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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Appreciate you guys riding with us here on a Thursday.
We've had a lot of really.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Fun guests swinging by.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
That's been that was really cool there with Don Martin
and Susie Wargen Boy, it's been a lot of fun
seeing a lot of the history of this great station
wandering through. We got the Broncos cheerleaders here, we got Miles,
some mascot us on Dinger.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Governor Polis is here and he'll join us here in
a minute.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Polus is here. That's a big deal. How about that.
It's been a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
A lot of really cool text coming in here on
the ka Comma Spirit Health text line.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Rick Lewis, Dave Logan, Ryan Edwards hanging out with you here.
A couple of things.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Let's see here, we need to bring back the Raider
Hater T shirts. Although Dave Logan and Ryan Edwards and
the raiderhir T shirts doesn't have the same ring to it,
that's true, that's fair.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
But we could we could.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
I think it'd be a good idea to bring back
the Raider Hater T shirt. You know what we could do.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
We could we could have a combined station effort.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
There you go. I like that.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
I like it as I speak for both, you know,
iHeart and KS exactly. Let me let me just let
me spend some money from both companies and we're good
at that. Here's my boss now looking at me like,
what the hell are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah, don't get too far ahead.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yeah, great show, bringing a few smiles to my face
and tears to my eyes reliving the memories. I'm a
transplant of Texan, have lived in Colora, Spring Stince celebrity
in nineteen ninety four. I'm a sales rep for grocery stores,
listening to Koa in between accounts most of the day,
wishing you all much continued success for another one hundred.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
That's very nice.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
That's very nice.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah, Rick, have you ever thrown up out the window
of a car on a highway? Unfortunately it just immediately
ends up in your face. I don't know have you
ever tried that?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
No, up, it's never happened.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
But if it's a very valid point, I think I
would have figured it out then tossing the ashes.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Out the Hillico. Yeah, don't you think it was really dumb? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
I can't defend that. I mean, for a really smart guy.
There's certain things you do that I think are quizzical
to someone.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Occasionally, Dave, I have a brain fart. Is that what
it is? Yeah, let's call it that.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
But you know, yeah, that was dumb, and I've done
quite a few dumb things in my life.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Remind me, if I go before you.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Not to have you would you not to have me
pull that stump?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
You don't want me to spread your ashes out of
the look after? No? No, okay, well no, I was
planning on doing it. Yeah, Well, the show has.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Been great today. Love the walk down memory lane.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
As a young boy riding my dad's car, he always
had eight to fifty on the radio and you sed
to drive me nuts, always listening to talk radio, never
any music. However, fast forward twenty years later, all I
listened to is eight to fifty every day. Thanks for
the memories and a good show.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
We appreciate that, we we do.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
I mean, you know that the interesting thing here and
hopefully our audience will be lenient today because I mean
with some of these people, there's a bit of sort
of inside stuff here because these are people, a lot
of these people that we have worked with twenty twenty
five thirty maybe even more than the thirty years. So
(02:54):
it's it's good to get him back. There's so many
memories here that you know, you want to you want
to make sure that we talked about the Broncos a
little bit too. But there's there's just a lot of
really cool memories over a long, long career. It's great
to see all these faces. Yes, some that I haven't
seen it quite a while. I mean Don Martin's wife,
Robin Berdolucci, who was the program director here at Kiawa,
(03:17):
really talented programmer, left went to LA. Was one of
the you talk about rising stars in iHeart for many
many years. So she came back with Don. It was great,
great to see Robin too. I just took a selfie
with her. She was the program director at KFI, my
former news guy when I was in LA. A guy
(03:40):
named Chris Little worked with her for twenty years.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
So we took a selfie and she said, send it
to Chris Little. I send it to Chris, I said,
this woman says she knows.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
You with a couple of question marks. I haven't heard
back from him yet.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yeah, okay, it's great.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
One personality I haven't heard mentioned was Chick McGillicutty.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
You know what Chick is invited for sure, but in
full disclosure, kind of taking you behind the curtains, we
have we have lost track of Chick. Patrick Watkins over
the years. And when I say we, not just me,
because Scott and I have talked about that. Susie Brian,
(04:20):
you you knew, you know, you know Patrick a lot
of Mark Andrew who was was Whitey, was Whitey Stram
of that duo Chick McGill cutting and Whitey Stram. He's
lost lost touch with him too. So I mean, we'll
be very lucky and you know, thrilled if he just
(04:40):
walks through that door in the next forty minutes or so?
Did Don Martin do some of the characters? Don Martin
was Jethro Bodine.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
He was perfect. I couldn't tell perfect for him.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I mean, you're talking about a guy who played that
character in that ensemble and.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Was later went on to run Fox Sport, right.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
I mean, Don Wow, as I was saying to him,
he and I started working together in eighty six. I
just started in radio. Thurb and Joe, we're over at
the Kenny Stabler Golf Tournament in Durango right doing a
live remote and you.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Know, talking to all the guys.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
I mean, Jim Jim McMahon is playing in this, Kenny
Stabler obviously is playing in that. And we're sitting at
the bar doing the show, and Joe Williams looked over
and said, Hey, that's the Gatlin brothers sitting in the bar.
So I'm like, he goes, you want to go get him?
I said, I'm not. I'm not going to go get him.
Don said I'll go get him. So he walks over
(05:37):
and Joe says, so, what do you think the odds
are that he's going to come back with a sheepy,
short sort of look on his face, and they turned
him down. I said, I'm betting on him. Sure enough,
we had the Gatlin Brothers on the show. Yeah, he
was the best producer. Now you're talking about a guy
that ran a major network later in his career, but
(06:00):
for what he was called to do, he was the
best producer I ever worked with. Could you have predicted
that back then that this guy will be one of
the biggest sports radio executives in the business.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
I mean, he was.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Really bright, he very gregarious, loves to talk to people
could start a conversation, carry it and finish it like
no matter who he's who he's talking to. So, I
mean I knew he was going to be successful. I mean,
heck he was. He He and Chris Olinger, who was
the PDA KAA, they're responsible for putting the zoo together
(06:30):
and putting the zoo on KOA. So you kind of
knew then that he had that touch.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
He was like, got Mark Stout, No Stout, what's up man?
Good to see you. Yes, yeah, he does great stuff
with the Rockies TV.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Now Uncle Pete, Peter Boyles is here, total legend right there,
coming down with a plate of food that is half eaten.
Of course, that's a story, that's the story of your life. Peter,
sit down, put the headset on. Yeah, that's your seat boils.
(07:02):
Good to see you. How's how's the grub up there?
By the way, you know, it's pretty good?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Is it good?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I think it's a trade.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
You think I think it'd be.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
A safe Yeah, you think that's might be a game.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
That's a radio vet right there.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
So so Peter and I first worked together in nineteen
eighty eight on K and US. That was the first
time you and I worked together. We worked at K Big. No,
that was after K and US.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Though, right, you know, I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
No, Well, anyway, Peter and I first worked together at
K Big and then we went to K and US,
although I think I think, yeah, right, yeah, but when
when did you come to uh to the blowtorch over here?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Kay? How?
Speaker 5 (07:50):
And I had cluster. Yeah, I was working nights on
K how Yeah. Now Allen had come over and Alan
Burger Allenberg and Joel Day was a GM.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
And Gary Tesler.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Left and it opened up mornings and I was doing
nights and had big numbers. Modestly he says, big numbers,
and Joel Day brought me over to do nine to
nine and then we did that noon to one block. Yep,
you were playing ball then, yeah, I was still in
the league. Yeah, and you were you were doing mornings downstairs.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
If Dave was still in the league, I wasn't. I
was going to take it back. Yeah. I started here
in ninety It was Q one O three five.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
The Fox was automated and people will co up and
request the song and right, you know, don't split A
lot of secret spoiled it as an automated radio.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
Yes, yes, that's this big and so so what what
do you remember the what what couple of memories do
you have from your your time and just your career,
because like I mean, how many years have you been
in radio?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Honestly, you and I've been for its forever. Over fifty
fifty years in the business. Yeah, over fifty. The morning
that my daughter was born, the on air traffick rougu
I didn't show up and I went on air and
with Bob Lee from Camp Pepe anchored KLAGE Morning News,
we announced my daughter been born, and I was I
(09:22):
was in grad school and I fell in love with.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
The business and the rest was history. On a day
like today, the people that you miss, oh my, yeah,
it's good to see a lot of familiar faces and.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
So many people that are here.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
And you know, the finest guy we've ever known, Wee Larson, Yeah,
he said, And I don't know, it's just it's great.
