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Favoriting March 16, 2024: Marathon Show #2 with co-host Uncle Michael

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Spiritual Mafia  Bath Boy   Favoriting Al Fresco    It's unlikely that Spiritual Mafia had Henry Cavill's Geralt of Rivia (aka "The Witcher") in mind when they wrote this song, but posting some HOTT MEDIEVAL MANCANDY on the playlist isn't beneath me when I'm raising money for WFMU. Pledge now! 
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Coolio  Fantastic Voyage   Favoriting It Takes a Thief  1994        0:17:00 (Pop-up)
Shilpa Ray  Is it my Body?   Favoriting Nihilism  2018   
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Lou Reed  Dirty Boulevard   Favoriting New York (Deluxe Edition :: 3CD / DVD / 2LP set)    It's the GRAND PRIZE for tonight's show! All pledges of $75 or more will put you in the drawing for this mega box set of Lou's classic 1989 "New York" LP. Two LPs! Three CDs! A DVD! A book! Maybe a cassette? (There's one in the photo, but I don't think the one we have to give away to comes with that. ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT, RIGHT? PLEDGE NOW! We'll draw for the grand prize winner just before 1 AM.) 
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Sweeping Promises  Can't Hide It   Favoriting Good Living Is Coming For You  2023  It's a prize right now! Pledge $20 or more to be in the drawing for this vinyl LP at the top of the next hour. 
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Fishbone  Modern Industry   Favoriting Fishbone EP  1985   
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Big Stick  Marlin In A Maiden's Dress   Favoriting LP  2019  It's a prize right now! Pledge $20 or more to be in the drawing for this vinyl LP at the top of the next hour. 
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Jane Weaver  Solarized (W.H. Lung Remix)   Favoriting Sunset Dreams EP  2021   
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Chaino  Cuban Caper   Favoriting Temptation: The Exotic Sounds of Chaino  2023  It's a prize right now! Pledge $20 or more to be in the drawing for this vinyl LP at the top of the next hour. 
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Baba Commandant & The Mandingo Band  Afro Mandingo   Favoriting Sonbonbela  2022   
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Nabihah Iqbal  This World Couldn't See Us   Favoriting Dreamer     
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TV on the Radio  Wolf Like Me   Favoriting Return to Cookie Mountain     
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Terry  Gold Duck   Favoriting Call Me Terry    It's a prize right now! Pledge $20 or more to be in the drawing for this vinyl LP at the top of the next hour. 
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Terry Allen & The Panhandle Mystery Band  Gimme a Ride to Heaven Boy   Favoriting Bloodlines  1983   
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Makoto Kubota  Cowboy Datta Koro   Favoriting Dixie Fever  2021  Orig. 1977 
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Lou Reed  Romeo had Juliet   Favoriting New York (Deluxe Edition :: 3CD / DVD / 2LP set)    It's the GRAND PRIZE for tonight's show! All pledges of $75 or more will put you in the drawing for this mega box set of Lou's classic 1989 "New York" LP. Two LPs! Three CDs! A DVD! A book! Maybe a cassette? (There's one in the photo, but I don't think the one we have to give away to comes with that. ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT, RIGHT? PLEDGE NOW! We'll draw for the grand prize winner just before 1 AM.)      1:55:48 (Pop-up)
Bobby Lee  Acid Grassland   Favoriting Endless Skyways     
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Big Blood  Oh Country   Favoriting Big Blood & The Bleedin' Hearts  2023  It's a prize right now! Pledge $20 or more to be in the drawing for this vinyl LP at the top of the next hour. 
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Awakening  Gotta do Something / Might as Well Cultivate   Favoriting Ancient Wisdom For Modern Ears  1980        2:21:42 (Pop-up)
Desumanos  Bijou Song   Favoriting Desumanos  2022        2:27:01 (Pop-up)
EXUM  Dark Kept Secret   Favoriting Xardinal Coffee  2021        2:30:17 (Pop-up)
Jungle Brothers  I Got it Like That   Favoriting Straight Out the Jungle  1988   
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Crime  San Francisco's Doomed   Favoriting San Francisco's Doomed    It's a prize right now! Pledge $20 or more to be in the drawing for this vinyl LP at the top of the next hour. 
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Tina & Ike Turner  Nutbush City Limits   Favoriting 7"     
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Todd Rundgren (with the dude from Weezer)  Down with the Ship   Favoriting Space Force     
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Ray Wylie Hubbard  Henhouse   Favoriting The Grifter's Hymnal  2012   
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Crocodiles  Groove Is in the Heart / California Girls   Favoriting 7"  2010   
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Combustible Edison  Breakfast at Denny's   Favoriting Forbidden Isle of Demos  2023  It's a prize right now! Pledge $20 or more to be in the drawing for this vinyl LP at the top of the next hour. 
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Red Rider  Lunatic Fringe   Favoriting Vision Quest (OST)  1985        3:21:02 (Pop-up)
The Exorzist III  Deuce Berry   Favoriting Gospel Jamming Vol. 1  2024      *   3:25:07 (Pop-up)
Loop  Fermion   Favoriting Sonancy  2022   
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Lewsberg  An Ear to the Chest   Favoriting Out and About  2023  It's a prize right now! Pledge $20 or more to be in the drawing for this vinyl LP at the top of the next hour. 
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The Rolling Stones  You Can't Always Get What You Want   Favoriting Brussels Affair 1973          3:50:49 (Pop-up)

