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Who’s the Greatest Radio DJ & Comedian of All Time? · Tigs Bits Podcast

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I thought we'll let you know one thing that we have started to
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really grow and love, but so has everyone else that is with us on
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these shows. Those and our fans and those
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out there. Number one, appreciate y'all.
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Appreciate all of y'all. But we love doing a good list
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that seems to be lately. Let's just pull up a list, have
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a little conversation about it and then see what in the heck
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can happen from that. And tonight's no different when
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we're recording this. No different.
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I thought let's look at some stuff that we could think about
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here. And you threw out top ten radio
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jocks of all time and I went like where he's stepping in
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this. But I always think that kind of
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to make the show go better and the flow along, I think we need
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20, not just 10. So to make it cram it all into
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one big show, why don't we do a top ten radio disc jockey, all
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time greats and all then this is going to be tough to get into
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this time frame. Top ten all time comedians.
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Oh, and. We're going to go briefly, so I
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think it's going to, you know, I.
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Like, and I like the rapid fire, just give the answer, give the
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opinion. No need to linger too far, boom
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boom boom. There's no need to convince each
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other or the audience how they should feel.
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They just get to instantly either agree with us, make their
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counterpoint point, counterpoint amongst themselves, their
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friends, or to themselves. Then we move on to the next one
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because it's, we can get more in that way and we can, you can
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always go back and Stew on it later.
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Because I know I've been thinking about that country.
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I've had people reach out to me and text and social media and
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stuff talking and thanks to everybody who listens to the
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show regularly, fans and, and, and radio listeners, podcast
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listeners. We couldn't do it without you.
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Everybody who supports us but and to our family and friends, I
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know they all you guys and gals support us and we appreciate it
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and I know it's it's a lot of people out there.
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I don't get to say it too personally, but y'all know who
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you are and know that we all appreciate you for following us
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on this journey. But when those side people text
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you their opinion on the list, it re sparks.
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So it does not really over if we're over for this segment of
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the show on it just. Wanted that's right, that's
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right. I mean, it's, it's all, all
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subjective, you know, there is no right and wrong, but it does
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spark conversation. And that that's what we were
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hoping. This kind of stuff we do, it is
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working. A lot of people are engaging
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with us on social media at Tigsbits Podcast.
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You can follow us over there. tigsbits.com is your hub for all
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of those things. Let's jump on into this, man.
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Top ten radio jocks of all time. And we're going to start at #10
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of course, radio. Jocks, DJs on radio in American
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radio. Here we go.
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Here we go, Here we go coming in at #10 Tom Joyner, known as the
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Fly Jock. He built a massive following
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with his syndicated morning show, blending humor, music and
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social commentary. Tom Joyner in the morning show.
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Absolutely. You travel as much as I do.
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You've heard that in the mornings.
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Oh yeah. Tom Joyner in the morning show.
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And I think they're based out of.
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Does it say where these shows are based out of?
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I think they're is that Atlanta? Where's Tom?
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You know what? Or New York.
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I don't know, I'm not familiar with the Tom.
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Joyner Oh, man, huge, huge radio show.
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Yeah, yeah. I don't, you know, it's just
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going to be interesting on this list because this is something
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I'm less knowledgeable out, which I think is fun for
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everyone because it's just it's going to give us something new
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to educate ourselves on and learn some hip things, you know?
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That's right. No, I mean and and they trust me
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looking at the list and I don't we know most of these people.
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Yeah, right. But there's there's going to be,
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there's going to be ones, you know, and, and like actually
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John Costeca has texted me other day saying he liked the way we
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did it. Because it is all subjective.
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You know, it's everybody's opinion on this stuff.
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But I'm wondering, will rural markets get left out?
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Will it just be the biggest players in the game?
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That kind of stuff? Because there are some legendary
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smaller market type people. I'm sure that if you live in a
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region, you're going to be like, no so and so's in my top ten of
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all time. Right.
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So I'll be interested to see how that goes.
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But yes, I'm definitely aware of Tom morning, Tom Joyner in the
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morning show. That's a big show, been around
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for a long time. I'll be interested to see the
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rest of the list. And I'll probably have a better
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gauge on how to rank and remove move the numbers up and down
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once I hear through another list because I know a handful off the
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top of my head. But I purposely didn't do any
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crash research once we decided we were going to do this, just I
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didn't. Either I just got the, I got the
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list. I looked at it was like, OK, I
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know some of these guys and then that's that's it.
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I haven't thought about it since then.
