WFMU: Irwin Chusid: Playlists and Archives

Irwin Chusid: Playlists and Archives

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November 20, 2024: I shot a man in Reno because he said "anyhoo." | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
November 13, 2024: DISCLAIMER: WFMU is not the real world. | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
November 6, 2024: No, please, continue ... | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!

October 30, 2024: Our programming often draws on idiosyncratic manifestations of sudden-onset artistic derangement. | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
October 23, 2024: Ah! Civil discourse. Like the kind they had in the 1850s. People just agreeing to disagree. | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
October 16, 2024: Monica filled in. Listen here.
October 9, 2024: Maturity is knowing when to leave the party. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 2, 2024: "No one can really build a fence between past and present." - Henry Charlton Beck | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

September 25, 2024: God is in the gaps. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 18, 2024: "So walk on air against your better judgement." — Seamus Heaney | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 11, 2024: “Rehab is great. It’s lovely this time of year.” — Leah Knauer | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 4, 2024: "A man born to be hanged won't be drowned." — old New Jersey proverb | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 28, 2024: I am fearless and bold. And reckless. And also. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 21, 2024: Radio BLT filled in. Listen here.
August 14, 2024: "Physics is the law and everything else is a recommendation." — Elon | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 7, 2024: You have 30 seconds to impress me. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 31, 2024: Jack Mello filled in. Listen here.
July 24, 2024: Monica filled in. Listen here.
July 17, 2024: I'm figuratively dying. Literally. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 10, 2024: Not for Nothing | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 3, 2024: "Life is a longish doze, interrupted by fits and starts of bewildered semi-alertness." — Clifton Fadiman | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

June 26, 2024: "Every suicide cheats a doctor out of a job." — Gus Bodenheim | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 19, 2024: Terms and conditions apply. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 12, 2024: Pretentious? Moi? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 5, 2024: "Change is fine, but when we start changing the changed changes, those are signs on the road to Crazyville. And we’re flooring it." — Matt Taibbi | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

May 29, 2024: "You can add 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue to the pizza sauce to give it more tackiness." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 22, 2024: Our sympathies go out to the family of the helicopter. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 15, 2024: "When I have been totally misunderstood, the hurt I feel at being misunderstood drives me on to be worse understood." – John Cowper Powys | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 8, 2024: Mark Hurst is so suspicious of data-harvesting he doesn't even trust Memory Foam. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 1, 2024: Expiate your sins, peasants. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

April 24, 2024: Put it in a bin. Put the bin in another bin then send it back to the PR company without a stamp on it. That'll learn 'em. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 17, 2024: It's not a phone — it's my primary caregiver. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 10, 2024: Ad for Living Room LP Storage Rack: "Put Your Midlife Crisis On Display." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 3, 2024: "Snopes." lol. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

March 27, 2024: "Idleness is doing nothing with a great deal of skill." (Wm Cowper) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 20, 2024: I'm not the target demo for AI Freddie Mercury. I wasn't the target demo for OG Freddie Mercury. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 13, 2024: Summer of Seger Advocate Michele Co-Hosts with Irwin (Marathon week #2) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 6, 2024: Mark Hurst of Techtonic Co-Hosts with Irwin (Marathon week #1) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

February 28, 2024: Brian Carpenter of Ghost Train Orchestra Talks about Moondog | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 21, 2024: Frampton is Coming Aliver and Aliver! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 14, 2024: Monica filled in. Listen here.
February 7, 2024: Framptuary! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

January 31, 2024: Wish you were wonderful. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 24, 2024: "It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs. Carlyle marry one another, and so make two people miserable and not four." — Samuel Butler | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 22, 2024: Irwin guest hosted “It’s Complicated” You can hear it here. | See the playlist
January 17, 2024: My facts are hubristically infallible. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 10, 2024: "They flee from me that sometime did me seek." — Sir Thomas Wyatt | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 3, 2024: "Better to be the oldest guy in the weight room than the youngest guy in the nursing home." — Glenn Reynolds | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

December 27, 2023: Radio BLT filled in. Listen here.
December 20, 2023: Which is the sea and which is the shining sea? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 13, 2023: I’m collecting horcruxes. I’m collecting infinity stones. Gandalf’s voice is in my head all the time. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 6, 2023: "I hope 'nomance' doesn’t become a thing. I don’t even like how 'a thing' has become a thing." — Ted Balaker | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

November 29, 2023: "Stupid people can create problems, but it often takes brilliant people to create a real catastrophe." – Thomas Sowell | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 22, 2023: "Who, if anyone, or what, if anything, is in charge?" (John Carter) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 15, 2023: Hosting a show on WFMU is self-indulgence. Talking about your show is self-absorption. Writing about doing your show is narcissism. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 8, 2023: If anyone has any experience with anything or knows anything about something please let me know. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 1, 2023: "I never felt schadenfreude toward others; nothing less than the complete destruction of their lives would satisfy me." – Gus Bodenheim | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 25, 2023: Our programming is impervious to negative externalities. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 18, 2023: The outer space into which you dissolve does not taste of you at all. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 11, 2023: "the poor and innocent victims of jazz" — Baltimore Sun, 1923 | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 4, 2023: "Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master." — Sallust | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

September 27, 2023: Still beta-testing with weak players. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 20, 2023: Please select all squares with quadrupedal marsupials. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 13, 2023: Experts say studies have shown that researchers believe there is an emerging consensus. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 11, 2023: Irwin guest hosted “It’s Complicated” You can hear it here.
September 6, 2023: "We live in a rule-bound era of high vigilance. … Fun, with its little anarchies, is suspect." — Walter Kirn | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 30, 2023: Let pain be your guide. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 23, 2023: We know how to do more of the same. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 16, 2023: Matt Fiveash filled in. Listen here.
August 9, 2023: You’re only young once, but you can be immature until the day you die. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 2, 2023: Don’t let that crybaby in here again. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 26, 2023: "It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." — Chesterton | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 19, 2023: Matt Fiveash filled in. Find the show here.
July 12, 2023: To cure that cough, put mustard in your socks. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 5, 2023: Hello, Dr. Chusid's office. How may we serve you? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

June 28, 2023: I was shipped FedEx, but I identify as mail. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 21, 2023: "I've done the math, and I'm pretty sure we'll be the last generation to die." — Mark Hopkins | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 14, 2023: What's new, Normal? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 7, 2023: I don't have to consult a committee to make decisions. I'm not the department head. I'm THE DEPARTMENT. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

May 31, 2023: Death is just a coding error. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 24, 2023: It's a smart phone, but it's very neurotic. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 17, 2023: Smells like jazz in here. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 10, 2023: "I will not prostitute myself unless I want to play and the people involved are groovy." — Sonny Rollins | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 3, 2023: Our understanding has evolved. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

April 26, 2023: WFMU is an Authorized Mudhorn Describer Capabilities Service Provider. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 19, 2023: It is what it is, is what it is. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 12, 2023: Age is just a number. Take one and get in line. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 5, 2023: Unity will divide us. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

March 29, 2023: Don't. Just don't. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 22, 2023: Always think outside the box. That way you never have to wonder how you got in the box, or how to get out. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 15, 2023: Stay in your bubble. (Marathon Week 2 with co-host Mark Hurst) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 8, 2023: It's Us vs. Them. There are a lot of Us. (Marathon Week 1 with co-host Scott Williams) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 1, 2023: "A neurotic is a person who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Anon.) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

February 22, 2023: "The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in, and ready at any instant to fall." – A.E. Housman | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 15, 2023: All we ask is that you accept our cookies. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 8, 2023: Our programming protocols are inexplicable insofar as they are obfuscated and gatekept from coherent scrutiny by hyper-motivated adherents. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 1, 2023: Stop at top flop bop. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

January 25, 2023: The World Premiere of Van Morrison's Astral Weeks | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 18, 2023: You know who else liked gas ovens? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 11, 2023: Fashion: A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey. (Bierce) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 4, 2023: Speaking for the breath of life let the full space be for you full of unique and sentiment. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

December 28, 2022: Just because we’re not looking for them doesn’t mean they’ve gone away. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 21, 2022: Advertisements inserted here at the ordinary rates. Lies, double the price of truth. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 14, 2022: Raise your hand if you've read our terms of service. Raise your hand if you've ever read any terms of service. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 7, 2022: Lately I'm being targeted with online ads aimed at women with large breasts. At least there's one thing Instagram doesn't know about me. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

November 30, 2022: Jimmy crack corn — and you will be MADE to care. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 23, 2022: "I’m nothing but a random atom inside a supercollider known as the universe." (TW) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 16, 2022: Never knowingly understood. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 9, 2022: Be the chump change you wish to see in the world. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 2, 2022: Recalling edifying encounters with How and Why, refuting the banalities of causality often attributed to Who, What and Where. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 26, 2022: Sometimes you have to break an omelet to make eggs. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 19, 2022: Radio BLT filled in. Find the show here.
October 12, 2022: Always carry a fork. You never know when you might meet some food. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 5, 2022: "In every clearing a tavern arose almost as soon as the first three houses were finished. Such a life spelled opportunity for Stevens." – Archibald Turnbull | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

September 28, 2022: "It is by sober common sense and close application to business that the affairs of this world are to be managed; genius has too fine an edge for common use." – Col. John Stevens III | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 21, 2022: Live every day like it's your last — run up massive credit card debt and eat tons of junk food. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 14, 2022: Brother Cleve, R.I.P. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 9, 2022: Anything of any importance at all had its beginnings somewhere near here. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 2, 2022: Quod erat demonstrandum, punks. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 26, 2022: "There is a reason they call it 'the web'; a reason they call it 'the net.' It is a trap." — Paul Kingsnorth | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 19, 2022: e^(a+bi) = (e^a)*cos(b) + i*(e^a)*sin(b) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 12, 2022: Monica filled in. Find the show here.
August 5, 2022: "There are always many, the true Victorias, ready to be Not Amused." — Christopher Morley | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 29, 2022: You don’t know your bread roll until you’ve smoked like a baby. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 22, 2022: This is a "show." The lack of specificity about the temporal cadence implied by the word "program" triggered a degree of ambiguity that didn't serve the public understanding. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 15, 2022: The slamming of a screen door is a summer sound. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 8, 2022: I fish on my side. You fish on your side. And no one fishes in the middle. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 1, 2022: I can turn a segue faster than anyone who can do it better, and better than anyone who can do it faster. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

June 24, 2022: When you have nothing to say, say you have something. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 17, 2022: If by chance Godot shows up, he owes me money. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 10, 2022: WFMU is an evolutionary dead end. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

April 12, 2022: There's a genre of songs I call "Uber music," which I've come to realize the rest of the world calls "music." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

February 22, 2022: "A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin." – Mencken | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

May 30, 2021: Asinine sentence fragments. Because not grammar. (Fill-in for Gaylord Fields) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

June 3, 2020: The Wuhan Lab of Bad Radio | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

