October 8, 2025 • 31 mins
We made it to double digits!
Today, we explain why we were off (from the podcast, not the show) last week; Beth maybe hallucinates in the Taco Bell drive thru; the Charlotte Motor Speedway broadcast leads to a new catchphrase, and why the GMBTeam's chemistry is so special.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You live to get with a group, and I mean Bernie,
and I mean Steve, and I mean Jim, and I
mean Mark and Boomer and of course Beth.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
You live to get that group together.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
And you know that when you go down the road together,
what's possible.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Welcome to the seventeenth segment, an official podcast of Good
Morning Beat, Well out of that.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Double digits.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
What's up, everybody?
Speaker 5 (00:29):
It's episode ten of the seventeenth segment. And it's been
about a week and a half or so since we
or maybe two weeks since we did an episode. And
one of those weeks was completely my fault because I
overbooked myself and had evening events things that I was
am seeing.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
I had two evening.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
Soccer and high demand, and I was a little bit
punch drunk and loopy by the end of the by
the end of the week. Have you ever had one
of those? I know you probably haven't. I don't know
if guys do this, but when you get so tired
that like everything makes you cry and you want to
eat your feelings.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Indeed, by that happened to see a crier and then
an eater.
Speaker 6 (01:11):
I got nothing for this.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Why is this just a there have to be gone.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
No, I've had weeks where I feel exhausted. I've never
I never thought that I was hungry. I'm so hungry,
I'm going to cry.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Well, no, it's kind of I'm crying, so let me
have some food.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Oh yeah, I'm crying, and so I'm gonna eat my feelings.
It's kind of like the Golden Girls would get up
at night and be stressed out and eat cheesecake together.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
It's like that kind of thing. And by the end
of the week, I was.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Standing in the parking lot talking to Bo just in tears,
just crying, and like everybody was walking out thinking that
we were having like a fight or something. It was
just that I was tired. I was just I was
just tearyy tired that Beth.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
It's fright, it can't. Let's go, let's go, let's go
do something not work related.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
But then I had an event that night, and then
I had a soccer match the next night, and I
was just like, I don't there's no there's no place
for me to sleep, so I'm just gonna go to
Taco Bell.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Wait, did you actually go to Taco Bell by yourself?
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Craig was happy about that.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Though, right, yes, and I have the greatest story about that.
So I'm tired, sorry, go to Taco Bell to get Craig.
But this is my husband his chili cheese burrito. And
you could tell that teenagers are working at this particular
Taco Bell and it was like the greatest moment of
Taco Bell them ever. So I order like two chili
(02:29):
cheese burritos, which is the thing on this like retro
menu that my husband loves, and two chili cheese britos,
and the lady's talking to me, and then there was
another voice as if another one of the teens had
a headset, and the person says.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Two chili cheese burritos.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
That sounds delicious. And then I was like in one
double deck or Tago, and this other voice goes.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
In a taco tool.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
They were I had this person who was taking my
order and then I had like running commentary of what
I was ordering, and it was the most delightful, hilarious thing.
And for a minute there I thought I was so
tired that I was hallucinating at the Taco Bell.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Dry Well, you probably stopped and just laughed at yourself
and said, everything's okay.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
I laughed at them, and it made me laugh and
so then I got to the window and I was like,
you guys are having too much fun, and they gave
me a free PEPSI.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
We'll see.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
That's the moral to the story, right, That's what Christmas
is all about, Charlie Brown. Now, it's funny that you
say that, because my wife and I have we have
a phrase that we say at each other and it
and it it can be in many different areas of life,
but it all originates from a time when our kids
were I don't know, they're probably like a middle school,
(03:37):
late elementary school. And we went we're on a trip
and we went to a drive through and we ordered
and it was at a stage where everybody wanted a
specific thing, not just a cheeseburger. I want a cheeseburger
with ketchup and no mustard, but this and that and
this and that, and so we gave him yeah, and
we got to the we got to the to the
window and the guy was like, he pulled it back
and he goes, you ordered.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
A lot of thing.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
We just started laughing because it's like, yeah, and this
may or may not be right, but no, so my
wife and I every once in a while say you
got a lot of things, and it all came from
like a drive through restaurant scene like that where you're
kind of like, you know, it is what it is.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
It is what it is.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Well, in last week, we thought we were going to
record on Thursday, but we had Bo and I again
had an after work event at an evening event that
we had another night where we got no sleep, and
then the next day ended up at Charlotte Motor Speedway
because we broadcast live for the Reval four hundred. So
(04:39):
we had another week where we were both a little
bit sleep deprived, and that's how we did not get
anything recorded until today. So hello and thank you for
your patients. And we slightly got sleep over the weekend,
although I had another soccer match this weekend, but the
Speedway was its own set of adventures because we Bo
(05:00):
and I both had and he was up late because
of me. He went with me to Near Away Productions
to a special preview night of their newest show, Lord
of Light, and he stayed up late and went to
the show and we talked to the cast after and
he was like he's turning into mister mister musical man.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
I will start to, you know, signing up for the
for the membership at the at the Booth Playhouse.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
You should the Blumenthal Light series. He's gonna I've been to.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I've been to two plays ever there because we went
to The Lion King there maybe ten years ago, and
I thought it was really cool and I was like,
you know what, now I'm going to be like model husband.
I'm gonna I'm going to order tickets to the next thing.
And she's really gonna want to go see this. And
it was Chicago, and she was like, I don't care
about Chicago, and I was like, oh, okay, And so
(05:50):
we went to Chicago and it was okay, and she
was right. It wasn't you know, they're not all All
drama performances are not created equal.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Wait, you were just like it's just okay. You didn't
like that he had it coming.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
I liked it all right.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I don't know, I just but see, I'm not like
I guess I realized this is why you don't go
to place once a month, because they're not once once
is enough for like a year, Beth? Is it just me?
Speaker 6 (06:15):
Or when bo said I'm I'm about ready to volunteer
I almost thought, like for the cast of Narroway. Yeah,
I did think he was kind of hoping he was
going in that direction, just because that that might get
me to go to Narroway.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Well, so Narroway tells us, let's let's go back to
Thursday Night because this is the third one I've been to,
and Beth says, Okay, tonight, we're gonna go, and we're
gonna be behind.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
We get to see something that most people don't get to.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
See, rehearsal, because I press rehearsal.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
When I was there with you the previous one. I
said to Jacob, who's the guy who, uh, one of
the guys there who runs things and sort of always
communication brings us in. Yeah, communications director, that makes sense.
I said, so, do you guys ever have like can
we see how basically the sausage gets made? Could we
see the dress rehearsal?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
And he kind of went that's we don't really do that.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
And then like about two weeks later, Beth says, they
want us to come to jess Best rehearsal, and so
I'm thinking, okay, well, okay, we're going to go behind
the scenes, and then she says, we're gonna go down
there and we're going to watch the whole performance. And
they have an A and a B cast, so the
B cast watches the APE cast performance vice versa, so
other than the cast. And we walked in and I said,
(07:26):
hang on a second. Every single person who's here there
in the cast.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
But us.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Yeah, And they said yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
And then Beth says to me, they want us to
come up at the end and tell them what we thought.
