WFMU: Currents with Brian D: Playlist from April 12, 2025

Listener comments!
	♥ 6:02am Doug in MP: Good morning from snowy Morris Plains
	⚡ ♥ 6:03am London Calling Francky: Morning Brian and Currentists... still sunny and warm in London Town... it is not going to last much longer apparently...
	♥ 6:03am duke: Morning all
	6:04am vampen: Lunchtime in Sweden and the tunes are being served.
	6:04am newton: Good morning The snow plow just came through 2.5 inches so far and another two coming!!
	♥ 6:05am pgalub: Hey Brian and everyone. This Brooklyn wintry mix weather is a bit of a bummer. Glad to be listening.
	6:07am Cooh John: Good morning Brian and current eventers.
	⚡ ♥ 6:07am Michael of Cologne: Good noonday Brian, LC Francky & all. Here in Cologne the weather's holding up well so far. Eitler Sonnenschein.
	♥ 6:07am Brian D: Doug, LCF, Duke, Vampen, Newton, PG, Cooh, ALL... good morning.
	♥ 6:08am Brian D: ↳ newton @6:04 Great seeing you IRL a couple of weeks ago, Newton.
	♥ 6:08am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @6:07 Greetings Michael.
	⚡ ♥ 6:08am bradford: Good morning Brian & all.
	♥ 6:09am Brian D: ↳ pgalub @6:05 This weather's almost my sweet spot, Mr. G.
	⚡ ♥ 6:09am NotARealDoctor: Good morning Brian D and fellow Surfers of the Currents
	♥ 6:10am Brian D: Bradford.. NARD... good morning.
	6:10am newton: You and mrs currents too!
	♥ 6:11am fred: Good morning Brian and listeners
	♥ 6:11am Brian D: ↳ fred @6:11 Fred! How are you feeling?
	♥ 6:11am pgalub: ↳ Brian D @6:09 I think it would be better if I didn't have an annoying cough.;)
	♥ 6:12am Brian D: ↳ pgalub @6:11 As someone who had one of those recently, any day would be better without that. Get well soon.
	♥ 6:13am pgalub: Thanks, Mr. D!
	⚡ ♥ 6:13am London Calling Francky: ↳ Michael of Cologne @6:07 Guten Morgen Herr Michael!
	6:13am Cooh John: MY wife and granddaughter are already in line for RSD. That is the news around here.
	♥ 6:15am Brian D: ↳ Cooh John @6:13 We'll be partaking later, all goes well.
	⚡ ♥ 6:16am London Calling Francky: ↳ Cooh John @6:13 I misread this John... I understood that there were in line for LSD... I thought "wow things have gone very permissive on that side of the Pond" :)
	♥ 6:16am fred: ↳ Brian D @6:11 Pretty good, but the coming colonoscopy will be hell: they have to block the blood thinners I'm taking, which will probably takes weeks to repair. And instead of a single day thing, that means three days in a military hospital (sounds like fun!). I also have to stop taking iron for anemia, so I'll be exhausted.
	6:23am Cooh John: Perhaps LSD will follow the easing of THC legislation. That would be "boffo" as someone recently said.
	⚡ ♥ 6:24am Strandlund: Good Morning Brian and all those that want to know what the hell is going on...
	♥ 6:27am Brian D: ↳ London Calling Francky @6:16 I thought he meant that, too... Just kidding.
	♥ 6:27am William Hellfire: ↳ Song: "Love Changes Everything IV-VI" by "Dirty Three" !!!!!
	♥ 6:27am Brian D: ↳ fred @6:16 Aw man. And colonoscopies are never fun anyway... Good luck.
	♥ 6:28am Brian D: ↳ Strandlund @6:24 Hey Strand.
	⚡ ♥ 6:29am London Calling Francky: ↳ Cooh John @6:23 Precisely my thinking! LSD dispensaries all over the place... would make things psychedlically interesting 🤪
	6:29am Cooh John: A variant mind-altering state.
	⚡ 6:31am Don in Tampere: Hi Brian and all! I think my computer crashed before this posted the first time. Just stopping in to say hello before practicing for tonight's gig. Fred, good luck on everything health-related.
	⚡ ♥ 6:32am London Calling Francky: ↳ Song: "Love Changes Everything IV-VI" by "Dirty Three" Brian you were right about this Dirty Three record... what a masterpiece!
	♥ 6:34am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @6:31 Greetings Don. Have a great show!
	♥ 6:34am Brian D: ↳ London Calling Francky @6:32 Yeah, I threatened to do this last week. It works well for the vibe here today.
	♥ 6:37am pgalub: ↳ Brian D @6:34 This is totally vibing with me.
	6:38am Cooh John: Love the vibe you put out, Brian. Just a reminder to everyone: no one can take your happiness, you can only give it away. Carpe Diem.
	⚡ ♥ 6:38am Will thee SG OCNY: Good morning Brian D and all!!!
	⚡ ♥ 6:41am London Calling Francky: ↳ Will thee SG OCNY @6:38 Morning Will! Welcome on board!
	6:41am Cooh John: Love is the most powerful force in the universe.
	⚡ ♥ 6:42am London Calling Francky: ↳ Brian D @6:34 Spot on Brian! Amazing vibe! Thank you for this real treat!
	⚡ ♥ 6:44am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Song: "Clip: ITV-Scientists MAY have recreated extinct d... Another GREAT profit-making opportunity!
	6:46am WSJ: I like this. Nice for a Saturday morning
	♥ 6:47am Brian D: ↳ WSJ @6:46 That's the goal. Good morning.
	⚡ ♥ 6:47am Tooth: ↳ Cooh John @6:41 Cool, John. Cool.
	♥ 6:47am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @6:44 Sadly, yes, Michael.
	⚡ ♥ 6:49am tom tom the pipers son: good morning brian …all…… the ‘dire’ wolf….? the right wolf for the right time
	6:49am morphe': ↳ Song: "Cistern" by "Jherek Bischoff" Attuned with mi son Simon [13] in Madrid ... he is making dramatic noises to the piece ...
	⚡ ♥ 6:52am Tooth: ↳ morphe' @6:49 Who has the upper hand at ping-pong these days?
	6:52am Cooh John: Frost laden morning as I stretch and meditate before work. So wonderful to be with you all. Perfect soundtrack.
	♥ 6:53am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:49 Indeed Tom Tom. Good morning.
	♥ 6:53am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @6:49 Buen dia, Morphe.
	6:56am WSJ: Getting better…
	⚡ ♥ 6:58am NotARealDoctor: ↳ fred @6:16 Youch, as if the colonoscopy wasn't bad enough
	⚡ ♥ 7:00am TDK60: Good morning, Brian, Currents folks.
	7:00am morphe': ↳ Tooth @6:52 Simon is the Champ... he also beats me in Tenis and racquetball ... we are tied in WiffleBall ... but he will soon be beating me there too...
	7:00am Cooh John: The Pretenders! O-H....
	7:03am morphe': ps from the Johnny Lydon interview of last week [RTE 1 Brendan O'Connor] ... heard a bit on the weekend recap that I missed last week ... He is for Trump and compared him to the Pistols: [paraphrase]" ...he is like the Pistols ... ya gotta go in and bust things up ...." UUUGGGGHHHH!
