WFMU: Currents with Brian D: Playlist from February 1, 2025

Listener comments!
	⚡ 6:00am Don in Tampere: Hi Brian!
	⚡ 6:02am Don in Tampere: Very apt motto for this week. Not just in the US. In Germany, the CDU broke a taboo by allowing the AfD to help pass a stricter migration law, then failed to pass it because apparently lots of CDU parliamentarians saod no way. Could shake up the election at the end of this month.
	6:03am HyperDose: We're here for a good time, not a long time. Party on, Brian!
	6:04am Strandlund: Good Morning Brian and everyone listening... Great Question!!
	6:05am Brian D: Don, Hyper, Strand, all, good morning.
	6:05am LiXiviated Life: “Hi kids. What’s for dinner?”
	6:06am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @6:02 We'll be "covering" that later in the show.
	6:06am Brian D: ↳ LiXiviated Life @6:05 Good morning, Lix. Don't mention food...
	6:08am radioronan: Good morning Brian & all..
	6:09am Brian D: ↳ radioronan @6:08 Greetings, Ronan.
	6:13am morphe': Attuned...
	6:14am Brian D: ↳ Brian D @6:09 Good day, morphe.
	6:17am Cooh John: Good morning Brian and current eventers. My anxiety is high as we are under this code orange term and I see democracy and decency slipping away. This must be what it was like in Germany 100 years ago. 🍊
	6:17am morphe': ↳ Don in Tampere @6:02 DiT - came across a band = GangstaGrass ... bluegrass/country/rap w/Banjo.. thought of you..
	⚡ 6:18am bradford: Good Morning Brian & all.
	⚡ 6:18am Don in Tampere: ↳ morphe' @6:17 I'll have to check them out. Remember Bubba Sparks back a couple of decades ago? Country rap.
	6:18am morphe': ↳ LiXiviated Life @6:05 "... Shake an Bake .... an we helped !!!!!!!!"
	6:19am Barbie: Good morning Brian and all fellow listeners
	⚡ 6:19am Don in Tampere: ↳ Cooh John @6:17 Our song "Failed State" from 2020 has a line about Portland looking like Germany in 1933.
	6:20am Barbie: I just finished a book around 6 and had Currents beginning.
	6:20am Cooh John: Speaking of dinner, my guess is that there will be fewer plates of food thrown at the Whitehouse walls this term.
	6:21am Brian D: ↳ Cooh John @6:17 Good morning, Cooh. Decency slipping indeed.
	6:21am Brian D: ↳ bradford @6:18 Hello Bradford.
	6:22am Brian D: ↳ Barbie @6:20 Must have been a good book. Good morning.
	6:23am TDK60: A rightwing assault on progress is going on, that's what. Good day, DJ Brian.
	6:23am s jons: Good morning to all. Good morning Brian. The Wand song was excellent.
	6:24am Cooh John: Don in Tampere, did you see the "Venus in Portland" video back then?
	6:25am Brian D: ↳ TDK60 @6:23 Good morning, TDK.
	6:26am Brian D: ↳ s jons @6:23 s jons, good morning.
	⚡ 6:27am Don in Tampere: ↳ Cooh John @6:24 No, haven't heard of it. Got a link?
	⚡ 6:35am William Hellfire: Ugh drank half a 1.75 Jameson. Watched Deranged last night. Great winter movie. Made a delicious stew.
	6:35am duke: Morning all
	6:36am Brian D: ↳ William Hellfire @6:35 Well, two out of three ain't bad.
	6:36am Brian D: ↳ duke @6:35 Hello, duke.
	6:38am Cooh John: Don in Tampere, sorry I am not that tech savvy. I just checked and you can find it on YouTube if you search for "naked woman Portland riot". A naked woman holding armed men at bay while the riot is in the background. A beautiful display of power.
	⚡ 6:38am tom tom the pipers son: hi brian ...everyone...
	6:39am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:38 Greetings, Tom Tom.
	⚡ 6:41am Don in Tampere: ↳ Cooh John @6:38 Ah yes, I don't think I ever saw a video, but I do remember a report and a still.
	⚡ 6:41am Don in Tampere: ↳ Cooh John @6:38 another line from the song was "leaf blowers finally can be put to good use"
	⚡ 6:45am Michael of Cologne: Good day, Brian, Don, Tom Tom, morphe' & all from sunny Cologne.
	⚡ 6:46am William Hellfire: Watched blue velvet last night. If I found an ear covered in ants in a field I would not take it to the police. I don't like ear covered in ants. I would have gone straight home and listened to my black flag records. I was once an exterminator. Yup. Just like Billy Burroughs.
	⚡ 6:47am tom tom the pipers son: hi michael....
	6:47am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @6:45 Hello, Michael.
	6:48am Brian D: ↳ William Hellfire @6:46 I'd even skip the walking in the field part.
	6:51am HyperDose: ↳ William Hellfire @6:46 My favorite David Lynch story is when he meets Sir Patrick Stewart in person for the first time before shooting Dune and didn't realize he was bald (he was doing a play in a wig when he saw him performing theater)
	⚡ 6:52am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Clip: Euronews-German opposition passes migration... i feel these right wing immigration policies are a reflection of the worlds paralysis on gaza or rather that these policies are filling the void left by paralysis
	6:53am pgalub: Hey Brian! Nice to hear Amy this morning.
	6:53am McGroovey: ↳ Song: "Say It Ain't So" by "Amy Allison" Hey, and I just happen to be awake, which I never am at 6:52 am Saturday. I just woke up to take a pee. I may be asleep again before the next song is over.
	6:54am Brian D: ↳ McGroovey @6:53 Well, this track is for you and your pee. May it be yellow, and may you be a healthy student.
