WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:01.840 We want to talk to Jack Fox here in just 2 00:00:01.840 --> 00:00:04.839 a second. But first the man right here, Tony Cruz, 3 00:00:04.919 --> 00:00:08.400 is out here. Come on by, come on by eleven o'clock. 4 00:00:08.439 --> 00:00:10.599 We're gonna start serving up in a big way. Check 5 00:00:10.679 --> 00:00:13.880 this out, man. We're talking competition style ribs from the Hog, 6 00:00:13.919 --> 00:00:18.480 fire free Lunch, pork sliders, brisket, the baked beans, Coast 7 00:00:18.519 --> 00:00:21.839 Lawn Moore. It's hitting a hitting the floor around eleven o'clock. 8 00:00:21.879 --> 00:00:24.839 Come on by, Real Master Supply, Shelbyville Road. 9 00:00:25.079 --> 00:00:26.679 Tony Cruz, how are you, migo? 10 00:00:26.960 --> 00:00:29.000 Well, I'm great. I mean I get to see all 11 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:31.960 the people that we got. We got to work with 12 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:35.560 the legends Jack Fox, of course, and uh today we 13 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:39.159 had Van Vance and Paul Rodgers and Dwight Wright Mitchell, 14 00:00:39.159 --> 00:00:39.920 who's a great guy. 15 00:00:40.159 --> 00:00:44.159 Love him. Is he better than me? Dwight Mitchell. 16 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:46.000 He's prettier than you look. 17 00:00:47.359 --> 00:00:49.520 So can you stick around with us? Home on? I'm here, 18 00:00:50.240 --> 00:00:52.679 all right, Jack Fox? If you say something. 19 00:00:52.520 --> 00:00:54.759 Jack Well on the moving sidebook. 20 00:00:55.399 --> 00:00:59.200 Jacko, Jack Fox, I've had him. I've had about enough 21 00:00:59.200 --> 00:01:03.000 of your loading his own crap, all right. So if 22 00:01:03.039 --> 00:01:07.079 you recognize Jack Fox every single airport, that's what you 23 00:01:07.159 --> 00:01:10.319 hear the luggage, the whole bit over the airport. How 24 00:01:10.319 --> 00:01:12.200 did you fall into that voice war? 25 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:16.200 Interesting story. I was doing videos. I was narrating videos 26 00:01:16.239 --> 00:01:18.719 for a studio called Alan Martin and Jay Time. You 27 00:01:18.719 --> 00:01:22.079 remember them. Yeah, they had an electronic designed by Ied 28 00:01:22.079 --> 00:01:25.640 Electronic Internet Innovative Electronic Design, and they're the ones who 29 00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:30.319 created the computerized paging system. So they put an airport 30 00:01:30.359 --> 00:01:33.879 so announcements wouldn't walk on each other. Our friend Carolyn 31 00:01:33.959 --> 00:01:36.640 Davidson er Carolyn Hopkins was worked for them. She did 32 00:01:36.719 --> 00:01:39.640 all the female voices, and about nineteen ninety one, when 33 00:01:39.640 --> 00:01:42.120 the Gulf War came along, they wanted a male voice. 34 00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:44.920 They said friendly and authoritative. Evidently I fit. 35 00:01:44.760 --> 00:01:47.159 That, Roy, That's what they said. 36 00:01:48.120 --> 00:01:49.760 I'm going to kill you on. 37 00:01:52.319 --> 00:01:54.000 The jury still out on the friendly apartment. 38 00:01:55.159 --> 00:01:57.480 Here's an interesting thing, though. We did a lot of 39 00:01:57.480 --> 00:01:59.560 things like while on the moving sidewalk, please stand on 40 00:01:59.599 --> 00:02:01.920 the right. Lovers wishing to walk to pass safely on 41 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:04.319 the left. But they looked to the future and and 42 00:02:04.840 --> 00:02:07.840 just have something ready in case they needed as an emergency. 