WFMU: Currents with Brian D: Playlist from January 25, 2025

Listener comments!
	6:01am Cooh John: Good morning Brian and current eventers.
	6:03am morphe': Attuned from the NYC hovel...
	6:04am duke: Good morning everyone
	6:04am Strandlund: Good Morning Brian and everyone tuned in...
	6:05am Brian D: Cooh, Morphe, Duke, Strand, ALL... Good morning.
	⚡ 6:07am bradford: Good morning Brian & all.
	6:08am Brian D: Greetings Bradford.
	⚡ 6:09am Spikey BXL: Good morning Brian, currentistas
	6:09am Brian D: Good day, Spikey.
	6:11am TDK60: Good morning Brian.
	6:12am fred: Good morning Brian and listeners. Busy news week, mostly bad. One rare good thing to me was the pardon of Leonard Peltier
	6:13am Brian D: TDK, Fred. Yes, the Peltier pardon and another were about all the positives we can find.
	⚡ 6:14am Michael of Cologne: G'day Brian & all.
	6:14am Brian D: Hello Michael. How are you?
	⚡ 6:16am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Brian D @6:14 Thanks Brian. I'm fine, thinking about freedom and time.
	6:17am fred: ↳ Brian D @6:13 My bad, commutation to home arrest for life, not pardon (why be merciful when you can add a side of pettiness)
	6:17am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @6:16 We have a lot of one and not so much of the other.
	6:18am Brian D: ↳ fred @6:17 Yes, I wasn't going to add a "clarification" to your comment. It's better than prison and at least a measure of justice.
	6:18am TDK60: ↳ fred @6:17 Bonjour monsieur Fred. Yes. Innocent Peltier confined to home while "Jan. 6" thugs walk free.
	6:18am morphe': ↳ fred @6:12 Yes but the shame of the history, including Obama and all before him: "White House denies clemency for Indian activist Peltier" apnews.com...
	⚡ 6:22am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Brian D @6:17 I think there are several kinds of freedom and even more than one kind of time.
	⚡ 6:23am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Good morning Brian and news-curious people.
	6:24am Otto: Hang on to your wallets folks!
	6:25am Brian D: Good morning, Peter... Otto...
	6:25am fred: ↳ Brian D @6:18 Typical Dem crap: throwing a bone to the right that the latter will ignore. Peltier is 80 and not in great health (wonder why), so it's not as if he was going to go out much anyway. It's more like allowing him to die outside prison. Better than nothing, but still petty
	⚡ 6:26am NotARealDoctor: Hey good morning Brian D and fellow surfers of the currents. No dog park today as Cooper the big yellow dog broke his foot last weekend and isn't allowed to run for a few weeks
	6:26am Brian D: ↳ fred @6:25 "Truth, justice and the American way."
	6:27am Brian D: ↳ NotARealDoctor @6:26 Good morning, NARD, and get well soon Cooper! The Currents Clan was up much of the night last night with a sick pup.
	6:27am Otto: And your humanity
	⚡ 6:28am tom tom the pipers son: good morning brian...everyone...
	6:28am Strandlund: ↳ NotARealDoctor @6:26 Sending Positive vibes to Cooper for a fast recovery!!
	6:28am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:28 Greetings Tom Tom.
	⚡ 6:28am NotARealDoctor: ↳ Brian D @6:27 Oh that's always difficult. Sending thoughts of health and wellness to you and your sick pup as well.
	6:32am Brian D: ↳ NotARealDoctor @6:28 Thank you. It's always hard when they're not well. Cooper must be beside himself not being at the park.
	⚡ 6:33am William Hellfire: Morning fiends, Brian cats.
	6:34am Brian D: Hey William!
	⚡ 6:34am NotARealDoctor: @Fred good morning, a small update with some Miranda news. This past Tuesday was her birthday and she got a call to come up to the hospital for her transplant that evening. They ended up having to call it off at the last minute, but it's good to know she's far enough up the list that she's being called now.
	⚡ 6:35am Spikey BXL: Sending pixie to Cooper 🐾✨
	⚡ 6:37am NotARealDoctor: ↳ Brian D @6:32 He's definitely confused about why we're not going for our regular long walks but with temperatures as low as they are I don't think this could've happened at a better time
	⚡ 6:40am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "the abolition of art, the abolition of freedom, t... this accompaniment is perfect
	6:43am fred: I first misread the quote author as Ayn Rand from afar (to some alarm), so here's my shuffle guess on what she could have said: "Fear asks us to embrace our personal hopes, to get beyond love and another's reality"
	6:43am Fredericks: ↳ NotARealDoctor @6:37 How'd he break his foot?
	⚡ 6:43am tom tom the pipers son: prisoners...hostages....prisoners...hostages...prisoners.... use the words however it suits you
	⚡ 6:45am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @6:43 ha! i like it...
	⚡ 6:46am NotARealDoctor: ↳ Fredericks @6:43 Not entirely sure, running at the park somehow. He chased down a good long ball throw and at the end he didn't return. I thought he was tired but then noticed he was limping. I figured he pulled a muscle or something but by the next night he wouldn't put any weight on it, just running around on 3 feet instead of 4
	⚡ 6:47am tom tom the pipers son: nice light in nyc at the moment
	6:49am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:45 You were the intended audience (I reworked it and forgot to put the @tom tom back in)
	⚡ 6:50am NotARealDoctor: ↳ fred @6:49 I'm just glad I'm not the only one who saw Ayn Rand the first time seeing it
	6:51am rich in angleton: good morning brian and everyone in radioland!
	6:53am fred: ↳ NotARealDoctor @6:50 There might be something in the air that put that creep in our minds...
	⚡ 6:53am William Hellfire: Hahaha!
	⚡ 6:56am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @6:49 well the intention landed in the right place...
	6:59am fred: ↳ NotARealDoctor @6:34 I'm happy that they caught the incompatibility in time, this could have gone very bad if they had gone through with it. It's a weird thing, the difference between hoping someone who died is compatible and hoping someone compatible dies (my Druyan/Rand shuffle's playing tricks on me)
	7:00am TDK60: Ahh, I wish I'd known about that event at St. Mark's. I'd gone to an outdoor protest, earlier.
	⚡ 7:00am William Hellfire: We need you Brian!!!! It's hard to get up m ho but you give us big energy so..... hopefully we give back.
	⚡ 7:01am Will thee SG OCNY: Good morning Brian D and all!!!
