VJing and DJing for Vicki's Optimized! Stream: Ken's show

Listener comments!

6:29am -Ken:

Morning friends! Trying an experiment today.. will be VJing GIFs live from 9am to Noon, and relying on my pals Traktor and Matthew Q Garbagetime, Esq to help me start and stop my musical selections.

7:03am Mark S:

Gee I should stay home from work today to watch this

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7:10am -Ken:

You have my permission to do so, Mark. I can give you a note, if that helps.

7:14am Mark S:

Thanks Ken!

7:15am cory:

hi kens and non-kens! i have two issues to address in this post.
1) this whole "radio with visuals" thing is really awesome
2) get that kickstarter going so i can give you more money
3) there is no 3

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7:16am -Ken:

Thanks Cory, we are counting the library so we can plan this whole thing out. I expect to have a count today actually.

7:17am cory:

holy massive inventory

7:25am ƑO² (:

Good morning, Ken, cory, Mark S!

And a big thank you to the wonderful people of New Jersey! Now it's up to you Bernie supporters! I know you are already conspiring to favour Trump! Go WW3!!! Go, go, gooo!

7:32am cory:

i''m a hoosier and i'm kinda thinking of voting for trump just to watch, hopefully, watch the world burn

7:34am cory:

wow, that was some bad typing. sorry

7:37am ƑO² (:

Optimized is a great idea! But I'll encourage WFMU to take a new direction and take the lead (like they did with the Internet*) to totally embrace and start experimenting with virtual reality to merge sound, video and reality. Magic Leap, Oculus VR, anyone? VJing is so 2016. VRing is the next thing!

* Thanks to Komissar Ken

7:45am ƑO² (:

Cory,

You and me together, from a top of a hill, watching the world go down in flames (including the Barenaked Ladies)!

But the only thing it really worries me is that Trump hasn't been assassinated yet by a time traveler. This could mean we might not have a WW3 coming after all :'(

7:49am cory:

FoFo,
Groovy baby, i grok it and we are there together. Trump doesn't really scare me. it'r the dude after trump. there's were the monster sleeps. plus, we've fucked the planet (for us)

7:49am cory:

woah, i'm a bummer. time for a bowl and shot

7:56am Cliff:

Good morning folks, today's show is gonna be a real treat, huh? Or at least an entertaining disaster.....

ƑO² I'm with you on the VR thing, but anybody but Oculus, they sold out to Faceblargh!

7:57am cory:

lol, i would sign up for Faceblargh right now

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8:03am Ken From Hyde Park:

The future of TV is Let’s Paint TV.

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8:07am -Ken:

Problem with VR is that it's 100% pre-produced. Is anybody doing anything like live, real-time VR? Also, VR has an incredibly hogh barrier to entry. But it's an interesting notion.

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8:07am -Ken:

Lemmee know if anybody has any requests for music, GIFs, or overall visual motifs.

8:08am cory:

mornin' Kenfhp

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8:08am -Ken:

Also, there shall be no inline GIFs on the playlist this morning (after 9am), only a non-stop GIF/video feed.

8:20am Cliff:

Ken, I know there's been some projects with live streaming concerts or sports events in VR using 360-degree cameras, and Youtube added the ability recently to upload 360-degree videos or livestreams. But I don't know any details about that, I've been focusing on game development.

8:32am Cliff:

There's also AltspaceVR (altvr.com) which is a VR meeting space where you can create an avatar and chat with other people online. I think some of the livestreaming stuff has been done through them.

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8:40am Ken From Hyde Park:

I'd like to request some of the animations from Pink Floyd's The Wall. The marching hammers, for example. If you can show the video for Don Felder's "Heavy Metal" around 11:00, that would be really garbagy!

8:40am ƑO² (:

Well, VR can add real time video editing techniques such as those from this experiment where one person's face expressions show up in someone's else face in real time video.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/26/science/manipulating-facial-expressions-in-live-video.html?_r=0

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8:52am Ken From Hyde Park:

Good morning, cory. How's it going?

8:52am cory:

it's going very well

8:52am cory:

it's going very well

8:58am sphere:

hello

8:59am Wild Neil:

Peace Ken et al.

9:00am Cliff:

I'm ready. Are you?

9:01am Michele:

I'm ready.

9:02am Sem Chumbo:

.....and we're back. Good morning, SM Ken, and attending Kennites.

9:02am Dan B From Upstate:

I'm ready, and now that I'm jobless, I actually get to watch one of these!

9:03am Wild Neil:

How about some Gifs of a Joshua (et al) light show from the 60's?

9:03am Cliff:

I'm getting a contact high already

9:03am Amazon Alert:

People that are jobless also like...

Seven Second Delay

9:04am foofs:

Couldn't be doing with white-walled tyres. You'd have to look shabby half the time or spend all day near a car wash in case you mess up the wheels.

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9:04am Ken From Hyde Park:

I am ready to rock!

9:05am People Like Us:

Good morning! Sorry, was just grappling with facebook

9:05am foofs:

Although I suppose one of your chaps could carry some wet wipes or something.

9:07am thedunkel:

will there be KHALM gifs?

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9:07am Ken From Hyde Park:

Here is another way to watch the video proceedings. www.ustream.tv...