43 00:02:08.479 --> 00:02:11.159 And they saw this was the nineteen ninety one. They 44 00:02:11.199 --> 00:02:15.520 saw that this young punked white Witten, all these days 45 00:02:15.919 --> 00:02:18.080 and so, just to be safe, they had me record 46 00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:20.639 one that said, while on the moving sidewalk, please stand 47 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:22.159 to the right too, lover, I was wishing to walk 48 00:02:22.159 --> 00:02:24.319 to pass safely on the left unless you're the white 49 00:02:24.319 --> 00:02:28.000 witt and get the hell off the movie. I don't 50 00:02:28.039 --> 00:02:29.919 think they've used that yet, but it's that I just 51 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:31.280 wanted to warbody. 52 00:02:31.319 --> 00:02:31.960 It's in the record. 53 00:02:31.960 --> 00:02:32.680 I got it right. 54 00:02:32.919 --> 00:02:34.000 Yeah, what job? 55 00:02:34.199 --> 00:02:36.319 What? What did you do? What did you show up. 56 00:02:36.199 --> 00:02:39.520 At HAS the first time? Nineteen seventy three. 57 00:02:39.879 --> 00:02:42.840 Seventy How did you get it from the tornado? Yeah? 58 00:02:42.960 --> 00:02:44.800 Oh yeah, yeah, right there for it? 59 00:02:44.840 --> 00:02:45.520 Yeah, but how did that? 60 00:02:45.520 --> 00:02:46.319 How'd you follow this? 61 00:02:46.719 --> 00:02:47.560 Yeah? 62 00:02:47.680 --> 00:02:50.319 I was the morning man at Koe and Denver for 63 00:02:50.360 --> 00:02:53.240 a while and we had taken some troops to Europe 64 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:55.919 through the radio station you know of Jack Frost then 65 00:02:56.199 --> 00:02:59.360 believe it or not, Hey, and uh, we enjoyed it. 66 00:02:59.439 --> 00:03:02.439 We came home home and my wife said, you know, 67 00:03:03.000 --> 00:03:05.680 we didn't get to Florence where all the art treasures 68 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:07.240 were in a lot of places. Women, nice, we go 69 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:09.159 over there and stay as long as we want, come 70 00:03:09.159 --> 00:03:12.000 home when we want. That'd be great. She said, let's 71 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:15.919 do it. I said, you're crazy. She said, I know, 72 00:03:15.960 --> 00:03:18.560 but let's do it anyway. So we did. We sold 73 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:20.639 our house, but her furniture and stories took two ye 74 00:03:20.680 --> 00:03:23.039 rows went Daly for about five months, and then the 75 00:03:23.080 --> 00:03:25.560 money started running out. She came back looked for a job, 76 00:03:26.240 --> 00:03:30.479 and I was looking around and my parents were in Henderson, Kentucky, 77 00:03:30.520 --> 00:03:33.759 round Evansville, and my brother was in down the southeastern Kentucky. 78 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:36.599 I'm driving through Louisville on the way to visit him, 79 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:40.039 and I heard this radio station and the Milton Metz 80 00:03:40.120 --> 00:03:42.039 was on. They were doing all these great things. I said, 81 00:03:42.039 --> 00:03:43.800 I'll check them out when I get back, you know. 82 00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:47.680 Came back and came through one day and wanted to 83 00:03:47.680 --> 00:03:51.199 see Hugh Barr, who was the operations director, and brought 84 00:03:51.240 --> 00:03:53.400 a tape and Hugh couldn't see me, he was