WFMU: The Wiggle Room: Playlist from March 25, 2025

Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 7:17pm Krys O.: Hello!
	🎸 ♥ 7:22pm Austin Rich: Good Hello. And a Mighty Good Hello To Krys O!
	🎸 ♥ 7:36pm postconsumer: hiiii thanks for being here :)
	🎸 ♥ 7:38pm Krys O.: I'm snacking on some Utz no salt potato chips. They're so good.
	7:39pm Imaginos: Ahoy
	7:40pm Imaginos: ↳ Krys O. @7:38 I like Utz crab chips but they're hard to find
	🎸 ♥ 7:40pm Krys O.: ↳ Imaginos @7:40 I heard they do mail order.
	🎸 ♥ 7:42pm postconsumer: hi Imaginos - welcome!
	7:45pm Imaginos: ↳ postconsumer @7:42 Thank you
	7:46pm Imaginos: ↳ Krys O. @7:40 Oh?
	🎸 ♥ 7:47pm Austin Rich: Imaginos! postconsumer! It is always wonderful to see you two.
	7:48pm Imaginos: Interesting color scheme. We sending each other secret messages?
	🎸 ♥ 7:50pm postconsumer: ↳ Imaginos @7:48 just tried to balance the page colors with the colors in the flyer.
	🎸 ♥ 7:54pm Austin Rich: I do appreciate that Snoop practices safe sex. That's a good example to set for the little homies.
	🎸 ♥ 7:57pm postconsumer: What is this, I wonder?
	🎸 ♥ 7:57pm postconsumer: I mean, I know it's a snoop cover, but...
	🎸 ♥ 7:58pm Krys O.: ↳ postconsumer @7:57 Mr. Fab might know.
	🎸 ♥ 7:58pm postconsumer: should have looked at the player, when it was playing, d'oh!
	🎸 ♥ 7:58pm Krys O.: ↳ postconsumer @7:58 It said: 'probably not Snoop'
	🎸 ♥ 8:00pm postconsumer: ok. well, some of you might remember it was wkrp that got Radio Retrofit rolling a couple of years ago... and among the comments I received was the suggestion we give Venus the spotlight, next. I didn't think it would be possible, but...
	🎸 ♥ 8:00pm Krys O.: Yay!
	🎸 ♥ 8:00pm postconsumer: it was!
	🎸 ♥ 8:01pm Austin Rich: I love WKRP. I know a lot of people do. It was just so good. The theme song is one of the few that makes me cry.
	🎸 ♥ 8:01pm postconsumer: had to get a little (more) creative, as there was a lot less material to pull from, but I think it turned out good. Thanks for being here for the debut!
	🎸 ♥ 8:01pm Krys O.: There are days that I feel like Les Nessman with the bandaids.
	🎸 ♥ 8:03pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:01 i'm just finishing a total re-watch. It's very hit and miss, but the characters are well written and so endearing, you hardly even notice. ❤️
	🎸 ♥ 8:04pm postconsumer: ↳ Krys O. @8:01 that would be me, this morning. 🤣
	🎸 ♥ 8:04pm postconsumer: Although he's a lot more conservative republican than I remember. 😬
	🎸 ♥ 8:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:03 As I get older, I'm there less for the stories, and more for the characters.
	🎸 ♥ 8:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:04 Yeah, that is 100% true. I'm shocked at the politics of a lot of old shows I used to watch. I think the world was a lot different back then.
	🎸 ♥ 8:05pm Krys O.: ↳ postconsumer @8:04 Indeed. It's just the random bandaid thing for me. :)
	8:06pm Imaginos: ↳ Song: "(Don’t Fear) The Reaper" by "Blue Oyster Cult" Pearlman and Bouchard!
	🎸 ♥ 8:06pm postconsumer: For that matter, so is everybody. It's been interesting to see how they try and balance out the "wildness" of a show about a rock and roll radio station by having everyone occasionally show a fairly serious conservative streak
	🎸 ♥ 8:06pm Krys O.: Les was seen as a wack-a-doodle in some ways back then.
	🎸 ♥ 8:06pm postconsumer: ↳ Krys O. @8:06 and watching, today, I can't help but compare him to the wackos running the country, at the moment. it's fairly striking, actually
	🎸 ♥ 8:07pm Krys O.: ↳ postconsumer @8:06 That's to appease the standards and practices censors.
