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Good morning, Birmingham 906 with Dixon and Vining. It is the 21st of November of 2024.

still can't believe that we're one week away from Thanksgiving 34 days away from Christmas. Oh gosh. 30 foot shot. Everyone's panicked. I'm not purchased one Christmas present, not even one for anybody. You guys are getting cool. That's fine. Don't save your money this year. That's good. We're going to fire those plants back up.

Absolutely. I'm going to put it to you under the guise of electric vehicle fuel. Here's some electric vehicle fuel, AKA coal. That'd be awesome.

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It's pretty fascinating, actually, to find out exactly how many people last the whole time. But you think about this. The Simpsons started as cartoon short on the old Tracy Olman show way back in 1989, but quickly turned out to be, if not much more, certainly at least as popular as anything that Olman did, so the shorts got approved as a weekly 30-minute animated sitcom.

Hundreds, literally hundreds of voices have come in and done anywhere from one line to a recurring character over the course of those years. But there are actually only seven people that have been there the entire time. Seven actors, voice actors have provided voices for the characters on the show. The entire run, Dan Castell, Anetta, who is the voice for Homer Simpson, notably. Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart, Julie Kavner, voices March.

Marge, Yardley Smith, the voice of Lisa, and then the three who voice those who are constantly in the lives of the Simpson family. You got Harry Shearer. For example, he's the voice of next door neighbor Ned Flanders, among others. The voice of Bartender, Mosislach, Hank Azaria, Hank does many other voices too. Bart's best friend, Millhouse, voiced by Pamela Hayden.

And let's be clear, Shearer Hayden and Azaria also do, like I said, many other voices. For example, Hayden does the voices for Jimbo Jones, who is one of Bart's bullies. She also voices the son of Neighbor Ned Flanders, Rod Flanders, too.

But if you're an aspiring voice actor, this could be the time. Hayden is done. Her last contribution to the long-running series will go to air this Sunday with the episode Treehouse of Horror Presents Simpsons Wicked This Way Comes, and she's done. She's not the first change to be made, in fact far from it, the actors who voiced Bart's teacher, Mrs. Krabapple,

Not the same one who, well, it's not the same teacher even anymore. First one was Marsha Wallace. She passed away in 2013, so they addressed that situation by getting a new teacher. Kerry Washington came on as Mrs. Payton. Phil Hartman voiced a lot of characters in the early years, but when he was killed, some of those characters went away. Others were assigned to new people.

Since Millhouse's Bart's best friend, they've decided in this case to keep those characters, they're gonna have to find a new person or people to voice those characters and the search is on right now. So I don't know who you apply to, but hey, good luck to you. Hayden said of her pending retirement quote, the time has come for me to hang up my microphone. How do I say goodbye to the Simpsons? Not easily. It's been an honor and a joy to have worked on such a funny, witty and groundbreaking show and to give voices to Millhouse, Jimbo, Rod, Janie, Malibu Stacy, many others.

She's had a long career, actually longer than The Simpsons, which 35 years is nothing to sneeze at, but she's been a voice actor and on screen going back to the late 70s. She got in front of the camera on shows like Hill Street Blues and Designing Women in the 1980s, got into voice work in 1984, has been steadily doing that for television, movies and video games ever since. But here's the question. I get it, we have to have a best friend for Bart Millhouse.

But Simpson's been going on for 35 years. How much more does the Simpsons have in the tank? Yeah, I think it's time to hang it up. I've watched a few recent ones and I'm like, you're kind of done. They're running out of material. I mean, they're repeating a lot of stuff. And you know, family guy has they've been on for 22 or 23 years and they're just getting meta. They're starting to kind of make fun of themselves for having been on for so long.

uh... the simpson's does that they don't seem to have that self-awareness they're just continuing to try to come up with new plots and whatnot it's like guys there's only so many different hijinks that homework and get involved in there at the nuclear plant that's true it's only so much one can do sooner or later you just got a blow up the entire town of springfield don't you here's what i don't understand she's a voice actor

She doesn't, you don't even have to go in and be with the other voice actors, okay? There was a time when that was done like Family Guy used to actually all do that together. And after about four or five years, they were like, this is crazy. Everyone just come in and record your lines whenever you can. Mila Kunis famously said, this is the best job ever. I get $250,000 a show. There's some shows I have three lines in.

