March 30, 2026 • 29 mins
Michael J and Candace cover today's trending topics and the latest Baltimore news.
Marty Bass also joins the pair in the studio today to talk about his 50-year career in media and his plans for retirement.
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Marty Bass also joins the pair in the studio today to talk about his 50-year career in media and his plans for retirement.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Some mornings, it's tough to remember to take everything with
you out the door, your lunch, your security badge, whatever
you need to get in at work. The other mornings,
everything just seems to click. You know what the difference
is those slow mornings. You've probably missed ninety three point
one WPOC The Michael J.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Morning Show.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hope you can join us every morning, but if you
do happen to miss anything, maybe you can catch it
here on our podcast. Thanks for checking in, Follow like, share,
and keep listening. Well, a lot of people talking about
planes this morning, just trying to get through TSA. If
you're lucky enough here at ninety three point one WDPOC,
(00:41):
Michael J and Cannas. I just check Candis it's still
saying like three hours.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Yeah, has arrived three hours ahead of your schedule departure.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
So what is coming up on the brief?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Marilyn Native is heading to space this week. I'll have
the details on the mission coming up in the brief.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
He doesn't have to go through TSA.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
No, go ahead, Jeannette, You want to guess who our
guest is at seven thirty this morning?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Oh, I have no clue.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Well, Jeanette, the clue that we gave you on the air.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
This person is one of the most famous, recognizable and
well known people ever to be on TV or radio
in Baltimore.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Hmmm, who could that be? Wow? That would be you?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
No nor pop culture protein Boost.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
It's the brief on.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Ninety three point one WPOC.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
We had a star in our presence. We'll find out
you're going up.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
A gunshot was fired inside a Run the Mills mall
on Saturday, and three people are in custody after a
police pursuit into Baltimore County. It all started around five
o'clock Saturday night, when a man was leaving the Burlington
Coat Factory store. Three people approached and assaulted him. Police
say the victim pulled out a gun. A struggle ensued
and a weapon discharge bizarre.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
One of the people was hit in the wrist.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
The assailants then fled left in a black Nissan Ultima
that was tracked on ninety seven and glen Burnie. They
pursued the vehicle then onto the Beltway and it crashed
in Baltimore County.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
They all ran off.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Police tracked all three of them down, but two of
them had non life threatening injuries. An officer was also
hurt in a crash was taken to the hospital non
life threatening injuries. Thank goodness. There was no active threat
inside them all police say, and it did remain open.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Do we ever find out how that guy's going north?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
No, the investigation is still underway, so I think you know,
more will be released soon. Security lines moved Mores smoothly
on Sunday, a day after weight times of as much
as five hours.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
At BWI Thirgod Marshall Airport.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
On Sunday, the terminal was almost empty and security lines
shrunk dramatically. Now here's the deal. We looked this morning.
It appears to be moving. We have heard that the
line at McDonald's once you get in to get your
burger or your.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Right all eyes are on NASA's eyes.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Him is two rocket at the Kennedy's Space Center, with
his scheduled launches early as Wednesday for the historic mission
around the Moon. The crew is now undergoing quarantine so
they don't get sick ahead of the flight. Two of
the four astronauts have ties to Maryland. Astronaut Christina Cook
previously worked at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in
Laurel and at Goddard Space Flight Center. Mission commander Read Wiseman,
(03:23):
a Navy veteran, lives in Cockeysville, attended Delaney High School.
The mission will be the first crewed lunar flyby in
more than fifty years.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
That is your brief. You are calling number nine. You're
going to see Thomas.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Rhett fit Yeah, Merriweather, when is thirteenth?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
We got a Thomas Rhett fan here. Good Monday morning?
All Hi? When high school? Are you guys going to
the time the Blazers? Right? A very good. I cheated canvas. Yeah,
(04:01):
day you win?
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Hey, and you're going to see Thomas Rert Brenda, thank
you for driving along with us. I've got our special
surprise guest coming up at seven thirty. If you would
like to guess who it is, you can tax seven
seven nine six two call us at eight hundred three
to two one thirty six ninety three to be on gold.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Jay's Music City minute in sixty seconds.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
If you don't know, like you own music row All right,
I told you.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
People are talking about Morgan Wallen this morning because he's
planning for his I'm the Problem tour.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
It's called the Still the Problem Tour. He'll be here
July seventeenth and eighteenth for Make Keep Me Tracked. You're
going to be camped out at M and T Bank Stadium.
He'll be one of those groupies.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I'm hoping I can get like some freebies from the
radio station and Kansas is like, you won't believe what
I spent on Morgan wall in tickets, right, and I
got it.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I got it out of you too large?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Uh huh?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Or actually is it too large? Would be two hundred?
What's bigger than large?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I don't know. Two thousand dollars is too large. That's
a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
But you know what you in your defense, your husband
is going to be thrilled by being able.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
To see Brooks and dun and what about Ella Langley.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
And then Ella Langley on Saturday. Right, it's my daughter's
sixteenth birthday leading up to it.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
So I'm like, all right, I guess I'll go all in. Well,
this is going to be the highlight of the summer.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
And the story about Morgan is he is going to
be doing a deluxe version of I'm the Problem, and
he's he's lengthening this song so that he can include Drake.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
In the middle of it.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I don't know if Drake's going to pop up on
a video screen and a lot of country fans will like,
who the heck is Drake? I have a feeling everybody
who loves Morgan walland knows about Drake.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Yeah, So it's gonna be a it's gonna be a
whole thing. It's gonna be it's gonna be a happening.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Whether it's video or in person. Right.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
The other big news this morning, Ella Langley's rocking new ink.
She has a new tattoo that she was showing off.
If you want to spot it, take a look at
her on Instagram. She was hanging out with Taylor and
Laney at the eye Heart Radio Music Awards last week.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Is this good morning?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
My name is Karen?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Hey, Karen ar So you want to take a game?
Good morning?
Speaker 4 (06:08):
I do?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I think it's Marty Bess.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Wow, you nailed that, didn't you say hello to Marty?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
He's right here. You get to say good morning till
you're the first. Yeah, you're the very first game. I'm
doing well? How are you doing? I'm doing well? This
is formerly Karen Q Karen PW. Do you know do
you know Marty personally or I've met him several times?
