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Habitat Enrichment

Feb 20, 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!

cold in here

Happy Black History Month!

9:59 AM		Lea Roberts All Right Now We Came To Funk You Out: Disco From the United Artists Label Parlophone UK 2009
10:03 AM		Otis Redding That's How Strong My Love Is Love Songs Rhino 1998
10:08 AM		Kadhja Bonet Thoughts Around Tea Childqueen Fat Possum 2018
10:10 AM		Mavis Staples Chance on Me We Get By Anti/Epitaph 2019
10:13 AM		Allison Russell Snakelife Outside Child happy year of the snake
10:18 AM		20th Century Steel Band Land of 1000 Dances Warm Heart Cold Steel Parlophone UK 2009
10:28 AM		N.C.C.U. Washing Machine We Came To Funk You Out: Disco From the United Artists Label Parlophone UK 2009
10:35 AM		Rose Royce Car Wash Car Wash Goldenlane 2007
10:40 AM		Nihiloxica Kudistro Source of Denial Crammed Discs 2023
10:43 AM		L’Rain Love Her Fatigue Mexican Summer 2021
10:44 AM		Gizelle Smith Hey Romeo Ruthless Day Jalapeno Records 2018 Habitat Enrichment album cover of the week
10:46 AM		Shirley Ellis Whisper to Me Wind The Name Game Geffen 1965
10:52 AM		Nina Simone wild is the wind Wild Is The Wind Verve 2013
10:55 AM		Jon Baptiste Waldstein Wobble Beethoven Blues
11:01 AM		Buddy Guy Country Man Feels Like Rain Silvertone 1993
11:07 AM		Joya Mooi Open Hearts N Open Hearts - EP Unity Records 2024
11:15 AM		The Five Satins In the Still of the Night (Take 2) Golden Oldies (Remastered) Essential Media Group 2010
11:16 AM		The Five Satins In the Still of the Night (take six) this one has a reminder about an ending, lovely to be able to listen in to a recording session of such a legendary group
11:19 AM		Lianne La Havas Green & Gold Blood Nonesuch 2015
11:24 AM		Exuma The Vision Exuma, The Obeah Man Mercury Records 1970
11:32 AM		Mort Garson & Captain DJ Disco UFO (Pt I) Disco UFO - Single Sacred Bones Records 2023
11:38 AM		Mort Garson & Captain DJ Disco UFO (Pt II) Disco UFO - Single Sacred Bones Records 2023
11:40 AM		Dr Meaker & Terri Walker Distant City Distant City - Single Flightcase Recordings 2024
11:44 AM		Doris Duke He's Gone I'm a Loser (Remastered) Essential Media Group 2013
11:50 AM		André 3000 I swear, I Really Wanted To Make A "Rap" Album But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time New Blue Sun Epic 2023

Chat is archived.

good morning

Almost all the music played today is from artists I've played in 2024!

Good morning, Krista!

good morning, Danosaur

Greetings from Bryon and Boyd

Good morning, Krista & Danosaur!

Good morning Krista & chat

I like Stash Earl Grey but wasn't crazy about the Twinnings Earl Grey in bags.

hello everyone! happy to have a robust chat. I have completely stopped using tea bags. I was always a loose leaf person but since I read about the microplastics in tea bags I've stopped

I do like the Twinnings Irish Breakfast tea

After Twinings my favorite is a funky earl grey from Sullivan Street Tea, which was such a good little shop to stop into after a freezing walk on the canal trail

I wonder what percentage of our bodies is now plastic given the ubiquity of microplastics

I know, Danosaur. My entire childhood I ate and drank out of plastic, not to mention all the plastic clothes

Are we evolving into life-size Barbie and Ken dolls?

I am trying hard to reduce my plastic use but it's very difficult to avoid

if that means I get to be a microbiologist, the president, and a mermaid, I'm in

Haha!

And you get to drive a pink Corvette

I'm contemplating my next tea purchase, which I do entirely by vibes if I'm not there to smell it

Yunnan Foxtail vs Ceylon Seafarer vs Iron Goddess Of Mercy vs White Lightning

I do like Stash chai tea

White Lightning sounds like it will get you going

but will it impart the deviousness I need just to get through the day

deviosity?

Moonshiners were pretty devious

I don't know how to make it but I've always wanted to learn to make hard liquor

My cousins used to make strong blackberry brandy from blackcap berries

Sounds good

it was, tasted like heaven

Ooh, Land of a Thousand Dances on steel drums!

I picked up this album entirely on the name of the album

Bold name for a steel drum band

warm heart cold steel, if that's a romance novel I'm immediately checking it out from the library

it's about a sexy steelworker, i know that much

I recently read a romance novel for the first time and was surprised by hope racy it was with the intimate scenes.

