The Langdon Auger Show
February 24th 2026
Featured Artists: Pete Townshend, Arlo Guthrie, The Animals
We started todays show with a cry for Peace, “Give Blood” by Pete Townshend is an anti-war, anti-establishment anthem. Ultimately, the song serves as a plea for peace, encouraging people to “give love and keep blood between brothers”. The 1985 track, which opens Townshend’s concept album White City: A Novel, was written as a response to the uselessness of street fights and war. Music has that power and the feeling of such needs in this day and age. Arlo Guthrie sing a Steve Goodman song in The City Of New Orleans and it captures the changing American landscape, the fading magic of cross-country rail travel, and the fading lives of working-class people. The Animals are in the top of the show as well with their song “The House of the Rising Sun” is a traditional folk ballad about a life spiraling into ruin. We here at Mental Health Radio believe that music does reflect the feeling of despair and desperate moments, we have been there and music has been there for us as well. Walking that tightrope can be tough but we believe that you can do it.
Ward recalls how playing Queen’s A Night at the Opera led his mother to buy him headphones. In this February 24 recording, he also welcomes song requests and works through a live chat problem with Bradley’s help. Between sets, he shares music notes and introduces the dance portion before thanking listeners.
About this episode
Ward opens with Pete Townshend and welcomes listeners to the Tuesday show. With the live chat giving him trouble, he asks people who know him to send requests by message while Bradley looks into the problem. Later, he reports that the chat is working again and thanks everyone for their patience.
After introducing Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Ward remembers playing A Night at the Opera so often that his mother bought him headphones to keep it from interrupting her shows. He introduces the dance portion, fits in more requests and ends with his thanks to listeners and the people who helped restore the chat.
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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that a way to kick off a Tuesday show. Of course, Pete Townshend, of course, of The Who and Give Blood. It is Tuesday, February 24th, almost the end of February. Can you believe it? That means March is coming up right away. And soon, it'll be springtime. Welcome to the Langdon Auger Show right here on mentalhealthradio.ca. Thanks for tuning in. We might have an issue with some of the chats. I'm not exactly sure. I've been trying for like the last 25 minutes or so to try to see what the issue is. But it looks like I'll have to put a ticket in with CastHost to see if they can figure it out. But if you're on listening in, come on down to the live chat. Put your username in there, of course, as usual, save it and all that stuff. And just chat something. See which one of the devices it comes up on. We'll figure it out. We'll figure it out. We'll get it done. But yeah, thanks for tuning in. Again, let's get back to some music with Arlo Guthrie.
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Tune there from Canned Heat. Of course, that's on the road again. The animals in before that with the House of the Rising Sun. And we started it all off with a little Arlo Guthrie and City of New Orleans. Rented lips today? Excuse me. 13 minutes after the hour of five. Thanks for tuning in to this Tuesday show here on February 24th. I want to thank everybody that is checking in and has checked in. We're going to see if we can fix the chat problem. I've already contacted CastHost to see if they can do anything about it. But for now, if you do know me and you're checking in, you can always send me a message if you want to hear a song. If the chats don't seem to be working, I mean, try them. You never know. Maybe they are and it's just me. I haven't smoked anything really good today, so it's not that. But let me know. If you know me personally, then just kind of send me a message. One way, the messenger, PM, whatever you want. But we'll get back to some music.
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19:09
Great tune from Dr. Hook. [Timing uncertain.]
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Well, that is, of course, The Pretenders. Great album when they came back with that one. Amazing album. So many good songs on it. That one was back on the chain gang. Great Big Sea. And before that, with Consequence Free, start the show off with Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show. Carry Me a Carry. How are you all doing today? It appears Bradley is looking into our chat problem that we have, and Bradley's the best, so I'm sure he'll figure it out. But if you do want to hear a song, we do have some Queen coming up by request and Kiss as well. But if you do have a request and you know me personally, then just give me a message, text me, PM me, however you want to do it, just if you want to hear a song. If not, sit back, enjoy, and hopefully Bradley can figure out the issue with the chat. He's so good. But, yeah, let's get back to more music.
31:12
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From Bob Seger, that is “Night Moves.” [Timing uncertain.]
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I should say Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, because they are an essential part of that whole album. Before that, we had Chris Isaak, released in 1999, believe it or not, “Baby Did a Bad, Bad Thing.” Kenny Rogers started off that set with “The Gambler.” We are believing we have found the issue. Bradley’s so good at his job. We’re hoping to have it fixed here shortly. Yes, Bradley’s right on it, and he thinks he’s got it all figured out. So thanks, Bradley, and thanks for tuning in as well. It’s Tuesday, February 24th. Thanks, everybody, for tuning in. Hopefully we’ll have everything ready to go for you so we can do some more chit-chatting and get some more requests. We know we have about six or seven of you on the server right now, and you may be waiting to put your request in, and you don’t know me personally. Every now and then, just throw something in chat to see if it shows up for me, if you don’t mind. We’ll continue on with the music with some Rolling Stones.