	🎸 ♥ 8:08pm postconsumer: anyway, Venus comes out agains abortion (more or less) at one point, Fever has some fairly noticable homophobia, and while they talk about sex, all the time, it doesn't appear as if anyone is actually having any. 😆
	🎸 ♥ 8:09pm postconsumer: All that said, I absolutely love the show, and when they say it's practically exactly the way a radio station can be run, I'd say they're pretty right-on.
	🎸 ♥ 8:09pm postconsumer: Reminds me a lot of my college radio station. 🤩
	🎸 ♥ 8:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @8:07 Very true! Talking to TV Writers, I'm surprised at how many character / plot / details were included in shows merely to appease some arcane aspect of standards and practices. Some writers have told me about negotiating with some networks, asking if the characters could say this in exchange for saying something else down the road. It's very strange.
	🎸 ♥ 8:10pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @8:09 Yup
	🎸 ♥ 8:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Eighth Day" by "Hazel O’Connor" Even at this advanced age, I'm always impressed when there's something from the late 70's / early 80's that I haven't heard yet. This is great! Thanks!
	🎸 ♥ 8:13pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:12 RIGHT?
	🎸 ♥ 8:13pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:12 Hazel took me by surprise, too... just discovered that record this past couple weeks.
	♥ 8:14pm Jinx: yesterday, I was explaining to my 37-year-old boss how important WKRP was for telling us teenagers at the time, who lived outside major metro areas, what was hip by what Venus and Johnny Fever were playing in a pre-MTV world.
	🎸 ♥ 8:14pm Austin Rich: wfmu.org...
	🎸 ♥ 8:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @8:14 Whoops! Wrong thread.
	🎸 ♥ 8:17pm postconsumer: ↳ Jinx @8:14 that's right! I remember as a kid just watching like a window had opened to oz or something
	🎸 ♥ 8:17pm Krys O.: I think Michael Des Barres was one of the members of Scum.
	🎸 ♥ 8:18pm Austin Rich: My dad does not talk to me much, and rarely has anything to say, unless really prodded. I don't even know much about his taste, in general. He's pretty secretively. One day, I went to visit him, and he started getting really serious. "I just wanted to say: when they first came out, I really didn't give AC/DC a chance. Recently I listened to them again, and they were great." Then he got a little quiet. "Don't let that happen to you. You should give AC/DC a chance." And that was it. That was about as much on that subject he was willing to say.
	🎸 ♥ 8:19pm postconsumer: ↳ Krys O. @8:17 He was the only member of scum who was actually in the real band they used to represent "Scum of the Earth," in fact. iirc.
	🎸 ♥ 8:19pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:18 wow. i love that.
	🎸 ♥ 8:19pm postconsumer: good Dad advice
	🎸 ♥ 8:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:19 He really wanted me to give them a chance!
	🎸 ♥ 8:20pm postconsumer: Come on, kid... give it a try. You just might like it!
	🎸 ♥ 8:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:20 I was about 30 at the time, so I do think it was odd that he thought maybe I HADN'T heard them much.
	🎸 ♥ 8:25pm postconsumer: "Detective" is the band WKRP features whenever a "Scum of the Earth" "record" is playing. These albums, I've read, were just re-released. I thought they sounded pretty good!
	🎸 ♥ 8:27pm Krys O.: ↳ postconsumer @8:19 The band Des Barres was in was Silverhead.
	🎸 ♥ 8:33pm postconsumer: ↳ Krys O. @8:27 which one is Des Barres? from memory, it's the blonde guy, with the big smile, who was in Detective "and scum."
	♥ 8:35pm Jinx: ↳ Song: "Wine Spo-Dee O’Dee" by "Jerry Lee Lewis" Jerry Lee's early 70's LPs are underrated.
	♥ 8:35pm spodiodi: ↳ Song: "Wine Spo-Dee O’Dee" by "Jerry Lee Lewis" such a great song :-)
	🎸 ♥ 8:36pm postconsumer: ↳ Jinx @8:35 spodiodi and jinx - yes! love Jerry Lee's music.
	♥ 8:36pm spodiodi: Hadn't heard the Killer's version before
	8:36pm ?: I’m here
	🎸 ♥ 8:37pm postconsumer: ↳ Jinx @8:35 Jinx, are you from chicago? I knew a guy w that name, from the suburbs, there.
