It's still there, but for the most part, comics are found only in specialty stores.
That may be a New York phenomenon, I mean, Erie is much, we're starting to get the borders
of the heartland of America, you would think that they would have it in mom and pop soda
shops and little corner grocers out there.
Not in the ice cream store, I've been to the ice cream store.
Well, also, we've been to that store before, and they weren't comics there before.
Yeah, we never saw them.
It's like, look, comic books, ah!
So this is an experiment.
The RKO video stores were doing comics for a while, and then ended up getting rid of
them.
Video and comics.
So I guess they figured that the amount of money they were making from the comics didn't
justify the space they were taking up that could have been taken up with videos.
So the RKO video stores kind of went out of business, didn't they?
They should have kept their comics.
I think that's part of it.
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Same thing with the Warner stores, they'd sold their own comics, you know.
And on BAI, we don't have this kind of mentality, right, where, you know, if the comic book
show isn't bringing in a lot of money, you'll still hear it.
But you should give money anyway.
That's another idea.
WBAI Comics.
You can see pictures of your favorite radio personalities.
You want to scare them?
Oh, okay, never mind.
What if they also act?
An awful lot of us have a good face for radio.
You have a good face for radio.
I have a good face for radio.
Yeah.
I mean, I know he hasn't got a good face for anybody.
It'd be fun to draw Anne-Marie, because she has all these bracelets and things.
She always has all these great bracelets and jingle jangles.
It'd be fun to draw.
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That's quite a tune.
And soundtrack is in the same time slot as Nuff said,
but two days later.
Boys' Day.
So anyway, we were talking about websites getting hijacked
and why I should continue to go on,
despite the fact that anything I do with computers
seems to blow up in my face in one way or another.
Ouch.
You just want to talk about it, you know?
It's war stories.
I'd rather talk about comic books.
Oh, yeah, that's true.
But you know, you're
You know, I mean, I'd rather be here
talking about somebody creating something or somebody drawing
or writing.
I'd even rather be doing an obituary to the great people
just yesterday.
Somebody who really likes comic books
will find your site on the internet,
and through that, find your radio show.
See, that's the magic of the net.
And they could be anywhere in the world
and still be able to accomplish this.
That's why it's essential to have a presence of some sort.
How much, well, all right, Mike, yes, you have
We have some people to thank and messages
and other wonderful things.
We have an anonymous donor who says
to tell you that Frank called and says
to register another site name.
And we want to thank Daniel from Fairlawn, New Jersey.
Thanks for that, Daniel.
Thanks for the donation.
And Heidi from New York, New York.
Cool.
And Wayne from Billerica, Massachusetts.
Wow, thank you.
And Mac from New York, New York.
Cool.
Thank you for those donations.
First person not local becoming a member during Nuff
said that I didn't know personally.
So there you have it, Billerica, even though it's
spelt wrong on the card.
You know how Billerica is spelt.
Actually, that's probably the best argument I've had yet.
I'm just thinking of the amount of grief
it's been costing me and pretty much everything
I do with computers.
We've all heard the story of the person who
has noises in their car, and they take it to a mechanic,
and then the noises stop.
That's what happens with me with the computer.
It won't be working, and then somebody
knows what they're doing, comes in.
They don't even have to be in the room yet.
They could just be entering the room,
and the computer will behave amazingly well.
Don't worry, that won't happen with us.
So it's got to be me.
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There's no calls on the line.
We need to get more people calling in, or some people
calling in anyway.
This is an expanded edition of Nuff said.
We're going till midnight, but we can only
continue to do things like this if we
know the listeners are out there,
and we'll support things like this.
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We have what I think is a wonderful, wonderful premium.
We have the Sheldon Mayer and Alex Tooth
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We have the preview of Rex Mundy.
We have eight comics that Mercy and I published.
We've had several of those people
doing those comics on the air, so you
know their creative process.
Alexei Ganjratiev, who was part of the Lord of the Rings
show a few months ago, he's one of our authors.
You get all eight first editions.
And the highlight is a hardback book called
To Afghanistan and Back.
It's by Ted Rall, who went to Afghanistan last November
and December during the war.
And he's been there several times before the war.
That was his fifth trip to Central Asia.
That's the thing that's so amazing.
He went there other times because he just thought
it was such an interesting place.
So he has the view of it, what it was like,
and the wars that were going on before the United States
got involved in the war.
He talks about the 90% unemployment rate,
the $1.40 monthly income that is averaged there.
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And it's just such great cartoons.
I mean, when you had the visual impact
and the written language working together as a team,
it is pretty much unbeatable, the things you can say.
That is why when we had some of the political bosses
of the 19th century, and they did not
like the political cartoonists going after them.
Because they say, well, the voters don't read,
but they do look at pictures.
And the power of the pictures brought down the, oh boy,
now I'm slipping the mind.
Boss Tweed.
Boss Tweed.
Boss Tweed was brought down by a cartoonist.
And literally, single-handedly, he
left the country because of this,
and was recognized in England because of those same cartoons.
And then ended up being extradited, and tried,
and imprisoned in New York City, where
he got to overlook the city he used to be the boss of.
And that was the power of cartoons.
I didn't know that.
That's really, I mean, yeah, you're right.
How can you escape from a cartoon indictment?
That's your face.
And I've talked to people who do X-rated comics,
and I'll be at a convention right across from somebody
who does X-rated magazines in prose.
And the person who's doing the prose, P-R-O-S-E,
that's written language, no pictures,
never gets into trouble.
He gets into trouble because he's got pictures.
