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April 11, 2018 15 mins

Elvis is back after being inducted into the NAB Hall of Fame. We chat radio, career and end up on Doctors?!?!?!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What would you talk about on your on your podcast? Fine,
all right, we got fifteen minutes. Let's go. I miss
my mom. Why I miss your mom? Danielle SE's in
Italy until I think this week. She comes back in

(00:22):
a couple of days. And I feel it's so weird,
Like I don't realize how much I talked to her.
I talked to her probably almost every day, And I feel,
which can in Italy? She doesn't even have a phone.
She borrowed someone's phone to text me that she arrived
on time. I arrived. Fine, I know, hold on, she
doesn't have a phone. Does They didn't like get the
cell package for overseas, like they can't figure that out.

(00:44):
So how long is she in it? She's ten days?
But I went to call her three times, where I'm like, oh,
I gotta tell my mom, Oh my mom's not here.
She's in Italy. But she sent me a picture of
herself at the Vatican. I have so many stories for you.
I saw the Pope and blah blah blah. So she's
so sighting. But you don't realize you how much you,
you know, rely on your parents, you really do for

(01:05):
lots of you. It's Funny you mentioned that, Danielle, because
the other day I was telling my parents, all right,
so well, let's make some plans. I want to take
mom out for Mother's Day. Let's do something fun. And
my mother's like, oh, you're on your own on Mother's Day,
And I'm like what now the old me would be like,
you know, I don't want to. I never. I used
to dread going to my parents house, used to dread

(01:27):
doing holidays with the family. But I got upset, visibly
upset with my parents. I said, where we are you
gonna be with for Mother's Day? Oh, we're gonna be
uh cruising on a riverboat in Germany for two weeks.
So that kind of overlaps with our vacation. So Mother's
Day is not good for us. That's my parents talking
to me. But Mother's Day is not good for them. Yeah,

(01:49):
they're going on a vacation. You can miss her very much,
but you should be happy that she's enjoying big days.
These are the times, These are the moments we need
to spend with up. I do understand that because you
don't know how much longer you know, you don't know
what's going to happen. You've got to hope that you
have years and years and years. Okay, let's have that
conversation while you're sitting here talking about, you know, missing

(02:11):
your mom and which you could call her, but she's
in Italy and you're talking about your parents who will
be on the Danube, that's where they're going to be.
I could't pronounce it well, you know. And I definitely
have from come from a different point of view about
my parents. And Brody does too, so sort of as well.
He lost his father. I lost my mother and father.
So yeah, I get it. When you have when you
have the moments you can connect with him, do it
because you know they won't won't always be here. But

(02:33):
I know that's a sad story, but it's true. But Elvis,
just like Valentine's Day, though scary, is that type of
person that he only can spend Mother's Day with his mother.
There's there's three and sixty four other days too. Could
you do Mother's Day after Mother's Day like when they
get before. Ultimately on Mother's Day, you want your mom
to be happy. You want to have a great day.

(02:54):
So your mother is getting a chance to travel, which
she rarely does living in Brooklyn. She doesn't travel a lot.
He has an opportunity for to do something thing. You
should be thrilled and you're off the hook. You off
to buy a brunch and now you can get a
flower's half price the next week. I love the way
you look at it. But how do you I mean,
they flipped the script on me. I did not see
that coming because they were they always want to spend

(03:14):
every holiday they can with their son. But my mom
says that there's like all these phases you go through
in life, like you have, you know, the single phase
where you do your own thing, and then a lot
of people go through the marriage phase, and you have
your kids and it's all about your children, and then
once your children out of the house, my mom said,
it's all about me again. Let them go have fun.
They worked their asses off to raise you and your

(03:35):
your brother and your sister, and you're out of the house,
all of your out. You're right, you're you're right. It's
actually kind of selfish of me to want to spend
Mother's Day with her. Just be happy for I think
Brody brings up very good point. They're going to travel
to Germany. That's so cool. Let him have fun. These
other cities that can't pronounce. Plus again, if I could
say they have price flowers. That's really the focus here.
And you can be a cheap bastard, but and you

(03:57):
can celebrate another day, either you know, when they get
back or before. You know. This is interesting you brought
this point up because the other night, when I was
in Las Vegas accepting this incredible, incredible um induction into
the Hall of Fame, you know, I was thinking about
my mom and dad, like, oh my god, I I
wish they were here. That would be so cool for
them to see that, you know, and there are so

(04:18):
many cool things that we do, all of us, not
just me, all of us, and you really really want
to share them with your mom and your dad, and
so to have them around, that's cool, you know. And uh,
I wish they could have been there that night also
looking down and being proud. Now, when Elvis, when you
started your radio station in your closet and your your
home in Texas, where was your mom and dad? Like