	6:56am rich in angleton: good morning brian! hello to everyone in radioland. my cat decided to join us today!
	⚡ 6:57am William Hellfire: ↳ HyperDose @6:51 Hahaha funny! See you at Bob's Big Boy.
	⚡ 7:00am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:52 do people see a connection between gaza and immigration? i spoke to a palestinian woman a while back and she was convinced that palestinians would be exiled from gaza but said they would return one though it might take a long time
	⚡ 7:03am William Hellfire: Cory Hanson drew me a little monster on my envelope when I bought his T-shirt.
	⚡ 7:06am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:00 a while back....before oct 7th
	7:08am Brian D: ↳ rich in angleton @6:56 Rich!
	7:09am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:00 Yes, definite connections. Part of the "war against the poor," for one thing.
	⚡ 7:10am tom tom the pipers son: oh... i have been guilty of meal pics, but only because i'm a born again cooker and i've lost 15 pounds, perhaps because of it
	⚡ 7:11am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:10 and i post just temporarily
	7:11am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:10 Nothing wrong with meal pics necessarily. I'm an on-again,off-again cooker.
	7:12am morphe': Speaking of Footie ... Celtic v Bayern is a tough pull...
	7:12am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @7:12 It is, yes. But better than Real Madrid, I think.
	7:14am Fredericks: ↳ Song: "Death in Rafo (or, The Crator)" by "Matchess" This pitch change is losing me and I'd just clicked the star.
	⚡ 7:16am herb.nyc: I heard McGroovy’s name! Cool. He sure does have good musical tastes. I always catch his program on wfmu And sorry to hear of Brian’s hard work week. But we’re glad he’s here and enjoying himself and pleasing us (but would it kill him to play a lil more Boyz II Men?)
	7:16am morphe': ↳ Brian D @7:12 Read that the MC coach is whingin' and whinnin' about facing Madrid and the regular schedule??
	⚡ 7:17am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @7:09 some of the deported who arrived in columbia were in hand/foot shackles... the columbians were shocked....of course they were also shocked by the unannounced arrival of a foriegn military plane
	7:19am Brian D: ↳ herb.nyc @7:16 I have Bone, Thugs 'n' Harmony cued up... Good morning, Herb.
	7:19am Re6ecca: Good morning!! Love Damon Albarn!
	7:19am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @7:16 I'm sure he is. He's been banging on most of the season.
	7:20am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:17 Yes, I thought the Colombian response was spot on.
	7:20am Brian D: ↳ Re6ecca @7:19 So do I, Becky. Good morning.
	⚡ 7:22am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @7:20 i was thinking of posting a poem soon... (?)
	7:23am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:22 Always welcome.
	⚡ 7:24am tom tom the pipers son: 👍🏻
	⚡ 7:25am tom tom the pipers son: meridians?
	7:26am TDK60: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:17 Morning tom tom. It's Colombia, Colombian.
	⚡ 7:26am tom tom the pipers son: oh don't know these folks
	7:30am morphe': ↳ Song: "Sálvese Quien Pueda (Every Man for Himself)" by "... ".. the people don't get any in the land of the plenty because 'e pluribus unum' means one out of many" Last Poets then Pop Group too
	7:33am HyperDose: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:22 speaking it into existence! 🗣️🌌
	7:35am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @7:30 A nice continuum there.
	⚡ 7:35am Will thee SG OCNY: Good morning Brian D and all!!!
	7:35am Brian D: ↳ Will thee SG OCNY @7:35 Greetings Will!
	⚡ 7:36am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ TDK60 @7:26 people will have to forgive my one handed typing and autofill mentally the capitalization themselves... the omission is obvious because i don't capitalize anything and has to be contrived to be seen as some sort of slighting...disrespect i don't appreciate the slap in the wrists
	7:37am Crafty: Hi Brian! Hi everyone! As for your question, that's gonna take a while to unpack
	⚡ 7:37am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ HyperDose @7:33 i might have the guts to open mic it soon
	7:39am TDK60: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:36 Colombia has no 'u' is all.
	7:40am Brian D: ↳ Crafty @7:37 Good morning, Crafty.
	7:41am San Pedro Girl: Hello, Brian and listeners.
	⚡ 7:42am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ TDK60 @7:26 ah i AM SO SORRY... i obviously thought something else was going on there... thanks for making me less ignorant...forgive me....
	⚡ 7:44am tom tom the pipers son: Not NYT Junk Poetry The Establishment Warms to Resignation And Deepens Worries About the Effect of Astronomers Keeping an Eye on Life's Ingredients Lurking Inside A Fire Ravaged Manuscript That Unlocks Forgotten DNA Evidence of the Dizzying Path of an A.I. Script Seeking Vindication in a Hot Romance Novel
	⚡ 7:51am Marley P. Dogg: Good morning Brian D and friends
	7:54am morphe': Trees - good book [though he is accused of anthropomorphizing a bit too much - fair critique but also solid info] The Hidden Life of Trees What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from A Secret World By Peter Wohlleben · 2016
	7:55am San Pedro Girl: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:42 Hi tom. I could be wrong, but I doubt the comment TDK made was intended to belittle you.
	7:57am Brian D: ↳ San Pedro Girl @7:41 Belated good morning, SPG.
	7:57am Brian D: ↳ Marley P. Dogg @7:51 Greetings, Marley.
	7:59am morphe': ↳ Song: "There Are Some Worlds Where All Dreams Die (en gl... reminding me I need to buzz my suedehead ..
	⚡ 7:59am newton: good morning.
	⚡ 7:59am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ San Pedro Girl @7:55 yes he clarified... i'm not yet awake.... i apologized
	8:01am Brian D: ↳ newton @7:59 Greetings, Newton.