busy, 85 00:03:53.400 --> 00:03:55.520 but his assistant took my tape and otherwise that's said. 86 00:03:56.000 --> 00:03:57.560 A few weeks later he said, hey, I'll but come 87 00:03:57.639 --> 00:03:58.240 to work for us. 88 00:03:58.280 --> 00:04:01.919 So that's incredible, And here's why the gig that Tony 89 00:04:01.960 --> 00:04:04.439 and I have right now, it's incredibly hard to. 90 00:04:04.360 --> 00:04:06.639 Give because there's there's only so many. 91 00:04:07.080 --> 00:04:09.960 Even when a lot of radio stations stayed live twenty 92 00:04:09.960 --> 00:04:12.360 four hours. There was only so many slots you could 93 00:04:12.360 --> 00:04:14.719 get in in a little for radio when you got 94 00:04:14.759 --> 00:04:16.639 in that was pre FM, right. 95 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:19.800 Well yeah, yeah, they they had, but they were playing 96 00:04:19.800 --> 00:04:20.560 classical music. 97 00:04:20.600 --> 00:04:23.759 But my point, my point is there is even less 98 00:04:23.800 --> 00:04:25.639 slots to get when you got hired. 99 00:04:25.720 --> 00:04:26.399 Is Jack Fox? 100 00:04:26.399 --> 00:04:27.879 Your real name is my real name? 101 00:04:27.959 --> 00:04:28.160 See? 102 00:04:28.160 --> 00:04:35.079 Okay? Well, Tony, Sorry, I used Jack Frost in Kansas 103 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:37.199 City and Denver. I thought i'd used when I came back, 104 00:04:37.560 --> 00:04:40.160 and uh, Wayne Perky said no, everybody here has used 105 00:04:40.199 --> 00:04:42.319 their own name. So I'm Jack Fox, which is great. 106 00:04:42.399 --> 00:04:46.879 Well then, Wayne, I mean Wayne Perky for a morning guy. Yeah, yeah, me, 107 00:04:47.079 --> 00:04:49.519 I got stuck with the cruise name. 108 00:04:49.959 --> 00:04:51.639 Uh hown't that happened. 109 00:04:52.160 --> 00:04:55.000 I was working at w x L in Christian Radio 110 00:04:55.839 --> 00:05:00.279 days sold out. They kept me to work with Usty 111 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:04.199 Stillwell at Kiss one O four and Buddy Scott who's 112 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:08.920 from Kentucky. Jim Cancer is his brother who owned a 113 00:05:08.959 --> 00:05:11.879 coffee corporation, and also they both wrote W E K 114 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:14.199 Why and Richmond A long time ago? Long story short though, 115 00:05:15.560 --> 00:05:19.360 The part on that was basically Buddy said, we gotta 116 00:05:19.399 --> 00:05:21.240 chanke your name, we gotta chanke your name, and I 117 00:05:21.279 --> 00:05:23.240 said this is how I talked. 118 00:05:23.519 --> 00:05:24.279 And I go, that's what. 119 00:05:28.279 --> 00:05:31.000 Scott sounded ironically, that's what the guy sounded like. And 120 00:05:31.079 --> 00:05:33.720 he had a job in radio, so he was a 121 00:05:33.800 --> 00:05:37.120 great program director of Chicago. But Jim heard his brother. Well, 122 00:05:37.160 --> 00:05:38.879 he said, you know, we need to change her name. 123 00:05:38.959 --> 00:05:41.199 I go, well, I don't know, what do you think? 124 00:05:41.240 --> 00:05:45.240 He goes, you know, back when I was in Chicago, Uh, 125 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:50.040 there was this madam that that we would share that 126 00:05:50.399 --> 00:05:53.959 was in our the cos same condo, same condo, And 127 00:05:54.079 --> 00:05:55.160 he said, he said, and. 128 00:05:55.240 --> 00:05:57.519 He said, I thought she had the cool, coolest radio name. 129 00:05:57.560 --> 00:06:00.120 Her name was Tony Cruz and they would share a 130 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:02.600 cab together. And I go, you can't name me after 131 00:06:02.680 --> 00:06:05.519 a whoror oh wait, oh wait, that's where I got it. 132 00:06:06.920 --> 00:06:11.839 To the original Tony Cruise was a prostitute. 