WFMU: Underwater Theme Park with Meghan: Playlist from March 29, 2018

Listener comments!
	12:00pm βrian: "Full fathom five our DJ lies."
	12:02pm βrian: (Bon retour, Meghan.)
	12:02pm Meghan: ah thanks! Sad to be back.... but happy too
	12:03pm Keith - the friendly town.: Greetings from Glasgow!
	12:03pm Jeff Moore: Back already from faraway lands? Hello!
	12:03pm Scraps b’lx (b’ly): hey h’lo argh
	12:03pm Meghan: I am I am! Bonjour!
	12:04pm Meghan: I'll be in Glasgow at the end of September!
	12:08pm Ken From Hyde Park: Welcome back, Meghan. We didn't change a thing while you were away.
	12:09pm βrian: They sell English-Glaswegian phrase books, don't they?
	12:10pm Jay/London: hi maghan just a hi before i go in the hallway with the rats ...
	12:11pm Carmichael: Heya Meghan. My daughter is standing in front of Stonehenge this very minute!
	12:11pm Carmichael: Well, minus however many minutes it took to get the pic to me ...
	12:12pm Meghan: hahahaha! Hello Hello!!
	12:12pm βrian: Will we be getting an oenological run-down during the break, Meghan? I'm kinda thirsty.
	12:13pm Meghan: hahaha... but of course!
	12:15pm Scraps b’lx (b’ly): my toilet is plugged. i can’t get it unplugged with only one side of my body, plus now my good side is also {word meaning muscle injured}. give up now, lie down and listen to Drummer Stream & Underwater Theme Park, calm down & relax. sigh. cheers.
	12:16pm Meghan: That sounds like a proper plan.....
	12:17pm Parq: Heard Belle & Sebastian mentioned a lot but don't really know much about them. This is nice, gotta say.
	12:17pm Scraps b’lx (b’ly): How to Solve Our Human Problems! Ha! HA!
	12:18pm Parq: Scraps: {word meaning muscle injured} = "fucked up". Happy to help with esoteric terminology.
	12:19pm Meghan: Parq, you must have heard them many times on my show in the past, unless you happen to be out of the room each time!
	12:19pm Scraps b’lx (b’ly): B&S are great. Really great. Parq, ah thank you!
	12:20pm Parq: Megan, enjoyed following your sojourn on the UTP Instagram feed.
	12:21pm northguineahills: βrian: has your wife been to any of the pulquerias? I went to one that was the hipster haunt frequented by the uni students in DF, then I went to a hole-in-the-wall dive that was much closer to my tastes
	12:22pm Scraps b’lx (b’ly): Okay, really lie down & listen. Cheers & Chongs.
	12:23pm northguineahills: @Scraps: I'm able bodies, and my last Brooklyn toilet would take more exertion and hours then worth describing every time it got clogged, so I can approximate your duress.
	12:24pm northguineahills: abled-bodied (I should just give up on English)
	12:24pm βrian: @NGH: I don't think so. I'm guessing she's kind of wrapped up with her conference. She sent a photo of some Alma Azteca, in order to appease me, I think.
	12:26pm βrian: I don't like to travel, in particular. But I do like to travel in order to get somewhere else, if that makes any sense. I like to settle in, I guess.
	12:28pm northguineahills: Well, the best places (restaurants, bars, etc) are near the old town (near the old cathedral), which is only a short bus ride from the newer commercial downtown. I know many cool nooks and crannies in Mexico City.
	12:29pm Parq: I get what you're saying about travel, Meghan. I've always said that, while I like to see sights, my main goal in visiting a new locale is to get the local vibe. I got to do what you were suggesting just once, with a three week stay in a local apartment. It was The best.
	12:31pm northguineahills: I hate the getting there part of travel (airports), unless I have time to take the scenic route, but I love being in different places (I even explore my local area, I found a queer redneck bar randomly on bday, which was a nice surprise, and had a blast).
	12:32pm northguineahills: on my bday (someone translate for me).
	12:32pm Meghan: If there was a way to just get there would be great, but I guess like seasons, you appreciate arriving after the travel. Though I can do without some of the waiting..
