WFMU: Busy Doing Nothing with Charlie: Playlist from August 5, 2024

Listener comments!
	8/3 10:49pm Listening Out There: I cheated and wrote this comment ahead of time and nyah!
	4:30pm Charlie: LOT - can you listen to the show before I do it and let me know how it was? Thanks!
	2:59pm listener james from westwood: Afternoon, Charlie and all!
	3:00pm βrian: J.P. Sartre is listening, existentially, and reflecting … On Being Busy and Doing Nothingness.
	3:01pm bradford: Hey there Charlie & all!
	3:01pm tom tom the pipers son: hello charlie! ...and listeners
	3:02pm spodiodi: good afternoon, Charlie and all love the playlist image
	3:03pm Sem: Charlie!
	3:03pm Charlie: Howdy, James, βrian, bradford, tom tom, spodiodi, Sem!
	3:03pm Sem: The inventor of the Bass-o-matic standing behind a chicken? This way madness lies.
	3:05pm Charlie: The sketch is great! www.youtube.com...
	3:05pm Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: Heyo! Plugging away at work, here for it!
	3:06pm Phillippe: Howdy!
	3:07pm Charlie: Plug away, Threemoons! Hiya Phillippe!
	3:08pm Yvang: Hi Charlie and busy people!
	3:08pm Michael: Hey Charlie and all.
	3:08pm Michael 98145: Busy drinking coffee
	3:08pm coelacanth∅: didn't go to work, didn't go to the doctor, didn't go shopping, didn't make any phone calls, didn't take my car door apart. . . very very busy here
	3:08pm Sem: Very recently read an appreciation of the humour of Mr. Ackroyd. He claims a family friend and gourmand started her bouillabaisse by whizzing a bass in her blender. Dan said he never forgot that. Hey, Phillippe!
	3:09pm coelacanth∅: hi Charlie and busybodies
	3:10pm βrian: Hankering for a bouillabaisse now. (Sans bass, thank you.)
	3:11pm Charlie: and a warm welcome to Yvang, Michael, Michael 98145, coelacanth!
	3:11pm tom tom the pipers son: hi coelacanth....
	3:12pm Charlie: Busybodies and Nothingdoers untie!
	3:12pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Sem @3:08 "bouillabass"
	3:13pm βrian: ↳ Song: "New Body Rhumba" by "LCD Soundsystem" I would never have guessed this is from the current decade.
	3:13pm coelacanth∅: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:11 hey tom tom
	3:14pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Charlie @3:12 are you lesdyxic ?
	3:15pm Charlie: ↳ coelacanth∅ @3:12 haha!
	3:15pm Charlie: ↳ coelacanth∅ @3:14 that was a deliberate transposition!
	3:16pm Charlie: ↳ βrian @3:13 what decade would you have guessed?
	3:16pm Phillippe: Hey Sem! Also, all you other people!
	3:17pm βrian: I was guessing the eighties. Loved it, too.
	3:18pm Charlie: LCD is like 8Ts on adrenaline
	3:18pm Bas NL: Hellos all! Thanks for filling in Charlie!
	3:18pm Sem: ↳ coelacanth∅ @3:12 Just saw that. Funny funny, coel!
	3:19pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Charlie @3:18 i thought it was gay bar's electric six at first
	3:20pm schmutz: Hi hi! Ready for nothing. Searching for snacks.
	3:22pm Charlie: Hi Bas! Nice to see you:) Hello also schmutzig!
	3:22pm βrian: How's the weather your way, Charlie? Miss NH?
	3:26pm Charlie: I do miss NH (and VT) somewhat, but I love it here! Although it is pretty ****** hot!
	3:29pm Wendy del Formaggio: puts on thinking cap I knew there was something I was forgetting today... what was that?... Oh right! I forgot to be on the radio! No wait. That's not it... Now I know! I forgot to LISTEN to the radio. Here I am, remembering!
	3:31pm βrian: ↳ Song: "Give Me Back My Man" by "The B-52's" Planet Claire kept going through my head during a recent road trip.
	3:31pm Charlie: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @3:29 Wendy, you should have had your secretary write it in your appointment book. Nice to see you! Thanks for the fill-in opportunity:)
	3:32pm wenzo: “I’ll give you fish” Hmm
	3:33pm wenzo: Fish and candy… but what about fish candy?
	3:34pm Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: BOWIE. CRANKING THIS.
	3:34pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Song: "It's No Game (Part 1)" by "David Bowie" Ooh yes!
	3:34pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜 @3:34 Same!
	3:35pm Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @3:34 Bowie goes great with EVERYTHING!
	3:35pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Charlie @3:31 Totally. I fired him, though, for writing his own engagements in my appointment book. The noive! Thanks for filling in for me. In about a half-hour, I'm heading to Keene, of all places.
	3:37pm Wendy del Formaggio: That line goes through my head often: "To be insulted my these fascists, it's so degrading."
	3:39pm βrian: In the vein of Gus Bodenheim? Oh, that bed music!