133 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:12.959 She was a madam. 134 00:06:14.759 --> 00:06:18.480 Different, hi, madam, she was a pimp. 135 00:06:18.839 --> 00:06:24.240 Okay, right, we're getting this inform on the last day, 136 00:06:24.519 --> 00:06:31.079 thirty one years, right, shame on you. 137 00:06:32.160 --> 00:06:35.600 That's why I called myself take news Cruise. Wow. 138 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:38.680 So when you worked at the Christian station, yeah, that 139 00:06:38.839 --> 00:06:41.879 was a station seat. Did it seem a lot like 140 00:06:41.959 --> 00:06:42.839 Albert Show? Yeah? 141 00:06:42.839 --> 00:06:44.240 It was very similar. 142 00:06:44.319 --> 00:06:47.680 Yeah, of course, well, they sing against hell, not for it. 143 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:50.560 Jack Fox. 144 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:53.920 Okay, so you came on w h S Jack Fox 145 00:06:54.759 --> 00:06:57.279 in seventy three seventy four of the tornado hits. 146 00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:01.319 Horrible day for Louisville, Kentucky. 147 00:07:02.040 --> 00:07:04.319 I've been on the air for a tragedy before, and 148 00:07:04.360 --> 00:07:07.120 I got to tell you, it's a I was completely 149 00:07:07.160 --> 00:07:08.000 out of my element. 150 00:07:08.439 --> 00:07:11.199 You have all this disastrous stuff hitting the city of Louisville. 151 00:07:11.439 --> 00:07:13.519 What's that like for you? At seventy interesting it was. 152 00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:17.160 I was new to town too. I'd been probous and uh, 153 00:07:17.920 --> 00:07:20.079 we had just come here. I didn't expect that at all. 154 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:22.279 I was on the air that day. I was on 155 00:07:22.439 --> 00:07:24.639 til three thirty, and of course it'd hit right after that. 156 00:07:25.079 --> 00:07:28.879 All afternoon we were giving alerts Brandenburg every thirty seconds 157 00:07:28.920 --> 00:07:33.000 of gayn update and I went off the air. Jeff 158 00:07:33.040 --> 00:07:36.959 Douglas came on and we were listening and Dick Gilbert 159 00:07:37.040 --> 00:07:39.720 was in the helicopter. Yeah, oh yeah, he maneuver so 160 00:07:39.839 --> 00:07:41.439 he stayed up. Everybody chased it. 161 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:42.839 He chased the damna. 162 00:07:43.360 --> 00:07:45.360 He was on the air and he said, well, they 163 00:07:45.439 --> 00:07:48.519 say there's a tornado, but wait, there it is. And 164 00:07:48.639 --> 00:07:51.720 he followed it. He just followed it in a helicopter. Yeah, 165 00:07:52.040 --> 00:07:54.720 and I remember he he told us at one point 166 00:07:54.759 --> 00:07:56.759 he said, folks, Cherokee Park as we know it is 167 00:07:56.879 --> 00:07:58.639 no more. And I thought, come on, Dick, don't be 168 00:07:58.759 --> 00:07:59.800 so dramatic. Wow. 169 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:05.839 So what was downtown like in seventy four? You know, 170 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:09.079 I had to see some pictures. The Sealback was closed 171 00:08:09.079 --> 00:08:12.360 for a while. The other big hotel was at the 172 00:08:12.439 --> 00:08:15.319 Louisville Hotel. They were closed for a Yeah, there was 173 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:18.360 there were questionable businesses. 