WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

New Jersey's Only Radio Station

WPRB is a community-supported, freeform radio station. Our FM signal (103.3) serves central New Jersey, Philadelphia, eastern PA and the northern tip of Delaware. We reach a global audience at wprb.com.

ELLIOT

Apr 17, 2021 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

With Elliot

Weekly broadcasts from an overeager listener.

Home Broadcast #50: PLEDGE PLEDGE PLEDGE

I'm joined by Krista of Habitat Enrichment tonight! We play some old favorites, and then there's a SURPRISE bonus program starting ca. 7pm!

PLEDGE PLEDGE PLEDGE PLEDGE

pledge.wprb.com

6:01 PM		Charles Pelnar, John Pelnar, Bill Slatky, and Louis Kasal Švestková alej / Prune Song Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937–1946 V/A Dust-to-Digital 2015
6:02 PM		Paul Atreides Arrakis Walk Arrakis Walk / Thinking Machines Going Home 2015
6:07 PM		El Wali The Day of the Free Nation Tiris Sahel Sounds 2019
6:11 PM		Pedro Ruy-Blas La Libertad Luna Llena Polydor 1975
6:15 PM		Anne Briggs Go Your Way Anne Briggs Water 2008
6:26 PM		The RFD Why Do I Feel Alone Lead Me Home Riverman 2007
6:28 PM		Takeshi Terauchi and The Bunnys Moon River The World is Waiting for Terry King Records 2010
6:31 PM		Mukhtar Ramadan Iidi Check Up Your Head Mogadisco: Dancing Mogadishu (Somalia 1972 - 1991) V/A Analog Africa 2019
6:37 PM		Roy Smeck Farewell Blues Roy Smeck Plays Hawaiian Guitar, Banjo, Ukulele and Guitar Yazoo 1992
6:47 PM		The Tammys Egyptian Shumba Egyptian Shumba Jazzman 2013
6:53 PM		Las Trillizas De Oro Pochoclo ¡Chicas! Spanish Female Singers, Volume 2 (1963-1978) V/A Vampi Soul 2015
6:56 PM		Haruomi Hosono 東京Shyness Boy Bon Voyage Co. Panam 1990
7:01 PM		Willis Alan Ramsey Northeast Texas Women Willis Alan Ramsey Shelter Records 1990
7:13 PM		Hank Harral The D.J. Blues Strut My Stuff: Obscure Country & Hillbilly Boppers V/A Modern Harmonic 2019
7:18 PM		Dyckman-James The Kite R Independent Study 1968
7:23 PM		R. Crumb And His Cheap Suit Serenaders Singing In The Bathtub R Singing In the Bathtub Shanachie 1993
7:29 PM		Gang of Four If I Could Keep It For Myself R Solid Gold Warner Bros. 1981
7:39 PM		A Girl Called Eddy Two Hearts R Been Around Elefant Records 2020
7:47 PM		Minuteflag Fetch the Water R Minuteflag SST 1986
7:53 PM		Led Zeppelin In the Light R Physical Graffiti Swan Song 1975

Chat is archived.

Hi everyone! I'm VERY honored to welcome The Legendary Krista to the program tonight

Kicking things off: yet ANOTHER electronic song inspired by Frank Herbert's Dune

sandworm.gif

hi elliot, krista, and dan!

Moa'pledge

whatever happened to Spicy 103.3? I think the spice was Melange

I will turn the inner eye to see the pledge

did someone say KEEP THE SPICE FLOWINNNNNN INTO THE GUMBOOOOO

git 'er Dune!

I think this song is talking about DONORS

Duners

Did anyone read the wacky sequel to the dune series released in 2006?? What the hell, Brian Herbert

Lol i don't want to step on your toes but you just got a donation with an excellent comment.

I refuse to add or subtract any Ls or Ts

anyone have a count on the total pledges?

