Speaker 1: Hey, we're back News Radio eight forty W A J. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a broadcasting live on a very special Friday show
Speaker 1: and Grill Masters supply on Shelbyville Road in Middletown, just
Speaker 1: down the road from Roosters. I'm joined by my friends
Speaker 1: Joe Elliot and Uh.
Speaker 2: Well you should say friend. There may be two guys here,
Speaker 2: but which one is your friend?
Speaker 3: Friends?
Speaker 2: Cheff? How's it feel to be me? Ben?
Speaker 1: Eddie and h and the injured injured guy? Oh, I
Speaker 1: know is milking the injury for two days now.
Speaker 2: He didn't look like he's milking it too well. Right now? Listen,
Speaker 2: you doing okay, buddy.
Speaker 4: People said the doctor said, under no circumstances about to
Speaker 4: leave the house to broadcast because it would risk my life.
Speaker 4: And now I'm here and all the listeners they say, dight,
Speaker 4: why are you here?
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1: Yeah, dedications for you, Tony, Chris, Uh, dedications all right?
Speaker 1: Who did are real quick? We're gonna do crusade for
Speaker 1: children trivia? Yeah, okay, I know that one, Tony.
Speaker 5: Listen, no pressure on this, but this is for the kids.
Speaker 1: And if you lose, so this has been and we'll
Speaker 1: get to the crusade real quick. But this has been
Speaker 1: a week where this is your life Tony Cruz and
Speaker 1: people have come back into the studio. Which was the
Speaker 1: most surreal or which one did it was anything jump
Speaker 1: out of the this is.
Speaker 6: Your life to Yeah, the managers that came in and said,
Speaker 6: I felt like Sally Fields winning osk Her. You like me,
Speaker 6: you really like me, because you know those guys they
Speaker 6: never looked at you like like they did.
Speaker 2: You know, it's like like, I'm your boss.
Speaker 1: Well, frankly, if all three of them in the room,
Speaker 1: it was your last day and you know I walked
Speaker 1: in the room and all three of them were there,
Speaker 1: was like, this isn't.
Speaker 5: That happened to me?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was called black Friday when they fired those people.
Speaker 5: I was one of them, and I call that black Friday.
Speaker 5: That's what they called it and them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but this was the big one where they cut
Speaker 4: everybody and I walk in, I'll see my boss, his boss,
Speaker 4: and then I'll see somebody from HR.
Speaker 5: Went, well that's sitting good, and I shut the door.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you kind of well, we were reminiscing on the
Speaker 1: first one where they had no offense to our bosses
Speaker 1: at the time, but we had a huge warehouse of
Speaker 1: studios and they would if you were fired, they would
Speaker 1: call your name over the know they call. And then
Speaker 1: so everybody started to gather in rooms and we would
Speaker 1: all listen and go. You could hear the cook with
Speaker 1: the with the phone over the intercom would go and
Speaker 1: you go, here we go. And the next one would be, well,
Speaker 1: we were in the room for Jim Jim Harley duke
Speaker 1: Meyer that day, and so I was in the room, goes, well,
Speaker 1: been good to work with you.
Speaker 5: Rock down, Rocky night, Troy Rolleck.
Speaker 4: And so that happened again in sales and we'll get
Speaker 4: the Crusader trivia. But they had fired when I was
Speaker 4: in sales. They let go I think it was twenty people.
Speaker 4: What and we the said clear counter as we sat there.
Speaker 4: And then when they came in, someone would leave, go
Speaker 4: down the hall and they wouldn't come back. Well, then
Speaker 4: our the main guy at the time was Bill Gentry,
Speaker 4: who did the show with you other. He came walking
Speaker 4: down the hallway after hours of this and he stood
Speaker 4: right in my cubicle because that's where the fal Kebas were.
Speaker 5: He looked down at him and thought, oh God, not again.
Speaker 2: And he goes. It's over, folks.
Speaker 5: I said you can't.
Speaker 4: You couldn't ye down the hallway right up to my
Speaker 4: desk and said, all right, Crusader children, trivia baby.
Speaker 1: Let's play the jeopardy music. And of course these guys
Speaker 1: get eight of the next ten questions correctly. I'm at
Speaker 1: six hundred and twenty dollars. We'll go to six hundred
Speaker 1: and forty. Okay for the last one or the second
Speaker 1: to last one, because Crusader's in just a couple of
Speaker 1: days or a week and a half. Okay, so eight
Speaker 1: of ten us I have eleven questions.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: If one of these you can't answer, say I want
Speaker 1: the want the option, you can only do it once?