May 27, 2020: “Years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery. Today she would rate no better than a C-plus.” — Peter DeVries | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 20, 2020: One of the first casualties of insobriety is spelling. It's BULLEIT, you teetering souse. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 13, 2020: People need to stay indoors until we find a cure for death. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 6, 2020: I was so looking forward to the New Normal, but it appears that much of the Old Normal remains operative. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

April 29, 2020: In these platitudinous times ... | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 22, 2020: Do not sit there and lick your chops at me. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 15, 2020: You can go back to work now. I SAID ... | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 8, 2020: There is a future. I have seen it! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 1, 2020: Before this mess I'd never heard of a pangolin. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

March 25, 2020: AVOID THE BAT SOUP! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 18, 2020: I don't fear the virus. I fear the mob. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 11, 2020: Marathon Week #2 with co-host Bethany | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 4, 2020: Marathon Week #1 with co-host Mark Hurst | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

February 26, 2020: Guest: Kevin Calabro of Royal Potato Family Records | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 19, 2020: Offering delectable fruit, varmint goblins, elfin maidens, quaint farmhouse tasks, the lovely countryside, dragging erotic sickness, and bitter moral medicine. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 12, 2020: WFMU DJs do nothing in particular, and do it very well. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 5, 2020: "If I stop eating sugar and white flour, will I ever be able to stop talking about it?" — Maria Bamford | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

January 29, 2020: Featuring a Diverse Variety of Different Variations! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 22, 2020: "WFMU is programmed by clowns, who are supervised by monkeys." — irate listener | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 15, 2020: It takes a lot of work to dig a deeper hole. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 8, 2020: "Under the original A440 Accords, WFMU fails at every level. An argument can be made that the Cage Doctrine leaves wide latitude for redefinition of audio artifacts as small-m 'music,' given strict codaesthetic preconditions." – Sport Murphy | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 1, 2020: An Attentively Curated Approach to Holistic Musical Wellness. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

December 25, 2019: He spits in the sky / It falls in his eye / And then he gets to sitting / Talking to his kitten / Talking about Frankie Lymon. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 18, 2019: Then there was the guy who threatened to take hostages if we didn't play his request. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 11, 2019: I’ve got no pony in this show. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 4, 2019: Change, difference, growth, departure, demise. It's like that Joni Mitchell song, without the parking lot. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

November 27, 2019: WFMU is more listenable than you might imagine. Well, not you, but THEM. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 20, 2019: “Hey—while we’ve got you here exporting these consumer electronics, do you have a minute to talk about habeas corpus?” | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 13, 2019: Always follow the crowd. Why fear an angry mob when you can be in it? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 6, 2019: Saving the nation with selfies, memes, and 38-tweet Powerpoint presentations. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 30, 2019: There is an old Indian proverb. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 23, 2019: "Don't read the comments, ever." – Pierre Delecto | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 16, 2019: Plan 45 from Outré Space (2019 edition) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 9, 2019: "People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything." (Thomas Sowell) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 2, 2019: In a Brooklyn cafe, baristas talking about iProducts: "Yeah, I was a little too young for iPods." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

September 25, 2019: Those ambivalent people—I don't know how I feel about them. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 18, 2019: Heard on a college station: "What've we got cued up next? Um .... it's Yo La Tengo." [pause] "No, it's Toro y Moi. I always get them mixed up." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 11, 2019: It's tough to sleep with a badger in your colon. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 4, 2019: It's difficult to tell where our earnestness ends and our fanaticism begins. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 28, 2019: "A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." (Mencken) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 21, 2019: "Have a nice day!" "Thanks, but I have other plans." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 14, 2019: More jazz harp, less Jandek. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 7, 2019: Broadcasting in the public disinterest. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 31, 2019: What doesn't kill me makes me stranger. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 24, 2019: Welcome to Expert Town. Population ME! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 17, 2019: Art Tatum minus Oscar Peterson = Ran Blake. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 10, 2019: Heard on Myrtle, Brooklyn: "She always talkin' outta both sides'a her ass." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 3, 2019: John Monroe filled in.

June 26, 2019: Due to licensing issues in your country, it is not possible to listen backwards. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 19, 2019: I just kicked over a scooter that was blocking the sidewalk. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 12, 2019: "Whether poetry is unreal is best tested by using it to settle a hotel bill." — Geoffrey Hill | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 5, 2019: There are no nistakes. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

May 29, 2019: We will never sell out. But we will pander. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 22, 2019: We offer you a path to salvation. The other path leads to a bottomless bucket of cookie dough ice cream. Choose wisely. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 15, 2019: MOONDOG Birthday Celebration with biographer Robert Scotto | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 8, 2019: Thank for you email. Our plant closed for Tomb-Sweeping Day, re-opened next week. For any urgent thing, please contact Eliane or Meghan. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 1, 2019: Caution: Asymmetry ahead. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

April 24, 2019: I'm against abolishing the Electoral College but tuition should be free. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 17, 2019: Coming soon to AMC: Saul: The Cinnabon Years | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 10, 2019: I self-identify as a 6' 8" first-round NBA draft pick. If you don't respect my truth, you're a bigot. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 3, 2019: Our programming in a word? Bipolar. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

March 27, 2019: "All I care about is my hair and fingernails. Everything else is just affectation." — Penn Jillette | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 20, 2019: It's not like I have to go around for a week wearing a cap that says I LOVE DICK. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 13, 2019: Marathon Week #2 with co-host Monica | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 6, 2019: Marathon Week #1 with co-host George | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

February 27, 2019: Please don't valorize the DJ. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 20, 2019: Joe Frank: Somewhere Out There (special guest: film director D.P. Carlson) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 13, 2019: I'm all about perfection, but I'm not a perfectionist about my perfectionism. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 6, 2019: Most confusion. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

January 30, 2019: We're specific in our ambiguities. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 23, 2019: “The man, as men will, went in.” (Belloc, as lampooned by Beerbohm) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 16, 2019: I'm armed to the gills with mixed metaphors! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 9, 2019: IT’S NOT MY FAULT—IT’S NEUROBIOLOGICAL! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 2, 2019: "Men are the only animals who devote themselves to assiduously making one another unhappy. It is, I suppose, one of their godlike qualities." (Mencken) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

December 26, 2018: In 2019 I resolve to spend more time on social media arguing about politics. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 19, 2018: Wake me when we reach peak Google. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 12, 2018: Inventing technology that’s never even been invented yet! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 5, 2018: Tom Petty was Gummo Wilbury. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

November 28, 2018: No cheap cynicism here. Premium grade. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 21, 2018: "As embarrassing as the humorous recitation at a church social." – Orwell | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 14, 2018: I'm old enough to remember when we used to call body wash "soap." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 7, 2018: Noel Coward attends ghastly children's recital. Mother points proudly to her performing daughter and asks, "Do you like music?" Coward: "No, but I like this." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 31, 2018: I'm always willing to give people a chance to prove they're not worth my time. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 24, 2018: I dreamt I was chosen to help on the International Space Station and my one concern was whether or not they would have cereal. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 17, 2018: Plan 45 from Outré Space (2018 edition) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 10, 2018: The Return of AMANDA! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 3, 2018: All program content is algorithmically selected. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

September 26, 2018: The sound of cognitive dissonance buzzing around an empty space. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 19, 2018: "A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities." – Melville | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 12, 2018: Cremate me and consume my ashes in pancake batter. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 5, 2018: Para español, oprima dos. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 29, 2018: Privilege checked, and RE-checked. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 22, 2018: The dog ate my truth. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 15, 2018: The advance of humanity from barbarism to civilization is not irreversible. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 8, 2018: Arrive with an emotional void, leave with blankets of ephemeral gratification. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 1, 2018: "My uncle owns a horse." "Yeah? Let me tell you about MY uncle's horse." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 25, 2018: MOONDOG, with guests Robert Scotto and Brian Carpenter | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 18, 2018: Monica filled in.
July 11, 2018: Too much intersectionality. My head hurts. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 4, 2018: PGB filled in.

June 27, 2018: Awesome Time with Michele filled in.
June 20, 2018: Featuring bands that don't stick around long enough to make t-shirts. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 13, 2018: Miss America without swimsuits is sort of like The New Yorker without cartoons. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 6, 2018: Need anything crushed? I'm in that kind of mood. No appointment necessary. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

May 30, 2018: "It was a great party, until someone found the hammer." – Vivian Stanshall | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 23, 2018: Celebrating Thelonious Monk's centennial with Peter Keepnews | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 16, 2018: Stephin Merritt: The Magnetic Fields 50 Song Memoir | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 9, 2018: This program may be monitored or recorded for quality assurance. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 2, 2018: We are nothing more than the sum total of our digital activity. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

April 25, 2018: Celebrating 50 years of underserving the Lutheran market. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 18, 2018: The children are our future. Time to map an escape plan. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 11, 2018: Jack Mello filled in.
April 4, 2018: Your brain is broken. I'm handing you a bandage. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

March 28, 2018: Regardless of whether you turn on the radio, or turn the radio on, or are turned on by the radio, or the radio turns you on, or gets you off, or you need to turn it off because of what's on … | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 21, 2018: 75% of people don't want to hear about your problems. The other 25% are glad it's you. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 14, 2018: 2018 Marathon Week #2 with Michele (of Shut Up, Weirdo) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 7, 2018: 2018 Marathon Week #1 with Joel St. Germain | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

February 28, 2018: The War on Adverbs — Week 2 | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 21, 2018: A dominant paradigm of infinite regression. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 14, 2018: Valentine's Day with Otis Fodder (The Bran Flakes and The 365 Days Project) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 7, 2018: Marlon's here. Hide the mailboxes! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

January 31, 2018: The station that triggers chronic Shazam Fail. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 24, 2018: JOE FRANK MEMORIAL BROADCAST (audio removed at the direction of the rightsholder) | See the playlist
January 17, 2018: Fast forward and other functionality may not be available during this program. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 10, 2018: Sprechen sie glockenspiel? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 3, 2018: Billy Joel never had a lick of sense. Pass the biscuits, please. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

December 27, 2017: We used to be cutting edge. Now we have to force-quit several times a day. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 20, 2017: Just between us, what with the lizard people and the alpha dragon, sometimes meth is all I have to get by. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 13, 2017: Son: "Hey Dad, can I borrow $10 from your Bitcoin account?" Dad: "$9.67? What do you need $10.32 for?" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 6, 2017: At 6pm Eastern, this that will be then. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

November 29, 2017: I'm sorry if you were offended by what you think I did. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 22, 2017: If memory serves. If. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 15, 2017: Someday on my deathbed, spirit ebbing, I'll look back and lament: "If only I'd spent more of my life on Twitter." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 8, 2017: Jenny O. performs songs from Peace and Information | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 1, 2017: Preparing sanctified voices for the radio priesthood since 1958. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 25, 2017: To succeed in radio, avoid our example. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 18, 2017: Plan 45 from Outré Space (2017 edition) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 11, 2017: Proverb: If the wolf be at the door, open it and eat him. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 4, 2017: An algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed for 1,536 Spotify classifications. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