	♥ 7:03am Brian D: ↳ TDK60 @7:00 Greetings, TDK. Thought you were elsewhere this week.
	♥ 7:03am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @7:03 You know, I forgot to listen to that, Morphe. Thanks for reminding me.
	⚡ ♥ 7:05am TDK60: I just got back, DJ B. I was in southeast Ohio.
	⚡ ♥ 7:05am NotARealDoctor: ↳ morphe' @7:03 I believe he came out as pro fascist back in 2016, so that's no surprise, Johnny Brain-Rotten
	⚡ ♥ 7:05am tom tom the pipers son: frederic jameson, during first term, compared him to mao
	♥ 7:07am fred: ↳ morphe' @7:03 H's been a Trumpist for a while. Not surprising, not even sad; the Pistols were not exactly the Clash politically anyway
	♥ 7:07am William Hellfire: ↳ London Calling Francky @6:29 !!!
	⚡ ♥ 7:07am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:05 actually after term during biden’s term
	⚡ ♥ 7:08am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @7:07 mommy, i’m not an an-i-mal….
	♥ 7:11am William Hellfire: I'm old and I have "movie night" every night!
	7:17am Cooh John: Where were you, TDK60? That is my neighborhood.
	⚡ ♥ 7:17am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Good morning Brian and news hounds.
	⚡ ♥ 7:17am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Brian D @6:47 Yes, but think of all the well-paid jobs it will create! Next to the poorly paid ones.
	⚡ ♥ 7:17am Tooth: ↳ morphe' @7:00 I know the feeling! Youth conquers all.
	7:18am morphe': ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:05 Did not know Jameson is/was still alive...
	7:18am tonyb: Good Morning. ☕️
	⚡ ♥ 7:19am NotARealDoctor: ↳ morphe' @7:18 I believe he died last year
	7:19am morphe': ↳ Tooth @7:17 I lose with dignity ...
	⚡ ♥ 7:19am Tooth: ↳ morphe' @7:03 And what about Wayne Gretzky? My idols have feet of clay (and not the good Clay Pigeon kind).
	⚡ ♥ 7:20am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: ↳ morphe' @7:03 Just another reason to dislike Johnny Lydon.
	⚡ ♥ 7:20am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ morphe' @7:18 yes he died last year cat 90...
	♥ 7:20am Brian D: ↳ Peter from Saranac Lake NY @7:17 Peter. Greetings, sir.
	♥ 7:21am Brian D: ↳ tonyb @7:18 Tony! Was thinking of you the other night at Monty Hall. I model my ticket-taking patter off of yours. Good morning.
	⚡ ♥ 7:23am TDK60: ↳ Cooh John @7:17 Good morning, Cooh John. I visited an old music pal down in Athens. I got to play at an open mic. I also attended the local, large "Hands Off" protest.
	7:26am Cooh John: TDK60, I went to OU, spent my summer vacation in Athens and am officially first family of Athens county. Tie-dye never went away there.
	⚡ ♥ 7:27am nortonjutland: morning Brian! thanks for the music.
	7:30am tonyb: Did you work the Lennon/Ono film?
	♥ 7:30am Brian D: ↳ nortonjutland @7:27 Good morning, NJ. Truly my pleasure.
	♥ 7:31am Brian D: ↳ tonyb @7:30 I didn't, no. It was the library event hosted by Trouble.
	7:31am Cooh John: Rubio should have revoked student visas before March Madness and messed with everyone's brackets. Next year.
	⚡ ♥ 7:31am tom tom the pipers son: in an official statement rubio cites ‘future beliefs’ detrimental to u.s foreign policy as grounds for deporting the columbia student
	⚡ ♥ 7:31am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Song: "Memory of You" by "Mark Stewart" Buck up! You'll get over it, you sook.
	⚡ ♥ 7:31am TDK60: ↳ Cooh John @7:26 Ah, how about that? It's got a lot going on for a small city.
	7:31am newton: Dire wolf , isnt that a legal term , the wolf speaks?
	7:32am Dave V: Has a Bill Shatner vibe lol.
	⚡ ♥ 7:32am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ newton @7:31 oh latin….
	♥ 7:33am Brian D: ↳ newton @7:31 Dead language humor... only at WFMU.
	⚡ ♥ 7:34am Michael of Cologne: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:31 McCarthy era to the power of two or even three?
	⚡ ♥ 7:34am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @7:33 i’m still asleep….
	⚡ ♥ 7:35am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Michael of Cologne @7:34 something out of fiction...
	♥ 7:35am fred: Researchers where I work have been advised to contact IT before attending a conference in the US to be issued wiped out phones and laptops with the bare minimum on there. I don't think it matters, they already have all the guys' social media posts anyway. But the very existence of this advisory tells a lot about how the USA are perceived. There's talk of moving conferences to somewhere else as well
	7:35am rich in angleton: good morning brian and everyone in radioland.. a bit of a late start for me this a.m. but I'm happy to be here!
	7:35am Barbie: Drifting off on a dark and dank morning
	♥ 7:36am Ben in Newark: Good morning everyone!
	7:36am tonyb: Cool event. My librarians here in Cranford are my favorite neighbors. Tough but noble vocation nowadays.
	♥ 7:36am fred: ↳ Song: "Un Message" by "Tremosphere" I think Tremosphere is listener Sylvia
	⚡ ♥ 7:36am Brian in UK: Hello Brian & weekend folks. FRED, best wishes to you for the next few weeks. Our daughter is going to Boston in a couple of weeks for a transplant conference. Hope it all goes smoothly.
	7:37am pp: I like the juxtaposition of John Oates being a guest of Todd's along with the Peawees. will the 3rd guest be the mustache?
	⚡ ♥ 7:37am Will thee SG OCNY: ↳ fred @7:35 Definitely not a bad idea. Sad times we are in 😟
	⚡ ♥ 7:38am Will thee SG OCNY: It snowed up here in 90.1 territory
	♥ 7:38am Brian D: ↳ fred @7:36 'Tis.
	♥ 7:39am Brian D: ↳ tonyb @7:36 Agreed. Had a number of librarians in attendance. Great night.
	♥ 7:39am Brian D: ↳ Brian in UK @7:36 Good morning/afternoon, Brian.
	⚡ ♥ 7:39am Brian in UK: ↳ pp @7:37 I used to have a copy of the 'Silver Album by DH & JO. How did they have the nerve to produce that cover 'art'.
	♥ 7:40am fred: ↳ Brian in UK @7:36 She just should leave any anti-Trump, anti-Musk or anti-Farage T-shirts at home
	⚡ ♥ 7:40am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @7:35 last tuesday mark hurst and jesse jarnow and one other struggled to dissemble an alexa, it took 45 minutes… i compared it to the scene in the hitchcock film where paul newman as an american agent in east germany suffocates a stasi agent in a gas oven….it takes a long time
	♥ 7:41am Brian D: ↳ Will thee SG OCNY @7:38 Not unprecedented, but still weird. Belated good morning, Will.