Speaker 5: All right, okay, real quick.
Speaker 4: By the way, free lunch Friday, come on by competition, ribs,
Speaker 4: pork but sliders, brisk of baked beans, coast law and more.
Speaker 5: Grill Master supply food is getting served now.
Speaker 1: Question one, Yes, what alloy is comprised of copper and zinc?
Speaker 1: What alloy is comp is comprised of copper and zinc?
Speaker 1: Anyone copper and zinc? Joe Elliott knows it.
Speaker 2: I do not copper, as Joe am I playing this.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you're in.
Speaker 1: I looked at these two and John and went, no, no,
Speaker 1: they're gonna need hell. I don't know copper what alloy?
Speaker 5: It can't be a luminum.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, figure it out because both of copper and
Speaker 4: zinc are both brown, right or what color?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: So you would understand this analogy? So what what was
Speaker 1: the what the what's the two things they had in
Speaker 1: all strip clubs in the nineties?
Speaker 5: Oh, stripper post chrome. It's chrome.
Speaker 4: No, I've never had a dancer give me a lap
Speaker 4: dance by the name of copper.
Speaker 1: Or you do a you do one more hint and
Speaker 1: that's it, all right, and then we'll take the l
Speaker 1: You do a bridge joke?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: Iron?
Speaker 1: No? No, all right, it's brass brass.
Speaker 5: My bridge joke said brass. No.
Speaker 4: No, the bridge joke is it's cold enough to freeze
Speaker 4: the nuts off an iron bridge.
Speaker 1: Oh I thought it was a brass brass.
Speaker 6: I'm kind of glad I didn't know that because I'm
Speaker 6: not a brass fan.
Speaker 1: So go ahead, alrighty, that's it. We're now one down
Speaker 1: out of the gates.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're we're up against it.
Speaker 1: You'll know this one. I don't know what American writer
Speaker 1: went on the road? See you're supposed to Jack Carouac
Speaker 1: finished the question. Jack Carrowac finished the question on the road,
Speaker 1: can you zip your fat face?
Speaker 5: What could be Charles Carrol?
Speaker 1: Here we go, what American writer went on the road
Speaker 1: to find lives answers? Also the name of Tony Venetti
Speaker 1: gave to the phone book. When we first got caller,
Speaker 1: I d let me think, hang on, go ahead, Jack Kerouac, Yes, whoa.
Speaker 1: So when they called it's a long story short. When
Speaker 1: they got caller, I d I didn't want my name
Speaker 1: in the phone book, right all right? So I called
Speaker 1: and they said, well, it's two dollars a month not
Speaker 1: to have your name of the phone. I go, what
Speaker 1: do he means? Two dollars a month? She goes, you
Speaker 1: could you know? You could use any name? And I go,
Speaker 1: uh uh. So we had to do days of caller ID.
Speaker 1: I said, She goes, what do you want to use?
Speaker 1: And I said, I am Jack Carrouac. When so, when
Speaker 1: if I called you, your said Jack Carrouac, yeah, crazy.
Speaker 3: I did the same thing. I didn't want to pay
Speaker 3: two bucks a month.
Speaker 1: There you go, he backed me up.
Speaker 5: I did the same thing. But I used, Tony Vannetti.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Question three, the Luxer hotel in Casino in Las Vegas
Speaker 1: was built in what unusual shape?
Speaker 2: I have no idea.
Speaker 3: I've got no clue either.
Speaker 4: It's like a pyramid type thing, Jos, I was thinking
Speaker 4: pyramid two.
Speaker 6: Pyramid, pyramid, pyramid, Me me, me, me, me me correct?
Speaker 5: Hang on right, Hang on one second?
Speaker 2: Why do you think I'm retiring? Hang on?
Speaker 5: It's not only is my achilles hurting, but now my
Speaker 5: back is hurting from carrying you guys, Joe Elliott.
Speaker 1: I'm killed, all right, Tony. I think that's something to say, though,
Speaker 1: that you haven't traveled a lot. Now you're gonna do
Speaker 1: a little bit lux Question four, you're on a roll here?
Speaker 1: What what style of yoga is practiced in very in
Speaker 1: a very warm room?
Speaker 5: Yoga yoga.
Speaker 3: It's not called hot yoga.
Speaker 1: Na, there's an name sweaty sweaty as.
Speaker 4: Look at look look at the guy coming out on
Speaker 4: last day.
Speaker 5: Uh hey, well, honey, time out tom out.
