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Eddie Volkman Calls Into Hoppe Hour With Ryan Hoppe · Hoppe Radio (Hoppe Hour) With Ryan Hoppe

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Hey, what's up? This is Eddie Volkman from the
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Eddie and Jobo Radio Show, and you're listening
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to Hoppy Hour with Ryan Hoppy. Hi there. This
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is Marge McDouche. You might remember me from
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the Eddie and Jobo Radio Show. Now, I'm just
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looking at this fine young man, Ryan Hoppy, and
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listening to Hoppy Hour. You know, he'd be even
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better if he'd get this old broad of mimosa.
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Oh, this is April Pilafov, and you're listening
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to Ryan Hoppy and Hoppy Hour. I hope he can make
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my daughter hoppy. She needs tickets to see The
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Instincts. And I'll have to talk to his manager.
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I was the original Karen. And I can't believe
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it. All right, we got on line number four. This
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is a psycho shower. If you're new to the show,
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this is where you actually splash somebody that
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has trouble waking up. They're in a hot, bubbly
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shower this morning. Yeah, they're just all lathering
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up in there thinking, oh, how toasty. You come
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in with this obnoxious, freezing, ice -cold bucket
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of water and splash the unsuspecting victim.
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It's called a reality check. Psycho shower. My
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bish. Hello? Eddie Jobo. Hi. How old is she?
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Oh, you know. Oh, do you want to go in and get
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her with a psycho shower? All right, you got
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the water right here. Look who just walked in.
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From Glendale Heights, it's April Pilafov. April
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Pilafov, it's NSYNC. Mrs. Pilafov, this morning,
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just after 8 o 'clock, Eddie and I are going
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to give away. These are tickets to NSYNC, and
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you get to get on stage with the win, Mrs. Pilafov.
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Hey, to the Y2C. Listen, I have a... These are
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from the suburbs. They're from this morning's
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Sun Time. Tickets. Okay, ready? Concert. License.
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Well, let me tell you. In a minute, though, I
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have a... Passive Eddie and Joba. Now, let's
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call it. Known as Eddie Volkman. Right now on
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Happy Hour with Ryan Happy. Ring, ring, ring.
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We have this thing going on. It seems like his
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phone is doing this thing where it doesn't take
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spam calls. All right. This is why all the fake
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prank calls you hear on the radio are not there.
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Did you get my two calls just now? Let me see
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here. While we do that, let's catch up on TMZ.
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Oh, wait, we're getting a phone call. Betty,
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this is, I've been recording for 31 minutes so
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far, but what's funny is this is proof that the
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prank calls that you would hear on the radio
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nowadays are fake because I reached out to you
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twice and you didn't answer, but it's so funny
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how when you listen to these morning shows, how
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it's so convenient that they pick up after one
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ring at 7 a .m. Yeah, oh, I know. I know, and
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you know, We even knew that that was an FCC violation.
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But I should say, well, we knew, but Jobo went
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ahead and did it anyway. I don't think I would
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have ever tried it. But he was, you know, the
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rules were not for him, you know. And I told
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you I had that stupid app that I installed like
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years ago that I can't get rid of. Unless it
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knows the number, it won't even ring, which is
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stupid. Because, you know, I give out my number
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and my business card to people. They want to
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call me for the first time, and I have to wait
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and see if they leave a voicemail, which nobody
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does anymore. Everybody texts. Well, here's the
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thing. Well, first of all, we have Eddie Volkman
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from the legendary Eddie and Jobo on Hoppy Hour
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with Ryan Hoppy. First of all, why don't you
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get a new phone? Because it's an app that's like,
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I did get a new phone not too long ago. Oh, really?
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It's an app that when you transfer all your apps,
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it's secretly down in there. You know what it
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would take? five minutes with somebody that knows
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phones to fix it, but, you know. I'm lazy. Do
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you ever miss the, like, era? Like, because my
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first phone was an iPhone when I turned 18. So
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do you ever miss your era, like, when you were
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on B96, where you guys had, like, Nextel or flip
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phones or BlackBerry? Do you remember, do you
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miss how easy it was for you guys? Well, you
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know what? It was cool is that I had a... Nissan
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300ZX. So the car was already cool, and the actual
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handheld carry -around phones hadn't been, you
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know, hadn't been modified, you know, the way
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they are now. So I had the one that had the cord
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attached with a handset in the car. But, you
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know, that was before they made it illegal to
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be holding a handset. So, yeah, I'd be one of
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those cool guys driving along holding a, you
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know, a handset in my... right hand and my left
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hand on the steering wheel. And you had it for
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like 50 miles and you had to use up your minutes
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and all that. It was a crazy time. Would you
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ever call Jobo after the show when you were driving
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home? All the time. All the time. We'd be listening
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to The Score with Mike North and Dan Jiggets.
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We'd both be listening because we're just like
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sports guys. I was, like, paralleling Jobo. I
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was driving back to Northbrook, and he lived
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in Wheeling. And we're, like, basically, like,
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one in front of the other. Hey, Mike, Mike North,
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Jobo said blah, blah, blah. And you know how
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feisty Mike North is. He goes, you tell Jobo
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any time he wants to mix it up out there. You
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know? And so I'm looking over at Jobo, and he's
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listening, and I can tell he's listening because
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he starts laughing because it was like, yeah,
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good old Mike. You know? It's funny. Never backing
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down. Yeah, I think he, unfriended me. I had
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a very political guy, but I think I shared some
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anti -Trump funny thing, maybe one of his gaffes
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or something, and I checked, and we weren't friends,
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and I was like, that's probably why. He loves
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his Trump. I love Mike North. I grew up listening
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to him. I heard it that day he went at it with
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Ozzie Guillen, but it's just funny. These guys
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care about Trump, but I'm not trying to trash
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Mike. It's just funny. Yeah, but you know what?
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I said yesterday, Well, see, it happened the
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day I got let go from my job at the... Common
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sewer media, like you said. Yeah, yeah, media.
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The day that happened, Ramblin' Ray from WLS
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called and said, hey, I'm going to be doing some
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vacation coming up here. That sounds more like
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man cow. He said, I'm going to be doing some
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vacation coming up. I'd love for you to fill
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in for me. I said, sure, the big 89 WLS. And
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I said, but I don't want to talk politics because
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I just, you know... I don't like doing that.
