WFMU: Techtonic with Mark Hurst: Playlist from December 17, 2018

Listener comments!
	🤖 10:19am herb.nyc: hi hi, not familiar w the documentary. but Chita Rivera's name just stands out among the 4 listed. anyway, i'll play the dubbing game - we are the TechnoTubs today.
	🤖 12:00pm herb.nyc: Yest NYTimes has a Techmology 8pp section. But it looks like a marketing ploy by Deloitte, for they have 3pp of ads. I will now put a notation for Techtonic in it, this a library copy. ie, it's OURS!
	3:11pm Irwin: Bathtubs Over Broadway Over the Airwaves (and Internet)
	6:00pm ultradamno: Hello Mark! Techtabonds!
	6:00pm dale: blippy bloop.
	6:01pm melinda: Bloop tink
	6:01pm northguineahills: privet, tekhnicheskiye lyud!
	6:01pm queems: hey folks
	6:01pm listener james from westwood: Evening, Mark and all!
	🤖 6:01pm Bas NL: Hi Mark! Techtonicollaborationists!
	🤖 6:02pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hello, Mark and Techtobines!
	6:02pm chris: Hi, Mark and techtubbies. looking forward to seeing that doc!
	6:02pm Rich in Washington: hello!
	6:02pm dale: my bathroom is a private kind of place. unless i leave the door open and the cats come in.
	6:03pm sim: 这是最好的广播电台
	6:03pm Beast of Boonton: Hi everyone!
	6:03pm sim: this is the best radio station!
	6:03pm dale: irwin - can silicones repair the cracked soles of my blundstone boots?
	6:03pm Dava W: Hello, Technotubs!
	6:04pm listener james from westwood: Ahhh, you have a pic of the Monopoly Man!!
	6:04pm Megaroni: Thanks Techtonic! Your show makes my monday so much better
	6:04pm Daddy_Hernlet: Good evening commute all!
	6:05pm melinda: @dale I had to have my Blundstones re-soled with rubber.
	6:05pm northguineahills: No puedo pretender ruso. Hola tecnocratas
	6:05pm Rev. Turnip Druid: I would actually kill for a musical celebrating the Epyx Varityper™ phototypesetting system.
	6:06pm northguineahills: (I just listen to a certain podcast from someone in the Baltics that uses a lot of Russian).
	6:07pm Jaz-Paz: @MH: You have the cutest, most adorable theme music, but your shows contain horrifying content. I feel conflicted.
	🤖 6:08pm herb.nyc: I am one block away from the GOOGLE pop up store in soho, 131 greene street. maybe people should start a protest here. if not, there's a vg burrito truck, OAXACA, and we can fill up.(truck is closed at 4pm)
	6:08pm dale: regular cobbler did that melinda? this is my second set where the rubber just started to disintegrate.
	6:09pm sim: Can Google grow in China? I though everyone uses Baidu.
	6:09pm northguineahills: Oaxacan food is my favorite Mexi food!
	6:09pm dale: i fonud them like new at the salvay for ten bucks so i can invest a little.
	6:09pm ultradamno: Firefly got canceled again?
	6:10pm sim: It's tech insiders and developers who have the greatest influence, I believe.
	🤖 6:11pm Bas NL: I switched to DuckDuckGo recently.. works good an fast.
	6:11pm Rich in Washington: Ok. My Android apparently heard 'Google' enough that it activated Google Assistant.
	🤖 6:14pm herb.nyc: I'm gonna ask Walt Mossberg to write to New York Public Library, that NYPL should ban FaceBook. just like it bans pornography. (well, maybe I won't ask him.)
	🤖 6:15pm Ken From Hyde Park: I have it on good authority that the country of Brazil has been courting an Amazon headquarters. They offered to rename the principal waterway to the Amazon.com River.
	6:15pm northguineahills: Mark hasn't accepted my FB friend request :( :p
	6:18pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Been off Facebook for a handful of years already: was kicked off during the first Great Culling of accounts with "fake names." Since then the interface & things have changed so much I have no idea how it's used anymore. Needless to say, never missed it for a second.
	6:18pm TDK60: Hei der.
	6:20pm ultradamno: "I don't like the sound of that cough, should I contact a mortuary?"
	🤖 6:20pm Bas NL: (cough)
	6:20pm βrian: The barking dog audio that's set off by the doorbell might skew this data.
	🤖 6:20pm Ken From Hyde Park: I recently received an email from Hertz car rentals about their new service the uses facial recognition to speed your way out of the parking lot. I'm not signing up for that, thanks.
	6:20pm Paul T: @Rev Turnip Was Varityper one that was using paper tape to store the info? Used something like it in my graphic arts courses in the 80's
	🤖 6:22pm herb.nyc: finally, we can hear the song "we're an industrial band".
	6:23pm Beast of Boonton: Is anyone here using smart switches?
