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Ticketmaster crashes as millions of Taylor Swift fans try to buy tickets to her world tour. A mother and daughter found themselves next in line in the virtual queue until they were suddenly behind 2,000 other people. Adding to the chaos, some tickets were reselling for $45,000. Scissor Sisters sign catalogue deal in bid to bring their classics to 'new audiences'.  The 'Take Your Mama' group - comp...

Disneyland announces new theming for Tarzan’s treehouse. Disneyland’s Tarzan’s treehouse will be re-themed to pay homage to its original theming, The Swiss Family Robinson treehouse, the park announced on last week. Wendy’s iconic Frosty gets a twist for the holidays. The iconic Wendy’s Frosty is getting a holiday makeover: for the first time ever, the chain is offering a Peppermint Frosty. Airbnb...

Glenn A. Gordon is our guest this time,  find him at gordoncreativegroup.com The Biggest art sale in history as (the late) Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s collection fetches $1.5bn. Works by Georges Seurat, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and Gustav Klimt each sell for more than $100m. Elon Musk scraps Twitter’s work from home policy. New owner emails staff to say he will personally vet any circu...

Sam Shinazzi is our guest tonight! Find Sam's music at https://samshinazzi.com  Florida traveler stuffed gun into a raw chicken and tried to bring it on the plane, TSA says. Facebook parent Meta cuts 11,000 jobs, 13% of workforce. Facebook parent Meta is laying off 11,000 people, about 13% of its workforce, as it contends with faltering revenue and broader tech industry woes, CEO Mark Zuckerberg s...

Glen Phillips joins us so we throw out the news and talk about science, social media, culture and philosophy and of course music. Glen Phillips has a new record out, In the six years since his last solo album Swallowed by the New (2016), Phillips has navigated grief in his post-divorce outing to finding love again reflected on "There Is So Much Here". This new collection of songs documents a shift...

A popular rooster is missing from an N.J. animal sanctuary and may have been stolen, farm says. A popular rooster that attracts visitors from all over to a South Jersey animal sanctuary has been missing since Tuesday and his farm is offering a reward for his safe return. Dolly Parton has been awarded $100 million from Jeff Bezos to give to charities of her choice. Bezos selected Parton as the 2022...

Tyson Foods Chief Financial Officer John R. Tyson was arrested early Sunday morning after becoming intoxicated and falling asleep in the wrong home. Tyson is the second prominent C-suite food executive to be arrested in Washington County over the last two months. Beyond Meat Chief Operating Officer Doug Ramsey — a former Tyson executive himself — was arrested in September for allegedly biting a ma...

Ami Nassim is with us today! Kasey Funderburg, who resigned as University of Tennessee sports reporter and Vol Network sideline reporter, apologized for "offensive language" she used online when she was in high school.  She called them "unacceptable" and "ignorant" in a statement. Amber Heard deletes her Twitter account after ex Elon Musk takes over. After Elon Musk acquired Twitter and took charg...

Our guest today is the general sales manager for UCLA Sports and the Rose Bowl, Damon Dukakis. Miles of brittle, uprooted almond trees lay dead on their sides on parched farmland in Coalinga, California, as an intensifying drought, new restrictions and skyrocketing water prices are forcing farmers to sacrifice their crops. With the city on track to run out of water by mid- to late November, offici...

 CNBC cancels ‘The News with Shepard Smith’ to refocus on business news. CNBC will replace Smith’s primetime show with markets coverage until a new live show focusing on business news launches in 2023. Twitter was sued over Elon Musk's plan to lay off about half of its workforce on Friday, citing a class-action lawsuit filed in a San Francisco federal court. King Tut’s tomb still has secrets to re...

In the final days and weeks of Arizona’s midterm elections, the major Republican and Democratic hopefuls have embarked on strikingly different approaches. Whereas Republicans are running as a unified slate, branding themselves as a single ticket, Democrats are running more of an every-candidate-for-themselves playbook. In Arizona, Kari Lake Leads United GOP Slate, While Democrats Go It Alone. Afte...

Twitter CEO and finance chief have left the company’s San Francisco headquarters and will not be returning, sources said. Vijaya Gadde, the head of legal policy, trust and safety, was also fired. Musk had until last Friday to complete his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter or face a court battle with the company. The billionaire tweeted “the bird is freed” in an apparent reference to the takeover...

