Wake Up Call
David is an old radio "dj" (disc jockey) getting his brand of talk and humor on the airways since 1969. It’s the animals of the planet responsibility to fertilize the earth, it’s David’s to fertilize the airways. Given the nickname the General because of his last name which he had to convert daGaneral to franchise infringement. Making a reluctant transition to a completely different medium and inviting you to take the journey with him. In each episode he will be talking about life, society, music and everything in between and you might be lucky enough to get a new recipe or two. Episodes could include local guests with interviews about their lives.
After a year and a half rambling, Laren "Ren" Harris joined him, and they bring a whole new format to an ageing radio program. Ren started as David's engineer at KPRT-FM. She has vast experience in acting and is extremely witty. She brings in a fresh perspective and keeps David in line. She is a sci-fi nerd complete with customs. She has operated a bakery as well and they both love to cook!!! Each episode is designed to bring awareness, “wake you up”!
Based out of Farmington, NM located in the beautiful northwestern corner of New Mexico, close to the Four Corners which include Arizona, Colorado & Utah. Podcasts are recorded live, uncut, raw & uncensored. Join Ren & David as they take a deep dive into the ramblings of life.
Wake Up Call
Obscure 80s
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Hosts: Lauren "Ren" Harris & David "daGeneral" Mills
Announcers: George "of the Jungle" Mattern & Wink Dinkerson
Executive Producer: InterWest Concepts - interwestconcepts.com
Recorded live, unscripted and uncut at InterWest Concepts Studios in Farmington, NM. Our wonderful sponsors are not responsible for any of the content of said programming, they just help make it all possible. Guests are not paid to appear; they completely volunteer to subject themselves to the craziness.
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I want to just say that. I I like the way you counted down before three too much, excuse me.
SPEAKER_01Hey, Dave, I'm a lady. The people at home can't know that I burnt, but yes, that is what happened before we got on the mic. Yeah. I had a human reaction to my soda.
SPEAKER_07We won't talk about other lady uh body functions. No.
SPEAKER_01But that is something, had you not said anything, would have been unrecognized, uh uh obscure. Obscure maybe tweet.
SPEAKER_07I'm gonna download that. Uh I'm gonna download the side.
SPEAKER_01I'll play it whenever I make a good segment. Uh yeah, we're doing 80s obscure hits. Well hits used loosely, like there are good songs that could have been hits, but no one really heard them.
SPEAKER_07They never made it on the charts, right? Or they didn't make the top for anything.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and didn't get on the charts. Some of them previously unreleased uh songs like B-sides, doubled double B-sides.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. Well, this was G O J's suggestion. No, George, you don't get the hundred bucks. And we'll talk more about that going forward, how you can get a hundred dollars.
SPEAKER_01Yes. I'll okay, here's the opening final. Oh, yeah, let's do it. The people have all been waiting.
SPEAKER_06Showers, flowers, and then, hmm. Oh, I don't know. What I do know, the one constant, Randon David on K SJE. It's the wake-up call. Grab a beverage, turn it up, sit back, and let's let them do it to it.
SPEAKER_04So I've got to make it to the boy, just like that.
SPEAKER_01That was John Mellencamp.
SPEAKER_07I love me some John Mellencamp, and I'm gonna tell you right now that was obscure because I never heard that song, and I loved Mellencamp.
SPEAKER_01I have never heard that song either. I've only ever heard his biggest hits that you hear all over the radio. But that sounds like that almost should have been a John Mellencamp classic.
SPEAKER_07I I think so too. K SJ E, and I've got my bomb diggity, Fren Red.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah, and my Baudacious Buddy Dave. Are those 80 slings? I don't know. I picked them out, uh, but I'm not from the 80s.
SPEAKER_07You tell us, we'll be more than happy.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and then send me your own personal list of 80 slings.
SPEAKER_07Yeah.
