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Favoriting October 12, 2011: I'll review the contract tonight to confirm I didn't omit anything or include terms that aren't relevant. I drafted that agreement sober and need to double-check it when I'm shitfaced drunk.

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Lee Morgan  Yes I Can, No You Can't (edit)   Favoriting The Gigolo  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Charlie Hunter  Antoine / High and Dry   Favoriting Gentlemen, I Neglected to Inform You You Will Not Be Getting Paid  0:03:26 (Pop-up)
William Shatner (with Peter Frampton)  Spirit in the Sky   Favoriting Seeking Major Tom  0:10:47 (Pop-up)
Brian Protheroe  Monkey   Favoriting Pinball  0:14:55 (Pop-up)
 
Wondermints  Arnaldo Said   Favoriting Jardim Elétrico: A Tribute to Os Mutantes  0:24:21 (Pop-up)
The Lost Patrol  Sweet Ophelia   Favoriting Rocket Surgery  0:27:50 (Pop-up)
Goofy  His Laughs Cannot Mask His Tears   Favoriting Goofy's TV Spectacular  0:31:18 (Pop-up)
Amanda  Lightning Set My Butt on Fire   Favoriting Don't Mess With the Power Child  0:34:19 (Pop-up)
Ben Folds  Barrytown   Favoriting The Best Imitation of Myself: A Retrospective  0:37:10 (Pop-up)
Johnny Richards Orchestra  Grown Up / Special Friends / Emily   Favoriting Kiss Her Goodbye (soundtrack of unreleased 1959 film)  0:41:07 (Pop-up)
Craig Elkins  I Wanted To (But I Didn't)   Favoriting I Love You  0:49:26 (Pop-up)
 
Theo Nijland (w/Brigette Kaandorp)  We wilden het niet maar we deden het wel   Favoriting Praag  1:00:21 (Pop-up)
Moon Hooch  Song for Miguel   Favoriting self-titled  1:03:09 (Pop-up)
The Guess Who  Of a Dropping Pin   Favoriting Canned Wheat  1:06:57 (Pop-up)
Sexton Ming and Adrian Stout  Chutney   Favoriting Leftside Records split 7"  1:09:54 (Pop-up)
 
Marco Benevento  Fearless   Favoriting Me Not Me (outtake)  1:18:43 (Pop-up)
Wilmoth Houdini  Tiger Tom Kill Tiger Cat   Favoriting Rum and Coca-Cola  1:24:43 (Pop-up)
Detektivbyrån  Sista Tryckaren   Favoriting Wermland  1:27:16 (Pop-up)
My Disco  Rivers   Favoriting Little Joy  1:30:38 (Pop-up)
Wild Bill Davis  Wouldn't It Be Loverly   Favoriting Wild Bill Davis Swings Hit Songs from My Fair Lady  1:40:06 (Pop-up)
Shaolin Afronauts  Fly With the Blind   Favoriting Flight of the Ancients  1:42:40 (Pop-up)
 
The Golden Palominos  Lucky   Favoriting A Dead Horse  1:53:15 (Pop-up)
Big Muff  Dream 2 Life   Favoriting Dream 2 Life  1:57:50 (Pop-up)
Sun Ra And His Myth Science Arkestra  A Call for All Demons / Plutonian Nights   Favoriting Angels and Demons at Play / The Nubians of Plutonia  2:00:44 (Pop-up)
 
Paul "SuperApple" Moralia  Apple Love   Favoriting audio letter to Keith Richards  2:11:58 (Pop-up)
Oingo Boingo  Capitalism   Favoriting Only a Lad  2:15:27 (Pop-up)
Spaceheads  One Way System   Favoriting Angel Station  2:19:09 (Pop-up)
Seapony  I Never Would   Favoriting Go With Me  2:22:56 (Pop-up)
Spirit  Poor Richard   Favoriting The Family That Plays Together  2:26:02 (Pop-up)
Ahmad Jamal  After Jalc   Favoriting A Quiet Time  2:28:18 (Pop-up)
 
Jordin Sparks  One Step at a Time   Favoriting self-titled  2:37:34 (Pop-up)
Amanda  Nobody Here Except Me and My Birdbath   Favoriting Let's Get Plastered and Raid Circus World  2:40:59 (Pop-up)
Bobby Bare  The Winner   Favoriting Lullabys, Legends and Lies (And More)  2:44:01 (Pop-up)
Eleanor Friedberger  Heaven   Favoriting Last Summer  2:49:21 (Pop-up)
Pierre Schaeffer  Suite pour Quatorze Instruments (1949)   Favoriting Schaeffer: L' Ouevre Musicale  2:53:27 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