Because the pictures are more powerful.
So the censors are going to go after the pictures.
And we've told plenty of horror stories like that
on Nuff Said over the years.
Pictures are powerful.
And that is why they can make such great statements.
When somebody does a story about a different country,
having the picture in front of you
brings you right into that country.
So when Ted Roll is drawing Afghanistan,
when he's drawing people being blown up by mines,
it's not graphic violence, but it is graphic.
And so you really get to feel what
it's like for the kids there.
Because where the adults know, stay on the road,
because everything off the road is mine.
Kids run around.
They're running around everywhere.
And one of the kids ran around.
And boom.
And it was a raining kid.
And this.
He talks about he went, he came in on an airplane
and was taken by car to a hotel.
And he woke up the next morning in the 14th century.
People were plowing the fields without animals
because cows cost too much to waste them
having them plow the field.
The Amish are more advanced than the farmers in Afghanistan.
The Amish have horses and mules to do their plowing.
The people in Afghanistan have their own two arms.
That's it.
It's a rough place to live.
There was one particular day where all the journalists
tend to stay in one area.
And you hire bodyguards because the only way
to pretty much get anything done, including eating,
is using American money.
So everybody is carrying a lot of American money
secreted on their person in some way.
So you hire a bodyguard so that somebody
doesn't kill you for your money.
Of course, sometimes the bodyguards
will kill you for your money.
And there was one day when Ted was in the room.
I keep wanting to call it a hotel room, but it wasn't really.
Anyway, it was a room.
And somebody's banging on the door at 3 in the morning.
And he's like, there's no reason for me
to get up at 3 in the morning.
Whatever they need, I couldn't take care of it anyway.
So he didn't get up.
It turns out that somebody went to everybody's door.
And finally, this Swedish reporter answered the door.
And the first thing they did was shoot him.
And they would have shot the rest of the people in the room,
but they managed to successfully beg for their lives
because all they really wanted was the money.
But life is so cheap there that you just shoot him.
Don't say, I'm robbing you.
Just shoot him.
It doesn't matter.
He was one of the three people who
didn't come back of the 35 Ted entered Afghanistan with.
So it's a very powerful book.
It's a very eye-opening sort of piece of literature.
It's a hardback.
We had an hour with Ted two weeks ago.
And it was just a wonderful hour.
It flew by.
It was amazing to hear him talk about this.
It was kind of neat because we could have got another hour,
no trouble at all.
And he was just going on and on.
We were still chatting with him after the show about his
experiences.
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When I worked at the post office,
I was also active with energy issues with the Shad Alliance.
And when the people at the post office
hear me talk about politics and energy issues,
they get very uncomfortable.
And then I would mention that I was in the comic books.
And then they suddenly didn't feel so nervous around me.
And it's interesting because some
of the things you can say in comics,
usually in independent comics, but the mainstream
does it sometimes too.
And when they do, we give them credit.
We've been talking to a lot of people
about putting your comic books on the net or on the web
because by the time you print a comic book,
you've got to get it to the engraver.
You've got to get it printed.
You've got to produce it.
You've got to ship it.
There's this massive paper that grows and grows and grows
to get several thousand copies.
Then you've got to distribute it.
You've got to get somebody to take it to the store
and set it up and make sure it gets into the store.
And if they don't, you're stuck with those copies.
You have boxes of these things.
You have insulation in your spare room.
But if you put it on the internet,
for the price of getting a scanner
so you can put the artwork in and getting a nice computer
set up, the first issue, OK.
But by the second issue, it's out there.
People are seeing it.
You're getting feedback.
And you never lose money again.
You won't lose any more money because you've already
got the system.
And now you're just putting it out there.
People are finding it.
You're getting links to it.
And if it's popular enough, then you do the dead tree edition
because it's worth it because people really want it.
Almost all independent comics lose money.
And they do them anyway.
People have to do them because it's
an expression of what they want to say.
And they want people to read this.
They want to get feedback.
And if it's on the net, you're going to get feedback.
People are going to respond.
You can ask for comments.
You can email people.
And people will see it.
People will find these.
They look up comic strip barbarian,
and they find out you've done it, or comic strip hacker.
Which was one of my plans with the Nuff Said site
was to put the evolution comics on there
so people can see them.
It's a wider audience.
We could rebuild the fan base for our comics.
And hopefully get more pledges when people realize, hey,
I can get these.
Becoming a member of the BAA?
Kind of a microcosm of the whole radio station,
the comic book world.
I guess it's probably the other way around.
But I guess just radio in general, non-commercial radio,
doesn't make any money.
It's a lot of effort to go into it.
But you do it because you want people
to be able to see what you're creating, what you're part of.
And you want them to be a part of it as well.
I think there's a lot of crossover
between the communities.
And that's why if you support independent comics,
you really have to support this radio station.
Unless you can point to some other independent comic
programs that are on some of the other stations around here.
I don't think there are any.
I'd like to know if there are.
If you want to see this continue, though,
you really have to support the show.
There's no other way around it.
I just found out that there is an hour-long radio
show about comics in Canada.
And it started relatively recently.
Yeah, well.
But most, any time there is comics on the radio
or cable access television, it's usually
somebody reviewing comics.
You don't get the in-depth view of the creative process
and how writers and artists think, which is quite amazing.
Whether what they're doing is commercial art.
So they're selling it.
But how much is commercial?
How much is art?
Everybody has different answers.
And they're not always the answers you expect.
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Emmanuel's not getting paid for this.
He's working overtime today.
Instead of one hour, he's here five.
It's showing.