You know, it's come a long ways. Actually, Rick, Rick's
from the Long Long Way prod to you. You know,
so thank you appreciate that. What was IRV brought you in?
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Right? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (09:55):
When I when I got cut of the Broncos, I
went to work with IRV and he put me on
six to seven by myself.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
I had one break, one break in the.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Hour, and it's a five thousand watts signal at which
at dusk went to five hundred watts, which I knew
nothing about. Later to find out that you could hear
it only like if you were in the parking Yes,
I mean literally in.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
The parking lot. That was kwb Z. Yep.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
So you better learn, you better learn to ask yourself
a lot of questions and figure out how to answer
him because nobody's calling.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Well that was BZ.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Yes, that we had five thousand walk daytime directional.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
Yeah, yeah, if you could get up in your attic
with a code hanger, yeah, you would get yourself into thinking,
there's a lot of people, I'm really doing this. Well,
there's a lot of people have to listen. That's like
six and that's where I met Woody. Yeah, Woody was
doing sports and that's right, Mike Wolf, that's right. And geez,
I mean so many guys were handing out.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Of there, yep.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
And it was it was just a I called that
the mother of a mother of all talk deal because
it was on South Broadway. Kwb Z and Kawa was
doing they're still playing some music. But they had the
Broncos and so they had Bob Martin and Larry's Embert's right,
and that was the key to all of it. And
(11:17):
the houses Bob were there. But that's why k How
was k How because of the houses. And then they
went on to the Big Red Machine, and then I
think the Broncos then came.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Here, right yep? Is that the history? Yeah? Pretty much
what it's good to see.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
I know you're gonna be upstairs and look forward to Yeah,
used k get out with you a little.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Bit, Ricky.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
I'm so proud of you man, Thank you, Thank you, Pete.
And do you still wrestle?
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Oh Coogan?
Speaker 4 (11:46):
I remember when you you tried to wrestle not too
many years ago, which I thought was hilarious.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Click.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Yeah, I actually broke my dig little bicep, that's what
it was, right right, and they broke your what I
went to joined the fight club in Aurora for real?
Speaker 3 (12:04):
This is for real wrong with you?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Where do you?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Where do you want to begin? I didn't know that.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Yeah, yeah, did you actually fight?
Speaker 7 (12:15):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (12:16):
I mean I was going through a very difficult time.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
You came in one day with your arm in a
sling and remember you told me the story.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Like they put the dead guy part in me. Wow,
the ain't been the same since I've never before. You
can see people see see you soon.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
I have a devote and sorry that I can't tell.
But the punchline the OUTCRD was both of you.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Yeah, that'll do it.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Get out here, babe. I love you guys.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Hi, Peter, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Peter boy.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
We're gonna take a quick break.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
We are live here for the lobby of the iHeartRadio Building,
celebrating one hundred years of k Away on the fifty
eight ninety four one FM our Radio building. We are
thrilled to be joined on, said by the governor here Poles.
What's up, Governor?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
How are you one hundred years old?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Koa?
Speaker 8 (13:08):
Oh my god, happy birthday. None of you look one
hundred years old. Dave looks the closest.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
But even Dave, you don't don't look one hundred man.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Listen, Dave feels the closest too. I can.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
I can tell you that you know when you when
you think of when you.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Think of like Koa and in.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
The sports coverage and all that, I mean, what what
you've you've been here for a while. As to governor,
what what comes to mind for you?
Speaker 8 (13:29):
It's always I mean, look like when I was you know,
you know, driving in the car and then listening to
the games.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
I mean, it's it's the it's the way to do it.
It's always been fun and special for me. I mean
for me.
Speaker 8 (13:39):
Look, I'm obviously more like you know, computer television, but
there's always been times when I've been going somewhere during
a big game and so that's where that's where I listen.
So it's always been good. And look, you know, somebody
know I'm a little into this little thing called politics,
so I listen to talk radio sometimes too.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Governor, I've got a question for You've done a lot
of things in your life, obviously been very successful. Did
you ever consider maybe a career in media like radio,
for instance.
Speaker 8 (14:02):
Well, you know, I'll be available in about a year
and a half, so I'm ready for the call I've called.
You know, one of the most fun things as governor
is I've got to call a couple.
Speaker 7 (14:10):
Of Indians of Rockies games twice.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
I go in there.
Speaker 7 (14:13):
It's it's an incredible experience.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I'm really nervous well.
Speaker 7 (14:17):
Because I'm a baseball guy. I mean for me, it's
just like fun to be able to.
Speaker 8 (14:20):
Share that and and it's been been great and I
hope to do it again.
Speaker 7 (14:24):
So it's it's a lot of fun. It's very special
and you guys get to experience that every day, which
is which is very cool.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
I'm going to tell one quick story about Governor Polis
back during twenty twenty during COVID. You know, it was
it was a tough, tough deal for everybody, and everybody
was trying to figure out like can we can we
get back? How soon can we get back? What are
the what are the parameters to get back? And me
being a high school coach, I reached out to the
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governor and you know what, there were a handful of
times that Governor Polis would text. Now, the thing that
struck me about your tech next is that, man, you
get up early in the morning. I'm getting a text
at six am, you know, about hey, how are things going.
But I think I think I can speak for a
lot of families, coaches kids that actually they didn't get
(15:13):
the whole season, but they got to play in that season.
And I think I think that's a congratulatory to you.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
That's right, most of them only missed a few months.
That's the next folly back. In fact, I don't know
if you know this, but the very first sport back,
which started before summer ended, it must have been in
maybe June or something, was golf. And I went to
the very first I went to fass I went to
the very first Chassa. It happened to be a golf tournament,
a very first sport back. And so I'll tell you
(15:39):
a little story about that too, Dave. You know, we
had trouble with some districts going back to in person.
Others went back in person right away. So we said
for sports participation, to be able to do the sports,
you got to be in person.
Speaker 7 (15:52):
And of course that meant we were.
Speaker 8 (15:54):
Sort of stuck all those sports parents on them saying
you got to go back in person.
Speaker 7 (15:57):
For the education piece too. It helped me out color
else les back early. So I was a little story
about about that.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Very cool.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
So you called a couple of innings for the Rockies,
how would you like to come? And maybe a couple
series for the Broncos.
Speaker 7 (16:08):
You know, I don't get qualified. I mean I watch football,
I know hell we do it.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Oh yeah, I mean, you know, how hard is it
to be well?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Bump bump you know?
Speaker 8 (16:16):
No, I mean you got to know the stuff I
know baseball. Look, I'm happy to be there for color
on the Broncos, but I hang out with Miles, you know,
I watch them. But when I go to a football game,
let's just say, I spend more time, you know, talking
and chatting to people. Sure do following the play by play.
But I love foot you know I love football too.
It's a fun sport.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Hey, listen, we thank you for coming by. I know
you're going to get upstairs, but appreciate you coming by.
Speaker 8 (16:36):
One hundred more, Let's get ready for the next one
more thing. August first, tomorrow is Colorado Day. That's it's
one hundred and forty ninth birthday of Colorado. So we're
a little older than you guys, one forty nine. I
also want to point that out because next year, twenty
twenty six is Colorado's big birthdays of state one hundred
and fifty next year.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Yeah, yeah, good information, very cool information.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Thanks you for gore. Thank you, Governor, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Governor Jerry Poulis kind enough to swing by as we
were celebrating one hundred years here on Kowa Dave. I
know we have to say goodbye to you as well
because you've got to go do some festivities.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Are staying for a while.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Oh great, yeahn good, fantastic.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
I'll go up in a little bit.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Okay, I love that. Yeah, that's good for us.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Hey man, it's more times, more time down here, less
time up there. Not a bad thing. Not a bad thing.
I'll wait for the next break.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
That's cool.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
And you know, I give this a shout out to
the governor. He's sort of touched on every part of
our daytime, right. I mean he's been on Corra morning news,
he's been all with Ross and Mandy.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
He's been on with us in the afternoons.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
I mean, I give him a lot of credit because
he's kind of a p one in a lot of ways.