The GRAND PRIZE for tonight's show is the deluxe box set edition of Lou Reed's classic 1989 "New York" LP. 2 vinyl records, 3 CDs, and DVD. Features the 2020 remastered versions of the songs, great sounding live cuts from the era, demos, rough mixes, acoustic takes, and more. Liners by David Fricke, essays from Reed archivist Don Fleming, and produced for release by Laurie Anderson.All pledges of $75 or more that come in between 9 PM and 12:50 AM will be in the drawing at the end of the show.


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Listener comments!

Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:01pm
Kim Sorise:

Hey, Hey Mike and Uncle Michael!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:03pm
Mike Lupica:

Yo Kim! Thanks for checking in!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:03pm
Uncle Michael:

Hey hey hey! Let's do this lovely thing!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:03pm
Uncle Michael:

Hiya Kim!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:04pm
Yvang:

Hi Kim, Mike, Uncle Michael and all!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:06pm
Kim Sorise:

Hey Yvang!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:07pm
Uncle Michael:

Yvang!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:07pm
coelacanth∅:

'evening Mike & hot wirepeople
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:09pm
Uncle Michael:

see-lo-canth-O!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:10pm
coelacanth∅:

haha hey Uncle M!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:10pm
Kim Sorise:

fancy seeing you here, coel!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:11pm
coelacanth∅:

hi Kim!
  9:12pm
arlo:

sounding good hotwire bathboyz
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:14pm
Kim Sorise:

That's a lotta Reed 🖤
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:16pm
Uncle Michael:

arlo!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:16pm
Uncle Michael:

Here's the direct link for spledging to Mike's show:

pledge.wfmu.org...

No, that wasn't a typo.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:18pm
Yvang:

The pledgehammer!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:22pm
Kim Sorise:

It's really up to you
to Pledge!
Have you got the time...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:22pm
Uncle Michael:

Pledges of $75 or more will get you in the running for tonight's GRAND PRIZE (amazing) Lou Reed Box set!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:23pm
coelacanth∅:

↳ Song: "Is it my Body?" by "Shilpa Ray"
great version!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:24pm
Kim Sorise:

↳ coelacanth∅ @9:23
agreed. a favorite cooper jam
  9:27pm
Filip:

hi, it seems at my end that your volume's really low. Could you check it? Thx!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:27pm
Uncle Michael:

Filip! Thanks for the report. It will be looked into.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:30pm
coelacanth∅:

levels low here too, just a bit
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:32pm
Kim Sorise:

Talk Derby to me, Uncle Michael 🤣
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:37pm
Uncle Michael:

↳ Kim Sorise @9:32
Louisville jokes!
  🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:38pm
Tim in TN:

It's the levels on the music that are low. The mic levels are good.
  🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:38pm
Tim in TN:

You just did something. Music levels are good now.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:39pm
Uncle Michael:

Please let us know if the levels are better.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:39pm
coelacanth∅:

better!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:40pm
coelacanth∅:

and there're fireworks outside.
i wonder if they're green!
  9:40pm
kimsorise:

👍🏽
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:47pm
coelacanth∅:

i remember Wildgirl! listened to her every week. i loved her recycling information and racecar talk!
met her at a record fair once, she was friendly
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:48pm
Jeff Golick:

escalator....goooooing up!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:51pm
Uncle Michael:

