Listener comments!
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::hurries, worries, slows down::
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Good day JA, HLPrs
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came for the Pidge, stayed for the Help.
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Good morning John , Clay, Dr Katz, Jazzbos !
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Ok
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BTW tell Clay Sunday is the Solstice, not tomorrow
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TerrDE @9:06
Depends on your denomination
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Help Ray find Keith so he can give him his riff back.
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Bob Tankenstein @9:07
how's a 20 sound?
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"catch me now i'm falling" by "the kinks"
Ray Davies got satisfaction from lifting riffs
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Those darn "Reformed" Sun Worshipers !
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pp @9:09
Like Paul Weller i guess.
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TerrDE @9:06
Mermaids Parade and observe the solstice
...or is it just instinct?
kinks heavy today!
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@morphe’ (following up on our conversation from Clay’s show) no, no recommendations, I was just curious about your tv habits. I am mostly into Scandi noir shows these days.
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How did you know I almost fell down?;
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@catch me now i'm falling by the kinks
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PoL in Berlin @9:10
Reminds me I forgot to do my taxes!
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"catch me now i'm falling" by "the kinks"
A perfect song for this moment. Thanks for The Kinks, John!
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what's up JA
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G'mornin, JA, all!
Got a couple a Kinks!
And their not in my back......;-)
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TerrDE @9:06
And Sunday is also Ray Davies's birthday
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One of the good things about being poor is not having to do taxes.
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Listener Bop Monroe @9:08
Sold
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He's lazin on a Solstice afternoon.
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j a, help, all
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Did something happen to Ray Davies?
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George I just had to look him up, thought the same!
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Good morning, John and Everyone.
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Doesn’t appear so
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No George, he stays away from Hot Air Balloons
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Nice set to get me geared up for the kinks tribute in Philly tomorrow!!!
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Morning JA and AM folks. 2 Ray Davies tunes , and I got the sinking feeling that he had “ merged with the infinite “ as Rex would say. Glad to see he is alive , and hopefully well, turning 82 on Sunday. Happy Birthday Ray !!
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I’ve never really checked out late 70s/early 80s Kinks or solo Ray Davies - clearly need to dive in! Good tunes
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"waiting on a friend" by "stones"
On my life’s soundtrack
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tryin' to make some sensimilla
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Why all the hate on The Kinks? One of the best bands ever. First band I ever saw live!
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"waiting on a friend" by "stones"
One of the greatest Stones songs!
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GeorgeSimian @9:19
where's the hate?
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GeorgeSimian @9:19
The Kinks or The Who?
www.wfmu.org...
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Triple G @9:21
yes
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"waiting on a friend" by "stones"
Great tune!
Takes me back!
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TerrDE @9:14
I do my taxes for the refund
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2 great ones in a row!
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gotta get outta this chair. keeping the ears on.
great strong start DJJA!
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Good morning, helpmates!
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Sansui cranked!
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Triple G @9:21
Best Ken and Andy ep
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Triple G @9:21
I'd probably say The Kinks. I love The Who too, but there are more good Kinks songs. If that's what you were asking.
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"neighbors" by "stones"
Is this an mp3?
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I hear those mp3s are the next big thing !.... yeah, no, digitals answer to cassettes for those who enjoy bad sound
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TerrDE @9:28
Cassettes at least have a warm background.
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I have a feeling Ivan from Murfreesboro is paying the DJ.
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∫ydniuß @9:31
My tinitussssssssss
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Actually just before CDs Metal , not metal oxide, sounded very good 70db + snr w full frequency response and no unnatural digital frequency allinement. But CDs killed em
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chresti @9:34
i get more of a single midhigh frequency when it arrives. mostly hydration, tbh
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chresti @9:34
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Garrity @9:35
a wild GARRITY appears!
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Oh Hell Yeah! Kbd classics
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Zup, Syd! Hello Garrity and Ophelia! Have fun at Nastics! Wazzup, Trips!
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Bob Tankenstein @9:36
🎩💨 zup
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Great set so far!
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Loving this Plastic Idols
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∫ydniuß @9:35
mine gets very "chiller" organ sounds after a live show
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PloP*
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JA. J'All.
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∫ydniuß @9:35
Who opened the cage......😜
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Handy Haversack @9:40
wuddup wichja
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Handy Haversack @9:40
j'adoube ♟️ zup
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Playlist is one for my archives! Happy Friday peeps
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associate meeting at the paint counter
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Bob Tankenstein @9:36
Mornin, Bob!