And I thought, wait a minute, I'm supposed to give
them a critique, like I'm not an actor.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
I don't like, I feel unqualified.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
It ended up being like, you know, tell us something positive,
you know, and then that's great. But at the beginning,
I thought you and I were going to have to
go up there and I was going to say, well,
the lighting in that particular scene was, you know, like
we sit down and do this, do this right here.
And I'm not a TV guy, so we can sit
down at this table and Steven Beth can discuss, you know,
there's not enough lighting here. I'm going sounds good to me.
(08:03):
That's all I need. But this is how I felt
last Thursday night. For a minute, I was in I
was watching the rehearsal taking mental notes about what I'm
going to say.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Well, and then we did.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
We got to address the cast, which was fun and lovely,
and we had this delightful time and Bo was great.
He got up and he was incredibly positive and said
wonderful things about the performance we just saw. And then
that meant not getting home until what it was after
tens or so we act like we get to the
same home.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
We don't.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
We left and we went to different homes.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
But it got back to the barracks here at the
station right right.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
So didn't get to sleep probably until eleven eleven thirty,
and had to get up earlier than normal, which my
normal alarm time is three thirty or three twenty seven
is what my alarm clock is actually set to. But
got up earlier because we had to be at the
speedway earlyer than we would normally get to the station
because we have to make sure we're set up and
that the sound is working because we're working remotely. So
(09:00):
we drive up and Bo and I got to the
speedway about the same time and got out of.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Our cars kind of all bleary eyed.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
But those end up for whatever reason, and they end
up being the best shows. And I think it's because
I lack a cognitive filter to begin with, and when
I'm tired, it's completely gone. And my brain wasn't firing
on all cylinders. So we started out the beginning of
the show and I'm like, yeah, we're at the rays
(09:27):
and we're talking to Chase Brisco and I called a
Chad biscuit and that was And he's like a big
superstar in the race world and the nicest person in
the history of the world. I loved him.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
But I was.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Trying to think of he's still in the chase. He
could win the entire series, and I was trying to say,
like something along the lines of he could win the
whole kitten kaboodle, or he could win the whole ball
of wax, and my brain just wasn't firing yet. And
so what my brain came up with was he could
win the whole of crabs.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
That's what it would come to anybody's mind.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Right.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Of course, I don't know why, and.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
So many times over the years doing a show with
this one right here, I just kind of roll with it.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Yeah, bucket of crabs. That's sounds nobody knows what a bucket.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
But the funny thing is is that we started getting
important people for the rest of the show to say
bucket of crabs.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Right, including Chase.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
He was like, Yeah, I'm going to try to win
the whole bucket of crabs and I hope it becomes
a thing. But just so that you know, to give
you some since this is the seventeenth segment, to give
you behind the scenes.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Of what that's like.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
I realize it after I've said it, and then I
do a face plant and I'm like, man, that that
was on the air and.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
People heard that beyond just me.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
But I have to lean into it because you know
it has already come out of my mouth. And I
had a second one that same show that happened when
I was excited about I love when the chefs come
in and they let us try all of the food
at the Speedway because this chef there, Chef Robbie rob
is what I call him. He he creates delicious, delightful
treats for the fans and he lets us taste them
(11:05):
before they're served.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
During race weekend, and there.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Was a Beeria taco basically it was like a Beeria
grilled cheese and it had like the braised meat and
that had three different cheeses, and it was on this
Texas toast and I could not wait. He was telling
us all about it, and we weren't going to get
to taste it till the next segment. And what I
should have said is I can't wait to sink my
teeth into that. I forget about this, But instead I said,
(11:33):
I can't wait to wrap my lips around that. And
my phone immediately started buzzing, and both Steam and Bernie
sent me text immediately. Steveson's one He's like easybath, and
then Bernie's text to me was like, oh Jesus.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
And you see my face right now.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
And as soon as I got to commercial break and
I realized, and I see these texts and the chef
is kind of shaking his head at me. This way,
I realized the mistake that I had made and what
I had said. But you can't undo it is lab Radio,
you can't undo it. And so those are the moments
where I think, man, it's a good thing I'm not
running for office a care.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
No, those are the moments where you lean into it.
You have to because what else you gonna do?
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Yeah, you have to or otherwise, And I think the chef.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Even the next segment was like he was like, Beth,
was that worth the wait to wrap your lips around?
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Or something like that.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
And the fact that our guests lean into it now
too means that they are starting to get what we are.
But just so that you know, I am those things
are not intentional. I don't like pre plan to say
things like he's gonna win the whole bucket of crabs.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I think they know that.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
I don't drive in thinking oh what could I come
up with?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Because they say, how could you ever make this stuff up?
That's that's the whole and we actually.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Try to be more clever than that.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
We did News and Bruise or Not News and Bruise
talked overfest on Saturday night, zochie I did and Beth
was with us for a little bit. One of the questions,
you know, because we get questions in the chat room,
and one of the questions was, you guys have so
many people on your show. We have an ensemble show
when everybody is kind of assembled, And he said, do
(13:12):
you guys plan who says what when?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
And I said no. I said, first of all, I
would never want that.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
No, because you've worked on a show that was like that.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Yeah, yeah, and so is Zoki.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
I mean, and every show does their own thing. But
when I was on that show, I knew that I
don't want if ever I'm in control, or at least
partly in control, then I don't want it to be
the kind of thing that you It sounds like it's
bought out beforehand. Now that doesn't mean that we don't Again,
we've gotten into this before. But I said on Saturday Night,
(13:45):
I said, doesn't mean we don't have a framework of things.
It's not like we just come in and go, turn
a mic on and go. No, we come in and
we have eighty different directions we can go. But Steve doesn't.
I don't say, Steve, I want you to talk it
point right here, and I want you to give it
a little pizazz.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
You know, I'm gonna say this, then you say that,
She'll say this, and then Jim will put tie a
bow on it.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
But you done.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
But there are there are shows out there radio, TV,
what have you made?
Speaker 5 (14:14):
V shows are very much like that.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Yeah, so I mean it's not I guess maybe you
get the question because people know that, well, they.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Can't believe that they can't believe that our I maybe
it's the maybe maybe it's people can't believe that our
chemistry is real. You know that we have to script something,
But it's I think it's because our chemistry is so
real that that we don't have to script anything, because
we just talked the way we would if we were
all at dinner or.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
No, I'm gonna be real with you.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
When you do a show like we do four hours
a day with as many people as we have, there
are times every once in a while where we run
into each other physically. No, but I mean like there
are times when I know, after a segment, I go,
that got a little too busy. I've said it to
Beth before, I've said it to Steve. But I've also
had segments where I said, man, that was like magic.
