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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Look at I do a Broncos country tonight. Vin's been
all brunt here with you. Grant Smith back there behind
the glass. Rockies baseball coming up here bottom.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Of the hour.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
You guys want to stay tuned for that. Congratulations to
Ron Watson for winning the pair of passes to the
Denver Home Show the National Western Complex. That'll be March
twenty first to the twenty third. You guys can buy
tickets early and save at Denver Home Show dot com.
Gotta run right out to the KWA common spelled hotline
and bring on our guy, Alan Roach, the Golden Voice himself. Alan,
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how you doing to see him?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Hey, good evening. I'm doing well, thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
You know, it's it's it's so few people that I
am that I am absolutely just just always jealous of.
And every time I hear your voice, my god. You know,
there's there's nothing I can do. I just I just
have to sit there in all. Obviously, I think everybody
here knows that you've been to PA for various Super Bowls,
the Avalanche of Rapids, the Rockies, the Broncos. I love
every time I come home to Denver on the DIA
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train thing I get to get to hear your welcoming voice.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
So the Vikings and others, I.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Want to talk a little bit about this Ballpark DJ
thing you got going on the app where people can
have you professionally introduced youth sporting events.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah, it's new to me, it's not new to the
baseball world. I'm guessing that some youth baseball teams around
town have been using Ballpark DJ for a couple of years.
It's been around about eight years, and it was an
amazing idea and basically what it is is it allows kids,
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you know, any age from four year old t ball
players to seventeen year old high school players to have
their name announced by a professional PA announcer when they
come to the play and Ballpark DJ. Like I said,
it's been around eight years and prior to my joining
last month, they had eight different professional announcers and they're
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still there and so we, you know, share all the names.
You get to choose which PA announcer you want, whether
you want the Braves announcer or the Cubs announcer or
whoever it is, and they announce your child as they
come up to bat in a baseball game. And I
think the parents love it just as much as the
kids do. And it's really a fantastic idea. And the
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app is so easy to use, you know, that's that's
probably what makes it great. Well, two things, how easy
the app is to use, and how inexpensive it is
for just a few bucks. I mean, you give your
kid announced the entire baseball season.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
See, this is I was this kind of stuff that
existed back when I was back when I was playing baseball,
so I could have exactly felt more important. But I like,
as I look at this right now, I'm like, you know,
I could really troll my coworkers by having Alan Roach
announced me now entering the studio and then put you know,
and then put my name behind it every time I
walk in, just to kind of make a more grandiose
entrance around here. Not to my entrances are grandiose as is,
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but yeah, this is a really cool thing. I wish
this had existed when I was a kid, you know,
instead of somebody butcher in my name, which I feel
like is pretty easy, all right, feels like it's an
easy name. But somehow, just about every time anybody ever
announced it, they managed to find a way to butcher that.
So but I could have had a professional do it
this whole time.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Well, how can you get Benjamin Albright wrong?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
You know, leave it to southern football announcers to find
a way. Some of that may have been trolling an opponent.
I you know, I don't know, but you know, yeah,
that sounds like a sounds like a really cool deal.
I'm gonna have to check it out. They can just
you can download this if you've got like the Android
or the Apple. You just go to the app store
and download ballpark DJ.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah, yep, go to go to the app store or
whatever the app store is called on the other phone.
I have an iPhone, but yeah, it's called ballpark DJ.
Or you can go online ballparkdj dot com and you
can look at it there and there's a lot more information,
maybe a little bit easier to find the information online
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than always searching through an app, just like everything else.
But there's so many varieties of things you can do.
I mean, first of all, you don't have to buy
the professional announcer at all. You can just get the
ballpark DJ app and have one of the parents announce
the names. But you know, I encourage you to use
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Alan Roach to do it. But you can have one
of the parents announce the names, or you can announce
all sorts of different things that happened during the game,
a home run, a stolen base, a cat stealing, a one,
two three inning, and then you can add music to
them as well. So when I say, you know, now
batting number seven, little Johnny, and little Johnny wants to
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hear a led Zeppelin song, which probably you wouldn't, then
you could just pack that led Zeppelin song right onto
the back of me saying little Johnny. It's it's an
amazingly easy app to use, and it does so much stuff.