@elliot host, it's really weird but on my screen, your profile picture is a mirror??

the proof we all needed that Emeril is not, in fact, a vampire

we're (unofficially) past 1033, I believe!

current song is gorgeous:)

awesome!!

hey Mark! I was told to keep things upbeat, but I forgot >.<

haha if that’s the case keep forgetting!

yes im not a vampire today

who needs blood when you have marinara

Too inconvenient when making that sauce with garlic

We're way past 1033, i think 1067 or 68 and i haven't looked for a bit

hell yeah

I'm making it my personal goal to get to 1100 from wherever we are when my show starts

what about 1111

Sure why not!

Emeril, our lives are in your hands

A good looking number

What a great Moon River

Omg emeril i can finally see your photo

Tied for my favorite, I think!

really? i went back to an R for me (for em-R-il)

Bill Orcutt has a very different -- and equally beautiful -- one on one of his recent records

Yep, i couldn't see it when you mentioned it before. Go figure

this song is awesome

the uncropped version of Emeril at the microphone has a real melancholy

https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/LvK5syUevMi0pqTrjKFHznq7AUM=/57x0:966x682/1400x1400/filters:focal(57x0:966x682):format(jpeg)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/47282850/1CkqsLfyNzE1KC2qqwFT72DL9f85P_QAOC9k8seVCpv4.0.0.jpeg

lost in thought

pushing the mic aside to reflect

@elliot: Bill Orcutt doing standards is one of life's rare treats

what do u think i was pondering?

hi, guys!

The ontology of the BAM

happy Saturday, Esoterica!

welcome back for the dinner rush, esoterica

bam-ology

and to you, Elliot!

I've been told that I have ravioli waiting for me at 8pm!

i'm sorry no we 86'd the ravioli. the lunchers ate it UP

maybe I will play a long song and grab a raviolo -- classic DJ trick

every time you think the song is too long, the DJ is DEFINITELY eating something

I wonder if we get enough pledges if Emeril will find some spare ravioli?

(The grammar of that last post is somewhat challenged)

What ... slide guitar....? I am summoned! Love it

stack overflow

pledge.wprb.com: Get Elliot some ravioli!

I had a bottle of '86 Ravioli... it was a great year

Roy Smeck! a true entertainer. if you're still up after WPRB goes to sleep tonight, check out the videos of his performances

or just put them on mute while Krista and I play something else!

Tonight was super thick pork chops from a nice local farm, home made mac n cheese w/shells pasta, broccoli and a bottle of Domaine Bosquet Reserve Malbec blend from Argentina.

And check out his mentor Sol Hoʻopiʻi

The lap steel master of all time

I'm still on my non-alcoholic stout, but the party will start soon enough!

Elliot with Krista is a great combo! Love your shows! Please pledge. You will never get radio like this.

I also had pork tonight, a roast on the charcoal grill and homemade everything bagel season buns

Dan has infected me with his grammar disease

Still advocating for someone to broadcast from inside the cicada bomb that's coming

A local brewery (Free Will) used to make something called a pale stout. And it was exactly and nothing like you would think. So good. They found actual existence of a brew that was named pale stout and they did it justice (i think so anyway).

I will be, Dan

Excellent!

there's a great Radiolab episode about cicada song!

Krista that sounds great ! Love everything bagel climb everything bagel mountain.

somewhere there's a line 'Every 17 years, a deafening sex orchestra hits the East Coast'

the phrase haunts me

I woke Brian up the other morning with a rain forest cicada song

I'll add Free Will to my list! looks right up my alley

Now we will have real, local cicada song

this song is a tribute to Commie Francis

Slack key tuning. Love. I heard a song on Philly folk radio and also maybe John Weingart prb host that was slide gtr acoustic played with a knife.

Oh boy oh boy

Popcorn on 45 record reminds me of indoor recess on rainy days in the 1970s for elementary school. We would dance our butts off

I played egyptian shumba for passover!

As one should!

