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August 11, 2025 38 mins
This week, we feature in studio guests, Mike Wise and Brandon Reece of Emily's ToyBox! ETB is celebrating their 30th Anniversary as a band with a NEW double album! Hear the tracks here—before you can purchase them!

1. Emily's Toybox - “Back of the Bus”

2. Emily's Toybox - “Ain't Drunk Enoug

3. Emily's Toybox - “Casualty” (LIVE)

4. Emily's Toybox - “The Prettiest Perfect”

5. Emily's Toybox - “I Wanna Get Nude With You”

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Hosts: Glenn Hamilton & Brandon Valentine

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Proudly Pa.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
This is the local show with a Central Pennsylvania Music
Hall of Fame.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
On the River. All right, good evening. This is are
we in episode twenty? Yes? All right, this is season three,
episode twenty. It's Glenn Hamilton from the River. Brandon Valentine,
founder of the Central Pennsylvania Music Hall of Fame. So
this is episode twenty of the podcast, but of the
local show. We have a very special guest with us.

(00:28):
Emily's Toy Box is in the house celebrating thirty years
of rocking Central PA and the world the Big three
to zero Mike Wise, who's the big founder? And it's
this is all his fault, Emily's toy POxy he is?
He is in today? And also Brandon Nice is Reese? Okay? Yes,

(00:58):
it's in there, Brandon me, that's crazy.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
My entire life, I have spent spelling my last name
for people.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Will you spell it for it? Because well it's r
e e Ce okay, instead of the peanut butter exactly
everyone the peenu.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
But that's the first time I've ever had to clarify
or over and m.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
You haven't worked with me yet. You're gonna have to
clarify a lot of things to me, Brandon. As you'll
find out over the next half hour or so, we're
celebrating thirty years of Emily's Toy Box. You guys have
a lot planned for your thirtieth anniversary, right, yes, sir,
A double album is in the works and some live
shows in our backyard. But let's open up with this
first song. Tell us a little bit, Mike about back

(01:45):
of the bus where we all, I think all of
us like to ride in the back of the back
of the bus.

Speaker 4 (01:49):
Was that one was? That was written literally in Carlisle.
I was taking my stepdaughter to school and the bus
went boinging by and all the kids wearing going were
you up in there? You know, you're in the back?
And I was like, I saw that, and it was
like that was literally it was on the spot, Kids
in the back, dark contract, Kids in the back of
the bus. That was the part can I'm like, I
gotta finish that. Oh, And that's how that came to be.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
All right. Here it is Emily's Toy Box, Back of
the Bus on the local show on the River ninety
seven to three with.

Speaker 5 (02:16):
The kids in the back of the Jack in the
back of the bus come on, join us with the
kids in the back of the jack at the back
of the bus, Come and join us where the chits
in the plank attacks in the back of the bus.
Gonna join us with the kids and the plants up
attract at the back of the bus.

Speaker 6 (02:33):
Come and join us. Don't you tell me out where's
why ride but out of life?

Speaker 7 (02:41):
Call me down the lid your parney guy, I take.

Speaker 8 (02:46):
A right gun.

Speaker 7 (02:46):
I'm right god ba do cas ve ba bout.

Speaker 8 (03:00):
Hey ways, Mabel.

Speaker 5 (03:08):
Say so the Chians in the banks, I'm contraction in
the bank of the bus. Come and join us with
the Chians in the bank of contraction in the bank
of the bus. Come and join us with the Chians
in the bank I'm contraction to the fact of the bus.

Speaker 6 (03:22):
Come and join us with the Chians in the bands
of contrast to the bank of the bus. Come and
join us. Who don't kill your dad?

Speaker 9 (03:30):
Borrow the down gun.

Speaker 6 (03:31):
I was raised, jul got way down down.

Speaker 9 (03:35):
I'm like, goes bye, I don't do anyone wall wait glad.

Speaker 6 (03:40):
So you can't tell you r be done about? They
got drun joy modeler.

Speaker 8 (03:45):
Bird I'm paying back, really brally hey ways label make
us first song, the.

Speaker 5 (04:03):
Kids in the blacktop the trash in the back of
the bus. Con join us with the kids the bats
on the trash in the back of the bus.

Speaker 6 (04:11):
Con join us with the kids in the back of
the trash to the back of the bus.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
Conna join us with the kids in the back of.