Jeff!
  🥁 9:51pm
Chris Crisco:

Kia Ora from Aotearoa (New Zealand to you) by way of Princeton Rah Rah! Tiger Tiger!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:53pm
Uncle Michael:

Chris!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:54pm
coelacanth∅:

↳ Song: "Marlin In A Maiden's Dress" by "Big Stick"
this marlin? external-content.duckduckgo.com... or this marlin? external-content.duckduckgo.com...
or this marlin?! external-content.duckduckgo.com...
...i think a maiden's dress would have to be custom-made in any case.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:20pm
Jeff Golick:

↳ Song: "Wolf Like Me" by "TV on the Radio"
...and yet I've never found this cookie mountain.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:24pm
Ike:

I heard a rumor that one or two of you might have tried that northern Chinese place. How was it?
  10:26pm
arlo:

thanks for the gratuitous plug, team!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:28pm
Uncle Michael:

Ike! Very fine!
  10:30pm
arlo:

thanks for a fun first half. hopping off & maybe catch the caboose in a bit
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:31pm
Dave Sewelson:

A big dent
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:35pm
Uncle Michael:

↳ Dave Sewelson @10:31
WFMU provides a big dent.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:35pm
coelacanth∅:

sorry i can't or very much shouldn't pledge again, during this program. as of ~9 o'clock i'm tapped (unless i go over my regular monthly donation -which i've often done but really really really shouldn't...)
it's bad enough my list of shows i'd like to pledge for FAR exceeds my actual abilities.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:36pm
dork∅:

so wait, liking this ...what does this make me?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:43pm
Yvang:

↳ dork∅ @10:36
No longer a coelacanth∅:?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:47pm
Ålęx fröm Mēðîá:

Hi all, Uncle Michael, Tim, Coelacanth, Arlo, Yvang and of course Mike! This is the show for which I live. Wendy, I know you're lurking.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:47pm
Ike:

↳ Uncle Michael @10:28
Good to know, thanks!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:47pm
coelacanth∅:

i think Mike referred to that as "dork rock".
...a dorky coelacanth. i'll cop to that.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:48pm
coelacanth∅:

↳ Yvang @10:43
^
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:48pm
coelacanth∅:

↳ Song: "Gimme a Ride to Heaven Boy" by "Terry Allen & The...
i'm not sure but i think that hippie's making a pass at me
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:51pm
cœlacänth∅:

↳ Ålęx fröm Mēðîá @10:47
hi Ålęx!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:51pm
zzz:

heyooo is this where the party’s at tonight?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:53pm
cœlacänth∅:

↳ zzz @10:51
there are 2 parties tonight, right next door to each-other (and neither is a st. patrix day party)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:54pm
Uncle Michael:

Alex! zzz!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:56pm
Ålęx fröm Mēðîá:

Yo ZZZ! Somebody among you lurkers please please please adopt Mike! Look at the Little Lou Reed loving Lupica with his big doe eyes like a Precious moments figurine! Who among you can resist?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:56pm
Uncle Michael:

ADOPT MIKE AND MAKE THE SINGING HAPPEN:

www.flickr.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:57pm
zzz:

have been loving all the talk the past couple weeks about lou reed making ppl cry.
LR rip to the king
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:59pm
Yvang:

↳ Song: "Acid Grassland" by "Bobby Lee"
Love that riff!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:03pm
Ike:

Bwahahaha. You're listening to UMFW, North Orange, 109.2 FM!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:06pm
Ålęx fröm Mēðîá:

The Lip Lupica? Daily news sports guy?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:06pm
Yvang:

We should make a remix of 20 years of legal ID and make it illegal.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:10pm
cœlacänth∅:

ohhh, so there's another Mike Lupica? -and Lupica's pronounced differently?
the pieces are falling into place...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:13pm
Ålęx fröm Mēðîá:

All week is the buildup to the Starlight Lounge!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:14pm
Ike:

↳ cœlacänth∅ @11:10
Yeah, an NYC newspaper guy and sports writer. Having no interest in sports, I rate WFMU's Mike Lupica as the vastly superior Mike Lupica.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:15pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Romeo had Juliet" by "Lou Reed"
That was cool! Hi Mike and Mike!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:16pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Ike @11:14
I also heard about the sports writer (don't know much about him).
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:16pm
Uncle Michael:

Doc!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:18pm
doctorjazz:

↳ doctorjazz @11:15
(Mike and Mike was another sports radio show in NYC, but they Mikes split up).
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:18pm
cœlacänth∅:

i tried to share Steve Reich's "music for 18 musicians" a few days ago with a person with whom at least 80% of my conversation with is about music. this piece which would easily be in a 20-abum "desert island" collection (if i'd make one of those)
... he said he'd heard Steve Reich.
he wasn't even slightly interested in hearing it.
i feel sorry for him!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:19pm
Ålęx fröm Mēðîá:

↳ doctorjazz @11:16
Mike (the lip) Lupica is the guy. Been out there since I lived in NYC which is 40 yrs now. The guy is a false controversy manufacturing plant and not worthy of any additional consideration here.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:20pm
cœlacänth∅:

↳ Ike @11:14
i feel safe to assume a similar opinion.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:21pm
Ålęx fröm Mēðîá:

↳ Song: "Oh Country" by "Big Blood"
Enjoying this.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:25pm
DJ Peter:

Just $210K left to reach our goal. If anyone can get us there, Mike and Uncle Michael can!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:34pm
zzz:

DJ ML i def agree Big Blood is for sure one of those fmu bands
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:34pm
Uncle Michael:

Peter!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:35pm
cœlacänth∅:

↳ Song: "I Got it Like That" by "Jungle Brothers"
obvious Sly & Family Stone riff; but was that riff also sampled by stereo mcs, back in the day?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:47pm
cœlacänth∅:

wfuv, for instants, doesn't need more than one stream to cover their predictable, formulaic predetermined playlist
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:49pm
Ålęx fröm Mēðîá:

Followed Mike from his former digs. If Doug is in earshot Give the Drummer Radio is a great platform for excellent music. Many of the DJs are my new faves! Wendy and Knave I'm looking at you.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:51pm
cœlacänth∅:

if wfmu has ANY flagship shows i have no idea what they are. probably the lamest shows, i guess...the ones that the tourists that come here invariably site as the one show they listen to, after starting the conversation because of my t-shirt.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:52pm
Ike:

↳ cœlacänth∅ @11:47
That's a prime example of what they were talking about. WFUV used to have a second stream with slightly better music. It was called The Alternate Side and it was mildly more edgy. But they got rid of it because they didn't want it to be a "distraction" from the main channel. And also because they suck.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:55pm
Ålęx fröm Mēðîá:

↳ Ike @11:52
That is a shame b/c I used to listen to FUV in my Bomps living (pre-internet) days and I enjoyed Paul Cavalcantes's show.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:56pm
cœlacänth∅:

↳ Ike @11:52
that's funny! had never heard of that.
-not surprising i guess...corporate twats.
elvis costello is about as *edgy* as they get, from what i've heard.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:57pm
Ålęx fröm Mēðîá:

↳ cœlacänth∅ @11:56
Back in the day on WFUV some Ken Nordine was not out of the ordinary.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:59pm
doctorjazz:

I suppose you could consider The Mothership as the main stream, with 24 hour shows. FM broadcasting. But the streams are independent, and seem to each have its own community (I sometimes check out Sheena, there's a regular group that posts there). Just amazing how much great, and different, stuff if broadcast under the WFMU flag!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:59pm
trashflow:

I don't think I ever heard such a good Todd Rundgren track before!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:00am
Ålęx fröm Mēðîá:

↳ Song: "Henhouse" by "Ray Wylie Hubbard"
rooster gif is kickin
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:01am
cœlacänth∅:

↳ Ålęx fröm Mēðîá @11:57
really! that must've been long before my sister, and other devoid of musical adventure people started pouring undeserved money into their gaping maws
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:02am
Ålęx fröm Mēðîá:

↳ cœlacänth∅ @12:01
we're talking 1981 here!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:02am
doctorjazz:

Ok, gonna hit the pillow, night all!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:03am
Ålęx fröm Mēðîá:

G'night DrJ!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:04am
Ålęx fröm Mēðîá:

↳ Song: "Groove Is in the Heart / California Girls" by "Cr...
hahahaha
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:05am
Uncle Michael:

trashflow!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:05am
cœlacänth∅:

↳ doctorjazz @11:59
they're all 4 really excellent, at least at times (drummer stream being my main)
but i wish they'd completely and permanently get rid of the "a.i." bullshit on the rock & soul stream.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:05am
Uncle Michael:

Night, Doc.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:06am
Chop Scott:

Cheers Mike--super happy to have you back!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:07am
cœlacänth∅:

↳ Ålęx fröm Mēðîá @12:02
wow, okay! yeah, before my sister's time.
and before those selfish fuv capitalists tried to obliterate wfmu
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:09am
Ålęx fröm Mēðîá:

↳ cœlacänth∅ @12:07
whoa! FUV tried to mess with FMU? What is this story?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:12am
cœlacänth∅:

↳ Ålęx fröm Mēðîá @12:09
it's a story. i'll gladly tell it some other time, sorry not now!
Ike knows about it, maybe he'll tell it.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:13am
Ålęx fröm Mēðîá:

↳ cœlacänth∅ @12:12
S' OK the task at hand is to raise money!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:13am
cœlacänth∅:

...there was a special fundraiser for legal costs for wfmu at the time
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:15am
Ålęx fröm Mēðîá:

↳ cœlacänth∅ @12:13
Jesus Mary Joseph and all the Saints!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:16am
cœlacänth∅:

↳ Ålęx fröm Mēðîá @12:15
haha! alla them!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:21am
cœlacänth∅:

i just remembered we wrote letters to the fcc to describe how wfmu was a "service" to the public and "educational"... because part of fuv's strategy was basically character assassination.
then after all the letters were written the fcc said no the *value* of wfmu will not be a consideration.
but that's how sleazy fuv was.
  🥁 12:23am
Chris Crisco:

↳ Ålęx fröm Mēðîá @12:13
I remember that. Something about FMU's signal interfering with FUV's signal. I forget how it was resolved. I stopped listening to FUV when Vin Scelsa retired.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:24am
cœlacänth∅:

heh, maybe in disjointed bits i'll tell the whole story!
it was an fcc petition -that fmu was overlapping fuv's already much larger coverage area. fuv had gotten 3 other stations to join in the witch hunt. (wshu, a decent classical music and left-wing politics station i used to pick up around bedford) and 2 others i don't remember
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:24am
Ålęx fröm Mēðîá:

↳ cœlacänth∅ @12:21
Maybe I should have expected this. I do recall riding the train and a bunch of preppy Fordham pricks were messing with some old woman on the train.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:25am
cœlacänth∅:

↳ Ålęx fröm Mēðîá @12:24
ugh, what the hell is wrong with people
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:26am
Ålęx fröm Mēðîá:

↳ Chris Crisco @12:23
Wow Vin Scelsa! A blast from the past.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:27am
Ålęx fröm Mēðîá:

Not to worry Mike! I hear and dig the music through all of the other debates.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:30am
cœlacänth∅:

yeah Vin Scelsa! started at wfmu!
and i think it was in the 90s wfmu didn't make the marathon goal (that happened a few years in a row) and Vin, who was hosting a show on kroq at the time, encouraged his listeners to go over to fmu and pledge for freeform radio!
wfmu surpassed the goal!
Fuckin' Great guy!
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Ike:

↳ cœlacänth∅ @12:24
That whole fracas happened circa 1990:
www.nytimes.com...
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cœlacänth∅:

isn't that story available from a more benevolent source?!
i think it's on the beware of the blog, but a very abbreviated and "safe" version
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Ålęx fröm Mēðîá:

↳ Ike @12:30
Thanks Ike that's a great article!
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Ålęx fröm Mēðîá:

"it threatens the highly regarded WFMU, 91.1 FM, which The Village Voice has called New York's best radio station."Nuff said!
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trashflow:

We're actually posting from hell. The world really did end.
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cœlacänth∅:

i'm programmed to tell you i am not a.i.
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Yvang:

Some of us are AI, probably.
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Ålęx fröm Mēðîá:

Hi Yvang! I am not a robot!
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Ike:

↳ Ålęx fröm Mēðîá @12:34
Also, check out this PDF (it's slow to load, though) of this ancient music magazine! It has an article about the whole radio squabble and an interview with Ken, all on page 19:
www.worldradiohistory.com...
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Yvang:

↳ Ålęx fröm Mēðîá @12:39
Hi Alex, click on all the bicycles to prove it.
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Ålęx fröm Mēðîá:

↳ Ike @12:39
Is that the same Ken whom I am not supposed to complain to if Wendy's signal cuts out?
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Yvang:

↳ Ålęx fröm Mēðîá @12:40
Just because he's over busy during the marathon.
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cœlacänth∅:

