What's Wrong with America, Part 37: Ken's show

Listener comments!

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6:40am -Ken:

Morning !

6:50am Jack:

Nice gifs. Ken. I'm gonna be having nightmares tonight, oh yeah! Thanks.

7:11am fɇfɇ (:

Good morning, Ken, Jack!

Oh. that's nothing, Jack. The mother of all nightmares is happening next Tuesday, November 8, 2016.

7:24am cory:

morning all

7:56am cory:

i binge wayched One Mississippi last night. really good showfrom Amazon. John Rothman is amazingly deeply cold and bland. www.imdb.com...

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8:07am -Ken:

Any requests? This is the last normal show before the deluge.

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8:10am Ken From Hyde Park:

Requesting "Pop Muzic" by M.
How was your Halloween, Ken? Did you wear a giant traffic cone costume?

8:30am Lizardner Dave:

Elakeliaset please, and define "normal".

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8:34am AnAnonymousParty:

Is it inappropriate to request a theme of late 60s political protest songs, just to get us in the mood?

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8:39am -Ken:

A request is never inappropriate, AAP.

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8:45am AnAnonymousParty:

Oooooh yes it can be.

8:49am pantz:

Good morning, Ken. How about some Ween? Spinal Meningitis?

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8:53am -Ken:

Ween - great idea. AAP, it only become inappropriate if I play it.

8:57am fɇfɇ (:

Please, I'd like to request only happy songs. All the somber, dark, gloomy music can wait for next Wednesday.

8:59am bobdoesthings:

goodmorning

9:02am Sem Chumbo:

Hiya, Ken, and Station Manager likers.

9:03am Listener Robert:

Did you save up these pre-show GIFs from last week?

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9:04am -Ken:

Yes Robert I did

9:06am Michele:

I request an EAS test

9:07am Listener Robert:

Thanks, Ken. I had a dream with you in it last night. I was hanging around making myself useless-to-annoying. You had a book-binding device.

9:08am MD:

A HOY HOY!

9:08am MD:

Das Radio Hund!!!

9:12am Cooh John:

Sieg Hell. My comment for next week.

9:13am Polyus:

I voted last night. Feels good man.

9:14am Cooh John:

how about This is not My America by Bowie.

9:15am pantz:

@Polyus We know who you voted for, Pepe.

9:18am Polyus:

@pantz - I am not completely up on the Pepe references, other than that it's some alt-right thing?

9:19am bobdoesthings:

I'm voting for Bag-of-Tarantulas #bagoftarantulas2016

9:19am achim:

how about mladic by Godspeed You! Black Emperor

9:19am bobdoesthings:

Don't vote for the bag of scorpions!

9:21am pantz:

Pepe was the Feels Good Man meme, but apparently the alt-right has appropriated his visage for their nefarious schemes.

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9:21am Ken From Hyde Park:

James Brown has a song about America in one of the Rocky movies.

9:24am Polyus:

Ah, I didn't know about the feels good man part, it's just a thing that a few people I know say. Makes sense now. I would like that part stricken from the record.

9:26am asheville jon:

Morning everyone

9:27am bobdoesthings:

anyone else having to refresh the playlist in order to see new tracks and comments?

9:27am map:

there is a gr8 danny wolfers disco rmx of this bowie track bit.ly...

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9:27am -Ken:

BobDoesThings, you should reconsider your vote. Molting Tarantula has a much better health care proposal.

9:27am Nick S.:

Morning Ken! Funkadelic ‎– America Eats Its Young on this theme might be efficacious.

9:28am bobdoesthings:

@ken - as long as it's not that corporate shill, bag of scorpions! BagOfTarantulas2016!

9:28am Cooh John:

Danka sehr

9:29am fɇfɇ (:

I have two rhetorical questions. They need no answer.

1. Would Ken play a song over and over again next week if Trump wins just like Ken did when Reagan won the election (by playing Lesley Gore's "It's My Party (And I'll Cry If I Want To)" for eighteen consecutive hours).?

2. If so, which song would that be?

9:30am kevlicki:

I'm noticing a theme in these songs...

9:32am Brendan:

Good call on the Bowie track. Trump the Falcon and Carter Page the Snowman? Hopefully not coming to a theater near you?

9:32am Cooh John:

This show is getting favorited. I have a feeling I will be going back to it a lot in the future.

9:33am bobdoesthings:

Hey.. say what you will about America but at least we're not South Korea right now.. that shit is batshit insane.