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I'm the Metallica of radio people. So, but then
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he told me that, and we didn't set anything up.
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But then, afternoon, from 2 to 3 on WCPT. Oh,
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nice. It was AM 820. I heard that. And that's
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like, you know, that's more like left -wing politics.
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And I said, same thing there. I'm staying in
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my lane, which is no lane when I'm on the radio.
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Because we're jokes. Play my armpits. So, kind
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of interned at CPT when Dance Factory was in
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the same building. And that, to me, is a little...
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They would air Alan Combs at night, and they
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had some weekend shows that weren't too political.
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So, to me, that's a little more your vibe, you
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know? Well, I've already got a couple of guests
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lined up. I'm hosting on Black Friday in the
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evening. You know, there's a lot of diseases
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that, you know, have awareness months. Yes. And
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most of them we're pretty aware of already. Breast
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cancer... prostate cancer, but I had never heard
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of ALK, which is a form of lung cancer, and I
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thought, well, there's something that actually
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needs awareness awareness. I mean, every cause
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is good, but the guy that asked me to do it lost
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his sister to this kind of rare disease, so they're
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doing all they can because fundraising dollars
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are hard to come by, and most people are going
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to give to the... the big causes, you know, the
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big bright ones. So, so, uh, here's what I want
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to ask you. How did everything go down with you
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getting let go by common sewer media? I love
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that word. Oh, you, you picked up on that. I
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saw, I saw your post and it's just typical Eddie
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V punniness. I love it. Well, and, and I, you
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know, I'm still good friends with a lot of people
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there. I just, I, but I, you know, I have to
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get my little jabs in. I can't, I'm not going
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to roll over, but, um, I was just on the air.
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See, And my friends, like, a lot of people know
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from WLS, he was Rich Scott on the Eddie and
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Jobo show doing traffic, but because he was on
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the show, he was like anybody else. Jobo would
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pull him into anything. Like, let me ask you
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something, Rich. Have you ever seen people, from
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your vantage point up in the Hancock, can you
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actually see if people are having sex in the
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porta -potties along the Kennedy? Oh, Jobo. I
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said, oh, Jobo. Yeah, I know, I know. And so
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to me, you've got a radio guy, Todd Bosco, who
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was kind of a local legend out that way as a
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country guy, and before him, Roy Gregory. So
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I thought, if these people who have been out
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here forever, then anybody's on the block. And
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it's true because radio is just, you know, and
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I noticed not a lot of local advertising. Most
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everything running was a zip recruiter and network
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spot. And they call those a dollar holler. Because
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a network gets like very little, like seven bucks
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a commercial or something. And don't quote me
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on that, but it's something ridiculously low.
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And that's not enough to keep a station going.
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So the whole thing when they took over Connoisseur
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was 11 stations, like suburban stations around
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New York. Not actual competing with the big downtown
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New York stations, but, you know, collar counties
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and all around. by being, what they said, live
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and local. And they said, that's what we're going
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to bring back. Live, local, out in the community
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and all that. They kind of designed the whole
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station for our 96 .7 to the 967 to play music
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from back in the day, from like when I was on
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B96. Some of the alternative stuff that Q101
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was rocking. And so it's perfect and everything
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was going well. But then this decision came down.
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And Gordon Mays, the program director, he just
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sat there quietly because I know it wasn't his
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idea. Because it was his idea to do the guy since
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he's got program director of the river. The tower
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got blown down. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then
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67WSSR transmitter has been on auxiliary transmitter
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at like 78 % power for like, well, November,
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I think will be three years. And no end in sight.
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So he's got one hurdle after another. And the
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guy's... So good with people, and he's got a
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bunch of great ideas, but it's like playing some
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video game where another wall pops up just when
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you got past a bunch of balls. What did your
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wife and kids say about it? It was like, well,
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are you serious? Had gotten a raise in like 20
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years, so whatever you signed up for, that's
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what you're going to be paid. And what I'm saying
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is I can live without it. I think they didn't.
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It's like you lost your job in the radio station
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all the time. It really wasn't. And that was
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nice to have that. And now I'm going through
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all the pain of the, you know, your insurance
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and all that. It's nice to have company insurance.
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Yeah. You know, now, now was it, I remember I
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had this radio job. I was working at Salem media
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in Tampa, my first full -time job. And I was
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so excited, but their insurance was dreadful.
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I couldn't see my shrink anymore. My meds went
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up and then it was 200 out of each paycheck.
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So was it taking it out of your paycheck or was
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it good insurance? being taken out of the paycheck,
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so I didn't really notice how much it was. But
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it was a pretty good chunk when you got to pay
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it yourself. If I take it right out, your syndrome,
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if you don't know, you're not thinking that on
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your check, then you never really miss it. But
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a month or something for COBRA? Who can do that?
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I noticed in my paycheck, because it was pretty
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good, I joined this job in November three years
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ago. And for the first two months, I was on Obamacare
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and my paycheck was good. And then come January
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when I signed up, I was like, why is it a lot
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less? And I was like, oh, because there was every
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paycheck. So that's why sometimes it's kind of
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overrated being full -time because it's like
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then you got to pay for all those things, you
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know? Oh, yeah. I don't even know. I'd have to
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go back in the pay core and see how much was
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actually being taken out for medical. But it
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was... It was worth it. I had my wife and daughter
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and I, the same dentist, and it was covered under
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life or something. So, yeah, when you get it
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on your own, it's like, oh, this stuff costs
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money? Yeah, right? When did you move to Indiana?
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I did not know you lived in Indiana when I hung
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out with you at that B96 party like a year and
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a half ago. Oh, yeah, probably when I started
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teaching it. I commuted 90 miles each way. So
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180 miles every day. But he said, I love doing
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it. You know, it's fun. And there's not a lot
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of radio jobs available. And now there's even
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fewer than there were then. Yeah, I went to IMS.