Speaker 4: To Can you do one thing real quick at the
Speaker 4: end of the show, can you tell everybody exactly how you.
Speaker 2: Feel about him? And just.
Speaker 5: Because it was ratings?
Speaker 4: Baby, do you mind go out home because I gotta
Speaker 4: go out on a bank.
Speaker 1: We're gonna pull in, We're gonna pull in. I think
Speaker 1: you're let's say your wife by what's hot? Yoga called
Speaker 1: it's a it's it's a name to it.
Speaker 5: Hot?
Speaker 1: Because you can't get another answer wrong or the kids
Speaker 1: will suffer.
Speaker 2: Sushi.
Speaker 5: Wait, wait, what did you say? Bisram bickram bickrum brum.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, bickram bickmyrect.
Speaker 4: But Eddie, I wish i'll tell you what you know
Speaker 4: that because Beckram is the guy that gives me my
Speaker 4: Marborough lights at Dogger's VP.
Speaker 5: Hey, beck what's up?
Speaker 2: But Hey, I wish I had you all right?
Speaker 1: Question number five really got me scared. I just went
Speaker 1: away with your last day, dude, and the crusadees like
Speaker 1: ten days away.
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: What does the H stand for in H G. Wells?
Speaker 1: Is it Henry or Herbert.
Speaker 3: Herbert?
Speaker 1: I'm Herbert Herbert Herbert Dwight. Since you're such an avid reader,
Speaker 1: I want listening.
Speaker 4: I'm on his latest book and it is a great
Speaker 4: read in my book club, I'll go Herbert. Final answer,
Speaker 4: Herbert is.
Speaker 5: A good read. I just like saying that.
Speaker 1: Mean good job, Joe. All right, Joe Elliott, you want
Speaker 1: to get on the board.
Speaker 2: There we go.
Speaker 1: I like it, Joe, all right, this is just going
Speaker 1: to be a guest here because I thought you would
Speaker 1: be doing a lot better at this point. But and
Speaker 1: it's silly, but what is the record for the most
Speaker 1: lit candles in someone's mouth? Is it fourteen? Forty one
Speaker 1: or eighty one?
Speaker 5: It's gotta be eighty one, eighty one, forty one.
Speaker 3: I'd say eighty one too.
Speaker 5: Now let's go forty one.
Speaker 2: I'll say forty one, forty one. Depends on the mouth.
Speaker 5: What what what? What was the wait? Wait?
Speaker 2: Wait, what was the open your mouth?
Speaker 5: What was the middle question?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: Question? You understand the candle has to be lit?
Speaker 2: Okay, forty one.
Speaker 1: It was the game a little bit fourteen.
Speaker 5: Let's go forty forty one, forty one.
Speaker 1: It's always smart to go with the middle one, right,
Speaker 1: That's where I was going. Forty one forty one. Final
Speaker 1: answer for lit candles in someone's mouth?
Speaker 2: Yep, yeah, that's it. Wow. Oh, what's a nice thing
Speaker 2: you have there? What you.
Speaker 1: Alright?
Speaker 2: Alright? You okay, you're relieved?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I get nervous. I get nervous because I wanted
Speaker 1: to go right, I care about the kids.
Speaker 4: There's got to be one person you worked with over
Speaker 4: the years that you hate that you can just like
Speaker 4: let it know.
Speaker 1: No, he hates, no one he hates. He's a boy scout.
Speaker 1: But the commercial exactly what I said on his first day,
Speaker 1: we hired a scout.
Speaker 5: I gonna have you find somebody, Tony Cruise.
Speaker 1: Here we go. Question seven. Robert De Niro and Al
Speaker 1: Pacino acted together for the first time in which film?
Speaker 5: I want to say The Godfather?
Speaker 1: Robert de Niro?
Speaker 5: I want to say the god Really Narrow wasn't the Godfather?
Speaker 1: Was he? Al Pacina was not in The Godfather?
Speaker 5: Al Pacina was De Niro? Was Niro? Was Narrow? De
Speaker 5: Niro wasn't in it?
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 5: Hang on what they've been in. They've been in Heat. Heat.
Speaker 1: Maybe Heat is an underrated maybe not underrate, but it
Speaker 1: is a fantastic film. Let's go with Heat that I
Speaker 1: believe was wasn't that Ashley judds like kind of platform
Speaker 1: that launched her? So she became a big star after that.
Speaker 4: And Heat movie, you see the trapper walks in and
Speaker 4: so it in Heat.
Speaker 5: Butchino's the cop.
Speaker 1: No, yes, Copper narrows.
