Marathon Week Two with Scott, Donald Trump and YOU! Pledge at 800-989-9368 or wfmu.org/pledge: Ken's show

Listener comments!

♥ 6:30am -Ken:

Morning friends!

♥ 7:40am AnAnonymousParty:

OK, I'll bite, morning!

7:48am cory:

hi all

8:21am Losermom:

I finally made it on a Wednesday! I'm so glad for archived Ken.

8:29am ɈȭɈȭ (:

Happy Kendnesday, eveyone!

♥ 8:34am Ken From Hyde Park:

Ape man needs some shoes. Let's pledge, everybody!

♥ 8:53am -Ken:

Hey everybody I really need your help this morning.. not only your pledges, but also, I need anybody who is listening to 91.1 fm to let us know right here if and when the transmitter pops off the air. It has happened three times in the last two hours, and when it gets knocked off, it is also knocking off the automated alerts that call and tell me that it's off. SO as usual, you are our front line of defense - if you hear the vocal stylings of Cokie Roberts and Nina Totenberg suddenly over 91.1, please please please let us know RIGHT HERE immediately.

♥ 8:59am Marcel M:

Morning!

♥ 8:59am Marcel M:

Woah the trump painting!

9:01am cory:

stream is silent

9:01am cory:

stream is on

♥ 9:01am Marcel M:

Twas not silent, there was surface noize brah.

9:03am Wild Neil:

@Ken et al-Good morning! Peace to all of you!

9:04am cory:

jeez, how loud do you listen, or how deaf am i?

♥ 9:04am Marcel M:

Haha. I had headphones on! Cranked of course.

♥ 9:05am Roberto:

So is there no marathon map this year?

♥ 9:05am Ken From Hyde Park:

Transmitter going off the air? I blame this guy: 150597036.r.cdn77.net...

9:07am Ike:

Good news: 91.1 is currently on the air.

9:07am sphere:

hey ken. listener 94944 here. the problem that i asked you about has been fixed with McG's help. over and out.

♥ 9:11am Ken From Hyde Park:

Coincidentally, I'm having a colonoscopy on Friday. I'm dedicating my preparation activities to Donald Trump. I hope the pictures look as good as the impLOG GIF does.

♥ 9:14am Caryn:

@Ken from HP: hopefully like the gif, but way slower. You don't want that speed...

Good luck with the prep, since that's the worst part.

9:15am Ike:

Just went off for 1 sec., came back on immediately.

9:16am Ike:

2-3 seconds just now

9:19am Wild Neil:

Please pledge. I am FLAT BROKE but I pledged-and so can you!
@Ken-can you share just for information what is the cause of going off the air? It would be interesting to know....

9:21am cory:

plus you get a cool little radio thingie ^

♥ 9:21am MD:

these people bleed for us! we need to bleed for them!!!
bleed it out forward!!!

9:22am Wild Neil:

Hey, I am a right wing Catholic who is seriously voting for Donald Trump. If I can pledge, so can you!! Hurry up! If you are reading , please pledge now!

♥ 9:24am Webhamster Henry:

OL-ga Pod-LUZH-na-ya!

♥ 9:25am -Ken:

You are doing the Lord's work Wild Neil. Donald Trump is an angel sent from heaven to destroy the Republican party. And thank you also for pledging to WFMU!

♥ 9:26am Stepchild:

Been on the stream since John Allen's show, but switching over to FM now to enjoy the flickering transmitter. Probably sabotaged by anti-Trump forces!!

♥ 9:26am MD:

This is AMAZING!!!!

♥ 9:27am Marcel M:

If Wild Neil wins Trump he is going to deface it with a big lipstick kiss.

9:28am andy the painter:

mark smith, or amanda?

♥ 9:28am Andrew Waterloo:

You should put that big steel pipe on Kajiji as free.