(15:04):
And the reason, the reason in those moments where it's
like magic are the ones that make you want to
keep going for those every day, because it's not a
given that you just get five or six people in
a room who all have done some sort of broadcasting
and in our case radio before a lot of times,
(15:24):
that's where I think morning shows and radio shows in
general get it wrong. As they say Okay, this should
work on paper. Yeah, this person's been successful here, this
one's over here, We're going to put them all together.
I mean, I guess that's kind of how sports works too.
You know, we put this team together on paper. You
were a high draft pick and you had all this
success with such and such, and it's just going to work.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
But it doesn't always.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
So industry is a real thing. Chemistry is the key.
It's the magic sauce, it's the fairy dust. It's the
thing that makes anything work. And you can force those
kinds of conversations, and I think people are savvy enough
to hear when people don't have a real bond.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
And I think it's important to say, like in a
show like ours, I'm absolutely willing, and I know Beth
is too, because we're real. If nothing else that when
you have a group as big as ours, there are
times when it doesn't go according to plan. But the
times when it does, and if those happened consistently enough,
that's what gives you the desire to want to build
(16:24):
it bigger and to do it more. And I think
you know it's you start small. Like when we first
started doing radio together, we didn't know if it would work.
I had her on from Rio when she was you know,
you got people who've listened to the show know this
story pretty well by now, but I'm telling you, we
didn't know it was going to work. Right, it happens,
and then you go, oh, wait a minute, there's that
feeling that something clicked there.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Okay, so do we build on this? We did.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
We built on it. I had her come to the studio.
She was nice enough to do that. I remember the
first day we were on their together. We said, oh,
well that worked again, that was different. And then stack
enough of these workings in a row on top of
each other. Then you go, okay, wait a minute, maybe
there's a sign here that we should try to make
this a more permanent thing. And now, gosh, I mean,
(17:12):
if you count, if you go all the way back
to when we first start first just started doing test shows,
it's almost five years. That was so five years in Yeah,
a lot of people in this business don't make it
remotely that long. So you know, I'm not going to
sit here in front of all of you and say
that the mission is complete. Everything we ever wanted is perfect.
(17:33):
We're still experimenting, even with this podcast. We're experimenting with everything,
but the team that's there, you know what's what's possible
when all things hit. And so this is all back
to the question that we got on Saturday night that
I don't know if we totally fleshed out because we
had a time limit there.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
But here we are on the seventeenth segment. You know,
that's why you do it.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
You live to get with a group and I mean
Bernie and I'm Steve, and I mean Jim, and I
mean Mark and Boomer and.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Of course Beth.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
You live to get that group together and you know
that when you go down the road together, what's possible.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Well, and look, we'll give you insight to you into
some of our favorite moments just from the last week
and if you go back and listen to them. I
think it was last it was Wednesday or Thursday of
last week. We were talking about sports. Somehow we were
talking about we were talking to something sports was a
(18:32):
sports was it sporty?
Speaker 4 (18:34):
And we ended up on a bag of potato.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Yes, yes, we were talking. We're talking about fantasy football scores,
weren't we.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
No, it was something about how people you don't get
your money is worth anymore. That nobody cares about the
little man anymore, and I was somehow we got to
and you know where else that's true as potato chips?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Yeah, and I went, and that was a well we
just jumped down the rabbit.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
Hole, just to give you, if you go back and
listen to it, to give you insight into us.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
After that was over, we were.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
All laying down on the on the desk on the
table with our microphones dying laughing, went how.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Did we get there? How?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
How did we?
Speaker 5 (19:14):
How did we get there? And now I can't even
to remember what the segment was about except potato chips. No,
And it wasn't about potato chips at all.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
And that's the one where I was Excuse me, I
was talking about the U. You were talking about how
much air is in a bag?
Speaker 5 (19:28):
Right, because you this is why I'm saying, they don't
care about the little man anymore, because you get a
bag of potato chips, it looks like it's all full,
but you open it up and half the air like
blows your hair back, and then there's like seven chips
in there, and four of them are broken.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
And that's where I said, back in our day, you
know the the Dorito's pack had a window on it
and we could see what we were getting.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
You could see the chips, you could see which ones
were broken.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
So I mean, yeah, there's an example of one that
came out of nowhere. But you have to be you
have to be willing to go into that.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Together or to get there right right.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
You have to be and just to give you insight
into our souls.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Those are the moments that we get very excited that
we do what we do. So when you go back
and listen to that segment, which was around eight oh
five on that Wednesday or Thursday, you'll hear the delight
that I think ends up coming from all of us.
And when you turn we turned the microphone off. Those
are the moments that we live for. Those those kinds
(20:25):
of that's really how funny things would be if we were,
you know, just hanging around at dinner table and the
conversation got off and awkward.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Well, and we're in the middle of doing it's it's
the return of a bit that sort of fell in
our lap last year when Steve started doing uh these
Shakespearean sonnets, Yes about about songs?
Speaker 5 (20:47):
This guy yeah, so Steven hello, Oh no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
No, sorry, Goodmorrow, BT.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
There you go, very very so we'll met.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
Yeah, And I was going to say that was it
was interesting that you even bring that up, both because
we text back and forth last week and you had said,
you know, like, look, today went really well.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
You know it.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
It went better than and we continue to do the
bit because it works so well. And I told you
my goal is to try to get you guys in
the room to break.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Oh you do it every time, right.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
And I feel like if I can get Beth to laugh,
if I can get bo to like, you know, double over,
if I can get Bernie to disappear behind his monitors,
which is the best, then I've completed my task for
the day.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
And yeah, and I'm good Bernie disappears.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
I can get I can get Zochie every once in
a while. Now Zochie gets us sometimes all the time,
sometimes constantly. I don't hear it until after I listen
back because it's so stealth. But every once in a
while you get Jim, which I love, and then Beth.
I still don't know exactly what it is that signals it,
but apparently there's some sort of mode that I go
into laughing that you say, like.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
You're blow bubbles his lips. He starts looking like he's
blowing bubbles.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
He's like, see, now, I don't want to do it anymore.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
It's great.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
It's when you know that he's so tickled that he
can't talk anymore and he's trying to talk so his
lips just he ends up looking like he's blowing bubbles.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Like it's so great anyway.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Well, and when we do the sir Stephen thing like
this is if you're listening to the show, I really
giveaways are fine, like I but the one thing I
don't like is when you say, hey, caller ten, we
have two tickets to the Renaissance Fests for a recaller
ten right now.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
We'll give him to you.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Because that's that's great for the one person who who wins.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
He wins.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
I'm happy for you else, but I want it to
be something where people in the car don't have to
be playing the contest to have fun in the process.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
And you're right.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
I reached out to Steve after the show was over
the other day and I said, what we did today
is you know that the contest is secondary. It's it's
getting to the end of it, but we're all having
fun getting there, and it's it's a whole thing of itself,
and the contest is just the payoff to one person.
But people I hope are listening in the car going, wait,
you know, how did you not know that one? Or
(23:05):
I know this one? I know this one?
