Struggle Buddies

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TODAY’S MUSIC WAS:

• Intro music is always SUNSHINE SUPERMAN by Jerry Hahn 
• GEISTER by Spinnen
• THE ORGE by Joe Chambers and Larry Young
• STRUGGLE BUGGY by William Eaton
• ROCKET USA by Suicide
• RUN RUNAWAY by Slade
• ARGOS FARFISH by Sharhabil Ahmed
• THE CRUSHER by The Novas

TODAY’S SEGMENTS WERE:

• ANDY READS A PASSAGE FROM MOTHER’S DIARY
• ANDY’S CORRECTIBLES
• JUST ANOTHER PSYCHEDELIC SUNDAY
• THE DIARY OF FOUNDOS AND ME

TODAY’S CALLERS WERE:

• SCHMID SCHMID
• SOPHIE HARWIGSMICHAEL
• NACHO MAN DANNY CABBAGE

And, finally, as always:
 MOTHER CARRIES US OFF TO SLEEP WITH HER GENTLE WORDS OF WISE-DOM.
 THANK YOU WXRW 104.1 RIVERWEST RADIO and MOST OF ALL THANK ~YOU~ FOR LISTENING TO OUR SHOW!!!!!!

With love from
 A&W

Original Airdate: 4/7/2026, S2 E20

Transcript

SPEAKER_10 0:04

Good afternoon before the early evening to one and all. This is Andy Positive and Wileita and we are bringing to you live from Riverwest Radio on the perfectly dusty street of Center, Mother's Musical Diaries with Andy and Wileita. Now with a hot new phone line. Call or text the show at 414-812-1730. That's 414-812-1730. 1730, a great year for the furry Venezuela poodle moth! Ha ha! Which is really written really is furry. It's like super furry. It has huge big dark eyes in it. It does sort of look like a poodle, if I'm being honest. Okay, check that out, mother lovers. Okay, as it goes. We start every show with a diary entry from Mother, and then at some point we play a song from our musical archives. And finally we end each show with mother breathing closely. Then entering my room to impart wisdom that offers a good, deep sleep. And that's the way we like to start the show, and that's the way we end the show, and that's the way we like to do it. But first, a few words from mother. A diary entry. Digging in the yard yesterday, getting it ready for some spring planting, and what did I find but an old Easter egg fully intact? Who knows how long it has been there? I know it's an ancient tradition related to fertility and what have you. But I'm sure, I'm pretty sure there's only been property on this lot since the post-World War II development. Well, not including the monomine and ho-chunk nations, of course. But I don't know that they buried Easter eggs. Anyway, I brought the egg into the house, and of course, as soon as my back was turned, Larry ate the darned thing, and then proceeded to vomit all night. Does it never end? Oh mother, Larry is such a moron, eh? Such a moron! Uh I remember him eating that thing. It was all dark and jelly looking. Uh he was like a dog, mother. Just he just used to eat everything, not excluding his dingleberries. Ha! D ch I know, I know, I know where I mean, I know TMI, I know. But truth and reconciliation is the only way for me to move forward from his monstrosity, mother, and it looks like maybe. Do we have that? Do we have some breaking news? Let's live from 104.1 FMWXRW River Rest Radio, we have a news, live news breaking update and dispatch report. This just did the president of the United States just threatened genocide. Yeah, okay, well. Yeah, that's so the mother lovers are just that's a kind of preface to the show, I guess. I don't know. That just came in through the wire. And I gotta say, yeah, well, I hate to say it. Well, we gotta is that that's gonna be just kind of like bopping around in the back of your head. I don't know what you do from there, but I gotta say, we gotta we have a show to do, and I guess we gotta do the show, and I don't know. We gotta hope that uh the political class and the ruling class, I don't know, they have to act, you know, and you know, and maybe we do too. I don't know. Uh I got the vote, and I got uh I guess I gotta I saw a neighbor with a Moltoff cocktail. I never really thought of that. Kind of afraid of gasoline, but uh who knows? Okay, uh truth and reconciliation uh for Larry, uh his calamitous effects on the family, and I want you to think about that, mother lovers. Call 414-812-1730 with your thoughts on a truth and reconciliation hearing on the calamitous effects of Larry Positive on the family. And we produce uh witnesses, including uh I don't know, maybe well, Larry, of course. Uh well uh I guess we could subpoena Officer McKigney and maybe Lenny Sagowski. And I could probably dig up a few others too. I you know, I kinda like it. Call 414, text 414-812-1730. If you agree that it'd be a good idea to hold a truth and reconciliation hearing, mother lovers. Uh but here's here's something here's something I know we're gonna agree on. I'll tell you that much, the greatness of this song, and it's by a young up-and-coming duo from Munich, Germany, Spinin. That was outstanding. I found that record at a Milwaukee record shop for$7.99. And I picked it up because the cover had Easter colors and it was the pastelli palette pastelli palette. And we were nearing Easter, and I just thought, isn't that curious that I would find an Easter colored album? The this close to Easter, and I I'm not even really I'm not really uh aside from clamber, I'm not really religious. And uh the front image is a washed-out photo of two young women. And then I turned the album over and then and got the notes on the back that indicated it was a duo, and they played all of the instruments, and uh and I'm always game for a duo, mother lovers. If you're gonna pull off a d a band as a duo, you gotta do something unique to make it sound full. So says me. So I put the needle down, and uh I gotta tell you immediately