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It Is Bot, It Is - with Liz! - Subbing for Tis

Jul 13, 2026 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Music

With Lizbot

A tangy mélange of modern classical composition, rock in opposition, and songs of petition on a free-form mission

It Is Bot, It Is - with Liz! - Subbing for Tis

Lizbot subbing for “It Is What It Is with Tis”

Playing some synthness, some chiptunes and everything else

It Is Bot, It Is - with Liz! - Subbing for Tis

3:04 PM		Pigeon Yagana Yagana - EP Soundway Records Ltd 2021
3:15 PM		Tubeway Army Are 'Friends' Electric? Replicas Beggars Banquet 1979
3:15 PM		The Associates It's Better This Way Billy Mackenzie / Alan Peter Rankine Sulk Beggars Banquet 1982
3:19 PM		MASTER BOOT RECORD 80186 Personal Computer Metal Blade Records 2022
3:22 PM		The Carla Bley Band Walking Batteriewoman Carla Bley Social Studies Watt 1981
3:27 PM		Cheer-Accident Immanence Putting Off Death Cuneiform Records 2017
3:31 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
3:34 PM		Yellow Magic Orchestra Expecting Rivers Naughty Boys Alfa 1983
3:38 PM		Niv Ast I Remember I Remember - EP Correspondant Records 2020
3:43 PM		Michael Peter Olsen Terms of Desertion Michael Peter Olsen Narrative of a Nervous System Hand Drawn Dracula 2023
3:48 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
3:48 PM		Perrey and Kingsley Mister James Bond Incredible Synthesizer Vanguard 1975
3:51 PM		Yellow Magic Orchestra 1000 Knives Ryuichi Sakamoto BGM Alfa 1981
3:56 PM		Ruins Alone Glaschzenck Tatsuya Yoshida Ruins Alone SKiN GRAFT 2011
4:00 PM		Moğollar Çığrık Çığrık / Sıla Yavuz Plak 1972
4:04 PM		Les Rita Mitsouko, Russell Mael & Ginger Ringer Hip Kit Marc & Robert Because Music 1988
4:11 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
4:11 PM		Sparks Music That You Can Dance To Music That You Can Dance To MCA 1986 14th studio album
4:15 PM		Stereo Total Elles te bottent, mes bottes? Baby Ouh! Disko B 2005
4:18 PM		Tones On Tail Go! (Single Edit) Lions / Go! Beggars Banquet 1984 British post-punk band formed in 1982, originally as a musical side project of Daniel Ash of Bauhaus
4:22 PM		James Chance Caravan / It Don't Mean a Thing / Melt Yourself Down Irresistable Impulse Tiger Style Records
4:31 PM		Maximum Joy Do It Today Station M.X.J.Y. Y Records 1981 Founded in 1979 by Janine Rainforth (singer / violin / clarinet) and Tony Wrafter (saxophonist / trumpeter, previously of Glaxo Babies, another Bristol band). Other founder members were Charlie Llewellin (drums, previously of Glaxo Babies), John Waddington (guitar, previously of Pop Group) and Dan Catsis (bass, previously of The Pop Group and Glaxo Babies).
4:36 PM		Miharu Koshi Capricious Salad Parallelisme Alfa 1984
4:40 PM		ComputeHer Strangelove 8-Bit Operators - Tribute To Depeche Mode: Enjoy the Science V/A Receptors Music, Inc. 2014 Depeche Mode cover
4:41 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
4:43 PM		TTC Travailler 36 15 TTC Big Dada (Ninja Tune) 2007
4:46 PM		Flowers Sister Icehouse Chrysalis 1981
4:49 PM		Ruins Equesspaldho Tatsuya Yoshida Ruins Alone Skin Graft 2011
4:52 PM		Uz Jsme Doma Delicatessen Nemilovaný Svět Panton 1991
4:53 PM		Thomas Winter Voulez-vous danser ? Thomas Winter I Hear Voices Record Makers 2002
4:57 PM		Yuzo Koshiro Streets of Rage - Fighting in the Street Yuzo Koshiro Bare Knuckle OST
4:59 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------

Chat is archived.

Hello! It's Lizbot subbing for Tis!

Heck yeah Lizbot in the house!!!!!

Hey TAndy!

The title of today's show is "Bot It Is, with Liz!"

@TAndy - Between college searches with my rising high school senior and visiting a sick relative in Spokane, I missed the station and was happy to jump on this sub for Tis!

omg kidbots a senior! sup Lizbot, sup tandy!

