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Favoriting August 24, 2015: Hidden In The Pregap & POTUS Playlist: Nixon

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Artist Track Album Label Year Approx. start time
Sacri Monti  Ancient Seas And Majesties   Favoriting Sacri Monti  Tee Pee Records  2015  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Kinski & Kawabata  Soft Line   Favoriting Kinski & Kawabata / Kikagaku Moyo Split 7"  God Unknown Records  2015  0:05:06 (Pop-up)
Hey Colossus  Numbered Out   Favoriting White Manna / Hey Colossus Split 7"  God Unknown Records  2015  0:09:58 (Pop-up)
The Telescopes  In Every Sense   Favoriting Hidden Fields  Tapete Records  2015  0:12:57 (Pop-up)
Kikagaku Moyo  Flujo y Reflujo   Favoriting Kinski & Kawabata / Kikagaku Moyo Split 7"  God Unknown Records  2015  0:18:36 (Pop-up)
Swamp Dogg  Synthetic World   Favoriting Total Destruction To Your Mind  Alive Records  2013  0:24:39 (Pop-up)
Guilty Simpson  R.I.P.   Favoriting Detroit's Son  Stones Throw Records  2015  0:28:02 (Pop-up)
The Black Dog  Hollow Stories, Hollow Head   Favoriting Neither/Neither  Dust Science Recordings  2015  0:30:59 (Pop-up)
Void Vision  To The Sea   Favoriting Sub Rosa  Mannequin Records  2014  0:35:41 (Pop-up)
 
 
Hidden In The Pregap
Agoraphobic Nosebleed  Wonder Drug Wonderland   Favoriting Altered States Of America  Relapse Records  2003  0:47:28 (Pop-up)
Anal Cunt  Hello, I Love You   Favoriting Morbid Florist  Relapse Records  1998  0:49:07 (Pop-up)
Melt-Banana  Neat Neat Neat   Favoriting Charlie  A-Zap Records  1998  0:50:40 (Pop-up)
Harvey Milk  My Broken Heart Will Never Mend   Favoriting The Kelly Sessions  Escape Artist Records / Crowd Control Activities  2004  0:53:03 (Pop-up)
Agoraphobic Nosebleed  Azido Phencyclidine Electrophoresis   Favoriting PCP Torpedo / AnbRX  Hydra Head Records / Double H Noise Industries  2006  1:03:47 (Pop-up)
Cheap Trick  Untitled   Favoriting Cheap Trick  Red Ant Entertainment  1997  1:10:02 (Pop-up)
Mayhem  Untitled   Favoriting Grand Declaration Of War  Season Of Mist  2000  1:12:57 (Pop-up)
Angelo Badalamenti And David Lynch  Abstract Mood / Credit Boogie   Favoriting Twin Peaks • Season Two Music And More  David Lynch Music Company / Absurda  2007  1:14:44 (Pop-up)
Arab Strap  Ben Kenobi Theme   Favoriting Cherubs E.P.  Go! Beat  1999  1:19:24 (Pop-up)
Autechre  Untitled   Favoriting EP7  Warp Records  1999  1:21:58 (Pop-up)
Hecker  -1   Favoriting IT ISO161975  Mego  1998  1:28:24 (Pop-up)
James Brown  Frankie Crocker With Sad Sam   Favoriting Live At The Apollo Volume II (Deluxe Edition)  Polydor  2001  1:40:51 (Pop-up)
 