	12:34pm Parq: I've said for a very long time: I love travel, but I hate transit.
	12:39pm βrian: But some forms of transit are most definitely better than others. I'm a fan of the TGV.
	12:43pm Parq: If you've never heard Patton Oswalt's bit on why he likes Jet Blue, you should. Summary: air travel has become just awful, and Jet Blue accommodates that by surrounding you with indulgently moronic entertainment.
	12:45pm northguineahills: Jet Blue is the least stressful American airline to fly, and at LaGuardia, there's barely a line to get through security..
	12:47pm northguineahills: Not a fan of the Frankfurt or De Gaulle airport, but every other non-American airport I've been to since 9/11 has been a breeze.
	12:47pm Jay/London: loving the show Meghan .. u have pulled all the stops out
	12:49pm βrian: How was the jet lag, Meghan? That kills me.
	12:50pm Jay/London: hate traveling waiting fort some sort of star trek beaming thinie ... love it when i get there .. traveling nowadays is so stressful
	12:51pm βrian: Paris is too much for me unless I'm escorted. Love the countryside, though.
	12:52pm northguineahills: The people who say the French are rude, also think NYers are rude.
	12:53pm Jay/London: i have friends who live in paris so can aways hop on the train to see them in about 2 hours from my home in London
	12:54pm βrian: They must have travelled to France during Rude season.
	12:59pm Jay/London: @ brian one is oz the other is French ... the oz one would like to live back in London as she thinks the French r rude lol
	12:59pm northguineahills: TBH, the rudest people at De Gaulle were the American immigration officials.
	1:00pm Meghan: Ugh, the jet lag is always hard, but especially hard when you are non stop the second you get back home.... I think I am back to schedule.... We came in and out of Orly, which was a breeze coming in, but going out was a bit more wacky...
	1:01pm northguineahills: Ewww, the orange shitgibbon naked, nnoooooooooo!!!!, perish the though!
	1:01pm elwyn: hey everyone!
	1:02pm Meghan: Elwyn!!!
	1:06pm elwyn: I think my nap went a bit too long.
	1:06pm Meghan: feeling groggy eh?
	1:09pm elwyn: Yeah. I stayed up too late last night to read "Red Sparrow" for Book/Movie adaptation club.
	1:15pm Carmichael: This has a Rawhide feel to it.
	1:20pm northguineahills: "From a Distance" cues Bette Midler
	1:23pm northguineahills: I only eat once a day around 3ish. When I was in Brooklyn, I would make dinner w/ my wife around 10:30 (when we were both finally home from work).
	1:23pm elwyn: What time do Americans normally have dinner? I tend to go very late because I go to the gym after work then eat when I get home.
	1:25pm northguineahills: A dozen oysters would be more food then I could eat in one day (pure volume of food), 5 is the most I've ever had (I don't eat very much, but I take my food very seriously a cook most meals from scratch).
	1:25pm Jeff Moore: Oh, c'mon! Who dines before 19:00 except families with tiny kids or codgers who pop up at 5 in the morning and start their day all out of whack?
	1:26pm Parq: I have no idea what people mean when they say Parisians are rude. I was there only for five days but I don't recall a single person being rude to me. Cynics say that's because shop owners wanted to sell me something, but that doesn't account for all the people whom my daughter stopped so she could pet their dogs, and all the people we greeted in the parks. And what NGH said at 12:52, and then some.
	1:27pm northguineahills: When visiting my parents, it was unnerving that they would eat dinner at 4:30 (cue the Seinfeld episode where the seniors go for the early-bird special). I'm rarely home from work before 8-9ish, so, that was when i was used to making dinner (after a drink).
	1:28pm Jeff Moore: No, I never experienced Parisians as rude. Some had a certain elegant formality which I guess some tourists might take the wrong way, and I had people correct my grammar or pronunciation - which I welcomed. They never seemed to be doing it in a mean way, just a want-things-right way.
	1:29pm Meghan: at home I eat late, but when traveling, I tend to eat or want to eat earlier, since I plan on going out for drinks later. Or at least a snack. We had none of that...
