Nixonia: Ken's show

Listener comments!

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6:32am -Ken:

Goooood Morning!

7:00am cory:

howdy all

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7:09am -Ken:

Howdy Cory

7:16am Listener Robert:

I blame you for the persecution of albinos: www.seeker.com...

7:22am F͞ F͞ (:

Hello, Sweden, Ken, cory, Listener Robert!

I think the first GIF is actually Marine Le Pen's laughing at her own comical proposal of having two parallel currencies. Where's our friend pierre to confirm this?

7:45am Yvang:

Apparently, according to her supporters, her laughing cost her the election: laughing is not presidential and fascists are not fans of laughing. And her teeth are frightening... as her ideas.

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8:04am AnAnonymousParty:

Mornin' all. Where's the GIF of the guy climbing up to stand on top of his drums to give the audience a double peace sign, only to slip and fall and hurt his ... self?

8:08am Mark S:

Thinking of the John Lennon song "Gimme Some Truth" today

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8:10am Ken From Hyde Park:

Be smart like Phil Collins; never flips his drumsticks.

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8:20am -Ken:

Mark S, that song has some curses dont it?

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8:22am -Ken:

What the hell is that armadillo / pangolin type animal? It's not either of those, I dont think..

8:24am F͞ F͞ (:

Oh, Ken FHP that reminds me I'm two degrees of separation to Phil Collins! Sometimes the small world is just too small for my liking.

8:27am Mark S:

No curses, he uses "mother hubbard" instead of a more objectionable though apt phrase

www.google.com...

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8:32am Ken From Hyde Park:

Whatever that creature is, it appears to be reverting to its egg form.

8:34am F͞ F͞ (:

Ken,

That's a Brazilian three-banded armadillo. You can tell by his Portuguese accent.

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8:39am AnAnonymousParty:

Looks like he's havin' a ball to me.

8:50am Listener Robert:

I wrote "albino", not armadillo, dammit!

8:53am Mark S:

kinda looks an armadillo to me

8:59am Jack:

Whatever it is, I like the way it turns into a melon.

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9:02am Ken From Hyde Park:

Let the giffery commence!

9:03am Charlie_pseudonym:

OMG am I getting flamed by those brighter then I ...I feel honored

9:06am F͞ F͞ (:

Ken,

I would like an update on the aftermath of the An Elevator Ate My Dingo's Tail story.

9:09am MD:

Hello All my Freeform Friends! PS....YOU ARE ALL FIRED!!!

9:09am Sebastian:

hello Ken and everybody

9:09am howard in nyc:

Morning ken and everybody. Yeah, would like to hear a dingo health update.

9:10am Nick S.:

Tjupurru is pretty weird.

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9:11am -Ken:

Yes indeed, Dingo update coming up...

9:11am Sebastian:

Is Le Pen laughing or crying? both?

9:12am Planet Tyler:

Le Pen heard about the dingo. She's not totally heartless

9:13am Charlie_pseudonym:

I can't stay i must rush off to buy some opec oil with my made it the usa dollor bill

9:14am Bronwyn Bishop:

hello ken and everyone. I'm obsessed with this buster keaton/ukelele lady gif

9:15am Charlie_pseudonym:

hey MD I guess it'll be a good time to be on unemployment with summer coming round and everything

9:22am Nick S.:

Float on.

9:24am rsj:

putting us all in a collective good mood again Ken!
and thirsty!

9:24am Charlie_pseudonym:

my new hit single stevie suckingburg Christian killing man would be dropping soon if team mobile would just give me my gb's back

9:24am Rarouse:

I thought it was a rabbit fence? From the film/story Rabbit Proof Fence?

9:25am howard in nyc:

Before michael jackson's Eat It, there was 'Bloat On' by The Bloaters. "My name's Michael; and my sign is cheeseburgers"

9:27am Rarouse:

AHHA! Thanks Ken for clarifying.

9:28am Nardo:

is it true that Trump is buying the dingo fence?

9:28am asheville jon:

Ken, you should have dipped the tail piece in Rootone before trying to grow the new dog.

9:29am Roberto:

Could the dingo update be the long-awaited replacement for the Vinyl update?

9:30am Planet Tyler:

Ken you must know that WILD new guiniea singing dogs were just found. Again. news.nationalgeographic.com...

9:31am Planet Tyler:

And I bet they wouldnt go near the wfmu elevator!

9:31am Cooh John:

Wacky Wednesday everybody.

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9:32am -Ken:

Yes Tyler - They found a pack of New Guineau Highland Dogs living in the wild - firsty sighting in 50 years.. those are close relatives of the Singing Dog but they're different dogs.