	⚡ 8:03am tom tom the pipers son: "nuuk"....can't help but think of curly stooge...
	8:05am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:59 Then again, a White House press release did spell it "Columbia", so you were just ahead of the next executive order sharpie-ing a map
	8:06am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:03 Woo, woo, woo, woo.
	⚡ 8:06am newton: I was cautiously optimistic that they had started to shackle and deport the Ivy League, buy alas, Colombia
	8:06am Brian D: ↳ fred @8:05 Hey Fred. Didn't know that.
	8:07am Brian D: ↳ newton @8:06 Right. We can dare to dream.
	⚡ 8:07am newton: but..
	⚡ 8:07am NotARealDoctor: What the fuck is going on indeed. Good morning from Norfolk VA. Still no park today even though Cooper insists his paw is all fixed now
	⚡ 8:07am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @8:05 oh no please g-d help me...but was the press release at 7:17 am?
	8:10am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:07 No, it was during the week, when they announced sanctions
	8:13am Listener Bryan (the Professor): Dude I just came back from the grocery store and there was one option for a dozen eggs that was under $10.
	8:14am Listener Bryan (the Professor): $7.99
	8:14am TDK60: ↳ San Pedro Girl @7:55 Good morning San Pedro Girl. Yep, it's a self-appointed campaign I have assigned myself, to help U.S. citizens improve our geographic savvy despite our wonderful education/media system (in the richest country in the world). Tom tom is merely my first unwilling student in class this morning. I am didactic, teacher-like and have chalk all over my fingers and elbow pads on my corduroy jacket. Hee. // I just checked the map and it is still called the Gulf of Mexico! The cartographers are holding out! Last I checked, Mexico was still an independent nation. Canada too.
	⚡ 8:15am NotARealDoctor: ↳ fred @8:10 Do sanctions count if they misspell the country name?
	8:15am fred: ↳ Song: "Clip: Al Jazeera-Fighting continues in DRC" by "n/a" A security guard at work used to be a colonel in the DRC army
	8:15am duke: ↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @8:13 The egg case at Hannaford was almost empty. I was promised cheap eggs!
	⚡ 8:16am NotARealDoctor: ↳ duke @8:15 Aldi near me had them for as little as $7.49 last week limit 2 per customer
	⚡ 8:17am newton: is any of this price gouging trickling down to the chickens who make the product
	8:17am tonyb: In my daydream, my Uncle Sam deports me to New Zealand. My Susannah is a citizen with a small house in Peha, but unless we marry Kiwi immigration laws are kinda tight. Come get me I.C.E.
	8:18am fred: ↳ NotARealDoctor @8:15 The Orange One is never wrong, so they either rename the country or slap a tax on all graduates of Columbia University
	8:20am duke: ↳ tonyb @8:17 How far back does the idea of deporting children of immigrants go? My great-grandmother was probably illegal. I hope they deport me to Ireland.
	⚡ 8:20am NotARealDoctor: ↳ NotARealDoctor @8:16 Scratch that I took a picture they were $6.99 the 5 dozen package at Costco works out to $3.49 a dozen but you have to buy 5 dozen
	8:20am Jersey Plaid: Prostate Biopsy, not fun
	8:20am morphe': Jim the Poet doing a Soupy Sales ... ".. Hey kids, go in yer Ma's purse and get a few bills and mail them to the station ..."
	8:20am Mennlinn Rebarts: Colonoscopy is not that bad! The propofol was great, but the Prep is awful, though
	⚡ 8:20am newton: ↳ duke @8:20 all the white people in america are immigrants
	⚡ 8:21am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ TDK60 @8:14 hah... i thought it was out of character...
	8:24am Mennlinn Rebarts: Can't recommend enough Joe Sacco's graphic novels on Palestine, available from Fantagraphics.
	8:24am fred: ↳ newton @8:20 Tell that to the ICE stable geniuses arresting native americans
	8:24am Mennlinn Rebarts: ↳ fred @8:24 They are going after Puerto Ricans as well!
	⚡ 8:27am tom tom the pipers son: well you know all the brown people are here because of dei...don't you? it's gotta stop
	8:27am duke: ↳ Mennlinn Rebarts @8:24 They're after brown people right now, but once this gets rolling no one will be safe. You object to rounding up illegals, come along with us.
	8:28am fred: ↳ Mennlinn Rebarts @8:24 I read that, for the crime of speaking Spanish. If not speaking proper English merits deportation, maybe it's time to build Mar-a-Fargo in Greenland
	8:30am Brian D: ↳ tonyb @8:17 Take me with you, Tony. Good morning.
	8:30am morphe': FYI: stories coming out that the story of the PR family being detained may not be true????
	8:31am San Pedro Girl: ↳ TDK60 @8:14 Good morning, TDK! I am here to listen and learn. I am accustomed to being corrected by fellow commenters.
	8:33am morphe': ↳ duke @8:27 First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. —Martin Niemöller This quote is attributed to the prominent German pastor Martin Niemöller. It is sometimes mistakenly referred to as a poem.
	8:34am San Pedro Girl: ↳ fred @8:28 Who will be cleaning the pools and cutting the grass on the Chump golf resorts?
	⚡ 8:34am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @8:24 well leonard peltier freed up a prison cell
	8:34am TDK60: ↳ San Pedro Girl @8:31 Howdy S.P.G. I'm in the spirit of us all learning. Let's go sit together on the couch and open that big ol' Atlas. And have tea. I'm still trying to brush up on all the islands in Indonesia! Ha.
	⚡ 8:35am newton: someone here has a pic of all the land massses rearranges as a chicken
	8:35am LoNo Mankato Fishead: Great music this morning!! Thanks
	8:36am Mennlinn Rebarts: ↳ morphe' @8:30 Thanks, looks like that may be so. Other reports of American citizens being detained are confirmed, though. That we have fully slipped into fascism seems very much certain.