Daughter's home, we're off!
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Bob Tankenstein @9:42
Slept in to celebrate the day off. Set up a Black Lives Matter auto-response on my work e-mail for the weekend. Seeing Basic this evening. Things are alright.
How goes, Bobby T, ∫yd, all!
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Handy Haversack @9:44
Hey, Handy!
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That bell tone chime thing is reminding me of work. Please, no more.
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Look I finished mowing, maybe you could pitch in and do some edging
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Roach Motel & Charlie Pickett +eggs are my 2 fave Florida bands
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Morning, Clay and Johnny.
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Florida music -- Don't forget WFMU darling Tom Petty.
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Garrity @9:44
Yo, Garrity!
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DonJuanTijuana @9:45
Yes! Along with The Screaming Iguanas of Love.
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Could listen to these two talk about music all day
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Deano de los Muertos @9:45
G'day, Deano!
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Morning, Garrity
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or the kinks!
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Yes, great first set & of course welcome Pidge!
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I gotta get some of that coffee John is always enjoying on the show
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The Stones became a different band when Keith no longer sang backup.
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I quit the Stones after Sticky Fingers.
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Remember when is the lowest form of something or another
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TerrDE @9:48
that song Neighbors is a throw away
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Garrity, enjoy your day off! Handy, you enjoy your day off too haha! I'm stuck at work but decided I'm gonna phone it in. Just like most the rest of the time.
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Fool in the Rain is terrible! oops, now I'm a hater....
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Stones took their sweet time giving Richard Ashcroft some credit for Bittersweet Symphony
Basically when there was no money left to be made
Iirc
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Deano de los Muertos @9:45
Wazzup Deano! You get that ear thing worked out?
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Poor Tom is an excellent deep cut of CODA
www.youtube.com...
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I quit Zeppelin after the four symbols album. Tho I did get Presence.
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PoL in Berlin @9:49
You are THEE Help! hater
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Un interrupted 3 fer everyday 1pm GET THE LED OUT with LI’s best radio. Brought to you by Tonys auto lot located at 395 Montauk Highway in Holtsville
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TerrDE @9:51
They found your Achilles Heel
(sorry)
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PaulRobeson1926 @9:51
30 day warranty!
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I didn't know until recently that In Through the Outdoor was mostly composed by JPJ. No wonder it sounds so different (read: lame).
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Clay got me to switch team to Beatle Paul
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Humble Pie fan...always!
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Yeah, but its nobody's fault but mine
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free rollbacks no charge
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Joey! @9:52
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Deano de los Muertos @9:51
Perhaps, but i will leave now and take my acerbic humour/critique with.
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Well Respected....
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PoL in Berlin @9:53
You can stay you just have to be sweet
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Back to work, thanks guys
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TerrDE @9:51
Presence is amazing!!
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I was in a record shop once where the Kinks divider card had a permanent footnote reading "Mostly late - Sorry!"
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Live in the studio more or less.
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That description of HELP was fantastic JA! WOW
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Bob Tankenstein @9:53
Thank you, but actually i have to go shopping.
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Casimir Pulaski @9:55
It gives me a laugh every time it's read
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I have been brushing up on my Kansas and Uriah Heep trivia!
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come to Arkville, Clay!
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I need to know what this is, please
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Everyone always talks about Bruce Springsteen being from New Jersey - but never Bill Evans.
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Great movie, Clay!!!
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After the sweet comment I tried to remember Bill's statement about sweet in Kill Bill , but failed.
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Bob Tankenstein @9:49
This is correct opinions.
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I hear an alarm
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Mona's show is so good.
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Lol, it does sound like an alarm
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learned something about graffitti this week
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They are doxxing each other
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chresti @10:03
Cripes....my meds!!!
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This HELP just turned a chapter!
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JA is 😴
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John enjoys being a dick and pretending he's not being a dick
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Clay tell us more about where John lives
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ok this is worth exploring
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Let Pidge compartmentalize!!
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John , you're blowing his secret identity ! Next you'll reveal that Nadia is his girl wonder sidekick Fledgling !
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Bob Tankenstein @10:07
Hey OOOOO
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one brick at a time, or stone
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Why can’t you be bold?