It's really cool and I love it obviously flee for
the kids, but I think, especially here in Denver, probably
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some of the parents who have, you know, grown up
with me around all of the different sports venues, probably
like it more than their kids. Their kids are like,
who who is this deep voice guy announcing me? And
their parents are like, Hey, that's that's the guy I
grew up with. So that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Well, I look forward to seeing if I can have
Allen Roach announced that I just completed a sex a
successful interview with Alan Roach.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Yeah, well that's pretty easy. I think anybody needs that.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
See we can make that out of talking with Alan Roche.
All you've done over the years, just just so many
different events. I obviously you know, I hear your voice
every day on my Madden game. Still is the in
stadium announcer or sometimes the PA announcer, especially if play
the Viking. You've you know, you've done the Olympics, Major
League Baseball over the years. Has there has there ever
been one where you've accidentally butchered something?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Well, there's some mistakes here and there. Sure the best
one was and I told this story earlier today, was
talking with somebody about, you know what was the biggest
mistake you made? And it was way back when Mark
McGuire got traded from the A's to the Saint Louis Cardinals.
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While when that trade happened, it was during a Rockies game,
and everyone in the press box at the Rockies for
an hour and a half was talking about Mark McGuire
going to the Cardinals and Mark McGuire was rejoining Tony
LaRussa and Mark McGuire got traded and we were playing
the Cubs that night, and when Mark Grace walked up
to the plate, I said, first baseman number seventeen Mark McGuire,
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and I didn't know it. I had no idea that's
what I said. But it didn't take long for me
to realize, Yeah, that's what you said, dummy.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Did Mark Grace take any offense to that?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Or probably?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
I mean, given Mark McGuire's status, I assume I might
get a little dof of the cat.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
You know. I remember him grounding out to second base,
and I think it was on the first pitch, and
he looked up into the press box as he was
running back to running back to the dugout, and then
I saw him, I don't know, seven, eight ten years
later when he was working for the Diamondbacks television broadcast,
and I saw him in Courusfield in the press box
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one day and I just introduced myself. Hey, I'm Alan Roach.
Do you I'm the PA anounswer. Do you remember the
night that Mark McGuire? Yes, I remember that. I remember
that he was. He gave me some grief about it.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Oh well, it's at least he was. At least he
was a decent sport about it. Talking with Alan Roach
here on Broncos Country tonight. You know you've done all
the big events, you know, all that kind of stuff,
the musicians, all that kind of what's the most, what
stands out the most as a personal favorite to you.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
That's probably the most common question I get asked, and
I mean, I can't answer it because I have been
so lucky and so blessed to be a part of
so many amazing events, some of them that come to
mind right away. I mean locally, it's you know, Eric
Young hitting a home run on the first at bat
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in Denver of Major League Baseball, and Dante Boschett hitting
the fourteenth thning home run on the first day ever
at cors Field. And then you know, one of the
most iconic moments ever in hockey is Joe Sakik taking
the Stanley Cup from the commissioner, turning around and handing
it to Ray Bork. That happened on the ice right
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in front of me. David Tyree catching football from while
he was with the Giants and keeping the Patriots from
their perfect season in the Super Bowl that year, and
the list just goes on and on and on. I mean,
tj Oshie taking eight penalty shots in a USA versus
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Russia hockey game in the Olympics in Russia, And you know,
I was probably one of twenty Americans in that building
that day other than the players. And I'm announcing that.
So been many great events.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
What was the point in your life where you realized
that your voice was the instrument?
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Was there?
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Was it early on? Was it something that occurred later.
What was the moment were you realizing this is my calling?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Probably I started in radio in Minnesota, small town, small
radio station the summer before my junior year of high school.
So I was doing radio all through my junior and
senior year, and then I went to college and planned
on going to college for four years. But after my
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first year of college, I was offered a full time
job in radio. And I guess that's probably when I decided, Okay,
this is what I'm going to do. And as you know,
when you're in radio, you're sure as hell don't need
a college degree.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Well, it's you know, I mean, and it's one of
those things. I don't know if you have ever experienced this,
but like I listen to my voice and you know,
sound check myself and all that kind of stuff, and
you know, every time, I just grown when I hear
myself like on a commercial or in a segment or
somebody that I just grown. I'm like, God, I sound
like the white Steve Rkle. You know, you think that
as you're saying something, you feel, oh, I've got this
deep voice. I'm totally killing it. And then you hear
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it back and you're like, I sound like you know
every nerd in a ninety sitcom? Has there ever been
moments of self doubt with you on that?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Mabe?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Because you do have that. That's such a rich, deep
voice that I think everybody in this industry aspires to.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Yeah, and always, I think anyone that records their voice
and then hears it back, their immediate reaction is, eh,
that's that's what I sound like. Because you hear it
in your head when you talk, and it sounds different
when when you play it back on a recording, and
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and yeah, I mean I get it. I have a
a low and kind of a unique voice. I get that,
and I like that, and I've made a career out
of that. But when I'm doing commercials or saying things
and I hear it back, it's not so much how
my voice sounds, it's oh, man, I could have said
that better. I wish I would have said those words quicker.