September 27, 2017: Teaching cats to bark since 1958. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 20, 2017: Please re-rack your weights! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 13, 2017: I'd stop mansplaining if women weren't so goddamn stupid. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 6, 2017: The '60s: album covers where one member of the band is surreptitiously extending his middle finger. THAT was revolution. THAT was sticking it to the man. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 30, 2017: WFMU: A collection of unstable molecules. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 23, 2017: Statues should be outlawed. We need a statute against statues. All statues should have an expiration date of NOW. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 16, 2017: The history of downloading data goes back to the Ten Commandments. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 9, 2017: "At the table, I sometimes discourse on the cynicism of the blintz, or the bottled anger and rapelike aggressiveness of Coca-Cola." — Oscar Levant | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 2, 2017: Sometimes I feel like I don't use enough apps. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 26, 2017: I would so love to go to the events like it would probably be a dream to go but I have school that I can not miss in order for me to even have a chance in the radio field in the future. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 19, 2017: Carpe the diem, baby! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 12, 2017: Where Hate Always Has a Home | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 5, 2017: Overheard in Brooklyn bodega, lunch hour: customer points to steam tray buffet, tells friend, "They got Spanish food here." Dominican woman who preps food: "It's not Spanish! We are Latino. Spanish is from Spain. Latino is from the Bronx." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

June 28, 2017: "Nothing goes without saying these days; it must be said, so someone can take offense." — James Lileks | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 21, 2017: The Spice Green Robinsons will be opening for Rhoudemsquat at Monty Hall! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 14, 2017: You had me at "Fwd:" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 7, 2017: Beware: toxic levels of nerdtosterone. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

May 31, 2017: Our margin of error has a margin of error. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 24, 2017: ... and here we go again, again. And again. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 17, 2017: Read the lines. Ignore what you think is between them. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 10, 2017: Better than some, worse than others. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 3, 2017: "Bagels can be an enormous power for good or for evil. It is up to us to decide how we will use them." — Daniel Pinkwater | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

April 26, 2017: Experts Miserable Because Non-Experts Don't Heed Their Expertise, Experts Say | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 19, 2017: Offering gratuitous theories without assigning them statistical probability. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 12, 2017: This chart proves you're my first cousin once removed's husband's first cousin twice removed's husband's first cousin's wife's second cousin once removed's husband's aunt's husband's second cousin. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 5, 2017: I strive for quotability. You can quote me on that. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

March 29, 2017: John Allen filled in.
March 22, 2017: Halfway thru the Holland Tunnel, a large drop splashes on my windshield. Uh-oh ... | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 15, 2017: Marathon 2017 Week 2 with co-hostess Bronwyn Bishop. Between us we have over 42 years of experience on WFMU! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 8, 2017: Marathon 2017 Week 1 with co-hostess Bethany | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 1, 2017: They say memory is the second thing to go. I forget what's first. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

February 22, 2017: People like me are putting people like you out of business. Fortunately for people like you, there are few people like me. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 15, 2017: I'm old enough to remember when Romney was Hitler. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 8, 2017: I don't think for myself. I just parrot talking points. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 1, 2017: Multiple models of masculinities suggest that marital meat consumption does not necessarily follow formulaic, hegemonic gender patterns. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

January 25, 2017: The Music Factory #10: Tom Wilson interviews Teddy Reig | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 18, 2017: Strč prst skrz krk. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 11, 2017: Mighty Sparrow will NOT visit the studio today as hoped. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 4, 2017: I love jazz and love brunch, but one thing up with which I will not put is Jazz Brunch. I don't like jazz with good manners. I prefer jazz that takes its shoes off and puts its feet on the coffee table. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

December 28, 2016: 2016 wasn't all bad—the world is finally rid of Fidel Castro, and we elected Hillary Clinton President of California! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 21, 2016: Hum. Bahbug! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 14, 2016: Can't wait for horrible 2016 to end? 2017's gonna be so AWESOME! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 7, 2016: The funny thing about ADD is that sometimes you | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

November 30, 2016: WFMU proposes an ontology of gender as a creative and productive form of desire, realized as proliferation in Deleuze & Guattari’s model of the rhizome. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 23, 2016: Bosco sends a message: "iqw4o89om !!lo -0128iklvdfkl" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 16, 2016: Wally De Backer returns for a tribute to the late Jean-Jacques Perrey | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 9, 2016: John Strausbaugh, Author of City of Sedition: New York City During the Civil War | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 8, 2016: A440 (fill-in for Bethany) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 2, 2016: Wally De Backer Explains the Ondioline and Spins Jean-Jacques Perrey | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 26, 2016: Plan 45 from Outré Space | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 19, 2016: Prophesy is a difficult racket. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 12, 2016: What if we try four years WITHOUT a president? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 5, 2016: "Harmonic interest is greater, and there is less reliance on the previously abused device of cacophony." – Robert Badgett Morgan | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

September 28, 2016: A bunch of songs sung by Trish Keenan because today would have been her birthday. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 21, 2016: "When I was younger, I had some friends who told me they were necrophiliacs, but I didn't know what that meant. Once I found out, they were fucking dead to me." – Tony DeCosa | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 14, 2016: The Future is a sense that there's time to clean up the mess you made. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 7, 2016: LH: "Do you know the difference between foxes and coyotes?" IC: "Yes. Foxes have long eyelashes and are flirtatious. Coyotes have stockpiles of Acme explosives." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 5, 2016: Tom Wilson's Music Factory ep. 2: Odetta | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 31, 2016: Monica filled in.
August 24, 2016: TOM WILSON's Music Factory, ep. 1 | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 17, 2016: Artists can have a tremendous impact on society. Hitler was a painter. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 10, 2016: “I’ve been in this business for over a week, and I swear—I’ve never heard anything like it!" – Moe Barnum | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 3, 2016: We are prepared to use adverbs, if necessary. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 27, 2016: Our listeners are like lab rats whose brains are wired with electrodes which constantly stimulate the pleasure centers. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 20, 2016: “I often feel a discomfort, a kind of embarrassment, when I explain elementary particle physics to laypeople. It all seems so arbitrary—the ridiculous collection of fundamental particles, the lack of pattern to their masses.” – Leonard Susskind | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 13, 2016: The musical equivalent of the breakfast buffet at an off-ramp hotel — not overly appealing, but there’s bacon in there somewhere. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 6, 2016: A pseudo-aggressive covering cloak for deep masochistic elaboration of a pre-oedipal conflict. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

June 29, 2016: I always know I can count on you when you damn well feel like it. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 22, 2016: Sylvie Simmons sings and strums. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 15, 2016: A paradigm of essences towards which the phenomenology of the world is in continuing approximation. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 8, 2016: Welcome to WTF! Wednesday, brought to you by Distraction.gov! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 1, 2016: MOONDOG Centennial Celebration! Guest: Robert Scotto, author of The Viking of Sixth Avenue | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

May 25, 2016: Can a task be Herculean and Sisyphean at the same time? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 18, 2016: Ira K filled in.
May 11, 2016: I am great because I did something really great today. It was great. Not that I want to brag about my greatness. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 4, 2016: We are upgrading you to a new dimension! Your current coordinates are unadequate. We can rectiffy your cosmic confinement. Go not to anywhere else, coming forth details. We still twink with transport mechanism. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

April 27, 2016: I’ll send you a note Sunday to remind you to send me a note on Monday to remind me to remind you on Tuesday to pay me on Wednesday. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 20, 2016: Brown butcher paper tops tables and lettuces grow along a wooden wall. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 13, 2016: First I'll tell you that I'm gonna tell you what I think, then I'll tell you what I think, then I'll tell you what I just told you. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 6, 2016: ... and a half. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

March 30, 2016: Exalting aggressive action, a feverish insomnia, the racer's stride, the mortal leap, the punch and the slap. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 23, 2016: Three hours of musical virtue signaling. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 16, 2016: Moneymaking mishegas with Irwin & co-host Clay Pigeon | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 9, 2016: Fundraising Frolics with Irwin & co-host Monica | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 2, 2016: Inevitability isn’t what it used to be, which was bound to happen. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

February 24, 2016: Providing the spiritual foundation that best fortifies your intractable prejudices, base desires, and primal instincts. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 17, 2016: It can't be my fault. That's unpossible! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 10, 2016: Breaking the simplistic chains between language and meaning. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 3, 2016: Bordriesling: One was too sweet, the other too dry. Mixed together, just right. When you don't like wine, anything is permissible.

January 27, 2016: Eddi Front performs live (@ 3pm) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 20, 2016: Sorry, false alarm. Keep doing what you were doing. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 13, 2016: Happy slogging! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 6, 2016: We don't kick cans down the road. We kick them uphill and watch them roll back down again. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

December 30, 2015: Sorry, I have Attention Defici | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 23, 2015: Sprechen Sie Poppycock? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 16, 2015: That reminds me of a funny story about Yoko. Never mind. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 9, 2015: Good band, but they're no Ogre You Asshole. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 2, 2015: Make the planet safe from jihadists, then I'll worry about carbon emissions. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

November 25, 2015: Which of the Three Tenors was John Cage? Was he in the Beatles? Stones? John Cage is dead to me. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 18, 2015: Special Guest: David Garland | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 11, 2015: We apologize for any outrageously outrageous outrage this program may trigger in you. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 4, 2015: With WFMU's openness to reinterpretation and reinvention, nonmimetic representation promises to promote not an escape from reality, but, rather, a means of promoting and, indeed, ensuring flexibility in its application to each listener's human life. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 28, 2015: Spoiler alert: Godot DOES NOT ARRIVE. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 21, 2015: Plan 45 from Outré Space (Singles Going Steady Week) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 14, 2015: Formula 50 is why I get out of bed every day. I regularly take baths in it and when it's not within arm's length I have panic attacks. Thank God and Baby Jesus it's available on Amazon. Now I can get my life back on track. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 7, 2015: Arwen Lewis Performs the Works of Moby Grape | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

September 30, 2015: Oh, to be three hours younger. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 23, 2015: It is Welcome to Irwin, Everybody Favorite's Person! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 16, 2015: The good thing about Facebook memes you don't like is that they'll only be around as long as the internet. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 9, 2015: Barrence Whitfield & the Savages (live) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 2, 2015: The papercuts of microaggression: so small, yet slice so deep. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 26, 2015: NYT Correction (8/24/15): "An earlier version of this post misidentified the former frontman of the band R.E.M. The frontman was Michael Stipe, not Carrie Brownstein." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 19, 2015: I don't care about the planet. I care about the furniture. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 12, 2015: Tune in for chirpy talk! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 5, 2015: Nothing is what it used to be. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 29, 2015: You and your damned empathy! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 22, 2015: So contrarian I get miserable during Happy Hour. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 15, 2015: Well, if you want my opinion (and who doesn't?) … | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 8, 2015: "My whole body is a flotation device!" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 1, 2015: Not all slopes are slippery. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