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Well, I went when it was ICB. And I went to the
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one in Lombard. And man, did it make me a pro
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at Adobe Audition. I learned everything about
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Adobe there. Yeah, in fact, when I first started
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teaching there, I was not real adept at it. In
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the Eddie and Jobo days, And I were standing
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there at the board, but we had a right in front
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of us. And other pruders here on the other side,
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it was handling the phone screener in another
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room. Seven people come up with all that. I go,
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it was a total, did what I could when we started
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getting paid way more than everybody else in
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the radio station. I tried to do what I could,
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like getting them concert tickets or, you know,
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taking them out to dinner or even just buying
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some sandwiches for the staff meetings. Because,
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you know. Because people are going to, you know,
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if your pay is that much drastically different
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than other people, there's going to be some professional
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jealousy no matter how nice you are to people.
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You know, it's human nature. Well, I forgot,
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and you might not even want to say the name,
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but didn't you say there was somebody you worked
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with, you were on like vacation with, and you
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like reached out to them? You tell me a lot of
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stories whenever we talk. There was somebody
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that worked at CBS radio that you were like in
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Hawaii and you were listening on the app when
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it first came out and they were like, you have
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no touch with reality or am I? No. Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah. I was a certain sports figure who's not
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on the radio now. Yeah. I was like, well, it
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was cool to listen to like talk show, even a
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show that's on at noon, but having it start at
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7am when you're in Hawaii, you know, in fact,
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we went on our honeymoon. We were sleeping in
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the next morning, and I click on the TV, and
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the Bears did a show in Hawaii, and it was on
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at 7 a .m. You know, in this big, luxurious honeymoon
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suite. I'm going, okay, okay. Let me get some
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mimosas up in here. What about the Bears? I don't
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know much about Badgett, but when he played against
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whatever team it was when... what's his name
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got hurt caleb he was absolutely dreadful and
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then they put in uh casey keenum and he killed
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it and i had no idea why they went back to badger
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and what's the overall vibe in chicago because
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what i did notice i'm not going to say but there's
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some major publications in radio hosts that are
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like friends with him there's like they've hung
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out with him and his dad so there seems to be
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some kind of like bias towards him in chicago
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do you think that's true towards Which one? Badgent
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over Casey. Oh, well, you know, the coach, the
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Bears coach, Ben, said, yeah, he was good enough
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to start on 32 quarterbacks in the league. And
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one game, he looked really good at that. Yeah,
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he looked okay. But last week, it was just, oh,
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man, more turnovers than popping fresh. It was
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like we were just throwing the ball to the other
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team. It was ridiculous. I listened to, yeah,
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I listened to um now now everybody's just like
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we're getting caleb back that's all we need to
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know the thing is i listened to jason goff and
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he was saying that um tyson was playing like
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he's like one of the best in the league and he
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needed to do like shorter passes yeah yeah he
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i think he got his confidence up because everyone's
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saying oh he could start on most uh nfl teams
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and for the one game he came in he looked pretty
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good and then everybody's like yeah yeah well
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Well, then Case Keenum, who I still think, you
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know, maybe give him another chance. In fact,
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didn't they? I think the coach started him the
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next game for just one play. Yeah. Like to reward
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him. Yeah. So good. But Caleb's good to go and
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nobody's hurt. Case Keenum probably get picked
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up by somebody. Well, do you know? Dreadful quarterback.
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Do you know that? I'm not a big stats guy, but
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I looked this up. I did the math. Do you know
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Casey Keenum as a backup and sometimes playing
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as a starter in his 14 years? He has more passing
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yards than Justin Fields and Mitch Trubisky had
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in their life. Yeah, you know, it's funny that
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it's like some of these guys, compared to radio,
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I know a guy that started out as an intern but
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then had been there 10 years but then got hired
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to do like mid -days. And 10 years after he was
26:18
still there, you know, full -time, people that
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were still there viewed him like an intern. So
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it's like, he's seen him do the Bears. It's like,
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oh, that's cute. You had a nice game. Why do
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you think you're one of the only, and I'm going
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to kiss your ass a little bit. Why do you think
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you're one of the only, like, legendary people
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in radio to be nice? I'm not saying others aren't
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nice, but the overall vibe is always that for
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as successful. and ginormous of a figure as you
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are that you're just an everyday guy. Why do
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you think others in radio don't follow your lead
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of like treating people that are technically
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under you nice? I think it might be the nature
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of the type of people that specifically want
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to be the, there's a bit of like narcissism.
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And one guy once told me you're not enough of
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a whole guy. And I took it as kind of a compliment.
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But at the time, you know, when I first got to
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Chicago, I did my cheesy, corny, kind of fun,
27:48
folksy humor and stuff. But up against Brandmeier
27:52
and Barsky and Murphy in the morning, and all
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those guys had an edge to them, you know? Chip
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on their shoulder. Even Jobo. I sometimes told
28:02
people he was my designated told what to do,
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and I mean, his way. So I just, him plowed away,
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and then I surfed in the wake, you know, doing
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all my funny stuff. Subscribe, Jobo. Only once
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when you guys were doing a UAI appearance in
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2013. That was that time I first met you. He
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was kind of quiet, but he was nice to me. I feel
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like you were kind of a defender of him a little
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bit. You know what? He, with his close circle
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of friends and family, with listeners and stuff,
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but really kind of shy. That microphone was his
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escape. And sometimes he would say something
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on the air. Like one time, we used to do these
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commercials for Vermont Teddy Bear. Did I ever
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tell you this story? No. I did? No. No, you did
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not. I've never heard this one. The live commercials
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for Vermont Teddy Bear. And our pride was Vermont
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Teddy Bears in Chicago. And Howard Stern did.
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And he did live commercials for them, too. Nationwide.
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Now, his audience might not be the teddy bear
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type buying people. And, you know, we had more,
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like, families and women and stuff. But still,
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it loved us so much, the company, that they sent
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us a six -foot -tall Vermont teddy bear, fully
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functional with the moving arms and all this.
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It was, like, tremendous. But we thought, what
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are we going to do with this? We both had, you
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know, small apartments downtown before we got,
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you know, both moved into a bigger condo building.
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And our producer at the time said, why don't
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we take it over to Harvard? Harpo Studios and
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tell it, this is for Oprah, do a charity or something.
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Our producer went over and drove it and left
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it on the steps of Harpo Studios over by Greektown.
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And did you ever call? And she said, yes, I did.
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Thank you so much. It's going to go to great.