	⚡ ♥ 7:41am Brian in UK: ↳ fred @7:40 Luckily she is not a political animal, though I am not sure that matters right now.
	7:41am Cooh John: I am looking forward to the return of music like this. America will be great again.
	⚡ ♥ 7:42am Michael of Cologne: ↳ fred @7:35 The rapid descent is breath-taking and alarming. A con-man has conned millions and millions of suckers who don't latch on to the game he's playing. Was it W.C. Fields who said, there's a sucker born every second?
	♥ 7:42am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:40 In both cases, a sledgehammer would have been faster
	⚡ ♥ 7:43am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @7:42 ha!
	♥ 7:44am fred: ↳ Brian in UK @7:41 There was a petition lately about defending science. She will be on a list if she signed that
	⚡ ♥ 7:44am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Brian in UK @7:41 A T-shirt with Wake Up! on it would be apt.
	♥ 7:45am fred: ↳ Michael of Cologne @7:42 Wasn't it Barnum? Though those quotes are usually made up anyway
	⚡ ♥ 7:45am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: ↳ fred @7:35 I'm traveling to Germany in a couple of weeks and I'm considering some kind of burner phone. Paranoid that I won't be allowed back in the country upon return.
	7:46am pp: ↳ Brian in UK @7:39 Todd always has music geek questions, not quite the level of Narduar, but will be interesting
	⚡ ♥ 7:47am Strandlund: ↳ fred @7:45 W.C. Fields said, "Never give a sucker an even break." Trump listened to him...
	⚡ ♥ 7:48am Michael of Cologne: ↳ fred @7:45 Mebbe. They're all in the same American capitalist spirit, eh? At least "Never Give A Sucker an Even Break" is a genuine W.C. Field quote. He scripted the movie himself.
	⚡ ♥ 7:48am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @7:44 brian posted on insta that a library that collects data was told to discard material regarding climate change and gender studies…correct brian..?
	♥ 7:48am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:48 It was race and gender, but yes. I'm sure climate change was implied.
	⚡ ♥ 7:49am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @7:48 thx…
	♥ 7:50am fred: ↳ Peter from Saranac Lake NY @7:45 You should be safe if you are a citizen born in the US from US citizens. A lot of people have told me they're taking the same precautions, but your social media accounts are surveilled anyway
	♥ 7:52am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:49 Sorry. Distracted. Public library in Mississippi. Cuts and restrictions will affect everything from books available to inter-library loan. Also research, databases, etc.
	⚡ ♥ 7:52am tom tom the pipers son: TIMES 4/9/25 Who Needs The Stories That Aren’t Archived As Chinese Lunar Rocks Are Shrinking, Which Is a Good Thing for Physics, Expanding the Ancient Range of Neutrinos While Raising Chickens Amid the Difficulty of Hugging Virtually With a Jawbone Making Sparks Fly for People Who Think They Don’t Like Fantasy That Rely On The Lost Art of Dressing Like a Movie Mogul   Ruins And Volcanos Included
	♥ 7:52am estebangrande: good morning Brian and Current
	⚡ ♥ 7:53am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @7:52 thx for this post….and that one...
	⚡ ♥ 7:54am john_zilla: good morning
	♥ 7:55am fred: ↳ fred @7:50 It's more dire (not wolf) for naturalized people. I know one who doesn't dare leave the US: she was born in Iran, has family there, and no intention to go back. She is looking at academic positions outside of the US though
	⚡ ♥ 7:55am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: ↳ fred @7:50 I'm a US citizen, but things are not good here. Regime defying the judiciary and attempting to dismantle the concept of due process.
	⚡ ♥ 7:58am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Strandlund @7:47 If W.C. Fields didn't quip "There's a sucker born every second", he'd deserve the attribution anyway for this deep truth of our mediatized (TV, social media,...) times. DJT is an exudation of the medium of TV and its mass audiences. Gradually, over decades and decades, since WWII, the progressive dumbing-down. And with the new digitized medium, the attention spans of younger generations are being whittled away. No need to remove books from libraries, because untold millions have unlearned to focus on much at all, let alone read a book.
	⚡ ♥ 7:58am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: ↳ fred @7:55 You're correct. However, if they can come for naturalized citizens, green card holders, and people with legit visas, there's nothing stopping them from going after someone who was born here.
	⚡ ♥ 8:03am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "One More Chance" by "Nico" a little unhinged….i can sense her need to shoot up
	♥ 8:04am fred: ↳ Peter from Saranac Lake NY @7:58 Except some of them do know that empowering bullies would inevitably lead to deporting a sympathetic MAGA-head from the heartland
	8:04am newton: 3" snow! Frances had to wear her red rubber boots, which ought to have been a song by The Cyrkle
	⚡ ♥ 8:06am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ newton @8:04 oh wow…1/2 inch expected…. correct
	⚡ ♥ 8:06am Tooth: Just waiting for rain to abate to go for morning run in new running shoes …
	8:07am newton: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:06 that was yesterday morning last night they changed the prediction. Sharon ct supposed to get 6-8. it will all wash away in the rain by sundown
	♥ 8:07am estebangrande: ↳ fred @8:04 if you want to make an omelette
	⚡ ♥ 8:08am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ newton @8:07 good, so no shoveling needed…hopefully
	8:09am Will: The In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida of Krautrock! Same organ solo!
	⚡ ♥ 8:09am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: ↳ fred @8:04 The current regime wouldn't care. My social media is rife with accounts of MAGA who are astonished that they've been fired from their federal government jobs or lost their Medicare benefits.
	♥ 8:10am William Hellfire: ↳ Song: "Eine (One)" by "Can" !!!!!!!!!!
	8:10am scrap: this track is slapping rn good morninnn
	♥ 8:11am fred: ↳ estebangrande @8:07 You can always rely on senator Kennedy to make an analogy gross but entertaining in a way
	⚡ ♥ 8:11am tom tom the pipers son: michael karoli doesn’t get enough props
	⚡ ♥ 8:12am dale: morning. really enjoying the can jam. canned jam if you will.
	⚡ ♥ 8:17am TDK60: It's "not that bad" only when Jim the Poet is around. Then, we go back to the normal it-is-that-bad.
	♥ 8:17am fred: ↳ Peter from Saranac Lake NY @8:09 Reminds me of when a measure to institute co-pay here was wildly popular among seniors, because it had been portrayed as against migrants. They were the ones who got hit, but still support it, because racism works
	8:19am newton: i can hear you both fine
	8:20am Jeffrey from west Florida: Legal much ?
	8:20am Harv: It’s not the phone equipment. It’s karma!
	8:20am pp: ↳ pp @7:46 Todd is so great. I mentioned that Peter Wolf has a memoir coming out, and it says that he will have him as a guest in May.
	8:22am play: Politics on Saturday Morning???? Can you give everyone a break and just play some effin music ! All the deejays' personal opinions are killing this station.
	8:22am Harv: Yeah Fred. When you’re losing the debate, you shout racism.
	8:24am newton: glacier tourism is up! everyone wants to see them before they're gone so they fly and drive to them which melts them faster, better hurry up!
	♥ 8:27am Beast of Boonton: ↳ play @8:22 Can we get refunds?