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We're going. To go and if it live and if we
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get some if we get some traction from the audience and wanted to
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talk about it on the live sometime, we can always come
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back to another show with Blasey get into more depth, have our
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have our notes with us. But this will be fun.
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All right, rock on. Who?
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You got it. Right.
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He he is from Dallas, by the way.
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Pull. Dallas, OK, I knew it was.
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I thought it was a big market. Yep, Yep, coming in at #9 Alan
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Freed. Often credited with coining the
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term rock'n'roll, Freed was one of the most influential radio
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jocks promoting rock music back in the 1960s.
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Definitely have heard of him. Know the name never heard I not
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that I'm aware of ever really heard any of their the
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programming but. Absolutely.
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Probably did, but I know who he is.
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Oh, yeah. Well, yeah, well, his
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contribution to to breaking all those bands back then and stuff
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was, was huge. And yeah, that's a big player in
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the game. I, I don't think I could have
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much argument with him. Again, we'll have to see how
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this list unfolds, but that's another one.
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I believe he was based out of Cleveland or Detroit maybe.
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Oh, this is going to be fun because this is something I
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really don't, you know, you know, I'm a know it all and I
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think I know all every fun fact, but I don't I don't this is
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proof of guys and gals. I don't know every little fun
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little fact about entertainment like I fancy myself as
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sometimes. Now country.
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Music. A whole American dish classic.
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Rock too, and I should know this better than I do, but I'm
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because I've read about him and, and he's, he's come up in half
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of the rock rock autobiographies and biographies and stuff I've
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read over the years. And I mean, they've, they've in
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movies, you know, and TV, they've referenced him.
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Yeah. I mean, it looks like he was in
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Pennsylvania just briefly kind of look, Yeah.
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Could have been Philadelphia or somewhere like that.
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New Castle, PA Youngstown big IO.
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Big rock'n'roll DJ? Yep.
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That yeah. Oh yeah, definitely going on.
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Huge rock'n'roll. DJ WAKRNWAKR in Akron in 1945.
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He signed them. So I mean, he worked in several
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places. Cleveland I.
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Think Cleveland was the was where he coined the term.
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That that's going to be where he went down that that's going to
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be where it's at. And I know somebody's out there
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listening right now. They they're like, good Lord,
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you didn't know. No, that's part of this
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exercise. But that you know.
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I bet there's some good documentaries on Allen Free.
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Absolutely. There's books there's and I know
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there's good books because I've read about it, may have even
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read 1. And I'm feeling really dumb if
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if so. But I'm I'm three weeks off the
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booze and my mind's just now getting uncloggy, so maybe some
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of these memories will come back.
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That's right, you're helping yourself.
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That's for. Trying to.
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You think I'd get smarter? It ain't happened yet, but we'll
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see. Hang on everybody, we'll see.
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I believe in you, brother. I believe in you coming in at #8
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the legend himself. And I'm going to just say right
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now, I would probably put this guy up higher just sight unseen
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for my own personal self. Paul Harvey, good day.
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Huge I. Mean the rest of the story.
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I mean, he's the best, the master storyteller.
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He would give you news, he would give you history, human interest
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stuff. I mean there is everything it.
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Was it was. It's missed.
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Now we need a Paul Harvey. We need a Harvey.
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Badly. Common sense, Break it down,
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tell you a great little story and that is the rest of the
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story. You know, just finish.
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Just just so many good things came from that in a golden
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voice. And golly, how many years did he
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do it? I mean had to have done it for
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4550 years. I mean, he had been doing it a
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very long time when I was a kid. And my dad, we would go on
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coming down to Baton Rouge, going to LSU games, just on
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riding anywhere. I mean, Dad was going to listen
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to that show. It was on all the time, yeah.
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And I loved it too, though it was interesting.
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I always found it extremely interesting.
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Just, I mean, he's one of the, he's in my mind is the goat.
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I mean that. Oh.
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Yeah, I was going to say he's top three probably for a lot of
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people. I don't know and see, I don't
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know his range that everybody up north listen that to.
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I know Southern folks, I know Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia,
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Louisiana, Arkansas, we all listen to Paul Harvey Tennessee,
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I'm sure I'm sure it was because, you know, I think I'm
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wondering how big the reach is going to be for some of those,
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you know, from different markets are going to matter a little bit
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and what it what the what the demographic they're aiming
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towards words is you know, but yeah, great, just legendary
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voice. Yeah.
