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Favoriting March 9, 2011: Help us solve our math problem. (Marathon Week 2: co-host Trent)

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Artist Track Album Approx. start time
Lee Morgan  Yes I Can, No You Can't (edit)   Favoriting The Gigolo  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Marco Benevento  You Know I'm No Good   Favoriting Between the Needles & Nightfall  0:03:44 (Pop-up)
 
Fountains of Wayne  Strapped for Cash   Favoriting Traffic and Weather  0:14:13 (Pop-up)
Amanda  Metropolitan Mama   Favoriting Let's Get Plastered and Raid Circus World  0:17:23 (Pop-up)
 
Lee Morgan  Boy, What a Night   Favoriting The Sidewinder  0:32:47 (Pop-up)
Amanda  Sway to the Waves   Favoriting Let's Get Plastered and Raid Circus World  0:40:51 (Pop-up)
 
Kleenex  Yours is Mine   Favoriting Live Recordings, TV-Clips & Roadmovie  0:51:12 (Pop-up)
Flaming Lips  If I Only Had a Brain   Favoriting Stubbs the Zombie (The Soundtrack)  0:54:20 (Pop-up)
 
Mel Blanc  Money   Favoriting The Best of Mel Blanc, Man of 1000 Voices  1:08:55 (Pop-up)
Eartha Kitt  Just an Old-Fashioned Girl   Favoriting Miss Kitt, To You  1:11:11 (Pop-up)
Amanda  Empire Le Funk   Favoriting Let's Get Plastered and Raid Circus World  1:13:54 (Pop-up)
 
Lubos Fiser  Talk With Grandmother / The Letter / The Sermon   Favoriting Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (film soundtrack)  1:28:31 (Pop-up)
 
Magnetic Fields  Better Things   Favoriting Realism  1:40:48 (Pop-up)
Super Furry Animals  (Drawing) Rings Around the World   Favoriting Rings Around the World  1:44:03 (Pop-up)
Hank Williams III  Pills I Took   Favoriting Straight to Hell  1:46:31 (Pop-up)
Amanda  What a Bummer!   Favoriting Let's Get Plastered and Raid Circus World  1:50:03 (Pop-up)
 
Betty Hutton & Howard Keel  Anything You Can Do   Favoriting Annie Get Your Gun (film soundtrack)  2:03:05 (Pop-up)
Amanda  Got My Mind Set On You   Favoriting Let's Get Plastered and Raid Circus World  2:06:40 (Pop-up)
 
Thomas  Thomas Sings the Beatles   Favoriting Thomas Sings  2:16:39 (Pop-up)
King Short Shirt  Push   Favoriting Road March Classics  2:22:49 (Pop-up)
 
Professor Elemental  Animal Magic   Favoriting The Indifference Engine  2:44:52 (Pop-up)
Matryomin Ensemble Mable  Caravan   Favoriting Matryomin Ensemble Mable  2:47:34 (Pop-up)
Shooby Taylor, The Human Horn  Over the Rainbow   Favoriting Shooby Sings with Erroll Garner  2:50:55 (Pop-up)
 


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Listener comments!

  3:02pm
Matt from Springfield:

Sorry Charlie, only the truly vicious predators can give out high interest loans!
  3:03pm
trent:

Money is More Delicious than Ever - On WFMU
  3:05pm
Richard from Venezuela:

Greetings to irwin, trent and amanda.
  3:05pm
glenn:

unfortunately, charlie has lots of willing customers, most of whom wouldn't know compound interest if it bit them on the ass.
  3:10pm
Danne D:

Good luck Irwin!
Crush Ken!
  3:11pm
Ike:

Hey you dirty pinko Commies in Europe:
$15 = only €10.79 right now
$75 = €53.93 now
$180 = €129.44
$30.42/month = €21.88/month
  3:12pm
nestor:

you still have the best voice in radio. totes.
  3:12pm
Adam from Lynnwood, Washington:

1-800-989-9368 or wfmu.org. ;-)
  3:12pm
PMD:

I'm gonna pledge, I swear!
  3:13pm
j:

not the first time someone pledged for finewine at a weird time this marathon
  3:14pm
AnAnonymousParty:

Suppose I had $75 in my pocket and was considering spending it either on candy and gum, or WFMU. What should I do?
  3:15pm
Listener David:

Amanda is the shiznit!!!!
  3:16pm
$75:

give me to Irwin
  3:16pm
aaron in chicago:

amanda isnt repellent so much as.. almost supernaturally distracting
  3:18pm
dave:

Spend the 75 bucks on FMU; when you get the Amanda CD, play it to a room full of people who have candy and gum. Maybe play it in a candy store. When they drop their candy and gum and flee, collect your new candy and gum.

With WFMU, you have your cake and you eat it too.
  3:18pm
Danne D:

Well AnAnonymous party if you pledge to Ken's show your $75 would get you some tasty scotcheroos.

