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Habitat Enrichment

May 1, 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!

All Hail The First of May

10:01 AM		Rocío Dúrcal Diferentes Amor Eterno Ariola 1984
10:04 AM		Jackie Oates Hail! Hail! The First of May The Spyglass & the Herringbone ECC Records 2015
10:09 AM		Ros Serey Sothea កាលពីក្មេង Ros Serey Sothea The Cambodian Vintage Music Archive, Inc. 2022
10:11 AM		Angel Olsen Swimming N Cosmic Waves Volume 1 Jagjaguwar 2024
10:19 AM		Nick Drake Mayfair (Cambridge Version) Digital Box Set Island Records 2010
10:20 AM		Bubbles and the Shitrockers Standing On The Shoulders Of Kitties N Longhauler Royal Punks 2024
10:26 AM		The Mar-Keys Philly Dog Back to Back Rhino/Elektra 2004
10:30 AM		Khánh Ly Mùa Đông Binh Sĩ Băng Nhạc Shotguns 12 (Tiếng Hát Khánh Ly) Shotguns Band 1990
10:35 AM		Mary Wells Was It Worth It Two Lovers - The Best of Mary Wells AP Digital 2013
10:42 AM		Buck Truck Elvis Once Drove A Truck Road Music 3 - 20 Truckin' Favorites Gusto Records 1990
10:43 AM		Ween Big Jilm (Live) At the Cat's Cradle, 1992 (Live) Chocodog Records 2008
10:46 AM		Chico Leverett Work, Work
10:48 AM		Luke Doucet & The White Falcon Long Haul Driver Blood's Too Rich Warner Music Canada 2008
10:50 AM		Joshua Ray Walker Lot Lizard Wish You Were Here Joshua Ray Walker 2023
10:58 AM		Claude Debussy Elegie
11:03 AM		god mother disney jail
11:03 AM		Mark Lanegan Hit the City (feat. PJ Harvey) Bubblegum Beggars Banquet 2004
11:06 AM		The T.S.U. Toronadoes Play the Music Tornados The Complete Stax / Volt Soul Singles, Vol. 2: 1968-1971 Stax 1993
11:20 AM		Triumphs Burnt Biscuits
11:21 AM		Ray Wylie Hubbard Kilowatts Snake Farm Bordello Records 2006
11:24 AM		Mali Obomsawin, Magdalena Abrego & Deerlady There, There
11:28 AM		Perturbator The Art of War N The Art of War - Single 2025
11:31 AM		Sol ChYld Save Yourself For the Sol Sol ChYld 2019
11:36 AM		Otis Spann Must Have Been the Devil Otis Spann - from the Archives (Remastered) Essential Media Group 2009
11:40 AM		Carlos Beltran Cuentos Y Relatos Del Pais De Las Nieves II
11:44 AM		. -Plasma Shells- Attack Mode - EP HVRF CENTRAL COMMAND 2016
11:47 AM		Brittney Carter Running (feat. Oliv Blu) As I Am Brittney Carter 2022
11:49 AM		Pong Preeda Mekong Girl
11:51 AM		Pop Staples, Albert King & Steve Cropper Tupelo (Pt. 1) The Complete Stax / Volt Soul Singles, Vol. 2: 1968-1971 Stax 1993
11:57 AM		Sally Anne Morgan I Saw a Heron N I Saw a Heron - Single 2025
12:01 PM		Dobet Gnahoré Kômou Bébé N Zouzou Cumbancha 2024

Chat is archived.

good morning

Happy May Day, Krista!

thanks, TAndy

i miss leaving may baskets at people's doors and then running away

Hi Krista was there a Nick Drake in there somewhere....?

Singing? AND Dancing!!??? Could lead to games of chance. Better nip that in the bud.

generosity without expectation of return?? that sounds awfully close to solidarity to me!

Yup. Just like a Philly dog!

(... cats are awesome too)

last summer during one of the hottest days of the year we took a walk and saw only Philly's most heat resistant dogs out and about. It was a parade of greyhounds, whippets and Salukis

we even saw a Xolo out! fabulous Philly dog!

Bernie Doodles are the rock stars. They have a strut. Get all kinds of fans seeking autographs.

the poodle being mixed with all kinds of breeds always cracks me up. I loved the money they brought me as a dog groomer and the poodle genes would sometimes turn normally dimwitted breeds into unexpected geniuses. My favorite was a Pure Evil Dachsund Doodle who decided on sight a person's vibes and could not be dissuaded. He liked me, thankfully, but his owner had to pay a premium for him to be alone in the salon because of his bloodthirst.

