WFMU: Showy McShowface with Jim the Poet: Playlist from May 14, 2024

Listener comments!
	4:32pm Jim the Poet: Call in at 201 209 9368! What advice do you have for the graduates of 2024? YOU CAN BE THE COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER! Bestow your wisdom upon the future of the world! Or if you just want to record it without Jim interrupting you leave a message at ‪(347) 455-8227‬
	6:02pm chresti: It's Jim the Poet!
	6:02pm Yes: JIM!
	6:02pm Mattynotimes: Love this song!
	🌮 6:03pm Franco Twinkie: Hello Jim!
	6:03pm chresti: I don't qualify for the commencement speaker position because I'm a dropout!
	6:04pm dale: huzzah for dads and grads! and jim the poet!
	6:04pm sinkhole near my home: We love you, Jim! Be more like Jim the Poet, Class of 2024.
	6:05pm newton: I taught for a year at my alma mater ten years after I got out. What a bunch of lazy untalented kids. And the pay was terrible. But they forgave my stolen library books
	6:05pm meta_mike: sweet lord someone threw up a bunch of hats today huh
	6:06pm Victor Eremita: ↳ chresti @6:03 No problem! The honorary degree comes with the speaker gig, and it includes all you can eat at the cafeteria
	6:08pm DjLorraine: ↳ chresti @6:03 Yet I feel I've learned a lot from Chresti!
	6:08pm sinkhole near my home: You’re hilarious, Jim.
	🌮 6:09pm Ken From Hyde Park: My commencement speech would include a request that they should start to work on a product that keeps those upside-down condiment containers from falling over every time I close my refrigerator door.
	6:09pm chresti: ↳ DjLorraine @6:08 Aww sheesh!
	6:10pm Tom: Make all restaurant tables level.
	6:10pm morphe': Denis Kuschinich[sp?] decent fellow from OH ..
	6:10pm alanSixº: jim your Ps are popping
	6:11pm sinkhole near my home: Mono!
	6:12pm meta_mike: I kinda agree with Franco
	6:13pm morphe': Ask not ... We are gathered here today... Not so long ago ... Once upon a time... Nevermind..
	6:14pm Htubig Pie: People are set free to find a new illusion.. I wish my graduating class had that as our class song.
	6:15pm DjLorraine: I'm trying to manage my middle
	6:17pm Htubig Pie: Hot dog ramen. My last meal before the electric chair.
	6:18pm newton: woodwork will set you free
	6:18pm chresti: ↳ DjLorraine @6:15 Ha
	6:19pm morphe': Barnes&Noble =79-82 [fired for talking union talk .. got Unemployment when I threatened them about all the best sellers that arrived from the printer [not the publisher] without invoices .. 82-87 Saint Marks Bookshop.. 1991 - returned to the us of a and Fred Bass of the Strand offered me 1-2 $s ?? more than starting wage if I told no one else... declined ...
	6:19pm dale: i was an art major. worked in design and advertising for 20 some years. THEN i did carpentry and handyman stuff. i was more in demand as a handyman then i was as an ad person - marketing people are a dime a dozen.
	6:20pm newton: Franco, you have depth. I had student loan debt and I paid it all off
	6:21pm chresti: Franco encouraged my son to not do homework by saying he would end up like him if he didn't do his homework
	🌮 6:22pm Franco Twinkie: ZAK!!!
	6:23pm LastWhiteRhino: Hello Jim the Poet. Just remember this,"Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'..." Words to live by !
	6:24pm alanSixº: "i'm an old"
	🌮 6:24pm Franco Twinkie: I suspect I sounded like a lunatic, but at least I own my own house.
	6:24pm newton: ↳ alanSixº @6:24 he's a kid
	6:25pm Htubig Pie: Become a carpenter, build your own house. There's more money in plumbing tho.
	6:26pm newton: Biden forgives the student loans, but the damage to credit never goes away
	6:26pm LastWhiteRhino: ↳ alanSixº @6:24 An oldie but a goodie.
	6:26pm newton: ↳ Htubig Pie @6:25 build your furniture too
	🌮 6:26pm Ken From Hyde Park: When making any decision, always consider WWFD (what would Franco do).
	6:27pm Jackie G: Hey, Franco. Trini Lopez sang "If I had a Hammer". Trini was good in the "Dirty Dozen".