	♥ 8:27am fred: ↳ newton @8:24 There must be some fancy greek or latin word for that
	⚡ ♥ 8:28am dale: trump is homophobic. anyone not a he man or a she woman is verboten.
	8:28am pp: ↳ play @8:22 Au contraire. Can always listen to the political talk, and turn on another WFMU stream for background music ;)
	⚡ ♥ 8:28am nortonjutland: ↳ fred @8:27 cognitive dissonance or stupidity?
	⚡ ♥ 8:30am dale: ↳ play @8:22 politics is what informs and curates the music on this show.
	8:30am newton: ↳ fred @8:27 there should be, Anthony Burgess would have known it, or just made it up. it was a vide story on the weather website weatherunderground that joyously talked about glacier tourism yesterday https://www.wunderground.com/video/top-stories/get-out-of-the-heat-this-summer-and-visit-matanuska-glacier
	8:31am Kelly s: I am a librarian who attended on Thursday! It was so much fun!
	⚡ ♥ 8:33am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Trolls in the house this morning. Love it when Jim the Poet calls in.
	♥ 8:33am fred: Once the onesie factory opens in NJ Jim can be their lead model
	♥ 8:36am Doug in MP: "Music inspired by life and current events"
	♥ 8:37am fred: How ironic if the Dodgers came back to NYC to crush both teams
	⚡ ♥ 8:37am No Big Thing in Chicago: Good morning Brian D and all. Happy to be listening live; less pleased o be doing so from within the midst of TX big city sprawl.
	♥ 8:39am fred: I know who he was! I think Oil Can stood for his beer habit
	8:40am Todd-a-o: Everybody’s talkin at me, I don’t hear a word they’re sayin
	8:40am newton: oil can what?
	8:41am newton: jarvick 7
	♥ 8:42am fred: ↳ newton @8:40 You just can't acknowledge a Red Sox pitcher or what?
	♥ 8:42am Brian D: ↳ Kelly s @8:31 Kelly, we must have met, however briefly. I was working the door. Great event. Glad you had fun.
	♥ 8:42am Ciggy: Good morning It's gonna be a beautiful day 🌞
	8:43am Patrick: Yes! Remember this song from the X-Files comp
	♥ 8:43am Brian D: ↳ newton @8:40 Oil Can Boyd.
	8:43am newton: ↳ fred @8:42 when they find the tin man, dorthy says, he said oil can, scarecrow says, oil can what?
	8:44am clarke: celtic now up 4-1
	♥ 8:44am fred: ↳ newton @8:43 Wow, nice reference!
	⚡ ♥ 8:46am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Great show, Brian. Thank you.
	8:47am clarke: RIP Dave Allen - but, am i right in that he didn't play with Go4 in a long time (i think sara lee was playing with them most of the last part of their run?)>
	♥ 8:48am fred: I really like what I heard of Kim Deal's record (Kim Deal was a major celeb crush in my college years)
	⚡ ♥ 8:48am Will thee SG OCNY: GOF!
	⚡ ♥ 8:51am TDK60: ↳ Song: "Guns Before Butter" by "Gang of Four" Still edgy and subversive.
	8:52am clarke: RIP clam - great dude and better drummer
	⚡ ♥ 8:53am Ken From Hyde Park: Good morning. There's like an inch of snow on the ground and it's still coming down. Jim tells me it's not that bad.
	8:53am clarke: ↳ clarke @8:52 clem - oops, no clams on that dude
	8:54am Daybreak!: The Brit's are breaking down the doors of a quaker meeting house. If they think that people meeting because they want peace in Gaza is terrorism, maybe they should reflect on their sudden, excessive force to assault people meeting peacefully. Who are the terrorists in this situation?!?!
	⚡ ♥ 8:55am TDK60: Well, raiding the peaceful Quakers with armed cops. What next?
	♥ 8:55am PaulRobeson1925: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @8:53 Good time to sow kale
	8:56am clarke: i pay NO attention to current events; however, this show plays fab musics.
	⚡ ♥ 8:56am Michael of Cologne: ↳ dale @8:30 I'm for the pre-political myself.
	♥ 8:56am PaulRobeson1925: ↳ TDK60 @8:55 Jailing millions and millions of people in the name of a War On Drugs that neither protects people from nor stops what it claims to be fighting
	♥ 8:56am Brian D: Alright all, that's about it for me. Stay safe and well and have a great weekend. Thank you all for listening.
	8:57am clarke: ↳ Brian D @8:56 thnx mate
	8:57am newton: thanks Brian!
	⚡ ♥ 8:57am TDK60: Gracias for the show, Brian. It's a most important show.
	8:57am annette: reminder: record day here. get out and buy your wax and plastic and spin !!!
	⚡ ♥ 8:58am NotARealDoctor: Thanks Brian, have a great week
	⚡ ♥ 8:59am Will thee SG OCNY: Thank you Brian, we appreciate you!!!
	8:59am Toothgrinder Tom: All decent people on the left and the right should be opposed to authoritarianism, full stop.
	9:01am Daybreak!: "Speaking to the Mirror, a representative from Youth Demand said that the group have "seen over 200 new sign-up's for action since the raids on Thursday." They said that the public response to the police raid "demonstrates how repression backfires and shows that young people will not be intimidated in resisting the UK government, whilst they are not serving the interests of ordinary people and are actively participating in crimes against humanity."