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And he goes, Oprah, we've been trying to get
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you on the air for years. And she goes, well,
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maybe you knock off the fat jokes. And he recoiled
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from his microphone. He was saying it to his
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face, and he put his fingers up like the scared
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fingernails to the mouth thing. And I'm looking
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at him going, I'm one of the top stations in
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Chicago. She's a woman, and at the time, she
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was maybe 40. I go, she's right there, demographic.
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You don't think she hears what you're saying
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on the radio? Because he thinks he's like, he
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was safe back in his little shell there. That
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was just an example of how he, you can't break.
31:56
through this bubble like that, Oprah. When I
31:59
say something on the air, I turn off the mic
32:01
and I can get away. What was, like, the, like,
32:08
Jobo set, like, when were you the most mad about,
32:12
I mean, besides the lawsuit, like, were there
32:14
other moments where you were like, why did you
32:16
just say that, you know what I mean? Yeah, sometimes
32:20
you, that I would, you know, but I never really
32:24
got, you really gotta think about what you're
32:29
saying here. Like, when they found Michael Jordan's
32:32
father on the side of the road. Yeah. It was,
32:39
Jeffrey Jordan, or was that his name? I think
32:42
it was. Yeah, I believe so, yeah, yeah. He said,
32:44
they confirmed that that was Jeffrey Jordan that
32:48
was found shot without caught up with him. And
32:58
the shot I didn't know was Michael Jordan's dad.
33:05
You know, honor among thieves. I bet they would
33:08
have known anything had they known, but you never
33:12
know. But the fact that he said that, I was like,
33:14
dude, what are you doing? Not only, first of
33:17
all, setting yourself up for a lawsuit, but You
33:20
know, find out the facts first. But even that
33:23
is, you know, I was always like, well, Jobo's
33:25
Jobo. He doesn't tell me how to write my parody
33:29
songs or how to do match me kush. So I'm not
33:32
going to tell him how to be Jobo. So you live
33:35
with it. And some people thought it was like
33:40
a years -long falling out. It was offered like
33:43
over a million dollars each to go on WLS -FM.
33:48
And that job was offered to us. But I love Dave,
33:56
so that's cool. But he said, yes, we're going
34:06
to do this. And then he changed his mind again.
34:08
And he went back and forth so often that I finally,
34:12
I said, oh, I can't wait anymore. I got to, you
34:14
know, I got to sell this condo. It's not, I can't
34:17
keep paying for something if I'm not making that
34:19
kind of money. And so that kind of got screwy.
34:22
And especially when I said, well, I'll do it
34:24
if he doesn't want to. Well, thanks a lot. People
34:42
thinking we had a moment that wasn't anything
34:46
like that. Even on Dahl's podcast, he said he
34:50
was kind of envious about how you guys were.
34:54
I don't want to misquote him, but I listened
34:56
to his show the day after Jobo died. And he even
34:59
kind of gave you guys a shout out in a way for
35:02
like making up, you know. Well, he was like conversations
35:09
because I wanted to repost them on the computer.
35:25
I just talked to some people yesterday. I thought
35:28
I downloaded everything onto some stuff there
35:34
because I want to keep that forever because,
35:36
you know, last. earthly conversation I had with
35:39
him. When you guys would not get along and make
35:45
up, would you guys grab a beer and talk it out
35:47
or was it just kind of like the next day you
35:50
kind of get over it? Nothing even lasted that
35:55
long. We really didn't disagree because before
36:08
we even did the show, I know what Eddie needs
36:13
and what I needed was that edge. The other thing
36:16
was when people asked why we worked well, he
36:20
goes, we both do what the other Just the way
36:33
he said things made him funny. But I was the
36:36
comedian, and he was the pattern, and the troublemaker,
36:41
you know? So we had all the elements we needed.
36:44
I think one of the things is that for years,
36:51
you guys had to do the show with your boss in
36:52
the room, right? That only lasted a few months,
36:57
actually. Oh, really? And one week, it was the
36:59
general manager. After getting that let -go lawsuit
37:14
that made 91, so when they rehired us, thought
37:25
we can't let these idiots just like early voice
37:30
tracking because the only way to record something
37:32
back then was still on reel -to -reel tape so
37:35
we would record each break just during the song
37:39
before it aired we screwed up something nothing
37:43
would run we were going through all that and
38:06
all that scandal yeah and it was sometimes news
38:10
about it when the program director was in there
38:15
next week you know they'd alternate and the general
38:19
manager would have to get up because they were
38:21
find me out. It was no fun to wake up at that.
38:23
Her general manager was in there. It's R. Kelly
38:28
tape. It's been circulated around. And you go,
38:31
no, cut that out. And you go, no, cut that out.
38:34
And he goes, it's front page Sun Times News.
38:40
Until proven guilty. And we're like, what? So
38:50
it was schizophrenic because we'd be all over
38:53
it one week and then the next week it was like
38:55
the story didn't exist. So that was a little
38:58
weird. It really didn't last that long because
39:00
they They got tired of waking up that early,
39:03
and they also realized we weren't the total idiots
39:05
they thought we were. But, you know, of course,
39:07
you know, Kosh, they had to begin with. They
39:14
were told their jobs, if we screwed up one little
39:17
thing, that they were all fired. So there was
39:19
self -preservation, so. What's your, like, relationship
39:23
like with guys like Brad Meyer, Dahl, Mankow,
39:26
like all the other guys from that era? Do you
39:28
talk to any of them? I do. Not specifically when
39:35
I've seen Steve Dahl. It's so funny. We were
39:38
at a party, a CBS party. I was talking to him,
39:43
and we took a couple pictures. I'll send you,
39:45
I'll show you the one. And the next day on the
39:48
air, and he goes, I just want to be able to wear
39:50
tight shirts like Eddie and Jobo do. And now,
39:55
he's gone through a lot of all that. He looks
40:09
great for his age, though. You know what I mean?
40:11
He actually kind of looks like my, a lot of older
40:23
guys start to look like their grandpa or whatever.
40:27
People seem to look like Scott McKay looks like
40:30
my brother Ron. Send you pictures of all this
40:33
stuff. You can check it out when we're done.
40:36
What do you call it? Oh, and then like man cow?
