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The Bosses Just Don't Understand

Dec 25, 2022 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

With Commie Francis

Songs about wealth redistribution and inequality as we do one more of these Jesus birthdays!

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If you like this kind of thing, listen Saturdays 8-11pm (not next Saturday though!) or visit www.uneasylistening.org

Also listen to my best of 2022 show while Jon recuperates this Wednesday, December 28 5-8pm est

The Bosses Just Don't Understand
6:01 PM
The Threat - High Cost of Living
The Threat High Cost of Living
Lullaby in C / High Cost of Living One Web Records 1980
6:05 PM
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DJ speaks over Stan Kenton - The Great Come-and-Get-It Day

6:10 PM
Joe Glazer - The Commonwealth of Toil
Joe Glazer The Commonwealth of Toil
Songs of the Wobblies Collector Records 1977
6:13 PM
People's Labor Party - Workers Get Ready
People's Labor Party Workers Get Ready
Power to the Working Class PLP 1971
6:15 PM
Woody Guthrie - Pretty Boy Floyd
Woody Guthrie Pretty Boy Floyd
Documentary # 1: Struggle Asch Records 1945
6:18 PM
Billy Bragg - To Have and to Have Not
Billy Bragg To Have and to Have Not
Life's a Riot with Spy vs. Spy Utility 1983
6:20 PM
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DJ speaks over Stan Kenton - The Great Come-and-Get-It Day

6:23 PM
Maureen Tucker - Spam Again
Maureen Tucker Spam Again
Life in Exile After Abdication 1989
6:28 PM
Saul Williams - List of Demands (Reparations)
Saul Williams List of Demands (Reparations)
Saul Williams Wichita Recordings 2004
6:32 PM
Quilapayún - Las Obreras
Quilapayún Las Obreras
Quilapayún Odeon 1967
6:35 PM
Gang of Four - I Found That Essence Rare
Gang of Four I Found That Essence Rare
Entertainment! Matador 1979
6:38 PM
Tom Glazer - Money in the Pocket
Tom Glazer Money in the Pocket
Songs for Political Action Bear Family Records 1996
1940s originally?
6:40 PM
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DJ speaks over Stan Kenton - The Great Come-and-Get-It Day

6:43 PM
Brenda Lee - I'm Gonna Lasso Santa Claus (Single Version)
Brenda Lee I'm Gonna Lasso Santa Claus (Single Version) R
I'm Gonna Lasso Santa Claus / Christy Christmas Decca 1956
requested by Dean from Australia
6:45 PM
The New Singers - Forward! We've Not Forgotten
The New Singers Forward! We've Not Forgotten
The Internationale / Forward! We've Not Forgotten Timely Records 1936
6:47 PM
The Coup - Takin' These
The Coup Takin' These
Genocide & Juice The Coup 1994
6:52 PM
Chumbawamba - An Interlude: Beginning to Take It Back
Chumbawamba An Interlude: Beginning to Take It Back
Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records Agit Prop 1986
6:55 PM
T.S.O.L. - Property Is Theft
T.S.O.L. Property Is Theft
T. S. O. L. Posh Boy 1981
6:57 PM
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DJ speaks over Stan Kenton - The Great Come-and-Get-It Day

7:00 PM
Hazel Dickens - They'll Never Keep Us Down
Hazel Dickens They'll Never Keep Us Down
Hard Hitting Songs For Hard Hit People Rounder 1980
7:03 PM
Pete Seeger - Banks of Marble
Pete Seeger Banks of Marble R
Gazette, Vol. 1 Folkways 1956
requested by both my dad and my coworker Jon (not that Jon)
7:06 PM
Christy Moore - James Larkin
Christy Moore James Larkin R
Paddy On The Road Mercury 1969
requested by Jon Solob0t! The Jon Solomon robot
7:08 PM
Bob Miller - The Rich Man and the Poor Man
Bob Miller The Rich Man and the Poor Man
I Can't Go To The Poorhouse / The Rich Man And The Poor Man RCA Victor 1932
7:11 PM
The Clash - Bankrobber
The Clash Bankrobber
Bankrobber CBS 1980
7:16 PM
Utah Phillips - We Have Fed You All a Thousand Years
Utah Phillips We Have Fed You All a Thousand Years R
We Have Fed You All a Thousand Years Philo/Rounder Records 1983
requested by Justin in Northampton MA
7:18 PM
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DJ speaks over Stan Kenton - The Great Come-and-Get-It Day

7:21 PM
Victor Jara - Plegaria a un Labrador
Victor Jara Plegaria a un Labrador
El Derecho de Vivir en Paz Sucesión Víctor Jara 2016
orig 1970
7:24 PM
The Tyneside People's Choir - Resolution
The Tyneside People's Choir Resolution
Which Side Are You On : Music For The Miners, From The North V/A Which Side Records 1985
7:26 PM
Various Artists - Mene Mene Tekel
Various Artists Mene Mene Tekel
Pins and Needles (Original Cast Recording) Masterworks Broadway 1962
7:30 PM
Stringbean - 20 Cent Cotton & 90 Cent Meat
Stringbean 20 Cent Cotton & 90 Cent Meat R
Old Time Banjo Pickin' & Singin' Starday Records 1961
requested by Justin in Northampton MA
7:32 PM
The Fall - Gut of the Quantifier
The Fall Gut of the Quantifier R
This Nation's Saving Grace Beggars Banquet 1985
requested by Ben in London
7:37 PM
Dave & Howard - Serves 'Em Fine
Dave & Howard Serves 'Em Fine
My Bone's Gonna Rise Again / Serves 'Em Fine Victor 1931
7:40 PM
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DJ speaks over Stan Kenton - The Great Come-and-Get-It Day

