Ill-Fated Frog Application: Ken's show

Listener comments!

♥ 6:09am Ken:

Happy Roktober everybody.

♥ 7:04am Ellirb:

Good morning Ken and fellow listeners.

♥ 7:09am Ellirb:

I'll just leave this request here
www.youtube.com...

♥ 8:24am Ken:

Any melodic / pop requests? That's how it appears to be shaping up which means it will end up as terrible cacophonous noise.

♥ 8:44am Asheville Jon:

how about 'you make my dreams come true' by hall & oates? poppy, melodic, easy to tap your foot to, etc

♥ 8:45am Asheville Jon:

oh yeah, happy ROCKTOBER to you too!

♥ 8:53am SeanG:

great gifs!

♥ 8:58am SeanG:

how about some Marco Benevento??

♥ 9:01am Dan B From Upstate:

Oh, good. I was gonna ask for more Tricky after last week. But it's Tricky. I suppose we don't have to ask.

♥ 9:02am common:

frogs!

♥ 9:08am MD:

Good Morning ALLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!

♥ 9:09am Ken:

Yes I also bought a sackful of frogs with me today. For reals.

♥ 9:09am MD:

AC/DC KEN....For their now...retired....Guitarist...

9:10am Grubbus:

Good morning Ken, Oh the soothing sounds of Laetitia

♥ 9:12am dale:

ken opens the request line! i know you loves danielle dax, so howzabout 'when i was young?' or 'tomorrow never knows?'

9:14am AndrewC.:

Helen Love has something new out right?

9:15am Okasa:

@Ken - Why would you bring a sack full of frogs to the station? Also, good morning everyone.

♥ 9:15am groucho:

This is one of the rare moments when WFMU plays something I already have in my collection. It's very exciting
Though, admittedly I only have it because I found out about it on WFMU.
Still!

Good morning x

9:19am groucho:

In England we have a phrase 'daft as a bag of frogs' which people like to call silly people.

♥ 9:20am dale:

i also would like to hear 'imaginary lover' by atlanta rhythym section.

♥ 9:21am Ken From Hyde Park:

Did Nachum announce Schlockrocktober this morning?

♥ 9:21am Ken:

Frogs are natural exterminators. If you have mice, get a cat. If you have flies, get a sackful of frogs. Done and done.

9:21am glenn:

oh, svetlana.

9:22am LARS:

LAETITIA SADIER... WHY I LOVE WFMU. THANK YOU

♥ 9:23am Ken From Hyde Park:

May I suggest a bag of spiders?

♥ 9:23am common:

indeed ken. nature taking it's course...ah! spiders! no!

9:24am Sam:

Get Wallace Shawn

♥ 9:24am dale:

you'll need snakes to get rid of the frogs. then a mongoose to get rid of the snakes. then whatever eats a mongoose. i envision andy at the end of the food chain.

9:25am glenn:

ultimately, you'll need a polar bear or two.

♥ 9:26am Dan B From Upstate:

Nice lady voice set.

9:27am Jeff T:

I haven't been up this early in years! Lovin' the show Ken!

9:27am pierre:

Plus frogs are absolutely delicious!

9:27am glenn:

oh, and r.i.p. Floyd "Creeky" Creekmore. The world's oldest clown, dead at 98.

♥ 9:27am Andrew Waterloo:

I can imagine Rob Ford at the end of that food chain

9:27am pierre:

Bonjour Ken and Kenanigans

9:27am Eli:

Name names!!!!

9:28am Sam:

Open the windows

♥ 9:28am Dan B From Upstate:

I find using a small bowl of dish soap mixed with vinegar works.

♥ 9:29am Webhamster Henry:

"Helllp Meeee!"

9:29am Sam:

And if you have cats, you get a dog. And if you have dogs, you get a cougar. And if you have cougars, you get bigger cougars.

♥ 9:29am egal:

Hopefully they are union frogs.

9:29am thedunkel:

You'll have to bring in a sack of snakes to get rid of the frogs…

♥ 9:29am rsj:

i think snakes eat frogs and flies

9:29am glenn:

Mayor jubilation t. crackpipe ain't much longer for this world, methinks.

9:29am pierre:

If you have a cougar you get a Graduate !

♥ 9:30am Andrew Waterloo:

But, the frogs are just there, just sitting around, while everybody is killed by snakes, spiders, and other creepy things.