	⚡ 7:02am William Hellfire: I didn't mean "ho" meant Go! Oh and the cats also need you to curate Saturday mornings. They are planted and meditating.
	⚡ 7:03am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Hoping you and Mrs. Currents are OK, Brian.
	7:03am Brian D: ↳ William Hellfire @7:00 You do, William! Thank you.
	7:04am Brian D: ↳ Will thee SG OCNY @7:01 Will!
	7:04am Brian D: ↳ Peter from Saranac Lake NY @7:03 Thank you, Peter. We'll live.
	7:04am morphe': Footie? Do ya rush home to catch the match? or Do ya have a record mechanism and be sure to avoid all social media before watching? or stroll in at 1/2 time and pick it up from there??? [Thinking Not # 3...]
	7:05am JohnEBGood: Hey DJ Brian it's a cold winter! Glad you are getting going. Thanks for your fabulous show : )
	7:07am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @7:04 I'll be watching on my phone... assuming it's played. Horrible storm in Ireland and Scotland.
	7:07am Brian D: ↳ JohnEBGood @7:05 Thank you, JEB.
	⚡ 7:07am tom tom the pipers son: i big disappointment... i never got to see the squat theater...saw an exhibit a long time ago
	⚡ 7:10am Don in Tampere: Hi Brian and all! Just back from a shopping errand, making Charleston shrimp and grits for friends tonight. Will be tuning in while house cleaning.
	7:11am morphe': ↳ Brian D @7:07 Eoywn has passed .. stadium damage? Ireland's [the world's] biggest indoor air pressurized pitch [GAA] was destroyed.. "Multimillion GAA pitches completely destroyed by Storm Eowyn as photos show damage" www.galwaybeo.ie...
	⚡ 7:11am Don in Tampere: But Jeez, I saw the discussion of the week's news. It started off even worse than I had expected. I feel for all of you stuck in what is turning into a very dystopian USA.
	7:13am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @7:11 Yes, stadium damage. But match still on as far as I know.
	7:14am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @7:11 Good morning, Don. It's been circling the drain for a while now...
	7:14am Andrea C: ↳ Don in Tampere @7:10 for moment there I thought: "not all heros wear capes" but then I realized you didn't say: "white house cleaning" Hello everyone.
	7:15am Brian D: ↳ Andrea C @7:14 Good morning, Andrea.
	7:15am radioronan: Good morning Brian and everyone out there!
	⚡ 7:19am NotARealDoctor: ↳ fred @6:59 Definitely a difficult feeling to hold in your heart. She was a bit disheartened when we talked after and she said "better luck next time, I guess" and I corrected her and said "better lungs next time" which gave her a good laugh at least.
	7:19am Andrea C: ↳ Brian D @7:15 Good morning, Brian
	7:22am dale: good morning. lousy week newswise for the most part, but it must give you never-ending material for the show.
	7:24am Brian D: ↳ rich in angleton @6:51 Belated good morning, Rich.
	7:24am Brian D: ↳ radioronan @7:15 Greetings RR.
	⚡ 7:25am tom tom the pipers son: Not NYT Junk Poetry An Online Drug Kingpin Casts Doubt on a Practice That Long Went Unnoticed of Loopholes in Pay-to-Play Law That Has Not Lived Up to Its Promise Over Who Should Foot the Bill For Bringing Anne Frank’s Secret Annex to The World And Files Defamation Suit Against A Nobel Laureate Who Mines Her Country’s Nightmares With a Sense of the Wild West That Fashion Designers Watch Again and Again
	7:25am Brian D: ↳ dale @7:22 Sadly, I never have trouble "filling." Good morning.
	7:25am fred: ↳ Brian D @7:14 Bad week here too, with some drastic anti-immigrant measures. Politicians have been playing the same racist playbook for decades, it only makes the fascists stronger (maybe that's the point for some). We're also circling here, and the self-proclaimed leader of the left is no better: the only reason he hasn't officially joined the far right is that he won't be second fiddle to anybody. Not that he has any ideology besides ego
	7:28am Brian D: ↳ fred @7:25 I think the whole world may be circling. IS circling.
	⚡ 7:29am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @7:25 been reading, in part, about mitterrand and his coopting of the communist party being a death knell or at least permanently damaging the left
	⚡ 7:30am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: ↳ dale @7:22 The sad upside to this dumpster fire of an administration is the endless songwriting prompts.
	⚡ 7:35am tom tom the pipers son: did anyone see the news conference with trump talking about gaza... as prime real estate....like as a resort... talking about 'waterfront property'
	⚡ 7:35am Don in Tampere: There was an interesting article in last week's "Die Zeit" about how and why the working class, who suffer most from climate change, are the ones most resistant to what is needed to mitigate it, and how the right uses this to get more votes. Some interesting suggestions as to how a green transition could be structured to benefit those who suffer the most instead of the so-called "green elite".
	7:36am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:29 Mitterand was no leftist, he basically revived the far-right, but he was very smart about it. He didn't coopt the communists (who were strong at the time) but sowed division in a left that really didn't need the prompt anyway
	7:38am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:35 Thankfully, I missed that.
	⚡ 7:38am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @7:36 oh, i read that he gave them a place at the table politically and erased the opposition...
	7:38am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:35 Kushner said that a while ago, and that's basically the Netanyahu vision
	⚡ 7:39am Don in Tampere: Here's the article for those who can read German, or want to try it with auto-translation. www.zeit.de...
	⚡ 7:39am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @7:38 yes...
	7:39am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @7:35 At least here in the US, the poor excuse we have a for left-wing party has done a HORRIBLE job of explaining what climate change is and why we need to take action.
	7:39am Fredericks: ↳ NotARealDoctor @6:46 Oh. Mammals are delicate machines.
	7:40am JohnEBGood: This is good Rock and Roll.
	⚡ 7:40am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:39 didn't know about kushner, but to be expected
	7:41am Mattynotimes: This is spec spec spectacular!
	⚡ 7:42am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @7:39 diddleysquat would be the operative word
	7:44am Fredericks: ↳ Song: "The Long Goodbye" by "Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog" Is this still the Ribot?
	7:46am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:38 He needed them at the time, so proceeded to weaken them by giving them positions with power that he would undermine, making them complicit before they resigned, tainted nonetheless. It was a weird time here, first peaceful transition of power in a long time, a lot of denied hopes but that came later. But there were severe issues within the communist party that were bound to blow up
	⚡ 7:48am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @7:46 thx fred...