	6:23pm ultradamno: Privacy concerns aside, giving someone a genealogy test is just giving them a pain in the ass. I get to spit in a tube all day and then go to the trouble of shipping it to some Mormons? Thanks sis!
	6:23pm ultradamno: imgbox.com...
	6:23pm northguineahills: I was hoping for NIN on Broadway!
	6:24pm dale: i think i have that oldsmobile album, or a newer one if not that.
	6:24pm queems: here we gooooo
	6:24pm Paul T: Hacker chats with Canadian thru his security cam motherboard.vice.com...
	6:24pm Rev. Turnip Druid: @Paul T: The model I used (ages ago, naturally) was a page-composition terminal that output designs to PMT paper; you had to run it through a liquid photo-processor (same as photos; developer/fixer/etc) ... Time consuming as hell, of course. Then you'd take the developed PMT, trim, run it thru a wax machine, & do manual paste-up. OH the joys of pre-postscript publishing poop.
	6:25pm dale: 'buy' back?
	6:25pm dale: oh a 'BE' back.
	6:25pm ultradamno: Do The Frito Twist: www.youtube.com...
	6:25pm queems: very festive
	🤖 6:26pm Folsom: Links don't open up in a new window again.
	6:26pm Listener Robert: I don't remember how Jean P. Shepherd got involved with industrials; I'm sure he explained it, but I forgot. Anyway, he was the first I heard play recorded excerpts from industrials. I remember one bit with the patients singing about how they enjoyed their appendectomy and hysterectomy while wearing a disposable surgical gown. Shep explained that all of this is tongue in cheek, because how else can you be entertaining and sell at the same time? Because of the type of audience, you can come off to them in ways you wouldn't dare to the general public.
	6:27pm dale: i used to use a phototypositor, pmt machine, state camera, lucigraph, all that good stuff that probably will give me alzheimer's.
	6:27pm Paul T: @ Rev T D Had so much fun with PMTs (Photo-mechanical transfers)
	6:28pm βrian: Here's a smart switch: www.youtube.com...
	🤖 6:28pm chresti: Just tell the "be back" that they sound ill and are unemployable if they leave without buying an Oldsmobile
	6:29pm TDK60: .. old-school phototypesetters, how many typefaces would they have, on average? graphics?
	6:29pm Dean: That bathroom song gets airplay on WFMU.
	🤖 6:29pm chresti: Rev TD-I used to do paste up, loved the waxing machine
	6:30pm Rich in Washington: Seeing Dave's Record Collection segments as a teenager got me into buying weird records in thrift stores in the first place, which became a lifelong obsession for me.
	6:30pm Paul T: Standing in front of the camera squinting at the pulsating xenon light source, almost blinded just to get an early selfi.
	6:30pm Fredericks: About 2/3rds of the way through this podcast Mike Pesca expresses a very different take regarding Amazon and New York. slate.com...
	6:30pm Mark Hurst: Hi all! @Folsom, reload & try again :)
	6:31pm ultradamno: My Bathroom Is A Private Kind Of Place: www.youtube.com...
	6:31pm Paul T: Not sure @TDK but comic sans was not an option...
	6:33pm dale: i don't know how many negative film rolls were made for the photypositor, that was a camera based system. hard type was around for a long time so you had a huge collection of slugs at your disposal.
	6:33pm JakeGould: My bathroom is a private place.
	🤖 6:34pm Folsom: @Mark Thanks!
	6:35pm sim: I like the MCU, especially on IMAX
	6:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I like movies w/ full stories ...& CGI explosions in 5.1 ...They're finally genetically modifying humans - does that count?? ....Alexis: Flush...
	🤖 6:35pm chresti: taking selfies with the xerox machine was fun
	🤖 6:36pm chresti: ...or STAT machine
	6:36pm βrian: Grayscale buttocks, those?
	6:37pm northguineahills: Not knowing wtf is going to go in a movie is why Jodorowsky's "Holy Mountain" Makevejev's "Sweet Movie" are some of my faves.
	6:37pm sim: My pop was a typesetter for a newspaper. ETAOIN SHRDLU!
	6:37pm dale: when you're in the broadway world probably any work is great work and you gave it your all.
	6:38pm ultradamno: He's A Penney Man: www.youtube.com...
	6:40pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Ok - here's Irwin's show on Industrial Musicals : wfmu.org... ...if he doesn't have more...
	🤖 6:40pm chresti: @Brian: no buttocks, just squashed faces
	6:41pm Listener Robert: Rabbit, think you can find Jean Shepherd's show on industrial musicals?
	6:42pm ultradamno: Dance The Slurp: www.youtube.com...
	🤖 6:42pm chresti: Hah dale!
