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- 0:00SPEAKER_01: Hey, what's up?
- 0:00SPEAKER_01: It's Jeremy from the DevWarriors Prada and you're watching CMS TV.
- 0:20SPEAKER_02: I have a question before we get too far into anything.
- 0:23SPEAKER_01: Yes.
- 0:24SPEAKER_02: And it's been bugging me all week.
- 0:26you said last week you were going to tell me what happened to
- 0:30shadow well i was
- 0:31going to bring that up i actually was going to bring that up
- 0:34because i had a
- 0:34twitter today yeah there's somebody who said that they've been
- 0:38in radio for a long
- 0:39time they really love the whole shadow thing oh nice so so i
- 0:44went back and listened
- 0:46SPEAKER_01: and i forgot i was like damn it we forgot to talk about shadow
- 0:49SPEAKER_02: It's been bugging me all week.
- 0:51SPEAKER_02: And I did not go on Google.
- 0:52SPEAKER_02: I just figured I'd let you tell it because you knew.
- 0:56SPEAKER_02: So what did happen to Shadow?
- 1:00SPEAKER_01: Shadow basically was let go.
- 1:04SPEAKER_01: From Sirius or whatever?
- 1:05SPEAKER_01: Well, he actually did a couple of shows on terrestrial radio.
- 1:15SPEAKER_01: Okay.
- 1:17SPEAKER_01: And he did some part-time things with Sirius XM.
- 1:22SPEAKER_02: Right.
- 1:22SPEAKER_01: But his background is actually engineering.
- 1:28SPEAKER_02: Oh, he's like Scott from KEIM.
- 1:30SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 1:31SPEAKER_01: And one of the things that he did in New York City,
- 1:35SPEAKER_01: being that he lives in the eastern part of Pennsylvania...
- 1:39SPEAKER_01: He actually worked in like the NBC control center in like New York and he
- 1:48SPEAKER_01: controlled the satellites.
- 1:50SPEAKER_01: Okay.
- 1:50SPEAKER_01: So he more or less directed the satellite traffic.
- 1:54SPEAKER_01: Nice.
- 1:54SPEAKER_01: You know, for radio and whatnot.
- 1:56SPEAKER_01: But he also obviously did disc jockey work.
- 2:01SPEAKER_01: Sure.
- 2:02And his gig in Pittston,
- 2:05Pennsylvania,
- 2:05which is a borough that was founded in 1863...
- 2:12SPEAKER_01: No, he actually was doing live traffic reports.
- 2:16SPEAKER_01: Oh, no, really?
- 2:17SPEAKER_01: Yeah,
- 2:18SPEAKER_01: he was doing traffic reports,
- 2:19and then he had a Saturday show called Live at the Oldies or
- 2:23something like that.
- 2:25SPEAKER_01: Okay.
- 2:25SPEAKER_01: He did that show, and get this.
- 2:29SPEAKER_01: He had two radio names.
- 2:34SPEAKER_01: Shadowsteel and another one?
- 2:35SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he had another radio name.
- 2:36SPEAKER_01: You know what he...
- 2:38SPEAKER_02: This is going to be horrible.
- 2:39SPEAKER_02: I already know it.
- 2:40It's going to be something like,
- 2:42I don't know,
- 2:44I'm a douchebag or something.
- 2:46SPEAKER_01: His radio name to do the traffic report updates.
- 2:52SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 2:53SPEAKER_01: Rusty Fender.
- 2:56SPEAKER_02: I'm serious.
- 2:58SPEAKER_02: He's like, hey, it's me, Rusty Fender.
- 3:05SPEAKER_02: Get out of here.
- 3:06SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 3:07rusty rusty fender rusty fender yep jesus and then he did his
- 3:14regular show and he
- 3:14was marshall stacks right yeah well he uh again he um uh had a
- 3:21couple of gigs in in
- 3:23SPEAKER_01: uh radio
- 3:25SPEAKER_01: Okay.
- 3:26SPEAKER_01: So Rusty Fender exits.
- 3:31SPEAKER_01: Let's see here.
- 3:32SPEAKER_01: Getting rid of this ad.
- 3:33SPEAKER_01: Rusty Fender exits Intercom Scranton Wilkes-Barre.
- 3:37SPEAKER_01: Oh, no.
- 3:39Veteran,
- 3:40Scranton,
- 3:41Wilkes-Barre,
- 3:42Pennsylvania traffic reporter,
- 3:44Dale Mikulakczyk.
- 3:48SPEAKER_01: I told you what his name was.
- 3:50SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's M-I-K-O-L-A-C-Z-Y-K. Jesus Christ.
- 3:57SPEAKER_01: Mikulakczyk.
- 3:59SPEAKER_01: Nice.
- 4:00SPEAKER_01: That's his real name?
- 4:01SPEAKER_01: That's his real name.
- 4:02SPEAKER_01: Dale Mikulakczyk.
- 4:03SPEAKER_01: He should have stayed with Shadowsteel or Rusty Fender.
- 4:07Better known on the air as Rusty Fender has exited the intercom
- 4:13cluster in the
- 4:14SPEAKER_01: market,
- 4:15SPEAKER_01: reports the Wilkes-Barre Times leader.
- 4:17Mikhail Oksik,
- 4:18who had been reporting traffic on the station since 1990,
- 4:22was let go on Monday.
- 4:25With market manager Ryan Flynn telling the paper that the
- 4:28company decided to go in
- 4:30a different direction and to retool the position and intends to
- 4:34keep the reports
- 4:35SPEAKER_01: live and local rather than outsourcing them to an outside area company.