	7:48am Mattynotimes: Thanks for the kind words Brian!
	7:49am PaulRobeson1925: Morningggggggggggg
	7:50am fred: Concurring on Matty's show: www.wfmu.org... Only quibble is I would have gone with Driver Down for Lost Highway (my fave Lynch movie, today at least)
	7:52am Brian D: ↳ Mattynotimes @7:48 No problem. GREAT show. Made my Thursday.
	7:55am JohnEBGood: Nice song. Book of Dreams is my favorite ; )
	7:55am Mailman Tom: I saw Steve Miller at the Fillmore East in 1969 and at the Fillmore Auditorium in 1998!
	⚡ 7:56am herb.nyc: ↳ Song: "Space Intro/Fly Like An Eagle" by "Steve Miller B... Hey, I think all of us listeners AND dj and mrs dj are flying now! (Good morning, more thoughts to follow)
	7:57am Brian D: ↳ PaulRobeson1925 @7:49 Greetings PR.
	7:57am Fredericks: ↳ Song: "Space Intro/Fly Like An Eagle" by "Steve Miller B... The organ playing is the most interesting part of this song for me anyway.
	⚡ 7:57am herb.nyc: Brian. Who did did the vg Lynch tribute show? Who else did such shows?
	⚡ 7:57am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Space Intro/Fly Like An Eagle" by "Steve Miller B... this song is ringing true...giving me butterflies....time...slipping into the future
	7:58am TDK60: Classic rock bloc! Fats Domino? Gene Vincent? Hee. I know what you mean, and what those (awful) radio stations meant.
	7:58am Fredericks: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:57 MattyNoTimes was one.
	7:59am Toothgrinder Tom: Jim! Jim! Jim!
	7:59am fred: ↳ Brian D @7:39 The Dems are horrible, but I often point to the DSA as a better attempt at mixing values and pragmatism (a low bar, granted, in an anarcho-syndicalist field here where double digits means it's time to split) A lot to fix, but they look like an improvement
	⚡ 7:59am tom tom the pipers son: rich in washington did a great 3 hr lynch tribute... many non-film soundclips of lynch and associates
	⚡ 7:59am herb.nyc: Re joe m’s Lincoln show, I posted last night on Nate K show. Here: herb.nyc. 11:16pm → Song: "Le Froid" by "Alvilda" Ooh this was a lovely song. Then you mic break'd, and mentioned Lincoln Ctr. And I was there; arrived at 9.45. Joe told me of issues, and I can see Scott and staff working feverishly. Jessica at her laptop as well. I chatted w staff and another wmu listener. By 11ish they started their live to tape show. Better than nothing, and the 30' I heard was head bopping fun
	8:00am TDK60: The only verse wherein Miller really gets political: "Feed the babies Who don't have enough to eat Shoe the children With no shoes on their feet House the people Livin' in the street Oh, oh, there's a solution"
	8:00am ∫ydniuß: Brain was the hero of that show
	8:01am ∫ydniuß: ↳ TDK60 @8:00 or, like Jesus said, “F them”
	⚡ 8:05am herb.nyc: Jim the poet said “thrift store”. yest at st Luke’s of w.village, I bought a woman’s Denim jumpsuit and it fits perfect! $22 but store has 25% sale (ends today? Go, 487 Hudson st. Say hi to lani Andy Susan)
	8:05am Toothgrinder Tom: Brouhaha.
	8:06am Toothgrinder Tom: Who named the storm ‘Eowyn’? The EU’s weather agency?
	8:06am dale: maybe jim should use of those tunes sung by the dancing popcorn and candy for a theme song.
	8:07am PaulRobeson1925: Charles Sumner got beat with a cane and suffered the rest of his days. But look at him now!
	8:07am TDK60: There was something that happened in congress yesterday that was "not that bad"? Somehow I missed that. This "not so bad" segment idea surely has a challenge ahead, fellas. Good luck with it!
	⚡ 8:08am Will thee SG OCNY: ↳ dale @8:06 the 'lets go out to the movies' or the 'intermission' tunes
	⚡ 8:08am herb.nyc: Right. Jim and Brian get no pardons. They hafta pay their parking tix, library fines…
	8:10am colinmahns: Bluetooth is a hell of a drug
	8:11am ∫ydniuß: he did the chest pump too it was unambiguous
	8:11am fred: I think it's a matter of expanding your space to include/exclude others
	8:12am ∫ydniuß: Wo ist der flugplatz?
	⚡ 8:13am herb.nyc: Brian mentions cellphone talk heard thru a car. Reminds me of lily Tomlin joke of homeless person seeing a person on cellphone, looking up at st signs. Sez “uh, lemme see. I’m at the corner of Walk, and uh, Not Walk”. I heard this very early on when cellphones invaded our hands and ears (& now our eyes)
	8:13am ∫ydniuß: Bier, bitte
	8:14am JohnEBGood: Wow. Welcome to WFMU : )
	⚡ 8:15am Will thee SG OCNY: ↳ Song: "Chest Fever" by "The Band" now that's some piany
	8:15am fred: @Brian: My German teacher tried to get me kicked out of high school for missing her class, even though I had dropped out of it the year before
	8:16am Fredericks: ↳ Song: "Chest Fever" by "The Band" I used confuse this with Traffic when I was a young listener.
	8:16am JohnEBGood: Freedom Fries!!
	8:16am Brian D: ↳ herb.nyc @7:57 Matty No Times: www.wfmu.org... Good morning, Herbeee.
	8:17am Brian D: ↳ fred @8:15 I made the mistake of asking if an exam was being graded on a curve. I was well in F range.
	8:19am Fredericks: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:59 I could not get the player to open for that show. I made repeated tries.
	⚡ 8:20am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Fredericks @8:19 oh strange...
	8:20am Toothgrinder Tom: @Brian D 8:17 but did you say it en français?
	8:23am Fredericks: ↳ PaulRobeson1925 @8:07 Brooksville is 20 miles to the north from here.
	⚡ 8:23am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Pass The Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind" by "Yo La... great ylt song
	8:26am Brian D: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @8:20 Mais non.