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Okay, okay, Well you can help us because the reason
that we wanted to bring Marty in this morning is
he is retiring from.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
W j Z as far as I know, page, I'm sorry,
I said. I read that on his Facebook page.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Yeah, and as as far as I know, Marty, you
have been on the air in Baltimore longer than anyone
else has ever been here.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I don't know if that's correct, to be quite honest
to ask, I'm giving you that title.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Wait, and I appreciate it and appreciate who could have
been on Bob Turkey clips fifty years?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Did you really think so? Yeah? Well we'll tell you
what's a year and a half amongst friends?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Right right? Well, we can help you. Maybe, you know,
you can hang out with us a little bit.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Maybe.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Well, remember I was on the air w POC twenty
five five years twenty five years ago, Old Home Week.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I told you I'm looking at the monitors behind you.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Ninety three point one w POC, I mean brings back
a lot of great memories and shout out to ninety
three point one w POC, Michael J. Candice and everyone
in here. You do have Jay Z on the other
somebody spent a lot.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Of money at A and and at and the electronics
box store. Yeah, yeah, he's really pretty.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
There's four monitors in here, five, there is one right
behind you.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
So we got him everywhere. Yeah. Have you been to
Camden Yards this baseball season yet? Was there for opening days?
Speaker 1 (08:04):
They added six hundred new screens in addition to that
large thing in center field scoreboard?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Have you seen it in person yet? Yeah? Beautiful? Was there?
Just wow? Yeah? It was wild?
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Ye.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Hey, Karen, I didn't want to forget. You're on the phone.
Anything you want to ask Marty yours. We congratulate him
on a tremendous career.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I just want to say, congratulations Marty. You're a rock star.
Yeah you are. Thank you ching me, Thank you very much, Karen,
thanks for checking in so Marty, thank you. You have
been on TV.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Maybe not the longest because I I think you have,
but we'll check.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
I don't know what Bob Dirk did filming. It's Bob,
we could you know? All right? Well you wake him
up this morning? Ran with cobract go let's go on call.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
But you were on TV when I was like, what
fourteen years old, Candace wasn't even born.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
She wasn't even born in.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Nineteen seventy seven, you were twenty four twenty four at
the time, right, Yeah, And what brought you to Baltimore?
How did you pick of all spots to work in
media balt.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
It's a Forest Gump moment in my career.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
I was working in San Antonio at kNs Channel five
Eyewitness News. The news director at WJYZ had a layover
in the San Antonio airport because it was a gateway
to get to the Mexican resorts.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Right. He was shock of all shocks in the bar
having a drink watching the news. Uh huh. He saw me.
He had his secretary give me a call and say,
mister Goodfellow, his name was Scott Goodfellow, would like a
tape of your work. It all comes down to alcohol.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
If he had not been having a margarita, might.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Not be here. Mom and d Paisley. We we're happy
that it all worked out.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
So when you look back over a nearly fifty year career,
you've worked with so many people, I mean, yeah, Oprah there.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Yeah, you were there with Jerry.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
For people that are old school Baltimore Heights of Baltimoreans,
Jerry and al were like the face of television. Everybody
watched Jerry Turner and Alexanders.
Speaker 6 (10:15):
Touched the face of television in America. For local TV folks,
let me go to you this way. This is before
cable and Netflix and crime and everything else. When you
basically had three, maybe four channels, nine out of every
ten televisions on watched Jerry Turner at eleven o'clock. It
was everything, and Jerry and All at six probably seven
(10:36):
out of every Frian television's on.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
They were that dominant.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
So when you think back, is there is there one
person that you felt the most in awe of that
taught you the most, that you really loved as a
human being?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
You know? Was it Bob was it somebody else?
Speaker 6 (10:51):
I think I'd have to say Richard Cher Richard just
just you know, Richard and Overras started, people were talking
and that when you're when you're sitting next to Obra
starting a TV show, that's going to be a big deal.
But I think Richard was one of the finest anchormen
that's ever walked into a studio. And as far as
being a newsman in the newsroom and exercising news judgment,
(11:16):
listening to the police radio as the scanners and everything.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
I think it goes to Richard.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
All right, well there you go, the inside scoop and
all kinds of things. Years Baltimore with Marty Bass. Most
most unforgettable thing to happen in Baltimore in your fifty years.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Yeah, but absolutely, first, second, and third draft choice would
be the papal visit.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Okay, No, I was fortunate enough to be on site
and covering that for jay Z. It left. If you
weren't speechless, you had no heartbeat, you had no soul.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
It was the greatest explosion of sight, sound, devotion I've
ever encountered.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I could regale you with stories from that day for
the next hour.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
And this coming from a man who is Jewish, you know,
I mean like, so it wasn't like that you're the
most devout Catholic.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
No, it was a unified I can't just spawn on
exactly correct, right, Yeah, I mean I was there. I
was a child.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
I went with my grandmother and I just remember you
felt it no matter what age, what denomination.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
And you felt the vibe throughout the entire city. Remember,
it was more than cam in yards right, he stopped
at the Basilica the Assumption and then went out to
the Cathedral of Mary R.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Queen. Wow.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
So this happened over a good a good distance in Baltimore. Yeah,
that's amazing and security unlike anything I've ever seen, even
more so than I think for a presidential visit.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Wow. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
All right, So I wanted to know what one of
your favorite segments, your favorite things that you were able
to see or do during your time.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
Okay, let's take it to the past three and a
half years. W Jay z at nine doing Where's Marty?
At the Maryland Center for History and Culture under Lock
and Key very safely. Under Lock and Key is the
handwritten copy of the star Spangled banner, Francis Scott Key's
handwritten copy. And just as my phone is sitting in
(13:21):
front of me right now on the desk here, that's
how close I was looking right at it.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Oh wow, And there's the o that we all.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
Go, oh, there it is right there in his hand.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
That's cool. Did you do it? He did a double
take on that one.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
Absolutely absolutely. I was able to see it twice. We
went back and did a revisit. Shout out Maryland Center
for History and Culture. It would be a great place
for Annie baltimorean and a Marylander to visit. And if
you have an out of town friend, I'd take him
there too.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
But it's under lock and key, it's not on display.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
All right, We're gonna have more with Marty here. Let
me reset the stage, all right. Today is kind of
an exciting day for us. We're in the final countdown
of Candace being our special guest co host.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Yeah, it's the permanent host will be announced on Wednesday, and.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
It's going to be dramatic. There's gonna be a shocking conclusion.