9:34am Nick S.:

Silver Apples-Anthem with Jimi Hendrix could fit in!

9:35am kevlicki:

Ken- USA is a monster?

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9:36am AnAnonymousParty:

How about: Kansas - Song for America?

9:37am Brendan:

Fodder (or trash):
1)Neil Young - American Dream
2) Melvin Van Peebles- Love, That's America
3) Yes - cover of S

9:38am Brendan:

3) Yes cover of S and Gs America

9:39am Polyus:

Iggy - Wild America

9:39am Nick S.:

Suicide-Rocket U.S.A.!

9:39am Whooda:

Nice call on the Funkadelics DJ Station Manager Ken!

9:39am Nick S.:

Beach Boys-Surfin' USA

9:40am Ike:

@fɇfɇ, it'd have to be something apocalypse-themed, right? Since Pres. Drumpf will nuke North Korea and Iran and start WWIII and OHMYGOD WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE OHGOD OHGOD OHGODOHGODOHGODOHGODOHGODOHGOD

9:41am Spiro T. Agnew:

"Redneck Rampage" by Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper.

9:43am melinda:

Morning everyone!

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9:43am -Ken:

Whoa

9:43am Nick S.:

Joe Byrd And The Field Hippies-American Bedmusic I - Four Dreams For A Departing President a) Patriot's Lullaby b)Nightmare Train c)Invisible Man d) Mister 4th Of July

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9:43am -Ken:

AAP. Did you just request Kansas?

9:43am Nick S.:

Whoa!

9:44am Mark S:

oopsie

9:44am Michael:

He sounds a little afraid.

9:45am Joshua Fried:

Nobody does it like Ken

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9:47am AnAnonymousParty:

@Ken: See! See! And you said there were no inappropriate requests! I'm going home now.

9:48am Stevel:

Moshing in the cubicles!!!

9:48am Nick S.:

Devo ‎– Freedom Of Choice

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9:49am -Ken:

Well Geez Louise AAP, that rule does NOT apply to f'in KANSAS!

9:51am Mick:

Last Poets - This Is Madness

9:51am Jack:

Well, if you're going to take a request for Kansas, how about Nightranger? Didn't they have some big hit about rocking in America?

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9:51am AnAnonymousParty:

I'm just a guy throwing out names of songs with America in them.

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9:52am db:

In the late 80's / early 90's there was a show on WCSB Cleveland called Wainstead All Night who started his show with Brainwash, putting callers on the air to say what they had to say in the seconds between Brainwash repeat with no explanation - great results.

9:52am bobdoesthings:

everytime I hear this Jonathan Kane song I imagine the Charlie Brown/Peanuts crew of kids dancing

9:55am bobdoesthings:

66.media.tumblr.com...

9:56am MD:

HE'S SUCH A GOOD DOG!!!!

9:57am Nick S.:

King Crimson-Matte Kudasai

9:57am fɇfɇ (:

I don't think I have heard of that Bulldozer dog song.

9:57am Cecile:

play Killdozer! Their live show in November '08 on Brian Turner's show was the most American thing ever.

9:57am Michele:

I'm shocked Strokin' isn't #1?!

9:58am Cecile:

YES, NICK, THIS

9:58am Nick S.:

Sad America :(

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9:59am Webhamster Henry:

I always think of Barbecue as a Fabio Show song.

9:59am fɇfɇ (:

Where can we see those statistics, Ken?

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10:00am -Ken:

Strokin' weighs in at #13, Michele.

10:00am bobdoesthings:

@fofo - www.wfmu.org... heavily played records ?

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10:01am -Ken:

Here's the top of the list:

Buddy Scott Trio Barbecue You Win 58
Fuxa Our Lips Are Sealed Electric Sounds of Summer 52
Les Reines Prochaines Opfer Dieses Liedes (Wicked Game) Le Coeur En Beurre-Doublegras 47
Tuxedomoon No Tears Desire 44
Killdozer Knuckles the Dog (Who Helps People) Uncompromising War on Art Under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat 41
Big Blood Heart of Glass Under Covers (For WFMU) 40
RIAA Down At Mississippi Foolklegs - Folkloric Mashups 36
Earthless Ulururock From the Ages 35
Svantana Workin' In A Cocktail Bar 34
Vive la Fête Noir Desir Nuit Blanche 33
Courtney Barnett Avant Gardener The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas 32
Matmos Tunnel The Marriage Of True Minds 31
Clarence Carter Strokin' 30
People Like Us Break Me, Break My Horse Don't Think Right, It's All Twice 29
Khlam (К Л А М ) Cacet Industrial Jazz 27
Tonetta Drugs Drugs Drugs 777 27
Eyvind Kang 10:10 The Story of Iceland 27
Neil Cicierega Crocodile Chop 27

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10:01am -Ken:

No, different list Bobdoesstuff

10:02am bobdoesthings:

ah, my mistake. Are those lists posted anywhere?

