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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 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
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:02pm
chresti:

It's Jim the Poet!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:02pm
Yes:

JIM!
  6:02pm
Mattynotimes:

Love this song!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:03pm
Franco Twinkie:

Hello Jim!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:03pm
chresti:

I don't qualify for the commencement speaker position because I'm a dropout!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:05pm
meta_mike:

sweet lord someone threw up a bunch of hats today huh
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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 ..
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:10pm
alanSixº:

jim your Ps are popping
  6:11pm
sinkhole near my home:

Mono!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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..
Avatar 6:14pm
Htubig Pie:

People are set free to find a new illusion.. I wish my graduating class had that as our class song.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:15pm
DjLorraine:

I'm trying to manage my middle
Avatar 6:17pm
Htubig Pie:

Hot dog ramen. My last meal before the electric chair.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:18pm
newton:

woodwork will set you free
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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 ...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:20pm
newton:

Franco, you have depth. I had student loan debt and I paid it all off
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:22pm
Franco Twinkie:

ZAK!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:23pm
LastWhiteRhino:

Hello Jim the Poet. Just remember this,"Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'..." Words to live by !
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:24pm
alanSixº:

"i'm an old"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:24pm
Franco Twinkie:

I suspect I sounded like a lunatic, but at least I own my own house.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:24pm
newton:

↳ alanSixº @6:24
he's a kid
Avatar 6:25pm
Htubig Pie:

Become a carpenter, build your own house. There's more money in plumbing tho.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:26pm
newton:

Biden forgives the student loans, but the damage to credit never goes away
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:26pm
LastWhiteRhino:

↳ alanSixº @6:24
An oldie but a goodie.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:26pm
newton:

↳ Htubig Pie @6:25
build your furniture too
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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".
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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!"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar 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!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:32pm
dale:

my advice would be 'civil service job.'
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:39pm
diciassette:

brava DJ Trouble!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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
Avatar 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.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:43pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Frontline infantry!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:44pm
Franco Twinkie:

I KNEW it was Alan as soon as he said to buy a house in a cancer swamp!
Avatar 6:44pm
Htubig Pie:

Gus gets paid by the word.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar 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
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:48pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Convert golf courses to housing tracts.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:49pm
chresti:

Be an Enviromental Lawyer and go after the oil industry, etc.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:49pm
newton:

Abandon apple, get off Google, forget Facebook
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:50pm
zachary:

We love you, Jim! You're amazing. Look in the mirror proudly.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:50pm
zachary:

Alan, that was a great speech. You should add a weekly wisdom segment to your show. I really enjoyed it.
Avatar 6:52pm
Htubig Pie:

Space food sticks are very soft.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:52pm
zachary:

The cynicism of the WFMU listeners is really a beacon of hope tonight.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:53pm
Franco Twinkie:

↳ zachary @6:50
Alan already dispenses advice that'll save your life and keep you from walking into speeding traffic.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:53pm
zachary:

↳ Listener Robert @6:52
It is one for the annals.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:54pm
Mr. Corey LLC:

Commencement speaker was William Schultz, who headed Amnesty International, he was a great orator.
Avatar 6:54pm
Htubig Pie:

Put all your worldly goods in a bindle and walk the earth.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:54pm
Franco Twinkie:

Right on Fox! Sleep in the street like I did just for the hell of it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:57pm
zachary:

Woah! A twofer with Jim the Poet!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:57pm
zachary:

↳ Listener Robert @6:57
Hahahaha! Yeah. That would be great.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:58pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Never change the dial, no matter how bad it sounds.
Avatar 6:59pm
Htubig Pie:

If it's only one instrument, make it the hurdy-gurdy.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:59pm
alanSixº:

there's no hope jim
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:00pm
chresti:

Thanks Jim!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:01pm
zachary:

↳ alanSixº @6:59
Life is absurd.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
zachary:

↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:58
Agreed. Sometimes that bad is so bad it ends up being blissful.
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