♥ 9:28am Marcel M:

And I mean a KISS, L-U-V

9:29am Wild Neil:

@Ken you may be right but not in the way you think....or maybe you are,...either way the result is the same if he gets in...also, I honestly think he may simply be telling right wingers what we want to hear, then making a hard turn to the left....anonymous released phone messages from him to the mainstream media showing he is in bed with the NY Times et al....

♥ 9:30am Vivian:

Ken, replied to Joe's e-mail - bumped up my Swag for Life pledge.

♥ 9:31am Webhamster Henry:

I actually have found my old gopher and may put it up somewhere!

♥ 9:34am Ken From Hyde Park:

New goal for the marathon: $1,204,000.00!

9:35am garethgoape:

I just wondered, if you pledge, do you get contacted later for shipping charges, or is it all inclusive? I live in the UK, so a package containing a bunch of premiums would be quite costly to mail here. Do we get charged extra?

♥ 9:35am Caryn:

Well, since Trump has said he only cares about making sure his face is in the media, and secondly winning (or whining if he doesn't win), if he should win, he'll have reached his only goal and might then lose all interest. Unless he after a while then decides to do some ridiculous stuff to get his face in the media again. I don't know if he even wants to be president, he just wants to win and get publicity.

9:35am Jack:

Not for nothing, but the 90.1 signal is kinda funky today.

9:36am People Like Us:

@garethgoape - it's all included

♥ 9:36am Webhamster Henry:

Hey pledgers - if you go over a certain level you can Adopt various objects and DJs on the WFMU adoption page! I've grabbed the volume knob again!
www.flickr.com...

♥ 9:37am AnAnonymousParty:

Running for POTUS: The good news is you won the election. The bad news is you won the election.

9:37am cory:

i got the coffee maker www.flickr.com...

9:37am Wild Neil:

@Caryn-wow, the AM radio guy I listen to never put forward that theory. He is quite smart actually, so I give your theory about a 5% chance of being true...I mean, who goes that far then goes-eh, who wants this anyway? I kinda doubt it....but thanks for the nice comment that does not attack me ad hominem...

♥ 9:38am Caryn:

@garetjgoape: it's all inclusive, but they try to do the shipping so that it'll be as inexpensive as possible. Some people throw in a little extra pledge for no swag to offset shipping charges (in a carbon-offset kinda way).

♥ 9:38am Bas NL:

Phew!!

9:38am sphere:

what is the pledge level for adoption? i might be able to take someone(thing) under my wing this year....

9:38am PG:

I loves velvet trump - saw her up close in velvet hallway -

♥ 9:38am Andrew Waterloo:

All we can say about Trump is that he's unknown quantity. Aside from being a thin-skinned bully who simply lies when the truth doesn't suit him.

9:39am People Like Us:

your swag is arriving in a huge lorry, Bas :)

♥ 9:39am Andrew Waterloo:

My prize account certainly justifies a few extra pledges.

9:39am Wild Neil:

@Andrew Waterloo-what did he lie about?

9:40am People Like Us:

Adopt a WFMU DJ wfmu.org...

♥ 9:40am Caryn:

@Wild Neil: it's actually a theory put forth by a political theorist. Interesting thought, and some of Trump's comments back it up, but I don't exactly believe it. Still, it's interesting to think about different approaches to the situation.

♥ 9:40am Bas NL:

Hi PLU! I'm working towards a submarine ;)

9:40am People Like Us:

or maybe a tunnel!

♥ 9:41am Bas NL:

Tunnel is cool! Sneaky visits to WFMU!

9:42am sphere:

Polifact judged that 41% of Trump's poitical statements were flat-out lies, and that 17% of them were mostly false. In fact, they gave Trump's collective statements the 2015 Lie of The Year award.

9:43am chrizzi:

good fundraising greets from Berlin!

9:43am Marcel M:

Neil, is your radio man as smart as that mechanic who tells you the conspiracy theories?

♥ 9:43am Stepchild:

Well, whatever the mechanism for the destruction of the GOP... it's to be welcomed.