Blind Willie Johnson played with a knife

The tammys were lou christie's backing singers for a bit

I'm gonna dance the way i feel

Hendrix used a lighter I think in all along the watchtower

off-mic, Krista asked me to connect this song to Herodotus' writing about Egyptian culture in the Histories, but I passed over the chance

wait yeah free will is RIGHT near me (and brian d of course). hugely positive local reputation

suffice to say the Tammys are part of a long tradition

Pat's screaming Clamour Club young women picture looks like what I picture the screaming background singers to be like.

Elliot has clearly fallen into the trap he is warning against

That was wild!

You got it Emeril! I have Kragles in the fridge! C'mon over!

hey hey, Jimbeaux!

elliot how long ago was the radiolab cicada episode ? i can’t wait for the infestation to begin

Emeril doesn't drink much but i do have a mandolin

Coffee pot percolator and popcorn mash up would be nice

they first broadcast it in 2013, but the updated version came out recently, I think!

Mandos are welcome! I have a Dobro, a Martin, several mandos and too many other guitars. My wife only has 2 gongs tho....

Oh snap

2013 was also a big brood, though I was at the epicenter in DC at the time and didn't notice much

how's your kitchen

there are a bunch of news pieces from the time where people seem very upset by the lack of cicadas

ok I’ll be searching for it / smiling at this popcorn version :)

when gershon kingsley died i learned that a lot of people DISLIKE popcorn???

My kitchen smells like pork chops, macaroni and cheese. Well seasoned pans.

the video of people not knowing how to dance to it is a real treasure

do u have shrimp

This version is so killer

In freezer aye

We have clams in our kitchen

there's also a great video of people knowing EXACTLY how to dance to it

But I call it "shrim" in honor of Justin Wilson. And shick-KON for the bird!

The clams we didn't donate to WPRB that is

old school airhorn

Clam or Club

public domain airhorn to avoid lawsuit from Dana K

Club Clamor

haha i haven’t seen justin wilson in forever / u r talking about cajun cooking show ?

Public domain version of Clamor Club

We got our clams from Fishadelphia, a community supported fishery program

did somEONE SAY CAJUN COOKING SHOW

If you're a wprb dj you can add bicycle horn to any sing you want

haha he predated u emeril by decades !

From PBS? Louisiana cookin

&had some funny catch phrases :)

I loved to watch reruns of that show

No shame in the bargain bin!

Remember the days before online playlists?

sitting by the radio with a notepad!

And a cassette recorder!

I thank my predecessors with immense gratitude <3

I used to sit with a notebook and then go to the library to check out what I could find

Yes, the Somerset County Library had an interesting vinyl collection

Endless thanks to Mark from Edison for becoming a sustaining member!

Virtual airhorn for Mark!

PEGGY HILL <3

that's exactly who this song made me think of haha

are there any public libraries in NJ that still let you check out vinyl?

https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/flower/plains-prickly-pear

The cactus native to MN

Those are nice flowers!

wow, NJ has a native cactus, too!

guy fieri likes algorithms >:( emeril loves humans :)

WPRB, NJ's only cactus station?

If you walk around Wildwood, some people have these in their yards!

https://www.jerseyyards.org/plant/opuntia-humifusa/

not to mention sending listeners scurrying to figure out if agave r succulent or cactus !

thats awesome!

Krista is right, for every song we play there’s probably 5 we left behind. It’s gut wrenching every show.

for real though being on the airwaves is accessible and equitable

Someday I'll correctly identify popcorn on command

'you don't ever play anything but corn / sit around all day and toot your horn'

too true, esp. re: Haruomi Hosono

Dang that was some good pitching! Emotional connections made with me!

Being a person without a college degree, just an obsessive music collector, and getting to be on the radio has been amazing. To be valued for who you are rather than what your papers say makes all the difference

I have to return a library book but I want to hear you keep talking! So I’ll sit in the car for a bit...

Shout out to all the awesome listeners who make these chats so much fun!

Sarah, a former DJ from 1999-2004, has just become a donor! our community extends across time and space!