	1:30pm Jeff Moore: No snacks! There's the problem!
	1:30pm northguineahills: The cashiers in De Gaulle responded to me in English when I attempted my Quebecois.
	1:30pm Meghan: There was no place open for snacks!
	1:32pm Meghan: We used French most of the time there unless someone was speaking English to us. But for our wine tasting, we asked for English, just so we didn't miss the important facts or words we may not know
	1:34pm Jeff Moore: That seems sensible. Information over pride.
	1:34pm northguineahills: I love this Ayalèw Mèsfin! (got this Ethiopiques when it first came out).
	1:35pm βrian: Crap. Did I miss the wine tasting? I had to get some lunch
	1:35pm still b/p: I got some of the rudeness from Paris workers — an impatient abruptness as if a need for a clearer response or bit of help was a sharp chafing exasperating imposition on them. Particular to Paris or France ? Maybe not, but pretty noticeable when a moment’s easy simple courtesy or even half effort at help would make a difference. Made me want to be more helpful to visitors here when I can be.
	1:35pm Parq: Can I be candid? With Paris, as with New York, the problem is mainly middle American assholes who go to visit with about seven truckloads of hubris, and an equal amount of resentment towards cosmopolitan people, and who get upset when their "I'm a true son/daughter of God's Country, and when I say jump, you say how high" doesn't get obsequious results. They then turn around and tell all the folks back home how rude the urban locals were.
	1:35pm Meghan: Though when we walked in I spoke French and then when they asked English we said yes please!
	1:36pm Parq: Still b/p, I posted mine before I read yours, and I in no way put you in that group.
	1:36pm βrian: Oysters vary in size quite a bit. I've had more than a dozen when I wasn't particularly hungry.
	1:39pm northguineahills: I have a very conservative uncle who loves travelling to Europe, but doesn't like the people there b/c "they're too liberal". My brain breaks when trying to compute.
	1:39pm βrian: I often find listening to strongly accented English is more difficult than parsing the French. Speaking is always problematic, though.
	1:40pm Meghan: I will say, that like most major cities, that people don't have the lingering time for niceties... We have no problem giving you the info, but we are busy people and are probably rushing somewhere. I have no problem telling you directions, but I can't linger to give you the history or all the little friendly bits... I don't find it rude. It's just respecting people's time. Unlike the smaller towns that love to chit chat about little things.... I have this issue as a bartender as well. If you are coming up to a busy bar, know what you want and have your money ready. I'm not waiting for you to decide when other people are ready
	1:41pm Parq: I had a friend in my younger days who used to say that some sort of a test for civility should be given, and then people who failed should be denied visas with leave to go to Bush Gardens.
	1:43pm Parq: This Ex track is on fire, b/t/w.
	1:43pm coelacanth∅: hello Meghan and others
	1:44pm coelacanth∅: (sneakily limping in for the home stretch)
	1:46pm βrian: No Armagnac? That offers a pretty good weight/pleasantness ratio.
	1:46pm northguineahills: I love decent sardines!
	1:47pm βrian: I love sardines because they're inherently indecent.
	1:47pm Dave B: Bientôt!
	1:48pm Ken From Hyde Park: Bonne Maman cherry preserves is my jam! Tastes great on PBJs or pancakes. I believe it's imported from France.
	1:49pm βrian: Bonne Maman has too much sugar, to my taste. Good quality, though.
	1:50pm northguineahills: The French take the aspects of terroir very seriously w/ all of their crops, not just grapes.
	1:53pm northguineahills: As opposed to Berlin where you can drink all night....
	1:54pm coelacanth∅: (or a huge night club in st.louis that's open all night - if you'd like to risk your life to drink out all night)
	1:55pm βrian: By my reckoning, I can't drink all night anywhere.
	1:56pm northguineahills: Getting off the train from Frankfurt in Berlin late at night, exhausted, and stressed to hell, it was a relief to get a beer of the train platform.
	1:56pm Meghan: I am spoiled locally to being able to eat or drink whenever I want.... almost...