	6:44pm dale: irwin had sport murphy on air a loooong time ago.
	6:44pm Dava W: Thanks for having me, Mark!! That was fun!
	6:44pm northguineahills: I thought this interview would bring out Irwin, I remember that show!
	🤖 6:45pm chresti: Thanks for raising my cortisol levels, Mark
	6:45pm chris: Dava, thank you! think silicone!
	🤖 6:46pm herb.nyc: here's a WNYC thing on BATHTUBS - www.wnyc.org...
	6:46pm Dava W: Chris, I never stop thinking about silicone.
	6:46pm dale: a lot of the tunes here. www.industrialmusicals.com...
	6:47pm northguineahills: Really, it's being screened in Mississippi and not FL, ack ! (sometimes I hate my state, ok I usually do, I just love my town).
	6:49pm dale: salesmen probably felt like they were heroes hearing these tunes about themselves. and to think that they just went for the rubber chicken dinner and free booze.
	🤖 6:49pm Bas NL: Catchy tune!
	6:50pm ultradamno: One I really liked off Product Music but couldn't find online was another American Standard song called Look At This Tub
	6:50pm Dava: @northguineahills: Hoping that we'll get some screenings in FL soon. Lots more to be announced soon on bathtubsoverbroadway.com/screenings
	6:51pm Fox: I find it interesting that there is a kind of opposite trickle-down effect with regards to art and industry. When the average CEO made 12 times what the average worker made, artists were proud of their work, and saw it as a means of keeping up their chops and maybe experimenting with some new concepts. Now, with the CEO making, what was it she said, 300 times what the average worker makes? It's another gilded age, and artists who work on that scale, I'm assuming have little creative control, and would not be proud of that work. They'd be seen as a shill by their fans, and probably see themselves in that way as well. This has happened to the entire film industry, as well as comicbooks. Too much money at stake kills creative risk.
	6:52pm northguineahills: There's a town 60 km from me founded by the original JC Penney as a retirement town for his parents in the 1920s. Still exists today. I used to go there to sing xmas carols to the elder folk as a kid.
	6:52pm northguineahills: gracias, Dava!
	🤖 6:53pm herb.nyc: funny how Mark says "vinyls". (not funny haha, ya know)
	6:53pm TDK60: .."buying weird records in thrift shops"?! what kinda people am I hangin' out with here?
	6:54pm Rev. Turnip Druid: What they said. Over some 30 years I've ended up with a bizarrely huge collection of these records: everything from sales-pitch advice for Domino Sugar reps to really dodgy LPs about "how to sell to women," etc. Fascinating stuff.
	6:54pm mrmikestandsir: vinyl is plural for vinyl
	6:55pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The WoofMoos Sell Out...
	6:55pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Medical seminar LPs are a genre unto themselves. ALL ARE CRUCIAL.
	6:55pm Rich in Washington: The plural of vinyl is records
	6:55pm northguineahills: @TDK: What is this insanity! Who are these people! :p
	6:56pm Fox: Yay Irwin!
	6:56pm sim: Yay, Irwin!
	6:56pm chris: Dava, boo-boo on the screenings page for San Rafael. :) I will be going there to see it. yay!
	6:56pm sim: @Fox. Synchronicity!
	🤖 6:57pm Bas NL: Hi Irwin!
	6:58pm chris: thanks, Mark. fabulous!
	🤖 6:59pm Bas NL: Thanks Mark!
	6:59pm mrmikestandsir: @ rich in washington yes!
	6:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...How to Succeed in Bathrooms W/out Ever Retiring...
	🤖 7:00pm chresti: Thanks for the link dale I think the tech titans should be required to perform musicals
	7:00pm northguineahills: Thankyous Mark!
	7:00pm Dava: @chris, thanks for catching that. Now fixed. Starts dec 21 in san rafael. :)
	🤖 7:00pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks to Mark Zuckerberg for his efforts to make bathrooms more open and connected.
	🤖 7:01pm chresti: Thanks Mark! thanks bathroom!
	7:01pm ultradamno: "Making faces at my face" is one of my favorite lyrics. It's almost Roky Erickson worthy.
	7:01pm Dava: Thanks again, Mark, and thanks to Irwin for calling in!!
	🤖 7:03pm chresti: haha revrabbit
	7:03pm Mark Hurst: Thanks for joining us, Dava! (And Irwin!) And thanks for all of you listeners for joining this evening! This was fun.
	🤖 10:50pm Webhamster Henry: H folks - chiming in from the Archives... I did a special show on WFMU (a guest of Dorian) back in the 90s on Industrials with some of my collection. Here's one of them (Xerox: Take It From Here): www.wfmu.org...

