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Thursday December 11th, 2025 with Doug Bird
Getting closer and closer to Black Friday. Did the Romans have French Fries or as they might have been called Gaul fries and that is the reason the fifth working day of the week is named Friday? Perhaps just a typo instead of Fry Day.

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David Wilcox - Boy In The Boat

Another Man'ss Shoes
Monster Truck - Sittin' Heavy

Bustin' Out For Rosie
Tommy Bolin - Private Eyes

Mission Of Mercy
The Motels - All Four One

Green Onions
Booker T And The MGs - Greatest Hits

The Faceless Man
Fuzzy Grass - 1971

High Beech
May Blitz - The 2nd Of May

The Big Event
Pat Travers - Crash And Burn

Self Serve Gas Station
The Rheostatics - Whale Music

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Lighthouse - Sunny Days Again

Buddy You're Getting A Ticket
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Bobby Calzone
Oh.. thats good, Doug! Reeeeal good (as John Candy would say:) i make the best french fries man! Everybody welcome up here in Khumeai Land to taste em! Num! 😀

1:08 PM, December 11th, 2025

Doug Bird (host)
I'll phone for the CKCU limo after the show.

1:09 PM, December 11th, 2025

Benoît
Not related to fish *as such*, apparently, Friday. Here's a small avalanche of words from the wiki, but it's worth it in the end. I will say no more. "From Middle English Friday, from Old English frīġedæġ. Compound of Frīġ and dæġ (“day”), from Proto-West Germanic *Frījā dag, a calque of Latin diēs Veneris, via an association (interpretātiō germānica) of the goddess Frigg with the Roman goddess of love Venus. Compare West Frisian freed, German Low German Freedag, Friedag, Dutch vrijdag, German Freitag, Danish fredag. Old Norse Frigg (genitive Friggjar), Old Saxon Fri, and Old English Frīġ are derived from Proto-Germanic *Frijjō. Frigg is cognate with Sanskrit प्रिया (priyā́, “wife”). The root also appears in Old Saxon fri (“beloved lady”); in Swedish fria, in Danish and Norwegian as fri (“to propose for marriage”); a related meaning exists in Icelandic as frjá (“to love”) and similarly in Dutch vrijen (“to make love (to have sex)”). "

1:11 PM, December 11th, 2025

Doug Bird (host)
Geez. I have a hard enough time with the minor pentatonic scale.

1:12 PM, December 11th, 2025

Benoît
There are those songs, those few songs, that sound like no other and that have been playable, and played, for a LONG time. Ex. Green Onions by Booker T and the MGs. Never stopped being cool.

1:17 PM, December 11th, 2025

Doug Bird (host)
Couldn't agree more.

1:22 PM, December 11th, 2025

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