like shot up girl this is crazy it's tough life there so i mean here's the check she she has to she could probably do it from home sure quite frankly in this day and age why are you retiring just keep doing it i'm sure you're being paid fairly well i think it's interesting by the way that mod flanders died right on the show they do and she died because the actress who did her voice wanted a raise

I kid you now. That's one way to take care of that situation. She was getting $2,000 an episode, which seems like a lot for what little bit she was doing. I mean, she mod was never the star of any episode, right? No. She wanted a raise to $5,000. So they killed her off, Homer, hit her with a t-shirt cannon when she was up in the top of the stands at race. And she got hit with a t-shirt cannon and went over the back.

And then she came back a couple of times when like mod Flanders was was appeared as a ghost or something. Yeah, she appeared as a ghost in one episode. And then she appeared as as the wife of the devil in another episode. It was a treehouse of horror episode, which by the way, they're doing another one of those is in late November. Yeah. That's going to be her last episode, right? This is the girl who's retired. They're sending up the release of the movie Wicked. Yeah.

Speaking of that, Wicked, did you see the AMC thing? I did. I did, and I agree with it allheartedly. You know what this is? AMC has a sign out front that says, please, you know, this movie's for everybody. Don't sing through the movie. They literally have a 30 second commercial that comes out ahead of the movie asking people not to sing through the movie. We're saying we're going to have a sing-along version on December 25th. That's for you.

But not this one. Look, I know every word to every song in that musical. I've got the soundtrack on in my car right now. Everything Richard can do now. I know like when she hits that last note of gravity. Oh my God. You know you want to join in. No question.

Because you can defy gravity and actually sing in that moment. Richard, I dare you. When you go to the movie, I want you to stand up where you are in the theater and just arms up in the air and belt it out. Why would I do that? Just for fun. Just be annoying. Just for a second or two. Just for a second or two. Just for a second or two. That's your job. I'm a good theater goer. Actually, the last couple of times I've been to the movies, I've been the only one there. Even if you're the only one in there, just go ahead and do it. Right. If you're the only one in the entire... If I'm the only one there, I will. Okay.

But I doubt that I think Wicked is going to be big enough that it's going to be a minute. There was a premiere last night that they did that I'm kind of like, whoa, wait a minute. There was a special Wednesday showing. How did I miss that? After I saw that musical, I've only been to New York once. And that just happened to be the musical that I saw. Yeah. I was ruined for every other musical is ruined for me because that was the best of the best to me. I mean, I think I saw cats, which

Mm. Yeah. Um, so I think just think the plot is brilliant. You know, what happened when they were roommates before the Wizard of Oz that you had me at that original Broadway cast, by the way. It was, it was, it was, it was Idina and Kristen. And I didn't even know how great I had it in that moment. Oh, I would kill. So good. I would kill to go back and see that. It really was good. So I, I can't see another one again.

Yeah, seeing a musical on Broadway will ruin you. I've seen the producers four times. First time I saw it was on Broadway. Unfortunately, not the original cast. Didn't get Nathan Laid and Matthew Broderick. I got a guy named Brad Oscar and Steven Weber. Remember him from Wings? Oh, my word. I love that show, by the way. I didn't even know he could sing and dance. He was fantastic.

I just, you know, if you have the chance, and I don't know if I'll ever make it back to New York, it wasn't my favorite place, but it was such a moment that you don't forget when you do have the chance. One time to do one of those things like that, I was just on high on life in that moment. Oh, I love musicals so much that I'd never been to one on Broadway, and this was the first one, and my then-wife bought me tickets and flew me on there, and she must have loved me, because

She hated musicals. So the fact that she was coming to a musical with me was a truly amazing was the one selfless I actually did in their entire relationship. But I sat there and I was just like, I was just brimming with anticipation and I realized, oh, this is like what people who like opera and the orchestra feel like when an opera or an orchestra is about to start. I met an opera in an orchestra and I'm looking at my watch and I'm like, how soon till I can get the hell out of here?