	3:47pm Michael 98145: Play That Beat
	3:48pm Webhamster Henry: Hi there Yacht Lubbers! I'm making some jalfrezi right now.
	3:48pm Michael 98145: and Run Like A Horse
	3:49pm Charlie: Hi Henry. I'll be right over!
	3:52pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Song: "Kwuan Tai Duew Luk Puen (You Should Die by Bullet... I'm going to a Thai restaurant for dinner tonight. Note to self: Do NOT say to the waitperson, "Kwuan tai duew luk puen." I'll never get my food.
	3:52pm Charlie: Haha, no, just stick to your order!
	3:54pm Michael 98145: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @3:52 woo !
	3:54pm Charlie: ↳ Song: "Voom Voom Voma" by "Chika Chika" This song is a Busy Doing Nothing #1 hit!
	3:54pm Michael 98145: chika chika voom voom
	3:55pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Charlie @3:54 I'm singing along! It's fun!
	3:55pm tom tom the pipers son: voma is past tense of voom
	3:58pm Wendy del Formaggio: MINK!!!
	4:05pm Charlie: So far in this set, we've been to Singapore, south India, Thailand, Iran, and Vietnam! Where else will we go today?
	4:06pm Charlie: and where are you going today?
	4:06pm Sem: ↳ Charlie @4:05 Bhutan!
	4:07pm Webhamster Henry: This is such a give-the-drummer-some set.
	4:12pm tom tom the pipers son: @ wendy.. are you still here?
	4:17pm Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: ↳ Song: "Rubberband Lazer" by "Klaus Nomi" NOMI.
	4:18pm Charlie: Nomi means Nomi
	4:19pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Charlie @4:18 haha!
	4:22pm Webhamster Henry: It's back announce time because you can't follow Klaus Nomi.
	4:23pm People Like Us: Good evening - checking to say I'm here!
	4:23pm tom tom the pipers son: heads up for people into lefty ebooks.. verso is having an 80% off sale thru the 9th ....you have to search <verso 80% off ebook sale 2024> to find the webpage
	4:26pm Webhamster Henry: It''s winter in Antarctica, but there's a heat wave there. It's not getting over freezing though.... yet.
	4:27pm spodiodi: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:23 do you get a cut?
	4:29pm Charlie: Hi Vicki!
	4:30pm Michael: Julia Child said hello or my little daughter in her stroller once in Chestnut Hill Mall in Massachusetts.
	4:30pm People Like Us: ↳ Charlie @4:29 hello!!!!
	4:30pm tom tom the pipers son: i tell people abut wfmu and get a huge cut
	4:30pm Phillippe: “Let’s eat, grandpa!” “No, let’s eat grandpa!”
	4:31pm Charlie: ↳ Michael @4:30 You've been touched by greatness!
	4:31pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Perfect Scrambled Eggs" by "Negativland" Wobbly is on Techtonic this evening.
	4:31pm Charlie: ↳ Phillippe @4:30 demonstrating the value of comma placement!
	4:31pm Michael: Well she was but she has no recollection of it.
	4:32pm People Like Us: Caciocavallo!
	4:32pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Charlie @4:31 julia probably wondered how long it would take to roast the little girl as she was waving
	4:34pm Charlie: ↳ People Like Us @4:32 I do have some other cheese here:)
	4:34pm spodiodi: ↳ Webhamster Henry @4:31 hooray!
	4:34pm People Like Us: ↳ Charlie @4:34 Provalone?
	4:35pm Webhamster Henry: Argyll sock sauce is the secret ingredient.
	4:36pm Charlie: ↳ People Like Us @4:34 Manchego!
	4:37pm People Like Us: ↳ Charlie @4:36 media.sas.upenn.edu...
	4:37pm Webhamster Henry: I'm here for the hippy birdfood.
	4:40pm βrian: "Screaming Jay Hawkins is cool!"
	4:42pm Charlie: That's Screaming Jay Hawkins and he's my main man, so bug off!
	4:43pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Cheese Alarm 2023" by "Robyn Hitchcock" A little tip of the cheese knife to Wendy...
	4:43pm Roberto: Charlos!
	4:45pm People Like Us: oh yay
	4:45pm Charlie: Hola Roberto:)
	4:45pm Charlie: let's say it again....
	4:45pm People Like Us: let me just say it again
	4:46pm People Like Us: haha
	4:46pm Bryan: "horse cheese"?
	4:46pm Hubig Pie: Is this the Food Network?
	4:47pm Bas NL: Snack time!
	4:50pm dave wuz here: ↳ Song: "Life Is a Minestrone" by "10cc" ive had this song living in my head for 2 weeks
	4:50pm 1MT: Hi Charlie! Glad I made it in time to catch the minestrone
	4:51pm Michael 98145: ↳ Bas NL @4:47 Indeed!
	4:52pm listener james from westwood: Yesss! Piece a pie pie pie?
	4:53pm Charlie: Hubig Pie! Piece a pie?
	4:53pm People Like Us: hahahaha this could just go on forever (Piece a Pie) - I can imagine Don laughing his head off making this
	4:53pm People Like Us: hahahaha this could just go on forever (Piece a Pie) - I can imagine Don laughing his head off making this
	4:53pm Charlie: Hi dave wuz - me too!