SPEAKER_01But we are celebrating the 80s today. This is a really fun playlist made by G OJ, George of the Jungle, our announcer. And it's doing kind of double duty. It's songs that represent the 80s, very much the music of the time. Also, like we said in the first half being obscure. Not not super well known.
SPEAKER_07I know he sent us the list and he sent them what you thought in order that he wanted them to play. And I told him when he made the list, I said, George, just send it. And she'll play it. She's in charge. She'll be taking care of the order.
SPEAKER_01I hope it's okay that it's out of order, George, if you're listening.
SPEAKER_07Um try to say with kind of a theme.
SPEAKER_01I I know, and that's well, that's what I thought was good about all the songs. You can put them in any order and they're gonna sound good. It's just, I'm very specific about the timing. The timing is everything for me, so I just switched up the timing.
SPEAKER_07Well, here it is, April 12th, three days away from how it is.
SPEAKER_01You better uh get get on there. I always think of that. I've said it every year. Um it's the Simpsons joke where they're at the IRS office, everybody's in line pushing and shoving, the they're doing a news report on it. Kent Brockman, the news anchor, goes up to Krusty the Clown and says, Sir, you waited until the last minute to file your taxes. Why? And Krusty goes, 'Cause I'm an idiot. All right.
SPEAKER_07Well, typically, the people who wait the last minute are those people that have to pay. Those folks. Yeah, the folks that get money back usually are filing.
SPEAKER_01Yes. I I waited, but that's just because I don't like doing all the paperwork. It stresses me out, man. But uh I did it. I always just do it on online. You know, one of those services.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, I use that free tax. Free tax USA, I think it's called. Oh, that's a good one. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I use I use another one. We won't give them any plugs. We won't give them any plugs, but they're super easy. Uh so if you've waited until the last minute, don't delay anymore. Don't get yourself into any trouble. You don't need to be in the city.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, but 30 is no, let's see. 24 times three is what never mind. You have three days.
SPEAKER_01You have some time.
SPEAKER_07That's right.
SPEAKER_01Is it 72? Three days.
SPEAKER_07Three days.
SPEAKER_0124, 48, 72. Yes. Okay, you have 72 hours. The clock is ticking. And so is this great playlist. I have to teach math sometimes to kids. I'm more of an English teacher, but sometimes there's no one else there to teach them math. So I gotta get kind of okay at it.
SPEAKER_07I still count on my fingers and toes. If it's over 20, I can't. I'm in trouble.
SPEAKER_01It just doesn't even exist to you. The concept doesn't exist. Alright. Well, I am trying to get us back into the music because this is a pretty good playlist. It's um jam-packed.
SPEAKER_07Oh, we're gonna have David E's. We're gonna have Renlish.
SPEAKER_01We're gonna have Renlish.
SPEAKER_07Renlish this segment, David's next segment.
SPEAKER_01And then, of course, end the whole show with Zen of Rens.
SPEAKER_07Absolutely. Let's have another song. Let's just let's do some jamming.
SPEAKER_01Let's do some jamming.
SPEAKER_07Oh, we got a new sponsor too that uh George is gonna talk about.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yes. Stay tuned for our brand new sponsor. Until then, here's some music. Tears for fears, pale shelter.
SPEAKER_06Music, music, music, where?
SPEAKER_02The wake-up call exclusively on KSJE ninety-point nine one oh three three FM boy, but some bad place, but you come. What do you owe? It's a bit gun, you wanna get out of the day. Not much you gotta hold you down.
SPEAKER_04Got a lot of stuff to take it to walk.
SPEAKER_03Thank you for my baby dog Pooch-up, coach-da-da-da.
SPEAKER_02This whole time I never got me to say G T G T B T I really love you with this good so-bit chip. I shouldn't stand your name.
SPEAKER_05Not much it's gonna hold you down.
SPEAKER_04Take you up, take you on my baby.
SPEAKER_05I'm gonna love you. I'm gonna love you to me. I'm gonna love you. I'm in the love, love you, la.