I feel that way about a musical that's on a, it's film. Yes. Really? Yeah. So you're not going to go see, I loved Wicked on, no, I am because I love the, but I love things. I like that on stage, but then in a movie, I'm like, Oh, sure. This is where everyone randomly sings and knows the same thing. Just irritates the snot. Oh, no, I love them.

Phantom of the Opera, I saw on Broadway, and it was... Was that amazing? I will never forget that. It was fabulous. I'd like to see that one. It really was good. I'm going to see the traveling version of Chicago at the BJCCC tomorrow in the concert hall. So, very excited about that. Not the group of Chicago. You and I saw them years ago. Yes. Well, would that be fun? They were great. Chicago in Chicago. Oh, yeah, we should do it. It's a play within a play.

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and she's like every morning we stand at this stop and we never talk to each other and i'm gonna make an effort to reach out to my fellow human being and she starts singing this song so much to the what's your name patty shut up patty it's hilarious but through her persistence she manages to get the entire group singing the lion sleeps tonight and then there's a twist ending which is just fantastic it is the funniest damn thing i thought

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Betty White gonna be honored with a new US postal stamp that captures her fun essence. Oh, yeah, let me some Betty White. Would you like to be on a postage stamp? Could you ever see yourself as being on a post? I don't really want that You know why because somebody's gonna lick the back of that thing Wow. No, they're self-adhesive now I think the worst part of it is is the fact that if I were honored with a postage stamp I wouldn't get to see it because I'd have to be

Yeah, you gotta be glad they don't put live people on this. Well, you know how humiliating that would be that other than a small area in the Birmingham Metro, people all across the United States would be like, well, who's that? If it was my stamp, I don't know her. I told you, Richard, I still have Elvis stamps. I can't remember what year, but I've got a whole page of them. Did you get the thin Elvis with fattels?

I think it's thin Elvis. If I remember correctly, they're kind of pink with some blue and his hair is dark. That's thin Elvis, yeah. Tastefully done. It was. Well, and it's amazing because they sold those things and a lot of people like yourself bought them and kept them. They had like frames you could put them on. Yeah, I didn't frame mine. And you go, well, how in the hell are you still losing money post office? Because you're selling stamps that people aren't using.

The Looney Tunes stamp, so when they came out with those, and I'm like, I didn't know Bugs Bunny was dead, but okay. And again, people buy them, they frame them, they put them up on walls and whatnot, you're like, how are you losing money? This is like, this is people using the, they're paying for the service, like paying a maid service and going, don't bother coming to clean. Just stay where you are. That's right. It's that self-adhesive stuff, it's probably very expensive. I think that's what it is. Yes, sure it is, that's really up the price of this stamp. Yeah, put them out of darkness. And fixing all those aging trucks. Remember, Christmas, mom used to have that little

the little cup with the water in it and the sponge in it and you do the stamp. Well, I think it was the wick, the y'all were rich. No, it was the check. It was the check stamps where you would get the little green stamps and the books and my mom would set us down with a little cup of water with a sponge and you dip them in there, the stamp in there and then put them in the book. We thought that was really great. She was like, I got

and put them all in there. And then you'd get to go buy something from the store for, I don't know, five dollars. I got a tennis racket. I got a tennis racket that you see how far that got me in life. We actually got a sewing machine, much like the Brady Bunchard doing about it. We got a sewing machine. The boys wanted a rowboat and the girls wanted it and the girls won.

But yeah, my mom got a sewing machine with the S&H Greenstone. Yes. But we didn't have the little thing with the moisture in it. Mom made it. She made it. She just bought a little tiny sponge. No, my mom had me. You were the sponge. I was both the sponge and the remote control in my house. Yeah, you were. And at Christmas time,

when they were sending out, because we used to do this, kids, we used to send out, you know, hundreds of cards. And it was all, we would take pictures for Christmas as a family, like we pretended to like each other for a minute. And then the next year, we would send out those pictures, you know, because we were by the Christmas tree. So year upon year, we were always one year behind with all of this. And then I would have to sit there and lick the stamp, lick the stamp, put them on these things. It was years later,