There was a dot-com company that was set up at one point
for independent music and radio and comics.
And of course, all the dot-coms disappeared.
And so there isn't a lot of places to hear about this stuff.
But if you put your support behind WBI,
this is getting the news out.
People are finding out more about independent comics
and other forms of expression, art and writing.
Yeah, you're probably thinking of IndiePlanet,
which was supposed to be a forum for independent creativity.
And actually, they just wanted to make their own movies.
Zero calls.
Can it be we're reaching absolutely nobody out?
The tally went up.
Thank you.
Does nobody agree with what we're saying?
Maybe we're wrong.
Maybe this is not the way to go.
Maybe corporate mentality is the only mentality.
Maybe we'd rather have endless McDonald's commercials.
Yeah.
Well, people support that.
If there's a commercial station and we're
telling people to call up for a McDonald's sweepstake
or something like that, I bet the phones would light up.
What does that tell us?
Yeah, that's true.
We're giving away our minds.
We're giving away the spectrum.
We're allowing them to run things
from every part of our lives.
We're appealing to people who think.
And that automatically limits our audience a great deal.
Well, think about calling 212-209-2950.
It's not rocket science.
Basically, support the radio station.
The radio station will continue to be here.
It's essential.
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There have to be people out there that understand this.
People who want to hear more about this
are like we have all these interviews with artists
and writers who talk about the craft of comic books.
There aren't that many books about that.
There aren't that many schools about that.
So here you've got a radio station.
You can tune in to Tuesday nights, every week.
And you can even call in and talk to these people.
You can't do that when there's a television show.
There's Stanley on TV.
So what?
But you can't call up and actually say something to him.
You can't communicate with the radio show.
Like you can communicate with the radio show.
Like you can't communicate with TV.
That's out of your hands.
They just do whatever they want.
And you just want to go along for the ride.
This is participation.
This is like democracy.
You have to participate.
We need you to call 212-209-2950
and participate in freedom of speech and freedom of comics,
speech about comics.
I mean, I know we've all been harassed at certain times
because of our choice of reading material.
But I always say, what do you read?
TV Guide?
That's the only thing you read?
You don't read?
And you see all these spelling mistakes on things.
It's like there's people who can't read out there.
It's really sad.
But it's also like I read comic books, but I'm reading.
And I also read books.
I don't just read comics.
Yeah, almost everybody I know reads a lot of comics,
reads a lot of everything.
We're print junkies.
We're print junkies.
I like to read.
And the thing is that the comics appeal to the imagination.
In fact, you need the imagination to read them.
And you don't even think about it because it's automatic.
But when you look at a panel and you have two people talking
and the body language doesn't necessarily
may precede or follow what the dialogue is,
that did not happen in one instant.
That took place over several seconds, several minutes,
or whatever.
And the next panel could take place a split second later
or a year later, whatever.
But the time that is played with in comics
is different than any other medium.
And you interpret that.
You don't think about it, but you're
actually participating in the comic book
as you read it by being aware of what kind of time is involved.
When you read a book, it's all linear.
Everything follows each other.
If he's doing anything with time, he tells you.
It's the same thing with a movie, of course.
It's just laid out in there.
And you just sit there and you absorb it.
You don't actually participate in watching this movie.
You just watch it and it goes into you.
With the comic book, you have to constantly interpret.
Who is saying these things in these balloons?
You have to figure that out.
But you do it instantly.
You do it automatically because you've done it a long time.
People from different countries have different ways
of portraying time.
And they actually have trouble reading comic books
from different countries if the way they do that
is that differently.
And it's that type of participation
that I think is part of the strength of comics.
When you have a good writer and artist who knows how to exploit
it and realizes that you are thinking as you read this,
and he's going to use the fact that you're thinking.
And he's going to use whatever prejudices you have about life
and play with that as well.
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And now that we have a development coordinator again,
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And you'll be able to have a part
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You actually have a say in how WBAI and all five Pacifica
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We just got a call.
Thank you for that call.
We need more people to call.
You have a say in how a station is run.
Can you imagine any commercial station
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These are the songs we have.
This is how we're going to do things.
You don't get a say.
You can buy all the products they advertise,
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But here you do through the local advisory board.
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To us, it's a lot.
And I'm sure to you as an individual, it's also a lot.
It only takes one person to bring that $495 up over $500.
And then that's another hurdle we've reached.
And a few more people can bring that up even further.
Everybody makes a difference.
I think that's the theme of this place.
So one phone call makes a difference.
Two phone calls makes even more of a difference.
Five phone calls, still more.
You have that power.
No place else can I think of.
And listen to a commercial station,
and they'll say, we'll take caller number 73.
And they'll get 73 callers.
But you know, those people.
Except they lie when they say they took the 73rd.
They took the 56th, and they didn't feel like it.
Maybe so.
But I think people who listen to WBAI
don't have us on as background music.
They're actually listening to what's being said.
So if someone says something on BAI,
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And we feel the same way about our listeners.
We appreciate them, and they mean something.
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I want to thank David D for sending in a donation.
Thank you for that.
That's great.
Also some secret anonymous calls who
don't want us to know their name.
Anonymous calls.
Thank you for those donations.
Anonymous persons.
Probably the shadow.
People afraid to be known in the comic book world.
It's Bruce Wayne.
I'm going to read another one of Ted's cartoons.
It's his little statement about what's going on.
He's got a nice blond-haired guy being a newscaster.
Today in the war, some stuff happened.
They're not saying what, but whatever it was
may or may not have been a big deal.