Speaker 6 (04:17):
The trash in the back of the bus. Come and
join us with the kids in the back on the

(04:40):
trash in the back of the bus.

Speaker 5 (04:42):
Come and join us with the kids in the back
took the trash at the back of the bus. Come
and join us with a chance in the back on
the trash in the back of the bus.

Speaker 6 (04:51):
Come and join us with the kids in the back
of the trash of the back of the bus. Come
and join us with the kids in the black com
the trash in the back of the bus. On joy
us on the track for the back of the bus.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
Come joy us back of the bus. That is Emily's
toy Box on the local show on the River ninety
seven to three, I've got Mike Wise and uh Brandon
Reese in the studio, and Brandon was just saying that
this is the first time that that song has been
officially recorded. Talk about back of the bus. Brandon.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
Yeah, that's that's a that's a live staple that you know,
goes back over twenty years and was on the first
Emily's Toy Box live record, but it was it was
never actually on any other studio recording, and Mike always
wanted to have that, you know, like recording.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
Yeah, yeah, And well you did it, and it's gonna
be on the brand new double album that's coming out
called It's Okay to to Sweat It's Okay to Swear.
I don't know if radio agrees with that or not,
but I've already done it once.

Speaker 4 (05:57):
So even funny about we've never recorded it, I never
knew as Brandon, I never sung the right lyrics because
there was never lyrics written. And if you listen to
the one on the live CD, I'm.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
Just going, you know, just they're left up to interpretation
of the listener.

Speaker 4 (06:16):
Then then eventually we recorded a country album and wait,
it's all of our heavy stuff done as country, which
is actually going to drop within the next week really
yeah on Spotify and all that. So it's really only
like six or seven songs, but it's our heavy stuff
done countryfied. And if you do that to a song

(06:39):
that has swear words and it immediately turns into a
dirty country song and it's absolutely hilarious. But the only
time that that was whenever I actually sat down and
wrote the lyrics to the song for the country album,
and then because of doing uploading that to all the
you know, everything, the I'd realized that I didn't even
sing the right lyrics on the new copy that was

(07:01):
just played.

Speaker 6 (07:01):
We just played. That's awesome, man.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
Well, if anybody can take liberties with the lyrics, it's
the songwriter. I mean, you could do whatever you want.
I take liberty every night. I mean, you guys have
played I mean a million shows in the last thirty years.
I don't even know a hundred thousand. I mean, that's
not an exaggeration.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
We used to play two hundred and seventy to two
and eighty shows a year.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
Wow, almost, So that's amazing.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
It is.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
That's four days a week, sometimes five days a week.
And I'm dating myself here, but I remember, you know,
growing up in the area and seeing Emily's toy Box
just playing on Second Street, you know all the time.
I mean it was like you guys are you guys
are staple in the area always think of like Green Eggs,
Emily's Toy Box and like pop Tart Monkeys. That was
like the kind where I was like there is bad
least for sure. Yeah, I was like, there is a
local scene, you know.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
So you want to you want to talk about the
you know, the hardware shows on Second Street? Oh yeah, dude,
So like you know, I used to stumble in there
figuratively and literally, you know, I just stumble in there,
you know, like in my early twenties. Yeah, and they'd
be playing this is years before I was.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
You were a fan and a fan, you know, I'm thinking,
who the hell are these clowns?

Speaker 10 (08:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (08:17):
Now you a clown. I've been a clown for ten
years now. Man, that's awesome, so funny. Our guests this
week Emily's Toy Boxes. They celebrate thirty years of rock
and Central PA and Beyond. Let's do another song from
you guys? What's this one? Ain't drunk enough talk about it?

(08:39):
I mean, I know it speaks for itself, but but
how did that come about?

Speaker 11 (08:43):
Well?

Speaker 1 (08:43):
Mike, Mike had the original idea.

Speaker 3 (08:47):
The main riff you hear throughout the song like he
had he had this funky riff which, like he said,
you know, usually when we come up with these ideas,
you know, whoever's working on whatever, take a video and
send it out to everybody in the thread. You know,
here's this, you know, and kind of break down different
sections and then we get together and start hashing it out.
As soon as I heard that riff, I was just like, oh,

(09:08):
this is like the older I get, the I'm like,
you know, Brandon, like, I'm all like van Halen and.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
You know, yeah, you know, but the older I.