*how

The steelworker wears overalls with no shirt and a hardhat

Like steel toe rubber boots

I think you're confusing steelwork with a simpsons episode, ossy and danosaur

Haha, just came in and caught steel worker industrial construction yadayada lol

lol that's also part of this romance novel

but now it's time to dance to washing machine

Enjoying that guitar riff

The video for this song would definitely take place in a funky laundromat

I recently had to use a local laundromat and it looked as if it were transported from the 1980's. All teal and pink inside.

I love laundromats, most of my adulthood I've done laundry at the laundromat. the ones with arcade machines are my favorite

Man, this is a good song. What a groove

A funky laundromat where sexy steelworkers wash their clothes

@Amy Lee Haha!

that's the industrial machine group in the back with instructions on how to remove oil and steel dust and solder from clothing

Behind the beaded curtain

Now feel like listening to Rose Royce Car Wash

you got it, Ossy

I love carwashes

When going in a carwash, I pretend to be in a scary water ride rollercoaster LOOOOOL

And this also feels like Staples Singers

Do you throw your hands up in the air, Ossy?

"the boss don't mind if sometimes you act a fool" - the essence of a good workplace in my opinion. I gotta be goofy sometimes

Agree

it's why I'm good at childcare and dog grooming, dogs and kids love goofy behavior

Here we goooo! Picked up this album in a thrift store as a kid and played it over and over ad nauseum

I love it, Li Maria.

this is another good one to dance to

Lost your connection. Funky drummer.

Back now. 30 second outage.

Off again.

Danousaur - that's a song from Staple Singers "hands in the air"?

Kris for earlier - totally cute! Child and dog care

This is for the guitar enjoyers

Baptiste was for the pianists and the slackjaw piano listeners (me, I'm astounded by it, love watching it)

"green as a pool table" is a great line

@Ossy I was talking about treating the car wash like a thrill ride. Putting your hands in the air like you do on a roller coaster

when in the carwash/you are with ms frizzle now/squelching through the guts

All the Log flume experience and none of the wait times. ;)

Good morning!

every time I've ever had my picture taken on a roller coaster there's true terror in my eyes

my son Meyer lost his tooth on the upside down corkscrew rollercoaster in Wildwood last summer

The Sea Serpent

Nothing says fun like a look of horror.

well, someone's gotta take the 7 year old, haha. I got stuck on a corkscrew coaster at Valleyfair in Minnesota

thankgod not upside down, just on the hill

@Krista I have a picture like that from The Tower of Terror at Disneyland. Grimacing

Shoo do! Shoo be do!

OMG, now that's terrifying. Just this week people were stuck on a ride on their backs for like an hour. No fun.

now think about if O s H a regulations go away

here's a song about the Packers

Being stuck on a roller coaster would be horrible

Don't worry, Krista. Businesses would never be greedy and cut corners at the expense of their customer's safety. Who needs regulations?

Now that's scary. When we are getting to the point where no one answers a 911 call, this whole thing is lost, because people who get super rich here decide they don't like to pay taxes.

I'm just gonna have to start reading The Jungle on the radio

This is a great song, I really enjoy Lianne La Havas

The house where Upton Sinclair lived is about a mile from where I live oddly enough

@Danosaur I'm less than a mile from Poe's house. Scary is back baby!

Some people seem to have forgotten that many of the things we take for granted like worker's rights, food safety and the lack of diseases like polio, TB, and measles are all things that didn't come about naturally but people fought for.

@Roffle Nice! Can you hear the heartbeat from the floor boards?

Of course Danosaur! lol Actually, I do hear quite a bit of spooky things hear in this part of Philly and it's one of the safest parts of town. :)

"they said they had to have a dj and it had to be me" take it up hiiiiigggghhhhhhhhh

science has proven the drones are 110% disco ufos ...............🛸

I don't like this part tho "it's a planetary war, no holds barred"

They sent out a warning here after the fires to warn people there would be drones checking out the power lines so people wouldn't freak out.

are the drone pilots IBEW

they should join, I'm just saying

This is the best worst song ever. Ever.

I'm all for submitting to our interplanetary disco overlords

*traction ray*

👽 UNION NOW 👽

What holds are used in an interplanetary war?

interplanetary DISCO war, danosaur

Aah, now that's different

The dreaded nebula gas hold!

Take me to your habitat

Heya. Sounds like I tuned in to an absolute jammer

I'm happy to see that my curse is still very much active

Now this is a banger.

danosaur for earlier - oh hahaha at times in the carwash and kris, oooo ms frizzle is a badass cute quirky gal, I watched some magic school bus episodes, espeically when they toured inside that one ginger hair boy that looks like an older version of Chuckie (Rugrats)

Thanks for sharing tunes this morning Krista, and thanks y'all for yet another good reason to not get a season pass to Six Flags.

andre 3000 gotta a classic caartoon network series based on himself and teaching a group of musical students called "class of 3000"..which is sadly short lived

I didn't know that, Ossy.

yeah, the music there are fire light tight and in the 2000s also

..great job, thanks for the musics..