Pledging to Dave Emory's show would get you an "Anti-Fascist Snack Food Item"
  3:18pm
glenn:

i guess it depends, ananonymousparty. do you have a sweet tooth or a sweet ear?
  3:18pm
Danne D:

(for $75)
  3:19pm
?:

Amanda's just... old. That is, it was kind of entertaining, even humorous the first few times you hear her but eventually just gets irritating. Personally, more than once I've muted the stream and switched to listening to something else for a while when she's come on.
  3:19pm
gum & candy:

we don't like Irwin.
give him the cash.
  3:20pm
Matt from Springfield:

@Danne: According to Joe McG, the "anti-fascist snack food item" is: sunflower seeds.
  3:20pm
Robert:

It would appear Amanda's favortie word (or that of her ghostwriter brother) was "stink". That's part of why her output can be characterized as what a couple of WMFU air people refer to as "irritainment".
  3:21pm
Matt from Springfield:

Ah, Amanda dances the line between metropolitan sophisication, and primitive swagger, with such finesse.
  3:21pm
Richard from Venezuela:

Amanda right now <3
  3:22pm
Robert:

She's lactating now?
  3:22pm
Amanda Fan Club President:

kiss the collective cookie butthole and fork over the dough already people.
  3:23pm
ginger tim:

How can you not want to be 8 years old and be Amanda??
  3:23pm
dave from ks:

,,,can i getta refund?
  3:23pm
Wondering:

Does Amanda get royalties?
  3:23pm
AnAnonymousParty:

Yeah, but then I'll have to add 'listening to WFMU' to my ever growing list of things I can't do while chewing gum at the same time.
  3:25pm
Peter K.:

Amanda's backing track on that one was "The Glamorous Life" by Sheila E.
  3:26pm
larzini:

Amanda's swagger destroyed that Sheila E. beat
  3:26pm
"Amanda Scraps":

NOOOOOOOOO!
(sobs into Don't Mess With The Power Child cover)
  3:27pm
Matt from Springfield:

@Peter: Thanks! I always like to know the backing tracks of Amanda recordings.
  3:27pm
Brian in Madison, WI:

Hoof and mouth this year should be two hours of karaoke to Amanda.
  3:27pm
?:

Is Amanda over? Is it safe to turn the stream back on?
  3:28pm
!:

it's still on!
  3:28pm
Danne D:

(hopefully not Bolivian Sunflower seeds...)
http://www.tni.org/es/archives/act/18444
  3:29pm
G:

Amanda's a warlock-ess. Haterz drule.
  3:29pm
Brian in Madison, WI:

I'm starting an Amanda cover band. Anyone know a singer who can pull it off?
  3:29pm
dave:

?: Irwin said he was going to keep playing Amanda until you pledge. Let us know when you've done that, we'll pass along the word, and he'll stop playing Amanda.
  3:33pm
Keanu:

Don't go under 50 mph!
  3:33pm
chris in madison:

I want IN on this AMANDA Cover band...
  3:33pm
chris in madison:

GAH! Does the $75 put me in the runnign for the THOMAS CD!?!
  3:34pm
Brian in Madison, WI:

Welcome to the band, Chris.

Anyone else?
  3:35pm
chris in madison:

@Brian: I don't play a thing (YET), but we could definitely get the Project Lodge to have (tolerate) us...
  3:35pm
dc pat:

ok, I'm in. Why don't we just back up Amanda??
  3:36pm
Matt from Springfield:

I can record vocals and/or beats on a cassette, and mail it to Madison for later mixing!
I also am willing to tour as part of an Amanda tribute band!
  3:37pm
PMD:

I think the Sharpling factor is kicking in. People know how much he raised and think they don't have to pledge.
  3:39pm
G:

There was no Scharpling factor last night in his week two, supposedly. I read in comments late last night that he raised like 95K during that shift.
  3:39pm
Brian in Madison, WI:

Lot's of good ideas for the Amanda cover band which will eventually back up Amanda and tour. During the tour we can stop by Irwin's show.
  3:40pm
Adam from Lynnwood, Washington:

I wonder if you might be correct, pmd. I am certain that those people are chumps.
  3:42pm
βrian:

Now if we could only get the Koch brothers to kick in a few hundred million.
  3:42pm
Lance Link:

Secret Chumps.
  3:43pm
Adam from Lynnwood, Washington:

HOOT HOOOOOT HOOOT HOT!
  3:43pm
glenn:

next best thing to an amanda tribute band is.......... a shaggs tribute band. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE7tQIe1I0A
  3:43pm
minnesota jeff:

Doesn't JM in the AM bring in more than anyone though? Either way Scharpling didn't raise $500,000 which is still needed.
  3:43pm
The Man:

@βrian: What's in it for me? My accountant wants to know.
  3:44pm
pete:

this should be on heavy rotation in big stores like target and k-mart
  3:44pm
βrian:

@TM: Fuzzy warm feelings and good music.
  3:45pm
Adam from Lynnwood, Washington:

Better yet, Matt Groening. He actually loves esoteric musicians and bands.
  3:45pm
G:

For marathons, morning drive JM in the AM hauls in the biggest bucks. Scharpling's Goyim in the PM is the biggest freeform fundraiser.
  3:45pm
chris in madison:

Eff a Kock Bro. All we need is half a drop of that $2K Wisconsin Poet Laureate position that's about to get cut and we'd be SET!
  3:46pm
Brian in Madison, WI:

The Man - you can be our Bobby Heenan.