- 4:42SPEAKER_02: So he was doing Wooksbury traffic from New York?
- 4:46SPEAKER_01: No, when he was in New York, he was doing the satellite thing.
- 4:54SPEAKER_01: Okay.
- 4:54SPEAKER_01: But then he moved back to Wilkes-Barre.
- 4:57SPEAKER_02: Well, you said he'd been there since 1990.
- 4:59SPEAKER_01: At the radio station in Wilkes-Barre.
- 5:03SPEAKER_02: But when he was in New York was in the 2000s, right?
- 5:08SPEAKER_01: I think so.
- 5:09SPEAKER_01: I'm not positive exactly how that all worked out.
- 5:12SPEAKER_02: All right.
- 5:14SPEAKER_01: But anyway,
- 5:14Mitsuloxic's weekly Saturday Night Live at the Oldies show
- 5:18under the air name
- 5:20SPEAKER_01: Shadow Steel on Talk Wilk F.
- 5:25SPEAKER_02: Talk Wilk F?
- 5:27SPEAKER_01: It's W-I-L-K-A-F. Has also come to an end.
- 5:35SPEAKER_01: Saying that his time in radio has come to an end.
- 5:38SPEAKER_01: I've been in radio for 42 years, starting at the age of 15 at WVIA.
- 5:44SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 5:46SPEAKER_01: When you work for the top cluster, there's nowhere else to go.
- 5:52SPEAKER_01: Michael Lock,
- 5:52SPEAKER_01: Vic,
- 5:53SPEAKER_01: however we say his name,
- 5:54told the Times leader that he may return to working for NBC
- 5:58affiliate WBRE TV,
- 6:00where he was an engineer and will continue teaching at Wilkes
- 6:05Wilkes University and
- 6:07SPEAKER_01: producing a TV series.
- 6:09SPEAKER_01: He has pitched to several networks.
- 6:12SPEAKER_02: Well, that'll never happen.
- 6:13SPEAKER_01: He also indicated to the paper that my life,
- 6:17that he may file an age discrimination suit against intercom
- 6:21for the dismissal.
- 6:24SPEAKER_02: Get out of here.
- 6:25SPEAKER_02: That's what it says.
- 6:28SPEAKER_02: Self is rusty fender.
- 6:30SPEAKER_02: Right.
- 6:30SPEAKER_02: How does that not scream?
- 6:31SPEAKER_02: I'm old.
- 6:33SPEAKER_02: Doesn't it?
- 6:34SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 6:34SPEAKER_01: Well, so you know where he ended up landing?
- 6:38SPEAKER_01: Where?
- 6:39SPEAKER_01: KEIF?
- 6:40SPEAKER_01: No.
- 6:40SPEAKER_01: No.
- 6:42SPEAKER_01: Went to work for the Lind company, L-I-N-D-E.
- 6:47SPEAKER_02: I don't know who that is.
- 6:48SPEAKER_01: They do gas and pipeline and stuff.
- 6:51SPEAKER_02: Okay.
- 6:52SPEAKER_01: That's a career change.
- 6:53SPEAKER_01: Well, not really.
- 6:55SPEAKER_01: No?
- 6:55SPEAKER_01: He put his engineering degree back to work.
- 6:58SPEAKER_02: Oh, so now he's a commercial engineer?
- 7:00SPEAKER_01: He's an engineer for an energy company, Lind, the Lind company.
- 7:05SPEAKER_01: He's probably making more money than he ever did.
- 7:08SPEAKER_01: You might know him better as Rusty Fender.
- 7:11SPEAKER_01: An oldies music fan know him as Shadow Steel.
- 7:16Nowadays,
- 7:16most of the colleagues at the Lind Corporation just call him
- 7:20Dale.
- 7:21And they know him by his orange hard hat and wide grin rather
- 7:26than his snappy radio voice.
- 7:29SPEAKER_01: He never had a snappy radio voice.
- 7:33SPEAKER_01: Dale Mikuloksik.
- 7:35SPEAKER_01: Of radio fame for the last 26 years,
- 7:38SPEAKER_01: he went by the pseudonym in Pittston-based WKRZ radio station and other.
- 7:44Last year made the kind of career move fitting for the kid in
- 7:48his late 20s.
- 7:50SPEAKER_02: Wow.
- 7:51SPEAKER_01: But at 58,
- 7:52SPEAKER_01: Mikloksek finds that fitting as a field engineer for Lind,
- 7:58SPEAKER_01: a pipe building company headquartered in Pittston Township.
- 8:02SPEAKER_02: Okay.
- 8:02SPEAKER_02: Okay.
- 8:04But before you drop your day job for a promising career in the
- 8:07pipeline engineering
- 8:08SPEAKER_01: like this,
- 8:09SPEAKER_01: there is little more to his story,
- 8:11SPEAKER_01: including an extensive background that has nothing to do with media.
- 8:17SPEAKER_01: Mick Loxic went on to the University of Scranton and Duke University.
- 8:21He holds a degree in the aerospace systems engineering and a
- 8:25master's degree in
- 8:26SPEAKER_01: electrical engineering.
- 8:28SPEAKER_02: Wow.
- 8:29SPEAKER_01: So he's a very educated fella.
- 8:32SPEAKER_02: Sounds like he wasted a lot of time in radio.
- 8:33SPEAKER_01: Yeah,
- 8:34SPEAKER_01: well,
- 8:34SPEAKER_01: it sounded like he went after his passion and,
- 8:36SPEAKER_01: you know,
- 8:37SPEAKER_01: went for his passion in radio rather than go for the steady paycheck,
- 8:41SPEAKER_01: maybe.