	🎸 ♥ 8:39pm Krys O.: ↳ postconsumer @8:33 Michael Des Barres was in To Sir with Love with Lulu and Sidney Poitier. He was in different bands and did solo albums, but couldn't find any named Scum. He was in Silverhead in the 70s before he married Pamela Des Barres of the GTOs. render.fineartamerica.com...
	8:39pm djhollywayzata: And now I’m logged in, Jeesh
	🎸 ♥ 8:39pm postconsumer: i love this song. i love this series for all the opportunties to play the music i love, which would never fit on SAR. as much work as these are to make, it's worth every minute as it's so damn fun to put it all together, and work in all my favorite songs, somehow.
	🎸 ♥ 8:40pm postconsumer: ↳ djhollywayzata @8:39 izzat you, Holly??
	8:40pm djhollywayzata: Yeps
	🎸 ♥ 8:41pm postconsumer: My friend from MN! thanks for joining. ❤️ Welcome :)
	♥ 8:41pm Jinx: ↳ postconsumer @8:37 no, not from Chicago. great town, though. my grandfather in N.C. called me jinx. originally from N.C, I grew up in New Brunswick, NJ. I'm in Va. these days.
	🎸 ♥ 8:42pm postconsumer: ↳ Krys O. @8:39 thanks! He's quite the looker. 😎
	8:42pm djhollywayzata: I never listened live. Only on demand while working in studio. But I saw yer post.
	🎸 ♥ 8:43pm Krys O.: ↳ postconsumer @8:42 He still is! He's been sober since 1981 too.
	🎸 ♥ 8:45pm postconsumer: ↳ Jinx @8:41 nice. I wish my grandpa gave me an awesome nickname
	♥ 8:45pm Jinx: Tim Reid is from Va. Last I heard, he lives in Richmond (RVA).
	♥ 8:45pm Arvo Zylo: I do remember WKRP in Cincinatti fondly, also George Thorogood. After school, my grandmother would sometimes take me to the bar, where my grandfather was a bartender. It was pretty dead before 7pm. I just played pool, darts, and put music on the juke box.
	🎸 ♥ 8:45pm postconsumer: and this is the other reason. I love mixing in songs we remember from other eras, which were in the record stores at the same time as the classics we associate with this one.
	🎸 ♥ 8:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Gardening at Night" by "R.E.M." I do like those early REM releases, especially the guitar and bass sounds. I feel like, with each successive album, they stopped writing the kinds of songs that I liked.
	🎸 ♥ 8:47pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:46 that's really true. huge rem fan since junior high, and the stuff pre-GREEN is so amazing. It's good, after, too, but quite different.
	🎸 ♥ 8:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:47 Those early albums: they're a surf band, with introspective lyrics! It's the perfect blend!
	🎸 ♥ 8:48pm postconsumer: ↳ Arvo Zylo @8:45 another good grandfather story. thanks for saying!
	8:48pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @8:46 Even their early stuff got overplayed so much that I got sick of it, even though it was good.
	♥ 8:48pm Arvo Zylo: Jinx Dawson is from the band Coven, formed in Chicago in the 60s. She used to be very friendly and talkative on facebook, around 2009. Haven't been on social media enough to see her in recent years. en.wikipedia.org...
	♥ 8:50pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ postconsumer @8:48 One of my fond memories of visiting my grandfather was trying to throw a coin into the juke box from the entrance, like in the video for Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal".
	🎸 ♥ 8:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:48 I wish I knew more about my grandparents. I never met my mom's father. I only saw my dad's parents occasionally, and even then, my grandfather didn't tell a lot of stories, and didn't seem to like kids. (Or, at least, didn't seem to like me much.) When I hear stories about him, it doesn't really sound like the person I knew.
	🎸 ♥ 8:51pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @8:46 I loved Murmur and Reckoning, but I didn't keep up with buying the rest of their albums. I did see them play at Radio City Music Hall in 1985. That was a great show in a gorgeous venue.
	🎸 ♥ 8:52pm postconsumer: ↳ Krys O. @8:51 wish I could have seen them live. nice.
	🎸 ♥ 8:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @8:51 That's very cool! Yeah, Reckoning is something else.
	♥ 8:53pm Jinx: enjoyed the show. appreciate you.
	♥ 8:53pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Up Around The Bend" by "Creedence Clearwater Revi... I recently listened to this band on purpose for the first time!