	4:54pm People Like Us: twice even
	4:54pm Webhamster Henry: It's such a classic piece (of pie).
	4:54pm Charlie: 1 Mike Tango! welcome:)
	4:54pm Charlie: ↳ People Like Us @4:54 I love a joke that repeats itself.
	4:54pm Charlie: I love a joke that repeats itself.
	4:54pm Roberto: I've always pictured the "piece of pie" guy as Tom Poston.
	4:55pm Hubig Pie: I could go for a hamburger sandwich with the French fry garniture.
	4:55pm People Like Us: ha ha
	4:55pm listener james from westwood: ↳ People Like Us @4:53 Listened to this on a plane and I had no way to explain to the surrounding passengers what the hell I was listening to.
	4:55pm 1MT: Hi Charlie, and everybody. Glad I made it for the soup course, and I sure wouldn't want to miss the dessert... I love pie...
	4:55pm listener james from westwood: ↳ Roberto @4:54 Definitely seeing this scene in black & white in my head.
	4:56pm Dean: The one time I had the privilege of dining at Thomas Keller's French Laundry I overheard this very conversation at an adjacent table.
	4:56pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ listener james from westwood @4:55 I'm visualizing a tower of half eaten pie plates
	4:57pm schmutz: Lol
	4:58pm Roberto: Piece of Piebud?
	4:59pm tom tom the pipers son: a long time ago i listened to sports radio and wondered why because just two or three topics are endlessly recycled but i realized it turns into music like this
	5:01pm Hubig Pie: They have good hamburgers cuz they use Hamburger Helper which is much better than Tuna Helper.
	5:01pm People Like Us: I love how hardcore long this is
	5:01pm Charlie: ↳ People Like Us @5:01 Me too!
	5:02pm listener james from westwood: Ah, but is the pie yellow and, er, rectangular?
	5:02pm bigplanetnoise: Hey Charlie! Really enjoying the show!
	5:03pm listener james from westwood: ↳ Song: "Tomatoes" by "Hot Butter" Gotta love an "Odd Couple" soundtrack cover!
	5:04pm Charlie: heya, bigplanetnoise!
	5:13pm Webhamster Henry: Citizen Kafka and the Wretched Refuse String Band always sang the Palisades Park Theme song at every show!
	5:14pm Charlie: ↳ Webhamster Henry @5:13 I did not know that! I often have it in my head:)
	5:15pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Popcorn" by "Pugs" blog.wfmu.org...
	5:15pm Charlie: special lyrics: instead of "swings all day and after dark," "Watch your wallet after dark"!
	5:17pm Charlie: ↳ Webhamster Henry @5:15 Wow, I had no idea there were so many versions of Popcorn!
	5:21pm tom tom the pipers son: this... after the great carmen mccrae version last time
	5:21pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:21 charlie was that you?
	5:22pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Charlie @5:17 Beware of the Blog - the gift that keeps on giving!
	5:22pm Charlie: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:21 No, but I have played it in the past
	5:22pm tom tom the pipers son: may have been larry grogan...
	5:23pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Webhamster Henry @5:13 It was in a medley of other ads like the Castro Convertable ad!
	5:23pm Charlie: ↳ Webhamster Henry @5:23 I love that one too! I've got a recording of it around here somewhere.
	5:28pm Michael 98145: ↳ Song: "Bebete Vãobora / Criola / Cadê Tereza" by "Jorge ... huzzah !
	5:29pm Michael 98145: Where's Tereza?
	5:30pm Charlie: Or who is Tereza?
	5:31pm Charlie: "Santa Teresa is the name of a neighborhood in the city of Rio de Janeiro" (wikipedia)
	5:32pm Michael 98145: Ah
	5:37pm Roberto: ↳ Song: "Imuongori (Nurse)" by "Obed Ngobeni & The Kurhula... Waitress-in-a-cocktail-bar vibes here.
	5:39pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Take a Giant Step" by "The Monkees" This is a very nice song.
	5:42pm Charlie: ↳ Webhamster Henry @5:39 Gerry and Carole come through again!
	5:42pm tom tom the pipers son: wasn't sure of the span of betty carter's career but this sounds 50's
	5:44pm tom tom the pipers son: was there a words/music split with king/ goffin or did they share duties
	5:45pm Charlie: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:42 Betty - 1958!
	5:45pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Charlie @5:45 thx c.l.
	5:46pm Charlie: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:44 That's a good question! I'll have to look into that. Carole later worked with other lyricists, but also wrote lyrics, so . . . dunno:)
	5:46pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Charlie @5:46 ah...
	5:49pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "In Your Head" by "Nilüfer Yanya" pretty bangin'
	5:51pm Charlie: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:49 ain't it though
	5:51pm Charlie: "I was much too busy being busy, wasn't I?"
	5:52pm βrian: The business of doing nothing, as it were.