When I went digging around in the drawer, you know, that junk drawer that you have, and found some stamps that was there, and the sticky stuff was not on it any longer. Yeah, because a cockroach got a hold of it. It turns out cockroaches got stuff. And I'm like, how many of these did I lick? Yes, they eat it. How many of these did I lick from that came out of this very drawer? They were so bad in Florida that they would eat the liquor bottle, the labels off of liquor bottles. I do that. Me too. Delicious. The label.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. That is really gross, Richard. I know. I'm like, how many of these did I lick? The cockroaches have already eaten some of it probably. It's nine thirty-five. Digs are dividing. Talk then at five, talk then at five.com. Greg McElroy was singing this song on the hall the other day. I was walking down the hall just singing this and I'm like, that song like 20 years old. He goes, I don't know. It's just in my head. I can't get rid of it.

That's so funny. It is funny. We live a very strange life here, don't we? It's not unusual to just walk out this door and see Charles Barkley wandering down the hall at you, and he knows your name. And you're like, yeah, because he's been here often enough that

I've walked out and it was one of the Jackson's, Jackson brothers. Like Randy Jackson. And sunglasses on. Yeah, and I saw I wasn't quite sure. I knew there was a Jackson-esque quality. I'm like, oh, yeah, there goes a Jackson. Tito, I don't know which, Jermaine, I don't know who. Is it Jermaine? Jermaine. Jermaine, yeah. Jermaine, something like that. It's just random. And you're just like, oh, hey, I'm trying to get to the elevator because I'm tired and I want to go home. Oh, yeah. Great to see you, sir.

It's just weird. You don't think about it. You don't really, it's just, it's just our lives. Yeah. That's what it is. And we'll take it. I gotta tell you something, Richard. You see this right here behind me? That crappy blind that has fallen and has been... This awful blind right here. Literally been here for as long as this building has been here. Been here a long time. Literally the blind that has fallen and caked it up.

it actually bit the dust and we call bloomin blinds and mark came out and he's given us an estimate and we are going to have a new blind all i got we are going to have a new blind may happen next week or the week after not sure is never cc short i know so i'm super excited he came out did the measurement and is going to put up a new blind and if it is similar to the one that is back there in our sister station w j o x

We are going to absolutely love it. Oh baby. Because it might be a motorized treatment. What? There's a remote. Don't you lose that remote? We will. We will. I'll lock that remote. A little clear plastic. Yeah, right. Anyways, I'm super excited about it. And that's really what it's all about. BloominBlinds, Birmingham.com. Yes, they can come out and put treatments on these enormous windows we have at our business. It could be windows in your home. It is time for some blinds or shutters or shades

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They just actually bolt it to the cabinet or the nightstand or whatever. When I run across a hotel like that, and I stay in places like that all the time. I always take that out. I drink the quarters for the bed. Of course. The magic fingers. Come on. My parents let me have that bed. We would travel to South Dakota. We were in Missouri, like Columbia, and I got the vibrating bed. Oh, man. It was wonderful watching Johnny Carson sitting on that bed.

Little did on it. Childhood was awesome. How would you feel about craft, mac and cheese, everything bagel flavor? Yes. Okay.

You like it? Try it. Can we just go ahead on our own? Get out of there for breakfast tomorrow morning. You may. That sounds so good. There's a problem though, right? There's a catch with this. It's very, very limited supply. Yeah, that's the only thing. Can we take regular craft macaroni and cheese? Yes. I've got the bagel everything in the container already where you could sprinkle it on. I mean, I figured that's kind of what they did, only mixed it in with the cheese I guess. I assume so, yeah. You could probably get away with that. I don't know. Enjoy it.

All right, well, let's do this collectively. Let's see if we can find a box of this, right? Okay. When it comes out. I'll look and see. I don't want to. And then we'll do a comparison. You can only buy it online, walmart.com. Oh, okay. Oh, now everybody's gonna go get it. Way to go, Richard. I'm in there first right now. Sorry. Oh, I'm gonna go get the book. What if I don't tell them what day it's available? Okay, don't tell them. I'm not going to give you any word at all.