Techtonic with Mark Hurst: Playlist from December 17, 2018

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December 17, 2018: Dava Whisenant, director, "Bathtubs Over Broadway"

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This week: Dava Whisenant, director of the new documentary "Bathtubs Over Broadway"

• Bathtubs Over Broadway, a new documentary that you should definitely watch

• Dava Whisenant bio

• On Twitter: @BathtubsOverBwy

• On Twitter: @DavaWhisenant

• Songs from industrial musicals, part of the book site for Everything's Coming Up Profits: The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals, by Steve Young and Sport Murphy

• Review of "Bathtubs Over Broadway" in the New Yorker: Can a Musical Sponsored by a Toilet Manufacturer Be a Work of Art? (Nov 27, 2018)

FACEBOOK NEWS

• Another Friday bad-news dump from Facebook: Private photos on Facebook, of millions of users, were accidentally shared with 1,500 apps. Facebook said on Friday it had found a bug that gave as many as 1,500 third-party apps access to the unposted Facebook photos of up to 6.8 million users. (Business Insider, today, Dec 17) ... see also the Washington Post article (Dec 14) and the TechCrunch article (Dec 14).

• via Sarah Frier, this Bloomberg article (today, Dec 17): "Instagram was actually a bigger, and more effective, Russian influence tool than Facebook was, according to data analyzed for Senate Intel. 'More content was created on Instagram, and overall Instagram engagement exceeded that of Facebook.'"

• 'They don't care': Facebook factchecking in disarray as journalists push to cut ties (Guardian, Dec 13): even journalists paid by Facebook are speaking out against the company. (Meantime, Maria Essa in the Philippines, who has spoken out against Facebook-enabled authoritarian Duterte, was just named one of TIME's People of the Year)

• Walt Mossberg on Twitter (today, Dec 17): "Some personal news: I've decided to quit Facebook around the end of the year. I am doing this - after being on Facebook for nearly 12 years - because my own values and the policies and actions of Facebook have diverged to the point where I’m no longer comfortable there. . . . I am also quitting Facebook-owned Instagram and Messenger. I will remain on Twitter, and will continue to communicate via iMessage, email and SMS text with those who have my email address and/or phone number." (You can quit Facebook, too: go to deletefacebook.com.)

GOOGLE NEWS

• In advance of Sundar Pichai's hearings, Matt Stoller posted (Dec 11): "Google is in serious trouble. The company is thuggish, corrupt, and monopolistic. Its employees are upset. Its programmatic advertising is fraud-ridden and Youtube subsidiary is an extremist factory. It has of late, however, hidden behind Mark Zuckerberg, who is far clumsier."

• Washington Post recap of Sundar Pichai and Google hearings (Dec 11) ... see also Wired's Issie Lapowski's thread ... also this exchange (courtesy BuzzFeed News, with Monopoly Man in background!) about Project Dragonfly, the censorship-friendly search engine Google wants to build for the Chinese government.

• Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After Internal Confrontation (The Intercept, today, Dec 17). Looks like Project Dragonfly might be dead.

• A "no" sandwich, says Jason Kint:

• Oh, and Google has access to 70% of credit and debit card transactions in the United States through various third party partnerships. Careful when you use a credit card to buy anything that could affect your employment or insurance ratings!

• Oh, and Google Announces New $1 Billion Manhattan Campus In Hudson Square (Gothamist, today, Dec 17). Google now has Chelsea Market, the 2 buildings adjacent, the Hudson River pier next to that, and now a bldg in Tribeca and 2 more in the West Village. And Google's LinkNYC surveillance towers watch every New Yorker. WE NEED ANTITRUST NOW.

