(((Sound Affects)))

Host(s): 
Jim Kempes
Keven Atoms
Timeslot: 
Tuesday, May 31, 2022 - 11:00pm
Length: 
1 hour
Type of Show: 
Music

Hosts Jim and Keven examine how "music makes the world go around" (and vice-versa), exploring and discussing relevant history, science, culture and more through the prism of music. 

Past Episodes

  • Marijuana! Aired: Tuesday, April 6, 2021

    New York has officially legalized the use of recreational marijuana and I am celebrating! Maybe I will get profiled a little less. Pulled over a little less. Harassed, stopped and searched a little less. And I don’t even smoke the stuff… Imagine how pot smokers feel! This is a tribute to one of the world’s most popular, versatile, and notorious plants… wait, what was I just talking about?

  • Up & Down Aired: Tuesday, March 23, 2021
    It's the birthday of the 19th century inventor, industrialist and father of the modern elevator, Elisha Otis. Every 3 days, the equivalent of the world's population rides in an elevator. It is in honor of Elisha Otis, and his improvement to vertical movement, that we bring you an episode almost entirely dedicated to dance--an episode that we hope will make you wanna get... "Up and Down."
  • Flying! Aired: Tuesday, March 9, 2021
    Which superhero power would you rather have? X-ray vision, superhuman strength, invisibility, laser shooting eyes, regeneration, super speed, telepathy, telekinesis, gills for breathing under water, super human patience for sitting in traffic ? If I had the choice, I know which super power I’d like to be doing right now—Flying! (preferably to someplace warm )
  • Streets & Roads (March 3, 2020 Redux) Aired: Wednesday, March 3, 2021
  • Names! (part 3) Aired: Tuesday, February 23, 2021

    Studies show that people are more likely to donate money to a hurricane disaster relief fund if they share their that name with that hurricane. When 8th grader Katrina Petrillo was asked why she was compelled to sell $1000 worth of lemonade for the 2005 hurricane Katrina relief fund, she explained, “I knew my name was going to be remembered as the biggest disaster ever.” Good thing her parents didn’t name her Corona… 
    Join us for our third episode on the theme of personal monikers, handles and Names.

  • Names! (part 2) Aired: Tuesday, February 16, 2021

    Whether you happen to be a girl named “Michelle” like the Beatles song, or a bad guy named “Leroy Brown,” a captain named “Jack” or a street walker named “Roxanne,” a baby’s mama named Billy Jean, “a star” named Daniel, or god forbid a “boy named Sue,” or worse, a girl named “Lola,”or any other name immortalized in verse, there’s something exciting about hearing your name in a song. Join us for another episode on the popular theme of “Names”—

  • Groundhog Day! Aired: Tuesday, February 2, 2021

    Ever feel like you’re stuck in a time loop? Ever feel like you’re stuck in a time loop? Ever feel like you’re… It’s Groundhog’s Day! An ancient midwinter tradition that prognosticates the coming of Spring. Since the release of the 1993 Harold Ramis film, “Groundhog Day” has become a euphemism for the feeling that one is stuck in a time loop—a 24 hour “déjà vu”—a day that seems to replay itself over and over.

  • Drinks! Aired: Tuesday, January 19, 2021

    It was on 101 years ago this week, that the 18th Amendment, also known as Volstead Act, was ratified banning the manufacture, sale and transport of alcoholic beverages. Join us for music and trivia that honors this anniversary of National sobriety—the period known as Prohibition—with a program dedicated to those softer beverages in our lives. 

  • Greetings and Farewell ! Aired: Tuesday, January 5, 2021

    Why do we answer the phone "Hello"? What or who is the "King of the bean"? the "Lord of Misrule"? Join us for music and history on this-- our Twelfth Night Episode as we greet the new year and say %*#@ ! to 2020!

  • Winter Aired: Tuesday, December 22, 2020

    It is in honor of the winter solstice, which occurs on the 21st of December, and also in honor of this holiday season –a season that includes Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanza, Boxing Day and Yule—holidays that, along with drugs and alcohol, help raise our spirits and get us through these short, cold days, that we are dedicating tonight’s episode to…Winter. 

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