	8:36am morphe': ↳ San Pedro Girl @8:34 "A Day Without a Mexican 2004 R 1h 40m" www.imdb.com...
	8:37am San Pedro Girl: ↳ TDK60 @8:34 I’m up for it. Though I think we live on opposite coasts.
	8:37am fred: ↳ San Pedro Girl @8:34 Chairman Mango could put liberals to work there, you know, work makes free or something like that (sounds better in his ancestral language)
	8:38am TDK60: ↳ San Pedro Girl @8:37 Ah yes, you live in the Minutemen pilgrimage site, eh?
	8:39am tonyb: A 23 year old Jay visited WFMU East Orange with Jeff for a live session on July 29, 1990.
	⚡ 8:39am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ TDK60 @8:38 hah made same mistake
	8:40am dale: morning. we have born in the usa, living in the usa....is there dying in the usa?
	8:40am morphe': ↳ Mennlinn Rebarts @8:36 Yes, absolutely true stories too...
	⚡ 8:40am newton: it's the place where a special cactus comes from
	8:41am TDK60: ↳ Song: "Living in the USA" by "Sun Volt" It's great to hear Son Volt again; don't hear 'em that much.
	8:42am Chris from Brooklyn: Morning Lads Colonoscopy is a walk in the park compared to a ((fully awake)) cystoscopy. To quote George Takei: OH MY. Second for the “in office” conscious prostate biopsy too: not painful but so odd to feel what sounds like an auto stapler going off twelve times inside you while a nurse holds you down and the Dr distracts you with small talk.
	8:45am fred: ↳ Chris from Brooklyn @8:42 I sense a 7SD topic taking form (too bad Andy is taking a leave at the Bob Dylan hot air balloon academy)
	8:45am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ Song: "AT&T" by "Pavement" Lowkey one of my favorite Pavement songs
	8:48am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ dale @8:40 i'm so sick of the u.s.a.
	⚡ 8:51am Brian in UK: Belated hello Brian from behind the parapet. Waving not drowning!
	8:52am Chris from Brooklyn: ↳ fred @8:45 Nyuck. El joyo de age n stage eh Fred?
	⚡ 8:52am tom tom the pipers son: thanks brian... have a good week
	8:52am Fredericks: What a set. Good show, Brian.
	8:55am WSJ: Hands down, caleechee bound! Nice job Brian D
	8:56am Brian D: Alright folks. Almost done. Thanks for joining me. Stay safe and enjoy the weekend!
	8:56am TDK60: ↳ Song: "Can't Get There From Here" by "REM" A fave R.E.M. slab for me that sounds the most Southern of their works to me, though it was recorded in olde England. Gracias deejay Brian for crossing the river that flows two ways, for radio.
	8:57am morphe': Thanks BD and all .... sad that the us is so fucked and yet still better place to live than other places .. heard a tag team of sociologists saying there will be a 10-15-20 year turn around time span till/when young progressives will come to the fore ... sadly I'll be dead and will not see it ... be safe and carry ID ..
	⚡ 8:57am Will thee SG OCNY: thank you Brian D!!!
	8:58am HyperDose: Thanks Mr. Brian!
	8:59am San Pedro Girl: ↳ morphe' @8:36 I think the idea is to make a big display of deporting people in a brutal and cruel manner to satisfy the Maga Chumpistas. Prison camps are what these folks have in mind, paid for by taxpayers. But there is no way we can function without these low wage agricultural workers. They will become slaves. Child labor laws have been abolished.
	⚡ 9:00am newton: thanks Brian!
	⚡ 9:00am nortonjutland: Thank you Brian!

Currents with Brian D: Playlist from February 1, 2025

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Comments	Approx. start time
Todd Rundgren	Liar "Liar" by "Todd Rundgren"	Liars	Sanctuary		0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Wand	Help Desk "Help Desk" by "Wand"	Help Desk / Goldfish	Drag City		0:04:59 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Eva Novoa	Aire "Aire" by "Eva Novoa"	Novoa / Carter / Mela Trio, Vol. 1	577 Records		0:12:08 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
n/a	Clip: ABC-Guantanamo will hold up to 30,000 migrants	n/a	n/a		0:32:36 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Matt Rogalsky	Visitation 1 "Visitation 1" by "Matt Rogalsky"	Visitations and Revisitations	XI		0:33:33 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
n/a	Clip: Euronews-German opposition passes migration overhaul proposal with far right	n/a	n/a	https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/31/german-parliament-rejects-opposition-migration-bill-backed-by-far-right-afd	0:44:53 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
If/When	Who Will Bury the Gravediggers?	A Wide Space Variable	Smooth Space Editions		0:45:43 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Amy Allison	Say It Ain't So "Say It Ain't So" by "Amy Allison"	No Frills Friend	Spit & Polish Records		0:50:31 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Elysian Fields	Brightest and Best	Brightest and Best	Self-released (Bandcamp)		0:54:22 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Matchess	Death in Rafo (or, The Crator)	Stena	Drag City		1:06:08 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Damon Albarn	You and Me (ft. Brian Eno)	Everyday Robots	Parlophone/Warner Bros		1:15:11 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Diamante Eléctrico	Sálvese Quien Pueda (Every Man for Himself)	Mira Lo Que Me Hiciste Hacer	Self-released		1:22:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