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I always would say it was our version of like a Prairie home
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companion in a in a in a weird way, like it was our little
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piece of that. It was a version that and and
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you know I know you know, and our normal tigs bits
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conversations. We go into some out kind of out
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there topics and when you go back and listen to Paul Harvey's
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some of his monologues and things he said during his career
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that they've brought back now and put in the front and and
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think about it in current context.
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It's like, whoa, he he may have been alien too, who knows, But
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he was he he was ahead of his time, if nothing else, and and
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definitely a top. I mean, golly, yeah.
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I'll be interested to see how this list goes because him at
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numbers. That's number.
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That is number 7-8. That was #8.
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That was #8. That's number eight.
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Him at 8's going to be tough for me.
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Yeah, yeah, me too. We're going to continue on this
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countdown. We're going to do the top 10
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comedians of all time. And man, I'll tell you what,
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this it gets hard with these top ten lists.
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I've glanced at this one though, Jr., you don't know them, but I,
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I, I don't disagree with any of the 10 that are on there.
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Not a single one. I don't know if maybe someone's
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left off hadn't got that far into it, but let's just.
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I'll be a judge of that. Yeah, we're going to let you be
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the judge of it. It starts off strong.
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I'll say this all 10 names that are in it strong names.
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Oh, has to be. Worthy. 10 This is going to be
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Uber subjective depending what kind of comedy you like and 10
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out of the I mean, DJs also, but comedians that people know about
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because of television and radio, I mean, in movies, this is going
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to be a tough one depending how old you are too, you know.
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That's if. You're an old soul or you like
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new school. But anyway, let's roll.
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This is going to be a lot of fun.
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This is going to be fun and I want to ask you real quick
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before we start though, do you ever watch the program the show
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Kill Tony podcast? I'm.
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Aware of it. It's on YouTube as well.
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It's with Tony Hinchcliffe and dude, it's so good.
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It's raw. I mean, it is raw.
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They say things that you would think that you can't get away
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with saying anymore. But some of that's starting to
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come back. And I like that.
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I mean, I think the world just got entirely too sensitive for
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about the last decade or so, and it's time to loosen it up a
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little bit. You can push the boundaries, but
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you just picking on people, man. And if I pick on somebody, it's
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because I like them. If I'm picking on you, I like
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you. You know what I mean?
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And so it's time some of that comes back.
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Anyhow, Speaking of people, all of these folks can very, very
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successfully pick on people. And we'll start with one of the
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masters at it, a guy with a lot of attitude and a little bit of
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grouchiness coming in at #10 Bill Burr.
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I would almost say newer, but Bill Burr's been around for a
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while. Bill Burr is crushing it right
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now. No doubt he is on top of his
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game, movies, the Internet or podcasting type stuff and then
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his stand up. I mean those guys are doing
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stadiums and stuff now. They're doing the basketball
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arenas in big places, you know, amphitheaters and stuff.
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Yes, and I haven't gone to one of those yet.
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I need to I can go ahead and tell you not on the list and
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didn't think he would be in top ten of all time.
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But Theo Von is just bringing it and destroying everywhere.
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Man, it's it's unbelievable that a Louisiana guy, one of my
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friends, Doctor Richard Hines is they all went to high school or
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they all went to high school and elementary, mid middle school
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and stuff together. And Richard has told me some of
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these jokes before, before Theo's ever told them.
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Like some of these stories and that were just completely the
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most wackadoodle things that you've ever heard.
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They were true. I'd heard them before, and now
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I've heard them again. True, Theo.
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Yeah. True, true story.
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That's good stuff. Yeah.
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I've been following Theo for a long time.
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He had a great podcast. Still does.
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I don't listen to it anymore, but he had a great podcast on
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the way up. A big fan of Theo's.
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Yeah. His stuff's gold, man.
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He has. It is.
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It is moving along, though, coming in at #9A legend, a
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trailblazer for female comedians, maybe the trailblazer
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for female comedians with her sharp tongue or boldness and her
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quick wit Miss Joan Rivers. Joan Rivers.
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Pioneer legend. I mean longevity transformations
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over the years. Physically and everything else.
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Everything, I mean, she, she trans, I mean, she, she created
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her whole thing. She created that whole interview
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going to the red carpet thing, took it to the level it did and
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then had and then a a sign of a true great, great.
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You pass it on that her daughter's a rock star and all
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that stuff. She's been killing it for a long
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time. So yeah, Joan Rivers, I mean, I
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go back to Burr. That's going to be tough for me
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because I know there's, I mean, top ten's tough.