	5:52pm tom tom the pipers son: thanks. charlie ...always a pleasure hearing what you come up with
	5:52pm People Like Us: thank you Charlie :) xxxx
	5:53pm βrian: Ayeh. It was a fun show.
	5:53pm bradford: Thanks, Charlie!
	5:53pm Michael: Outstanding show. Thanks as always!
	5:54pm Kim Sorise: Hey Charlie! Sounds great!
	5:55pm spodiodi: thnks, Charlie, pleasure doing nothing witchu!
	5:56pm Charlie: Hi Kim! Stay tuned for Global Grease with Kim! wfmu.org...
	5:56pm 1MT: Loved it Charlie! Thanks a bunch!
	5:56pm Charlie: Thanks for being here today everybody! See you soon:)
	5:57pm listener james from westwood: Thanks a ton, Charlie! I shall, as they say, keep it locked for Kim!
	5:57pm Bas NL: Thanks Charlie! Nice show!
	5:58pm schmutz: that was a treat, thanks Charlie!
	7:03pm coelacanth∅: (belated) Thanks Charlie!

Busy Doing Nothing with Charlie: Playlist from August 5, 2024

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Maximum Joy	Building Bridges "Building Bridges" by "Maximum Joy"	Unlimited (1979-1983)	Crippled Dick Hot Wax	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
LCD Soundsystem	New Body Rhumba "New Body Rhumba" by "LCD Soundsystem"	New Body Rhumba single (From The Film "White Noise")	DFA / Columbia	0:06:05 (Pop-up)
Roy Ayers Ubiquity	It Ain't Your Sign It's Your Mind	Everybody Loves The Sunshine	Polydor	0:13:07 (Pop-up)
L'étrangleuse	Les Pins (watch the video) "Les Pins" by "L'étrangleuse"	Ambiance Argile	Compagnie 4000	0:16:24 (Pop-up)
Lijadu Sisters	Orere - Elejigbo "Orere - Elejigbo" by "Lijadu Sisters"	Horizon Unlimited	Afrodisia	0:19:51 (Pop-up)
Meridian Brothers	En el Caribe estoy triste	Mi Latinoamérica Sufre	Ansonia	0:23:57 (Pop-up)
The B-52's	Give Me Back My Man "Give Me Back My Man" by "The B-52's"	Wild Planet	Warner Bros.	0:28:56 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	It's No Game (Part 1)	Scary Monsters	RCA	0:32:47 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Tipsy	Bunny Kick "Bunny Kick" by "Tipsy"	Uh-Oh!	Asphodel	0:36:43 (Pop-up)
Chang Siao Ying	I Miss You Forever	Asian Takeaways (various artists)	Normal	0:42:13 (Pop-up)
Hamsalekha	Nallavan Nallavan (Be A Good Boy)	Play That Beat Mr. Raja (Selected Oddities From The Tamil Film Industry 1984-1991)	Cartilage	0:44:01 (Pop-up)
Chailai Chaiyata & Sawanee Patana	Kwuan Tai Duew Luk Puen (You Should Die by Bullets)	Thai Pop Spectacular 1960s - 1980s (various artists)	Sublime Frequencies	0:49:03 (Pop-up)
Chika Chika	Voom Voom Voma "Voom Voom Voma" by "Chika Chika"	Chika Chika	Win	0:52:25 (Pop-up)
Soli	Negar "Negar" by "Soli"	Pomegranates: Persian Pop, Funk, Folk, and Psych of The 60s and 70s (various artists)	Finders Keepers	0:56:41 (Pop-up)
Thu Hien	Hoa Cau Vuon Trau "Hoa Cau Vuon Trau" by "Thu Hien"	Ho! #1: Roady Music From Vietnam (various artists)	Trikont	1:01:01 (Pop-up)
Maggie Hammond	High Flying Bird "High Flying Bird" by "Maggie Hammond"	Dream Babes, vol. 5: Folk Rock and Faithfull (various artists)	RPM	1:05:03 (Pop-up)
Paula Tsui	Forward We Go "Forward We Go" by "Paula Tsui"	Greatest Hits collection	Sony Music Hong Kong	1:08:16 (Pop-up)
Bones in the Walls	Black Hole "Black Hole" by "Bones in the Walls"	Unknown Worlds	Bones in the Walls	1:11:51 (Pop-up)
Klaus Nomi	Rubberband Lazer "Rubberband Lazer" by "Klaus Nomi"	Eclipsed: The Best Of Klaus Nomi	Razor & Tie	1:16:03 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Las Comadrejas	Oaxacatelas "Oaxacatelas" by "Las Comadrejas"	We are Ugly, But We Have the Music	Comad	1:20:11 (Pop-up)
Jack Beaver	Workaday World "Workaday World" by "Jack Beaver"	Archives 1 - Light Activity	KPM	1:24:37 (Pop-up)
Kewpie cooking show	theme "theme" by "Kewpie cooking show"	Japanese TV cooking show		1:25:54 (Pop-up)
Ed Special	Julia Child Speaks Her Mind	Ed Special website		1:26:24 (Pop-up)