That's all I can say. But there have been so
many people that have been a part of this. This
has been going on since January, and Marty is here today.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Coincidentally, I'll just say.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Marty is retiring, leaving WJZ, which leaves his mornings open.
And you have a background in radio. You started as
a DJ right in Louisville.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
There are people on TV Hill right now going apoplectics. Well,
that's all I can say.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Yeah, so, but what a career you have had. I mean, honestly,
I've worked with a lot of people in broadcasting, but
I have never been, you know, around someone like yourself
who has done what you do so well for such
a long time. Five decades, Yeah, forty and a half years,
(15:02):
and we had to we had to check the facts.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Maybe maybe Bob Turk got you buy a hair. Yeah,
I think I think Bob was a little over fifty years,
so he's got your hair. That's where it went. Come on,
someone knew I was getting setup. I had a great
head litter. It just all went out the window.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
Never let the facts get in the way of.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Well, Michael J.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
You should be bad and clean up for the one
out of.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Right, they're getting wet in the splash zone.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Well, we have a lot of people that are texting in, Hey,
congratulations Marty on your well deserved retirement, and Marty Bath,
congratulations on your fifty years. I still remember meeting you
in person at op I.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
What is op I? I wanted to nail polish it, but
you know, I figured it was somewhere else. Hell do
you know that because I've been painting my toenails for you.
It was my wife's idea.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
I had a couple who were friends, right and lives
used to like painting Robs toenails.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Let's not go there, okay.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
And my wife said to me once that would look good,
And I said, what she goes that? I said, are
you serious? She goes, Come on, be a man, give
it a try.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Oh wow. And that was probably fifteen years ago. The
rest is history.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Well, you know about OPI and this morning a WPOC.
You're getting Marty Bass from head to toe. See, we're
doing the whole thing right. You're right there.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
I got you. That was pretty good. You're still batting
forth for them. Ah you.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
So the lines are open if anybody else wants to
say hello to Marty. We've got them here for a
little while. And I just I was you know, I
called you the second I heard about you retiring.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
Well we go back, man, I'm gonna be really serious
about this. I've watched your entire career and I'm so
proud of you. Oh man, the Hall of Fame most
deserved a round of applause for my Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
They just don't give that out on looks and with
him literally it certainly didn't give it to me for
look Smith, for the old I just thought I pointed
that out. Ye, get that one in the centerfield. You
know what Baltimore is.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
That's why I love you so much, because, uh, Baltimore
is neighborhoods. Baltimore is you know, folks that we grow
up with. And we were joking a little earlier about
how Marty's been on TV longer than Candae has been alive.
But the fact is, you know, you you come into
You've come into people's homes for decades, and you know
it's it's just a magical thing.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
You woke up Baltimore with Don Scott for how many years?
Speaker 6 (17:39):
Don and I did mornings for over three decades, Right,
that's amazing. But I have worked with some of the
most amazing Don Scott, hands down, one of the finest
anchormen you'd ever want to work with at any station
in any city in America.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
And I was fortunate enough to sit next to this guy.
We're over three decades. Yeah, I mean it's been Believe me,
it's it's.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
I always say it's all about w jay Z, And
in my heart of hearts, I believe that it's the
people I have worked with who have propelled me to
forty eight.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
And a half years.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
I mean, that's sincerely, well and in front of and
behind the camera, behind the camera, jay Z, Yeah, there
are superstars. We have K two here, K two and
I have shot K two. Say hello, how long has
K two been?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Jay Z? Too long, that's what he says. Wait ask
me that again. How long has K happily?
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Well, how many of you guys? That's seven hundred whars Marty.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
Two and I as a team have done. We figured
over seven hundred wars Marty's yes.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
That's crazy. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
Wow, Well every day for like three and a half years,
just through the math.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
All right, well listen, OPI is old Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
N Wow, that is old. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
So you know, you leave that impression when people meet you,
they're like I met Marty Bass, you know. And the
one thing about you, Marty, you never fail to leave
an impression one way or the other.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
That's just you are.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
You know, one way, one way or the other. And
you know what, as long as the meat is in
the seats. But everyone you can look, you can ask
K two. Everyone that comes up to me honors me.
There's not a person, Oh you're alleged to take a
picture with. I learned something about Baltimore every time I
speak with a viewer. You know, Canice you're on TV
(19:32):
for a long time, right, and the same thing.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
You feel that And that's what I wanted to say.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
You were talking about the people you know behind the camera,
which it is. It becomes this family that you work
with in this business. But let's talk about the people
in Baltimore. When you're on a morning show, whether it
be radio or television, there's something special about the people
who are joining you that really it makes.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Your your career really well.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
You're starting, you're starting were day together as someone else
and that gets the day going.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
And I think that's the dynamic.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
But but and I say this and I mean it sincerely,
I have learned something beneficial from everyone who's ever come
up and said hello to me.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Right, just walk up and say how many easy touched? Right?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Well, imagine how many people have watched you in their
underwear in the morning.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
They're getting dressed or you know that's the whole thing.
You're a part of the home. And it's like Marty,
you might not have been in your underwear, but I'm
getting dressed.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
Scott used to have a line minutes of visual but
Don would would say, I imagine people watch us between
their feet right, Well.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
That's okay. I guess I never thought of it that way.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Marty.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
It's great to having you here.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
And uh man, so what are the plans you're going
to You're going to retire at the end of May
and then who knows?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Right, we have to leave that open.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Ended for right now because on Wednesday, I don't know
what's gonna happen running andis I don't know anything.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
You went to Nashville sale the deal and that's all
we know. Seven thirty there's an announcement.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yes, I went around every country artist in Nashville to
get the blessing of who would be the new co
host for the morning show. I mean I talked to everyone,
Garth Brooks, Keith Urban, I had to go to everybody
because we had to find out this. This is WPOC.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Now, what's gonna be a big deal.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
So seven thirty Monday morning, ninety three point one DOWD POC.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
We've been giving away Thomas rehdtickets already this morning, Yeah
we have.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
We'll do it again this morning, like every day this
week around seven oh five, seven ten right in there
be listening. Maybe we can hook you up for Thomas
when he plays at Merriweather.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
You are pop culture protein boost. It's the brief. On
ninety three point one WPOC, A.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Gunshot was fired inside a run A Mills mall on Saturday,
and three people are in custody after a police pursuit
into Baltimore County. It all started around five o'clock on
Saturday night, when a man was leaving the Burlington Coat
Factory store.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Three people approached and assaulted him.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Police said, the victim pulled out a gun, A struggle
ensued and the weapon discharged.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
One of the people was hit in the wrist.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
The assailants then fled in a Nissan Ultima that was
tracked by police on Interstate ninety seven and glen Burnie
officer pursued the vehicle onto the Beltway before it ultimately
exited and crashed in Baltimore County, and they ran off,
so police tracked down all three. Two of them had
none life threatening injuries. But then here's the deal. An
officer was also hurt in a crash and taken to
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a hospital, thankfully non life threatening injuries.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
The investigation does continue.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Security lines moved more as smoothly on Sunday, a day
after wait times of as much as five hours at
BWI Thurgod Marshall Airport over the weekend. On Sunday, the
terminal was pretty much almost empty.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
We checked this morning. It looked pretty.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Good, except we heard the line at the McDonald's was
a little long. But nonetheless, at least you can try
to get to your flight. You do need to arrive
at least three hours prior to your schedule depart term.