9:30am Ines:

how about vinegar instead of frogs?
eg http://everydayroots.com/how-to-get-rid-of-fruit-flies

♥ 9:30am Webhamster Henry:

You can find out if you can catch more flies with honey or vinegar. I bet you catch more with frogs.

♥ 9:30am common:

i gotta get some frogs.

9:31am glenn:

danielle dax is a lunatic, in the best way.

♥ 9:31am Andrew Waterloo:

Anyone see this on a lazy Saturday afternoon? en.wikipedia.org...

♥ 9:31am dale:

i'm not in the u.k. ken - in the o.c., orange county mt. hope region.

9:31am ᏠЄႶႶỊѺµЄ:

This made me think of that Husker Du song about cats and rats.
www.plyrics.com...

♥ 9:33am Ken:

Different Dale, I stand corrected!

♥ 9:34am dale:

s' ok -makes me seem more interesting

♥ 9:37am Roberto:

Oh no! Courtney can't breathe. Call EMS!

♥ 9:37am groucho:

unwashedterritories.bandcamp.com... new Cuban Brothers

9:37am Parq:

One word -- Frog Cam! Okay, that's two words, but still ...

♥ 9:37am Roberto:

OK so in Australia it's AAA apparently.

9:38am still b/p:

If ya don' know how to do it,
I'll show ya how to rock the frog...

9:38am Brendan:

Ken good morning. I am sympathetic to your fly plight. Do you by chance have plants in the office? I do and was recently deluged by what I took to be fruit flies. I later determined that they were 'fungus gnats' that were propagating from the moist surface soil of one particular plant in my office.

♥ 9:39am Roberto:

I wonder if in Australia they call EMS when they have a flat tire.

9:40am Sigurdur:

: takes a breath :

9:42am thedunkel:

In Australia they call MFP for road services… tinyw.in...

9:44am Dr. Goot:

This rx is cool!

9:44am still b/p:

"Fungus gnats!" is a good swearing substitute.

♥ 9:45am common:

yea, diggin this rx. nice lyrics

♥ 9:45am Roberto:

Yeah, been there too.

♥ 9:46am Dan B From Upstate:

Boy, does it help the pain.

♥ 9:46am common:

just like drinkin beer...for me.

9:46am ᏠЄႶႶỊѺµЄ:

I hear a bumper sticker in there. EAT THROUGH THE PAIN

9:46am pierre:

the pain and the stress

9:47am Jack:

Yesterday I "helped" a giant snapping turtle cross the road in front of my house. That frog's mouth reminded me, except the turtles' lips were sharper. nasty.

9:47am adrian in mpls:

wasn't "eat the pain away" the b-side to peaches "fuck the pain away"?

9:47am AndrewC.:

Jesus... I'm going to the canteen to buy a cake.

9:47am Restomas:

test comment

9:47am People Like Us:

MorningAfternoon

9:48am AndrewC.:

@Restomas - it didn't work.

9:48am Sam:

So that's why everyone's so damn fat. Too much pain in this country. Better to do lots of drugs on an empty stomach.

♥ 9:49am Ken:

Morgen Vicki! Welcome test commenter! Nice test.

9:51am fredr:

Morning Ken! Excellent show..

9:52am t_J:

Genesis - One eyed hound? Hi Ken, greetings and as always, such moment'O!

♥ 9:54am Murakami Whywolf:

Are the frogs lickable?---I mean, to hallucinogenic effect? And once they've done for all the flies, can their skins be used be used to make poison darts? It's o.k. to ask for more money, but in return we ought to expect that you're exercising due economy in its spending...and Lord knows how much you're spending on frog-based poisons and hallucinogens already, so....

9:55am doca:

Hey all! Is it just me or this song kinda samples the Top Gear video game song?

♥ 9:56am common:

this new pornographers sounds a bit like broadcast.

♥ 9:57am Ken:

Unfortunately, the frogs I got from a nearby research lab are neither hallucinogenic nor poisonous. There are thousands of varieties of frogs in the world. Many have superpowers. But not mine.

9:57am still b/p:

A nice visual summary of campaign season right there.

♥ 9:58am groucho:

I want super frogs.

♥ 9:59am βrian:

Frog One will forever elude you.