- 8:42SPEAKER_02: Right.
- 8:42SPEAKER_02: Wow.
- 8:43SPEAKER_02: That's crazy.
- 8:44SPEAKER_01: He started his career as production engineer at WBRE-TV in Wilkes-Barre,
- 8:49SPEAKER_01: overseeing the technical side of the daily news,
- 8:52and soon he was called up to the local affiliate national
- 8:55network NBC in New York
- 8:57SPEAKER_01: City.
- 8:58Nathan in the chat room now he's rusty pipes right this is
- 9:03rusty pipeline rusty
- 9:05pipes at 23 years old the Durea native was controlling NBC's 36
- 9:12satellites orbiting
- 9:14thousands of miles above the surface of the earth so he did
- 9:17this before he became
- 9:19shadow steel and rusty fender okay so he must have did this in
- 9:23the 80s maybe I
- 9:24SPEAKER_02: wonder what his name was before he was shadow steel don't know
- 9:28SPEAKER_02: He had to have a name before Shadow Steel, didn't he?
- 9:31SPEAKER_02: You would think.
- 9:32SPEAKER_01: Using remote controls, Mick Loxic, along with his team, operated...
- 9:39operated thrusters attached to the satellite to keep them
- 9:45inside what he called a
- 9:47SPEAKER_01: 40-mile cubicle mile box or two longitudinal degrees.
- 9:52SPEAKER_01: If the satellite drifted outside of the box,
- 9:54SPEAKER_01: it could result in signal loss for the customers or worse.
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- 11:43SPEAKER_01: They've had satellites, what you call, walk into the graveyard orbit.
- 11:51SPEAKER_01: That's a $2 billion loss,
- 11:53SPEAKER_01: he said,
- 11:53explaining further that trillions of dollars were at stake
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- 11:57SPEAKER_01: handled up to 80 channels,
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- 12:03SPEAKER_01: Wow.
- 12:04SPEAKER_01: Aerospace technology has changed dramatically since then,
- 12:07and there's no longer scores of engineering guiding the
- 12:10satellites from Earth.
- 12:11SPEAKER_01: Now it's handled by a couple of $400 Dell computers.
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- 12:19SPEAKER_01: Right, exactly.
- 12:21SPEAKER_01: Jesus.
- 12:21SPEAKER_01: Look at AOR Rock's got a picture of him in the chat room.
- 12:24SPEAKER_02: There he is, Rusty Fender.
- 12:26SPEAKER_01: There he is, Rusty Fender.
- 12:29SPEAKER_01: Even while he worked in New York City,
- 12:31he found he was spending a lot of cash commuting from his home
- 12:35in the Philadelphia
- 12:36SPEAKER_01: suburb and the high cost of living in the name of an exhilarating career,
- 12:41SPEAKER_01: which was growing.
- 12:43SPEAKER_01: You make huge money in the big city, but you pay it all out, he said.
- 12:47I paid more in taxes every year than my salary ever was at the
- 12:51radio station.
- 12:53SPEAKER_02: What?
- 12:53SPEAKER_01: That's what he said.
- 12:55SPEAKER_02: How does that work?
- 12:56SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
- 12:58SPEAKER_02: How do you pay more in taxes than you earn?
- 13:00SPEAKER_01: Well,
- 13:00I think what he was saying is that he paid more in taxes while
- 13:04he lived in New York
- 13:05SPEAKER_01: and did the satellite thing than what he earned doing radio.
- 13:10SPEAKER_01: Oh, you follow what I'm saying?
- 13:11SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I get that.
- 13:12SPEAKER_02: Okay.
- 13:13SPEAKER_02: That makes sense.
- 13:13SPEAKER_01: Okay.
- 13:14He had been traveling to the Wyoming Valley every weekend to
- 13:18host his long running,
- 13:19SPEAKER_01: highly rated Saturday night live at the oldies with shadow steel.
- 13:23SPEAKER_01: So I guess he came home every weekend.
- 13:25SPEAKER_01: The highly rated.
- 13:27SPEAKER_01: That's what it says.
- 13:28SPEAKER_02: You have the highest rated show in Wilkes-Barre.
- 13:31SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 13:31SPEAKER_02: What do you think that is?
- 13:32SPEAKER_02: 75 people?
- 13:34SPEAKER_01: Well, I attribute it.
- 13:36I compare it to what the classic metal show might have been on
- 13:40Saturday night at WSTB.
- 13:42SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 13:42SPEAKER_02: I mean, it was probably the highest rated show in Streetsboro.
- 13:44SPEAKER_01: It was.
- 13:45SPEAKER_01: I had the highest rating of the week every week.
- 13:50SPEAKER_01: And what did that equate to?
- 13:51SPEAKER_01: Nothing.
- 13:51SPEAKER_01: 3,000 people?
- 13:53SPEAKER_01: It was like, I think it was like 7,500 people.
- 13:56SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we probably do the same number with this show.
- 13:59SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I know.
- 14:00SPEAKER_02: Internet.
- 14:00SPEAKER_01: Sure.
- 14:01SPEAKER_01: It's crazy.
- 14:02And when KRZ proposed to break new ground in the 1990s with the
- 14:07region's first ever
- 14:08SPEAKER_01: live from the sky traffic reporting,
- 14:11SPEAKER_01: Mikolasik was all in.
- 14:13SPEAKER_01: Wow.
- 14:14So he decided,
- 14:15hey,
- 14:15I want to do traffic reporting and become Rusty Fender.
- 14:18SPEAKER_02: Rusty Fender jumped in the helicopter.