Hello michael gudgeon! Yup, she's practically a lonebot out in the wide world!

Gary Numan is slightly older than Gary Oldman.

Hi Marcus Watt!

@Marcus Watt - Garys defy logic!

@Marcus Watt - To further disrupt the time-space continuum, Gary Young of Pavement is dead

It is bot it is!

Hi Rob Nagle! 'Tis not Tis!

I Was Not Was Tis. 'Tis Liz!

I'll be traveling across the land later this week too, Liz! Heading with my old man to his hometown in Guatemala so I can meet the family :)

My nephew is coming too, and he just graduated! I completely forgot how long the process is, I remember being so nervous during my graduation LOL

@TAndy - Oh wow, that sounds amazing!

@TAndy - My high school made us run through graduation rehearsal SO many times, I felt like that's all we did the entire last month of senior year!

Please try to find Carla and Karen on an episode of Night Music from 1989.

@TAndy - Have you been to Guatemala before? I got to see cousins in Washington State I hadn't seen in decades this past week. Both live in Seattle now but made the trek to Spokane to meet up

I've never been yet! I bet I'll have as much of a good time that you probably had out in Spokane! Such a beautiful area, the PNW.

@Marcus Watt - Oh wow, I am writing that down!

@Marcus Watt - I see it! Bookmarking for later!

TizLizBot?

@TAndy - I am so jealous of the Pacific Northwest's [or in the case of Spokane, the Inland Pacific Northwest's] climate. We had no humidity the whole time! Perfectly dry sunny days!

We'll be out in the country, so a pretty similar vibe to if I went to stay somewhere up in Warren or Sussex counties, or just outside Spokane haha

Hi Justin Szeliga!

@Justin Szeliga - 'Tis! Here subbing for Tis until 5!

@Justin Szeliga - 'Tis Bot!

I looked at the place on Maps to see the geography, INSANE how it sits right between a bunch of wetlands and the mountains. Such a unique place

@TAndy - The place in Guatemala? Sounds incredible! The closest I've been is Quintana Roo, Mexico in the Yucatan Peninsula. Went to a few towns arounds there. It was beautiful! Saw Mayan pyramids. Swam and had incredible fruit! Also saw a coatimundis!

Oh I meant Spokane!

We may head to the highlands the next time we visit, I really want to go to Tikal, though it's a VERY long way even from the city.

@TAndy - Spokane is very beautiful! I mostly remembered the huge evergreens everywhere, it had been so long. I forgot about the waterfalls right in the center of downtown/Riverfront Park where the 1974 World's Fair took place!

@TAndy - How hard it is to get around? I looked into traveling farther inland in the Yucatan, but roads were tricky, so that adds a lot of time

@TAndy - In Costa Rica back in 2019 we did cover a lot of the country, but we gave ourselves a lot of time. We made it down to the Pacific coast in the southern tip of the Osa Peninsula to visit my sister-in-law, who lived in Carate at the time

It looks like a 10-12 hour ride from the city to Tikal. One way cuts ciredtly through the mountains on a narrow road and another goes to the coast and bypasses most mountain roads, all country 2-lane highway not unlike 206 here.

I also saw "Jundt Art Museum" on Spokane Maps for a split second and got excited thinking it said JUNK museum. Old junk museums are awesome lol

@TAndy - Coastal sounds potentially more scenic and maybe less nerve-wracking! Then again, I suppose that road could also have steep sea-cliff drops! There were some pretty scary roads in Costa Rica! I think the scariest I've been on, though, is still the Road to Hana, Maui. There is a car junkyard from all the cars that went off the cliff and they couldn't tow away!

Think about it this way. Eventually enough junked cars will be left for the cliff to no longer be a danger :^)

Oh, it's only 6 hours from my dad's hometown. That's better lol

@TAndy - Agree! I love junk art! Of course Philly's most famous is Isaiah Zagar's Magic Gardens. Other ones I've been to: Randyland in Pittsburgh, Watt Towers in L.A., Cathedral of Junk in Austin - There have got to be more I've seen, I always seek stuff like that out, but those are the first ones that pop to mind!

@TAndy - haha, too much cliff for that! They always tow 'em to this dirt lot on the side of the road, I wish it was on the cliffside, but its inland from that! The road to Hana is the width of one car and it's two-way, so someone is always having to back up very very slowly

Hoping to visit Pittsburgh next summer! Preexisting plans prevented me from finally going this year.