• I'm embarrassed for the New York Times, after they did such good work covering Google's ubiquitous surveillance in New York (which I covered on last week's show). Guess who just bought a partnership with the New York Times...

• Get off of Google! Go to nomoregoogle.com for a helpful list of alternative services. See also deletefacebook.com.

AMAZON NEWS

• NYC City Council slams Amazon in public hearing about HQ2 (courtesy CNBC's Steve Kopack, Dec 13): "You're worth a trillion dollars. Why do you need our $3B when we have crumbling subways, crumbling public housing, people without healthcare, public schools that are overcrowding? Why do you need our $3B?" Questions are from NYCC Speaker Corey Johnson. (See also Ellie Marshall's comment - this is how extractive industries work.)

• Smarter Voice Assistants Recognize Your Favorite Brands—and Health (ACM News, Dec 11): Shocker, home-surveillance devices like Amazon Echo will have negative consequences. "...Alexa responded: 'You've been coughing a lot today. Do you want me to recommend a medicine or some alternative remedies?' ... Snoring and yawning a lot, for instance, could be signs of obstructive sleep apnea, so leaked data might impact somebody's health insurance, or even car insurance rates. A lot of coughing and sneezing might impact employability, too, if somebody seems too sickly too often."

TWITTER NEWS

• Jack Dorsey on his Myanmar meditation trip (Dec 11): "I’m aware of the human rights atrocities and suffering in Myanmar. I don’t view visiting, practicing, or talking with the people, as endorsement. ... [but] This was a purely personal trip for me focused on only one dimension: meditation practice." ... except, whoops, Jack Dorsey Reportedly Took A Government-Organized Hot Air Balloon Ride In Myanmar (Dec 14): "Through a spokesperson, the Twitter and Square CEO said he was unaware multiple government agencies were reportedly involved in organizing the flight."

• Mother's letter to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Experian "regarding algorithms and my son's birth" after her son was stillborn. See also David Carroll's response: "Condolences really. But suggesting the solution to this problem is more invasive surveillance to solve the problem of invasive surveillance shows just how abusively conditionned many have become. That it’s her fault she didn’t opt out is insult to injury." ... also links to this BBC piece.

OTHER TECH NEWS

• Politico story via past guest Frank Pasquale: "Silicon Valley billionaire Reid Hoffman has teamed up with former Obama administration officials to create an independent — & likely for-profit — database that would store all of the progressive community’s voter data" (Dec 11) - what could possibly go wrong?

• Anti-Surveillance Gift Guide by Julie Carrie Wong (Dec 14). "Drones, DNA and data: please don't give the gift of privacy invasion." Don't give Facebook Portal, DNA kits, 'smart' (surveillance) speakers, camera drones, or needless electronics.

• Great photo series by Eric Pickersgill, Removed, including the below....

