If you had ten seconds to converse with your dog, what would you say?

March 9, 2026·1 hr 22 min·7 clips

Brian asks what you'd say to your dog in 10 seconds if it could understand you, and Gene pleads with his anxious dog to just chill out.

Mid-60s will do it. The hosts open on the kind of nice morning that puts motorcycles back on the road, makes the ride in feel easy, and still leaves everyone side-eyeing winter. Snow is not gone. They run through a warm Monday, the colder week coming behind it, possible snow on Wednesday and Saturday morning, and the small math of getting outside while the weather is willing. Yard work slips right into it. Dog cleanup, garage dirt, leaves, and whatever vehicles dragged in all become part of the same morning mess, because that is pretty much how that conversation goes. Then the mood gets heavy. A story about a kid dropped at the hospital with no adult there after seven hours of surgery hits the room as flat-out wrong. Nobody gives it a soft landing. When a joke tries to sneak in, it gets shut down fast, because the hosts are clear that this is not the same kind of situation. Then the show resets into rock mode. Vince Neal, Sebastian Bach, Quiet Riot, and Steven Piercy come up around a June show at Mabel Grove venues in West Salem. The pitch is easy enough: outside drinks, outside music, familiar songs, fireflies, and beers that taste better because it is summer. Still, they argue the category. Do those names really fit with rock stars whose solo careers did not work, when plenty of them are still playing the band songs people paid to hear? Sebastian Bach gets the bad blood version of the Skid Row split. Steven Piercy gets the breakup and litigation history around the band name. Freddie Mercury comes in as the cleaner counterexample, with Queen's hiatus giving them a way to talk about solo success without flattening every frontman story into the same shape. The close comes back home: riders get the safety reminder, rain gets credit for washing things off, messages get thanked, and the warm Monday signs out.

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Loose morning-show banter that clicks best when it turns to 80s rock history.

This morning-show segment wanders from weather and motorcycles to yard work and a few jokes before settling into 80s rock nostalgia. The loose, zigzag pace is part of the appeal, even if it never locks onto one subject for long.

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For weather banter, busted rock-band nostalgia, and a Freddie Mercury detour, hit play.

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