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I'm a big fan of Bill Burr, but that's going to be tough.
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Joan Rivers, I'd say she definitely deserves a spot in
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that top. Ten.
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Oh yeah, yeah, she has to, definitely has to be in the top
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ten. Hilarious.
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I remember a lot of times when I was a kid, I would watch A&E, an
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evening at the Improv, and then they had those comic reliefs or
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whatever that were on HBO. If you remember those, yes,
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absolutely. And they were always hilarious.
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She was always a part of all of those.
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So like, she's a part of my childhood as a comedian, period.
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For sure, yeah. And and I, I did watch all that.
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I was the kid also searching for that type of stuff.
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I love that type of stuff. Like if I could sneak around and
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find some HBO or some. I mean, I had the Eddie Murphy
17:25
raw VCHS tape mislabeled so I could hide it in my room so I
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can watch raw when I wanted to, of my friends on the VCR when my
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parents are asleep for for real. So I get it.
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And yes, she was on all that stuff.
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And she and you know, you think about when she started to, to
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end of her career, the things she had to go through not only
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on and off the not on the stage, but off the stage and to and to
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just pile drive through it and, and be hilarious and just keep
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rocking and rise to the top. I mean, yeah, huge.
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Huge, huge man Love Joan Rivers coming in at #8 This guy's known
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for his brutally honest and often self deprecating humor.
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Got in a little bit of trouble over the last few years.
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Like like a lot of folks, Louis CK.
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I love Louis CK number one. I think he is hilarious.
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I'm glad that at this point in time he's kind of making a
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comeback. They're bringing him back
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because he's 1. Funny dude.
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Is he top ten material? Was he top ten material prior to
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the incident, which we won't go into.
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You can look it up. Was he prior?
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Was he top ten prior to that? Because he certainly hasn't been
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since then. Man, for me, and this is where
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it's going to be real subjective, I mean I'm just
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going to go and be honest. We got 7 more spots on here and
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there ain't. But you know, a couple out of
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the top, my top ten of all time even alive anymore.
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So yeah, I would say for me, you know, great.
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I mean, I I could get it at some point, but as of now, not a top
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ten all time in my opinion, even though he's huge and I get it.
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But you're talking about, I mean, we get down to this list.
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I I believe my snubs list going to be a little longer than I was
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expecting that. You were right, I know.
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This is starting off a little different than I was thinking
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here. I know, I mean fun.
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So this is going to be fun. When we keep counting this list
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down, I'm going to think about this, but this is going to be
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this is going to be interesting. Now we are jumping back into the
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list of top ten radio disc jockeys of all time.
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We're going to go 7 through 4 in this little segments.
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We're going to come at you kind of fast.
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Fill out a fresh piece of vinyl rub on this piece of vinyl to
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get some get some knowledge and wisdom.
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This is a it's a great record by the drive by truckers here.
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Brighter than creations, dark, beautiful record.
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Beautiful. This is what I miss about about
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records, man. You can open them up.
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It's got the artwork. How cool.
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I can smell it from here. Get that much anymore?
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But it's coming back. They're actually selling three
20:07
times more vinyl now than they are CDs or cassettes or anything
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else. So that's that's a wild stat.
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That that is wild, but I also believe it because it's a piece
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of art, just like you said. I mean, my daughter has a
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turntable. Problem is, is that there are
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people our age generally that do actually pull the turntable out
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and listen to those albums, you know, but my daughter got one of
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those little things. She you Bluetooth speaker into
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it doesn't sound that good. You better off with your with
20:35
your phone and Spotify or Apple or whatever your Music Choice
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is. But anyhow, let's move on with
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this list coming in at #7 Top 10 Disc Jockeys of All Time.
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Art Bell Art Bell, The king of late night radio.
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Coast to Coast AM discussing the paranormal and conspiracy topics
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a long time before they became mainstream.
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The pioneer of what we like to talk about honestly.
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Absolutely, Jr. Yeah, and I, and I've heard the
21:08
name. I'm not very familiar, but I've,
21:11
I've heard the name and I've, I've, I've seen shorts and
21:14
little videos and things discuss some of the things that was
21:17
talked about on his show that, you know, things like that.
21:21
So I wonder what years that was. I bet he was on for a while and
21:25
it was coast to coast late. Night show, I know when I was, I
21:30
know when I was a kid, we would go camp out in the woods.
21:33
You know, I grew up in the country, you know, you did too.
21:36
So it's just pitch black dark. You can see everything.
21:39
But also at night, those AM stations is long, all right?
