Speaker 1: We want to talk to Jack Fox here in just
Speaker 1: a second. But first the man right here, Tony Cruz,
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Speaker 2: Tony Cruz, how are you, migo?
Speaker 3: Well, I'm great. I mean I get to see all
Speaker 3: the people that we got. We got to work with
Speaker 3: the legends Jack Fox, of course, and uh today we
Speaker 3: had Van Vance and Paul Rodgers and Dwight Wright Mitchell,
Speaker 3: who's a great guy.
Speaker 2: Love him. Is he better than me? Dwight Mitchell.
Speaker 3: He's prettier than you look.
Speaker 2: So can you stick around with us? Home on? I'm here,
Speaker 2: all right, Jack Fox? If you say something.
Speaker 4: Jack Well on the moving sidebook.
Speaker 1: Jacko, Jack Fox, I've had him. I've had about enough
Speaker 1: of your loading his own crap, all right. So if
Speaker 1: you recognize Jack Fox every single airport, that's what you
Speaker 1: hear the luggage, the whole bit over the airport. How
Speaker 1: did you fall into that voice war?
Speaker 4: Interesting story. I was doing videos. I was narrating videos
Speaker 4: for a studio called Alan Martin and Jay Time. You
Speaker 4: remember them. Yeah, they had an electronic designed by Ied
Speaker 4: Electronic Internet Innovative Electronic Design, and they're the ones who
Speaker 4: created the computerized paging system. So they put an airport
Speaker 4: so announcements wouldn't walk on each other. Our friend Carolyn
Speaker 4: Davidson er Carolyn Hopkins was worked for them. She did
Speaker 4: all the female voices, and about nineteen ninety one, when
Speaker 4: the Gulf War came along, they wanted a male voice.
Speaker 4: They said friendly and authoritative. Evidently I fit.
Speaker 5: That, Roy, That's what they said.
Speaker 3: I'm going to kill you on.
Speaker 2: The jury still out on the friendly apartment.
Speaker 4: Here's an interesting thing, though. We did a lot of
Speaker 4: things like while on the moving sidewalk, please stand on
Speaker 4: the right. Lovers wishing to walk to pass safely on
Speaker 4: the left. But they looked to the future and and
Speaker 4: just have something ready in case they needed as an emergency.
Speaker 4: And they saw this was the nineteen ninety one. They
Speaker 4: saw that this young punked white Witten, all these days
Speaker 4: and so, just to be safe, they had me record
Speaker 4: one that said, while on the moving sidewalk, please stand
Speaker 4: to the right too, lover, I was wishing to walk
Speaker 4: to pass safely on the left unless you're the white
Speaker 4: witt and get the hell off the movie. I don't
Speaker 4: think they've used that yet, but it's that I just
Speaker 4: wanted to warbody.
Speaker 3: It's in the record.
Speaker 4: I got it right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what job?
Speaker 5: What? What did you do? What did you show up.
Speaker 4: At HAS the first time? Nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 2: Seventy How did you get it from the tornado? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, right there for it?
Speaker 5: Yeah, but how did that?
Speaker 2: How'd you follow this?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I was the morning man at Koe and Denver for
Speaker 4: a while and we had taken some troops to Europe
Speaker 4: through the radio station you know of Jack Frost then
Speaker 4: believe it or not, Hey, and uh, we enjoyed it.
Speaker 4: We came home home and my wife said, you know,
Speaker 4: we didn't get to Florence where all the art treasures
Speaker 4: were in a lot of places. Women, nice, we go
Speaker 4: over there and stay as long as we want, come
Speaker 4: home when we want. That'd be great. She said, let's
Speaker 4: do it. I said, you're crazy. She said, I know,
Speaker 4: but let's do it anyway. So we did. We sold
Speaker 4: our house, but her furniture and stories took two ye
Speaker 4: rows went Daly for about five months, and then the
Speaker 4: money started running out. She came back looked for a job,
Speaker 4: and I was looking around and my parents were in Henderson, Kentucky,
Speaker 4: round Evansville, and my brother was in down the southeastern Kentucky.
Speaker 4: I'm driving through Louisville on the way to visit him,
Speaker 4: and I heard this radio station and the Milton Metz
Speaker 4: was on. They were doing all these great things. I said,
Speaker 4: I'll check them out when I get back, you know.