June 24, 2015: What is it with health care facilities and fax machines? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 17, 2015: Brian Science! (with guest co-host Dennis Diken) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 10, 2015: A Jacobean Dramatization of a Medieval English Tale Based on an Italian Romance Version of a Latin Epic about One of the Oldest and Most Tragic Greek Legends. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 3, 2015: Bringing Together Detached Millennials, Aging X-ers, and Sundowning Boomers. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

May 27, 2015: We celebrate Moondog's 99th with his biographer Robert Scotto | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 20, 2015: Live set by Teens Rest at the Center of the Nebula | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 13, 2015: A vast behavioral experiment being conducted by Overlords, too complex for simple tool-using monkey brains to perceive, let alone comprehend. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 6, 2015: Beauty Start From Here. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

April 29, 2015: An hour of miscellany (and two hours of Ellington, born today 1899) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 22, 2015: Special Guest: Musician and Artist Jon Langford | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 15, 2015: This Is Who We Are. This Is What We Do. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 8, 2015: I Went to a Spa for My Uterus and This is My Story. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 1, 2015: Found-on-the-web quote of the Day: "I'm in a book about Burning Man!" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

March 25, 2015: Good luck building frameworks in your head. It's a gift! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 18, 2015: Marathon Week 2 with co-hostess Bethany | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 11, 2015: Marathon Week 1 with co-hostess Monica Lynch | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 4, 2015: Define "thing": "Smoked Whale Testicle-Flavored Beer Is Now a Thing in Iceland" (headline, New York Post, Jan. 13) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

February 25, 2015: I don't know whether or not he loves America, but I do know he throws like a girl. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 18, 2015: "Reality is anything you can bump into." (Bertrand Russell) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 11, 2015: I'll post a great program zinger here if I don't get distrac | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 4, 2015: Legendary, Classic, Historic, Genius, None of the Above. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

January 28, 2015: Three hours of subtle but undeniable microaggressions. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 21, 2015: "This clash of time cymbals produced a percussion of coincidence that has made a blooming bromide of the wormy chestnut that fact is stranger than fiction." (Henry Kane) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 14, 2015: Nothing motivates like schadenfreude! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 7, 2015: A self-contained and angstrom-deep form of communication aimed at the Paleomammalian brain rather than the neocortex. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

December 31, 2014: "They tried to get me to hate white people, but someone would always come along and spoil it." – Thelonious Monk | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 24, 2014: Curve inversion will likely come more quickly than consensus assessment. Bail at 4:30. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 17, 2014: Gave two bucks to the Salvation Army bell ringer outside A&P. Wouldn't give me a receipt. What a scam. Gettin' me a Santa suit, a bucket on a tripod, and a school bell. Want a piece of that action. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 10, 2014: Never a dull moment around here, except for all the dull moments. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 3, 2014: Pie beats reggae every time. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

November 26, 2014: Tomorrow’s Conventional Wisdom, Today! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 19, 2014: We didn't recognize the Passcode you entered. Maybe it was a typo or the formatting was off? Please enter it again. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 12, 2014: God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the firepower to blow out the brains of those who fuck with me. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 5, 2014: Currently trending in Celebrities | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 29, 2014: "Jazz should never be free. It should be kept under lock and key. It should never even be eligible for parole." – Mo | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 22, 2014: Singles Going Unsteadily | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 15, 2014: Is isitdownrightnow down right now? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 8, 2014: October is National 'National Awareness Month' Awareness Month. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 1, 2014: John Strausbaugh, author of The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

September 24, 2014: A one-man Party of NO. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 17, 2014: Slimy: Not OK to eat. Not Slimy: OK to eat. Sorta Slimy: See Slimy. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 10, 2014: Monica filled in.
September 3, 2014: Marco Benevento live | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 27, 2014: Article of faith: Any old LP released on a major label that sold less than 1,000 copies has received heavy airplay on WFMU. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 20, 2014: THE WORLD'S GONNA END AND WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!! But not necessarily in that order. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 13, 2014: Give a man a gun and a barrel of fish, and he'll shoot some and splash water all over the place. But teach a man marksmanship, angling, and cooperage and he'll be overqualified for the US postal service. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 6, 2014: Three Hours of Questionable Aesthetics and Moral Ambiguity | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 30, 2014: Mert & Bert's Dirt Works | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 23, 2014: The Clientele - live performance | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 16, 2014: A firm believer in peace as a last resort. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 9, 2014: Brian Beattie and Valerie Fowler present Ivy and the Wicker Suitcase | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 2, 2014: The mysterious eruptions of an indifferent universe | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

June 25, 2014: Lotto Smoke Magazine | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 18, 2014: Courtney Barnett and the Courtney Barnetts (live set) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 11, 2014: Let's evolve together! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 4, 2014: Caution: Snark Ahead. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

May 28, 2014: Holly Elson discusses her upcoming documentary about Moondog, The Viking of 6th Avenue | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 21, 2014: "Researcher: Technology Not to Blame for Teen Woes" — headline, Associated Press, May 7 | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 14, 2014: I hate people who say they hate people who say they don't have a TV. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 7, 2014: I don't recycle. I donate to landfills. Twain said, "Buy land. They're not making it anymore." I am. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

April 30, 2014: To improve reception, creep into the crosswalk. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 23, 2014: Irwin has an opinion on that. Thanks for asking! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 16, 2014: No matter what your friends say, to us you're perfect. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 9, 2014: 16 Amazing Reasons Why People Click on Links Previewing an Arbitrary Number of Amazing Things! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 2, 2014: Applying yesterday's standards to tomorrow's music today! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

March 26, 2014: Farewell to the Harry Partch collection? Charles Corey discusses the fate of Partch's unique musical instruments. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 19, 2014: The Clientele and Amor de Dias drop in to chat and spin. (NOTE: Due to flight delay from U.K., band had to cancel) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 12, 2014: Elysian Fields live at 3:15 | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 5, 2014: Marathon week 2: co-host Clay Pigeon Redux | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

February 26, 2014: Marathon Week 1: co-host Clay Pigeon | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 19, 2014: It is not necessarily a bad thing; it is a different thing. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 12, 2014: Let's forget the empty salutations and jump right to the looming discomfort. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 5, 2014: Forgotify with Call Letters | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

January 29, 2014: Life was so much simpler when there were only three Stooges. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 22, 2014: You know me — Mr. Kind, Mr. Sensitive, Mr. Sarcastic, Mr. Apologetic. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 15, 2014: Just say nix to Google. Seriously, you don't need to know that. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 8, 2014: Recycle harder. I'm not doing my share. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 1, 2014: Thanks for give me a permission. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

December 25, 2013: Santa snuffed. Fully cleaned and boned, ground/spiced into sausage this merry morning. Bon apetit! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player! | Pop-up player!
December 18, 2013: For Xmas I'm buying you a moral compass. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 11, 2013: Chicago: The Yolk in America's Eggbasket. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 4, 2013: Internet needs words. Write to internet. If internet not writes back, not worry. Internet think about you. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

November 27, 2013: Don't mind the noise. I'm just breaking things. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 20, 2013: Everything's Coming Up Profits: Sport Murphy, Steve Young, and Laura Lindgren discuss the Golden Age of Industrial Musicals | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 13, 2013: Radio is so easy a man could do it. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 6, 2013: Jack Mello filled in.

October 30, 2013: Priyanka Chopra is so gorgeous she could be a newscaster. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 23, 2013: Slouching toward obsolescence | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 16, 2013: Nature—what a raw deal! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 9, 2013: Like a heathen religion, WFMU is all fired up with tom-toms, hot jive and ritualistic orgies of erotic dancing, weed-smoking and mass mania, set to an African jungle background. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 2, 2013: The Good Doctor filled in.

September 25, 2013: Don't say you weren't warned. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 18, 2013: A sly handle on finesse. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 11, 2013: Twelve years ago. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 4, 2013: Don't quit now. OK, now. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 28, 2013: Next you'll be telling me | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 21, 2013: Toxic and Proud | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 14, 2013: A radio program for people who crave order in their lives but a little chaos in their entertainment. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 7, 2013: Don Bolles Curates the Program | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 31, 2013: "The way to keep some of your time to yourself is to maintain yourself so unattractively that nobody else is interested in any of it." — Andy Warhol | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 24, 2013: Radio, Done Wrong. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 17, 2013: The Exchequer of Cultural Marginalism | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 10, 2013: LEE MORGAN 75th Birthday Salute | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 3, 2013: Loaded with radio-enhancing drugs. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

June 26, 2013: A marginally higher public approval rating than pond scum. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 19, 2013: How rapidly do invasive birch forest geometrids recruit larval parasitoids in comparison with a sympatric native geometrid? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 12, 2013: I'm not a real DJ but I play one on the radio. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 5, 2013: Took my pie, so I sucker-punched and left him for dead. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

May 29, 2013: The Good Doctor joins Irwin for a Sun Ra Belated Birthday Broadcast | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 22, 2013: MOONDOG Belated Birthday Broadcast. Guest: biographer Robert Scotto, author of The Viking of Sixth Avenue | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 15, 2013: We who make our throats a garbage pit and our stomachs a graveyard. Mean, angry, loathsomely jealous, confused and beset by covetousness, who without restraint would lie, deceive, and betray to mask our depravity. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 12, 2013: People Who Only Need a Beat (Irwin on Dave Mandl's World of Echo) | See the playlist
May 8, 2013: Hal Willner discusses A Great Night in Harlem | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 1, 2013: All the vices you admire, none of the virtues you detest. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

April 24, 2013: Turning devotion into scorn with a single segue. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 17, 2013: John Strausbaugh discusses his new book The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 10, 2013: Just because you listen to WFMU doesn't mean you can't have nice things. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 3, 2013: Jenny O. performs live at 4pm | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

March 27, 2013: A wake-up call’s mother is unfolding. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 20, 2013: Carnival of Nothing! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 13, 2013: WFMU 2013 Rent Party - Week 2 with co-host Liz Berg | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 6, 2013: WFMU 2013 Rent Party - Week 1 with co-host Jason Sigal | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

February 27, 2013: Nick Brooke interview: Border Towns | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 20, 2013: Carnival of Something! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 13, 2013: Riveting, melancholic, surreal, mundane, informative, and fraudulent. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 6, 2013: If we're the life of the party, go to another party. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

January 30, 2013: I myself have much idea of technology as the hamster from the pole vault. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 23, 2013: Bethany filled in.
January 16, 2013: On Jan. 18, 2013, Danny Kaye would have pretended to be 100 years old. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 9, 2013: Explain the Kansas of your spleen. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 2, 2013: Can't we just kick 2013 down the road — all the way to 2014? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