	🎸 ♥ 8:53pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:50 Most of the information I've gathered about my family is secondhand and researched. I'm all but completely cut off from everybody, for some reason. Flying solo.
	8:54pm Imaginos: Great music tonight
	🎸 ♥ 8:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:53 Family is complicated.
	🎸 ♥ 8:55pm postconsumer: ↳ Imaginos @8:54 😄 For me, the perfect example of a band I like, and never owned a single record by. Lots of bands like that...
	🎸 ♥ 8:55pm Krys O.: Thanks, Jon!
	🎸 ♥ 8:55pm postconsumer: ↳ Imaginos @8:54 thanks!
	🎸 ♥ 8:55pm Austin Rich: I was working on my "Pump Up The Volume" show a while back, postconsumer. You doing these shows has inspired me.
	🎸 ♥ 8:56pm postconsumer: ↳ Jinx @8:53 thanks! There's an hour two and hour three on the way...
	8:56pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Spill The Wine" by "War" So great! Pretty much anything by Eric Burdon, War, or the Animals is great.
	🎸 ♥ 8:56pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:55 i'm so glad to hear that. thanks for saying. I'll get around to that one, eventually.
	♥ 8:56pm Arvo Zylo: Have a good night!
	🎸 ♥ 8:56pm postconsumer: ↳ Mr. X @8:56 mmm love the animals.
	🎸 ♥ 8:57pm postconsumer: ↳ postconsumer @8:56 but not today. Austin's up next! Stay tuned to future episodes of The Wiggle Room, for the next installments of Radio Retrofit. :)
	🎸 ♥ 8:57pm postconsumer: you, too! thanks
	♥ 8:57pm Jinx: ↳ postconsumer @8:56 wish I could hang for them. gotta go to bed soon. wife gets up at 4:15 am to go swim. thank goodness for the archives!
	🎸 ♥ 8:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:57 Will do! I always appreciate your shows, postconsumer!
	8:58pm djhollywayzata: Great show!
	♥ 8:58pm spodiodi: Thank you!
	🎸 ♥ 8:59pm postconsumer: Thanks to Arvo Zylo, Mr. X, Austin, Jinx, HOLLY!, spodiodi, Imaginos and of course KRYS! for board opping like a champ. You're my literal hero. thanks everybody for joining in and listening, and keep your chins up out there. ❤️ Jon
	🎸 ♥ 9:00pm postconsumer: ↳ djhollywayzata @8:58 thanks!! :)
	🎸 ♥ 9:00pm postconsumer: ↳ spodiodi @8:58 thanks for that!
	🎸 ♥ 9:00pm postconsumer: take care everybody. see you next time. stay tuned for AUSTIN RICH
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: Will do! I always appreciate your shows, postconsumer!
	♥ 9:03pm Jinx: d'oh! I thought you meant 2 more hours tonight. I'll be there next time. be well!

The Wiggle Room: Playlist from March 25, 2025

A different show every week! Rotating DJs include Jon Nelson's "Sheena 'ssembly Required" (Tape Manipulations, Digital Deconstructions and Turntable Creations),
MarkTime (vintage radio airchecks), and Krys O (aka Sister Krys - WFMU alumna 1985-1991, longtime Church of the Subgenius monk. Playing cinematic ephemera, schizoid weirdos, all styles served here). Plus: surprise guests galore. (illustration courtesy of https://www.jimflora.com/)

Tuesday 8 - 9pm (EDT) | On WFMU's Sheena's Jungle Room
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March 25, 2025: Radio Retrofit: Return to WKRP - "Venus FLYTRAP" (Hour 01)

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Artist	Track	Year	Approx. start time
Music behind DJ: Radio Retrofit: WKRP's "Venus Flytrap"		1982	0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bob Marley & The Wailers	Real Situation	1980	0:00:19 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Radio Retrofit: WKRP's "Venus Flytrap"		1982	0:02:27 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Pointer Sisters	Slow Hand "Slow Hand" by "Pointer Sisters"	1981	0:02:47 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Blue Oyster Cult	(Don’t Fear) The Reaper	1976	0:05:16 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Hazel O’Connor	Eighth Day "Eighth Day" by "Hazel O’Connor"	1980	0:10:12 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