21:43
They had such a long reach. Like you could hear Atlanta in
21:47
Florine, Louisiana, you know, WWL in New Orleans, you can hear
21:52
almost all the way to Atlanta, you know, So all of those
21:55
coverages of AM stations, by the way, they are trying to take AM
22:00
radio stations away from your cars and everything else like
22:04
that. So not getting on a soapbox over
22:07
here, but that would be terrible in the event of a nuclear
22:11
fallout or something like that. You can't count on digital.
22:15
You can still count on on AM radio, it has the largest reach
22:21
of any kind of communications that is out there that's not
22:24
digital. So anyhow, he was.
22:27
Yeah, we definitely, we definitely need to keep that.
22:29
And you know, like WSM 650 out of Nashville, the Grand Ole Opry
22:34
and all that. I mean, that's huge.
22:35
That cannot go away. I mean that's that's a state.
22:38
It cannot. It cannot.
22:40
He retired in 2003. So I mean, he did it from it
22:45
looks like he he was born in 1945.
22:48
So I don't know when it started. Probably from the Sixties, 60s
22:51
and 70s, yeah. Interesting.
22:53
Art Bell holding the number seven spot.
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OK, we'll see how this lays out. Again, covering a lot of ground.
22:59
Now we're in the late night paranoia.
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Paranoia. We had the daytime, we had the
23:03
rock guy, we had the morning show.
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This is interesting. All right, who we got at #6.
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Number six, the man known for the Rick Dee's weekly Top 40.
23:13
Freaking Rick Dee's himself, man.
23:16
I mean, which huge. Yeah, yeah.
23:20
In the biggest era, in the biggest era on the way up when
23:23
that when that music changed and it was, you know, worldwide,
23:27
televisions were everywhere. So people could see it too see
23:31
and believe it. And he was, he was telling them,
23:33
you know, all about it. Rick Dee's big, big personality,
23:36
no doubt. You could see that.
23:40
So it looks like it it start, it was in the 70s, you know,
23:44
whenever that all got started. And yeah, I'm just looking kind
23:49
of looking at his bio here. Rick Days is not that old
23:53
really. I mean, it's he's really.
23:56
Not he probably started. It was young.
23:57
It took off. He was in the group.
23:59
He was in the age group of the artist and the the the acts that
24:03
were coming up on the radio at that time, you know?
24:06
Yeah. He's 74 years old. 74 Wow.
24:11
Yeah. I mean, again, that's going to
24:13
be hard to leave him off as big as he was in American radio for
24:15
the biggest the big time And when radio was at its height of,
24:19
of regular radio before we had the Internet and digital and all
24:22
this stuff. All right.
24:23
Well, we got him at number six who we got him.
24:26
At #6 #5 I mean, you can't leave this guy off of this list in my
24:32
opinion, for sure. No matter what side of the aisle
24:35
you were on, if you like him or you don't, he is always
24:39
interesting. The EIB network, Rush Limbaugh,
24:44
how can he? Rush has to be on a list of top
24:49
ten in my opinion. He has to be.
24:52
Whether you like him or not. You can't ignore him.
24:55
You couldn't ignore him. Huge for a for a big period of
24:58
time when radio was at its height, things what he was
25:00
talking about was people were interested in yes.
25:03
And he he along with I know Howard's going to be on here.
25:06
I mean same thing, you know. For sure, for sure.
25:10
Rush. Huge, huge, huge, huge.
25:14
And they always kind of get a little kick out of the the
25:16
Monday Night Football stint that he had that didn't last very
25:20
long. I didn't think he was terrible.
25:22
He just, you know, he had a mouth and yeah, he, it just
25:27
doesn't fly in corporate television.
25:32
It just doesn't work coming in at #4.
25:37
He's recognizable by his gravelly voice and his high
25:41
energy style. He brought Rock'n'roll to life
25:45
on the airwaves. Wolfman, Jack.
25:48
Wolfman Jack. I knew it was Wolfman Jack.
25:50
Yeah, he's got. I was just about to say it
25:52
better be Wolfman, Jack. Wolfman's got to be on the list
25:55
for sure, and he is up high as he should be.
26:00
But. I mean, if anybody, I just, I
26:01
don't even want to talk about Wolfman Jack.
26:03
If you're not aware of who we're talking about, go look him up on
26:05
YouTube and and you'll be fascinated enough to spend half
26:09
an hour an hour and you'll know more than I'm going to explain
26:12
to you in the next 30 seconds. That's right, go look up Wolfman
26:15
Jack and trust us, he's on the list.