Negativland	Perfect Scrambled Eggs	Potatoes: A Collection Of Folk Songs From Ralph Records (various artists)	Ralph	1:29:03 (Pop-up)
Bob & Ray	Mary McGoon's Recipe for Frozen Ginger Ale Salad	Classic Bob & Ray Volume One (cassette box)	RadioArt	1:31:39 (Pop-up)
DJ Chazaloo	Kraft cheese commercial cutup			1:33:52 (Pop-up)
Abbey Lavine	Tahini Party "Tahini Party" by "Abbey Lavine"	Links Outta Here (various artists)	Generator Sound Art	1:35:09 (Pop-up)
Eszter Balint & John Lurie	TV dinner scene	Stranger Than Paradise		1:38:03 (Pop-up)
Mrs. Grossman	Home Economics "Home Economics" by "Mrs. Grossman"			1:38:57 (Pop-up)
Robyn Hitchcock	Cheese Alarm 2023	demo	Robyn Hitchcock	1:40:34 (Pop-up)
People Like Us	Caciocavallo "Caciocavallo" by "People Like Us"	Thermos Explorer	Cutting Hedge	1:43:33 (Pop-up)
10cc	Life Is a Minestrone "Life Is a Minestrone" by "10cc"	The Original Soundtrack	Mercury	1:47:03 (Pop-up)
Negativland	Piece a Pie "Piece a Pie" by "Negativland"	No Business	Seeland	1:51:31 (Pop-up)
Burt Bacharach	Bond Street "Bond Street" by "Burt Bacharach"	Reach Out	A&M	2:00:01 (Pop-up)
Hot Butter	Tomatoes "Tomatoes" by "Hot Butter"	Popcorn	Musicor	2:02:00 (Pop-up)
Cedric King Palmer	Shopping Street	Archives 1 - Light Activity	KPM	2:04:16 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Shudder to Think	pH Balanced "pH Balanced" by "Shudder to Think"	High Art (soundtrack)	Velvel	2:05:23 (Pop-up)
Steve Clayton	Come On Over (Palisades Amusement Park jingle)	Palisades Amusement Park		2:10:44 (Pop-up)
Pugs	Popcorn "Popcorn" by "Pugs"	Bite the Red Knee	Casual Tonalities	2:11:28 (Pop-up)
Pat Robertson's Police State of Love	Telephone Line	Seventies Mutation (various artists)	Constructo Tower	2:14:06 (Pop-up)
TheTeethe	Don't Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)	Wave Off	theteethe	2:18:29 (Pop-up)
Descendents	Wendy "Wendy" by "Descendents"	Duck and Cover (various artists)	SST	2:21:13 (Pop-up)
Dennis Brown	Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes	If I Follow My Heart	Studio One	2:23:32 (Pop-up)
Jorge Ben	Bebete Vãobora / Criola / Cadê Tereza	10 Anos Depois	Phonogram	2:26:18 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Artie Schroeck Implosion	Amy's Theme	A Spoonful of Lovin'	Verve	2:30:51 (Pop-up)
Obed Ngobeni & The Kurhula Sisters	Imuongori (Nurse)	My Wife Bought a Taxi	Shanachie	2:34:12 (Pop-up)
The Monkees	Take a Giant Step "Take a Giant Step" by "The Monkees"	The Monkees	Colgems	2:37:03 (Pop-up)
Betty Carter	All I've Got "All I've Got" by "Betty Carter"	I Can't Help It	Impulse!	2:39:32 (Pop-up)
Arling & Cameron	Speeding Down The Highway - Fastest Girl Around	All-In	Emperor Norton	2:41:47 (Pop-up)
Nilüfer Yanya	In Your Head "In Your Head" by "Nilüfer Yanya"	Miss Universe	ATO	2:45:34 (Pop-up)
Noel Harrison	Mrs. Williams' Rose	Collage	Reprise	2:49:02 (Pop-up)
Khruangbin	Hold Me Up (Thank You)	A La Sala	Dead Oceans	2:51:35 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Johnny Beecher	Sax Fifth Avenue "Sax Fifth Avenue" by "Johnny Beecher"	45 played at 33	Warner Bros.	2:55:18 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	8/3 10:49pm Listening Out There: I cheated and wrote this comment ahead of time and nyah!
	4:30pm Charlie: LOT - can you listen to the show before I do it and let me know how it was? Thanks!
	2:59pm listener james from westwood: Afternoon, Charlie and all!
	3:00pm βrian: J.P. Sartre is listening, existentially, and reflecting … On Being Busy and Doing Nothingness.
	3:01pm bradford: Hey there Charlie & all!
	3:01pm tom tom the pipers son: hello charlie! ...and listeners
	3:02pm spodiodi: good afternoon, Charlie and all love the playlist image
	3:03pm Sem: Charlie!
	3:03pm Charlie: Howdy, James, βrian, bradford, tom tom, spodiodi, Sem!
	3:03pm Sem: The inventor of the Bass-o-matic standing behind a chicken? This way madness lies.
	3:05pm Charlie: The sketch is great! www.youtube.com...