9:33am F͞ F͞ (:

Great Dingo update! Leaves me sassisfied.

9:34am Listener142985:

Wow. That was a sweet transition.

9:36am northguineahills:

Huh, I'm actually wearing my 25 year-old Joy Division shirt today....

9:37am F͞ F͞ (:

It is not a coincidence if you wear it everyday, northguineahills!

9:38am Charlie_pseudonym:

dropping on all 4's to fit thru my little dingo door. that's how you dance the dingo dirge

9:39am (((Murakami Whywolf):

asheville jon:
…and mixed the Rootone™ with powdered polyacrylic water-retaining crystals to make a sticky gel that wouldn't fall off the tail stub. Next: avoiding giant intelligent* spider mites on your dingo tail.

*On the one hand, they voted for Trump, on the other, it might have been in their self-interest.

9:43am (((Murakami Whywolf):

I heard recently (on "Quirks and Quarks"?) that there's a lot of ancient crossed-the-Bering-Bridge American dog in modern UStation and Canadian dorgs.

9:43am Threemoons:

holy CRAP I finally tune in and you're playing the song I sent in! BLIXA!

9:44am Charlie_pseudonym:

after I do the dingo dirge then I go purge kinda like Amy Winehouse except I'm not hot and she's not around to be the living equal of Janis , Billie Bessie etc

9:45am Threemoons:

PS I am 3 blocks away but no
FM reception in this fortress so on.my phone hope I don't get canned

9:47am Planet Tyler:

Need a gif of OReilly crying like Le Pen

9:47am F͞ F͞ (:

hey! It's the Elevator vs Dingo fight song!

9:47am Vincent Nifigance:

"The name is Spock, if we don't battle to the death, they will kill us both."

9:47am Megaroni:

All hail, our Ken!

9:47am Planet Tyler:

Todays gifs brought to you by schadenfreuden

9:48am JakeGould:

Oh no! Captain Kirk’s shirt has been ripped!

9:49am doctorjazz:

Great covers (Doors and Neil), just great!

9:50am MD:

Music for our NEW NATION! I LOOK GREAT IN RED AND BLACK!!!

9:50am Passaic River Blues:

I quickly looked at that picture and thought, "Oh man, Kafka played the saw? Awesome." I am an idiot.

9:51am MD:

Dig the Blade Runner Image...

9:52am MD:

Kafka Did Play the Saw...Sort-of...

9:52am Nick S.:

Count Indigo is pretty cool!

9:55am F͞ F͞ (:

The Count Indigo song is one of those songs I hate in the sense that I can't find it anywhere to download it on the entire Interwebz! Halp!

9:55am (Murakami Whywolf))):

Now I want to hear "Chasing Rainbows" as performed by the Cheap Suit Serenaders, with (I think) Terry Zwigoff on musical saw, though it could be "Mickey Rat"'s Robert Armstrong.

9:56am Polyus:

I think JAMC played my little town last night. So disconnected these days.

9:56am Charlie_pseudonym:

randy Newman video " the putin man" is a refreshing perspective on a guy who has bigger genitals then Trumpet

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9:57am Ken From Hyde Park:

Need a pooeyflute rendition of the Star Trek fight song to revive interest in the instrument.

10:01am cory:

FoFo www.discogs.com...

10:02am fm Mike:

Mmm, I could use some more poopyflute.

10:04am Charlie_pseudonym:

hey MD i dreamed I saw our bombers riding shot gun in the sky and they dropped their payload on woodstock

10:05am F͞ F͞ (:

Thanks, cory. Although I meant to say I'd like to find that song for free to download. I like to support my beloved artists in my own special way.

10:06am F͞ F͞ (:

Svantana has another song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

10:08am Parq:

That H&O re-process is the coolest.

10:08am (Murakami Whywolf))):

F͞ F͞ (:
Well, soon it will be archived on wfmu.org ….

10:09am Brendan:

Oh man fur real? Svantana has another song? I just got my mind wrapped around who was working in a cocktail bar. The world is spinning too fast. Slow it it down Svantana!

10:11am JakeGould:

We all have an inner Andy Breckman.

10:12am howard in nyc:

We Care Ken!

10:12am MD:

"He always Gets in fist fights...and he always tears his shirt...!"

10:12am JakeGould:

New Nick Cave compilation out now!

10:12am MD:

To Quote Surfer Joe...

10:13am Brian C.:

Hey! I care! for NJ Gov, Jim Johnson's my man!

10:13am JakeGould:

Ball person!

10:14am Passaic River Blues:

I'm pulling for Wisniewski right now.