Currents with Brian D: Playlist from April 12, 2025

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April 12, 2025: “I find that being part of a family is the most excruciating possible way to be alive.”—Anne Enright, The Gathering

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Artist	Track	Album	Comments	Approx. start time
Marinero	Dream Suite "Dream Suite" by "Marinero"	La La La		0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Donald Byrd	Cristo Redentor "Cristo Redentor" by "Donald Byrd"	A New Perspective		0:03:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tim Hodgkinson and Atsuko Kamura	Suisen No	Haiku in the Wide World		0:09:30 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Leya	Corners - Chanel Beads Rework	Bandcamp single		0:12:40 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Dirty Three	Love Changes Everything IV-VI	Love Changes Everything		0:18:33 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
	Clip: ITV-Scientists MAY have recreated extinct dire wolf			0:40:47 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jherek Bischoff	Cistern "Cistern" by "Jherek Bischoff"	Cistern		0:42:08 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Big Bend	Cistern "Cistern" by "Big Bend"	Last Circle in a Slowdown		0:48:24 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
	Clip: Al Jazeera-Hong Kong hit hard by US tariffs			0:53:29 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Pretenders	I Hate Myself "I Hate Myself" by "Pretenders"	Alone	Also appears in Fallen Angels	0:54:32 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Massive Attack	Karmacoma (feat. Tricky)	Protection	Also appears in Fallen Angels	0:59:17 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Laurie Anderson	Speak My Language	Bright Red	Also appears in Fallen Angels	1:04:29 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Tremosphere	Un Message "Un Message" by "Tremosphere"	Saturated Solace		1:16:30 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory	Live Forever	Sharon Van Etten and the Attachment Theory		1:20:42 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
	Clip: ABC-Federal immigration officials revoking student visas			1:26:21 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mark Stewart	Memory of You "Memory of You" by "Mark Stewart"	The Fateful Symmetry		1:27:37 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Justin Adams and Mauro Durante	Sweet Release	Sweet Release		1:31:37 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Jeff Buckley	Everyday People "Everyday People" by "Jeff Buckley"	Everybody Is A Star: The Sly Stone Songbook	CURRENTS COMMENDATION: R.I.P. Robert McChesney: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/business/media/robert-w-mcchesney-dead.html	1:36:30 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Laurie Styvers	Crazy Rainy Spring	Let Me Comfort You: The Hush Rarities		1:41:05 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Califone	Family Swan "Family Swan" by "Califone"	The Villager’s Companion		1:45:17 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Nico	One More Chance "One More Chance" by "Nico"	Chelsea Town Hall		1:53:16 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Can	Eine (One) "Eine (One)" by "Can"	Live in Keele 1977		2:00:39 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	"It's Not That Bad with Jim the Poet"		It's Not That Bad with Jim the Poet	2:10:52 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Frank Black	Man of Steel "Man of Steel" by "Frank Black"	Oddballs		2:40:05 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Gang of Four	Guns Before Butter "Guns Before Butter" by "Gang of Four"	Entertainment!	R.I.P. Bassist Dave Allen https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/apr/07/gang-of-four-bassist-dave-allen-dies-aged-69	2:45:06 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
	Clip: Al Jazeera-Reporters in Gaza killed in Israeli strike			2:48:51 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
	Clip: Straight Arrow News-London police raid Quaker meeting house			2:49:27 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Split Squad	Hey DJ "Hey DJ" by "The Split Squad"	Another Cinderella	R.I.P. Drummer Clem Burke https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/clem-burke-blondie-drummer-dead-obituary-1235311703/	2:50:04 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Throwing Muses	Albatross "Albatross" by "Throwing Muses"	Moonlight Concessions		2:53:43 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	♥ 6:02am Doug in MP: Good morning from snowy Morris Plains
	⚡ ♥ 6:03am London Calling Francky: Morning Brian and Currentists... still sunny and warm in London Town... it is not going to last much longer apparently...
	♥ 6:03am duke: Morning all
	6:04am vampen: Lunchtime in Sweden and the tunes are being served.
	6:04am newton: Good morning The snow plow just came through 2.5 inches so far and another two coming!!
	♥ 6:05am pgalub: Hey Brian and everyone. This Brooklyn wintry mix weather is a bit of a bummer. Glad to be listening.
	6:07am Cooh John: Good morning Brian and current eventers.
	⚡ ♥ 6:07am Michael of Cologne: Good noonday Brian, LC Francky & all. Here in Cologne the weather's holding up well so far. Eitler Sonnenschein.
	♥ 6:07am Brian D: Doug, LCF, Duke, Vampen, Newton, PG, Cooh, ALL... good morning.
	♥ 6:08am Brian D: ↳ newton @6:04 Great seeing you IRL a couple of weeks ago, Newton.
	♥ 6:08am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @6:07 Greetings Michael.
	⚡ ♥ 6:08am bradford: Good morning Brian & all.
	♥ 6:09am Brian D: ↳ pgalub @6:05 This weather's almost my sweet spot, Mr. G.
	⚡ ♥ 6:09am NotARealDoctor: Good morning Brian D and fellow Surfers of the Currents
	♥ 6:10am Brian D: Bradford.. NARD... good morning.
	6:10am newton: You and mrs currents too!
	♥ 6:11am fred: Good morning Brian and listeners
	♥ 6:11am Brian D: ↳ fred @6:11 Fred! How are you feeling?
	♥ 6:11am pgalub: ↳ Brian D @6:09 I think it would be better if I didn't have an annoying cough.;)
	♥ 6:12am Brian D: ↳ pgalub @6:11 As someone who had one of those recently, any day would be better without that. Get well soon.
	♥ 6:13am pgalub: Thanks, Mr. D!
	⚡ ♥ 6:13am London Calling Francky: ↳ Michael of Cologne @6:07 Guten Morgen Herr Michael!
	6:13am Cooh John: MY wife and granddaughter are already in line for RSD. That is the news around here.
	♥ 6:15am Brian D: ↳ Cooh John @6:13 We'll be partaking later, all goes well.
	⚡ ♥ 6:16am London Calling Francky: ↳ Cooh John @6:13 I misread this John... I understood that there were in line for LSD... I thought "wow things have gone very permissive on that side of the Pond" :)
	♥ 6:16am fred: ↳ Brian D @6:11 Pretty good, but the coming colonoscopy will be hell: they have to block the blood thinners I'm taking, which will probably takes weeks to repair. And instead of a single day thing, that means three days in a military hospital (sounds like fun!). I also have to stop taking iron for anemia, so I'll be exhausted.
	6:23am Cooh John: Perhaps LSD will follow the easing of THC legislation. That would be "boffo" as someone recently said.
	⚡ ♥ 6:24am Strandlund: Good Morning Brian and all those that want to know what the hell is going on...
	♥ 6:27am Brian D: ↳ London Calling Francky @6:16 I thought he meant that, too... Just kidding.
	♥ 6:27am William Hellfire: ↳ Song: "Love Changes Everything IV-VI" by "Dirty Three" !!!!!
	♥ 6:27am Brian D: ↳ fred @6:16 Aw man. And colonoscopies are never fun anyway... Good luck.
	♥ 6:28am Brian D: ↳ Strandlund @6:24 Hey Strand.
	⚡ ♥ 6:29am London Calling Francky: ↳ Cooh John @6:23 Precisely my thinking! LSD dispensaries all over the place... would make things psychedlically interesting 🤪
	6:29am Cooh John: A variant mind-altering state.
	⚡ 6:31am Don in Tampere: Hi Brian and all! I think my computer crashed before this posted the first time. Just stopping in to say hello before practicing for tonight's gig. Fred, good luck on everything health-related.
	⚡ ♥ 6:32am London Calling Francky: ↳ Song: "Love Changes Everything IV-VI" by "Dirty Three" Brian you were right about this Dirty Three record... what a masterpiece!
	♥ 6:34am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @6:31 Greetings Don. Have a great show!
	♥ 6:34am Brian D: ↳ London Calling Francky @6:32 Yeah, I threatened to do this last week. It works well for the vibe here today.
	♥ 6:37am pgalub: ↳ Brian D @6:34 This is totally vibing with me.
	6:38am Cooh John: Love the vibe you put out, Brian. Just a reminder to everyone: no one can take your happiness, you can only give it away. Carpe Diem.
	⚡ ♥ 6:38am Will thee SG OCNY: Good morning Brian D and all!!!
	⚡ ♥ 6:41am London Calling Francky: ↳ Will thee SG OCNY @6:38 Morning Will! Welcome on board!
	6:41am Cooh John: Love is the most powerful force in the universe.
	⚡ ♥ 6:42am London Calling Francky: ↳ Brian D @6:34 Spot on Brian! Amazing vibe! Thank you for this real treat!
	⚡ ♥ 6:44am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Song: "Clip: ITV-Scientists MAY have recreated extinct d... Another GREAT profit-making opportunity!