n/a	Clip: Arirang-Latest on Uganda Ebola outbreak	n/a	n/a		1:27:37 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Wang Chung	The World In Which We Live	Mosaic	Geffen		1:28:22 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Brian Gibson	Metal Maze "Metal Maze" by "Brian Gibson"	Thrasher	Thrill Jockey		1:35:19 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Amir Tataloo	Tazianeh "Tazianeh" by "Amir Tataloo"	Tazianeh	Self-released	https://www.msn.com/en-us/crime/general/rapper-sentenced-to-death-after-being-accused-of-blasphemy-by-iranian-court/ar-AA1xzHF7	1:38:14 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Mats Gustafsson & Joachim Nordwall	There Are Some Worlds Where All Dreams Die (en glad stund)	Their Power Reached Across Space and Time—To Defy Them Was Death—Or Worse	Thrill Jockey		1:51:39 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Boreal Taiga	The Time in Nuuk "The Time in Nuuk" by "Boreal Taiga"	Greenland	Wayfarer Music Group		1:59:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
n/a	Clip: Al Jazeera-Fighting continues in DRC	n/a	n/a	https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0qwlkydxxko	2:04:28 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Modern Studies	Mud and Flame "Mud and Flame" by "Modern Studies"	Welcome Strangers	Fire		2:05:19 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	"It's Not That Bad, with Jim the Poet"			It's Not That Bad, with Jim the Poet	2:10:51 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Peter Holsapple	Don't Mention the War	Game Day	Omnivore		2:28:07 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Sun Volt	Living in the USA "Living in the USA" by "Sun Volt"	Electro Melodier	Transmit Sound/Thirty Tigers		2:34:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Minus 5	With A Gun "With A Gun" by "Minus 5"	The Minus 5	Yep Roc		2:38:52 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Pavement	AT&T "AT&T" by "Pavement"	Wowee Zowee	Matador		2:43:48 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
n/a	Clip: WION-New Zealand Gives Mountain Legal Standing as Person	n/a	n/a		2:47:18 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mechanical Canine	Watercourse "Watercourse" by "Mechanical Canine"	To My Chagrin	Don Giovanni		2:48:12 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
REM	Can't Get There From Here "Can't Get There From Here" by "REM"	Fables of the Reconstruction	I.R.S.		2:53:52 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Andi Sex Gang	As Tears Go By (Reprise)	Faithfull Covers: A Tribute to Marianne Faithfull	Cleopatra		2:57:27 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	⚡ 6:00am Don in Tampere: Hi Brian!
	⚡ 6:02am Don in Tampere: Very apt motto for this week. Not just in the US. In Germany, the CDU broke a taboo by allowing the AfD to help pass a stricter migration law, then failed to pass it because apparently lots of CDU parliamentarians saod no way. Could shake up the election at the end of this month.
	6:03am HyperDose: We're here for a good time, not a long time. Party on, Brian!
	6:04am Strandlund: Good Morning Brian and everyone listening... Great Question!!
	6:05am Brian D: Don, Hyper, Strand, all, good morning.
	6:05am LiXiviated Life: “Hi kids. What’s for dinner?”
	6:06am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @6:02 We'll be "covering" that later in the show.
	6:06am Brian D: ↳ LiXiviated Life @6:05 Good morning, Lix. Don't mention food...
	6:08am radioronan: Good morning Brian & all..
	6:09am Brian D: ↳ radioronan @6:08 Greetings, Ronan.
	6:13am morphe': Attuned...
	6:14am Brian D: ↳ Brian D @6:09 Good day, morphe.
	6:17am Cooh John: Good morning Brian and current eventers. My anxiety is high as we are under this code orange term and I see democracy and decency slipping away. This must be what it was like in Germany 100 years ago. 🍊
	6:17am morphe': ↳ Don in Tampere @6:02 DiT - came across a band = GangstaGrass ... bluegrass/country/rap w/Banjo.. thought of you..
	⚡ 6:18am bradford: Good Morning Brian & all.
	⚡ 6:18am Don in Tampere: ↳ morphe' @6:17 I'll have to check them out. Remember Bubba Sparks back a couple of decades ago? Country rap.
	6:18am morphe': ↳ LiXiviated Life @6:05 "... Shake an Bake .... an we helped !!!!!!!!"
	6:19am Barbie: Good morning Brian and all fellow listeners
	⚡ 6:19am Don in Tampere: ↳ Cooh John @6:17 Our song "Failed State" from 2020 has a line about Portland looking like Germany in 1933.
	6:20am Barbie: I just finished a book around 6 and had Currents beginning.
	6:20am Cooh John: Speaking of dinner, my guess is that there will be fewer plates of food thrown at the Whitehouse walls this term.
	6:21am Brian D: ↳ Cooh John @6:17 Good morning, Cooh. Decency slipping indeed.
	6:21am Brian D: ↳ bradford @6:18 Hello Bradford.
	6:22am Brian D: ↳ Barbie @6:20 Must have been a good book. Good morning.
	6:23am TDK60: A rightwing assault on progress is going on, that's what. Good day, DJ Brian.
	6:23am s jons: Good morning to all. Good morning Brian. The Wand song was excellent.
	6:24am Cooh John: Don in Tampere, did you see the "Venus in Portland" video back then?
	6:25am Brian D: ↳ TDK60 @6:23 Good morning, TDK.
	6:26am Brian D: ↳ s jons @6:23 s jons, good morning.
	⚡ 6:27am Don in Tampere: ↳ Cooh John @6:24 No, haven't heard of it. Got a link?
	⚡ 6:35am William Hellfire: Ugh drank half a 1.75 Jameson. Watched Deranged last night. Great winter movie. Made a delicious stew.
	6:35am duke: Morning all
	6:36am Brian D: ↳ William Hellfire @6:35 Well, two out of three ain't bad.
	6:36am Brian D: ↳ duke @6:35 Hello, duke.
	6:38am Cooh John: Don in Tampere, sorry I am not that tech savvy. I just checked and you can find it on YouTube if you search for "naked woman Portland riot". A naked woman holding armed men at bay while the riot is in the background. A beautiful display of power.