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10:04am -Ken:

No, BobDoesStuff these favorite lists are not published anywhere until NOW. But I only posted the top 20 or so. I have the top 400.

10:06am common:

ken! all

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10:07am Ken From Hyde Park:

Access to the list could be a perk for pledgers giving over $X per month?

10:08am fɇfɇ (:

Thanks for sharing the stats, Ken!

10:09am SeanG:

pledge!

10:10am βrian:

Is a record played more heavily if you strap a quarter to the tone arm?

10:10am fɇfɇ (:

Oh, no! My nemesis song is on the top 20! (i.e. Vive la Fête)

10:11am Brendan:

Is this the praise break Gentry guy? Love him

10:11am Cecile:

preach.

10:11am βrian:

Now, that gif is mighty odalisquey.

10:12am Stevel:

Good GOD!!

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10:12am -Ken:

Here's the next 20 or so:

The Flying Lizards Hands 2 Take Fourth Wall 26
My Bloody Valentine New You M B V 25
Grauzone Eisbär Da Da Da Das War Die... Neue Deutsche Welle 25
Funkadelic Maggot Brain Title Track 25
Flipper Ha Ha Ha Sex Bomb Baby 25
Hookworms Form and Function Pearl Mystic 25
Detroit Grand Pubahs Sandwiches 24
Cromagnon Caledonia Orgasm 24
Mexican Institute of Sound Sinfonia Agridulce Soy Sauce 24
The Pink Floyd Lucy Leave 24
Rachid Taha Barra Barra Made in Medina 23
Faust Sur La Ventre Just Us 23
Porest Optimized The Parallel Broadcasts 22
Fat Freddy Theme 10 From the Untitled Album Exploratory Music from Portugal 05 21
Sudden Infant Nag Nag Nag Invocation of the Aural Slave Gods 21
Neil Young & Crazy Horse Walk Like a Giant Psychedelic Pill 21
The Fall 50 Year Old Man Imperial Wax Solvent 20
flipper brainwash 20
Schlammpeitziger Rollrockers Feinrippröhren Vorausschauende Bebauung 20
Big Blood The Black Angel's Death Song Fight for Your Dinner, Volume 1 20
Prince Rama Welcome to the Now Age Top 10 Hits of the End of the World 20
Peter Wahlbeck Baby Animal Music fur Alle

10:13am Cecile:

yay, baby animal!

10:13am Chud:

This reminds me, I've got to show my young nephew that POS movie "Crossroads"

10:15am fɇfɇ (:

It would be interesting to see which songs are the most disliked as well. Unfortunately there's no dislike button.

Also, is there an aggregated list of top WFMU songs gathered from all DJ's shows?

10:16am Cecile:

You know, I hope they put out an instrumental version of this Quintron song.

10:17am Cecile:

Also, I would like Quintron to do Deep Purple's Perfect Strangers.

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10:17am -Ken:

fofo YES, there is an aggregated list of top artists and top songs across all shows. You wont believe what is number one.

10:18am βrian:

Like buttons only indicate how much the button's been pushed. It's pretty meaningless except for laboratory rats.

10:19am Cecile:

what would be better, fofo? A listener diary about how they incorporated lessons they learned about their favorite songs into their daily life? :D

10:20am Sem Chumbo:

Twangy goodness.

10:21am Cecile:

I mean Brian. Sorry fofo.

10:21am Mark S:

"You wont believe what is number one."

Kansas - Song for America?

10:22am Cecile:

Dr. Bootygrabber. That has to be #1

10:22am Sam:

it was a BABY ANIMAL!

10:25am Sam:

What about Canada's top Ukrainian-Canadian performing group, Mickey and Bunny! They were something. Before Bunny left him and ran off with Takeshi and the other bunnys.

10:25am Cecile:

Confidential to Sam: ohhh co co co co co

10:26am Okasa:

Go Takeshi Terauchi! Just checked the internets... turns out Takeshi Terauchi was awarded The United Nations Peace Medal in 1981. Must have been for increasing peace through surf music.