10:00am People Like Us:

test comment

10:00am pierre:

at least try to eat one Ken

♥ 10:00am Murakami Whywolf:

Well, are they at least radioactive? "S.S.D." might get interesting if Andy gained a frog's proportionate strength and social skills, and Beth might appreciate...well, decency forbids my writing it.

10:00am Toads:

What about us?

10:01am Sam:

Sennnnsational!!

♥ 10:01am common:

a giant snapping turtle, pierre? sorry, just saw your comment. cool!

10:01am Sam:

Tu sais Prinsen est, de tous les Prinsens, le plus doux.

10:02am nate:

When I was 4 years old, I had a gerbil named Super Frog

♥ 10:05am βrian:

For your listening pleasure:
www.forvo.com...

10:06am Brendan:

Catchy pop songs! They make me want to whistle and run through the falling leaves with a sack full of frogs giving one to every girl I meet.

10:06am braveness23:

B23 here! Stupid work has made me grumpy so I'm escaping to you weirdos.

♥ 10:07am Ken From Hyde Park:

I have an Android phone now. Can anyone suggest a good app to play my collection of mp3 files? No need for fancy features beyond shuffle mode and a way to skip around in a song as I please. Free is a plus. Thanks!

♥ 10:07am βrian:

Mais nous sommes *dans* la bibliothèque !

10:07am ᏠЄႶႶỊѺµЄ:

Foo da FA FAA!! This video was shot in Greenpoint when I was living there.

10:07am pierre:

J'adore cette chanson… honnnn-honnnn-honnnn !

♥ 10:08am Brian in UK:

Here is the latest Banksie murial hot off the stencil, with protective covering.
www.independent.co.uk...

♥ 10:08am common:

so good!

♥ 10:08am Dan B From Upstate:

Uhhh.... non.

10:08am t_J:

~ Haha I've got a mustache in my keyboard!

♥ 10:08am Murakami Whywolf:

Is that Svetlana Grübbersolvik album cover and the pseudo-Gainsbourg piece a joint tease for your showing that video for "Les Sucettes" next video show?

10:09am Sam:

A cinq ans et demi j'avais deja ma Ferrari. Je ne pouvais pas la conduire, bien sur, j'etais trop petit!

10:10am Sue:

omg House gif!

♥ 10:10am βrian:

@Brian in UK: That's no security guard! It's him!

♥ 10:11am Brian in UK:

Is Banksie a man?

♥ 10:13am βrian:

You'd have to ask her.

10:13am Brendan:

The 'new' Khlam is more saxy.

10:14am Robert:

"...and when I was young...," Ken, I didn't think that DJ set was THAT long!

10:14am People Like Us:

Time flies like the wind
Fruit flies like a banana

10:15am ?:

Dead Frogs in the Office

♥ 10:16am Sem Chumbo:

Research frogs? So like, M.I.T. frogs?

♥ 10:16am dale:

put a saucer of beer down to catch the slugs. or pour salt on them if you wanna be a sadist.

♥ 10:16am Dan B From Upstate:

Did.... did you just say Clam?

♥ 10:17am Sem Chumbo:

@dale: both. I like the taste of pre-salted drunken slugs. Must be my French ancestry.

♥ 10:17am Ken:

Dan you are crazy. I would never pronounce the name of the band as 'clam." It is pronounced KHLAAAAAAAM.

♥ 10:18am βrian:

Cherrystone KHLAAAAAAAM.

10:18am Brendan:

saxy Khlam yeah baby

10:19am blee:

I admire your old lady who swallowed a fly approach to pest control. Positive entertainment.

♥ 10:19am Roberto:

KHLAAAAAM ochyen kharasho. Or something like that.

♥ 10:19am Dan B From Upstate:

Confirmed. I am crazy.

10:20am victoria winters:

omg hahha listen to this .... https://troyaljustice.bandcamp.com/track/i-wanna-be-a-wfmu-dj

10:21am Brendan:

Yuri Andropov was a big Khlam guy.

10:22am Sam:

He sounds like Yosemite Sam when his buns are on fire.

10:22am NotJennSchiffer:

Ken I'm going to steal all these gifs. They are the best.

♥ 10:23am βrian:

@Sam: Or the Pillsbury Dough Boy.

10:24am Sam:

What? The dough boy doesn't holler like that.

10:24am t_J:

hum ... table tennis gifs ..

♥ 10:24am common:

well that was great!

♥ 10:25am BDR:

NEW UBU!