Speaker 2 (23:06):
And then they call.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
But we if you listen to it, we have the
most important thing of is we're all having fun and
sort of playing off of each other.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
And those are the days these guys know with me
my favorite days.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Again, back to the ensemble question about how does it
all work together? Do you guys know what you're gonna say?
Do you tell each other what you're gonna say? No,
And especially in those contests, I have no idea. I
know the caller is going to say, I have no
idea that's gonna say. You know, everybody is free to
sort of go at their own pace. And then there's
a lot of there's production to it too, which I
always like.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
But I think if you listen to.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
It, Like last week, guy calls in he's listening to us.
He says that it was a Guns N' Roses song
that Steve was playing and it was was a sweet
ch out of mine and the guy who wons like, well,
I'm more of a I'm more of a patience kind
of guy, right right, And then Beth says November rain
and so then we work those two songs in to it.
(24:00):
But there's no way we could have known that was coming.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Right because we couldn't We couldn't pay a caller to Yeah.
I mean, I don't even know how you'd go about
doing that.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
But if you go back and listen to it, I
love it because all of us are playing along, all
of us are having fun, the callers are having fun
with us. We had one lady call in last week
and she said, I said, you got a guest form
and she goes, oh am, I supposed to say something.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Pay you called us to play, right, man?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Do you know who you called?
Speaker 6 (24:28):
And to your point, BO, like you guys, when we
talk about you know, not not scripting things or or
kind of being over I don't even want to say
over prepared, because we do walk in prepared like you said.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
I mean, we do have an idea. We know you
know this segment.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
We want to cover politics here, we want to cover
sports here, We're going to do the contest in this segment,
but like I purposefully do not let you guys see
the lyrics.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Right before we do that.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
I don't want to know.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
Right because I want, like today, for example, one of
the words, and I'm going to spell it out. One
of the words that was good was bi sect b
I S E C T bisect, which is a quote
unquote common word, but of course in context. And as
I'm just reading lyrics aloud and and bisex and immediately everybody's.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Like, whoah by sex and all of us went.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Everybody lost it and it was bisec right, and we
are like, what was he talking about?
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Sex?
Speaker 5 (25:25):
What song is this? And that's the other fun thing too,
is that Bo doesn't tell me or Jim what the
song is at all.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
So I'm playing.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
I'm sitting there playing along with the callers and listening
and trying to see if I were a caller, if
I would be able to know what that song right.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
This one's a little different because Steve Steve writes these,
so there's an element. This is the one contest we
do where I sort of don't know what's coming.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
You just have to you have to get the music right.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Yeah, But I don't know how he's going to do it,
all of it.
Speaker 6 (25:56):
Yeah, So I tell Bo, these are the songs that
we're doing.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Here's the you know.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Here, here's the music you need to find, right, these
are the lyrics that I've written. And whether I found
the songs or we've you know, Bo and I have
collaborated to find the versions that you know, get used
for the you know, the Shakespearean version. So technically I'm
the only one that knows everything that's about to happen. Yeah,
Bo knows the music, but has no idea of the
(26:21):
words that are going to come out of my mouth.
And you and Jim and Bernie are pretty much completely
in the dark.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Yeah, don't know the lyrics or the song.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
So we're I was sitting there trying to figure out
what you're saying as you're saying it, and what song
you're reciting, and it nothing cracks me up more than
this contest.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Well, and then we have the name that contest, which
is which is another kind of old standby for us,
but you know, name that for giving away at tickets
to John Mellencamp, name that John, that famous John. But
so whenever we do that, Beth will send me, no,
no kidding, She'll send me about fifty different options. But
then my favorite part of that is she knows that
(26:59):
I'm still gonna come to the table with at least
probably ten that she's she didn't give that.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Yeah, so there's there's.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
A That's the way we sort of do this is
it's it's a contest, so you can call them win tickets,
but we're all sort of having our own little sub
contest with each other. And again back to that whole thing,
we didn't get a whole lot of questions about show
stuff on Friday. On Saturday Night, and we were talking
about you know, Jim and the Panthers and and and
you called you and your dad swooping in, so that
that kind of lended itself in a different direction. But
(27:28):
we always end up getting one or two questions about
how does this work on the show. And I'm glad
we got that one because if there's one thing that
I pride this show on, it's that we have a
group that all can sort of go into whatever we
go into, and we trust each other. We don't know
where it's gonna go always, but we trust each other.
I had some person somebody Friday say, gosh, I can't
(27:49):
remember what the context of it was. It might have
been a narrowway. But remember I was telling him, I said,
there was one segment this morning where when the bumper hit,
you didn't know where I was going, and I quite
frankly didn't hadn't made my decisions like we shot like
it's like the last last segment of the show, or
maybe the last segment of the show that wasn't earmarked
for something, right, And you said, what do you want
(28:09):
to do here? And I said, well, we could do
this and this, and then you said we can do
this and this, and then Bernie says ten seconds.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
And so we jumped in and we had four ways
that we were going to go, and we didn't know
it's one we were going to pick yet.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
And so that's not to say that we didn't plan.
We we actually overplanned. We just we just didn't come
to a decision. And I thought, you know what, it's
pretty cool doing a show with somebody that I have
that much trust and that much trust in that the
music hits, and I think, jump off the cliff.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
Wherever we go, it's going to be fine. It's going
to be fine. And I mean fine, not in Beth Fine,
I mean like actually fine.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
And I don't even remember what we did.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
I don't either.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Actually I think it was it got us to the
next show.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
It might be sports, I don't know. So you know,
that's kind of what this becomes too, and that and
that's how we want to continue to grow this this
podcast as well, with more of your questions and more
of these behind the scenes kinds of stories that give
you insight into the things that.
Speaker 6 (29:11):
You want to know.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
How it's what's really going on in that studio and
the things that we don't necessarily get to you all
the time.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
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Speaker 5 (29:23):
Yes, like subscribe and comment and if you're as with
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Speaker 6 (29:26):
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Speaker 5 (29:54):
We love answering your questions and we love letting you
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Speaker 1 (29:58):
We're going to have special guests again. We had Zochi
in for one. Remember when Zochie sat way up here
and we were down here. Uh, we're gonna get Garrison
in here. We're gonna get Bernie in here.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Teresa Peyton said she wants to do it.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Yeah, she was almost.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
She was gonna do it last week and then we
realized that it was gonna be Uh.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
She had something too close.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
After we were ending that she was gonna be in Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
We'll get handcocked down here one day.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
But if you have people that you want to suggest,
maybe off the beaten path, like you want to say,
you know what I mean, Jones, And for you guys
to talk to Anna Erickson, we can make that happen.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
Yeah, you know, fun stuff.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
So uh, but we love you for being out there.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
And we'll have another seventeenth segment coming soon because I
have not overbooked myself. I promise, I will I will sleep.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
I will sleep, you promise, And we're.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
Crying in the Taco Bell drive through.