♥ 9:43am Andrew Waterloo:

@Wild Neil, when he stood in front of a table of his 'products'... just about everything.

9:43am andy the painter:

hey ken (and scott)! just pledged! SFL!
where's that water damage from the water cooler? recent?
will fix next time.....

9:43am cory:

this reminds me of the band from jabba's palace for some reason

9:44am sphere:

Oh, and 21% of Trump's statements were rated Pants-On-Fire, which means "OMG he said that?!?!?"

9:44am Wild Neil:

@Marcel-why don't you listen and try and debunk him? He may just convert you to conservatism....go on, I dare you. WBEN, Tom Baurle show...

9:45am sphere:

sorry, 19% were Pants-On-Fire. i looked at the wrong place on the page.

♥ 9:45am doctorjazz:

Cool takes on Zep and The Who.

9:46am Marcel M:

@Neil: i'm more interested in speaking with your mechanic.

9:49am Wild Neil:

@Marcel-and that "mechanic" is smarter than some of the engineers I have run into...wow, you must hang on my every word to recall that fact, huh? And he was not a mechanic, he was a shop instructor for mechanical engineers...and also testified as an expert in a court case...do you look down on mechanics as inferior? That reveals a lot.

♥ 9:49am Ike:

@Sphere, once, in a political argument with Irwin, I brought up something from Politifact or another reliable fact-checking site. He said he doesn't believe in fact-checking sites and linked to a right-wing article about how fact-checking sites are a mainstream media scam! So, basic facts aren't real now. So that happened.

9:50am SeanG:

shake dem gorilla pecs!

9:50am sphere:

unfortunately, reality tends to have a liberal bias.

9:51am Wild Neil:

Actually, its more like Plato's cave and liberals are the loudest ones in the cave....so they tend to get their way.

♥ 9:52am Andrew Waterloo:

Unfortunately some who are concerned about 'bias' are just using it as an excuse to selectively believe what they want to believe.

♥ 9:52am Stepchild:

Unemployment rate is really 42%

9:53am Wild Neil:

@Andrew-exactly! But NOT how you mean it. Thanks for saying it out loud!

9:53am sphere:

i disagree, Neil. every time I get a splinter, i am reminded that there is an objective reality. the loudest voice doesn't define the world.

9:54am Marcel M:

Just messing with you Neil. Almost nothing I say on this board is serious. I just thought it was funny, a few weeks back, when you cited someone who works in a shop, only citing that they worked in a shop.

9:55am PG:

Gotta credit Trump for speaking idiot so eloquently...i'm scared

♥ 9:56am doctorjazz:

Looks like 90% sure it's Trump vs Clinton, Trump doesn't lie more than the other Republicans, he's just more blatantly obvious (has Obamacare really been a "job killer"? Not according to all the measurements. But it's Republican dogma). He's not more mean spirited than the other Republicans, just more clear about it.

♥ 9:57am Dan B From Upstate:

The first thing google suggests when searching for 4cx3500a is "4cx3500a price." Ouch.

♥ 9:57am Bjarne:

Which of the WFMU Dj's can we expect to meet at Primavera this year? Hope to see you there again Scott. I'm hoping Ken will join you as well, but I guess I shouldn't get my hopes up. Anyhoo... Good luck with the marathon!

♥ 9:59am Stepchild:

Only people who blindly follow those loud liberal voices believe the real unemployment rate isn't 30, 32% ("great economists" say so, though) -- "I've heard 42%."

♥ 10:00am Stepchild:

Words of a liar - straight up.

♥ 10:02am Roberto:

So...is there no marathon map this year?

♥ 10:02am Ken From Hyde Park:

Only $1200.00 on Ebay. www.ebay.com... Might be a useful backup part to have around.

♥ 10:02am Marcel M:

I don't believe so, Roberto.