♥ 10:27am BDR:

New video is GREAT! too: youtu.be...

♥ 10:27am dale:

dang mt. hope signal keeps cutting out to static.

♥ 10:27am Stevel:

ROCKIN' new Ubu.

10:28am Jack:

Perfect synchronization Ken!

10:29am bill:

Sounds like Tony Torn!

10:29am Brendan:

I am building a dark room i was wondering if anyone knows should i use a black light bulb?

♥ 10:30am holland oats:

this is my jam

♥ 10:30am Stevel:

Now THAT'S the melodic pop I'M talking about!

10:30am Nick from Indy:

Ha Ha Ha

10:31am ᏠЄႶႶỊѺµЄ:

Flipper! Wow, I remember this song. Takes me back.

10:31am Grubbus:

reminds me of that movie Suburbia-Ha ha, ha, ha, ho, ho, ho

10:31am nate:

my local classic rock station has added pearl jam and green day to their rotation, but STILL no flipper.

♥ 10:32am jamesie:

Kello Hen

♥ 10:32am dale:

my wife started wearing her old teeshirts again, had flipper on yesterday.

10:34am Brendan:

The band flipper was involved in a tragic accident involving a tuna net

10:37am Jack:

Flipper vs Hot Tuna

10:38am BEAVO:

Dead Babies of course an Alice Cooper cover.

10:43am Brendan:

I've solved my dark room dilemma. Instead of using a black light. I will turn the light switch upside down so that on is off.

10:46am People Like Us:

it's me!

♥ 10:47am common:

it's you! love your creations!

10:48am Such IR:

This song is bananas

10:48am still b/p:

Album title has been re-normalized there, hain't it?

10:49am People Like Us:

Don't Think Right, It's All Twice

10:49am People Like Us:

yes, Ken "fixed" it, HA HA

10:50am mb:

Go Marco, go!!!!!

10:50am People Like Us:

Ken unfixed it now
Meddler

♥ 10:51am Ken:

i dint fix nuthun. Y'all are crazy.

10:51am People Like Us:

you were crazy first

♥ 10:52am holland oats:

shine on you crazy diamond - oh wait that's a different floyd song.

10:52am still b/p:

'S a Mobius strip of symbiotic subversion, 's what it is.

10:54am MichelleinGreenBay:

Mornin' friends!

10:54am braveness23:

what is that melody?

♥ 10:55am MichelleinGreenBay:

Those scrolling frogs are creeping me out just a smidge.

♥ 10:55am common:

led zep?

10:55am braveness23:

I would swear that that melody is from a song by the band Low.

10:56am Pamela Rice:

Moxy Mickey believed in love. Pix proove it to be so.... https://www.flickr.com/photos/19128932@N05/sets/72157648238404812/

♥ 11:01am rsj:

OK Werner

11:02am Brendan:

Saxy baby

♥ 11:06am BDR:

Do you bore yourself to sleep at night? Do you bore yourself in broad daylight?

11:06am ted:

andy breckman is NEVER right ken

11:06am Such IR:

Bad Robot. BAD ROBOT!

♥ 11:06am Blacktooth:

You're at your BEST when you're annoying yourself.

♥ 11:07am βrian:

Baby animal in the transmitter?

11:08am bill:

Pangaea!

11:09am Brendan:

Ken we've traced the calls and its coming from inside the studio . For gods sake get out of there!

11:09am Billy Jam:

great track!

♥ 11:10am Webhamster Henry:

I bet you could have a contest to make better songs than that.

♥ 11:12am common:

the reveries always get my gag reflex going

11:13am Brendan:

These guys are getting root canals while singing?

♥ 11:13am βrian:

Isn't that Tabitha Sequins?

11:14am Ralphine:

Maybe this has already come up, but has anyone seen that TV commercial that uses the song with that Italian comedian speaking double-talk English?

♥ 11:16am Ellirb:

Prisencolinensinainciusol

11:16am Sue:

This song is speaking to my dog on a different level.

♥ 11:18am Murakami Whywolf:

It wasn't a chicken animal, it was a BABY ANIMAL! A BAAAABY ANIMAL!!!

11:19am Ralphine:

That's the song, Ellirb. I couldn't remember the name. The commercial only uses a little bit of the music and none of the gibberish.

11:19am still b/p:

The woman who played little Tabitha on Bewitched says of the classic nose bit, "even Elizabeth Montgomery’s wiggle 'was a camera trick.'” Somehow that's disheartening, and I might not be able to move past it.