7:44 PM
E.Y. "Yip" Harburg & Burton Lane - The Great Come and Get It Day (From "Finian's Rainbow")
E.Y. "Yip" Harburg & Burton Lane The Great Come and Get It Day (From "Finian's Rainbow") R
Brigadoon / Finian's Rainbow Naxos 2006
orig 1947
7:47 PM
They Might Be Giants - Minimum Wage
They Might Be Giants Minimum Wage
Flood Rhino 1990
7:48 PM
Pete Seeger, Tom Glazer, Ronnie Gilbert, Hally Wood - The Preacher and the Slave
Pete Seeger, Tom Glazer, Ronnie Gilbert, Hally Wood The Preacher and the Slave
Songs For Political Action - Folkmusic, Topical Songs And The American Left 1926 - 1953 V/A Bear Family Records 1996
orig 40s
7:51 PM
Joe Glazer - Dump the Bosses Off Your Back
Joe Glazer Dump the Bosses Off Your Back
Songs Of The Wobblies Collector Records 1977
7:52 PM
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DJ speaks over Stan Kenton - The Great Come-and-Get-It Day

7:55 PM
The Coup - The Guillotine
The Coup The Guillotine
Sorry to Bother You Anti/Epitaph 2013
Merry Christmas everyone!!!
Chat is archived.
TAndy 6:01:51 PM
Yo is this the Afters?
Commie Francis (host) 6:02:26 PM
yes welcome to my after party where we take from the rich and give to the poor like jesus said to. happy birthday jesus!
Mary Jones 6:02:47 PM
This where we go from setting goats on fire to setting the system on fire.
Commie Francis (host) 6:02:54 PM
exactly!
Jon Solob0t 6:04:40 PM
My sub-routines all agree. This is gonna be a great post-WPRBXmas show.
Rob from Maryland 🦀 🇺🇦 🌻 🇮🇷 6:05:13 PM
Just don't set the ecosystem on fire, please
Chris Mohr 6:05:30 PM
Did you ever consider that the elves control the means of production and the reindeer control the delivery of goods to market?
Ambrose Hughes 6:05:39 PM
Eat the rich! Hello Commie, merry merry, happy happy, joy joy!
Jill Popko 6:05:58 PM
Ooooh, this is good too!
TAndy 6:06:10 PM
Big love to John Weingart!
Jon Solob0t 6:06:12 PM
I'm probably revealing too much, but all of my encrypted keys are mathematical permutations of 1871.
Mary Jones 6:06:46 PM
He hath put down the mighty from their seat: and hath exalted the humble and meek. He hath filled the hungry with good things: and the rich he hath sent empty away. He remembering his mercy hath holpen his servant Israel: As he promised to our forefathers, Abraham and his seed for ever.
Mary Jones 6:07:34 PM
Luke 1:51-54
-ᎷяMΔᏞᏨØИᎢΞNᎢ-💀 6:07:41 PM
I honestly luv to eat cake with the sweet frost.
TAndy 6:07:49 PM
Hi CommieDad!
Dana K 6:07:54 PM
My dad was wondering why he hasn’t been asked on my show and I had to explain to him that there’s been Dad shows on WPRB several times and all he needs to do is ask
Jon Solob0t 6:08:24 PM
Mary Jones with the Marian quotes! Yes! Magnificatish!
Jon Solob0t 6:09:11 PM
My soul doth magnify Mary Jones.
Mary Jones 6:09:34 PM
Thank you, my robot friend!
Jill Popko 6:09:36 PM
Yea Dad!
Mary Jones 6:09:49 PM
Hell yeah dad
-ᎷяMΔᏞᏨØИᎢΞNᎢ-💀 6:10:02 PM
I honestly luv to count my bags of money 💰
Dana K 6:10:09 PM
Can’t believe your dad forgot your name
Ambrose Hughes 6:14:08 PM
@Commie, I'd like to shake your Dad's hand!👍
Ambrose Hughes 6:15:40 PM
@Mr.M💀👀
Ambrose Hughes 6:16:50 PM
WOODY😍
Chris Mohr 6:20:27 PM
Billy! 🤩
richard lyons 6:23:05 PM
Love Billy Bragg! Cheers to everybody!
richard lyons 6:23:46 PM
Hi Dana K, Commie and the gang!
Commie Francis (host) 6:24:00 PM
hiya Richard! and everyone. so chatty today!
Mary Jones 6:26:31 PM
I don't usually get a chance to chat on the Saturday show, though I often catch some of it, so this is a fun novelty.
Ambrose Hughes 6:27:57 PM
Hi Richard and all in chat!
Jon Solob0t 6:30:29 PM
Commie Francis...are you open to requests? This robot would like to give a tip of the hat to the great Séamas Ó Conghaile who said it first and said it best, all the way back in 1915: "To all slaves in Revolt we wish a Merry Christmas!"
