Big Planet Silence!

Since retiring, I have very much enjoyed spending a few hours on Monday nights listening to Big Planet Noise, while chatting with fellow Planeteers as Beantown Doug. BPN was on WMFU’s streaming station called Give the Drummer, a phrase taken from a James Brown song.

I say “was,” past tense, because Bob Irwin sent me a note saying that Monday’s show will be the final Big Planet Noise, citing “differences in philosophies.” This sounds like a repeat of what Debbie Daughtry went through with WMFU management, leading her to start Boss Radio 66. Barnes Newberry had a falling out with WUMB in Boston, and landed on the Martha’s Vineyard station WMVY, where Denro’s brother is a DJ. Bob promises that Big Planet noise will resurface.

There are other WFMU shows I follow, justifying my continued “Swag for Life” status with the station, but Bob’s departure is a very significant loss. If his BPN co-host Gina Bacon ends her Someday Matinee show, I will have to reconsider my level of financial support for WFMU.

Tuck Frump

Trump Shuttle flight makes an emergency landing at Logan Airport in Boston, Aug. 10, 1989.

President Trump said on Tuesday night that he was “absolutely willing” to accept the results of the midterm elections, and was prepared to work with Democrats.

“We’ll, you know, look forward to working with them,” he said in a phone interview with The New York Times. “We’ll probably work something out.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/03/us/politics/trump-midterm-election-results.html?unlocked_article_code=1.N1E.tBqD.FCmQqLt1vsw7&smid=url-share

Probably work something out? How about resign or be impeached for a third time? There have to be enough Republican senators, at long last, who want to take their party back and are willing to vote in favor of convicting.