- 14:20SPEAKER_01: Right.
- 14:21SPEAKER_01: The station sought sponsors to lease aircraft,
- 14:26SPEAKER_01: but in hindsight,
- 14:27SPEAKER_01: the program was doomed from the start,
- 14:28SPEAKER_01: he said.
- 14:29SPEAKER_01: It was even a money loser in those days.
- 14:32SPEAKER_01: I think we used to make $300 in the morning and spend $400 to fly.
- 14:34SPEAKER_01: So they had a helicopter.
- 14:41SPEAKER_02: Right.
- 14:41So they were spending $400 in fuel and taking in $300 worth of
- 14:47morning commercials.
- 14:49SPEAKER_02: Who the fuck pays for the traffic?
- 14:53SPEAKER_01: I mean, honestly, do people pay?
- 14:55Well,
- 14:55it's like this traffic report is brought to you by the men's
- 14:58warehouse.
- 14:59SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but people don't pay premium for that.
- 15:02SPEAKER_01: Well, that's why it wasn't a high revenue maker.
- 15:04SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 15:04SPEAKER_01: So it failed.
- 15:08I wonder if the stations that nowadays just look at their
- 15:11Google Maps where you can
- 15:12SPEAKER_01: see where there's traffic jams and stuff.
- 15:14SPEAKER_01: No, they don't look at their Google Maps.
- 15:16SPEAKER_01: They have the highway cameras now.
- 15:18SPEAKER_02: Oh, that's true, too.
- 15:19SPEAKER_02: So they can just look and see.
- 15:20Yeah,
- 15:21so they just scan their closed-circuit TVs and see what's going
- 15:26on out there.
- 15:27SPEAKER_01: Right.
- 15:27SPEAKER_01: That's how they do it.
- 15:29SPEAKER_02: That's crazy.
- 15:30SPEAKER_01: The program took a nosedive not long after it started,
- 15:33but Mickaloxic stayed with the station to provide daily traffic
- 15:37updates as Rusty
- 15:38Fender for the next decade and playing host to the Saturday
- 15:43night at the oldies.
- 15:46SPEAKER_02: It was a different name for the show on the oldies.
- 15:51SPEAKER_01: He was Shadow Steel on the oldies.
- 15:52SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but he was Rusty Fender in the day.
- 15:57SPEAKER_01: I wonder if people couldn't tell the difference.
- 15:59SPEAKER_01: Well,
- 16:00it was like the guy that played Superhost on Saturdays and then
- 16:03he did news in the
- 16:05SPEAKER_01: evening on Channel 43.
- 16:07SPEAKER_02: What?
- 16:08SPEAKER_02: I didn't know that.
- 16:10SPEAKER_01: You didn't know that?
- 16:11SPEAKER_01: No.
- 16:13SPEAKER_01: What was his name?
- 16:16SPEAKER_01: Look it up.
- 16:16SPEAKER_01: Superhost.
- 16:17SPEAKER_01: Channel 43.
- 16:18SPEAKER_01: What was his name?
- 16:19SPEAKER_01: Superhost.
- 16:21SPEAKER_01: I can't remember.
- 16:21SPEAKER_01: His name was Bob something.
- 16:24SPEAKER_02: Let's see.
- 16:26SPEAKER_01: Marty Sullivan, that's right.
- 16:29SPEAKER_01: He was also a...
- 16:31SPEAKER_01: He was a news broadcaster.
- 16:32SPEAKER_01: I did not know.
- 16:33Yeah,
- 16:33he did the news broadcast,
- 16:35and then he did Superhost on the weekend.
- 16:38SPEAKER_02: Yeah, there it is.
- 16:38SPEAKER_02: In addition to playing Superhost,
- 16:40SPEAKER_02: Sullivan was a longtime floor director and staff announcer for WUAB.
- 16:46SPEAKER_02: No shit.
- 16:46SPEAKER_02: Also occasionally hosted the prize movie with John Lanigan.
- 16:49SPEAKER_02: Yeah, there you go.
- 16:51SPEAKER_02: Did not know.
- 16:51SPEAKER_02: And it was on WGAR.
- 16:55SPEAKER_02: Wow, he was the shit.
- 16:57SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he was all over Cleveland.
- 16:59SPEAKER_02: All I ever knew him was was that dumbass super host.
- 17:02SPEAKER_01: Give me back that shoe.
- 17:03SPEAKER_01: So stupid.
- 17:07SPEAKER_01: It was February last year when KRZ's owner,
- 17:10SPEAKER_01: Intercom Communications,
- 17:11SPEAKER_01: decided to drop Rusty Fender and the oldie show.
- 17:15SPEAKER_02: Ugh.
- 17:17SPEAKER_01: But it was his radio job that helped the groundwork to his current job.
- 17:23SPEAKER_01: What some might perceive as an abysmal circumstance,
- 17:27a work schedule that allowed for about three hours of sleep
- 17:30each night turned out
- 17:31to be the thing that kept him sharp and prepared him for a
- 17:36massive career switch.
- 17:38SPEAKER_02: Wow.
- 17:39It's funny how things work out in life because I never wanted
- 17:42to teach myself.
- 17:44SPEAKER_01: But because that horrible,
- 17:46SPEAKER_01: awful,
- 17:46terrible shift and split shift I had at the radio station in
- 17:50between the window,
- 17:51SPEAKER_01: I had about six hours that I would teach either two,
- 17:54SPEAKER_01: three or four courses at Wilkes-Barre University.
- 17:59SPEAKER_01: So he would run from the radio station to the college,
- 18:02SPEAKER_01: teach a class,
- 18:03SPEAKER_01: run back to the radio station.