Speaker 4: Came back and came through one day and wanted to
Speaker 4: see Hugh Barr, who was the operations director, and brought
Speaker 4: a tape and Hugh couldn't see me, he was busy,
Speaker 4: but his assistant took my tape and otherwise that's said.
Speaker 4: A few weeks later he said, hey, I'll but come
Speaker 4: to work for us.
Speaker 1: So that's incredible, And here's why the gig that Tony
Speaker 1: and I have right now, it's incredibly hard to.
Speaker 2: Give because there's there's only so many.
Speaker 1: Even when a lot of radio stations stayed live twenty
Speaker 1: four hours. There was only so many slots you could
Speaker 1: get in in a little for radio when you got
Speaker 1: in that was pre FM, right.
Speaker 4: Well yeah, yeah, they they had, but they were playing
Speaker 4: classical music.
Speaker 1: But my point, my point is there is even less
Speaker 1: slots to get when you got hired.
Speaker 2: Is Jack Fox?
Speaker 4: Your real name is my real name?
Speaker 2: See?
Speaker 4: Okay? Well, Tony, Sorry, I used Jack Frost in Kansas
Speaker 4: City and Denver. I thought i'd used when I came back,
Speaker 4: and uh, Wayne Perky said no, everybody here has used
Speaker 4: their own name. So I'm Jack Fox, which is great.
Speaker 3: Well then, Wayne, I mean Wayne Perky for a morning guy. Yeah, yeah, me,
Speaker 3: I got stuck with the cruise name.
Speaker 2: Uh hown't that happened.
Speaker 3: I was working at w x L in Christian Radio
Speaker 3: days sold out. They kept me to work with Usty
Speaker 3: Stillwell at Kiss one O four and Buddy Scott who's
Speaker 3: from Kentucky. Jim Cancer is his brother who owned a
Speaker 3: coffee corporation, and also they both wrote W E K
Speaker 3: Why and Richmond A long time ago? Long story short though,
Speaker 3: The part on that was basically Buddy said, we gotta
Speaker 3: chanke your name, we gotta chanke your name, and I
Speaker 3: said this is how I talked.
Speaker 4: And I go, that's what.
Speaker 6: Scott sounded ironically, that's what the guy sounded like. And
Speaker 6: he had a job in radio, so he was a
Speaker 6: great program director of Chicago. But Jim heard his brother. Well,
Speaker 6: he said, you know, we need to change her name.
Speaker 6: I go, well, I don't know, what do you think?
Speaker 6: He goes, you know, back when I was in Chicago, Uh,
Speaker 6: there was this madam that that we would share that
Speaker 6: was in our the cos same condo, same condo, And
Speaker 6: he said, he said, and.
Speaker 3: He said, I thought she had the cool, coolest radio name.
Speaker 3: Her name was Tony Cruz and they would share a
Speaker 3: cab together. And I go, you can't name me after
Speaker 3: a whoror oh wait, oh wait, that's where I got it.
Speaker 2: To the original Tony Cruise was a prostitute.
Speaker 3: She was a madam.
Speaker 2: Different, hi, madam, she was a pimp.
Speaker 7: Okay, right, we're getting this inform on the last day,
Speaker 7: thirty one years, right, shame on you.
Speaker 3: That's why I called myself take news Cruise. Wow.
Speaker 5: So when you worked at the Christian station, yeah, that
Speaker 5: was a station seat. Did it seem a lot like
Speaker 5: Albert Show? Yeah?
Speaker 2: It was very similar.
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course, well, they sing against hell, not for it.
Speaker 2: Jack Fox.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you came on w h S Jack Fox
Speaker 1: in seventy three seventy four of the tornado hits.
Speaker 2: Horrible day for Louisville, Kentucky.
Speaker 1: I've been on the air for a tragedy before, and
Speaker 1: I got to tell you, it's a I was completely
Speaker 1: out of my element.
Speaker 2: You have all this disastrous stuff hitting the city of Louisville.
Speaker 2: What's that like for you? At seventy interesting it was.
Speaker 4: I was new to town too. I'd been probous and uh,
Speaker 4: we had just come here. I didn't expect that at all.
Speaker 4: I was on the air that day. I was on
Speaker 4: til three thirty, and of course it'd hit right after that.