174 00:08:17.920 --> 00:08:18.720 On Main Street. 175 00:08:19.360 --> 00:08:23.399 They were just renovating what is now Forced Street Live. 176 00:08:23.480 --> 00:08:26.639 It was the Gallery at that Yeah, at that time, 177 00:08:27.160 --> 00:08:29.959 Stewart's was still there always they were still there, but 178 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:32.919 they were on decline and they were shutting Fourth Street 179 00:08:32.960 --> 00:08:35.919 to make Fourth Street called it the mall or something. 180 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:36.399 Gallery. 181 00:08:36.960 --> 00:08:40.639 Well, the Gallerleria was the part that they made seventies seventies. Yeah, 182 00:08:40.960 --> 00:08:44.000 the GALLERYA was the second or third renovations they've been 183 00:08:44.039 --> 00:08:46.240 trying to But we were right on the edge of 184 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:48.639 when I heard people talk about Stuart's and Bis and 185 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:50.840 all those things. They were still there, but they were 186 00:08:50.960 --> 00:08:52.000 just fading away. 187 00:08:52.200 --> 00:08:53.000 I can't imagine. 188 00:08:53.039 --> 00:08:57.039 There had a great studio. 189 00:08:57.840 --> 00:08:59.000 My dad used to take. 190 00:09:00.360 --> 00:09:03.799 My dad would take us on Saturdays and he would 191 00:09:03.879 --> 00:09:06.480 drop us off at the Kentucky Theater on Fourth Street 192 00:09:06.559 --> 00:09:08.879 and we would watch Bruce Lee movies all day long. 193 00:09:09.279 --> 00:09:11.279 He would come back and pick us up from downtown, 194 00:09:11.320 --> 00:09:12.919 take us alie trolley home. 195 00:09:13.080 --> 00:09:13.279 Yeah. 196 00:09:13.480 --> 00:09:14.759 Yeah, it was a lot. I mean there were left 197 00:09:14.799 --> 00:09:17.480 you there old town. Yeah, let me downtown that Yes. 198 00:09:17.360 --> 00:09:20.519 Our kids in the UH I guess the early eighties. 199 00:09:20.879 --> 00:09:24.200 We take him to them all and leave them. Yeah. 200 00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:27.840 Absolutely, a different, different world. If you're listening Jack Fox 201 00:09:27.919 --> 00:09:30.240 as our guest. If you've been in any airport, you've 202 00:09:30.279 --> 00:09:32.759 heard his name. As a matter of fact, I'm starting 203 00:09:32.799 --> 00:09:34.600 to get anxiety because I hate airports. 204 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:37.120 Give give old Tony some advice. 205 00:09:37.279 --> 00:09:39.720 Yeah, don't need any advice from him. Just to enjoy 206 00:09:39.960 --> 00:09:42.639 enjoy retirement. And you will, yeah, you will. You'll be 207 00:09:42.720 --> 00:09:44.799 busier now than you ever were. Believe it or up. 208 00:09:44.840 --> 00:09:46.480 But it'll be things you want to do when you 209 00:09:46.559 --> 00:09:47.039 want to do them. 210 00:09:47.159 --> 00:09:48.200 Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. 