40:40
Yeah. It's a different bird. He'll text me a
40:45
Bible verse at 3 a .m. on a Thursday. And then
40:48
I won't hear from him for a month. And then he'll
40:51
send me a video of some girl in like a dental
40:55
floss bikini riding a Walmart horse. Just out
40:58
of nowhere. No caption, no explanation. Oh, he's
41:02
the best. He's a maniac. But that doesn't surprise
41:05
you at all, right? No, because that's literally
41:07
his social media. It's like one week it's like
41:10
religion, and the next week it's like barely
41:12
clothed women. It's weird. Yeah, right. I talked
41:18
to all of them, and I was just talking to somebody
41:21
else a few days ago about it. You know, once
41:24
we moved into Prudential 2, and then everybody
41:27
was in that building, Steve Dahl, XRT, The Score,
41:32
rather walk up in flights of stairs than run
41:37
into another radio person in the elevator at
41:39
4 a .m. I was like, we're all in this together.
41:43
But that's how he thought. It was always competition.
41:45
He was up against everybody. I'm not like that
41:49
because I don't want to see people, but I'll
41:51
do that in my job. I'll walk up the side door
41:54
because I don't want to talk at 4 a .m. if I'm
41:56
helping out a morning show. Yeah. What was that
41:59
song? to the window, to the wall. It sounded
42:03
like, I said, let me hear it. I go, doesn't it
42:06
sound like he's saying, doll, Steve, Steve, Steve,
42:08
Steve, Steve, Steve, doll. And it did sound like
42:13
that, but Jobo just hushed that up and moved
42:15
on very quickly because I mentioned another radio
42:18
person's name. It's not even the same demographic,
42:21
though. I don't think Dahl's listeners... I know,
42:22
it's like, they're not going to go floppy and
42:23
go, oh yeah, why am I listening to Eddie and
42:25
Jobo and Steve Dahl's on? But, you know. What
42:28
about Brandmeier? I had an interview with his
42:31
producer. I didn't get the internship. but he
42:34
was let go from WGN like four months later, and
42:37
then I got a year and a half with Lewis 2 Live
42:39
at Dance Factory, so it was kind of meant to
42:41
be, but I did get to meet Johnny B, and he kept
42:44
repeatedly punching me in the arm and said, let's
42:47
box, let's box right now. You want a picture?
42:49
You got to box me first. It was just very fascinating.
42:52
Yeah, I didn't, but when I did see him, I was
43:01
going on the up escalator at Water Tower Place,
43:05
and he was coming down, and I was like, hey.
43:07
hey, Johnny D. Yeah. And he's like, you know,
43:12
kind of like that Jeff Hoover, the way Jeff Hoover
43:15
does Jogo. Like, hey, you know, all that manic,
43:18
frantic stuff. And I was like, dude, we're not
43:20
on the air now, are we? Are you, what, like.
43:24
Yeah. Yeah, just, everybody's different, but
43:27
one of the biggest compliments people give me
43:30
is like, well, you're the same guy on and off
43:32
the air. And I go, what else should I be? Dude.
43:35
You know, and that's the whole thing about radio
43:37
these days is, you used to be the superstar jock
43:41
and you had to keep up a, You know, Danny Bonaduce
43:46
took correction and we took the Viper and we
43:49
parked it out in front of the M Club. You know,
43:52
and Murphy in the morning, he took a limo everywhere
43:55
or his big classic Cadillac convertible, whatever.
43:59
And in the days of the superstar jocks, you know,
44:02
Brandmeier selling out Poplar Creek, Steve Dolan,
44:05
Teenage Radiation, Comiskey Park and all that.
44:09
But these days, it's more like they want to hear
44:11
somebody who's. ratty teenage daughter like you
44:14
do. Or somebody, water bill was too high. Because
44:21
if they want to idolize somebody, you got a million
44:24
influencers now. We used to have groupies waiting
44:32
outside nightclubs for us. I don't think I've
44:35
ever heard her laugh that loud. What is it like
44:38
having a teenage daughter now? It's crazy. I
44:42
had them before, but because of divorce, they
44:45
didn't go through their teen years with me. that
44:50
is happening. I'd just like to say, thank God
44:54
I have a wife. Because she basically, she takes
44:57
care of everything as far as that. It's like,
45:00
you know, classes and stuff. My daughter's had
45:02
nothing but straight A's since she started getting
45:05
grades. But that's totally, I probably could
45:09
have gotten things to do. Like radio. About this,
45:25
about how people that are older now, song, it
45:35
didn't drop on Friday night. Nogging boogers.
45:42
records coming out on Friday night, and we'll
45:48
be the only station to play it, and it's brand
45:50
new, and you can't hear it anywhere else, you
45:52
can't buy it yet, you can't stream it, and then
45:54
we're going to play it all weekend until you
45:56
hate it by Tuesday. But seriously, we had that
45:59
kind of power, which, you know, our status as,
46:04
you know, the DJ, I'm going to play that song
46:07
for you, or maybe I won't. It's like, with my
46:12
daughter, it's like... I hate that I don't listen
46:22
to... I force myself in Tampa when I'm driving
46:26
around to listen because I feel like if I only
46:29
listen to Spotify, then it's not like, why am
46:31
I working in radio? But it's kind of a weird
46:34
feeling. It's very hard to explain. Oh, but the
46:38
true services, or even as it turns out, that's
46:53
the only thing that one show more special than
46:56
others. So I'm a little biased. But the one show
47:02
that does have Eddie and Jobo energy and he hasn't
47:06
changed since he's gotten ginormous is Fred.
47:09
I adore Fred. He's nice to me. And she's got
47:18
like 5 a .m. practice because it was on wake
47:26
up. And so I was listening to early Fred because
47:29
obviously I never got to hear a lot of morning
47:31
shows. And I just texted him because we all have
47:36
each other's numbers and stuff. I texted him
47:38
and then he went on this whole big thing on the
47:41
air about. Thanking me for listening and saying
47:43
when he was growing up, he never thought that
47:45
I would be listening. And then a big rant about
47:48
how Eddie and Jobo should be in the... Dude,
47:55
I mean, coming from you, and he's syndicated
47:57
all over. And he's telling this to people in,
47:59
you know, Bangor, Maine. It's good to have friends.
48:05
Like I said, we're all in the same business.
