The Freeform Pathogen Tue Jan 10 with Mike Lupica on WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

Yo team. As you have probably figured out, WPRB's webstreams are still down as a result of a server going kaplooey at our transmitter site last night at around 3 AM. As such, tonight's intended program (Dan Ruccia's "Tomorrow is an Octopus" filling in for Grady) can't happen live, so we're re-airing this show, which originally aired last Wednesday night. We're working on getting things back to normal right now, and I will update the chat with any relevant news. Thanks for hanging in there w/ us!

Presently, I am sitting in the Starlite Lounge, drinking a glass of not-very-good chardonnay, texting with our engineer who is on site at the transmitter, where I spent a good chunk of today beginning at 6:30 AM.

two days of freeform pathogen in a row, what a treat!

(soon to be three)

It's a Christmas miracle!

It won't be three unless we get this server back up and running by tomorrow.

Is this the Golden Globes red carpet?

Lol what is this? Where can I get it??

This is the Starlite Lounge on an off-night.

Blowout’s right.

We usually lease it out to a local community group, but they canceled last minute.

What's up DubNP, Tyler, Jon, TAndy. Good to see y'all here, even for the re-runs.

Keeps the waves warm.

If nothing else, the embedded webcam gives away what I was wearing six nights ago. (DJ looks down, realizes he is wearing the same thing today.)

as some may know, i'm always around >:)

“as some may know, i’m always around >:)” is gonna be hard to top in 23!

hahahaha

it's me and a small handfull of chatters who always seem to be around, silently or otherwise

I’m a member of the right brigade!

All the best people are!

Hahah that opener was spectacular I would smash that 103.3 button so hard to have a copy of it for my gf

Tyler, do you mean the AI BOT intro? If it means that much to you, drop an email to mike [at] wprb [dot] com and I will hook you up with the MP3.

Jumped ahead in the book. Can’t wait for the two Specials songs.

SPOILERS!!!!

The RIP tribute so nice, we aired it twice.

we all get to relive specials siren remix..... squeeeee!!!!

Oh jeez, I forgot about that...

dude, mike.... never forget

Wait! What world is this exactly?

Meh, all good. Thanks for the follow up Mike.

@Rofflestomp, it is the world in which PRB's streams are still broken and I am resorting to cheap parlor tricks as a strategy to get folks to tune in to the same shit they heard a week ago.

from the notebook to that running redlights noir edition along with the rebroadcast of running redlights was so hot it melted the server.

Yes, I texted Jen as much this morning.

HOTT ADULT BONUS HALL AND OATES CONTENT

Thanks Mike. I think my card is that one.

This song has been stuck in my head all week. SO LET'S MAKE IT TWO, I GUESS.

Just getting on line, sending good juju to the servers, transmitter, et al.

Funny but I really caught up on the genius stuff you folks put out that I have been looking into all week as usual. Kinda cooled off the jets.

Thanks Andy! Please also pray to whichever god or minor deity you happen to tremble before.

The Playa Dust Gods of Burning Man.

I thought it was tomorrow LOOOL, but 2x of Freeform Starlight 🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣

an encore presentation!

random question any gabriel faure fans in here?

Ossy, this is like the part in the Shining where you see the photo of Jack in the lobby of the hotel and realizes that he has always been in the Starlite Lounge, forever, since always.

Cheer to that!

Wait, did someone yell "encore"? THAT'S a first.

Great party isn't it?

every wednesday night i'm at home yelling FOUR MORE SHOWS! FOUR MORE SHOWS!

I remember Jon Solomon shaving Chester's hair during a fundraiser.

I am wrapped in silence yet...

Yea, can't get FM here.

Not GOOD FM

Can someone do descriptive text here in the chat?

FWIW, I am presently telling a story about nuclear war interrupting a WPRB staff meeting.

Higher power output is required for graphics.

WPRB in EMP mode? I hope this is a drill!

FM quality is good here in King of Prussia.

You do the best essay like stories ever Mike. Please do go on.

I'm still amazed that KoP gets WPRB perfectly clear

I was driving back from Ithaca on Saturday and WPRB came in shockingly clear in the Delaware Water Gap!

Yoo Colin

@Jon, I had the same experience afeter coming across the GW Bridge into NJ.

Really??

I lose the signal before I even get through Woodbridge

I just walked into the house where my wife and daughter are watching the end of North by Northwest and I must say that one of my top fears in life is that someday, I will be hanging onto the edge of a cliff over a landscape of jagged rocks, and some bad guy will come alog and step on my knuckles, causing me to fall.

Sometimes the FM goes out suddenly or gets weak really fast, then it's good again.

I have a 4 element yagi pointed at Princeton, too.