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I can never quite figure this bit out lol. Was it a couple of months ago when they went deep at each other about internecine family issues? is it a bit? NOBODY KNOWS 🤪
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Bob Tankenstein @10:05
Yes, that clearly was retaliation for Clay mentioning the town the town JA lives near
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Kacy is a good name. I’m also a John - there were a million John’s in my family.
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Randy Meisner was so smooth.
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Well said Sean Bikes.
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I guess the house is burning down now
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Shot of Love is a good record
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"Ya gotta serve somebody.."
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Bob's Live Christian band was TIGHT. The talent on Saved is tip top. Yet that album is forever haunted.
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There are acceptable unacceptables. There are unacceptable unacceptables.
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Tell Clay "Magnolia" was Tom Petty. On the second record You're Gonna Get It
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This might be the best Help yet
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'Festive Gnome Gnome'
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I wouldn't want to hear myself again either
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Can we talk about the Jim Morrison cemetery? Pretty, prettty Please
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I like that Clay can say he didn't like what you said John (pvt info) and you "hold space" for him to express that (after a teeny tiny bit of defensiveness)
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I quit Bob after Nashville Skyline. Came back around 2,000
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“Dallas” was a one-off single
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Same
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Steely Dan footnote: You can find Dallas on 45 and on the 12inch 'plus four'
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Poco talk..one of their later LP's "Legend" the cover art was done by Phil Hartman
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mlsgrrl @9:19
This is like Aphex Twin without the uneasy melancholy
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Hot Rodney @10:13
When Clay said "This isn't Helpful" I did a spit take.
"What do you get out of this?"
"Nothing."
That is some Help gold right there.
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As a PMHNP, I can stamp this with a seal of approval as a perfect example of a productive therapy sesh 🦭🧠😆
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The ringtone on loop is over-riding the help that I’m getting from this session. It’s triggering work and stress.
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Hot Rodney @10:09
My name is John but no one has ever really called me that
Except the cops and the IRS
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knock a few back , danceaholic
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Clay I seem to remember you riding high for a while after the fun from dancing last year
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Oh hell yeah, let Kacy play!
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Clay is our Ringo Starr
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oh that reminds me to eat my strawberries before they mold
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Clay's waiting for someone to cut the apple in pieces for him.
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Is an ounce a lot of testosterone?
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Clay is afraid of being uncool by dancing.
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If you close your eyes and move for yourself while dancing, turning off the external input, I think it's so much more fun
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i like poco
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Sean Bikes @10:16
Lol. I feel like very shortly, one of them is going to be told to go to their room.
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Oh yes push ups!
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Jack Lalanne wants you to do some Jumping Jacks too.
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Pushups & Poco
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Poco doesn't make me flaccid
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Please remove the crust from the PB&J. 😂
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Busbiker, wash em , then spray them w Everclear drinking alcohol. They don't get moldy
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Loren Green and alpo
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Hehe 😆
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One time I was trying to figure out if they would be holding a preview of the horror movie "Malignant" for press, so I googled "malignant screening boston." The algorithm thought I had cancer for MONTHS.
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Hmmm to be shop vac'd up later?
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Pipe Dope
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Debating the quality of Poco's musicianship followed not too later by "Don't tell me what to do with my father's ashes," is, I think, the textbook definition of running the gamut.
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TerrDE @10:21
thanks, I didn't wash them yet and they've been in the fridge for 3 days...I checked for mold yesterday and committed to eat all of them today
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Dad and Mom's ashes are in the ocean in violation of federal law. .... supposedly
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I freeze grapes, they're great that way
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Walk Clay walk. NYC is a great walking city. Easy to log a few miles per day.
Help keep you in shape
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HELL YES i want to be a diamond also
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TerrDE @10:25
very enjoyable on a summer day
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TerrDE @10:24
Probably where I'll end up ocean by way of a major river.
Float, float on.....
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One of my friends wants to be skeletonized and used in an anatomy class
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i prayed Clay would still be on and he is.
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BTW Cotton Candy Grapes are in season ! If you haven't tried em , check em out.
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It's pulverized bone dust, not ashes but ok.
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Can't get Green Grass and High Tides out of my mind. Thanks, Clay.
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florida @10:22
remember the innocent days of the 70's when the then "urban legend" was someone found a monkey paw in a can of Alpo dog food
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TerrDE @10:27
you got me on that one...im not familiar , unless they are known by a different name.
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I don't care for the Pips.