	3:05pm Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: Heyo! Plugging away at work, here for it!
	3:06pm Phillippe: Howdy!
	3:07pm Charlie: Plug away, Threemoons! Hiya Phillippe!
	3:08pm Yvang: Hi Charlie and busy people!
	3:08pm Michael: Hey Charlie and all.
	3:08pm Michael 98145: Busy drinking coffee
	3:08pm coelacanth∅: didn't go to work, didn't go to the doctor, didn't go shopping, didn't make any phone calls, didn't take my car door apart. . . very very busy here
	3:08pm Sem: Very recently read an appreciation of the humour of Mr. Ackroyd. He claims a family friend and gourmand started her bouillabaisse by whizzing a bass in her blender. Dan said he never forgot that. Hey, Phillippe!
	3:09pm coelacanth∅: hi Charlie and busybodies
	3:10pm βrian: Hankering for a bouillabaisse now. (Sans bass, thank you.)
	3:11pm Charlie: and a warm welcome to Yvang, Michael, Michael 98145, coelacanth!
	3:11pm tom tom the pipers son: hi coelacanth....
	3:12pm Charlie: Busybodies and Nothingdoers untie!
	3:12pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Sem @3:08 "bouillabass"
	3:13pm βrian: ↳ Song: "New Body Rhumba" by "LCD Soundsystem" I would never have guessed this is from the current decade.
	3:13pm coelacanth∅: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:11 hey tom tom
	3:14pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Charlie @3:12 are you lesdyxic ?
	3:15pm Charlie: ↳ coelacanth∅ @3:12 haha!
	3:15pm Charlie: ↳ coelacanth∅ @3:14 that was a deliberate transposition!
	3:16pm Charlie: ↳ βrian @3:13 what decade would you have guessed?
	3:16pm Phillippe: Hey Sem! Also, all you other people!
	3:17pm βrian: I was guessing the eighties. Loved it, too.
	3:18pm Charlie: LCD is like 8Ts on adrenaline
	3:18pm Bas NL: Hellos all! Thanks for filling in Charlie!
	3:18pm Sem: ↳ coelacanth∅ @3:12 Just saw that. Funny funny, coel!
	3:19pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Charlie @3:18 i thought it was gay bar's electric six at first
	3:20pm schmutz: Hi hi! Ready for nothing. Searching for snacks.
	3:22pm Charlie: Hi Bas! Nice to see you:) Hello also schmutzig!
	3:22pm βrian: How's the weather your way, Charlie? Miss NH?
	3:26pm Charlie: I do miss NH (and VT) somewhat, but I love it here! Although it is pretty ****** hot!
	3:29pm Wendy del Formaggio: puts on thinking cap I knew there was something I was forgetting today... what was that?... Oh right! I forgot to be on the radio! No wait. That's not it... Now I know! I forgot to LISTEN to the radio. Here I am, remembering!
	3:31pm βrian: ↳ Song: "Give Me Back My Man" by "The B-52's" Planet Claire kept going through my head during a recent road trip.
	3:31pm Charlie: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @3:29 Wendy, you should have had your secretary write it in your appointment book. Nice to see you! Thanks for the fill-in opportunity:)
	3:32pm wenzo: “I’ll give you fish” Hmm
	3:33pm wenzo: Fish and candy… but what about fish candy?
	3:34pm Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: BOWIE. CRANKING THIS.
	3:34pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Song: "It's No Game (Part 1)" by "David Bowie" Ooh yes!
	3:34pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜 @3:34 Same!
	3:35pm Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @3:34 Bowie goes great with EVERYTHING!
	3:35pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Charlie @3:31 Totally. I fired him, though, for writing his own engagements in my appointment book. The noive! Thanks for filling in for me. In about a half-hour, I'm heading to Keene, of all places.
	3:37pm Wendy del Formaggio: That line goes through my head often: "To be insulted my these fascists, it's so degrading."
	3:39pm βrian: In the vein of Gus Bodenheim? Oh, that bed music!
	3:47pm Michael 98145: Play That Beat
	3:48pm Webhamster Henry: Hi there Yacht Lubbers! I'm making some jalfrezi right now.
	3:48pm Michael 98145: and Run Like A Horse
	3:49pm Charlie: Hi Henry. I'll be right over!
	3:52pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Song: "Kwuan Tai Duew Luk Puen (You Should Die by Bullet... I'm going to a Thai restaurant for dinner tonight. Note to self: Do NOT say to the waitperson, "Kwuan tai duew luk puen." I'll never get my food.
	3:52pm Charlie: Haha, no, just stick to your order!
	3:54pm Michael 98145: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @3:52 woo !
	3:54pm Charlie: ↳ Song: "Voom Voom Voma" by "Chika Chika" This song is a Busy Doing Nothing #1 hit!
	3:54pm Michael 98145: chika chika voom voom
	3:55pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Charlie @3:54 I'm singing along! It's fun!
	3:55pm tom tom the pipers son: voma is past tense of voom
	3:58pm Wendy del Formaggio: MINK!!!