9:08am Cliff:

I have this weird urge now to eat popcorn for some reason

9:08am cory:

i request Khlam and/or Baby Animals

9:08am annie:

perfect

9:08am People Like Us:

I'd stay away from the ustream page for the commenting though - plus the video stream will be running on the WFMU.org frontpage from now until 3pm.

9:08am ƑO² (:

Khalm down, don't worry thedunkel. There will be.

9:11am Cliff:

I'm always down for some VIODOVVVVV!!!!!!111!!#!!!1

9:11am Tim:

Hey
Was that Glenn Branca about 25 minutes ago?

9:12am tadpoles:

This is radio the Surrealists would be proud of.

How can I get any work done? Have to succumb!

9:13am Cliff:

Tim - During John Allen's show? Yes, he played "Drive".

9:13am People Like Us:

Optimized! runs all this week from Noon-3pm. Today is an exception starting with Ken's show!

The playlist/schedule will resume here after Ken: wfmu.org... with new shows/music from Jim Price, People Like Us, Tim Maloney, Busy Doing Nothing, Jim Price, DW Robertson (Ergo Phizmiz), Gwilly Edmondez, Dan Deacon, John Kilduff with Let’s Paint TV live at Monty Hall (skype letspaintwfmu), Dina Kelberman

9:14am Dan B From Upstate:

Oll rait!

9:15am bill:

happy days for sure.

9:15am Polyus:

Bummed I have to miss Minneapolis WFMU meetup tonight, hope it's groovy.

9:16am People Like Us:

Looks great Ken :)

9:17am People Like Us:

so the best way of smoothly experiencing this is to play the video from the wfmu.org tab and then have this page open separately to post comments, and then it will not interrupt streaming of the video

9:17am thedunkel:

is this show being broadcasted from a boat? or is there going to be a live VR feed later from the boat? is the boat in Andy's backyard? will there be boat gifs?

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9:17am Webhamster Henry:

Hi, Optimized Ken!

9:18am Cliff:

thedunkel - Yes.

9:19am ƑO² (:

I like the balls piano song. CAn someone shazam it for me? Please?

9:19am People Like Us:

Ken's always in the boat

9:19am Michael:

Big Sausage Pizza.

9:19am Video Booth:

Broadcasting from a kayak Dunkel

9:19am thedunkel:

the balls lady VR feed - ken where is the balls lady VR feed?

9:19am Andrew Waterloo:

is it a vagina kayak?

9:20am Cliff:

Yes Ken, how are we supposed to spatially locate our balls if we don't have a VR stream?!

9:20am thedunkel:

abandon ship! children , women, video equipment, and balls first!

9:20am Roberto:

This pretty much sounds like a typical day's worth of activity for me.

9:20am ƑO² (:

Unfortunately, there's no vagina kayak...BUT we have laser vagina GIF!!!

9:21am MD:

Good Morning Ken and Happy Family....Let us Freeform in one giant fuzzy warm moment!

9:21am Nick S.:

My balls are on floor!

9:21am melinda:

Morning ,all.

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9:21am Webhamster Henry:

"When correctly viewed, everything is lewd" - Prof. Lehrer.

9:21am Dan B From Upstate:

A wild mouse cursor appeared!

9:22am Ike:

It's the "dance lightly 'round" part that really gets me there.

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9:22am Ken From Hyde Park:

Commence typing!

9:22am thedunkel:

use the roll-ins

9:24am Cliff:

There we go, there's the talking eggs!

9:24am Dan B From Upstate:

Talking eggs sounds like a new Chris Hardwick show.

9:25am People Like Us:

Optimized! full schedule for the week is here
www.wfmu.org...

9:25am melinda:

I like the egg-pill combo. It's like the egg is having a flashback.

9:25am Frank from VT:

Yea Talking Egg!!

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9:25am Ken From Hyde Park:

Someone should go down to Best Buy and cast the stream onto the wall of big TVs.

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9:27am Webhamster Henry:

Oliver Collignon ... Hitler youth singer (uncredited)

9:27am Mick:

D'oh! I missed Celentano and the Balls Lady. Entropy will surely set in any minute now.

9:27am Cliff:

Ken must have quite the indexing system for those 8,000 animgifs.

9:28am 10 year old mac (never updated):

I got nothing here.

9:29am thedunkel:

RUTH and DADDY GARBAGE - Full house at the magic factory

9:32am Mark the Sardine:

Painting on a treadmill - the next exercise trend!

9:32am ƑO² (:

Not that I am a conspiracy theory nutty but who else here feels Optimized is nothing but a Videodrone front operation made to alter and damage our brains so powerful people take control over the world?

9:32am ƑO² (:

Videodrome*

9:33am Cliff:

Freedom through absurdity, ƑO²

Oh hey, it's more Shittyflute!

9:33am Nick S.:

Shittyflute

9:34am steve:

all hail Shittyflute

9:34am Kat in Chicago:

POOEYFLUTE

9:34am melinda:

This shittyflute is even better than the last one I heard.

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9:34am Webhamster Henry:

Pooeyflute is the Youtube version of the Portsmouth Sinfonia!

9:35am pygmylunch:

shittyflute 4evrrr

9:35am People Like Us:

oh it's Pooeyflute

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9:36am Rich in Washington:

Shittyflute. Oh yeah.

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9:36am Ken From Hyde Park:

Conversely, I had fluty poo yesterday.

9:36am ƑO² (:

Thanks for bringing up Shittyflute, PLU. Or maybe not.

