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I don’t like Mondays, well actually they are fine I suppose. This week we talk about Ethiopian Christianity, Band Aid, Live Aid, Famines, and Brenda Spencer.
Homework
I Don’t Like Mondays by The Boomtown Rats.
Lyrics Discussed
_The silicon chip inside her head Gets switched to overload And nobody’s gonna go to school today She’s going to make them stay at home
And daddy doesn’t understand it He always said she was as good as gold And he can see no reason ‘cause there are no reasons What reason do you need to be shown?_
And
_(Tell me why) I don’t like Mondays (Tell me why) I don’t like Mondays (Tell me why) I don’t like Mondays I wanna shoot
The whole day down
The History
Brenda Spencer: She Asked For a Radio, He Got Her a Gun
Cleveland Elementary School Shooting
1993: Convicted school shooter Brenda Spencer speaks with San Diego News 8 - Part 1
Other Links
Live Aid concert raises $127 million for famine relief in Africa
This week I talk less about Missouri, well actually no Missouri at all. This week is about Ben Franklin, Ponce de Leon, Robotron, George Orwell’s 1984, Isaac Newton, and Galileo… whew
And Cheech Wizard
Homework
The Sounds of Science by the Beastie Boys is off their second album Paul’s Boutique.
Lyrics Discussed
Now here we go dropping science, dropping it all over
Like bumping around the town like when you’re driving a Range Rover
Expanding the horizon and expanding the parameters
Expanding the rhymes of sucka MC amateurs
Naugles, Issac Newton, a scientific EZ
Ben Franklin with the kite, gettin’ ova with the key
And
Ponce De Leon, constantly on
The fountain of youth, not Robotron
Peace is a word I’ve heard before
So move and move and move up on the dance floor
Cuz I’m gonna die, gonna die one day
Cuz I’m goin’ and goin’ and goin’ this way
And
I got science for any occasion
Postulating theorems, formulating equations
Well, Cheech Wizard in a snow blizzard
Eat a chicken gizzard with a girl named Lizzy
Dropping science like Galileo dropped the orange
The History
Other Links
Cookie Puss Ice Cream Cake by Carvel
Cookie Puss by The Beastie Boys
Williams Robotron Promotional Video
My Playlist is Killer Merchandise
My Playlist is Killer Playlist
This week I talk about some more Missouri melodrama. This time it’s Times Beach. Times Beach was a newspaper promotion that turned a floodplain into a town, into a national disaster, into a floodplain, and into a state park.
Homework
Ten Second News by Son Volt is off their first album Trace. Also it is Shawna Lutes and my favorite traveling music.
Lyrics Discussed
When you find what matters is what you feel It arrives and it disappears Driving down sunny 44 highway There’s a beach there known for cancer Waiting to happen
And
And it’s hard enough soaking up billboard signs You scorch and drown alive, never knowing why The levee gates are open wide There’s a cough in the water and it’s running into town
The History
Ill-Fated Times Beach, Missouri
Waste-oil hauler Russell Bliss, who allegedly sprayed dioxin-contaminated oil…
Other Links*
My Playlist is Killer Merchandise
My Playlist is Killer Playlist
This week I talk about some earth shaking material (ugh). I discuss the New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-1812. The song is by one of my top 5 bands, maybe top band, Uncle Tupelo.
Homework
New Madrid by Uncle Tupelo is off their album Anodyne.
Lyrics Discussed
All my daydreams are disasters She’s the one I think I love Rivers burn and then run backwards For her, that’s enough
And
They all come from New York City And they woke me up at dawn
And
Caroms over the landfill Buries us all in its broken back There’s a man of conviction And although he’s getting old
Mr. Browning has a prediction And we’ve all been told So come on back from New York City Roll your trucks in at dawn_
The History
Iben Browning, New Madrid Incident
Other Links
My Playlist is Killer Merchandise
What WasTed Bundy’s Execution Like?
Today Ronnie talks about a little Ice-T, a little PMRC, and a little naked RATM. This could be interesting… or boring. This episode does not have a parental advisory.
Homework
Freedom of Speech by Ice-T is off his album The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech.
Lyrics Discussed
Freedom of Speech, let ’em take it from me
Next they’ll take it from you, then what you gonna do?
Let ’em censor books, let ’em censor art
PMRC, this is where the witch hunt starts
You’ll censor what we see, we read, we hear, we learn
The books will burn
You better think it out
We should be able to say anything, our lungs were meant to shout
Say what we feel, yell out what’s real
Even though it may not bring mass appeal
Your opinion is yours, my opinion is mine
If you don’t like what I’m sayin’? Fine
But don’t close it, always keep an open mind
A man who fails to listen is blind
We only got one right left in the world today
Let me have it or throw The Constitution away
The History
PMRC’s ‘Filthy 15’: Where Are They Now?
1985 PMRC/Senate Hearings: Then and Now
Dee Snider’s PMRC Senate Hearing Speech Full
Frank Zappa’s PMRC Senate Hearing Speech
John Denver’s PMRC Senate Hearing Speech
Other Links
Thanks for listening and have a great couple of weeks.