SPEAKER_07You know, I that was interesting um because I first thought that was blondie, but uh I could see that.
SPEAKER_01You know, and the more I listen to later Blondie almost.
SPEAKER_07Uh the more I listened to it, the more I realized uh and when you told me, I was like, oh yeah, that's yeah, I remember that extinct distinctly.
SPEAKER_01That's the premier Madonna sound. Yeah, like her very early work.
SPEAKER_07With the with the fingerless gloves and the bow look and that kind of thing.
SPEAKER_01The boustier. And that was uh Jimmy Jimmy, if you didn't hear them say it a thousand times. It was a good song, it was a cute song.
SPEAKER_07It was a cute song, very good.
SPEAKER_01And I think it is pretty characteristic of the eighties, which is what this show is kind of about. Classic eighties music. And if you didn't know, what's neat about the eighties is that uh it lasted for about ten years.
SPEAKER_07I wonder where you were going with that.
SPEAKER_01And if you didn't know, it started some say it started in 1980, but then went all the way to 1989. So that's some fun eighties back for you.
SPEAKER_07I think we should just go to Renlers again. I have no words. No, no, no, no words.
SPEAKER_06It appears to be Ren's turn for her own special word. Ls and G's, I present Renlish.
SPEAKER_01Ls and G's! And I'm having a G indeed, but that's not why we're here. Why we're here is I've got some slang, some 80s slang.
SPEAKER_07Okay. What?
SPEAKER_01Gia. Gia. It means uh indeed, indubitably. Indubitably, yeah, as in Gia. That definitely leopard album totally rocks, dude. Indubitably.
SPEAKER_07I would really say indubitably.
SPEAKER_01It's a whole lifestyle, Dave. I don't think you're about that life.
SPEAKER_07You just don't know. No, no. I'm more of a fall kind of guy.
SPEAKER_01Oh, fair enough. Fair enough.
SPEAKER_07Well, listen, if you'd like if you have a show suggestion, we'll certainly take it. We've got some we've got some uh what do they call it? Not a bling, but stuff. Swag. Swag. Uh we've got some stickers coming. We're gonna have some mouse pads even.
SPEAKER_01Yes, I love a good mouse pad.
SPEAKER_07And I got t-shirts that I'm working on too, so we'll have some stuff like that. And um so we have one listener for sure that is sending us uh a couple of different show suggestions.
SPEAKER_01Yes, he's very creative now.
SPEAKER_07I love Wade. We've used one of them. We're gonna he's out of Bayfield, Colorado. We're gonna use another at some point. Um so uh but he did get a hundred bucks for that. Going forward, what we're gonna do, if you send him to me, we'll send you the first one, the first time you send one, because we're gonna use Valerie's too, but we're kind of waiting on that one. Let me give it an intro for that. What song do you uh hype you up? What's your uh what do we think? Your walk up song. Send that to us.
SPEAKER_01I like to think of it two ways. The song that plays as you walk up onto the stage, or B the song that you play to get the confidence to walk up, to do something.
SPEAKER_07To do something, yeah, your walk-up song. So send it to us. Uh.com, all one word, all over the case.
SPEAKER_01Um but we're gonna give her a hundred, but our other buddy when we play the show, but then our other buddy has done it twice. And so going forward, the first time, you get a hundred if we use your show, but after that we'll just send you some swag.
SPEAKER_07Some swag.
SPEAKER_01A good little swag bag.
SPEAKER_07Oh, you like that even better. I dated her once.
SPEAKER_01You did you dated swag bag? Oh my god, that would be such I'm not even joking, I think that would be a really good uh drag queen name. Swag bag? Swag bag. It would be for like a comedy queen, a woman uh you know, a queen who's mostly known for comedy, but I like it. Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Listen, this is K S J, and it is the W U C or It's the Wake Up Call, but we like to refer to it in the biz as W U C. The Wook. The Wook. Is that how you would pronounce it? Wook? Wook. Yeah, I guess.