I said, oh boy, this was this was mispriced. This is not an eight dollar album. Uh, you know, so the Slade. Slade has some$8 albums, but a new album from 2025 that sounds like this for$8? Listen, mother brothers, the other lovers, the whole album is great. You gotta check it out. The band's name is Spinin', and the album is Warmest Licks, yeah, or something like that. And uh just a quick note to the band if you're listening, the spine was this record spine was super hard to read. I had no idea what the album was was because I couldn't find any information on the spine, but then Waylita said uh she said, uh no, it's just printed really small. And uh she was right, it's really small, but the moral of the story is I'm gonna play this album on every show over the course of the next couple of months because it's really good. You gotta check it out. You know, it looks like we gotta call her Waylina, yeah. Just go ahead and catch that through. Yeah. Okay, I'm gonna take that call, Waylina. Yeah, go ahead, mother lover. What do you got? You're the hey, what do you think? You're the first you're the first caller to the show today. Yes, I am thinking that maybe you're not saying that it's Schmidt and it means something like spiders. Who is calling if I may ask? Wiley, did you hear did you hear that? Yeah, you know, Schmidt Schmidt. Yeah, Schmidt. Okay, Schmidt Schmidt. Thanks for coming. Uh the name of the song that we just played was from Spain was um Geister, I think. Wiley checked it. I think it's yeah, I think it's Geister. Yeah, Geister. This this this is meaningful. Uh very good are you playing this? You're listening to the show because you heard this one. So you would have what I just said about it. And having pleasure, which is something I do, and I am eating too much my banana with sausage uh before bed. Uh how do I say to create difficulty uh on the toilet? Uh which is my choice. Uh yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, uh I don't think I understand. And I don't want to know to be frank. Go ahead, hang up, Wyalita. Yeah, okay. Uh l look, folks. Uh listen, I love, I love, I listen, I love the calls. Love the engagement, but uh please, we don't need to hear about your toilet habits. Uh, Walita, can you put something on the record platter to wash my mind of Schmid Schmid? And I'm just gonna kind of fade that out. I think I screwed that up, Wyalita. Yeah, I gave you the wrong uh I gave you the wrong track number. And uh that has that is all my fault. Yes, I know, Wyolita. It's uh yeah, it's actually the second track on Saturday. And uh this is a team operation, and as you as anyone knows, if you know anything about team sports, you know that the team is only as good as the weakest link. And in this particular instance, I am absolutely the weakest link. And I have to say I apologize for that. And so, are we ready to go here, Wyolita? And uh, Wyalita, I wonder if you could I wonder, yeah. Oh, there we go. Okay, and so yeah, I'm just it's on the platter. Okay, let's see if we can get this going this time. Yeah, that sounds a little more like it. Yeah, great call, Wylita. Great call! Joe Chambers and Larry Young on the fantastic album from Mother's LP Collection. Yeah, the album is double exposure. Uh that song with Joe on piano and uh tabla and uh Larry on the synthesizer and organ. Uh, that song was titled Orgy. Oh. Now it could be a misspelling, uh, for for Orgy or Ogre. Maybe it's just a new word. I had no idea. Uh the album was a posthumous release just shortly after Mr. Yo Mr. Younghead died months after, if I'm not mistaken, and uh I could be mistaken because research and development is sting gonna sleep at the wheel again. Oh, hard, how the heck hard is this? It either was or wasn't a posthumous release! Yeah, I know, and I'm at my wits in too. Let's just say it's a posthumous release. It was recorded in 1977, and Young died in 1978, and uh yeah, okay, look at there's a picture at the back and the dead the dead blast album is dedicated to Larry Young. Okay, it says that I quote, this album is dedicated to the late Larry Young, whose spirit lives on in the illumination of the soul of those touched by his music. Uh so end quote. So there it is. Why why does it matter? Because truth matters, mother lovers. So long as truth matters, we should do our best to get the facts in order, research, and develop a good gravy. Good as gravy, creamy, and it always delivers. You can put it on just about anything. That's right, it's Andy's correctables. Okay, Andy's correctibles. Alright. Let's get s let's get serious here, uh, brother lovers. Gotta skip in the album. Okay. Okay, we got a lot to correct. Okay, first, Ms. Sophie Harwigsmichael. Last week you called in with the Rolos Lobos. And the game where you artfully combined in the respective entirety a candy and a band name. Okay, Ms. Sophia Harwigs Michael was awarded a win with her submission of Queen's Delight Rikes Fruity Sweets. And uh, Wylita about lost her mind. Yes, I know, that's why we're doing this, if I may. Okay, so Queen's Delight Rike Fruity Sweets really ruffled Wylita's feathers because she did, in fact, invent the game. Yeah, so she has a very clear idea on what's what, and so this is difficult to say, Ms. Harwin's Michael. But your Rolos Lobos was incorrect! It should have been Queen's Reich Delight Fruity Sweets. I'm so sorry. In order to get that original hand drawing, Ms. Harwis Michael, you'll need to call in next week and deliver a new and correct Rolos Lobos. So really so sorry, Ms. Harwoods Michael. Yeah, I'm really sorry.