And that's a little behind the scenes radio kinds uff.
But he's a longtime listener, long time interactor.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
He was.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
I won't say beneficial, he was extremely important kind of
behind the scenes in making sure that in twenty twenty,
the fall of twenty twenty, those high school teams got
to play nine games. I remember talking about that with you,
because that wasn't happening around the go. It wasn't when
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I commend him for that, you know, and I mean,
you know, the early morning text and what what what
can be done and we've got to be smart. He
just he engaged in that, and I just for the
kid's sake, I just really appreciated that, you know what.
The reason I answered him that question about radio, he's
obviously very media savvy. He do have a lot of
(18:30):
media and he's very glib and very conversational. He could,
I think, could easily have a career and talk radio
if he wanted it.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
But it'd be a huge stepdown for yeah, well certainly
in pay.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
But he said in the year and a half he's
going to be exploring a lot of options.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Yeah, I think one of those options, yeah President, Yeah, Oh,
you hear that.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
You hear that a lot.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
But I guess we could have we could have had
him break some news. Hey, listen it we're all in
the celebratory mood. Maybe I want to tell us something.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
It was suggested maybe by that we not get into.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
That, okay, suggested.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Yeah, sometimes sometimes when you get those kinds.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Of sometimes those those things have parameters, they do.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Have you ever.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Interviewed a president or former president in your media career?
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Yes? Which one? So I interviewed.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
George Bush the first, the second, and I actually interviewed
Bill Clinton, Okay, and both were.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
I mean both were really good, savvy as you would expect.
I mean, good with questions, good with.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Sort of differring in terms of things they might not
want to talk about. But both sports fans made. George
Bush used on the Texas Rangers. But Bill Clinton, President
Clinton was was also really good sports.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Very very the like cable yeahs as well.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
I interviewed Roger Clinton, Bill Clinton's brother. Remember when he
was a mess, when he's a hot mess. At one
time he interviewed him when he was a hot mess.
He was a hot mess. Yeah, and I think he
was a musician. I think that's why we interviewed him.
So it was his cousin, George George Clinton. Yeah, Rogers
wow wow ye o yeppa wow wow yep oo yip Pa.
(20:24):
Interviewed Gerald Ford once a couple of times used to
play in the Jerry Ford golf tournament.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Vale.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
I played that one time, and so got a chance
to talk to him and interview him as well.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
He was a really good dude too.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
What was the circumstances when, I mean, you'll interview the
president whenever you interviewed the president, But was there do
you remember the reason why they.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Were Were they currently president? No?
Speaker 4 (20:46):
No, George Bush had not yet been elected, was running
and he did an appearance at at the Broncos because
he he was cousins with Joelle.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
That's right. So that's how that worked out.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
And Bill Clinton, I'm trying to think back. I think
it was I think it was a book. I think
he had written a book. But we had him on
and I mean you had you had so many questions
and you know, you had to submit the questions and
so there was no it was. It was pretty pretty
(21:23):
tightly watched. But yeah, I mean it was you know,
to me, it was it was cool.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
That's gonna be one of the toughest things.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
And you and I've talked about this in the past
with other people we've interviewed when they asked for the
questions ahead of time, because I think I don't think
I'm not comparing myself in as an interviewer to you,
but we tend to like to listen and react to
in real time what you're saying, and if you say
something interesting, I'd rather have a conversation about it.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Yeah, in this case, they didn't want me to submit questions.
They gave me questions that we're going to be going
to be permissible.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
So this wasn't like, hey, I would like to ask
the state. That's good. I'm glad you ideas. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
I mean, you know, even nowadays, there will be certain
coaches that we'll want a list of questions right.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
And to me, you know, you're not there.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
I'm not there to try to give them someone to
catch them, not trying to have a gotcha moment. But
I'm also not interested in trying to come up with
a list of questions submit because frankly, I think the
best interviewer is one that takes an answer, maybe on
the question number one, and it creates something in his
(22:31):
mind the interviewer and he goes back either for more
information on that first question or jog something about asking
he let me ask about this. So you can't do
that if you've submitted all the questions and have to
stay right to the script.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
So as we're kind of winding down some of this.
I know the party's gone on upstairs. Just kind of curiosity, Dave.
I mean, as we've talked to so many people, you've
seen so many faces. What are some things that have
sort of popped into your head as we've been hanging
out here.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
I think it's great to I think it's great to
see so many people that, over a long period of time,
have really you know, either with what they've done on
air or what they've done off air. I mean people
and most people understand that to run a successful radio station,
(23:18):
you hear us, you hear us calling Broncos games, there's
a lot of people behind the scenes that make that possible.
So it's been great to see Kenny Dane and the
Wizard who was the Broncos engineer for so many years.
Great to see him, and just a lot of people
that you haven't seen for fifteen, twenty or more years.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
How about you rick some things that have popped into
your head as you've been having a chance to.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
A lot of great memories.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Yeah, you know, with certain people in particular, a lot
of these people haven't seen it in so long. You know,
as we know in this business, it's really volatile and
people kind of come and go. Luckily here in this building,
there's been people that have been in the building for decades.
But Peter Boyle's, for one, that was cool.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Peter.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Yeah, as a radio nerd myself, that was cool.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Yeah, Peter Boyle a legend. Yeah, we're doing it a
long time and I.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Never got to work with him, but boy, I mean
you would talk about like just knowing the history of radio,
that's that's a cool year.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
You've probably heard some of the stories. Oh absolutely, yeah.
But yeah, seeing these faces again. Don Martin another one,
another one which is which is incredible. He went from
a producer of an afternoon sports talk show to be
in one of the biggest sports execs in the business.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Remarkable. Yeah, well I met. I've met a couple of
times in.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Other places like around the country as he's producing or
running things, and it was one of those like holy cally,
that that's Don Martin over there, Like I'm like, I'm
gonna I gotta go to hide to him.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Big time And Robin Bertolucci, his wife, a big time
program director. KFI Los Angeles. KFI is kind of the
equivalent of KOA here. Okay, fifty thousand Wadde Calear channel station.
That's legendary icon at radio station.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
So cool. Well, this has been a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
We're gonna take a quick break and we'll come back.
We're gonna I want to hear that ramontage one more
time because that was really pretty cool. Well, the Koa
Sports Zoo, which was a legendary show here in the
market for quite some time.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
And as we wrap this.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Thing up, we're actually gonna have a special guest joining
us here.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Just amount of moments. He's saying hi to some friends.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Scott, come sit your big ass down.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
We're celebrating one hundred years of Kowa. We've been doing
that throughout the afternoon. It'll continue on to Broncos Country tonight,
coming up at the top.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Of the hour.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
But joining us now on set one of our all
time favorites.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
You heard him right there moments ago, but one and
only Scott Hasten. Scotty.
Speaker 9 (25:44):
You know, there's a day when the governor's over here
that he wouldn't be loud.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
But that's a whole nother story that that would.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
You know what, there was a time, it was a
time that is that sure, you know, and he certainly
would not have come on the app.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
The noon show.
Speaker 7 (26:02):
No right, no, So so here's the deal.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
You you work for a different station now because you
dumbass decided to leave in two thousand and six. So
so you're now, well, you know what, if Pat Conters here,
we could talk to you about.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
You know what? He is here? Well, you know what,
you know what, let's have a cocktail. We'll talk to him.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
I stopped drinking rocking mout today.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
I'll have I'll have yours favorite.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Yeah, you're a drinker, but we were together. He hardly
ever tried. Now I don't drink you, I don't drink now,
he doesn't drink much. In fairness, In fairness, now you're
on what time?
Speaker 3 (26:32):
In what station?
Speaker 9 (26:33):
Dune to three ninety two point five Altitude ninet two
point five the.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
D Max Show. That is at the end of the show.
Speaker 9 (26:41):
PhD Columbus, Oh Hastings and emax a PhD.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
You know we used to do when.
Speaker 9 (26:48):
We when we had dover which went over to the fan,
which I called him take the money and run because
he took some money and rent over there.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
That's how I started.
Speaker 9 (26:56):
But we used to steal your thing. We call ourselves
the masters for a while.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
I remember when you started that show.
