When you listen during your workday this week, you could win tickets to see Dan + Shay on Friday, March 15th at Nationwide Arena in Columbus with special guests Ben Rector and Hailey Whitters! I'll tell you around 10:05am each day this week what time we will play the "Left Out Lyric" for your chance to win! It's a fun game, and it helps to know your Dan + Shay songs!

We're also qualifying you to see Garth Brooks in Las Vegas all this week with a $50 Amazon gift card! Click here for all the details!

Good luck and thanks for listening to WQMX at work!

I may work inside an office building, but you wouldn't know it from my hands. My knuckles are often bruised from wrenching, it's not uncommon for there to be dirt or grease beneath my nails, random wounds are a constant, and the coarse skin matches the years of abuse I put them through in both physical labor and fun. I have taught them how to play the bass guitar, skip a stone, tie a fishing knot, write in cursive, swing an axe, and rebuild a carburetor; among countless other abilities. Now, I'm proud to say these hands have learned something else new: how to weld! 

This past Christmas, I was thrilled to find a welder beneath the tree. It's such an awesome gift, and I had been waiting for the opportunity to test it out. Well, I've been working on this big go-kart buggy thing for a while now and it was time to reattach the front end, so my friend and I went to town on it. We cut up some scrap metal, threw on a mask, and got to laying down some sticks. We fixed the shocks, got the steering together, and connected it all to the main frame. Although some things aren't quite fitting or looking exactly like I want, it's a start, and I'm just happy that my sloppy welds actually held. I've got a lot of learning to do when it comes to properly using that machine, but for my purposes over the weekend, I think I did alright! 

It was honestly a lot of fun and I'm excited to continue learning about how to use the welder properly. More knowledge and practice will open up my options on what I can accomplish through the use of it, and that goes the same for these hands of mine in general. Just because I'm not in school anymore doesn't mean I care to stop learning. It's just that now the garage is my classroom and I've traded-in my pencil for an angle grinder. 

With this, add welding to the list of things I sort-of know how to do! I'm hyped. 

Thanks for giving this a read, and if you get the opportunity to do so, try something new! Maybe you've been curious about knitting or you want to play the harmonica. Go for it!

The Naked Gun with Leslie Neilson was released many moons ago.   This week it was announced a Reboot will be released in July of 2025...

This time around since Leslie Neilson is no longer with us.  Liam Neeson has been announced as the star???  Neeson is not Neilson, I promise you that! 

Do you think Liam Neeson can pull it off?  

The movie was first announced back in 2022... Seth McFarlane is a producer on it.  

Today is March 1st - The unofficial first day of Spring! Today begins Meteorological Spring which runs March, April, and May.

I would say that Spring is my 2nd favorite season. The first reason is that my birthday is in April. Secondly, the days really start to get longer (can we just make Daylight Savings Time permanent already?). Lastly, I like the reality that days are getting warmer and we still have all of Summer to look forward to, and not back at.

Either way it's Friday. So whether you're like me and celebrating the start of Spring, or not...it's the start of the weekend. Be happy about that!

So... I bought a trailer! I picked this bad boy up off my friend for a really good price on Thursday and I'm ecstatic to now have a means to easily transport my powersports with the Blazer. This is especially nice when it comes to transporting my large buggy project or maybe even my quad with the snowplow attached. 

Previously, I was just barely able to fit my four-wheeler in the back of the Blazer. It took two people, I had to completely deflate the tires for clearance, and I snapped some of my brittle late-90's GM interior plastic in the process of getting it in and out. That's not even to mention the mud and dirt brought into my cargo area or the fact that I had to leave the drop gate/hatch open as I went down the road. It made for a loud, windy car ride in that situation, but I made it work! If there's a will, there's a way; but now there's a much better way.

It's going to need weighed and put into my name, and I'll have to slap a plate on the old thing. Otherwise, it's pretty much ready to roll. The lights work and the bones are good, but the floor has rotted out a bit. I'll get it all fixed and looking good in no time. Maybe it will even give me an opportunity to practice welding with my new setup. 

I'm overjoyed! 