	⚡ 8:27am herb.nyc: ↳ Brian D @8:16 Thx (spkng of Matt, is there a 3-Matt rule at wfmu? That ya can’t have 3 or more djs named Matt on staff at ONE time? At my Old ccny job we had 3 zhangs (yes, from China)’and thats when I instituted the 3-zhang rule
	8:27am fred: ↳ Brian D @8:17 The only time I went to the US (Foxboro, of all places, so Pats for life), I wasn't even eligible, but I made my former English teacher laugh so much I got in In college one English teacher told me not to attend her class (said I'd be wasting both our times) then for finals let me choose the subject (it was supposed to be business stuff). My pick was "small town America as seen by David Lynch". Luckily, she loved Lynch, the exam was more like fan talk (in English though), and I got an A+
	8:28am ∫ydniuß: ↳ fred @8:27 english teachers reward passion and invoivement
	8:28am Brian D: ↳ herb.nyc @8:27 Is that like the Three Body Problem? No rule on Matts but apparently one on Brians.
	⚡ 8:30am tom tom the pipers son: i really like this ylt song but they are cribbing a bit from oneida i believe
	⚡ 8:30am Will thee SG OCNY: ↳ herb.nyc @8:27 there were 7 Johns at my office years ago. some were Jon tho. but if you simply said "John!" a few people would turn around. we ended up saying last names or nicknames to address them individually
	8:32am Brian D: ↳ Will thee SG OCNY @8:30 It's like shouting "Patrick!" at an Irish family gathering (I speak from personal experience).
	⚡ 8:34am tom tom the pipers son: ulbricht = "online drug kingpin"
	8:36am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:34 My favorite part of that clip was the newsreader glossing over the president getting his name wrong.
	⚡ 8:37am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @8:36 right...times always did that for dubya
	8:37am fred: ↳ ∫ydniuß @8:28 Usually not in France, where yourre supposed to learn Sorbonne English, a dialect spoken only there. These teachers had lived in English speaking countries, a rarity. I got one failing English grade in college. 3 got that this year, the other two were an American guy and an English woman, they managed to get all the grades thrown out for not passing the laugh test
	8:38am Fredericks: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:34 Is it an exaggeration to say that he has ordered people to be murdered?
	⚡ 8:38am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "The Shadow Song" by "Ava Mendoza" love her playing
	⚡ 8:40am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Fredericks @8:38 the ultimate in libertarianism
	⚡ 8:41am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Thanks for a great show, Brian. Logging off but continuing to listen.
	8:41am ScottJ: I like the information between 👍👍
	8:41am Mattynotimes: Such an underrated band. I love this song
	8:43am luka: ↳ Song: "Black Metallic" by "Catherine Wheel" good fkn morning
	8:43am Crafty: ↳ Song: "Black Metallic" by "Catherine Wheel" ⭐hi Brian! hi Mattynotimes! hi everybody!🥰
	8:45am Brian D: Greetings Crafty, Luka, Scott.
	8:46am HyperDose: Nice sauce to get lost in
	⚡ 8:49am tom tom the pipers son: thanks brian... don't eat too many donuts...
	8:51am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:49 Too late.
	8:52am Barbie: Good morning Brian, it’s stunning to be back from Morocco and not just for the weather. I was in Vietnam for the election, it’s been so nice to be in new remote places to relieve the political stress at this time.
	⚡ 8:52am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @8:51 ha ha ha...
	8:52am McGroovey: ↳ Song: "More Than Shards" by "Natural Velvet" This rocks. I've been listening in my sleep, and this woke me up. I needed to get up anyway, to go to the fabulous WFMU Saturday record and CD sale!
	8:53am Brian D: ↳ Barbie @8:52 Good morning, Barbie. Welcome home.
	⚡ 8:53am bradford: Thanks, Brian.
	8:53am Dave V: Reminds me of The Lost Patrol.
	8:53am Brian D: ↳ McGroovey @8:52 See you in a bit, then!
	8:54am Brian D: Well, folks, as the song says, it's "Go Time." Stay safe and have a great weekend. Thank you for joining me today.
	⚡ 8:55am William Hellfire: Great show!!! Thank you!
	8:55am ∫ydniuß: The Block was rocked! Thx Brian!
	8:57am Crafty: Thank you!❤
	⚡ 8:57am Will thee SG OCNY: Thank you Brian D!!!
	8:57am TDK60: Gracias, DJ Brian.
	8:58am Toothgrinder Tom: You’ve got class, Brian!
	8:58am morphe': Thanks BD and all ...
	⚡ 8:59am NotARealDoctor: Thanks Brian, see you next week.
	9:06am Otto: SOTL always a favorite. Danke

Currents with Brian D: Playlist from January 25, 2025

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January 25, 2025: "Love asks us to get beyond our personal hopes and fears, to embrace another's reality."--Ann Druyan

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Matthew Shipp Trio	World Construct	World Construct	ESP-Disk		0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Marty Ehrlich's Dark Woods Ensemble	Emergency Peace	Marty Ehrlich's Dark Woods Ensemble: Emergency Peace	New World Records		0:09:57 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Anthony Coleman and Brian Chase	With Cunning	Arcades	Chalkin Records		0:23:03 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Fred Moten / Brandon López / Gerald Cleaver	the abolition of art, the abolition of freedom, the abolition of you and me	Moten/López/Cleaver	Reading Group		0:30:43 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
n/a	Clip: WCCO-Peltier prison sentence commuted	n/a	n/a	https://apnews.com/article/leonard-peltier-biden-pardons-eba525b713f2ec739b84aa4426366775	0:39:16 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
William Parker	Happiness "Happiness" by "William Parker"	Painters Winter	Aum Fidelity		0:39:54 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Patti Smith Group	Ghost Dance "Ghost Dance" by "Patti Smith Group"	Easter	Arista		1:01:01 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Eszter Balint	Before America; (Newsreel Avenue)	I Hate Memory	Red Herring		1:05:35 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Elysian Fields	I Can Give You That	What the Thunder Said	Ojet		1:09:48 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
n/a	Clip: NPR-Trump attempts to move U.S. companies from Ireland	n/a	n/a	https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/01/22/ireland-on-alert-as-trump-pulls-us-out-of-global-tax-deal/	1:14:04 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Leo Abrahams & Shahzad Ismaily	Acts of Union	Visitations	Figureeight		1:15:04 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Chrystabell & David Lynch	The Sky Falls	Cellophane Memories	Sacred Bones	R.I.P. David Lynch	1:25:59 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Relastics	No Answer "No Answer" by "The Relastics"	Everything Is Sateen: Five Songs Inspired by Vonnegut	Self-released		1:29:51 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