26:17
Now we're back to the top 10 comedians of all time.
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It's been a minute since you were there.
26:26
You missed this earlier, missed the countdown earlier.
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Coming in at #10 was Bill Burr #9 was Joan Rivers, and #8 was
26:35
Louis CK. Here we are at #7.
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I think this guy definitely is in the top ten of all time.
26:45
One of the funniest guys ever on television.
26:48
The king of observational humor, famously turning everyday
26:54
situations into hilarious material.
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None other than Mr. Jerry Seinfeld.
27:02
Yep, can't leave Seinfeld off the list.
27:08
Probably would not if personal. It would have to be on the list
27:11
though. Even though I mean I I like a
27:13
lot of other people's comic the way they deliver better.
27:16
He is just great. He stood the test of time.
27:19
The the style he goes for it's usually clean and it's
27:24
situational like you said. And are you talking about an
27:28
empire? A television show turns it into
27:30
a sitcom that lasted the longest of any show ever.
27:35
I believe Seinfeld's the record holder, isn't it so?
27:38
I think it is. I'm not a well no, I think The
27:41
Simpsons is actually the record holder as far as ATV show goes.
27:45
At this point I'm not 100% sure but maybe for a comedy probably.
27:49
And, and think of the amount of money he turned down that they
27:54
wanted them to come back for the 8 whatever season or 20, however
27:59
many seasons they had. Dude, I've seen every single
28:01
episode of Seinfeld probably three times at least, if not and
28:05
some of them a lot more huge fan while it was even back then.
28:10
My mom loved it too. So just always I love Seinfeld,
28:14
man. Loved, loved, loved loved it.
28:18
Moving along though, coming in at number six and now we're
28:22
getting somewhere. I mean, these have all been
28:24
great, but we're getting somewhere a little more.
28:27
I think you're going to agree with this known for I.
28:30
Agree, Seinfeld needs to be on the list 100%.
28:32
Yeah, he is funny. There ain't no doubt he's funny.
28:35
I mean, I get it. It's funny for sure.
28:36
It's funny to me. I there's times when I'm dying
28:39
on some of that stuff they're saying.
28:40
So I he's on the list for sure. For sure, for sure, but this
28:44
guy's known for his biting, socially relevant humor and his
28:47
sharp delivery. I think nowadays you would
28:51
probably know him best. Is getting slapped in the face
28:54
by Will Smith None other than Chris Rock.
28:59
I love Chris Rock, man. Chris Rock.
29:00
Hilarious Chris Rock. Hilarious.
29:04
I don't. I mean, he's in my top 10 for
29:07
sure. I don't know where I place him
29:09
in the top ten, but he's in the top ten because he's one of
29:13
those guys that once he gets going on stage, he just flat out
29:17
murders. And it's this is pacing and
29:19
everything. It's it's just brilliant to
29:22
watch how unprepared it looks, but it's completely dialed in
29:29
and prepared. It's meant to look that way and
29:32
just the way he can deliver a joke.
29:35
A huge fan. Huge.
29:37
Fan. I'm a huge fan as well.
29:39
Like I said. This list of top comedians of
29:41
all time though is going to be tough for me because of only how
29:43
many spots we got. But yeah, I love Chris Rock,
29:45
always been great and stuff. Love him, love him and coming in
29:50
at #5 and this, this guy can do it all for sure, for sure is on
29:59
this list for sure. He's famous for his high energy
30:04
improv improv. He's famous for his improv
30:08
style. I can't talk tonight.
30:10
Improv his. Ability to there it is and his
30:13
ability to switch between characters seamlessly.
30:15
He did a lot of funny stuff in the 70's, the 80s.
30:19
We talked about Comic Relief. He was a huge part of that as
30:24
well. None other than misses Doubtfire
30:26
man Robin Williams. Oh.
30:30
You hadn't thought about him, had you?
30:32
Nope. I I know you hadn't it's like
30:38
that neither. That was the one name that it's
30:40
like, but he was a wild stand up comedian.
30:46
Yes. Oh, absolutely.
30:47
And his television shows and movies.
30:50
Oh, I mean, are you kidding me? Yeah, Robin Williams definitely
30:55
belongs on it. On this list.
30:56
I would have. For sure, for sure.
30:58
And I think he's properly placed as well.
31:01
Just kind. Of I think he's a comedians,
31:02
comedians too. I don't think anyone would have
31:04
an issue with that amongst their pee amongst his peers.