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I wish I would have emphasized this word or this
syllable instead of that word or that syllable. So yeah,
I think you're always your biggest critic, and I'm no different.
I can sit down and record a fifteen second commercial,
you know, for Johnson Autoplas, and I can sit there
for thirty minutes trying to get this thirty second commercial perfect,
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and when it's all done, I still don't think it's perfect.
But I'm like, okay, good enough.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Talking with Alan Roach here. You know, what is the
what is the most odd request you've ever gotten? I
think mine was to get into the radio industry to
begin with. But what was the most odd request that
you've ever had?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Well, I have an odd request that I didn't accept,
and I have an odd request that I did accept.
The odd request that I didn't accept came from Howard Stern.
Howard Stern wanted me to announce ah, I can't even
say the title of what it was. He wanted me
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to announce a wine tasting contest that took place in
an unusual place on the body.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Okay, ye, okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
And I thought, at that time, okay, do I accept
Howard Stern's request he'd probably paid me a lot of money,
but I'm guessing that'll kind of be the end of
my NFL career. So sorry, Howard, I'm going to turn
that one down. And the most unusual request that I
did accept, I was the PA announcer essential for a
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three day hairdresser convention in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. And it
was hair dressers from all over the United States and
all over the world. And it was this three day
thing that went, you know, eight hours a day and
it would be like, you know, ladies and gentlemen, please
welcome the President of Loreal. And that was that was
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kind of a crazy thing. It was really fun to do.
I could imagine.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I could imagine that's got to be I mean, so
far out of left field as far as that kind
of stuff goes. I always wonder about, you know, at
the voice acting news is some of those things come on?
Did you ever do any other work for Howard Start
or was that the loan request?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I have become Howard Stern's favorite topic the day after
the Super Bowl. If you're a Howard Stern fan, you
probably already know, but for about the last six or
seven years, on the Monday after the super Bowl. Howard
takes almost an entire hour and replays things that I
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say during that you know, national anthem introduction and all
the other stuff that I do before the super Bowl,
and he just he just salivates, Obra. He's like, Oh,
if I had a voice like that, I'd never have
to work a day in my life. I wish I
sounded like Alan Roach. And then I've I've actually done
some some liner work for him. You know, you're listening
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to Howard Stern on Serious Exam or whatever it is,
and I've recorded a couple of you know, little lines
for him and for different people on the show. So
my voice gets heard quite a bit on Howard Stern,
but maybe only one or two words at a time.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Well still, what a what ay fascinating career that you've
had and continue to have. And for everybody who wants
to check out the ballpark DJ app you can get
that obviously in the app stores. And you said BALLPARKDJ
dot com as well, correct.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yep, it's just so cool. I mean, at least go
if if your if your son or daughter plays you know,
baseball or softball, check it out. And then the other
thing that we're really going to try and do once
we get to this fall is get really involved in
kids hockey and you know, to do starting lineups as
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the kids come out of the locker room and skate
onto the ice and stuff like that. It just it
just really adds, I think, to the atmosphere for the
kids and and hopefully puts a smile on their face.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Absolutely, you guys want to check out the BALLPARKDJ app
BALLPARKDJ dot com and NIHL. And if you get weird
requests from a local Denver radio host, just just go
ahead and do him mcgig. You know he sees begging
for it. So I promise sin Brighte is no relation
to me.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
All right, I'll be sure and get it wrong.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
There you go, Alan Roach you hear his voice and
everywhere obviously, like I said, as you come back from
the IA on the trains. But I think everybody knows
you from Super Bowls, Colorado as it's Rockies, Broncos, Minnesota,
Vikings all over the place. Olympics. What a treat to
have you, Alan, Appreciate your time. Man.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
The Avalanche look good again. They're gonna be there at
the end, so hope.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
So looking forward to it. Broncos Country Tonight is gonna
step aside and we're gonna have Colorado Rockies baseball here.
Okay Away, come back.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Hit the long ball.