All eyes are on NASA's Artemis Rocket do at the
Kennedy Space Center.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Here's the deal.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Launch is scheduled for Wednesday. It's going to be historic
mission around the Moon. The crew is now undergoing quarantine
so they do not get sick ahead of the flight.
Two of the four astronauts have ties to Maryland. Astronaut
Christina Cook previously worked at the JOHNS. Hopkins Applied Physics
Laboratory in Laurel and at Goddard Space Flight Center. Mission
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commander Read Wiseman and Navy veteran, lives in Cockeysville and
attended Delaney High School.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
The mission will be the.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
First crude lunar flyby in more than fifty years and
represents one small step in the process for the leap
in the future. Wow, possibly visit Mars that is your breed.
Marty Bass joined us this morning.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
I asked for you to come and visit us because
it's You're an incredible fixture on TV in Baltimore and
people have watched you their whole lives. I have Candice
wasn't born, and to have you in our presence, I'm
honored at your here and I just want to we
normally do the Music City Minute. I'm I'm pushing that
(24:06):
segment off because I want to give this moment to you,
and I want to ask you, you know, looking back
on your forty eight and a half years going, you know,
going on five decades, what are maybe a story or
two you can tell us about your most memorable moments
on TV.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
You want to tell you? You want me to tell
the Joan Rivers story. Yeah, the Joan Rivers story is good.
Joan Rivers is the.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
Reason that we had Sharon and I had a second child,
my son Jake. My wife idolized Joan Rivers. Joan Rivers
really a quality, nice person. Came to do the morning
show with Don and I. My wife wanted to meet her, so, yeah, sure,
come on in. And she brought Savannah with her. Savannah
was probably maybe three years old, and just like two
(24:49):
yenta's will, they started talking to each other, right, did
I just say that?
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Yes? Yeah, they start talking to each other.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
And my wife mentioned to Joan Rivers that we were
only going to have one child. Snana had gone through
like intense colic and we just had our hands full.
And Joan Rivers stopped and said, you must come with
me right now. She said, hands your daughter to your husband.
And Joan Rivers took my wife into an office and
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told her the biggest mistake she and had you're ever
made was only having one child, and that it stunted
Melissa not having a soul maid wow, and that we'd
had to at least try to have another and that's
why we had Jake because of Joan Rivers.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Sweet, that's God's honest truth. That's amazing. Yeah, it really is.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Well, I think it goes to you know, the people
that you meet your time on the streets or in
segments that you do that are taped, they all impact
you in a certain way. What is one of those
stories that you know, you you weren't necessarily expecting to
change maybe your life. I know, like I've met a
(25:59):
lot of children with cancer or fighting battles that health
battles at Johns Hopkins, and it's like, you take those
moments away with you that really serve as a springboard
for something else in your life.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
There's, gosh, there's so many. You just summed that up
really well. There's so many stories like that on a
daily basis. When you're in public, Michael, you're in public, Hannis,
you're in public, you meet folks. And Jimmy Buffett had
a song It's my Job, and it starts out where
he's talking to a street cleaner. Buffett had been up
(26:34):
all night, baby had one or two not feeling the best.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
This guy came by.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Whistling and was just so happy, and he said, why
are you so happy? You're a street cleaner, And he says,
it's my job to clean up this mess so that
it's better for the rest. Right, you meet someone and
you get inspiration from them. I wasn't joking earlier when
I said, everybody that walks up, I try and make
the conversation they want to have with me about them,
(27:02):
because I'm gonna learn something. And more often than not,
I think to myself, I was just blessed I met
that person. And if anybody thinks I'm rolling out some bs,
you are.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Now that with all than I am.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Yep, So all you are is Jakin Savannah's dad and
now Quinn's grandfather.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
And Nell's grandfather, now Eliza's grandfather. Okay, daughter has Quinn
and Nell Quinn is five today?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Oh, happy birthday? Run for your money, No, Nell does.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
Quinn is going to be the the the person who
ends up being an ant at the United Nations. Okay,
Nell is gonna be Mick Jagger. All right, sounds good.
And Eliza's always six and a half weeks old. Well,
with your DNA and them, you know you're gonna have it.
They're gonna be wild child. You know that's awesome. Well,
but my wife's DNA is in there too, and I'm
married up. All right, Well, listen, is the right answer.
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We just want to say from the bottom of our hearts.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
After twenty five years here on the morning show at WPOC,
you spent with Laurie and then you know the nearly
fifty years on TV in Baltimore and WDJZ. I mean
you're one in a million and know that Baltimore loves you.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
And I got it.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
I got to see about ninety three point one WPOC.
It's like Old Home Week coming in saying that, saying
those call letters. Working twenty five years with Laurie and
Mark and Ray Coffee and everybody, it completed me as
a broadcaster. I mean that sincerely on my mental resume.
(28:35):
Twenty five years here at the radio ranch, right up
there at the top.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Well, we won a lot of CMA awards while you
were here, a lot of ACM awards, a lot of nominations.
And that's the WDPOC is as much a part of
Baltimore as Marty Bass. But I think you're as much
a part of Baltimore as this station is. And it's
just you're the fabric. And just I want you to
know when you go off into your retirement here in
a few weeks, that you're loved.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
You know.