10:27am Sam:

Surfers never started any war.

10:27am Sam:

I mean unless you go back to ancient Polynesia maybe

10:27am Cecile:

I have Apocalyptica performing the Angry Birds theme. It is amazing.

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10:28am Webhamster Henry:

I was a troll in this show 50 years ago.

10:28am Cecile:

Ken from Hyde Park, yeah, play Pop Muzik, and follow it with FoTC's Fashion is Danger, their tribute to M (and some other things).

10:29am Dean:

Me, too, if not quite 50 years ago, WH. Peer Gynt, right? Better, the director hired the high school power trio provide the music from backstage.

10:30am βrian:

Aren't we in a frenzy today?

10:31am Cecile:

I sang too high in the children's chorus in Tannhauser for a MTU concert recital. Wrecked my voice.

10:34am Sem Chumbo:

In a Grade 1 class, the music teacher assigned bird names depending upon how good your voice was.
I was a Crow and had to lipsync during class recitals @Cecile.

10:35am βrian:

Do you mean you sang at too high of a pitch, or that you had inhaled beforehand?

10:36am βrian:

Bach can get away from you in a hurry if you're too high, I've found.

10:38am Cecile:

ha, Sem!

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10:38am Webhamster Henry:

Porest needs more stars!

10:38am cory:

@Kern, did you guys get the new Negativland?

10:38am Ozzy Osbourne:

I think I've always sang too high.

10:39am JP from KC:

Morning, everyone. Boy, Carol's story escalated quickly.

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10:40am -Ken:

Cory - I dont think we did - what's it called?

10:40am Roberto:

Oy this again. Get ready for the overghost!

10:41am JakeGould:

Hey Ken! So during the power outage, you showing up and giving Dave the spiel about power going out at any moment and then... Power out? Brilliant!

10:41am pocket vito:

This song is sooo depressing. Thank god the good old days are over.

10:41am Roberto:

Here it comes.

10:41am pocket vito:

He's dead. From marijuana.

10:42am Roberto:

No, an overghost!

10:42am βrian:

"Over the Edge Vol. 9," says the wikipedia.

10:42am cory:

Negativland Presents Over the Edge Vol 9 The Chopping Channel

10:42am cory:

in fact i'm sitting here with a bit of Don

10:43am pocket vito:

The barawge of one linahs!

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10:43am -Ken:

Ah, that's their radio show.. not really a new Negativland studio album

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10:44am AnAnonymousParty:

Not from marijuana, but deadly marijuana. Remember that when you cast your votes next week folks.

10:44am Cecile:

I love you, Ann Magnuson.

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10:46am Ken From Hyde Park:

My daughter texted me that she got a 100 on a test. She'd enjoy hearing something from Drake, if possible. He's cool, right?

10:46am Polyus:

@AAP - there are a surprising number of candidates on the ballot in my area from the Legal Marijuana Now party this year.

10:47am βrian:

Perfecto segue!

10:47am melinda:

Perfect follow-up to the Ann Magnuson piece!

10:47am SueAdynamo:

i was just singing "november" on the way in to work today.

10:49am melinda:

Not just moaning, but moaning low.

10:49am Cooh John:

I was just thinking about Tom Waits.

10:49am βrian:

""Indoneeeeesia."

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10:50am AnAnonymousParty:

How much formaldehyde does one need to kill a horse, just out of curiosity?

10:50am Brendan:

If you must know , he's building a turbo encabulator.

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10:51am AnAnonymousParty:

He was just trying to build a better life for himself.

10:55am Whooda:

@AnAnonymousParty I don't know how much it takes to kill a horse but if he's already dead (or not) it takes a 250 gallon vitrin cube to preserve the horse as sellable to the MOMA.

10:57am egould310:

Pretty sure the band name is "Think", not "The Leonard Family". Wikipedia "Bobby Susser".

10:58am Polyus:

Fave Richard & Linda record, this one.

10:59am JakeGould:

Formaldehyde preserves.
Death comes in many forms.

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11:00am -Ken:

Thank you Bob D and Jason in Seattle for your pledges!

11:01am Whooda:

In the 1980's I purchased a small bottle of formaldehyde from a pharmacy. I needed it for paper marbling / paper making project. It was hell, as if I was trying to purchase arsenic or refined plutonium.

11:04am Jim Price:

Ken - What can you tell us about your storage trunk?

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11:06am -Ken:

I recently emptied it out Jim and moced the contents. I was tired of the harassment from the owners.