Las Vegas, with history of casino implosions, has big demolitions coming. It’s too early to say whether the buildings will be torn down Vegas-style — setting off fireworks as onlookers cheer an implosion. But collectively, the current and planned teardowns are a reminder that property owners have often had no qualms about toppling old real estate to build something new in Southern Nevada, an ever-...

San Franciscans flushed with anger over $1.7m public toilet. The current plan is projected to cost $1.7 million, including $300,000 for architecture and engineering fees and $150,000 for construction management fees. Only $750,000 of the $1.7 million is for actual construction costs. Even if approved, the toilet may not be completed until 2025 due to the long planning process. San Francisco is als...

Actor Matthew Perry draws criticism after comments he made about Keanu Reeves in his forthcoming book are made public. “Why is it that the original thinkers like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger die, but Keanu Reeves still walks among us? River was a better actor than me; I was funnier. But I certainly held my own in our scenes—no small feat, when I look back decades later.” 3 Florida men arrested i...

Seattle, Portland have worst air quality in the world due to relentless wildfire smoke. The site IQAir ranked Seattle and Portland as the two worst cities in the world for air quality on Wednesday and Thursday – worse than areas in China and southeastern Asia that usually top the list. Vancouver, British Columbia, in Canada rated among the 10 worst cities. A woman is facing multiple assault charge...

Skeetopia is with me tonight for a special sneak preview show. Skeetopia launches Tuesday night, right after my show at 7:30pm Pacific.  Today's show sponsored by NeonMob.com Collect and trade incredible digital art from indie creators FREE with NeonMob. Download on iOS or Android or sign up at neonmob.com. Happy collecting! https://www.neonmob.com/r/a0zAF Subscribe to The Funkhouser Weekly--- htt...

The Grand Old Evils are worn & torn and broken in, God only knows where they've been. From Alice Cooper to Iggy Pop, A monstrous sound that never stops. They're older than dirt, and loud as a crow, and tonight they're on The Barry Funkhouser Show! Please welcome former guitar player for 90's Alt. MTV Buzz Bin band "dig," famous for their hit "Believe". The Grand Old Evils frontrunner, JON MORR...

Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) abruptly axed, then reinstated, its longstanding TV writers' training program. WBD said the plan "all along'' was to shift the workshop and its sister program for directors to the DEI division, but insiders said the timing and tone of WBD's announcements point to a rushed reversal driven by backlash. Sneaked away in Netflix's quarterly earnings report on Tuesday came n...

The only thing better than your favorite team stealing a base during the World Series is getting rewarded for it. Taco Bell announced that the highly-anticipated “steal a base, steal a taco” promotion is making a return for the 11th year during the 2022 World Series. As always, Taco Bell will give fans a free Nacho Cheese Doritos Locos Taco if any MLB player manages to steal a base. However, this...

United Airlines reported better-than-expected quarterly profit of $942 million. But that’s not what’s interesting here. What’s interesting is that the carrier is attributing at least part of its financial success to the growing trend of remote work. “Hybrid work allows every weekend to be a holiday weekend,” United CEO Scott Kirby said. McDonald’s Halloween Happy Meal pumpkin pals made their retur...

Warner Bros. Television Group announced last week it’s cutting 26% of personnel — a total of 125 positions, across scripted, unscripted and animation. The news is the latest in what has been an overhaul for Warner Bros Discovery, which has been forced to make cuts in order to save at least $3 billion after the merger overseen by Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav in April. Rapper Ye, also kno...

I'm here with two very talented blokes! Newman and Unger-Hamilton tell us some of the differences between British and American audiences and lifestyles, plus they also share details about the outfits they both strive to rock. They also reminisce back on the moment when they realized that alt-J had reached the point where it could support them financially & be the focus of their career.  If you...

The group is with me talking about the origins of how the band met and formed nearly 10-years ago. As a band growing up in Dublin, Ireland, they were exposed to American culture through media and entertainment; now that they can travel all around the states playing music, they say they love the experience. And their "oh my gosh" moment is described more as moments (plural). They say, "we have a lo...

Matt Lowell is with me tonight from the Los Angeles-based indie rock band Lo Moon. Including live performances of "Carried Away," "Expectations," and "Dream Never Dies" from the recent album 'A Modern Life.'