 
#POTUSPlaylist: Richard M. Nixon
C.C.S.  Tap Turns On The Water   Favoriting Tap Turns On The Water  Columbia  1971  1:54:05 (Pop-up)
Harry Nilsson  Everybody's Talkin'   Favoriting Aerial Ballet  RCA Victor  1968  1:57:41 (Pop-up)
Leonard Cohen  Field Commander Cohen   Favoriting New Skin For The Old Ceremony  Coumbia  1974  2:00:38 (Pop-up)
Aphrodite's Child  The Four Horsemen   Favoriting 666  Vertigo  1972  2:04:34 (Pop-up)
Brigitte Bardot  Je T'Aime...Moi Non Plus   Favoriting Best Of BB  Phillips, Mercury, Universal  1996  2:10:20 (Pop-up)
Lee Hazlewood  It Was A Very Good Year   Favoriting Forty  LHI Records  1969  2:14:45 (Pop-up)
David Bowie  Young Americans   Favoriting Young Americans  Rykodisc  1975  2:18:54 (Pop-up)
Roxy Music  Casanova   Favoriting Country Life  Island Records  1974  2:23:58 (Pop-up)
System  While Nixon Plays The Piano   Favoriting System  Nova  1974  2:27:21 (Pop-up)
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young  Ohio   Favoriting Journey Through The Past  Reprise Records  1972  2:32:30 (Pop-up)
The Rolling Stones  Gimme Shelter   Favoriting Let It Bleed  London Records  1969  2:36:37 (Pop-up)
 
Killdozer  Sweet Home Alabama   Favoriting Gods Favorite Dog  Touch And Go  1986  2:46:19 (Pop-up)
Earth  Divine And Bright   Favoriting Sunn Amps And Smashed Guitars Live  No Quarter  2001  2:51:32 (Pop-up)
Earth  Divine And Bright   Favoriting Sunn Amps And Smashed Guitars Live  No Quarter  2001  2:54:36 (Pop-up)
Earth  Divine And Bright   Favoriting Sunn Amps And Smashed Guitars Live  No Quarter  2001  2:57:35 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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Cheri Pi:

'ddup?
Avatar 9:05am
Cheri Pi:

I think I love this
Avatar 9:07am
Chris M.:

GOOOOOOD MORNING
Avatar 9:10am
Cheri Pi:

It is now CeeEmm
Avatar 9:21am
bobdoesthings:

goood morning.
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KP:

Good morning, Chris M.
  9:39am
SeanG:

I was hoping this was a new Madonna song
Avatar 9:39am
Chris M.:

@SeanG: it's a lot better than any new Madonna song could ever be
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:43am
Ken From Hyde Park:

Good morning, ChrisM and imaginary friends.
Avatar 9:44am
bobdoesthings:

@chris - how do you know The Black Dog album isn't pronounced "neether neether" or "nigh-ther, nigh-ther" ??
  9:51am
Cooh John:

Hidden track alert: SCOTS "Liquored Up and Lacquered Down"
  9:51am
?:

The metallica show on Monday?
Avatar 9:52am
Chris M.:

@bobdoesthings: i sent a letter to their label asking them how to pronounce it and included SASE.
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Cheri Pi:

brilliant!!
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bobdoesthings:

@chris - I believe you.
Avatar 9:54am
Cheri Pi:

Chris your djing skills are improving!
Avatar 9:54am
Chris M.:

@βrian: gets funnier every week
Avatar 9:55am
Chris M.:

@Cheri Pi: i challenge you to try this. there is silence before some of the rewound tracks.
Avatar 9:56am
Cheri Pi:

I'm not coordinated enough :( but I'd love to someday.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:58am
coelacanth:

'morning Chris; figments.
Avatar 9:58am
Cheri Pi:

Is the silence prerecorded?
Avatar 10:03am
bobdoesthings:

whoah.. I found a bonus feature on this CD..I got it to say 'DISC ERR' . Man, CD's! ...so cool..
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:18am
Greg from ZONE 5:

Morning, gang! Mondays, amirite?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:20am
Ken From Hyde Park:

First Monday back after vacation. Let's see how my investments fared while I was away. <Checks finance website.> Gaahhh!
Avatar 10:22am
bobdoesthings:

@greg - you ain't wrong. I checked the calendar.
Avatar 10:23am
Cecile:

holaaaa
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:25am
Greg from ZONE 5:

I was in Cape May/Wildwood all weekend. Things are so much better there. I can breathe and sleep and EVERYTHING.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:27am
Nasty Les:

Late 90's/early 00's seems to be the golden era for pre-gap tracks. Remember this Autechre one well.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:27am
Ken From Hyde Park:

Aside from financial ruin, it turns out I left a plum sitting on the cupboard and was greeted by a thousand fruit flies yesterday. Down the vacuum nozzle they go.
  10:44am
KP:

Please ...
Avatar 10:48am
bobdoesthings:

I've been pronouncing Autechre as "out-etcher" this whole time. Is it really 'Ought-ecker'? just curious..
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bobdoesthings:

hah! I was not trying to correct you chris! haha, just curious. thanks tho!
  10:52am
this guy:

I've always said, aw-tech-ra, regardless of whether its right or not, just rolls off better
  10:53am
JakeGould:

Potus playlist from Nixon? Thrilling!
Avatar 10:54am
Cecile:

hahahahah
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:54am
Nasty Les:

I remember reading an interview with Autechre where they said they didn't really mind how people pronounced it/there wasn't any "official" pronunciation, but they themselves pronounced it in a similar way to Chris M (but with a Rochdale accent)
Avatar 10:54am
tonyb:

by '75 he was kicking back
exiled
in key biscayne
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:56am
Ken From Hyde Park:

@ChrisM - See if you can find Nixon's enemies list and see if anyone appears on both lists. I'm betting Up With People is on both.
  10:56am
Cliff:

Actually, Nixon resigned so that Congress wouldn't be able to impeach him.
Avatar 10:56am
Cecile:

hahahahahaah
  10:58am
JakeGould:

Today is the first day of school in some parts of the U.S. so this “Let’s listen to the Nixon playlist!” thing is very first day of school.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:58am
common:

ah yes.
  10:58am
SeanG:

Harry!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:59am
dave:

Yes, that's what we always did on our first day of school. It made it so much easier to go back after the summer break.
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Chris M.:

just a little history lesson! i found it fascinating myself
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Dr. Goot:

Harry indeed!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:01am
Andrew Waterloo:

I've bounced between Oh-tek-rah and Aw-tek-er
  11:01am
P-90:

@Chris M: Just checking in to say hello and confim that I'm having the ususal imaginary good monday morning with soundtrack by you.
Avatar 11:02am
Chris M.:

thanks P-90!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:02am
Jim Price:

Funny how most of Nilsson's big hits were written by other artists. He was such a brilliant songwriter.
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Cecile:

True, but he was also a brilliant singer and interpreter. A rare combination.
  11:05am
Bob:

Nixon really had Field a Commander Cohen on his list?.? Bizarre
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Chris M.:

@Bob: i have a feeling he really didn't pay attention to lyrics!
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Cecile:

one horse is green!
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Cecile:

IRL, he probably just had Elvis, Glen Campbell and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:06am
Jim Price:

I agree Cecile.
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Cecile:

It sounds crazy, but I still miss the guy.
  11:07am
JakeGould:

There’s no way Nixon could ever appreciate Leonard Cohen.
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PKNY:

Now every time I give AC I spin from now on, I'll be thinking of Tricky Dick. Thanks!
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Chris M.:

i got this playlist from CNN and it's been confirmed in his biography
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Cecile:

hahahahahahhaa
I love you and your mindfuckery, Chris.
Avatar 11:11am
bobdoesthings:

NO WAY!
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Cecile:

crying here.
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Cecile:

I am picturing Pat in a negligee.
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bobdoesthings:

I don't buy nixon had this on his list..
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:12am
common:

hee
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Dr. Goot:

Did "China Girl" make the cut?
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Cecile:

this is Chris M's world. It's a much cooler funnier place than the one we live in.
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PKNY:

I can soooo picture Dick lip-synching the Serge parts to himself in a mirror.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:15am
Parq:

Look, Mommy and Daddy are wrestling!
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bobdoesthings:

@pkny.. and exploring himself for BB's parts.. with his eyes closed... sweat accumulating on his brow..
  11:15am
DaveinPA:

Get a room already!
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Cheri Pi:

I misssed Aphrodite's Child while heating up my tea???
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Lewis:

@bobdoesthings: I am having a bit of trouble with it myself...
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Cecile:

I stayed up listening to Queen. When I was 17.
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PKNY:

My name was Brian McGhee.
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PKNY:

@Cecile - glad to know I'm not the only one who thinks of "The Simpsons" when I hear "When I was Seventeen".
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Cheri Pi:

I started college when I was 17
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Cecile:

oh, that show has warped my mind in ways I thought not possible.

You are so flippin' awesome, Pi.
  11:20am
P-90:

Dick used to listen to Frank's version of this over and over in the Oval Office, alone late at night, in those dark Last Days, during the Watergate Hearings.
While putting away ahalf a decanter of vSOP.
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PKNY:

Agreed, warped in the best possible ways.
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bobdoesthings:

ok.. this is a joke. right?
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Cecile:

It was a joke the minute he put on CCS.
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Chris M.:

i feel like just with the current #POTUSPlaylists, there may have been an intern involved with the selection process. just my own opinion
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Cecile:

I think some hippies broke into the Oval Office and faked it.
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Cheri Pi:

hahaha
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Cecile:

Was Nixon a BOC fan?
  11:26am
JakeGould:

If it was Nixon’s intern that made this list it would be some pimply-faced 15 year old virgin who only listened to “The Kingsmen” and nothing else.
  11:26am
foofs:

One Toke Over the Line next!
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Cheri Pi:

Can we hear Millard Fillmore's playlist next week?
  11:26am
foofs:

Or Venus in Furs!
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Cecile:

How about Argent/3 Dog Night's "Liar"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:27am
Kali G:

Tricky Dicky from Lorba Linda, ah ha, sounds like ole Mihouse did more in the underground White House bowling alley then just slip and slide with a martini, more like lighting up doobies with his peeps Abbie Hoffman and Tim Leary,… Oh Ya!!!!
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Chris M.:

sorry but i am only playing the actual songs Nixon chose for his #POTUSPlaylist this week.
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Cecile:

hahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahah
  11:29am
foofs:

It's a very unQuakerish selection for such a devout man...
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Whooda:

Suuper-duuper show DJ Chris M.
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Chris M.:

@Whooda: thank you!
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Cecile:

Nixon had some pretty hip taste.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:31am
Parq:

I think Chris has made himself perfectly clear.
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Cheri Pi:

what foofs said
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:32am
Kali G:

Dick was a very mysterious man in search of a soul, even if it was not his own.
  11:33am
KP:

Saw them play this the night Nixon resigned
  11:34am
briania:

The musical taste of RMN was pretty well documented: "When the Fords moved in, Betty Ford found one of the Nixons’ boxes. “It was marked, ‘Tapes, Do Not Touch,’ ... turns out, it was filled with the former president’s Mantovani recordings." (via firstladies.org).
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Cheri Pi:

This one goes out to Stevens T. Mason, never forget that terrible war
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Joe B:

Where even Richard Nixon has got soul.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:35am
Kali G:

There was once that leaked photo of him crying over the dead student at Kent State, yep, this is all started to make sense now!
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Joe B:

Only Neil Young could put out an 8-CD box set and leave this live version off it
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Cecile:

Neil hates us all.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:38am
Ken From Hyde Park:

How did the one Simpson's episode go? "On this spot in 1973, Richard Nixon bowled consecutive 300 games."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:38am
Kali G:

It was rumored that Sammy Davis Jr is the one who turned Dick onto the hip music that the kids protesting were listening to, for he wanted to get into the minds of the next generation that would eventually become Republicans as they aged.
  11:39am
P-90:

