Favoriting Music Of Mind Control with Micah: Playlist from January 28, 2020 Favoriting

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Favoriting January 28, 2020

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
saint gurmeet ram rahim singh ji  Aye Yaara   Favoriting Network Terra Love Ka  Decca  2012  Dera Sacha Sauda  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
 
Identity Network  The Depth of the Universe   Favoriting Sounds of the Universe  Sounds of the Universe  2015  Identity network  0:13:33 (Pop-up)
 
Winter Laake  Backlash   Favoriting No Album  No Label  No Year    0:22:42 (Pop-up)
Winter Laake  Misadventure   Favoriting no album  no label  no year    0:26:24 (Pop-up)
Winter Laake  Sex Slave   Favoriting no album  no label  no year    0:29:13 (Pop-up)
 
Indiejestion  Paint it Flat   Favoriting no album  no label  no year  flat earth society  0:35:04 (Pop-up)
Powerland  The Balls of Math   Favoriting no album  no label  no year  flat earth society  0:36:54 (Pop-up)
Wednesday Sky  Wide Eyed Under the Dome   Favoriting no album  no label  no year  flat earth society  0:39:57 (Pop-up)
 
Bruce Gilbert  Brainwashed   Favoriting no album  no label  1979  synanon  0:50:07 (Pop-up)
Bruce Gilbert  My Religion Is In Me   Favoriting no album  no label  1979  synanon  0:52:06 (Pop-up)
Bruce Gilbert  This Is My Home   Favoriting no album  no label  1979  synanon  0:54:34 (Pop-up)
 
Dan Fefferman  Memories of Sweet Rebecca   Favoriting no album  no label  no year  unification church  0:57:46 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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bɿɒiniɒc:

The cult of El Touchy
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ultradamno:

Cult of Vijaya Anand?
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slugluv1313:

yeah!
GROOVY Mind Control! with a tinge of 1970s TV crime show themes :)
Good Evening, Micah and everone!
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common:

Good eve all
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ultradamno:

Hey, I didn't come here to say I like things.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:05pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...oh - yeah - kinda was liking it but with misgivings
...Micahtime yo...
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ultradamno:

...and then I looked him up.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:06pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...oh I don't have the stomach for looking these people up...
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ultradamno:

He points a lot in pictures.
  6:07pm
queems:

such a JAM
  6:07pm
queems:

who’d this guy sexually assault
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:08pm
ultradamno:

I'm not sure anyone he let live.
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mariano:

"India's 'guru of bling' accused of tricking 400 followers into cutting off their testicles to meet God" nationalpost.com...
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ultradamno:

He checks a couple of heavy boxes
Avatar 6:09pm
slugluv1313:

@ queems -- hah! was wondering the same :)
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bɿɒiniɒc:

that's true
  6:09pm
queems:

anddddd there it is
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slugluv1313:

@ mariano -- yes! that guy!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...yeah that's plenty detail...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:11pm
ultradamno:

And murder...killed a journalist
Avatar 💆 Swag For Life Member 6:12pm
Folsom:

The only prosperity gospel I believe is from Creflo Dollar
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Identity Network
- inspired pairing of words...I think 'facebook" will go down better...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:13pm
ultradamno:

Christian Life Coach...sheesh. Sounds like The Righteous Gemstones inspiration.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:14pm
ultradamno:

Creflo's a trailblazer, but that shit is everywhere nowadays.
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tim from champaign (now washington):

Man, I try to keep an open mind about other people's spiritual beliefs but I draw the line at prosperity gospel. Buttholes I say!
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slugluv1313:

you can donate $50.00 for Jeremy Lopez' 50th birthday to the Identity Network -- but i could not find *when* his birthday actually takes place!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:16pm
ultradamno:

This is already too oblique for prosperity gospel people. What good is art that doesn't make a dollar and a cent?
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Folsom:

I think Micah needs donations for funding a new jet, he needs it to keep the show going.
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slugluv1313:

yes, i am finding this quite enjoyable -- quiet, meditative
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:18pm
tim from champaign (now washington):

Music that sounds like Coil doesn't actually inspire the money to roll right in.
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Handy Haversack:

Does this connect to the Christian Identity Movement? Those are scary people, seriously white supremacist with a violent streak and some real potential to act on it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:19pm
ultradamno:

They just play this for extreme "counseling" sessions, right?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:22pm
ultradamno:

