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11/27/2025

The tradition continues! Enjoy Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Resturant at 12 noon today and again at 5pm for that second helping on 98.5 The River 🦃

11/27/2025

Enjoy your day with Family and Friends. Have a great Thanksgiving. 🦃
~Stech’

11/26/2025

Happy Wednesday! 😜

11/26/2025

This Day In Music -

1983 - Quiet Riot's Metal Health hits #1 in America, becoming the first heavy metal album to reach the top spot. It's one of just six albums to top the chart in 1983, as Thriller had (22 weeks) and the Police's Synchronicity had (17 weeks).

1969-John Lennon works on a Beatles song for the last time when he mixes "You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)" at Abbey Road Studios. The song is used as the B-side of their "Let It Be" single.

1965 - After cleaning a church in Massachusetts where they had
Thanksgiving dinner the day before, Arlo Guthrie and a friend clean up the place, but toss the trash down a hill when they can't find an open dump. They were arrested, fined $25 each, and forced to pick up the garbage. When they return to the church, Guthrie writes "Alice's Restaurant" about the incident. Now a classic holiday song running 18 minutes and 34 seconds long.

11/26/2025

Brain T**z -

Q: Despite the stereotype of dislike, 46% of people say they actually do enjoy this holiday treat. What is it?

Answer: (Fruitcake)

11/26/2025

Stech's "Good Stuff" today is about a guy in Utah covered his truck in Christmas lights for a good cause. He does it every year to help raise money and awareness for a men's mental health charity called the I Love You, Bro Project. He started with 100 lights in 2019 . . . and installed 28,000 on his truck this year. It took almost two miles of wire to connect them all.

Reed Taylor, a West Valley City native, wrapped his Ford Super Duty truck with 28,000 Christmas lights this year.

11/26/2025

FAQtoid -

Did you know that ripe cranberries bounce like rubber balls? They have tiny air pockets inside that allow them to float and bounce around. A trait that has historically been used by farmers as a test for freshness.
Wisconsin is the top cranberry-producing state, a title held for over 30 years. Agricultural groups there say, "For it to be considered ripe, it must bounce one foot off the ground." Americans consume approximately 80 million pounds of cranberries for Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving to all. 🦃

11/26/2025

11/25/2025

This Day In Music -

1967 - "Incense and Peppermints" by Strawberry Alarm Clock hits #1 on the chart. The song is co-written by the band's guitarist, Ed King, who later joined Lynyrd Skynyrd.

1984 - In London, Bono, George Michael, David Bowie, Paul McCartney and a host of other stars record vocals for "Do They Know It's Christmas?," the first big all-star charity single. It becomes a holiday favorite and raises over $14 million for famine relief in Africa.

1989 - Thanks to a video that got a lot of spins on MTV, Alice Cooper's "Poison" hits #7 on the charts. It became Alice's first Top 40 hit in nine years.

1992 - In her first film role, Whitney Houston plays a pop diva under the protection of Kevin Costner in 'The Bodyguard'. The highlight of the movie is Houston's rendition of "I Will Always Love You," which hits #1 three days after the movie's release.

11/25/2025

Brain T**z -

Q: Every year around 40,000 of these are turned into Disney World's lost and found.

Answer: (Sunglasses)

11/25/2025

Morning friends!