Speaker 6 (28:59):
I'll just this close it out this way, something that
I used to do with LORII. It's been a simple pleasure. Yep,
it has money. It has been an awesome pleasure. Love you,
Love you too, really
Some mornings, it's tough to remember to take everything with
you out the door, your lunch, your security badge, whatever
you need to get in at work. The other mornings,
everything just seems to click. You know what the difference
is those slow mornings. You've probably missed ninety three point
one WPOC The Michael J.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Morning Show.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hope you can join us every morning, but if you
do happen to miss anything, maybe you can catch it
here on our podcast. Thanks for checking in, Follow like, share,
and keep listening. Well, a lot of people talking about
planes this morning, just trying to get through TSA. If
you're lucky enough here at ninety three point one WDPOC,
(00:41):
Michael J and Cannas. I just check Candis it's still
saying like three hours.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Yeah, has arrived three hours ahead of your schedule departure.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
So what is coming up on the brief?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Marilyn Native is heading to space this week. I'll have
the details on the mission coming up in the brief.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
He doesn't have to go through TSA.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
No, go ahead, Jeannette, You want to guess who our
guest is at seven thirty this morning?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Oh, I have no clue.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Well, Jeanette, the clue that we gave you on the air.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
This person is one of the most famous, recognizable and
well known people ever to be on TV or radio
in Baltimore.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Hmmm, who could that be? Wow? That would be you?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
No nor pop culture protein Boost.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
It's the brief on.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Ninety three point one WPOC.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
We had a star in our presence. We'll find out
you're going up.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
A gunshot was fired inside a Run the Mills mall
on Saturday, and three people are in custody after a
police pursuit into Baltimore County. It all started around five
o'clock Saturday night, when a man was leaving the Burlington
Coat Factory store. Three people approached and assaulted him. Police
say the victim pulled out a gun. A struggle ensued
and a weapon discharge bizarre.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
One of the people was hit in the wrist.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
The assailants then fled left in a black Nissan Ultima
that was tracked on ninety seven and glen Burnie. They
pursued the vehicle then onto the Beltway and it crashed
in Baltimore County.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
They all ran off.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Police tracked all three of them down, but two of
them had non life threatening injuries. An officer was also
hurt in a crash was taken to the hospital non
life threatening injuries. Thank goodness. There was no active threat
inside them all police say, and it did remain open.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Do we ever find out how that guy's going north?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
No, the investigation is still underway, so I think you know,
more will be released soon. Security lines moved Mores smoothly
on Sunday, a day after weight times of as much
as five hours.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
At BWI Thirgod Marshall Airport.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
On Sunday, the terminal was almost empty and security lines
shrunk dramatically. Now here's the deal. We looked this morning.
It appears to be moving. We have heard that the
line at McDonald's once you get in to get your
burger or your.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Right all eyes are on NASA's eyes.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Him is two rocket at the Kennedy's Space Center, with
his scheduled launches early as Wednesday for the historic mission
around the Moon. The crew is now undergoing quarantine so
they don't get sick ahead of the flight. Two of
the four astronauts have ties to Maryland. Astronaut Christina Cook
previously worked at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in
Laurel and at Goddard Space Flight Center. Mission commander Read Wiseman,
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a Navy veteran, lives in Cockeysville, attended Delaney High School.
The mission will be the first crewed lunar flyby in
more than fifty years.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
That is your brief. You are calling number nine. You're
going to see Thomas.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Rhett fit Yeah, Merriweather, when is thirteenth?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
We got a Thomas Rhett fan here. Good Monday morning?
All Hi? When high school? Are you guys going to
the time the Blazers? Right? A very good. I cheated canvas. Yeah,
(04:01):
day you win?
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Hey, and you're going to see Thomas Rert Brenda, thank
you for driving along with us. I've got our special
surprise guest coming up at seven thirty. If you would
like to guess who it is, you can tax seven
seven nine six two call us at eight hundred three
to two one thirty six ninety three to be on gold.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Jay's Music City minute in sixty seconds.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
If you don't know, like you own music row All right,
I told you.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
People are talking about Morgan Wallen this morning because he's
planning for his I'm the Problem tour.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
It's called the Still the Problem Tour. He'll be here
July seventeenth and eighteenth for Make Keep Me Tracked. You're
going to be camped out at M and T Bank Stadium.
He'll be one of those groupies.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I'm hoping I can get like some freebies from the
radio station and Kansas is like, you won't believe what
I spent on Morgan wall in tickets, right, and I
got it.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I got it out of you too large?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Uh huh?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Or actually is it too large? Would be two hundred?
What's bigger than large?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I don't know. Two thousand dollars is too large. That's
a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
But you know what you in your defense, your husband
is going to be thrilled by being able.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
To see Brooks and dun and what about Ella Langley.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
And then Ella Langley on Saturday. Right, it's my daughter's
sixteenth birthday leading up to it.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
So I'm like, all right, I guess I'll go all in. Well,
this is going to be the highlight of the summer.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
And the story about Morgan is he is going to
be doing a deluxe version of I'm the Problem, and
he's he's lengthening this song so that he can include Drake.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
In the middle of it.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I don't know if Drake's going to pop up on
a video screen and a lot of country fans will like,
who the heck is Drake? I have a feeling everybody
who loves Morgan walland knows about Drake.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Yeah, So it's gonna be a it's gonna be a
whole thing. It's gonna be it's gonna be a happening.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Whether it's video or in person. Right.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
The other big news this morning, Ella Langley's rocking new ink.
She has a new tattoo that she was showing off.
If you want to spot it, take a look at
her on Instagram. She was hanging out with Taylor and
Laney at the eye Heart Radio Music Awards last week.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Is this good morning?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
My name is Karen?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Hey, Karen ar So you want to take a game?
Good morning?
Speaker 4 (06:08):
I do?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I think it's Marty Bess.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Wow, you nailed that, didn't you say hello to Marty?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
He's right here. You get to say good morning till
you're the first. Yeah, you're the very first game. I'm
doing well? How are you doing? I'm doing well? This
is formerly Karen Q Karen PW. Do you know do
you know Marty personally or I've met him several times?