December 26, 2012: Raking it in, and rolling in it. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 19, 2012: Valiantly waging the War on Christmas Music. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 12, 2012: The Good Doctor filled in.
December 5, 2012: Three hours of brutish diversions | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

November 28, 2012: The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 21, 2012: As a God-like creature, I command ye, but I am above my own commandments. In other word, do as I say ... | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player! | Pop-up player!
November 14, 2012: Sylvie Simmons discusses her book I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 7, 2012: I cannot stand in the way of Progress, and yet I have. Kill Me Now! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 31, 2012: Webcasting from a Hoboken kitchen after a visitation from Sandy, a.k.a an Act of God. THANKS, GOD! Archive unavailable. | See the playlist
October 24, 2012: Don't give me that Goddess Minerva crap. Again. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 17, 2012: Today's forecast: partly cranky with a 40% chance of rage. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 10, 2012: Marco Benevento live set at 4pm | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 3, 2012: Megan Jean and the KFB live at 4pm | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

September 26, 2012: Sorry, something went wrong. We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 19, 2012: Your God is a just God, but mine has an awesome record collection. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 12, 2012: Jason Karaban performs live | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 5, 2012: Inside every sane person is an Irwin screaming to get out. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 29, 2012: Tired of this, tired of that. I just want my toys to work. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 22, 2012: Three miserable hours in the poutin' shanty | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 15, 2012: John Strausbaugh discusses his forthcoming book on the history of Greenwich Village | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 8, 2012: You know me better than I know myself. So please explain me to me. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 1, 2012: I'm really a sensitive guy with the soul of a poet who listens to Chopin nocturnes while sipping cognac and plotting ways to kill my neighbor's dog. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 25, 2012: "Die" is on my to-do list, but it keeps getting bumped back a day. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 18, 2012: Raymond Chandler, born July 23, 1888 | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 11, 2012: Jason Sigal filled in.
July 4, 2012: "No arsenal ... is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women." (Ronald Reagan) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

June 29, 2012: Irwin stops by to chat and spin records on Pseu's Thing With a Hook
June 27, 2012: If you don't understand time warps, I'll explain them to you last week. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 20, 2012: The Good Doctor filled in.
June 13, 2012: It's all trompe l'oeil | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 6, 2012: New format today—exactly the same as the previous format, only BETTER! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

May 30, 2012: Ivana XL (with Joe McGinty) live in studio | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 23, 2012: Since the botched IPO, I'm too embarrassed to be seen using Facebook. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 16, 2012: I read about him on Facebook. He scares me. He's obsessed with Brian Wilson. You know the type. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 9, 2012: I'm in the ME business. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 2, 2012: No Juicebox, No Peace! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

April 25, 2012: I lost my race card. Do they take Blockbuster? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 18, 2012: Pet kitty. Make nice! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 11, 2012: Cats chew things, dogs bite things, kids break things. Advantage: ferret. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 4, 2012: I am a net exporter of petty grievances. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

March 28, 2012: I set aside this morning to do some soul-searching, but it's dark in there and I couldn't find a flashlight. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 21, 2012: Ira the K filled in.
March 14, 2012: CatCon requirements in effect | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 7, 2012: Miserable pedestrian. What part of "beep" don't you understand? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

February 29, 2012: Marathon Week 2: with co-hostess Bethany | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 22, 2012: Marathon Week 1: with co-hostess Liz Berg | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 15, 2012: Ira filled in.
February 8, 2012: blah blah blah me blah blah me me me me | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 1, 2012: Secret sauce memory-processing error-correction algorithms | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

January 25, 2012: I wish you luck. I don't care if it's good luck or bad, I just hope you have some luck. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 18, 2012: The secret to a long healthy life is lots of platitudes. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 11, 2012: If anything really important happens, like the end of the world, WFMU will let you know with an annoying buzzer. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 4, 2012: I love having my judgment deferred to. INSERT THREE SMILEYS HERE. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

December 28, 2011: You think it's funny to play God. I'm serious about it. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 21, 2011: Nothing beats three hours of Christmas novelty songs. Waterboarding comes close. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 14, 2011: Treading water beats sinking | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 7, 2011: "Eurozone Optimism." Feel better now? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

November 30, 2011: I don't have enough to complain about, but I manage. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 23, 2011: We have met the enemy, and, as usual, it's me. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 16, 2011: The Good Doctor filled in.
November 9, 2011: You need to study languaging. It's how you word. Once you learn how to sentence, you can speech. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 2, 2011: Facebook will not do the laundry | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 26, 2011: Disregard previous. Disregard anything I've ever said or sent. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 19, 2011: Today's program will teach total muscle isolation, elegant hand gestures, and intricate body gyrations | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 12, 2011: I'll review the contract tonight to confirm I didn't omit anything or include terms that aren't relevant. I drafted that agreement sober and need to double-check it when I'm shitfaced drunk. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 5, 2011: Stop blaming us for everything that happens to you. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

September 28, 2011: Now that inertia is cool, turns out I was way ahead of my time. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 21, 2011: Live musical guest: Mike Doughty | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 14, 2011: Rich Russo (guest): "Anything Anything" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 7, 2011: If I knew what you were joking about, I'll bet it would be funny. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 31, 2011: Performing live in the studio: Mary Lorson | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 24, 2011: I'm going to hide behind the sofa. Count to 10. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 17, 2011: Bob W filled in.
August 10, 2011: Sorry—since the alien abduction I can't form an original thought. Please be brilliant for me. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 3, 2011: Cracked Latin (trio): Lane Steinberg, Luis Accorsi, Charlie Zeleny | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 27, 2011: Fucking Kings of Leon aren't real monarchs. It's just a band name. There's no Kingdom of Leon to be King of. And if there was, there would be ONE king, not a committee. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 20, 2011: God is always with me, and I blame Him for all my failures. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 13, 2011: Michael Anderson discusses This Planet is Doomed: The Science Fiction Poetry of Sun Ra | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 6, 2011: You've been unresponsive to my attempts at telepathic control | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

June 29, 2011: I'm easily distracted. It's just something I've learned to liv | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 22, 2011: This space intentionally left blank. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 15, 2011: Hope. Desperation. Making wishes. Something like that. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 8, 2011: I'm one of those guys who can throw on a kimono and it just works | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 1, 2011: Three hours of pessimistic time-stamp based concurrency control | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

May 25, 2011: I'm drunk and I like you. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 18, 2011: Yes, the show sucks, but a little false praise now and then wouldn't kill you. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 11, 2011: I haven't reached critical paranoia yet. But I'm on elevated alert. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 4, 2011: Ira the K filled in.

April 27, 2011: Someone needs a slice of tickle pie! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 20, 2011: My facts are too good to check | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 13, 2011: I'm Irwin Chusid and I approve this message. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 6, 2011: Damn, that's not it. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

March 30, 2011: Please join me in my Alone Time. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 23, 2011: Little known fact: If you eat only chocolate, you will live forever. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 16, 2011: R.I.P Joe Morello (1928-2011) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 9, 2011: Help us solve our math problem. (Marathon Week 2: co-host Trent) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 2, 2011: Welcome to your Wednesday false education (Marathon Week 1: co-host Monica Lynch) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

February 23, 2011: My day isn't complete until I've ruined yours. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 16, 2011: I have no idea what I'm talking about. Are we on the air? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 9, 2011: "That commitee meeting was a roach motel for ideas. Lots of things went in, and nothing came out." — Don Brockway | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 2, 2011: Ronald Reagan: The First 100 Years (b. Feb. 6, 1911) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

January 26, 2011: Music from Daddy's Hideaway with Tim filled in.
January 19, 2011: The "morning blahs" are the high point of my day. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 12, 2011: Do you know where to find marble conference tables? I'm looking to have a conference. Not until I get the table though. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 5, 2011: Too bad most WFMU listeners are atheists and agnostics. The station doesn't get much prayer support. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

December 29, 2010: I don't mean to say stupid things. My brain leaks. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 22, 2010: Kenny G filled in.
December 15, 2010: I can hit the high notes. They're just not useful. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 8, 2010: If you're a terrorist, don't expect a gift from me this holiday season. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 1, 2010: Been to school. I have a Bf.D. from FU. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

November 24, 2010: I didn't phone Satan. I accidently leaned on speed-dial. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 17, 2010: I've lost my mind. It was here when you started talking to me, but it seems to have wandered. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 10, 2010: I don't need to wipe my feet before entering your house. My feet are clean. I'm wearing shoes. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 3, 2010: If I had the strength, I'd do nothing. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 27, 2010: I'll get on board with saving the planet after I figure out what's in it for me. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 20, 2010: No, I'm listening. That's a fascinating story. I was just checking my invisible watch. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 13, 2010: Illustrator Rick Meyerowitz discusses his new book DRUNK STONED BRILLIANT DEAD: The Writers and Illustrators Who Made the National Lampoon Insanely Great | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 6, 2010: One thing you can count on—when you hear a great track on WFMU, the rest of the album will suck. No need to thank us. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

September 29, 2010: Please refrain from workplace shootings during this program. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 22, 2010: I'm not ignoring you. I'm just not listening. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 15, 2010: Who? Mr. Stupid, that's who! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 8, 2010: Keili Hamilton filled in.
September 1, 2010: Kids nowadays. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 25, 2010: We've got the rum covered. Just bring your rock and roll machine. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 18, 2010: I am just put on a music | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 11, 2010: I like being an arrested adolescent without having to abide by kiddie rules. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 4, 2010: I don't strive for achievement or risk failure. I focus on solid, sustained mediocrity. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 28, 2010: Entropy? Just a drinking buddy. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 21, 2010: "Like the shock of fondling a raw sausage, blindfold at a gay party ..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 14, 2010: Where there's no there there, I'm so THERE | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 7, 2010: I don't wear food | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

June 30, 2010: I'm not Mr. Yes-I-Will. I'm Mr. Probably-Sort-of-Maybe. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 23, 2010: Do I have to change or can I just say I've changed? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 16, 2010: Half-off sale at the Brain Store! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 9, 2010: If I've got the answer, I probably misunderstood the question. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 2, 2010: One step up from permateen college radio, but still reveling in methodical haphazardness and calculated fuckups | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

May 26, 2010: What are all these words doing in MY English language? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 19, 2010: Like radio, only worse | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 12, 2010: Don't underestimate me. Okay, go ahead. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 5, 2010: Lord, the reason there was one set of footprints in the sand is because you went to the snack bar | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

April 28, 2010: Quick cure for poison ivy: beagle saliva | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 21, 2010: Halley's Comet: Around the Piano with Mark Twain and John Davis | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 14, 2010: Malcolm McLaren (1946-2010) interview feature from 1983 (at 4pm) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 7, 2010: Special guest: monologist, artist, musician Jessica Kane | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

