Disney’s Cars Characters Have A Wild Friday Night Ride

Disney's Cars, with so many lovable characters, get the Fractured Fairy Tales treatment. In this week's episode, Fuzzy takes Mater and Lightning on a wild Friday night ride.

ANNOUNCER - It's time to listen to one of our favorite magical stories. Erm, well, sort of.

It's Fuzzy's Fractured Fairy Tales on the WDHA Morning Jolt.

FUZZY - And good morning everyone! Let's jump into today's episode, it's Disney's Cars Friday Night Fun.

One evening, lightning, a red race car with the number 95 printed on its door, rolled alongside Mater, an old rusted tow truck on the deserted highway and honked its horn.

Mater tips over.

LIGHTNING - Oh man, tow truck tipping is more fun than cow tipping. What you doing Mater?

MATER - Damn it Lightning, One of these days I'm going to accidentally tip you into a trash compactor and crush you into a cube just like the movie Christine.

Would you stop sneaking up on me like that?

LIGHTNING - Oh shut the hell up, I'm just having a little fun. And speaking of fun, you want to have a late night race? Just me and your rust bucket ass on this empty road.

I'll even throw in a prize.

Whoever gets to Daisy's garage first, it gets a free tune up that the loser must pay.

So what do you say, mofo?

MATER - Daisy? I wouldn't mind having her touch my gears.

FUZZY - As Mater accepted the challenge, they both lined up on the straightaway. Their engines revved and their high beams turned on.

The countdown begins.

Three, two, one, go!

LIGHTNING - Whoo hoo, this is what I call Friday night fun.! Come on you old rusted bucket, you want Daisy to touch your gears, put the pedal to the metal.

MATER - Oh you think you're a smart ass, just shut your grill your big red turd and stick to the road.

FUZZY - As they both sped down the highway, police sirens lit up behind them. It was the sheriff, a 1970's classic patrol car.

SHERIFF - This is the police, the both of you pull over now.

LIGHTNING - Oh crap, the damn sheriff is on my bumper! That bi*** is just as fat as Boss Hogg from the Dukes of Hazzard. The next time I get an oil change, I gotta drop my sludge in that damn hat of his. That ought to piss him off!

MATER - Uh, Lightning? I think he's mad. What should we do?

LIGHTNING - Well what do you think? We make him madder.

FUZZY - Uh oh, things are starting to get serious.

Tune in next week for part 2 of Disney's Cars on Fuzzy's Fractured Fairy Tales.

This past Sunday on All Mixed Up I played the audio from one of YouTube music personality Rick Beato's videos that led me to thinking about five of the greatest keyboard openings in rock.

First, here's Rick's video, which contains a GREAT story about the 1967 hit "A Whiter Shade of Pale" by Procol Harum.

Although best known for his incredible guitar playing, Eddie Van Halen brought a whole new dimension to Van Halen when he introduced keyboards on 1984's "Jump."

He continued that trend with this song from the Sammy Hagar era of the band.

It was really hard to pick just one song from Genesis, but this one jumped out pretty quickly.

Turnstiles is probably my favorite Billy Joel album, and this song has long been a concert favorite among fans.

Styx is another band that I found hard to pick just one song. Truthfully, it wouldn't be a stretch to put 5 songs from them in here and just leave it at that.

Though written by guitarist Tommy Shaw, Dennis DeYoung's keyboards put the song over the top.

And the multiple time signature changes are among the most unusual in rock.

The amazing Bruce Hornsby co-wrote this song with Don Henley.

I've seen Henley perform this song a few times, both solo and with the Eagles, and no one has been able to duplicate what Hornsby did on this recording.

Oh sure, the other guys play all the same notes, but Hornby's feel is what makes this one stand out for me.