You don't need to know that it's going to be available on November 25th at 5 a.m. That's tomorrow. Oh, we'll be up. We'll be up. We'll be up. 20 seconds. 20 seconds. 25th, sorry. It's my 21st, right? What day is it? I'm just trying to get Thanksgiving here a little quicker. I know that's all there is to be someone being the voice of reason here. Because I was 25th. So that's my day. Yeah, we killed anybody yet, so. Darn it. This is a very weird story. First date.

fast food i i i i i i would never ever ask a one out for first date to a fast food restaurant and yet a majority of alabama men say they would fifty four percent of alabama in respondents shows mcdonald's as their top pick for a fast food first date pizza hot took second place taco bell came in third

Okay, I have a question. Yeah, just one. Why is it so bad? Why is it so bad? Don't yell at me. I'm not yelling. I'm curious. But I mean, are you this fast food? They're saying fast food first date. So it's not like first restaurant. They're saying fast food. If you're going to take your date to a fast food restaurant. I know you're looking, you're probably thinking Chick-fil-A, right? Are you thinking Chick-fil-A is fast food?

I'm thinking if I was on a first date with a girl, I wouldn't go to a fast food clinic. I'd take it to automatic seafood or I would take her. Everybody has that kind of money. The survey is about fast food first dates. Who the heck takes their first date on a fast food? I don't know. If you don't have money to go to a fancy restaurant, what if you can't afford it? And you barely have a fast food. Don't ask the girl on the date. Exactly. If you don't have the money, you're going to die alone like you're supposed to. You poor, sorry son of a bitch. That's where you go.

Wow, look at that. I haven't been here in a month that I don't even know you anymore. Hey, take care to Animatics, which is lovely. But not everybody got that concast. That is a lot. That's exactly what it is. Not everybody has high flute and high air right there. I would save up.

That's what I would do. I would actually, I would save my pennies and my dimes over here. I would make sure that I had money. Let's back this up. Let's back this up. Yeah. You know, you're 25 years old, Richard. Let's just go back in time. Yeah. All of us in radio. Okay. Twenty five years old. A couple of important things in TV at 25. I have hair. Right. That's number one. Okay. I have hair. Two. Probably stoned. Okay. Good chance. You catch me any day when I'm 25. I was five as a kite.

You're on a ramen noodle budget and you meet this hot chick that you are dying to take out, but you're living on a McDonald's budget. And nowadays that McDonald's budget's kind of high-end if you know what I mean. It's pricey. So what are you doing at 25 first date? I die alone. Oh, you're such a liar. You're such a liar. You're so law. The way they didn't have money, I never took a girl to a fast food restaurant on the first date ever. But that's all you got? No. Never.

Oh yeah, I'm so calling, I'm calling you out on this. You're calling however you want. I never ever took a girl to a fast food restaurant on a first date. I don't think I ever took a girl to a fast food restaurant on a date ever, much less a first date. But he was stoned and had long hair. Absolutely. So I mean, you got to weigh it out here to see. I don't have the long hair, but I wasn't stoned all the time. I'll be more than happy to give you some references that'll tell you I never took him to a fast food restaurant on a first date.

All right, now I'm going to have another question. Why is pizza considered fast food? That is a restaurant. That is fair because I may have taken a girl to pizza. I may have done that. I may have taken it. But that was back when Pizza Hut was a sit down, right? They didn't even deliver back then. Right.

When you're 25 and you go, Hey, and they had that fast food anyway. They had that fancy salad bar too back then. Oh, man. All the kale on it. Come on. There's no kale on that. No, there was no. No, no, it was decorative. Oh, the decorative pizza hut was the largest purchaser of kale in the United States for about a decade there because they would buy it and they'd put it around the. There's some trivia you can share with a family around the Thanksgiving table.

What point did it go from decorative to, we should make things from that? Yeah, good question. Because it's nasty. Because it's not as gay. It's got a spine. I don't like it. They should regret that for the rest of their lives. Yeah, they should. It does. 54% of men surveyed said they would consider taking a first day to a fast food restaurant. 66% of women said they would say, yes, if a man asked them.

out to a fast food restaurant. I have been doing this wrong all my life. Yep, majority rules. All my life. I'm taking women to automatic seafood and they'd be perfectly happy with Taco Bell. Is this just Alabama? No, this is the entire country. Okay, well.