Speaker 4: Narrow is the crook, and every time he walks by,
Speaker 4: he tells Pacino grass.
Speaker 1: So Robert De Niro al Pacino acted together first time.
Speaker 5: That's the only thing I know. H heat heat, Oh, okay,
Speaker 5: all right, how many are we in?
Speaker 1: You got three more?
Speaker 2: I always geting Robert De Niro and Robert de ball
Speaker 2: mixed up.
Speaker 1: Remember you can trade for another question at the I
Speaker 1: have one in reserve. All right, there's only gonna be
Speaker 1: several choices on these answer, so you gotta narrow it down.
Speaker 1: Nineteen seventy three, which building became the world's tallest when it.
Speaker 2: Opened World Trade Center? What?
Speaker 1: No, there, there's only several choices.
Speaker 2: This was the other one Chicago.
Speaker 5: We're building Sears Tower.
Speaker 1: So what's the name of the Chicago one?
Speaker 2: Serious tower?
Speaker 1: So you're basically your choices are because they're right around
Speaker 1: the same time. So it's the it's the New York
Speaker 1: or Chicago? Chicago nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 5: Right, Sears Tower. Yeah, so let's go serious.
Speaker 1: What do you think it was Chicago for a while?
Speaker 2: And then there's.
Speaker 4: Seventy three, Yeah, seventy three, So this is post God
Speaker 4: give me an answer.
Speaker 7: It was the John Hancock Building in Chicago's let's go serious.
Speaker 1: Let's go serious, Wight. We're trusting you. Yeah, yeah, let's
Speaker 1: go We're gonna trust Why.
Speaker 5: Let's go serious town. I was gonna go Roebuck Tower,
Speaker 5: but we're gonna go Sears Tower.
Speaker 2: You know, I think.
Speaker 1: Who? Yes, the Sears Tower in Chicago. That's where nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy three and.
Speaker 5: Now they got like a plexiglass thing where people sit there.
Speaker 5: Look at me, I'm hoovering over to Coo.
Speaker 1: I did look it up there you can get not
Speaker 1: a big apartment, but you can get an apartment in
Speaker 1: this year's tower for about one hundred and seventy five
Speaker 1: thousand or two hundred thousand. What practice does it come
Speaker 1: with a mop? Uh?
Speaker 8: What would only be about eight ft long?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: No, no, it was a decent sized closet.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I got the joke.
Speaker 1: Listen, some people, after events has happened in the country,
Speaker 1: don't like to live us.
Speaker 2: He went to Trinity, so he got too educated. He
Speaker 2: did that fun all right?
Speaker 1: What brand? This second last question, what brand of whiskey?
Speaker 1: What brand of whiskey? Was created in nineteen thirty nine,
Speaker 1: when the Queen of England visited Canada.
Speaker 5: Uh, Canadian royal, Canadian royal. What's it called? No, No,
Speaker 5: it's got crown royal, Crown royal. That sounds right, Crown Royal,
Speaker 5: Crown Royal.
Speaker 1: I'll go with that, Canadian witting. I'm so damn proud
Speaker 1: of you.
Speaker 5: Okay, my work. I think we're done here. Out of time,
Speaker 5: We're out of time. Arms around the time. We can't.
Speaker 1: We're gonna make Tony Kruz.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 5: Let me say, Let me say what thing? All right?
Speaker 4: Tony Dwight team down by one zero seconds on the
Speaker 4: clock and the line.
Speaker 5: It all comes.
Speaker 4: Down to you're you're giving me ptsdt's let's go ahead.
Speaker 5: That's a lot of pressure.
Speaker 2: Are you ready?
Speaker 1: And it's a sports question?
Speaker 5: Oh, it's a lot. Can I just say something real quick?
Speaker 1: And I don't know if you've ever covered this event?
Speaker 5: Can I say something? If it's sports, there's no way
Speaker 5: he can get wrong.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, there's absolutely no way he can get this one wrong.
Speaker 1: What here? We go for all the marbles? If you
Speaker 1: get this wrong, the kids lose money.
Speaker 5: Can I say one more thing?
Speaker 4: No, do not let the fact that everyone in here
Speaker 4: is staring at you make you nervous.
Speaker 5: You got you gotta block that out.
Speaker 4: Look like all these people out here for me, they're
Speaker 4: here for the food.
Speaker 5: You gotta block that out. When you answer, all.
Speaker 1: We go, all right, nip it?
Speaker 5: Alright?
Speaker 1: What decade was the first Indianapolis? Five hundred? Was it
Speaker 1: nineteen tens or nineteen twenties?