SPEAKER_13 22:02

Just for the day. From your wanna be swept away.

unknown 22:17

Far away.

SPEAKER_06 22:30

When I was a kid growing up down south, everybody had an old raggedy car they called a struggle bucket. It was usually sitting out in the back of the house under the biggest shade tree in the yard. So you could work on it in the cool. And folks would call you the shade tree mechanics. Al week long after work, you'd be out there racing the engine and then subtract your parts. And by the weekend you'd have it together to run and gun. And you and your buddies wouldn't hit the road looking up for the big foss.

SPEAKER_13 23:02

Just a simple country road, but to me it's like you've ever known. Me and Willie D and Bubba, big old Shaq, baby brother too. Taking cousin Mabel to the city, then we do just like we wanna do. You're not gonna do it long enough. But we're having so much fun till we just go. Take your foot off that accelerator and fix that ramp new mirror.

SPEAKER_05 23:38

Hey, ain't that WW and the old Chevy? Hey, hey, WW, is that old ragged that face still running?

SPEAKER_08 23:48

Oh, baby, you're about to go race.

SPEAKER_02 23:50

Oh, how a little competition to your body. Send a message to your brain.

SPEAKER_12 24:32

Loosen up and let your ear love flow.

SPEAKER_16 24:36

You can hear it, you don't have to strain.

SPEAKER_02 24:40

You may not have a lot of money.

unknown 24:44

And you may not ever go to France.

