The Langdon Auger Show
March 9th 2026
Featured Artists: Simple Minds, Led Zeppelin, Genesis
Just playing songs with upbeat messages about resilience, and just how songs can say so much about it. Personal experiences are by far the most true reasons why music can and is a guidance for these emotion’s. I have no idea where i would personally be had I not discovered music at a young age. Growing up in my house as a young man was by far the worst experience i have ever endured. Talk about stunting someone’s growth, do parents know the damage they are doing when the mistreat a child? When you sexual abuse, mentally abuse, physically abuse and emotionally abuse a child a question comes to mind…Why? What do you gain from That? Why do you do that? As you can see there are many. Music has always been there and it speaks to me like nothing else, today we are playing some of those songs/artists.
On the March 9, 2026, Langdon Auger Show, Ward opens after work and says he is listening to Queen through headphones on the live feed. He moves through a Monday playlist, shares a quick opinion about Simple Minds, and invites listeners to use the chat for requests. Later, he gets them ready for the show's dance portion and closes with a thank-you.
About this episode
Ward says he always thought Simple Minds should have been a bigger band and that acts like U2 overshadowed them. He recalls that the group had many great tunes from 1981 to 1992, then recaps Oasis, Blue Oyster Cult, Led Zeppelin, and Huey Lewis.
He welcomes listeners to the chat and invites song requests. On this broadcast, he describes the weekday schedule as Monday through Wednesday from 5 to 7 p.m. Mountain time, with a later Thursday show. Before the dance portion, he encourages listeners to stretch and get hydrated. He closes by thanking everyone and wishing them happy mental health.
Full spoken transcript
Transcribed from the recording and lightly edited for readability. Song lyrics and recorded interludes are omitted. Some audio could not be transcribed; those gaps and unclear words are marked in brackets. Timestamps are approximate. The comments reflect the speakers’ own experiences and views.
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00:00:27
Yeah, great tune. Now I'm here. And I listen to it on the headphones because I listen to the live feed, and I love the way it bounces back and forth between left and right side. It's quite awesome. That is, of course, Queen. And now I'm here. And now I am here. I'm officially here. It's Monday, the 9th of March. The weekend is over. The job is done for another couple of days. So all the stress level is now at about minus 96, if that is at all possible.
So welcome to the Langdon Auger Show right here on Mental Health Radio. Don't forget, we are here for two whole hours. So come on down. If you are listening in, just enter your name in the user chat room, the live chat there. Make sure you save it. Put a request in. And if I have the song, I will most certainly play it. Nice to see our Westlock connection is here already. So let's get going. We are all alive and kicking.
00:04:57
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00:21:25
A great song there by Oasis with ‘Champagne Supernova.’ In before that, of course, Blue Oyster Cult with ‘Burning for You.’ And started off with a great band, Simple Minds, and ‘Alive and Kicking.’ I really think that they should have been a bigger band than they were. They were an amazing band, but they kept getting overshadowed by bands like U2 and stuff like that. So, yeah, from ’81 to ’92, Simple Minds had so many great tunes. Hope you're doing okay today. 18 minutes after five.
Thanks again for tuning in for the Monday show here on Mental Health Radio. We're going to be here until seven o'clock, so come on down if you are listening in and you want to request a song. Just go down to the live chat there, enter your username, make sure you save it, and then just start chatting and requesting a song. And, of course, as always, if I have it, I most certainly will play it. Now we're going to go to school.
00:22:19
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00:36:34
A very long outro to that song, but classic Led Zeppelin: ‘Over the Hills and Far Away.’ Huey Lewis in there as well with ‘The Heart of Rock and Roll.’ And we started all off with Supertramp taking us all to school. It's 5:33 right now. Thanks for tuning in, everybody. Uh, this is our Monday show. We do this show Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, 5 p.m. Mountain time till 7 p.m. Mountain time, and then Thursday we do a little later show, 8 p.m. Mountain Standard Time to 10 p.m. Mountain Standard Time.
