian:

↳ chresti @6:30

Wow, chresti, I had no idea about your family's connection to your truck-avatar, that's an amazing story   6:38pm
Steiner: Joe Frank !!   6:41pm
Harry Corvair: “You’re even a bigger pig than I thought you were.”

Oh hell yea

♥ 6:41pm
zachary:

↳ zachary @6:20

Now this feels very recent. ♥ 6:42pm
Busbiker: This man was amazing   6:43pm
Michal:

↳ Busbiker @6:42

He certainly was....   6:43pm
Bethany in deBary, FL: This is a great set ♥ 6:44pm
Hunterian: I think the rant about pro sports aged particularly well, but I'm of a generation that remembers different athletic mores. 6:44pm
Fredericks: Some of this stuff is remarkably familiar. I just love it. It exists in a very unique space. ♥ 6:47pm
luca: chub chittman!! ♥ 6:47pm
Jeff formerly of Harrison:

↳ Chris from Brooklyn @6:18

Nothing like playing Joe Frank too friends and getting blank stares back haha   6:48pm
east hollywood: Chub Chippen! Didn’t Phil Hendrie interview him? 6:48pm
Chris from Brooklyn: Joe set the bar too high

My only lament

♥ 6:49pm
zachary:

↳ zachary @6:41

So fresh. So current. So green.   6:49pm
Beulah Fongula:

↳ Jeff formerly of Harrison @6:47

If you're getting blank stares back, they're not listening.   6:49pm
akiva: I love these all so much. Thanks for choosing them, Michal. ♥ 6:49pm
Amygdala: Darn, I was just about to request a late checkout from Hotel Paradise.   6:49pm
Michal:

↳ Beulah Fongula @6:49

lol ♥ 6:50pm
Jeff formerly of Harrison:

↳ zachary @6:20

Ain't that the truth. I understand why hermits ran off to the mountains 6:50pm
Fredericks: "Thirty five pound chains."   6:51pm
Michal:

↳ akiva @6:49

You're so welcome! Call FMU and thank them, too! ♥ 6:51pm
Jeff formerly of Harrison:

↳ Beulah Fongula @6:49

I think it just might be too real for some of them. I guess less blank state and more of a 😳 kind of look.   6:54pm
Beulah Fongula:

↳ Jeff formerly of Harrison @6:51

Maybe that's why Joe frank always SCARED/SCARES me. Iit feels so real and I feel bad for what Joe was going thru. 6:54pm
Chris from Brooklyn: Thank you Michal. Joe taught me to really listen.

And so much more.

♥ 6:55pm
Count d'Al Dente:

↳ Chris from Brooklyn @6:21

Clean the capstan rollers. That's the usual cause of tape sticking and jamming up. ♥ 6:56pm
Count d'Al Dente: It's great hearing these shows again. I have most of them on my computer but don't listen very often. 6:56pm
Chris from Brooklyn:

↳ Count d'Al Dente @6:55

Thx

Every deck is really shot or gone

♥ 6:57pm
Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks eternally, Joe. Thanks, Michal. Thanks, dog. ♥ 6:57pm
Hunterian:

↳ Count d'Al Dente @6:56

Ditto; I have them all on disk, but it's good to hear them on a schedule again ♥ 6:57pm
Bas NL: Always a treat to listen to Joe Frank. ♥ 6:58pm
Count d'Al Dente:

↳ Hunterian @6:57

His wife is maintaining the FB page. ♥ 6:58pm
chris in the redwoods: so damn good to have Joe back in my ears on a regular schedule. great selections, Michal. ♥ 6:58pm
joe mulligan: epic! also check out the Joe Frank playlist I hand-picked:
open.spotify.com... 6:59pm
Fredericks:

↳ Michal @6:51

Yes, thank you Michal. I thank WFMU annually. ♥ 7:00pm
joe mulligan: thank you Michal! ♥ 7:02pm
chresti: Thanks Michal and newton 7:03pm
Chris from Brooklyn:

↳ joe mulligan @6:58

Nice!

SpaceBeach quintessential Joe