Radio Wilder

FROM A SNOWY MOUNTAIN TO A WORLDWIDE PARTY: THE ORIGINAL PLAYLIST! 🏔️📻 Long before Radio Wilder was even a spark in my brain, I was on vacation up in Taos, New Mexico. Just looking out the window at the beautiful, snowy Taos Mountain, I threw together my very FIRST playlist called ‘Father and Daughter’. ❄️ Shelly and I share about a 50/50 split on the tunes and bands we love, so I recently dug ba...

Headline: YEAR 10 KICKS OFF NOW! & A MASSIVE THANK YOU! 🎉🎸 We are still riding high from all the incredible shout-outs and support for our big 9th Anniversary! We LOVED every second of it, and we couldn't do it without the Wilder Gang! 🤘 Now, we are kicking off the VERY FIRST show of Year 10 with the absolute legend himself, Jimi Hendrix —rightfully touted as the greatest instrumentalist in...

IT IS OFFICIALLY ANNIVERSARY WEEK, WILDER GANG! 🎉📻 Nine years ago, Harry sat down behind a mic with one simple, beautiful idea: to record a 4-hour music and story tribute as a "leave-behind" for his daughter, Shelly. It was just a dad sharing his pure love of Rock 'n' Roll with his girl. ❤️🎸 Fast forward to today? This show has evolved into something Harry could have NEVER imagined in his wilde...

FROM THE SPHERE TO OUR 9TH ANNIVERSARY! 🌐🎂🎸 We just got back from the BIG SSA Fall Show, and it was an absolute SMASH! 💥 The Self Storage industry is evolving rapidly, and that mind-blowing event at The Sphere is the perfect example of it (especially coming off the heels of last year’s massive 50th Gala Anniversary!). 🏢✨ Speaking of milestones... RADIO WILDER IS CELEBRATING OUR 9TH ANNIVERSA...

VIVA LAS VEGAS, PATRIOT'S DAY, & HEAVY HITTERS! 🇺🇸🎰🎸 We just wrapped up an INCREDIBLE weekend 'Conversation' with the SSA’s kingpin, Tim Dietz (keep an eye out, his full interview hits YouTube in a couple of weeks! 📺). Now, we are packing our bags and heading straight to Las Vegas for the SSA’s Fall Show! 🎲🏢 It's going to be plenty of business and a WHOLE lot of fun... highlighted by a tr...

Headline: SOMETIMES THE BEST PLANS GET COMPLETELY DERAILED! 🚂💥 I was mapping out our weekly post, but after listening back to this week's show, Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero—aka the LEGENDARY Connie Francis—completely hijacked my brain! 🤯 If you don't know her stats, brace yourself: Connie sold over 200 MILLION records worldwide! 🌍 She was the FIRST female singer to ever hit #1 on Billboard's...

🎪 UNDER THE BIG TOP: DRUMMING TO A DIFFERENT BEAT! 🥁 This week under the Big Top, we are shining the spotlight on one of our drummer buds who always drummed to a DIFFERENT beat! Enter the incredibly cool Show Band, Tapestry ! 🕺 We’re talking about our drummer pal Rick Kern (who also crushed the vocals), Danny Evans bringing the heat on guitar and vocals, and Curt Hespe locking it down on keyboa...

🚛 BREAKER, BREAKER 19! THE CB DOCTOR IS IN THE HOUSE! 📻 Anybody remember CB radios?! Back in the day, I ran a store for truckers down in El Paso for Petro Truck Stops. 🌵 Those cabs were the ultimate source of communication, and sayings like "Breaker Breaker 19, it’s the Regal Beagle!" rang out all over the fuel islands and the parking lot. Let me tell you, that truck stop parking lot was like t...

Headline: 🥁 RANDOM MUSINGS, ROCK 'N' ROLL DREAMS, & MASSIVE MILESTONES! 🎸 As I was listening back to the show, I started taking some random notes. A lot of my rock n' roll musician pals and bandmates were inspired by huge bands or individual artists. MY inspiration? Ricky Nelson on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet ! 📺 At the end of the show, Ricky would sing and ALWAYS had girls at his f...

🎪 STEP RIGHT UP: SWINGIN' SWEETHEARTS & BIG SHOUTOUTS! 🎺 Under the big top this week, we are throwing it WAY back to the golden era of 1937-1949! 🕰️ Get ready to meet the International Sweethearts of Rhythm —a racially mixed, SIXTEEN-piece, all-women Swing orchestra! 🎷 The word 'International' stood for their incredibly diverse makeup, featuring African American, Latin, Asian, Jewish, Hawai...

🎸 BIG SURPRISES, LEGENDARY GUITARISTS, & A MUSICAL HEAT WAVE! 🔥 This week's MASSIVE surprise was brought to us by none other than the official Radio Wilder Musical Librarian, Mike Labauve! 📚🎶 Mike earned that title by hooking us up with almost 1,000 tracks, mainly from his exclusive Rock n’ Roll Graffiti Radio Play Only library! 🤯 🌕 THE PINK FLOYD CONNECTION: His absolute WINNER this wee...

🤯 9 YEARS OF RADIO WILDER: FROM A SIMPLE IDEA TO 10,000 HOURS! 📻✨ Checking out the music for this week’s show, I was struck by The Yardbirds' track Happenings Ten Years Time Ago . It really got me thinking... ten years ago, I hadn’t even seriously considered creating an audio leave-behind for my daughter! Fast forward to today, and as we approach our massive 9th Anniversary on September 24th, i...