SPEAKER_16 24:48

But what you got in cross the water? Make 50 million Frenchman stands. So do things that make you feel a thing.

SPEAKER_07 25:02

Look up ahead. You see why?

SPEAKER_08 25:05

It's the highway patrol, and it got WWE rolling with the down. Scream on it, man.

SPEAKER_12 25:12

Hey, WW, what's happening? Hey, do your dick, homie? That man is a man.

SPEAKER_01 25:19

Hey, mama, what's wrong with you? I can't see nothing. You all is weapon.

SPEAKER_07 25:24

Well, come on up front with me. Climb over and see. How is that? Okay.

SPEAKER_01 25:28

I wanna blow the horn.

SPEAKER_07 25:30

Oh, go ahead on. Alright.

SPEAKER_01 25:34

I wanna go fast.

SPEAKER_07 25:36

Oh, you do, huh? Hey, Shaq, look out the back window. See any of the police?

SPEAKER_12 25:41

He's still back there raging up to you.

SPEAKER_16 25:55

I do bite up as you can. I do bite the mask. I do that. I you better hear with the baby. Are you back? Don't push up here with the baby buggy. Are you back? Don't push up here with the baby bug.

SPEAKER_10 27:08

Yeah, great call on that song by William Eaton. And uh, mother lovers, listen, if you have if you're curious, like, hey, what the heck is Andy? What are Andy and Waylita? What are they listening to on the show? I can never hear what he's saying. Cause I'm doing the dishes or I'm taking the dog off for a run. And uh you could just go to the podcast and uh Waylita does a great job of uploading all the names of the various artists and the albums, and uh you could go to iHeartRadio or Spotify or what's that other one? Uh the Apple Places we're on all the podcast places. And uh check that out if you want to really see what we're listening to and so again. I think you were insinuating that I was going to be wrong. The name of the song was Struggle Buggy. Not Struggle Buddy. Tater Tats, Tater Dudes. Uh you know it goes great when you just really great with taters. And also Sleepy Dan! Ha ha ha! Sleepy Dan, okay, holy Jamoly, I love that band. Suicide from 1977. You want to talk about being ahead of your time? Please, I mean way ahead of the curve, that band. And Alan Vega and Merchant Rev. Uh, good golly to have been in New York City in the late 70s and stumble on that performance. Gosh darn it if I don't get the chill bumps just thinking about it. And uh, one time I had a chill bump that got way out of hand. Got super big, just kept growing and growing. And uh I couldn't hide it under my shirt no more. And uh you can't you can't fit a shirt over it. And uh you know how it goes with chill bumps. They come and go uh really quickly, and they're always connected to a specific experience we thought. They're not supposed to just hang around way past the feeling. That doesn't make any sense any anyway. Uh I had to go to the super grocery for some so I walk sideways. I had to shuffle my way. Uh my god, my normal kind of facing forward to the oncoming sidewalk traffic, you know. Looks like we have a call there, yeah. Let's just go ahead. Yeah, I'm just gonna pick that up. Yeah, why lead? I can finish I'm just gonna go ahead and I'm gonna finish that story. Go ahead, call her. What do you got? Michael What a pleasure. I just relistened to your podcast on the philosophy of language. We really we are like Wiley Wiley, I think I'm thinking for Wiley to do. We eagerly await your next telephone conversation. Looks like we got another uh snafu here in the studio, and that's alright because this was I Wiley Lita! Yeah, the game's even now, friend! It really is even. Yeah, it's even so uh the remember the team is only as strong as its weakest link, alright? That weakest link is on you! And uh so let's just see if we can get that song queued up and see if we can't play it. Yeah, this looks like the right side. Yeah, the the side with the lines, still think about Schmidt man. She tried to pull a fast one. She sh- I think she hates that song. That's why she tried to cue up that other song. But we got live radio here. No do-overs, no over no Yeah, no overdubs. Just raw energy straight from the inner choir as it goes. In real time, other lovers, see Chamellia lying there in the sun. All thanks to everyone. Run run away. I couldn't have said it better myself. Slade! They're an old British glam band from the from like the late 60s, uh what have you. They just had this big hit in the early 80s, run run away! And um Yeah, the guitar is the memory serves. Uh, because RD can't be moved to do other things. Yeah. Yeah, looking at you, Werby! No, not really, I know it's not your job. It's not your job, and RD can't be moved to do a single thing around here. So memory serves, yeah, the lead guitar is from this lady where this huge stove type. Stove type hat. And uh sort of like the lead singer from Fortnite Blondes. And uh then later, of course, the slash from Guns and Roses. And uh I'm not sure about the big hats posted in the 1880s. It just screams uh something, and I'm just not sure what it is. I'm gonna have to think on that. Uh but here's something I never have to think about because it's already written. And I guess I might not each all read a short passage from my unpublished memoir, titled The Diarrhea Foundos of Me, which will be illustrated by Waylita. And each show will get a little deeper into the story. Last week Andy witnessed Uncle Charlie raise the back of his hand in a gesture of violent intimidation. What the heck could possibly go next? July thirty one. The sleeping situation has gone without remark because I hate my roommate. He stinks, he farts, he talks about money, and his eyes are dead. Also, his underwear doesn't fit, so the elastic slips below his butt and his dumb hips balloon over the band. Normally I wouldn't care, but he's awful. I dreamed that he was forcing me to eat dry toast, and Bilbo was watching from his cage with both hands on the glass, and he was rocking back and forth. I grabbed Lewin's hip, but my hand just sunk into a huge endless bowl of soft dough. I kept doing this, grabbing and grabbing. A cat kneading a sleeping bag. Then I saw him trimming grass and it was perfect. The edge, the shape, the color, the light. Uncle Charlie came out and they struggled over the trimmer. I woke up and my toe was bleeding. I wouldn't be surprised if Lewin picked it in the night. That's the kind of person he is. A toe vampire.