9:37am People Like Us:

someone has to help these people

9:37am Dan B From Upstate:

I like the part of this song where he says cocktail bar.

9:37am bill:

The visuals make FMU even more train-wrecky than usual

9:37am People Like Us:

someone should do a Pooeyflute version of this

9:38am Cliff:

You, you were working, you were working as a waitress in a cockcockcockcockcocktaaaAAAAaail bar

9:38am rbxbx:

hahaha <3

9:38am Marcel M:

Morning Ken and friends. Just sent a wonderful 45 mins at the post office.

9:38am MD:

I knew she was a waitress!!

9:38am Adam from Philly:

The Shittyflute of A-Ha is a masterpiece

9:38am pygmylunch:

All of my friends now hate me because I played this song for them.

9:39am Cliff:

Pooeyflute Svantana?! I think my brain would explode

9:39am ƑO² (:

Vicki, I kid.

SVANTANAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

I wonder if she stills works in the cocktail bar.

9:40am Laura L:

A Pooeyflute and Pooeyclarinet combo would be great for the Cocktail Waitress for the 2 diff voices.

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9:40am Ken From Hyde Park:

Somebody toss down the bullets, please!

9:41am pantz:

I always knew Cousin It was Swedish!

9:41am Cliff:

Or I guess it'd be my colon

9:41am Andrew Waterloo:

when it comes to yodeling.. at least bag pipes were used to terrifying the enemy.

9:41am People Like Us:

this is from yesterday's OPTIMIZED, by Porest - made specially

9:42am Cliff:

I want to pass a cultural movement

9:43am Marcel M:

Hahha... this is great.

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9:43am Webhamster Henry:

Speaking of Yodeling - B/art Plantenga is appearing on the OPTIMIZED stream on Friday

9:44am ƑO² (:

Aaron in Minneapolis has a band!!

9:44am MD:

Dog Ble$$ America LLC....Now with a Women's touch!!!

9:44am Cliff:

THERE'S A PLACE FOR YOU AND ME
DEEP INSIDE A CAVITY

9:45am Ken from Pyongyang:

Ken F. is truly the Marina Abramović, Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson, Carolee Schneemann of the GIF juggernaut.

Fraternal Socialist and Juche congratulations!

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9:46am Rich in Washington:

dammit. lost the dang stream here.

9:48am bobdoesthings:

goodmorning

9:48am Marcel M:

I tried to remember what else happened in that episode and looked it up, "Eventually, Butters is filtering negative comments for an increasingly large number of people, including Demi Lovato and Vin Diesel, which requires him to stay up late at night and suffer from sleep deprivation." hahaha

9:49am tadpoles:

Love People Like Us.

9:50am thatpatsmith:

this makes me so happy

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9:50am Ken From Hyde Park:

@Marcel M - PC Principal was totally oblivious to Butters' plight. Or he just didn't care. Funny.

9:50am ƑO² (:

Ken Freedman is the David Guetta of VJing

9:50am Dan B From Upstate:

Doesn't Butters also leap out of a window and wind up in a body cast for the remainder of the season? That most recent season was one of south park's best.

9:50am Marcel M:

@Ken: I'm gonna have to re-watch that one later! Been a while.

9:51am Cliff:

There's our Beloved Orange One

9:51am Marcel M:

I don't think I've seen any of the most recent ones. I'll have to investigate.

9:52am Dan B From Upstate:

Is that how the rest of the world sees president orange?

9:52am bill:

This is what happens when you go to the Forbidden Zone

9:53am thedunkel:

This is what happens when you go to the Seven Second Delay Zone

9:53am Marcel M:

Whats a nice Jewish boy like you doing in the sixth dimension?

9:54am thedunkel:

Hows does the video booth feel about Toilet Bunny?

9:54am ƑO² (:

It seems we reached a maximum of 82 viewers. Time to pull Plan B, Ken! Show your titties! A friend of a friend of mine told me that's how you reach the 500's 1000's numbers

9:55am MD:

Pipeline RAGA!!!!

9:55am Dan B From Upstate:

This was the orignal ending of 2001 A Space Odyssey.

9:56am ƑO² (:

I didn't know they made a movie based on Ken's avatar.

9:56am Wild Neil:

@FOFO-I thought there were 80,018 viewers and I just happen to be the 79th. Can someone please clarify? Oh cool, The Feelies!

9:57am MD:

I think we are all trapped in Ken's Brain until noon...RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!!!!

10:00am ƑO² (:

The 80,030 is the page views the video feed has generated since I don't know when. The small number to the left is the current number of viewers watching

10:07am melinda:

Digging this Altamont piece.

10:07am ƑO² (:

Why Ken doesn't comment?
Are you at home?
I miss you.
XOXOXOXOXOXOXO
Where are you?
Are you with PLU?
You aren't answering
You are making me mad!
I'm in front of the station.

10:08am Cliff:

I think he's a little busy at the moment

10:08am Murakami Whywolf:

Of cpurse bullying trolls validated by money and 'success' would mock the very idea that 'reality' doesn't have to include trolls and bullies. Sometimes I think we deserve Trump, but then I remember that I don't.

10:09am Cliff:

Mmmmm, popcorn salad

10:09am Jeffy Jazz:

It sounds like a Fall record!

10:10am rbxbx:

^ What was it?