March 31, 2010: Establish the shirt | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 24, 2010: For once in your life—just this once—think about ME | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 17, 2010: I sound deep. But deep down, I'm very shallow. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 10, 2010: Marathon 2010 week 2: Irwin with Dennis Diken | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 3, 2010: Marathon 2010 week 1: Irwin with DJ Keili | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

February 24, 2010: If you're bored now, just wait. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 17, 2010: Shop for 1943. Compare 1943 prices. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 10, 2010: WFMU listener profile: Studies have shown ... | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 3, 2010: Hubris or schadenfreude—which will it be today? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

January 27, 2010: Damn frogs. Damn Irwins too. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 20, 2010: WFMU has a surplus of brilliant minds on Wednesday, so most of them are forced to broadcast on other days. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 13, 2010: Paul Simon Bumper Music Wednesday! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 6, 2010: Scala Choir (interview and live performance) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

December 30, 2009: I dropped in Monday. You weren't home. I rearranged the furniture. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 23, 2009: Government "healthcare" is like being offered a ride by the guy who stole your car. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 16, 2009: Find Andy's cameo. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 9, 2009: Santa Claus won't be coming this year. He's buried in my crawlspace. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 2, 2009: Special guest: Deidre O'Connell discusses Blind Tom Wiggins | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

November 25, 2009: Special guest: Jennifer Charles | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 18, 2009: PLEDGE, por favor. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 11, 2009: Veterans Day: honor our vets and active-duty military personnel. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 4, 2009: Voting present | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 28, 2009: Alasdair Maclean of the Clientele: live solo performance | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 21, 2009: I've said this before but you can't prove it. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 14, 2009: Next time you hear Van Halen's "Runnin' With the Devil," think of me. I've heard it too. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 7, 2009: On a scale of one to ten, this show is in a constant state of three. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

September 30, 2009: There's a 429th time for everything. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 23, 2009: Sorry, my smiley key is broke. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 16, 2009: Gentripods | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 9, 2009: I wouldn't want to be in your shoes. But I like that shirt. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 2, 2009: Beatific. Radiant, self-assured, all-knowing. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 26, 2009: Amy Annelle live performance | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 19, 2009: Jeremy Wallace Trio in-studio performance | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 12, 2009: Going postal. Return to sender. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 5, 2009: Me me me! Want want want! Take take take! Now, back to our program. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 29, 2009: The Amanda Chronicles, Pt. 2 | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 22, 2009: The Amanda Chronicles, Pt. 1 | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 15, 2009: We accept only partial culpability | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 8, 2009: Once upon a time, before Ritalin... | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 1, 2009: Those aren't buffering problems—that's our programming | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

June 24, 2009: Proudly serving the outlier demographic | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 17, 2009: Hardly had to change nearly almost not anything | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 10, 2009: Empowerment at the click of a button. (3:15pm: Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey live) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 3, 2009: Classic Free-Form now fused with bone-crunching Zombie Action! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

May 27, 2009: All the drugs I took in college must've worn off by now, right? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 20, 2009: Too miscellaneous to matter | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 13, 2009: Today's MSM explained with a Venn diagram | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 6, 2009: Sometimes we rock your world -- other times we destabilize your equilibrium. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

April 29, 2009: Swine flu pandemic? Off the pigs! Eat more bacon. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 22, 2009: Fuck the planet: I'm doing my part. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 15, 2009: Think of our eclectic staff as the many limbs of some wonderful sea animal | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 8, 2009: Dedicated to Lou D'Antonio (1936-2009) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 1, 2009: Andy Breckman hijacked Irwin's show. Sorry about that.

March 25, 2009: Nap time | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 18, 2009: Economic catastrophe downgraded to a kittenastrophe | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 11, 2009: So we won't have to sell the farm | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 4, 2009: Art you can believe in | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

February 25, 2009: Since—you know—the Great Depression. Again. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 18, 2009: That's OK — our DJ's have extreme reactions to each other | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 11, 2009: Moondog Pesto | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 4, 2009: Ego-Talent Discrepancy | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

January 28, 2009: The flagship station of itself | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 21, 2009: Don't hate us because we're beautiful. There are other reasons. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 14, 2009: We can't be young forever, but we can be chronically immature | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 7, 2009: Listen til it hurts | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

December 31, 2008: New Jersey? What was wrong with the old Jersey? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 24, 2008: Bringing Back Your Happee! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 17, 2008: All that Disney tween stuff was just a phase I've outgrown | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 10, 2008: Did my show make your goddamned day? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 3, 2008: We're not losers—just a loser demographic | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

November 26, 2008: I'm not at my desk right now. I'm under it. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 19, 2008: We wants to nice you | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 12, 2008: We might be on the same planet you're on! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 5, 2008: No, I'm not moving to France | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 29, 2008: Offering low branches for minds that cannot soar | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 22, 2008: Where a "split seven-inch" isn't as painful as it sounds | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 15, 2008: Satan is my third-party candidate | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 8, 2008: Maria filled in.
October 1, 2008: "It’s funny how some things remind you of other things." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

September 24, 2008: PDS. Q.E.D. Extreme case. Extremer. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 17, 2008: I heart the Heinlein chick. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 10, 2008: Happy 100th, Mr. Scott | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 3, 2008: Inexperience belongs at the top of the ticket! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 27, 2008: Not everyone | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 20, 2008: Am I hurting your planet? So sorry. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 13, 2008: Hippies: Standing athwart history, yelling "Stop, dude!" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 6, 2008: K-Lo: "The Iraqi government is more functional than our domestic airlines right now." Or Congress. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 30, 2008: Pissing off self-righteous Greens since 1975 | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 23, 2008: Did you hear the joke about Obama? Not around here, you didn't. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 16, 2008: It's the end of the world — again | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 9, 2008: We don't do argument and we don't do analysis. We do snark. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 2, 2008: Enact this alleged "vacation" of which you speak. Beware of bugs. They do our bidding. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

June 25, 2008: Doron filled in.
June 18, 2008: Kenny = punishment. Irwin = reward! | See the playlist

May 26, 2008: Memorial Day: There are many swimmers, but few lifeguards | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 7, 2008: Rack off, mate! I didn't touch your kangaroo! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

April 13, 2008: Conflicting format ideologies -- we haz dem. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

March 25, 2008: Is Better Beatlemania over already? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 14, 2008: Always a triple shy of the cycle | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

February 6, 2008: The station that blows when you wish it would just suck | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

December 30, 2007: No Rock Experience Necessary | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 24, 2007: Merry Christmix | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 10, 2007: Your cluelessness isn't a deal-breaker | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

November 10, 2007: Come to the WFMU Record Fair, a Bruegelesque swarm. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 29, 2007: Where there's no there there, we're so THERE | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 10, 2007: Didn't get the second memo? It said disregard the first memo. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

September 26, 2007: We suffered Ego Anxiety before there was an Egosphere | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 14, 2007: Prolonged exposure may trigger extreme fluctuations in your baseline norms | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 3, 2007: Yo soy el Army | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 8, 2007: I steal Kenny G's trousers

July 30, 2007: When I say you show, how many "The Beatles" rock group am I play? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 3, 2007: What have YOU done this week to eliminate gender binaries? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

May 30, 2007: Monica filled in
May 23, 2007: Special guest: Robert Scotto - 2nd annual Moondog Tribute show | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 16, 2007: Geek the fuck out! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 9, 2007: Monica filled in
May 2, 2007: Your musical chum bucket | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

April 25, 2007: Rescuing obscure recording artists from Google Limbo | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 18, 2007: Ever wondered, "Whose car in the street is making those awful noises?"—then realized you had WFMU on at low volume? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 11, 2007: Global warming? Faster, please! (special guests: Berend Dubbe and Sonja van Hamel of Dutch popduo Bauer) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 4, 2007: Bob W filled in

March 28, 2007: Bob W filled in
March 21, 2007: Seven 25-year-old DJs are salivating to grab my slot when I earn a toe tag | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 14, 2007: Week 2 of our annual Reality Check (Marathon co-host: Dorian Devins) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 7, 2007: Fundraising: WFMU's Inconvenient Truth (Marathon co-host: Megan Murphy) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

February 28, 2007: Complaints against the DJ? Try escalating your call. Just try. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 21, 2007: Bob W filled in
February 14, 2007: Courage fueled by delusions | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 7, 2007: If you're using the seat cushion as a floatation device, how do you fend off sharks? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

January 31, 2007: Articulate, bright, and clean—but not a presidential contender. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 24, 2007: Broadcasting from Jersey City, where towering condos will someday be termed "classic American architecture worth preserving" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 17, 2007: We never had a plot to lose | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 10, 2007: Looks and quacks like -- but never mistaken for -- a duck | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 3, 2007: Let's do boring sometime | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

December 27, 2006: Where once you had an emotional void, now there's an appliance. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 24, 2006: Your Disc Jockey Is Indisposed (Pt. 2) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 20, 2006: Todd-o-Phonic Todd filled in
December 13, 2006: When our DJs say they have "nothing cued up," it's an existential admission. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 6, 2006: Taking mediocrity to a whole new level! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

November 29, 2006: How to Be a Free-Form DJ: 1) rock out; 2) wuss out; 3) jazz out; 4) spazz out. Repeat. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 22, 2006: Monica filled in
November 15, 2006: Kenny G isn't jazz — he's hold music. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 8, 2006: We offer loads of options. Reality isn't one of them. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 1, 2006: WFMU: Where continuity, as a means to broader acceptance, will never take root | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 25, 2006: Don't blame us -- we're just a bunch of molecules following the laws of physics | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 18, 2006: WFMU helps sell radios! Every day we hear from listeners who cheer, "I sold mine!" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 11, 2006: The staff of WFMU's news department is chained to the wall in a dank basement. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 4, 2006: Being the best DJ on WFMU is like a diner boasting it serves only "top-shelf" Jell-O | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

September 27, 2006: Our dead air is better than their air | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 20, 2006: WFMU: Where 90% of 'new bin' rotation consists of the latest and hottest reissues! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 13, 2006: If you haven't lost your mind, we'll lose it for you | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 9, 2006: Your Disc Jockey Is Indisposed (Pt. 1) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 6, 2006: Where the reality of evil is held hostage to the façade of banality | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 30, 2006: Programa non grata | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 23, 2006: A station stuffed with WOW! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 16, 2006: You can do bad by yourself -- but WFMU is willing to help! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 9, 2006: Satan is on my Blocked Senders list | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 2, 2006: Killing you with Musical Choice Fatigue | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 26, 2006: Sorry, no jam bands this week. Again. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 19, 2006: Re-purposing God's Ether | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 12, 2006: Celebrating transients, distortion, skips, scratches, wow and flutter since 1958 | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 5, 2006: If I have to hear the word "green" one more fuckin' time ... | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

June 28, 2006: If drowsiness occurs, discontinue listening | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 21, 2006: LORD KITCHENER tribute on Muriel's Treasure 1-3 PM (with guest co-host Lane Steinberg) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 14, 2006: You may not need our fetishistic obsession with musical marginalism -- but it's nice to know it's there! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 7, 2006: Maria Levitsky filled in