Speaker 2: I got hang on, be quiet, nineteen tens.
Speaker 1: You look very committed and either whether you were confident
Speaker 1: or not, you are pulling it off.
Speaker 4: Yes, nineteen tens, nineteen tens. Final answer, answer all comes
Speaker 4: down to this.
Speaker 2: Tens. Tony Cruz.
Speaker 5: Cruise.
Speaker 2: How do I know? Because I was in it?
Speaker 1: That's right, old man?
Speaker 5: Where Cruz came from? A lot about Tony.
Speaker 4: I always thought Tony Cruz came from the term cruising
Speaker 4: that was popular in the late seventies early eighties.
Speaker 2: No, that would be something remember about.
Speaker 1: We all know where it's from now, an old prostitute.
Speaker 5: If you weren't listening, it was a man. Sorry, it
Speaker 5: was a pimp.
Speaker 8: I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Before they were madams.
Speaker 5: Yeah right. The only reason the only reason become a
Speaker 5: madame is you age out.
Speaker 2: So she is what she used? All right? Uh?
Speaker 1: Grill masters supply Tony cruise, Joe Elliott, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: You guys rock out.
Speaker 1: We got listen. We're gonna let you do one more
Speaker 1: goodbye because the one you did on your own show
Speaker 1: was kind of lean. Yeah, we're gonna make you do
Speaker 1: it again. Okay, we're gonna make you do it again.
Speaker 1: We don't know, I don't care. Hey, go back and
Speaker 1: slam a dyke.
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Speaker 1: which I have yet Joe to get.
Speaker 7: Oh, I got mine. It was an ordeal, but I
Speaker 7: got it done. Had to come back twice. You got it, yeah, Boat,
Speaker 7: it was a mess.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a mess, And they continued I did.
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Speaker 3: So I had an appointment and it still didn't do
Speaker 3: much good.
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Speaker 7: Hey, can I jump in here just real quick. I
Speaker 7: know you guys got a lot of other things to do,
Speaker 7: but I want to give a shout out to Rick Olgeier.
Speaker 7: Rick is the man here at at Girl Masters. He
Speaker 7: also has his fireplay shop, which I know you guys
Speaker 7: have talked about on this show. Yeah, he fixed my
Speaker 7: air conditioner years ago. Allgeyar Air, Allgear Air and water.
Speaker 3: Does plumbing now.
Speaker 7: This guy is into everything and I really appreciate him
Speaker 7: having us out here today for your show and Tony's
Speaker 7: retirement bash and whatever else. We're all doing that here,
Speaker 7: So I just want to give a salute to Rick.
Speaker 1: It's a great one too. It's been a great opportunity
Speaker 1: for Tony to have this is your Wife this week
Speaker 1: and I'm not so sure. I'm not so sure, how
Speaker 1: many of us wants to do a week of this
Speaker 1: is your wife.
Speaker 8: Terry Miners, this is this is so fu Now tomorrow
Speaker 8: it'll be crickets in his life. That'll be the amazing thing.
Speaker 8: By Sunday afternoon, he'll start crying and texting us and saying,
Speaker 8: let me come back.
Speaker 1: There's got to be a support group for Penny the wife.
Speaker 1: You know, he's been working for his entire life, but
Speaker 1: if anybody deserves a little quiet time and going to
Speaker 1: spend time with his grandkids. In all jokes aside, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I called him to the boy Scout the first day
Speaker 1: he was.
Speaker 8: You called him Pap Paul too. That was the first
Speaker 8: time I heard that route.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I said, Pap Paul had boy Scout when they
Speaker 1: hired him in mornings. I said, well, they went to
Speaker 1: boy scout route. But he's just he's just a different
Speaker 1: kind of animal man, He's a different kind of cat.
Speaker 1: I like him a lot, Joe.
Speaker 8: We've known him so long that we've seen cruise in
Speaker 8: his various phases. Yes, I remember when he went on
Speaker 8: summer vacation and then when he came back, his hat
Speaker 8: was turned backwards and he said, yo baby, and I'm like,
Speaker 8: oh my god, oh my goodness, where have you been?
Speaker 8: And his whole demeanor changed there for a while, and
Speaker 8: then ultimately we convinced him he's not eminem and then
Speaker 8: he came back to being Tony again.
Speaker 1: It's so fitting that he started in Christian radio.
Speaker 8: Wasn't he like Fluffy Year or so? He had some
Speaker 8: kind of a name. I know, you remember Joe he
Speaker 8: was on other station. No, I know he was Tony Cruz.