WEEN! Big Jilm

oh yeeeahhhhhh BIG JILM!!

boss level dj fade out brought to by, ain't gonna catch me fcc!!

1 of the few times I watched People's Court w/Judge Wapner way back when had a case where one big dog owner was seeking compensation from a neighbor with adjoining chain link fence who had a male Chihuahua. The big dog owner had video cam footage (headphones kids) of the Chihuahua with an impressive acrobatic upside down handstand approach who successfully made contact with his big dog mate on the other side of the chain link fence. Impressive flexible skills.

Compensation to help with the big dog's litter that is.

LOL Brian, never underestimate a Chihuahua

@ Krista (host) I just loved your personal history of May baskets. It certainly seems a tradition as ancient as the May pole. Speaking of which ... my Mom used to tell me that as a schoolgirl in north-central NJ (this would be mid-1920s) they always had a May pole, danced around it, and sang this song: "Spring is here, the earth rejoices/ Mature runs with smiles to greet her? Happy Spring! Happy Spring!" Alas, I've never been able to find that ditty and its history despite much google-ing. ;-))

Was there another song after MarKeys about working in a (somewhere...)???

ah, yes, Brian that was Chico Leverett. Work, Work.

@Krista Poodles are too smart for their own good ;)

Good old profession

No, a pocketbook is a purse

Billfold is a wallet yes but it sounds like something a grand or great grand parent would say yes

I have never heard such a thing. That Delco place is strange. Pocketbook is a purse. Nope

To my Lehigh Valley relatives, a pocketbook was always a purse. Midwesterners are weird. They probably called soda "pop"

not probably, bud, definitely

better than Woder

Thank you Bud. Pocketbook = purse is the main percentage accepted meaning. Disregard that Delco nonsense Krista.

It's pop, not soda, bud

Philadelphia is the birthplace of America. Therefore, my Philadelphia accent is standard American English. It's pronounced "wooder."

Relatives from the midwest and from western Pennsylvania all called a purse a pocketbook. None thought it strange

I had zero idea what a pocketbook was at all

Yeah it is a misnomer of sorts. Not a book. It may have pockets yes. Pocket bag more like

@ Brian D Yes, same here in old NJ useage, pocket book = purse. Billfold, definitely = wallet.

Billfold at least makes sense - it has folded bills in it. I've honestly never understood how "pocketbook" came to mean "purse."

Now on another front... the product name Trapper Keeper from Mead. That was well named for function/purpose

I always wanted the Lisa Frank one but by the time I had Lisa Frank money after working the summer on the farm, Lisa Frank was no longer in

Read an article that mentioned that product recently. The often told tale of someone that had their idea stolen by another person.

Found this somewhat unsatisfying etymology: 1610s, originally a small book meant to be carried in one's pocket, from pocket (n.) + book (n.). Meaning "a flexible booklike leather folder for papers, bills, etc." is from 1722. Meaning "a woman's purse" is from 1816.

It wasn't just about the Trapper Keeper from what I recall on that article... the person that laid claim to the idea and took credit basically had some sociopathic or whatever trait where he just appropriated stories, lives, ideas, tales from other peoples' lives around him especially work related people.

A pocketbook is the perfect thing for carrying pop.

pop it book... re-seal the cap well lest ye get yer bills all stuck w sugar water

@ Bud Burroughs That "pocketbook" etymology rings true to me, thanks.

Richard Thompson's 1000 Years of Popular Music starts off with the old billboard chart buster "Sumer is icumen in" from the mid 13th century

Hii

https://youtu.be/4WI_xaEtcLk?si=QF4uym8NJYDaxZI3

https://youtu.be/luuiGBwUvxw?si=PL77KclWVHf7KpAf

Summer tracks 😈

Often mistakenly called "large male mosquitos", the mayflies. Big ol framework construction. Impressive structure the mayfly body.

Cranefly too ... they get mistakenly called mosquitos

I haven't managed to convince my wife that they aren't "big mosquitos." :)

thanks tb!

Another great 3 named writer

Hi Krista, digging this Perturbator. It makes want to outside and do some yard work.

And a quick Delco question. I knew you’ve mentioned your husband is from Philly but curious what part. I’m Delco first 10 years of my life, Drexel Hill.

Hey John, he moved around a lot, Media- Flint- University City. His mom is from South Philly and his parents live in the graduate hospital neighborhood

Thanks Krista, University City for me since 1987. And shopping Baltimore Pike in Delco all this time too.

Great take on the John Lee Hooker classic Tupelo.