♥ 11:21am Ken:

Yech Brendan. Keep it in the cupboard.

11:22am Such IR:

This is hilarious. Such rage.

♥ 11:22am βrian:

Well, it worked for Darren, anyway.

11:23am Brendan:

Macho man has nothing on this song

♥ 11:23am BDR:

BTW, I applaud the "transmitter is broken" schtick on the first day of silent marathon.

♥ 11:23am βrian:

"I ate the brown acid at Woodstock."

♥ 11:24am common:

this is the best!

♥ 11:24am Sem Chumbo:

What are the voices in my head doing on the radio? Did they get a record deal and not tell me? After all I've listened to?

11:27am Brendan:

Sorry, was having a bbq and the lady's man ran off with her meat so i thought... Ohhhhh! I wasn't going there!

11:28am Brendan:

The U2 echo ... Ahgjhhhhh

♥ 11:29am βrian:

I read that as "Auger your."

♥ 11:29am Marcel M:

Hi guys. Why did I agree to help someone move at 8 am before work? Oy vey....

♥ 11:30am Marcel M:

Woahh Rocktober fundraising time!

11:32am Cecile:

Hola!

11:33am Brendan:

Marcel because you're a good guy. Just make sure you balance it out by throwing a rock through a window or something like that.

11:33am Cecile:

Did I miss baby animal?

11:34am Cecile:

And I missed FOTC!!!

♥ 11:35am Dan B From Upstate:

Kinda, Cecile. Ken did his own version.

Glad to see Sokubaku No Jiyuu back in the mix.

11:36am Cecile:

Oh! Even better!

♥ 11:36am Marcel M:

I was listening to 91.1 just now with no problems.

♥ 11:37am MD:

I love Slug legs!!! IN BUTTER SAUCE!!!

♥ 11:38am Dan B From Upstate:

If you press 0, you can just talk to a robot operator instead of a regular robot.

11:38am still b/p:

Flies, frogs -- just eight more to go in the Ten Plagues of Egypt fundraising stunt.

11:40am oks:

Marcel M Hello there

♥ 11:42am Ken:

Yes Marcel, the problem is at 90.1 and 91.9 but 91.1 is fine.

♥ 11:43am Marcel M:

Ah oh oh oh ok. All is well in the motherland. Work time bye guys.

11:47am ottovonbqe:

fruit flies are almost impossible to eradicate. you will need more than frogs.

11:53am i/k/e:

I am in Cologne! What do I do besides the big cathedral? Only have 36-wish hrs.

♥ 11:54am Ken From Hyde Park:

@ottovonbqe - My vacuum cleaner was my weapon against fruit flies this summer. It worked pretty well.

11:56am Dr. Goot:

Can't you let the flies drown in beer or vinegar?

11:57am ottovonbqe:

Ken, I use the vacuum too. It works great, but I've never managed to get them all and they always come back.

11:57am still b/p:

Two words, i/k/e: Chocolate Museum!

11:57am Fruit Fly:

You can kill us off with a little cider vinegar and dish soap. We're not the brightest bulbs.

11:57am oks:

yes! vacuum cleaner! thats how i was fighting mosquitos !!

♥ 11:57am βrian:

That's what we do, come tomato-canning time. Shallow jars of vinegar covered with finely perforated stretch wrap.

11:57am lucy:

@i/k/e- find a squat with the cool kids, they'll tell you what to do.

11:58am ottovonbqe:

Hmm. I always use a funnel but maybe I should try the stretch wrap. It's hard to get the funnel aperture just right.

♥ 11:59am βrian:

One day per month, it should be known as Rumpy Hall.

12:00pm oks:

great show thanks!!

♥ 12:24pm jenn:

A+ great show will listen again wowowowow

♥ 6:41pm Murakami Whywolf:

Fruit flies: either a funnel (make a small hole in the cap, use caulk or hot glue to keep it in place), or _make_ a funicular fistula by (carefully!) heating-up a small patch near the top of a plastic container, then pushing a slim (take-out) chopstick into the container. A mixture of water, yeast, and sugar in the container seems to work best. Change the liquid every few days (at most) to avoid incredible foulness.

Aah, crafts and killing things....

7:13pm PamelaR:

Find the fruit fly nest and it will set you free.