'Amanda vs. The Koch Bros' is our first album title
  3:48pm
Chuck:

Ir-winning!
  3:49pm
Charlie Sheen:

Failure is not an option.
  3:50pm
minnesota jeff:

I can't hear JM in AM - what sort of show is it? Is it just a straight laced Jewish talk show?
  3:50pm
brycepunk:

I forgot to click that I wanted the WF-MU sticker, and didn't want to click "back" so as to avoid accidentally pledging twice. Any way to still get one of those? My car needs a new sticker.
  3:51pm
βrian:

Go, Chris Chez Madison. "Funding From the Dairyland."
  3:52pm
G:

More or less yes, Jeff. Hebrew pop music, interviews on Jewish issues, etc. I see bumper stickers for the show all over in Jewish neighborhoods here where I am in Brooklyn. I believe JM in the AM does stream, and there is a link to that somewhere on the FMU site.
  3:52pm
Neil Diamond:

Play me.
  3:54pm
Neil Diamond:

I graduated from Midwood high school, here in the heart of JM in the AM over-the-air territory.
  3:54pm
Ike:

@Brycepunk I *think* the sticker is automatic. You'll get that for sure, unless you clicked "no swag whatsoever" or whatnot.
  3:55pm
minnesota jeff:

G - I believe onetime I stumbled onto its own individual website hosted by WFMU in a similar looking format the mainpage for WFMU.org - it just seems strange to me how its sorta hidden away from the rest of the station.
  3:57pm
brycepunk:

Ike, it said "you clicked "no swag"", which I didn't realize.
  3:57pm
dc pat:

did not know the FLips covered this. One of my fave tunes...man. is that Coyne singin?
  3:57pm
G:

That's partly because Orthodox Jews are slightly less openminded than the average FMUer. But the freeform part of FMU is not not exactly Judenrein. :-)
  3:57pm
secret secret:

http://www.jmintheam.org/
  3:58pm
Dead Corporate Eyes:

what now?
  3:59pm
Michael Pollard:

Skeeters!
  3:59pm
12539:

@brycepunk You can email Joe McGasko (jmcgasko@wfmu.org) about swag issues.
  3:59pm
FCC:

Thanks, Irwin. [patting his head]
  4:00pm
Ike:

@MN Jeff, there's very little crossover. They've shared the FM signals forever, but web streaming offered the opportunity to split it up. (Back in the day, I stumbled across JM on 91.1 and was stunned that Xtians aren't the only ones who make heinous pop music. It's a bit better now.) (I wonder if Muslims & Hindus also have execrable religious pop.)
  4:01pm
brycepunk:

Thank you :)
  4:01pm
ginger tim:

JM in the AM's music is odd as there never are any female voices. There could never be a Gender Bias portion of JM in the AM.
  4:03pm
chris in madison:

JOKERMAN
  4:03pm
chris in madison:

PAPYRUS
  4:05pm
eyenoise:

It takes great skill to use Brush Script. It is misused and abused. More typography talk, please!
  4:06pm
FCC:

Trent, Pledge Ho
  4:07pm
Radioman:

Comic Sans MS is awful. Vollkorn (http://friedrichalthausen.de/?page_id=411) and Georgia are great.
Nice article: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/12/17/25-new-free-high-quality-fonts-typography/
  4:10pm
chris in madison:

Comic Sans inspired one of the greatest (of MANY) Achewood strips:

http://achewood.com/index.php?date=07052007
  4:10pm
Matt from Springfield:

Misfits and Malcontents!
There is no "end" to the "charts"! Take it off center as far as you can! I permit you to use my donations to launch your shows even further away from my own norms!
  4:12pm
Radioman:

Radio has to be more indie, more intersting, more varied, more individual (like WFMU). (I think you cannot express it well, but you can feel it.)
  4:13pm
Matt from Springfield:

Who's the composer of the "Money" song?
  4:13pm
tomasz.:

i prefer Comic Sans to passion for fonts.
  4:13pm
Radio Consultant:

Radio Templates: the fastfood-ization of music delivery.

Don't forget your :23 and :53 breaks, your end-hour power track, and your recent recurrents slotted in per the preprinted schedule by a computer.

Actually, you can't forget them. The software does everything at just the right time. Then you the DJ read the prewritten mic break wording off your laptop.