SPEAKER_03 45:24

I'm the homo mac away.

SPEAKER_04 45:41

Arkus periphery fish helly kry. Arkus periphul by fish helly. Arkus peripish met on the boy. Let's do an job is why that looks like Argos periphery. Argos peripherish met convey. Argos per il pish and liquidity. Argos per il fish met convict. Let's give me the house. Argus very bishop. Argus very bismat convey.

SPEAKER_10 49:39

Oh boy, that was Sher Habil Ahmed, the king of Sudanese jazz with a with a song called Argo Spairfish. And uh that opening guitar link is just crazy. I love it so much. What a sound! What a song! Hey Wailita, we gotta hear more from Sher Habil Ahmed in the coming weeks, don't you think? Yeah, let's do that, let's do that. And what a show today, mother lovers. We heard Schmin, and then Schmid Schmid told us about his toilet fetish. It was really weird, and then a bunch of other stuff happened. And then Shar Habil Ahmed just played a song for the ages, and it's not over the show, it's not over. It's not over in the least, and I think I see the the the soundware just lighting up there. It looks like we have another call there, Waylita. Yeah, we're just gonna go ahead and we're gonna take that. If I could just kind of patch that one in. Okay, uh I just I gotta chew my golf drop. Just so you know, call her uh because of our miscues, we're running out of time, so you listen, fella. Uh you have got to keep this shirt okay. Go ahead, what do you got? This is natural man, Andy Cabbage. They call me the natural man because of all these nachos. And no these nachos been natural, yeah. I'm the cream of the cream. And if you could see me, Andy, you'd see and I'm holding little brackets of cream. Nacho man Danny Cabbage. Uh so what do we owe the honor? I'm glad it put you that way. I'm glad you put it that way. Cause I'm gone about the drinking chip test tasting, yeah. No one, I mean, no one, man, taste a chip like Nacho Man. Yeah. Chips go in my mouth, and then they're gone just like that. Because I'm the cream. Yeah. Nacho man, so we'll expect you on our next drink and chip. Drinking chip test tasting on April 23rd at WXRW 4 p.m. That's what I'm saying. Nothing means nothing. I'm justifiably in a position I'd rather not be in. But the cream ball rise to the top. Oh yeah! Card stacked against the natural man in the 23rd. Let me say it out loud and let me point to the president of WXRW. That the Nacho Man is not happy with your decision to leave him out of drink and chip test tasting. Yeah, I'm the cream of the world drink. I'm the cream of the world drink. And I'm the cream of the world drink! Because space is the place. Yeah. You heard it here, folks, our mother's musical diaries, the natural man challenging WXRW to a drink in Chip Test Tasting on April 23rd, 4 p.m. I'll see you there.