Speaker 4: All afternoon we were giving alerts Brandenburg every thirty seconds
Speaker 4: of gayn update and I went off the air. Jeff
Speaker 4: Douglas came on and we were listening and Dick Gilbert
Speaker 4: was in the helicopter. Yeah, oh yeah, he maneuver so
Speaker 4: he stayed up. Everybody chased it.
Speaker 2: He chased the damna.
Speaker 4: He was on the air and he said, well, they
Speaker 4: say there's a tornado, but wait, there it is. And
Speaker 4: he followed it. He just followed it in a helicopter. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and I remember he he told us at one point
Speaker 4: he said, folks, Cherokee Park as we know it is
Speaker 4: no more. And I thought, come on, Dick, don't be
Speaker 4: so dramatic. Wow.
Speaker 5: So what was downtown like in seventy four? You know,
Speaker 5: I had to see some pictures. The Sealback was closed
Speaker 5: for a while. The other big hotel was at the
Speaker 5: Louisville Hotel. They were closed for a Yeah, there was
Speaker 5: there were questionable businesses.
Speaker 3: On Main Street.
Speaker 4: They were just renovating what is now Forced Street Live.
Speaker 4: It was the Gallery at that Yeah, at that time,
Speaker 4: Stewart's was still there always they were still there, but
Speaker 4: they were on decline and they were shutting Fourth Street
Speaker 4: to make Fourth Street called it the mall or something.
Speaker 2: Gallery.
Speaker 4: Well, the Gallerleria was the part that they made seventies seventies. Yeah,
Speaker 4: the GALLERYA was the second or third renovations they've been
Speaker 4: trying to But we were right on the edge of
Speaker 4: when I heard people talk about Stuart's and Bis and
Speaker 4: all those things. They were still there, but they were
Speaker 4: just fading away.
Speaker 5: I can't imagine.
Speaker 4: There had a great studio.
Speaker 2: My dad used to take.
Speaker 1: My dad would take us on Saturdays and he would
Speaker 1: drop us off at the Kentucky Theater on Fourth Street
Speaker 1: and we would watch Bruce Lee movies all day long.
Speaker 1: He would come back and pick us up from downtown,
Speaker 1: take us alie trolley home.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a lot. I mean there were left
Speaker 2: you there old town. Yeah, let me downtown that Yes.
Speaker 4: Our kids in the UH I guess the early eighties.
Speaker 4: We take him to them all and leave them. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, a different, different world. If you're listening Jack Fox
Speaker 1: as our guest. If you've been in any airport, you've
Speaker 1: heard his name. As a matter of fact, I'm starting
Speaker 1: to get anxiety because I hate airports.
Speaker 5: Give give old Tony some advice.
Speaker 4: Yeah, don't need any advice from him. Just to enjoy
Speaker 4: enjoy retirement. And you will, yeah, you will. You'll be
Speaker 4: busier now than you ever were. Believe it or up.
Speaker 4: But it'll be things you want to do when you
Speaker 4: want to do them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 4: I absolutely I remember Tony, And what year did you
Speaker 4: first come to h A. I came in October ninety two,
Speaker 4: ninety two, Yeah, right right around that time. I remember
Speaker 4: you and I were sitting at a U of L
Speaker 4: football and you had just come to has and you
Speaker 4: hope that someday you would be on the air, and
Speaker 4: you wanted to do sports yep, And I said, he's
Speaker 4: gonna do it. Yeah, you've done everything though, really, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I heard you talk with Van this morning about running
Speaker 4: the board ops from Tokyo and everything. Yeah, and you've
Speaker 4: paid your dues.
Speaker 3: But nineteen eighty six or eighty seven, so of the
Speaker 3: guys at XLN were asking me, what do you what
Speaker 3: would you really like to do? And I said, well,
Speaker 3: when Van Vants retired, I'd like to do sports talk,
Speaker 3: or if Wayne Perky retired, I'd like to do mornings
Speaker 3: and then a flat or somehow.
Speaker 5: By the way, by the way, sports radio was not
Speaker 5: what everyone thinks of the terms of sports radio came
Speaker 5: became and you know, superstars and all that. Sports radio
Speaker 5: was kind of a niche thing, right, It was new.
Speaker 5: It was not a big thing where everybody had to
Speaker 5: tune in the sports radio like they did. So you
Speaker 5: so you when you say, of course he wanted to
Speaker 5: do that, that was sort of a different kind of thing.
Speaker 5: Oh you want to do sports, Okay, okay, that sounds.