	⚡ 6:38am tom tom the pipers son: hi brian ...everyone...
	6:39am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:38 Greetings, Tom Tom.
	⚡ 6:41am Don in Tampere: ↳ Cooh John @6:38 Ah yes, I don't think I ever saw a video, but I do remember a report and a still.
	⚡ 6:41am Don in Tampere: ↳ Cooh John @6:38 another line from the song was "leaf blowers finally can be put to good use"
	⚡ 6:45am Michael of Cologne: Good day, Brian, Don, Tom Tom, morphe' & all from sunny Cologne.
	⚡ 6:46am William Hellfire: Watched blue velvet last night. If I found an ear covered in ants in a field I would not take it to the police. I don't like ear covered in ants. I would have gone straight home and listened to my black flag records. I was once an exterminator. Yup. Just like Billy Burroughs.
	⚡ 6:47am tom tom the pipers son: hi michael....
	6:47am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @6:45 Hello, Michael.
	6:48am Brian D: ↳ William Hellfire @6:46 I'd even skip the walking in the field part.
	6:51am HyperDose: ↳ William Hellfire @6:46 My favorite David Lynch story is when he meets Sir Patrick Stewart in person for the first time before shooting Dune and didn't realize he was bald (he was doing a play in a wig when he saw him performing theater)
	⚡ 6:52am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Clip: Euronews-German opposition passes migration... i feel these right wing immigration policies are a reflection of the worlds paralysis on gaza or rather that these policies are filling the void left by paralysis
	6:53am pgalub: Hey Brian! Nice to hear Amy this morning.
	6:53am McGroovey: ↳ Song: "Say It Ain't So" by "Amy Allison" Hey, and I just happen to be awake, which I never am at 6:52 am Saturday. I just woke up to take a pee. I may be asleep again before the next song is over.
	6:54am Brian D: ↳ McGroovey @6:53 Well, this track is for you and your pee. May it be yellow, and may you be a healthy student.
	6:56am rich in angleton: good morning brian! hello to everyone in radioland. my cat decided to join us today!
	⚡ 6:57am William Hellfire: ↳ HyperDose @6:51 Hahaha funny! See you at Bob's Big Boy.
	⚡ 7:00am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:52 do people see a connection between gaza and immigration? i spoke to a palestinian woman a while back and she was convinced that palestinians would be exiled from gaza but said they would return one though it might take a long time
	⚡ 7:03am William Hellfire: Cory Hanson drew me a little monster on my envelope when I bought his T-shirt.
	⚡ 7:06am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:00 a while back....before oct 7th
	7:08am Brian D: ↳ rich in angleton @6:56 Rich!
	7:09am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:00 Yes, definite connections. Part of the "war against the poor," for one thing.
	⚡ 7:10am tom tom the pipers son: oh... i have been guilty of meal pics, but only because i'm a born again cooker and i've lost 15 pounds, perhaps because of it
	⚡ 7:11am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:10 and i post just temporarily
	7:11am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:10 Nothing wrong with meal pics necessarily. I'm an on-again,off-again cooker.
	7:12am morphe': Speaking of Footie ... Celtic v Bayern is a tough pull...
	7:12am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @7:12 It is, yes. But better than Real Madrid, I think.
	7:14am Fredericks: ↳ Song: "Death in Rafo (or, The Crator)" by "Matchess" This pitch change is losing me and I'd just clicked the star.
	⚡ 7:16am herb.nyc: I heard McGroovy’s name! Cool. He sure does have good musical tastes. I always catch his program on wfmu And sorry to hear of Brian’s hard work week. But we’re glad he’s here and enjoying himself and pleasing us (but would it kill him to play a lil more Boyz II Men?)
	7:16am morphe': ↳ Brian D @7:12 Read that the MC coach is whingin' and whinnin' about facing Madrid and the regular schedule??
	⚡ 7:17am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @7:09 some of the deported who arrived in columbia were in hand/foot shackles... the columbians were shocked....of course they were also shocked by the unannounced arrival of a foriegn military plane
	7:19am Brian D: ↳ herb.nyc @7:16 I have Bone, Thugs 'n' Harmony cued up... Good morning, Herb.
	7:19am Re6ecca: Good morning!! Love Damon Albarn!
	7:19am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @7:16 I'm sure he is. He's been banging on most of the season.
	7:20am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:17 Yes, I thought the Colombian response was spot on.
	7:20am Brian D: ↳ Re6ecca @7:19 So do I, Becky. Good morning.
	⚡ 7:22am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @7:20 i was thinking of posting a poem soon... (?)
	7:23am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:22 Always welcome.
	⚡ 7:24am tom tom the pipers son: 👍🏻
	⚡ 7:25am tom tom the pipers son: meridians?
	7:26am TDK60: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:17 Morning tom tom. It's Colombia, Colombian.
	⚡ 7:26am tom tom the pipers son: oh don't know these folks
	7:30am morphe': ↳ Song: "Sálvese Quien Pueda (Every Man for Himself)" by "... ".. the people don't get any in the land of the plenty because 'e pluribus unum' means one out of many" Last Poets then Pop Group too
	7:33am HyperDose: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:22 speaking it into existence! 🗣️🌌
	7:35am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @7:30 A nice continuum there.
	⚡ 7:35am Will thee SG OCNY: Good morning Brian D and all!!!
	7:35am Brian D: ↳ Will thee SG OCNY @7:35 Greetings Will!
