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on your podcast phone show? You know, I was just thinking,
we've got the brain trust other than Elvis sitting here
at the mics because everybody else, well, they said, if
we're not sticking around for the podcast Friday, So we
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are the masterminds. I think combined we have what over
sixty years of radio experience. Yeah we do. Yeah. Yeah,
it's Brody and Nate and Scary Jones. Yeah, so yeah,
that's pretty much. I don't think we've done the podcast
the three of us ever. And you looked around the room,
He's like, what do the three of us have in
common we're doing the podcast today. Yeah, there's that, I
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know this one. Uh. And then you're like, wait a second.
We all have the word producer and title. I mean
producers A big word when you really kind of consider
what we do. It could be when when I when
I meet listeners a lot and I'm like, oh, yeah,
one of the executive producers on the show, like, what's
that you were? Producer? Usually and in several mediums, as
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I think we were about to say, it has different.
It has different connotations and different you know rules of
the job, right. Well, uh, you know radio producers, what
we do is we provide the means and the leg work.
I guess to do a radio show for hosts. Uh,
you know TV shows for instance, TV shows and movies.
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Executive producer means something different. Usually it's copletely different. Do
you put up the money for the movie or something.
A lot of people get executive producer credit on the
movie because you put up the money. Steven Spielberg executive
produces a movie he had nothing to do with, right,
and he didn't have anything to do with the writing
the special effects. You go Steven Spielberg now and SNL
Lauren Michael's these days as executive producer. No, no no, he
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had a lot of hands on, but these days when
he just kind of stands there in between commercial breaks,
you know, when they come back. Well, he does run
the day to day, minute by minute of the actual broadcast,
but he oversees who's on the show, make sure the
set looks good. Like he's kind of like a like
a broad strokes. By the way, shout out to Bobby moynahan.
It's his last show. Tomorrow shout out nine years. But anyway,
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as we were saying, and a lot of morning shows
have one executive producer or sometimes the the host of
the show is the executive producer. When Scary and I started,
one of our co hosts at the time, Elliott, was
the executive producer. Yes, they weren't enough people on the show,
no budget. They made him do himself. But this show
so massive, it needs three producers. Well there's like six producers,
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but everyone's here called a producer, but there's only three
executive producers. And Nates the senior executive producer. And then
there's like, you know, producer Sam. Everyone's got producer, but
it's not it's a different job. So does that mean
that because Nate has the word senior in front of
his word executive producer, does that mean he gets belted
with all the rest of the bullshit? He gets the crap?
You kind of? Really, I sometimes I do feel bad.
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You used to get it. You used to get it,
used to get it. It's it's kind of the You're
the filter between a lot of different what I do.
I'm the filter between UH sales and promotions, UH listeners.
You you can handle, Yeah, yeah, you do. Uh No,
we just we just handle everything and weirdly filter whether
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it's to all of those places I just described, were
to Elvis or Danielle or Bethany or the rest of
the STI if you read the Steve Harvey memo Lesson,
he wrote that letter to the us of his show
not to bother him and to filter out everything. So,
because it's so difficult to host a show, whether you're
Jimmy Fallon or Stephen Colbert or Elvis or Howard Stern,
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in order to focus your energy and your thoughts on
creating a show every day, you can't get bogged down
with who wants to advertise, who wants to run a commercial,
who wants to talk to him for five minutes. It's
impossible to do both. And so there's like, I think
if we typed up a list of what we do
that would bore our listeners, actually like fifteen pages of
what we do, so that he doesn't have to worry
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about it. Yeah, it's funny. I don't even realize that
things that I do every day do you guys like
you do it? I don't until they say, write a review,
your annual review and list what you do and you can.
Holy crap, I'm not getting paid enough. Yeah, it's it's like,
you know, scary and I were looking at the clocks
seeing what audio elements in there, and then that's primarily
scary job. We're going through texts, We're trying to communicate
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with other people in other studios. We're trying to figure
out who's getting on the phone, who's texting in that
we can call back. I mean a million things during
the show. During the show, we kind of have these
overlapping and different things that we're all trying to help
each other out. I suppose it is the best way,
but but as soon as a guest comes in, then
Nate has to be kind of like the greeter and
the welcomer, and he's got to make sure that the
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guests and the guests people, what do they want to
talk about, what do they not want to talk about?
What kind of mood are they? And how does their
voice sound this morning? What kind of night did they
have the night before? What? You know, what do we
need to tell them not to say on the radio today. Yeah,
you kind of a pre interview prior to the interview,
and you figure out a couple of things that they
want to talk about that aren't on the prep sheet,
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you know. I mean they're going to talk about their song.