Speaker 3 (09:18):
Get, the further I get from like hard rock and stuff,
the more like when I'm just practicing in my own time,
like I really like funky stuff, and so you know,
here's this, like, you know, just gritty, kind of funky
blues thing, and I'm like, oh man, this is going
to be great. And this was the first song that
we actually worked on together as a band. Okay, yeah,

(09:38):
all right, what's the first one that we tracked?

Speaker 12 (09:40):
Here?

Speaker 13 (09:40):
It is?

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Here, it is, It's Ain't Drunk Enough. The radio edit
I the thank You Guys to swear but not here,
the local show on the River ninety seven three, and
the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 10 (10:04):
My Bad Ran Now Me?

Speaker 9 (10:07):
Then a Planet Place did l my place, pay in
the nail, No.

Speaker 10 (10:20):
Min I tank you up?

Speaker 6 (10:25):
Maybe a little help place.

Speaker 8 (10:27):
I don't know they died out a dollar.

Speaker 10 (10:31):
Risk down I I I ain't trying, do.

Speaker 13 (10:38):
I?

Speaker 4 (10:39):
I ain't trying, Thank you.

Speaker 10 (10:43):
Son, not dad? When a protect place? My day of frieda?

Speaker 6 (10:51):
What's something to a place.

Speaker 10 (10:55):
By? Still? Why?

Speaker 3 (10:58):
No?

Speaker 10 (10:58):
Stop? There?

Speaker 2 (11:01):
She got they.

Speaker 6 (11:03):
She got that same.

Speaker 4 (11:06):
I say, it's just signing yellow.

Speaker 10 (11:17):
It's a sign trying to yellow than it's got stuck yourself.

Speaker 6 (11:50):
I got drunk. That's that shut dough.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
Got proudly p a. This is the local show with

(13:22):
a Central Pennsylvania Music Hall of Fame on the River
ninety seventy three.

Speaker 6 (13:35):
What Virginie we got down with?

Speaker 10 (13:41):
It was like a d scene scene to guest ill
we got the money on the side.

Speaker 9 (13:56):
The same My name my life through yad by b.

Speaker 10 (14:05):
Si wow this by send my back leg by wow.

Speaker 6 (14:25):
Ba inside class.

Speaker 10 (14:41):
Us You street young get none of your friends.

Speaker 6 (14:45):
It's one of the trunk gets myself. No, I don't.
It's right to street young.

Speaker 10 (14:53):
People a light.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
But I had a jung ball man I s side.

Speaker 10 (15:01):
Who knows?

Speaker 6 (15:01):
I yell ba y'alls about me?

Speaker 10 (15:03):
Y'all A son?

Speaker 6 (15:06):
How it looks like got why.

Speaker 10 (15:08):
So why is I say fly Wow, blasm and bad.

Speaker 6 (15:25):
Is as.

Speaker 14 (15:30):
Blast walls little bat and I'll see, I'll say, I'll

(16:03):
you can't say, what's the side?

Speaker 10 (16:06):
I can't say, no ball on.

Speaker 4 (16:07):
Chrus so close that four.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
It's the local show on the River ninety seven three.
In the iHeartRadio app Our special in studio guests a
couple of the members of Emily's Toy Box, Mike Wise
and Brandon Reese. Mike the founder of Emily's Toy Box.

Speaker 4 (16:55):
What's a flounder?

Speaker 1 (16:56):
The flounder of Emily's Toy Box? And he has been
with the band for thirty years.

Speaker 8 (17:02):
Now.

Speaker 1 (17:02):
How many people have you had in the band over
the years?

Speaker 4 (17:06):
A lot. I'm guessing there's been at least six members
of everybody, like you know, players, drummers than that. And
there's only been one singer.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
So all right, you know who the A holy is.

Speaker 10 (17:19):
One?

Speaker 1 (17:19):
Well, Brandon, how long have you been in the band.

Speaker 3 (17:22):
So there's there's all these anniversaries. This you know, thirty
is the big one for the band. But this record
is the first record in twenty years. Wow, and in
September is what was the end of September, So for
all intents and purposes, you can say October is my
ten year anniversary.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
Amazing, So you got ten twenty thirty there lined up. Well,
so we just played Casualty, let's talk about you know, yeah,
and that's that's a live version, right. And one of
the things we were talking about off air is, you know,
just kind of the mix of genres on this record.
You know, I think we're going to play one that's
a little bit more out of the box coming up here,
but uh, you know that that uh the toy box
if you will. Yes, that ain't drunk enough got obviously

(18:02):
got the bluesy vibe, you know, talk about casualty and
uh that kind of genre influence in the story behind it.