Speaker 8: But no, he was like Snowy and Fluffy or something.
Speaker 8: He was on something.
Speaker 2: In the morning.
Speaker 7: Yeah, on the rock stage in the morning.
Speaker 1: How did you know that his name Tony Cruz was
Speaker 1: inspired by a prostitute. No, I find out out today.
Speaker 5: So I thought, skip.
Speaker 8: Esse, just trying to make him sound like Tom Clean.
Speaker 1: He said, no, no, no, he told the truth today
Speaker 1: that this this guy, one of his program directors, would
Speaker 1: get in the car with her. He would write, share
Speaker 1: ride with a madam named Tony Cruz. She was a prostitute.
Speaker 8: Get out of it.
Speaker 1: And I said, we're just hearing this now right her
Speaker 1: last day.
Speaker 8: That is a strange is a strange story. But so
Speaker 8: I've shaken his hands all these years, and I didn't
Speaker 8: wash my hands right after.
Speaker 1: But he did.
Speaker 8: Morning.
Speaker 1: It's different than you and I. We did mornings long
Speaker 1: time ago.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And Nick Coffee was talking about our our little conversation
Speaker 1: the other day we did.
Speaker 8: Look Joe Elliott. I don't know if Joe was on
Speaker 8: that text thread, but we were. We were making a
Speaker 8: joke about getting up in mornings just you'd rather get
Speaker 8: hit in the face with a baseball bat five times
Speaker 8: instead of hosting a morning show. Yeah, and then Nick Coffee,
Speaker 8: I didn't realize was lurking, and he says, oh, thanks guys,
Speaker 8: thanks for talking me into this job.
Speaker 3: No, nothing like it. You know, we've all had this experience.
Speaker 3: If you've done mornings.
Speaker 7: You wake up and it's like, I don't know, five
Speaker 7: point fifty six or something, and you look at the
Speaker 7: clock and you're panicked, and then you realize it's Saturday,
Speaker 7: and you're like, oh, it's such a great relief.
Speaker 1: Okay. On that point, he gets to wake up tomorrow
Speaker 1: and forever now and not be somewhere on the road.
Speaker 1: Right it's dark and he's avoiding du drivers and trying
Speaker 1: to get to work.
Speaker 8: And I texted him at three o'clock this morning. Yeah,
Speaker 8: I woke up and I thought, it's gonna be Cruise's
Speaker 8: last show. I need to send him something. So I
Speaker 8: sent him a text, told him I loved him, how
Speaker 8: awesome he is, and he hit me back about eight
Speaker 8: minutes later, and I got to thinking he's probably on
Speaker 8: I seventy one while he's returning my text, I'm in bed.
Speaker 1: Well, you know that was side. It was Chase Scruel.
Speaker 1: That was a concern for me when I did Mornings.
Speaker 1: You got to dodge the the you know, bars close
Speaker 1: it forth. Yeah, so they you know, you get to
Speaker 1: the parking lots, do some math here and we're about
Speaker 1: the same time on the road.
Speaker 2: But I've done TV.
Speaker 8: You've done it too, where you had to do TV
Speaker 8: live shots in the early morning.
Speaker 2: Oh boy.
Speaker 8: And like I always say, I love Holly the producer,
Speaker 8: Holly Ruprect. She would get in my ear because I'd
Speaker 8: be five twenty am when I'm doing first Hit or
Speaker 8: five thirty five or whatever, and then she's watching the
Speaker 8: screen back in the studio and then drunk people be
Speaker 8: walking out of some place and Hollywood say in my
Speaker 8: ear while I'm on the air, I want to talk
Speaker 8: to Joe Ellie about something she'd say, you got a
Speaker 8: jackass behind you. I'ming up left shoulder, left shoulder, get ready.
Speaker 8: And then as soon as somebody would come up to
Speaker 8: try and disrupt my live shot, I turn around and say,
Speaker 8: how can I help you? How are you looking for
Speaker 8: the STD clinic that's right there.
Speaker 1: Well, it turns out that jackass was Dwight Whitten.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, weird.
Speaker 1: Where are you?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're I know what the problem was? Yeah, well
Speaker 5: I returned, turn up by it.
Speaker 1: There you go, there you go, all right, don't worry
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 4: Alright, So listen, I wanted Tony Cruz to come on
Speaker 4: here and run down all right.
Speaker 5: See, I told you. I wanted Tony Cruz to come
Speaker 5: on here and for the last break just kind of
Speaker 5: run down people.
