Playlist Date & Time: 7/25/2010 12:00AM - 3:00AM

Program: Blues in the Night with Jamie Dell'Apa

Aribitron Listener Survey

 Drunks Versus Sobers 

Oh sure, you were ready for a show about being a ground zero hero as WWOZ fights off the 2am landfall of Bonny, the maybe hurricane, maybe tropical storm on steroids.  

Bobby Jindal is overjoyed at the potential to distinguish himself from Kathleen Blanco and her bad seed daughter, Katrina but alas no hurricane.  If could find an R&B version of it, we would start the show with, "My Bonny Lies Over The Ocean."  

As I write this, we're at the peak of Bonny and this is the wimpiest storm in New Orleans history.  Rain?  I'm gonna have to water my plants tomorrow.  Wind?  The noisy studio fan creates more wind than this storm.  Surge?  Bobby Jindal is gonna have to rely on the leak in the Gulf to get any surge.  

Nah, Bonny is a non-story.  Let's instead focus on ... YOU.

 

For the years I've done this Saturday midnight to Sunday 3am shift, I've received hundreds and hundreds of phone calls from listeners who's main characteristic is they're drunk.  Loaded, juiced, emulsified, looped but definitely not lucid.  I have never received more than two sobers in a row on the phone.  

As the only sober in the Quarter on Saturday night, I'm devoted to all science, all the time.  Anecdotal listener trends - puhleease. Tonight we bring in the most esteemed radio surveyor since Francios Arbitron to measure (1) the collective blood alcohol content of this shift's listeners and (2) whether we could tally three sober callers in a row.  Yep, for you pinch-faced moralists, my fourteen year old niece, Gemma Gallinaro is here at the radio station in drunkard central (French Quarter Saturday midnight until 3am) to measure the blood alcohol content of listeners.  

 

The next day: 

 

 

Survey Results  

17 Callers of which: 

1 Sober but crazy (his self-diagnosis)

4 Sobers (no further diagnosis)

1  Temporary sober - just got off work at 2am

2 From Ed who's sober but had to pee and couldn't go back to sleep 

9  Garden-variety drunk and, drum roll please:

3 Sobers in a row which BREAKS THE RECORD for this shift

 

Call distribution summary 

Sobers tended to call in clusters immediately after we announced the phone number indicating an ear-to-finger coordination skill that the drunks lacked.  Drunks probably are also under-represented as the phone number 568 1234 is too similar to the next-to-impossible roadside drunk test of "count to four."   

Distribution: 

Sober, Crazy and Sober, Drunk, Drunk, Sober, Drunk, Drunk, Drunk, Sober, Sober, Sober (record broken!), Drunk, Drunk, Ed/pee, Ed/pee, Drunk, Drunk.  

Plus some lawyer who kept rambling to my 14 year old niece at 2:45am about the legal definition of a hurricane versus tropical storm then repeated the whole boring recitation to me.  Ah, the unbridled self-esteem of my former profession - he was actually worried I was recording him.  I didn't have the heart to tell him we were simply trying to get him off the phone so we didn't have to hear him.    

 

 

Box Score

 

116 Selections over 175 minutes for a selection every

01:30 Which is 30 seconds off the never-been-broken radio sound barrier of one selection per minute 

01:00 per selection.

54 Songs about being drunk including

2 About seeing pink elephants 

3    Drunk driving

38 Number of rain drops from Hurricane/Tropical Storm Bonnie

10 Mph top wind speed from Bonnie

<12  Inches of storm surge (or was that tide?)

1 Prostitute hanging around outside of my house at 3:20am

3 Number of meatball-sized chocolate chip cookies Gemma ate

4 Number of meatball-sized chocolate chip cookies Gemma brought home

1 Number of bars Gemma got kicked out of during our Tater Tot Tasting Tour

0 Number of cheesy t-shirts Gemma bought

4 Number of army helmets Gemma tried on (East German, Russian, US and UN blue

2 Number of gas masks "  "   and lastly

4  New words created by Gemma of which Bewithered has been codified by the Oxford Dictionary as:

"Bee-with-eard"

"Uttering an emotionally reactive statement to change an uncomfortable conversational subject." 

 

Post show feedback was exclusively video contributions such as Ben Pagac of Annapolis, MD:

 

 

 

From Kim Lowe via our friends at KEXP in Seattle:

 

 

 

 Playlist with sound clip interstitials:

116 songs, 2.5 hours (interstitials in small type font)

Cara id 

Harlem On Saturday Night  Lil Armstrong - 1936-1940 Armstrong, Lil

Bush Jamie is boring George Bush

Here is mr know it all

Rhythm and Booze   Corky Jones

Let's go get drunk Futurama Bender 

Old Joe's Hittin' The Jug  2:46 And His Onyx Club Boys 1936-1939 Stuff Smith

Alcohol in this_ No but drink in house mother 0:10 

Sister Lucy  The Cosimo Matassa Story: Cat Music Bobby Mitchell & The Toppers

 Drunk Man's Wiggle 2:44 Swingbillies CD2 Jimmy Myers

Have you been drinking_ no okay 10 beers 0:04

For You 1:59 Sid Starr 

drink up world is ending 0:02

 Drinkiin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee 3:15 Stick McGhee&his Buddies