SPEAKER_01It's better than the alternative. Yeah, with my choice friend Rand. And my gnarly buddy Dave. Gnarly.
SPEAKER_07I've always wanted to be gnarly.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Uh and we're gonna have a little segment, a little uh new commercial from a new sponsor that's G O Jorge a little bit.
SPEAKER_01That we'll that we'll play. But uh for now we are doing a show um that G O J gave us Obscure 80s, and uh we We're gonna give him some sweat. He works for us so he doesn't get that hundred bucks. But let me play a little bit more. This is the police uh with my mom's favorite sting. And this is Miss Grudenko. Miss Gridanko.
SPEAKER_07Your mom likes Sting.
SPEAKER_01Love Sweet.
SPEAKER_04Don't tell the director, I said so. But how you say, Miss Gridenko? We were at a policy meeting, they were planning new ways of cheating. I don't want to rub your boat, but you said this dangerous road You've been letting your feelings show. Are you safe, Miss Creteco? Miss Crchenko, are you safe? Are you safe, Miss Pertenko? Miss Crutchinko, are you safe? Anybody alive in here?
unknownAnybody alive in here? Anybody is old in here.
SPEAKER_04Nobody but us in here. Nobody but us. Anybody alive in here? Nobody but us. You're much alive in it. You've been letting your feelings show. Are you safe, Mr. Dako? Mr. Dako, are you safe?
unknownAnybody alive in here? Nobody but a sick here.
SPEAKER_04Nobody but us.
unknownAnybody alive in here? Nobody but us here. Nobody but us. Nobody but us in here. Nobody but us here.
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SPEAKER_04See if it can make you filthy rich-wave burst that I had class, and they get away from the spool. We move over three minutes. We ever run this book. Then I love the neighborhood sound like you feel my heart in love. I want you so you're tired and you just wanna close your eyes. No treatment Surrender Let's soldiers in the windows like land. No retreat. We score on the years, oh we're now ready to grow the younger years. And hear your sister's voice on us all across the old yards. But maybe we are cut some place around with these drums and these guitars. We stole it all waste of memory. No retreat, baby. No retreat, baby. I will sleep beneath these low skies in my lovers. And these romantic dreams in my life This was with me. No treat baby Notion story with a heart to the band Love Street, baby No treaty, baby.
SPEAKER_06Oh no, just kidding. Stick around, it'll get better.
SPEAKER_04W U C on KSJET me do the same thing. That's what I know. Well, never say direction, never let it go. I'm not sure, you're not job, I'm better going this way, yeah. Well I had to make the same direction. I will turn around the audience too we have dangerous, yeah.
SPEAKER_01I could be in in excess.
SPEAKER_07That was uh excessive, but I'm not in excess.
SPEAKER_01That's right. Sadly. That was the same direction. And before that was Bruce Springsteen with no surrender. Well, you could tell it was Bruce Springsteen right away.
SPEAKER_07Immediately, yeah. Like, is that the boss? Yeah.
SPEAKER_01The boss.
SPEAKER_07Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Do you know why they call him the boss?
SPEAKER_07I do not, do you?
SPEAKER_01I do. It sounds like the setup to a joke, but no, this is what I heard back when he had his band the E Street Man. Very early on in the day, uh in the days of their band starting, when they would do games, he would handle all of the money. He would handle the book, he would handle all of the business aspects of running the band, so he wasn't even talking about the E Street Man included.
SPEAKER_07You know what? That's really a bad idea. Oh, the saxophone is kind of like nothing like that.
SPEAKER_01Nothing like it.
SPEAKER_07I thought I was gonna get you, but no.
SPEAKER_01I knew it was coming out, because if you hadn't made that joke, I would have made that joke.
SPEAKER_07This is the wake-up call, of course, and we like W U C. And of course it's on K U. And my lovely, lovely choice friend.
