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Favoriting September 23, 2023: The Dina Merrill Memorial Playlist

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Artist Track Label Approx. start time
Richie Allen  Goochy Bamba   Favoriting Era  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Al Casey Combo  Monte Carlo   Favoriting Stacy  0:06:23 (Pop-up)
The Rhythm Rockers  Madness   Favoriting Square  0:07:24 (Pop-up)
The Monzells  Shark Skin   Favoriting Prism  0:09:33 (Pop-up)
Marlon "Madman" Mitchell and The Rockateers  Ice Cold Baby   Favoriting Vena  0:15:01 (Pop-up)
Sleepy La Beef  I'm Through   Favoriting Mercury  0:16:32 (Pop-up)
Tommy Danton and The Echoes  Twenty One   Favoriting Karen  0:19:00 (Pop-up)
Randy Hobbs  You Better Run   Favoriting Gator  0:21:16 (Pop-up)
The Frantics Four vocal by Bobby Shane  T.V. Mama   Favoriting Gulfstream  0:23:28 (Pop-up)
Johnny Ray Harris  Lawdy Miss Clawdy   Favoriting Ray  0:28:19 (Pop-up)
The Farmer Boys  Charming Betsy   Favoriting Capitol  0:28:52 (Pop-up)
Porter Wagoner  In The Shadows Of The Wine   Favoriting RCA Victor  0:31:41 (Pop-up)
Bob Hood and the Rhythmaires  It's Nothing To Me   Favoriting Golden Crest  0:34:01 (Pop-up)
Al "Dr. Horse" Pittman  Crazy Beat   Favoriting Clown  0:44:32 (Pop-up)
Jimmy Williams (Mr. Blues)  Big Legged Woman   Favoriting Don-El  0:46:16 (Pop-up)
Roy "Mr. Guitar" Gaines  Worried 'Bout You Baby   Favoriting Groove  0:48:47 (Pop-up)
Little Junior's Blue Flames  Feelin' Bad   Favoriting Sun  0:51:22 (Pop-up)
Jerry McCain  Steady   Favoriting Rex  0:54:35 (Pop-up)
Jerry McCain and His Upstarts  Bad Credit   Favoriting Excello  0:57:07 (Pop-up)
Danny Overbea  (Hey Pancho)   Favoriting Checker  1:00:45 (Pop-up)
Chuck Berry  O Rangutang   Favoriting Chess  1:02:17 (Pop-up)
Wille Ward  Iggy Joe   Favoriting Star  1:10:20 (Pop-up)
The Sherwoods  The Penguin   Favoriting Scepter  1:11:14 (Pop-up)
Felix & The Escorts  Do The Syracuse   Favoriting Jag  1:13:17 (Pop-up)
Bobby Warren and the Rebellettes  Motorcycle Maniac   Favoriting Impel  1:15:35 (Pop-up)
The Aggressors  Something Else   Favoriting Alamo Audio  1:18:35 (Pop-up)
Ray Sharpe  Monkey's Uncle   Favoriting Jamie  1:21:16 (Pop-up)
The John Wagner Foundation  Animal Crackers   Favoriting Look  1:23:38 (Pop-up)
The Three Jokers  He's A Bum   Favoriting Mercury  1:30:44 (Pop-up)
Ole Moon Daddy  Moon Daddy   Favoriting Rally  1:32:46 (Pop-up)
The Coastliners  I'll Be Gone   Favoriting Back Beat  1:35:29 (Pop-up)
Hughie Scott and the Meteors  Be-Bop-A-Lula   Favoriting Tamarc  1:38:15 (Pop-up)
Steve And The Board  Rosalyn   Favoriting Spin  1:40:25 (Pop-up)
The Utopias  Sally Bad   Favoriting Fortune  1:44:13 (Pop-up)
The Masked Man and The Agents  Roaches   Favoriting Loop  1:49:22 (Pop-up)
The Party Boys  We Got A Party, Part 1   Favoriting Ron  1:50:38 (Pop-up)
Eunice & Eddie  Daddy Please Come Home   Favoriting Star-A-Fire  1:53:04 (Pop-up)
The Golden Tones  Doreetha   Favoriting Hush  1:56:00 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