	🌮 6:27pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ alanSixº @6:24 I do believe I have an edge on you as well in the old department Alan. But listening to you I suspect you own your own house as well, right?
	🌮 6:28pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ Jackie G @6:27 Well, I did fix my own back door last week.
	6:29pm traven: ↳ Jackie G @6:27 "You don't know Victor Franco!"
	6:30pm DjLorraine: Walking backwards helps the knees. Walking with someone and taking turns is good too
	6:30pm Jackie G: ↳ Franco Twinkie @6:28 Trini Lopez is an inspiration to all hammerheads.
	6:30pm Htubig Pie: I am walking right now, but I'm 65 so I already knew that's a good idea.
	6:31pm Jackie G: ↳ traven @6:29 Then you don't know Victor Franco! hahaha!
	6:32pm dale: my advice would be 'civil service job.'
	6:35pm dale: i want to say 'if i'm being a liar.....'
	6:36pm Jackie G: Always have some peppermint gum on hand, that's important.
	6:37pm persimmon: Put the graduation music back on
	6:39pm diciassette: brava DJ Trouble!
	6:39pm dale: the master's house?
	6:40pm Jackie G: Alvin Lee said he'd love to change the world and look what happened to him.
	6:41pm dale: vcr repair is still a viable career choice.
	6:41pm ziggy with Two Gs: did you you know the escalator needs to stay running in one direction otherwise if you reverse it after too long you can destroy the machine
	6:41pm ziggy with Two Gs: escalator mechanic is a great union job
	6:41pm Htubig Pie: Be the guy who answers the emergency furnace repair hotline when it's -20f on a Sunday.
	6:42pm Harry Corvair: Has Gus Bodenheim yet spoken? Hope not to miss that.
	🌮 6:43pm Ken From Hyde Park: Frontline infantry!
	🌮 6:44pm Franco Twinkie: I KNEW it was Alan as soon as he said to buy a house in a cancer swamp!
	6:44pm Htubig Pie: Gus gets paid by the word.
	6:45pm dale: more advice from me, take any job you can where they deduct social security from your check. because i need the social security.
	6:46pm newton: nyc bases my RE tax on how much I could get in rent for it, without taking into account my cost for housing if my home has to be rented out.
	6:47pm HyperDose: Forget houses, can't even get an apartment these days
	6:47pm MKT in Inwood: Yes — graduates should get a chunk of their loan forgiven for every month they spend guerrilla-rewilding every lawn they can.
	6:48pm Menlo Park: Gus Bodenheim, with regrets, had a conflict with this show as he is giving the invocation at Del Barton
	🌮 6:48pm Ken From Hyde Park: Convert golf courses to housing tracts.
	6:49pm chresti: Be an Enviromental Lawyer and go after the oil industry, etc.
	6:49pm newton: Abandon apple, get off Google, forget Facebook
	🌮 6:50pm zachary: We love you, Jim! You're amazing. Look in the mirror proudly.
	🌮 6:50pm zachary: Alan, that was a great speech. You should add a weekly wisdom segment to your show. I really enjoyed it.
	6:52pm Htubig Pie: Space food sticks are very soft.
	🌮 6:52pm zachary: The cynicism of the WFMU listeners is really a beacon of hope tonight.
	6:52pm dale: i agree with the feet thing - some vids have shown up on youtube with people who have feet that look like they are covered in corn flakes or have jiggers embedded in there. poor countries without shoes, but still...
	6:52pm Jackie G: Hey, the Post Office is hiring!
	6:52pm Listener Robert: I wanted to make sure to get this in: This is the show WFMU was made for. This program has been great, one of those I'll think of for years. Thank you all, emcee, callers, helpers, Bucci for vacating tonight, Mr. The Poet's parents for having Jim.
	🌮 6:53pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ zachary @6:50 Alan already dispenses advice that'll save your life and keep you from walking into speeding traffic.
	🌮 6:53pm zachary: ↳ Listener Robert @6:52 It is one for the annals.
	6:53pm dale: friend had a heart attack while working for the state and he's on disability now. he's about 300 pounds and smokes heavily. not quite cool.
	6:54pm Jackie G: ↳ Listener Robert @6:52 Yeah, thanks Bucci, for vacating the show today.
	6:54pm Mr. Corey LLC: Commencement speaker was William Schultz, who headed Amnesty International, he was a great orator.