Speaker 3: Well, I'd heard it, you know here, but I didn't
Speaker 3: realize that not many markets had sports talk radio back then,
Speaker 3: Chicago and New York, Columbus and places like that.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the comedy you kept because uh, to
Speaker 1: the best of my knowledge, maybe three morning show hosts.
Speaker 4: On w h A s Uh.
Speaker 2: Well, no, that's not.
Speaker 4: Scholar Ray Ray Waldon, Ray Shelton. Okay, what about sports
Speaker 4: Jim Walton big part of but it was a different style.
Speaker 4: It was a different right, right, Let's talk about sports
Speaker 4: talk though it was advanced. It was you than Lachlan McClain.
Speaker 4: That's it. Wow.
Speaker 1: And then they fired uh Lochlan McClain for embezzling from
Speaker 1: the company. Why so, but no, seriously that that's uh
Speaker 1: that that's that's pretty outstanding.
Speaker 3: Tony Cruise, Well, I mean I've been blessed and I'm
Speaker 3: thankful for but you know, I just had the model
Speaker 3: stay cheap, you know.
Speaker 5: I say, because I've done three different formats. And when
Speaker 5: you're doing it at the time, you don't know you're
Speaker 5: this is special times, right, just you're doing it and
Speaker 5: you move to the next thing. I think the mistake
Speaker 5: we all make is at those times that we're doing
Speaker 5: this stuff. We don't sit at home and go, boy,
Speaker 5: that was cool. Like we didn't do that. We were
Speaker 5: just so moving to the next thing.
Speaker 4: Well, Tony has never let his ego get the way
Speaker 4: I assume you have it.
Speaker 3: I don't know, but I certainly haven't.
Speaker 2: I got a Jack Fox question.
Speaker 1: So I've never retired from radio, obviously, and I've never
Speaker 1: walked away from radio.
Speaker 4: We've tried.
Speaker 1: I have been fired from radio rock radio. I got
Speaker 1: fired by the grace of God. I got picked up
Speaker 1: doing white collar or work with radio station.
Speaker 2: But here's what I will say. When I was off
Speaker 2: the air. Of the years I was off the air,
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 1: Fiending, almost like a dope fiend for a creative outlet,
Speaker 1: because there is something about having this job. You have
Speaker 1: to have some kind of creativity in you. When you retired,
Speaker 1: you were able to do the airport announcements. But before that,
Speaker 1: did it drive you crazy not having some kind of
Speaker 1: creative outlet.
Speaker 2: Well, it's interesting.
Speaker 4: One of the things I did was I have read
Speaker 4: at the printing house for the blind, have recorded audiobooks
Speaker 4: for a while since nineteen seventy eight OAT, and that
Speaker 4: let me move right into things I could do. It
Speaker 4: on my terms when you wanted to and still use
Speaker 4: your creativity. Did a lot of voiceover work, so I
Speaker 4: tried doing some of the studios.
Speaker 1: So I tried doing that and they said, well now
Speaker 1: the blonde people are mispronouncing words.
Speaker 5: Well you got a studio at home. And then years
Speaker 5: later these two goofballs call you in say Jack Fox,
Speaker 5: will you be Yeah?
Speaker 2: I don't know why. So when we get home, we
Speaker 2: were looking.
Speaker 5: For legitimacy, right, So I said, Jack, say your name,
Speaker 5: this is Jack Fox, and you're listening to Tony and why.
Speaker 1: But they also made him do a disclaimer that the
Speaker 1: views and the opinions of notily. No other show does this,
Speaker 1: why are we? But so anyway, man, you look great,
Speaker 1: you look happy, absolutely terrific. You look healthy, you look happy.
Speaker 4: It's more like a lot of golf and doing things
Speaker 4: like that. Oh good, I'm going on a thirty mile
Speaker 4: bike ride on the ninth really really yeah? Did the
Speaker 4: Miami Reil Road up in that that path?
Speaker 2: What's the day?
Speaker 4: June ninth?
Speaker 1: On June seventeenth, I'll be watching a murder she wrote,
Speaker 1: marathon and it's on the Hallmark channel.
Speaker 4: Shape is to make you JOCKO. Jack Fox is best
Speaker 4: to Tony. Thank you.