10:15am Nick S.:

Slenderman? Cool!

10:15am Charlie_pseudonym:

hey MD it looks like usa and Nato against china/russia thanks to the insatiable appetite of our progressives for war with Russian. "the parting on the left is now parting on the right"

10:15am fm Mike:

Lol at that governor's race.

10:15am F͞ F͞ (:

Murakami Whywolf,

Well, that's true! But somehow I prefer to have a digital representation of the music file sitting on my hard disc.

10:15am WR:

Wisniewski is getting my vote. Murphy bought off all the Dem county committee organizations last fall.

10:20am Charlie_pseudonym:

Murphy looks like he's known his share of guilty pleasure . Unfortunately he looks payed for with the good old usa petrol dollor

10:20am F͞ F͞ (:

Wait, what?! Are you still having elections, people of the USA? Haven't you learned?

10:21am ?:

quite a country we got here huh folks

10:22am F͞ F͞ (:

REBELLION, MOM!!!

10:26am thedunkel:

Good Morning Ken! Good Morning everyone! Good Morning KHLAM!

10:26am Charlie_pseudonym:

I wanna go to Berkeley where free speech is politically incorrect. if only I could get a PhD in political correctness I'd have something adequate to use when I run out of tp

10:28am Charlie_pseudonym:

the election only counts if said candidate covers the point spread

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10:29am -Ken:

Welcome Aaron!

10:33am F͞ F͞ (:

Porest's Modern Journal is still going invictus, unconquered and undefeated in the number one spot in my chart.

10:34am Passaic River Blues:

@FoFo: word up.

10:37am Charlie_pseudonym:

hey everyone...thanks for the chance to rant and roll all over your little chat house. good day!

10:38am F͞ F͞ (:

Good bye, charlie!

10:39am Losermom:

Oh, man, I'm late. How's the Dingo??

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10:40am NotARealDoctor:

@Losermom, the original Dingo is fine, but the second Dingo he was growing from the tail piece in a petri dish seems to be growing fuzz and gills. Concerns that is might be turning into an amphibian.

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10:42am NotARealDoctor:

Ken tells us it may be because he was overwatering it.

10:42am zopa:

Great GIFs, Ken.

10:42am Bill W:

we need a Dick Nixon record.

10:44am howard in nyc:

Maybe if Ken stops playing a constant stream of Devo tunes for the Petri dish tail project

10:44am Roberto:

Dingo Purple Rain? Don't mind if I do!

10:47am Listener142985:

Bless Rube Waddell, the band, for keeping the ballplayer's name alive.

10:48am F͞ F͞ (:

Barbatuques sounds Brazilian (at least the name of the song).

10:50am Sebastian:

I want one of those robot-Duanes

10:50am nick K ( KILLER ):

Where's CLAY PIGEON????

10:51am Roberto:

The Mets have had quite a few third base players.

10:51am howard in nyc:

A half-baked idea for 7SD? That's unusual

10:51am F͞ F͞ (:

I propose WFMU's elevator for cutting Duane's baby's umbilical cord.

10:52am berbo:

Obviously I'm going to spend the next eight hours writing extensive Wikipedia bios for all the Herman's Hermits

10:53am (Murakami Whywolf))):

F͞ F͞ (:
Internet radio and archives are permitted to exist because enough people agree that they 'can't' be used to download, so, for example stations don't post direct links to .mp3 files, instead embedding pointers to them in .m3u or .pls files, and I'll say no more.

10:54am F͞ F͞ (:

berbo,

Please do it to honour the greatness of the song 'The Man with the Cigar'.

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10:54am NotARealDoctor:

Can you grow a second baby from the umbilical cuttings if it's cut by the elevator or does that only work if the doctor cuts it? We really need to take into account the best way to optimize the number of babies here. This poor child will grow up the subject of tabloids and celebrity gossip magazines, having a stand-in to share the spotlight with would probably ease some of that stress.

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10:55am -Ken:

<whispering> Is Charlie_pseudonym really gone?? </whispering>

10:56am F͞ F͞ (:

<whispering> I said good-bye to him, hoping it would work, Ken</whispering>

10:56am zopa:

Hey Ken, will this help re: famous or not? http://wheeldecide.com/wheels/chance-fortune/yes-or-no-decision-maker/

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10:59am -Ken:

No Zopa, that wont do. But thank you, it's pretty cool anyway.

10:59am Mark S:

CHARLIE WHO?

10:59am (((Murakami Whywolf):

Bill W:

G-D, in His infinite wisdom
Put Richard Nixon on this Earth
To bring to us his heritage [not hate!—M.W.]
One of priceless worth

www.youtube.com...