	6:54pm Htubig Pie: Put all your worldly goods in a bindle and walk the earth.
	🌮 6:54pm Franco Twinkie: Right on Fox! Sleep in the street like I did just for the hell of it.
	🌮 6:54pm zachary: ↳ Franco Twinkie @6:53 Yes. But I was thinking Alan should have a specific monologue similar to what he did tonight. I love his show: music, segments, guests, Ask Alan, mic breaks, etc. It's a superb show.
	6:55pm Listener Robert: ↳ Jackie G @6:54 Please don't get me wrong, Bucci's good, but everything lined up perfectly for this hour.
	🌮 6:55pm zachary: ↳ Listener Robert @6:55 Bucci should do the same show next week and we can compare how they turn out.
	6:56pm traven: ↳ zachary @6:55 Excellent idea.
	6:57pm Listener Robert: ↳ zachary @6:55 Or Ken & Andy style: L channel, R channel.
	🌮 6:57pm zachary: Woah! A twofer with Jim the Poet!
	🌮 6:57pm zachary: ↳ Listener Robert @6:57 Hahahaha! Yeah. That would be great.
	🌮 6:57pm Franco Twinkie: Ken Freedman- are you listing to this!? Jim the Poet is hot coffee on a cold day.
	6:57pm Jackie G: This was great. Or something
	6:57pm dale: over already? sometimes i'm like 'is this 6-7 show STILL on?'
	6:58pm Saltonstall: Jim is “fillin’ formica”? What does that mean?
	6:58pm P-90: Thanks Jim, Fox, Trouble, and everyone who made this event possible
	🌮 6:58pm Ken From Hyde Park: Never change the dial, no matter how bad it sounds.
	6:59pm Htubig Pie: If it's only one instrument, make it the hurdy-gurdy.
	6:59pm alanSixº: there's no hope jim
	7:00pm chresti: Thanks Jim!
	🌮 7:01pm zachary: ↳ alanSixº @6:59 Life is absurd.
	🌮 7:03pm zachary: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:58 Agreed. Sometimes that bad is so bad it ends up being blissful.

Showy McShowface with Jim the Poet: Playlist from May 14, 2024

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Listener comments!
	4:32pm Jim the Poet: Call in at 201 209 9368! What advice do you have for the graduates of 2024? YOU CAN BE THE COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER! Bestow your wisdom upon the future of the world! Or if you just want to record it without Jim interrupting you leave a message at ‪(347) 455-8227‬
	6:02pm chresti: It's Jim the Poet!
	6:02pm Yes: JIM!
	6:02pm Mattynotimes: Love this song!
	🌮 6:03pm Franco Twinkie: Hello Jim!
	6:03pm chresti: I don't qualify for the commencement speaker position because I'm a dropout!
	6:04pm dale: huzzah for dads and grads! and jim the poet!
	6:04pm sinkhole near my home: We love you, Jim! Be more like Jim the Poet, Class of 2024.
	6:05pm newton: I taught for a year at my alma mater ten years after I got out. What a bunch of lazy untalented kids. And the pay was terrible. But they forgave my stolen library books
	6:05pm meta_mike: sweet lord someone threw up a bunch of hats today huh
	6:06pm Victor Eremita: ↳ chresti @6:03 No problem! The honorary degree comes with the speaker gig, and it includes all you can eat at the cafeteria
	6:08pm DjLorraine: ↳ chresti @6:03 Yet I feel I've learned a lot from Chresti!
	6:08pm sinkhole near my home: You’re hilarious, Jim.
	🌮 6:09pm Ken From Hyde Park: My commencement speech would include a request that they should start to work on a product that keeps those upside-down condiment containers from falling over every time I close my refrigerator door.
	6:09pm chresti: ↳ DjLorraine @6:08 Aww sheesh!
	6:10pm Tom: Make all restaurant tables level.
	6:10pm morphe': Denis Kuschinich[sp?] decent fellow from OH ..
	6:10pm alanSixº: jim your Ps are popping
	6:11pm sinkhole near my home: Mono!
	6:12pm meta_mike: I kinda agree with Franco
	6:13pm morphe': Ask not ... We are gathered here today... Not so long ago ... Once upon a time... Nevermind..
	6:14pm Htubig Pie: People are set free to find a new illusion.. I wish my graduating class had that as our class song.