n/a	Clip: PBS-Jules Feiffer dies "Clip: PBS-Jules Feiffer dies" by "n/a"	n/a	n/a	R.I.P. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/arts/jules-feiffer-dead.html	1:32:38 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog	The Long Goodbye	Hope	Northern Spy Records		1:33:23 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Steve Miller Band	Space Intro/Fly Like An Eagle	Fly Like An Eagle	Capitol		1:51:32 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	"It's Not That Bad with Jim the Poet"			It's Not That Bad with Jim the Poet
The Band	Chest Fever "Chest Fever" by "The Band"	Music From Big Pink	Capitol	R.I.P. Garth Hudson: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/remembering-garth-hudson-the-man-who-transformed-the-band	2:12:34 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
n/a	Clip: WPIX-Biden pardons activist Ravi Ragbir	n/a	n/a	https://gothamist.com/news/biden-grants-presidential-pardon-to-nyc-immigrant-rights-leader-ravi-ragbir?ref=hellgatenyc.com	2:17:48 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Yo La Tengo	Pass The Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind	I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass	Matador		2:18:49 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
n/a	Clip: Fox Business-Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht pardoned	n/a	n/a	https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz7e0jve875o	2:29:36 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ava Mendoza	The Shadow Song "The Shadow Song" by "Ava Mendoza"	The Circular Train	Palilalia Records		2:30:32 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
n/a	Clip: Reuters-Russia declares emergency after Black Sea oil spill	n/a	n/a	https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c23ngk5vgmpo	2:38:25 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Catherine Wheel	Black Metallic "Black Metallic" by "Catherine Wheel"	Ferment	Fontana		2:39:18 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Natural Velvet	More Than Shards "More Than Shards" by "Natural Velvet"	Perma-Blues	Plastic Babylon		2:46:31 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Gitkin	Go Time "Go Time" by "Gitkin"	Golden Age	Wonder Wheel		2:51:25 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:01am Cooh John: Good morning Brian and current eventers.
	6:03am morphe': Attuned from the NYC hovel...
	6:04am duke: Good morning everyone
	6:04am Strandlund: Good Morning Brian and everyone tuned in...
	6:05am Brian D: Cooh, Morphe, Duke, Strand, ALL... Good morning.
	⚡ 6:07am bradford: Good morning Brian & all.
	6:08am Brian D: Greetings Bradford.
	⚡ 6:09am Spikey BXL: Good morning Brian, currentistas
	6:09am Brian D: Good day, Spikey.
	6:11am TDK60: Good morning Brian.
	6:12am fred: Good morning Brian and listeners. Busy news week, mostly bad. One rare good thing to me was the pardon of Leonard Peltier
	6:13am Brian D: TDK, Fred. Yes, the Peltier pardon and another were about all the positives we can find.
	⚡ 6:14am Michael of Cologne: G'day Brian & all.
	6:14am Brian D: Hello Michael. How are you?
	⚡ 6:16am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Brian D @6:14 Thanks Brian. I'm fine, thinking about freedom and time.
	6:17am fred: ↳ Brian D @6:13 My bad, commutation to home arrest for life, not pardon (why be merciful when you can add a side of pettiness)
	6:17am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @6:16 We have a lot of one and not so much of the other.
	6:18am Brian D: ↳ fred @6:17 Yes, I wasn't going to add a "clarification" to your comment. It's better than prison and at least a measure of justice.
	6:18am TDK60: ↳ fred @6:17 Bonjour monsieur Fred. Yes. Innocent Peltier confined to home while "Jan. 6" thugs walk free.
	6:18am morphe': ↳ fred @6:12 Yes but the shame of the history, including Obama and all before him: "White House denies clemency for Indian activist Peltier" apnews.com...
	⚡ 6:22am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Brian D @6:17 I think there are several kinds of freedom and even more than one kind of time.
	⚡ 6:23am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Good morning Brian and news-curious people.
	6:24am Otto: Hang on to your wallets folks!
	6:25am Brian D: Good morning, Peter... Otto...
	6:25am fred: ↳ Brian D @6:18 Typical Dem crap: throwing a bone to the right that the latter will ignore. Peltier is 80 and not in great health (wonder why), so it's not as if he was going to go out much anyway. It's more like allowing him to die outside prison. Better than nothing, but still petty
	⚡ 6:26am NotARealDoctor: Hey good morning Brian D and fellow surfers of the currents. No dog park today as Cooper the big yellow dog broke his foot last weekend and isn't allowed to run for a few weeks
	6:26am Brian D: ↳ fred @6:25 "Truth, justice and the American way."
	6:27am Brian D: ↳ NotARealDoctor @6:26 Good morning, NARD, and get well soon Cooper! The Currents Clan was up much of the night last night with a sick pup.
	6:27am Otto: And your humanity
	⚡ 6:28am tom tom the pipers son: good morning brian...everyone...
	6:28am Strandlund: ↳ NotARealDoctor @6:26 Sending Positive vibes to Cooper for a fast recovery!!
	6:28am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:28 Greetings Tom Tom.
	⚡ 6:28am NotARealDoctor: ↳ Brian D @6:27 Oh that's always difficult. Sending thoughts of health and wellness to you and your sick pup as well.
	6:32am Brian D: ↳ NotARealDoctor @6:28 Thank you. It's always hard when they're not well. Cooper must be beside himself not being at the park.
	⚡ 6:33am William Hellfire: Morning fiends, Brian cats.
	6:34am Brian D: Hey William!
	⚡ 6:34am NotARealDoctor: @Fred good morning, a small update with some Miranda news. This past Tuesday was her birthday and she got a call to come up to the hospital for her transplant that evening. They ended up having to call it off at the last minute, but it's good to know she's far enough up the list that she's being called now.
	⚡ 6:35am Spikey BXL: Sending pixie to Cooper 🐾✨
	⚡ 6:37am NotARealDoctor: ↳ Brian D @6:32 He's definitely confused about why we're not going for our regular long walks but with temperatures as low as they are I don't think this could've happened at a better time
	⚡ 6:40am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "the abolition of art, the abolition of freedom, t... this accompaniment is perfect
	6:43am fred: I first misread the quote author as Ayn Rand from afar (to some alarm), so here's my shuffle guess on what she could have said: "Fear asks us to embrace our personal hopes, to get beyond love and another's reality"
	6:43am Fredericks: ↳ NotARealDoctor @6:37 How'd he break his foot?
