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Favoriting May 8, 2019: Urgent Weather Alert with Brendan and Jim the Poet

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Artist Track Album Label Approx. start time
REM  Pop Song '99   Favoriting The Best of REM  Warrner Bros  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Jimmy Cliff  I Can See Clearly Now   Favoriting Jimmy Cliff The Ultimate Collection  Hip-O  0:11:24 (Pop-up)
ACDC  Thunderstruck   Favoriting The Razor's Edge  Epic  0:28:31 (Pop-up)
Bill Withers  Ain't No Sunshine   Favoriting Lean On Me: The Best Of Bill Withers  Columbia  0:46:02 (Pop-up)
REM  Pop Song '99   Favoriting The Best of REM  Warrner Bros  0:59:08 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:04pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...nope...still don't hate R.E.M. ...not sure what's wrong w/ me...
  6:04pm
Listener Robert:

Entire hour of tunes mentioning weather?
  6:06pm
Listener Robert:

Even tangentially like the first piece?
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Carmichael:

Heya Jim, Brendan and radio spuds.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:06pm
Kat in Chicago:

Hey Jim, nice to hear your voice again! I'm Worky McWorkface right now and probably can't get back on the comments board, but I wanted to say hi :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:07pm
Hopey Sockmonkey:

Should we talk about the weather?
  6:08pm
Listener Robert:

Oh, of course, Jim the Poet! I keep mixing him up with Nick the Bard. I'm that bad keeping people straight, seizing on the slightest similarity of name or anything else.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:09pm
Kat in Chicago:

Partly cloudy and 63 here. Was raining earlier but has cleared up a bit.
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Carmichael:

80 and sunny. Turned on the automated sprinklers last weekend. Hello, big water bill.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:09pm
Yes:

it's muggy!
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Carmichael:

In Sacramento.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:10pm
Kat in Chicago:

Yes, they go quite noticeably insane
  6:10pm
melinda:

Hi Jim and all
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:10pm
ultradamno:

So Andy's out the first week in a very long time that Don Mclean being awful is in the news. Seems like a missed opportunity.
  6:10pm
Thomas:

I too am stuck at work. I am in Des Moines and the sky is in a weird state where it isn’t sure whether it wants to be cloudy or sunny.
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Carmichael:

I'm sure it's really Archibald.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:12pm
ultradamno:

Well, Archie is a paladin on Riverdale, so why not a prince?
  6:13pm
Listener Robert:

I soooo want to yell into the bedroom, "Steve, Jim the Poet's back on!", but Steve died a few months after Bronwyn and Jim went off schedule. Not saying there's a connection there, but....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:14pm
ultradamno:

Well, The X-Men have Storm, who is kind of Rain Woman.
  6:15pm
kev:

It's 57°and pretty beautiful here in NH
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:17pm
chris:

currently about 60F with a marine layer overcast and light breeze here in western marin county, california.
  6:17pm
Listener Robert:

Notice Brendan paused to try to milk laughs from that line about things overheard from the bedroom? It's radio, Brendan, learn from Ms. Firestone.
  6:18pm
Ike:

Still trying to decide WHETHER or not I like this topic. (GROAN)
Avatar 6:20pm
Linda Lee:

it's lovely here in the catskills too. incredibly sunny, 67.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:22pm
ultradamno:

Weather here in Indiana is sunny and 80°, which qualifies as bad for me.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:22pm
Hopey Sockmonkey:

It is cloudy and 64 in Los Angeles.
  6:22pm
Pam from Chatham:

I love this! But it really doesn’t sound like Jimmy Cliff!
Avatar 6:23pm
Linda Lee:

too warm, ultradamno? that's a little warm for me.
  6:23pm
Listener Robert:

Are these guys too young for Tex Antoine? How could anyone alive then and there not answer that? Hilariously boozy.
Avatar 6:24pm
Linda Lee:

i remember Tex Antoine for sure! wasn't he the guy with the cartoon head showing the weather?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:25pm
ultradamno:

@linda too warm and bright. The sun has never been my friend.
Avatar 6:26pm
Linda Lee:

understood!
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 6:26pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

69° F here and sunny. How ya doin', Jim?
  6:27pm
?:

hellooo lloyd lindsay young
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:27pm
dale:

just tuned in . david letterman started as a weatherman, no?
  6:27pm
Thomas:

It is 291 degrees Kelvin here
Avatar 6:28pm
Linda Lee:

guys, call your show "Just Bring A Sweater".
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:29pm
dale:

lloyd lindsay young was a hoot of a weatherman.