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and I mean Steve, and I mean Jim, and I
mean Mark and Boomer and of course Beth.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
You live to get that group together.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
And you know that when you go down the road together,
what's possible.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Welcome to the seventeenth segment, an official podcast of Good
Morning Beat, Well out of that.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Double digits.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
What's up, everybody?
Speaker 5 (00:29):
It's episode ten of the seventeenth segment. And it's been
about a week and a half or so since we
or maybe two weeks since we did an episode. And
one of those weeks was completely my fault because I
overbooked myself and had evening events things that I was
am seeing.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
I had two evening.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
Soccer and high demand, and I was a little bit
punch drunk and loopy by the end of the by
the end of the week. Have you ever had one
of those? I know you probably haven't. I don't know
if guys do this, but when you get so tired
that like everything makes you cry and you want to
eat your feelings.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Indeed, by that happened to see a crier and then
an eater.
Speaker 6 (01:11):
I got nothing for this.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Why is this just a there have to be gone.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
No, I've had weeks where I feel exhausted. I've never
I never thought that I was hungry. I'm so hungry,
I'm going to cry.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Well, no, it's kind of I'm crying, so let me
have some food.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Oh yeah, I'm crying, and so I'm gonna eat my feelings.
It's kind of like the Golden Girls would get up
at night and be stressed out and eat cheesecake together.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
It's like that kind of thing. And by the end
of the week, I was.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Standing in the parking lot talking to Bo just in tears,
just crying, and like everybody was walking out thinking that
we were having like a fight or something. It was
just that I was tired. I was just I was
just tearyy tired that Beth.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
It's fright, it can't. Let's go, let's go, let's go
do something not work related.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
But then I had an event that night, and then
I had a soccer match the next night, and I
was just like, I don't there's no there's no place
for me to sleep, so I'm just gonna go to
Taco Bell.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Wait, did you actually go to Taco Bell by yourself?
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Craig was happy about that.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Though, right, yes, and I have the greatest story about that.
So I'm tired, sorry, go to Taco Bell to get Craig.
But this is my husband his chili cheese burrito. And
you could tell that teenagers are working at this particular
Taco Bell and it was like the greatest moment of
Taco Bell them ever. So I order like two chili
(02:29):
cheese burritos, which is the thing on this like retro
menu that my husband loves, and two chili cheese britos,
and the lady's talking to me, and then there was
another voice as if another one of the teens had
a headset, and the person says.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Two chili cheese burritos.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
That sounds delicious. And then I was like in one
double deck or Tago, and this other voice goes.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
In a taco tool.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
They were I had this person who was taking my
order and then I had like running commentary of what
I was ordering, and it was the most delightful, hilarious thing.
And for a minute there I thought I was so
tired that I was hallucinating at the Taco Bell.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Dry Well, you probably stopped and just laughed at yourself
and said, everything's okay.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
I laughed at them, and it made me laugh and
so then I got to the window and I was like,
you guys are having too much fun, and they gave
me a free PEPSI.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
We'll see.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
That's the moral to the story, right, That's what Christmas
is all about, Charlie Brown. Now, it's funny that you
say that, because my wife and I have we have
a phrase that we say at each other and it
and it it can be in many different areas of life,
but it all originates from a time when our kids
were I don't know, they're probably like a middle school,
(03:37):
late elementary school. And we went we're on a trip
and we went to a drive through and we ordered
and it was at a stage where everybody wanted a
specific thing, not just a cheeseburger. I want a cheeseburger
with ketchup and no mustard, but this and that and
this and that, and so we gave him yeah, and
we got to the we got to the to the
window and the guy was like, he pulled it back
and he goes, you ordered.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
A lot of thing.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
We just started laughing because it's like, yeah, and this
may or may not be right, but no, so my
wife and I every once in a while say you
got a lot of things, and it all came from
like a drive through restaurant scene like that where you're
kind of like, you know, it is what it is.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
It is what it is.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Well, in last week, we thought we were going to
record on Thursday, but we had Bo and I again
had an after work event at an evening event that
we had another night where we got no sleep, and
then the next day ended up at Charlotte Motor Speedway
because we broadcast live for the Reval four hundred. So
(04:39):
we had another week where we were both a little
bit sleep deprived, and that's how we did not get
anything recorded until today. So hello and thank you for
your patients. And we slightly got sleep over the weekend,
although I had another soccer match this weekend, but the
Speedway was its own set of adventures because we Bo
(05:00):
and I both had and he was up late because
of me. He went with me to Near Away Productions
to a special preview night of their newest show, Lord
of Light, and he stayed up late and went to
the show and we talked to the cast after and
he was like he's turning into mister mister musical man.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
I will start to, you know, signing up for the
for the membership at the at the Booth Playhouse.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
You should the Blumenthal Light series. He's gonna I've been to.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I've been to two plays ever there because we went
to The Lion King there maybe ten years ago, and
I thought it was really cool and I was like,
you know what, now I'm going to be like model husband.
I'm gonna I'm going to order tickets to the next thing.
And she's really gonna want to go see this. And
it was Chicago, and she was like, I don't care
about Chicago, and I was like, oh, okay, And so
(05:50):
we went to Chicago and it was okay, and she
was right. It wasn't you know, they're not all All
drama performances are not created equal.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Wait, you were just like it's just okay. You didn't
like that he had it coming.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
I liked it all right.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I don't know, I just but see, I'm not like
I guess I realized this is why you don't go
to place once a month, because they're not once once
is enough for like a year, Beth? Is it just me?
Speaker 6 (06:15):
Or when bo said I'm I'm about ready to volunteer
I almost thought, like for the cast of Narroway. Yeah,
I did think he was kind of hoping he was
going in that direction, just because that that might get
me to go to Narroway.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Well, so Narroway tells us, let's let's go back to
Thursday Night because this is the third one I've been to,
and Beth says, Okay, tonight, we're gonna go, and we're
gonna be behind.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
We get to see something that most people don't get to.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
See, rehearsal, because I press rehearsal.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
When I was there with you the previous one. I
said to Jacob, who's the guy who, uh, one of
the guys there who runs things and sort of always
communication brings us in. Yeah, communications director, that makes sense.
I said, so, do you guys ever have like can
we see how basically the sausage gets made? Could we
see the dress rehearsal?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
And he kind of went that's we don't really do that.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
And then like about two weeks later, Beth says, they
want us to come to jess Best rehearsal, and so
I'm thinking, okay, well, okay, we're going to go behind
the scenes, and then she says, we're gonna go down
there and we're going to watch the whole performance. And
they have an A and a B cast, so the
B cast watches the APE cast performance vice versa, so
other than the cast. And we walked in and I said,
(07:26):
hang on a second. Every single person who's here there
in the cast.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
But us.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Yeah, And they said yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
And then Beth says to me, they want us to
come up at the end and tell them what we thought.
