WFMU: Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza: Playlist from February 27, 2019

Artist	Track	Album	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza	Smoking: Isn't it About Dads? (Part 1: The PSA cut-ups)	Show #163, from Jan. 16, 1998	1998	From 21 years ago: Public Service Announcement fest, spliced, collaged and reinterpreted in real time. Later participation via telephone nonsense, and ambient noises.
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza	Smoking: Isn't it About Dads? (Part 2: The live call-ins)	Show #163, from Jan. 16, 1998	1998	The first caller called in and changed the format forever. I never thought I'd re-air this part.	1:10:13 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza	Phone callers talking to samples of themselves	Show #216, 8/27/1998: "More Hanson, please: Freshmen Jamming III"	1998		1:29:19 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Girl Talk	Can't Stop	Unstoppable			1:55:35 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Listener comments!

5:02pm chresti:

Hello child

5:03pm chresti:

My mom was the smoker

5:04pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

What's it mean to be a Dad?

5:06pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

The "Ad Council" was constantly sending tapes and CD's to the station. Some small fraction of these made it onto carts (like 8-track tape loops). One day in early 1998, I showed up to the station, grabbed the massive box filled with these from the office, and started seeing what I could do with them on the air.

5:07pm chresti:

Awesome

5:07pm Webhamster Henry:

Wow - it does sound old fashioned!

5:07pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

It was 10pm on a Friday night, and apparently I wasn't worried about offending anyone.

5:08pm Webhamster Henry:

I really like PSAs.

5:09pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

This is Side A of the first aircheck tape. I'll flip it after 45 minutes. (Show was 3 hours long. Tape #2 won't be heard today...if ever again...)

5:12pm chresti:

PSAs scared the hell out of me when I was a kid

5:12pm northguineahills:

I always found it curious my parents, fundies, and my father was an officer in the Navy, actively differed recruiters and told me not to join (when graduating HS) after I got a 99+ percentile on the test, and kept getting calls for the nuclear navy. (I liked taking tests) Probably for the best, I never could stand authority, I guess they knew who I was.

5:15pm northguineahills:

Sounds almost like a Residents rekkid…..

5:18pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

ngh maybe they're still waiting to get you

5:18pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

henry Oh yes, works of art

5:18pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

chresti yup, made by the ad industry, creepy stuff, all of it

5:20pm Rich in Washington:

I was not here before.

5:22pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

@Rich It's true, you've finally done it!

5:23pm Rich in Washington:

We had a similar thing with Ad Council CDs at KBOO. We NEVER ran PSAs, but they kept coming in. But the weird thing was that our News/Public Affairs Director Kathleen apparently NEVER threw them out. She had thousands of them packed into boxes on the shelves of her already tiny office. She was such a hoarder, that by the time she retired, her desk area was like the seat of a Gemini space capsule - she just had room to sit down at her computer.

5:24pm Rich in Washington:

and then I came into the station to see six or seven big boxes of unopened PSA CDs stacked in the hall with my name and a question mark on them.

5:24pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Yeah, the history in the piles in our station office were crazy. Unclear if anyone had ever looked at any of it before adding to the pile. When I took over as program director, I went through a pile of papers and found our license renewal in their, due soon, uncompleted.

5:25pm Sandra:

Hi Ken!

5:25pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Indeed, now that you remind me: One of the managers handed me this PSA box. Everyone knew me.

5:25pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Welcome home, Sandra!

5:25pm listener james from westwood:

Been in since the git-go, but on the road. This mix is a total gas.

5:26pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

listener james, just in time for the road segment.

5:27pm Rich in Washington:

our program director now forwards every digital PSA to me. I don't think they mail out CDs as furiously as they did in previous years. It's mostly digital now, I think.

5:28pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Can me and Olivia and you take me to the zoo?

5:29pm Rich in Washington:

Oh wow! This is fantastic!

5:30pm northguineahills:

For Christ's sake, just take them to the zoological park!

5:30pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

My heart is pounding as I anticipate the climb up to the over-the-top point, before it eventually collapses into silly and pointless phone calls

5:32pm Rich in Washington:

this part!

5:33pm northguineahills:

I spend more time per day on average w/ my nieces, and I only see them once a month.

5:34pm chresti:

From the National dad council

5:34pm Rich in Washington:

I'm dying!

5:34pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

@chresti nice

5:34pm listener james from westwood:

The National Dad Council knows where all of its appliance warranties and instruction manuals are.