- 18:06SPEAKER_01: You got to know this guy definitely was not married.
- 18:09SPEAKER_02: Well,
- 18:10SPEAKER_02: by the way,
- 18:10SPEAKER_02: in case anybody was wondering,
- 18:12SPEAKER_02: Rusty Fender still has a very active,
- 18:15SPEAKER_02: not very active,
- 18:16SPEAKER_02: but somewhat active Twitter.
- 18:18SPEAKER_02: Okay.
- 18:19SPEAKER_02: Twitter.com slash Rusty Fender.
- 18:21SPEAKER_01: All right.
- 18:23SPEAKER_01: Good to know.
- 18:24SPEAKER_02: I think that's him.
- 18:25SPEAKER_02: It looks like him.
- 18:29Teaching a few science and engineering classes each year kept
- 18:32him connected with
- 18:33the latest technology trends and the promise of work for the
- 18:37industry and folks who
- 18:39SPEAKER_01: are already were working in it every day.
- 18:43SPEAKER_02: Okay.
- 18:44SPEAKER_01: So,
- 18:45SPEAKER_01: uh,
- 18:45SPEAKER_01: let's see here at the Friedland farms,
- 18:48SPEAKER_01: well-paid,
- 18:48SPEAKER_01: let's see at the,
- 18:50SPEAKER_01: at the Friedland farms,
- 18:52SPEAKER_01: well pad in Lenox township,
- 18:55SPEAKER_01: Susquehanna County.
- 18:58SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 18:58SPEAKER_01: I just say that three times.
- 19:00SPEAKER_01: Uh,
- 19:00SPEAKER_01: one of the Ms.
- 19:02SPEAKER_01: Mikuloksik's latest projects he watched,
- 19:06SPEAKER_01: uh,
- 19:06SPEAKER_01: intently as the excavator operator,
- 19:09SPEAKER_01: uh,
- 19:10SPEAKER_01: started on a pipe trench,
- 19:12SPEAKER_01: making way for new connections,
- 19:15SPEAKER_01: uh,
- 19:16SPEAKER_01: that,
- 19:16SPEAKER_01: uh,
- 19:16SPEAKER_01: will carry gas away from the well and blah,
- 19:18SPEAKER_01: blah,
- 19:19SPEAKER_01: blah.
- 19:19SPEAKER_02: Okay.
- 19:20SPEAKER_01: So anyway, that's where he's at.
- 19:22SPEAKER_02: Well, he's in Wilkesbury, huh?
- 19:23SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 19:24SPEAKER_02: I might have to reach out to him, invite him to the museum.
- 19:27How great would that be if I could get a picture of me and
- 19:29Rusty Fender together?
- 19:32SPEAKER_01: That's a good 250-mile drive for him.
- 19:34SPEAKER_02: Yeah,
- 19:35but the last tweet that he has is great article on John
- 19:38Chedrick and his pinball
- 19:39SPEAKER_02: collection.
- 19:40SPEAKER_02: Oh, how about that?
- 19:41SPEAKER_02: Well done.
- 19:41SPEAKER_02: He's into pinball.
- 19:42SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 19:44SPEAKER_01: Or at least his buddy is.
- 19:45SPEAKER_01: Sure.
- 19:45SPEAKER_01: There's my aunt.
- 19:47SPEAKER_01: How great would that be?
- 19:49SPEAKER_01: So get this now.
- 19:51SPEAKER_01: Remember the big golf spill?
- 19:52SPEAKER_01: Remember the pipe that was broken off and polluting the golf?
- 19:56SPEAKER_01: Well, he contends.
- 19:58SPEAKER_01: His contention is he's the one who came up with the solution to fix it.
- 20:03SPEAKER_02: He did.
- 20:04SPEAKER_01: That's what he says.
- 20:05SPEAKER_02: Wow.
- 20:06SPEAKER_02: No wonder they were willing to take Rusty Fender.
- 20:08SPEAKER_01: Right.
- 20:09It was late one evening in 2010 when Mikulokzik was sitting on
- 20:14the couch watching
- 20:15SPEAKER_01: TV coverage of the BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
- 20:20SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 20:20SPEAKER_01: His longtime girlfriend, Barba Averza, suggested.
- 20:26SPEAKER_01: Girlfriend.
- 20:27SPEAKER_01: Huh?
- 20:28SPEAKER_02: Whose girlfriend?
- 20:29SPEAKER_01: His.
- 20:30SPEAKER_02: He's not gay?
- 20:32SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
- 20:32SPEAKER_01: It says his longtime girlfriend.
- 20:34SPEAKER_02: I would have bet any money he was gay.
- 20:36Suggested he submit a solution to stop the free-flowing gusher
- 20:40of oil a mile below the surface.
- 20:43SPEAKER_02: What a life they're living, huh?
- 20:45It was his suggestion to use a locking plug on the leaking
- 20:51borehole that allowed
- 20:53SPEAKER_01: crews to slow the flow to a trickle enough to apply the static kill,
- 20:58SPEAKER_01: a combination of mud and cement that ultimately stopped the massive leak,
- 21:03SPEAKER_01: he said.
- 21:04SPEAKER_01: The local headlines gave the man,
- 21:06SPEAKER_01: mostly known for his radio presence,
- 21:09a good dose of credibility that his knowledge base spread much
- 21:13further than flying
- 21:14SPEAKER_01: satellites and watching traffic trends.
- 21:18And his experience with the TV network gave him the confidence
- 21:22that he could
- 21:22successfully map out hundreds of miles of gas pipe to carry gas
- 21:27from the well to
- 21:28SPEAKER_01: the main pipeline.