Speaker 9 (27:01):
Then we would go us people, you can't do that.
Before it was you can't do that, I go. I
talked to you about it, goes man. No, I think
it's cool.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
I took it as a true honor.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
It really Yeah. I remember you called me about that
because we had the same thing. People were calling me
in text and going, what the hell these guys doing.
They stole your nickname, Scott, it's my boy man.
Speaker 9 (27:25):
No, that was all, and we even told the whole story.
I started radio before Dave and I started doing talk
shows together.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
I started radio with you guys, right yeah, with.
Speaker 9 (27:36):
Regular we ain't gonna score till Hastings scores. So they
chick in every game. And I went like a month
and a half and you missed two free throws. I
made one finally, I made finally.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
But there was a time and you had our name
on the back.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Of your shoe and you weren't playing much, but every
now and then you'd get in, you know, in garbage time.
And I remember one time you you got a free
throw shot and missed it.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Am I right, I don't know you missed it. It
was an eighty percent.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Hey, and I after career rise, I thought you missed
it on purpose. So we have to.
Speaker 9 (28:12):
Start down truth right now, did you guys live up
to your your creed?
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Come on, man, it catches me.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
It can't just be a gig.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
I'm probably knocking upstairs, but I okay. So hey, So
when we first started, tell tell people how big.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
The studio was.
Speaker 9 (28:28):
Seriously, you know, having digital stuff going up here, it's
probably about the size of the room behind you.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Guys.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Wow, maybe maybe that big.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
I'm gonna tell you what.
Speaker 9 (28:40):
One time and we had a break top of the hour,
you know, you had to break the IDs and all
that stuff. And they had to make a break because
we started a brand new station, Ka tuk It was
brand new on the air, but we started it and
they made breaks. So they just start throwing stuff into
the bottom. So Dave not can take a leak or something, right,
So we started doing that one day though. Tell so
(29:03):
now we got thirty minute segments tell the truth? You
know about thirty minute segments? Yeah, yeah, Dave, lets one
go in that little.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Oh that's a lie. That is a lie.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
This dude farted, seriously, do you know what he said, hey,
hey man, Hey, listen, I gotta go to the back.
I said, listen, we're on the air.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
We got thirty minutes. We got thirty minutes. You gotta
wait for thirty do it? I can't you. We're on
the air. We gotta wait.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
And all of a sudden it would have knocked a
buzzard off the clip wagon, and so I reacted because
I was near death.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Well, we started to tell it also.
Speaker 7 (29:35):
He starts gagging.
Speaker 9 (29:37):
We gagged on the air. We did a thirty minute
laugh track on it. On it because we would try
to get back right and we couldn't get it was
a thirty minute laugh track. It's gotta be the only
time I've ever done on radio. All Right, I gotta
go upstairs. Well I see upstairs. Hey, you don't leave yet.
Mann't get used to this, I mean, get use of this. Well,
(29:57):
I can negotiate your deal. You gotta deal.
Speaker 7 (29:59):
Well give me another year.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Okay, Tepper's here. What Tepper's behind me?
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Talked to Temper.
Speaker 9 (30:08):
He knows there you go.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Hey, six toes over.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
To yell at you.
Speaker 9 (30:12):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, you're still the boss of Dave six.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Oh I oh. He turned my mind off no, you're on,
You're on.
Speaker 7 (30:22):
No we hear you.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Oh yeah, man, don't hear me. What year? What's your
first year with a Nuggets like ninety? You know what
I always have.
Speaker 9 (30:29):
You won the championship eighty nine, ninety and then ninety
ninety one.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
It was my last year, so ninety one, ninety two seasons,
so ninety one, all right, ninety one. I remember.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
The reason we got ahold of you is I have
a good friend who is a sports writer in Detroit
named Steve Kornacky, and he goes, Hey, this Hastings guy,
he's really entertaining. He goes, you need to get a
hold of him and make him a regular on your
radio show. And that's when we track you down.
Speaker 9 (31:00):
Man.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
He was right, dude, you killed it. Man, we had
so much fun back in the day.
Speaker 9 (31:04):
Well, I tell you it's funny. And he became a
big star and wrote books and thing like this Bitch
album and it was it was a classic rock FM station,
but on on Sunday evenings he would do like a
sports talk show from seven to nine. So I became
like their regular fill in with the other guy was
(31:24):
gone or something. So I would I would come in
and fill in with Mitch Mitch album I became really
good friends and that was my first jump into any
any sports talk was with the Legend if you let
the Legend and Mitch album sou but that was in
Detroit and then the the FM station like me, so
then they would call me in kind of like you
guy Nana show, just like I met Dave Koyer there
(31:45):
and I got there was another there's another big time
kind of comedian would come on from there all the
time and then let me hang out and we just
joke and it was awesome.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Man.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Yeah, man, I'm just looking back, I'm so grateful that
we had the chance to really share some big radio moments.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
You and Dave had a hell of a run. Oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
But thanks for acknowledging that we were the ones that
got you started.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
You got me started, absolutely got me started. It was
kind of.
Speaker 9 (32:12):
Funny really where sports talk is now because because Dave
and I were basically and we were on KOA you know,
one hundred years by the way, which was an AM
signal at the time only uh, and we were basically
trying to do an FM show that just talks sports.
Sometimes you know, sometimes we go off in a little tangient.
(32:33):
I think we did a four hour show on women
peeing in a bathroom one time, and I think we
did an eating eating squirrel, and then Reggie McDaniel called
in one time, David I did. I did a segment
and going if you're stuck an island, you had to
eat a dog, a cat, or a monkey. Which one
would you choose? So we had people calling in. We
(32:55):
had real lines on tight for tomorrow. That's a great
So the late gray Reggie McDaniel, who was awesome called
in and said, hey, well I've had all three. If
you remember, he ended up becoming like the movie reviewer
and restaurant reviewer for Kawa, had his own show on
Sundays for a while. So he calls in, he goes, yeah,
I have had all three. I was in the militaries
(33:15):
in the army for twenty some years.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
He said, I.
Speaker 9 (33:18):
Had a dog, I had monkey in the Philippines. I
had dog in Korea. And I jumped out, said Jeff
cat in Vietnam. Meers you know, so he goes, no,
I had another Chinese restaurant in South Saint Louis, or
I had a man Sat Louis. That's what we do, Okay,
(33:42):
Reggie's our guy though. Yeah, I love Reggie, so he
would call in every Fridays and we do restaurant reviews
with Reggie.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
We started him. He was great. Yeah, man, well it's
good to see it. Thanks for stopping by him on
head upstairs. I know they want you. I want you
to pop in up there. You going up?
Speaker 9 (33:56):
Well, I guess I got it now right, I think
they're inspecting it. I took some air there. Right, here's a
full circles, Ryan now big time show host.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Start off was one of my first or second producers.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Yep, weren't you ye? Were the first?
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Were you after BK? Before b K?
Speaker 2 (34:12):
I think it was after b K? Yeah, did sneak
he's upstairs to sneak, Yeah he did. I asked him.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
I was like, did you get an invite?
Speaker 2 (34:20):
He's like that sort of.
Speaker 9 (34:20):
I was like, okay, he says, some guy named Bill
Murphy and by Bill Murphy and and Rick invited me.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
They told me just come on the Okay, that's been
nine years.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
There, it's classic classic K. But I was telling her.
Speaker 9 (34:35):
To tell my wife and that guy has no shame, shame,
not afraid of anything, can be.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Good in this business. Yeah, yeah, no doubt, it's gotty.
You look good man. It's good to see.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
I love you guys. We love love you too. Man.
You guys out there in the morning. Yeah, we'll see
you there in that boring.
Speaker 9 (34:52):
I know, I know you're the football guy especially right, well, yeah,
I'll be I'll be filling in for Ross tomorrow, so
be'll be double.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Let's be honest.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
It's boring the first time.
Speaker 9 (35:00):
Our skin, yeah, stretching, stretch that shuts and then they
then they conveniently moved as far away as so you're like.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Toyoculars twenty three. Oh that's just to me.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Okay, we got there, all right, love the best guy,
you love, love you Sky. There's been a lot of fun.