AC/DC	You Shook Me All Night Long	1980	0:13:16 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: WKRP CA	Fever Interviews Scum "Fever Interviews Scum" by "WKRP CA"	1982	0:16:44 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Detective	Dynamite "Dynamite" by "Detective"	1977	0:16:57 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Radio Retrofit: WKRP's "Venus Flytrap"		1982	0:21:31 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Radio Retrofit: WKRP's "Venus Flytrap"		1982	0:22:39 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Detective	Got Enough Love "Got Enough Love" by "Detective"	1977	0:23:53 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Crash Crew	We Want to Rock "We Want to Rock" by "Crash Crew"	1981	0:26:45 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jerry Lee Lewis	Wine Spo-Dee O’Dee	1973	0:32:38 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Radio Retrofit: WKRP's "Venus Flytrap" and "Johnny Fever"		1982	0:35:07 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
George Thorogood and The Destroyers	One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer	1980	0:37:09 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Radio Retrofit: WKRP's "Venus Flytrap" and "Johnny Fever"		1982	0:42:29 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
R.E.M.	Gardening at Night "Gardening at Night" by "R.E.M."	1982	0:44:49 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Freddie King	Funny Bone "Funny Bone" by "Freddie King"	1965	0:48:06 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Radio Retrofit: WKRP's "Venus Flytrap" and "Johnny Fever"		1982	0:51:04 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Creedence Clearwater Revival	Up Around The Bend	1970	0:52:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Radio Retrofit: WKRP's "Venus Flytrap" and "Johnny Fever"		1982	0:54:17 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
War	Spill The Wine "Spill The Wine" by "War"	1970	0:54:46 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 7:17pm Krys O.: Hello!
	🎸 ♥ 7:22pm Austin Rich: Good Hello. And a Mighty Good Hello To Krys O!
	🎸 ♥ 7:36pm postconsumer: hiiii thanks for being here :)
	🎸 ♥ 7:38pm Krys O.: I'm snacking on some Utz no salt potato chips. They're so good.
	7:39pm Imaginos: Ahoy
	7:40pm Imaginos: ↳ Krys O. @7:38 I like Utz crab chips but they're hard to find
	🎸 ♥ 7:40pm Krys O.: ↳ Imaginos @7:40 I heard they do mail order.
	🎸 ♥ 7:42pm postconsumer: hi Imaginos - welcome!
	7:45pm Imaginos: ↳ postconsumer @7:42 Thank you
	7:46pm Imaginos: ↳ Krys O. @7:40 Oh?
	🎸 ♥ 7:47pm Austin Rich: Imaginos! postconsumer! It is always wonderful to see you two.
	7:48pm Imaginos: Interesting color scheme. We sending each other secret messages?
	🎸 ♥ 7:50pm postconsumer: ↳ Imaginos @7:48 just tried to balance the page colors with the colors in the flyer.
	🎸 ♥ 7:54pm Austin Rich: I do appreciate that Snoop practices safe sex. That's a good example to set for the little homies.
	🎸 ♥ 7:57pm postconsumer: What is this, I wonder?
	🎸 ♥ 7:57pm postconsumer: I mean, I know it's a snoop cover, but...
	🎸 ♥ 7:58pm Krys O.: ↳ postconsumer @7:57 Mr. Fab might know.
	🎸 ♥ 7:58pm postconsumer: should have looked at the player, when it was playing, d'oh!
	🎸 ♥ 7:58pm Krys O.: ↳ postconsumer @7:58 It said: 'probably not Snoop'
	🎸 ♥ 8:00pm postconsumer: ok. well, some of you might remember it was wkrp that got Radio Retrofit rolling a couple of years ago... and among the comments I received was the suggestion we give Venus the spotlight, next. I didn't think it would be possible, but...
	🎸 ♥ 8:00pm Krys O.: Yay!
	🎸 ♥ 8:00pm postconsumer: it was!
	🎸 ♥ 8:01pm Austin Rich: I love WKRP. I know a lot of people do. It was just so good. The theme song is one of the few that makes me cry.
	🎸 ♥ 8:01pm postconsumer: had to get a little (more) creative, as there was a lot less material to pull from, but I think it turned out good. Thanks for being here for the debut!
	🎸 ♥ 8:01pm Krys O.: There are days that I feel like Les Nessman with the bandaids.