May 31, 2006: John Cafiero of OSAKA POPSTAR guest DJ 1-2 pm | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 24, 2006: MOONDOG: 90th Birthday Bouquet (guest: Moondog biographer ROBERT SCOTTO) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 17, 2006: Where everything musical washes ashore (special guest RICHARD GEHR on Muriel's Treasure 2-3 pm) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 10, 2006: Robin filled in
May 3, 2006: Quixotically punching above our weight class | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

April 26, 2006: SPARROW SPILLOVER! -- another hour of The Mighty Sparrow on Muriel's Treasure (2-3pm) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 19, 2006: Tribute to the MIGHTY SPARROW (Part 1),with guest co-host Lane Steinberg and (phone) guest VAN DYKE PARKS | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 12, 2006: Laura Cantrell filled in
April 5, 2006: WFMU: A phenomenon that works in practice, but not in theory | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

March 29, 2006: Special Guest: KAREN SCHOEMER, author of "Great Pretenders: My Strange Love Affair With '50s Pop Music" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 22, 2006: How do we fend off decency watchdogs? Two words: poison meat! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 15, 2006: You = monkey. WFMU = banana. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 8, 2006: Marathon Show #2: Invading your earspace | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 1, 2006: Marathon Show #1: Time to hit the tipjar, folks! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

February 22, 2006: Don't ask what why! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 15, 2006: At the pet store yesterday I learned that the leech is the new ferret. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 8, 2006: Special Guest: Drummer SAM ULANO ("Mr. Rhythm") | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 1, 2006: You must be at least 42" tall to listen | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

January 25, 2006: Special Guest: PAMELIA KURSTIN on Theremin (1-2 PM) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 18, 2006: Small town market share, big city ego | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 11, 2006: William Berger filled in
January 4, 2006: The station that won't give you the time of day | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

December 28, 2005: You're right -- the crap we play on our shows we don't listen to at home | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 21, 2005: WFMU: It ain't brain surgery. On the other hand … | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 14, 2005: We trust you will be disappointed | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 7, 2005: WFMU: Not a bunch of nitwits -- despite the behavioral similarities | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

November 30, 2005: Special Guest: DAVID LEOPOLD, author of "Irving Berlin's Show Business" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 23, 2005: Over 62% of our DJ's have opposable thumbs! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 16, 2005: WFMU: Asking the question "Why do they hate us?" for almost five decades | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 9, 2005: What we can't pronounce, we mumble with authority | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 2, 2005: How can we offer repellent programming at such low prices? Three words: volume, volume, volume! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 26, 2005: I fear global warming alarmists more than I fear global warming | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 19, 2005: At least one-third of our staff still has a hinge | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 12, 2005: I put my left foot in, took my left foot out, put my left foot back in and I shook it all about. Now what happens? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 5, 2005: It's the wizard, not the wand. (This week: introducing MURIEL'S TREASURE: An Hour of Calypso and Soca, 2-3 pm) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

September 28, 2005: If you already have a headache, no need to tune in (Special Guest: SINGING SADIE live! Final installment of "Gender Bias") | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 21, 2005: WFMU: Stuck on stupid since 1958 | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 14, 2005: Bob W filled in
September 7, 2005: A chimera found lurking in penumbras formed by emanations | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 31, 2005: Our DJs suffer from carpal tongue syndrome | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 24, 2005: Offering more non-stops to places most people wisely choose to avoid | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 17, 2005: Fuck pitch counts -- bring back the Complete Game loss | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 10, 2005: Confronting paradigms of hegemonic conformity with a near hesychastic acuity | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 3, 2005: Taking wayward music into foster care until the teeming masses are ready to adopt (Special guest: BOURBON PRINCESS live on Gender Bias) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 27, 2005: BODY-SLAMMING, FIST-PUMPING EXCITEMENT! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 20, 2005: WFMU: The answer to the existential puzzler: "What is demeaning of life?" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 13, 2005: Immanentizing the eschaton | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 6, 2005: To mark her retirement from the Supremes, today's show pays tribute to Sinead O'Connor | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

June 29, 2005: WFMU: #4 of the 100 stations screwing up American radio | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 22, 2005: Noisily emerging from a debilitating post-Wordsworthian melancholy (Special guest: LEE FELDMAN live in studio) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 15, 2005: Our little secret - 50% of band names spoken in DJ set lists made up on the spot | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 8, 2005: Rix filled in.
June 1, 2005: Where being Free-Form don't mean Jack | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

May 25, 2005: Don't question our patriotism -- question our sanity | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 18, 2005: Our isoquants lack predictive utility (Special guest: SHARI ELF) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 11, 2005: WFMU: Placing you musically at risk since 1958 (Live in the studio: SO PERCUSSION) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 4, 2005: You can't do it. We can't help. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

April 27, 2005: Working hard, but failing, to hijack the national discourse | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 20, 2005: WFMU: Rebuking capitalism's conceit that labor is fueled by the profit motive | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 13, 2005: Nicholas Hill filled in
April 6, 2005: Giving you a handbasket to go to hell in | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

March 30, 2005: If you hate what you hear, come back in 15 minutes, and you might like it. Five minutes later we'll drive you away again. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 23, 2005: Tipping the scales when society's health is in the balance | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 16, 2005: MARATHON WEEK 2 - Every marathon show is a Quality Start -- until the pitch count takes its toll | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 9, 2005: MARATHON WEEK 1 - Non-stop affirmation of the virtue of silence. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 2, 2005: WFMU: Contemplative? No. Never. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

February 23, 2005: I'm not gay -- I just play one around Kenny G. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 16, 2005: Bob W filled in
February 9, 2005: Proudly lowbrow | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 2, 2005: The usual genre-surfing tokenism, plus JOSEPH LANZA discusses his book VANILLA POP | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

January 26, 2005: WFMU: Less worse than all the other radio stations. (Live guest: THE LAST TOWN CHORUS / MEGAN HICKEY; plus special feature: JOHN PEEL 1983 interview) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 19, 2005: The Cosmic Cowboy filled in
January 12, 2005: Where amateurism isn't just a condition -- it's an aspiration | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 5, 2005: Consistently demonstrating how bonus tracks and non-LP B-sides got that way | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

December 29, 2004: Please listen carefully. Our menus have changed. (THE LOST PATROL live @ 2 pm) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 22, 2004: Other stations' listeners are useless and stupid. Ours are insane. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 15, 2004: A Tod Browning soundtrack on an Ed Wood budget | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 8, 2004: Narrowing the inter-generational Saturday morning cartoon gap | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 1, 2004: Where progress is measured by things going from worse to bad | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

November 24, 2004: WFMU: Faking sonic orgasms since 1958 | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 17, 2004: A dystopian cesspool of sinister thought, destructive impulses, anti-social behavior and malevolent mind-control | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 10, 2004: WFMU: A station that recognizes how much Randy Newman sucks | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 3, 2004: WFMU: A safe haven for Prozac progressives. (TIGER LILLIES live and GO HOME PRODUCTIONS interview) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 27, 2004: No commercial gridlock, no advertisement pileups, no sponsor speedtraps, no head-on merchandising collisions | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 20, 2004: Refusing to dance to the cosmic puppetmaster | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 13, 2004: Don't hear -- we can shout you. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 6, 2004: Dan Mackta filled in

September 29, 2004: MOLVANIA: Forgotten jewel of Eastern Europe! (TOM GLEISNER interview) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 22, 2004: WFMU and America -- FUCK YEAH! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 8, 2004: WFMU: Where no off-air conversation is complete without the word "Halliburton" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 1, 2004: Crowe filled in

August 25, 2004: Where being non-commercial means never having to say "We'll be right back." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 18, 2004: Radio for quiet people with LOUD thoughts | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 11, 2004: WFMU: Swerving back and forth across the psychological center line (Special feature: ANN RANDOLPH interview) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 4, 2004: WFMU: It sounds better after you’ve absolutely forgotten what it sounds like | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 28, 2004: WFMU: Harshing your mellow since 1958 | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 21, 2004: Like a ship without a bone | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 14, 2004: The Home of Has-Beens, Wannabes, Never-Weres, No-Hopers and the Gone-Overboard. We're like a Steely Dan song in real-life. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 7, 2004: Station of the Gods - preferred by 4 out of 5 Supreme Beings (This week: ELYSIAN FIELDS LIVE) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

June 30, 2004: Your sonic colonic | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 23, 2004: JOANNA NEWSOM live | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 16, 2004: Your First Mate on a cruise ship around the Clueless Islands | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 9, 2004: "Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." -- Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 2, 2004: Music agitato, aggressivo, barbarico! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

May 26, 2004: Music for your active, lo-carb lifestyle (Special guests: KAREN MANTLER and Gary Valente) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 19, 2004: Where the shunned shine (Special guest: SEXTON MING) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 12, 2004: WFMU listeners: an inbreed apart (Special guest: JEREMY WALLACE) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 5, 2004: Radio for head-scratching lower primates | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

April 28, 2004: So Percussion – Live in the Studio | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 21, 2004: WFMU and You: 91 dimensions of compatibility! (Special guest: ESZTER BALINT) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 14, 2004: WFMU: Home of vinyl retentives | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 7, 2004: ELEVATOR MUSIC with JOSEPH LANZA | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

March 31, 2004: WFMU: Using Postmodern Relativism as a tactic when it suits us | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 24, 2004: Marc Grobman filled in
March 17, 2004: Marathon Show #2: If it wasn't for WFMU, you wouldn't need a radio | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 10, 2004: Marathon Show #1: Helping to fund our 'No Listener Left Behind' program | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 3, 2004: Meredith filled in

February 25, 2004: Just because you hear it on this station doesn’t mean it’s cool | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 18, 2004: WFMU: Where the Nihilist Spasm Band is considered middle-of-the-road | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 11, 2004: WFMU DJs: A superior breed of knucklehead | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 4, 2004: WFMU: The old New Religion | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

January 28, 2004: Where bad music happens to good people | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 21, 2004: The first radio station classified by the FDA as a choking hazard | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 14, 2004: Playground of the drooling classes | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 7, 2004: Programmed by out-of-focus groups | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

December 31, 2003: WFMU: Not as important as food, but top ten | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 24, 2003: If the apocalypse is imminent -- we've got the soundtrack! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 17, 2003: A life force for the protoplasm-impaired | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 10, 2003: WFMU: Like your favorite neighborhood tavern with a great jukebox. Only with bad lighting, no beer, no cocktails, and no bar snacks. Otherwise, the same. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 3, 2003: WFMU: It's like a mutual fund -- past performance is no guarantee of future results. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

