Podcasts by Vin Scelsas Idiots Delight - A History
A history of New York free form radio told through the lens of stories and interviews from legendary DJ Vin Scelsa's show Idiot's Delight
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Episode 25 - Pat Conroy from 2020-04-15T14:54:34
Pat Conroy was a rare writer, both a critical and popular success. He wrote The Water Is Wide, The Lords Of Discipline, The Great Santini and The Prince Of Tides among many other titles. His 1995 a...
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Episode 24 - Jeff Buckley from 2020-02-02T19:04:16
Jeff Buckley never knew his father Tim Buckley, the influential 60s-70s songwriter vocalist, yet their lives shared many similar aspects. During the early 1990's Jeff was a ubiquitous fixture on N...
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Episode 23 - Laurie Anderson from 2019-12-27T19:42:34
Songwriter and performance artist Laurie Anderson visited Idiot's Delight late one Sunday night after a concert appearance in NYC. Vin says, “This was a real intimate late night/early morning conve...
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Episode 22 - Joan Baez from 2019-11-21T03:11:14
Vin's interview with Joan Baez from January 31, 1993 - right at the beginning of Bill Clinton’s first presidential term. Joan Baez was 52 years old and entering a new phase in her already decades-l...
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Episode 21 - Ray Price from 2018-09-25T15:44:46
Vin’s interview with country music legend Ray Price from June 11th, 2000 on WNEW, during one of the few appearances Ray ever made as a solo artist in New York. In which Vin and Ray discuss Hank Wil...
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Episode 20 - WNEW Part 3 - 12/8/80 from 2018-04-30T00:14:43
Vin talks about being on WNEW the night that John Lennon died
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Episode 19 - WNEW Part 2 - T-Shirt and Razoo Kelley from 2018-01-22T16:27:41
Part 2 of Vin's time at WNEW, chronicling the years that Vin received a series of mysterious letters from the legends known only as T-Shirt and Razoo Kelley. How the phenomenon grew, and how no one...
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Episode 18 - WNEW Part 1 from 2017-11-24T16:22:16
Vin's journey to WNEW in the 70's, including unemployment and a misguided stopover in Long Island. Dave Herman, Scott Muni, Alison Steele, and WNEW's brief moment with an all-female DJ lineup.
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Episode 17 - Odetta from 2017-07-09T22:13:19
An interview that Vin did with the legendary singer, songwriter and activist Odetta, originally broadcast on "Idiots' Delight" on WNEW-FM in 2000
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Episode 16 - A Scelsa History of Protest from 2017-05-09T01:21:42
Kate has Vin and Freddie sixties-splain their relationship to the history of activism and protest in this country and all three Scelsas try to figure out if the world is ending. Vin only embarrasse...
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Episode 15 - WPLJ Part 3 from 2016-12-31T17:38:02
Some cultural recs, attempts at end of the year sanity, and Vin's last days at WPLJ, featuring his run ins with Bob Dylan, Elton John, Randy Newman, John Lennon's first solo album, and a very speci...
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Episode 14 - Leonard Cohen from 2016-12-04T22:30:48
When Leonard Cohen died this past Nov. 7, Vin immediately flashed back to the interview he did with him on June 13, 1993. We knew we had to play it in its entirety for this episode of our podcast. ...
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Episode 13 - WPLJ Part Two from 2016-10-21T18:37:16
The new PLJ hires take a bus trip to some radical media makers at ZBS in upstate New York, Vin learns to make counterculture commercials, and engineers vs DJs
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Episode 12 - Vin at WPLJ, book recs, and that time Zacherley did that thing from 2016-08-10T16:31:40
And we're back! Still suffering from some technical problems forcing us to do this one over the phone, so apologies for the phone-syle audio. We've got some book recs, the history of Vin's doomed f...
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Episode 11 - David Bowie (The Lost Interview) from 2016-03-19T21:27:36
Vin and Kate listen to and discuss Vin's interview with David Bowie that was recorded in 1993 for a program called One on One that, up until now, had been thought to be lost forever. It was found b...
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Episode 10 - Santiago, Bullfighting, and Bowie from 2016-02-08T00:58:38
Kate and Vin catch up on how 2016 has been going so far. Kate was on tour in Chile. Vin claims to not remember that Kate once went to a bullfight. TV recs are mentioned, listener mail is read, and ...
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Episode 9 - Holiday with The Roches from 2015-12-20T18:36:21
A seasonal treat for the listeners of The Kate and Vin Scelsa Podcast: a rare recording of The Roches performing holiday music on "Vin Scelsa's Live at Lunch," recorded at Vin's studio at J+R Music...
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Episode 8 - Kurt Vonnegut from 2015-11-22T00:45:05
Vin and Kate introduce Vin's 1996 interview with legendary author Kurt Vonnegut
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Episode 7 - Books, Pop Stars, "Teacher Vin," and ABC-FM from 2015-11-08T23:38:49
Vin and Kate recommend their current reads, Kate goes on a rant about pop stars and feminism, and we cover the next chapter in Vin's radio history, when he left his doomed teaching career for his f...
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Episode 6 - Townes Van Zandt from 2015-11-01T18:04:02
In January of 1970, Dad, at twenty-two, was given the job of watching over the legendary singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt on his tour of midwestern college coffeehouses. This week on The Kate and...
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Episode 5 - The History of WFMU Part 3: The Final Show, 1969 from 2015-10-11T01:37:28
Vin and Kate finish up their history of WFMU and Vin's earliest days in radio by listening to a recording of his final show on WFMU in 1969.
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Episode 4 - The History of WFMU Part 2: Freddie at the 1968 Democratic National Convention from 2015-09-12T16:13:41
Vin, Freddie and Kate listen to audio from WFMU in the summer of 1968 when Freddie was working at the Chicago DNC and called in to the station to report on what was going on with the protests
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Episode 3 - The History of WFMU with special guest Freddie Scelsa from 2015-08-29T16:21:22
Kate interviews Vin and Freddie about the early days of WFMU
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Episode 1 - Kate Interviews Vin from 2015-07-20T23:56:06
On this first episode of the podcast, Kate interviews Vin about how his own teenage disillusionment brought him to radio and WFMU.
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