  1:01pm
Andres:

Fools rush in!
  1:02pm
Cooh John:

Rex, King of the fools.
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Mailman Tom:

I see that she was in the 2nd episode of Burke's Law, "Who Killed Mr. X?"
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:03pm
Bruce S.:

time for Rex,Drugs and Rock and Roll
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JG:

Hello Rex. Hello Fools.
  1:06pm
dave:

Howdy Rex! Fools! Mama!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:07pm
Greg from ZONE 5:

Afternoon Fools!
  1:07pm
Don F.:

Happy Birthday, Rex and Frankie Avalon!
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:10pm
Bruce S.:

Dina Merrill was kind of cute,who'se that guy standing next to her? a young Robert Blake perhaps?
  1:10pm
Andres:

↳ Song: "Madness" by "The Rhythm Rockers"
This one lives up to its title!
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:11pm
The Butterman:

Hi Rex, wow! Happy birthday, dude! Enjoying today from Boynton, Florida. Where Butterboy and I are visiting my dad for his 80th birthday. This place is fecking weird. Florida. I forgot to pack underwear for my three day trip.
Avatar 1:12pm
Mister Dobalina:

Happy birthday, Roy Buchanan !! Two cool birthdays being celebrated today.
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WilliamHellfire:

Happy birthday, Rex!
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:14pm
Bruce S.:

↳ The Butterman @1:11
you don't have to say fecking, you can say it was fucking weird, but enjoy florida
  1:17pm
dave:

Happy birthday Rex!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Wait - whut
Rex B-Day - *today* ?!? :D

⦿Sun in ♎︎Libra (within minutes of the Equinox point), Year of Fire 🐅Tiger
John William Coltrane
September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967
Avatar 1:19pm
I'm with the banned:

Another dysfunctional family day on Fool's Paradise 😅 😅 😅!! Rex!
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:19pm
Bruce S.:

↳ Song: "I'm Through" by "Sleepy La Beef"
this one really grew on me
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:20pm
The Butterman:

↳ Bruce S. @1:14
Thanks, Bruce. Fucking weird like a resort without the fun.
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:21pm
egould:

↳ Song: "Twenty One" by "Tommy Danton and The Echoes"
Nice guitar solo.
Avatar 1:24pm
Mister Dobalina:

Rex, is it true that the Wayward Teens are going unionize?
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:25pm
Bruce S.:

excellent set,Birthday Boy!
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JG:

Rex you must be old because I've been listening to you since I was a kid, and I'm pretty old. How old are ya? Like a million? Just kiddin. Happy birthday you old Fool
  1:27pm
P-90:

How many kicks is “all the kicks we can?”
Avatar 1:28pm
Rex:

↳ Mister Dobalina @1:24
Not if my Pinkerton boys have something to say about it!
  1:28pm
?:

↳ Bruce S. @1:10
If you want to see a young Robert Blake, watch The Trail of the Sierra Madre, but that's not him here.
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WilliamHellfire:

↳ The Butterman @1:11
When I was on your on Ohio I was staying with this band Croatan and they would tell us what they hear the neighbor screaming at their children. One was 'Put you're feeling coat on! The other was...Don't you shit in that pool!
Avatar 🌮 1:29pm
WilliamHellfire:

↳ WilliamHellfire @1:28
On tour...I can't type on Saturdays
  1:30pm
Listener Jumpy in Brooklyn:

Happy birthday Rex...
  1:34pm
davefromtoronto:

uncle Rex hosting his own birthday party! how cool is that? happy birthday buddy!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:34pm
Greg from ZONE 5:

Happy Birthday, Rex! If your gift isn't in your mailbox it's cause Spazz stole it.
  1:34pm
pottybear:

More wine!
  1:34pm
Jeech the Jooch:

Happy birthday, Rex and may you have 45 RPYs more, (revolutions per year that is).
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The Butterman:

↳ WilliamHellfire @1:28
We got yelled at within 1 minute of getting g into the pool! Some old bitch was looking around, “ who splashed me?”
  1:37pm
davefromtoronto:

↳ Song: "It's Nothing To Me" by "Bob Hood and the Rhythmai...
how did more than one version of this tune get made?
Avatar 🌮 1:37pm
RevComX:

I ain't your buddy!
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Mister Dobalina:

May they honor your free birthday ice cream cone at Howard Johnson’s.
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:38pm
Bruce S.:

↳ Song: "It's Nothing To Me" by "Bob Hood and the Rhythmai...
wow neverhheard this version before,a little lighter, if that's possible
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WilliamHellfire:

↳ The Butterman @1:36
My friend got arrested for making a comic book in Florida. I almost died there, I was at Daytona Beach with the intention of filming a sun rise but I got bored and left. Next day paper reported a tidal wave hit the beach!
  1:44pm
P-90:

The Birthday Cone?
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RevComX:

No Rex...she played Calamity Jan. not Jane!
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WilliamHellfire:

Erin and I love Night Gallery and Match Game!
  1:45pm
Amber:

Happy belated birthday! My birthday was on the 17th too! Thanks for the great set as always! 🥳🎉
  1:45pm
davefromtoronto:

non family members get 6 days...
  1:45pm
Vivi:

Happy belated birthday, fellow Virgo!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:46pm
Megaroni:

Happy Caturday with Rex!
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:46pm
Bruce S.:

Desk Set was a good movie, so was the Young Savages,Good work Merrill
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:46pm
The Butterman:

↳ WilliamHellfire @1:41
Did they make a doc about you’re friend? Mike Diana? Amazing story !
Avatar 1:47pm
Melissa Jean:

happy belated! have you ever had a bubble waffle (aka egg waffle) Rex? it's a really great texture thang: en.wikipedia.org... edges crunchy, "bubbles" soft!
Avatar 🌮 1:47pm
WilliamHellfire:

My other friends made that doc.
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:48pm
dave miss:

Bern KDoe burn!
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:48pm
The Butterman:

↳ WilliamHellfire @1:47
You got cool friends.
  1:49pm
Firepitmama:

Happy Birthday, Rex! You make Saturday afternoons in our house even better! 🎸🎷🥁🎢🎡🍕✨
  1:51pm
RevPhil:

In the film The Young Savages there was a fictional Puerto Rican gang called The Horsemen but there was actually a Puerto Rican gang called The Horsemen in the Bronx. One of my friend was a member of that gang.
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WilliamHellfire:

↳ The Butterman @1:48
Mike did a chic tract for the DVD release of Upsidedown Cross starring my cute wife and David Yow. Mike Hunchback is good friends with Mike Diana. He did some music and helped me write it. Nice cats.
Avatar 1:53pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ WilliamHellfire @1:51
Chic Tracts ! :D
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:54pm
Bruce S.:

↳ RevPhil @1:51
that was a great movie,great David Amram Soundtrack
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:55pm
egould:

Shwimps!
  1:55pm
davefromtoronto:

iumour has it the daniel bros eat there
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egould:

↳ davefromtoronto @1:55
That’s where they solve your problems.
  1:56pm
davefromtoronto:

baba q shwimps
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:57pm
Bruce S.:

SCHWIMPS FOR EVWEONE!
  1:57pm
davefromtoronto:

they solve your problems from the following night
  1:58pm
davefromtoronto:

erbasesstimulla...
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 1:59pm
egould:

↳ Song: "Bad Credit" by "Jerry McCain and His Upstarts"
Never buy a boat.
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HeyJimbo66:

Alright! A Jerry McCain twin spin.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @1:53
Chic*K Tracts...
  2:01pm
Hillary:

Me and my boyfriend Jake are listening in Florianopolis, Brazil! He’s requesting “Millionaire Hobo” :) Thanks Rex!
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WilliamHellfire:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @2:00
Ages ago my wife work processing rebates and perps would send Christian chic tract with the rebates. She would always bring them home. Crazy.
  2:03pm
Listener Jumpy in Brooklyn:

David Amram's daughter is a cool, very busy multi-instrumentalist...
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Mailman Tom:

↳ WilliamHellfire @1:41
Boiled Angel!
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:05pm
Bruce S.:

↳ Song: "O Rangutang" by "Chuck Berry"
wow the great Chuck Berry records never end
Avatar 2:07pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...awlright Thx for the clarification.
Joyeux Belated ♍Virgoan ⦿Solar Return
- to the One, the Only, the Incomparable King of Fool'sParadise - Rex ! ! !
www.facebook.com...
  2:07pm
Jeech the Jooch:

Was that Eve Arden?
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egould:

↳ Song: "In The Shadows Of The Wine" by "Porter Wagoner"
I’m sipping a delightful Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand. Bright, with strong grapefruit tones. Dry finish.
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WilliamHellfire:

↳ Mailman Tom @2:03
Yup! I donated to the docs indie go-go and Mike did a portrait of me! Up on the wall now!
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Mailman Tom:

↳ Jeech the Jooch @2:07
She had her own TV show from 1952 thru 1956. It was titled Our Miss Brooks.
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egould:

It may be lunkhead, but these frat guys were all getting 3.4 gpa’s at Michigan State. Two of these guys became prominent attorneys in Detroit. :-)
  2:12pm
davefromtoronto:

Rex i'm sending you a pickled punk for a late birthday present. hope you don't already have one!
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Hubig Pie:

I'm eating corn nuts™ and cashews at the SeaTac airport while listening to Iggy Joe.
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egould:

↳ Hubig Pie @2:12
Dude. You were in Seattle? You should’ve told me. We could’ve gone on a nice little bar hop.
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egould:

↳ Song: "Do The Syracuse" by "Felix & The Escorts"
Ohio State versus Notre Dame tonight. Go Bucks!
  2:15pm
Jeech the Jooch:

Thanks Rex! I thought it was from High Sociey, but she wasn't in that, I mix her up with Celeste Holm.
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Hubig Pie:

↳ egould @2:14
I spent the week in Olympia visiting my dementia addled mother. Thanks for the invite tho. Maybe next time I'm in the neighborhood.
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egould:

↳ Hubig Pie @2:16
Sorry to hear about your mother. But by all means, if you’re in Olympia again, well we can bar hop there too. I get drunk all over the PNW.
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WilliamHellfire:

Motor Horrors: Werewolves on Wheels!!!
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egould:

Pinky Tuscadero?
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Hubig Pie:

↳ egould @2:18
I managed to put down a few bottles of fine wine and a fifth of some tasty French gin in my hotel room.
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:22pm
Bruce S.:

↳ Song: "Something Else" by "The Aggressors"
gee that was nice
  2:22pm
Listener Jumpy in Brooklyn:

Ray Sharpe was one of the greatest performers I ever saw...
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egould:

↳ Hubig Pie @2:22
Sounds like you got the situation handled. :-)
Safe travels.
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WilliamHellfire:

↳ Song: "(Hey Pancho)" by "Danny Overbea"
This show is BONKERS!
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:27pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

No Brow will have a great fall! 🍁
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steveo:

i'm proud to say, I"m a many-splendored brow
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:28pm
Bruce S.:

I'm something new
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egould:

Do the frog…
Don’t be a donkey!
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:32pm
Bruce S.:

well at least I can say I fullfilled my parents expectations of me
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Don Gorden:

Yo Rex, I feel lunkheaded today, but the Feast Dance make me feel No browed
  2:33pm
Jeech the Jooch:

I'm both. I got one high brow and one low brow.
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dave miss:

Brows kinda damp
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WilliamHellfire:

↳ Song: "I'll Be Gone" by "The Coastliners"
!!!!!
  2:41pm
davefromtoronto:

i'm starting a band called "The Brow Beaters"
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:41pm
Bruce S.:

↳ Song: "Be-Bop-A-Lula" by "Hughie Scott and the Meteors"
alot of versions of be bop a lula I hear I like better then Gene Vincent
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WilliamHellfire:

↳ Song: "Rosalyn" by "Steve And The Board"
The Makers have this record.
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Todd-o-phonic Todd:

↳ Song: "Rosalyn" by "Steve And The Board"
From the same geniuses who brought you "I Call My Baby Hinges Because She's Something To Adore".
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:42pm
Bruce S.:

↳ davefromtoronto @2:41
sounds kind of dirty
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estebangrande:

↳ Song: "Rosalyn" by "Steve And The Board"
i think bowie had this on pinups
  2:44pm
rx "rexy" scabin:

Good afternoon, Rex and Everyone. Thank you for the good show, Rex.
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:44pm
tadpoles:

↳ estebangrande @2:43
He was covering The Pretty Things version.
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Don Gorden:

Hey he forgot Dina Ray, my band from the 80s
  2:46pm
rx "rexy" scabin:

@Hubig Pie I am sorry to hear about your mother.
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egould:

↳ Bruce S. @2:41
Blasphemer!!
  2:48pm
rx "rexy" scabin:

Sometimes a little Fools' Paradise is all I get.
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WilliamHellfire:

Get 'em!!!
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estebangrande:

↳ tadpoles @2:44
so that's where it started
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I'm with the banned:

😅 😅 😅 😅! The Civil rights Bill! & roaches
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:52pm
Bruce S.:

↳ Song: "We Got A Party, Part 1" by "The Party Boys"
kind of conceptual
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Todd-o-phonic Todd:

↳ I'm with the banned @2:51
When I saw Maskman and The Agents perform "Roaches" at Mrs. Gee's 3300 Club in Brentwood, MD he asked for everyone in the audience to rise and put their hands on their hearts for "the national anthem" before they played it.
Avatar 🌮 2:53pm
WilliamHellfire:

↳ Song: "We Got A Party, Part 1" by "The Party Boys"
This is me after 8pm every night.
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egould:

↳ Song: "We Got A Party, Part 1" by "The Party Boys"
Lunkhead. Thank you, Rex. You’ve started a current of de-evolution that will certainly corrupt “normal” society.
  2:54pm
otto:

i been playing this hot tuna youtube recoreding where thr go into that one... party tonite baybaybaybay
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I'm with the banned:

Todd- first time hearing this song... . I love it!!
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Don Gorden:

cappuccino is a motivational tool
  🌮 Swag For Life Member 2:56pm
Bruce S.:

Happy Birthday Rex in the Birthday Cone of Silence, Thanks

thanks everyone
Avatar 2:57pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

~ TY Always DJ Rex ~
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Greg from ZONE 5:

Thanks Rex—enjoy the rest of your big day!
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WilliamHellfire:

↳ Bruce S. @2:56
!!!
  🌮 2:58pm
Erin Hellfire:

Happy Birthday, Rex!!
  2:58pm
Mr C:

Joe Simon lead I believe..
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WilliamHellfire:

Great show, you finally woke up Erin! See ya fools!!!!
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I'm with the banned:

Thanks Rex 😂!
  2:59pm
otto:

ride dat cone - happy b day rex
  2:59pm
P-90:

Thanks, Rex! Many happy returns!
  2:59pm
morphe':

Thanks Rex
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radioronan:

Thanks Rex...until next time!
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Don Gorden:

Rex , king of the Low Brows
  3:19pm
Jeech the Jooch:

↳ Mailman Tom @2:10
yes, its on one of the braodcast channels like Antenna, ME-TV or Cozi.
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