Haldeman's memoir states that "all calls were held and interruptions kept to a minimun" once a week when Dick would watch "Jimmy Duarante Presents The Lennon Sisters" in the Press Lounge.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:40am
Parq:

Kai G, judging from the number of boomers I know who are Repubs, or centrist Democrats who support GOP initiatives, it must have worked.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:40am
Stevel:

Little known fact. RMN secretly recorded backups for Sympathy for the Devil which were added into the final mix.
  11:41am
Richard Nixon:

hey what s up?
i listened all the WireTappers. they are good.
  11:42am
P-90:

@Stevel: you might be confusing Dick with Carly Simon on that one.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:42am
Kali G:

Yes Parq, it was all part of the evil plan that President Dick hatched, the man was actually a genius in ways we are only now understanding,… just wait thill Chris M. shows how the Dick was actually the father of Hip Hop!!!!
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Cecile:

CNN is the Chris M. News Network.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:43am
northguineahills:

@Cheri PI: I'd also love to see Millard Filmore's set.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:43am
Stevel:

P-90: Damn! that happens all the time.
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Joe B:

ha, great one Cecile!
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bobdoesthings:

I would imagine today.. there are a team of 10-20 youths toiling over the presidential playlist.. and has little to do with the actual politicians likes
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:44am
common:

haha! ngh!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:46am
Greg from ZONE 5:

Did you have brijet fact check all this information, Chris?
  11:46am
foofs:

@bobdoesthings Looking at Barack's tasteful playlist, you'd never know he's a juggalo.
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Cheri Pi:

Mr. CP is obsessed with Bohemian Grove... I betcha they listen to some Queen there late at night.
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Cecile:

YEAH
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Chris M.:

@Greg from ZONE 5: citation needed
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Cheri Pi:

NICE
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Cecile:

I'd like to hear Warren Harding's playlist. Probably lots of "hot jazz"
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Cecile:

Hearing Killdozer during election day 2008 was one of the most stirring experiences ever. Seriously.
Avatar 11:49am
bobdoesthings:

@foofs- HAH!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:50am
Andrew Waterloo:

I can just ole trick Dick putting Je t'aime on the ole real-to-real for a visiting dignitary and then demanding a pause for his favourite part.
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Cecile:

I knew nothing about this Bohemian Grove, and I thought I was fairly OK about history.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:51am
Kali G:

Makes me wonder just what sounds POTUS Trump has spinning in his ears and echoing inside the empty chamber,… hmmm, perhaps we will have to wait for Chris to let us know in 40 years when he is running FMU as an iron fisted station manager,… the likes that will have Ken spinning in his urn.
Avatar 11:53am
Cheri Pi:

POTUS playlists need to become the next listener challenge. I need some new swag.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:53am
northguineahills:

Grew up next to the Van Zant clan manor. Knew quite a few of the Skynard progeny in HS.
Avatar 11:54am
Cheri Pi:

seriously NGH? you ar my hero for the day, it was Chris M until your revelation.
Avatar 11:56am
bobdoesthings:

whoah.. noon already. Thanks Chris!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:57am
northguineahills:

Decent, but weird kids (even by my standards).
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:57am
Kali G:

I just wrote something short.
Avatar 11:58am
Cecile:

I can't even imagine growing up in that kind of environment and not turning into a variant of Liza Minelli.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:59am
Kali G:

Once Chris M's show is done for the week, I plug my ears up with cotton and gum, refusing to listen to anything till next Monday morning, that is just how it is, sorry!
Avatar 11:59am
Doctor Gonzo:

Trump loves Teenage Enema Nurses in Bondage by Killer Pussy
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:59am
Ken From Hyde Park:

How about some SCOTUS playlists at some point? I'll bet Scalia has opera tunes in his.
  12:00pm
P-90:

Thanks Chris, and My Fellow Americans
Avatar 12:02pm
Cheri Pi:

good job Chris!!
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