	1:57pm Parq: I envy you guys. I've never traveled anywhere in European farm country, only passed through it on trains from once city to another. It must be really gratifying.
	1:57pm coelacanth∅: yeah, the bars here close at 4. that's late enough.
	1:58pm Meghan: 4 is beyond late! If I'm still drinking around 4 am, I shouldn't be!
	1:58pm βrian: My wife's students (predominantly from China) are aghast that they can't have food delivered to their doors within 15 minutes any time of day. This in a midwestern town of less than 40K people.
	1:59pm KevinfromBayRidge: Hello folks. I feel a little more prepared for a journey to France after this show. Tenks, Meghan.
	2:00pm βrian: My last tour in France was by bike, jut me and my sweetie. That was fun.
	2:00pm Ken From Hyde Park: I must check the Instagram page later for the pictures. Thanks for the musical journey today.
	2:00pm Meghan: ha! Yes! Go to France! Go go go! It was amazing and wonderful and I'm sad to be back!
	2:01pm northguineahills: Delivered food, pffft:, cook your own! Thanks Meghan, I'm off to lunch in about 10 mins!
	2:03pm elwyn: post-holiday depression is the worst.
	2:03pm coelacanth∅: i'd like to visit france. not sure about french food though. -i'd only want to live there if i'm near a good sushi restaurant ...and - if i can get wfmu's fm signal!
	2:04pm βrian: (Oh, and it has to be ordered via a cell phone app that processes payments.)
	2:04pm northguineahills: Heck in Williamsburg/Bushwick, the bodega guys I knew would sell me booze 24/7. Came in handy when insomnia hit (or when I was youthy and in a partying mood).
	2:05pm βrian: The best meal I had there last time was in a traditional French restaurant run by Japanese immigrants.
	2:07pm coelacanth∅: when i lived in nj the usual rule closed the bars at <2am. (midnight in summit,nj) but there was a bar in newark open 'till 4. not really friendly inside, and as we were walking to our vehicle there was gunfire in the parking lot.
	2:09pm Parq: Saw this cartoon in IG recently. Two dogs at night by an overturned garbage can. In the background, a familiar NYC building with a clock tower show 4:00. One dog says "Just try getting garbage at 4 AM in Des Moines."
	2:09pm coelacanth∅: βrian that's funny; but then the best japanese restaurant i know of, besides overpriced ones in nyc, is owned by a chinese man, with mostly indonesian staff.
	2:10pm Meghan: hahaha....that's great
	2:11pm coelacanth∅: good one Parq!
	2:13pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Meghan

Underwater Theme Park with Meghan: Playlist from March 29, 2018

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Artist	Track	Album	New	Approx. start time
Group Therapy	Pulling Away "Pulling Away" by "Group Therapy"	Group Therapy
OCS	Cannibal Planet "Cannibal Planet" by "OCS"	Memory Of A Cut Off Head		0:10:18 (Pop-up)
Tracy Bryant	I'm Not There "I'm Not There" by "Tracy Bryant"	I'm Not There		0:10:30 (Pop-up)
Belle & Sebastian	There is an Everlasting Song	How to Solve Our Human Problems		0:14:32 (Pop-up)
A Band of Bees (The Bees)	Got to Let Go	Octopus		0:17:54 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Alvino Rey And His Orchestra	Side B	Ping Pong!		0:23:09 (Pop-up)
Monochrome Set	The Etcetera Scroll	Strange Boutique		0:30:42 (Pop-up)
Shopping	Asking for a Friend "Asking for a Friend" by "Shopping"	The Official Body		0:34:51 (Pop-up)
Kikagaku Moyo	Streets of Calcutta	Forest of Lost Children		0:37:30 (Pop-up)
Habibi	Gypsy Love "Gypsy Love" by "Habibi"	Cardamom Garden		0:41:25 (Pop-up)
Beyond the Wizards Sleeve	Creation	The Soft Bounce		0:43:27 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Alvino Rey And His Orchestra	Side B	Ping Pong!		0:47:02 (Pop-up)