We gotta take aquick break.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Rogu's country tonight. Cut him next
Appreciate you guys riding with us here on a Thursday.
We've had a lot of really.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Fun guests swinging by.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
That's been that was really cool there with Don Martin
and Susie Wargen Boy, it's been a lot of fun
seeing a lot of the history of this great station
wandering through. We got the Broncos cheerleaders here, we got Miles,
some mascot us on Dinger.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Governor Polis is here and he'll join us here in
a minute.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Polus is here. That's a big deal. How about that.
It's been a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
A lot of really cool text coming in here on
the ka Comma Spirit Health text line.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Rick Lewis, Dave Logan, Ryan Edwards hanging out with you here.
A couple of things.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Let's see here, we need to bring back the Raider
Hater T shirts. Although Dave Logan and Ryan Edwards and
the raiderhir T shirts doesn't have the same ring to it,
that's true, that's fair.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
But we could we could.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
I think it'd be a good idea to bring back
the Raider Hater T shirt. You know what we could do.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
We could we could have a combined station effort.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
There you go. I like that.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
I like it as I speak for both, you know,
iHeart and KS exactly. Let me let me just let
me spend some money from both companies and we're good
at that. Here's my boss now looking at me like,
what the hell are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah, don't get too far ahead.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yeah, great show, bringing a few smiles to my face
and tears to my eyes reliving the memories. I'm a
transplant of Texan, have lived in Colora, Spring Stince celebrity
in nineteen ninety four. I'm a sales rep for grocery stores,
listening to Koa in between accounts most of the day,
wishing you all much continued success for another one hundred.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
That's very nice.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
That's very nice.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah, Rick, have you ever thrown up out the window
of a car on a highway? Unfortunately it just immediately
ends up in your face. I don't know have you
ever tried that?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
No, up, it's never happened.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
But if it's a very valid point, I think I
would have figured it out then tossing the ashes.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Out the Hillico. Yeah, don't you think it was really dumb? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
I can't defend that. I mean, for a really smart guy.
There's certain things you do that I think are quizzical
to someone.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Occasionally, Dave, I have a brain fart. Is that what
it is? Yeah, let's call it that.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
But you know, yeah, that was dumb, and I've done
quite a few dumb things in my life.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Remind me, if I go before you.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Not to have you would you not to have me
pull that stump?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
You don't want me to spread your ashes out of
the look after? No? No, okay, well no, I was
planning on doing it. Yeah, Well, the show has.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Been great today. Love the walk down memory lane.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
As a young boy riding my dad's car, he always
had eight to fifty on the radio and you sed
to drive me nuts, always listening to talk radio, never
any music. However, fast forward twenty years later, all I
listened to is eight to fifty every day. Thanks for
the memories and a good show.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
We appreciate that, we we do.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
I mean, you know that the interesting thing here and
hopefully our audience will be lenient today because I mean
with some of these people, there's a bit of sort
of inside stuff here because these are people, a lot
of these people that we have worked with twenty twenty
five thirty maybe even more than the thirty years. So
(02:54):
it's it's good to get him back. There's so many
memories here that you know, you want to you want
to make sure that we talked about the Broncos a
little bit too. But there's there's just a lot of
really cool memories over a long, long career. It's great
to see all these faces. Yes, some that I haven't
seen it quite a while. I mean Don Martin's wife,
Robin Berdolucci, who was the program director here at Kiawa,
(03:17):
really talented programmer, left went to LA. Was one of
the you talk about rising stars in iHeart for many
many years. So she came back with Don. It was great,
great to see Robin too. I just took a selfie
with her. She was the program director at KFI, my
former news guy when I was in LA. A guy
(03:40):
named Chris Little worked with her for twenty years.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
So we took a selfie and she said, send it
to Chris Little. I send it to Chris, I said,
this woman says she knows.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
You with a couple of question marks. I haven't heard
back from him yet.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yeah, okay, it's great.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
One personality I haven't heard mentioned was Chick McGillicutty.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
You know what Chick is invited for sure, but in
full disclosure, kind of taking you behind the curtains, we
have we have lost track of Chick. Patrick Watkins over
the years. And when I say we, not just me,
because Scott and I have talked about that. Susie Brian,
(04:20):
you you knew, you know, you know Patrick a lot
of Mark Andrew who was was Whitey, was Whitey Stram
of that duo Chick McGill cutting and Whitey Stram. He's
lost lost touch with him too. So I mean, we'll
be very lucky and you know, thrilled if he just
(04:40):
walks through that door in the next forty minutes or so?
Did Don Martin do some of the characters? Don Martin
was Jethro Bodine.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
He was perfect. I couldn't tell perfect for him.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I mean, you're talking about a guy who played that
character in that ensemble and.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Was later went on to run Fox Sport, right.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
I mean, Don Wow, as I was saying to him,
he and I started working together in eighty six. I
just started in radio. Thurb and Joe, we're over at
the Kenny Stabler Golf Tournament in Durango right doing a
live remote and you.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Know, talking to all the guys.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
I mean, Jim Jim McMahon is playing in this, Kenny
Stabler obviously is playing in that. And we're sitting at
the bar doing the show, and Joe Williams looked over
and said, Hey, that's the Gatlin brothers sitting in the bar.
So I'm like, he goes, you want to go get him?
I said, I'm not. I'm not going to go get him.
Don said I'll go get him. So he walks over
(05:37):
and Joe says, so, what do you think the odds
are that he's going to come back with a sheepy,
short sort of look on his face, and they turned
him down. I said, I'm betting on him. Sure enough,
we had the Gatlin Brothers on the show. Yeah, he
was the best producer. Now you're talking about a guy
that ran a major network later in his career, but
(06:00):
for what he was called to do, he was the
best producer I ever worked with. Could you have predicted
that back then that this guy will be one of
the biggest sports radio executives in the business.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
I mean, he was.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Really bright, he very gregarious, loves to talk to people
could start a conversation, carry it and finish it like
no matter who he's who he's talking to. So, I
mean I knew he was going to be successful. I mean,
heck he was. He He and Chris Olinger, who was
the PDA KAA, they're responsible for putting the zoo together
(06:30):
and putting the zoo on KOA. So you kind of
knew then that he had that touch.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
He was like, got Mark Stout, No Stout, what's up man?
Good to see you. Yes, yeah, he does great stuff
with the Rockies TV.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Now Uncle Pete, Peter Boyles is here, total legend right there,
coming down with a plate of food that is half eaten.
Of course, that's a story, that's the story of your life. Peter,
sit down, put the headset on. Yeah, that's your seat boils.
(07:02):
Good to see you. How's how's the grub up there?
By the way, you know, it's pretty good?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Is it good?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I think it's a trade.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
You think I think it'd be.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
A safe Yeah, you think that's might be a game.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
That's a radio vet right there.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
So so Peter and I first worked together in nineteen
eighty eight on K and US. That was the first
time you and I worked together. We worked at K Big. No,
that was after K and US.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Though, right, you know, I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
No, Well, anyway, Peter and I first worked together at
K Big and then we went to K and US,
although I think I think, yeah, right, yeah, but when
when did you come to uh to the blowtorch over here?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Kay? How?
Speaker 5 (07:50):
And I had cluster. Yeah, I was working nights on
K how Yeah. Now Allen had come over and Alan
Burger Allenberg and Joel Day was a GM.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
And Gary Tesler.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Left and it opened up mornings and I was doing
nights and had big numbers. Modestly he says, big numbers,
and Joel Day brought me over to do nine to
nine and then we did that noon to one block. Yep,
you were playing ball then, yeah, I was still in
the league. Yeah, and you were you were doing mornings downstairs.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
If Dave was still in the league, I wasn't. I
was going to take it back. Yeah. I started here
in ninety It was Q one O three five.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
The Fox was automated and people will co up and
request the song and right, you know, don't split A
lot of secret spoiled it as an automated radio.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
Yes, yes, that's this big and so so what what
do you remember the what what couple of memories do
you have from your your time and just your career,
because like I mean, how many years have you been
in radio?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Honestly, you and I've been for its forever. Over fifty
fifty years in the business. Yeah, over fifty. The morning
that my daughter was born, the on air traffick rougu
I didn't show up and I went on air and
with Bob Lee from Camp Pepe anchored KLAGE Morning News,
we announced my daughter been born, and I was I
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was in grad school and I fell in love with.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
The business and the rest was history. On a day
like today, the people that you miss, oh my, yeah,
it's good to see a lot of familiar faces and.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
So many people that are here.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
And you know, the finest guy we've ever known, Wee Larson, Yeah,
he said, And I don't know, it's just it's great.