	6:15pm DjLorraine: I'm trying to manage my middle
	6:17pm Htubig Pie: Hot dog ramen. My last meal before the electric chair.
	6:18pm newton: woodwork will set you free
	6:18pm chresti: ↳ DjLorraine @6:15 Ha
	6:19pm morphe': Barnes&Noble =79-82 [fired for talking union talk .. got Unemployment when I threatened them about all the best sellers that arrived from the printer [not the publisher] without invoices .. 82-87 Saint Marks Bookshop.. 1991 - returned to the us of a and Fred Bass of the Strand offered me 1-2 $s ?? more than starting wage if I told no one else... declined ...
	6:19pm dale: i was an art major. worked in design and advertising for 20 some years. THEN i did carpentry and handyman stuff. i was more in demand as a handyman then i was as an ad person - marketing people are a dime a dozen.
	6:20pm newton: Franco, you have depth. I had student loan debt and I paid it all off
	6:21pm chresti: Franco encouraged my son to not do homework by saying he would end up like him if he didn't do his homework
	🌮 6:22pm Franco Twinkie: ZAK!!!
	6:23pm LastWhiteRhino: Hello Jim the Poet. Just remember this,"Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'..." Words to live by !
	6:24pm alanSixº: "i'm an old"
	🌮 6:24pm Franco Twinkie: I suspect I sounded like a lunatic, but at least I own my own house.
	6:24pm newton: ↳ alanSixº @6:24 he's a kid
	6:25pm Htubig Pie: Become a carpenter, build your own house. There's more money in plumbing tho.
	6:26pm newton: Biden forgives the student loans, but the damage to credit never goes away
	6:26pm LastWhiteRhino: ↳ alanSixº @6:24 An oldie but a goodie.
	6:26pm newton: ↳ Htubig Pie @6:25 build your furniture too
	🌮 6:26pm Ken From Hyde Park: When making any decision, always consider WWFD (what would Franco do).
	6:27pm Jackie G: Hey, Franco. Trini Lopez sang "If I had a Hammer". Trini was good in the "Dirty Dozen".
	🌮 6:27pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ alanSixº @6:24 I do believe I have an edge on you as well in the old department Alan. But listening to you I suspect you own your own house as well, right?
	🌮 6:28pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ Jackie G @6:27 Well, I did fix my own back door last week.
	6:29pm traven: ↳ Jackie G @6:27 "You don't know Victor Franco!"
	6:30pm DjLorraine: Walking backwards helps the knees. Walking with someone and taking turns is good too
	6:30pm Jackie G: ↳ Franco Twinkie @6:28 Trini Lopez is an inspiration to all hammerheads.
	6:30pm Htubig Pie: I am walking right now, but I'm 65 so I already knew that's a good idea.
	6:31pm Jackie G: ↳ traven @6:29 Then you don't know Victor Franco! hahaha!
	6:32pm dale: my advice would be 'civil service job.'
	6:35pm dale: i want to say 'if i'm being a liar.....'
	6:36pm Jackie G: Always have some peppermint gum on hand, that's important.
	6:37pm persimmon: Put the graduation music back on
	6:39pm diciassette: brava DJ Trouble!
	6:39pm dale: the master's house?
	6:40pm Jackie G: Alvin Lee said he'd love to change the world and look what happened to him.
	6:41pm dale: vcr repair is still a viable career choice.
	6:41pm ziggy with Two Gs: did you you know the escalator needs to stay running in one direction otherwise if you reverse it after too long you can destroy the machine
	6:41pm ziggy with Two Gs: escalator mechanic is a great union job
	6:41pm Htubig Pie: Be the guy who answers the emergency furnace repair hotline when it's -20f on a Sunday.
	6:42pm Harry Corvair: Has Gus Bodenheim yet spoken? Hope not to miss that.
	🌮 6:43pm Ken From Hyde Park: Frontline infantry!
	🌮 6:44pm Franco Twinkie: I KNEW it was Alan as soon as he said to buy a house in a cancer swamp!
	6:44pm Htubig Pie: Gus gets paid by the word.
	6:45pm dale: more advice from me, take any job you can where they deduct social security from your check. because i need the social security.
	6:46pm newton: nyc bases my RE tax on how much I could get in rent for it, without taking into account my cost for housing if my home has to be rented out.