Stepped on knuckles by bad guys. The worst!

@ Andy, yagi's are really good in the right alignment. Interesting.

On the towers I hope.

Not Princeton.

OK, I've moved inside. Starlite Lounge heater not pulling its weight tonight. Did Johnny Thunders just use a stupid slur?

🌠🌟⭐

Could not hear it from hear. So no. The Fcc will file that one.

OMG! Look at the time!

The FCC only cares about sexually explicit things and lower body excretions. Epithets? They're just like "meh".

AIR RAAAAIIIDDD!!!

Thanks for the impromptu Mike. Spot on sir! I hope they give up the burka thing some day.

i was afk, but i heard it! never thought i'd ever hear that remix again!

10th, FFS.

Deja vuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

Yes, there's a bit of that going around tonight.

Jimbo, thank you for shaking me back on duty while I wait for the engineer to text me back. I'm sittiing on the couch, half passed out, My wife is playing The Witcher. Today has been quite the shitshow.

Hey, all that mix hardware material and just a laptop in the video stream?!? Okay. Silly me. Wow.

Sorry to hear that...we will all just love wprb even more after the interregnum. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Or was that absinthe...

Starlite Lounge studio hardware includes: two Audio Technica turntables, one Mackie mixer, one laptop, one external monitor, two SM-58 microphones, one Denon cassette deck, two M-Audio studio monitors, and two shitty folding tables.

...and a lava lamp.

and a partridge in a pear tree

I have a soft spot for shitty folding tables.

Lava lamp! lol

OK, if we're counting "peripherals", throw on two tatty strings of Christmas lights and a hokey "On The Air" neon sign... probably the same one that racist doof podcast hosts have.

It's how ya use it!

Isn't it time to deploy the emergency broadcast vehicle? https://carro-de-som-igor-promocoes-e-eventos.negocio.site/

@Jimbo, I worked for the VA and we had one. lol

I was thinking more this: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b919672b98a78856a56596c/1537908324923-TCYL8VHDYNETOB9VRVTG/dubshop.jpg

You guys!

Chill rnb

This: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/525795325223921047/

WOULD BUY

Sweet! Brown note thunder.

Had I known a rebroadcast with a new live chat was happening I woulda been tempted to go back to last weeks chat and copy pasted all my dumb comments at the appropriate times.

Ya got 51 minutes left DSM!

tis true, lemme go see what brilliance I was on about...

Funny, Revolver is the ONLY Beatles record I have!

I have lots of dumb shit, but I never look back.

looks like I disappeared after 9:42 last week, so I'm off the hook for this gag

9:42? Weird WFMU coincidence?

I always forget to check wfmu

I do like me some Garbage Time tho

Oh DSM, let me tell you about Google and the preserved electro. Waiting for that EMP myself.

I wish I could even pretend to know what that all means lol

Was that a hit of audio bending the stream Mike? LOL You the man. Don't crash it.

I'm on the phone with the engineer. Stand by for an update.

👁👁

Always on top man. Thanks. We do appreciate your commitment.

Welp, the news ain't great. Problems are ongoing, which means some schedule changeups for the next 24 hours. Tim K is in for Paige at 11 when this mess ends. At 3 AM, it'll be a rebroadcast of Lost in Time and Sludge. Then tomorrow at 7 AM, it'll be a rebroadcast of Buskirk;s show from earlier today in place of Marvin's live show. That buys us until 3 PM tomorrow to figure shit out in time for Captain Ahab, Solomon, myself, and TB to get back to live broadcasting on Wednesday.

Much thanks for all your efforts!

It's a labor of lurve, for sure.

Total heads up. Thank you. Just love what you do.

Tomorrow's Freeform Pathogen may be a live broacast from the parking lot of Quakerbridge Mall.

for real? hahahaha

The issues indeed sound very stressful but your comment about the parking lot got a chortle out of me

Lets go full on Tiffany. I mea\n why not? lol

yessss

Funkadelic... lol Not even going to question that one.

Unsafe with a candle, but nice in 2023.

Thank you for the time travel and your hard work, Mike and Engineer!

🔥⭐🟡🟠🔴 and round 2 tomorrow

That's the spirit!

Just broadcast live from the DMV! Thanks Mike...you got this.

Have the best night Mike, thanks.Sleep well.

My big radio goal is to do an entire show from inside of a moving vehicle. I dreamed this up during the Dr. Cosmo days, maybe it'll finally happen?

Thanks to you all for hangin' through a moldy oldie rerun!

Stay tuned for Tim.

I wanna see the atenna van in the neighborhood. :)

G'nite

Captain Midnight special?

Still waiting for Stacy Peralta's lawyers to come after me for stealing this outro music.