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To the twist and shout, of course, that is Mary Chapin Carpenter from her Kickin' Country album, Flashing the Pan in before that with, hey, St. Peter. The Rolling Stones started us off. They had so many hits between 1964 and 1971. Amazing. That one we heard was Under My Thumb. And, of course, Streetheart did a really good version of that song later on. Still hard to say, you know, which is the better version. I'm always leaning toward, you know, the original, but Streetheart did a darn good version. It appears like our chat is working. We still have a little… Oh, there's Robin. I was just going to ask Robin to jump in. Are you echoing, Robin? Bradley just says refresh and your echo should be gone. So give it a try. I see Robin's now. Yep, Mr. Music Man. There we are. Okay, good. We're good to go. Anyone else that's out there, just come on down to the chat room there and let us know that you're there. And let us know if you're echoing. And Brad says just to refresh your screen. And the echo should be gone. Give it a try. Let's get back to some music right now. At least the chat's working. So far, so good. Let's get some Alabama in here.
56:57
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A little John Denver going out to Bradley who has fixed our chat problem. Thank you very much, Bradley. Thanks for getting right on that. I know you're probably working a little OT there tonight, but hopefully the song works for you. In before that, John Mellencamp with Jack and Diane, and Alabama started off with Feels So Right. I want to thank everybody for working. Thanks, everybody, for waiting for the chat to be fixed. That's greatly appreciated. We are just after 6 o'clock, 3 minutes after to be exact, which means we're close to our dance portion of the show. So start getting hydrated. We still got some time to go. I got one set of music at least to go, but we did have some requests, so we'll get to one of those in this set.
01:08:16
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I request a great tune there from Queen and the Night at the Opera album. And of course, that is “Bohemian Rhapsody.” They've been used on many, many movies. But it's also one of those albums that I used to play a ton of a lot. And when it first came out, it drove my mother crazy so much that she finally went out and got me a set of headphones. So she didn't have to hear it interrupting her shows. So it had a good purpose to it at all. Foreigner as well, Jukebox Hero and Streetheart started us all off with Snow White. Well, guess what? That means it's time for the dance portion of the show. A little later than normal, but that's okay. We still got there. Thank you very much for the requests. And we're going to continue on. So make sure you're hydrated. We got one more request coming up before the dance portion. And then we have a request in the dance portion of the show. So double, double request this time around. Let's get to it.
01:22:54
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And this is your night. LaBelle is in there as well with Lady Marmalade. We started all off with Kiss and Beth. Requests coming in. Let's just keep them coming in. We got about a half an hour left here. I still have songs, but I still have room for a couple more requests should you want to make one. We're going to continue on with some great movie with a guy we don't get to play very often, but there are a couple of songs that we do get to play. Here's one of them.
01:32:28
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Sausalito Summer Night. In before that, Wall of Voodoo and Mexican Radio. Frank Zappa started us all off with a valley girl. 20 minutes left to go in the show. I want to thank everybody for tuning in. And for those of you that are not in the chat but are listening on the server, we have emojis now. We have emojis. So come on down. Show us your favorite emoji. Thanks, Brad. Appreciate all your work and your overtime for fixing the issue for tonight. Get back to some music here with some 10CC.
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Great tune from the Greg Kihn Band, of course. That is the breakup song. They don't write them like that anymore. The Parachute Club in there as well with Rise Up, and we started off with 10CC and Good Morning Judge. We are almost out of here, and I want to thank everybody for tuning in today. I got time for one more set of music, and thanks for your requests. I got one coming up that's going to be after the show ends because we already have our last couple songs for the night. So thank you for tuning in, and thanks again to the guys, Bradley, and all the guys at casthost.net. I shouldn't say that because some of them are female, so the people at Casthost for working hard and getting the chat back on. But we're going to be back after this set of music. I got one request here coming up with a little Aerosmith.
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02:06:27
From Boz Scaggs, of course, “Lido Shuffle.” Cake in there as well with short skirt, long jacket and Aerosmith by request and walk this way. Thank you all for tuning in. I want to thank all of your requests, your patience and thanks Bradley and the cast over at casthost.net for getting the chat up and running and look, we got emojis now. We got emojis. That's right, we do. What else does chat need besides emojis? But that's it for me. We do have the Eagles coming up. That was a request. It's going to be later on. We also got some John Michael Montgomery, some Thomas Dolby so stick around after the show ends. We still got great music coming your way but we're going to end this show with a song that's only been played, this will be the second time it's played in four years. Yeah, so it's a classic and I don't play it very often so have yourself a happy mental health day. We'll talk to you all again tomorrow starting at 5 p.m. Mountain Standard Time. Have a good night. and we'll see you there.
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