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11:01am Marshall Stacks:

Good morning, Ken & Co.

11:04am JakeGould:

Logging in to say that the bird on a tennis ball is great. Also that new “Blade Runner: 2049” looks like “The Matrix.”

11:04am Brendan:

Winos discuss.

11:07am Listener142985:

Yes! More Dick!

11:08am Brendan:

Pat Boone like

11:08am fm Mike:

Lol wow. That's some pandering campaigning right there!

11:08am berbo:

Nixon brought the Carpenters to the Whitehouse

11:09am berbo:

You can find it on youtube

11:09am People Like Us:

Hello from Norway! Yes, I'm in Norway this week.

11:10am Cliff (temporarily not) in Prague:

I just got back from San Francisco yesterday!

11:11am fm Mike:

AH-WAH! That's cool Cliff.

11:11am The Oscar:

Loving this DickBlock. Is this one not Rodd Keith?

11:11am F͞ F͞ (:

Hi, Vicki! Say hi to John to Oslo if you happen to see him/her/it

11:11am People Like Us:

I will see him on Saturday

11:12am zopa:

I wish Hunter S. Thompson was still with us...

11:12am Passaic River Blues:

@PLU: I picked up "Abridged Too Far" the other day on Boomkat. Loving the old school FMU sound collage brilliance.

11:12am fred:

hey, even richard nixon has got soul...

11:12am melinda:

Digging the Nixon songs.

11:12am People Like Us:

oh good, PRB - some of that music was made for WFMU's Remixology in 2003

11:13am Cliff (temporarily not) in Prague:

That John in Oslo, isn't he friends with Knut and Jørgen?

11:13am People Like Us:

(invited by Ken)

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11:13am Ken From Hyde Park:

Zats, I missed Dingo Time at the first mic break. How's your hand doing, -Ken?

11:14am Fuzzy:

Rev. Gonzo:

"If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin."

11:15am Yippie:

Hi Vicki hi Ken I like the nixon songs

11:15am Bill W:

thank you, Ken! and remember that when the station mgr does it, that means it is not illegal.

11:15am Bronwyn Bishop:

can we hear jimmy carter says yes? and are there any gerald ford songs?

11:17am PKNY:

This Nixon fellow sounds intriguing to me , and I wish to subscribe to his newsletter.

11:17am fred:

awww yeahh!!!

11:18am Yippie:

I also really liked hearing Vicki call dusty show in prime time

11:18am F͞ F͞ (:

Even I'm not familiar with US politics just by listening to these songs I am pretty sure Dixon was a good US president.

11:18am fm Mike:

Lol

11:19am melinda:

@Yippie I liked that too.

11:19am UNNAMED_PLAYER:

He was called 'Tricky Dick'

11:19am Jeff:

From those wags at the Nixon library:

twitter.com...

11:20am Listening Out There:

Dick + Nixon = Dixon

11:21am fm Mike:

POOPY FLUTE!

11:21am doctorjazz:

Shittyflute on Steroids!

11:21am People Like Us:

yes, Yippie, Clay sounded worn out so I phoned him!

11:21am Dominick:

Yay!

11:21am zopa:

Thank you Ken!!

11:21am Roberto:

Shiteflute. 'nuff said.

11:22am fm Mike:

People Like Us, when was this? I wanna hear it.

11:22am People Like Us:

I called Clay last Thursday

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11:23am -Ken:

Yeah, last Thursday was a Dusty Show for the ages!

11:23am Brendan:

Pitch perfect to my ear

11:23am Asheville Jon:

nothing worse than a bad cover of a bad song by the worst band in the entire history of mankind and music

11:24am howard in nyc:

I'm reading a book that describes the downfall of Nixon. Man, I never get tired of that story.

Good book so far. The Invisible Bridge: The Fall if Nixon and the Rise of Reagan, by Rick Perlstein. Perlstein is one of the few who correctly called Trump's victory

11:24am fred:

nothing better

11:24am fm Mike:

Roger that. I have it saved for later audio enjoyment :D

11:24am F͞ F͞ (:

You know what is better than shitty flute? Faeces Flöte, a more sophisticated version of it. And it sounds much better in 24K gold compact discs.

11:24am Asheville Jon:

The Good Captain! awesomeness!

11:24am Bronwyn Bishop:

yesss, love this album

11:28am Passaic River Blues:

@howard: Oh man, I have to second your recommendation of Perlstein. His biographies of Goldwater and Nixon are SUPERB. "Nixonland", a preview of "Trumplandia".