Look at I do a Broncos country tonight. Vin's been
all brunt here with you. Grant Smith back there behind
the glass. Rockies baseball coming up here bottom.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Of the hour.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
You guys want to stay tuned for that. Congratulations to
Ron Watson for winning the pair of passes to the
Denver Home Show the National Western Complex. That'll be March
twenty first to the twenty third. You guys can buy
tickets early and save at Denver Home Show dot com.
Gotta run right out to the KWA common spelled hotline
and bring on our guy, Alan Roach, the Golden Voice himself. Alan,
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how you doing to see him?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Hey, good evening. I'm doing well, thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
You know, it's it's it's so few people that I
am that I am absolutely just just always jealous of.
And every time I hear your voice, my god. You know,
there's there's nothing I can do. I just I just
have to sit there in all. Obviously, I think everybody
here knows that you've been to PA for various Super Bowls,
the Avalanche of Rapids, the Rockies, the Broncos. I love
every time I come home to Denver on the DIA
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train thing I get to get to hear your welcoming voice.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
So the Vikings and others, I.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Want to talk a little bit about this Ballpark DJ
thing you got going on the app where people can
have you professionally introduced youth sporting events.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah, it's new to me, it's not new to the
baseball world. I'm guessing that some youth baseball teams around
town have been using Ballpark DJ for a couple of years.
It's been around about eight years, and it was an
amazing idea and basically what it is is it allows kids,
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you know, any age from four year old t ball
players to seventeen year old high school players to have
their name announced by a professional PA announcer when they
come to the play and Ballpark DJ. Like I said,
it's been around eight years and prior to my joining
last month, they had eight different professional announcers and they're
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still there and so we, you know, share all the names.
You get to choose which PA announcer you want, whether
you want the Braves announcer or the Cubs announcer or
whoever it is, and they announce your child as they
come up to bat in a baseball game. And I
think the parents love it just as much as the
kids do. And it's really a fantastic idea. And the
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app is so easy to use, you know, that's that's
probably what makes it great. Well, two things, how easy
the app is to use, and how inexpensive it is
for just a few bucks. I mean, you give your
kid announced the entire baseball season.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
See, this is I was this kind of stuff that
existed back when I was back when I was playing baseball,
so I could have exactly felt more important. But I like,
as I look at this right now, I'm like, you know,
I could really troll my coworkers by having Alan Roach
announced me now entering the studio and then put you know,
and then put my name behind it every time I
walk in, just to kind of make a more grandiose
entrance around here. Not to my entrances are grandiose as is,
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but yeah, this is a really cool thing. I wish
this had existed when I was a kid, you know,
instead of somebody butcher in my name, which I feel
like is pretty easy, all right, feels like it's an
easy name. But somehow, just about every time anybody ever
announced it, they managed to find a way to butcher that.
So but I could have had a professional do it
this whole time.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Well, how can you get Benjamin Albright wrong?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
You know, leave it to southern football announcers to find
a way. Some of that may have been trolling an opponent.
I you know, I don't know, but you know, yeah,
that sounds like a sounds like a really cool deal.
I'm gonna have to check it out. They can just
you can download this if you've got like the Android
or the Apple. You just go to the app store
and download ballpark DJ.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah, yep, go to go to the app store or
whatever the app store is called on the other phone.
I have an iPhone, but yeah, it's called ballpark DJ.
Or you can go online ballparkdj dot com and you
can look at it there and there's a lot more information,
maybe a little bit easier to find the information online
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than always searching through an app, just like everything else.
But there's so many varieties of things you can do.
I mean, first of all, you don't have to buy
the professional announcer at all. You can just get the
ballpark DJ app and have one of the parents announce
the names. But you know, I encourage you to use
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Alan Roach to do it. But you can have one
of the parents announce the names, or you can announce
all sorts of different things that happened during the game,
a home run, a stolen base, a cat stealing, a one,
two three inning, and then you can add music to
them as well. So when I say, you know, now
batting number seven, little Johnny, and little Johnny wants to
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hear a led Zeppelin song, which probably you wouldn't, then
you could just pack that led Zeppelin song right onto
the back of me saying little Johnny. It's it's an
amazingly easy app to use, and it does so much stuff.
It's really cool and I love it obviously flee for
the kids, but I think, especially here in Denver, probably
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some of the parents who have, you know, grown up
with me around all of the different sports venues, probably
like it more than their kids. Their kids are like,
who who is this deep voice guy announcing me? And
their parents are like, Hey, that's that's the guy I
grew up with. So that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Well, I look forward to seeing if I can have
Allen Roach announced that I just completed a sex a
successful interview with Alan Roach.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Yeah, well that's pretty easy. I think anybody needs that.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
See we can make that out of talking with Alan Roche.