  3:00pm
rrg:

Vas-y!
  3:01pm
Matt from Springfield:

I'll be the first to say it:
Family photos, Irwin?
  3:02pm
rrg:

Your iPhone has been restored to factory settings.
  3:02pm
Brass Knuckles:

What's the preferred alcohol beverage for reviewing contracts?
  3:03pm
rrg:

Restoring iPhone from backup...
  3:03pm
Carmichael:

Brass, I do that for a living. Lots and lots of beer.
  3:03pm
Verizon:

Anything high enough proof to give us the upper hand.
  3:03pm
glenn:

dickens cider.
  3:04pm
WILDNEIL:

Irwin! Thanks! In! Ad! VANCE! MAN! Y!O!U! R!O!C!K!
  3:04pm
still b/p:

The Great Lester's police sheet says, "Has a wonderful way with the ladies."
  3:04pm
Carmichael:

Or George Dickel.
  3:04pm
Brass Knuckles:

Beer with drops of tears?
  3:05pm
Jerry Mahoney:

I recognize a few in those photo
  3:05pm
Brass Knuckles:

or maybe just a hint of sadness?
  3:05pm
Ola Svensson:

Yo Caryn!
  3:06pm
Matt from Springfield:

@Carmichael: Nice, that you mentioned the "other" Tennessee whiskey. Jack is a gentleman next to George--George is rough mountain folk.
  3:06pm
das:

Anything that makes you go blind
  3:06pm
Caryn:

Yo Ola!
  3:06pm
Ola Svensson:

Please play Slade!!!!!!!!!!!
  3:06pm
Matt from Springfield:

Ola, ladies!
  3:07pm
Verizon:

You slade me.
  3:07pm
Ola Svensson:

I'm not feeling these new tunes! want more Glam!!!
  3:08pm
rrg:

Restoring iPhone apps...
  3:08pm
David:

@Ola: Don't lean on me, ma'am, cuz you can't afford he ticket!
  3:09pm
Ola Svensson:

Hallo Lasses! Tack for the introduce Matt fron Springfeld!
Carynnnnnn !!!!!!
  3:09pm
Truckle by drayberry:

Mommy looks scary today!
  3:09pm
das:

Slade kinda makes my testicles un-descend
  3:10pm
Truckle by drayberry:

hi das!
  3:10pm
Ola Svensson:

"StorKronet City"!!!!
  3:10pm
das:

TBD, my old friend
  3:10pm
Caryn:

Ok, the "Carynnnnnn" makes me feel like I'm Stella in a production of Streetcar.
  3:12pm
Paul M.:

And though she feels as id she's in a play
She is anyway
  3:12pm
Ola Svensson:

"yo Caryyyyyyyynnnnn"
  3:12pm
AnAnonymousParty:

Shat!
  3:12pm
Ola Svensson:

"going to go to the place that's the best"!!!!!
  3:12pm
das:

It's that guy from the Charlie Sheen roast!
  3:13pm
Ola Svensson:

Captain Kerk!
  3:14pm
Tourist:

I only wanted a cheap hotel deal on the web, not eternal judgment.
  3:14pm
Truckle by drayberry:

not again Ola
  3:15pm
still b/p:

See the clip of Shatner doing "I Am Iron Man" opener.
http://tinyurl.com/43l59rz
  3:15pm
Ola Svensson:

Vat Truckie? Not again vat?
  3:15pm
Priceline:

YES!
  3:16pm
still b/p:

...a clip which is only marginally interesting.
  3:16pm
Priceline:

@Tourist: You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave
  3:16pm
Truckle by drayberry:

what up dad?
  3:17pm
Steve:

Nektar's "Nelly the Elephant"
  3:19pm
Ola Svensson:

Caryn! Vad gor du? Ar du fortfarunde har?
  3:19pm
Truckle by drayberry:

airplane Kelly fortified har
  3:20pm
glenn:

hmmm. brian protheroe two weeks in a row on irwin's show. what's next? steve harley? actually, i'd be good with that.
  3:20pm
Caryn:

Ja, jag är här, men inte mycket längre. (Gotta go do some chores, man...)
  3:20pm
Ola Svensson:

Er du a MOD eller en Rockare!
  3:21pm
Matt from Springfield:

"NOT THAT IMPORTANT"???! On the contrary, listen to the album details and tell everyone you know! Edit Wikipedia! Tweet it endlessly!!
  3:21pm
glenn:

well, it was just released yesterday. shat's 80th birthday, i think.
  3:21pm
Ola Svensson:

Peace & love my friendly Finn!
  3:22pm
das:

Sounds like break like the wind...
  3:22pm
Shat:

Nursing homes ain't cheap.
  3:22pm
Matt from Springfield:

Agree with the Transformed Man album, every one of those tracks was solid gold: "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds", "Mr. Tambourine Man", even his Shakespeare monologue.
  3:22pm
Ola Svensson:

....and a little souuuuuullll !!!!
  3:23pm
savory c:

Brian Protheroe Monkey prototype for bowie lennon fame
  3:23pm
AnAnonymousParty:

Shatner's voice and inflection suggest a blend of John Wayne and Johnny Cash.
  3:23pm
Caryn:

To quote the Beatles, Ola, "I'm a mocker".
  3:24pm
Ola Svensson:

Ha Ha- just the answer I was looking for!
  3:24pm
PMD:

Dammit! I just missed Shatner! Hi irwin! Listening live from DC
  3:24pm
Caryn:

And thanks, Ola!
  3:26pm
Old Peoples Joke, Repurposed:

A WFMU DJ told his audience one day: "I have good news, and bad news. The good news is that we have enough money to cover all operating expenses and maintenance for the whole year. The bad news, is that it's in YOUR WALLETS!!!"
  3:27pm
Matt from Springfield:

Hi PMD! DC proper? Start talking loud, and I'll try to find you by voice!
  3:29pm
Carmichael:

Glenn, what's wrong with Steve Harley? A fine choice, in my book.
  3:30pm
Ola Svensson:

Lost Patrol- whooooaaaa wa wa!!!!
  3:31pm
Matt from Springfield:

Lost Patrol is great!
Steve Harley as well, IMHO.
  3:32pm
Ola Svensson:

Umea!!!!!!
  3:32pm
Matt from Springfield:

Carmichael Don't Worry
  3:33pm
Matt from Springfield:

Caryn Don't Worry
  3:33pm
PMD:

@ Matt. I'm screaming now. Oh, wait, that's in my head.
  3:34pm
rrg:

Geefy!
  3:34pm
AnAnonymousParty:

Ah, back in the days when this was 'spectacular' TV . . .
  3:34pm
Matt from Springfield:

Don't be hard on Goofy, he's coming off of a REALLY rough divorce.
  3:35pm
still b/p:

Amanda, Goofy and Shatner walk into a bar...
  3:36pm
Matt from Springfield:

@PMD: It's pretty loud, still can't hear you. Maybe if I tell everyone else to talk louder, and I talk quieter...
  3:36pm
PMD:

I would LOVE to hear Amanda do Goofy
  3:36pm
Punchline:

Crazy? She's fucking goofy!
  3:36pm
das:

goofy beats his dog
  3:36pm
Caryn:

And Goofy must suffer from some identity issues, being a dog in clothes being best friends with a mouse who has another dog as a pet... That would be like being friends with someone who has a human as a naked pet...
  3:37pm
Silent H:

time to stop listening an Amanda song is playing. Let me know when its over, thanks
  3:37pm
rrg:

Restoring iPhone music and videos...
  3:37pm
Hugh Hefner:

A human as a naked pet? Hmmm ....
  3:38pm
Matt from Springfield:

Yes, you make lightning setting our butts on fire into a good thing!!

@PMD: See Amanda's "Braces" video--she gives kind of a "Goofy" laugh a couple times!
  3:39pm
Jenniqua:

I think I heard Amanda's stream of consciousness coming from a homeless guy on the subway.
  3:39pm
Bob Guccione:

Stick with bunnies and don't steal my ideas, Hef.
  3:41pm
Caryn:

Hey, the naked pet thing is fine recreationally, but full-time and while sleeping outside? Nah.
  3:43pm
Stu Range:

Ben Folds Five again. I smell a Fountains of Wayne and Art Brut song on the way, followed by either a Sheryl Crow or Ace of Base song.
  3:44pm
mick:

matt..where can i see amnda`s braces video?
  3:44pm
glenn:

steve harley is great, no denying it.
  3:45pm
Ola Svensson:

I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes....
  3:46pm
WILDNEIL:

Or Pieree Boulee Planet of the Apes...
  3:46pm
WILDNEIL:

Or
m
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t
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r Magnet
  3:47pm
WILDNEIL:

Or the OPPOSITE of all that....
  3:47pm
Matt from Springfield:

@Ola: It reappears every so often, but you can never get rid of it? ;)
  3:48pm
Matt from Springfield:

@mick: YouTube. Her brother Jody posted it, and Irwin's played the audio before. Checking now...
  3:48pm
glenn:

a lot of herpes was probably indirectly caused by disco.
  3:49pm
Matt from Springfield:

Amanda's "Braces" video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YNWbJARo3c
  3:56pm
mick:

@matt.....
thanks.
her brother`s a weirdo
  3:57pm
WILDNEIL:

Goofy and Mickey suck.
  4:01pm
Silent H:

Who is Amanda and why do you play her ramblings every week Irwin? Ill donate if you tell whats the story
  4:04pm
Matt from Springfield:

@mick: Jody and Amanda have a beautiful weirdness. In Jody's own words: "If you think that these children are strange, you should've met the teenager behind the camera. :)"
  4:07pm
Capt. Pushy:

@Silent H:
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2010/11/dont-mess-with-the-power-child-the-amanda-chronicles.html

Now PAY UP!
  4:09pm
Shat:

Silent is a deadly liar, betcha.
  4:10pm
Matt from Springfield:

This is great Guess Who, a more basic, acoustic psychedelia and pop vocals.
  4:10pm
glenn:

wheatfield soul is a very great, and pretty strange record. i especially love the blatant doors ripoff song.
  4:13pm
WILDNEIL:

Ladies and gentlemen, this is classic, danceable FMU. Way to go Irwin! Thanks man!
  4:13pm
WILDNEIL:

This sound kinda like The Pixies!!
  4:14pm
das:

Glenn, is that the song about the black raven that's going to eat his soul, or something along those lines?
  4:15pm
glenn:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geLuIb4oic4
  4:16pm
Matt from Springfield:

LOL, Split 7"!
  4:18pm
das:

that's the one. I don't suppose they were going for hilarious when they recorded it.
  4:19pm
glenn:

no, probably not, and yet, it kinda came out hilarious.
  4:20pm
Matt from Springfield:

Recess cancelled due to rain: Detention instead.
  4:21pm
mito:

floyd....
  4:21pm
Ola Svensson:

Caryyyyynnn !!!!
  4:21pm
v k:

Pink Floyd - not a big Rolling Stone magazine fan, but recently article featuring interviews with Roger and David quite insightful
  4:23pm
glenn:

especially the part where they were all interviewed separately.
  4:25pm
v k:

...and Roger referred to Live 8 performance as a Pink Floyd performance with Roger Waters as a "guest"
  4:25pm
v k:

sorry David referred
  4:25pm
mito:

Mary Lou Lord recorded a cover of Fearless too.
  4:31pm
das:

did Pink floyd just re-release their entire catalogue, or am I having flashbacks back to every other year when they re-released their entire catalogue?
  4:35pm
glenn:

no flashbacks.
  4:38pm
Caryn:

@das: hah
@Ola: yep, just leaving
  4:38pm
WILDNEIL:

My Disco rocks!
  4:39pm
das:

I remember in my youth when "another brick in the wall" came out two stoners were in K-mart arguing which was a better 45, that or Coward of the County by Kenny Rogers. Scarred me for life.
  4:40pm
Two stoners in K-Mart:

We still can't decide.
  4:41pm
Kenny Rogers:

I think floyd goes well with my chicken
  4:42pm
Lizardner Dave:

Why not check out the concession stands during this rain delay?
  4:43pm
Caryn:

Is that a frickin' hammond organ? Oh my lord, I better leave before I start screaming and wake the neighbours...
  4:43pm
Carmichael:

Have you heard the Austin Lounge Lizards version of Brain Damage? Sounds like it was written for blue grass. Also scarred me for life.
  4:44pm
Hammond's Organ:

WTF?
  4:45pm
Caryn:

Man, there's a lot of permanently scarred people here... and yet we all seem so sane. Hah! Sorry, couldn't keep a straight face.
  4:46pm
Permanent Scar Man:

What's going on? A radio show?
  4:47pm
Ricardo Montalban:

Yes, the Austin Lounge Lizards' Brain Damage is indeed great.
  4:47pm
Caryn:

Shaolin Afronauts? Wasn't that a 70s kung fu movie starring Kareem Abdul-Jabbar?
  4:48pm
Permanent Scar Man's Organ:

This music touches me
  4:48pm
AnAnonymousParty:

The Australian Pink Floyd plays weird recorded C&W versions of PF music before the show and during intermission.
  4:49pm
Caryn:

Quick, PSMO: show us on this doll where the music touched you. Was it in the bathing suit area?
  4:51pm
AnAnonymousParty:

I'm going to the Cardinals game tonight!
  4:51pm
Permanent Scar Man's Doll:

Yes, please demonstrate
  4:52pm
Brass Knuckles:

Hamilton almost killed a second person this year. What's the record for most people killed by a player in a season?
  4:52pm
Ex Detroiter:

Is there anyone left in Detroit to attend games? Or did all the well-off Texans fly in?
  4:54pm
Barry:

The Tigers do fine financially. We nationalized the Tigers as part of Stimulus I. Little known fact. You can hide plenty of whack shit in 950 billion bucks. Who knew.
  4:55pm
Caryn:

Irwin, did you just say that the dummies are now dead? That would indicate that they were once alive. What do you know that we should?
  4:56pm
Carmichael:

That country version of PF is likely Luther Wright & the Wrongs. They re-did the whole Wall album.
  4:57pm
Laura L:

Retronaut left out Señor Wencas! What an oversight!
  5:00pm
Orange-American Boehner:

Wow Barry, that sounds like something we'd do! Y'know, the whole "socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor" thing. We're really into that. Kudos. Of course, I'll never admit that I like anything about you above board.
  5:00pm
Irwin:

@Caryn: You'd be surprised to learn who was pulling who's strings.
  5:01pm
Caryn:

And now every "killer ventriloquist's dummy" story I've seen will haunt me for the next few nights...
  5:02pm
Pedant:

"whose" strings.
  5:04pm
Irwin:

LL: "whose" or "who's"?
  5:05pm
Laura L:

whose
  5:05pm
Caryn:

Whose = possessive form
Who's = "who is"
  5:06pm
Barry:

Big Government and Big Businesses always get along, have done since railroad and canal days. Which party is "in" determines which big organizations are favored, and how, and for what reason.

Only way to change that is for the peasants to stop voting for more government under the deluded notion that we do things for them. As if!

All I want from them is 50%-plus-one votes, so my party has all the strings to pull and all the perks to collect.
  5:06pm
abby:

whose
  5:07pm
Irwin:

I stand corrective.
  5:07pm
Pedant:

I still love you Irwin.
  5:08pm
Laura L:

You don't gotta stand, s'aright.
  5:11pm
kme in chi:

*audible sigh*
  5:12pm
Barry:

Job Stevens, you mean?
  5:12pm
Sean Daily:

OH MY GOD! That guy died? That guy that invented that thing? I loved that thing...
  5:13pm
Barry:

Yeah, I wanted him to show my how my crackberry worked, dammit. I mean, him being the inventor and all.
  5:14pm
Lorenzo St. Dubois:

Man, THIS is what's become of "Love Power"??!
  5:15pm
Caryn:

And now we know what made Keith Richards fall from that palm tree and break his skull...
  5:15pm
Carmichael:

Keith Richards died? Again??
  5:15pm
Matt from Springfield:

Alexander Berger should do this guy--the fast "copyright 1988" makes me want to hear a "Paul SuperApple DNA" performance!
  5:18pm
Andy Action:

That last song and this current song. Really feeling it!
  5:20pm
thuggyBear:

You know, I always knew Oingo Boingo sucked, but i didn't know that Elfman was a Republican prick to boot.
  5:20pm
Andy Action:

2 more things: one time I actually decided to stop posting on here because I was too drunk to be bothered with the math.
Also: I've noticed a couple songs now on Irwin's show where the singer sounds SO improvisational it could only be that they're totally by themselves, young, and in their room. The totally relaxed riffing on being named Apple Love, pure uninhibited riffing YEAHJ
  5:23pm
Carmichael:

I have my hands in the air. Like I just don't care.
  5:24pm
Ike:

LOVE Spaceheads, LOVE SuperApple. Good music in that Oingo Boingo track but jeez what heavy-handed lyrics. I'd say that same about a socialist hippie lesbian folk version of that Oingo Boingo track. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
  5:25pm
ScottC:

big diff between "making a profit" and "capitalism" - any self- respecting capitalist
wants to keep others from making any profit. that's why they call it capitalism - all the chips...
  5:25pm
PMD:

Irwin, could you play something that's not mellow? I need to wake up. You are the best.
  5:26pm
Ricardo Montalban:

While I hate to defend Oingo Boingo, who I always found annoying and derivative, I think the lyrics were meant to be ironic - you know, sarcastic.
  5:28pm
Carmichael:

Nice all-encompassing, Ike!
  5:29pm
Carmichael:

Man, I love Spirit. I don't think they ever cut a bad song.
  5:29pm
Capitalist:

I don't care what anyone else makes. I care what I make.

It's the bossy cultural descendants of New England Puritans who are obsessed with what everyone else might do that they don't approve of. See Ken Burns's prohibition documentary.

When modern day puritans tell me I want to keep everyone else from doing anything, the pop-psych term for that is "projection".
  5:33pm
PMD:

Sigh...
How about 'it's the climb?'
yeah, I know, you are so over that
  5:34pm
PMD:

You just hate me because I'm not sending you quotes like I used to. [weeping]
  5:34pm
ScottC:

@Capitalist please see Monopoly... very educational. Here's a little sob story -I just spent a night in the hospital 1 night = $13,000 dollars hows that for free market compitition?
  5:36pm
PMD:

@Scott... Scary.
  5:37pm
thuggyBear:

@Ricardo Montalban- it sounded pretty decidedly not sarcastic. Sounded like Herman Cain. Unless he is sarcastic too. Which would make me feel a lot better about a lot of things.

Perhaps is was a nuanced criticism of how we don't have true capitalism, but rather a corporate socialism.
  5:39pm
PMD:

Pop is it!
  5:39pm
Brass Knuckles:

Kind of stuff I only ever hear before the lights dim in the theater. [MUTE]
  5:40pm
thuggyBear:

are you going to play the song that goes "Feel the rain on your skin! No one can feel it for you!" next?



Perhaps is was a nuanced criticism of how we don't have true capitalism, but rather a corporate socialism.
  5:40pm
Capitalist:

Health care is the largest part of the economy (nearly 20%) with the MOST GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT. Hence the pricing distortions.

The government lowballs health care provider reimbursements, so they can buy more votes with the money they have. The health care providers then try to make that shortfall up by overcharging private insurers.

But soon government will be the only game in Health Care Town, and if you think you'll like how they treat you, instead just envision how it would be to argue with the IRS and you'll just about be getting it right.
  5:41pm
Carmichael:

Wow ... that's some heavy duty shit.
  5:42pm
Andy Action:

Irwin I approve of this music. It's AMANDA!
  5:42pm
Can Dialectics Break Bricks?:

"soon government will be the only game in health care".. umm, no it won't. that's bullshit.
  5:42pm
Irwin:

@Capitalist: As PJ O'Rourke quipped, "If you think health care is expensive now, just wait til it's FREE."
  5:43pm
Chinchilla:

No! Not again!! [MUTE]
  5:43pm
PMD:

Celery flavored lolipop!
  5:43pm
Ike:

"Shit" being the operative word there re: Capitalist's comment. Pure, complete, total shit.
  5:44pm
Matt from Springfield:

(Dances wildly out to birdbath)
  5:44pm
Andy Action:

is the singer singing through a fan?
  5:44pm
Ike:

Hey @Irwin tell that to cancer patients denied care by health insurance companies. Oh the poor, poor health insurance companies who can't make money because of.. the government? Huh?
  5:45pm
Capitalist:

The goal of the new health care bill is to force private companies and insurers out of health care, because they are a wasteful step. And businesses will be glad to offload healthcare if the government is forcing them and they therefore can't be blamed.

The goal of the 2010 bill was to crerate a chess game whose endgame is single payer. They said so in private, if you listened enough.
  5:45pm
Can Dialectics Break Bricks?:

remember, yall's, Lord Hoboken is just trying to turn our cranks here, with his obviously naive and simplisitic juxtapositions.
  5:46pm
Carmichael:

Additional heavy duty shit ...
  5:47pm
Capitalist:

Time will tell :-) If I know more than other people, OF COURSE they will disagree with me. What else?
  5:47pm
Ike:

Yeah, turning our cranks is often the name of the game here. Anyway, I love Bobby Bare.
  5:47pm
ScottC:

@Capitalist all I can say is 30% overhead for the corporate insurers versus 6% overhead for Medicare. Now Obama has gotten that down to a mandated 20% an enquiring mind might wonder where all the dough is going...
  5:48pm
Matt from Springfield:

The Elfmans are a crazy, insular, Scientologist family with opinions all their own; all it took was one playing of their song by Irwin to get everyone riled up--and Irwin KNEW it would! Even you guys must've known it would...really want to keep vindicating him for his mischief?
  5:48pm
Matt from Springfield:

On another note, Bobby Bare is always great--this is a good cut I haven't heard before.
  5:49pm
Capitalist:

I understand big govt is your religion. Good luck with that! :-)
  5:49pm
Marmalade Kitty:

Capitalism is a very dirty word indeed!
  5:51pm
ScottC:

What exactly is "big gov"? would you rather have "contractors"? let's outsource everything and really get gouged
  5:52pm
Hapless Jim:

I wouldn't give our troubles to a monkey on a Rockford.
  5:53pm
Can Dialectics Break Bricks?:

...even if that's what they wanted, that's just never going to happen in the U.S. basically, free-market fans can never seem to get away from seeing every debate about proposed regulation in terms of anything but an apocalypitic see-saw -- with Orwellian-style socialism on one end, and an almost poetically self-regulating, laissez-faire paradise on the other
  5:54pm
Carmichael:

I really don't care at all about anybody's government, including mine. And that's quite a thesaurus you're draggin' around, Brick.
  5:54pm
Matt from Springfield:

Great show! Have a good night everyone!
  5:55pm
ScottC:

These Chicago School buffoons have tried thier voodoo in Chile and Iraq and those have really worked out well...
  5:55pm
Carmichael:

c u Matt.
  5:56pm
Marmalade Kitty:

Good night Matt!
  5:57pm
Capitalist:

I pay for my own doctor visits, cash.

Government middlemen are ten times more inefficient and dysfunctional than private insurers, who are no bargain either.

I just have catastrophic coverage. I don't expect my car insurance to pay for oil changes, either. How weird of me, just to handle ordinary things in an ordinary way without expecting a Magic Daddy to take care of everything for wittle me so I ever don't have to worry my pwetty wittle head making my own decisions about what to pay for what!
  5:58pm
thuggyBear:

Capitalist wants you to get your gov't hands out of his Medicare. Up is down, and left is right, and the bill that will force everyone in the US to buy private, ineffectively regulated insurance is going to be the government takeover of healthcare. Allowing for a voluntary Medicare buy-in or a public option would have been more effective in putting a nail in our corrupt for-profit insurance industry, but that just shows you how devious our muslim president is. It's just Like LaPierre from the NRA said- Obama is loosening gun control laws so he can get re-elected, and THEN he's going to take the guns away. Because that's what makes the most sense.
  6:00pm
ScottC:

@Capitalist the old boot strap argument is getting a little hoary by now...
  6:00pm
Capitalist:

Right thuggy, they know that step one will be a disaster, and eventually only the government will be left standing to give health care. If you can't see something so obvious, you're a sap. But that's what they count on!
  6:01pm
Marmalade Kitty:

ever consider those people who simply cannot afford any sort of health care?
  6:02pm
ScottC:

How about Non- Profit Insurance? like every other civilized society in the world
  6:04pm
thuggyBear:

It is obvious the devious Muslims who control our government are going to get rid of our superior private healthcare by forcing us to buy it. Then, when disaster strikes, we'll all cry out for government takeover.
  11:32am
Jack:

Hi Ola... hmmm, this is not the Lost Patrol from Umea, Sweden, the band fronted by Denis Lyxzen. This is TLP from NY. Two very different bands. Cheers.
  1:51pm
Reality Check:

@MK: If someone has zero income they are obviously doing nothing for anyone else in society, but instead are expecting everyone to take care of them. That's called "infancy".

@Scott: When you work for a living, every dollar you make is a profit. You sell your time and effort and skill for a money profit. Why is it ok for you to make a profit, but not someone who tries to make a rational calculation about how much health insurance a group of people will need over time? Is that a useless skill? But if it is, just pay as you go. COBRA is 1000 a month often. Paying cash, I can't recall a month ever where I paid 1000. Usually it's somewhere from 0 to 500. See, I easily cut out the evil insurance companies, except in case of catastrophe (which is really what insurance is for; insurance is not there to make every little medical activity cost-free by hiding what things really cost).
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