	6:46am WSJ: I like this. Nice for a Saturday morning
	♥ 6:47am Brian D: ↳ WSJ @6:46 That's the goal. Good morning.
	⚡ ♥ 6:47am Tooth: ↳ Cooh John @6:41 Cool, John. Cool.
	♥ 6:47am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @6:44 Sadly, yes, Michael.
	⚡ ♥ 6:49am tom tom the pipers son: good morning brian …all…… the ‘dire’ wolf….? the right wolf for the right time
	6:49am morphe': ↳ Song: "Cistern" by "Jherek Bischoff" Attuned with mi son Simon [13] in Madrid ... he is making dramatic noises to the piece ...
	⚡ ♥ 6:52am Tooth: ↳ morphe' @6:49 Who has the upper hand at ping-pong these days?
	6:52am Cooh John: Frost laden morning as I stretch and meditate before work. So wonderful to be with you all. Perfect soundtrack.
	♥ 6:53am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:49 Indeed Tom Tom. Good morning.
	♥ 6:53am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @6:49 Buen dia, Morphe.
	6:56am WSJ: Getting better…
	⚡ ♥ 6:58am NotARealDoctor: ↳ fred @6:16 Youch, as if the colonoscopy wasn't bad enough
	⚡ ♥ 7:00am TDK60: Good morning, Brian, Currents folks.
	7:00am morphe': ↳ Tooth @6:52 Simon is the Champ... he also beats me in Tenis and racquetball ... we are tied in WiffleBall ... but he will soon be beating me there too...
	7:00am Cooh John: The Pretenders! O-H....
	7:03am morphe': ps from the Johnny Lydon interview of last week [RTE 1 Brendan O'Connor] ... heard a bit on the weekend recap that I missed last week ... He is for Trump and compared him to the Pistols: [paraphrase]" ...he is like the Pistols ... ya gotta go in and bust things up ...." UUUGGGGHHHH!
	♥ 7:03am Brian D: ↳ TDK60 @7:00 Greetings, TDK. Thought you were elsewhere this week.
	♥ 7:03am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @7:03 You know, I forgot to listen to that, Morphe. Thanks for reminding me.
	⚡ ♥ 7:05am TDK60: I just got back, DJ B. I was in southeast Ohio.
	⚡ ♥ 7:05am NotARealDoctor: ↳ morphe' @7:03 I believe he came out as pro fascist back in 2016, so that's no surprise, Johnny Brain-Rotten
	⚡ ♥ 7:05am tom tom the pipers son: frederic jameson, during first term, compared him to mao
	♥ 7:07am fred: ↳ morphe' @7:03 H's been a Trumpist for a while. Not surprising, not even sad; the Pistols were not exactly the Clash politically anyway
	♥ 7:07am William Hellfire: ↳ London Calling Francky @6:29 !!!
	⚡ ♥ 7:07am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:05 actually after term during biden’s term
	⚡ ♥ 7:08am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @7:07 mommy, i’m not an an-i-mal….
	♥ 7:11am William Hellfire: I'm old and I have "movie night" every night!
	7:17am Cooh John: Where were you, TDK60? That is my neighborhood.
	⚡ ♥ 7:17am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Good morning Brian and news hounds.
	⚡ ♥ 7:17am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Brian D @6:47 Yes, but think of all the well-paid jobs it will create! Next to the poorly paid ones.
	⚡ ♥ 7:17am Tooth: ↳ morphe' @7:00 I know the feeling! Youth conquers all.
	7:18am morphe': ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:05 Did not know Jameson is/was still alive...
	7:18am tonyb: Good Morning. ☕️
	⚡ ♥ 7:19am NotARealDoctor: ↳ morphe' @7:18 I believe he died last year
	7:19am morphe': ↳ Tooth @7:17 I lose with dignity ...
	⚡ ♥ 7:19am Tooth: ↳ morphe' @7:03 And what about Wayne Gretzky? My idols have feet of clay (and not the good Clay Pigeon kind).
	⚡ ♥ 7:20am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: ↳ morphe' @7:03 Just another reason to dislike Johnny Lydon.
	⚡ ♥ 7:20am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ morphe' @7:18 yes he died last year cat 90...
	♥ 7:20am Brian D: ↳ Peter from Saranac Lake NY @7:17 Peter. Greetings, sir.
	♥ 7:21am Brian D: ↳ tonyb @7:18 Tony! Was thinking of you the other night at Monty Hall. I model my ticket-taking patter off of yours. Good morning.
	⚡ ♥ 7:23am TDK60: ↳ Cooh John @7:17 Good morning, Cooh John. I visited an old music pal down in Athens. I got to play at an open mic. I also attended the local, large "Hands Off" protest.
	7:26am Cooh John: TDK60, I went to OU, spent my summer vacation in Athens and am officially first family of Athens county. Tie-dye never went away there.
	⚡ ♥ 7:27am nortonjutland: morning Brian! thanks for the music.
	7:30am tonyb: Did you work the Lennon/Ono film?
	♥ 7:30am Brian D: ↳ nortonjutland @7:27 Good morning, NJ. Truly my pleasure.
	♥ 7:31am Brian D: ↳ tonyb @7:30 I didn't, no. It was the library event hosted by Trouble.
	7:31am Cooh John: Rubio should have revoked student visas before March Madness and messed with everyone's brackets. Next year.
	⚡ ♥ 7:31am tom tom the pipers son: in an official statement rubio cites ‘future beliefs’ detrimental to u.s foreign policy as grounds for deporting the columbia student
	⚡ ♥ 7:31am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Song: "Memory of You" by "Mark Stewart" Buck up! You'll get over it, you sook.
	⚡ ♥ 7:31am TDK60: ↳ Cooh John @7:26 Ah, how about that? It's got a lot going on for a small city.
	7:31am newton: Dire wolf , isnt that a legal term , the wolf speaks?
	7:32am Dave V: Has a Bill Shatner vibe lol.
	⚡ ♥ 7:32am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ newton @7:31 oh latin….
	♥ 7:33am Brian D: ↳ newton @7:31 Dead language humor... only at WFMU.
	⚡ ♥ 7:34am Michael of Cologne: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:31 McCarthy era to the power of two or even three?
	⚡ ♥ 7:34am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @7:33 i’m still asleep….
	⚡ ♥ 7:35am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Michael of Cologne @7:34 something out of fiction...
	♥ 7:35am fred: Researchers where I work have been advised to contact IT before attending a conference in the US to be issued wiped out phones and laptops with the bare minimum on there. I don't think it matters, they already have all the guys' social media posts anyway. But the very existence of this advisory tells a lot about how the USA are perceived. There's talk of moving conferences to somewhere else as well
	7:35am rich in angleton: good morning brian and everyone in radioland.. a bit of a late start for me this a.m. but I'm happy to be here!
	7:35am Barbie: Drifting off on a dark and dank morning
	♥ 7:36am Ben in Newark: Good morning everyone!
	7:36am tonyb: Cool event. My librarians here in Cranford are my favorite neighbors. Tough but noble vocation nowadays.