Bob Dylan	It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)	Bringing It All Back Home		0:57:43 (Pop-up)
Caetano Veloso	Nine Out Of Ten "Nine Out Of Ten" by "Caetano Veloso"	Transa		1:05:34 (Pop-up)
Barrence Whitfield & The Savages	I'll Be Home Someday	Soul Flowers Of Titan	*	1:09:48 (Pop-up)
Shannon & The Clams	I Leave Again	Onion	*	1:13:16 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Alvino Rey And His Orchestra	Side B	Ping Pong!		1:16:24 (Pop-up)
Mandingo Griot Society with Don Cherry	Sounds from the Bush	Mandingo Griot Society		1:24:40 (Pop-up)
Deke Tom Dollard	Na_You "Na_You" by "Deke Tom Dollard"	Na-You		1:28:08 (Pop-up)
Ayalèw Mèsfin	Hasabé "Hasabé" by "Ayalèw Mèsfin"	Ethiopiques Vol 8		1:32:58 (Pop-up)
The Ex	Four Billion Tulip Bulbs "Four Billion Tulip Bulbs" by "The Ex"	27 Passports		1:36:16 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Alvino Rey And His Orchestra	Side B	Ping Pong!		1:43:46 (Pop-up)
Purple Sun	Dooms Day "Dooms Day" by "Purple Sun"	Warfaring Strangers: Acid Nightmares		1:54:04 (Pop-up)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard	The Fourth Colour	Polygondwanaland		1:56:37 (Pop-up)
Snapped Ankles	CIA Man (NSA Man Violation)	CIA Man (NSA Man Violation0		2:02:33 (Pop-up)
Marie Möör	Pretty Day "Pretty Day" by "Marie Möör"	Pretty Day		2:08:11 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	12:00pm βrian: "Full fathom five our DJ lies."
	12:02pm βrian: (Bon retour, Meghan.)
	12:02pm Meghan: ah thanks! Sad to be back.... but happy too
	12:03pm Keith - the friendly town.: Greetings from Glasgow!
	12:03pm Jeff Moore: Back already from faraway lands? Hello!
	12:03pm Scraps b’lx (b’ly): hey h’lo argh
	12:03pm Meghan: I am I am! Bonjour!
	12:04pm Meghan: I'll be in Glasgow at the end of September!
	12:08pm Ken From Hyde Park: Welcome back, Meghan. We didn't change a thing while you were away.
	12:09pm βrian: They sell English-Glaswegian phrase books, don't they?
	12:10pm Jay/London: hi maghan just a hi before i go in the hallway with the rats ...
	12:11pm Carmichael: Heya Meghan. My daughter is standing in front of Stonehenge this very minute!
	12:11pm Carmichael: Well, minus however many minutes it took to get the pic to me ...
	12:12pm Meghan: hahahaha! Hello Hello!!
	12:12pm βrian: Will we be getting an oenological run-down during the break, Meghan? I'm kinda thirsty.
	12:13pm Meghan: hahaha... but of course!
	12:15pm Scraps b’lx (b’ly): my toilet is plugged. i can’t get it unplugged with only one side of my body, plus now my good side is also {word meaning muscle injured}. give up now, lie down and listen to Drummer Stream & Underwater Theme Park, calm down & relax. sigh. cheers.
	12:16pm Meghan: That sounds like a proper plan.....
	12:17pm Parq: Heard Belle & Sebastian mentioned a lot but don't really know much about them. This is nice, gotta say.
	12:17pm Scraps b’lx (b’ly): How to Solve Our Human Problems! Ha! HA!
	12:18pm Parq: Scraps: {word meaning muscle injured} = "fucked up". Happy to help with esoteric terminology.
	12:19pm Meghan: Parq, you must have heard them many times on my show in the past, unless you happen to be out of the room each time!
	12:19pm Scraps b’lx (b’ly): B&S are great. Really great. Parq, ah thank you!
	12:20pm Parq: Megan, enjoyed following your sojourn on the UTP Instagram feed.
	12:21pm northguineahills: βrian: has your wife been to any of the pulquerias? I went to one that was the hipster haunt frequented by the uni students in DF, then I went to a hole-in-the-wall dive that was much closer to my tastes
	12:22pm Scraps b’lx (b’ly): Okay, really lie down & listen. Cheers & Chongs.