	⚡ 6:43am tom tom the pipers son: prisoners...hostages....prisoners...hostages...prisoners.... use the words however it suits you
	⚡ 6:45am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @6:43 ha! i like it...
	⚡ 6:46am NotARealDoctor: ↳ Fredericks @6:43 Not entirely sure, running at the park somehow. He chased down a good long ball throw and at the end he didn't return. I thought he was tired but then noticed he was limping. I figured he pulled a muscle or something but by the next night he wouldn't put any weight on it, just running around on 3 feet instead of 4
	⚡ 6:47am tom tom the pipers son: nice light in nyc at the moment
	6:49am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:45 You were the intended audience (I reworked it and forgot to put the @tom tom back in)
	⚡ 6:50am NotARealDoctor: ↳ fred @6:49 I'm just glad I'm not the only one who saw Ayn Rand the first time seeing it
	6:51am rich in angleton: good morning brian and everyone in radioland!
	6:53am fred: ↳ NotARealDoctor @6:50 There might be something in the air that put that creep in our minds...
	⚡ 6:53am William Hellfire: Hahaha!
	⚡ 6:56am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @6:49 well the intention landed in the right place...
	6:59am fred: ↳ NotARealDoctor @6:34 I'm happy that they caught the incompatibility in time, this could have gone very bad if they had gone through with it. It's a weird thing, the difference between hoping someone who died is compatible and hoping someone compatible dies (my Druyan/Rand shuffle's playing tricks on me)
	7:00am TDK60: Ahh, I wish I'd known about that event at St. Mark's. I'd gone to an outdoor protest, earlier.
	⚡ 7:00am William Hellfire: We need you Brian!!!! It's hard to get up m ho but you give us big energy so..... hopefully we give back.
	⚡ 7:01am Will thee SG OCNY: Good morning Brian D and all!!!
	⚡ 7:02am William Hellfire: I didn't mean "ho" meant Go! Oh and the cats also need you to curate Saturday mornings. They are planted and meditating.
	⚡ 7:03am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Hoping you and Mrs. Currents are OK, Brian.
	7:03am Brian D: ↳ William Hellfire @7:00 You do, William! Thank you.
	7:04am Brian D: ↳ Will thee SG OCNY @7:01 Will!
	7:04am Brian D: ↳ Peter from Saranac Lake NY @7:03 Thank you, Peter. We'll live.
	7:04am morphe': Footie? Do ya rush home to catch the match? or Do ya have a record mechanism and be sure to avoid all social media before watching? or stroll in at 1/2 time and pick it up from there??? [Thinking Not # 3...]
	7:05am JohnEBGood: Hey DJ Brian it's a cold winter! Glad you are getting going. Thanks for your fabulous show : )
	7:07am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @7:04 I'll be watching on my phone... assuming it's played. Horrible storm in Ireland and Scotland.
	7:07am Brian D: ↳ JohnEBGood @7:05 Thank you, JEB.
	⚡ 7:07am tom tom the pipers son: i big disappointment... i never got to see the squat theater...saw an exhibit a long time ago
	⚡ 7:10am Don in Tampere: Hi Brian and all! Just back from a shopping errand, making Charleston shrimp and grits for friends tonight. Will be tuning in while house cleaning.
	7:11am morphe': ↳ Brian D @7:07 Eoywn has passed .. stadium damage? Ireland's [the world's] biggest indoor air pressurized pitch [GAA] was destroyed.. "Multimillion GAA pitches completely destroyed by Storm Eowyn as photos show damage" www.galwaybeo.ie...
	⚡ 7:11am Don in Tampere: But Jeez, I saw the discussion of the week's news. It started off even worse than I had expected. I feel for all of you stuck in what is turning into a very dystopian USA.
	7:13am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @7:11 Yes, stadium damage. But match still on as far as I know.
	7:14am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @7:11 Good morning, Don. It's been circling the drain for a while now...
	7:14am Andrea C: ↳ Don in Tampere @7:10 for moment there I thought: "not all heros wear capes" but then I realized you didn't say: "white house cleaning" Hello everyone.
	7:15am Brian D: ↳ Andrea C @7:14 Good morning, Andrea.
	7:15am radioronan: Good morning Brian and everyone out there!
	⚡ 7:19am NotARealDoctor: ↳ fred @6:59 Definitely a difficult feeling to hold in your heart. She was a bit disheartened when we talked after and she said "better luck next time, I guess" and I corrected her and said "better lungs next time" which gave her a good laugh at least.
	7:19am Andrea C: ↳ Brian D @7:15 Good morning, Brian
	7:22am dale: good morning. lousy week newswise for the most part, but it must give you never-ending material for the show.
	7:24am Brian D: ↳ rich in angleton @6:51 Belated good morning, Rich.
	7:24am Brian D: ↳ radioronan @7:15 Greetings RR.
	⚡ 7:25am tom tom the pipers son: Not NYT Junk Poetry An Online Drug Kingpin Casts Doubt on a Practice That Long Went Unnoticed of Loopholes in Pay-to-Play Law That Has Not Lived Up to Its Promise Over Who Should Foot the Bill For Bringing Anne Frank’s Secret Annex to The World And Files Defamation Suit Against A Nobel Laureate Who Mines Her Country’s Nightmares With a Sense of the Wild West That Fashion Designers Watch Again and Again
	7:25am Brian D: ↳ dale @7:22 Sadly, I never have trouble "filling." Good morning.
	7:25am fred: ↳ Brian D @7:14 Bad week here too, with some drastic anti-immigrant measures. Politicians have been playing the same racist playbook for decades, it only makes the fascists stronger (maybe that's the point for some). We're also circling here, and the self-proclaimed leader of the left is no better: the only reason he hasn't officially joined the far right is that he won't be second fiddle to anybody. Not that he has any ideology besides ego
	7:28am Brian D: ↳ fred @7:25 I think the whole world may be circling. IS circling.
	⚡ 7:29am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @7:25 been reading, in part, about mitterrand and his coopting of the communist party being a death knell or at least permanently damaging the left
	⚡ 7:30am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: ↳ dale @7:22 The sad upside to this dumpster fire of an administration is the endless songwriting prompts.