Coming up, if certain things were to happen,
would it matter that we are never going to hear about it?
And the caption across the screen.
Next, what's next?
You have two people watching.
One person goes, Bush's war is stupid.
And the other one is, how can you
be against something you don't know anything about?
So we got a note from Tally saying, say the number.
I think we've been saying it.
212-209-2950.
Maybe we're saying the wrong number.
Is that possible?
Remember that time we gave the wrong number out?
Why doesn't everyone call 212-209-2950
and tell us if it's the wrong number?
Yeah, please.
Yeah, that's it.
And if that's your phone number, please call us
and we'll make the correction.
212-209-2950.
I think that's our number.
2950.
If you give out the other number, the call-in line,
watch that light up.
Yeah, they like to call in, but you're asking for money.
Sometimes it's tougher.
Do you want to take phone calls?
Yeah, why not?
We can take phone calls.
And you'll see how many people are really out there.
212-209-2900, all right?
That's the on-air line, the on-air WBA line.
Has it started lighting up yet?
No, it hasn't.
What a surprise.
People have to dial.
I have noticed that the minute you say,
we're going to take phone calls, you
don't have to get the number out when people start calling.
Yeah, that's because there are people
that have it programmed in their head.
Yeah.
Beep, beep, beep, beep.
It works in a certain way.
Most of the shows on WBAI do take phone calls.
Call up.
Let us know if you want to hear about hacking comics.
There's no phone calls.
There is no phone calls.
That means there's nobody out there.
I guess there's no future for hacking comics.
Aw.
I think a lot of people can't hack comics.
I think it's about horse racing, you know, hacking.
Hacking?
Is that about horse racing?
Yeah.
Driving a horse-drawn cab.
That's right.
Hacks.
Oh, is that where it comes from?
When you call somebody a hack writer?
Yeah.
Yes.
What does that mean?
Well, there is a phone call there.
So we have at least one person.
You're essentially flogging a dead horse.
212-209-295, I'll make a pledge.
2900, call in.
And you are on the air.
Yes, good morning.
Is that a polite way to say?
Or yeah, I guess it's almost morning.
Wait a minute.
No, it's not morning.
No, it's not morning.
But anyway, you didn't call us to tell us
whether it was morning or not.
You called to complain.
That's exactly right.
And I personally, I made the point to you.
Is it the way I said to?
4-9?
That the fact that comics are in the daily papers,
the Daily News and Newsday, is such
that if you care about comic books and the comic book
industry, then a more appreciation of the comics
in the comic strips in the daily paper,
it would help to admire them for whatever one can admire
or criticize them for what criticalness you could bring
forth to them.
Instead of saying they're getting too small.
I was just going to say that.
Well, it's not true.
It's not true.
Because you can color Xerox them up in size.
So you know, Mutz is still Mutz.
You can get them on the internet.
Mutz is in books, too.
And they take much too long.
I like getting Mutz in books.
And I can read a whole bunch of them.
OK, let me grab some more calls.
Yeah, well, you don't want to answer that.
No, because it's the same old thing that you say all the time.
And it's the same old answer we'll give all the time.
And I don't want to be as repetitive as commercial radio.
Please call.
Help WVAI to survive.
212-209-2900, you're on the air.
Hey, Kenneth Mercy.
And I have a question for you about Ted Rall.
OK.
I wanted to know if when you spoke to him
after he was on the show, if he spoke about how he's dealing
with what we're all dealing with here, with the threats of.
You know, going to Afghanistan has changed his life.
I'm sure.
He's much less cynical than he says
than he used to be, and indeed, he was less abrasive.
I don't know.
You realize, for example, when over there,
it's difficult to breathe.
He said Afghanistan is incredibly dusty.
It's a glacial dust that's very, very, very fine.
And virtually every person in Afghanistan coughs.
And they cough all the time.
And he said that he'd been back several months
and he's still coughing.
So is his wife.
Is he a New Yorker?
He's a New Yorker.
Well, my question is about all the.
Well, he said that, in fact, he mentions this
in the book in strip form, so I'm
going to be translating badly here without pictures.
Thank you for this call.
But he talks about a show he saw about wildebeest migrating
and how they'll cross a river that has crocodiles in it.
And many of them will be eaten crossing this river,
but they all cross it.
And the odds of any one particular wildebeest
being the one to be eaten is very slim.
And that's how he felt about going to Afghanistan,
that, yeah, some of the reporters
are not going to come back.
But the odds of any one being the one to not come back
was slim.
There's millions of people living their entire lives
there.
And he said it's the same way for any terrorism or anything
here, and that the odds of dying here is much less than there.
And the odds there were not as high
if you look upon it as an individual.
And he said that he realizes how good his life is.
When he was sending his stories to the paper,
the articles he was writing, and he said pretty much all of them
are compiled here, getting electricity
was incredibly difficult.
The source of electricity in order
to send his article to the satellite
was mostly car batteries.
And you're paying a lot of money to have a car battery recharge
your phone so you could do a satellite link to your paper.
For like a half an hour.
And they all did that.
It didn't matter whether you were CNN or a little cartoonist
in the Village Voice.
You had to do that.
And he said that all the different things
that he has that he took for granted,
he says he's just happier.
And you could see it, the way he approached.
He was on Nuff Said a few years ago.
And his whole demeanor was really different.
I mean, he's still one of the most cynical cartoonists there
that is doing his stuff.
And political, very, very political.
He still believes that being a political cartoonist
is a dead end job for anybody who's in it.
Because the number of cartoonists that
are getting work from papers is less and less all the time
because they're just syndicating.