10:10am rbxbx:

Oh nevermind, playlist updated :)

10:13am ((((((Murakami Whywolf)))))):

cpurse--->course

10:14am Jeffy Jazz:

Jagger trying to chill people out at Altamont.

10:14am thedunkel:

this is the soundtrack i have playing every morning getting up and getting one off to school.

10:14am Mark S:

Humpa!

10:14am pantz:

This is brilliant!!! And me without a micro-dot.

10:15am JP from KC:

'Morning, Ken and everybody. This optimized stream is a fascinating and well received diversion from my otherwise dismal Wednesday. Also, this Eläkeläiset is awesome as hell!

10:15am ƑO² (:

((((Eläkeläiseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet)))))!!!!

10:15am Cliff:

Still can't believe Ken only did 5 acid trips in his life, all of them bad.

10:16am Nick from Indy:

I seem to want popcorn

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10:17am Webhamster Henry:

The gifs keep-a-coming!

10:17am ƑO² (:

I know, Cliff!!

I was also pretty impressed that I am the only one Ken's Show listener that doesn't do or has done any drugs.

10:17am melinda:

@Cliff: maybe this is evidence that Ken doesn't need acid.

10:19am Cliff:

Ken's brain probably produces endogenous lysergamides.

10:19am Yvang:

One Ken Kesey was enough anyway

10:19am ((((((Murakami Whywolf)))))):

Cliff:
Not only bad, but each worse than the last.

10:20am Cliff:

Having gone to Cornell, I know very well what a huge pothead Carl Sagan was.

10:20am Dan B From Upstate:

Neither have I, fofo. I'll imbibe alcohol, but that's about it.

10:22am tadpoles:

Basking in the California Sunshine - along with Hillary?

10:22am jmd:

Dachsaphone?

10:24am MONEYBAG$:

Last night some guy appeared to be tripping during Jesse's book reading...it got interesting for a minute

10:24am Cliff:

I mostly stick with alcohol myself, to be honest. It's a lot more predictable.

10:24am (((Murakami Whywolf))):

ƑO² (:
Does caffeine count? It's damnably strong, mind-altering, and incredibly addictive, but often gets a free pass because it's a drug your boss wants you to take....

(Note: Many Mormons do in fact drink soda with caffeeine, leading me to belueve that it is the civilised-but-intense pleasure brought by coffee and tea to which their founders fundamentally objected.)

10:26am CKev:

It took me a moment to realize why I was only hearing each word in one ear. Clever.

10:26am Cliff:

Murakami - oh absolutely, caffeine is definitely a powerful mind-altering substance, it's just a socially acceptable one. I feel a lot more balanced since I quit drinking coffee 8 months ago.

10:27am melinda:

Caffeine should count. So should prescription anti-depressants.

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10:27am Webhamster Henry:

Føƒø - I've always been drug & nicotine free, except for second hand smoke. No alcohol either - and I'm pretty low on meat, wheat, caffeine, and dairy . That's why I'm so boring!

10:27am melinda:

Talk about mind-altering.

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10:28am Webhamster Henry:

I'm high on life and WFMU.

10:28am ƑO² (:

Wait a minute! Now everybody here doesn't do drugs! Oh, c'mon! Last week everyone here was a a drug expert! In fact, the comment section looked like a WikiPedia entry for LSD

10:29am Cliff:

Yep, wheat is another one we don't think much about. I have a lot more energy since I went gluten-free a few weeks ago.

10:29am thedunkel:

huff the WoffalMU

10:30am (((Murakami Whywolf))):

Cliff:
The funny thing to me was that I read his essay on pot-smoking written as (I believe) 'Professor X' for William Novak's "High Culture: Marijuana in the Lives of Americans" years before it was revealed as being his. Notable in it: get ideas high, evaluate them sober; in his case sometimes they were worthwhile (in his eyes).

10:31am rbxbx:

I quit drinking coffee for 6-7 months and started again maybe a month ago. Feel like I was living in a haze for half a year. I'm glad I reset to a healthy baseline, but I don't think I'd quit again. It's a good "mild" anti-depressant, me thinks.

10:31am melinda:

@Fofo: I think it was a small number of people actually relating their drug experiences, but it seemed like a lot since those of us with little or no experience didn't have anything to share.

10:32am Cliff:

Murakami, that's been my experience too, it removes the mental filters and makes me more creative. I journal and sketch a lot and then when I sober up I go through and sort out the good stuff from the nonsense.

10:34am wild neil:

during the Viet Nam war the USAF did an anonymous survey of those in country who did drugs...it was like ninety percent. Wow!

10:34am melinda:

I found caffeine to be a good antidepressant, too, but eventually figured out the side effects weren't worth it, for me. Major diet changes helped make up for the lack of stimulant, though.

10:35am ƑO² (:

melinda,

Fair enough. I guess sharing the experience of using drugs is part of the whole experience.

10:36am Cliff:

Also, I think Sagan would be dismayed by the direction taken by the whole "skeptic" movement since he's died, it's turned itself into a fundamentalist ideology that must be defended from heretics and nonbelievers at all costs.

10:36am (((Murakami Whywolf))):

I wanted desperately to be off anti-depressants, was for a season, then realised I was just barely treading water...and then a Trump presidency became an actual possibility, giving me that 'stuck in the Bad World that time traveller accidentally created' feeling... it was time to start hacking my dopamine/norepinephrine/KOR systems again.