🤯 9 YEARS OF MIND-BLOWING MUSIC DISCOVERIES! 📻✨ Through our almost NINE YEARS together, I have discovered so many new, incredibly cool, and beautiful things about music that I never even knew existed! 🎶 🦅 WHO ARE THE RED BIRD GIRLS?! On this week’s show, we are spinning a track by The Red Bird Girls! If you haven't heard of them, they were a brilliant collaboration of legendary producers and...

1. "Lose Yourself" – Eminem 2. "Livin' on a Prayer" – Bon Jovi 3. "I Want It That Way" – Backstreet Boys 4. "Welcome to the Jungle" – Guns N' Roses 5. "You Shook Me All Night Long" – AC/DC 6. "Call Me Maybe" – Carly Rae Jepsen 7. "Wagon Wheel" – Darius Rucker 8. "Danger Zone" – Kenny Loggins 9. "Rockstar" – Nickelback 10. "Drunk on a Plane" – Dierks Bentley

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Headline: 🤯 ONE MILLION LISTENERS?! YOU GUYS ARE UNBELIEVABLE! 🌍📻 As we steamroll toward our MASSIVE 9th Anniversary this September, I was looking at some stats our Executive Producer, "Big L" Laurent L., sent over. He tracks the hits and listens for all 450+ of our shows, and my mind is officially BLOWN! 💥 Here is how it works: a new show might get 150-200 listens in its first week. But three...

🎇 HAPPY 250TH BIRTHDAY, AMERICA! 🎇 It is the BIG TWO-FIVE-ZERO! 🇺🇸 Too bad Rock 'n' Roll hasn't been around for all 250 of those years, but trust me, we are making up for lost time! 🎸🦅 We are just going to JAM out for the 4th this holiday weekend. We’ve got some fun facts and figures about the 4th of July lined up for you, but mostly? We are just playing America’s FAVORITE music! 🎶 🔥 The Sta...

☀️ SUMMER LOVE, FESTIVAL ESSENTIALS, & ROCK 'N' ROLL! 🎸 "Summer Love" means a lot of different things... but for us, it is ALL about OUTDOOR FESTIVALS and CONCERTS! 🎪 We are taking some time this week to highlight the absolute essentials you need to truly enjoy 'em out there in the heat! But let's be real, no Summer of Love is complete without the SOUNDS! 🎶 The Lineup: We are leading off wi...

Headline: 🔥 THE STUDIO IS STILL SMOKING! 🔥 Our 'Conversation' with Travis Morrow (Chairman and CEO of Storelocal) was an absolute BLAZE! 🎙️ The episode flowed so perfectly it practically crossed its own finish line! 🏁 Who knew we’d be talking TANKS, AMMO, Cavalry Scouting, and Gliders on a Rock 'n' Roll self-storage show?! 🪖✈️ Only on Radio Wilder! 🎪 ALL ABOUT "THE SHOW": We took a deep dive...

Headline: ⚓️ BACK FROM THE SEVEN SEAS! 🌊 (Well, close enough!) We just returned from the most EXOTIC adventure through French Polynesia—Tahiti, Bora Bora, Moorea, and the Marquesas! 🏝️ We rallied a crew of 12 to celebrate our good pal Ray T's birthday, and man, did we have a BLAST! 🎉 We sailed aboard The Spirit , snorkeled off killer catamarans, cruised alongside pods of DOLPHINS (and yes, even...

Headline: SURVIVED THE SHOWS, NOW IT'S TIME FOR A VACATION! 🧳✈️ After two WILD weeks of powerhouse Self Storage trade shows, seminars, endless meet-and-greets, and WAY too much food and drink 🍔🍻, we are wrapping up April with ONE LAST SHOW! That’s right, the whole Radio Wilder team—Capt’n Dave, Grayson, Gerry the Eagle, Lumina, our happy sloth 🦥, and of course, Alexa—is embarking on our annual...

Headline: DESERT HEAT, BIG MOOLAH, & HEAVY BEATS! ☀️💸🎸 Trade show season for the Self Storage Industry is in FULL SWING! We packed up and traveled down from Vegas to Phoenix, and we are hanging out at the stunning We-Ko-Pa Casino Resort TODAY and TOMORROW (April 15th-16th)! 🏜️ Hope you got here early enough yesterday to hit that beautiful golf course with your pals! ⛳️ 📅 Day 1 is ON! The O...

Headline: 🎪 RADIO WILDER HAS 9 LIVES! 🐈📻 Welcome to the circus, folks! That’s the theme for our spectacular UNDER THE BIG TOP show celebrating Inside Self Storage’s MASSIVE 35th Anniversary! 🎉 What an absolute blockbuster it’s going to be: 250 "Acrobats" (okay, vendors! 🤹‍♂️), around 4,000 attendees, and a TREMENDOUS lineup of educational "Barkers" (speakers 🗣️) ready to drop some serious kno...

Headline: CATCHING OUR BREATH & HEADING TO VEGAS! 🎰🚀 Everybody is still trying to catch their Collective Soul (I mean breath... more on that later! 😉). San Antonio was a ROUSING success for everyone involved! The SSA did a phenomenal job handling the action and coordinating the events. HUGE hats off to Timmy D., Carol, and the rest of the crew! 🤠👏 🎲 Next Stop: LAS VEGAS! Now it’s time to...

EVERYBODY WANTED A HUGG IN THE ALAMO CITY! 🫂🔥 We just got back from an absolutely INCREDIBLE SSA Spring Conference in San Antonio, and let me tell you, the energy was off the charts! 📈 Safehugg.com was proud to sponsor two MASSIVE events: the Manager’s Forum on Wednesday and the Women’s Council on Thursday. Both were huge successes, and almost ALL of our Hugg notebooks were snatched up! 📓 The...