	12:23pm northguineahills: @Scraps: I'm able bodies, and my last Brooklyn toilet would take more exertion and hours then worth describing every time it got clogged, so I can approximate your duress.
	12:24pm northguineahills: abled-bodied (I should just give up on English)
	12:24pm βrian: @NGH: I don't think so. I'm guessing she's kind of wrapped up with her conference. She sent a photo of some Alma Azteca, in order to appease me, I think.
	12:26pm βrian: I don't like to travel, in particular. But I do like to travel in order to get somewhere else, if that makes any sense. I like to settle in, I guess.
	12:28pm northguineahills: Well, the best places (restaurants, bars, etc) are near the old town (near the old cathedral), which is only a short bus ride from the newer commercial downtown. I know many cool nooks and crannies in Mexico City.
	12:29pm Parq: I get what you're saying about travel, Meghan. I've always said that, while I like to see sights, my main goal in visiting a new locale is to get the local vibe. I got to do what you were suggesting just once, with a three week stay in a local apartment. It was The best.
	12:31pm northguineahills: I hate the getting there part of travel (airports), unless I have time to take the scenic route, but I love being in different places (I even explore my local area, I found a queer redneck bar randomly on bday, which was a nice surprise, and had a blast).
	12:32pm northguineahills: on my bday (someone translate for me).
	12:32pm Meghan: If there was a way to just get there would be great, but I guess like seasons, you appreciate arriving after the travel. Though I can do without some of the waiting..
	12:34pm Parq: I've said for a very long time: I love travel, but I hate transit.
	12:39pm βrian: But some forms of transit are most definitely better than others. I'm a fan of the TGV.
	12:43pm Parq: If you've never heard Patton Oswalt's bit on why he likes Jet Blue, you should. Summary: air travel has become just awful, and Jet Blue accommodates that by surrounding you with indulgently moronic entertainment.
	12:45pm northguineahills: Jet Blue is the least stressful American airline to fly, and at LaGuardia, there's barely a line to get through security..
	12:47pm northguineahills: Not a fan of the Frankfurt or De Gaulle airport, but every other non-American airport I've been to since 9/11 has been a breeze.
	12:47pm Jay/London: loving the show Meghan .. u have pulled all the stops out
	12:49pm βrian: How was the jet lag, Meghan? That kills me.
	12:50pm Jay/London: hate traveling waiting fort some sort of star trek beaming thinie ... love it when i get there .. traveling nowadays is so stressful
	12:51pm βrian: Paris is too much for me unless I'm escorted. Love the countryside, though.
	12:52pm northguineahills: The people who say the French are rude, also think NYers are rude.
	12:53pm Jay/London: i have friends who live in paris so can aways hop on the train to see them in about 2 hours from my home in London
	12:54pm βrian: They must have travelled to France during Rude season.
	12:59pm Jay/London: @ brian one is oz the other is French ... the oz one would like to live back in London as she thinks the French r rude lol
	12:59pm northguineahills: TBH, the rudest people at De Gaulle were the American immigration officials.
	1:00pm Meghan: Ugh, the jet lag is always hard, but especially hard when you are non stop the second you get back home.... I think I am back to schedule.... We came in and out of Orly, which was a breeze coming in, but going out was a bit more wacky...
	1:01pm northguineahills: Ewww, the orange shitgibbon naked, nnoooooooooo!!!!, perish the though!
	1:01pm elwyn: hey everyone!
	1:02pm Meghan: Elwyn!!!
	1:06pm elwyn: I think my nap went a bit too long.
	1:06pm Meghan: feeling groggy eh?
	1:09pm elwyn: Yeah. I stayed up too late last night to read "Red Sparrow" for Book/Movie adaptation club.
	1:15pm Carmichael: This has a Rawhide feel to it.
	1:20pm northguineahills: "From a Distance" cues Bette Midler
	1:23pm northguineahills: I only eat once a day around 3ish. When I was in Brooklyn, I would make dinner w/ my wife around 10:30 (when we were both finally home from work).