www.youtube.com...
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Linda Lee:

how's the job going, dale?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:30pm
austinliketexas:

This makes me wish I had a mullet
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:30pm
ultradamno:

@dale He (Letterman) certainly did "Hail the size of canned hams" was his primary contribution meteorology.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:32pm
dale:

ha ha - who doesn't like a nice canned ham?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:36pm
ultradamno:

Weather song suggestions:

Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - "Hurricane"

Butthole Surfers - "Tornadoes"

MX-80 Sound - "Tidal Wave"

Jenny & Johnny - "Big Wave"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:36pm
Fuzzy:

A better weatherman than Dick Albert? That's TTTC.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:36pm
dale:

it sucks linda - replaced about a third of the main beam and trying to cut out rotted joists and get new wood in working around the existing plumbing and wire and the hanging furnace and all the duct. and the garage is FILLED with junk and you can't get a scaffold set up. i was standing on a pile of crap and my foot went through and i could have broken my ankle.
Avatar 6:37pm
Linda Lee:

oh lord. really sorry it's such a drag.
  6:38pm
katharsis:

I have weatherman attachment disorder.
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Linda Lee:

gotta get up a scaffold!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:39pm
dale:

tom jolls was the weatherman in buffalo on abc and he had a kids show called commander tom. the cbs station in buffalo had dave thomas as weatherman and his kids show was called commander tom with promo the robot.

dave thomas is the father of that boreanz guy from seal team.
  6:39pm
prudy:

just got in...god sounds like i've missed a lot!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:40pm
dale:

it seems weather guys had to work a little harder for their paycheck back in the 60s.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:40pm
Fuzzy:

Don Kent was a weatherman's weatherman.
Avatar 6:41pm
Linda Lee:

Alex Marra and Bill Potter with Hudson Valley Weather are better at forecasting our wild mountain weather than the NWD. they're great. do you know them dale?
Avatar 6:42pm
Linda Lee:

that's the NWS, not the NWD.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:42pm
ultradamno:

60s weatherman: external-preview.redd.it...
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Jeff Moore:

It's partly cloudy, 17 degrees C and falling here in scenic and historic Jersey City, NJ.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:45pm
dale:

no linda. yeah - the noaa or whatever it is is wrong a LOT.
Avatar 6:46pm
Linda Lee:

when i *had* to know the weather for work up on the mountain, i turned to those guys first. they're obsessive, so they're very good. hudsonvalleyweather.com.
  6:46pm
Rusty Tiki:

Call the show- https://youtu.be/l5aZJBLAu1E
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:47pm
dale:

bill weathers?
Avatar 6:48pm
Jeff Moore:

The Weather Channel just isn't worth watching now that Jeanetta Jones is gone.
Avatar 6:48pm
Jeff Moore:

The switch to iced coffee should happen... NEVER.
Avatar 6:48pm
Linda Lee:

76 degrees is the iced coffee demarkation line.
  6:49pm
prudy:

glad we're getting down to the important stuff! I drink ice coffee year round
  6:50pm
CC:

I always dug Grandma's Hand...:)O(:
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:50pm
ultradamno:

@Jeff Yes. Jeanetta Jones defined the golden age of the weather channel.

I had a friend in high school who videotaped The Weather Channel because he thought it wasn't going to last and wanted evidence of it's existence
Avatar 6:51pm
Linda Lee:

another show name. how about "No Gum Thank God" ?
  6:53pm
prudy:

great repartee!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:53pm
dale:

weather matters.

see how that works with the dual meaning of matters? meh.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:55pm
ultradamno:

If you can make it in Wyoming, you will have made it in Wyoming. I think is the saying.
Avatar 6:55pm
Linda Lee:

frankly, now that our weather is volatile *as a rule* why not call it "Who The Heck Knows Weather".
  6:56pm
prudy:

LL: right on!
  6:57pm
katharsis:

And cancer. They do it with cancer
Avatar 6:57pm
geezerette:

there should be an air stream.
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 6:58pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

In the Archie comics, Mr. Weatherbee was the principal.
  6:58pm
sexyjess:

They compare the size of hail as a gauge of potential damage. Hail can be pretty damaging.
Avatar 6:59pm
geezerette:

all weather, all the time, with Jim & Brendan.
Avatar 6:59pm
Linda Lee:

yep. it'll ruin your stuff!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:59pm
dale:

HELL BENT FOR WEATHER!
  7:00pm
katharsis:

Dale that’s good
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