All you've done over the years, just just so many
different events. I obviously you know, I hear your voice
every day on my Madden game. Still is the in
stadium announcer or sometimes the PA announcer, especially if play
the Viking. You've you know, you've done the Olympics, Major
League Baseball over the years. Has there has there ever
been one where you've accidentally butchered something?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Well, there's some mistakes here and there. Sure the best
one was and I told this story earlier today, was
talking with somebody about, you know what was the biggest
mistake you made? And it was way back when Mark
McGuire got traded from the A's to the Saint Louis Cardinals.
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While when that trade happened, it was during a Rockies game,
and everyone in the press box at the Rockies for
an hour and a half was talking about Mark McGuire
going to the Cardinals and Mark McGuire was rejoining Tony
LaRussa and Mark McGuire got traded and we were playing
the Cubs that night, and when Mark Grace walked up
to the plate, I said, first baseman number seventeen Mark McGuire,
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and I didn't know it. I had no idea that's
what I said. But it didn't take long for me
to realize, Yeah, that's what you said, dummy.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Did Mark Grace take any offense to that?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Or probably?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
I mean, given Mark McGuire's status, I assume I might
get a little dof of the cat.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
You know. I remember him grounding out to second base,
and I think it was on the first pitch, and
he looked up into the press box as he was
running back to running back to the dugout, and then
I saw him, I don't know, seven, eight ten years
later when he was working for the Diamondbacks television broadcast,
and I saw him in Courusfield in the press box
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one day and I just introduced myself. Hey, I'm Alan Roach.
Do you I'm the PA anounswer. Do you remember the
night that Mark McGuire? Yes, I remember that. I remember
that he was. He gave me some grief about it.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Oh well, it's at least he was. At least he
was a decent sport about it. Talking with Alan Roach
here on Broncos Country tonight. You know you've done all
the big events, you know, all that kind of stuff,
the musicians, all that kind of what's the most, what
stands out the most as a personal favorite to you.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
That's probably the most common question I get asked, and
I mean, I can't answer it because I have been
so lucky and so blessed to be a part of
so many amazing events, some of them that come to
mind right away. I mean locally, it's you know, Eric
Young hitting a home run on the first at bat
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in Denver of Major League Baseball, and Dante Boschett hitting
the fourteenth thning home run on the first day ever
at cors Field. And then you know, one of the
most iconic moments ever in hockey is Joe Sakik taking
the Stanley Cup from the commissioner, turning around and handing
it to Ray Bork. That happened on the ice right
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in front of me. David Tyree catching football from while
he was with the Giants and keeping the Patriots from
their perfect season in the Super Bowl that year, and
the list just goes on and on and on. I mean,
tj Oshie taking eight penalty shots in a USA versus
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Russia hockey game in the Olympics in Russia, And you know,
I was probably one of twenty Americans in that building
that day other than the players. And I'm announcing that.
So been many great events.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
What was the point in your life where you realized
that your voice was the instrument?
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Was there?
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Was it early on? Was it something that occurred later.
What was the moment were you realizing this is my calling?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Probably I started in radio in Minnesota, small town, small
radio station the summer before my junior year of high school.
So I was doing radio all through my junior and
senior year, and then I went to college and planned
on going to college for four years. But after my
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first year of college, I was offered a full time
job in radio. And I guess that's probably when I decided, Okay,
this is what I'm going to do. And as you know,
when you're in radio, you're sure as hell don't need
a college degree.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Well, it's you know, I mean, and it's one of
those things. I don't know if you have ever experienced this,
but like I listen to my voice and you know,
sound check myself and all that kind of stuff, and
you know, every time, I just grown when I hear
myself like on a commercial or in a segment or
somebody that I just grown. I'm like, God, I sound
like the white Steve Rkle. You know, you think that
as you're saying something, you feel, oh, I've got this
deep voice. I'm totally killing it. And then you hear
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it back and you're like, I sound like you know
every nerd in a ninety sitcom? Has there ever been
moments of self doubt with you on that?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Mabe?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Because you do have that. That's such a rich, deep
voice that I think everybody in this industry aspires to.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Yeah, and always, I think anyone that records their voice
and then hears it back, their immediate reaction is, eh,
that's that's what I sound like. Because you hear it
in your head when you talk, and it sounds different
when when you play it back on a recording, and
(10:57):
and yeah, I mean I get it. I have a
a low and kind of a unique voice. I get that,
and I like that, and I've made a career out
of that. But when I'm doing commercials or saying things
and I hear it back, it's not so much how
my voice sounds, it's oh, man, I could have said
that better. I wish I would have said those words quicker.