211 00:09:48.320 --> 00:09:52.039 I absolutely I remember Tony, And what year did you 212 00:09:52.120 --> 00:09:54.639 first come to h A. I came in October ninety two, 213 00:09:54.799 --> 00:09:57.559 ninety two, Yeah, right right around that time. I remember 214 00:09:57.759 --> 00:09:59.360 you and I were sitting at a U of L 215 00:09:59.399 --> 00:10:03.600 football and you had just come to has and you 216 00:10:03.639 --> 00:10:05.559 hope that someday you would be on the air, and 217 00:10:05.639 --> 00:10:08.440 you wanted to do sports yep, And I said, he's 218 00:10:08.519 --> 00:10:11.440 gonna do it. Yeah, you've done everything though, really, Yeah, 219 00:10:11.480 --> 00:10:13.519 I heard you talk with Van this morning about running 220 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:16.559 the board ops from Tokyo and everything. Yeah, and you've 221 00:10:16.559 --> 00:10:17.200 paid your dues. 222 00:10:17.240 --> 00:10:20.799 But nineteen eighty six or eighty seven, so of the 223 00:10:20.879 --> 00:10:23.120 guys at XLN were asking me, what do you what 224 00:10:23.279 --> 00:10:25.840 would you really like to do? And I said, well, 225 00:10:26.320 --> 00:10:28.600 when Van Vants retired, I'd like to do sports talk, 226 00:10:28.720 --> 00:10:32.200 or if Wayne Perky retired, I'd like to do mornings 227 00:10:32.240 --> 00:10:34.519 and then a flat or somehow. 228 00:10:34.840 --> 00:10:38.200 By the way, by the way, sports radio was not 229 00:10:38.440 --> 00:10:41.159 what everyone thinks of the terms of sports radio came 230 00:10:41.480 --> 00:10:44.840 became and you know, superstars and all that. Sports radio 231 00:10:45.039 --> 00:10:47.279 was kind of a niche thing, right, It was new. 232 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:51.080 It was not a big thing where everybody had to 233 00:10:51.120 --> 00:10:53.159 tune in the sports radio like they did. So you 234 00:10:53.799 --> 00:10:55.360 so you when you say, of course he wanted to 235 00:10:55.440 --> 00:10:57.720 do that, that was sort of a different kind of thing. 236 00:10:57.759 --> 00:11:00.120 Oh you want to do sports, Okay, okay, that sounds. 237 00:11:00.159 --> 00:11:02.799 Well, I'd heard it, you know here, but I didn't 238 00:11:02.840 --> 00:11:07.200 realize that not many markets had sports talk radio back then, 239 00:11:08.039 --> 00:11:11.879 Chicago and New York, Columbus and places like that. 240 00:11:12.039 --> 00:11:14.440 Let's talk about the comedy you kept because uh, to 241 00:11:14.519 --> 00:11:17.919 the best of my knowledge, maybe three morning show hosts. 242 00:11:17.759 --> 00:11:19.240 On w h A s Uh. 243 00:11:19.480 --> 00:11:20.360 Well, no, that's not. 244 00:11:22.679 --> 00:11:29.000 Scholar Ray Ray Waldon, Ray Shelton. Okay, what about sports 245 00:11:30.360 --> 00:11:32.360 Jim Walton big part of but it was a different style. 246 00:11:32.399 --> 00:11:34.399 It was a different right, right, Let's talk about sports 247 00:11:34.480 --> 00:11:38.200 talk though it was advanced. It was you than Lachlan McClain. 248 00:11:38.360 --> 00:11:39.120 That's it. Wow. 249 00:11:39.320 --> 00:11:42.080 And then they fired uh Lochlan McClain for embezzling from 250 00:11:42.120 --> 00:11:52.960 the company. Why so, but no, seriously that that's uh 251 00:11:53.000 --> 00:11:54.919 that that's that's pretty outstanding. 252 00:11:55.000 --> 00:11:57.919 Tony Cruise, Well, I mean I've been blessed and I'm 253 00:11:58.080 --> 00:12:01.759 thankful for but you know, I just had the model 254 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:05.080 stay cheap, you know. 255 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:09.960 I say, because I've done three different formats. And when 256 00:12:09.960 --> 00:12:12.320 you're doing it at the time, you don't know you're 257 00:12:13.159 --> 00:12:16.000 this is special times, right, just you're doing it and 258 00:12:16.080 --> 00:12:18.120 you move to the next thing. I think the mistake 259 00:12:18.200 --> 00:12:20.720 we all make is at those times that we're doing 260 00:12:20.799 --> 00:12:23.559 this stuff. We don't sit at home and go, boy, 261 00:12:23.639 --> 00:12:25.679 that was cool. Like we didn't do that. We were 262 00:12:25.799 --> 00:12:27.480 just so moving to the next thing. 