↳ cœlacänth∅ @12:30
i'm sorry, not kroq..."k-rock", wxrk (new york)
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Ålęx fröm Mēðîá:

↳ Yvang @12:40
Bicycles? what bicycles? I ain't got no bicycles, I don't need no fucking bicycles!
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Ålęx fröm Mēðîá:

↳ Yvang @12:41
hahaha the same!
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Yvang:

↳ Ålęx fröm Mēðîá @12:42
Sorry, I did not intend to trigger your anti bicycle rage!
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PAULS:

Hey Mike and Michael -- just tried to make a donation again (last week even though I got a "thank you" screen, it didn't work). I'm in Austin TX, watching to see if that number bumps to 22 in the next 10 mins or so...
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Uncle Michael:

↳ Ålęx fröm Mēðîá @12:42
Nice Alfonso Bedoya impression.
  12:45am
Doug Schulkind:

Somebody gotta gotta gotta take a leap and pledge $75 to get in the running to win that astounding Lou Reed collection. Your chances are ridiculously good!
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PAULS:

↳ Doug Schulkind @12:45
Mine should qualify, but I don't think it went through :(
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PAULS:

22!! Maybe that was meeee
  12:49am
Irene:

You guys are sounding great! I've been listening for the last hour and a half on my way back from my WQXR remote tonight. That's gotta count for some last minute pledges! C'mon people!
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Uncle Michael:

Irene! Thanks!
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Ike:

↳ Ålęx fröm Mēðîá @12:40
The whole WFUV-WFMU battle was resolved in 1992: "The FCC rules in WFMU's favor, saying that WFMU can keep its power, but it needs to reconfigure its transmission pattern."
wfmu.org...
  12:52am
Doug Schulkind:

PAULS, oh no! So sorry. It’s way too easy to accidentally have your pledge get directed to the wrong show. If you look at the thank you/confirmation email for you pledge, it should say what show the pledge is credited to.

Unfortunately the way our system is set up, prizes assigned to one show can’t be given away on another.
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PAULS:

↳ Doug Schulkind @12:52
It said it went to THIS show, Hotwire Mandate.
  12:53am
Irene:

Not exactly, Ike. We did have to cut power from 1440 Watts down to 1250 watts, so we lost a bit.
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PAULS:

↳ PAULS @12:53
I'm hoping Mike or Uncle Michael can confirm... ?
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Chop Scott:

Irene! Total saint of the WFMU engineers.
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Ålęx fröm Mēðîá:

↳ PAULS @12:53
Can we get PaulS an Amen?!
  12:55am
Irene:

Aww, thanks!
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trashflow:

This is a very good version of "You Can' Always Get What You Want"! Is Mike going to crash Abbie's show again tonight?
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Ike:

↳ Irene @12:53
Ah, then that "A Brief History of Freeform Radio" page written in 1998 is not entirely accurate. Got it.
  12:56am
Doug Schulkind:

PAULS, forward me the email from Joe McGasko now.
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Ålęx fröm Mēðîá:

↳ Ike @12:55
All the same what a petty POS game to play. To harass with legal fees until capitulation.
  12:57am
Doug Schulkind:

It sounds like there’s a possible software error.
  🥁 12:58am
Chris Crisco:

↳ Yvang @12:40
I must be a bot because I can't do it to save my ass. Hell before I created a userid I had enough trouble doing the math problems to get my posts to show up here.
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PAULS:

↳ Doug Schulkind @12:57
Doug let's see if these two mooks say something about my donation. If they can't confirm that it came through, I'm sure I can work it out or try again with a credit card, not bank account.
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Ålęx fröm Mēðîá:

Thanks for the show Mike! Good on ya!
  1:01am
Doug Schulkind:

PAULS, I’m sitting right here with them. No pledge came in from you during this show.
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PAULS:

Yup. I guess it's choking.
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cœlacänth∅:

PAULS! PAULS should be in the running for the grand prize!
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PAULS:

Fuck. OK I will give another go again tomorrow at some point.
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Tim in TN:

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
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Yvang:

Thanks Uncle Mike and Uncle Michael!
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PAULS:

↳ cœlacänth∅ @1:02
thanks fish
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Mike Lupica:

Thank you all! You're the BEST!
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Yvang:

I should say Uncle Mike L and Uncle Michael!
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cœlacänth∅:

Thanks Mike! Thanks UM!
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