Well he was at The Dusty Armadillo not too long ago talking about the new album during our Charity Concert Series Show... 
Now we have the details...

Tonight Scotty McCreery will drop a new song called 'Slow Dance' which he was teasing on socials for a minute... That song and 'Cab in A Solo' will be on his new album not called #5...  it's title is "RISE & FALL" out May 10th.  

 

 

 

 

 

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This is the day that comes around only once every 4 years - February 29th! How are you going to celebrate the day? Do you celebrate the day? I don't think there is any guidance on that. My suggestion is to celebrate by doing what the day's name suggests - jump up and down a bunch of times. HAHA

How many times? Maybe 29. Enjoy the day - and if you happen to have a birthday on February 29th...I'm sorry - unless you enjoy the notoriety.

Of all the Thursday Top Ten lists I've compiled thus far; I can hardly believe I haven't touched on the topic of pop. Boy, do I love me soft drink, and the more sugary it is, the better! 

I'm an Ohio native, a Midwesterner, so it's pop. While pop is what we all call it, I'll admit that soda is an acceptable alternative too. If you call it coke, no matter what the drink actually is, that's where I draw the line. How are you about to call a can of root beer a coke? 

I am passionately against drinking diet pop. I can't get past the artificial taste and I've heard it's ironically worse for your health overall. I understand its the only pop option for some, like Diabetics, but I'd rather have anything else. And, while I could easily spiral into a tangent on the pop versus soda debate, let's get into the list.

Fizzy bubbles, it's My Top Ten Pops! 

10. Crush Orange

9. Mountain Dew Voltage

8. Squirt

7. Sunkist Orange

6. Mountain Dew

5. Mountain Dew Pitch Black

4. Mountain Dew Throwback

3. Mountain Dew Live Wire

2. Crush Grape

1. Big Blue

So, what's your favorite way to enjoy a pop? For me it goes from: glass bottle, then can, then plastic bottle, and lastly the tap. There's just too much unpredictability and variation from place to place when it comes to a pop from out of the fountain. The exception is those magic Coke machines that they have at places like Cedar Point. I keep thinking about the grape Hi-C out of those on a hot summer day; oh my! That stuff's dangerously good. Still, nothing even comes close to Big Blue, though. 

If you don't know about it, Big Blue is made by the same company that makes Big Red- not the bubble gum but the pop. If the color blue has a flavor, this is it. I've always described it as a blue cream soda, but there's really no distinct flavor besides sweet. It contains a stupid amount of sugar, enough to put a cavity in your sweet tooth! That's exactly why I like it. 

It is such a shame that Big Blue isn't really available in Ohio. It's a regional beverage which is most prominent in the south, and I look for it every time I travel. I even called the Big Red corporate offices a while back to try to locate that sweet nectar locally and it's just not around. Unfortunately, they're somewhat expensive to buy off the internet, too. If you do ever come across the stuff, give it a try and maybe pick me up a few too! 

Thanks so much for reading this and for tuning in to 94.9 WQMX. Enjoy the sunshine and warm weather coming our way, and maybe celebrate with a refreshing pop! 

Every Final Friday of the Month (tomorrow 2-29) we go Floor To Ceiling from National Design Mart.  

Listen tomorrow on the ride home in your 5 o' clock hour for your chance to go Floor To Ceiling.   Your chance to guess the exact price of a National Design Mart Product or Merchandise.  Caller 9 that gets in will have 60 seconds to guess the exact price with a little help of course for the $250 Certificate to National Design Mart in Medina, Wooster and NationalDesignMart.com.  

They are Ohio's Leader of In Stock Flooring, Countertops and Cabinets.  Don't forget March 14th from 9am-3pm at their Medina Location on Rte. 18 between 71 & 77 will have a Blood Drive from The Red Cross.  There is a blood shortage please donate.   And Floor It with your "drive @ 5" every weeknight on the ride home on 94.9 WQMX...  

March is Women's History Month.  And all March on Thursdays, in my Memory Lane articles I will showcase and revisit some of our greatest female vocalists. These women are among the biggest stars our format has ever had.

This week let's revisit -

Trisha Yearwood