10:36am rbxbx:

@melinda: between getting back into coffee and building up a more consistent exercise regiment I've been feeling pretty good lately :)

Exercise has been cutting into music making time though :(

10:37am ƑO² (:

I'm skeptical about that, Cliff.

10:37am Cliff:

I'm skeptical about YOU, ƑO². Do you really even exist? Prove it!

10:39am ƑO² (:

Yes, I exist.

10:39am ƑO² (:

No, I don't exist.

10:39am Cliff:

Pffffft. Anybody could say that.

10:40am ƑO² (:

Ok. Only a real, flesh and bones, idiot will post my lame comments. Therefore, I exist.

10:41am Sam:

I heard Trump liked Andy Breckman's shit boardgame so much he asked him to be his running mate. I think it's a strategic move to appeal to feminists.

10:41am JP from KC:

Seems legit, Cliff.

10:41am Wild Neil:

I think weed should be freely available, escpecially for Cancer patients to alleviate their pain if they want it and also for Hospice....Portugal made most drugs legal and it solved a lot of problems over the years such as ODs etc...just tax it like liquor and cigarettes. Right now I think exercise endorphine release is the best drug there is...

10:43am thedunkel:

ƑO² ( exisits he's standing on line at the snack bar - ken has this on a live from the VR feed

10:43am Sam:

What's the deal with DC? Didn't they pass a referendum that legalized it, but you still can't actually buy it anywhere?

10:44am Cliff:

Goddamnit Ken, I haven't had pizza since I went on my gluten-free diet. Should I just cheat tonight? [YES, DO IT CLIFF!!!] Okay!

10:44am melinda:

I think legalizing weed is a trend that will continue, though maybe not fast enough.

10:44am courtneynoir:

Aw maaaan - I missed The Balls Lady singing "Balls" ????

10:44am Video Booth:

I need some pizza with my coffee.

10:44am ((((((Murakami Whywolf)))))):

Cliff:
Robert Anton Wilson would disagree—he cast Sagan (along with James Randi) as a Grand Inquisitor for daring to point-out that Uri Geller was an arrant fraud. 'Closing-off reality tunnels' he called it; I say that 0.) the sceptics opened a better tunnel than the one Geller was promoting for his own benefit, and 1.) some tunnels ought to be closed-off, the ones unproductive and inexpertly shored-up.

10:44am melinda:

@Cliff: I think some self-proclaimed skeptics are actually deniers.

10:45am Wild Neil:

@Melinda-so many are sitting in jail because it is not, its really a tragedy....God Bless the states of Colorado etc standing up to our Federal Govt and saying enough is enough!

10:46am Marcel M:

Is this looped? Or am I high?

10:46am Cliff:

Oh man oh man, is that a pizza with fried egg on top?! Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

10:46am Sam:

Both Marcel

10:46am Cliff:

Marcel - Yes

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10:48am Ken From Hyde Park:

I love that water skiing Godzilla!

10:48am Marcel M:

Destroyer of worlds in the house! Off to work bye dudes.

10:49am ƑO² (:

Run, Marcel M! Run like the wind!!

10:49am Cliff:

KEN FOR THE LOVE OF CHRIST STOP PUTTING PIZZA IN THE VIDEO FEED

10:49am Cliff:

NO KEN NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

10:49am Michael:

comma zero

10:50am courtneynoir:

oh no Big Sausage Pizza
Comma Zero

10:50am Dan B From Upstate:

Calm a zero!

10:50am Wild Neil:

I am inexplicably craving pizza now.

10:50am Cliff:

KEN I HATE YOU FOREVER

10:50am ((((((Murakami Whywolf)))))):

@melinda
Create one way or another to be better _at_ something or another, or just seem to be, and an hierarchical primate will come along to try to use it to be just plain 'better' (that is, higher-up in the hierarchy), and usually missing the original point.

10:51am thedunkel:

we need the accompanying gifs from PORN for THE BLIND - or the VR feed of big sausage pizza

10:51am Dan B From Upstate:

Yeah! Suck that pasenny!

10:51am ƑO² (:

Inexplicably I want to eat the peseni of a Godzilla.

10:51am courtneynoir:

more reverse cowgirl

10:51am Cliff:

Naked lady holding giant pizza. That's it, I give up

10:51am Lizardner Dave:

comma zero comma zero comma zero comma zero

10:52am Sam:

Ha, I clicked on the UStream button and it crashed my whole computer! Funny, my radio never does that. People really need to stop inventing things that don't work.

10:52am (((Murakami Whywolf):

I really like "Big Sausage Pizza", but for God's sake, thoses are SLASHES.

(Also, it needs more cowgirl.)

10:52am Sam:

That's probably the only non-profit provider of porn

10:54am P-90:

"...standing in suspended congress..."

10:54am thedunkel:

Porn for the blind should be read by the 'Baby Animal' guy - plus it needs more reverse cowgirl

10:54am JP from KC:

Welp, I will officially be adding this show to my favorites for viewing/listening at a later date... and an altered state.

10:55am Sam:

Why is porn for the blind a public service provided by a non-profit, while porn for everyone else is completely for-profit and considered to have no social value?

10:56am ƑO² (:

JP from KC,

I think they are one-offs. That is, I don't think is possible to view this show (or previous Ustream) archives. Better watch it right now!