Easy as pie, and all focused-grouped to within an inch of its life.
  4:14pm
v:

That Mel Blanc ditty was amazing.
  4:15pm
Walter Lantz:

I'm underrated.
  4:15pm
pete:

uh oh here comes more amanda
  4:16pm
dave:

I think "money" is a stan freberg/ruby raskin song, but I'm not sure.
  4:16pm
Radioman:

Nice statement, Radio Consultant!
  4:17pm
Drake-Chenault:

In the next half-hour, you'll hear Linda Ronstadt.
  4:17pm
Brian in Madison, WI:

Amanda, I hang on your every word....
  4:18pm
Sir Henry:

I know what I want and I want it now. Your pledges. Sir you had the gall to play my record last year, you scoundrel. Now your listeners have to pay for the privilege of anticipating a repeat of the same. Forget the the archives that your technical johnnies have created, hearing it for the first time is the only way forward you know that and so do your listeners. So pay up and accept your fate.
  4:18pm
Matt from Springfield:

Thanks dave, it would make sense to be a Stan Freberg tune.
  4:18pm
βrian:

Gallows humor, there.
  4:22pm
dave:

If you slowed down Amanda just a tiny bit, it'd sound like 98% of the doom metal out there.
  4:23pm
AnAnonymousParty:

Looks like no candy or gum for me, but at least I live in a beautifully named town (sniff).
  4:23pm
G:

Pledged last week, as also in prior years. Any losers here who have not pledged, get it together already.

FWIW, comments don't have a spellcheck feature.
  4:24pm
Ike:

HOORAY for fixing comment typos! I would do that too.
  4:24pm
Matt from Springfield:

Amanda C&S!!!!! Mashups!!!!! Get GHP on this!
Amanda DUBBBBBBBS MON!!!!!!!
  4:24pm
Brian in Madison, WI:

Fix whut tipos?
  4:25pm
Robert:

@ MN Jeff: Originally the "JM" stood for "Jewish Music", but then they broadened the concept so it now stands for "Jewish Moments". For at least a couple of years it was the more musical part of a block, the final hour of which held the real heavy religious-scholar stuff, Radio Kol Torah (Radio Voice of Law-Scroll), but now that content is sort of scattered within. I'm not sure what the original title of the program was, "JM in the AM" being more of a slogan than the official title at least at first; apparently Nachum was too modest to have his name be part of the official program name.
  4:25pm
ginger tim:

Can someone use paulstrech on Amanda?
http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/
  4:25pm
G:

Typical graphic errors.
  4:25pm
G:

I've seen him do it (fix typos)
  4:25pm
DJKurtG:

Erwin's show is the greatest thing on WMUF! donate now!
  4:25pm
Matt from Springfield:

@G: I'm a loser, but I HAVE pledged a few times this marathon...I guess as long as you pledge, you're LESS of a loser!
  4:26pm
AnAnonymousParty:

Glurg enknack futz blob zagnax prusloob meep zorp plaggerd. Fxi tha, bithc!
  4:26pm
dc pat:

ho jeeze Irwin's a fascist...and so is Ike.
  4:26pm
John Lennon:

I'm a loser, and I lost someone who's dear to me,
I'm a loser, and I'm not what I appear to be.
  4:27pm
rrg:

If I had control of a playlist, I'd fix other people's typos too.
  4:27pm
G:

In fact, I forgot but I own this comments board for a year. O:-) PROOFREAD, YOU PEOPLES.
  4:27pm
Matt from Springfield:

WFMU Playlists--giving listeners a place of immortality,
Whether they WANT it or NOT!! Your comments are trapped here forever!!! Mwahaahahaha!
  4:28pm
DJKurtG:

Erwin's manhood is unfinished?
  4:28pm
Brian in UK:

Total carp. There is a fishing magazine in the UK with this name, really. Irwin you can change the typo if it makes you feel good/bad.
  4:28pm
ginger tim:

How 'bout "The Prize Plinth"?
  4:29pm
Urologist:

Irwin's manhood is dribbling. Can you help start a drip, nurse?
  4:29pm
SF:

That seems like the kind of humor fishing enthusiasts would enjoy.
  4:30pm
Matt from Springfield:

I would be obsessed with correcting spelling and typo errors if I admin-ed a board. Self-created work.

And Irwin, I'm turning 26 next month, so there's one less 25 year old "salivating to grab [your] slot when [you] earn a toe tag"
  4:31pm
DJKurtG:

Erwin, I CHOOSED you!


get it?
  4:32pm
Matt from Springfield:

Or, to clarify, Irwin was CHOOSÉD by KurtG.
  4:32pm
dc pat:

Well I think your all crazy, its not right to correct typo's.
  4:32pm
noah:

Man, this is rockin'!
  4:34pm
rrg:

I fix other people's typos when replying to their mail (I guess you kids call it "e-mail") so I would certainly do it on a message board as well.
  4:34pm
?:

this is kind of Axelrodian and Walkerite
  4:36pm
Colleagues:

Irwin's got it made in the shade. The pledging heat's totally off.
  4:36pm
How to Be a Free-Form DJ:

1) rock out; 2) wuss out; 3) jazz out; 4) spazz out.
Repeat.
  4:37pm
Want to change it?:

Fixing typos is a bit like autotune.
  4:37pm
Colleagues:

Did Stephin Merritt pledge? He should.
  4:38pm
Neglect Barrier:

Man, I'm like the Berlin friggin' Wall! I ain't fallin' down until EVERYONE tears me down at once!
  4:38pm
Ike:

@DC Punk, GO TO HELL with Andy B., you apostrophe rapist!