	⚡ 7:35am tom tom the pipers son: did anyone see the news conference with trump talking about gaza... as prime real estate....like as a resort... talking about 'waterfront property'
	⚡ 7:35am Don in Tampere: There was an interesting article in last week's "Die Zeit" about how and why the working class, who suffer most from climate change, are the ones most resistant to what is needed to mitigate it, and how the right uses this to get more votes. Some interesting suggestions as to how a green transition could be structured to benefit those who suffer the most instead of the so-called "green elite".
	7:36am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:29 Mitterand was no leftist, he basically revived the far-right, but he was very smart about it. He didn't coopt the communists (who were strong at the time) but sowed division in a left that really didn't need the prompt anyway
	7:38am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:35 Thankfully, I missed that.
	⚡ 7:38am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @7:36 oh, i read that he gave them a place at the table politically and erased the opposition...
	7:38am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:35 Kushner said that a while ago, and that's basically the Netanyahu vision
	⚡ 7:39am Don in Tampere: Here's the article for those who can read German, or want to try it with auto-translation. www.zeit.de...
	⚡ 7:39am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @7:38 yes...
	7:39am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @7:35 At least here in the US, the poor excuse we have a for left-wing party has done a HORRIBLE job of explaining what climate change is and why we need to take action.
	7:39am Fredericks: ↳ NotARealDoctor @6:46 Oh. Mammals are delicate machines.
	7:40am JohnEBGood: This is good Rock and Roll.
	⚡ 7:40am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:39 didn't know about kushner, but to be expected
	7:41am Mattynotimes: This is spec spec spectacular!
	⚡ 7:42am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @7:39 diddleysquat would be the operative word
	7:44am Fredericks: ↳ Song: "The Long Goodbye" by "Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog" Is this still the Ribot?
	7:46am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:38 He needed them at the time, so proceeded to weaken them by giving them positions with power that he would undermine, making them complicit before they resigned, tainted nonetheless. It was a weird time here, first peaceful transition of power in a long time, a lot of denied hopes but that came later. But there were severe issues within the communist party that were bound to blow up
	⚡ 7:48am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @7:46 thx fred...
	7:48am Mattynotimes: Thanks for the kind words Brian!
	7:49am PaulRobeson1925: Morningggggggggggg
	7:50am fred: Concurring on Matty's show: www.wfmu.org... Only quibble is I would have gone with Driver Down for Lost Highway (my fave Lynch movie, today at least)
	7:52am Brian D: ↳ Mattynotimes @7:48 No problem. GREAT show. Made my Thursday.
	7:55am JohnEBGood: Nice song. Book of Dreams is my favorite ; )
	7:55am Mailman Tom: I saw Steve Miller at the Fillmore East in 1969 and at the Fillmore Auditorium in 1998!
	⚡ 7:56am herb.nyc: ↳ Song: "Space Intro/Fly Like An Eagle" by "Steve Miller B... Hey, I think all of us listeners AND dj and mrs dj are flying now! (Good morning, more thoughts to follow)
	7:57am Brian D: ↳ PaulRobeson1925 @7:49 Greetings PR.
	7:57am Fredericks: ↳ Song: "Space Intro/Fly Like An Eagle" by "Steve Miller B... The organ playing is the most interesting part of this song for me anyway.
	⚡ 7:57am herb.nyc: Brian. Who did did the vg Lynch tribute show? Who else did such shows?
	⚡ 7:57am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Space Intro/Fly Like An Eagle" by "Steve Miller B... this song is ringing true...giving me butterflies....time...slipping into the future
	7:58am TDK60: Classic rock bloc! Fats Domino? Gene Vincent? Hee. I know what you mean, and what those (awful) radio stations meant.
	7:58am Fredericks: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:57 MattyNoTimes was one.
	7:59am Toothgrinder Tom: Jim! Jim! Jim!
	7:59am fred: ↳ Brian D @7:39 The Dems are horrible, but I often point to the DSA as a better attempt at mixing values and pragmatism (a low bar, granted, in an anarcho-syndicalist field here where double digits means it's time to split) A lot to fix, but they look like an improvement
	⚡ 7:59am tom tom the pipers son: rich in washington did a great 3 hr lynch tribute... many non-film soundclips of lynch and associates
	⚡ 7:59am herb.nyc: Re joe m’s Lincoln show, I posted last night on Nate K show. Here: herb.nyc. 11:16pm → Song: "Le Froid" by "Alvilda" Ooh this was a lovely song. Then you mic break'd, and mentioned Lincoln Ctr. And I was there; arrived at 9.45. Joe told me of issues, and I can see Scott and staff working feverishly. Jessica at her laptop as well. I chatted w staff and another wmu listener. By 11ish they started their live to tape show. Better than nothing, and the 30' I heard was head bopping fun
	8:00am TDK60: The only verse wherein Miller really gets political: "Feed the babies Who don't have enough to eat Shoe the children With no shoes on their feet House the people Livin' in the street Oh, oh, there's a solution"
	8:00am ∫ydniuß: Brain was the hero of that show
	8:01am ∫ydniuß: ↳ TDK60 @8:00 or, like Jesus said, “F them”
	⚡ 8:05am herb.nyc: Jim the poet said “thrift store”. yest at st Luke’s of w.village, I bought a woman’s Denim jumpsuit and it fits perfect! $22 but store has 25% sale (ends today? Go, 487 Hudson st. Say hi to lani Andy Susan)
	8:05am Toothgrinder Tom: Brouhaha.
	8:06am Toothgrinder Tom: Who named the storm ‘Eowyn’? The EU’s weather agency?
	8:06am dale: maybe jim should use of those tunes sung by the dancing popcorn and candy for a theme song.
	8:07am PaulRobeson1925: Charles Sumner got beat with a cane and suffered the rest of his days. But look at him now!
	8:07am TDK60: There was something that happened in congress yesterday that was "not that bad"? Somehow I missed that. This "not so bad" segment idea surely has a challenge ahead, fellas. Good luck with it!
	⚡ 8:08am Will thee SG OCNY: ↳ dale @8:06 the 'lets go out to the movies' or the 'intermission' tunes
	⚡ 8:08am herb.nyc: Right. Jim and Brian get no pardons. They hafta pay their parking tix, library fines…
	8:10am colinmahns: Bluetooth is a hell of a drug
	8:11am ∫ydniuß: he did the chest pump too it was unambiguous
	8:11am fred: I think it's a matter of expanding your space to include/exclude others
	8:12am ∫ydniuß: Wo ist der flugplatz?