	1:23pm elwyn: What time do Americans normally have dinner? I tend to go very late because I go to the gym after work then eat when I get home.
	1:25pm northguineahills: A dozen oysters would be more food then I could eat in one day (pure volume of food), 5 is the most I've ever had (I don't eat very much, but I take my food very seriously a cook most meals from scratch).
	1:25pm Jeff Moore: Oh, c'mon! Who dines before 19:00 except families with tiny kids or codgers who pop up at 5 in the morning and start their day all out of whack?
	1:26pm Parq: I have no idea what people mean when they say Parisians are rude. I was there only for five days but I don't recall a single person being rude to me. Cynics say that's because shop owners wanted to sell me something, but that doesn't account for all the people whom my daughter stopped so she could pet their dogs, and all the people we greeted in the parks. And what NGH said at 12:52, and then some.
	1:27pm northguineahills: When visiting my parents, it was unnerving that they would eat dinner at 4:30 (cue the Seinfeld episode where the seniors go for the early-bird special). I'm rarely home from work before 8-9ish, so, that was when i was used to making dinner (after a drink).
	1:28pm Jeff Moore: No, I never experienced Parisians as rude. Some had a certain elegant formality which I guess some tourists might take the wrong way, and I had people correct my grammar or pronunciation - which I welcomed. They never seemed to be doing it in a mean way, just a want-things-right way.
	1:29pm Meghan: at home I eat late, but when traveling, I tend to eat or want to eat earlier, since I plan on going out for drinks later. Or at least a snack. We had none of that...
	1:30pm Jeff Moore: No snacks! There's the problem!
	1:30pm northguineahills: The cashiers in De Gaulle responded to me in English when I attempted my Quebecois.
	1:30pm Meghan: There was no place open for snacks!
	1:32pm Meghan: We used French most of the time there unless someone was speaking English to us. But for our wine tasting, we asked for English, just so we didn't miss the important facts or words we may not know
	1:34pm Jeff Moore: That seems sensible. Information over pride.
	1:34pm northguineahills: I love this Ayalèw Mèsfin! (got this Ethiopiques when it first came out).
	1:35pm βrian: Crap. Did I miss the wine tasting? I had to get some lunch
	1:35pm still b/p: I got some of the rudeness from Paris workers — an impatient abruptness as if a need for a clearer response or bit of help was a sharp chafing exasperating imposition on them. Particular to Paris or France ? Maybe not, but pretty noticeable when a moment’s easy simple courtesy or even half effort at help would make a difference. Made me want to be more helpful to visitors here when I can be.
	1:35pm Parq: Can I be candid? With Paris, as with New York, the problem is mainly middle American assholes who go to visit with about seven truckloads of hubris, and an equal amount of resentment towards cosmopolitan people, and who get upset when their "I'm a true son/daughter of God's Country, and when I say jump, you say how high" doesn't get obsequious results. They then turn around and tell all the folks back home how rude the urban locals were.
	1:35pm Meghan: Though when we walked in I spoke French and then when they asked English we said yes please!
	1:36pm Parq: Still b/p, I posted mine before I read yours, and I in no way put you in that group.
	1:36pm βrian: Oysters vary in size quite a bit. I've had more than a dozen when I wasn't particularly hungry.
	1:39pm northguineahills: I have a very conservative uncle who loves travelling to Europe, but doesn't like the people there b/c "they're too liberal". My brain breaks when trying to compute.
	1:39pm βrian: I often find listening to strongly accented English is more difficult than parsing the French. Speaking is always problematic, though.
	1:40pm Meghan: I will say, that like most major cities, that people don't have the lingering time for niceties... We have no problem giving you the info, but we are busy people and are probably rushing somewhere. I have no problem telling you directions, but I can't linger to give you the history or all the little friendly bits... I don't find it rude. It's just respecting people's time. Unlike the smaller towns that love to chit chat about little things.... I have this issue as a bartender as well. If you are coming up to a busy bar, know what you want and have your money ready. I'm not waiting for you to decide when other people are ready
	1:41pm Parq: I had a friend in my younger days who used to say that some sort of a test for civility should be given, and then people who failed should be denied visas with leave to go to Bush Gardens.