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Artist	Track	Album	Approx. start time
Tomaš Dvořák	Game Boy Tune "Game Boy Tune" by "Tomaš Dvořák"	Machinarium Soundtrack	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
	Mark's intro "Mark's intro"		0:01:03 (Pop-up)
	Don't Let A Be-Back Get Away "Don't Let A Be-Back Get Away"	1959 Oldsmobile show “Good News About Olds”	0:22:38 (Pop-up)
	Interview with Dava Whisenant "Interview with Dava Whisenant"		0:24:59 (Pop-up)
	Your calls and comments 201-536-9368 "Your calls and comments 201-536-9368"		0:42:06 (Pop-up)
	He's A Penney Man "He's A Penney Man"	1966 JC Penney show “Spirit of 66”	0:45:16 (Pop-up)
	My Bathroom "My Bathroom"	1969 American-Standard show “The Bathrooms Are Coming”	0:57:37 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🤖 10:19am herb.nyc: hi hi, not familiar w the documentary. but Chita Rivera's name just stands out among the 4 listed. anyway, i'll play the dubbing game - we are the TechnoTubs today.
	🤖 12:00pm herb.nyc: Yest NYTimes has a Techmology 8pp section. But it looks like a marketing ploy by Deloitte, for they have 3pp of ads. I will now put a notation for Techtonic in it, this a library copy. ie, it's OURS!
	3:11pm Irwin: Bathtubs Over Broadway Over the Airwaves (and Internet)
	6:00pm ultradamno: Hello Mark! Techtabonds!
	6:00pm dale: blippy bloop.
	6:01pm melinda: Bloop tink
	6:01pm northguineahills: privet, tekhnicheskiye lyud!
	6:01pm queems: hey folks
	6:01pm listener james from westwood: Evening, Mark and all!
	🤖 6:01pm Bas NL: Hi Mark! Techtonicollaborationists!
	🤖 6:02pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hello, Mark and Techtobines!
	6:02pm chris: Hi, Mark and techtubbies. looking forward to seeing that doc!
	6:02pm Rich in Washington: hello!
	6:02pm dale: my bathroom is a private kind of place. unless i leave the door open and the cats come in.
	6:03pm sim: 这是最好的广播电台
	6:03pm Beast of Boonton: Hi everyone!
	6:03pm sim: this is the best radio station!
	6:03pm dale: irwin - can silicones repair the cracked soles of my blundstone boots?
	6:03pm Dava W: Hello, Technotubs!
	6:04pm listener james from westwood: Ahhh, you have a pic of the Monopoly Man!!
	6:04pm Megaroni: Thanks Techtonic! Your show makes my monday so much better
	6:04pm Daddy_Hernlet: Good evening commute all!
	6:05pm melinda: @dale I had to have my Blundstones re-soled with rubber.
	6:05pm northguineahills: No puedo pretender ruso. Hola tecnocratas
	6:05pm Rev. Turnip Druid: I would actually kill for a musical celebrating the Epyx Varityper™ phototypesetting system.
	6:06pm northguineahills: (I just listen to a certain podcast from someone in the Baltics that uses a lot of Russian).
	6:07pm Jaz-Paz: @MH: You have the cutest, most adorable theme music, but your shows contain horrifying content. I feel conflicted.
	🤖 6:08pm herb.nyc: I am one block away from the GOOGLE pop up store in soho, 131 greene street. maybe people should start a protest here. if not, there's a vg burrito truck, OAXACA, and we can fill up.(truck is closed at 4pm)
	6:08pm dale: regular cobbler did that melinda? this is my second set where the rubber just started to disintegrate.
	6:09pm sim: Can Google grow in China? I though everyone uses Baidu.
	6:09pm northguineahills: Oaxacan food is my favorite Mexi food!
	6:09pm dale: i fonud them like new at the salvay for ten bucks so i can invest a little.
	6:09pm ultradamno: Firefly got canceled again?
	6:10pm sim: It's tech insiders and developers who have the greatest influence, I believe.
	🤖 6:11pm Bas NL: I switched to DuckDuckGo recently.. works good an fast.
	6:11pm Rich in Washington: Ok. My Android apparently heard 'Google' enough that it activated Google Assistant.
	🤖 6:14pm herb.nyc: I'm gonna ask Walt Mossberg to write to New York Public Library, that NYPL should ban FaceBook. just like it bans pornography. (well, maybe I won't ask him.)
	🤖 6:15pm Ken From Hyde Park: I have it on good authority that the country of Brazil has been courting an Amazon headquarters. They offered to rename the principal waterway to the Amazon.com River.
	6:15pm northguineahills: Mark hasn't accepted my FB friend request :( :p
	6:18pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Been off Facebook for a handful of years already: was kicked off during the first Great Culling of accounts with "fake names." Since then the interface & things have changed so much I have no idea how it's used anymore. Needless to say, never missed it for a second.
	6:18pm TDK60: Hei der.
	6:20pm ultradamno: "I don't like the sound of that cough, should I contact a mortuary?"
	🤖 6:20pm Bas NL: (cough)
	6:20pm βrian: The barking dog audio that's set off by the doorbell might skew this data.