263 00:12:27.679 --> 00:12:29.759 Well, Tony has never let his ego get the way 264 00:12:29.799 --> 00:12:30.559 I assume you have it. 265 00:12:30.919 --> 00:12:33.759 I don't know, but I certainly haven't. 266 00:12:34.720 --> 00:12:36.000 I got a Jack Fox question. 267 00:12:36.159 --> 00:12:38.879 So I've never retired from radio, obviously, and I've never 268 00:12:38.960 --> 00:12:40.000 walked away from radio. 269 00:12:40.559 --> 00:12:41.080 We've tried. 270 00:12:41.919 --> 00:12:44.240 I have been fired from radio rock radio. I got 271 00:12:44.320 --> 00:12:46.879 fired by the grace of God. I got picked up 272 00:12:47.159 --> 00:12:51.120 doing white collar or work with radio station. 273 00:12:51.519 --> 00:12:53.039 But here's what I will say. When I was off 274 00:12:53.080 --> 00:12:54.600 the air. Of the years I was off the air, 275 00:12:55.799 --> 00:12:56.120 I was. 276 00:12:56.240 --> 00:12:58.799 Fiending, almost like a dope fiend for a creative outlet, 277 00:12:59.399 --> 00:13:02.320 because there is something about having this job. You have 278 00:13:02.399 --> 00:13:05.320 to have some kind of creativity in you. When you retired, 279 00:13:06.039 --> 00:13:10.320 you were able to do the airport announcements. But before that, 280 00:13:10.759 --> 00:13:13.519 did it drive you crazy not having some kind of 281 00:13:14.039 --> 00:13:14.759 creative outlet. 282 00:13:14.879 --> 00:13:15.759 Well, it's interesting. 283 00:13:15.879 --> 00:13:19.360 One of the things I did was I have read 284 00:13:19.840 --> 00:13:22.200 at the printing house for the blind, have recorded audiobooks 285 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:24.840 for a while since nineteen seventy eight OAT, and that 286 00:13:25.039 --> 00:13:26.720 let me move right into things I could do. It 287 00:13:26.799 --> 00:13:30.519 on my terms when you wanted to and still use 288 00:13:30.600 --> 00:13:33.120 your creativity. Did a lot of voiceover work, so I 289 00:13:33.240 --> 00:13:34.799 tried doing some of the studios. 290 00:13:34.799 --> 00:13:36.519 So I tried doing that and they said, well now 291 00:13:36.639 --> 00:13:38.399 the blonde people are mispronouncing words. 292 00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:43.240 Well you got a studio at home. And then years 293 00:13:43.360 --> 00:13:47.600 later these two goofballs call you in say Jack Fox, 294 00:13:48.120 --> 00:13:50.200 will you be Yeah? 295 00:13:51.440 --> 00:13:53.759 I don't know why. So when we get home, we 296 00:13:53.840 --> 00:13:54.399 were looking. 297 00:13:54.240 --> 00:13:57.279 For legitimacy, right, So I said, Jack, say your name, 298 00:13:57.399 --> 00:13:59.919 this is Jack Fox, and you're listening to Tony and why. 299 00:14:00.600 --> 00:14:02.679 But they also made him do a disclaimer that the 300 00:14:02.799 --> 00:14:11.600 views and the opinions of notily. No other show does this, 301 00:14:11.799 --> 00:14:15.240 why are we? But so anyway, man, you look great, 302 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:18.600 you look happy, absolutely terrific. You look healthy, you look happy. 303 00:14:18.639 --> 00:14:20.480 It's more like a lot of golf and doing things 304 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:23.519 like that. Oh good, I'm going on a thirty mile 305 00:14:23.639 --> 00:14:28.080 bike ride on the ninth really really yeah? Did the 306 00:14:28.480 --> 00:14:30.519 Miami Reil Road up in that that path? 307 00:14:30.759 --> 00:14:31.240 What's the day? 308 00:14:32.120 --> 00:14:32.600 June ninth? 