They're just buying a handful of big names
and they're ignoring everyone else.
Well, part of my question is him being a New Yorker.
How does he deal with all these threats
that we're faced with by the media about there
are going to be other attacks and what have you.
Well, of course, that's been greatly in the news
this week, really.
So that's since he was here.
So I didn't ask him that directly.
I just asked him about war and survival in general.
OK.
Because I wonder, I would wonder how a person who
had been there and is now here and dealing
with what we're having to deal with every day here,
what's the contrast?
It's not as bad.
Because there, as you said, it's amazing
what you can get used to.
That every single day from, what is it, from about, well,
from dusk until about 9 PM, there's bombing.
Every single day.
And you just get used to it.
And when the bombing stops, you know it's 9 o'clock.
He figured that the guys in the Air Force
wanted to unwind and go to the bars
or whatever it is that they do at night.
And so that's why they stopped at 9.
But they always did.
And everybody else knew it.
When a Taliban bomb hit the parking lot,
the journalists used, and one of the guys
got, you know, his pieces of his body were raining down on him.
He's like, he couldn't believe that he was so blasé about it.
But it was so common.
So over here, it's nothing like there.
Well, just on a completely different subject,
people that are out there and listening,
and I agree with what Emmanuel says about,
and what everybody's been saying about,
the consolation, the consolidation, excuse me,
of information and how bigger companies are handling
all the information that you get.
And whether you believe or you agree
with what you hear on this radio station or not,
just the fact that it can be here, and it can exist,
and can give these different views,
is the reason to support it, period.
Because you're only going to hear certain things here.
You're not going to hear it anywhere else.
And my political beliefs are very different from a lot of people
on this radio station, but I continue to support it,
because I feel that if it's not being said here,
it's not going to be said.
And you put your money where your mouth is, that's for sure.
You have to support something like this.
There's no television station like it.
No. With all the stations, there's nothing.
Something like this were to just fade away...
It would be a shame.
It would be a big shame, because a lot of people who care
very much about what they do on the station would not be heard anymore.
Well, East Timor just got independence.
They're no longer an occupied country.
They're no longer part of another country.
They're their own country.
And I would have to say WBAI is a major reason,
because East Timor got put into the news by BAI so much
that people had to pay attention.
So everybody should become a member of WBAI, 209-2950.
That's 212-209-2950, which I'm sure will be a very good year,
but we haven't gotten there yet.
By the way, it's good to hear you on the air.
I didn't know what happened last week when you weren't on.
I couldn't get in touch.
Scheduling.
I know, there's a lot of people who were listening two weeks ago
who thought we were going to be on last week and not this week.
We thought that too.
Emmanuel and Mercy and I found out
just a few hours before airtime via messages
on our answering machines.
It wouldn't be BAI if it wasn't like that.
Thank you for that call.
Someone else just called in.
The important thing is to get through the adversity
and show your support anyway,
and this place will be around for many years to come.
I think the caller nailed it, because it doesn't matter
where you're coming from, what your philosophy is.
As long as you appreciate freedom of speech,
as long as you appreciate being able to speak out
and learn things, then this place will serve
many different communities, and that's why many different
communities have to give us a call
and support the existence of this place.
212-209-2950, one call on the line.
There should be ten calls on the line, I think.
Lots of people listen to this radio program.
When I take phone calls, I usually have, you know,
however many lines are actually working
is how many calls I get.
209-2950 is the number you want to call.
Our operators are getting a little bored back there.
They need some entertainment.
Call them up and pledge.
It's not a painful experience. It really isn't.
You actually feel good after calling up
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We have very friendly volunteers answering the phone.
Well, good luck with the fun drive, everyone.
I hope a lot of people do call up.
All right, thanks a lot.
Have a good night.
Okay, good night.
212-209-2950.
Actually, there's a great comic book called Supreme
that I got turned on by that listener.
Yeah.
You know, he called in one day and said,
you haven't mentioned it, and you would if you had read it.
See, obviously you're not reading it,
and that's when I started reading it,
because of his call.
You can turn on a lot of good material by the listeners.
They're great.
And now I want them to be even greater
and pledge to become a member of the station.
For $100, you get a copy of To Afghanistan and Back.
It's a hardback book, introduction by Bill Maher
of Politically Incorrect.
It's half graphic novel and half prose travelogue.
You also get the Sheldon Mayer issue of Comic Book Artist.
You also get Rex Mundy preview book.
You also get a complete set of Dangerous Times
Revolution comics that Mercy and I published,
and a complete set of New Frontiers comics
that Mercy drew, The Green Ghost.
You mentioned Bill Maher of Politically Incorrect.
Did I hear right that show got canceled?
Yes.
It did, yeah?
The only interesting show on commercial television.
The only show that talks about issues.
What, it just was too dangerous?
Was that the thing?
I think the proof of that is the fact
that he's being replaced by Jimmy Kimmel,
formerly of Win Ben Stein's Money
and now of The Man Show,
a show that features women jumping on trampolines.
I think that says everything you need to know
about why Politically Incorrect got canceled.
Why don't they let them be topless
if they're going to do that anyway?
I'm surprised I don't understand.
This should show you how rare a place like BAI is then
and how pervasive stupidity is in the commercial world.
Maybe it's because Bill Maher did the introduction
to Ted Rawls' book.
I'll tell you something.
I'm extremely right-wing,
and I'm horribly upset by that.
It made you think.
Jim, that makes you not extremely right-wing.
Oh, okay.
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so it's a good deal.
