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In my nostalgia I recalled that when KSHE 95 in St. Louis picked up The @bobandtom Show in syndication my senior year in high school, they replaced a local morning DJ called "The Bird" that we made fun of constantly, does anyone else remember this

@deesnider I seem to remember some quote from maybe Tommy Lee (or Ozzy?) to the effect of “yeah we party but …. how is that dude still alive?!”

@MikeMacRaeMike Oh he sure could!

I saw one of those shows. Pete produced Under the Blade, was a great guy and a great friend. He and UFO inspired a lot of great bands and heavy metal in general. RIP Pete Way.

If I ever “made it” in any sense it was largely because (like many other up and coming comics) I was able to make this particular man laugh, the sound of which will always be a happy memory. RIP Bob, you will be greatly missed. Love to your family.

@islandinmymind I’m sorry could you speak up?

@MikeMacRaeMike No WaY jOsÉ! (They’re all annoying but it ended up being one of those shows I watched through the end UGH)

Surprising use of Spooky Tooth in the “DTF St. Louis” soundtrack. Does this show tacitly admit the existence and presence of KSHE 95?

@islandinmymind “Oh but who killed him” WHO CARES I WOULD HAVE MYSELF

@MikeMacRaeMike but i had to keep watching til the end!

@islandinmymind I literally just now finished it, like 2 min ago

@DanManCarney Wouldn’t he just kill himself in the first 5 minutes?

What about a remake of Jason Bourne but he doesn’t have a penis and can’t remember why he doesn’t

These "define the Midwest" maps will always just cause arguments but as a St. Louisan this is probably the best explanation of Missouri I have yet seen

Clavicular may be dead from an overdose but that doesn’t change the fact that I am too fat to date

@ronin21btc for having clits?

*Spoiler alert* the comedy is making fun of white British people

@AdamLehrerSP Spot on and reminder that this existed (I had this as a child):

One of the reasons that Saturday Night Fever is one of my favorite films ever made is that the dance sequences are so good that no one ever remembers anything else about the movies besides them, so parents will want to introduce their kids to this beloved dance film from their childhoods, play it on a Friday night with the whole family, and then accidentally scandalize their children with a movie stuffed full of racism, homophobia, hate crimes, and extreme sexual violence. That’s a truly subversive or “crypto transgressive” artwork.

@renegade_Kathy Cool next you should read the responses to this book by Jewish scholars of the Holocaust — one a survivor himself — who tore it to shreds as misleading and shoddy scholarship

I'm reading Goldhagen's "Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust." It's essential reading for our times. Goldhagen takes on the half-truths that surround so much teaching around the Holocaust: that it demonstrated "man's inhumanity to man," conformity, cowardice or bureaucratism, or the advent of industrialized mass murder. While there's truth to much of this, it disappears two critical things: that the perpetrators had agency, and that the victims were Jews. Those who murdered the Jews -- often ordinary Germans, not Nazis -- did so because they didn't believe it was wrong. Jews had been so thoroughly dehumanized, through decades if not centuries of antisemitism, that these Germans believed in what they were doing. They weren't "just following orders." It's impossible not to read this without reflecting on the dehumanization of Jews, camouflaged as "Zionists," running wild today. Once again society is obsessed with the tiny Jewish people. Once again it's the intellectual class leading the charge that "Zionists" are uniquely noxious. And once again Jews, in the form of "Zionists," "settlers" or "Israelis," are identified with evil itself -- so that ordinary, ostensibly upright people will blanch at nothing to eliminate them.

@RedMedia_us GOOD

Sabrina Carpenter comes under fire for saying an audience member's ululation (zalghoota), a traditional celebratory vocalisation common in Arab and North African cultures, for yodelling and repeatedly calling it "weird" during her Coachella set.

Today, the notoriously picky TSA at Bradley Airport in Connecticut confiscated a container of fresh hummus. "Hummus?! Why?" asked the traveler. "Hummus is not a mysterious liquid. It’s a nutritious popular vegetable!" "Doesn’t matter," was the rejoinder. "Either leave the line with it or it goes into the garbage." So now add hummus to the list of national security perils. Maybe ground broccoli will be next. Absurdity reigns! -R

"Do men even KNOW when we're hitting on them?" Yes we do but if we are not interested we play dumb

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