	6:47pm HyperDose: Forget houses, can't even get an apartment these days
	6:47pm MKT in Inwood: Yes — graduates should get a chunk of their loan forgiven for every month they spend guerrilla-rewilding every lawn they can.
	6:48pm Menlo Park: Gus Bodenheim, with regrets, had a conflict with this show as he is giving the invocation at Del Barton
	🌮 6:48pm Ken From Hyde Park: Convert golf courses to housing tracts.
	6:49pm chresti: Be an Enviromental Lawyer and go after the oil industry, etc.
	6:49pm newton: Abandon apple, get off Google, forget Facebook
	🌮 6:50pm zachary: We love you, Jim! You're amazing. Look in the mirror proudly.
	🌮 6:50pm zachary: Alan, that was a great speech. You should add a weekly wisdom segment to your show. I really enjoyed it.
	6:52pm Htubig Pie: Space food sticks are very soft.
	🌮 6:52pm zachary: The cynicism of the WFMU listeners is really a beacon of hope tonight.
	6:52pm dale: i agree with the feet thing - some vids have shown up on youtube with people who have feet that look like they are covered in corn flakes or have jiggers embedded in there. poor countries without shoes, but still...
	6:52pm Jackie G: Hey, the Post Office is hiring!
	6:52pm Listener Robert: I wanted to make sure to get this in: This is the show WFMU was made for. This program has been great, one of those I'll think of for years. Thank you all, emcee, callers, helpers, Bucci for vacating tonight, Mr. The Poet's parents for having Jim.
	🌮 6:53pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ zachary @6:50 Alan already dispenses advice that'll save your life and keep you from walking into speeding traffic.
	🌮 6:53pm zachary: ↳ Listener Robert @6:52 It is one for the annals.
	6:53pm dale: friend had a heart attack while working for the state and he's on disability now. he's about 300 pounds and smokes heavily. not quite cool.
	6:54pm Jackie G: ↳ Listener Robert @6:52 Yeah, thanks Bucci, for vacating the show today.
	6:54pm Mr. Corey LLC: Commencement speaker was William Schultz, who headed Amnesty International, he was a great orator.
	6:54pm Htubig Pie: Put all your worldly goods in a bindle and walk the earth.
	🌮 6:54pm Franco Twinkie: Right on Fox! Sleep in the street like I did just for the hell of it.
	🌮 6:54pm zachary: ↳ Franco Twinkie @6:53 Yes. But I was thinking Alan should have a specific monologue similar to what he did tonight. I love his show: music, segments, guests, Ask Alan, mic breaks, etc. It's a superb show.
	6:55pm Listener Robert: ↳ Jackie G @6:54 Please don't get me wrong, Bucci's good, but everything lined up perfectly for this hour.
	🌮 6:55pm zachary: ↳ Listener Robert @6:55 Bucci should do the same show next week and we can compare how they turn out.
	6:56pm traven: ↳ zachary @6:55 Excellent idea.
	6:57pm Listener Robert: ↳ zachary @6:55 Or Ken & Andy style: L channel, R channel.
	🌮 6:57pm zachary: Woah! A twofer with Jim the Poet!
	🌮 6:57pm zachary: ↳ Listener Robert @6:57 Hahahaha! Yeah. That would be great.
	🌮 6:57pm Franco Twinkie: Ken Freedman- are you listing to this!? Jim the Poet is hot coffee on a cold day.
	6:57pm Jackie G: This was great. Or something
	6:57pm dale: over already? sometimes i'm like 'is this 6-7 show STILL on?'
	6:58pm Saltonstall: Jim is “fillin’ formica”? What does that mean?
	6:58pm P-90: Thanks Jim, Fox, Trouble, and everyone who made this event possible
	🌮 6:58pm Ken From Hyde Park: Never change the dial, no matter how bad it sounds.
	6:59pm Htubig Pie: If it's only one instrument, make it the hurdy-gurdy.
	6:59pm alanSixº: there's no hope jim
	7:00pm chresti: Thanks Jim!
	🌮 7:01pm zachary: ↳ alanSixº @6:59 Life is absurd.
	🌮 7:03pm zachary: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:58 Agreed. Sometimes that bad is so bad it ends up being blissful.

Showy McShowface with Jim the Poet: Playlist from May 14, 2024

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