11:08am βrian:

I was expecting to see an animated gif of the orange traffic cones.

11:10am el B0-bO:

I am voting for Joe Exotic. Highly recommended. https://youtu.be/sc-_7RCFArM

11:13am el B0-bO:

Methinks Kazuki needs some LiCO3

11:14am PMD:

What does moce mean? Not even in the urban dictionary. I could make something up...

11:14am pantz:

Just Google Imaged Laurice. That guy and this voice do not compute.

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11:16am Webhamster Henry:

Can we get some Ivor Cutler as a palette cleanser?

11:17am βrian:

I'm always up for Ivor.

11:19am Carmichael:

Good morning, Kenneth and listening people.

11:21am Sem Chumbo:

I have this test of a 45.

11:25am Lewis:

ohhh yeahhhh

11:26am Carmichael:

Ken, how are the parking cones??? I couldn't sleep last night, thinking about their safety.

11:26am Henry:

love it

11:26am Listener Robert:

I wonder what country these are locations in.

11:27am Konrad in Brooklyn:

KEN: Realize it's late in the show, but playing anything from HEINO would round out this set and make my day

11:27am Hank Snow:

Never been to Russia.

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11:27am AnAnonymousParty:

Have you been anywhere, comrade?

11:29am Okasa:

I've been everywhere, comrade.

11:30am el B0-bO:

https://youtu.be/NH9PGOBgt3o. Happy Halloweed everybody.

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11:31am Webhamster Henry:

That down-home Czech sound of Ladislav Vodicka

11:31am Whooda:

But have you been to RenoChicagoFargoMinnesotaBuffaloTorontoWinslowSarasotaWhichtaTulsa
OttowaOklahomaTampaPanamaMattuaLaPaloma
BangorBaltimoreSalvadorAmarilloTocapilloPocotello man?

11:34am Konrad in Brooklyn:

Vielen dank, Ken!!!!

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11:34am Webhamster Henry:

Thurl is also always welcome.

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11:37am Rich in Washington:

People Like Us is brilliant. Always amazing.

11:37am Listener Robert:

Have you been to The Toilet?

11:43am PMD:

I work with a German company and one colleague is Heino. Wonder if it's the same one.

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11:43am Webhamster Henry:

Grinch Narrator was Boris Karloff, Thurl just sang the "Your'e a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" song.

11:45am Whooda:

I've been down, Three Doors Down, but never so low as the toilet.

11:47am fɇfɇ (:

Rich in Washington,

I agree. For people that don't know People Like Us has also a brilliant show here on WFMU. The archives have tons of weirdenful music:

http://wfmu.org/playlists/pl

11:47am Brian in UK:

No winners.

Numbers add up to nothing (Neil Young former Nobel laureate)

11:48am Okasa:

Just curious, who is Andy supporting in the election?

11:49am Lewis:

nice gif pairing...

11:51am Carmichael:

Andy is supporting Tony Shalhoub.

11:53am fɇfɇ (:

Andy is supporting WFMU's very own 'Jews Free by 2023'

11:54am Mick:

Oh man that 'music please!' person sounds like just my next door neighbor!

11:54am Carmichael:

Dammit Ken, the parking cones!!! THE CONES!!!!!!!

11:54am PMD:

I've missed the music please woman

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11:56am Webhamster Henry:

Here's how to solve the traffic cone problem:
www.amazon.com...

11:56am James:

Ned Beatty from Barton fink?

11:56am Brian in UK:

I'm not being funny but why the shouting?

11:57am fɇfɇ (:

USA,

You have meddled with the primal forces of nature. And now you'll atone next Tuesday.

Thanks, Ken! Till next episode everybody!

11:57am james:

I was close I guess.

11:57am Okasa:

Thanks Ken! I hope things are normal next Wed.

11:58am Listening Out There:

[Ready to listen to the program now...]

11:58am cory:

thanks for the great show!

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11:58am -Ken:

Alas, the cones have been taken from me by The Man.

11:58am cosmic matrix:

OMG i never thought of trump as bad karma, eeeeek

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11:59am -Ken:

Bye everybody! Next week... good god... next week...

12:00pm Lewis:

Ken seems to have adopted an outro...

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12:00pm Ken From Hyde Park:

Zats, no more cones?

12:00pm Brian in UK:

Good night, Mr Fleischer.

12:00pm Bobo:

Can I request a song?

5:47pm SeanG:

that Laurice song is AMAZING