No, as far as I know,
I'm the only Republican here,
and I'm not blonde.
Two Republicans,
and we're both not blonde.
Republicans not blonde.
Well, you've got your blondish.
Is that the name of the band?
Republicans Not Blonde.
Four non-blonde Republicans.
Yes, that's it.
Four non-blonde Republicans.
It would be an interesting name for a band, wouldn't it?
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Hello.
Hi.
Okay.
First of all, you said,
according to Ted Rall,
you have a greater chance of getting killed
in Afghanistan than in New York.
Now, according to Dr. Michio Kaku,
on exploration on WBAI,
one of the biggest threats
is from nuclear power plants being hit.
And then Mike Levine on,
as a witness, radio show on WBAI says
that we're all in grave danger
because nuclear winter could occur
very soon from war in the Middle East.
Well, nuclear winter is going to affect
Afghanistan and the United States
both at the same time, so...
This person listens to the station all the time.
If you want to compare the two places
as far as that go,
but the point still remains
that the odds of any one person
dying from any one thing,
whether it's war or an act of terrorism,
is slim, and that's how life goes on
in places like Afghanistan and Israel
and New York City and wherever
that people are worried about things happening.
Which places have the nuclear power plants
most likely to be targeted?
Well, if you continue listening to BAI,
I'm sure you'll hear all kinds
of possible horror scenarios,
a wide variety from all...
We could be pelted with...
They're all over the country.
Well, the Indian Point nuclear power plant,
being so close to New York City,
is a prime target,
and the fact that it is next to
a very wide body of water helps,
although the plants along, say,
Lake Erie, Lake Ontario,
might be a bigger target
because they're easier to get to
without being seen,
because they're right next to
an even larger body of water.
Nobody's watching that airspace.
But it seems to me that
when terrorists attack things,
they go after things with symbolic value,
and irradiating New York City
is pretty heavy on the symbolism,
wouldn't you think?
Yeah.
I heard in the news that
when other words are going to attack
the Statue of Liberty,
I think I'm more concerned about
how the government's attacking liberty itself.
That's a good point.
Yes, a great point.
Obviously, you listen to a lot of
BAI shows, don't you?
Are you a member of the station?
I would be.
I don't get a lot of income, and I...
It sounds like you'd be the perfect person
to be part of this local advisory board.
If you don't have a lot of income,
$25 for a low-income membership,
and you can be part of BAI
and have a say in the local advisory board,
and you would have an educated say
because you listen to so much of the station.
So go for it.
I give money to neediest cases fund,
the EFF now.
Well, anyway, I should tell you
and anybody in your same situation,
become a member of the station,
212-209-2950.
Anyway, thanks for your call.
I think we qualify as neediest cases, don't you?
Yeah, I would say so,
especially since our tally
still hasn't even crossed $500.
Not a single person can call
and bring us $5 over.
We have $495.
We're stuck there.
Actually, I wonder how we got to $495.
That's a really interesting figure.
I'm not sure, but...
We had lots and lots of $5 pledges.
One was $125.
If we were one of these religious preachers,
we could make a million dollars
in like an hour somehow.
Put your hands on the radio.
Yeah, and...
We'll heal you.
We'll heal you with comic books.
Right, we've said,
God wants you to give money.
God does want you to give money.
People believe it
because they hear it on the radio.
Why do you believe it?
We've got somebody to call.
We're trying to appeal to people's intellects
as well as their emotions
instead of just telling them,
God wants you to.
Maybe that's our mistake.
209-2950.
God does want you.
If you believe in God.
If you don't believe in God,
the lack of God wants you to call.
Equal opportunity here at this station.
Right.
212-209-2950.
Yes, the lack of God
wants you to become a member of WPA.
No, no, no, no.
The theory is
that the lack of God
will cause you to give to BAI
to support free thinking.
That got one call.
There is no number six.
They hung up immediately,
so I don't think...
Or got hung up on it.
212-209-2950
to donate to WPAI
to pledge your support.
Very strange thing.
When you say,
nobody's calling,
the cranks go,
all right.
We don't get as many cranks
as we used to,
but the cranks seem to come out
during pledge time.
I have noticed that.
Anyway, 212-209-2950.
We have another 15 minutes,
and we want you to become
a member of this station.
And for now,
we'll take your phone calls
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You're on the air.
Oh, no, you're not.
That's the same person
who just called that line.
Maybe he's got two lines,
and he's calling them both.
Too many hang-ups.
Anyway, any summing up
about all the stuff
we've been going after?
Go see the Spider-Man movie.
It's cute.
I saw the Star Wars film
when I was in Ohio,
and boy,
I'm not going to get into
all the plot problems
or the acting problems
because we only have 15 minutes,
but these simpletons
who were at the theater
could not figure out
how to run the film properly.
Actually, no,
that's not entirely right.
They didn't have any say
in it themselves.
They were simply running
the automated projections,
projection machines, I guess,
which everybody has these days.
You don't have a projectionist.
You just have a machine
with certain types of material
that trigger certain events.
For instance,
when the last promo ends,
a particular piece of film
goes by that triggers
the lights to dim at that point,
and then when the film is over
and the credits come up,
the lights come on a little bit,
but the film keeps going.
Well, what happened here,
something got messed up someplace,
and instead of the lights
dimming after the promo,
the lights actually came on
after the promo.
Yeah, so we had lights on
throughout the entire film,
and nobody wanted to go out
to complain about it
because if they did that,
they'd miss part of the film,
and you don't want to miss
part of the Star Wars film
on opening day,
even if you are in Ohio.
