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Habitat Enrichment

Jan 23, 2025 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Music

With Krista

Habitat Enrichment is the concept of introducing novelty to an animal's enclosure to keep it from getting bored or sad. Let me play you something fun. Genres span world and time, just like a cat with a box to play in.

Some specialties you can usually hear a little on my show: Luk Thuong, 60s crooners, cow punk, and synthwave. If you don't like the song currently playing, wait approximately 2 minutes for something else!

ahhhhhh it's 10 am

I've got a couple raging songs about Neptune and then we'll go from there

10:02 AM		Charlotte Mundy & Christopher Goddard The Night Is Freezing Fast Connie's Piano Songs Monkey Farm 2014
10:06 AM		Silkroad Ensemble & Rhiannon Giddens Wíhaŋblapi Mázačhaŋku N American Railroad Nonesuch 2024
10:07 AM		Aqyila Limbo N Limbo - Single Sony Music Canada 2024
10:12 AM		Luis Bacalov Motorcycle circus Summertime Killer EMI GEM 1972
10:15 AM		Pixies Mr. Grieves Doolittle 4AD 1989
10:18 AM		Pyrex Neptune S/T Total Punk 2023
10:26 AM		Judas Priest Electric Eye Screaming for Vengeance (Bonus Track Version) Columbia 2001
10:28 AM		Creep Hyp Song 2
10:34 AM		Dax Riggs Even The Stars Fall N 7 Songs For Spiders Bright Shadow 2024
10:37 AM		Steve Earle Hillbilly Highway Guitar Town MCA Nashville 2016
10:43 AM		Cisco Houston Tying a Knot In the Devil's Tail 900 Miles and Other R.R. Songs Folkways Records 1953
10:47 AM		Itokazu Kame Hatoma-bushi (Okinawa, Japan) Excavated Shellac: An Alternate History of the World's Music (1907-1967) Dust-to-Digital 2023
10:57 AM		Susumu Yokota Pegasus 150 Wonder Waltz Lo Recordings 2006
11:02 AM		Shilpa Ray Portrait Of A Cat Lady N Portrait Of A Cat Lady - Single 2025
11:06 AM		Minnie Riperton Oh, By the Way Come to My Garden CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92) 1970
11:14 AM		Duke Ellington I'm Afraid (Of Loving You Too Much) An Intimate Piano Session Storyville Records 2017
11:15 AM		LOUISE & The Harmaleighs Poor Timing N Tv Dating Show Haha Louise 2024
11:18 AM		Virginia Magidou To Skoutari Giati Glyko Mou Sweet Heart (Greeks in USA) [1927-1950 78 RPM Recordings) Vintage Music gr 2013
11:22 AM		Marlon Williams Aua Atu Rā N Te Whare Tīwekaweka 2025
11:22 AM		John Grant It's a Bitch N The Art of the Lie Bella Union 2024
11:28 AM		Molly Tuttle You Didn't Call My Name Rise Compass Records 2017
11:32 AM		Widowspeak Even True Love Plum Captured Tracks 2020
11:47 AM		Einstürzende Neubauten Sonnenbarke Silence Is Sexy Potomak
11:53 AM		Inngiusituqait Uquutalluu Tallimalluu Traditional Inuit Songs From Kinngait, Nunavut (Canada), Pt. 1 Hitmakerz 2021
11:54 AM		Kim Deal Crystal Breath N Nobody Loves You More 4AD 2024
11:58 AM		Leonard Cohen It's Torn Thanks for the Dance Columbia/Legacy 2019

Chat is archived.

good morning

ohai

Good Morning!!

good morning, Harry and TAndy

I was wondering when habitat was gonna be on. does 10am feel like the night shift?

it does today, I was at the ER all night last night with my 1 year old baby. She's got a nasty cold and had to get steroids, nebulizer, etc so today I'm running on fumes

oh no!! sending good juju to the kiddo.

thanks Colin, she's doing well now and back to her cheery self

Oh no! I hope your 1 yo feels better soon!!

Loving the new time slot. We always lamented when Habitat Enrichment ended at 10am, just when we open for business. Our customers are gonna love it, whether they like it or not. Hope everything is cool with your child.

Thanks everyone, she has perked up! I'm grateful to have good healthcare nearby even as rural as I am

Rivie the baby really loves dancing to House Of Skulls so she must be feeling great

JUDAS PRIEST!

a bit of an ouch without the Hellion intro but oh well

this one's off Screaming for Vengeance, is there a different intro? I just have this CD

The Hellion is the track before it. The 2 are always performed as one and played on radio as one usually

@ Krista (host) Much health to your little one and happiness/calm to her mom.