31:08
I hear a lot of watch or I listen to one of my favorite
31:11
podcasts is fly on the wall with with Dana Carvey.
31:14
I've mentioned this several times, but they they talk about
31:17
Robin Williams that he just kind of seems to slip into a lot of
31:20
their conversations. Of course, SNL and stuff like
31:23
that makes sense. But just as much as he was crazy
31:29
and all of that, at the same time, he was just quiet, very
31:32
shy and reserved, you know, just Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in a
31:37
sense with him. But coming in, moving along,
31:41
coming in #4 and this one I definitely don't disagree with
31:46
whatsoever. To me, to me.
31:49
And I've looked at the, I know what's coming to me.
31:52
He's, he's my number one, He's my number one Dave Chappelle.
31:57
I mean, got to have Dave up there.
32:01
And I could see where he may not be on some folks list.
32:05
You know, I think that goes back to your age and all of that.
32:10
Younger folks, maybe he's not on that list you.
32:15
Know and your culture too, because you think about the
32:19
movies and TV shows and things he's done.
32:23
You know, we, I first probably learned about him on half baked,
32:26
which is a was a staple in the, in the college community when I
32:30
was in college. And then after that, the
32:33
Chappelle Show, the rise of the Chappelle show into it was only
32:36
a few seasons, but one of the funniest sketch comedies of all
32:40
time. You know, Key and Peele is just
32:44
a basically just took that show and made a different form of and
32:47
a lot of people have, but he, I think he mastered it for that
32:50
moment in time and got out. Not sure what happened.
32:53
There's some more conspiracy theories there if we want to dig
32:55
into those. Yeah, there are a lot of them.
32:58
But Dave Chappelle may be the one guy, I would say relatively
33:02
close to my age that I would put on this list.
33:04
So I'm all about Chappelle. He is, he's one of the newer
33:07
guys that really, and, and a lot of them are funny in their own
33:10
ways. But as far as changing the games
33:12
and really being the man, Chappelle is is is the man right
33:15
now. He's the man.
33:17
He is the man for sure. Finishing out our top 10 radio
33:23
jocks of all time and top 10 comedians.
33:26
And look, we're going to, we're, we're pressing with time here.
33:29
So we're going to get right back into it.
33:31
We're going to go with the radio jocks first.
33:33
We'll reveal those coming in at #3 Don Imus, the pioneer of
33:42
shock jock radio. I listened to some Imus.
33:47
He was definitely, he was always so angry.
33:50
You know, it's like he's just pissed off all the time.
33:54
That that was not, I wasn't listening to that type of stuff
33:57
when he was huge and stuff. So it's not really in my
33:59
wheelhouse, but aware of who he is personal.
34:03
And I mean, that's strong. That's strong.
34:05
You talking about he's the number three all time.
34:07
OK, let's, let's move on down this list because it's like I
34:10
said, there's got to be some rearranging on here because I
34:12
would say bigger than Thomas and my and I would think, you know.
34:19
Well, we got we got 2 left and coming in at #2 I there's no
34:24
doubt this man is on this list for sure the American Top 40
34:30
where he has the smooth delivery in his storytelling.
34:34
Casey Kasem, man, the answer them I can't.
34:37
I don't have a Casey Kasem. I don't I used to.
34:42
I mean, this is Casey Kasem. Yeah.
34:44
I mean, that is. It was huge forever.
34:46
I mean, yeah, he's on there. He has probably been.
34:47
His voice has probably been heard more than anybody on this
34:50
list. I would say yes.
34:53
You had to do a tally marks of how many times someone heard his
34:56
voice and listen to it to see what he had to say about this
35:00
act coming in. Today is a band from so and so
35:03
and their favorite jam is great, you know, and they you know,
35:08
whatever his little tidbits in between stuff, I bet he's been
35:11
listening to more than anybody on this list so that I would say
35:14
he's got to be on this list too strong.
35:16
We'll see who's number. One too strong #1 he has been
35:20
mentioned the king of all media, Howard Stern.
35:24
Yeah, I was going to say, we left Stern off.
35:26
That's going to be crazy. Well, this list is a sham.
35:29
Instantly. We know that because Bubba the
35:30
Love's getting on here. So Bubba's not on here.
35:32
We know this, there's. Two people left off of this
35:35
list. Immediate, immediate notables.