@TAndy - 10-12 hour drive is no joke! I drove on highways in Costa Rica, Mexico and more rural parts of PR and VI, but inland can be pretty dicey road-wise. Not a lot of paved roads

It looks like that for the most part in Guatemala too. Only the major arterial highways coming from the city seem to be paved.

@TAndy - Those Costa Rican dirt roads flood badly in the rainy season. I made sure to go in the dry season! I imagine there's a rainy season in Guatemala as well? Some of the dirt roads in CR just turn into rivers and are a different shape when they dry out!

It is the rainy season now, but the rains seem to be focused mostly on the northern part of the country. The weather pattern in his town seems similar to ours: Dry, sometimes overcast and always humid with bursts of rain for a couple of days at a time.

@TAndy - Bursts of rain sounds about right for that part of the world! We got a lot of humidity in the rainforest, of course. Not a ton of rain while we were there. It was late March 2019.

The road out front from my father's property does flood during heavy rain, but never encroaching much on the property. It's just a gravel road in the woods with a ditch to the side. Again, like if I just went to chill in NNJ lol just no Wawas in sight. Not even a Sh**tz :(

@TAndy - haha, yeah, I appreciate you censoring "Sh88tz"! We don't need that Sh88t in Wawa Country! I passed a few Sh**tz during my Ohio roadtrip a couple weeks ago, but I just drove right on by!

Hahaha! I remembered from our last chat. There's a special comedy in text-censoring innocuous nouns that I'm always happy to contribute to.

What's the consensus on Quick Chek and Royal Farms?

@TAndy - At least there's gravel for traction! I'd straight up slide back down the hill on the crazy steep streets in the hills up past the town of Uvita, CR! Downtown was fine. Got myself some Mama Toucan's lunch. Then tried to drive up to my cabin. NOPE. FOund a local cabbie instead! That ish was BONKERS. Gunning the gas the whole time to not slide rapidly backwards!

@TAndy - I think I've inadvertently used a Quik Chek, and maaaybe a Royal Farms, on road trips, but those I don't view as The Enemy of Wawa! Sheetz seems to exist to come for Wawa and I'm having none of it! Central and West PA back off the Wa!

@TAndy - Major bonus with local cab drivers: Not only do they know the roads and area, the guys in the more remote areas knew no English, so that forced me to practice Spanish a lot! Got a lot of use out of it that trip!

Good afternoon..what a pleasant surprise

Now see I rarely got out of Mercer County as a kid, so I always viewed QC as the direct competitor for Wawa. For a time, they kind of were till the mid 2010s when Wawa officially started its world domination by taking over the rest of NJ beyond central!

I would also trust those local cabbies, especially if they seem like they've worked that job for most of their life.

Hi Carlos Ramone!

@Carlos Ramone - So much travel for my kid's college search, and then visiting relatives in the Pacific Northwest, I missed the station!

@TAndy - Yeah, now Wawas have taken over Florida! For me, in South Jersey, there were quite a lot of Cumberland Farms convenience stores, but mainly Wawa and 711

Summer schedule is always full of surprises..never know who you are going to get

@TAndy - The cabbie that really saved my butt in Uvita was an old farmer who lived in Uvita his whole life and could drive in ANYTHING. He was cool and introduced me to his dog!

@Carlos Ramone - In today's case, I'm subbing for "It Is What It Is with Tis", but I'll be back on air this Thursday from 5-8 PM for Doubleplusgood!

@Carlos Ramone - But then again, summer schedule is often like WPRB's airwaves during student finals: Lots of sub surprises!

Aaaagh I'm so excited to see the country

@TAndy - Sounds amazing! When do you leave for your trip?!

Wawa…both kids live in west coast. A trip east always involves a stop at at a WAWA . Significant others don’t understand the attraction..and I side with them

Thanks for the show and chat Lizbot!! I'm going back out west later this year too, Fresno! But for now, we're leaving early Friday morning :)

@Carlos Ramone - haha, my husband and daughter are the real Wawa addicts in my family!

@TAndy - Thanks for chatting!

Thanks for the porch music…

@TAndy / @Carlos Ramone - I played "Delicatessen" by Uz Jsme Doma in honor of our Wawa/Sheetz discussion!

See you thursday 5-8 PM! Bye everyone!

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