♥ 10:02am Caryn:

@Neil: I'm just genuinely curious why someone who just identified himself as a "right-wing Catholic" chose out of all the GOP candidates to back the pro-choice, pro-contraception Trump when there would be plenty of less socially liberal alternatives? Or does the "right-wing" refer to other types of social or economic conservatism?

10:02am Alois Shicklegruber:

HEINO! MUSIK MIT DAS / DIE HEINO!

SCNELL!

10:03am Jack:

That painting will be worth shitloads when Trump becomes President.

♥ 10:03am Marcel M:

Oh no, Caryn...it was starting to settle!!

♥ 10:04am Roberto:

That bites. The marathon map is one of my all-time favorite wastes of time.

10:04am Polyus:

VVVVOOOOIIIIIDDDDD!

10:05am V Priceless:

VVVOOOIIIVVVOOODDD!!!

10:05am Polyus:

wait what day is it?

10:05am ɈȭɈȭ (:

On behalf of Cheri Pi:

VOIIIIIIVOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!

10:05am PMD:

Go Ken go!

10:06am sphere:

VOIVOD!

♥ 10:06am SeanG:

VVVVVVVVVVVOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVVVVVVVVVVVVVOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

10:06am blee:

VOIIIIIIIIIVOOOOOOD floyd!

♥ 10:07am Ken From Hyde Park:

Voivod! !! !!!

10:07am Coe:

V'VVVVVVVVVOOOOOIIIIIIIIVVVVVVVVOOOOOODDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!

10:08am cory:

i fucking love this song and wfmu

10:08am Wild Neil:

@Caryn-Is Trump truly Pro-Life? He says he is....today....mainly I just want somebody who can actually beat Hillary Clinton. Trump is not very vocal about his Christianity and this worries me...and he has cheated on his wives in the past...still, Solomon had hundreds of wives and King David cheated on his wife....

♥ 10:09am Caryn:

@Marcel: I'm not trying to start anything. I'm just curious. Some "right-wing Catholics" would say their main reason for choosing a particular candidate is their views on abortion and contraception, while for others those are private affairs of no concern, and they choose their candidate based on economic policy, foreign policy, etc.

10:10am Wild Neil:

This Voivod song gets a clicky star...and so does the Smiths cover!

♥ 10:10am Listener 108581 FKA dc pat FKA just pat:

just to be clear, DJ's and all other humans are still apes..

10:11am Ryab from League City TX:

Whats this bed music, Ken?

10:11am sphere:

The New Testament can be read as discouraging sex altogether because the end days are coming soon.

♥ 10:11am Marcel M:

@Cary: I know you're not. I just hate reading about Trump here. Its like the one place..

10:13am Wild Neil:

@All-well, lets have a cease-fire then? I propose we talk about how we learned about WFMU? I first heard about WFMU in a hay field in rural NJ from a friend and listened on my 1979 Chevy Nova car radio (mono)...

♥ 10:13am MD:

The Xmitter is VINTAGE!!!

♥ 10:13am Caryn:

@Neil: interesting, since the general GOP strategy since 2012 has been that they can't win against Hillary without appealing more to the latino vote, which Trump has basically handed to the Dems. But he certainly has more personality and face recognition than Bush, Rubio or Cruz, even if that personality is grating.

♥ 10:13am MattBelow:

Luckily the app is sounding nice and warm!

10:14am Cliff:

Good morning everyone, I seem to have wandered into a heated political discussion masquerading as Ken's playlist...

10:14am ɈȭɈȭ (:

Ryab from League City TX,

Rockaby Baby

♥ 10:15am Caryn:

@Cliff: nah, the political discussion is over, WFMU memories have taken over.

10:15am Wild Neil:

I love WFMU and Ken's show since 1985! WOO!

♥ 10:15am Marcel M:

Hopefully it just petered out Cliff! G'morning!

10:15am V Priceless:

Happy 68th Birthday to Michael Bruce! Yay!