Speaker 4 (18:08):
The story behind it is actually a local story. There
was that was right after nine to eleven and uh,
you know everybody went to over the big sandbox over
the sea there and just below Baghdad. There was a
bunch of guys from Harrisburg. Sorry that was that got
sent over in the morale over there was just in

(18:28):
the gutter and people were literally they were killing himself.
And the one uh one boy that was over there,
his uh, there were a bunch of musicians in this
one platoon. And uh, while he was over there, his
mom got a hold of us. He had got a
hold of somebody. Wasn't I forget who?

Speaker 1 (18:46):
Say?

Speaker 4 (18:47):
There was us another band and Randy Robertson from Triple
our guitar God rest. Yes, but we all went together
to send Uh, we did a benefit and to send
over the instruments. And you know it's military. You can't
just send over an instrument because you know that'd be

(19:07):
too easy. It had to be you know, shrink wrapped
onto a palette and all this stuff in order. In
the time that we got this to send over to
this woman's son, that that boy had taken his life. Wow,
and that's what the song's are. Tragic man, that's the casualty.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
So that's for him. Yeah, God bless him.

Speaker 3 (19:26):
Mike and I both our fathers both served as well
in the military and everything. So we've always been big
supporters of all of our servicemen and women.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
And it's awesome. Yeah, that song, that song really hits home.
Well you'll find that on the brand new thirtieth anniversary
double album from Emily's Toy Box as they celebrate thirty
years with a double CD that's coming out, and you
guys said, you guys might have print some vinyl as well.

Speaker 4 (19:52):
Almost definitely going to do it. There's such as this
underlying market of like vinyl that people were just getting into,
which is awesome.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
Love it. Yeah, So you have one of the albums
is studio with like you said, at least one or
two songs that you've been playing for years but just
never were properly recorded.

Speaker 10 (20:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (20:10):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (20:10):
And then the live disc, which will be the second album,
and that's all.

Speaker 3 (20:14):
Yeah, that's all classic toy Box material from over the years,
and some of those, some of those songs on there
go back to like the first record, and there's there's
some rare there's some deep cuts.

Speaker 4 (20:25):
On there, the Bionic and shame Shame on, the shames
on there. That's that's first album.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
Well, the live disc right, well, the live disc or
the live record be compilations of previous live recordings. Are
they knew live recordings?

Speaker 3 (20:45):
They were all recorded over twenty twenty three, Okay, so
they're newly released.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
Yes, they're properly released. I'm probably sure there was some
way to hear them.

Speaker 3 (20:54):
They're recorded from a couple different I mean, we we
record pretty much every night and I've just got, you know,
a huge vault of shows and sometimes going through any
given night, it's it's not so much the performances that
are entertaining.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
It's it's the in between, the interaction. What we say
on any one given night. It sometimes is really good,
but you can say it.

Speaker 4 (21:21):
You know, what you want to say, what he wants
to say is is I have this technique where I
can fart into the microphone and nobody knows that I
do it. You know, it's just I'm like a magician
like that, and we all use in ears. So when
if I do that, usually people in the crowd don't
hear it. These guys are getting a point blank into.

Speaker 3 (21:40):
Their I'm fairly certain the folks in the crowd just
think of speaker's popping or something.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
You know, there's some sort of clipping going on, like
in a power amper. It's a good thing you don't
have in nose.

Speaker 4 (21:53):
Horrible really if it really for people that are listening,
and understand, if you ever hear me or see me
going I'm blowing into the microphone, that's because.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
Here, like we listen. We talked about difference of genres.
We also talk about difference of vocalists, right, and I
think this next track has a different vocal So we're
going into commercials now. But then when we come back out,
are we going to start with the song that Brandon
says that we're gonna mister Reese singing on this one? Yes, indeed,
all right, so we're gonna come back with the Prettiest

(22:29):
Perfect which I think is such a cool song with
all the different references in it. You'll hear what I'm
talking about coming up. I mean, if you're a fan
of rock, which why would you be listening to this
station if you're not. But if you're a fan of rock,
you're gonna love this song. Coming up next Emily's Toy Box,
our special guest on the Local show on the River
ninety seven three and the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 2 (22:50):
If you have a passion for booming drums at the
guitar solos, gene creaming vocals, I.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
Know, serious way the guy still cream and his jeans,
pouring his coffee.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
And keys that'll make your hair stand up, then you're
in the right place.