11:28am Yippie:

Yes and Saturday was the yippie weed March there were pictures of me in NY daily news and nypost

11:30am F͞ F͞ (:

'Jeffrey I Hear You'. Possibly the creepiest song of all time. Especially in the light of its album cover.

11:32am Fuzzy:

I miss The Rat.

11:32am Dominick:

Larry !!!

11:32am Asheville Jon:

HELL YEAH FISCHER!!!

11:34am JakeGould:

Avoiding circles for the rest of the day.

11:36am fm Mike:

Lol

11:36am F͞ F͞ (:

WAAIT!!

Which one is the WildMan Fischer, the one that sings 'Circle' or the one that sings 'Jeffrey I Hear You"!

Ken, don't play them so together, you confuse me!!

11:38am Yippie:

Wow lesbian vampires it reminds me of Jonathan richman song vampire girls

11:38am F͞ F͞ (:

THE LIONS AND CUCUMBER!!!

Ken, you haven't played this song in ages! I almost forgot it. This is old school Ken, peoples.

11:39am (Murakami Whywolf))):

Nixon's term was a car trip under the thumb of an ill-tempered Dad that ended with his shamming an heart attack; the Trump years are a road accident between an Untergangzeit wood-burning truck and a giant, pain- and lust-wracked, newt that afterward noöne will dare approach near enough to clean-up after, we'll have to justanchor down some orange cones and 'Caution—Slippery' signs and back away slowly, making sure every moment the whole mess hasn't resurrected itself into some new parody of life.

11:42am Bill W:

one last Nixon note -- Kissinger was in the Oval Office this morning

https://mobile.twitter.com/jeneps/status/862328641027526656/photo/1

11:43am Irwin:

"God Gave us Richard Nixon" was Rodd Keith, a song-poem, if I'm not mistaken.

11:44am F͞ F͞ (:

I like Murakami Whywolf's ominus take on Trump.

11:44am Scott:

I remember in 1972, listening to WBCN in Boston, a very official sounding promo came on that said. "Nixon was the one in '68. He'll be a bigger one in '72."

11:45am Mister Dobalina:

'On The Fly' Irwin, to the rescue.

11:46am Mister Dobalina:

That flute Beatles rendition, is really my favorite version of that song so far! I will never listen the same!!!

11:48am fm Mike:

And we have heard that history, here live, on WFMU!

11:49am por?!$$&9;:

LMAO

11:49am Wild Neil:

PEACE all. What is the best first Wire album to get?

11:49am Listener142985:

F--- yeh. Wire.

11:49am howard in nyc:

@PRB: yep, I read those two first. I've spend the last few weeks with the conservative movement takeover of the GOP, plowing through these. They are super detailed, which I love, but it may be too dense for a lot of casual readers. But I love Perlstein's style and attention to detail. He seems to treat these folks very fairly, but I'm biased, and some folks on the right may disagree. ( they don't hang out here anyway)

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11:51am Marshall Stacks:

@Wild Neil: I recommend On Returning.

11:53am por?!$$&9;:

One more Nixon tidbit (dont know how to post link): On #ThisDayInHistory in 1958, Nixon attacked by angry Venezuelans. Read More http://histv.co/1IxMBHD via @History

11:56am ChrisB.:

@por?: happens to me all the time.

11:57am Listening Out There:

Speaking of Nixon, from a few minutes ago: twitter.com...

11:58am sugarwolf:

I bought Nixonland at the library used bookstore and the volunteer said to me "people your age are interested in Nixon?"

11:58am Listening Out There:

Jennifer Epstein - Pool brought into the Oval. It's Trump and ... Kissinger.

11:58am PMD:

I can't believe I got through

11:58am Mister Dobalina:

Diggin' the sounds of Billy Harper.

11:58am por?!$$&9;:

Oh man, bad flashback. Jeez.

11:58am Brendan:

Thanks dude

11:59am Listening Out There:

Thank you, Station Mangler, er, Manager

11:59am F͞ F͞ (:

Thanks, Ken, fellow commenters! Great show as usual. Till next episode! Take care everyone! And rembember: BE HAPPY, GODDAMMIT!!!!!!!

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11:59am -Ken:

Till next week everybody! Thanks for hanging out

12:00pm Michael 98145:

@LOT, yikes !! ( that tweet )

12:00pm bobo:

mr DJ, Are you still taking requests?

12:01pm (Murakami Whywolf))):

por?!$$&9;:
Lenny Bruce did a routine in which Nixon calls Eisenhower from Venezuela, sounding like a self-pitying comic calling his agent after bombing at a performance.

2:04am Mississippi Billl:

Ken, you need to add stem cells to grow a new dingo. I am sure they are available on the internet, somewhere.