10:59am Cliff:

ƑO², I think Vicki said she would try to put up some of the video archives later on.

10:59am JP from KC:

Well that is highly disappointing. I can't be altered right now! I should've gotten a note to stay home from work, like Mark S.

10:59am Luke:

Do the SSD Turnpike Treasure Hunt episode.

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10:59am Webhamster Henry:

7SD shows from the early 90s are also pretty good!

10:59am thedunkel:

Would the balls lady count as Porn for the Blind?

10:59am cory:

i wanna hear the tony shalhoub episode

11:00am ƑO² (:

For SSD..Any of the puppet shows!

11:00am herb.nyc:

hi all, am at library p.c. video was coming thru, but just stopped. and audio was coming in twice (a lag, i think), but now it's good. maybe those 2 events are related. ... ah, video is now on, and audio is fine.

11:00am cory:

jpnkc, just finished the playlist i'm going to send you

11:01am P-90:

Good Question: Is it not possible to archive these UStream feeds?

11:01am Greg:

Ken, the episode where you had around 100 a people on the line at the same time would be a fun SSD to revisit

11:01am herb.nyc:

@cory - when i learned Tony Shalhoub episode wasn't archived, i used my iphone to record it (during a repeat)

11:02am ƑO² (:

Thanks, Cliff. JP from KC, Vicki could confirm us.

11:02am (((Murakami Whywolf):

Sam: These excellent CBC shows on pornography and advertising claim it's all almost non-profit these days:
www.cbc.ca...
www.cbc.ca...

... The same programme (which is hosted by Satan) also covered industrial musicals:
www.cbc.ca...
....

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11:02am Ken From Hyde Park:

For 7SD, I recall an episode where people would call in and you'd measure how long their signal was delayed. Possibly a dozen years ago.

11:02am JP from KC:

You're the best, Cory! I was struggling to figure out what I would listen to.

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11:03am Webhamster Henry:

Chromolox on 365 Days Project: wfmu.org...

11:04am melinda:

It looks like previous USTREAM shows are available at their site.

11:05am Sam:

This is slowed down, isn't it...

11:06am Zach:

Ken/others, ever watch The Point by Harry Nielson? Cool music and trippy and interesting.

11:08am (((Murakami Whywolf):

P-90:
Yes, at least some of Pseu Braun's shows' have been, at least for a time...maybe because they're just one hour in length.

With a desktop (or a rooted/jailbroken device) , TotalRecorderPro (or equivalent) , and lots of storage, you could archive these using the 'analogue hole'. I've tried sniffing the stream for the U-Stream video, but either couldn't find it or they use some URI-hopping to make life difficult (and stay in business).

11:08am ƑO² (:

If someone is interested, bookmark this link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-bQqsoMvQ0

It's a very old TV show called 'To Tell the Truth' where contestant try to guess who's saying the truth among others. In this clip we are revealed who is Linda Laurie, the 'Ambrose' singer.

11:09am People Like Us:

hello again

11:10am herb.nyc:

i'm gonna out myself as a non-fan of video and gif as done by this show. sorry ken. though i've never really given it a try and do understand that some things need to be watched and understood. it's similar with me & music videos, me and david byrne "just don't have time for that now"

11:10am Sam:

These guys are Brazil's answer to Khlam

11:11am People Like Us:

you were asking why Ken isn't commenting, he's rather occupied :)

11:12am People Like Us:

sorryokbye

11:12am Sam:

Is there a vizwar problem?

11:13am Cliff:

We're all rather occupied Vicki

11:13am People Like Us:

I hate it when every makes a big effort

11:13am ƑO² (:

Great news!

Quick, people! Let's talk about passionate about politics, Rush, tacos, toilette humour and all topics prohibited by Komissar Ken before he comes back!!

11:14am Cliff:

Like I've had to go pee for over an hour now

11:14am melinda:

Ken doesn't like taco discussions?

11:14am Sam:

Cat cat cat cat

11:14am People Like Us:

just so you know folks, Optimized! CONTINUES after Ken's show for THREE hours - with brand new material made specially for us from Jim Price, People Like Us, Tim Maloney, Busy Doing Nothing with Charlie, Ergo Phizmiz, Gwilly Edmondez, Dan Deacon, John Kilduff with Let’s Paint TV live at Monty Hall (skype letspaintwfmu) and animated gifs from Dina Kelberman

11:15am People Like Us:

the comments board/playlist for Optimized will continue (and is already) here at wfmu.org...

11:15am ƑO² (:

I think Vicki has done a great job with Optimized so far and in addition, she's paving the way to the future of this station where video takes a more prominence among future global audiences.

11:15am People Like Us:

Ken's really loudly eating an apple

11:15am herb.nyc:

right, since Ken is busy, i'll advertise for arcmusic.org...

11:16am Cliff:

I predict that President Trump will pass an executive order making it mandatory for every American to eat sausage pizza at least once a week, using a fork and knife.

11:16am (((Murakami Whywolf):

Wild Neil:
What do you think President Trump will do to the legalisation states? I'll guess a lot of his pobucker S.A. smoke dope, but many of them might be happy with its being illegal so long as only the right Wrong People get busted...the sort who believe their daughters must be chaste, their sons must prove their manhood by screwing-around, and the Bad Girls that allow for the first two to coëxist be Punished.

11:16am Ryab:

Who knows what Lord Trump will do.