	♥ 7:36am fred: ↳ Song: "Un Message" by "Tremosphere" I think Tremosphere is listener Sylvia
	⚡ ♥ 7:36am Brian in UK: Hello Brian & weekend folks. FRED, best wishes to you for the next few weeks. Our daughter is going to Boston in a couple of weeks for a transplant conference. Hope it all goes smoothly.
	7:37am pp: I like the juxtaposition of John Oates being a guest of Todd's along with the Peawees. will the 3rd guest be the mustache?
	⚡ ♥ 7:37am Will thee SG OCNY: ↳ fred @7:35 Definitely not a bad idea. Sad times we are in 😟
	⚡ ♥ 7:38am Will thee SG OCNY: It snowed up here in 90.1 territory
	♥ 7:38am Brian D: ↳ fred @7:36 'Tis.
	♥ 7:39am Brian D: ↳ tonyb @7:36 Agreed. Had a number of librarians in attendance. Great night.
	♥ 7:39am Brian D: ↳ Brian in UK @7:36 Good morning/afternoon, Brian.
	⚡ ♥ 7:39am Brian in UK: ↳ pp @7:37 I used to have a copy of the 'Silver Album by DH & JO. How did they have the nerve to produce that cover 'art'.
	♥ 7:40am fred: ↳ Brian in UK @7:36 She just should leave any anti-Trump, anti-Musk or anti-Farage T-shirts at home
	⚡ ♥ 7:40am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @7:35 last tuesday mark hurst and jesse jarnow and one other struggled to dissemble an alexa, it took 45 minutes… i compared it to the scene in the hitchcock film where paul newman as an american agent in east germany suffocates a stasi agent in a gas oven….it takes a long time
	♥ 7:41am Brian D: ↳ Will thee SG OCNY @7:38 Not unprecedented, but still weird. Belated good morning, Will.
	⚡ ♥ 7:41am Brian in UK: ↳ fred @7:40 Luckily she is not a political animal, though I am not sure that matters right now.
	7:41am Cooh John: I am looking forward to the return of music like this. America will be great again.
	⚡ ♥ 7:42am Michael of Cologne: ↳ fred @7:35 The rapid descent is breath-taking and alarming. A con-man has conned millions and millions of suckers who don't latch on to the game he's playing. Was it W.C. Fields who said, there's a sucker born every second?
	♥ 7:42am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:40 In both cases, a sledgehammer would have been faster
	⚡ ♥ 7:43am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @7:42 ha!
	♥ 7:44am fred: ↳ Brian in UK @7:41 There was a petition lately about defending science. She will be on a list if she signed that
	⚡ ♥ 7:44am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Brian in UK @7:41 A T-shirt with Wake Up! on it would be apt.
	♥ 7:45am fred: ↳ Michael of Cologne @7:42 Wasn't it Barnum? Though those quotes are usually made up anyway
	⚡ ♥ 7:45am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: ↳ fred @7:35 I'm traveling to Germany in a couple of weeks and I'm considering some kind of burner phone. Paranoid that I won't be allowed back in the country upon return.
	7:46am pp: ↳ Brian in UK @7:39 Todd always has music geek questions, not quite the level of Narduar, but will be interesting
	⚡ ♥ 7:47am Strandlund: ↳ fred @7:45 W.C. Fields said, "Never give a sucker an even break." Trump listened to him...
	⚡ ♥ 7:48am Michael of Cologne: ↳ fred @7:45 Mebbe. They're all in the same American capitalist spirit, eh? At least "Never Give A Sucker an Even Break" is a genuine W.C. Field quote. He scripted the movie himself.
	⚡ ♥ 7:48am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @7:44 brian posted on insta that a library that collects data was told to discard material regarding climate change and gender studies…correct brian..?
	♥ 7:48am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:48 It was race and gender, but yes. I'm sure climate change was implied.
	⚡ ♥ 7:49am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @7:48 thx…
	♥ 7:50am fred: ↳ Peter from Saranac Lake NY @7:45 You should be safe if you are a citizen born in the US from US citizens. A lot of people have told me they're taking the same precautions, but your social media accounts are surveilled anyway
	♥ 7:52am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:49 Sorry. Distracted. Public library in Mississippi. Cuts and restrictions will affect everything from books available to inter-library loan. Also research, databases, etc.
	⚡ ♥ 7:52am tom tom the pipers son: TIMES 4/9/25 Who Needs The Stories That Aren’t Archived As Chinese Lunar Rocks Are Shrinking, Which Is a Good Thing for Physics, Expanding the Ancient Range of Neutrinos While Raising Chickens Amid the Difficulty of Hugging Virtually With a Jawbone Making Sparks Fly for People Who Think They Don’t Like Fantasy That Rely On The Lost Art of Dressing Like a Movie Mogul   Ruins And Volcanos Included
	♥ 7:52am estebangrande: good morning Brian and Current
	⚡ ♥ 7:53am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Brian D @7:52 thx for this post….and that one...
	⚡ ♥ 7:54am john_zilla: good morning
	♥ 7:55am fred: ↳ fred @7:50 It's more dire (not wolf) for naturalized people. I know one who doesn't dare leave the US: she was born in Iran, has family there, and no intention to go back. She is looking at academic positions outside of the US though
	⚡ ♥ 7:55am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: ↳ fred @7:50 I'm a US citizen, but things are not good here. Regime defying the judiciary and attempting to dismantle the concept of due process.
	⚡ ♥ 7:58am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Strandlund @7:47 If W.C. Fields didn't quip "There's a sucker born every second", he'd deserve the attribution anyway for this deep truth of our mediatized (TV, social media,...) times. DJT is an exudation of the medium of TV and its mass audiences. Gradually, over decades and decades, since WWII, the progressive dumbing-down. And with the new digitized medium, the attention spans of younger generations are being whittled away. No need to remove books from libraries, because untold millions have unlearned to focus on much at all, let alone read a book.
	⚡ ♥ 7:58am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: ↳ fred @7:55 You're correct. However, if they can come for naturalized citizens, green card holders, and people with legit visas, there's nothing stopping them from going after someone who was born here.
	⚡ ♥ 8:03am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "One More Chance" by "Nico" a little unhinged….i can sense her need to shoot up
	♥ 8:04am fred: ↳ Peter from Saranac Lake NY @7:58 Except some of them do know that empowering bullies would inevitably lead to deporting a sympathetic MAGA-head from the heartland
	8:04am newton: 3" snow! Frances had to wear her red rubber boots, which ought to have been a song by The Cyrkle
	⚡ ♥ 8:06am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ newton @8:04 oh wow…1/2 inch expected…. correct
	⚡ ♥ 8:06am Tooth: Just waiting for rain to abate to go for morning run in new running shoes …
	8:07am newton: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:06 that was yesterday morning last night they changed the prediction. Sharon ct supposed to get 6-8. it will all wash away in the rain by sundown
	♥ 8:07am estebangrande: ↳ fred @8:04 if you want to make an omelette
	⚡ ♥ 8:08am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ newton @8:07 good, so no shoveling needed…hopefully
	8:09am Will: The In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida of Krautrock! Same organ solo!
	⚡ ♥ 8:09am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: ↳ fred @8:04 The current regime wouldn't care. My social media is rife with accounts of MAGA who are astonished that they've been fired from their federal government jobs or lost their Medicare benefits.