So each state has different answers. In the national ranking, Chick-fil-A came in first place. Because of God. Dairy Queen came in second. What? Here's the one thing you know. If Chick-fil-A was it? If you're taking girls to Chick-fil-A, you're not dating them on Sunday. No, you are not. No, you're in church. We're in church. Dairy Queen came in second. Sonic Drive-in and Pizza Hut tied for third.

Really, the drive-in, okay. Because you don't want to get out of the car. No, exactly. Who would work there? Oh. This is a lot of drive-in movie. Just leave those tighter dots there. Right there on the dash. Ma'am. Is that like the tie on the doorknob? It's a little foggy in here. I think I would have cracked that window. We would be fun dates, I think.

Oh, it'd be entertaining. I guarantee you. Oh, Lordy and our work is done here today. That's it. I need to get. Christmas. Now we can't do that at the Christmas extravagan. Oh, you should. You watch me. I won't be on TV that night. I don't care. Oh, yeah. You got the night off. I don't know anybody there. Excellent. Wow.

I may, I don't know. Pepsi is releasing a new flavored soda for Christmas. Would you like to know what it is? Please make it good. Oh, sure. Yeah. Sorry, it's gingerbread. That's not going to happen. I'll try it. Will you? Yes. Former spicier flavors of the season. Pepsi zero sugar gingerbread.

I love gingerbread, but I'm not sure how... I'm not sure. Okay, I'll sample it. If I run across a can somewhere, I'll buy one can and try it, okay? I did this with the... What was it? The spice? The Coca-Cola spice? I tried that. If it hadn't had the raspberry in there, I think I would have liked it. Why is that spicy? I was over the top on the spice for me. Yeah, the spice was okay. The raspberry... Can I make a suggestion with this?

Add a little bourbon. A little bourbon and your zero gingerbread Pepsi. Okay, that brings all their twists to dicks and then behind and try stuff. Yeah, it does. I'm here for it. Can I get you? Okay, we'll wait for a Thursday. Eggnog, yeah, a little eggnog with that. I have an update on the Everything Bagel Mac and Cheese. Okay. If you go on the Walmart app, you can pre-order and it arrives by the release date of November 29th. How did you get that? I just looked on the app because I order my groceries on the app. Oh, because you have the app, you are able to order them. Yeah, so I'm getting two boxes.

Gonna love that. Hey that paycheck kicks y'all look out

Real quick, yeah. Jersey Mike's, you said Valerie is your favorite subshot? One of them, yes. It's being sold. What? True story. Asset management giant Blackstone is spending $8 billion to acquire the majority ownership of Jersey Mike's. Well, they'll continue it as Jersey Mike's. No, they're changing the name to Jersey Phil's. Are Blackstone jerseys or something? Blackstone's buying it. That's really interesting. No longer a part of this operation. It's Jersey Phil.

From now on. I don't like Jersey Phil. McDonald's debuting, you know, the breaking out the McRib again. So ready to sandwich return. How would you like a half gallon jug of McRib sauce? Yeah, they're selling half gallons of McRib sauce. The one time that I try to McRib, I remember the sauce as being overly sweet. It's disgusting.

it is again if you are in the south and especially in Birmingham Alabama where we have enough really great barbecue restaurants that you have to use both hands if you're gonna count them off and you're getting a McRib this is like being in Italy and getting dominoes like what is wrong with you why are you why are you doing this what is what is going on inside your head or who did you ask out on a first date

at a good point. It's like being at the Gulf and going to Red Lobster. No offense, honey. Why? I mean, shots fired. It's like being in Mexico and going to Taco Bell. What are you doing with your life? Do they have Taco Bell in Mexico? They did for a minute. It did not believe it or it didn't make it. Really? Did not make it. People are like, oh, this is awful. Do you remember when they're slogan was make a run for the border? Yeah. I tell young people at work that they're like,

What? It seems so wrong. It's really not good to use that anymore. Did they still use that slogan? Taco Bell? I'm not. I'm not. They did away with that. They went to Yokeiro Taco Bell. Yeah, the little dog. And now it's same six items. We just rearranged them. That's right. That's what they ought to say.

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We have got, we'll be here Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and then we got other plans for Thursday and Friday, stuff that is worth listening to. Got a best of coming up on Friday. Yeah, we do. Yeah. A lot of fun. Don't know how Steve managed to find anything that qualifies as a best of. Well, maybe this last hour we've been doing. Oh, yeah. This alone should find its way into that.