😶‍🌫️

Lawyers never sleep.

8:04 PM		Digable Planets Blowing Down Blowout Comb Pendulum Records 1994
8:09 PM		The Winston Brothers Metering N Drift Colemine Records 2022
8:12 PM		Funkadelic Who Says a Funk Band Can't Play Rock?! One Nation Under a Groove Charly 1978
8:18 PM		Bad Brains Right Brigade Bad Brains ROIR 1982 Amazing this was a cassette-only release until ... 1989!
8:20 PM		The Bellrays Too Many Houses in Here Grand Fury Uppercut 2000
8:24 PM		Class Light Switch Tripper N Epoca de Los Vaqueros Feel It Records 2022
8:28 PM		The Vertebrats Left in the Dark Battle of the Garages V/A Voxx 1981
8:31 PM		Daryl Hall & John Oates Adult Education Rock 'N Soul, Pt. 1 RCA 1983
8:36 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
8:47 PM		Big Blood Reproduce & Get Dirty The Daughters Union Feeding Tube 2017
8:54 PM		Pain Teens The Basement Born in Blood Trance Syndicate 1990
8:57 PM		Fuckwolf Rock Song #1 N Goodbye, Asshole Silver Current 2022
9:01 PM		The Plugz Blue Sofa Better Luck Fatima 1981
9:06 PM		Bon Enfant L'amour à sens unique Diorama Duprince 2021
9:11 PM		Johnny Thunders London Boys So Alone Real 1978
9:13 PM		The Pointer Sisters Pinball Number Count This Record Belongs To V/A Light in the Attic 2015 RIP Anita Pointer
9:16 PM		The Specials Man At C&A More Specials LP Two Tone 1980 RIP Terry Hall
9:20 PM		The Specials Blank Expression The Specials Two Tone 1979 RIP Terry Hall
9:23 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
9:30 PM		Marty Robbins The Master's Call Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs Columbia/Legacy 1958
9:33 PM		Joseph Decosimo Man of Constant Sorrow N While You Were Slumbering Sleepy Cat Records 2022 (Traditional)
9:37 PM		Terry Allen & the Panhandle Mystery Band Gimme a Ride to Heaven Boy Bloodlines Paradise of Bachelors 1983
9:42 PM		Spacemen 3 Walkin' with Jesus The Perfect Prescription Glass 1987
9:47 PM		Farid Al Atrache Aalachane Maliche Gheirak Nagham Fi Hayati Voice of Lebanon 1974 Syrian-Egyptian actor and composer. This song is from the soundtrack of the final film he starred in before he died.
9:56 PM		Lava La Rue Don't Trip N Hi-Fidelity - EP Marathon Artists 2022
9:59 PM		Bhajan Bhoy Kosmos Klub N Shanti Shanti Shanti (Cassette) 2022
10:01 PM		Homeboy Sandman Radiator N Still Champion Mello Music Group 2022
10:06 PM		The Beatles Tomorrow Never Knows Revolver Parlophone 1966
10:08 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:16 PM		Pell Mell Week of Fire The Bumper Crop SST 1987
10:22 PM		The Royal Arctic Institute The Elated World N From Coma to Catharsis Already Dead 2022
10:25 PM		Scenic Sage Sage - EP Independent Project Records 1996
10:29 PM		Myriam Gendron C'est Dans Les Vieux Pays (feat. Bill Nace) Ma délire - Songs of Love, Lost & Found Feeding Tube 2021
10:35 PM		Jovan Karcic Sundown N Ohiofornia 2022
10:39 PM		The Edgar Broughton Band Hotel Room 7" Harvest 1971
10:43 PM		Grover Washington, Jr. Mr. Magic Live at the Bijou 2xLP Kudu 1977
10:56 PM		Leonard Cohen Bird On a Wire Songs from a Room Columbia Nashville 1969

WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

New Jersey's Only Radio Station

The Freeform Pathogen

Sweep the Leg, Eurydice!

This is a rebroadcast of last Wednesday's edition of the Freeform Pathogen. Our streams are still down, but the chat is OPEN.

Click below for the Starlite Lounge webcam, or use this link to pop it out in a new tab.

WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

New Jersey's Only Radio Station

The Freeform Pathogen

Sweep the Leg, Eurydice!

This is a rebroadcast of last Wednesday's edition of the Freeform Pathogen. Our streams are still down, but the chat is OPEN.Click below for the Starlite Lounge webcam, or use this link to pop it out in a new tab.

This is a rebroadcast of last Wednesday's edition of the Freeform Pathogen. Our streams are still down, but the chat is OPEN.

Click below for the Starlite Lounge webcam, or use this link to pop it out in a new tab.