(04:40):
what are you doing in the closet? No, they knew
they I came out of that closet. They knew that
radio was my thing. And I've been bitten by the
radio bug. They knew I was in there, and and
I think they later on said they knew it would
pay off eventually. That good. Like Scary's dad who said,
don't get into radio. Did he really? Oh yeah, he

(05:02):
apologized to me several years What did he want you
to do? He wanted me to be an accountant or
something that had a future, a job that paid. He
got you there. Well yeah, well but so at the
time he didn't. He was just like hell bent against it,
and I went against him. And it wasn't until several
years later on Father's Day. It was actually a couple

(05:24):
of years ago, and he apologized to me at lunch.
Look at that and he's like, I'm so sorry. He
goes all these years I I I, um, I believe
I'm saying it, you know, I just it's just weird
to me because it was. It was It was a
really touching moment. I almost cried because he apology. He
looked me in the eye and apologized for all those
years that he was against me going into He kind

(05:46):
of came or he came around and just had that
admission and I'm like, wow, what, thanks, thanks for the apology,
you know, but what did your parents want you to
do well. I wanted to. I wanted to like pound
the pavement after college, and I wanted to like a
audition for Broadway shows. And I remember my dad saying, yeah,
we paid for college so that you could go bound
the payment and do the Broadway shows. So what do

(06:08):
they want? And then I, I don't know they really
I don't remember the discussion, but I know that I interned,
and I know that my mom told me to quit
this job here several times because I was making four
dollars and five cents an hour, which was the minimum
wage at the time, and she was like, this is
not going anywhere. This is where you have to this
is and eventually I kept saying, wait, mom, wait, something's
going to happen. And then it did. They make you

(06:30):
feel like a failure, and it wouldn't make me feel
like a failure. But she just wanted, you know, she
wanted you to be happy. Ye see, my parents were
They never ever said don't do radio. They never said
anything other than we just want you to be happy.
And I never really understood that until you know, now,
what about you? My At first I had the opportunity
to come work here when I was a freshman in

(06:50):
college and I told my mom that, and she goes,
so you're going to answer phones and give up three
years of college and get an education. I said yeah,
and she said no. Uh So luckily four years later
the opportunity came here. But my mom worked in the
entertainment business um behind the scenes, and I grew up
in it, and I knew that at the end of

(07:11):
the day, I did not want to start my life
behind a desk, per se. I didn't want to sit down.
I didn't want to clock in at nine o'clock nine
am and leave at five wear a suit, wear a
suit scary being an accountant, I cannot envision him wearing
a t and I so I never wanted to be
behind a desk where whatever it may be that I

(07:32):
did so right and a brody Yeah you're how does
your mom feel about you and your your involvement with
the fact that I'm getting paid to do what I've
been and always have exuded my whole life. I mean,
I used to get in trouble in school. The dean
once called my mom and said, uh, your your son's
in my office. Uh, And she said I was something okay,
she's Japanic. He said he was being extremely humorous and

(07:52):
disrupted the class, and I hear I hear him saying
to her on the phone, no, no, you don't understand.
It is a bad thing. No no, And she was like,
I'm so proud of him. That's my boy. He gets
that from me. And so he thought she'd get upset
that I was being funny in the class. And so
the fact that I get to do this, my mother's thrilled.
I mean, I grew up on comedy radio my grandfather,
and I have other relatives who write comedy, so this

(08:14):
was sort of a thing that, you know, my father
was just happy that I was happy. They never cared.
I mean I was going to law school. They were happy.
And then when I wasn't, they were happy. So now
my mother listens to the show, in the podcast and
everything else, and she's she's proud, loving life. You know
that I was supposed to sign with Mark Anthony like
years ago before. So before Mark Anthony was Mark Anthony,
he was a freestyle singer in the Bronx and I

(08:36):
was singing at the time, and uh, I he had
heard me on a demo or something, and he had
come to my house and wanted to sign me for
this song that he was working on with somebody. And
he took my dad, myself, and his people out to lunch,
and my dad didn't trust him and didn't trust the people.
And so to this day I go, hey, Dad, remember

(08:57):
that Mark Anthony. Yeah, that's him right over there. He's
like you act you have knowing is much better than
the market. He wouldn't he wouldn't let me sign with him.
He would not let me sign with him. Mix tape
you want that mixed? I don't know where that. I'm
glad you didn't sign with there you go, thanks? That funny.
It is funny, you know. It's just you do what
you want to do in life to have You want

(09:17):
to have fun, you want to do something that's like interesting. Yeah.
And there are a lot of people who listen to
our show and we hear from you every day, from
people who just feel like they're in a dead end job.
They don't know how they ended up here, but they
know they've got to make ends meet, they've got to
put food on the table, and they don't have a choice.
But if ever, you get into a point in your
life where you feel like you're trapped and you have

(09:40):
to do that or nothing else. That's not a good feeling.
No way. I don't ever want to become stagnant. I
always want to feel like I'm getting paid to do
my hobby. Instagram and here's always different because you're always
doing something different. It's not always the same, Like I mean,
we come into the show every day, and then we
have the stuff that we normally do, what we're traveling
or interviewing this or going to host this or doing
and it's always differ and it's very interesting. You know,