Sending freeform feelings of gratitude to Rutger J! Rutger J can send us requests any time!

Chat has really broken down an invisible wall...i would call in very rarely thinking djs were busy answering phones, twiddling knobs, modulating, alphabetizing, etc.

JB, we are doing those things.

Hi Elliot and Krista, loving the show!

And more

Hey Bo! Glad to see ya!

Sometimes DJ alphabetizing leaves things to be desired when you find things filed in strange places...

You're right about that, Jimbeaux! In the studio I am often flabbergasted by the record player (not my native format, CDs are more my style), pushing buttons, crawling under the desk after the headphones I dropped

@Dan those are the cracks in the archive where the light gets in

Holding the corded phone with my shoulder while cueing tracks makes me feel like the 90s sitcom moms I've always identified with

Doing interpretive dances for DJs on the other side of the studio glass, curating the museum of lost water bottles, etc

The cheap suit serenaders! What a treat, they do a great dreams too. They're two albums

@krista: I once made a passive aggressive sign for the stacks listing out the alphabet... I wonder if it's still there?

They're two albums are a lot of fun, I remember seeing them in New York in a rare appearance at SVA

Hey Sean! This record was totally new to me when Sonny Boy Williamson III brought it up, but I've been playing it all week

WPRB: Forever blowing bubbles in the air

It is so naive but earnestly played and quite infectious

This is so great :))

I often spent an hour after my show alphabetizing the CDs just because I worked too long at the University library not to. Makes me feel really smart to have to say the alphabet under my breath to know where Q is. Seems like it belongs with X and Y

Dan!!!

Shout out to Chip from Northern Liberties, who just donated to WPRB! Chip, can you stop by Yards Brewing and ask why I can't find bottles of ESA anymore?

these request stories are so good

Yep, Tobias...i just imagine old time switchboard operators with noodling patch cords everywhere!

I remember singing in the bathtub from bugs bunny.

I don't want to be hyperbolic but this might be the best Membership Drive show I've heard this week.

HI Bo!

Standing on the shoulders of giants, Jon :')

Don't leave your car! There is a VERY special request coming up next

I'm not gonna lie. 20 year old me was so shocked getting a call from whatever correctional institution that I hung up the first time. The person gamely called back and Gang of Four was the result

Krista please come to my house and alphabetize my cds ! Esecially after these last two weeks 😂

is Dyckman-James under D or J, Krista?

Gee, before right now I had always thought my house was the only place you could hear the cheap suit serenaders followed by gang of four. I should have known better

I am now home with headphones on, but not before telling my wife breathlessly about this show.

@ Jon, I had nothing to do with the making of this great radio programme.

Trying to think of a great request I've received and instead stuck on a person who called me to pretty graphically insult me on Christmas one year, then called back a year later to apologize. Knew it was the same person as soon as I picked up 52 weeks later.

Under D! That's the band name

Jon, that totally feels like reliving one of your xmas stories

(still pretty crappy, though)

It was a Christmas miracle of sorts! They called me a "dirty Jew c-sucker" over the request line and I'm glad I was able to swiftly say "well, you're 2/3 correct" before hanging up shaken.

I did write down and report their phone number to public safety which I think might be why they called back the following marathon...

Yikes!

@Jon!! It was Ebenezer Scrooge! He was visited by ghosts of DJs past

Thankfully 98% of our audience interactions are not like that.

Oh boo wtf Jon

Indeed. It was very, very, very out of character for the request line.

For those who might be curious, WPRB has passed "The Emeril Threshold." The formula for which is...

https://www.wikihow.com/Remove-Tough-Strings-from-Celery

pledge.wprb.com

Total Pledges - Emeril Pledges > 1,033.

!!!!!!!!!!!

hell yeah!

There it is!

BAM

The formula is celery - strings

Jons spreadsheet strikes again

Elliot doesn't tell what he does with cranberries every year. His "drink"

Is it a tea? Is it an essence?