Speaker 2: Look for Tony Cruz is retirement everything you thought it
Speaker 2: would be me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I love it now. I miss I missed the
Speaker 4: daily I missed the people. I enjoyed that. Yeah, and
Speaker 4: the activities we were involving doing things like this. I
Speaker 4: ain't like that. Yeah, but having to get up and
Speaker 4: go do it to a different story, right, yeah, right, thank.
Speaker 2: You, thank you.
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Speaker 2: Okay, great. Yeah.
Speaker 5: So when Tony Cruz twenty one years in the seat
Speaker 5: at w H A S and sometimes at four am,
Speaker 5: Olly Joe Elliot, we get a call and h and
Speaker 5: Joe would fill in for how many times were the
Speaker 5: surprise fill in for Tony Cruz?
Speaker 8: Joe not too much on that. We used to have
Speaker 8: a morning guy. I don't want to say anything bad
Speaker 8: about this guy. He was a great guy, but he
Speaker 8: was known for getting there late. Tony is Tony's pretty
Speaker 8: much on time and ready to go. I didn't get
Speaker 8: too many calls.
Speaker 3: Uh, I was late four times?
Speaker 5: Oh are you serious?
Speaker 4: Are you making it?
Speaker 3: Yeah? No, no, late late four times.
Speaker 5: Radio people I think can remember every single time. Well, yeah,
Speaker 5: because it's so important.
Speaker 1: Hang one side breaking news. This is out of New
Speaker 1: York City. Courtney Donahost is Tony Cruz. Exclamation point, congratulations
Speaker 1: to him from his old friend to exclamation points.
Speaker 2: Then she goes on to say, Dwight, you're so sexy.
Speaker 2: Here's a picture now, hang on, hang on?
Speaker 3: Is it the Batman picture?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 4: No, no, no no.
Speaker 1: I don't know why she would send me a picture
Speaker 1: like that. It looked like a grizzly bear had a cardinals.
Speaker 5: M I so, uh so, But Morning's has changed a
Speaker 5: little bit over the year, sure, and uh and what
Speaker 5: what we were doing?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 5: So we went to more of and Joe can speak
Speaker 5: on that too, but Tony obviously, but it whent to
Speaker 5: more of a national sort of focus, right, So him
Speaker 5: and I, Dwight and I are more local. Terry's local.
Speaker 5: But you guys kind of tackle the tough stuff.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, just kind of the outside stuff like you know,
Speaker 3: maybe tariffs or maybe whatever the judges.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you this question real quick.
Speaker 3: Huh.
Speaker 2: And by the way, her sleep number is forty three
Speaker 2: an sleep numbers, Let me ask you this question. So
Speaker 2: I did Rock.
Speaker 1: Mornings two different stations. I did morning show on KMF,
Speaker 1: also did mornings on one hundred point five The Fox.
Speaker 2: When I was on q MA.
Speaker 1: I remember going when we went to that new building,
Speaker 1: not the new one, now, Bishop Wayne, we were all
Speaker 1: in there getting coffee At the same time.
Speaker 2: I looked at Wayne Perky. I said, Wayne, when do
Speaker 2: you get used to this? Meaning the hours?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: Wayne Perky looked at me stone cold, and he said,
Speaker 1: you never get used to it? Did you ever get
Speaker 1: used to waking up? Three picks in?
Speaker 4: Back?
Speaker 3: When I'm natural? I produced for Wayne and I asked
Speaker 3: him that same question. I said, do you ever get
Speaker 3: used to this? And he goes no, and he goes,
Speaker 3: probably won't either if you're not, if you're well.
Speaker 2: People, he's right.
Speaker 1: People always make the comments say what are you talking about? Man,
Speaker 1: you get off at ten am? You got told well,
Speaker 1: there's other show prepace, something that goes into it. But
Speaker 1: besides the fact if you're getting up at three o'clock
Speaker 1: in the morning.
Speaker 2: Well you're exhausted. Yeah, right, you're almost always tired, right.
Speaker 1: Joe, because you would have to be unconscious at seven
Speaker 1: pm to get eight.
Speaker 5: Hour trying to get too inside baseball. But I will
Speaker 5: say that there is a huge difference between a morning show,
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, at five man, a morning show that
Speaker 5: starts at six there is and people and people say, oh,
Speaker 5: it's just an hour. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 5: oh no, that is a huge hour. I think if
Speaker 5: your show started an hour later, just at six, I
Speaker 5: think the show would be a little different.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, I think there's a lot lot more different.