5:36pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

It takes a man to be a dad!

5:37pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I can hear the audio tape crosstalk!

5:37pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

(during the silent parts)

5:39pm Rich in Washington:

Oh. I can hear it now - wearing my headphones.

5:39pm Rich in Washington:

McScruff.

5:41pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Bueller?

5:43pm northguineahills:

I think today the rate is higher due to irresponsible ammosexuals...

5:43pm Rich in Washington:

Everyday we prevent Andrea Thompson.

5:43pm listener james from westwood:

Take that, you rotten kids!!

5:43pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I'd done just over 2 years of experimental radio shows before this episode.

5:44pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Oh, the sound effects CD's...

5:46pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Flipped the tape, side B

5:46pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Ken, screaming

5:48pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Those are Ad Council PSA gunshots. chresti, no wonder you were so scared of PSA's.

5:51pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

This must be my David Cronenberg episode, where you get lulled into the thing and suddenly realize you're really disturbed by it and aren't sure if you should be looking.

5:53pm northguineahills:

nice rhythm....

5:55pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Oh there's probably going to be a station ID

5:55pm listener james from westwood:

Ho, jeez, that song sample def marks this as a late-90s mix!

5:55pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Heh

5:56pm listener james from westwood:

"She drives a wooden car" is a very 90s snark-lyric.

5:57pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

How many more Elizabeths will be killed?

5:59pm Rich in Washington:

oh yes. Sound effect #375: Inauthentic Laughter, Women.

6:00pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Wow, a surprisingly good station ID

6:00pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

(Robin Leach)

6:05pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...I'ma take some space right here...

6:05pm Rich in Washington:

I recently dreamt there was a brand of cigarettes called Father and Son Cigarettes. I think it was supposed to be an old ad from the 1940s. The pack had an illustration of a dad and a small boy, in portrait.You'd pull one out and a smaller cigarette somehow broke off of the regular cigarette that a child could smoke. It was in the form of an ad myself and someone else were looking it. We were surprised and appalled by it.

6:06pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Smoking: If you think you're old enough to start, you're smart enough.

6:07pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

@RevRabbit: From the Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints

6:08pm northguineahills:

Now, I want a cigarette, and I don't smoke....

6:08pm Rich in Washington:

someone give that kid a drink of water.

6:11pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

And the first caller has called in, changing the entire format of the show forever.

6:13pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

People are going to show up now and think this is what I was talking about.

6:19pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

FRAZEZ

6:21pm chresti:

Excellent phone manner

6:24pm chresti:

My mother said that I would try to eat her cigarette butts

6:26pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Now it's yet another format. This should be called part 3

6:27pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Whoops, tape 1 runs out in 5 minutes and I don't have tape 2 here (it's in a BOX)

6:28pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I am proud of us for trying. This fellow used to call into my show and scream into his phone from his parents' basement.

6:29pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Good thing this tape is running out.

6:29pm Carmichael:

Late hello, Kenzington and other smokers/dads (I am one but not the other).

6:29pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

It's now 11:30pm on a Friday night and apparently I'm even less worried than before about offending anyone. Little did I realize this tape would get played on the internet.

6:31pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

We've jumped ahead a few months. Here I let the live phone callers try to talk to samples of each other. I'm pretty sure I never speak in this one.

6:32pm chresti:

Late Friday night means everyone’s lubricated and toasted

6:34pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I'm supposed to be training my DJ apprentice who for some reason specifically wanted to pair up with me, so I just gave him his own studio and aired him simultaneously.

6:35pm Gary:

Hey gang

6:35pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

3 phone lines on the air, someone is sitting in another studio not knowing what's going in, I'm in a different room figuring out how to use a Windows 95 computer to sample from the board

6:36pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

The strange apprentice is responsible for the club music and droning narration

6:36pm chresti:

It’s getting interesting

6:36pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I'm astonished at how different this all is from the cut-ups part.

6:38pm Rich in Washington:

I used to get asked to let DJ hopefuls shadow me but most of them seemed nonplussed by me playing 4 or more things at the same time and eventually I was never asked to do it anymore.

6:41pm chresti:

That sounded like Marty mcsorley laughynd

6:41pm chresti:

*laughing

6:42pm chresti:

The giggle/chuckle

6:43pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Yeah I only get apprentices who specifically request me, happens once every 10 years

6:44pm Rich in Washington:

Stop playing that girl.

6:44pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

@Carmichael Go back to the beginning of this show, for contrast