10:15am sphere:

Fortunately, I see a lot of radios out there. Have they gotten rid of the heart symbol?

♥ 10:17am Stepchild:

I think Nietzsche said a torso without that T-shirt would be a mistake.

10:17am ɈȭɈȭ (:

Wild Neil,

When you became a fan of Ken's show?

♥ 10:17am Caryn:

I'd like to dream that the painter of the black velvet painting is a distant relative of Spain's famed fresco-"restorer" Cecilia Jimenez. (you know, from this story: www.independent.co.uk... )

♥ 10:18am Stepchild:

Litifact rated "Mostly True"

10:18am sphere:

Caryn, that is truly odd story. Thank you.

♥ 10:18am Greg from ZONE 5:

Morning, all!

10:19am Wild Neil:

@ɈȭɈȭ (: I remember listening to Ken since then...and remember this show as being one of the best....

10:19am Cliff:

Oh man, it's been over a decade at least since I heard this Alice Cooper song :D

10:19am Video Booth:

Yay! Alice Cooper!

♥ 10:19am Caryn:

@sphere: now there's a question. Even the radios were glitchy a week ago and not showing correctly. Maybe the hearts will reappear, maybe not. We need an official answer to all this.

♥ 10:20am βrian:

Is that Jane Birkin taking the kiss there?

♥ 10:20am Marcel M:

A house... WITH a table?!?!

Is that what he said? haha

10:21am Cliff:

My parents put a black velvet painting of a panda bear in my bedroom when I was toddler, it gave me nightmares my entire childhood. I don't think I want one of the Orange One.

♥ 10:22am Ken From Hyde Park:

My uneducated speculation is that the comments boards will be switching to Audience Engine code at some point soon and at that time, the hearts will appear.

10:22am Wild Neil:

If you are reading this, please pledge.

♥ 10:23am Caryn:

@sphere: my favourite response to the fresco story back in the day was when Conan O'Brien introduced his new guest character: www.youtube.com...

10:26am ɈȭɈȭ (:

Wild Neil,

Awesome! Have you seen this video? It's an entire episode of a Ken's show back from 1992.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJus2kP8N1A

I think is the oldest archive available of any Ken's show. Am I correct, Ken?

♥ 10:26am Dano59:

we can make each other happy....

♥ 10:27am JP from KC:

YES!!! The Billy Nayer Show!!!

10:29am Austin Powers:

Groovy! Yeah, baby!

10:29am cory:

weird, i don't think i ever listened to this on LSD

♥ 10:31am Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

@Roberto: I'm glad you loved wasting your time on the marathon map! That one was a fun project, from conception (for it to be impressive it had to fill up with points automatically, so it had to be tied in to pledges, even mailed-in ones, had to start out approximate for privacy, and then subsequently let pledgers attach comments to their points),
to build (incl. designing my own point clusterer since Google didn't yet provide one, so that thousands of points while zoomed out wouldn't jam up the browser; piecing together a Geocoding system from various sources since Google also didn't yet provide that, and then rebuilding the whole thing twice when Google kept rewriting their whole API).

A listener recently posted a link to the one full of dots from last year: freeform.wfmu.org...

It'd be trivially easy to API-ify it if the station ever wants to use it with the Audience Engine pledge pages. But they've still gotta start using the API I provided for hearts and S4L badge control, and for pre-filling name/address from your profile; so, they've got a lot to do first!

10:31am sphere:

@Caryn - Conan hit that one out of the park!

♥ 10:31am ! I X Key !:

10:32am Cliff:

Hmm, I just tried to pledge and it said "You’ve done a marvelous thing, undefined undefined. You pledged $. Your pledge number is ." ....I think it didn't go through....

♥ 10:33am Marcel M:

@Cliff: Usually yr CC gets charged right away, take a look.

10:33am Brendan:

@Ken , sucks the transmitter sure picked a fine time to go bad. Sheesh talk about stress. Thanks for all you do man. When this is all over, maybe get everyone together, have a singalong and get drunk as fuck.