And I thought, wait a minute, I'm supposed to give
them a critique, like I'm not an actor.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
I don't like, I feel unqualified.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
It ended up being like, you know, tell us something positive,
you know, and then that's great. But at the beginning,
I thought you and I were going to have to
go up there and I was going to say, well,
the lighting in that particular scene was, you know, like
we sit down and do this, do this right here.
And I'm not a TV guy, so we can sit
down at this table and Steven Beth can discuss, you know,
there's not enough lighting here. I'm going sounds good to me.
(08:03):
That's all I need. But this is how I felt
last Thursday night. For a minute, I was in I
was watching the rehearsal taking mental notes about what I'm
going to say.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Well, and then we did.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
We got to address the cast, which was fun and lovely,
and we had this delightful time and Bo was great.
He got up and he was incredibly positive and said
wonderful things about the performance we just saw. And then
that meant not getting home until what it was after
tens or so we act like we get to the
same home.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
We don't.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
We left and we went to different homes.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
But it got back to the barracks here at the
station right right.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
So didn't get to sleep probably until eleven eleven thirty,
and had to get up earlier than normal, which my
normal alarm time is three thirty or three twenty seven
is what my alarm clock is actually set to. But
got up earlier because we had to be at the
speedway earlyer than we would normally get to the station
because we have to make sure we're set up and
that the sound is working because we're working remotely. So
(09:00):
we drive up and Bo and I got to the
speedway about the same time and got out of.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Our cars kind of all bleary eyed.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
But those end up for whatever reason, and they end
up being the best shows. And I think it's because
I lack a cognitive filter to begin with, and when
I'm tired, it's completely gone. And my brain wasn't firing
on all cylinders. So we started out the beginning of
the show and I'm like, yeah, we're at the rays
(09:27):
and we're talking to Chase Brisco and I called a
Chad biscuit and that was And he's like a big
superstar in the race world and the nicest person in
the history of the world. I loved him.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
But I was.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Trying to think of he's still in the chase. He
could win the entire series, and I was trying to say,
like something along the lines of he could win the
whole kitten kaboodle, or he could win the whole ball
of wax, and my brain just wasn't firing yet. And
so what my brain came up with was he could
win the whole of crabs.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
That's what it would come to anybody's mind.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Right.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Of course, I don't know why, and.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
So many times over the years doing a show with
this one right here, I just kind of roll with it.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Yeah, bucket of crabs. That's sounds nobody knows what a bucket.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
But the funny thing is is that we started getting
important people for the rest of the show to say
bucket of crabs.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Right, including Chase.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
He was like, Yeah, I'm going to try to win
the whole bucket of crabs and I hope it becomes
a thing. But just so that you know, to give
you some since this is the seventeenth segment, to give
you behind the scenes.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Of what that's like.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
I realize it after I've said it, and then I
do a face plant and I'm like, man, that that
was on the air and.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
People heard that beyond just me.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
But I have to lean into it because you know
it has already come out of my mouth. And I
had a second one that same show that happened when
I was excited about I love when the chefs come
in and they let us try all of the food
at the Speedway because this chef there, Chef Robbie rob
is what I call him. He he creates delicious, delightful
treats for the fans and he lets us taste them
(11:05):
before they're served.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
During race weekend, and there.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Was a Beeria taco basically it was like a Beeria
grilled cheese and it had like the braised meat and
that had three different cheeses, and it was on this
Texas toast and I could not wait. He was telling
us all about it, and we weren't going to get
to taste it till the next segment. And what I
should have said is I can't wait to sink my
teeth into that. I forget about this, But instead I said,
(11:33):
I can't wait to wrap my lips around that. And
my phone immediately started buzzing, and both Steam and Bernie
sent me text immediately. Steveson's one He's like easybath, and
then Bernie's text to me was like, oh Jesus.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
And you see my face right now.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
And as soon as I got to commercial break and
I realized, and I see these texts and the chef
is kind of shaking his head at me. This way,
I realized the mistake that I had made and what
I had said. But you can't undo it is lab Radio,
you can't undo it. And so those are the moments
where I think, man, it's a good thing I'm not
running for office a care.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
No, those are the moments where you lean into it.
You have to because what else you gonna do?
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Yeah, you have to or otherwise, And I think the chef.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Even the next segment was like he was like, Beth,
was that worth the wait to wrap your lips around?
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Or something like that.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
And the fact that our guests lean into it now
too means that they are starting to get what we are.
But just so that you know, I am those things
are not intentional. I don't like pre plan to say
things like he's gonna win the whole bucket of crabs.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I think they know that.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
I don't drive in thinking oh what could I come
up with?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Because they say, how could you ever make this stuff up?
That's that's the whole and we actually.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Try to be more clever than that.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
We did News and Bruise or Not News and Bruise
talked overfest on Saturday night, zochie I did and Beth
was with us for a little bit. One of the questions,
you know, because we get questions in the chat room,
and one of the questions was, you guys have so
many people on your show. We have an ensemble show
when everybody is kind of assembled, And he said, do
(13:12):
you guys plan who says what when?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
And I said no. I said, first of all, I
would never want that.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
No, because you've worked on a show that was like that.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Yeah, yeah, and so is Zoki.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
I mean, and every show does their own thing. But
when I was on that show, I knew that I
don't want if ever I'm in control, or at least
partly in control, then I don't want it to be
the kind of thing that you It sounds like it's
bought out beforehand. Now that doesn't mean that we don't Again,
we've gotten into this before. But I said on Saturday Night,
(13:45):
I said, doesn't mean we don't have a framework of things.
It's not like we just come in and go, turn
a mic on and go. No, we come in and
we have eighty different directions we can go. But Steve doesn't.
I don't say, Steve, I want you to talk it
point right here, and I want you to give it
a little pizazz.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
You know, I'm gonna say this, then you say that,
She'll say this, and then Jim will put tie a
bow on it.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
But you done.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
But there are there are shows out there radio, TV,
what have you made?
Speaker 5 (14:14):
V shows are very much like that.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Yeah, so I mean it's not I guess maybe you
get the question because people know that, well, they.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Can't believe that they can't believe that our I maybe
it's the maybe maybe it's people can't believe that our
chemistry is real. You know that we have to script something,
But it's I think it's because our chemistry is so
real that that we don't have to script anything, because
we just talked the way we would if we were
all at dinner or.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
No, I'm gonna be real with you.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
When you do a show like we do four hours
a day with as many people as we have, there
are times every once in a while where we run
into each other physically. No, but I mean like there
are times when I know, after a segment, I go,
that got a little too busy. I've said it to
Beth before, I've said it to Steve. But I've also
had segments where I said, man, that was like magic.
(15:04):
And the reason, the reason in those moments where it's
like magic are the ones that make you want to
keep going for those every day, because it's not a
given that you just get five or six people in
a room who all have done some sort of broadcasting
and in our case radio before a lot of times,
(15:24):
that's where I think morning shows and radio shows in
general get it wrong. As they say Okay, this should
work on paper. Yeah, this person's been successful here, this
one's over here, We're going to put them all together.