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11:17am Webhamster Henry:

I think we'll be hearing a lot more Porest in future shows.

11:17am melinda:

I like Porest.

11:18am Cliff:

God that whole Porest show yesterday was fantastic, especially if you remember what shortwave radio used to sound like.

11:19am Sam:

Yeah, Trump's going to be like Giuliani and "clean up" everything. Expect big time harassment of the homeless, and tougher drug laws (on paper that are of course selectively applied).

11:19am People Like Us:

the Porest show is timestamped and archived now
wfmu.org...

11:20am Cecile:

Every black sabbath song...

11:20am ƑO² (:

melinda,

Yes. Don't you remember the tacogate episode from 3-4 years ago? Were every commenter flooded the comment section with their taco eating exploits? Ken deleted most posts! It was like the Tiananmen square event.

11:20am (((Murakami Whywolf):

What video would go well with a numbers station?

11:20am herb.nyc:

and more adverts, for dogs & cats: July 30, 2016 - Broadway Barks will be held in Shubert Alley, West of Broadway, between 44th and 45th Streets, between Broadway and 8th Avenue, Manhattan. Dogs, cats, celebrities, and plenty of positive energy... its 18th year of saving lives

11:20am Cliff:

Internet radio just isn't the same as physically tuning a knob and coming across random stations. Maybe I can rig up some kind of VR radio to get my DXing fix.....

11:21am Sam:

I wonder if Hillary would listen to the voters and her husband and legalize it. I think Bill would've done it back in the day, if there had been enough popular support then. Bernie would have done it his first day.

11:21am People Like Us:

WFMU is rather like tuning random stations sometimes :)

11:22am melinda:

Tacogate was before my time here. I was only listening to one or two shows back then.

11:22am Cliff:

That's true Vicki!

11:22am Sam:

Helloooooooo big man!

11:23am pantz:

Has this become the Bob Dobbs Network?!

11:23am cee:

i feel like i'm on ayahuasca

11:24am Dean:

No more yogurt?

11:24am Cecile:

No, more culture!

11:24am Cliff:

TOO MUCH CULTURE
TOO MUCH CULTURE
NO MORE CULTURE
NO MORE CULTURE
NO CULTURE IS THE NEW CULTURE
ANTI-CULTURE IS THE CULTURE OF TOMORROW
DOWN WITH CULTURE
DOWN WITH CULTURE
UP WITH HEGEMONY
DOWN WITH CULTURE

11:25am Sam:

Hegemony = hedges + money

11:25am Wild Neil:

@Murakami-I am guessing here, but he said the whole Transgendered bathroom issue should be left up to the states, so I guess he would leave this up to the states also...I am pretty sure he is a small government guy based on what I have heard.

11:26am Sam:

What about transgender water fountains? And can they sit in the front of the bus?

11:26am Sam:

So many difficult questions....

11:26am Cliff:

Oh yeah, the Chicken song!

11:26am Dean:

They have to sit in the middle of the bus.

11:27am thedunkel:

"You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and W F M U"

11:27am Cliff:

I can have as much chicken as I want, no gluten in chicken!

11:28am Little Miss Dog Pedant:

I'm not getting any work done today, thanks to this.
Also: RIP Bretagne. :-(

11:28am Sam:

Maybe they should only let transgender people drink 7up, but not Sprite. To protect the children.

11:29am herb.nyc:

i wasn't aware of this TACO event here. but i learned on fb this:
The first team to steal a road game in the NBA Finals will also steal a FREE Doritos® Locos Taco for everyone in America.

11:30am Cliff:

Where's that Arby's commenter from the Goddamn Dave Hill Show? I want to find out what the latest deals are.

11:30am ƑO² (:

KHLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-

*cough*

Sorry.

KHLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM!!!

11:30am herb.nyc:

oh, the TACO thing is from TACO BELL. (relatedly, the band TACOCAT is really good)

11:30am cory:

KKKKKKKKKKKKHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

11:30am thedunkel:

KHLAM = "All necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused."

11:31am oks:

KHLAM!!!!!

11:34am wearpants:

Stop playing such awesome music I need to eat lunch

11:34am chris:

i <3 khlam

11:35am Henry:

i don't know why Khlam makes me feel good

11:38am ƑO² (:

Because Khlam is such a paragon.

11:38am Wild Neil:

"If you want weed legalized, Trump is your best option"
Google this and "merryjane"...out of respect to Ken I think he does not like links posted in the comments board.

11:38am Wild Neil:

Since you asked...

11:39am oks:

Khlam is awesome!!! dead don't sweat...

11:40am Sam:

Playing Khlam causes thunderstorms Ken, everyone knows that.

11:40am People Like Us:

Optimized runs from the front page (same stream) after noon too wfmu.org...

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11:40am Ken From Hyde Park:

Yay for Schlammpeitziger!

11:41am ƑO² (:

Wait...Can you listen?

YES! IT IS SCHLAMMMPEEEEEIIITZIGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRR!!!!

By the way, Schlammpeitziger is pronounced like:

Schlamm - Scam
Peitzi - Pretzel
Ger - Geiser

So it's like saying 'Scam-Peter-geiser'

I am pretty sure that's the way it is pronounced because I once did an introductory German course in 1998.

11:41am People Like Us:

Mr Let's Paint will be taking your questions on the playlist comments section too

11:42am Cliff:

ƑO² have you figured out a pronunciation guide for TsuShiMaMiRe yet?