	🎸 ♥ 8:03pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:01 i'm just finishing a total re-watch. It's very hit and miss, but the characters are well written and so endearing, you hardly even notice. ❤️
	🎸 ♥ 8:04pm postconsumer: ↳ Krys O. @8:01 that would be me, this morning. 🤣
	🎸 ♥ 8:04pm postconsumer: Although he's a lot more conservative republican than I remember. 😬
	🎸 ♥ 8:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:03 As I get older, I'm there less for the stories, and more for the characters.
	🎸 ♥ 8:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:04 Yeah, that is 100% true. I'm shocked at the politics of a lot of old shows I used to watch. I think the world was a lot different back then.
	🎸 ♥ 8:05pm Krys O.: ↳ postconsumer @8:04 Indeed. It's just the random bandaid thing for me. :)
	8:06pm Imaginos: ↳ Song: "(Don’t Fear) The Reaper" by "Blue Oyster Cult" Pearlman and Bouchard!
	🎸 ♥ 8:06pm postconsumer: For that matter, so is everybody. It's been interesting to see how they try and balance out the "wildness" of a show about a rock and roll radio station by having everyone occasionally show a fairly serious conservative streak
	🎸 ♥ 8:06pm Krys O.: Les was seen as a wack-a-doodle in some ways back then.
	🎸 ♥ 8:06pm postconsumer: ↳ Krys O. @8:06 and watching, today, I can't help but compare him to the wackos running the country, at the moment. it's fairly striking, actually
	🎸 ♥ 8:07pm Krys O.: ↳ postconsumer @8:06 That's to appease the standards and practices censors.
	🎸 ♥ 8:08pm postconsumer: anyway, Venus comes out agains abortion (more or less) at one point, Fever has some fairly noticable homophobia, and while they talk about sex, all the time, it doesn't appear as if anyone is actually having any. 😆
	🎸 ♥ 8:09pm postconsumer: All that said, I absolutely love the show, and when they say it's practically exactly the way a radio station can be run, I'd say they're pretty right-on.
	🎸 ♥ 8:09pm postconsumer: Reminds me a lot of my college radio station. 🤩
	🎸 ♥ 8:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @8:07 Very true! Talking to TV Writers, I'm surprised at how many character / plot / details were included in shows merely to appease some arcane aspect of standards and practices. Some writers have told me about negotiating with some networks, asking if the characters could say this in exchange for saying something else down the road. It's very strange.
	🎸 ♥ 8:10pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @8:09 Yup
	🎸 ♥ 8:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Eighth Day" by "Hazel O’Connor" Even at this advanced age, I'm always impressed when there's something from the late 70's / early 80's that I haven't heard yet. This is great! Thanks!
	🎸 ♥ 8:13pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:12 RIGHT?
	🎸 ♥ 8:13pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:12 Hazel took me by surprise, too... just discovered that record this past couple weeks.
	♥ 8:14pm Jinx: yesterday, I was explaining to my 37-year-old boss how important WKRP was for telling us teenagers at the time, who lived outside major metro areas, what was hip by what Venus and Johnny Fever were playing in a pre-MTV world.
	🎸 ♥ 8:14pm Austin Rich: wfmu.org...
	🎸 ♥ 8:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @8:14 Whoops! Wrong thread.
	🎸 ♥ 8:17pm postconsumer: ↳ Jinx @8:14 that's right! I remember as a kid just watching like a window had opened to oz or something
	🎸 ♥ 8:17pm Krys O.: I think Michael Des Barres was one of the members of Scum.
	🎸 ♥ 8:18pm Austin Rich: My dad does not talk to me much, and rarely has anything to say, unless really prodded. I don't even know much about his taste, in general. He's pretty secretively. One day, I went to visit him, and he started getting really serious. "I just wanted to say: when they first came out, I really didn't give AC/DC a chance. Recently I listened to them again, and they were great." Then he got a little quiet. "Don't let that happen to you. You should give AC/DC a chance." And that was it. That was about as much on that subject he was willing to say.
	🎸 ♥ 8:19pm postconsumer: ↳ Krys O. @8:17 He was the only member of scum who was actually in the real band they used to represent "Scum of the Earth," in fact. iirc.
	🎸 ♥ 8:19pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:18 wow. i love that.
	🎸 ♥ 8:19pm postconsumer: good Dad advice
	🎸 ♥ 8:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:19 He really wanted me to give them a chance!
	🎸 ♥ 8:20pm postconsumer: Come on, kid... give it a try. You just might like it!