309 00:14:32.759 --> 00:14:36.440 On June seventeenth, I'll be watching a murder she wrote, 310 00:14:36.480 --> 00:14:39.879 marathon and it's on the Hallmark channel. 311 00:14:40.399 --> 00:14:45.200 Shape is to make you JOCKO. Jack Fox is best 312 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:45.919 to Tony. Thank you. 313 00:14:46.639 --> 00:14:49.919 Look for Tony Cruz is retirement everything you thought it 314 00:14:49.919 --> 00:14:50.879 would be me. 315 00:14:51.159 --> 00:14:54.600 Yeah, I love it now. I miss I missed the 316 00:14:54.679 --> 00:14:57.519 daily I missed the people. I enjoyed that. Yeah, and 317 00:14:57.600 --> 00:14:59.720 the activities we were involving doing things like this. I 318 00:14:59.759 --> 00:15:02.200 ain't like that. 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I don't know why I misspoke earlier. 350 00:16:23.080 --> 00:16:24.960 You threw me off may a little bit. 351 00:16:25.000 --> 00:16:27.480 Do you think maybe you misspoked because you're so much 352 00:16:27.519 --> 00:16:29.279 pain because you tore your achilles attendant? 353 00:16:30.399 --> 00:16:35.000 No, that was me alrighty BK Plumbing Supply. John Bergen 354 00:16:35.159 --> 00:16:37.360 is the owner. He's such a great guy, and of 355 00:16:37.440 --> 00:16:40.840 course John would sell toilets. This isn't a regular toilet. 356 00:16:41.159 --> 00:16:44.879 This is the this will change your life. I got 357 00:16:44.960 --> 00:16:48.879 it installed about six months ago. It is called the 358 00:16:49.000 --> 00:16:54.759 Toto Nexus Toilet S seven. It's a Biday toilet system. 359 00:16:55.879 --> 00:16:59.399 There's a remote control. The water is heated to the 360 00:16:59.480 --> 00:17:03.879 temperature you like. 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Ready wait forty w 376 00:17:49.160 --> 00:17:49.599 H A s. 377 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:52.240 H. 378 00:17:52.279 --> 00:17:54.680 If you want to come up to losers retirement party, 379 00:17:56.279 --> 00:17:58.799 we got we got we got competitions. 380 00:17:59.000 --> 00:18:01.200 Real bad message. 381 00:18:01.839 --> 00:18:05.039 Now listen, come on up, say goodbye to the beloved 382 00:18:05.480 --> 00:18:08.079 Tony Cruz and say goodbye with a free lunch. 383 00:18:08.200 --> 00:18:08.559 By the way. 384 00:18:08.640 --> 00:18:11.200 Up here at the grow Master's Supply, we're talking competition 385 00:18:11.359 --> 00:18:14.839 style ribs me Joe Elliott and Tony just had a 386 00:18:14.880 --> 00:18:16.319 couple of these ribs. 387 00:18:16.359 --> 00:18:17.559 We got porch spiders. 388 00:18:17.640 --> 00:18:18.720 We had one. 389 00:18:18.880 --> 00:18:22.400 We have baked beans with brisket. We have a Coast 390 00:18:22.440 --> 00:18:24.640 law and it's all free. Come on by grill masters 391 00:18:24.799 --> 00:18:26.720 supply they're serving up now, so come on. 392 00:18:27.279 --> 00:18:28.119 Okay, great. Yeah. 393 00:18:28.160 --> 00:18:31.160 So when Tony Cruz twenty one years in the seat 394 00:18:31.160 --> 00:18:35.599 at w H A S and sometimes at four am, 395 00:18:35.799 --> 00:18:38.839 Olly Joe Elliot, we get a call and h and 396 00:18:39.079 --> 00:18:41.839 Joe would fill in for how many times were the 397 00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:43.880 surprise fill in for Tony Cruz? 398 00:18:43.960 --> 00:18:45.839 Joe not too much on that. We used to have 399 00:18:46.039 --> 00:18:48.480 a morning guy. I don't want to say anything bad 400 00:18:48.519 --> 00:18:50.880 about this guy. He was a great guy, but he 401 00:18:51.480 --> 00:18:54.400