You know, it's come a long ways. Actually, Rick, Rick's
from the Long Long Way prod to you. You know,
so thank you appreciate that. What was IRV brought you in?
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Right? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (09:55):
When I when I got cut of the Broncos, I
went to work with IRV and he put me on
six to seven by myself.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
I had one break, one break in the.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Hour, and it's a five thousand watts signal at which
at dusk went to five hundred watts, which I knew
nothing about. Later to find out that you could hear
it only like if you were in the parking Yes,
I mean literally in.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
The parking lot. That was kwb Z. Yep.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
So you better learn, you better learn to ask yourself
a lot of questions and figure out how to answer
him because nobody's calling.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Well that was BZ.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Yes, that we had five thousand walk daytime directional.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
Yeah, yeah, if you could get up in your attic
with a code hanger, yeah, you would get yourself into thinking,
there's a lot of people, I'm really doing this. Well,
there's a lot of people have to listen. That's like
six and that's where I met Woody. Yeah, Woody was
doing sports and that's right, Mike Wolf, that's right. And geez,
I mean so many guys were handing out.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Of there, yep.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
And it was it was just a I called that
the mother of a mother of all talk deal because
it was on South Broadway. Kwb Z and Kawa was
doing they're still playing some music. But they had the
Broncos and so they had Bob Martin and Larry's Embert's right,
and that was the key to all of it. And
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the houses Bob were there. But that's why k How
was k How because of the houses. And then they
went on to the Big Red Machine, and then I
think the Broncos then came.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Here, right yep? Is that the history? Yeah? Pretty much
what it's good to see.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
I know you're gonna be upstairs and look forward to Yeah,
used k get out with you a little.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Bit, Ricky.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
I'm so proud of you man, Thank you, Thank you, Pete.
And do you still wrestle?
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Oh Coogan?
Speaker 4 (11:46):
I remember when you you tried to wrestle not too
many years ago, which I thought was hilarious.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Click.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Yeah, I actually broke my dig little bicep, that's what
it was, right right, and they broke your what I
went to joined the fight club in Aurora for real?
Speaker 3 (12:04):
This is for real wrong with you?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Where do you?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Where do you want to begin? I didn't know that.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Yeah, yeah, did you actually fight?
Speaker 7 (12:15):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (12:16):
I mean I was going through a very difficult time.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
You came in one day with your arm in a
sling and remember you told me the story.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Like they put the dead guy part in me. Wow,
the ain't been the same since I've never before. You
can see people see see you soon.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
I have a devote and sorry that I can't tell.
But the punchline the OUTCRD was both of you.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Yeah, that'll do it.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Get out here, babe. I love you guys.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Hi, Peter, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Peter boy.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
We're gonna take a quick break.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
We are live here for the lobby of the iHeartRadio Building,
celebrating one hundred years of k Away on the fifty
eight ninety four one FM our Radio building. We are
thrilled to be joined on, said by the governor here Poles.
What's up, Governor?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
How are you one hundred years old?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Koa?
Speaker 8 (13:08):
Oh my god, happy birthday. None of you look one
hundred years old. Dave looks the closest.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
But even Dave, you don't don't look one hundred man.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Listen, Dave feels the closest too. I can.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
I can tell you that you know when you when
you think of when you.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Think of like Koa and in.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
The sports coverage and all that, I mean, what what
you've you've been here for a while. As to governor,
what what comes to mind for you?
Speaker 8 (13:29):
It's always I mean, look like when I was you know,
you know, driving in the car and then listening to
the games.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
I mean, it's it's the it's the way to do it.
It's always been fun and special for me. I mean
for me.
Speaker 8 (13:39):
Look, I'm obviously more like you know, computer television, but
there's always been times when I've been going somewhere during
a big game and so that's where that's where I listen.
So it's always been good. And look, you know, somebody
know I'm a little into this little thing called politics,
so I listen to talk radio sometimes too.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Governor, I've got a question for You've done a lot
of things in your life, obviously been very successful. Did
you ever consider maybe a career in media like radio,
for instance.
Speaker 8 (14:02):
Well, you know, I'll be available in about a year
and a half, so I'm ready for the call I've called.
You know, one of the most fun things as governor
is I've got to call a couple.
Speaker 7 (14:10):
Of Indians of Rockies games twice.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
I go in there.
Speaker 7 (14:13):
It's it's an incredible experience.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I'm really nervous well.
Speaker 7 (14:17):
Because I'm a baseball guy. I mean for me, it's
just like fun to be able to.
Speaker 8 (14:20):
Share that and and it's been been great and I
hope to do it again.
Speaker 7 (14:24):
So it's it's a lot of fun. It's very special
and you guys get to experience that every day, which
is which is very cool.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
I'm going to tell one quick story about Governor Polis
back during twenty twenty during COVID. You know, it was
it was a tough, tough deal for everybody, and everybody
was trying to figure out like can we can we
get back? How soon can we get back? What are
the what are the parameters to get back? And me
being a high school coach, I reached out to the
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governor and you know what, there were a handful of
times that Governor Polis would text. Now, the thing that
struck me about your tech next is that, man, you
get up early in the morning. I'm getting a text
at six am, you know, about hey, how are things going.
But I think I think I can speak for a
lot of families, coaches kids that actually they didn't get
(15:13):
the whole season, but they got to play in that season.
And I think I think that's a congratulatory to you.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
That's right, most of them only missed a few months.
That's the next folly back. In fact, I don't know
if you know this, but the very first sport back,
which started before summer ended, it must have been in
maybe June or something, was golf. And I went to
the very first I went to fass I went to
the very first Chassa. It happened to be a golf tournament,
a very first sport back. And so I'll tell you
(15:39):
a little story about that too, Dave. You know, we
had trouble with some districts going back to in person.
Others went back in person right away. So we said
for sports participation, to be able to do the sports,
you got to be in person.
Speaker 7 (15:52):
And of course that meant we were.
Speaker 8 (15:54):
Sort of stuck all those sports parents on them saying
you got to go back in person.
Speaker 7 (15:57):
For the education piece too. It helped me out color
else les back early. So I was a little story
about about that.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Very cool.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
So you called a couple of innings for the Rockies,
how would you like to come? And maybe a couple
series for the Broncos.
Speaker 7 (16:08):
You know, I don't get qualified. I mean I watch football,
I know hell we do it.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Oh yeah, I mean, you know, how hard is it
to be well?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Bump bump you know?
Speaker 8 (16:16):
No, I mean you got to know the stuff I
know baseball. Look, I'm happy to be there for color
on the Broncos, but I hang out with Miles, you know,
I watch them. But when I go to a football game,
let's just say, I spend more time, you know, talking
and chatting to people. Sure do following the play by play.
But I love foot you know I love football too.
It's a fun sport.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Hey, listen, we thank you for coming by. I know
you're going to get upstairs, but appreciate you coming by.
Speaker 8 (16:36):
One hundred more, Let's get ready for the next one
more thing. August first, tomorrow is Colorado Day. That's it's
one hundred and forty ninth birthday of Colorado. So we're
a little older than you guys, one forty nine. I
also want to point that out because next year, twenty
twenty six is Colorado's big birthdays of state one hundred
and fifty next year.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Yeah, yeah, good information, very cool information.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Thanks you for gore. Thank you, Governor, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Governor Jerry Poulis kind enough to swing by as we
were celebrating one hundred years here on Kowa Dave. I
know we have to say goodbye to you as well
because you've got to go do some festivities.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Are staying for a while.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Oh great, yeahn good, fantastic.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
I'll go up in a little bit.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Okay, I love that. Yeah, that's good for us.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Hey man, it's more times, more time down here, less
time up there. Not a bad thing. Not a bad thing.
I'll wait for the next break.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
That's cool.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
And you know, I give this a shout out to
the governor. He's sort of touched on every part of
our daytime, right. I mean he's been on Corra morning news,
he's been all with Ross and Mandy.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
He's been on with us in the afternoons.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
I mean, I give him a lot of credit because
he's kind of a p one in a lot of ways.
