Schoolhouse Rock turns fifty, here's some of the better songs. AUDIO VAULT: Man vs. vending machine. Man loses. Lions can shut Aaron Rodgers up Sunday night. GOOD NEWS: a kid takes her gramma's sketches and makes them come alive. What people 100 years ago thought the future held. Mixtape Love. Comedian Brad Upton. The weirdness of the Idaho murder affadavit.

The weird drama going on on the national soccer team. AUDIO VAULT: A kids toy that tells funny, but inappropriate jokes. A bad name for a new year. GOOD NEWS: A British woman seeks to do one new thing everyday, but I'm saddened because she should have done most of these years ago. OLD TIMEY NEWS: 1947 -- A man gets busted for living under the street on GR's West Side. A friend of mine gets mad when I point out that he once looked like the Idaho killer, but a caller can top that. He apparently looks like Dahmer. Darts! It's the new NFL and no one gets hurt. Except the dart board.

NFL Player Improving, League still hasn't worked out what will happen without playing that game, AUDIO VAULT: A woman has men all wrong as far as marriage goes, Albums that turn 50, 40 and 30 in 2023, GOOD NEWS: Woman finds long lost engagement ring. A woman keeps her heart in a bag, don't we all? A caller extols the Rockford Marching Band's Rose Parade performance. You can find love in some strange places, including the Wendy's drive thru. Another saying I hate: 'I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy' Yeah, you would, in a heartbeat.

Michigan's weird game. AUDI VAULT: When you quit over the PA, the customers get weirded out. Lake State's List of banned words is BS. GOOD NEWS: Michigan teen saves cats, and a pig. A song about talking out your ass. Buffalo player who suffered cardiac arrest sent Lions fans to a horrific flashback. A resolution to end all resolutions.

An icicle falling caused me to defend myself with an alarm clock. AUDIO VAULT features a '90s flashback with Eddie Vedder singing U2. A story about a speeding Iowa youth lacks the information I need. Soft rock may cause you to speed, or kill yourself. JJ McCarthy's reason to smile. I challenge Bruce Springsteen to a pancake cook off. Drunk adventures.

Talking cats, The Grinch videos, Listeners achieving their goals in 2022, and me, apologizing for drinking the Honolulu Blue Kool Aid.

I got stuck in my own driveway. AUDIO VAULT: "go home and eat the mac and cheese in your pantry" is good storm advice. The storm has upset boomers because it was deemed worse than 1978 storm. GOOD NEWS: finding good art is never a bad thing. A listener received roach traps for Christmas...FROM HER MOM. Another song about snow plow drivers. Caller confesses about regifting.

When the storm comes, it will blow all your Christmas decorations away. AUDIO VAULT: The new Christmas hit, "Ya Filthy Animals". Thanks to all your working people this weekend, storm or not, people who work on Christmas are special. GOOD NEWS: White Elephant ends well for one woman. A song about the people who hang around too long at the Holidays. Then, a true story of the cops coming to evict a lingerer. A "Tales of the Cheap" Christmas story or two.

The story of Elvis and Nixon as told by a drunk man. AUDI VAULT: Another Christmas witch who eats your guts. Winter Solstice celebrations. GOOD NEWS: A Wal Mart greeter weighed down by medical debt gets relief for Xmas. RIP Franco Harris. A kid asks Santa for a toilet.