Speaker 4 (23:10):
This is my favorite station for a reason.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
This is the River ninety seven three Central Ba's Real
Rock for Rioty.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
The River ninety seven three. It is season three, episode
twenty of the local show on iHeartRadio. In the River
ninety seven three. It's Glenn Hamilton here and Brandon Valentine
from the Central Pennsylvania Music Hall of Fame and our
special guest in studio in the flesh, a couple of
the members of Emily's Toy Box. We've got Mike Wise,
who's the founding member of Emily's Toy Box, Lounder, the

(23:40):
flounding member. I'm sorry, how do I keep forgetting that?

Speaker 4 (23:43):
You don't have to, you know, that's just me be
not wrong.

Speaker 1 (23:46):
And Brandon Reese, who is the current guitar player in
the band, who's been there for coming up on ten
years in Emily's Toybox and sings vocals on this next
song talk about the Prettiest Perfect.

Speaker 3 (23:59):
So the Prettiest Perfect started out as I had. I
had just a solo EP that I put out in
twenty eighteen. I think show by the Way, Yes, yes,
that's right. You were bone Shire, Uh yeah, yeah, I
had great times out at bone Shire there, but it

(24:20):
was actually during Lockdown.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
Right at the beginning of Lockdown, right at the beginning lockdown.

Speaker 3 (24:25):
Yeah, I mean, like all we did was entertainment for
a living, so we're not going anywhere working or anything,
and you know, you start going stir crazy after a
couple of weeks, like thinking like when's when are things
picking up when?

Speaker 11 (24:37):
You know?

Speaker 3 (24:38):
So I started just kind of writing stuff, thinking about
maybe maybe doing another album or whatever. And you know,
long story short, I had a bunch of stuff that
I started but didn't finish. I never would have considered
this song for toy Box. But the other song We're
Gonna We're Gonna Hear later Today, which is probably, if

(25:00):
not my favorite, it's one of my favorites on the record.
Mike wrote this incredibly catchy tune called I Want to
Get Nude with You.

Speaker 1 (25:10):
That works.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
It's we actually have two versions on the album because
it works so well in the version you'll hear, but
then there's also we call it the Extra Nude version,
which is which is just it's just Mike just vocal
and acoustic guitar with a totally different vocal performance. It's
stripped down, super stripped down, and it works so great

(25:35):
in both ways. But like the uh, there's just there's
just a sincere fun you know element about it that
Like I was like, you know, I feel like these
two songs could actually work together, and so they are.
They they nighbor each other on the album because it
just it flows very well, you know, like and as
as Brandon was saying earlier, like, yeah, there's, uh, this

(26:00):
album's very cross genre.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
It's an amazing variety.

Speaker 3 (26:04):
There is no there is no I mean, that's but
that's kind of how toy Box is.

Speaker 4 (26:08):
That's the bonus of not being signed to a label.
If you say you're signed to a label, there's your
pole a producer that's going no, you need duck.

Speaker 3 (26:17):
Yes, No, We like to take you through a journey
of ups and downs of you know, I mean, there's
there's stuff on this album that sounds like, you know,
Anthrax could have put it out, and then there's a
big band swing song.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
On you Let's face it, every single person likes more
than one kind of music. Yeah, sure, everybody. You might
have your favorite and your go to. Absolutely everybody can
appreciate multiple genres. It's cool that you're a band versatile
enough to be able to pull it off and do
it legitimate. And here on the Local show, we always
advertise we like to mix genres, and here we're doing
it with one artist. Whatever toy box. Here it is

(26:50):
Brandon Reese on vocals. This is the prettiest perfect On
the local show The River ninety seven three in the
iheartor You're at.

Speaker 11 (27:11):
Its Back at twim back, tid my rapt the songs
for you and tell the road your aways on my man,
anyone walk on down my street.

Speaker 15 (27:23):
Each believe in needs his homecoming. Queen get trying to
grease here day. You know it's true, but I can't
get it enough.

Speaker 10 (27:33):
But nothing you do?

Speaker 6 (27:35):
You eat a hard woman.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
You ain't Jesse's girl.