	4:05pm Charlie: So far in this set, we've been to Singapore, south India, Thailand, Iran, and Vietnam! Where else will we go today?
	4:06pm Charlie: and where are you going today?
	4:06pm Sem: ↳ Charlie @4:05 Bhutan!
	4:07pm Webhamster Henry: This is such a give-the-drummer-some set.
	4:12pm tom tom the pipers son: @ wendy.. are you still here?
	4:17pm Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: ↳ Song: "Rubberband Lazer" by "Klaus Nomi" NOMI.
	4:18pm Charlie: Nomi means Nomi
	4:19pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Charlie @4:18 haha!
	4:22pm Webhamster Henry: It's back announce time because you can't follow Klaus Nomi.
	4:23pm People Like Us: Good evening - checking to say I'm here!
	4:23pm tom tom the pipers son: heads up for people into lefty ebooks.. verso is having an 80% off sale thru the 9th ....you have to search <verso 80% off ebook sale 2024> to find the webpage
	4:26pm Webhamster Henry: It''s winter in Antarctica, but there's a heat wave there. It's not getting over freezing though.... yet.
	4:27pm spodiodi: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:23 do you get a cut?
	4:29pm Charlie: Hi Vicki!
	4:30pm Michael: Julia Child said hello or my little daughter in her stroller once in Chestnut Hill Mall in Massachusetts.
	4:30pm People Like Us: ↳ Charlie @4:29 hello!!!!
	4:30pm tom tom the pipers son: i tell people abut wfmu and get a huge cut
	4:30pm Phillippe: “Let’s eat, grandpa!” “No, let’s eat grandpa!”
	4:31pm Charlie: ↳ Michael @4:30 You've been touched by greatness!
	4:31pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Perfect Scrambled Eggs" by "Negativland" Wobbly is on Techtonic this evening.
	4:31pm Charlie: ↳ Phillippe @4:30 demonstrating the value of comma placement!
	4:31pm Michael: Well she was but she has no recollection of it.
	4:32pm People Like Us: Caciocavallo!
	4:32pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Charlie @4:31 julia probably wondered how long it would take to roast the little girl as she was waving
	4:34pm Charlie: ↳ People Like Us @4:32 I do have some other cheese here:)
	4:34pm spodiodi: ↳ Webhamster Henry @4:31 hooray!
	4:34pm People Like Us: ↳ Charlie @4:34 Provalone?
	4:35pm Webhamster Henry: Argyll sock sauce is the secret ingredient.
	4:36pm Charlie: ↳ People Like Us @4:34 Manchego!
	4:37pm People Like Us: ↳ Charlie @4:36 media.sas.upenn.edu...
	4:37pm Webhamster Henry: I'm here for the hippy birdfood.
	4:40pm βrian: "Screaming Jay Hawkins is cool!"
	4:42pm Charlie: That's Screaming Jay Hawkins and he's my main man, so bug off!
	4:43pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Cheese Alarm 2023" by "Robyn Hitchcock" A little tip of the cheese knife to Wendy...
	4:43pm Roberto: Charlos!
	4:45pm People Like Us: oh yay
	4:45pm Charlie: Hola Roberto:)
	4:45pm Charlie: let's say it again....
	4:45pm People Like Us: let me just say it again
	4:46pm People Like Us: haha
	4:46pm Bryan: "horse cheese"?
	4:46pm Hubig Pie: Is this the Food Network?
	4:47pm Bas NL: Snack time!
	4:50pm dave wuz here: ↳ Song: "Life Is a Minestrone" by "10cc" ive had this song living in my head for 2 weeks
	4:50pm 1MT: Hi Charlie! Glad I made it in time to catch the minestrone
	4:51pm Michael 98145: ↳ Bas NL @4:47 Indeed!
	4:52pm listener james from westwood: Yesss! Piece a pie pie pie?
	4:53pm Charlie: Hubig Pie! Piece a pie?
	4:53pm People Like Us: hahahaha this could just go on forever (Piece a Pie) - I can imagine Don laughing his head off making this
	4:53pm People Like Us: hahahaha this could just go on forever (Piece a Pie) - I can imagine Don laughing his head off making this
	4:53pm Charlie: Hi dave wuz - me too!
	4:54pm People Like Us: twice even
	4:54pm Webhamster Henry: It's such a classic piece (of pie).
	4:54pm Charlie: 1 Mike Tango! welcome:)
	4:54pm Charlie: ↳ People Like Us @4:54 I love a joke that repeats itself.
	4:54pm Charlie: I love a joke that repeats itself.
	4:54pm Roberto: I've always pictured the "piece of pie" guy as Tom Poston.
	4:55pm Hubig Pie: I could go for a hamburger sandwich with the French fry garniture.
	4:55pm People Like Us: ha ha
	4:55pm listener james from westwood: ↳ People Like Us @4:53 Listened to this on a plane and I had no way to explain to the surrounding passengers what the hell I was listening to.
	4:55pm 1MT: Hi Charlie, and everybody. Glad I made it for the soup course, and I sure wouldn't want to miss the dessert... I love pie...