♥ 10:33am ! I X Key !:

! Pledge to WFMU, please (o:

10:34am Cliff:

Yeah, Marcel, I just got a text from my CC company and it triggered a security alert. I'll try again....

♥ 10:34am MD:

"iT'S a sECRET!!!"

♥ 10:35am βrian:

We didn't notice the lack of a transmitter here in flyover land.

10:37am Cliff:

I just thought it was funny that the computer addressed me as "undefined undefined" :)

♥ 10:38am βrian:

@Cliff: Lets hope that doesn't imply division by zero.

♥ 10:38am MD:

the systems not broken...IT'S FIXED!
like the transmitter should be!!!!

10:38am sphere:

pledge pledge pledge pledge

♥ 10:39am ! I X Key !:

! Maybe my homemade fresh WFMU pasta will help you understand how awesomely important WFMU is & that you should pledge (o:

♥ 10:40am Dave in Vermont:

Hey Carlos. ONE here.

♥ 10:40am MD:

queen Hilary Shall soon ascend the Thrown! Then...very soon Princess Chelsea!
IT'S THE FAMILY BUSSINESS...
GOD BLESS THE USA LLC!

10:41am Marc15:

Maybe it was Oksana Baiul

♥ 10:42am Marcel M:

These things are tubed? And running at full power constantly? Damn... I'm amazed they last that long. I guess there are backups that kick in so not constant?

10:42am tomasz.:

i went to sleep a few minutes into Garbage Time on the FM radio and woke up to pure static. makes sense now. thought maybe it was an encore presentation of My Castle of Quiet or something.

10:42am Cliff:

Okay! This time it worked, I pledged for real now!

10:43am sphere:

oh, i SWOON whenever i hear this tune. thanks Ken!

10:44am Brendan:

That godamned lonely sea never stops. Back and forth back and forth, mocking us.

10:46am tomasz.:

this is such a lovely record

10:47am oks:

Marcel, hello there!

♥ 10:47am Tim 07030:

"Women like three things: Southern Comfort, men in kilts, and Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game'"

♥ 10:48am Listener Robert:

You're getting this from the person primarily responsible for having gotten Howard Stern to seek the Libertarian Party nomination for governor. Trump may well do what Stern said he wanted to do: accomplish a couple things in office, then resign & let his lieutenant (VP in Trump's case) take over. However, Trump's not going to say that in advance; instead he'll make up some story about Congress's not having recognized his true genius & cooperated, so he's quitting to do other things where he'll get more cooper'n & appreciation.

♥ 10:48am joe:

This cover was great but now it is sublime.

10:49am Blinda:

I cannot express how much I hate this version of this song. GO KEN!!! MAKE ME TURN OFF THE RADIO!!

♥ 10:51am Greg from ZONE 5:

Play some Jason Mraz!

10:53am Cliff:

Yeah! Then let's hear some Dave Matthews!

♥ 10:54am Listener Robert:

2nd Wed. AM of the Marathon is typical: Nachum's all cool & making it sound easy, then Ken comes on & the fretfulness comes thru in both the left & right channels. We're all pulling for you, Ken!

10:54am Cliff:

(Nah, just kidding. Like everyone else, I wanna hear OLGA)

♥ 10:54am Ike:

Excellent news: Now you're having streaming issues! Or maybe it's on my workplace's end? Did anyone hear skips and pauses in that song on the 128k MP3 stream? I'm switching back to 91.1 FM.

10:55am Cliff:

Ike, the stream sounds fine to me.

♥ 10:55am βrian:

Streaming smoothly on the Isthmus, Ike.

10:56am Cliff:

Let's not scare Ken anymore than is necessary right now ;)

10:56am sphere:

my iTunes stream is good.

♥ 10:56am joe:

No issues through Tune In

♥ 10:56am Ike:

Oh, that's super weird. Well, even sinister Internet giants can fuck up.