SPEAKER_01Choice. Oh, I am the I am the top choice. Let's say my fly. Well then choose another one.
SPEAKER_07Fresh. My fresh friend.
SPEAKER_01And here I've got an alliteration, my fly, buddy.
SPEAKER_07There we go. That means that I'm kind of irritating because I'm like, you know what?
SPEAKER_01Like a fly.
SPEAKER_07That's right.
SPEAKER_01I am the definition of it.
SPEAKER_07I'm currently not flying, but I will be after we close the show.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, yeah. You'll be way up there. That's right. You get high with a little help from your friends, of course. From me. And uh we're celebrating the 80s today. Um obscure 80s hit some of the lesser-known songs from fans and artists you most definitely know, but some of some of their V-side.
SPEAKER_07Some of you probably haven't heard of these songs so far. I have not heard. I do recognize some of the artists when they start playing some of them a little bit. And you know what? I was gonna say to you before I forget, you know, we've got to forget that we call it a bit. We have to get the young lady to do that. That would be a free sweet card. No bigger than a minute. I know her very well. Um yeah, we can see the great.
SPEAKER_01They know that they're doing artwork. And they want to be making it.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. He had a couple of nice words to say.
SPEAKER_01That's so good. I love physical storytelling like that.
SPEAKER_07And then, of course, uh down below that, right in the tail, is an adolescent dragon, which is her baby dragon.
SPEAKER_01Her baby dragon movie.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, both can't have to be not old enough yet to love flame, but he's gonna be like a little bit of fun. So I have a whole theme going with my cat.
SPEAKER_01That's fun, like medieval fantasy stuff. I love that.
SPEAKER_07But you know, I tell you, another part of that, and I don't know whether it was an 80s thing or not for tattoos. Um, but you have a female on your arm as well. Yes. That is the top half of the street.
SPEAKER_01I like to say she's my very liberal mermaid.
SPEAKER_07Exactly.
SPEAKER_01She was burning her bra at the feminist march, and so she's very free, is what I'll say.
SPEAKER_07So what I'm thinking about on my forearm on the other side is getting something like a.
SPEAKER_01You can get a harpy or a pretty harpy lady, you know, they got the bird wings and the claws. But they're also beautiful women.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, with movies.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. And we've come to the most important part of the movie. There you go. Alright. Well, I think that's my uh my cue to play another song.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, we got coming up, we got uh David's.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, we do. And this is Maybe Maybe uh by Aha, which you probably know for Take On Me. Oh, yeah. Take on this song.
SPEAKER_04Maybe you are joking when you said that you are walking out on me. Lady Lakes. I should be running, start around I could be running, start around I could be run I don't know what it's being said. Decisions travel from header was over when you jump me out of the road and between paper, I could be around, stop I could be wrong, stop I could be wrong, stop I could be around I could be right I could be right, so I could be running I could be running so I could be running so I could be running so he's always had his own language.
SPEAKER_06Ren and I like to humor him.
SPEAKER_07Here's David Knees. All right, are you ready for this? Petophobic. Petophobic, that's one who is embarrassed to undress in front of a household pet. Petophobic.
SPEAKER_01Petophobic, okay.
SPEAKER_04My memory's just fake too when nothing could you My decision went to last. Now there's nothing left to hide. I just got punished by too many times If you should go if you should go If you should go this works for her You should be to my senses When lies drunk in Trump There's no time, me to moment me tell me still Now there's nothing left to try. I just feel gonna be too many times if you should go if you should go if you should go Now there's nothing left to unistreat too many times It makes no difference by doing your mistake We think the same scene would take Andy If you should go so If you should go If you should go to the Cogs Both Well Dave that was Heart for Hire by Swing Out Sister, and before that was Maybe Baby by A Ha.
SPEAKER_07He's trying to be an 80s DJ, isn't it?
SPEAKER_00Trying to be an 80s DJ, Dave. That's me, Ren. Ren on the spot, as they call me. Next up is Wax with Systematic.