	♥ 8:10am William Hellfire: ↳ Song: "Eine (One)" by "Can" !!!!!!!!!!
	8:10am scrap: this track is slapping rn good morninnn
	♥ 8:11am fred: ↳ estebangrande @8:07 You can always rely on senator Kennedy to make an analogy gross but entertaining in a way
	⚡ ♥ 8:11am tom tom the pipers son: michael karoli doesn’t get enough props
	⚡ ♥ 8:12am dale: morning. really enjoying the can jam. canned jam if you will.
	⚡ ♥ 8:17am TDK60: It's "not that bad" only when Jim the Poet is around. Then, we go back to the normal it-is-that-bad.
	♥ 8:17am fred: ↳ Peter from Saranac Lake NY @8:09 Reminds me of when a measure to institute co-pay here was wildly popular among seniors, because it had been portrayed as against migrants. They were the ones who got hit, but still support it, because racism works
	8:19am newton: i can hear you both fine
	8:20am Jeffrey from west Florida: Legal much ?
	8:20am Harv: It’s not the phone equipment. It’s karma!
	8:20am pp: ↳ pp @7:46 Todd is so great. I mentioned that Peter Wolf has a memoir coming out, and it says that he will have him as a guest in May.
	8:22am play: Politics on Saturday Morning???? Can you give everyone a break and just play some effin music ! All the deejays' personal opinions are killing this station.
	8:22am Harv: Yeah Fred. When you’re losing the debate, you shout racism.
	8:24am newton: glacier tourism is up! everyone wants to see them before they're gone so they fly and drive to them which melts them faster, better hurry up!
	♥ 8:27am Beast of Boonton: ↳ play @8:22 Can we get refunds?
	♥ 8:27am fred: ↳ newton @8:24 There must be some fancy greek or latin word for that
	⚡ ♥ 8:28am dale: trump is homophobic. anyone not a he man or a she woman is verboten.
	8:28am pp: ↳ play @8:22 Au contraire. Can always listen to the political talk, and turn on another WFMU stream for background music ;)
	⚡ ♥ 8:28am nortonjutland: ↳ fred @8:27 cognitive dissonance or stupidity?
	⚡ ♥ 8:30am dale: ↳ play @8:22 politics is what informs and curates the music on this show.
	8:30am newton: ↳ fred @8:27 there should be, Anthony Burgess would have known it, or just made it up. it was a vide story on the weather website weatherunderground that joyously talked about glacier tourism yesterday https://www.wunderground.com/video/top-stories/get-out-of-the-heat-this-summer-and-visit-matanuska-glacier
	8:31am Kelly s: I am a librarian who attended on Thursday! It was so much fun!
	⚡ ♥ 8:33am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Trolls in the house this morning. Love it when Jim the Poet calls in.
	♥ 8:33am fred: Once the onesie factory opens in NJ Jim can be their lead model
	♥ 8:36am Doug in MP: "Music inspired by life and current events"
	♥ 8:37am fred: How ironic if the Dodgers came back to NYC to crush both teams
	⚡ ♥ 8:37am No Big Thing in Chicago: Good morning Brian D and all. Happy to be listening live; less pleased o be doing so from within the midst of TX big city sprawl.
	♥ 8:39am fred: I know who he was! I think Oil Can stood for his beer habit
	8:40am Todd-a-o: Everybody’s talkin at me, I don’t hear a word they’re sayin
	8:40am newton: oil can what?
	8:41am newton: jarvick 7
	♥ 8:42am fred: ↳ newton @8:40 You just can't acknowledge a Red Sox pitcher or what?
	♥ 8:42am Brian D: ↳ Kelly s @8:31 Kelly, we must have met, however briefly. I was working the door. Great event. Glad you had fun.
	♥ 8:42am Ciggy: Good morning It's gonna be a beautiful day 🌞
	8:43am Patrick: Yes! Remember this song from the X-Files comp
	♥ 8:43am Brian D: ↳ newton @8:40 Oil Can Boyd.
	8:43am newton: ↳ fred @8:42 when they find the tin man, dorthy says, he said oil can, scarecrow says, oil can what?
	8:44am clarke: celtic now up 4-1
	♥ 8:44am fred: ↳ newton @8:43 Wow, nice reference!
	⚡ ♥ 8:46am Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Great show, Brian. Thank you.
	8:47am clarke: RIP Dave Allen - but, am i right in that he didn't play with Go4 in a long time (i think sara lee was playing with them most of the last part of their run?)>
	♥ 8:48am fred: I really like what I heard of Kim Deal's record (Kim Deal was a major celeb crush in my college years)
	⚡ ♥ 8:48am Will thee SG OCNY: GOF!
	⚡ ♥ 8:51am TDK60: ↳ Song: "Guns Before Butter" by "Gang of Four" Still edgy and subversive.
	8:52am clarke: RIP clam - great dude and better drummer
	⚡ ♥ 8:53am Ken From Hyde Park: Good morning. There's like an inch of snow on the ground and it's still coming down. Jim tells me it's not that bad.
	8:53am clarke: ↳ clarke @8:52 clem - oops, no clams on that dude
	8:54am Daybreak!: The Brit's are breaking down the doors of a quaker meeting house. If they think that people meeting because they want peace in Gaza is terrorism, maybe they should reflect on their sudden, excessive force to assault people meeting peacefully. Who are the terrorists in this situation?!?!
	⚡ ♥ 8:55am TDK60: Well, raiding the peaceful Quakers with armed cops. What next?
	♥ 8:55am PaulRobeson1925: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @8:53 Good time to sow kale
	8:56am clarke: i pay NO attention to current events; however, this show plays fab musics.
	⚡ ♥ 8:56am Michael of Cologne: ↳ dale @8:30 I'm for the pre-political myself.
	♥ 8:56am PaulRobeson1925: ↳ TDK60 @8:55 Jailing millions and millions of people in the name of a War On Drugs that neither protects people from nor stops what it claims to be fighting
	♥ 8:56am Brian D: Alright all, that's about it for me. Stay safe and well and have a great weekend. Thank you all for listening.
	8:57am clarke: ↳ Brian D @8:56 thnx mate
	8:57am newton: thanks Brian!
	⚡ ♥ 8:57am TDK60: Gracias for the show, Brian. It's a most important show.
	8:57am annette: reminder: record day here. get out and buy your wax and plastic and spin !!!
	⚡ ♥ 8:58am NotARealDoctor: Thanks Brian, have a great week
	⚡ ♥ 8:59am Will thee SG OCNY: Thank you Brian, we appreciate you!!!
	8:59am Toothgrinder Tom: All decent people on the left and the right should be opposed to authoritarianism, full stop.
	9:01am Daybreak!: "Speaking to the Mirror, a representative from Youth Demand said that the group have "seen over 200 new sign-up's for action since the raids on Thursday." They said that the public response to the police raid "demonstrates how repression backfires and shows that young people will not be intimidated in resisting the UK government, whilst they are not serving the interests of ordinary people and are actively participating in crimes against humanity."

Currents with Brian D: Playlist from April 12, 2025

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