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Okay, okay, Well you can help us because the reason
that we wanted to bring Marty in this morning is
he is retiring from.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
W j Z as far as I know, page, I'm sorry,
I said. I read that on his Facebook page.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Yeah, and as as far as I know, Marty, you
have been on the air in Baltimore longer than anyone
else has ever been here.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I don't know if that's correct, to be quite honest
to ask, I'm giving you that title.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Wait, and I appreciate it and appreciate who could have
been on Bob Turkey clips fifty years?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Did you really think so? Yeah? Well we'll tell you
what's a year and a half amongst friends?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Right right? Well, we can help you. Maybe, you know,
you can hang out with us a little bit.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Maybe.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Well, remember I was on the air w POC twenty
five five years twenty five years ago, Old Home Week.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I told you I'm looking at the monitors behind you.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Ninety three point one w POC, I mean brings back
a lot of great memories and shout out to ninety
three point one w POC, Michael J. Candice and everyone
in here. You do have Jay Z on the other
somebody spent a lot.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Of money at A and and at and the electronics
box store. Yeah, yeah, he's really pretty.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
There's four monitors in here, five, there is one right
behind you.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
So we got him everywhere. Yeah. Have you been to
Camden Yards this baseball season yet? Was there for opening days?
Speaker 1 (08:04):
They added six hundred new screens in addition to that
large thing in center field scoreboard?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Have you seen it in person yet? Yeah? Beautiful? Was there?
Just wow? Yeah? It was wild?
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Ye.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Hey, Karen, I didn't want to forget. You're on the phone.
Anything you want to ask Marty yours. We congratulate him
on a tremendous career.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I just want to say, congratulations Marty. You're a rock star.
Yeah you are. Thank you ching me, Thank you very much, Karen,
thanks for checking in so Marty, thank you. You have
been on TV.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Maybe not the longest because I I think you have,
but we'll check.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
I don't know what Bob Dirk did filming. It's Bob,
we could you know? All right? Well you wake him
up this morning? Ran with cobract go let's go on call.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
But you were on TV when I was like, what
fourteen years old, Candace wasn't even born.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
She wasn't even born in.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Nineteen seventy seven, you were twenty four twenty four at
the time, right, Yeah, And what brought you to Baltimore?
How did you pick of all spots to work in
media balt.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
It's a Forest Gump moment in my career.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
I was working in San Antonio at kNs Channel five
Eyewitness News. The news director at WJYZ had a layover
in the San Antonio airport because it was a gateway
to get to the Mexican resorts.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Right. He was shock of all shocks in the bar
having a drink watching the news. Uh huh. He saw me.
He had his secretary give me a call and say,
mister Goodfellow, his name was Scott Goodfellow, would like a
tape of your work. It all comes down to alcohol.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
If he had not been having a margarita, might.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Not be here. Mom and d Paisley. We we're happy
that it all worked out.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
So when you look back over a nearly fifty year career,
you've worked with so many people, I mean, yeah, Oprah there.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Yeah, you were there with Jerry.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
For people that are old school Baltimore Heights of Baltimoreans,
Jerry and al were like the face of television. Everybody
watched Jerry Turner and Alexanders.
Speaker 6 (10:15):
Touched the face of television in America. For local TV folks,
let me go to you this way. This is before
cable and Netflix and crime and everything else. When you
basically had three, maybe four channels, nine out of every
ten televisions on watched Jerry Turner at eleven o'clock. It
was everything, and Jerry and All at six probably seven
(10:36):
out of every Frian television's on.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
They were that dominant.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
So when you think back, is there is there one
person that you felt the most in awe of that
taught you the most, that you really loved as a
human being?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
You know? Was it Bob was it somebody else?
Speaker 6 (10:51):
I think I'd have to say Richard Cher Richard just
just you know, Richard and Overras started, people were talking
and that when you're when you're sitting next to Obra
starting a TV show, that's going to be a big deal.
But I think Richard was one of the finest anchormen
that's ever walked into a studio. And as far as
being a newsman in the newsroom and exercising news judgment,
(11:16):
listening to the police radio as the scanners and everything.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
I think it goes to Richard.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
All right, well there you go, the inside scoop and
all kinds of things. Years Baltimore with Marty Bass. Most
most unforgettable thing to happen in Baltimore in your fifty years.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Yeah, but absolutely, first, second, and third draft choice would
be the papal visit.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Okay, No, I was fortunate enough to be on site
and covering that for jay Z. It left. If you
weren't speechless, you had no heartbeat, you had no soul.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
It was the greatest explosion of sight, sound, devotion I've
ever encountered.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I could regale you with stories from that day for
the next hour.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
And this coming from a man who is Jewish, you know,
I mean like, so it wasn't like that you're the
most devout Catholic.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
No, it was a unified I can't just spawn on
exactly correct, right, Yeah, I mean I was there. I
was a child.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
I went with my grandmother and I just remember you
felt it no matter what age, what denomination.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
And you felt the vibe throughout the entire city. Remember,
it was more than cam in yards right, he stopped
at the Basilica the Assumption and then went out to
the Cathedral of Mary R.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Queen. Wow.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
So this happened over a good a good distance in Baltimore. Yeah,
that's amazing and security unlike anything I've ever seen, even
more so than I think for a presidential visit.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Wow. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
All right, So I wanted to know what one of
your favorite segments, your favorite things that you were able
to see or do during your time.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
Okay, let's take it to the past three and a
half years. W Jay z at nine doing Where's Marty?
At the Maryland Center for History and Culture under Lock
and Key very safely. Under Lock and Key is the
handwritten copy of the star Spangled banner, Francis Scott Key's
handwritten copy. And just as my phone is sitting in
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front of me right now on the desk here, that's
how close I was looking right at it.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Oh wow, And there's the o that we all.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
Go, oh, there it is right there in his hand.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
That's cool. Did you do it? He did a double
take on that one.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
Absolutely absolutely. I was able to see it twice. We
went back and did a revisit. Shout out Maryland Center
for History and Culture. It would be a great place
for Annie baltimorean and a Marylander to visit. And if
you have an out of town friend, I'd take him
there too.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
But it's under lock and key, it's not on display.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
All right, We're gonna have more with Marty here. Let
me reset the stage, all right. Today is kind of
an exciting day for us. We're in the final countdown
of Candace being our special guest co host.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Yeah, it's the permanent host will be announced on Wednesday, and.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
It's going to be dramatic. There's gonna be a shocking conclusion.
That's all I can say. But there have been so
many people that have been a part of this. This
has been going on since January, and Marty is here today.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Coincidentally, I'll just say.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Marty is retiring, leaving WJZ, which leaves his mornings open.