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This isn't Poco.
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i love this tinkling background music
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goin back to the roots
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I would like my ashes to be sent up in a little rocket. Then blown to the wind.
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The ringtone is there to spite me. I know it.
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Thank you for making me run around my office looking for my phone. There is a ringing....in....my.....mind...chunky...chicken
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TerrDE @10:27
ill goog it and see if I can find some
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Anatomical gift.
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Clay you will live for a long time and forever if you keep on keeping joy in your heart.
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Cotton Candy , now by multiple growers. Tutti Frutti taste, super sweet !
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"midnight train iowa" by "gladys knight and the pips"
Love this song!.. Saw them in Atlantic City about 30 yrs ago, still amazing
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TerrDE @10:30
oh okay...theyll probably be at whole food, or farmers markets rather than say ShopRite
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I laughed so hard I fell of the couch when the Pips did this on The Richard Pryor show. No Gladys, just the backup vocals and dance
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At Acme here
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Really enjoyed the JA and Clay-A show today. Low key, and still thoroughly delightful and thought-provoking. Thank you!!
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i hope someone will help Clay walk to the train.
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Lana in Bucks County @10:34
... and entertaining
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TerrDE @10:33
oh ok...monday i have to go get some things,, ill pass the acme in Kenilworth and get a bunch.
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"blues in orbit" by "duke ellington"
Ellington has been in my musical world a lot lately..
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Bob/WNC @10:29
Do they still sell thos Estes Rockets? I used to build them. Fun. Cheap way to scatter ashes..send up in a payload compartment and hope it all works. Of course, that's not "outer space"
If that's your desire Celstis can send you to near Earth orbit and back (no releasing) for $299.5 or into lunar orbit or deep space with release for $12,995
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sorry..mis-typed $2995.00
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"march opus m. rainey" by "wadada leo smith & joe ...
lester bowie did trumpet like that
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"march opus m. rainey" by "wadada leo smith & joe ...
Great.
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Was John quoting this song when talking to Clay?
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"i won't dance" by "blossom dearie"
JA sending this one out to his friend CP (and all his other names)
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I thought we were going to get a set of lady jazz singers with demure voices after blossom dearie.
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I was thinking model rocket, or a bunch of little fireworks. Everyone gets one, and gets to blow me up. Fun for all.
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"spirit music" by "marilyn crispell"
this is good, though
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"i won't dance" by "blossom dearie"
That Blossom Dearie was wonderful. Thanks, John!
See you this evening?
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"spirit music" by "marilyn crispell"
Such a creative player.
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it feels due for a nickelbag of tears
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good good morning everyone
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"warn them" by "marshall allen's ghost horizons"
This is very nice stuff.
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I danced with Marshall once long ago. He was only 78 then.
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Triple G @10:42
First rule of other name club...
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greg g @9:18
The classic WFMU song trio jump scare! Got me just waking up here in PDT
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"somebody else's idea" by "excepter"
Turning up the volume. Loving it!
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smooth daddy
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Loving the show!!!
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Looking Glass on the Bass ?
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good morning all happy j19 and thank you JA
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They’re at the bandshell tonight!
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Always a good time for Bob James
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Duane Train! Miss that guy.
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Bob Tankenstein @11:05
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Thank you,John and Clay and Everyone.
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This radio show is very good
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digging new basic
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Man I gotta grab this new BASIC. What a band
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"special unit" by "party dozen"
Thanks to you, I am a Party Dozen fan. Wish they were touring solo, would love to see them live.
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hell of a show JA
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"special unit" by "party dozen"
I think this band is in my town this weekend but it's at a big venue supporting Amyl. Too much $ for little old me.
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Polyus @11:53
Agree, they’re playing here in DC, but with big venue prices w Amyl.
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TY JA
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Thanks, JA.
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oh + TY JAZZ
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Thanks John. And special thanks to jazz
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Thank you, JA. Thank you, jazz. JA, you are a king.
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came here to literally type “hell of a show JA” and I guess I was beaten to the punch
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Thanks John !
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Johnny! Way to crank it up and finish this fine A.M.! Glad I tuned in!?
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joe mulligan @11:06
Looks like we weren't the only ones Joe ! Well glad it was just a little scare. Hope the day is going well out West!
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Thanks JA, thanks jazz
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**tuned in!!
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Thanks, volunteers!
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Thanks JA, Pidge and All!