	⚡ 7:36am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ TDK60 @7:26 people will have to forgive my one handed typing and autofill mentally the capitalization themselves... the omission is obvious because i don't capitalize anything and has to be contrived to be seen as some sort of slighting...disrespect i don't appreciate the slap in the wrists
	7:37am Crafty: Hi Brian! Hi everyone! As for your question, that's gonna take a while to unpack
	⚡ 7:37am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ HyperDose @7:33 i might have the guts to open mic it soon
	7:39am TDK60: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:36 Colombia has no 'u' is all.
	7:40am Brian D: ↳ Crafty @7:37 Good morning, Crafty.
	7:41am San Pedro Girl: Hello, Brian and listeners.
	⚡ 7:42am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ TDK60 @7:26 ah i AM SO SORRY... i obviously thought something else was going on there... thanks for making me less ignorant...forgive me....
	⚡ 7:44am tom tom the pipers son: Not NYT Junk Poetry The Establishment Warms to Resignation And Deepens Worries About the Effect of Astronomers Keeping an Eye on Life's Ingredients Lurking Inside A Fire Ravaged Manuscript That Unlocks Forgotten DNA Evidence of the Dizzying Path of an A.I. Script Seeking Vindication in a Hot Romance Novel
	⚡ 7:51am Marley P. Dogg: Good morning Brian D and friends
	7:54am morphe': Trees - good book [though he is accused of anthropomorphizing a bit too much - fair critique but also solid info] The Hidden Life of Trees What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from A Secret World By Peter Wohlleben · 2016
	7:55am San Pedro Girl: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:42 Hi tom. I could be wrong, but I doubt the comment TDK made was intended to belittle you.
	7:57am Brian D: ↳ San Pedro Girl @7:41 Belated good morning, SPG.
	7:57am Brian D: ↳ Marley P. Dogg @7:51 Greetings, Marley.
	7:59am morphe': ↳ Song: "There Are Some Worlds Where All Dreams Die (en gl... reminding me I need to buzz my suedehead ..
	⚡ 7:59am newton: good morning.
	⚡ 7:59am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ San Pedro Girl @7:55 yes he clarified... i'm not yet awake.... i apologized
	8:01am Brian D: ↳ newton @7:59 Greetings, Newton.
	⚡ 8:03am tom tom the pipers son: "nuuk"....can't help but think of curly stooge...
	8:05am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:59 Then again, a White House press release did spell it "Columbia", so you were just ahead of the next executive order sharpie-ing a map
	8:06am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:03 Woo, woo, woo, woo.
	⚡ 8:06am newton: I was cautiously optimistic that they had started to shackle and deport the Ivy League, buy alas, Colombia
	8:06am Brian D: ↳ fred @8:05 Hey Fred. Didn't know that.
	8:07am Brian D: ↳ newton @8:06 Right. We can dare to dream.
	⚡ 8:07am newton: but..
	⚡ 8:07am NotARealDoctor: What the fuck is going on indeed. Good morning from Norfolk VA. Still no park today even though Cooper insists his paw is all fixed now
	⚡ 8:07am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @8:05 oh no please g-d help me...but was the press release at 7:17 am?
	8:10am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:07 No, it was during the week, when they announced sanctions
	8:13am Listener Bryan (the Professor): Dude I just came back from the grocery store and there was one option for a dozen eggs that was under $10.
	8:14am Listener Bryan (the Professor): $7.99
	8:14am TDK60: ↳ San Pedro Girl @7:55 Good morning San Pedro Girl. Yep, it's a self-appointed campaign I have assigned myself, to help U.S. citizens improve our geographic savvy despite our wonderful education/media system (in the richest country in the world). Tom tom is merely my first unwilling student in class this morning. I am didactic, teacher-like and have chalk all over my fingers and elbow pads on my corduroy jacket. Hee. // I just checked the map and it is still called the Gulf of Mexico! The cartographers are holding out! Last I checked, Mexico was still an independent nation. Canada too.
	⚡ 8:15am NotARealDoctor: ↳ fred @8:10 Do sanctions count if they misspell the country name?
	8:15am fred: ↳ Song: "Clip: Al Jazeera-Fighting continues in DRC" by "n/a" A security guard at work used to be a colonel in the DRC army
	8:15am duke: ↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @8:13 The egg case at Hannaford was almost empty. I was promised cheap eggs!
	⚡ 8:16am NotARealDoctor: ↳ duke @8:15 Aldi near me had them for as little as $7.49 last week limit 2 per customer
	⚡ 8:17am newton: is any of this price gouging trickling down to the chickens who make the product
	8:17am tonyb: In my daydream, my Uncle Sam deports me to New Zealand. My Susannah is a citizen with a small house in Peha, but unless we marry Kiwi immigration laws are kinda tight. Come get me I.C.E.
	8:18am fred: ↳ NotARealDoctor @8:15 The Orange One is never wrong, so they either rename the country or slap a tax on all graduates of Columbia University
	8:20am duke: ↳ tonyb @8:17 How far back does the idea of deporting children of immigrants go? My great-grandmother was probably illegal. I hope they deport me to Ireland.
	⚡ 8:20am NotARealDoctor: ↳ NotARealDoctor @8:16 Scratch that I took a picture they were $6.99 the 5 dozen package at Costco works out to $3.49 a dozen but you have to buy 5 dozen
	8:20am Jersey Plaid: Prostate Biopsy, not fun
	8:20am morphe': Jim the Poet doing a Soupy Sales ... ".. Hey kids, go in yer Ma's purse and get a few bills and mail them to the station ..."
	8:20am Mennlinn Rebarts: Colonoscopy is not that bad! The propofol was great, but the Prep is awful, though
	⚡ 8:20am newton: ↳ duke @8:20 all the white people in america are immigrants
	⚡ 8:21am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ TDK60 @8:14 hah... i thought it was out of character...
	8:24am Mennlinn Rebarts: Can't recommend enough Joe Sacco's graphic novels on Palestine, available from Fantagraphics.