	4:55pm listener james from westwood: ↳ Roberto @4:54 Definitely seeing this scene in black & white in my head.
	4:56pm Dean: The one time I had the privilege of dining at Thomas Keller's French Laundry I overheard this very conversation at an adjacent table.
	4:56pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ listener james from westwood @4:55 I'm visualizing a tower of half eaten pie plates
	4:57pm schmutz: Lol
	4:58pm Roberto: Piece of Piebud?
	4:59pm tom tom the pipers son: a long time ago i listened to sports radio and wondered why because just two or three topics are endlessly recycled but i realized it turns into music like this
	5:01pm Hubig Pie: They have good hamburgers cuz they use Hamburger Helper which is much better than Tuna Helper.
	5:01pm People Like Us: I love how hardcore long this is
	5:01pm Charlie: ↳ People Like Us @5:01 Me too!
	5:02pm listener james from westwood: Ah, but is the pie yellow and, er, rectangular?
	5:02pm bigplanetnoise: Hey Charlie! Really enjoying the show!
	5:03pm listener james from westwood: ↳ Song: "Tomatoes" by "Hot Butter" Gotta love an "Odd Couple" soundtrack cover!
	5:04pm Charlie: heya, bigplanetnoise!
	5:13pm Webhamster Henry: Citizen Kafka and the Wretched Refuse String Band always sang the Palisades Park Theme song at every show!
	5:14pm Charlie: ↳ Webhamster Henry @5:13 I did not know that! I often have it in my head:)
	5:15pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Popcorn" by "Pugs" blog.wfmu.org...
	5:15pm Charlie: special lyrics: instead of "swings all day and after dark," "Watch your wallet after dark"!
	5:17pm Charlie: ↳ Webhamster Henry @5:15 Wow, I had no idea there were so many versions of Popcorn!
	5:21pm tom tom the pipers son: this... after the great carmen mccrae version last time
	5:21pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:21 charlie was that you?
	5:22pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Charlie @5:17 Beware of the Blog - the gift that keeps on giving!
	5:22pm Charlie: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:21 No, but I have played it in the past
	5:22pm tom tom the pipers son: may have been larry grogan...
	5:23pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Webhamster Henry @5:13 It was in a medley of other ads like the Castro Convertable ad!
	5:23pm Charlie: ↳ Webhamster Henry @5:23 I love that one too! I've got a recording of it around here somewhere.
	5:28pm Michael 98145: ↳ Song: "Bebete Vãobora / Criola / Cadê Tereza" by "Jorge ... huzzah !
	5:29pm Michael 98145: Where's Tereza?
	5:30pm Charlie: Or who is Tereza?
	5:31pm Charlie: "Santa Teresa is the name of a neighborhood in the city of Rio de Janeiro" (wikipedia)
	5:32pm Michael 98145: Ah
	5:37pm Roberto: ↳ Song: "Imuongori (Nurse)" by "Obed Ngobeni & The Kurhula... Waitress-in-a-cocktail-bar vibes here.
	5:39pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Take a Giant Step" by "The Monkees" This is a very nice song.
	5:42pm Charlie: ↳ Webhamster Henry @5:39 Gerry and Carole come through again!
	5:42pm tom tom the pipers son: wasn't sure of the span of betty carter's career but this sounds 50's
	5:44pm tom tom the pipers son: was there a words/music split with king/ goffin or did they share duties
	5:45pm Charlie: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:42 Betty - 1958!
	5:45pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Charlie @5:45 thx c.l.
	5:46pm Charlie: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:44 That's a good question! I'll have to look into that. Carole later worked with other lyricists, but also wrote lyrics, so . . . dunno:)
	5:46pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Charlie @5:46 ah...
	5:49pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "In Your Head" by "Nilüfer Yanya" pretty bangin'
	5:51pm Charlie: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:49 ain't it though
	5:51pm Charlie: "I was much too busy being busy, wasn't I?"
	5:52pm βrian: The business of doing nothing, as it were.
	5:52pm tom tom the pipers son: thanks. charlie ...always a pleasure hearing what you come up with
	5:52pm People Like Us: thank you Charlie :) xxxx
	5:53pm βrian: Ayeh. It was a fun show.
	5:53pm bradford: Thanks, Charlie!
	5:53pm Michael: Outstanding show. Thanks as always!
	5:54pm Kim Sorise: Hey Charlie! Sounds great!
	5:55pm spodiodi: thnks, Charlie, pleasure doing nothing witchu!
	5:56pm Charlie: Hi Kim! Stay tuned for Global Grease with Kim! wfmu.org...
	5:56pm 1MT: Loved it Charlie! Thanks a bunch!
	5:56pm Charlie: Thanks for being here today everybody! See you soon:)
	5:57pm listener james from westwood: Thanks a ton, Charlie! I shall, as they say, keep it locked for Kim!
	5:57pm Bas NL: Thanks Charlie! Nice show!
	5:58pm schmutz: that was a treat, thanks Charlie!
	7:03pm coelacanth∅: (belated) Thanks Charlie!

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