Emulsified <Do you know what it means to be … Rex Garvin & the Cravers

Were gonna get our drinks on 0:04 Superbad

Juiced 2:32 The Chess Story 1947-1975 (1950-1951) (Disc… Billy Love

Advice, drink heavy 0:04

 Juice Juice Juice  1:54  Amos Milburn & the Chicken Shackers

drinks after hours then drink theirs 0:08

 I Got Booted  2:19 Spirit of New Orleans: The Genius of Dave Barth… Jones, Little Sonny

mmmm beer 0:02

no beer bring pain 0:03

 I'm Loaded  2:51 New Orleans R&B Gems Little Sonny Jones

pourbeer 0:06 SFX

Can't believe we said no to free beer 0:03

 Too Many Bubbles 2:14  Chevalier, Jay

beer pour 0:08 SFX

woman is like a beer 0:16

 There Stands the Glass  2:32 Songs From Venice Beach Ted Hawkins

You call this a party warm beer cold women 0:05 Groucho Marx

 Drunken Angel 3:20 Car Wheels on a Gravel Road Lucinda Williams

 Hot Toddy  2:38 Swingbillies CD2 Red Foley

 Don't Drive Drunk 3:21 Dirty Dozen Brass Band - Voodoo Dirty Dozen Brass Band

go home have you been drinking_ 0:02

 Diesel Smoke (Dangerous Curves) 2:35 Truck Driver's Boogie Doye O'Dell

alcohol increases your ability to drive 0:04

 If You Drink,Don't Drive 2:04 Drunk Red Coffee

drunk tests are hard 0:02

 Smokey Joe's  1:50  Thurston Harris

I need names and shots. Bartender 0:05

she felt too good   2:46

 Broke 3:31 Mr. Boogie's Back in Town Mitch Woods And His Rocket 88s

 I Done Done It (Don't Do It) <drink drunk bar> 2:35 Complete Aladdin Recordings - 1946-57 CD7 Milburn, Amos

SErve hard drinks to get drunk fast, no characte… 0:10

 Bartender Blues 2:29 Drunk Gale, J

bartender another beer _drink drunk_ 0:03

2 beers bartender, I'll take two also 0:06 Groucho Marx

 I Ain't Got the Money to Pay For This Drink   2:32 The Thrills

Donna Bar Walk 0:38

 Last Call For Alcohol  2:23 Julia Lee

 Swinging Barmaids Trailer

 One Scotch,One Bourbon,One Bee 2:19   Harris, Thurston

Billion dollars and you're using lab equipment a… 0:05

 Pot Likker  2:42 King R&B Box Set Vol. 1 Todd Rhodes

So much drinking that alcohol spontaneous co… 0:11

 White Lightnin' Effin' 2:07  Lavenders

fatdrunkstupid 0:04 Animal House? Dean Wormer

 Champagne Charlene 2:34  Lee III, Herbie

workaholic work is old man drunk 0:05

 Wine Woogie 2:12  Marvin & Johnny

Are you stoned or stupid 0:01

I am stoned2 0:06

 Wine,Women,Whiskey 2:15 Papa Lightfoot

Allie (And Noah) - I Have To Warn You, I'm a Ch… 0:14 Allie

I havent had enough rum for that kind of talk _… 0:05

 Wine Wine Wine 2:25 Drunk Renegades V

alcoholics 0:07

 Gettin' Drunk 2:38  Johnny "Guitar" Watson

Al Coholic 0:03 Simpsons Moe answering phone

Drunk 2:31 Joe Liggins

bad day to quit drinking 0:02

Sloppy Drunk 2:57  Jimmy Rogers

when someone asks you if you're God say yes 0:04

Too Much Of A Little Bit  2:29 Vocal Groups: Classic Doo-Wop Remastered (B… The Royales

Bars 86ed 0:14 Jamie

Drunk, Drunk, Drunk 2:40 The Cosimo Matassa Story: Cat Music The Kidds

You business is politics mine us a saloon 0:04

I Ain't Drunk 2:19  Lonme the Cat

Following program close captioning for the thin… 0:04 Disclaimer

Wine,Women and Pink Elephants 2:23  Ramblin' Jimmie Dolan

I'm an idiot 0:04 Krusty the Clown

Pink Elephant 1:54  Wally Willette

No in time space as we understand it 0:05 Star Trek Spock

The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) 3:40 Small Change Tom Waits

Strip club 2 0:05 Krusty the Clown

Santa Came Home Drunk 2:52 Clyde Lasley & the Cadillac Baby Specials

 

I'm Slipping In 2:33 1.Imperial Sessions (Bear Family CD) The Spiders

Sober and crazy 0:04 

What's the Use of Getting Sober (When You're G… 2:51 1941-1943 Louis Jordan

What happened to you_ Got hammered _drunk… 0:03

Drunk & In Love 1:57 Super Great Music For Modern Lovers! The Tin Men

 Still Drunk 4:18 Super Great Music For Modern Lovers! The Tin Men

730 am drink 0:04

Beer For Breakfast 1:38 All For Nothing/Nothing For All The Replacements

terrible hangover drunk 0:08 Dragnet

Crawlin'  2:33 Fifties Collection Moonglows

hangover <drunk drink> 0:02 Loony Tunes Bugs Bunny

Let's Get Drunk Again 3:15   1993 Bo Carter

Drunk Again 3:05 The Hound - May 18, 1991 Champion Jack Dupree

beer 0:17

 The Drunkard 3:06  Thrillers

Polar Pro: Texas Trots  1:11 Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death The Firesign Theatre

 Deacon Jones 2:57 1941-1943 Louis Jordan

beer pour 0:08

alcohol cause of and solution to lives problems … 0:07

Free Thee Well Deacon Jones  2:47 Apollo Jump Lucky Millinder

fdr_1933_0304 0:21

Two Flies 2:36  Bo Diddley Orchestra

Cookie-Headed Diddley 2:38 rare & well done Bo Diddley

radio down the tubes after 1996 _hot pot down_ 0:04

unhappy ending 0:03

Okay then mr know it all _closing_ 0:03

Take off - Bob & Doug Mckenzie 0:01

scat, goodby, adios _closing_ 0:07

I'm tired 0:02 Futurama Bender

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