Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison | WFMU
By Courtney T. Edison and WFMU
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The Old Codger: playing 78 RPM records like they're going out of style!
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His intellect reminds you of flies that swarm around garbage in summer and delight in what they can discover. from Apr 17, 2024
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Projected to reach Peak Anger by 2030. from Mar 29, 2022
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Money donated during this hour funds the Codger's "infrastructure" needs (whiskey, cigars, Chinese takeout, rare 78rpm discs). Booker T. Bodenheim co-hosts. from Mar 8, 2022
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Courtney faces off against his nemesis, DJ Fablio! from Mar 15, 2022
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Says that much of what he hears on WFMU reminds him of "large stones being thrown into a dump-cart." from Feb 22, 2022
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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An hour listening to The Old Codger Show is 12 minutes well-spent. from Feb 15, 2022
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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He secretly wants to ruin everything worthwhile until the rest of the world is as ugly as his soul. from Jan 11, 2022
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Descended from some of the great rope and lamppost artists of the world. from Jan 18, 2022
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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So old his blood type was discontinued. from Jan 25, 2022
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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A stormy petrel of unbalanced mental potentialities. from Jan 4, 2022
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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He's the answer to your prayers. And the answer is, "NO!" from Dec 14, 2021
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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Blink and you're passé! from Dec 21, 2021
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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Codger: "You throw one piece of equipment at the station manager and suddenly you're branded 'difficult to work with'." from Dec 28, 2021
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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You keep forgetting he's still alive. from Dec 7, 2021
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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He'll steal anything that isn't nailed down. And anything he can pry loose isn't nailed down. from Nov 23, 2021
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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"The Codger's brain is a sepulcher furnished with a load of broken and discarnate bones." - Joseph Glanvill from Nov 30, 2021
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Knew Gatsby when he was just "pretty good." from Nov 2, 2021
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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Empathied out since 1931. from Oct 5, 2021
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Gus Bodenheim sits in Courtney's chair, fills his shoes, and depletes his whiskey. from Oct 12, 2021
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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His cynicism is not cheap! from Oct 19, 2021
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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His very existence affirms Faulkner's observation that "The past is never dead. It's not even past." from Sep 28, 2021
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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"The Codger never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see bad ones. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness, blind to light, always mousing for vermin and never seeing noble game." — H.W. Beecher from Aug 10, 2021
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Claims the 21st is the worst century he's ever lived in. from Aug 17, 2021
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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"The Codger is a dark little archaic personage—hard, compact, unscrupulous, imitative, and neatly vulgar." — H.G. Wells from Aug 24, 2021
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Hubris is his other middle name. from Sep 7, 2021
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Recently spent a week in Arkansas to get his liver drained. from Sep 14, 2021
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Once asked what to feed babies, he recommended suntan lotion, dust bunnies, clumps of bread soaked in rubbing alcohol, and pennies. from Sep 21, 2021
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Laura Cantrell hosts while Courtney is off being a miscreant-at-large from Aug 31, 2021
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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His excuses make the labyrinth seem like the shortest distance between two points. from Aug 3, 2021
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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His state implies a necessary curse: when not himself, he's mad; when most himself, he's worse. from Jul 20, 2021
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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Specializing in locally sourced, free-range, organic, sustainable misery. from Jun 29, 2021
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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Never nominated for a Peabody, but takes first prize for narcissism, peevishness and vulgarity. from Jul 13, 2021
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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Rejects the five-second rule. In his house they observe the three-day rule. Except for liquids, to which he applies a strict 10-minute rule. from Jul 6, 2021
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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Even his mildest observations reek of vinegar. from Jun 22, 2021
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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"This louse is Dickensian in his meanness, filth, and insensitivity to ordinary human beings." – Laurence Bergreen from Jun 8, 2021
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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The Devil Caught Me Nappin' (Guest Host: Monica) from Jun 15, 2021
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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Fats All, Folks! Birthday Tribute to the Great Mr. Thomas Waller from May 20, 2021
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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The only guy who would abduct your cat, and when the ransom is paid, you get back more cats. from May 27, 2021
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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"A lot of people think they're nostalgic for radio theater, and they're wrong." – Hearty White from Jun 3, 2021
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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The next person who tells him to "stay safe" won’t be. from May 13, 2021
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May 14, 2021 |
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A matchless holder of grudges. from May 6, 2021
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May 14, 2021 |
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"Ten minutes in his company leads me to the threshold of madness, almost murder." — "Chips" Channon from Apr 29, 2021
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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Downs a lot of whiskey, considers it "infrastructure." from Apr 15, 2021
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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Don't mention cancel culture to Courtney. He's not a stamp collector. from Apr 8, 2021
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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Someone tried to dictate his pronouns. When he finished with the perp, all they found was a zipper. from Apr 1, 2021
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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Has a natural immunity to viruses, poxes, modesty, logic, and reason. from Mar 18, 2021
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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A messenger of Satan to torment you, and keep you from being too elated. from Mar 25, 2021
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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Using the radio airwaves as a spittoon since 1928. from Mar 11, 2021
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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He's a blowhard. And the drunker he gets, the harder he blows. from Mar 4, 2021
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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He never drinks between 10 and 11 am Mondays just to ensure he's not addicted to the stuff. from Feb 25, 2021
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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He owns two revolvers and his brother owns at least a dozen, though neither of them has fired one since the close of the Liberty Bond drives. from Feb 18, 2021
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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Leading the fight to raise the wages of sin to $18/hr. from Feb 11, 2021
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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For decades scholars of karmic justice have been debating how he's managed to evade the gallows. from Jan 21, 2021