	⚡ 8:13am herb.nyc: Brian mentions cellphone talk heard thru a car. Reminds me of lily Tomlin joke of homeless person seeing a person on cellphone, looking up at st signs. Sez “uh, lemme see. I’m at the corner of Walk, and uh, Not Walk”. I heard this very early on when cellphones invaded our hands and ears (& now our eyes)
	8:13am ∫ydniuß: Bier, bitte
	8:14am JohnEBGood: Wow. Welcome to WFMU : )
	⚡ 8:15am Will thee SG OCNY: ↳ Song: "Chest Fever" by "The Band" now that's some piany
	8:15am fred: @Brian: My German teacher tried to get me kicked out of high school for missing her class, even though I had dropped out of it the year before
	8:16am Fredericks: ↳ Song: "Chest Fever" by "The Band" I used confuse this with Traffic when I was a young listener.
	8:16am JohnEBGood: Freedom Fries!!
	8:16am Brian D: ↳ herb.nyc @7:57 Matty No Times: www.wfmu.org... Good morning, Herbeee.
	8:17am Brian D: ↳ fred @8:15 I made the mistake of asking if an exam was being graded on a curve. I was well in F range.
	8:19am Fredericks: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:59 I could not get the player to open for that show. I made repeated tries.
	⚡ 8:20am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Fredericks @8:19 oh strange...
	8:20am Toothgrinder Tom: @Brian D 8:17 but did you say it en français?
	8:23am Fredericks: ↳ PaulRobeson1925 @8:07 Brooksville is 20 miles to the north from here.
	⚡ 8:23am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Pass The Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind" by "Yo La... great ylt song
	8:26am Brian D: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @8:20 Mais non.
	⚡ 8:27am herb.nyc: ↳ Brian D @8:16 Thx (spkng of Matt, is there a 3-Matt rule at wfmu? That ya can’t have 3 or more djs named Matt on staff at ONE time? At my Old ccny job we had 3 zhangs (yes, from China)’and thats when I instituted the 3-zhang rule
	8:27am fred: ↳ Brian D @8:17 The only time I went to the US (Foxboro, of all places, so Pats for life), I wasn't even eligible, but I made my former English teacher laugh so much I got in In college one English teacher told me not to attend her class (said I'd be wasting both our times) then for finals let me choose the subject (it was supposed to be business stuff). My pick was "small town America as seen by David Lynch". Luckily, she loved Lynch, the exam was more like fan talk (in English though), and I got an A+
	8:28am ∫ydniuß: ↳ fred @8:27 english teachers reward passion and invoivement
	8:28am Brian D: ↳ herb.nyc @8:27 Is that like the Three Body Problem? No rule on Matts but apparently one on Brians.
	⚡ 8:30am tom tom the pipers son: i really like this ylt song but they are cribbing a bit from oneida i believe
	⚡ 8:30am Will thee SG OCNY: ↳ herb.nyc @8:27 there were 7 Johns at my office years ago. some were Jon tho. but if you simply said "John!" a few people would turn around. we ended up saying last names or nicknames to address them individually
	8:32am Brian D: ↳ Will thee SG OCNY @8:30 It's like shouting "Patrick!" at an Irish family gathering (I speak from personal experience).
	⚡ 8:34am tom tom the pipers son: ulbricht = "online drug kingpin"
	8:36am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:34 My favorite part of that clip was the newsreader glossing over the president getting his name wrong.
	⚡ 8:37am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @8:36 right...times always did that for dubya
	8:37am fred: ↳ ∫ydniuß @8:28 Usually not in France, where yourre supposed to learn Sorbonne English, a dialect spoken only there. These teachers had lived in English speaking countries, a rarity. I got one failing English grade in college. 3 got that this year, the other two were an American guy and an English woman, they managed to get all the grades thrown out for not passing the laugh test
	8:38am Fredericks: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:34 Is it an exaggeration to say that he has ordered people to be murdered?
	⚡ 8:38am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "The Shadow Song" by "Ava Mendoza" love her playing
	⚡ 8:40am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Fredericks @8:38 the ultimate in libertarianism
	⚡ 8:41am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Thanks for a great show, Brian. Logging off but continuing to listen.
	8:41am ScottJ: I like the information between 👍👍
	8:41am Mattynotimes: Such an underrated band. I love this song
	8:43am luka: ↳ Song: "Black Metallic" by "Catherine Wheel" good fkn morning
	8:43am Crafty: ↳ Song: "Black Metallic" by "Catherine Wheel" ⭐hi Brian! hi Mattynotimes! hi everybody!🥰
	8:45am Brian D: Greetings Crafty, Luka, Scott.
	8:46am HyperDose: Nice sauce to get lost in
	⚡ 8:49am tom tom the pipers son: thanks brian... don't eat too many donuts...
	8:51am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:49 Too late.
	8:52am Barbie: Good morning Brian, it’s stunning to be back from Morocco and not just for the weather. I was in Vietnam for the election, it’s been so nice to be in new remote places to relieve the political stress at this time.
	⚡ 8:52am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @8:51 ha ha ha...
	8:52am McGroovey: ↳ Song: "More Than Shards" by "Natural Velvet" This rocks. I've been listening in my sleep, and this woke me up. I needed to get up anyway, to go to the fabulous WFMU Saturday record and CD sale!
	8:53am Brian D: ↳ Barbie @8:52 Good morning, Barbie. Welcome home.
	⚡ 8:53am bradford: Thanks, Brian.
	8:53am Dave V: Reminds me of The Lost Patrol.
	8:53am Brian D: ↳ McGroovey @8:52 See you in a bit, then!
	8:54am Brian D: Well, folks, as the song says, it's "Go Time." Stay safe and have a great weekend. Thank you for joining me today.
	⚡ 8:55am William Hellfire: Great show!!! Thank you!
	8:55am ∫ydniuß: The Block was rocked! Thx Brian!
	8:57am Crafty: Thank you!❤
	⚡ 8:57am Will thee SG OCNY: Thank you Brian D!!!
	8:57am TDK60: Gracias, DJ Brian.
	8:58am Toothgrinder Tom: You’ve got class, Brian!
	8:58am morphe': Thanks BD and all ...
	⚡ 8:59am NotARealDoctor: Thanks Brian, see you next week.
	9:06am Otto: SOTL always a favorite. Danke

Currents with Brian D: Playlist from January 25, 2025

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