And that's a little behind the scenes radio kinds uff.
But he's a longtime listener, long time interactor.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
He was.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
I won't say beneficial, he was extremely important kind of
behind the scenes in making sure that in twenty twenty,
the fall of twenty twenty, those high school teams got
to play nine games. I remember talking about that with you,
because that wasn't happening around the go. It wasn't when
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I commend him for that, you know, and I mean,
you know, the early morning text and what what what
can be done and we've got to be smart. He
just he engaged in that, and I just for the
kid's sake, I just really appreciated that, you know what.
The reason I answered him that question about radio, he's
obviously very media savvy. He do have a lot of
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media and he's very glib and very conversational. He could,
I think, could easily have a career and talk radio
if he wanted it.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
But it'd be a huge stepdown for yeah, well certainly
in pay.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
But he said in the year and a half he's
going to be exploring a lot of options.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Yeah, I think one of those options, yeah President, Yeah, Oh,
you hear that.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
You hear that a lot.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
But I guess we could have we could have had
him break some news. Hey, listen it we're all in
the celebratory mood. Maybe I want to tell us something.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
It was suggested maybe by that we not get into.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
That, okay, suggested.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Yeah, sometimes sometimes when you get those kinds.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Of sometimes those those things have parameters, they do.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Have you ever.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Interviewed a president or former president in your media career?
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Yes? Which one? So I interviewed.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
George Bush the first, the second, and I actually interviewed
Bill Clinton, Okay, and both were.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
I mean both were really good, savvy as you would expect.
I mean, good with questions, good with.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Sort of differring in terms of things they might not
want to talk about. But both sports fans made. George
Bush used on the Texas Rangers. But Bill Clinton, President
Clinton was was also really good sports.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Very very the like cable yeahs as well.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
I interviewed Roger Clinton, Bill Clinton's brother. Remember when he
was a mess, when he's a hot mess. At one
time he interviewed him when he was a hot mess.
He was a hot mess. Yeah, and I think he
was a musician. I think that's why we interviewed him.
So it was his cousin, George George Clinton. Yeah, Rogers
wow wow ye o yeppa wow wow yep oo yip Pa.
(20:24):
Interviewed Gerald Ford once a couple of times used to
play in the Jerry Ford golf tournament.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Vale.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
I played that one time, and so got a chance
to talk to him and interview him as well.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
He was a really good dude too.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
What was the circumstances when, I mean, you'll interview the
president whenever you interviewed the president, But was there do
you remember the reason why they.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Were Were they currently president? No?
Speaker 4 (20:46):
No, George Bush had not yet been elected, was running
and he did an appearance at at the Broncos because
he he was cousins with Joelle.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
That's right. So that's how that worked out.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
And Bill Clinton, I'm trying to think back. I think
it was I think it was a book. I think
he had written a book. But we had him on
and I mean you had you had so many questions
and you know, you had to submit the questions and
so there was no it was. It was pretty pretty
(21:23):
tightly watched. But yeah, I mean it was you know,
to me, it was it was cool.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
That's gonna be one of the toughest things.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
And you and I've talked about this in the past
with other people we've interviewed when they asked for the
questions ahead of time, because I think I don't think
I'm not comparing myself in as an interviewer to you,
but we tend to like to listen and react to
in real time what you're saying, and if you say
something interesting, I'd rather have a conversation about it.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Yeah, in this case, they didn't want me to submit questions.
They gave me questions that we're going to be going
to be permissible.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
So this wasn't like, hey, I would like to ask
the state. That's good. I'm glad you ideas. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
I mean, you know, even nowadays, there will be certain
coaches that we'll want a list of questions right.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
And to me, you know, you're not there.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
I'm not there to try to give them someone to
catch them, not trying to have a gotcha moment. But
I'm also not interested in trying to come up with
a list of questions submit because frankly, I think the
best interviewer is one that takes an answer, maybe on
the question number one, and it creates something in his
(22:31):
mind the interviewer and he goes back either for more
information on that first question or jog something about asking
he let me ask about this. So you can't do
that if you've submitted all the questions and have to
stay right to the script.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
So as we're kind of winding down some of this.
I know the party's gone on upstairs. Just kind of curiosity, Dave.
I mean, as we've talked to so many people, you've
seen so many faces. What are some things that have
sort of popped into your head as we've been hanging
out here.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
I think it's great to I think it's great to
see so many people that, over a long period of time,
have really you know, either with what they've done on
air or what they've done off air. I mean people
and most people understand that to run a successful radio station,
(23:18):
you hear us, you hear us calling Broncos games, there's
a lot of people behind the scenes that make that possible.
So it's been great to see Kenny Dane and the
Wizard who was the Broncos engineer for so many years.
Great to see him, and just a lot of people
that you haven't seen for fifteen, twenty or more years.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
How about you rick some things that have popped into
your head as you've been having a chance to.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
A lot of great memories.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Yeah, you know, with certain people in particular, a lot
of these people haven't seen it in so long. You know,
as we know in this business, it's really volatile and
people kind of come and go. Luckily here in this building,
there's been people that have been in the building for decades.
But Peter Boyle's, for one, that was cool.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Peter.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Yeah, as a radio nerd myself, that was cool.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Yeah, Peter Boyle a legend. Yeah, we're doing it a
long time and I.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Never got to work with him, but boy, I mean
you would talk about like just knowing the history of radio,
that's that's a cool year.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
You've probably heard some of the stories. Oh absolutely, yeah.
But yeah, seeing these faces again. Don Martin another one,
another one which is which is incredible. He went from
a producer of an afternoon sports talk show to be
in one of the biggest sports execs in the business.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Remarkable. Yeah, well I met. I've met a couple of
times in.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Other places like around the country as he's producing or
running things, and it was one of those like holy cally,
that that's Don Martin over there, Like I'm like, I'm
gonna I gotta go to hide to him.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Big time And Robin Bertolucci, his wife, a big time
program director. KFI Los Angeles. KFI is kind of the
equivalent of KOA here. Okay, fifty thousand Wadde Calear channel station.
That's legendary icon at radio station.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
So cool. Well, this has been a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
We're gonna take a quick break and we'll come back.
We're gonna I want to hear that ramontage one more
time because that was really pretty cool. Well, the Koa
Sports Zoo, which was a legendary show here in the
market for quite some time.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
And as we wrap this.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Thing up, we're actually gonna have a special guest joining
us here.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Just amount of moments. He's saying hi to some friends.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Scott, come sit your big ass down.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
We're celebrating one hundred years of Kowa. We've been doing
that throughout the afternoon. It'll continue on to Broncos Country tonight,
coming up at the top.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Of the hour.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
But joining us now on set one of our all
time favorites.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
You heard him right there moments ago, but one and
only Scott Hasten. Scotty.
Speaker 9 (25:44):
You know, there's a day when the governor's over here
that he wouldn't be loud.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
But that's a whole nother story that that would.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
You know what, there was a time, it was a
time that is that sure, you know, and he certainly
would not have come on the app.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
The noon show.
Speaker 7 (26:02):
No right, no, So so here's the deal.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
You you work for a different station now because you
dumbass decided to leave in two thousand and six. So
so you're now, well, you know what, if Pat Conters here,
we could talk to you about.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
You know what? He is here? Well, you know what,
you know what, let's have a cocktail. We'll talk to him.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
I stopped drinking rocking mout today.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
I'll have I'll have yours favorite.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Yeah, you're a drinker, but we were together. He hardly
ever tried. Now I don't drink you, I don't drink now,
he doesn't drink much. In fairness, In fairness, now you're
on what time?
Speaker 3 (26:32):
In what station?
Speaker 9 (26:33):
Dune to three ninety two point five Altitude ninet two
point five the.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
D Max Show. That is at the end of the show.
Speaker 9 (26:41):
PhD Columbus, Oh Hastings and emax a PhD.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
You know we used to do when.
Speaker 9 (26:48):
We when we had dover which went over to the fan,
which I called him take the money and run because
he took some money and rent over there.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
That's how I started.
Speaker 9 (26:56):
But we used to steal your thing. We call ourselves
the masters for a while.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
I remember when you started that show.