Speaker 3: The biggest thing for Wayne and why he was able
Speaker 3: to keep it so local, is because people would come
Speaker 3: on the air between six and nine. Joe, who can
Speaker 3: tell you it's hard to get anybody to come on
Speaker 3: the air line really locally, locally now because they have
Speaker 3: so many other outlets, right, And so that's why if
Speaker 3: you think that we have more national or international approach,
Speaker 3: part of it is because of what you could get
Speaker 3: really live.
Speaker 5: You know, we have the shift work that we used
Speaker 5: to have in the old days ge right, g was
Speaker 5: big as as ever was Ford was bigger than ever
Speaker 5: it was, right. We don't have that shift workers, but
Speaker 5: we still that five am hour. To tell you the
Speaker 5: truth is probably.
Speaker 3: Until they started putting the try mark no, no, basically
Speaker 3: the cameras, I didn't realize how many people were really
Speaker 3: up at five o'clock. You know, it's a whole lot
Speaker 3: more than you think.
Speaker 4: There's.
Speaker 1: No it's let's talk about something else. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: the evolution of your show. Because over the years, it's
Speaker 1: gotten more difficult. If you've got an somible cast. There's
Speaker 1: my tequila dealer right there.
Speaker 5: She gets distracted.
Speaker 1: So listen, let's but let's talk about the evolution of
Speaker 1: your show. Because if you've got an ensemble cast, you've
Speaker 1: got even with a partner like Tony, I've got somebody
Speaker 1: to lean on.
Speaker 2: He'll do the story, the story.
Speaker 1: But that has been whittled down desperately because you used
Speaker 1: to have a gardener, somebody who garden reports, you had
Speaker 1: sports reports.
Speaker 2: Your produced would kick in.
Speaker 1: Now it's basically been whittled down to you. How much
Speaker 1: more difficult was that?
Speaker 3: It was way way more I mean when Paul was
Speaker 3: with us, you know, we we would have a conversation
Speaker 3: and do the bull session right, which started the show
Speaker 3: out pretty good, you know, along with Scotty, and then
Speaker 3: it's uh, things went on. Scotty, you know, he also
Speaker 3: produced the show and he was doing sports too, but
Speaker 3: he had he had two jobs doing sports and producing
Speaker 3: the show, so he didn't have all the time either.
Speaker 3: So the back when Wayne was there, let's think about
Speaker 3: this joke. We had Wayne, we had Ken Shawton, who
Speaker 3: was a character character and the person came in this
Speaker 3: the student, you know, and we talk to us for
Speaker 3: you know, six or seven minutes was all the time, right, right,
Speaker 3: You had Wishy, you had Brian Riblin, traffic guy, Barney
Speaker 3: Arnold back in the day. Yeah, I mean, hell, they
Speaker 3: say on the Farm Report, well give it. They were
Speaker 3: giving up up the farm markets.
Speaker 2: I'm out here in the field and I just found
Speaker 2: a field mouse. We're gonna name him skitles.
Speaker 5: I'm sure they had the Price of peas right.
Speaker 8: Oh that was in the first hour the show, and
Speaker 8: then they then they would move on. But the joke
Speaker 8: used to be, you know, if you were gonna take
Speaker 8: Wayne Perky out, he was the number one morning man.
Speaker 8: If you're gonna shoot Perky, you'd have to shoot another
Speaker 8: eight or nine people.
Speaker 3: Seriously, Joe Elliott.
Speaker 1: It was like the Partridge family. They had so many
Speaker 1: people rights exactly right, you know, all the kids graduated
Speaker 1: and left.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but if you have a Dwight's and I are
Speaker 5: the same way, I could tell when we're having a
Speaker 5: bad show, and at the end of it, I think
Speaker 5: I always think that it's not a Friday because I
Speaker 5: have two days to live with it, because it's like sports.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I just want to get back on the field,
Speaker 5: you know, And I know when it's a bad show,
Speaker 5: when you do a solo show, it's all on you.
Speaker 5: And there are times you PLoP the mic down right
Speaker 5: and you go, that was dumb.
Speaker 2: What what am I talking about?