35:38
Bub of the Love Sponge obviously comes in very high, maybe even
35:42
#2 right behind Howard. The only reason you got to give
35:45
the nod to Howard there, he kind of brought Bubba on to, you
35:49
know, to the, his network so that you got to give the nod to
35:53
Howard. Bubba too #3 has to be Joe
35:56
Rogan, I mean. Yeah, it but it and but see,
36:01
that's radio DJ. But it's radio jocks, yeah, and
36:04
it gets blurry at this. Point just media and podcast.
36:08
That would be a fun list we'll have to do soon.
36:10
So stay tuned everybody for that is podcasters top ten, whoever,
36:14
not our personal opinions, but what the masses say as far as
36:18
that you know, and I'll say yes, snub for me is definitely Bubba
36:22
because we love him and he's so just cuddly and adorable.
36:26
But at per usual on a lot of these lists when it comes to
36:29
Rolling Stone or any of the major publications or who would
36:34
be knowledge holders of this type things, they leave a lot of
36:37
country out. I don't have any of my big
36:39
country DJ's or trucker DJ's or you know, there there was I
36:43
can't remember his name. There was a guy back in the day
36:46
that the trucker's all listen to that I mean was coast, like
36:50
you're saying every trucker in America in the 70s and 80s
36:52
listen this guy for hours and hours every all night overnight,
36:56
you know, and then the big Nashville DJs over the years and
37:00
country big stuff. So I get it.
37:02
But I, I think there's some in certain regions that would
37:05
probably be left out and, and, and to you know, I know some of
37:09
these are coast to coast, but you got to think there's got to
37:12
be a ADJ in LA that was there when LA music was just at its
37:16
peak. That was the man or woman there
37:20
and we don't have any MTVV jock type generation stuff on there
37:25
really. I guess Rick DS kind of covered
37:28
over some of that ground. But this is just radio DJs and
37:31
it it covers a lot, not just spinning music, not just comedy
37:37
type morning. It covers a lot of ground.
37:39
So I'm I like this list. I'll be interested to see the
37:42
comments that come in to. Maybe we'll have to readjust it
37:45
once we get some more. Exactly, exactly.
37:49
So moving along, we'll wrap this up here.
37:51
The top three comedians of all time.
37:54
I think you know who they are. Jr.
37:56
I'm going to say them quickly because we don't have to go
38:00
through these slowly. You know who they are.
38:03
Coming in at #3 Eddie freaking Murphy, no doubt about it.
38:08
Coming in at #2 George Carlin, no doubt about it.
38:13
And coming in at #1 Richard Pryor, I don't disagree with
38:20
those 3 at all. I don't I don't disagree with
38:24
them being there for sure. I might would rearrange some.
38:28
I'm for me, Eddie Murphy's probably #1 but left off the
38:33
list, Jackie Gleason. I mean, you know, we're a lot
38:36
younger, but Jackie Gleason being snubbed off this list
38:39
instantly for me is is some and some that's one that would be
38:42
argued would be Jim Carrey. I would have to say as far as a
38:48
longevity of, of doing what he's done and just how much he's
38:52
touched with what Jim Carrey's done.
38:54
Bernie Mac, if you're going to have era guys from that era, the
38:58
Kings of comedy era and stuff, Bernie Mac to me was as good and
39:02
I was as good as any stand up or movie or television show.
39:06
Is anyone on the list? Kevin Hart mean he could make
39:12
You could make a case for Kevin Hart.
39:15
He's in everything. Yeah, and then you go to niche
39:17
stuff because, you know, again, country gets left off.
39:20
You don't have Jeff Foxworthy. You know, Foxworthy might of of
39:24
that group. He I think he over Larry the
39:27
Cable Guy or Ron White or Ingvall or any of those guys.
39:33
Jeff Foxworthy depends on where you live.
39:36
I mean, he's going to be he's he's especially in a time frame
39:39
in a certain era. I mean, he would have to have
39:41
been on on there as far as what he what they, what they did with
39:44
the redneck stuff. So I think that's another one.
39:48
We're going to get a lot of people chiming in names that we
39:50
left off because like I said, I've those are just the first
39:54
ones that came to my head and I know there's a ton more.
39:57
I know, I know we and that, that's the thing with list.
40:00
We will come back y'all. Y'all you guys out there, shoot
40:04
us, shoot us some stuff. Let us know on social media.
40:08
Give us your top picks. I'm sure that we left somebody
40:11
off, somebody that you strongly, strongly agree with that should
40:16
be on the list or disagree with that they were not on the list.
40:19
Let us know. We want to hear your feedback.
40:22
Until then, we'll keep making up some lists and then y'all keep
40:27
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40:30
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