November 26, 2003: Flypaper for misfits and malcontents | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 19, 2003: Music everyone at work can agree on | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 12, 2003: WFMU: Where duct tape is a way of life (MARIE FRANK performs live with Neill Furio on Gender Bias) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 5, 2003: Adrift in a sea of ignorance, on a raft of indifference | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 29, 2003: Dennis filled in
October 22, 2003: Optiganally Yours Plays & DJs | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 15, 2003: WFMU: The little feller down the end of the dial | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 8, 2003: If we torture the listeners long enough, they will confess | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 1, 2003: Dennis filled in

September 24, 2003: WFMU: We've got smaller fish to fry (Gender Bias 2-3 pm: GRETA GERTLER live) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 17, 2003: We had Michael Jackson pegged as a perv back in 1975 | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 10, 2003: ROCK, as they say, ON! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 3, 2003: WFMU: Interesting idea, wrong species | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 27, 2003: The radio equivalent of comfort food | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 20, 2003: Leasing inner peace | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 13, 2003: WFMU: Buckety-buckety downhill into bathos and sweetish bosh | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 6, 2003: WFMU: Chasing away the normal people | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 30, 2003: 1440 watts of engine trouble (2-3 pm: JENder Bias: An Hour With JENIFER JACKSON) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 23, 2003: The Deep Blue of Insignificant Music | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 16, 2003: Irwin Is Not Himself Today | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 9, 2003: Radio for people who hate Radio | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 2, 2003: WFMU: It's all about ruining the moment | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

June 25, 2003: Arbeit macht frei-form | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 18, 2003: Baby, let's destinate! (Gender Bias: Petra-Vaganza! An Hour of Petra Haden 2-3 pm) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 11, 2003: Our station rocks. Sorry about yours. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 4, 2003: Now offering more nothing! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

May 28, 2003: Your recontextualization of our assertion is selective, citizen | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 21, 2003: Horses. Dead ones. Being beaten. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 14, 2003: We often get that scary, faraway look in our eyes | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 7, 2003: A narrow circle of the limited persons | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

April 30, 2003: Bigger, badder, buffer! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 16, 2003: A vision of creeping disorder | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 9, 2003: Goes well with takeout pizza | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 2, 2003: Charisma so rich it sizzles! (+ BAD PLUS LIVE) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

March 26, 2003: Joseph Lanza discusses Russ Colombo and the Crooner Mystique (1-2 pm) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 19, 2003: A place for all God's creatures -- right next to the mashed potatoes | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 12, 2003: Marathon Week #2 - no playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 5, 2003: Marathon Week #1 - no playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

February 26, 2003: Rounding out your wellness profile | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 12, 2003: Cosmic Cowboy filled in for Irwin this week (no archive available)
February 5, 2003: Real Fun! Not Fake Fun! (also: Chris Butler & The Cranks - live in studio 1:15-2:00) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

January 29, 2003: Helping the idle rich rid themselves of the day | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 22, 2003: No friends: only sources and targets | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 15, 2003: My brain has buffering problems | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 8, 2003: Fetishizing obscurity for its own sake | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

December 18, 2002: Singing Starlets - Monica Lynch co-host (audio for 2-3pm only) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 11, 2002: Normal is good. Enjoy Normal when you can. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 4, 2002: Solitary victim of the One Child Left Behind Program | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

November 27, 2002: Touching thousands of listeners -- but not in an inappropriate way | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 20, 2002: Life is so confusing. For other people. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 13, 2002: Tune in when you're too tired to think | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 6, 2002: Apocalyptic vaudeville | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 30, 2002: Behold the dynamic power of radio and how it could easily crush a universe at its whispered call. Don't call. It will crush! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 23, 2002: Content based on charity shop metaphysics | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 16, 2002: Putting you in touch with your inner supermodel | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 9, 2002: Where Does the Time Go? Japan. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 2, 2002: Dinos have big chomp 4 U | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

September 25, 2002: Doug Mosurock filled-in for Irwin today.
September 18, 2002: Echoes of acute paranoia informed by cabalistic quasi-logic | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 11, 2002: A healthy diet of all musical food groups | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 4, 2002: OK, swell. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 28, 2002: School work got you down? Just think how smart you'll be when you graduate! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 21, 2002: Wall-to-wall WOW! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 14, 2002: Don't put your money where your mouth is. That's just stupid. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 7, 2002: Tying up evwything up in a pwetty wed wibbon | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 31, 2002: Don't believe half of what I say 90% of the time | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 24, 2002: Now that the statute of limitations has expired, let me get something off my chest: I killed John Kennedy. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 17, 2002: Douglas filled-in today. Click here for Douglas's archives
July 10, 2002: On radio, but not of it | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 3, 2002: Gleefully unencumbered by reality | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

June 26, 2002: ELENI MANDELL performs live | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 19, 2002: Another lost thread | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 12, 2002: Don't just stand there — point and laugh. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 5, 2002: Because nothing says "style" like glitter. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

May 29, 2002: We dumb things UP for you! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 22, 2002: We sound better after you’ve forgotten what we sound like. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 15, 2002: Worse places to be. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 8, 2002: Stuff that will not kill you. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 1, 2002: The excitement of turtles. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

April 24, 2002: Something to sneeze at | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 17, 2002: The Highest Rated Show in Hell! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 10, 2002: The only lie I tell people I don't care about is that I care about them. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 3, 2002: Good luck, aging hippie, getting a divorce from your tattoo. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

March 27, 2002: Particle Concepts | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 20, 2002: AC/AB/Fly/CP/RD/OV/PD all 10 x 3 | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 14, 2002: Marathon show with co-host Monica (no playlist) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 6, 2002: Marathon show with co-host Belinda (no playlist) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

February 27, 2002: Big stuff—I'm on the square about you | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 20, 2002: Extended time suck | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 13, 2002: Creative differences | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

January 30, 2002: The Happy Radio Place! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 23, 2002: Proof that any sock puppet can do free-form radio | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 16, 2002: Untrustworthy, but Listenable | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 9, 2002: The McLandless Dimension | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

December 19, 2001: This glamorous life! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 12, 2001: That makes one of us | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 5, 2001: Failure is not an option—it's a guarantee | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

November 28, 2001: Evil gnomes gave me a wedgie | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 21, 2001: My crackpot alarm just went off | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 14, 2001: Embrace the suck | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 7, 2001: Genre Surfing Tokenism—plus live in-studio by Beth Sorrentino (2-3 pm) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 31, 2001: Co-programmed by Miss Barbara Economon and Al-Bear | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 24, 2001: Special Guests: THE BRAN FLAKES (Otis Fodder and Sir Mildred Pitt) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 17, 2001: I have a blind spot in my ear | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

September 26, 2001: My mind is a 404 | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 19, 2001: Diminishing expectations since 1958 | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 14, 2001: Fill-in for Monica | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 12, 2001: Day 1 of the Rest of the Story | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 5, 2001: When reality conflicts with what I believe, reality must be wrong. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 22, 2001: I'm scared of everyone. I'm scared of YOU. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 15, 2001: Have you seen my joie de vivre? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 8, 2001: English is my favorite language. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 1, 2001: Gram Parsons looked good in anything but a coffin. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 25, 2001: Your nerves getting gotten on | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 18, 2001: Brute Force (Stephen Friedland) visits the show (with co-hostess Dawn Eden) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 11, 2001: Ignorance of popular culture is no sin. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 4, 2001: We give you nice explosion time. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

June 27, 2001: Less funny hat stuff. Promise. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 20, 2001: Sugar Butt Love | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 13, 2001: Nova Social performs live | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 6, 2001: John Davis Plays Blind Tom | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

May 30, 2001: Beth Sorrentino performs live | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 23, 2001: "Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede—not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen." – G. C. Lichtenberg | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 16, 2001: All the amateurism of college radio -- without the basketball games. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 9, 2001: Free Your Mind and Your Buttocks Will Follow: Otis Fodder (of the Bran Flakes) visits and cavorts with Irwin & co-hostess Michelle Boulé | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 2, 2001: She talks like Cecil Taylor plays the piano. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

April 25, 2001: Steer into the skid, kid. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 18, 2001: I found a typos on the internet. Is anyone listening? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 11, 2001: Jeremy Wallace performs live | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 4, 2001: Welcome to my bubble. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

March 28, 2001: Marathon 2001 show #2: Support free-form radio and we will love you with no exchange of body fluids. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 21, 2001: Marathon 2001 show #1: "Don't worry, boys, we'll weather this storm of approval and come out as hated as ever." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 14, 2001: Tune in. Die happy. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

February 28, 2001: Haute macabre | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 21, 2001: Failed perfectionism. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 14, 2001: Things that could disappear from the face of the Earth today and I would not miss them: beer, soccer, The New York Times. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 7, 2001: On to Plan B. There is no Plan B. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

January 31, 2001: Princess performs live right here | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 24, 2001: If your not support, rock will die forever. It is very important that many Rocks and Rolls survive to our children. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 17, 2001: Sorry your joie de vivre was blocked by my schadenfreude. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 10, 2001: There are so many memos I didn't get. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 3, 2001: Don't get excited. That is, in fact, a banana in my pocket | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

December 27, 2000: The Old Codger filled in
December 20, 2000: We don't observe the 5-second rule in my home. Food dropped on the floor can be eaten if picked up within three days. The rule is shorter for liquids. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 13, 2000: Rock & Roll Roadkill | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 6, 2000: When the still sea conspires an armor, and her sullen and aborted currents breed tiny monsters, true agastopia is dead. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

November 29, 2000: Where one thing does NOT lead to anything else. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 22, 2000: Rebuke and repudiate. If necessary—ridicule. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 15, 2000: You academics and your damned summations. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 8, 2000: On this day in 1959, misplaced smoking jacket causes Hugh Hefner to fire valet in first recorded instance of Robe Rage. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 1, 2000: Partly crappy with a 50% chance of trainwreck. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 25, 2000: Keep on Floccinaucinihilipilificatin' in the Free World. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 18, 2000: Stew (of the Negro Problem) performs live | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 11, 2000: We’re all retarded in ways our friends don’t tell us. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 4, 2000: "The way to keep some of your time to yourself is to maintain yourself so unattractively that nobody else is interested in any of it." — Andy Warhol | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

September 27, 2000: His synapses went on strike and his nerve impulses refused to cross the picket line. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 20, 2000: That means things because of reasons. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 13, 2000: The weather is here. Wish you were wonderful. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 6, 2000: I have copyrighted G-sharp. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 30, 2000: Pastor John Rydgren’s kinda like acid on Jesus. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 23, 2000: I left my compassion in my other soul. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 16, 2000: Please consider the environment before printing this playlist. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 9, 2000: Programmed by adults with juvenile tastes. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 2, 2000: Dark and fancy. But dark. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

February 9, 2000: The watched, non-boiling water—it never, ever. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 16, 1996: Karen Mantler and Michael Evans perform live | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!

August 5, 1992: Jeff Buckley Guest DJ (live in studio) | See the playlist (Playlist still being updated)

April 25, 1990: earliest compiled playlist | See the playlist

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