48:08
And, like, we can kind of laugh at the... That's
48:10
why when I got let go, it was like, you're not
48:12
the first, Eddie. No self -pity here. You know,
48:17
it doesn't matter what... What I've done in the
48:18
past. But you of all people. I go now what have
48:22
I done for you lately. Maybe I had a crappy show
48:24
the day before. Maybe I deserve to be like. It
48:27
drove me nuts. When I sat in on your show. It
48:30
drove me nuts how little they let you talk. Oh
48:32
it made me mad. Well it was that afternoon. Because
48:39
the nature of it. You know even one of the bosses
48:42
said. When he put me in hand in the afternoon.
48:44
He goes it'll be like a morning show. But in
48:46
the afternoon. And I go you think nobody's tried
48:49
this before. And then came down the road, they
48:52
go, it's just too much in the afternoon to have
48:54
two people. I go, oh, really? And you didn't
48:56
know this when you came up with that idea? But,
48:58
you know, I kind of knew it. And I even talked
49:02
to some of those diehard listeners, and they
49:04
said, oh, you know, I used to love you guys in
49:07
the morning, but in the afternoon, I'm busy by
49:10
then, and I don't have as much time to pay attention.
49:13
And I go, that's called afternoon drive. So,
49:15
you know, I tried to keep the pace going. I can't
49:26
just meander and just talk until my voice gives
49:29
out. That's one thing I always, one of the shows
49:34
I loved when I was like, because all this stuff,
49:48
but it seemed like they were headed somewhere.
49:51
They weren't just talking for the sake of talking.
49:55
Like my wife and her sister are on the phone
49:57
every day. The upstairs, the upstairs door is
50:03
not, but you know that train of thought kind
50:07
of stuff, like you hear some shows just like,
50:09
really? Like you really didn't have anything.
50:12
You did not know what you were going to talk
50:14
about when you opened this microphone. And that's
50:16
lazy radio, you know. For another job in radio,
50:21
would you take it? It would depend on what it
50:24
was. But I'm more than happy to fill in on these
50:30
shows and stuff. Like when Jobo was going to
50:34
have him on once before he passed away. But that
50:39
was perfect for him. He didn't need to leave
50:41
the house. I caught him when he was at his...
50:43
Did he ever send you the tape of that? No. I
50:51
got to get it and play it for you. When he said...
50:53
But here's how my day goes. I wake up at 2 a
50:55
.m. and do show prep for a show I'm not going
50:57
to do. He goes, I mess around with that until
51:00
Walmart opens at 6 a .m. I go there and buy 27
51:03
things I don't need. And then I go to the gaming
51:07
bar and do $300. And then at 11 a .m. I go to
51:18
my AA class. That's what I mean. He wasn't making
51:23
that a joke, but it's just hilarious. He goes
51:26
to the gaming bar and does fireball shots and
51:28
goes to his AA class. At least he went, right?
51:32
Dude, what's funny is, I have two Jobo memories.
51:36
I loved his Amazon package of the day. The first
51:40
day, I think it was 2020, when weed got legalized,
51:43
he just posted all this marijuana that he bought
51:46
and all these former bosses. Everybody was outraged
51:50
by it. It was hilarious. It's funny because he
51:53
always said he could not smoke weed because people
51:59
had tried to use him. the Cleveland leather bars
52:02
and stuff back in the 80s all the time. But when
52:07
he tried, he said he just got paranoid. And I
52:09
know that happens to some people. So he took
52:12
the out of. Unfortunately. Although he never
52:17
got really. I'm stoned right now, Eddie. You
52:23
don't sound. You know how to keep it together.
52:25
I'm functional. A functional stoner. I am. A
52:27
functional stoner. You know, it's funny. My son,
52:30
Dallas, that I think looks like a shorter version
52:33
of you. Yeah. Not anymore so much. But he, uh,
52:37
through town and I just was, uh, able to catch
52:41
up with him at like, uh, the Giordano's by Midway.
52:44
Yeah. And, um, and so we're sitting there and
52:47
he goes, I want to take a shot with my dad. And
52:48
I go, let's do a shot. But if you want to take
52:52
a shot, some people say, so anyway, we did. And
52:56
then he said, dad, I got to tell you something.
52:58
I'm a major stoner. I go, you're bartending at
53:07
a ski lodge. Three owner too. Wow. How did that
53:15
happen? Move to Florida. Right. A bartender and
53:20
a stoner. Where? Old Moore Palm Trees. Where's
53:22
he at? What town? It's right near Fort Lauderdale.
53:30
Okay. He, a daughter, she held state science,
53:54
tried to go to pre -law, but didn't go to law
54:00
school or whatever. And now, you know, 10 years
54:03
later, interception. Of course. Of course. I
54:14
told you I was going to be multitasking. You're
54:16
good. Of course he threw an interception. So
54:18
he moved. He moved because his roommate in Utah
54:22
helped pay the rent. He moved back to Phoenix.
54:27
So he moved in with his sister. And it's like,
54:30
dude, when you were 25, I'm like, okay, so you're
54:33
wild oats, you know, Hakeem. But now, you know,
54:37
33 and still not really doing anything. And the
54:40
guy had so much ability. I watched him in a little
54:44
league game. I couldn't go to all the games because
54:46
he was in Phoenix. But when I did fly out there,
54:49
I watched him. strike out the side on nine pitches,
54:52
throw a guy out from right field, throw a guy
54:54
out at home plate from center field, and hit
54:57
two doubles in a home run. I'm like, dude, if
54:59
I have to pay a dime for college for you. Yeah.
55:04
But anyway, and I didn't because he was so stoned
55:07
he never made it to college. I was the same way.
55:10
I went to Harper, and then I went to ICB, and
55:12
then I moved to Cleveland. So I never really
55:13
went to college. Yeah, but you know what? These
55:17
days it looks like the smarter move with all
55:19
the student loan debt. My daughter's already
55:21
picking out colleges, and I'm like, well, do
55:24
you know what you want to do? Maybe you can do
55:26
something. I mean, a college degree is still
55:31
valuable, but no one's ever asked to see mine
55:34
in radio. Jobo dropped out of high school at
55:36
15, and I went to three different colleges. Both
55:43
made the same paycheck to the dime, to the penny.