Speaker 3: But it's also great.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's also great because I mean Tony. But it's
Speaker 8: also great because when you Letterman said this one time,
Speaker 8: and I mean, we're we do very different than what
Speaker 8: Letterman did. I don't mean to say we're any anything
Speaker 8: like that, but he said, when you do a good show,
Speaker 8: there's nothing better, all right, right right?
Speaker 3: A man?
Speaker 8: Yeah, get off the air at midnight. Sometimes when I
Speaker 8: used to do that show, I didn't want to go
Speaker 8: to sleep. Yeah, I mean it's so good when you
Speaker 8: do a bad show, just want to put your head
Speaker 8: through Well, gosh, I just I'm.
Speaker 2: In majoring and I'll replay it over.
Speaker 3: Yeah. You never forgive yourself. No, that's because you're serious
Speaker 3: about your job.
Speaker 1: What's because you love what you do job. But man,
Speaker 1: you're right if we take what if we puts a
Speaker 1: turn out there?
Speaker 3: But I will tell you more than once, particularly particularly
Speaker 3: on sports talk, I would think I had a terrible show.
Speaker 3: And then I would have five people it's just weird
Speaker 3: like the next days. Man, dude, that show that was great?
Speaker 5: Well also, and here's the dangers of our egos. You
Speaker 5: can you can think you had that was the worst
Speaker 5: take ever, and then you get one person at Kroger
Speaker 5: that says that was the best thing ever, and it
Speaker 5: changes your mic because one person said that, which I
Speaker 5: always say, don't don't listen to your social media that
Speaker 5: has no. You had no gauge on whether there was
Speaker 5: a good show or not. So if you get four
Speaker 5: mentions of oh, great show today, don't read it because
Speaker 5: it's not.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: When do you think the best rating it is? My mic?
Speaker 4: Up?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, When when do you think the best ratings were?
Speaker 3: For sports talk with you buddy?
Speaker 2: The questions we were looking for a new coach or something.
Speaker 2: I don't know what there was.
Speaker 5: He was the height locally was the Charlie Strong search.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, I'm talking about just in general.
Speaker 5: No no, no.
Speaker 3: For w h A S. My best ratings came in
Speaker 3: in the summer. Really, Oh.
Speaker 2: That's well, because do you think it's because you got
Speaker 2: a broad now and do different topics?
Speaker 3: Well, part of it was that you know, we like
Speaker 3: we would talk to those sports psychologists about how don't
Speaker 3: be a bad dad do with your kids? Quit yelling
Speaker 3: at the umpire. I would do golf tips, yes, with
Speaker 3: the guys at the Southern Sports Golf tipsy. I mean
Speaker 3: we get we give away a bucket, the ball, bucket
Speaker 3: the ball.
Speaker 2: But yes, but topics.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 3: But and then there there back then there was still
Speaker 3: enough where you had Nike and all those camps going on,
Speaker 3: so you could you could do you know that too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but there was It peaked out mid two thousand.
Speaker 3: The hardest thing I had with sports was this, and
Speaker 3: that was the Internet because once you started getting guys
Speaker 3: putting up their own sites, yeah, you know, then you
Speaker 3: didn't need people to call.
Speaker 2: You who's recruiting. I'll give you one more, and I
Speaker 2: don't know where up against we have to break John Auden.
Speaker 2: But let me tell you this. Here's another one.
Speaker 1: Is uh, sports talk has gotten just so damn fragmented
Speaker 1: to begin with, with the station's popping.
Speaker 5: Up everywhere, say the dumbest thing. What the problem is
Speaker 5: that it's real quick. The problem was when I first
Speaker 5: got into sports, if you said, if you got something wrong,
Speaker 5: it was a big deal, and you would call even
Speaker 5: your competition if they got something wrong, and you would go, hey, man,
Speaker 5: you okay, is everything right? And then it became it
Speaker 5: didn't matter if you were wrong. It just happened to
Speaker 5: be whatever noise.
Speaker 2: Right right.
Speaker 5: And that's why I got out of sports, because I
Speaker 5: was like, look, I'm not in this. You got to
Speaker 5: get it right and I can't. And he used to
Speaker 5: have really upset me that. It was like, why doesn't
Speaker 5: that matter anymore? But you know, that peaked out and
Speaker 5: then people stopped calling each other. So now the calls
Speaker 5: just sports shows are over right. They text now, which
Speaker 5: was a different game. But we're gonna get a break.
Speaker 5: Joey Elliott's with us, and then we say goodbye.
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