Speaker 9 (27:40):
I sloona all the sweet can land.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
But sow the prettiest perfect and I'm perfect for you.

Speaker 13 (27:47):
Happy your baby to say a man, baby, Jane is
a rabbit. You're like strawberry and whine and how it
starts booming, Lady in Red, you know I need to
tonight the mage may You're soul than they ever been.

Speaker 15 (28:04):
That up take you start to go to my head
drabic Please here dad was No, It's true.

Speaker 11 (28:12):
My only wonder be be you.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
You wait the hard woman.

Speaker 15 (28:18):
You ain't Jesse's Colonel Masnall.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
Speaking, but so the priest perfect and of perfect for you.

Speaker 9 (28:27):
I be your baby, you see, you'll be man.

Speaker 10 (28:32):
You know I heard you talking with your friends when
you thought nobody else was around.

Speaker 3 (28:37):
I heard you telling him you gotta be somebody's baby,
and they told you you must be somebody's baby.

Speaker 10 (28:45):
What are you waiting for him? You could be all
my woman? You and Jesse s girl.

Speaker 9 (29:24):
That's rotas we came.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
But show the prayest perfect and or perfect for you,
hap me your.

Speaker 10 (29:32):
Baby the same the man.

Speaker 14 (29:39):
You had that.

Speaker 6 (29:41):
Woman now you, Jesse Scale.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
Watch a perfectly man.

Speaker 6 (29:49):
You know you also that that.

Speaker 10 (29:55):
I never really care much about that kill the way.

Speaker 2 (30:04):
You're listening to the local show with a Central Pennsylvania
Music Hall of Fame on the River ninety seventy three, just.

Speaker 16 (30:25):
For the sample fact that you love me. I hold
you a little bit of bum me and all the
little things you do a love for me, getting alone
with you, that pretty walking around in your underwear when

(30:48):
you all by.

Speaker 6 (30:50):
And I wanna get new with you.

Speaker 12 (30:54):
I want to get new with you, sitting you with
not a thing to do, thinking about everything and nothing
with that non typical thing you do.

Speaker 10 (31:13):
You say sarcastic something.

Speaker 16 (31:18):
Your perfect size, look at at me with those angel eyes,
and you all die and won't.

Speaker 10 (31:27):
Again do with you. I'm won again with you.

Speaker 6 (31:54):
Your perfect size, look at it, at me with those.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
Angel then you all alone again, now with you.

Speaker 17 (32:06):
A wan again, new with you Alan again, with you
alone again new, Try thee Yeah.

Speaker 1 (32:26):
Try the meal. We're here all week.

Speaker 10 (32:28):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
That is lounge.

Speaker 4 (32:30):
That's my lounge voice.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
That is Emily's toy box with one of the versions,
that's the big band version of I Want to Get
Nude with You. That's going to be on the upcoming
thirtieth anniversary double album release. What's the drop date on
that one? Is it coming out?

Speaker 8 (32:46):
Guys?

Speaker 3 (32:47):
So we have two album release shows to kind of
hit each of our main territories territories here at home.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
So which are what are your two main territories?

Speaker 3 (33:00):
Well, generally speaking, like Harrisburg Allen Town. But I mean
when I say Harrisburg.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
That's York, Central PA. And you know each Central Pa. Yeah,
and we're High Valley Yeah. Yeah, because we do it.
I can see Brandon and I have talked about this
a lot, the Central Pa debate. Anything in the middle
third of the state Central Yeah, Pittsburgh's everything in the

(33:27):
middle third is Central Pa. So you guys cover Central.

Speaker 2 (33:30):
PA and beyond.

Speaker 3 (33:32):
So what we decided to do, like, you know, the
records going to be available on all of your your
main streaming platforms, but we we said, why don't we
put that out on streaming after.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
The release shows? Cool?

Speaker 3 (33:46):
So everybody that comes out to the release shows like
they they you know, they kind of earned the first DIBs,
you know, like we're extra special.

Speaker 1 (33:55):
Yeah, yeah, for sure.

Speaker 3 (33:57):
And those shows do kind of border, so, I mean,
it would have been great worked out that they were
in the same weekend and there's no gap between the
two crowds. But the first show is what Saturday, October
eleventh at Sherman's Creek and then the next show is Friday,
October seventeen, seventeenth at the Gin Mill in Northampton.