So everybody sat through this thing
with the lights on,
and then what do you think
happens at the end of the film?
Well, the credits start,
and then the lights go off,
and the film stops
because the intelligent projector
thinks, oh, okay,
I'm at the end of the credits now,
so there's no need
to have the film go anymore,
so they turn that off,
and the lights aren't
as bright as they were.
They were on a little bit,
and then finally somebody,
I guess, someplace,
figured out that this
shouldn't be happening
and turned it on,
but you heard movie theater music,
the stupid music they play
while nothing's happening.
You heard that
while the credits were playing.
It was unbelievable,
and that also shows
that nobody even came in
to check to make sure
that everything was going okay.
This is another example
of how they just don't care.
They don't care at all.
They just automate everything.
But the positive side of the story is
I complained about it,
and we all got free passes,
except it's free passes
to a theater in Ohio.
When are you going
to get there again?
I don't know.
No time soon.
We have two calls.
Thank you for those calls
pledging your support.
Dayton, Ohio.
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And if you're in Dayton, Ohio
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That's not a bad idea, actually.
Yeah, that's not a bad idea at all.
Somebody could use them.
We could get to go see that movie.
In or near Dayton, Ohio.
How long are the passes good for?
The guy said forever.
He also said, though,
since there was
a national amusements theater
that I could use them here,
so I'm going to try that first.
And when that doesn't work,
I'll figure something else out.
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That is pretty cool.
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We have time for a few more calls
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212-209-2900 is the number.
Talk to us here.
You're on the air.
Yes, you talk about intellect
and freedom of speech,
and then you don't answer my question
in any other way to say
that I may have asked it before.
You're right.
Over 20 years,
over and over again,
every show.
Yep, and saying the same things.
You're on the air.
Hi, I'm really enjoying
the merging of Off the Hook
and Nuff Said tonight,
and I liked it in the last marathon
when Walsh Orthodox
and Nuff Said
merged their shows together,
and that, you know,
the occasional cross-fertilization
and openness
is really a wonderful thing
to hear on WBAI.
Well, thank you.
Well, thanks for the compliment.
Thanks.
Yeah, I mean,
well, comic books do crossovers
all the time,
and we used to do it
with Sidney Smith's Carrier Wave
and had an absolutely wonderful time
combining shows with him.
And we got to watch TV.
And so I was really looking
to do it with anybody.
There might be a soon-to-be-a-crossover
with the Saturday morning
science fiction show,
Hour of the Wolf.
Oh, wow, that's really neat.
Yeah, we'll probably do a crossover
with Jim Freund.
It'll be Star Wars-oriented.
I'd also like to say that, you know,
I was one of the people
that stood in front of BAI,
and as this marathon came around,
I had to reflect that
not everything that I hoped for
would be accomplished
has been accomplished yet.
And sometimes it was
a little frustrating,
and sometimes it seems like
the kind of openness
that's just been displayed
isn't always there.
So I had to think about, you know,
my plans for supporting the station
and this marathon.
And so I just began
to count up the shows
that really mean a lot to me,
and there were lots of them.
And so what I decided was that,
although, you know,
I'm not totally satisfied
and I think a lot of work
needs to be done
to make BAI a better station,
that I did pledge,
and I pledged actually more
than I usually do,
and I feel pretty good about that.
That's great.
Thanks so much for the support.
And that's cool, yeah.
Thank you.
And it's always going to be
a process where you're
never satisfied completely,
where things have to
constantly be fixed
and made better.
But let me tell you,
the people who are here now
are really trying,
and they really believe
in the place.
And I think that's the most
essential ingredient you have,
and it's necessary
in order to succeed.
And I can't imagine
there's a single human being
on Earth who could agree
with every single show
on WBAI,
because we are so diverse,
and I think that diversity
is the strength.
But it means you're going
to disagree with some people.
Well, it's not about
agreeing or disagreeing
with every show.
I don't think that that's...
What I'm talking about
is there was a process
that the station
can be open
or it can be very closed.
And it's certainly
much more open now
than it was in the year
that preceded that.
But also,
it's really closed
in a lot of ways.
And in a lot of ways,
there are people
who have a lot of power
at the station
that are afraid
to share that power
with the listeners.
And they think
that the only way
that the listener power
might be expressed
at the station
is a kind of micromanagement
in choosing each show.
I don't think that's true.
I think there's a lot of room
for listener participation
that still respects
the people who have jobs to do
in terms of making
programming decisions.
And I think...
Well, that's what
the local advisory board
is going to have
a lot more say.
Well, maybe it will
and maybe it won't.
That's not really
settled yet.
And the process
seems to be
that the local advisory board
should already have
a lot more say right now.
And the management,
before any bylaws change
are made,
could just decide
unilaterally,
we're going to be
real open about this.
We're not going to make
any decisions
without the lab input.
But they haven't decided
to do that.
And so, you know,
it's really important
that people let
the management know
that we do want you
to take input.
We want you to talk
about the decisions
that you make.
We want you to listen
to what other people think.
We agree that,
you know,
as a program director,
you ultimately
have the last call
because we respect you
and we think that
you're, you know,
working toward the same ends
as we were going to
respect your decisions.
But you really need
to be open
about the process
and you really need
to make sure
you have a way
to listen to the community.
Well, people are aware
that some of the problems
with the Pacifica Foundation
over the last several years
were because of
the lack of openness.
And I've noticed
that things are
a lot more open,
there's a lot more
communication
between different areas
within WBAI
now than there ever was.
And so,
I think that
we need to be
open about
the process.