	🎸 ♥ 8:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:20 I was about 30 at the time, so I do think it was odd that he thought maybe I HADN'T heard them much.
	🎸 ♥ 8:25pm postconsumer: "Detective" is the band WKRP features whenever a "Scum of the Earth" "record" is playing. These albums, I've read, were just re-released. I thought they sounded pretty good!
	🎸 ♥ 8:27pm Krys O.: ↳ postconsumer @8:19 The band Des Barres was in was Silverhead.
	🎸 ♥ 8:33pm postconsumer: ↳ Krys O. @8:27 which one is Des Barres? from memory, it's the blonde guy, with the big smile, who was in Detective "and scum."
	♥ 8:35pm Jinx: ↳ Song: "Wine Spo-Dee O’Dee" by "Jerry Lee Lewis" Jerry Lee's early 70's LPs are underrated.
	♥ 8:35pm spodiodi: ↳ Song: "Wine Spo-Dee O’Dee" by "Jerry Lee Lewis" such a great song :-)
	🎸 ♥ 8:36pm postconsumer: ↳ Jinx @8:35 spodiodi and jinx - yes! love Jerry Lee's music.
	♥ 8:36pm spodiodi: Hadn't heard the Killer's version before
	8:36pm ?: I’m here
	🎸 ♥ 8:37pm postconsumer: ↳ Jinx @8:35 Jinx, are you from chicago? I knew a guy w that name, from the suburbs, there.
	🎸 ♥ 8:39pm Krys O.: ↳ postconsumer @8:33 Michael Des Barres was in To Sir with Love with Lulu and Sidney Poitier. He was in different bands and did solo albums, but couldn't find any named Scum. He was in Silverhead in the 70s before he married Pamela Des Barres of the GTOs. render.fineartamerica.com...
	8:39pm djhollywayzata: And now I’m logged in, Jeesh
	🎸 ♥ 8:39pm postconsumer: i love this song. i love this series for all the opportunties to play the music i love, which would never fit on SAR. as much work as these are to make, it's worth every minute as it's so damn fun to put it all together, and work in all my favorite songs, somehow.
	🎸 ♥ 8:40pm postconsumer: ↳ djhollywayzata @8:39 izzat you, Holly??
	8:40pm djhollywayzata: Yeps
	🎸 ♥ 8:41pm postconsumer: My friend from MN! thanks for joining. ❤️ Welcome :)
	♥ 8:41pm Jinx: ↳ postconsumer @8:37 no, not from Chicago. great town, though. my grandfather in N.C. called me jinx. originally from N.C, I grew up in New Brunswick, NJ. I'm in Va. these days.
	🎸 ♥ 8:42pm postconsumer: ↳ Krys O. @8:39 thanks! He's quite the looker. 😎
	8:42pm djhollywayzata: I never listened live. Only on demand while working in studio. But I saw yer post.
	🎸 ♥ 8:43pm Krys O.: ↳ postconsumer @8:42 He still is! He's been sober since 1981 too.
	🎸 ♥ 8:45pm postconsumer: ↳ Jinx @8:41 nice. I wish my grandpa gave me an awesome nickname
	♥ 8:45pm Jinx: Tim Reid is from Va. Last I heard, he lives in Richmond (RVA).
	♥ 8:45pm Arvo Zylo: I do remember WKRP in Cincinatti fondly, also George Thorogood. After school, my grandmother would sometimes take me to the bar, where my grandfather was a bartender. It was pretty dead before 7pm. I just played pool, darts, and put music on the juke box.
	🎸 ♥ 8:45pm postconsumer: and this is the other reason. I love mixing in songs we remember from other eras, which were in the record stores at the same time as the classics we associate with this one.
	🎸 ♥ 8:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Gardening at Night" by "R.E.M." I do like those early REM releases, especially the guitar and bass sounds. I feel like, with each successive album, they stopped writing the kinds of songs that I liked.
	🎸 ♥ 8:47pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:46 that's really true. huge rem fan since junior high, and the stuff pre-GREEN is so amazing. It's good, after, too, but quite different.
	🎸 ♥ 8:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:47 Those early albums: they're a surf band, with introspective lyrics! It's the perfect blend!
	🎸 ♥ 8:48pm postconsumer: ↳ Arvo Zylo @8:45 another good grandfather story. thanks for saying!