SPEAKER_00 52:23

Hattie, I'm the legendary Shardhouse Cowboy, speaking for bugles. Good old Stardust Bugles.

SPEAKER_10 52:42

Wyalita's gonna get uh figured out because it's the fourth track. And uh let's see there, maybe you got the lines fig screwed up. Let me have a look there, Wylita. And uh she triple check, but uh one, two, three, four. Try it again. And uh God Yep Nope, you skip one. Yep. Okay, there we go. Yep.

SPEAKER_11 53:19

Do the hammerlock.

unknown 53:22

I do the hammerlock.

SPEAKER_11 53:27

Do the hammerlock, 30 dead, and to the hammerlock.

unknown 53:34

I do the hammerlock. Everybody doesn't die, die.

SPEAKER_11 54:59

Yeah, do that crusher.

unknown 55:03

I do the crusher. Everybody do it now.

SPEAKER_10 55:12

Oh, okay. Listen, that was the Novas doing the crusher, and you can you now sometimes if the if the record if we got the wrong record on, we can just roll with it if it because uh a lot of music is just kinda good. But uh I think that that we really had to follow up the nacho man Andy Cabbage with the crusher. There's no doubt about that, Wyalita. Willita and I we just had a discussion, and uh it was a real debate, and uh I think uh it's not that Wyalita didn't have good points. Yeah, I know you did have good points, but uh I think that my argument wins out on that one. And uh there's a line in there about a turkey neck, and uh I'm pretty sure that's a nod to the famous classy Freddy Blassie line about pencil necks, and uh but it might also be a line from Milwaukee's own crusher, too. Uh pr uh but let's be honest, it's probably the crusher. Uh he was more he was more or less beloved, uh unlike classy Freddie Blassie, alternately known as uh the vampire, and Sailor Fred Blassie, and the Hollywood fashion plate, and the fashion plate of professional wrestling at 5'10, 220 pounds. Listen, no matter what you think of Classy Freddy Blassie, uh he paid his dues. Listen to this, weather lovers. Uh he was so hated by fans that someone threw acid on his back during a match. Okay? He was stabbed twenty-one times, and he lost vision in his right eye after being struck by a hard-boiled egg tossed expertly by a disgruntled fan. Boy, that that that sure takes the cake, I'll tell you that much. And uh looks like we have a little we're gonna have to skip uh uh think about it, uh big because I can't really, I think it's yeah, we're gonna well we can do that next week. But I do see a text at 4148121730. And it's about the truth in reconciliation hearings, and I'm just gonna open up that text message and it's from uh it's from hashtag fashionova. And it says Andy and Wileta, yes, do reconcili we had reconciliation is real with a C and not an S your mother Andy Don't be fooled by the knee here's handy. And a stone A rope and a food. Oh Mother, I will never forget your having said that. Thank you very much for coming in my room and sharing your thoughts on such short breath. Eh, there we go, and I think I hear someone else at the door.

SPEAKER_11 58:29

Yes.

SPEAKER_10 58:34

Yes, Jerry on to close out the show. Thanks for joining us, everyone. This is Ben Father's Musical Diaries with Andy and Waylita. We're ear time is the best time. And you really gotta think about what the heck did you hear today? And before today's show, we heard La Java. You gotta check out La Java, featuring Pierre from the station. He has a show every Friday night at 8 p.m.

SPEAKER_03 58:54

Check that out, mother lovers.