Fool's Paradise Playlists for March 29, 2014

Listener comments!

"It's about time! I'm ready for the booby hatch!" Adele Jergens to Jack LaRue from an episode of the TV show, Racket Squad !

1:06pm Thee KeeKee:

Yo! Where's da pizza?

1:06pm fleep:

We're on the short list today.

1:07pm Juke Joint Jonny:

What's the connection between cotton and pizza?
Rock-etts, that I get, cause they ett a pizza while recording that one…

1:09pm common:

happy saturday rex and everyone!

1:10pm Andy in Berlin:

My immediate thought was it was a picture of Johnny Puleo. Silly me!

1:10pm Parq:

Mmm, pizza ...

1:10pm fred:

Good afternoon Rex and the congregation of Fool's Paradise faithfuls. Time to open these bottles

1:11pm juji:

fay spain and billy barty in "roller derby massacre"

1:12pm Parq:

Is that Belushi under Billy B?

1:14pm common:

good to virtually see you, fred.

1:16pm Wisconsin:

Hello fools

1:17pm Marc:

It's Ronnie D and the Valiants.

1:19pm common:

pizza pizza pizza! - amy sedaris

1:27pm juji:

fay spain billy baty and dom deluise in "elephant pants"

1:29pm fleep:

Actually making pizza today, it's the yeast I can do.

1:32pm Cool Hands Luke:

Rex is tuned in loud and proud - Just got delivery from My Little Pizzeria - Large pie with EVERYTHING!

1:36pm gene sculatti:

Never knew Billy Barty was Eye-talian! I'm even prouder. Parkin' that dino outside. Great show today, Rex

1:37pm Uncle Michael:

Play an actual pizza!

1:38pm sawsee:

Two Pizza Burgers Please !

1:38pm Wisconsin:

He plays licorice pizza every week.

1:39pm Uncle Michael:

Any thoughts on the new Cup-O-Pizza guy?

1:39pm Reeshard:

For reasons I still don't understand, my dad was a big fan of little actors, with Billy Barty and Michael Dunn ('Ship Of Fools,' 'Wild, Wild West') being his favorites. Mr. Barty seemed like the sunnier counterpart to Mr. Dunn's often evil characterizations.

1:43pm Juke Joint Jonny:

…so, I guess I better practice my most offensive Italian stereotype caricatures in advance of next year's marathon premium, right boss?

1:45pm fleep:

Dump Pizza www.familycookbookproject.com...

1:45pm Uncle Michael:

That's-a some joke, boss.

1:46pm sawsee:

anyone ever see that snack bar ad for the pizza that looks just like an oatmeal cookie !!!

1:48pm Juke Joint Jonny:

@fleep that recipe is fool proof! I took a dump just reading it.

1:49pm sawsee:

in other pizza news...anyone who hasn't seen John Stewarts passionate defenses of NY pizza traditions should look them up

1:49pm dale:

i used to like the tree tavern pizza from key food cuz they spent zero dollars on the box. frozen, i know.....

1:49pm JakeGould:

The hardest thing to deal with when making pizza is the dough. If the rest of it confuses you, excuse my French, but you might just be an idiot.

1:50pm mariano:

There was the Simpsons episode when Skinner announced to the school that "in the spirit of political correctness run amok, pizza day will now be called Italian-American sauce bread day."

1:52pm dale:

my mother used to mike up a batter of bisquik for pizza. we were little kids and no such thing as a real pizza place existed in the sticks where i grew up. sometimes i'd take a piece of bread add ketchup, velveeta and strips of baloney and stick that in a pan.

1:53pm ! I X Key !:

! Yum all up pizza
Now I have to order pizza (o:

1:54pm JakeGould:

Dale, we all have our food stories.

1:56pm JakeGould:

I grew up in a working class neighborhood that was a bit like the Lower East Side by the sea. Thrilling! The amount of oddball food combos I had in my life… Like all of them!

2:01pm dale:

maybe we can get a chop suey set next week?

2:02pm JakeGould:

Chop suey is nasty.

2:02pm Joe R.:

To answer Rex's question, Milwaukee pizza tends to be really thin crust, almost cracker like. Bit of a contrast to Chicago's deep dish style.

And our civic fathers at least had the good sense to commemorate the birth of pizza in Milwaukee with a historical marker....

http://instagram.com/p/HF0Js/

2:05pm Wisconsin:

#Joe R. I still miss the original Pizza Man.

2:08pm Reeshard:

You could probably divide the U.S. into Roman city-states based on pizza preference alone. Being from Detroit, a place where seemingly only Greeks were trusted with pizza manufacture, it took some time after I moved to NYC to come to terms with East Village slices. Listening to the Ramones didn't help that much.

2:11pm Joe R.:

#Wisconsin not a fan of the reborn version on Downer? Just there for the first time last night.

2:13pm sawsee:

sounds like Rex is ready to start a commune !

2:14pm Wisconsin:

#Joe R. The original can never be duplicated. I carved a few things in the woodwork at the original.

2:17pm Wisconsin:

#Joe R I haven't been to the new one yet.

2:25pm dale:

chop suey is awesome. make some rice. open the sauce can and dump it out on top. open the fried noodles and dump those on top. done!

2:26pm JakeGould:

Dale, chop suey is nasty. We can’t ever split meals for any reason. Would appreciate your company, but need to draw a line.

2:32pm ! I X Key !:

Gimme pizza www.google.com...

2:44pm dale:

i remember whenever the honeymooners had something to celebrate they'd go out for chop suey or go to the deli for cold cuts. keep the bar low i say.

2:44pm sawsee:

I need to hear that Larry Storch "im walkin' (?) again

2:48pm beavoux:

The Old Philosopher!

2:49pm ChrisB.:

The Eddie Lawrence Mets song was incredible. Where did that come from?

2:50pm beavoux:

Bunkie

2:51pm Wisconsin:

Liberace came from Milwaukee. Not something we're real proud of.

2:54pm Brez:

Thanks for another SUPER show, Rex! Perfect for a rainy day's mending -- buttons, snaps and the greasiest sounds around!

2:55pm juji:

larry stoch, liberace and fay spain in "lemonade jungle"

2:56pm ScottC:

Just say'n - Living in the Bay Area this is "Earthquake Season". April and October. Bittersweet Spring every year. Ya it's Spring AND THE FREAKING GROUND IS OPENING UP!