Brain's getting ahead of the lips there, excuse me, and last Thursday we did a really good female show, [show title unclear]. If you want to have a listen to that, that's on the website as well. Lots of great female artists covered in that one, but how can you cover every single female artist that has influenced music in just a two-hour show? However, we did our best last Thursday. We're gonna get back to some music right now.
00:37:35
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00:51:22
1983 self-titled album. That is, of course, Genesis and ‘Illegal Alien.’ Fastball in before that with ‘The Way,’ and Everlast starts us off with ‘What It's Like.’ Thanks for those of you that are tuning in. We have some new listeners today, so if you're not sure exactly how things work around here, you can just hang around, listen to the music. That's good. You can go down a little bit farther down there, just below the recent track, so you can sign your username up and make sure you save it. Request a song, chit-chat with us. Once again, up to you. We're here till six o'clock.
We do have a dance portion of the show that we play every day, and so we got what we got. We got one more set of music to go, so get hydrated, stretch it all out, get ready for that one because we got a double shot for you today.
00:52:10
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01:03:32
That's Classics IV and ‘Spooky.’ Thompson Twins in before that with ‘Hold Me Now.’ Started off with a great tune from The Hollies and ‘The Air That I Breathe.’ Well, guess what? Look at this. It's 20 seconds after six. We're almost right on time for the dance portion of the show.
I hope you did a little stretch out there and a little hydrated. But if you didn't, you have two minutes or about three and a half minutes to do that, because your dance portion will start right after this.
01:04:00
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01:14:17
Oh, of course, that's Patrick Hernandez with ‘Born to Be Alive,’ the short version. Could have played the longer one, but I thought, no, I already pushed it with Dead or Alive before that. So no injuries here on the Langdon Auger Show. And that's the dance portion. ‘You Spin Me Around’ was also in there, and Bobby Goldsboro started off with ‘Honey.’
We're at 12 minutes after six. Thanks for tuning in, everybody. We are here until 7 p.m. So obviously, we do have some requests coming your way, but we're going to continue on with the music right now. How about some Chris Rea?
01:14:50
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01:30:06
Oh, Woodstock '94, of course. That is The Cranberries and ‘Dreams,’ and of course the lovely voice of Dolores O'Riordan, who unfortunately we lost a few years ago on an accidental drowning, which she was intoxicated, so a bit of a drag there, and such a great voice. In before that, we had Cream with ‘Strange Brew,’ Green Day, ‘Boulevard of Broken Dreams,’ in before that, great tune, and Chris Rea started off with ‘The Blue Cafe.’ Of course, that was the radio edit. The album version is slightly different. However, still a great tune. We're almost at the 5:30 hour, so we've got about a half hour left in the show. I want to thank everybody for tuning in, and we're going to get back to some music with some Smashing Pumpkins.
01:30:52
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01:47:58
The incredible voice of Chester Bennington, and that is, of course, Linkin Park and ‘Numb.’ They are out touring again. They have an amazing female vocalist taking over for Chester, and so far she appears to be doing quite a great job. We had Candlebox in there, a song about addiction and supporting people with addictions. And you, Collective Soul, of course, ‘Shine.’ And we started that all off with The Smashing Pumpkins in ‘1979.’ We're almost out of here. I want to thank everybody for tuning in. I got time for like three more songs, so we'll get to those. This next one coming up, it's done by Korn, but originally was done by Cameo.
01:48:40
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01:59:05
The 2023 Whitsitt Chapel album. That is, of course, Jelly Roll, along with Lainey Wilson and ‘Save Me.’ But do yourself a favor. Go on YouTube and watch the Jelly Roll version of that song. It's very powerful. And before that, of course, we had Gary Numan and ‘Cars.’ Korn in there as well with ‘Word Up.’
I want to thank you all for tuning in. Don't forget, we do it again tomorrow night, starting in at 5 p.m. Mountain Standard Time, running through the same time as tonight, 7 p.m. Mountain Standard Time. Happy mental health to you. And once again, thanks for tuning in. We've got some Tool coming up. We've got some Live coming up. But we're going to end the show with a Canadian, a great song from Gowan.
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