(11:19):
I wish I would have emphasized this word or this
syllable instead of that word or that syllable. So yeah,
I think you're always your biggest critic, and I'm no different.
I can sit down and record a fifteen second commercial,
you know, for Johnson Autoplas, and I can sit there
for thirty minutes trying to get this thirty second commercial perfect,
(11:43):
and when it's all done, I still don't think it's perfect.
But I'm like, okay, good enough.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Talking with Alan Roach here. You know, what is the
what is the most odd request you've ever gotten? I
think mine was to get into the radio industry to
begin with. But what was the most odd request that
you've ever had?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Well, I have an odd request that I didn't accept,
and I have an odd request that I did accept.
The odd request that I didn't accept came from Howard Stern.
Howard Stern wanted me to announce ah, I can't even
say the title of what it was. He wanted me
(12:25):
to announce a wine tasting contest that took place in
an unusual place on the body.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Okay, ye, okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
And I thought, at that time, okay, do I accept
Howard Stern's request he'd probably paid me a lot of money,
but I'm guessing that'll kind of be the end of
my NFL career. So sorry, Howard, I'm going to turn
that one down. And the most unusual request that I
did accept, I was the PA announcer essential for a
(13:01):
three day hairdresser convention in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. And it
was hair dressers from all over the United States and
all over the world. And it was this three day
thing that went, you know, eight hours a day and
it would be like, you know, ladies and gentlemen, please
welcome the President of Loreal. And that was that was
(13:24):
kind of a crazy thing. It was really fun to do.
I could imagine.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I could imagine that's got to be I mean, so
far out of left field as far as that kind
of stuff goes. I always wonder about, you know, at
the voice acting news is some of those things come on?
Did you ever do any other work for Howard Start
or was that the loan request?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I have become Howard Stern's favorite topic the day after
the Super Bowl. If you're a Howard Stern fan, you
probably already know, but for about the last six or
seven years, on the Monday after the super Bowl. Howard
takes almost an entire hour and replays things that I
(14:05):
say during that you know, national anthem introduction and all
the other stuff that I do before the super Bowl,
and he just he just salivates, Obra. He's like, Oh,
if I had a voice like that, I'd never have
to work a day in my life. I wish I
sounded like Alan Roach. And then I've I've actually done
some some liner work for him. You know, you're listening
(14:27):
to Howard Stern on Serious Exam or whatever it is,
and I've recorded a couple of you know, little lines
for him and for different people on the show. So
my voice gets heard quite a bit on Howard Stern,
but maybe only one or two words at a time.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Well still, what a what ay fascinating career that you've
had and continue to have. And for everybody who wants
to check out the ballpark DJ app you can get
that obviously in the app stores. And you said BALLPARKDJ
dot com as well, correct.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yep, it's just so cool. I mean, at least go
if if your if your son or daughter plays you know,
baseball or softball, check it out. And then the other
thing that we're really going to try and do once
we get to this fall is get really involved in
kids hockey and you know, to do starting lineups as
(15:21):
the kids come out of the locker room and skate
onto the ice and stuff like that. It just it
just really adds, I think, to the atmosphere for the
kids and and hopefully puts a smile on their face.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Absolutely, you guys want to check out the BALLPARKDJ app
BALLPARKDJ dot com and NIHL. And if you get weird
requests from a local Denver radio host, just just go
ahead and do him mcgig. You know he sees begging
for it. So I promise sin Brighte is no relation
to me.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
All right, I'll be sure and get it wrong.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
There you go, Alan Roach you hear his voice and
everywhere obviously, like I said, as you come back from
the IA on the trains. But I think everybody knows
you from Super Bowls, Colorado as it's Rockies, Broncos, Minnesota,
Vikings all over the place. Olympics. What a treat to
have you, Alan, Appreciate your time. Man.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
The Avalanche look good again. They're gonna be there at
the end, so hope.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
So looking forward to it. Broncos Country Tonight is gonna
step aside and we're gonna have Colorado Rockies baseball here.
Okay Away, come back.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Hit the long ball.
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