Best Moments of 2025 #18: Sound Effect Theater!

From happy moments to times of reflection, here are a few of the biggest moments from Elvis Duran and the Morning Show.

From spooky winds and jazz trumpets to flatulent werewolves (yes, really), the team acts out a hilariously chaotic radio drama complete with A+ farts, questionable owl impressions, and plenty of laughter. 

OG Air Date October 31st, 2025.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
The lasts, the surprises, the chaos.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
You're listening to. Another great moment from twenty twenty five
Elvis Duran in the Morning Show.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Nate said, let's do something fun. Let's do something that
dos this theater of the mind. Yeah, he said, how
about sound effect theater? I went, oh my god, what
a great idea. I love sound effect theater. What exactly
is sound effect? Sound effect theater is remember there's old
timey radio shows. Well they were probably old when you
were young, thank you, sorry, but they would tell a

(00:32):
story and there would be sound effects and it would
sound like you're listening to a movie basically, right. So
the difference is with sound effect theater, you're reading the
terrifying tale and everybody here in the room is supplying
the sound effects.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Are you guys on board?

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (00:47):
This is so fun.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
So gandhi, You're gonna be a breeze, scary, is going
to be the sound of leaves, Frogy is gonna be
a star, a car starting, and it just goes on
and on.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Are you guys up to this? Yeah right, we haven't practiced,
so this is gonna be amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Yeah, what could possibly possibly go wrong? Welcome to sound
effect theater. It was a breezy evening with the wind
blowing through the leadings. As the young farm girl opened

(01:26):
her car door and got in, she started the car.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Did it start? It didn't sound like it started.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
She started the car, it was an electric and accelerated
while shifting the manual transmission. She sped down the dark
country road and turned on the radio to hear an
awkward song.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
I'm a Barbieer barbie ware.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
So quickly she changed to another station where a jazz
trumpet was quickly playing. The jazz trumpet got faster and
faster and was joined by a ripping bassline.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
A fiddle.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Also joined it until she tuned the station to another
station and a female opera singer.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Was singing the final notes of her performance.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
The crowd broke into applause as she finished her final note,
and then she decided to tune into a news station
teletype machines indicating there's a breaking new story. The announcer
said in a booming voice, Strange reports have been coming
in the flatulent werewolves throughout the area. Please stay in

(03:00):
tune flatulent wherewol Suddenly, a loud, grinding noise began to
emit from under the hood, joined by a scuttering sound
until a cough and a bang. Coffin bang, A coffin bang.

(03:28):
I mean it's like at the end of the engine
dies right and a cough and a bang. The cars
cars don't cough.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
They this one did anyway.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
The cough and bang finished off the engine, and the
car slowly whined to a stop on a dark gravel.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
Road.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
Opening the door, an owl hooted in the distance. Another
hooted even closer, and another even closer, until she was
barraged by incessant hooting. Surrounded by owls, she decided to

(04:19):
run down a dirt path to avoid the winged predators
of the night. The hooting grew softer until the owls
were replaced by a distant.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
Werewolf owl distant, this distant.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
Followed by a faint fart. The news report about Gassie
werewolves hadn't been a joke.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
It scary.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
Out of prhap power, ranger has lost oxygen. Her footsteps
fell faster, breathing heavily. She was startled by a bat
flitting vibe as she ran onto the creaky porch of

(05:14):
an old farmhouse. The wind, the.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Wind, I can't hear the wind. Wind.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
The wind whistled, whistle whistling, wind, whistle, wind whistled through
the old structure, as another werewolf howled closer, followed by
another slightly louder fart, a crack of thunder through the
night as the house creaked and groaned around her as

(05:48):
she ran through the house, and then a werewolf howl
thundered behind her, followed by a louder fart. The Cassie
werewolf was close behind as the odiced howl.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
Went the air with the.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
Most cacophonous fart thundering through the empty house. The girl
screamed as an old alarm clock as an old cuckoo clock.
An alarm clock sounded off. She bounced up in her

(06:26):
springy bed. It was morning. A rooster crowed, a cow mooed,
a chicken clock in a goat name.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
It had all been a dream? Or had it? Had
to go back to the other side of the hold.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
On and then and then a distant werewolf howls.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
And a semi distant lingering fart the end some rehearsal,
I wrote, why do we even read about it? I
don't even know what this was. There's a farting. I
gotta say. I gave him scary. A plus on his
sound effects, A plus scary. I'm sweating because of Froggy

(07:25):
did I mean? Everyone did a great job. A little
more volume, Froggy, a little more volume. The wind, it said,
it said, distant wind. I don't want to go I
his cough bang was incredible. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yeah, there supposed to be the sound of an engine
coughing and banging, but he had the sound of a
person coffe.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
That interesting. The plot was a little shady, even a
C plus.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
But nothing happened. There's there's no there's no story sound effects.
Why don't should be his story involved as well? Don't
you think there should have been deaf By the way,
You're owl is terrible?

Speaker 2 (08:00):
What the owl hooting do? An owl that's not an owl?
I thought everybody did really good farts. I thought my
bats were pretty good. Your bat is.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
Out there. Yeah, I'd like to hear one of you
do a cacophonist fart.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
You really want me to do it, I'll do one