Speaker 9 (27:01):
Then we would go us people, you can't do that.
Before it was you can't do that, I go. I
talked to you about it, goes man. No, I think
it's cool.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
I took it as a true honor.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
It really Yeah. I remember you called me about that
because we had the same thing. People were calling me
in text and going, what the hell these guys doing.
They stole your nickname, Scott, it's my boy man.
Speaker 9 (27:25):
No, that was all, and we even told the whole story.
I started radio before Dave and I started doing talk
shows together.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
I started radio with you guys, right yeah, with.
Speaker 9 (27:36):
Regular we ain't gonna score till Hastings scores. So they
chick in every game. And I went like a month
and a half and you missed two free throws. I
made one finally, I made finally.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
But there was a time and you had our name
on the back.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Of your shoe and you weren't playing much, but every
now and then you'd get in, you know, in garbage time.
And I remember one time you you got a free
throw shot and missed it.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Am I right, I don't know you missed it. It
was an eighty percent.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Hey, and I after career rise, I thought you missed
it on purpose. So we have to.
Speaker 9 (28:12):
Start down truth right now, did you guys live up
to your your creed?
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Come on, man, it catches me.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
It can't just be a gig.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
I'm probably knocking upstairs, but I okay. So hey, So
when we first started, tell tell people how big.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
The studio was.
Speaker 9 (28:28):
Seriously, you know, having digital stuff going up here, it's
probably about the size of the room behind you.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Guys.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Wow, maybe maybe that big.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
I'm gonna tell you what.
Speaker 9 (28:40):
One time and we had a break top of the hour,
you know, you had to break the IDs and all
that stuff. And they had to make a break because
we started a brand new station, Ka tuk It was
brand new on the air, but we started it and
they made breaks. So they just start throwing stuff into
the bottom. So Dave not can take a leak or something, right,
So we started doing that one day though. Tell so
(29:03):
now we got thirty minute segments tell the truth? You
know about thirty minute segments? Yeah, yeah, Dave, lets one
go in that little.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Oh that's a lie. That is a lie.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
This dude farted, seriously, do you know what he said, hey,
hey man, Hey, listen, I gotta go to the back.
I said, listen, we're on the air.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
We got thirty minutes. We got thirty minutes. You gotta
wait for thirty do it? I can't you. We're on
the air. We gotta wait.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
And all of a sudden it would have knocked a
buzzard off the clip wagon, and so I reacted because
I was near death.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Well, we started to tell it also.
Speaker 7 (29:35):
He starts gagging.
Speaker 9 (29:37):
We gagged on the air. We did a thirty minute
laugh track on it. On it because we would try
to get back right and we couldn't get it was
a thirty minute laugh track. It's gotta be the only
time I've ever done on radio. All Right, I gotta
go upstairs. Well I see upstairs. Hey, you don't leave yet.
Mann't get used to this, I mean, get use of this. Well,
(29:57):
I can negotiate your deal. You gotta deal.
Speaker 7 (29:59):
Well give me another year.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Okay, Tepper's here. What Tepper's behind me?
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Talked to Temper.
Speaker 9 (30:08):
He knows there you go.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Hey, six toes over.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
To yell at you.
Speaker 9 (30:12):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, you're still the boss of Dave six.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Oh I oh. He turned my mind off no, you're on,
You're on.
Speaker 7 (30:22):
No we hear you.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Oh yeah, man, don't hear me. What year? What's your
first year with a Nuggets like ninety? You know what
I always have.
Speaker 9 (30:29):
You won the championship eighty nine, ninety and then ninety
ninety one.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
It was my last year, so ninety one, ninety two seasons,
so ninety one, all right, ninety one. I remember.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
The reason we got ahold of you is I have
a good friend who is a sports writer in Detroit
named Steve Kornacky, and he goes, Hey, this Hastings guy,
he's really entertaining. He goes, you need to get a
hold of him and make him a regular on your
radio show. And that's when we track you down.
Speaker 9 (31:00):
Man.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
He was right, dude, you killed it. Man, we had
so much fun back in the day.
Speaker 9 (31:04):
Well, I tell you it's funny. And he became a
big star and wrote books and thing like this Bitch
album and it was it was a classic rock FM station,
but on on Sunday evenings he would do like a
sports talk show from seven to nine. So I became
like their regular fill in with the other guy was
(31:24):
gone or something. So I would I would come in
and fill in with Mitch Mitch album I became really
good friends and that was my first jump into any
any sports talk was with the Legend if you let
the Legend and Mitch album sou but that was in
Detroit and then the the FM station like me, so
then they would call me in kind of like you
guy Nana show, just like I met Dave Koyer there
(31:45):
and I got there was another there's another big time
kind of comedian would come on from there all the
time and then let me hang out and we just
joke and it was awesome.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Man.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Yeah, man, I'm just looking back, I'm so grateful that
we had the chance to really share some big radio moments.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
You and Dave had a hell of a run. Oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
But thanks for acknowledging that we were the ones that
got you started.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
You got me started, absolutely got me started. It was
kind of.
Speaker 9 (32:12):
Funny really where sports talk is now because because Dave
and I were basically and we were on KOA you know,
one hundred years by the way, which was an AM
signal at the time only uh, and we were basically
trying to do an FM show that just talks sports.
Sometimes you know, sometimes we go off in a little tangient.
(32:33):
I think we did a four hour show on women
peeing in a bathroom one time, and I think we
did an eating eating squirrel, and then Reggie McDaniel called
in one time, David I did. I did a segment
and going if you're stuck an island, you had to
eat a dog, a cat, or a monkey. Which one
would you choose? So we had people calling in. We
(32:55):
had real lines on tight for tomorrow. That's a great
So the late gray Reggie McDaniel, who was awesome called
in and said, hey, well I've had all three. If
you remember, he ended up becoming like the movie reviewer
and restaurant reviewer for Kawa, had his own show on
Sundays for a while. So he calls in, he goes, yeah,
I have had all three. I was in the militaries
(33:15):
in the army for twenty some years.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
He said, I.
Speaker 9 (33:18):
Had a dog, I had monkey in the Philippines. I
had dog in Korea. And I jumped out, said Jeff
cat in Vietnam. Meers you know, so he goes, no,
I had another Chinese restaurant in South Saint Louis, or
I had a man Sat Louis. That's what we do, Okay,
(33:42):
Reggie's our guy though. Yeah, I love Reggie, so he
would call in every Fridays and we do restaurant reviews
with Reggie.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
We started him. He was great. Yeah, man, well it's
good to see it. Thanks for stopping by him on
head upstairs. I know they want you. I want you
to pop in up there. You going up?
Speaker 9 (33:56):
Well, I guess I got it now right, I think
they're inspecting it. I took some air there. Right, here's a
full circles, Ryan now big time show host.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Start off was one of my first or second producers.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Yep, weren't you ye? Were the first?
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Were you after BK? Before b K?
Speaker 2 (34:12):
I think it was after b K? Yeah, did sneak
he's upstairs to sneak, Yeah he did. I asked him.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
I was like, did you get an invite?
Speaker 2 (34:20):
He's like that sort of.
Speaker 9 (34:20):
I was like, okay, he says, some guy named Bill
Murphy and by Bill Murphy and and Rick invited me.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
They told me just come on the Okay, that's been
nine years.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
There, it's classic classic K. But I was telling her.
Speaker 9 (34:35):
To tell my wife and that guy has no shame, shame,
not afraid of anything, can be.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Good in this business. Yeah, yeah, no doubt, it's gotty.
You look good man. It's good to see.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
I love you guys. We love love you too. Man.
You guys out there in the morning. Yeah, we'll see
you there in that boring.
Speaker 9 (34:52):
I know, I know you're the football guy especially right, well, yeah,
I'll be I'll be filling in for Ross tomorrow, so
be'll be double.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Let's be honest.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
It's boring the first time.
Speaker 9 (35:00):
Our skin, yeah, stretching, stretch that shuts and then they
then they conveniently moved as far away as so you're like.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Toyoculars twenty three. Oh that's just to me.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Okay, we got there, all right, love the best guy,
you love, love you Sky. There's been a lot of fun.
We gotta take aquick break.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Rogu's country tonight. Cut him next
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