	1:43pm Parq: This Ex track is on fire, b/t/w.
	1:43pm coelacanth∅: hello Meghan and others
	1:44pm coelacanth∅: (sneakily limping in for the home stretch)
	1:46pm βrian: No Armagnac? That offers a pretty good weight/pleasantness ratio.
	1:46pm northguineahills: I love decent sardines!
	1:47pm βrian: I love sardines because they're inherently indecent.
	1:47pm Dave B: Bientôt!
	1:48pm Ken From Hyde Park: Bonne Maman cherry preserves is my jam! Tastes great on PBJs or pancakes. I believe it's imported from France.
	1:49pm βrian: Bonne Maman has too much sugar, to my taste. Good quality, though.
	1:50pm northguineahills: The French take the aspects of terroir very seriously w/ all of their crops, not just grapes.
	1:53pm northguineahills: As opposed to Berlin where you can drink all night....
	1:54pm coelacanth∅: (or a huge night club in st.louis that's open all night - if you'd like to risk your life to drink out all night)
	1:55pm βrian: By my reckoning, I can't drink all night anywhere.
	1:56pm northguineahills: Getting off the train from Frankfurt in Berlin late at night, exhausted, and stressed to hell, it was a relief to get a beer of the train platform.
	1:56pm Meghan: I am spoiled locally to being able to eat or drink whenever I want.... almost...
	1:57pm Parq: I envy you guys. I've never traveled anywhere in European farm country, only passed through it on trains from once city to another. It must be really gratifying.
	1:57pm coelacanth∅: yeah, the bars here close at 4. that's late enough.
	1:58pm Meghan: 4 is beyond late! If I'm still drinking around 4 am, I shouldn't be!
	1:58pm βrian: My wife's students (predominantly from China) are aghast that they can't have food delivered to their doors within 15 minutes any time of day. This in a midwestern town of less than 40K people.
	1:59pm KevinfromBayRidge: Hello folks. I feel a little more prepared for a journey to France after this show. Tenks, Meghan.
	2:00pm βrian: My last tour in France was by bike, jut me and my sweetie. That was fun.
	2:00pm Ken From Hyde Park: I must check the Instagram page later for the pictures. Thanks for the musical journey today.
	2:00pm Meghan: ha! Yes! Go to France! Go go go! It was amazing and wonderful and I'm sad to be back!
	2:01pm northguineahills: Delivered food, pffft:, cook your own! Thanks Meghan, I'm off to lunch in about 10 mins!
	2:03pm elwyn: post-holiday depression is the worst.
	2:03pm coelacanth∅: i'd like to visit france. not sure about french food though. -i'd only want to live there if i'm near a good sushi restaurant ...and - if i can get wfmu's fm signal!
	2:04pm βrian: (Oh, and it has to be ordered via a cell phone app that processes payments.)
	2:04pm northguineahills: Heck in Williamsburg/Bushwick, the bodega guys I knew would sell me booze 24/7. Came in handy when insomnia hit (or when I was youthy and in a partying mood).
	2:05pm βrian: The best meal I had there last time was in a traditional French restaurant run by Japanese immigrants.
	2:07pm coelacanth∅: when i lived in nj the usual rule closed the bars at <2am. (midnight in summit,nj) but there was a bar in newark open 'till 4. not really friendly inside, and as we were walking to our vehicle there was gunfire in the parking lot.
	2:09pm Parq: Saw this cartoon in IG recently. Two dogs at night by an overturned garbage can. In the background, a familiar NYC building with a clock tower show 4:00. One dog says "Just try getting garbage at 4 AM in Des Moines."
	2:09pm coelacanth∅: βrian that's funny; but then the best japanese restaurant i know of, besides overpriced ones in nyc, is owned by a chinese man, with mostly indonesian staff.
	2:10pm Meghan: hahaha....that's great
	2:11pm coelacanth∅: good one Parq!
	2:13pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Meghan

Underwater Theme Park with Meghan: Playlist from March 29, 2018

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