Speaker 2: Who he hated to work with.
Speaker 4: I heard earlier he refused to do it, but he did.
Speaker 5: He did, slapping this piece of paper a lots of songs.
Speaker 4: I'm on there there, God by the name of Bill
Speaker 4: Gentry again, talk.
Speaker 8: Talk to Doug Prophet. He still tells the story where
Speaker 8: he was walking down the hall in the building and
Speaker 8: he saw Tony Cruz tackle me and wrestle me, and
Speaker 8: I forgot what we were talking about, but he said,
Speaker 8: I can beat you. You're told, but I can beat you.
Speaker 8: And then he grabbed me and threw me down. That
Speaker 8: to me too, Doug Prophet's like today, they put you
Speaker 8: right in jail.
Speaker 1: For you put He did that to me too, because
Speaker 1: he wrestled Westport. All right, so we are at Faster's
Speaker 1: supply as we say goodbye to Tony Cruz. We're about
Speaker 1: five minutes away from that, so we got to get
Speaker 1: him back.
Speaker 2: On real quick.
Speaker 8: He's over there talking real quick.
Speaker 1: Tony Cruz, come on, buddy, real quick.
Speaker 4: Fifty fifty years ago, Kentucky Cardinals win the ABA Championship
Speaker 4: and ABA player Mike Grosso just walking.
Speaker 1: Wow, Tony Cruz, come and take my head seat because
Speaker 1: you're gonna do a better goodbye than you did on
Speaker 1: your own show. That was kind of lame. So here
Speaker 1: you go.
Speaker 8: Yeah, no, appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Gets Wait, No, here's the challenge.
Speaker 4: I had to get out of the way somehow work
Speaker 4: the word.
Speaker 5: Precipitous in there.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, you've got seven minutes cruise, seven minutes to
Speaker 4: fish seven minutes.
Speaker 8: All right, we'll all be quiet unless you want to
Speaker 8: tell me is near.
Speaker 6: Thank God, I don't have to work with these people anymore.
Speaker 8: Love, but say it out. Wow, I do love you guys.
Speaker 8: Thank you, he slurping, Go ahead, this is compelling.
Speaker 2: I know he's drinking his top.
Speaker 4: Cheer's your guy asked a question. Cheri's question retirement, And
Speaker 4: you know we've had conversations. But I got in the
Speaker 4: studio and I can't tell I told you so many times.
Speaker 4: I can't wait to get the retirement.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: You always crash my dreams by talking about the finances.
Speaker 4: But here's my question to you, what are you going
Speaker 4: to miss the most the people don't work with you?
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, I mean I've missed. I missed
Speaker 4: Terry after nine miserable years.
Speaker 8: He always says nine miserable, but he loved. We had
Speaker 8: a ball when you were doing sports and all gosh,
Speaker 8: I loved it. We would laugh ourselves silly. I was
Speaker 8: just telling a story about Doug Prophecy and you tackle
Speaker 8: me in the hallway and he goes, what is happening here?
Speaker 8: We did a lot of crazy things back then. Ye yeah,
Speaker 8: but you know, uh, I loved working with you. I
Speaker 8: love seeing Tony and Dwight. You know, I love working
Speaker 8: with Joe, I mean there's there's nobody. I mean there's
Speaker 8: there's It's all been great, all right, We'll be like
Speaker 8: lou Gary get up and announced that you're dying. But
Speaker 8: it's still right, my boy.
Speaker 6: Sounds like I'm dying because of allergies. And then I've
Speaker 6: been up since two o'clock in the morning. This morning,
Speaker 6: I've been up since one o'clock.
Speaker 5: So take fat. No, we're gonna We're gonna miss it.
Speaker 5: But I'm so jealous, man.
Speaker 4: And you know, as as your wife Penny takes your picture,
Speaker 4: who by the way, her sleep number is forty three.
Speaker 4: I can only I can only guess that she's looking
Speaker 4: for her loss eyes. I can only I can only
Speaker 4: imagine that Penny is now looking forward to the golden
Speaker 4: years of you all sitting around and you going.
Speaker 8: What do he say? Can I borrow the teeth? I'm
Speaker 8: going to McDonald's like a girl.
Speaker 4: Sel Oh my god, my grossel a b a Kentucky colonel.
Speaker 5: He's too busy hitting.
Speaker 8: On my Joe Ellett. We're just gonna have to do
Speaker 8: the Louke Garrick thing to just help him here. I
Speaker 8: have a moment like that, at this moment, still the lucky,
Speaker 8: luckiest man in the world.