10:58am Marcel M:

Now THATS parenting, Ken! Haha.

11:00am ɈȭɈȭ (:

No problems here! My Internet stream is doing just grea....

You tried to post a message at http://wfmu.org/, which is currently unavailable.

Please make sure that the Web address (URL) is correctly spelt and punctuated, then try reloading the page.

11:00am Blinda:

ENTER SANDMAN YESSSSSS

♥ 11:02am βrian:

My baker says the price of spelt has gone through the roof.

11:05am Pledgie:

What does a middle eastern guy/gal have to do to get a Ken's show T-shirt??

+Thank you for introducing Weevie Stonder

♥ 11:05am Ken From Hyde Park:

Pledge in honor of new Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland!

11:06am Sam:

A garland is kind of like a lanyard, right?

♥ 11:07am Caryn:

29th pledge of the Marathon is away!

♥ 11:09am Stepchild:

Problem Band-Aid'ed

♥ 11:10am Marcel M:

Thief... one of my favorite songs of all time. This whole record as well. I've said it before here, but I"ll say it again, I saw Malcom Mooney perform this last summer... it was incredible.

♥ 11:10am MD:

OK...I am done with my Political Rants!!!! This station should be the only "Party" we are all affiliated with!!! Like Ali...IT'S THE GREATEST!!!

♥ 11:11am Stepchild:

So jealous Marcel. Mooney Can is my favorite Can.

♥ 11:11am MD:

Make Love! Not Toilets!!!

♥ 11:12am Caryn:

BTW, Ken, I suspect there's a bunch of people who are renewing Swag For Life pledges and then crediting them to different shows via small pledges throughout the Marathon. Some of them are sure to have Swag For Life pledges that total Y3K or higher. Are they also up for that Stairway to Stardom prize, or is that reserved for new or credited-at-once Y3K pledges? (Heck, I'd imagine Bas alone has pledges several grand by now.)

♥ 11:12am Marcel M:

I was going to wait till later to smoke today.. but now that I've heard The Can, lets do it.

♥ 11:12am Bas NL:

Can!!

♥ 11:13am -Ken:

Yes, lets!

11:13am ɈȭɈȭ (:

My favourite Can is Chlaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam!!!!

♥ 11:13am Marcel M:

@Stepchild: I may have to concur with you on that. This whole record is just incredible. Didn't hear it till a while after I discovered Can.

11:13am Cliff:

People. the station is LITERALLY ON FIRE!!! PLEDGE NOW BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!!!!!!!!!!

♥ 11:14am Marcel M:

Funkytown is playing ever so silently for thee, KEN!

♥ 11:15am Webhamster Henry:

@Kenzo The map is great fun! I'm glad I didn't have to maintain it!

11:16am JakeGould:

Did the working as a waitress at a cocktail bar song get played yet?

♥ 11:17am Marcel M:

Not yet Jake!

11:17am ɈȭɈȭ (:

SCHAAAAAALMPEITZIGEEEER!!! (*)

(*) Pronunciation guide:

Schlam - as in Sham
Mpeit - as in Peter
Ziger - as in cider

So Schlammpeitziger is pronounced:

SHAM-PETER-CIDER

I know this for sure because I did a German basic course in 1998.

♥ 11:20am Listener 108581 FKA dc pat FKA just pat:

you're wrong you know, ɈȭɈȭ: L is never silent in German. and Z would be TS sound here. So SCHLAAAM-PIIIE-TZEEEGAH

♥ 11:21am Caryn:

Oh man, if only every bit of that pronunciation guide wasn't wrong...

♥ 11:22am Marcel M:

@JOJO: The German language was revamped soon after '98.

♥ 11:23am Marcel M:

Was it love L-U-V in the room, Ken??

11:24am ɈȭɈȭ (:

Listener 108581 FKA dc pat FKA just pat (and AKA pat),

I believe Guido would agree with me as he is the most native German person in here. Yes, Guido?!