	8:24am fred: ↳ newton @8:20 Tell that to the ICE stable geniuses arresting native americans
	8:24am Mennlinn Rebarts: ↳ fred @8:24 They are going after Puerto Ricans as well!
	⚡ 8:27am tom tom the pipers son: well you know all the brown people are here because of dei...don't you? it's gotta stop
	8:27am duke: ↳ Mennlinn Rebarts @8:24 They're after brown people right now, but once this gets rolling no one will be safe. You object to rounding up illegals, come along with us.
	8:28am fred: ↳ Mennlinn Rebarts @8:24 I read that, for the crime of speaking Spanish. If not speaking proper English merits deportation, maybe it's time to build Mar-a-Fargo in Greenland
	8:30am Brian D: ↳ tonyb @8:17 Take me with you, Tony. Good morning.
	8:30am morphe': FYI: stories coming out that the story of the PR family being detained may not be true????
	8:31am San Pedro Girl: ↳ TDK60 @8:14 Good morning, TDK! I am here to listen and learn. I am accustomed to being corrected by fellow commenters.
	8:33am morphe': ↳ duke @8:27 First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. —Martin Niemöller This quote is attributed to the prominent German pastor Martin Niemöller. It is sometimes mistakenly referred to as a poem.
	8:34am San Pedro Girl: ↳ fred @8:28 Who will be cleaning the pools and cutting the grass on the Chump golf resorts?
	⚡ 8:34am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @8:24 well leonard peltier freed up a prison cell
	8:34am TDK60: ↳ San Pedro Girl @8:31 Howdy S.P.G. I'm in the spirit of us all learning. Let's go sit together on the couch and open that big ol' Atlas. And have tea. I'm still trying to brush up on all the islands in Indonesia! Ha.
	⚡ 8:35am newton: someone here has a pic of all the land massses rearranges as a chicken
	8:35am LoNo Mankato Fishead: Great music this morning!! Thanks
	8:36am Mennlinn Rebarts: ↳ morphe' @8:30 Thanks, looks like that may be so. Other reports of American citizens being detained are confirmed, though. That we have fully slipped into fascism seems very much certain.
	8:36am morphe': ↳ San Pedro Girl @8:34 "A Day Without a Mexican 2004 R 1h 40m" www.imdb.com...
	8:37am San Pedro Girl: ↳ TDK60 @8:34 I’m up for it. Though I think we live on opposite coasts.
	8:37am fred: ↳ San Pedro Girl @8:34 Chairman Mango could put liberals to work there, you know, work makes free or something like that (sounds better in his ancestral language)
	8:38am TDK60: ↳ San Pedro Girl @8:37 Ah yes, you live in the Minutemen pilgrimage site, eh?
	8:39am tonyb: A 23 year old Jay visited WFMU East Orange with Jeff for a live session on July 29, 1990.
	⚡ 8:39am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ TDK60 @8:38 hah made same mistake
	8:40am dale: morning. we have born in the usa, living in the usa....is there dying in the usa?
	8:40am morphe': ↳ Mennlinn Rebarts @8:36 Yes, absolutely true stories too...
	⚡ 8:40am newton: it's the place where a special cactus comes from
	8:41am TDK60: ↳ Song: "Living in the USA" by "Sun Volt" It's great to hear Son Volt again; don't hear 'em that much.
	8:42am Chris from Brooklyn: Morning Lads Colonoscopy is a walk in the park compared to a ((fully awake)) cystoscopy. To quote George Takei: OH MY. Second for the “in office” conscious prostate biopsy too: not painful but so odd to feel what sounds like an auto stapler going off twelve times inside you while a nurse holds you down and the Dr distracts you with small talk.
	8:45am fred: ↳ Chris from Brooklyn @8:42 I sense a 7SD topic taking form (too bad Andy is taking a leave at the Bob Dylan hot air balloon academy)
	8:45am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ Song: "AT&T" by "Pavement" Lowkey one of my favorite Pavement songs
	8:48am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ dale @8:40 i'm so sick of the u.s.a.
	⚡ 8:51am Brian in UK: Belated hello Brian from behind the parapet. Waving not drowning!
	8:52am Chris from Brooklyn: ↳ fred @8:45 Nyuck. El joyo de age n stage eh Fred?
	⚡ 8:52am tom tom the pipers son: thanks brian... have a good week
	8:52am Fredericks: What a set. Good show, Brian.
	8:55am WSJ: Hands down, caleechee bound! Nice job Brian D
	8:56am Brian D: Alright folks. Almost done. Thanks for joining me. Stay safe and enjoy the weekend!
	8:56am TDK60: ↳ Song: "Can't Get There From Here" by "REM" A fave R.E.M. slab for me that sounds the most Southern of their works to me, though it was recorded in olde England. Gracias deejay Brian for crossing the river that flows two ways, for radio.
	8:57am morphe': Thanks BD and all .... sad that the us is so fucked and yet still better place to live than other places .. heard a tag team of sociologists saying there will be a 10-15-20 year turn around time span till/when young progressives will come to the fore ... sadly I'll be dead and will not see it ... be safe and carry ID ..
	⚡ 8:57am Will thee SG OCNY: thank you Brian D!!!
	8:58am HyperDose: Thanks Mr. Brian!
	8:59am San Pedro Girl: ↳ morphe' @8:36 I think the idea is to make a big display of deporting people in a brutal and cruel manner to satisfy the Maga Chumpistas. Prison camps are what these folks have in mind, paid for by taxpayers. But there is no way we can function without these low wage agricultural workers. They will become slaves. Child labor laws have been abolished.
	⚡ 9:00am newton: thanks Brian!
	⚡ 9:00am nortonjutland: Thank you Brian!

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