I mean, I guess that's kind of how sports works too.
You know, we put this team together on paper. You
were a high draft pick and you had all this
success with such and such, and it's just going to work.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
But it doesn't always.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
So industry is a real thing. Chemistry is the key.
It's the magic sauce, it's the fairy dust. It's the
thing that makes anything work. And you can force those
kinds of conversations, and I think people are savvy enough
to hear when people don't have a real bond.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
And I think it's important to say, like in a
show like ours, I'm absolutely willing, and I know Beth
is too, because we're real. If nothing else that when
you have a group as big as ours, there are
times when it doesn't go according to plan. But the
times when it does, and if those happened consistently enough,
that's what gives you the desire to want to build
(16:24):
it bigger and to do it more. And I think
you know it's you start small. Like when we first
started doing radio together, we didn't know if it would work.
I had her on from Rio when she was you know,
you got people who've listened to the show know this
story pretty well by now, but I'm telling you, we
didn't know it was going to work. Right, it happens,
and then you go, oh, wait a minute, there's that
feeling that something clicked there.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Okay, so do we build on this? We did.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
We built on it. I had her come to the studio.
She was nice enough to do that. I remember the
first day we were on their together. We said, oh,
well that worked again, that was different. And then stack
enough of these workings in a row on top of
each other. Then you go, okay, wait a minute, maybe
there's a sign here that we should try to make
this a more permanent thing. And now, gosh, I mean,
(17:12):
if you count, if you go all the way back
to when we first start first just started doing test shows,
it's almost five years. That was so five years in Yeah,
a lot of people in this business don't make it
remotely that long. So you know, I'm not going to
sit here in front of all of you and say
that the mission is complete. Everything we ever wanted is perfect.
(17:33):
We're still experimenting, even with this podcast. We're experimenting with everything,
but the team that's there, you know what's what's possible
when all things hit. And so this is all back
to the question that we got on Saturday night that
I don't know if we totally fleshed out because we
had a time limit there.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
But here we are on the seventeenth segment. You know,
that's why you do it.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
You live to get with a group and I mean
Bernie and I'm Steve, and I mean Jim, and I
mean Mark and Boomer and.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Of course Beth.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
You live to get that group together and you know
that when you go down the road together, what's possible.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Well, and look, we'll give you insight to you into
some of our favorite moments just from the last week
and if you go back and listen to them. I
think it was last it was Wednesday or Thursday of
last week. We were talking about sports. Somehow we were
talking about we were talking to something sports was a
(18:32):
sports was it sporty?
Speaker 4 (18:34):
And we ended up on a bag of potato.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Yes, yes, we were talking. We're talking about fantasy football scores,
weren't we.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
No, it was something about how people you don't get
your money is worth anymore. That nobody cares about the
little man anymore, and I was somehow we got to
and you know where else that's true as potato chips?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Yeah, and I went, and that was a well we
just jumped down the rabbit.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
Hole, just to give you, if you go back and
listen to it, to give you insight into us.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
After that was over, we were.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
All laying down on the on the desk on the
table with our microphones dying laughing, went how.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Did we get there? How?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
How did we?
Speaker 5 (19:14):
How did we get there? And now I can't even
to remember what the segment was about except potato chips. No,
And it wasn't about potato chips at all.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
And that's the one where I was Excuse me, I
was talking about the U. You were talking about how
much air is in a bag?
Speaker 5 (19:28):
Right, because you this is why I'm saying, they don't
care about the little man anymore, because you get a
bag of potato chips, it looks like it's all full,
but you open it up and half the air like
blows your hair back, and then there's like seven chips
in there, and four of them are broken.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
And that's where I said, back in our day, you
know the the Dorito's pack had a window on it
and we could see what we were getting.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
You could see the chips, you could see which ones
were broken.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
So I mean, yeah, there's an example of one that
came out of nowhere. But you have to be you
have to be willing to go into that.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Together or to get there right right.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
You have to be and just to give you insight
into our souls.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Those are the moments that we get very excited that
we do what we do. So when you go back
and listen to that segment, which was around eight oh
five on that Wednesday or Thursday, you'll hear the delight
that I think ends up coming from all of us.
And when you turn we turned the microphone off. Those
are the moments that we live for. Those those kinds
(20:25):
of that's really how funny things would be if we were,
you know, just hanging around at dinner table and the
conversation got off and awkward.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Well, and we're in the middle of doing it's it's
the return of a bit that sort of fell in
our lap last year when Steve started doing uh these
Shakespearean sonnets, Yes about about songs?
Speaker 5 (20:47):
This guy yeah, so Steven hello, Oh no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
No, sorry, Goodmorrow, BT.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
There you go, very very so we'll met.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
Yeah, And I was going to say that was it
was interesting that you even bring that up, both because
we text back and forth last week and you had said,
you know, like, look, today went really well.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
You know it.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
It went better than and we continue to do the
bit because it works so well. And I told you
my goal is to try to get you guys in
the room to break.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Oh you do it every time, right.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
And I feel like if I can get Beth to laugh,
if I can get bo to like, you know, double over,
if I can get Bernie to disappear behind his monitors,
which is the best, then I've completed my task for
the day.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
And yeah, and I'm good Bernie disappears.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
I can get I can get Zochie every once in
a while. Now Zochie gets us sometimes all the time,
sometimes constantly. I don't hear it until after I listen
back because it's so stealth. But every once in a
while you get Jim, which I love, and then Beth.
I still don't know exactly what it is that signals it,
but apparently there's some sort of mode that I go
into laughing that you say, like.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
You're blow bubbles his lips. He starts looking like he's
blowing bubbles.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
He's like, see, now, I don't want to do it anymore.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
It's great.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
It's when you know that he's so tickled that he
can't talk anymore and he's trying to talk so his
lips just he ends up looking like he's blowing bubbles.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Like it's so great anyway.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Well, and when we do the sir Stephen thing like
this is if you're listening to the show, I really
giveaways are fine, like I but the one thing I
don't like is when you say, hey, caller ten, we
have two tickets to the Renaissance Fests for a recaller
ten right now.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
We'll give him to you.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Because that's that's great for the one person who who wins.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
He wins.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
I'm happy for you else, but I want it to
be something where people in the car don't have to
be playing the contest to have fun in the process.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
And you're right.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
I reached out to Steve after the show was over
the other day and I said, what we did today
is you know that the contest is secondary. It's it's
getting to the end of it, but we're all having
fun getting there, and it's it's a whole thing of itself,
and the contest is just the payoff to one person.
But people I hope are listening in the car going, wait,
you know, how did you not know that one? Or
(23:05):
I know this one? I know this one?
Speaker 2 (23:06):
And then they call.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
But we if you listen to it, we have the
most important thing of is we're all having fun and
sort of playing off of each other.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
And those are the days these guys know with me
my favorite days.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Again, back to the ensemble question about how does it
all work together? Do you guys know what you're gonna say?