	8:48pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @8:46 Even their early stuff got overplayed so much that I got sick of it, even though it was good.
	♥ 8:48pm Arvo Zylo: Jinx Dawson is from the band Coven, formed in Chicago in the 60s. She used to be very friendly and talkative on facebook, around 2009. Haven't been on social media enough to see her in recent years. en.wikipedia.org...
	♥ 8:50pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ postconsumer @8:48 One of my fond memories of visiting my grandfather was trying to throw a coin into the juke box from the entrance, like in the video for Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal".
	🎸 ♥ 8:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:48 I wish I knew more about my grandparents. I never met my mom's father. I only saw my dad's parents occasionally, and even then, my grandfather didn't tell a lot of stories, and didn't seem to like kids. (Or, at least, didn't seem to like me much.) When I hear stories about him, it doesn't really sound like the person I knew.
	🎸 ♥ 8:51pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @8:46 I loved Murmur and Reckoning, but I didn't keep up with buying the rest of their albums. I did see them play at Radio City Music Hall in 1985. That was a great show in a gorgeous venue.
	🎸 ♥ 8:52pm postconsumer: ↳ Krys O. @8:51 wish I could have seen them live. nice.
	🎸 ♥ 8:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @8:51 That's very cool! Yeah, Reckoning is something else.
	♥ 8:53pm Jinx: enjoyed the show. appreciate you.
	♥ 8:53pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Up Around The Bend" by "Creedence Clearwater Revi... I recently listened to this band on purpose for the first time!
	🎸 ♥ 8:53pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:50 Most of the information I've gathered about my family is secondhand and researched. I'm all but completely cut off from everybody, for some reason. Flying solo.
	8:54pm Imaginos: Great music tonight
	🎸 ♥ 8:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:53 Family is complicated.
	🎸 ♥ 8:55pm postconsumer: ↳ Imaginos @8:54 😄 For me, the perfect example of a band I like, and never owned a single record by. Lots of bands like that...
	🎸 ♥ 8:55pm Krys O.: Thanks, Jon!
	🎸 ♥ 8:55pm postconsumer: ↳ Imaginos @8:54 thanks!
	🎸 ♥ 8:55pm Austin Rich: I was working on my "Pump Up The Volume" show a while back, postconsumer. You doing these shows has inspired me.
	🎸 ♥ 8:56pm postconsumer: ↳ Jinx @8:53 thanks! There's an hour two and hour three on the way...
	8:56pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Spill The Wine" by "War" So great! Pretty much anything by Eric Burdon, War, or the Animals is great.
	🎸 ♥ 8:56pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:55 i'm so glad to hear that. thanks for saying. I'll get around to that one, eventually.
	♥ 8:56pm Arvo Zylo: Have a good night!
	🎸 ♥ 8:56pm postconsumer: ↳ Mr. X @8:56 mmm love the animals.
	🎸 ♥ 8:57pm postconsumer: ↳ postconsumer @8:56 but not today. Austin's up next! Stay tuned to future episodes of The Wiggle Room, for the next installments of Radio Retrofit. :)
	🎸 ♥ 8:57pm postconsumer: you, too! thanks
	♥ 8:57pm Jinx: ↳ postconsumer @8:56 wish I could hang for them. gotta go to bed soon. wife gets up at 4:15 am to go swim. thank goodness for the archives!
	🎸 ♥ 8:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:57 Will do! I always appreciate your shows, postconsumer!
	8:58pm djhollywayzata: Great show!
	♥ 8:58pm spodiodi: Thank you!
	🎸 ♥ 8:59pm postconsumer: Thanks to Arvo Zylo, Mr. X, Austin, Jinx, HOLLY!, spodiodi, Imaginos and of course KRYS! for board opping like a champ. You're my literal hero. thanks everybody for joining in and listening, and keep your chins up out there. ❤️ Jon
	🎸 ♥ 9:00pm postconsumer: ↳ djhollywayzata @8:58 thanks!! :)
	🎸 ♥ 9:00pm postconsumer: ↳ spodiodi @8:58 thanks for that!
	🎸 ♥ 9:00pm postconsumer: take care everybody. see you next time. stay tuned for AUSTIN RICH
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: Will do! I always appreciate your shows, postconsumer!
	♥ 9:03pm Jinx: d'oh! I thought you meant 2 more hours tonight. I'll be there next time. be well!

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