11:43am Sam:

There is a Khlam-related atmospheric disturbance being caused by upper air tonic nterference from the East Orange tower.

11:44am cory:

some ppl just walked by. a knock knock joke was started. the punchline was only mumbles. #KillAllTheThings

11:44am Cliff:

Vicki, that's great, I have to ask him what he thinks of Bob Ross

11:44am ƑO² (:

Yes, Cliff. I have it at the ready. I'm just waiting for Komissar Ken to play them again.

By the way, did someone say Ken doesn't like links to be posted here?

http://www.plausiblefutures.com
http://www.psfk.com
http://www.rahs.org.sg
http://www.shapingtomorrow.com
http://www.socialtechnologies.com
http://www.imaginatik.com
http://www.innovationwatch.com
http://www.innovic.com.au
http://www.whatifinnovation.com
http://www.zerogravitythinker.com
http://www.springwise.com
http://www.trendbuero.de
http://www.trendcentral.com
http://www.trendwatching.com
http://www.tse.fi
http://www.wfs.org
http://www.williamsinference.com
http://www.innotown.com
http://www.intelligencesquared.com
http://www.instituteofideas.com
http://www.forum-21.com
http://www.nightwithafuturist.com
http://www.parc.com
http://www.rsa.org.uk
http://www.sydneytalks.com.au
http://www.ted.com

11:45am cory:

Knock knock.
Who's there?
Kevin.
Kevin who?

11:45am Wild Neil:

@FoFo-Hey, I thought it was Ken. Maybe its somebody else.

11:48am ƑO² (:

Everytime the woman in the bikini shows up in the video feed the current number of viewers climbs to 80

11:50am Cliff:

ƑO² I'm trying to guess your nationality, you said you're a non-native speaker of English and you took an introductory German course in 1998....Dutch? Belgian? (non-German) Swiss? I'm so confused, ha!

11:51am tadpoles:

Thanks for a great show Ken. You and PLU Vicki are the Kurt Schwitters for our time. Cheers.

11:51am Cliff:

Of course, you could be blatantly lying about that German course.

11:51am ƑO² (:

You got it right, Cliff! I'm non-German

11:52am Cliff:

Well that narrows it down!

11:52am (((Murakami Whywolf):

ƑO² (:
'... and that's not the ONLY thing that's climbing! Thank-you, thank-you: tip your veal, it'll be here all week!. '

11:52am Sam:

So Swiss obviously

11:53am Sem Chumbo:

I'd guess Hungarian.

11:53am ƑO² (:

I swear I did the German course. I remember everything about it except who gave the class. Don't remember if it was a woman or a man.

11:53am Sam:

Or Italian

11:54am melinda:

Enjoyed today's show!

11:54am Sam:

Fofo, are you Welsh?

11:54am Sem Chumbo:

Me, I'm laughing like Judy there, but for not the same reasons. Been big and large fun today, Ken. Thanks a lot and see you next time the ice cream truck is in town.

11:54am Cliff:

Murakami - he does remind me a bit of Jürgen Schmidhuber (though he's German Swiss). people.idsia.ch...

11:54am Sam:

Azorean?

11:55am rbxbx:

Nice show Ken, thank you!

11:56am People Like Us:

thanks Ken's listeners for being open and enthusiastic and supportive of trying to do new things as well as the old things :)
join us over here now for Jim Price then People Like Us wfmu.org...

11:56am Cliff:

Thank you Ken, now I have to microwave a bag of popcorn and pour it all over a large pepperoni pizza and gorge myself.

11:56am People Like Us:

thank you Ken :)))))

11:56am chris:

the irium mines on Pleageane Minor play this Alophone track all day long... takes me back...

11:56am ƑO² (:

People, I'm from Fofoland. The country of the eternal spring.

11:56am oks:

thank you Ken, great show today!

11:56am People Like Us:

thank you Ruth, thank you Matthew :)))

11:57am Dan B From Upstate:

Ton of fun! Thanks Ken!

11:57am Sam:

Which wormhole do you take to get there? Is it small? I'll lose weight.

11:57am People Like Us:

we are over here, same stream continuing... wfmu.org...

11:57am chris:

its the one on the left, Sam, thanks for asking

11:58am ƑO² (:

Thanks Ken, PLU, people! Till next episode! take care!

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11:59am Ken From Hyde Park:

Thanks, DJ and the sound & lights team! Even Amanda Nazario is out today. Sasha Jones is filling on on the Drummer Stream.

11:59am Sam:

Stupid Trump doesn't realize that the Mexican particle phycisists will just build wormholes across the border and go right through his wall! Ha ha ha ha ha!

11:59am chris:

thank you Ken, Ruth, Vicki, Matt, All.... big hug!

11:59am ((Murakami Whywolf):

Tusind tak, Ken atque Vicki.

12:00pm People Like Us:

Optimized is up

12:03pm People Like Us:

join us here - wfmu.org...
for Jim Price, People Like Us, Tim Maloney, Busy Doing Nothing, Jim Price, DW Robertson (Ergo Phizmiz), Gwilly Edmondez, Dan Deacon, John Kilduff with Let’s Paint TV live at Monty Hall (skype letspaintwfmu), Dina Kelberman

12:04pm Punctual Listener:

Is it still possible to request you a song, Ken?