(10:01):
it is interesting. So you know, no matter what you
do for your living, you know you've got to find
a way to make it interesting. Otherwise you're cheating yourself.
Like the time has taken, the calendar days are just
flying into the air and before you know it, you're
gonna be how old and you're what do I What
did I just do? What do I do with my life?
Where did it go? Spend more than half of your
waking hours doing your job, So you better love what

(10:25):
you do otherwise you're screwed. It's like it's you spend
all this time in bed as well? You need a
good bed, you need important. You need great pillows and
great bed. You do not skip on your mattress. I
helped my brother in law take his mattress out the
other day. How old was It was about fifteen years old.

(10:45):
The thing crumbles as we're bringing it down. That's nasty,
that is disgusting. I know. The thing is that you
spend all this time on your mattress. This is a
very important part of every day and every night. You
need a good man. My first apartment was the mattress
was concave, so if you laid anywhere near towards the
middle a little bit, you rolled into the middle right,

(11:07):
so you had to sleep on the edge, which are
the only part that wasn't collapsed. And every morning I
would wake up in the middle of the bed. I
was alone, thankfully, So I had a race car bed
until I was in high school, a race car like
the kids race car bedol sophomore in high school and
when my dad goes, that's enough, we got to get
you a bed. My car. Yeah, race car, but I

(11:29):
think if you have a driver's license, you should not
have a race car. I didn't have a driver's license yet,
so it was good. I love that like little drummer
boys as wallpaper. But no, but the bed was never
he was going to say, a little drummer boys in
his bed. Okay, So, which reminds me of the next question. Uh,
how old were you when you stopped going to your pediatrician? Oh?

(11:52):
My gosh, because I have a friend who still goes
to his childhood doctor as a man. Yes, as a man.
He's grown man, seventeen seventy. See, I was still going
to mind until he passed away. Okay, would you still
be going now? I would love to still. He was amazing, definitely.
I would say. It's interesting because my wife Ali, she's

(12:12):
a physician assistant, and she sees thirty year olds come
in with their mother's guys, thirty old guys with their moms,
and mom's answering the question as if the thirty year
old is ten. Yeah, I can see that happening. Wait,
does a pediatrician have the same qualifications and the same
level of experience and expertise as a as a doctor?

(12:35):
No stuff, But they they're not experts in as your
lung zero, general aging, and they are experts and things
that had to do with the development of a kid
and this and that. But but the little chairs in
the waiting room or tiny. We had an return here
last summer named Josh So he was twenty one at
that point. He said, I've never been in a waiting
room for a doctor that didn't have toys. He still

(12:55):
goes to his pediatrician. I asked my kids pediatrician the
other day, what age do they stop going? But she said,
you can go into your twenties. No, my friends in
his thirties. If if I could go to my kids
pediatrician as my doctor, I would because she's amazing, and
my doctor I'm leaving because I don't well. Different story, well,
doctor Hill was my pediatrician and every time and I

(13:17):
was like, it's kind of a sick kid. And every
time I needed a shot, which was every time I
went to the doctor, he would walk in and he
would have it behind his back because if I knew you,
but I knew it, I know exactly the guy's gonna
zap me with a needle. And so he'd walk in
and go, Okay, Well, I'm like, okay, let's do it.
He'll bring it out. I'm like, God, I hated that.
I will admit when I give blood now as an

(13:38):
adult when like the doctor says you have to get
blood work, I have them open the draw and give
me a lollipop afterwards. Why should the kids get lollipops?
Don't get a lollipop. I bet they love giving you
a lollip I'm like, hey, where's lollipop? Oh? You want lollipop?
They get excited they give you one. You see the
story about the dentist. Lady suing a dentist right now
because the dentist was rubbing her feet and gave her
red wine and then worked on her mouth. What that

(13:59):
sounds kind correct? Well, yeah, no, we're just talking about
dentist doctors that It reminded me of a story I
was reading this morning. She went to the dentist. The
dentist rubbed her feet, gave her red wine, then worked
on her mouth. M did he fill her cavity? Something's
going on there, something something in the milk ain't clean.

(14:20):
I don't wait, what's his number? We rubbed my feet?
What you work in my mouth? This has been a
very interesting fifteen minute morning show podect Calm Morning. It
wasn't the worst podcast ever. No, I'm still recovering from
food poisoning. Do we have time for one more question. Um,
when you go to a doctor that handles your private parts,

(14:42):
like a urologist or a kinnecologist, you prefer same sex
opposite sex. I'm on the real quick, I'll do either.
I used to prefer same sex, but now I'm fine
with opposite either. Say we can get into this on
the Big Show tomorrow. All right, Well that was a
mellow fifteen minute, fifteen minute morning show, ol

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