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June 23, 2015: Left In The Lurch!

View this in your browser. TONIGHT: LEFT IN THE LURCH! LATE-BREAKING NEWS: Because he bailed on me, I'm changing the subject of tonight's show, which was to feature my cousin J.D.in the studio for a look at cousins, family, etc., to a discussion of those times you've been bailed on or had to bail on someone and those time you've been kept waiting or kept someone waiting. I'd love to hear from you tonight - so don't keep me waiting: call 201-209-WFMU and DON'T BAIL. Last Week: The Unbreakable Miss Lovely Last week's show featured a return by Tony Ortega, executive editor of Raw Story and former editor of the Village Voice, who's been investigating Scientology for twenty years and whose website The Underground Bunker documents the outrages of the "Church" Tony updated us on what's been happening in Scientology since the film Going Clear made it to HBO. We also discussed Tony's new book - The Unbreakable Miss Lovely - about the journalist Paulette Cooper (pictured above), who wpote incurred Scientology's full wrath and was driven to the brink of suicide. Here are some playlist comments: Hey wait a minute! "Battlefield Earth" is an incredible movie. And some FMU DJ's have played Scientology music, some by EL Ron himself. "The Guardian's Office.": sounds like an Ian Fleming name for a secret brotherhood of assassins. Or a sinister conspiracy investigated by John Steed and Mrs. Peel. Organizations with secrets are bad. Stay away from them. How did Scientology last this long? Where do they get money? I have to see this movie. Hey Chris! Hubbard owned a Mellotron, legend has it! Ha! Couple years ago at a friends house I was ranting about Scientology, and my friends mother says "my neighbors are scientologists and they're perfectly lovely people." Organizations with secrets are bad. Stay away from them. How did Scientology last this long? Where do they get money? I have to see this movie. Hubbard was also a student of the recruitment, initiation, manipulation, and brainwashing techniques of modern intelligence services.

The Mermaid Parade Was GREAT! The Mermaid Parade was a blast, despite the drizzle that fell on and off throughout (click on the Raymond Adams shot, above, to see more of his pics and ton of others on the Coney Island Mermaid Parade Facebook page). Sea creatures are used to getting wet and - believe me - it's rained much harder in years previous, so I was fine with it (but I probably shouldn't have worn the suede boots). I used Periscope to provide behind-the-scenes report and it worked well until the parade actually began. Then I couldn't get a broadcast initiated, probably due to bandwidth issues. Sorry about that. My Periscope account has a bunch of parade day videos up there, if you'd like to peep a few. Just download Periscope for iOs or Android and search for my user name, @christsakis. As I said throughout the parade, coneyisland.com now has a Donation Wall. If you'd like a plaque up there, show them some monetary love and I'll do a special shout-out to you next year! Obligatory Throwback Pic See? I ain't no fortunate son. With John Fogerty, circa 2012

