Songs and messages of hope, light and positivity! Messages from listeners: **Hope is what we cling to when reality has left us nothing else.
**There is love for everybody if they are open to it - there's no greater gift to give or receive!
**Keep smiling - it is contagious.
**Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
**We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
**Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe. It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished.

Special feature - Habanero's original demo tape (the recording that got me on the air). Johnny Cash - the ultimate bad boy, and a hopeless romantic to boot.

The start of the show is delayed on the streaming archive until about 7:20. Your host was a little distracted due to a mishap on the way to the studio, but special guest, the Divaliscious Pamela Betti, made sure we had a lot of fun.

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Thanks to all the listeners who pledged this morning! If you missed the show, you can pledge online at wusb.fm/pledge, or call the studio at 631-632-6901. Support community radio!

AWESOME interview with Bob Hallett of Great Big Sea this morning! Catch them at the Westhampton Performing Arts Center Sunday 10/11/09 (if there are any tix left!)

Continuing the healthcare discussion, and (good seque or not?) into hurricane season. Also celebrating more than half my lifetime's worth of summers of love!

Special programming with Dr. Wilbur Larch, Jim Lynch, Emmanuel Goldstein, Bicycle Mark and Habanero discussing the current healthcare debate and attempting to refute the criticisms of the "disrupters" that have been appearing at town halls across the country, and scaring your mother about the proposed health reform. Email habanero@wusb.fm for notes from the show where we go point by point on the issues.

Blues Marathon! Special guest DJ the Divaliscious Ms. Pamela Betti!

Today is the big day! The Good Ship Habanero is getting splashed, The Dead is playing at Nassau Collesium, and we've got a beautiful weekend on deck. Today's show celebrates - the best we can with the technical challenges put to us - and thanks our DEADicated listeners for their support during our spring Radiothon fundraiser. It's not to late - wusb.fm/pledge.

Action packed show! We'll hear from Michael Rush, US Coast Guard Auxiliary, on boating safety. And with any luck, we'll have a visit from a guest DJ from Loyola University.