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Question of the day. In honor of Wicked, the movie opening today. What is your favorite song from a musical? Your favorite song? From a musical Unreal in the Bay. Julie Andrews from Sound of Music, my favorite things. And it was not a Christmas song originally, but became one in the 60s when she performed it on a TV show. So I love it, love it, love it. Uh-huh.

I've always wondered why that was considered a Christmas song. I thought it was because it had, you know, snowflakes that melt on my nose and eyelashes. It's probably why she chose it to sing on the show. Silver-white winters that melt into springs, all the great visual imagery. Somebody tried to tell me it's because, well, it's because they always showed that movie around Christmas time. I'm like, not in my neck of the woods. No, it's always more like around Easter. What about you, Steve West? Uh, Greece, you're the one that I want. Oh, okay.

That was actually only in the movie. That was not in the Broadway presentation. How about you Valerie? I'm going with sound and music. The hills are alive. You know what? I catch myself doing that. I don't know what triggers it that I'll be in the house doing something and all of a sudden and I'll be like,

I'm like, why am I singing this? We should go to a fast food restaurant and sing show tunes. I like it. What you ought to do is go see Wicked and then just start singing The Hills are Alive. Sing it during the show. You're not singing along with Wicked. They're going to read the kick out. By the way, did you see Lady Gaga do the tribute to Julie Andrews years ago?

I did not. Oh, yeah. She did a tribute. Fantastic. Tell you, Lady Gaga is an incredible artist. She was so intent on making that good that she worked with a vocal coach for six months to be able to sing all of those Julie Andrews songs and sing them right. And I got to tell you, I was blown away by how good it was. I'm going to go to something from the music, man. Let's say, yeah. Oh, trouble. You got trouble right here in River City with the Capitol T and that rhymes with P and that stands for pool.

Well, all right. OK. Thank you for that, Richard. I could pick 200 different songs. I'm such a musical fan. Many of the answers were received online classics all tonight from West Side Story, Sound of Music. Sit down and you rocket the boat from Guys and Dolls. Great one, Steve. Fantastic. You know who did a really good version of that? Don Henley.

Don Hanley did it in the movie, uh, Leap of Faith. Steve Martin film? Remember that one? Yeah. On that soundtrack. Wow. Don Hanley did a version of Sit Down Your Rock of the Boat. So good. Uh, White Christmas. Yeah, I love White Christmas. Oh yeah. Pinball Wizard? Yes, that was a Broadway musical. Uh, Music of the Night by Fred of the Opera. King Cry Baby from Cry Baby. Oh yeah. He reigns in Spain stays mainly on the plane My Fair Lady.

Don't rain on my parade from Funny Girl, man. We got some real musical fans here Maria from West Side Story. I just met a girl named Maria Anthem from chess

E. Grease Leiten, greatest showman, love changes, everything. Music of the night, pretty woman from, pretty women rather from Sweeney Todd. Mr. Cellophane from Chicago, I'm looking forward to seeing that tomorrow night. The version that appears in the movie is spectacular. All I want of you, or I'll ask of you from Phantom of the Opera.

Lon put something up from the South Park musical, bigger, longer, and uncut. I cannot say the name of it on the air. You dare. But it's a song that Terence and Philip sing, and it is hysterical. It is, hysterical. I found myself singing this the other day while I was walking around. I was literally singing the song as I was walking around my house, and I was like, how did that just leap into my head? Yeah. No one knows.

Skid Row downtown from Little Shop of Horrors, Love Little Shop of Horrors. Memory from Cats. Okay. James, stop listening. You have to go away now. Sing into the rain. Seasons of Love. Carol King, beautiful. Every song. Okay. Pretty much anything from hair. Ragdoll, Jersey Boys. Seasons of Love. Adelweiss. Hot Petootie.

Bless my soul. Really love that rock and roll meatloaf from Rocky or a picture show, of course. If I were a rich man, hey, somebody finally brings up Fiddler on the roof. Finally. Good stuff. A theme from Once Upon a Time in the West. I don't know if that's a music. Is that a musical? All right. That's it. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No.

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