@HH Prosperity gospel is pretty darn white (though not exclusively), but rests less on identity than the conviction that Jesus wants you to be wealthy and will reward you with riches if you're properly righteous and go for the green.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:22pm
ultradamno:

So more green pride than white
  6:23pm
queems:

oh hell yes
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mariano:

@Handy: I don't know - Christian Identity means basically Christian neo-Nazi. Is IN neo-Nazi? Doesn't seem to be that much info on them online other than from their own sources. Surprised there's no Wiki article on them.
Avatar 6:23pm
Carmichael:

Late to the dance ....
  6:23pm
ron-ji:

Now is the time on MMC when we dance.
  6:23pm
queems:

this is like a cotton eye joe remix
Avatar 6:24pm
Carmichael:

Is this the tall guy from Midnight Oil?
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slugluv1313:

@ ron-ji -- yes! :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:24pm
mariano:

From the IN website: "If you wish to bless Jeremy Lopez with $50.00 USD for his "50th" birthday by giving him a donation, just click below" Why is "50th" in scare quotes? If you're trying to lie about your age, you shouldn't point it out.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:24pm
ultradamno:

en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:25pm
Handy Haversack:

@ultra -- gotcha. It was the "identity" that spronged the Spidey sense.

@mariano -- right? Just lots of links I def. don't want to click on!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:25pm
ultradamno:

I was thinking Laibach
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:26pm
ultradamno:

This must inspire the most joyless dancing in history.
Avatar 6:27pm
bɿɒiniɒc:

Winter Laake looks like a bad Vegas magician who has a roofie he wants to give you f4.bcbits.com...
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slugluv1313:

@ mariano -- exactly! could not find his date of birth anywhere
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mariano:

WL's website plugs some books, one of them called "TREATISE DE MAGICA NOIR" - yeah, sure, why don't we take each word from a different language? Will come across as super-classy.
  6:28pm
Gnomon:

I did not realize it was possible for Satanic techno to be this bad. Someone got too high listening to Psychic TV.
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Handy Haversack:

Mirabili claro bien sure!
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slugluv1313:

@ mariano -- yeah way claaaassy hah!
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tim from champaign (now washington):

Now this is pretty great.
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mariano:

Reminds me of Anton LaVey's album where he plays organ and tries to sound scary when he sings.
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Carmichael:

Sounds more like Count Floyd.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:29pm
ultradamno:

This sounds like there's probably no speed to play it that would sound right.
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bɿɒiniɒc:

ONE roofie ha, ha... TWO roffies ha, ha
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mariano:

ROTFLMAO bɿɒiniɒc!!!
  6:31pm
Kat in Chicago in the app:

What an unholy mess
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:31pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Scraping Jesus off the Wheel
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slugluv1313:

sounds like the stuff played at a go-go bar in Queens (Astoria, i think?)
the "manager" was always looking kinda sweaty, swear he was doing meth in his office -- where he kept a baseball bat too
but i always had to wonder, HOW does he expect any of the dancers to dance to this stuff??? techno not exactly typical strip bar fare, hah!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:32pm
ultradamno:

So they have a radio show thedemoniacal.blogspot.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:32pm
mariano:

Go-go bar in Astoria - say what you will, it has a certain ring to it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:33pm
tim from champaign (now washington):

Now back to suckiness. I don't get why Satanists make such sucky music. I mean they've got Satan on their side.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:33pm
ultradamno:

The only way to dance to this is distractedly while meditating on the despair to come
Avatar 6:33pm
bɿɒiniɒc:

Flat Earth, hell yeah!
  6:34pm
queems:

that’s a question i was not expecting to have to contemplate in the 21st century
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slugluv1313:

unholy mess is right! NONE of this sounds enticing enough to convince anyone to give their lives/souls to SATAN buahahahahaha!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:35pm
common:

Audacious indeed
  6:36pm
queems:

THIS IS UPSETTING
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bɿɒiniɒc:

Paint It Black played on a kazoo
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:36pm
ultradamno:

I know they appropriated Pepe the frog and renamed him FEPE (and acronym for Flat Earth People Everywhere)
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mariano:

I think a lot of Flat Earthers are trolling, but who knows. @tim: technically isn't all music Satan's if every line of every song isn't about Jesus, sung by people who sound like they've had lobotomies?
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chris:

well this is bad enough to get death threats over
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slugluv1313:

OUCH!!!!
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Handy Haversack:

Bad Religion will have two minutes for a rebuttal.
Avatar 6:37pm
tak:

alright this is when i check out. it's been a fun 24 hours
  6:37pm
Kat in Chicago in the app:

Oh c’mon, really?
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chris:

although the artist name seems to indicate tongue in cheek, yes?
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mariano:

Has anything happened with the guy trying to raise a million to make a rocket so he can prove the world is flat?
Avatar 6:38pm
slugluv1313:

inDIEjestion! is that supposed to be . . . clever???
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bɿɒiniɒc:

So this is what it's like to be triggered
  6:38pm
ron-ji:

“Paint it flat! Paint it flat, you devils.”
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tim from champaign (now washington):

Royal Trux are Flatearthers?
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ultradamno:

I know they're dumb enough not to understand that just because the horizon from the perspective of a person on the globe appears flat doesn't mean they're actually on a flat surface, but there's no excuse for "Paint It Flat"
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chris:

balls of meth?
  6:39pm
Zephyr:

Wait. What did I miss? I was feeding my unicorn.
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Carmichael:

They're Flat Headers.
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Handy Haversack:

Balls of something, but I'm unclear how we get to "math."
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tim from champaign (now washington):

C'mon. This has to be a put on.
  6:40pm
The Butterman:

These flat earthers just make me mad. I can take all the religious sex cults and even understand them, but flat earthers? I think they’re just trying to be difficult.
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ultradamno:

How much of what he's mumbling are references to The Truman Show?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:41pm
Handy Haversack:

There's def. always a "I'm fifteen and just read Ayn Rand, do you even libertarian, bro?" to the Flat Earthers.
  6:41pm
ron-ji:

Paint It Flat Black would have been a much better title, but nobody ever asks me.
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Carmichael:

Jandek/Beach Boys.
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ultradamno:

I'm glad she took time out for this take while stuck in a well.
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slugluv1313:

"Flatter is Better -- Busty Girl Pajamas" etc.
www.cafepress.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:42pm
tim from champaign (now washington):

Ok, if Micah was ever behind the music stylings, I would guess it is this.
Avatar 6:43pm
bɿɒiniɒc:

Engineer: "I've maxed out the delay; can you try standing farther away from the mic? No, like, in the next room."
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ultradamno:

If you've got a lot of money to blow, you could buy a flat earth diorama/model flatearthmodels.com
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slugluv1313:

Jandek/Beach Boys AND Royal Trux!
ALL indulging in some mighty fine . . . substances
  6:44pm
Zephyr:

Warriors! Come out and playyyt!!!
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ultradamno:

OK, what's so special about the sky on Wednesday?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:46pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Groucho : ...how much if you don't play?
Chico : ...you couldn't afford it...
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mariano:

There's also some YouTube channels claiming that magicians like David Blaine, Dynamo, Penn and Teller, etc, are using actual demonic magic and not, you know, centuries-old magicians' techniques. Don't know if any of them have made any theme-specific music though.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:47pm
ultradamno:

Oh, is that her name? I thought they were going to say that's the day they change out the bulbs of the artificial sun or something.
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bɿɒiniɒc:

Station manager Micah has a nice ring to it
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Carmichael:

Ricky Jay is the devil?!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:49pm
mariano:

Hah! Ricky Jay could've probably fooled the devil.
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slugluv1313:

i remember Synanon!
may have even been ads for them on local NYC radio?? (were there NYC facilities/chapters?)
i hink there was a film, too! 1960s? or 70s?
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Handy Haversack:

Just started reading_How to Cheat at Everything: A Con Man Reveals the Secrets of the Esoteric Trade of Cheating, Scams, and Hustles_ ...

Ooooo, Synanon!
  6:50pm
queems:

:|
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slugluv1313:

PLEASE give this dude HEAVY DRUGS again!!!!
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mariano:

Wow, I really thought that drugs were where it's at, but now that I hear this music I see how wrong I was.
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Carmichael:

Synanon was big out here in Californ Eye Ay.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:52pm
Handy Haversack:

Yeah, Cali-based, but they went national, I think.
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Folsom:

Blues Brothers have nothing on this guy.
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Handy Haversack:

WHOA
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tim from champaign (now washington):

Was there a Synanon track on Micah's 2019 premium? The one that sounded like a really bad effort at Blood on the Tracks era Dylan?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:52pm
ultradamno:

I can't imagine he was very good at shoplifting from every shop in the neighborhood. He seems like the time to announce everything he was doing the whole time.
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chris:

there was a compound on the slopes of the Western Sierra's, East of Fresno, for a while
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slugluv1313:

oh BARF! "I'm working on her body night and day now I am beginning to respect her mind" yet STILL calls her *his* "little woman"
  6:53pm
Listener Robert:

Synanon had affiliates in New York at least.
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tim from champaign (now washington):

Wasn't Bruce Gilbert in Wire?
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common:

Creepy
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ultradamno:

@Tim Yep, David Scott "The Key"
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Handy Haversack:

Slugluv, that's the line that got me!
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Carmichael:

Your religion replaced your talent.
  6:54pm
Listener Robert:

Wire, the band? Or The Wire, the TV series?
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mariano:

@Handy: I love a good con-man book/movie/show, and R. Paul Wilson is one of the best. He also made a really good low-budget indie flick called Con Men. Somewhat cheap production values, but I've always liked it. Was on Prime, might still be: www.imdb.com...
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slugluv1313:

yes mariano if there were ANY enticements surely this is it!
no joke, this actually makes me WANT to get as f'd up, strung out, as possible
  6:54pm
queems:

thank you, i hate it
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ultradamno:

Can you get that surgically removed?
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bɿɒiniɒc:

Is he seeing Bette Davis in the mirror?
  6:55pm
east hollywood:

I highly recommend art peppers biography “straight life“. I’m not a huge art pepper fan, but it’s an amazing story. Including an extensive section covering his time at synanon. Honestly, if you start this book you will not be able to put it down
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:55pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Micah delivers the mind mess pizza with everything - week in week out.
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tim from champaign (now washington):

Thanks, Ultradamno.
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mariano:

Wow, you'd hardly guess from the music that the singer led "one of the "most dangerous and violent cults America had ever seen." [Wikipedia].
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:55pm
Handy Haversack:

@mariano, that show with Ribisi was pretty good, too.
  6:56pm
Kat in Chicago in the app:

Today is the first day of the rest of the week.
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Carmichael:

He is channeling Cat Stevens.
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slugluv1313:

@ east hollywood -- will definitely check that out -- thanks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:56pm
mariano:

Yeah, Sneaky Pete! Watched all of them. There's also Mamet's House of Games and Spanish Prisoner. Heist is pretty good too, goes a lot into the mechanics of planning an elaborate heist.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:57pm
ultradamno:

People really undervalue opioids.
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Marshall Stacks:

I just learned that there's a Synanon movie, starring Eartha Kitt and Chuck Connors. Music by Neil Hefti (Batman).
www.imdb.com...
  6:58pm
Listener Robert:

My friend Bob here, from experience, said that sort of thing was all various counselors, not only in Synanon, had for people with mental problems, addictions, dependencies of all sorts: humiliation, intimidation, brutalization.
  6:58pm
queems:

thanks micah i think
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Handy Haversack:

With you on the Mamet, yeah!

Thanks, Micah! Another doozy!
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mariano:

Thanks Micah, great gabbin' with everyone! Oh, no way, Marshall, that sounds awesome!
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Carmichael:

I saw the poster on Pinterest, Marshall.
  6:58pm
Kat in Chicago in the app:

Thanks for making my evening commute extra special tonight, Micah!
  6:58pm
Listener Robert:

They thought it worked.
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ultradamno:

And Stella Stevens!
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melinda:

This guy's got talent
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Carmichael:

I'm afraid to sing along.
  6:59pm
The Butterman:

Sweet Rebecca, sweet Melissa, sweet Caroline, sweet Jane. Anyone else?
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chris:

cheers, Micah!
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Carmichael:

Sweet Jesus ...
  6:59pm
Listener Robert:

Sweet Adeline?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:59pm
ultradamno:

Two nations struggled in her womb?
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bɿɒiniɒc:

Her hair was red, And he was hairy...?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:00pm
Handy Haversack:

Synanon was big business. Millions and millions passed through them. They were incentivized to break people down to recruit more.

And it rode the same wave as EST and even AA.
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slugluv1313:

@ Marshall -- YES! i thought i remembered a movie about Synanon!
omg -- Neil Hefti! also of "The Odd Couple" theme fame :)
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slugluv1313:

thanks again, Micah, for infiltrating our brains!
always flies by too quickly!
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