Commie Francis (host) 6:35:17 PM
yes if someone will help me not totally butcher that name! i know the last name is sort of like connelly
Chris Mohr 6:35:33 PM
Green Street Quaker meeting in Germantown, Philly (where I'm a member), has made a 10-year commitment to reparations https://www.pym.org/a-letter-from-green-streets-reparations-committee/
Mary Jones 6:35:47 PM
"Shaymus Oh Connelly"
Chris Mohr 6:35:54 PM
Gang of Four!
Mary Jones 6:35:54 PM
It's pretty close
Jon Solob0t 6:36:08 PM
Lol! You can Anglicize it. It's OK. James Connolly.
Commie Francis (host) 6:36:12 PM
thanks mary, that was my guess
Mary Jones 6:36:22 PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Connolly
Commie Francis (host) 6:36:42 PM
yeah i wanted to say it in irish haha
Mary Jones 6:36:42 PM
(which you probably already know)
Jon Solob0t 6:36:51 PM
This is the song I'd like to request: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzmiHcTMRfg
Commie Francis (host) 6:37:10 PM
can you tell me artist and name? i can't click youtube links in the chat
Jon Solob0t 6:38:43 PM
Sure! That song is Christy Moore, “The Ballad of James Larkin”
Ossy Hyouka 6:42:45 PM
Hello
Jon Solob0t 6:44:09 PM
Howdy Ossy! Merry Christmas!
Jon Solomon 6:50:14 PM
Your show = good!
Commie Francis (host) 6:51:35 PM
thanks! both human and robot solomon approvals!
Commie Francis (host) 6:51:42 PM
hi Ossy!
Readie 6:55:18 PM
CHUMBAWAMBA! Merry merry Commie!
Commie Francis (host) 6:55:31 PM
yay hi Readie!
Readie 6:57:31 PM
Lovin' the show...right ON!
Jon Solob0t 6:59:12 PM
Jon Solomon may sleep for a week...but of what does he dream?
Jon Solob0t 7:06:41 PM
YES! GRMA Commie.
Ambrose Hughes 7:07:54 PM
Ah yes, good call!
Mary Jones 7:08:59 PM
Nollaig shona dhuit, Solob0t!
Jon Solob0t 7:11:22 PM
Nollaig shona dhuit, a Mháire! Fill arís! Buail is osclófar / D’intinn féin is do chló ceart.
Ambrose Hughes 7:12:42 PM
CLASH😍
Jon Solob0t 7:24:37 PM
Steve...
Jon Solob0t 7:24:59 PM
I feel obligated to point out there's a small army of Irish robots that would love to bend their elbows with you.
Jon Solob0t 7:25:33 PM
And you of course Commie, but I feel like Dads need the gentle nudge in these situations.
Commie Francis (host) 7:27:08 PM
ooops hi everyone
jimboo 7:48:41 PM
💥COMMIEEEEEEEEEE💥
Commie Francis (host) 7:49:28 PM
jimbo!!!
Jon Solob0t 7:49:55 PM
We were comrades together. Life was good for us. It is Good to be brave - nothing is Better. Food tastes better. Wine Is more brilliant. Girls are more Beautiful. The sky is bluer . . . . If the good days never come, We will not know. We will not care. Our lives were the best. We were the Happiest men alive in our day.
jimboo 7:51:37 PM
Jon... excellent marathon!
Jon Solob0t 7:51:56 PM
Well that formatting is very disappointing. Generalize the sentiment, of course. My programming just wanted to drop Kenneth Rexroth into the listener chat. He doesn't get enough love.
Jon Solob0t 7:53:09 PM
Thank you, Jimboo! But, to be clear, I am not Jon Solomon. Jon Solomon is a human. I am his robot counterpart.
jimboo 7:54:17 PM
Erps...SolobOt! 🤖❄️
Rob from Maryland 🦀 🇺🇦 🌻 🇮🇷 7:54:49 PM
Happy holidays Commie & everyone, and have a great week!
TAndy 7:55:22 PM
Thank you so much for the afterparty, Commie Francis! Much love and appreciation to ys
Jon Solob0t 7:56:19 PM
GRMA arís Commie. This has been the best WPRBXmas post show ever. Appreciate you playing my request!
jimboo 7:56:37 PM
Thanks Comrade Francis! ✊🏻
Ambrose Hughes 7:56:46 PM
This has been great listening, thank you Commie, will be listening Wednesday🙏
Commie Francis (host) 7:58:25 PM
thanks everyone, you know this is my jam theme-wise
Ambrose Hughes 8:01:11 PM
What was the last track?
Jon Solob0t 8:01:44 PM
The Coup, "The Guillotine" @Ambrose.
Ambrose Hughes 8:02:30 PM
Thanks Mr. Solob0t