Speaker 4 (34:20):
And then the actual drop date whenever all streaming services
will be the twenty eighth nice, which is actually to
the day thirty years from our first show.

Speaker 1 (34:29):
Awesome.

Speaker 4 (34:30):
Wow, And I went back on a calendar. I'm like,
when in nineteen ninety five was those first over twenty
eighth the first Saturday, last Saturday which was, you know,
like a Halloween show, and I looked it up and
it would just happen to be a Tuesday, which is
usually the drop date for all music. Brandon and I
was all nerding out going.

Speaker 1 (34:49):
That's so cool. I am too. I got it, it moved.
I'm not gonna lie. I can see it from here.
Do you guys play so many venues?

Speaker 4 (34:59):
Right?

Speaker 1 (35:00):
Is there any reason on choosing those venues for your
big launch here? They had open dates?

Speaker 3 (35:05):
No?

Speaker 1 (35:08):
Yes, well it did dawn on us kind of late.

Speaker 3 (35:13):
Like a lot of our a lot of our calendar
year is booked by like November, you know, and there's
other stuff that's the following year, right, right, So god,
when did we talk about here's the fact of the thirtieth?
Like it was we were already well into this year, okay,

(35:33):
you know, and then Mike was like, it just occurred
to me October.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
We should probably do something.

Speaker 3 (35:38):
Yeah, And it's like, all right, well where and what rockets?

Speaker 4 (35:43):
Yeah, you know there's a couple in there. We're already
fire Aim kind of band.

Speaker 1 (35:49):
You know, I can relate.

Speaker 4 (35:50):
Actually, if you want to know why we chose those
there we cannot play our music and casinos because we're
booked there as a cover band and we can't swear.
And the name of the album is called Owe speaking
of which was funny because the album title actually came
from York hardware bar or not hardware box, Whiz York Colleywood.

Speaker 3 (36:16):
Okay, Yeah, the the when you look at the album art,
there's a sticky note on there that is handwritten it's
okay to That is the That is an image of
the actual note.

Speaker 1 (36:27):
It was placed on that cain that casino giving us
I swear that night. I think I think it was
like I had no idea what they were getting.

Speaker 3 (36:35):
Yeah, it was like it was like the weekend of
New Year's or yeah like that, and they were like,
we're going to make an exception. Let you guys, do
you And they put this note on there was a
smiley and everything, it's okay to swear.

Speaker 1 (36:47):
And I'm like, that's that's the album, that's the name. Phenomenal, fantastic,
all right, So look for Emily's Toy Box all the
October is basically the month of Emily's Toy Box, celebrating
thirty years in Central p Lots of anniversaries, including Brandon
Brandon's tenth anniversary with the band at the end of September.

(37:08):
So he's old.

Speaker 3 (37:11):
Even and I have gotten too old to be young.

Speaker 1 (37:15):
Well, guys, I can't thank you enough for coming gaus.
Where do you live, Mike, where do you live?

Speaker 5 (37:21):
Right?

Speaker 1 (37:21):
And where do you I'm local from? I'm here in Hasburg, Harrisburg, right, Well,
thank you for coming in. We always love having people
in the studio.

Speaker 4 (37:29):
So much, so much for havings. It's greatly appreciated.

Speaker 1 (37:32):
You guys are absolute staples and fixtures in the Central
Pennsylvania music scene and beyond, and it would not be
the same without you. The state of the Keystone State.
That's right, well, Emily's toy box, thanks for coming to you.
Guys are welcome anytime. Thank you anytime, and Brandon. How

(37:53):
can people get their music submitted for a future episode? Yes, indeed,
check out the website the acronym for Central Pennsylvania Music
Hall of Fame that is CPMHOF dot com slash radio.
There's a link there you can click to submit your
original music and or click on the image and that
will put your music into our file for consideration for

(38:14):
a future episode. Right here on the Local show in
the River ninety seven three right on, And don't forget,
we upload the podcast every Monday, so you'll hear this
episode round lunchtime tomorrow and every Monday. So make sure
you follow the Riverlocal Show on the iHeartRadio app, then
you'll know when new episodes drop. All right, I really
want to thank our special guests Mike Wise and Brandon
Reese for coming in from Emily's Toy Box and gracing

(38:38):
us with their presence and their music. And don't forget
the best way to support these bands not only follow
them on social media and buy their music, but the
best way to do it is to go out there
and see a local show.
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