Every year, I impulse-buy a massive bag of Costco cranberries. But THIS year it's all going in Stitching Pink's Most Requested Waldorf Salad

Bernie, we are once again thanking you for donating to WPRB!

Also just got word that we are at 69 alumni recurring donations, with a goal of 80 by the end of the drive. This is the final frontier of fund drive goals. If you're a Princeton alum and haven't pledged yet, time to go to pledge.wprb.com!

McSweden, you got a collage postcard in the mail today.

woah!!!!!!

i need to see

that is my first ever wprb mail

Here's one side - https://scontent-lga3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/174805921_10159493374604273_2508338338854506377_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=b9115d&_nc_ohc=86--jFApYBwAX_TiINV&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-2.xx&oh=9e2063601ce2e545aedecb5dbd4a510e&oe=60A2CE0F

Here's the other, which was very hard to photograph - https://scontent-lga3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/174746895_10159493374634273_49847963553352765_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=b9115d&_nc_ohc=5y5fHIeQC9wAX-9_ydc&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-2.xx&oh=2b11a668f77f7570d8c10a451c46257f&oe=60A1FF02

@Dan: nice

One of 13 in an ongoing series of DJ postcards from an anonymous listener...

what is that top side? i see mostly black

It is a photo from the Screaming Females show I believe.

very cool

this has made my night

you taught us all something new, DJ McSweden!

Yeah, I hope to do high res scans of all of these as they're super cool.

thank you for having me on elliot!

@jon that would be awesome

Post-drive, for sure. I'll put them on Flickr (or a more modern reference).

D Boon.

have any of the 13 been addressed to you?

Yes, I was in the second-most recent batch I believe. Flex Luthor was 1/13.

i wonder how many will be sent in total

does the #11 in the photo represent #11/13?

I believe so. The numbers are a new thing, but I did count and make sure I had 13 of them in my possession.

very cool, i def cant wait to see the flickr album

great show @elliot !!!!

who knows whether the regular Zeppelin callers wanted this keyboard dreamscape, but this is what they're going to get!

Such a great show idea, Eliot! Thanks for letting me join in!

An appropriately WPRB Zeppelin song. Follow it up with Black Sabbath's Planet Caravan

I like the beginning of this song. I definitely liked the Minuteflag piece

Great show, Elliot!

Flex Luthor played a Sabbath cover on Wednesday night when I was driving home spent that really kicked me when I needed a kickin'.

Much gratitude to everyone who's listening! Commie Francis is getting ready to take you to another level

(the online streaming player appears to be down btw)

I told my best request in chat the other night but as a rerun: A man called to say he and his "lady" REALLY liked Flipper's "Sex Bomb" and they REALLY wanted to hear it then

Still working for me Emeril

Great Show Elliot! :)

Dang must be the rats in the kitchen

listen.wprb.com? That is how I am tuned in presently.

tuned in through FM

Emeril I'm in Maryland and it's still working for me

Better than rats in the stew, Emeril

i can see the fm tower from where i am currently

Chris, did you say yes?

Just on my phone I guess! Works on my computer. And @chris you didnt think that the other night when I indeed put a rat in a stew

Sex Bomb baby, yeaaaahhhhhh

@elliot I hope so! I'm not 100% sure. I have the idea I did, and they called back with their... gratitude. It's nice to think so anyway!

big news! Philly from Pemberton Township has become a sustaining member! thanks Philly!

hell yeah!

@emeril Do I contradict myself? So i contradict myself. I am large, I contain many things

till next week! (or in Commie Francis' chat!)

I'll be sad to go back to just playing music and not waxing poetic about WPRB

thanks to all the DJs who contributed stories!

Station went silent after that PSA thing

Ok, it's back. See you on the next chat

We're back! I think!

You are, maybe, but there's still no activity on the next chat

Dead air...

No more music until we hit our goals! :)

I'm pinging the folks who can help!