I'm only a grammatical fascist. In other ways, I support basic human rights, I swear. No need to investigate me, Dave Emory.
  4:40pm
dc pat:

no better way to get under the skin of a typo-fixer than misplaced apostrophe's...
  4:41pm
Dave Emory:

Show 666, originally broadcast September 3rd, 2005. Ike is a worldwide leader of punctuation fascism and grammatical torture.
  4:42pm
Dead Corporate Eyes:

@rrg--do you italicize and boldface their mistakes? how else can they learn from them?
  4:43pm
βrian:

It's not fascism. It's transparency. If you want to be ambiguous, that's ok, too.
  4:43pm
dc pat:

great point DCE, it's like punishing a kid but not telling him/her why.
  4:43pm
rrg:

I fix their mistakes quietly. I don't do it for them, I do it for ME.
  4:43pm
Brian in UK:

Hey play something from The Sixths album. You don't have to hear SM's dull baritone.
  4:44pm
Dead Corporate Eyes:

naw, let 'em have it!
  4:45pm
Ike:

Sigh. Yeah DC Punk, I rise to the bait like a big dummy. Just like when SOMEONE puts dopey pro-Reagan crud in his playlist.
  4:45pm
Reno Dakota:

"take Trent and I out of our misery"? Would you say "take I out of my misery"? Irwin's verbal typo must not go unreprAmanda'ed
  4:45pm
Listener:

@Brian: Listen for the lyrics, not for the American Idol wow factor in the singing. But "San Diego Zoo" is a nice track.
  4:46pm
mispelt:

Who fixes the grammar in the audio archive?
  4:49pm
G:

Jeff Sarge and Tom S. drop-ins, kewl.
  4:49pm
Dead Corporate Eyes:

this poor man
  4:50pm
Mike East:

I think Jeff Sarge got my first ever FMU pledge several years ago. God I love this station. So many choices!
  4:51pm
(¸.•[]`•.¸.•´¯`•:

I'd like Sarge's voice bettr if it weren't always accompanied by hideously overprduced top-40 reggae from hell.
  4:51pm
T. Quirk:

I can't believe how Andy Breckman talks smack about Irwin's playlist.. this is the best mix I've heard in a long damn time. Keeping me going on another grey Chicago day.
  4:52pm
Mike East:

different strokes fer different folks...
  4:53pm
Gary Coleman:

True, dat.
  4:53pm
Sly:

Word.
  4:54pm
Matt from Springfield:

LOL--"listen to our program. Do you THINK we throw anything away"!!
  4:54pm
G:

The whole station is hoarders, just specialized in music-related stuff.
  4:56pm
wha?:

WFMU: flea market, or flea circus?
  4:56pm
Orson Welles:

The crisp, crumb coating....I'm not reading this copy! It's a crock of shit!!
  4:56pm
Julian:

Greetings from Footstool, The Republic of Pinkingshear. I'm sorry to say I shot my wad in all of the excitement last night, helping to bring in $95,000. Anyway, my heart is with you. Plus I can listen to your show anytime thanks to the tapes I have from the early '80's.
  4:56pm
Robert:

Why did you think Ms. Cantrell's show was the Radio Thrift Shop?
  4:58pm
Geographically Challenged:

WFMU--the best radio station west of the equator!
  4:59pm
minnesota jeff:

Julian - You should get those digitized and submit them to WFMU so they could maybe added to the archive! I would love to hear those!
  4:59pm
Ilya:

For all of you Twin Cities listeners, sign up on FB at: WFMU Twin Cities LIsteners Club.
  4:59pm
Ike:

Julian, you mean '80s. :) And I'd volunteer to digitize those!
  5:00pm
Troublemaker:

Some lurking high roller should pledge $5000 or more, and set up an Irwin vs. Tom S. "freeform foundraising king" smacktalking throwdown.
  5:01pm
?:

Snarky, snarky!
  5:02pm
JCJ:

Yes! Someone on WFMU finally said 'dot-org' instead of 'dot-O-R-G'. As in Internet old-timer, the latter always makes me cringe. It's like saying 'dot-C-O-M'.
  5:02pm
Gary Bettman:

I'll donate ten grand right now if anybody will get me out of this mess in Phoenix.
  5:03pm
Julian:

@Ike and MN jeff:

Yep, it's on my large to-do list to digitize those tapes; just have to change some audio cords. I do believe I meant '80's, instead of, 1980's, but then, I'm not a professional grammaticaltitian.
  5:03pm
AnAnonymousParty:

I'm rich? Don't tell my kids.
  5:03pm
@JCJ:

So, we're supposed to say "dot sizz" for Czech sites?
  5:04pm
&:

Gvie WFMU your kids!
  5:04pm
rrg:

Show tunes!
  5:04pm
@JCJ:

...and "dot ka" for Canadian sites? Unacceptable.
  5:04pm
Matt from Springfield:

@Julian: I believe it was the 2nd apostrophe; '80s, not '80's. The tapes are from the '80s--the '80s don't own the tapes (or DO they...)
  5:04pm
Julian:

Yes, I do believe it was "Uncle Irwin" or "Your old pal Irwin" back in those days.
  5:05pm
Troublemaker:

@AnAnonymousParty: Yes, pledge to FMU and then you can tell your kids you are tapped out without the slightest twinge of guilt.
  5:05pm
Ike:

1980s or '80s. Uh oh, I fell for the bait again.
  5:06pm
AnAnonymousParty:

$75 dollar pledge = 1 tank of gas. Where am I gonna go anyway when I can just stay home and listen to the show?
  5:06pm
@JCJ:

Internet old-timer? More like internet curmudgeon.
  5:06pm
Julian:

If I pledge more I may have to explain to my sister where the money is coming from. That would be hard since I got busted two years ago.
  5:06pm
Troublemaker:

Irwin invented ARPANET
  5:07pm
Jim:

I recommend the 1946 Ethel Merman/Ray Middleton original Broadway cast version of "Anything You Can Do."
  5:08pm
rrg:

I like that too. But Betty Hutton's is pretty good, I must say.
  5:08pm
AnAnonymousParty:

Can we get Ella Fitzgerald & Louie Armstrong singing "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off"?
  5:08pm
Bobbling Parrot:

Amanda's version is much cooler than George's.
  5:09pm
Matt from Springfield:

Love the ensemble with the late George! Was this a cassette audio only, or did Jody make a video of this as well?
  5:09pm
dirk:

(volume button being pushed way way down)
  5:09pm
Julian:

@Ike et al: I think youse guys is right. that ' makes it too possessive (as I clutch those tapes close to my chest).
  5:10pm
Matt from Springfield:

(remotely pushing dirk's volume button way way up using magic Amanda listener powers)
  5:10pm
Happy Pledger:

(volume being turned up, and banging the wall to the beat for the neighbours)
  5:10pm
rrg:

I remember the George Harrison video. With the squirrel playing the sax. Dumb, but memorable.
  5:11pm
rrg:

Check with Irwin first (re old show tapes).
  5:12pm
George H.:

It sold units.
  5:12pm
Happy Pledger:

I thought Ringo was the "dumb but memorable" one. I'm trying to sing "Two of the Beatles Have Died" to this tune now.
  5:12pm
AnAnonymousParty:

Too bad Ethel Merman is gone, y'all could have got her for the Amanda tribute band.
  5:12pm
Adolf Sax:

The saxophone was named after me, its inventor.
  5:13pm
Happy Pledger:

Is Eugene Merman related?
  5:14pm
Adolphe Sax:

Is that bait?
  5:15pm
Haley Barbour:

Mitt Romney is a Merman.
  5:15pm
Happy Pledger:

It's a request for information. Information. Information.
  5:15pm
rrg:

You won't get it!
  5:15pm
Thomas:

Yeah, my singing draws money like flies to vinegar, I mean honey.
  5:16pm
Happy Pledger:

"Bait"!?! You kids are so jaded.
  5:17pm
Bearded One:

I disagree strongly with your amanda songs, but I will donate to the death your right to play it.
  5:18pm
rrg:

Used to be called "the cassette underground"
  5:18pm
Matt from Springfield:

Thomas Sings = Speechless Smile :)
  5:18pm
Happy Pledger:

Begorrah! That's some strong Happy Listener Repellent you're playing there!
  5:19pm
Or:

Tape trading
  5:20pm
rrg:

Remember Casey Kasem and "another goddamned death dedication"?
  5:20pm
Julian:

@MN Jeff: Weren't you able to click join on the FB group?
  5:20pm
Ryan Seacrest:

Yeah, wait till my outtakes get around.
  5:20pm
Paul Anka:

The guys get shirts!
  5:20pm
Marcel:

You've just made my day!! thanks
  5:21pm
Happy Pledger:

@rrg: I'm having a profanity-infused tirade right now!
  5:21pm
JCJ:

As I said, "old-timer." Didn't have to worry about any of those, it was .com, .org, .edu, or .gov, and there was an appropriate way to say each of them. Then all you kids came along with your newfangled "web sites" and muddled everything up.
  5:22pm
Happy Pledger:

He has a bloody horrible voice, Irwin! He's barely even committed to the lyrics he's delivering. Aaaaarrrrghhh!
  5:23pm
Ryan Seacrest:

Irwin's been listening to weirdass singing for so many decades now that he has long since totally lost sight of the bad-okay boundary.
  5:23pm
mike noble 7sd:

someone tell irwin he should check out current soca artist FABULOUS SKINNY
  5:23pm
rrg:

Look who's talking, Mr. Ryan Seacrest.
  5:23pm
Happy Pledger:

I can't believe that I'd agree with anything Ryan Seacrest says.
  5:24pm
PMD:

Huh, I didn't realize what I was in the running for. Oh dear. Maybe I'll do a cover of Thomas doing a cover.
  5:24pm
mike noble 7sd:

specifically skinny's soca monarch 2011 entry CHARGE UP
  5:25pm
Marmalade kitty:

was Thomas recorded secretly? maybe he would die of horror if he were ever to hear himself on tape!
That would be me!
  5:25pm
jonny d.:

got any Flying Listravians?
  5:25pm
minnesota jeff:

Julian - I joined, yes. But the administrator of the group has to accept you. So you click join and the request gets sent to them via Facebooks messaging system.
  5:26pm
JCJ:

He has what's likely a good SPEAKING voice. Singing, though, he's tone-deaf and has not just "no commitment to the lyrics", but also no commitment to any particular key.
  5:26pm
Matt from Springfield:

So THIS is soca--I was wondering what made it different from other Caribbean music. I must say, it's quite fun!
  5:27pm
Happy Pledger:

I never imagined that soca could sound so good. You should always tenderise your audience with a little Thomas before future soca sets.
  5:27pm
Ryan Seacrest:

There's so much "okay" singing out there (I should know). Irwin obviously got bored with that and decided long ago that he could learn much more about human singing from "WTF type singing". We specialize in that during auditions only.
  5:29pm
minnesota jeff:

Ryan, did you murder that co-host guy that vanished after season 1?
  5:30pm
Ryan Seacrest:

Contact my legal representatives on that.
  5:30pm
Roberto:

JCJ, I've been wanting to explain the .o-r-g concept to so many FMU DJs for years now. Plus it's three syllables where one will do. We must work together to conserve our precious syllables!
  5:31pm
Matt from Springfield:

Thomas Rewrites Measure, Tone, Meter and Scale.
  5:31pm
mike noble 7sd:

@matt Soca formed when calypsonians started adding chutney beats to their songs. in recent years the chutney beat has been replaced with jamaican ragga to make the very fast paced, very electronic genre of ragga soca.
  5:32pm
Marmalade kitty:

..he sounds like he's on the toilet!
  5:33pm
rrg:

This is making me hungry
  5:33pm
tomasz.:

i like Thomas cuz of his utter disrespect for The Beatles' oeuvre. cool name too
  5:33pm
rrg:

Strike that
  5:33pm
Marmalade kitty:

sun studios had a good toilet..
  5:34pm
minnesota jeff:

He's on the toilet alright ... the toilet of our hearts!
  5:35pm
PMD:

Fresca was not diet! Really? I used to drink that.
  5:35pm
rrg:

When did Thomas record these? Do we know?
  5:36pm
Matt from Springfield:

@mike: Wow! Chutney is the music of Indian Trinidadians, and that certain "je ne sais quoi" that makes it such a party beat is Indian, much like trancy or beat Indian songs!
  5:36pm
JCJ:

@Jeff: So what you're saying is, he's crapping on our hearts.
  5:37pm
jill o.:

Got any Floyd?
  5:37pm
Matt from Springfield:

@mike: That actually helped explain the essence of a type of music--Thanks!
@Irwin: I was thinking Thomas' beverage of choice would be grape soda. Though diet grape soda also seems likely.
  5:37pm
minnesota jeff:

@JCJ Or at the very least holding his bare bottom and genitals very close to it.
  5:38pm
Antoine Catelan:

Hi from athens!Nice playlist.!
  5:40pm
JCJ:

@PMD, Fresca was diet; sweetened with aspartame. It just tasted much better than most other diet sodas so you probably didn't notice.
  5:40pm
PMD:

Irwin, I think it's more of putting Trent out of his misery. You're enjoying this.
  5:40pm
rrg:

Tab was (almost) the first diet soft-drink. I think (maybe) Diet-Rite preceded it. Fresca I'm not sure about. A 1960s contemporary, for sure. Grapefruit flavored.

But I should never make such assertions without researching it first. And I haven't.
  5:41pm
Ryan Seacrest:

@all the toilet comments above: Thomas's oeuvre is ALL dump button.
  5:41pm
DJKurtG:

Yo, Erwin, Terry Tee has a Tote!
  5:41pm
PMD:

@JCJ - weird, I didn't think aspartame existed then!
  5:42pm
Ryan Seacrest:

Poor Trent.
  5:42pm
Nutella stoat:

@rrg and anyone who cares: I always loved Tab's original logo, great typography. Diet Rite had an eyecatching logo as well, with the 2 sets of letters lined up in 2 different styles.
  5:42pm
Ryan Seacrest:

maybe it was cyclamate.
  5:43pm
Matt from Springfield:

@rrg: Diet Rite WAS the first diet cola (1962), you are correct. Coca Cola released Tab in 1963; Pepsi then came out with one, maybe not Diet Pepsi--but I myself, will have to research that first.
  5:43pm
Carmichael:

Hey Dogs, you're at 3 quarters of a million skimolies!! Almost there!!
  5:43pm
DJKurtG:

Poor Trent
  5:43pm
dave:

Thomas is the only musician even IRWIN will fast-forward through.
  5:44pm
rrg:

According to good old Wikipedia: Fresca was introduced in 1966, originally sweetened with cyclamates, then saccharin, then aspartame.