SPEAKER_07Oh, I can hardly wait.
SPEAKER_00Obscure 80s coming at you, baby. Yeah, enjoy it.
unknownDon't want to do this today.
SPEAKER_04What we don't do, step I'm on the way to them, and now my wheels are spinning around, mid-round, little round, little round. I'm all the way spinning around the day when do you see things out of the way to do that?
SPEAKER_06Oh, the wake-up call is almost over for another week. And it's time to get your Zen on with the Zen of Rand.
SPEAKER_01So we kind of dealt with the idea of like forgotten music today. Maybe not even forgotten, but just not super remembered until you hear it. So here's a quote from Maggie Skype Vader. I think that's amazing. You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid. And I knew that. You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid. I knew until I heard it again. You don't like your wife.
SPEAKER_07I mean, really hard on the radio on the radio. Anyway, we use the camera. We can't believe he's talking about you like that. And so we would go to your office parties and then give me crap.
SPEAKER_01It was just okay. She clearly was okay with it.
SPEAKER_07She wasn't okay with it.
SPEAKER_01She secretly was holding her. Well, I think that's something that's nice too. Like baby boomers. There's that stereotype that they make jokes about how much they hate their wife or how they hold them. And same with the women, they make jokes about how they hate their husband. But you know, you could say that that's maybe because that generation was raised to believe that once you get married, that's it, you have a divorce. And so they would stay in relationships that were unfulfilling, you know, longer than they should have. So I think it's healthy anytime you can recognize, hey, me and this person aren't working out anymore.
SPEAKER_07Well, we're still good friends to this day. So, you know, if you're the mother of two of my kids, I just always have a piece of my heart. That's all right.
SPEAKER_01And she always has a piece of radio legacy, you know.
SPEAKER_07With my stellar friend Rand.
SPEAKER_01And my trippin' buddy day.
SPEAKER_07I also want to call you my most triumphant friend Rand.
SPEAKER_01Oh, thank you. And my and I mean this in a good way, my dad buddy day.
SPEAKER_07Or my do my doodad friend.
SPEAKER_01And you know what? I've even got one more for you, my rad. We got all the words in the world. And it's been a fun show. We were celebrating the 80s obscure 80s specifically.
SPEAKER_07Obscure 80s, thanks to G Oj. Thank you, George.
SPEAKER_01G OJ, this was a fantastic playlist. Thank you for letting me rearrange it. I think I got one more song for it here. It's a pretty classic 80s, like sad boy band. Um, but I think I think they're really good. This is the Smiths. Well, not all of them. I mean, you got Deaf Lemon.
SPEAKER_07Oh, boy bands.
SPEAKER_01They were a boy band, technically, if you think about it.
SPEAKER_07I take it back.
SPEAKER_01Well, this is the Smiths with Ask.
SPEAKER_07The Smiths?
SPEAKER_01The Smiths.
SPEAKER_07Okay.
SPEAKER_00Have a good one. Love you, Randy.
SPEAKER_01Love you too, buddy. Bye-bye, everyone.
SPEAKER_04Shyness is nice and shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life you'd like to. Shyness is nice and shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life you'd like to. So it's something you'd like to try. Something you'd like to try. Ask me I won't take no after that. Poinus is nice. From staying all the things in life you'd like to go. Something you'd like to try. Something you'd like to try. Ask me our wall spend on that. The ball, the bump, the ball, the ball, the ball, the ball, the bone, together the line with heart. The line with heart's not the ball, the bone, the bone, the bone, the bone, the bone, the bone, the gut, the ball, the ball, the net the bone, the bone, the gut, and the biggest.
SPEAKER_06This is the voice of George of the Jungle coming to you from the mouth of George of the Jungle, telling you to join us next week for more W UC with the voices of Ren and David coming out of their mouths. All rights reserved. Until next time. Excellent to each other. Always wear your cleaner.