- 21:30So if I'm understanding what you just read there,
- 21:32he did get national credit for this idea?
- 21:35SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
- 21:35SPEAKER_01: They said he wrote in.
- 21:37SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
- 21:39It just says it was his suggestion to use a locking plug on the
- 21:44leaking borehole
- 21:45SPEAKER_01: that allowed the crews to slow the flow to a trickle.
- 21:48SPEAKER_02: Hey, well, good on him.
- 21:49SPEAKER_01: So that's what it says.
- 21:50SPEAKER_02: He saved the planet.
- 21:51SPEAKER_02: He did.
- 21:52SPEAKER_02: It's all about Rusty Fender.
- 21:54SPEAKER_02: That's why we're alive today.
- 21:55SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
- 21:55SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
- 21:58Nothing more is complicated than me flying satellites in the
- 22:02Lona sphere orbit for
- 22:05SPEAKER_01: 20 years over the equator,
- 22:06SPEAKER_01: you know,
- 22:07SPEAKER_01: 22.397.5 miles up.
- 22:08SPEAKER_01: Jesus.
- 22:13SPEAKER_01: Miklasik said, but this is a complicated business.
- 22:18SPEAKER_01: It really is.
- 22:19Now the former radio man spends his time working side by side
- 22:23with guys like
- 22:24Corrigan who designed pipelines where each mile depends careful
- 22:29consideration,
- 22:30SPEAKER_01: uh,
- 22:31figuring effects on the environment costs to the company and
- 22:34maintaining good gas
- 22:35SPEAKER_01: flow.
- 22:35SPEAKER_01: There's no book to go for this job.
- 22:38SPEAKER_01: He said, we're writing it page by page as we go.
- 22:44SPEAKER_01: Well, hey, good on him.
- 22:45SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so he's out there directing pipeline operations now.
- 22:50SPEAKER_01: Shadow Steel laying pipe.
- 22:52SPEAKER_01: He is.
- 22:52SPEAKER_02: Good on him.
- 22:53SPEAKER_01: Sure.
- 22:55SPEAKER_01: So there is the update on Shadow Steel and Rusty Fender.
- 23:00I had no idea that there even was a Rusty Fender,
- 23:03let alone a pipe specialist.
- 23:05SPEAKER_01: You just didn't do your homework, Mr. Aiken.
- 23:08SPEAKER_02: Apparently not.
- 23:08SPEAKER_02: I was not prepared for this interview.
- 23:10SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 23:11SPEAKER_01: Had we known that years ago, we could have called him rusty.
- 23:16Or you could have spouted off 400 facts about underwater gear
- 23:20before asking him
- 23:22SPEAKER_02: what his thoughts were on fishing or whatever.
- 23:25SPEAKER_01: Sure.
- 23:25SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
- 23:26SPEAKER_01: Oh, no.
- 23:26SPEAKER_01: Fishing.
- 23:27SPEAKER_01: That would have been too close.
- 23:28SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 23:28SPEAKER_01: We've got to have something totally unrelated.
- 23:31SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 23:31SPEAKER_02: So,
- 23:32SPEAKER_02: Shadow,
- 23:33SPEAKER_02: you're well involved with pipelines,
- 23:34and pipelines have been around since 1912 when this pipe went
- 23:38into the ocean.
- 23:39SPEAKER_01: Right.
- 23:40SPEAKER_02: Shadow, what do you think of newsprint?
- 23:44SPEAKER_01: Pretty good.
- 23:46SPEAKER_02: Daddy, I've listened to that interview like 10 times.
- 23:50SPEAKER_01: So great.
- 23:51SPEAKER_01: It was the best.
- 23:52SPEAKER_01: It's pretty funny.
- 23:54SPEAKER_02: Do you agree that it's the best interview we've ever done?
- 23:57SPEAKER_01: It was definitely one of the more...
- 24:00clever ones that we had to plan for well I can't think of
- 24:04another one that we ever
- 24:05planned for was there I did a little bit of planning right
- 24:10after the whole James
- 24:11Rivera hit in the bottle thing and we were going to have what's
- 24:16his name the
- 24:17guitarist for I can't think of it either vicious rumors and he
- 24:22ended up being a
- 24:23SPEAKER_01: real yeah and then he ended up being a good friends with us and liking us
- 24:30SPEAKER_02: You planned to sandbag him, and then you didn't.
- 24:32SPEAKER_01: Well, I did.
- 24:34SPEAKER_01: You did, and he just rolled with it or whatever.
- 24:36SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he did.
- 24:38SPEAKER_01: And he was the one who reached out to us and said,
- 24:40SPEAKER_01: hey,
- 24:40SPEAKER_01: can I come on your show and give my side of the story?
- 24:43SPEAKER_02: I should get to rebut.
- 24:44SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 24:46SPEAKER_01: That's how that all worked out.
- 24:47So,
- 24:48uh,
- 24:48anyway,
- 24:48I got a,
- 24:49uh,
- 24:49tweet from Jason R that said,
- 24:52great job busting balls on radio.
- 24:55I worked in radio and love the interview with the 35 year radio
- 24:59veteran traffic reporter shadow.
- 25:02SPEAKER_02: Oh, nice.
- 25:03SPEAKER_01: So nice little tweet there.
- 25:06SPEAKER_02: Oh, thanks.
- 25:06SPEAKER_02: Jason R or Jeff R or whatever.
- 25:08SPEAKER_02: Jason R. Jason R. Thanks a lot.