That fits with what I remember.
  5:44pm
JCJ:

Hmm.... I wonder if maybe it was originally cyclamate.
  5:45pm
Ryan Seacrest:

Our friend Thomas seriously needs some fake sweetener.
  5:46pm
JCJ:

Yeah, I'd forgotten all amount cyclamate as the first artificial sweetener. And first to start killing people.
  5:46pm
Nutella stoat:

I grew up a little freaked out by Sweet n' Low when it was the saccharine 70s. All my diet-crazed relatives were using it when it clearly said it gave rats cancer. This troubled this early-reader toddler to no end.
  5:46pm
Matt from Springfield:

Pepsi's response WAS Diet Pepsi (1964); for some reason I thought they tried something else first.
@JCJ,rrg: Cyclamate was withdrawn by the FDA in 1969, forcing them to re-formulate using saccharin.
  5:47pm
Cyclamate:

They still use me in Europe, Canad, and Asia. They know human beings are not lab rats
  5:48pm
Carmichael:

Now LOTS of things kill people!
  5:48pm
JCJ:

Not all of us are, anyway.
  5:48pm
Patrick and Eugene:

P.E. sounds familiar. Only he's in fewer TV commercials than we are.
  5:48pm
rrg:

We're still expecting/hoping to hear the Professor live on Irwin's show sometime in May.
  5:49pm
Carmichael:

Thsi sounds like Flight of the Conchords
  5:49pm
PMD:

I love Professor Elemental.
  5:49pm
MrFab:

Hey, I have a King Short Shirt album! He's from one of the 'other' islands, not Jamaica, or Trinidad. Antigua, I think. I never heard the chutney explanation of the origins of soca. Indian-influenced chutney is a seperate style. Soca comes from 'soul-calypso' - influenced by American funk and r'n'b.
  5:50pm
Nutella stoat:

I held my tongue earlier, but I agree with MrFab.
  5:51pm
rrg:

I remember Johnny Carson grousing about "Canadian rats" back when saccharin was withdrawn here.

And that SNL parody song. Gilda Radner, I think.
  5:51pm
JCJ:

Did the professor just say something about "tiger juice"? And if so, was that the predecessor to Sheen's "tiger blood"?
  5:51pm
Carmichael:

Have any of you scrubs donated any "opinion money" to this fine station? Well, have ya??
  5:53pm
Amos Kellogg:

Puffa Puffa Rice!
  5:53pm
Nutella stoat:

@rrg: 1977, but I don't recall the SNL parody. Time for a YouTube hunt.
  5:53pm
rrg:

The WFMU comments board is very much like a Canadian contest drawing. You have to answer a "skill-testing question" first in order for it to be legal. Sheer luck of the draw alone won't fly.
  5:55pm
Matt from Springfield:

Mailed in a Mouse Pledge before the marathon for that extra motivation, and pledged during YLT (enjoy that "Happy Jack" -- though my first choice was The Church, and I did hear them trying to rehearse it! I guess they were more comfortable with "Happy Jack").
  5:55pm
mike noble 7sd:

@MrFab... i've definitely heard that "soul calypso" explanation before.
  5:57pm
rrg:

@Nutella stoat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvObT3EFNUY
  5:57pm
Carmichael:

The SNL parody was a song called Sacharrin [sp]. It was a girl group doo-wop featuring Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin and Linda Ronstadt. They were introduced by Paul Schaffer as Don Kirshner, who called them "a driving force in the rock scene."

And I submitted a 365 Mouse pledge.
  5:58pm
mike noble 7sd:

@MrFab but the chutney influence (even though it was and remains a separate genre) is not to be denied. i think the original soca-man lord short/ras shorty i was big on the calypso-chutney hybrid
  5:58pm
Nutella stoat:

@rrg: awesome, thanks!@
  5:59pm
fwiw:

Wikipedia includes the chutney influence.
  5:59pm
minnesota jeff:

"I can go home and drink a lot of rum now." - Irwin
  6:00pm
JCJ:

@rrg, not sure I remember Carson doing it, but "cancer in Canadian rats" was a common punch line for a while.
  6:00pm
Matt from Springfield:

Bravo, Carmichael!
  6:00pm
Robert:

The original saccharine-sweetened sodas AFAIK were not the major brands but more narrowly-distributed ones like No-Cal and Lo-Cal. No-Cal ISTR as White Rock's trademark..
  6:01pm
rrg:

I'll bet Carson was first with the line.
  6:01pm
Matt from Springfield:

@jeff: Truly worthy of an immortal place in Bartlett's Quotations.
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