♥ 11:25am βrian:

Is the fire alarm malfunctioning??

♥ 11:26am Marcel M:

Can hear the L here: forvo.com...

♥ 11:28am βrian:

We must buy the deli!

♥ 11:28am Ken From Hyde Park:

Pledge for the Red Hot Chili Pipers!

♥ 11:28am Listener 108581 FKA dc pat FKA just pat:

You're right about that, Guido's the authority. I like your pronunciation guide but..no dice.

♥ 11:28am Caryn:

Let's just say that in Schlammpeitziger, the a is pronounced like the o in "mom", the ei is pronounced like the i in, well, I, the i is pronounced like the i in "tit", and the e is pronounced like the u in "duh".

♥ 11:29am Greg from ZONE 5:

They used to make bumper stickers that said "FREE METUCHEN"

♥ 11:30am Marcel M:

Woah... that sounded amazing in headphones.

11:30am oks:

KHLAM!!!!!!

♥ 11:30am Listener 108581 FKA dc pat FKA just pat:

more or less agree with Caryn...but I suspect ɈȭɈȭ was a little less than serious in the first place.

11:31am ɈȭɈȭ (:

It sounded amazing in headphones, indeed. But now I can't hear anything!

11:31am Cliff:

I'll bet it did Marcel :D

♥ 11:31am Marcel M:

Alright, I've officially memorized my credit card. Didn't even need to look at it for that pledge.

♥ 11:32am Caryn:

@dc pat (I'm shortening it): yeah, that's my thought as well.

♥ 11:32am Danne D:

Hey Ken and Scott and Everyone :)

♥ 11:34am Marcel M:

Hi Danne!

♥ 11:34am Caryn:

Hey Danne!

♥ 11:34am courtneynoir:

Oh, hello Danne D..... and Ken

♥ 11:34am βrian:

"Thighs like butter."

11:34am Cliff:

When I used to work for tech support me and a couple other guys would sometimes call a modem or fax machine and transfer it to someone else in the call center.... the best result I got was from the guy who always used headphones with the volume turned up. He didn't go deaf but he didn't like me too much for a few days afterwards

11:36am SheWolf:

I pledged but it didn't go to Ken even though I thought I clicked for Ken. :(

11:37am JakeGould:

Calling fax machines for non fax purposes is so great!

11:37am Lewis:

That Earthless CD is EXCELLENT - believe me I know...

♥ 11:37am -Ken:

That's OK Shewolf, it's the thought that counts. I thank you!

♥ 11:38am Danne D:

Hi Marcel and Caryn and Courtney :)

11:39am JakeGould:

Hi Danne D.! Looking forward to "5 Minutes with Danne D."

♥ 11:44am Stepchild:

Did you guys already draw for the Sonig box???

11:44am Wild Neil:

Earthless is HEAVY.

♥ 11:46am βrian:

Thank you for not playing the Smiths today.

♥ 11:46am Stepchild:

th' Bomb!

♥ 11:48am Caryn:

@Stepchild: yep, but other prizes are still available

♥ 11:48am Ken From Hyde Park:

N'yah ah ah!

11:54am oks:

Marcel, you deserve Khlam!

♥ 11:54am courtneynoir:

More like 5 Minutes IN HEAVEN With Danne D am I right?

11:56am Luke:

Trump is the only non-establishment candidate. Bernie is gone, Hillary is pure evil, and Cruz wants to let Jesus take the wheel. Trump is the best choice. http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/23/politics/donald-trump-black-republicans/

11:57am tomasz.:

Sailing By!!

11:57am ScottC:

Hey FLIPPER! I was in a band with Bruce right after Flipper broke up the first time - 85? We did 25 shows and a demo at Tom Mallon's studio in SF. ( The original Wicked Games was recorded there I think ) Fun times. I went on to an illustrious career in commercial art culminating in my creation of - Ken's Kick Ass tee! All things are connected!