And you have a background in radio. You started as
a DJ right in Louisville.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
There are people on TV Hill right now going apoplectics. Well,
that's all I can say.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Yeah, so, but what a career you have had. I mean, honestly,
I've worked with a lot of people in broadcasting, but
I have never been, you know, around someone like yourself
who has done what you do so well for such
a long time. Five decades, Yeah, forty and a half years,
(15:02):
and we had to we had to check the facts.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Maybe maybe Bob Turk got you buy a hair. Yeah,
I think I think Bob was a little over fifty years,
so he's got your hair. That's where it went. Come on,
someone knew I was getting setup. I had a great
head litter. It just all went out the window.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
Never let the facts get in the way of.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Well, Michael J.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
You should be bad and clean up for the one
out of.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Right, they're getting wet in the splash zone.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Well, we have a lot of people that are texting in, Hey,
congratulations Marty on your well deserved retirement, and Marty Bath,
congratulations on your fifty years. I still remember meeting you
in person at op I.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
What is op I? I wanted to nail polish it, but
you know, I figured it was somewhere else. Hell do
you know that because I've been painting my toenails for you.
It was my wife's idea.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
I had a couple who were friends, right and lives
used to like painting Robs toenails.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Let's not go there, okay.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
And my wife said to me once that would look good,
And I said, what she goes that? I said, are
you serious? She goes, Come on, be a man, give
it a try.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Oh wow. And that was probably fifteen years ago. The
rest is history.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Well, you know about OPI and this morning a WPOC.
You're getting Marty Bass from head to toe. See, we're
doing the whole thing right. You're right there.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
I got you. That was pretty good. You're still batting
forth for them. Ah you.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
So the lines are open if anybody else wants to
say hello to Marty. We've got them here for a
little while. And I just I was you know, I
called you the second I heard about you retiring.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
Well we go back, man, I'm gonna be really serious
about this. I've watched your entire career and I'm so
proud of you. Oh man, the Hall of Fame most
deserved a round of applause for my Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
They just don't give that out on looks and with
him literally it certainly didn't give it to me for
look Smith, for the old I just thought I pointed
that out. Ye, get that one in the centerfield. You
know what Baltimore is.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
That's why I love you so much, because, uh, Baltimore
is neighborhoods. Baltimore is you know, folks that we grow
up with. And we were joking a little earlier about
how Marty's been on TV longer than Candae has been alive.
But the fact is, you know, you you come into
You've come into people's homes for decades, and you know
it's it's just a magical thing.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
You woke up Baltimore with Don Scott for how many years?
Speaker 6 (17:39):
Don and I did mornings for over three decades, Right,
that's amazing. But I have worked with some of the
most amazing Don Scott, hands down, one of the finest
anchormen you'd ever want to work with at any station
in any city in America.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
And I was fortunate enough to sit next to this guy.
We're over three decades. Yeah, I mean it's been Believe me,
it's it's.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
I always say it's all about w jay Z, And
in my heart of hearts, I believe that it's the
people I have worked with who have propelled me to
forty eight.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
And a half years.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
I mean, that's sincerely, well and in front of and
behind the camera, behind the camera, jay Z, Yeah, there
are superstars. We have K two here, K two and
I have shot K two. Say hello, how long has
K two been?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Jay Z? Too long, that's what he says. Wait ask
me that again. How long has K happily?
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Well, how many of you guys? That's seven hundred whars Marty.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
Two and I as a team have done. We figured
over seven hundred wars Marty's yes.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
That's crazy. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
Wow, Well every day for like three and a half years,
just through the math.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
All right, well listen, OPI is old Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
N Wow, that is old. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
So you know, you leave that impression when people meet you,
they're like I met Marty Bass, you know. And the
one thing about you, Marty, you never fail to leave
an impression one way or the other.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
That's just you are.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
You know, one way, one way or the other. And
you know what, as long as the meat is in
the seats. But everyone you can look, you can ask
K two. Everyone that comes up to me honors me.
There's not a person, Oh you're alleged to take a
picture with. I learned something about Baltimore every time I
speak with a viewer. You know, Canice you're on TV
(19:32):
for a long time, right, and the same thing.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
You feel that And that's what I wanted to say.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
You were talking about the people you know behind the camera,
which it is. It becomes this family that you work
with in this business. But let's talk about the people
in Baltimore. When you're on a morning show, whether it
be radio or television, there's something special about the people
who are joining you that really it makes.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Your your career really well.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
You're starting, you're starting were day together as someone else
and that gets the day going.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
And I think that's the dynamic.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
But but and I say this and I mean it sincerely,
I have learned something beneficial from everyone who's ever come
up and said hello to me.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Right, just walk up and say how many easy touched? Right?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Well, imagine how many people have watched you in their
underwear in the morning.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
They're getting dressed or you know that's the whole thing.
You're a part of the home. And it's like Marty,
you might not have been in your underwear, but I'm
getting dressed.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
Scott used to have a line minutes of visual but
Don would would say, I imagine people watch us between
their feet right, Well.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
That's okay. I guess I never thought of it that way.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Marty.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
It's great to having you here.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
And uh man, so what are the plans you're going
to You're going to retire at the end of May
and then who knows?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Right, we have to leave that open.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Ended for right now because on Wednesday, I don't know
what's gonna happen running andis I don't know anything.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
You went to Nashville sale the deal and that's all
we know. Seven thirty there's an announcement.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yes, I went around every country artist in Nashville to
get the blessing of who would be the new co
host for the morning show. I mean I talked to everyone,
Garth Brooks, Keith Urban, I had to go to everybody
because we had to find out this. This is WPOC.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Now, what's gonna be a big deal.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
So seven thirty Monday morning, ninety three point one DOWD POC.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
We've been giving away Thomas rehdtickets already this morning, Yeah
we have.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
We'll do it again this morning, like every day this
week around seven oh five, seven ten right in there
be listening. Maybe we can hook you up for Thomas
when he plays at Merriweather.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
You are pop culture protein boost. It's the brief. On
ninety three point one WPOC, A.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Gunshot was fired inside a run A Mills mall on Saturday,
and three people are in custody after a police pursuit
into Baltimore County. It all started around five o'clock on
Saturday night, when a man was leaving the Burlington Coat
Factory store.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Three people approached and assaulted him.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Police said, the victim pulled out a gun, A struggle
ensued and the weapon discharged.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
One of the people was hit in the wrist.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
The assailants then fled in a Nissan Ultima that was
tracked by police on Interstate ninety seven and glen Burnie
officer pursued the vehicle onto the Beltway before it ultimately
exited and crashed in Baltimore County, and they ran off,
so police tracked down all three. Two of them had
none life threatening injuries. But then here's the deal. An
officer was also hurt in a crash and taken to
(22:30):
a hospital, thankfully non life threatening injuries.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
The investigation does continue.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Security lines moved more as smoothly on Sunday, a day
after wait times of as much as five hours at
BWI Thurgod Marshall Airport over the weekend. On Sunday, the
terminal was pretty much almost empty.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
We checked this morning. It looked pretty.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Good, except we heard the line at the McDonald's was
a little long. But nonetheless, at least you can try
to get to your flight. You do need to arrive
at least three hours prior to your schedule depart term.