Speaker 2: But I don't like talking about myself or anything. I'm
Speaker 2: just not like that. No me, I like talking about
Speaker 2: other people.
Speaker 7: But a great career, I mean all seriousness. You have
Speaker 7: had just a great run at this radio station and
Speaker 7: in this town.
Speaker 2: It's been a blast.
Speaker 6: I mean working with some of the funniest people and
Speaker 6: uh Hard and Warren Heart's with you know, the Crusade
Speaker 6: and everything else. I just I've enjoyed every bit of it,
Speaker 6: you know, except the three o'clock in.
Speaker 5: The morning wake up.
Speaker 4: Let me ask you this, because radio is a tough,
Speaker 4: tough gig to get into.
Speaker 5: It is tough, man, it's tough. As a child, what
Speaker 5: did you want to do? What did you want to be?
Speaker 6: I I'll tell you what happened. And I don't know
Speaker 6: if this is what I wanted to be. But what
Speaker 6: one thing I remember calling play by play? I had
Speaker 6: a my my brother, and this guy across the street.
Speaker 6: We're playing with slock cars, and I called play by
Speaker 6: play on the slock cars.
Speaker 2: I'm not kidding, So I did. I did? No, uh,
Speaker 2: and then uh. I've always been kind of in the
Speaker 2: entertainment thing. Westport.
Speaker 6: You know I did musicals and plays and all that
Speaker 6: kind of stuff.
Speaker 5: That's what I used to tease them about. Okay, well listen, there's.
Speaker 2: No he'd say.
Speaker 8: I'd say, Tony, I only I know that you had
Speaker 8: one solo and all those shows that you you auditioned for.
Speaker 8: And he said, okay, I'll do it again. I'm gonna
Speaker 8: watch that. Man, how would you know that song?
Speaker 5: Terry?
Speaker 4: He explained a lot when he said, you know, I've
Speaker 4: always been in the musicals, explained a lot for but
Speaker 4: all jokes aside.
Speaker 5: We're gonna miss you, but I'm envious.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 5: I can't. I can't wait to retire. And I wish
Speaker 5: you the best of all.
Speaker 4: I mean, I mean, because truly you are a great guy.
Speaker 4: Some people put on the side of being a great guy.
Speaker 4: Tony Cruz is what I will tell you a little
Speaker 4: of Kentucky, selling Indiana wherever.
Speaker 5: He's the real deal.
Speaker 4: He is, and when he comes off Mike, God love him.
Speaker 4: He's even one hundred percent more genuine than he is
Speaker 4: on the air.
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be tough for us too.
Speaker 2: Well, we you know I love you guys. I'm always
Speaker 2: available phone calls. Well, that's gonna charge you seventy five bucks.
Speaker 8: Let's not get carried away, Tony many retired or are
Speaker 8: you both? She's still working a little bit. See that's
Speaker 8: the thing is now he's sitting around Dwight. He's gonna
Speaker 8: get a gambling addiction. Y, that's just absolutely correct. Oh,
Speaker 8: I'm glad.
Speaker 2: I don't do sports.
Speaker 8: The wife's busy, so I had to come over here
Speaker 8: and see what is in fentanyl.
Speaker 2: Woman.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let me get this real quick and we'll get
Speaker 4: the last word to you. Bernelds Pizza is a little
Speaker 4: style pizza. The pizza the constat is back and the
Speaker 4: pizza that Tony Cruz uses to celebrate his retirement with
Speaker 4: dine in carry out the delivery Bernal's pizza.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's that good cruise mis Herve love you. I
Speaker 5: love you too, buddy. We're gonna miss.
Speaker 2: You thanks to all the people that put up with me.
Speaker 4: And I gotta tell you, gotta tell you this much.
Speaker 4: Often management said they wish had uh five employees just
Speaker 4: like you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, unfortunately we have ten.
Speaker 1: I love you, Tony Cruz, you are the best. And uh,
Speaker 1: We've had a lot of conversations about the University of
Speaker 1: Louisville and the University of Kentucky. Yeah, but you you
Speaker 1: set a standard for nice guy around us, but certainly
Speaker 1: we needed it. And enjoy your time off, Enjoy your
Speaker 1: grandkids and and and and there is a support group
Speaker 1: for Penny, so please have a great time. We love
Speaker 1: you dearly, Buy love you so much.
Speaker 5: I love you brother, best of luck Man.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you.
Speaker 1: News Radio eight forty w h as Tony signing off
Speaker 1: for the last time.
Speaker 5: I love you, mo