	🤖 6:20pm Ken From Hyde Park: I recently received an email from Hertz car rentals about their new service the uses facial recognition to speed your way out of the parking lot. I'm not signing up for that, thanks.
	6:20pm Paul T: @Rev Turnip Was Varityper one that was using paper tape to store the info? Used something like it in my graphic arts courses in the 80's
	🤖 6:22pm herb.nyc: finally, we can hear the song "we're an industrial band".
	6:23pm Beast of Boonton: Is anyone here using smart switches?
	6:23pm ultradamno: Privacy concerns aside, giving someone a genealogy test is just giving them a pain in the ass. I get to spit in a tube all day and then go to the trouble of shipping it to some Mormons? Thanks sis!
	6:23pm ultradamno: imgbox.com...
	6:23pm northguineahills: I was hoping for NIN on Broadway!
	6:24pm dale: i think i have that oldsmobile album, or a newer one if not that.
	6:24pm queems: here we gooooo
	6:24pm Paul T: Hacker chats with Canadian thru his security cam motherboard.vice.com...
	6:24pm Rev. Turnip Druid: @Paul T: The model I used (ages ago, naturally) was a page-composition terminal that output designs to PMT paper; you had to run it through a liquid photo-processor (same as photos; developer/fixer/etc) ... Time consuming as hell, of course. Then you'd take the developed PMT, trim, run it thru a wax machine, & do manual paste-up. OH the joys of pre-postscript publishing poop.
	6:25pm dale: 'buy' back?
	6:25pm dale: oh a 'BE' back.
	6:25pm ultradamno: Do The Frito Twist: www.youtube.com...
	6:25pm queems: very festive
	🤖 6:26pm Folsom: Links don't open up in a new window again.
	6:26pm Listener Robert: I don't remember how Jean P. Shepherd got involved with industrials; I'm sure he explained it, but I forgot. Anyway, he was the first I heard play recorded excerpts from industrials. I remember one bit with the patients singing about how they enjoyed their appendectomy and hysterectomy while wearing a disposable surgical gown. Shep explained that all of this is tongue in cheek, because how else can you be entertaining and sell at the same time? Because of the type of audience, you can come off to them in ways you wouldn't dare to the general public.
	6:27pm dale: i used to use a phototypositor, pmt machine, state camera, lucigraph, all that good stuff that probably will give me alzheimer's.
	6:27pm Paul T: @ Rev T D Had so much fun with PMTs (Photo-mechanical transfers)
	6:28pm βrian: Here's a smart switch: www.youtube.com...
	🤖 6:28pm chresti: Just tell the "be back" that they sound ill and are unemployable if they leave without buying an Oldsmobile
	6:29pm TDK60: .. old-school phototypesetters, how many typefaces would they have, on average? graphics?
	6:29pm Dean: That bathroom song gets airplay on WFMU.
	🤖 6:29pm chresti: Rev TD-I used to do paste up, loved the waxing machine
	6:30pm Rich in Washington: Seeing Dave's Record Collection segments as a teenager got me into buying weird records in thrift stores in the first place, which became a lifelong obsession for me.
	6:30pm Paul T: Standing in front of the camera squinting at the pulsating xenon light source, almost blinded just to get an early selfi.
	6:30pm Fredericks: About 2/3rds of the way through this podcast Mike Pesca expresses a very different take regarding Amazon and New York. slate.com...
	6:30pm Mark Hurst: Hi all! @Folsom, reload & try again :)
	6:31pm ultradamno: My Bathroom Is A Private Kind Of Place: www.youtube.com...
	6:31pm Paul T: Not sure @TDK but comic sans was not an option...
	6:33pm dale: i don't know how many negative film rolls were made for the photypositor, that was a camera based system. hard type was around for a long time so you had a huge collection of slugs at your disposal.
	6:33pm JakeGould: My bathroom is a private place.
	🤖 6:34pm Folsom: @Mark Thanks!
	6:35pm sim: I like the MCU, especially on IMAX
	6:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I like movies w/ full stories ...& CGI explosions in 5.1 ...They're finally genetically modifying humans - does that count?? ....Alexis: Flush...
	🤖 6:35pm chresti: taking selfies with the xerox machine was fun
	🤖 6:36pm chresti: ...or STAT machine
	6:36pm βrian: Grayscale buttocks, those?
	6:37pm northguineahills: Not knowing wtf is going to go in a movie is why Jodorowsky's "Holy Mountain" Makevejev's "Sweet Movie" are some of my faves.
	6:37pm sim: My pop was a typesetter for a newspaper. ETAOIN SHRDLU!
	6:37pm dale: when you're in the broadway world probably any work is great work and you gave it your all.
	6:38pm ultradamno: He's A Penney Man: www.youtube.com...
	6:40pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Ok - here's Irwin's show on Industrial Musicals : wfmu.org... ...if he doesn't have more...
	🤖 6:40pm chresti: @Brian: no buttocks, just squashed faces