- 25:11SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 25:11SPEAKER_01: You liked it.
- 25:11SPEAKER_01: He liked the shadow.
- 25:13SPEAKER_02: I like the Shadow, too.
- 25:14SPEAKER_01: Right.
- 25:15SPEAKER_01: So there you go.
- 25:16SPEAKER_01: There's your update on Shadow Steel.
- 25:18I meant to get to that last week,
- 25:19but we got so involved with other things,
- 25:22it slipped my mind.
- 25:24SPEAKER_02: Your homework for next week, I want to know what happened to J.D.
- 25:26SPEAKER_02: Donnelly or whatever his name is.
- 25:28SPEAKER_02: Okay.
- 25:29SPEAKER_02: We'll find out what happened to him.
- 25:31SPEAKER_02: What was his name?
- 25:32SPEAKER_02: James Donnelly?
- 25:33SPEAKER_01: Yeah, James Donnelly.
- 25:34SPEAKER_02: J.R. Donnelly.
- 25:36SPEAKER_02: Madpod.
- 25:38SPEAKER_02: Madpod.
- 25:39SPEAKER_02: And he really didn't do anything except a couple of...
- 25:43SPEAKER_02: A couple of stingers to lead in and out of the interview.
- 25:45SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he did those, but apparently he was inventive of something.
- 25:51SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 25:51SPEAKER_01: Because I did rattle off a bunch of facts about J.R. Donnelly as well.
- 25:57SPEAKER_02: Before asking him if marijuana should be legal.
- 26:00SPEAKER_02: Yeah, something like that.
- 26:04yep absolutely so good all right well if you weren't aware of
- 26:09it we are live on the
- 26:10classic metal show yes and that was in great debate for most of
- 26:13the week yeah it
- 26:14was you uh you were thinking you were going to be out tonight
- 26:17so what what happened
- 26:19and what changed we had an event that we were supposed to be at
- 26:22and it's not
- 26:23happening so okay it was i was supposed to be out till midnight
- 26:27doing that six to
- 26:28SPEAKER_02: midnight but
- 26:30that got scrubbed and um so i came back to cleveland and you
- 26:35know now i'm here and
- 26:36you've been been there for the last couple of days in your own
- 26:39humble abode yep i
- 26:41got here yesterday morning eight o'clock in the morning i ain't
- 26:44gonna lie i took a
- 26:45day off well good for you i literally laid in bed all day yeah
- 26:50i kind of did that
- 26:50SPEAKER_01: today i i i uh got home from work well actually i went out and did the
- 26:57SPEAKER_01: Friday running around just store and grocery store and crap,
- 27:01SPEAKER_01: you know,
- 27:01SPEAKER_01: go to the bank and whatnot.
- 27:03SPEAKER_01: And I thought, you know what?
- 27:06I've been eating so healthy the last,
- 27:08well,
- 27:09the last nine months,
- 27:1010 months.
- 27:11SPEAKER_01: Right.
- 27:11SPEAKER_01: No garbage in the diet at all.
- 27:14SPEAKER_01: Right.
- 27:14SPEAKER_01: Just been careful about what I'm eating.
- 27:16SPEAKER_01: But for some reason, I was just like craving a hamburger.
- 27:19SPEAKER_01: Right.
- 27:20okay last night so i thought you know what i'm gonna go down to
- 27:22chili's the playoff
- 27:24game between the uh the um toronto blue jays and kansas city
- 27:28are playing and it's
- 27:30friday got nowhere else to go nothing to do so i went to
- 27:33chili's and had this big
- 27:35greasy uh hamburger with cheese and bacon and barbecue sauce
- 27:43and that's not like
- 27:45SPEAKER_01: you at all no not but i had this like i gotta have this you know
- 27:49right sure i went down there and had a burger had some wine
- 27:52came home i was uh
- 27:55texting with the v of all people what she just text me out of
- 28:00the blue you me not
- 28:03that i was the only one that got texted no she she texted me
- 28:06last night and she
- 28:07goes i need to talk to you but i can't talk freely right now
- 28:11are you reproaching my
- 28:12SPEAKER_01: friend yeah i'm reproaching yeah
- 28:16SPEAKER_01: So I text with her until I fell asleep.
- 28:20SPEAKER_01: Wow.
- 28:21SPEAKER_01: And I woke up.
- 28:21SPEAKER_01: It was like 930 and I stayed in bed till five.
- 28:24SPEAKER_02: Look at you.
- 28:25SPEAKER_02: See, that was me.
- 28:26SPEAKER_02: I got home yesterday, 830 in the morning.
- 28:28SPEAKER_02: I left.
- 28:29SPEAKER_02: I left Pittsburgh at six.
- 28:31SPEAKER_02: Got home at 830 in the morning.
- 28:33SPEAKER_02: Just went to bed.
- 28:35SPEAKER_02: Stayed in bed until this morning.
- 28:37I was just,
- 28:38you know,
- 28:38it's like watching Netflix and,
- 28:40you know,
- 28:41just being lazy today.
- 28:43SPEAKER_02: That was me yesterday.
- 28:44SPEAKER_02: I literally watched all of season eight of NYPD Blue.
- 28:51SPEAKER_02: That's what I did.
- 28:53SPEAKER_02: My life is so exciting.
- 28:55SPEAKER_01: Well, I'm almost finished with the Curb Your Enthusiasm series.
- 28:59SPEAKER_01: Dude,
- 29:00one that you got to check out is this Hand of God on Amazon
- 29:04Prime if you haven't
- 29:04SPEAKER_02: checked that out yet.
- 29:05SPEAKER_01: All right.