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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He has that certain je ne sais what? from Jan 28, 2021
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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Gus Bodenheim services the Old Codger's listenership this week. from Feb 4, 2021
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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Keep your beard out of his soup. from Jan 14, 2021
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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In a new poll, his approval rating has edged up to 5% (with a margin of error of 6%). from Jan 7, 2021
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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Old enough to remember the Dead Sea when it was just sick. from Nov 19, 2020
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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Scratch his breech and he'll claw your elbow. from Nov 26, 2020
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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Went out to buy arugula and quinoa, came back with bourbon, chewing tobacco and ammo. He really needs to get new glasses. from Dec 3, 2020
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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His testimony before the Mills Commission in 1905 clinched Abner Doubleday's acclaim as the inventor of baseball. from Dec 10, 2020
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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Do you like worms? He's about to open a large can of them. from Dec 24, 2020
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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His home is a quack's sanitarium for nervous diseases, treated with medicines of high alcoholic content and "doctor"-prescribed, whiskey-based potions. from Nov 12, 2020
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Nov 13, 2020 |
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Kicking off Lumbago Awareness Month from Nov 5, 2020
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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He has a lamp fashioned in the shape of Sophie Tucker's thigh. from Oct 29, 2020
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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A talkative footnote. from Oct 22, 2020
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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The wreckage of days departed, every completed show a funeral gone by. from Oct 15, 2020
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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"The Codger demonstrates a laughingstock of intelligence, a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere." — Lee De Forest from Oct 8, 2020
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Oct 09, 2020 |
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"All that is loathsome, drooping, and decayed is here." — Charles Dickens III from Sep 24, 2020
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Oct 09, 2020 |
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Everyone he meets acquires the awesome power to peer into his soul and correctly assume the worst. from Oct 1, 2020
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Oct 09, 2020 |
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In the reverie lane, the speed limit is determined by the slowest car. from Sep 17, 2020
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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You may think he's living in the past, but he's living your future. from Sep 10, 2020
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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He's always "me"-deep in conversation. from Sep 3, 2020
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Sep 04, 2020 |
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His sense of decency hasn't taken a holiday — it's on sabbatical. from Aug 27, 2020
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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When he's finally recycled as cat food, he'll be "indoor senior." from Aug 20, 2020
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Aug 20, 2020 |
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He's a black & white supremacist. from Aug 13, 2020
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Aug 13, 2020 |
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Always asks for plastic bags at the grocer, because despite what environmentalists claim, he doesn't believe there's a plastic shortage. from Aug 6, 2020
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Aug 07, 2020 |
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Still has that new cadaver smell! from Jul 30, 2020
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Jul 31, 2020 |
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Exercise? The only part of him that's ever jogged is his memory. from Jul 23, 2020
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Jul 23, 2020 |
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He doesn't want your respect. He wants nothing less than graven images. from Jul 16, 2020
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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Everything he touches turns to mold. from Jul 9, 2020
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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Patient Zero for the Miasma Theory of Broadcasting. from Jul 2, 2020
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Jul 03, 2020 |
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Sorry—he left his compassion in his other soul. from Jun 25, 2020
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Jun 26, 2020 |
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Welcome to the Codger's Happy Autonomous Zone! from Jun 18, 2020
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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The zeitgeist is SO out of touch with him. from Jun 11, 2020
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Jun 11, 2020 |
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He looks forward to giving back to the community. There's so much he's stolen. from Nov 5, 2019
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Nov 06, 2019 |
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He's a crusty parasite and WFMU is the host organism. from Jul 25, 2017
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Jul 26, 2017 |
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His karma deficit is beyond recoupment. from Jul 18, 2017
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Jul 19, 2017 |
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He doesn't choose the lesser of two evils; he chooses the one he hasn't tried yet. from Jun 14, 2016
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Jun 15, 2016 |
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Codger (1926): "Valentino must have a successor somewhere, and it might as well be me." from Apr 5, 2016
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Apr 06, 2016 |
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Shut Up, Hippies! (Fill-in for Shut Up, Weirdo, 6-7pm Eastern) from Dec 25, 2015
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Dec 26, 2015 |
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"The Codger is endowed with awful powers of evil, to the exercise of which he might at any time set his malignant will." – Ambrose Bierce from Sep 15, 2015
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Sep 16, 2015 |
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First he tells you that he's gonna tell you what he thinks, then he tells you what he thinks, then he tells you what he just told you. from Jul 14, 2015
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Jul 15, 2015 |
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Likes his lovin' as he likes his cars: hand-cranked. from Dec 24, 2014
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Dec 25, 2014 |
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He's the spokesman for his generation—because he's the only one left. from Jul 15, 2014
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Jul 16, 2014 |
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An hour of purloined platters rudely interrupted by grating harangues and emphatic salivary discharge. from Jul 8, 2014
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Jul 09, 2014 |
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A non-renewable fossil fool. from Mar 18, 2014
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Mar 19, 2014 |
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Life was so much simpler when there were only three Stooges. from Jan 6, 2014
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Jan 07, 2014 |
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Tonight's forecast: partly cranky with a 60% chance of rage. from Nov 12, 2013
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Nov 13, 2013 |
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All the vices you admire, none of the virtues you detest. from Aug 13, 2013
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Aug 14, 2013 |
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He doesn't need to prove he's God's gift to women. The facts speak for themselves. from Apr 16, 2013
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Apr 17, 2013 |
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He's not old enough to have known the baby Jesus, but he recalls as a youth reading the obit. from Dec 25, 2012
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Dec 26, 2012 |
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An hour of brutish entertainment from Dec 4, 2012
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Dec 05, 2012 |
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A quasi-life force fueled by steamed cabbage, cigar stubs plucked from the gutter, and petty grievances. from Oct 23, 2012
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Oct 24, 2012 |