Without it, it sounds like a harsh cut it because of the way the segued the 2 tracks without any silence between them

Read one of Rob Halford's books last year. Gotta read the other one sometime. He spins a good yarn. Such a powerful lead singer.

I'll make a note on the cd, Brian, good advice

Ya ever since that lp those 2 were the main set openers for their shows. Very classic intro to set the stage

my first memory of them is the subliminal messages trial in the early 1990s

I was very young and the TV made crazy claims that they could hypnotize people into doing crimes and I thought even then, "that sounds awesome"

So sad that actually went to trial and Rob had to go on the stand and sing (really belted out the words on mic on the witness stand!!) just because of misguided , brainwashed people. He (like many singers over the decades) would take in a quick rush of breath before a line. Somehow that whooshhhh of breath played backwards with a snippet of word or 2 sounded like something to these nuts. Sad.

The idea that a band would promote itself by wanting its own fans to harm themselves or worse is a strange promotion tactic. And to mask it backwards with a rush of breath backwards.... whew. Bands are probably more concerned with playing, planning tours, recording, flying, riding in buses, eating, sleeping, living their livest etc.

the whole idea that people can be subliminally influenced to do things is total nonsense. Now that i'm reading about the trial as an adult it was a total literal witch hunt

People in denial and confusion when maybe all that was needed was listening to their kids, nurturing their kids, reaching out to their kids etc etc... Nope, blame the freaky rock band types, not oneselves

never blame the restrictive, shame based upbringing. blame rock music!!!

Good morning! Wow, what a story about the horse and the snake. I just had a dream last night about a baby snake being torn to shreds and consumed mid-air by a swarm of wasps

Slick visited you in your dreams, Li Maria

Dammit I missed the 1st hour. Glad for the move

morning kris

and yes from last week, enjoy hunter rubber boots when rainy spring comes, haha

@Krista--Slick sure sounds like he was a pistol!

also Li Maria i hope that's a good omen and not a portent of the year of the snake to come

New Shilpa Ray = 🔥🔥🔥

But really, all Shilpa Ray = 🔥🔥🔥

It's the year of the snake!? In that case, I hope it's a good omen, too

Someone in the band said that if the Manchurian Candidate science fiction trope of subliminal hypnosis was really possible, they certainly wouldn’t make their customers kill themselves. They’d instruct them to buy more Judas Priest records!

hey ossy, bryon, li maria and richard and Mike

After washing a couple of our grey blankets/sheets the other day I made a dryer lint mouse scupture. My wife and I will usually just cup the lint in hands, form it a bit, and show each other, jokingly petting it calling it a mouse. But this one I really stretched out a tail, formed some ears. Nice little guy.

that's adorable, Brian D. My son made a mouse house at first grade and they had to write a story about the mouse. Other children's stories had mice celebrating Christmas or baking cookies. Meyer's mouse faced a series of gruesome accidents "based on real life" because the teacher dropped his mouse on the way to this desk

haha--that one's a keeper @Brian D. I'd prefer that to the real ones I occasionally get in my basement

@David, if only the band Great White had been as wise as Judas Priest.

I always enjoyed the various mouse (And their cousins) books as a kid in the 70s (Stuart..., Frisby & NIMH etc)

Mouse and the Motorcycle was my favorite as a kid

Also, Tucker from George Selden’s “The Cricket in Times Square” and its sequels.

Richard Scarry had some great critters. Set in the urban world and others

of course, Redwall

I've been fixated on making a perfect hot root soup. the recipe I found online doesn't seem very good

As for that Judas Priest trial, is there any doubt the kid who botched his suicide was the inspiration for the character “Arseface” from Garth Ennis’ “Preacher”?

I never read Preacher but Crossed was so viscerally gross that of course I read it all

I don't think I could stomach those comics now that I've had kids (my brain chemistry changed to where I have a hard time watching or seeing violence whereas before that I was a bit jaded from working on the ambulance)

I read Alan Moore’s sequel “Crossed +100”. Well done, but it left me sickened long after reading.

Clydesdale is also the term for a cyclist who's over 200 pounds...The More You Know.

haha omg Newtown Bike Works

I think I weigh that with my 2 kids in the weehoo trailer

they should call me that because I'm the draft horse pulling the kids along

enjoyed the show! till next time

thanks Colin

Thanks for all the music and horse talk, Krista!