- 29:05SPEAKER_01: I've been finishing up.
- 29:07SPEAKER_01: I'm in the middle of season seven.
- 29:09SPEAKER_01: I got one more season of Curb to go, and I'm done with that.
- 29:13SPEAKER_02: It has clay.
- 29:14SPEAKER_02: It's clay from Sons.
- 29:16SPEAKER_01: Okay.
- 29:16SPEAKER_01: I remember seeing a little promo for that.
- 29:19SPEAKER_02: And it's up your alley.
- 29:21SPEAKER_02: It's kind of fucked up.
- 29:22SPEAKER_02: Okay.
- 29:24SPEAKER_02: It's in that weird vein where it's like, wow, this is sort of odd.
- 29:29SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 29:30SPEAKER_02: But it's good.
- 29:31SPEAKER_02: It's real good.
- 29:31SPEAKER_02: Okay.
- 29:31SPEAKER_02: I'll check it out.
- 29:33SPEAKER_01: All right.
- 29:34SPEAKER_01: Now, wait a minute.
- 29:34SPEAKER_01: Was that a movie?
- 29:35SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 29:36SPEAKER_01: No, it's a 10-part series.
- 29:37SPEAKER_01: Oh, okay.
- 29:39SPEAKER_01: Remember that movie I recommended to you a while back that he was in?
- 29:44SPEAKER_01: He was like a schoolmaster at a girl's school?
- 29:47SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 29:48SPEAKER_01: And it was all fucked up like that?
- 29:50SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that was a movie.
- 29:51SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that was kind of fucked up, too.
- 29:53SPEAKER_02: This is a series, one of these Amazon series.
- 29:59SPEAKER_02: But it's really good.
- 30:00SPEAKER_02: Okay, I'll watch it.
- 30:01SPEAKER_00: Follow the chaos.
- 30:03SPEAKER_00: The Classic Metal Show is live on X.
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- 30:25SPEAKER_02: To run a train on the V. What?
- 30:29SPEAKER_02: Somebody's been drinking.
- 30:31SPEAKER_02: I guess.
- 30:33SPEAKER_01: All right.
- 30:33SPEAKER_01: Well,
- 30:34SPEAKER_01: if you,
- 30:34SPEAKER_01: uh,
- 30:34SPEAKER_01: if you want to check out the classic metal show chat room,
- 30:37SPEAKER_01: just go to chat and kill.com chat and kill.com coming up here.
- 30:41SPEAKER_01: I've got, uh, Philippa Philippa.
- 30:45SPEAKER_01: I think that's how you say her name.
- 30:47SPEAKER_01: Philippa.
- 30:48SPEAKER_01: You've got the thunder mother.
- 30:49SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 30:49SPEAKER_01: Thunder mother.
- 30:50SPEAKER_01: That's who she is.
- 30:51SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 30:52SPEAKER_01: Her name is, uh, what did I, what is her name?
- 30:55SPEAKER_02: Her, her, her name, Philippa something or another.
- 30:57SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 30:58SPEAKER_01: I just want to give her credit where credit is due here.
- 31:01SPEAKER_01: Her name is Philippa Nassil.
- 31:04SPEAKER_01: Yeah, just say Claire Cunningham.
- 31:07SPEAKER_01: That's an easy name in her band, even if it's not her.
- 31:09SPEAKER_01: That's the easy name.
- 31:11SPEAKER_01: There's a band called Thunder Mother.
- 31:12SPEAKER_01: They're a Swedish band, an all-girl band, hard rock.
- 31:18SPEAKER_01: They're out promoting their new CD called Road Fever.
- 31:22SPEAKER_01: Do you like that record?
- 31:24SPEAKER_01: I haven't listened to it enough.
- 31:25SPEAKER_01: I've listened to half of it.
- 31:27SPEAKER_01: Okay.
- 31:27SPEAKER_01: And it's okay.
- 31:29SPEAKER_02: I like it.
- 31:29SPEAKER_01: I like it a lot.
- 31:30SPEAKER_01: It's very just straight ahead kind of blues-based rock.
- 31:36SPEAKER_01: It's ACDC with chicks.
- 31:37SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's it.
- 31:39SPEAKER_01: I love it.
- 31:40SPEAKER_01: So Philippa Nassil is coming up.
- 31:44SPEAKER_01: Awesome.
- 31:45SPEAKER_01: So we'll check out some Thunder Mother and talk to her and...
- 31:49SPEAKER_01: then we'll get back and we'll start doing our silly shit.
- 31:53SPEAKER_01: Sounds good to me.
- 31:53Yeah,
- 31:53because I got some updates tonight on some stories we've
- 31:57covered over the past year.
- 31:58SPEAKER_02: Okay, and I sent you one this afternoon.
- 32:01SPEAKER_02: Did you get it?
- 32:01SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I did.
- 32:01SPEAKER_02: All right.
- 32:02SPEAKER_01: I did.
- 32:03SPEAKER_01: So anyway, we got stuff to cover.
- 32:05SPEAKER_01: Join us in the chat room, chatandkill.com, Classic Metal Show Live.
- 32:10SPEAKER_01: Let's get into some Thunder Mother.
- 32:13SPEAKER_01: As I said, their new CD is called Road Fever.
- 32:17SPEAKER_01: And you can check this out.
- 32:19SPEAKER_01: I'm going to play a song here called It's Just a Tease.
- 32:23SPEAKER_01: And then I'll talk to Philippa Nassil.
- 32:26SPEAKER_01: So here it is.
- 32:27It's brand new Thunder Mother exclusively here on your classic
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