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Glad the weather held! ♥ 6:07pm → Marcel M: Hello people and Chris ♥ 6:09pm → maestroso: Rumbling like crazy in Sussex right now... ♥ 6:09pm → Greg from Bloomfield: Evening, all! ♥ 6:10pm → Marcel M: Yo Greg! ♥ 6:10pm → Mike East: watching lightening out the window, but no falling water yet ♥ 6:10pm → Mike East: people who chronically bail are the WORST. ♥ 6:11pm → Marcel M: Falling water and lights here in Northern BK. ♥ 6:11pm → Greg from Bloomfield: I left all the windows in my apartment open! 6:13pm → steve: agree Mike... even worse that people who are perpetually late for everything. ♥ 6:14pm → Marcel M: Remember the Seinfeld when George fakes being blind to get a text book on tape?   6:15pm → JakeGould: Ahh, Steinfield! ♥ 6:17pm → dale: i remember back in pre-cell phone days waiting on street corners in manhattan to meet friends who never showed up. "did i say 35th and 7th or 37th and 5th?" turns out they were just dicks and didn't show. ♥ 6:17pm → Greg from Bloomfield: Ted Cassidy! ♥ 6:17pm → SeanG: maybe it's a blessing in disguise   6:18pm → JakeGould: @Dale: Me in high school… “Meet me at the Doubleday on 8th Street and 6th Avenue at 2:00pm…” ♥ 6:18pm → Mike East: @steve - the perpetually late can be accommodated - just tell them the thing starts an hour before it actually does.   6:20pm → komhom: Oh boy . The n word. 6:20pm → steve: ha. thanks, i will actually try that! ♥ 6:21pm → SeanG: yeah it's pointless to dwell on the past ♥ 6:21pm → Greg from Bloomfield: Feel free to just talk about stuff for an hour, CT—I'm enjoying it.   6:22pm → Henry J: Get rid of anybody that dicks you over twice and claims to be your friend because they are not your friend ♥ 6:22pm → dale: i like this topic better than the planned topic actually ♥ 6:23pm → SeanG: loving the fugazi bed ♥ 6:25pm → Marcel M: I too love to say "modren." ♥ 6:26pm → dale: 'today's the day you get your prostate poked' ♥ 6:26pm → SeanG: Chris is a punk rocker   6:27pm → listeners: time to bail ♥ 6:28pm → Marcel M: I mean only an animal doesn't respect wood. ♥ 6:29pm → Greg from Bloomfield: I bought my one friend a Dodgers ticket when I was Out West, and two days before the game I see him on Instagram getting on a plane to TX. I thought "Huh, that's weird…maybe he'll be back on Sunday?" Nah, I definitely ate that ticket. ♥ 6:30pm → Marcel M: Oh boy ♥ 6:32pm → Ken From Hyde Park: Good gravy. When it rains, it pours. ♥ 6:36pm → Marcel M: Hahahah.. that was funny.   6:37pm → Morgan: wow, chris...unless you've met that broad that your cousin is interested in, that was a pretty harsh characterization of her. Can't you just say he's aching to get laid and not blame some evil woman for his choices? ♥ 6:39pm → dale: morgan may be right. why else would you go to see lady gaga?   6:39pm → Viewer Paula: Pissed off ChrisT is soo funny! ♥ 6:40pm → Mike East: I bet the people telling Chris to get over it bail on people all the time ♥ 6:40pm → Ken From Hyde Park: Chris - The next person that says to get over it, give the phone a big yank like Moe from The Three Stooges used to do. They'll smash their head into the wall on the other end.   6:42pm → Viewer Paula: I got mad at the get over it lady too. She sounded drunk though. ♥ 6:42pm → micah: hey chris. I have no tolerance for flakey people as well. I mean sometimes its unavoidable but the way it sounds your cousin could have avoided leaving you in the lurch at the last minute. and everyone who complains that "its not funny" can f*&k off ♥ 6:49pm → Mike East: anyone have thoughts on people who rock the ferris wheel carriage against the pleas of their riding partners? ♥ 6:50pm → Mike East: (nice gif, btw) ♥ 6:50pm → the Master: Lurch: A sudden or unsteady movement.   6:51pm → P-90: Actually, "bailing" in this sense is more of a reference to "bailing out of a plane" ♥ 6:52pm → dale: jake from state farm?   6:52pm → JakeGould: P-90, but as I said it is all the positive side of a negative scenario. All desperate. ♥ 6:52pm → Ken From Hyde Park: Another usage for bail is using a bucket or a pump to get water out of a boat.   6:52pm → JakeGould: @Dale: That was me. From the State of Brooklyn. ♥ 6:52pm → DanH: Lurch: the butler from the Adams Family.   6:53pm → JakeGould: But all of those definitions are based in desperation.   6:53pm → Jack: A bail is also a part of a spinning reel, for fishing.   6:53pm → JakeGould: Someone make some cartoon about Lurch and his cute dog pal Bail. ♥ 6:55pm → Ken From Hyde Park: Also, thanks for not playing Lady GaGa for the background music.   6:55pm → LES: Chris somebody tells you they got something else to do that they forgot about just doesn't have the balls to tell you they are bailing. Come on Chris you know that ♥ 6:55pm → dale: had to google - lurch was the butler's LAST name. first name never revealed. chris - BEACHBOYS KARAOKE!!! ♥ 6:56pm → dale: awesome falsetto opportunitites abound ♥ 6:56pm → Polyus: Strength Through Bailure ♥ 6:57pm → SeanG: great show!   6:57pm → Old Dave: Fine show, Chris! ♥ 6:57pm → Ken From Hyde Park: 6:00 = Lemons 6:59 = Lemonade   6:57pm → P-90: Let's hear that pseudo-auditing session some other time? ♥ 6:58pm → SeanG: hey Chris, ever do a show on Wilhelm Reich?   6:59pm → LES: Good show Chris ♥ 7:09pm → dale: i had vodka and lemonade waaaay before 6:59. Comment! Name Email ✖ Re To songs (C) 2024 WFMU. Generated by KenzoDB, written by Ken Garson To Comments!