55:46
Before I let you go, I've heard this story, but
55:50
I've got to hear it again. Working at Tampa Bay
55:53
Radio, everybody here, it's a household name,
55:56
the four words, Bubba the Love Sponge. Everybody
55:58
in Tampa knows who he is. I got to hear the Weight
56:01
Watchers story again. Please tell me. Oh, yeah,
56:05
yeah, yeah. Well, you know, if you're a big personality
56:08
on the radio, you get endorsements and stuff.
56:10
And so Bubba, I'm weight, and we had a Weight
56:15
Watchers advertiser. You know, their franchises
56:17
and stuff. So, you know, they give you your week's
56:21
worth of food. Once a week, you go pick it up,
56:24
or in his case, I think they had it delivered
56:26
to the station. And he ate the whole week's worth
56:29
of food in the first day. In the first day, I'm
56:33
going to be skinnier. I go, oh, that's some good
56:40
stuff. I've seen the billboards. You get like
56:41
six -pack abs from that. Yeah, right? Yeah. He
56:46
offered me a job, and I said no, and then he
56:50
got very mad. So that was very weird. Oh, Bubba.
56:53
Well, at least you were tall enough you couldn't
56:55
get the ear flick, the ear pinch thing that he
56:58
loved doing to people. What are you doing? Unless
57:00
he got on a ladder and got up and did that. He
57:03
did that to somebody at my station at B96 when
57:06
he worked there. And they were like, God, I can't
57:08
stop. And it was painful. Oh, man. He is a fascinating
57:15
Tampa legend, dude. I just became friends with
57:21
some woman that works on his show. My LinkedIn,
57:24
I wanted to change it because it said mornings
57:27
on WSSR again. So I thought I needed to change
57:33
it. But when I did, it looks like I lost all
57:36
my contacts or maybe I created a new page or
57:39
something. I don't know. But whatever it is,
57:41
I started re -adding people frantically. And
57:44
one person, I thought, this name seems familiar.
57:46
And I looked at her thing and it said, I work
57:49
on the Bubba the Loves Fun show. And I was like,
57:51
oh, okay. Follow up this. text you a bunch of
57:57
crap after this. Yeah. Uh, what do you call it
58:00
before I let you go? Um, do you have any final
58:03
words? Can you believe we've been talking for
58:05
51 minutes? Oh, it's very easy when it talks
58:09
about radio. I'll get, I'll sit down with Jeffrey
58:11
T. Mason. We went to a bar once we were there
58:14
and it was like six hours of radio talk. You
58:18
know, he is, he is so, he is so underrated. I
58:21
remember that name. Yeah. Yeah. He, he just,
58:25
uh, uh, a guy that could fit on any station,
58:28
and he preps, and he does all that. I think if
58:32
anybody doesn't hire him, it's because they're
58:34
intimidated by his knowledge and his enthusiasm.
58:37
Well, son, we're only going to let you talk like
58:39
four breaks an hour, and you seem so excited.
58:42
I might not want to. Maybe we could just get
58:44
a dollar a hour person down the street. Good
58:47
old corporate radio. Good old corporations, right?
58:52
Yep, yep, yep. Well, Eddie, this has been an
58:55
absolute blast having you on Hoppy Hour. I began
58:58
the show by playing a few clips off of YouTube
59:01
from the CD. And then I'm going to end by playing
59:04
my two appearances on your show two years ago,
59:07
which I still think about. It's so weird how
59:09
it was National Radio Day and I was in town and
59:13
I was on your show. Oh, yeah. Very, very fitting.
59:16
Very fitting. Yeah. Crazy. Well, cool. Well,
59:21
I'm here anytime, man. I have four more hours
59:25
available a day now for a while. That's awesome.
59:27
By the way, before I let you go, I got to let
59:30
you know, I'm going to be in Chicago the 23rd
59:32
through the 30th of December. Oh, 23rd through
59:37
what? 30th. Because I didn't want to be at the
59:39
airport. I didn't want to be at the airport on
59:42
Christmas Eve or New Year's Eve. So I chose 23rd
59:45
to 30th. That's smart. That's smart. Yeah, I'll
59:48
be around. I'll be... I may be guest hosting
59:51
on some stations by then. Who knows? Well, Eddie,
59:54
this has been a blast having you on Hoppy Hour.
59:56
Thank you, bro. Yeah, Hoppy Saturday. Yes, sir.
1:00:00
Thank you, Eddie. All right. Talk to you later.
1:00:03
Bye -bye. Bye -bye. And that was surreal. If
1:00:06
you would have told me in 2004 through 8 that
1:00:10
I would be friends with Eddie, I wouldn't believe
1:00:12
it. And here is my appearance from his show two
1:00:16
years ago. Right now. I should probably do the
1:00:22
thing called unmute YouTube. That might help.
1:00:30
So how's your day going? It's Eddie Volkman on
1:00:33
Star. And the Democratic Convention continues
1:00:36
in Chicago. And these goofballs chop through
1:00:39
chain link fences and cement and all that. And
1:00:42
they're in jail. So that's where they should
1:00:44
be. Because, you know, they gave them all the
1:00:46
space they needed. But they still had to be destructive.
1:00:50
And it's not a good look. Anyway. We're happy
1:00:53
around here because it's National Radio Day,
1:00:55
and what a perfect day to get a visit from one
1:00:57
of my buddies in the business. I don't know if
1:00:59
you've been in the business as long as I have
1:01:01
because you're much younger, but you've been
1:01:03
in it a while. Welcome, Ryan Hoppe. What's up,
1:01:06
Betty? Yeah, I'm visiting from Tampa. You are
1:01:09
the reason I'm in radio. Get out of here. I saw
1:01:11
your billboard with Jobo where you guys were
1:01:13
posing all wacky in 2004. With underwear or shooting
1:01:17
rubber bands or whatever. Something like that.
1:01:19
and the next morning I listened, and I used to
1:01:22
skip school to listen to you guys all morning.