Do you tell each other what you're gonna say? No,
And especially in those contests, I have no idea. I
know the caller is going to say, I have no
idea that's gonna say. You know, everybody is free to
sort of go at their own pace. And then there's
a lot of there's production to it too, which I
always like.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
But I think if you listen to.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
It, Like last week, guy calls in he's listening to us.
He says that it was a Guns N' Roses song
that Steve was playing and it was was a sweet
ch out of mine and the guy who wons like, well,
I'm more of a I'm more of a patience kind
of guy, right right, And then Beth says November rain
and so then we work those two songs in to it.
(24:00):
But there's no way we could have known that was coming.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Right because we couldn't We couldn't pay a caller to Yeah.
I mean, I don't even know how you'd go about
doing that.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
But if you go back and listen to it, I
love it because all of us are playing along, all
of us are having fun, the callers are having fun
with us. We had one lady call in last week
and she said, I said, you got a guest form
and she goes, oh am, I supposed to say something.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Pay you called us to play, right, man?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Do you know who you called?
Speaker 6 (24:28):
And to your point, BO, like you guys, when we
talk about you know, not not scripting things or or
kind of being over I don't even want to say
over prepared, because we do walk in prepared like you said.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
I mean, we do have an idea. We know you
know this segment.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
We want to cover politics here, we want to cover
sports here, We're going to do the contest in this segment,
but like I purposefully do not let you guys see
the lyrics.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Right before we do that.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
I don't want to know.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
Right because I want, like today, for example, one of
the words, and I'm going to spell it out. One
of the words that was good was bi sect b
I S E C T bisect, which is a quote
unquote common word, but of course in context. And as
I'm just reading lyrics aloud and and bisex and immediately everybody's.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Like, whoah by sex and all of us went.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Everybody lost it and it was bisec right, and we
are like, what was he talking about?
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Sex?
Speaker 5 (25:25):
What song is this? And that's the other fun thing too,
is that Bo doesn't tell me or Jim what the
song is at all.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
So I'm playing.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
I'm sitting there playing along with the callers and listening
and trying to see if I were a caller, if
I would be able to know what that song right.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
This one's a little different because Steve Steve writes these,
so there's an element. This is the one contest we
do where I sort of don't know what's coming.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
You just have to you have to get the music right.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Yeah, But I don't know how he's going to do it,
all of it.
Speaker 6 (25:56):
Yeah, So I tell Bo, these are the songs that
we're doing.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Here's the you know.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Here, here's the music you need to find, right, these
are the lyrics that I've written. And whether I found
the songs or we've you know, Bo and I have
collaborated to find the versions that you know, get used
for the you know, the Shakespearean version. So technically I'm
the only one that knows everything that's about to happen. Yeah,
Bo knows the music, but has no idea of the
(26:21):
words that are going to come out of my mouth.
And you and Jim and Bernie are pretty much completely
in the dark.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Yeah, don't know the lyrics or the song.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
So we're I was sitting there trying to figure out
what you're saying as you're saying it, and what song
you're reciting, and it nothing cracks me up more than
this contest.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Well, and then we have the name that contest, which
is which is another kind of old standby for us,
but you know, name that for giving away at tickets
to John Mellencamp, name that John, that famous John. But
so whenever we do that, Beth will send me, no,
no kidding, She'll send me about fifty different options. But
then my favorite part of that is she knows that
(26:59):
I'm still gonna come to the table with at least
probably ten that she's she didn't give that.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Yeah, so there's there's.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
A That's the way we sort of do this is
it's it's a contest, so you can call them win tickets,
but we're all sort of having our own little sub
contest with each other. And again back to that whole thing,
we didn't get a whole lot of questions about show
stuff on Friday. On Saturday Night, and we were talking
about you know, Jim and the Panthers and and and
you called you and your dad swooping in, so that
that kind of lended itself in a different direction. But
(27:28):
we always end up getting one or two questions about
how does this work on the show. And I'm glad
we got that one because if there's one thing that
I pride this show on, it's that we have a
group that all can sort of go into whatever we
go into, and we trust each other. We don't know
where it's gonna go always, but we trust each other.
I had some person somebody Friday say, gosh, I can't
(27:49):
remember what the context of it was. It might have
been a narrowway. But remember I was telling him, I said,
there was one segment this morning where when the bumper hit,
you didn't know where I was going, and I quite
frankly didn't hadn't made my decisions like we shot like
it's like the last last segment of the show, or
maybe the last segment of the show that wasn't earmarked
for something, right, And you said, what do you want
(28:09):
to do here? And I said, well, we could do
this and this, and then you said we can do
this and this, and then Bernie says ten seconds.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
And so we jumped in and we had four ways
that we were going to go, and we didn't know
it's one we were going to pick yet.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
And so that's not to say that we didn't plan.
We we actually overplanned. We just we just didn't come
to a decision. And I thought, you know what, it's
pretty cool doing a show with somebody that I have
that much trust and that much trust in that the
music hits, and I think, jump off the cliff.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
Wherever we go, it's going to be fine. It's going
to be fine. And I mean fine, not in Beth Fine,
I mean like actually fine.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
And I don't even remember what we did.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
I don't either.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Actually I think it was it got us to the
next show.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
It might be sports, I don't know. So you know,
that's kind of what this becomes too, and that and
that's how we want to continue to grow this this
podcast as well, with more of your questions and more
of these behind the scenes kinds of stories that give
you insight into the things that.
Speaker 6 (29:11):
You want to know.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
How it's what's really going on in that studio and
the things that we don't necessarily get to you all
the time.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
Yeah, this is your like subscribe and comment moment.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
Yes, like subscribe and comment and if you're as with
the comments.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
And just because I know Bo doesn't really watch the podcast,
he listens to it, as do many people, whether it
be on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. If you can't necessarily comment,
you can always either a you can text, you know,
text us on the WBT text.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
Line seven O four five seven oh eleven ten.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
That would be it.
Speaker 6 (29:45):
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Speaker 4 (29:47):
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Speaker 6 (29:51):
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Speaker 5 (29:54):
We love answering your questions and we love letting you
guide where this goes.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
We're going to have special guests again. We had Zochi
in for one. Remember when Zochie sat way up here
and we were down here. Uh, we're gonna get Garrison
in here. We're gonna get Bernie in here.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Teresa Peyton said she wants to do it.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Yeah, she was almost.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
She was gonna do it last week and then we
realized that it was gonna be Uh.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
She had something too close.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
After we were ending that she was gonna be in Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
We'll get handcocked down here one day.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
But if you have people that you want to suggest,
maybe off the beaten path, like you want to say,
you know what I mean, Jones, And for you guys
to talk to Anna Erickson, we can make that happen.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
Yeah, you know, fun stuff.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
So uh, but we love you for being out there.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
And we'll have another seventeenth segment coming soon because I
have not overbooked myself. I promise, I will I will sleep.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
I will sleep, you promise, And we're.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
Crying in the Taco Bell drive through.
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