	6:41pm Listener Robert: Rabbit, think you can find Jean Shepherd's show on industrial musicals?
	6:42pm ultradamno: Dance The Slurp: www.youtube.com...
	🤖 6:42pm chresti: Hah dale!
	6:44pm dale: irwin had sport murphy on air a loooong time ago.
	6:44pm Dava W: Thanks for having me, Mark!! That was fun!
	6:44pm northguineahills: I thought this interview would bring out Irwin, I remember that show!
	🤖 6:45pm chresti: Thanks for raising my cortisol levels, Mark
	6:45pm chris: Dava, thank you! think silicone!
	🤖 6:46pm herb.nyc: here's a WNYC thing on BATHTUBS - www.wnyc.org...
	6:46pm Dava W: Chris, I never stop thinking about silicone.
	6:46pm dale: a lot of the tunes here. www.industrialmusicals.com...
	6:47pm northguineahills: Really, it's being screened in Mississippi and not FL, ack ! (sometimes I hate my state, ok I usually do, I just love my town).
	6:49pm dale: salesmen probably felt like they were heroes hearing these tunes about themselves. and to think that they just went for the rubber chicken dinner and free booze.
	🤖 6:49pm Bas NL: Catchy tune!
	6:50pm ultradamno: One I really liked off Product Music but couldn't find online was another American Standard song called Look At This Tub
	6:50pm Dava: @northguineahills: Hoping that we'll get some screenings in FL soon. Lots more to be announced soon on bathtubsoverbroadway.com/screenings
	6:51pm Fox: I find it interesting that there is a kind of opposite trickle-down effect with regards to art and industry. When the average CEO made 12 times what the average worker made, artists were proud of their work, and saw it as a means of keeping up their chops and maybe experimenting with some new concepts. Now, with the CEO making, what was it she said, 300 times what the average worker makes? It's another gilded age, and artists who work on that scale, I'm assuming have little creative control, and would not be proud of that work. They'd be seen as a shill by their fans, and probably see themselves in that way as well. This has happened to the entire film industry, as well as comicbooks. Too much money at stake kills creative risk.
	6:52pm northguineahills: There's a town 60 km from me founded by the original JC Penney as a retirement town for his parents in the 1920s. Still exists today. I used to go there to sing xmas carols to the elder folk as a kid.
	6:52pm northguineahills: gracias, Dava!
	🤖 6:53pm herb.nyc: funny how Mark says "vinyls". (not funny haha, ya know)
	6:53pm TDK60: .."buying weird records in thrift shops"?! what kinda people am I hangin' out with here?
	6:54pm Rev. Turnip Druid: What they said. Over some 30 years I've ended up with a bizarrely huge collection of these records: everything from sales-pitch advice for Domino Sugar reps to really dodgy LPs about "how to sell to women," etc. Fascinating stuff.
	6:54pm mrmikestandsir: vinyl is plural for vinyl
	6:55pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The WoofMoos Sell Out...
	6:55pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Medical seminar LPs are a genre unto themselves. ALL ARE CRUCIAL.
	6:55pm Rich in Washington: The plural of vinyl is records
	6:55pm northguineahills: @TDK: What is this insanity! Who are these people! :p
	6:56pm Fox: Yay Irwin!
	6:56pm sim: Yay, Irwin!
	6:56pm chris: Dava, boo-boo on the screenings page for San Rafael. :) I will be going there to see it. yay!
	6:56pm sim: @Fox. Synchronicity!
	🤖 6:57pm Bas NL: Hi Irwin!
	6:58pm chris: thanks, Mark. fabulous!
	🤖 6:59pm Bas NL: Thanks Mark!
	6:59pm mrmikestandsir: @ rich in washington yes!
	6:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...How to Succeed in Bathrooms W/out Ever Retiring...
	🤖 7:00pm chresti: Thanks for the link dale I think the tech titans should be required to perform musicals
	7:00pm northguineahills: Thankyous Mark!
	7:00pm Dava: @chris, thanks for catching that. Now fixed. Starts dec 21 in san rafael. :)
	🤖 7:00pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks to Mark Zuckerberg for his efforts to make bathrooms more open and connected.
	🤖 7:01pm chresti: Thanks Mark! thanks bathroom!
	7:01pm ultradamno: "Making faces at my face" is one of my favorite lyrics. It's almost Roky Erickson worthy.
	7:01pm Dava: Thanks again, Mark, and thanks to Irwin for calling in!!
	🤖 7:03pm chresti: haha revrabbit
	7:03pm Mark Hurst: Thanks for joining us, Dava! (And Irwin!) And thanks for all of you listeners for joining this evening! This was fun.
	🤖 10:50pm Webhamster Henry: H folks - chiming in from the Archives... I did a special show on WFMU (a guest of Dorian) back in the 90s on Industrials with some of my collection. Here's one of them (Xerox: Take It From Here): www.wfmu.org...

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