All eyes are on NASA's Artemis Rocket do at the
Kennedy Space Center.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Here's the deal.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Launch is scheduled for Wednesday. It's going to be historic
mission around the Moon. The crew is now undergoing quarantine
so they do not get sick ahead of the flight.
Two of the four astronauts have ties to Maryland. Astronaut
Christina Cook previously worked at the JOHNS. Hopkins Applied Physics
Laboratory in Laurel and at Goddard Space Flight Center. Mission
(23:26):
commander Read Wiseman and Navy veteran, lives in Cockeysville and
attended Delaney High School.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
The mission will be the.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
First crude lunar flyby in more than fifty years and
represents one small step in the process for the leap
in the future. Wow, possibly visit Mars that is your breed.
Marty Bass joined us this morning.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
I asked for you to come and visit us because
it's You're an incredible fixture on TV in Baltimore and
people have watched you their whole lives. I have Candice
wasn't born, and to have you in our presence, I'm
honored at your here and I just want to we
normally do the Music City Minute. I'm I'm pushing that
(24:06):
segment off because I want to give this moment to you,
and I want to ask you, you know, looking back
on your forty eight and a half years going, you know,
going on five decades, what are maybe a story or
two you can tell us about your most memorable moments
on TV.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
You want to tell you? You want me to tell
the Joan Rivers story. Yeah, the Joan Rivers story is good.
Joan Rivers is the.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
Reason that we had Sharon and I had a second child,
my son Jake. My wife idolized Joan Rivers. Joan Rivers
really a quality, nice person. Came to do the morning
show with Don and I. My wife wanted to meet her, so, yeah, sure,
come on in. And she brought Savannah with her. Savannah
was probably maybe three years old, and just like two
(24:49):
yenta's will, they started talking to each other, right, did
I just say that?
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Yes? Yeah, they start talking to each other.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
And my wife mentioned to Joan Rivers that we were
only going to have one child. Snana had gone through
like intense colic and we just had our hands full.
And Joan Rivers stopped and said, you must come with
me right now. She said, hands your daughter to your husband.
And Joan Rivers took my wife into an office and
(25:19):
told her the biggest mistake she and had you're ever
made was only having one child, and that it stunted
Melissa not having a soul maid wow, and that we'd
had to at least try to have another and that's
why we had Jake because of Joan Rivers.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Sweet, that's God's honest truth. That's amazing. Yeah, it really is.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Well, I think it goes to you know, the people
that you meet your time on the streets or in
segments that you do that are taped, they all impact
you in a certain way. What is one of those
stories that you know, you you weren't necessarily expecting to
change maybe your life. I know, like I've met a
(25:59):
lot of children with cancer or fighting battles that health
battles at Johns Hopkins, and it's like, you take those
moments away with you that really serve as a springboard
for something else in your life.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
There's, gosh, there's so many. You just summed that up
really well. There's so many stories like that on a
daily basis. When you're in public, Michael, you're in public, Hannis,
you're in public, you meet folks. And Jimmy Buffett had
a song It's my Job, and it starts out where
he's talking to a street cleaner. Buffett had been up
(26:34):
all night, baby had one or two not feeling the best.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
This guy came by.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Whistling and was just so happy, and he said, why
are you so happy? You're a street cleaner, And he says,
it's my job to clean up this mess so that
it's better for the rest. Right, you meet someone and
you get inspiration from them. I wasn't joking earlier when
I said, everybody that walks up, I try and make
the conversation they want to have with me about them,
(27:02):
because I'm gonna learn something. And more often than not,
I think to myself, I was just blessed I met
that person. And if anybody thinks I'm rolling out some bs,
you are.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Now that with all than I am.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Yep, So all you are is Jakin Savannah's dad and
now Quinn's grandfather.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
And Nell's grandfather, now Eliza's grandfather. Okay, daughter has Quinn
and Nell Quinn is five today?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Oh, happy birthday? Run for your money, No, Nell does.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
Quinn is going to be the the the person who
ends up being an ant at the United Nations. Okay,
Nell is gonna be Mick Jagger. All right, sounds good.
And Eliza's always six and a half weeks old. Well,
with your DNA and them, you know you're gonna have it.
They're gonna be wild child. You know that's awesome. Well,
but my wife's DNA is in there too, and I'm
married up. All right, Well, listen, is the right answer.
(27:56):
We just want to say from the bottom of our hearts.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
After twenty five years here on the morning show at WPOC,
you spent with Laurie and then you know the nearly
fifty years on TV in Baltimore and WDJZ. I mean
you're one in a million and know that Baltimore loves you.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
And I got it.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
I got to see about ninety three point one WPOC.
It's like Old Home Week coming in saying that, saying
those call letters. Working twenty five years with Laurie and
Mark and Ray Coffee and everybody, it completed me as
a broadcaster. I mean that sincerely on my mental resume.
(28:35):
Twenty five years here at the radio ranch, right up
there at the top.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Well, we won a lot of CMA awards while you
were here, a lot of ACM awards, a lot of nominations.
And that's the WDPOC is as much a part of
Baltimore as Marty Bass. But I think you're as much
a part of Baltimore as this station is. And it's
just you're the fabric. And just I want you to
know when you go off into your retirement here in
a few weeks, that you're loved.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
You know.
Speaker 6 (28:59):
I'll just this close it out this way, something that
I used to do with LORII. It's been a simple pleasure. Yep,
it has money. It has been an awesome pleasure. Love you,
Love you too, really
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