I mean,
not just during the coup
but before the coup.
I think things are
a lot better
than they were
just because
people know
how important
the communication is
because it was
the lack of communication
that got us
into this mess.
And I think...
I think you have
more confidence
that people have
learned the lesson.
Well, yeah,
because I've seen
the improvement.
I've seen
there's more meetings,
there's more
communication
between different departments
at BAI
which I think
is wonderful
because, you know,
we all have
different things
to give.
It's...
What about
outside the staff?
Outside the staff?
I am not sure about.
The important thing
is that
listeners like this
take part
in the process
and are there
to let us know
if we're straying
in any way.
So, I think
the doors are open now.
No, they're not really.
They're not quite that open.
Well, they're not
wide open
but they're open
so you can come here
at least
and talk to people.
Yeah, but what I'm trying
to tell you
is my experience
is they're not as open
as you might think
they are.
I...
After the last marathon,
I was interested
in doing volunteer work,
you know,
sending out premiums
or doing clerical work
and just to be able
to get a hold of somebody
that could tell me
when a good time
for me to come down
and volunteer my time,
you wouldn't believe
how difficult that was.
So, in many ways,
the station...
I mean, to say
the doors are open
is one thing
but what the station
really needs to do
is send out to the listeners
when people come
to volunteer
in the tally room,
do they give them
a piece of paper
and say,
are you interested
in volunteering
on a continuing basis?
Okay, but I think
what you're touching upon
is efficiency
which is something
that BAI has never had.
I don't think...
I think it's attitude,
not efficiency.
I don't know.
I think you might be
reading too much into it
because I know people try
and sometimes
they're just overwhelmed
with work.
I can't get calls back
lots of times
from people I need
to talk to
about that.
But you would be welcome
to come down
and volunteer your time
any time.
One of the problems
is that
none of the department heads
have assistants.
In any other radio station,
the department heads
would have an assistant
to do a lot of these things
but there isn't
the money
to pay for them.
So that's why
you need volunteers.
To say,
we're too busy
to get volunteers
in here
to do some of the work
that we're too busy doing.
Don't you see
how silly that sounds?
I don't think
anyone has said that.
Has anyone said
that?
I'm reading into that.
What happens is
that the person
who would make
the contact
isn't available.
I've been with
so many environmental groups
that had the exact
same problem
that you just mentioned.
They didn't have
the people
to get the people.
It's not that
they didn't have
the people
to get the people.
You make a priority.
You have the people
to do things.
You only have
a certain amount
of jobs you can do.
How far up in that list
do you put the jobs
of recruiting volunteers?
Do you put that
on the list?
Or do you put it low?
Some jobs are not
going to get done.
If you decided
that that was one
of the most important
jobs to do,
that after having
programs on the air,
the second most
important thing
was to get volunteers
into the station,
that's a matter
of priorities.
If you do that
and you do it well,
then all the problems
that you're talking,
not all the problems,
but many of the problems
you're talking about,
lack of time,
lack of staff,
you don't have
an assistant,
it's a community
radio station.
You need to do
as many jobs as possible.
If everybody there
needs an assistant,
get a volunteer assistant
for everybody there.
Okay, has anyone
ever told you
not to come down
to the station
and volunteer?
Yes.
Really?
Yes.
Well, that's wrong.
That's totally wrong.
That is wrong, yes.
Okay, and I think
that I understand
that you don't have
that experience,
but I think you need
to be open
and understand
that the culture
of WBI still now
to this day
is not friendly
to volunteers.
And until people
first say,
we're going to do
a change of attitude,
that we are going
to make this
part of our culture,
that we welcome
volunteers,
nothing is going
to happen.
And as long as you
don't realize
that that is a problem,
you're not going
to have a change
of attitude.
So I'm asking you,
talk to listeners,
listen to listeners
when they tell that to you,
and don't tell them
all the reasons
why their experience
is not really true
or that they don't
really understand
what's going on
inside.
That is what
has to change.
Okay, well thanks
for your call,
and we're going to
have to make it due
because the show
is ending.
Thank you.
Alright.
We just got another
donation for $100
recently.
Thank you for that call.
As you can see,
there's a lot of
passion out there,
and that's what we need.
We need people
with passion.
You can't dispute
the passion,
that's for sure.
212-209-2950.
And now is usually
the time when
to boil things down
and saying,
this is 120
Wall Street,
New York,
New York,
1005.
I can't give you
the website
because there isn't
one for us.
Unless you want
to see pornography.
Yeah.
And however,
Off the Hook
has a website.
Oh, well yeah,
we do.
www.2600.com
slash
Off the Hook
is our website.
2600.
And you can also
tie into a link
to listen to
WBAI
24 hours
a day
from their site.
So anybody you know
who you think
should be listening
but they can't
because they don't
live in New York,
well they can
if they have
internet connection.
And the software
to do it is,
there's a link to that,
right?
How to get the software?
To get the
real audio software
to listen.
Well, real audio
is only one,
and that's not the one
we really encourage
as much.
Whatever.
Just any MP3 player,
which comes standard
with most computer
operating systems
these days.
There you go.
Yeah.
Okay, so pretty much
anybody with a computer
can listen.
Yeah.
And speakers,
you know,
they come with a computer.
So coming up next
is the
Morse Orthodox Radio Crusade.
There are,
a whole bunch of them
are in the building
even as we speak,
and after that
is
weaponry
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to the coalition
commanders
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introduced.
To the coalition
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Armed forces
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multilateral,
not simply
a unilateral
mission.
Our
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of course,
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