1:01:24
People tell us that. That's an honor. That's
1:01:27
boring. Yeah, but it's National Radio Day, and
1:01:29
you've been on radio with some big names. Yeah,
1:01:32
I've worked with a morning show in Cleveland
1:01:35
and a morning show in Tampa, and now I'm actually
1:01:37
syndicated. I host Hoppy Hour, which can be found
1:01:39
by searching H -O -P -P -E Radio, and it's on
1:01:41
from Podcast Radio in Tampa, and that's been
1:01:44
super cool, so now I'm my own boss, because I've
1:01:46
always worked with people, but now I'm doing
1:01:48
my thing. I mentioned to you that you kind of
1:01:50
resemble my son, right? Yeah, I think you said
1:01:53
that, Dallas. My son, Dallas. But you are, how
1:01:55
tall are you? 6 '9". 6 '9". And I just found
1:01:58
out today he's wearing his size 18 James Harden
1:02:02
shoes. James Harden. We're lucky to get the guy
1:02:05
in the door. But anyway, so how's it in Tampa?
1:02:08
One of my buddies runs the Info Tours bus down
1:02:12
there. It's cool. It's very high. I've been able
1:02:15
to kind of like stand outside. When I've been
1:02:17
in Illinois, because if you go outside for five
1:02:19
minutes in Florida, you are sweating. Oh, yeah.
1:02:22
Well, and the last few days have been great around
1:02:25
here. It's been amazing. I've had so much fun,
1:02:27
had pizza, had food. It's been amazing. Yeah,
1:02:30
you come back and you do all these things. Where'd
1:02:32
you go to high school? I went to John Hersey
1:02:34
High School on Arlington Heights. Hersey. Oh,
1:02:36
yeah. Brown and gold, right? Brown and orange.
1:02:38
Just like the Cleveland Browns. The first principal
1:02:41
was a Browns fan when they were good 70 years
1:02:43
ago. Oh, okay. So we had Browns colors. Hersey
1:02:46
Huskies. That's right. We occasionally played
1:02:49
them when I was at Maine North. So anyway. Well,
1:02:52
I hope you're going to have some fun. Sit in
1:02:53
on the show. Oh, of course. Tell your friends
1:02:55
and take some selfies and stuff. Yes, sir. You
1:02:58
can give me a few tips. Show the old dog how
1:03:01
to do some stuff. I got you. You're probably
1:03:03
good at... with the latest technology and all
1:03:05
that kind of stuff, too, right? Yeah, but there's,
1:03:07
like, some things recently I've been, like, learning.
1:03:10
Like, I don't know much about AI, and a lot of
1:03:12
my friends are, like, nerds in Florida, and they've
1:03:15
been teaching me, and it's freaky. It's going
1:03:16
to take all our jobs, not just radio. I mean,
1:03:19
pretty soon. And then they'll come and kill us,
1:03:21
you know, like Terminator. Anyway, did you fly
1:03:24
up here? Yeah, I don't fit in the airplane. I'm
1:03:27
6 '9", and my legs are squished. Oh, no. Yeah.
1:03:31
Let me ask you this. You remember, did the pilot
1:03:34
have a beard? No, he did not. They usually don't.
1:03:37
You know why? Why? I'll tell you coming up. That's
1:03:40
a radio tease on National Radio Day. Welcome
1:03:43
to the show. We're going to have some fun. Stick
1:03:44
around. Well, all right, all right, all right.
1:03:46
It's Eddie Volkman on Star. Time to head home
1:03:49
here. It's a little cooler today. One good thing
1:03:52
I like about the cooler weather is the bugs start
1:03:55
to go away. Although this wasn't overly buggy
1:03:58
summer. By the way, it's National Radio Day.
1:04:01
And throughout the show, I've been sitting here
1:04:03
with my buddy Ryan Hoppe. Went to Hersey High
1:04:05
School, worked in some Chicago radio, then Cleveland,
1:04:08
and you're in Tampa now. Tampa's the best, man.
1:04:11
The thing I noticed the biggest difference between
1:04:13
Illinois and Florida is I was going 85 on the
1:04:16
highway, and some guy was tailgating me. If you
1:04:20
go 75 in Florida, you're going too fast. Why?
1:04:23
Because of old people? Yeah. And I think it's
1:04:25
just a very chill environment because the sun's
1:04:28
out and it's just so different here. It's crazy.
1:04:30
Gummies. So the bugs are bigger in Florida, right?
1:04:34
Oh, yeah. If you live in any nice house or even
1:04:37
a bad house, you're going to have roaches. They're
1:04:40
very big. Oh, and snakes in the grass. Snakes
1:04:44
and lizards. It's crazy. Well, this is really
1:04:47
disturbing. More proof that nature is pretty
1:04:51
messed up. Two researchers analyzed 161 spider
1:04:55
webs and found out that spiders will catch fireflies
1:05:00
but not eat them as long as they're still glowing.
1:05:03
See, because the female makes the web, right?
1:05:07
So the glow will still be going. So other fireflies
1:05:11
will see the glow and be attracted to it and
1:05:14
they'll get caught in the web. And pretty soon
1:05:16
they have this whole big supply. And that's how
1:05:18
some spiders attract mates. Because they got
1:05:21
the table set for them. Just like 1950s Donna
1:05:25
Reed show. So then as soon as the trapped glowing
1:05:31
firefly loses its glow, they're instantly eaten.
1:05:37
So how would you like to be? It sounds like a
1:05:39
horror movie. It sounds like a Vincent Price
1:05:41
thing. As long as you continue to glow, you will
1:05:44
live. The minute your light goes out. That's
1:05:48
kind of funny. Bugs are creepy. Now I hate them
1:05:51
even more. Actually, I'm not overly scared of
1:05:53
bugs. When I live in a downtown high -rise, there's
1:05:56
spiders, like 5 ,000 spiders, usually little
1:05:59
ones, all over the windows up high because they
1:06:02
just crawl up there. And my daughter, when she
1:06:04
was like two, would go, Now we get like a tiny
1:06:09
little spider in her room, and she screams bloody
1:06:12
murder. My wife called me to the basement the
1:06:14
other day. There's a huge, huge spider down here.
1:06:17
And I go, what's huge to you? And she goes, three
1:06:20
inches. And I said, oh, really? All right. In
1:06:27
spite of it all, we're going to do the senseless
1:06:29
survey coming up for National Radio Day. Can't
1:06:33
build a radio without electronic parts. So we're
1:06:35
going to call an electronics store. Stand by.
1:06:38
Coming up.