You can look on Wikipedia and right up what but
you need to know, Hey, they really want to talk
about the fact they work with Ed Shearing on this album,
but they'd rather not talk about the girls are dating.
So and while all this is going on, well, I
was just trying to paint the picture. I'm trying to
sit there thinking about what kind of how can I
add to this with audio? Can I put some fun
sound in there? Is They're a good music bed um,
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you know, And I'll just stand there. Actually I did
the least of the three of us. Actually you have
to oh, no, Scary walked out of the room yesterday
and it was mayhem, mayhem. If you leave for five
it's like it's like leaving a baby on the ledge.
On the ledge, like that's basically right. If the baby
sits there, it looks like you're not doing anything. Leave
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the room. And I had to leave the room yesterday
during While you're leaving a babysitting on a our stool,
I mean that thing is gonna come flying off. That's
basically what you do. And you also probably have the
hardest job. You have to read Elvis's mind before he
even knows what's going to be in his mind. That's correct. Yeah,
I'm always anticipating Elvis' Elvis will say, you know what,
I was at a street fair of the day, and
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Scary knows it was an Italian one, so he can
see tying music. Yeah, and actually that's a little behind
the scenes. If anybody's listening, they hear Elvis do this. Yeah,
you know, I was, I was on the you know,
I was on the street and I heard this Italian
music and all of a sudden hear you hear him
move away from the microphone. He's getting Scaris attention or
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is looking already right. A lot of times I'm facing
the you'll hear Elvis move away, and it's because he's
turning the Scary so and and by the way, just
on that note, I do have a computer full of
millions of sound effects and songs and things and all
you gotta you know, we can kind of pull up
a search for that stuff. But the thing about Scary
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is he's so hyper focused on one thing, whatever the
one thing is, so so he'll be sometimes Scary staring
at the computer to make sure that everything's word should
be and it all the things are going to fire
at the same time where they should. He gets so
focused that when Elvis starts talking about the Italian Festival,
Scary didn't hear it. So Nate, who's about seven feet away,
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starts waving his arms. I will take a piece of paper,
crumple up and throw it at him. He goes like,
like you just woke someone up from the deep sleep.
Tians just walked in with Danielle, And by the way,
why is it a boys club. We're just talking about
how we're the backbones of the show and Danielle just
comes in here and we pop her up. Really, you
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are the bad phones of the show. Do you want
to should I tell you what to tell him? Right now,
we were talking about all of the things we do
behind the scenes. Everything seems well. I wouldn't say it
seems seamless or sounds seamless when we're doing the show.
It is funny that the three producers were doing in
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the podcast, and I'll be you wanting me to beat
I'll be totally honest. If Scary left tomorrow, Elvis wouldn't
know what to do with himself. He could not do
the show without scary. Come on, Nate does so much
behind the scenes that you have no freaking idea. He's
constantly running around. He protects all of us from the
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craziness and he it's like our goal between for a
lot of things. And he keeps Elvis on track with
timing and Brody have the funny ship that comes out
of my mouth comes Brody writes it on a piece
that comes out Elvis's man. Right, So so Brody is
like one of you know, I mean, come on, stop,
I wrote top of train today. Things though about these guys, Daniel,
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I think you can notice is just like when a
president goes in for his first day versus his last
day as president, you can see the aging process. So
I can see the aging process on all three of
these guys. Over time. You're telling me that I look old. Well,
your hair hasn't changed too much. Yeah. So being a
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being a producer is usually followed by oh, you're you
produced the show? Have you met Elvis? Well? Do you
know Greg t Yeah? They go, so where are you
when the show is going on? Right within three ft
of Elvis, we all are You're in there, So what
do you do? I just I don't know. It's funny,
like we all have people that listen for us, right,
they might enjoy the show, but you know, whether it's
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Danielle's mom, Garrett's wife, I mean, they hope to listen
to you. My mom knows the seven words per show.
I see I heard you. I heard you say hanukah
and I heard you say baseball. So I remember talking
to my mom and she said, why aren't you on
the show more? I go, well, Mom, I'm a producer.
I'm doing more stuff as the show is going on.
You guys, well, I don't know if I want to
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really listen unless you're on it. Oh my god, mom
listening for you. This podcast has given us as producers
an opportunity to talk more, and we do. We have
gotten a lot of tweets, all of us going, hey,
you're you're you know you you're good at talking. You're okay.
How come you don't talk on the answer for that
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except that's not our job. We have so much to do.
We actually don't have time. We all contribute where we can.
One Elvis wants to talk and talk right. We have
a giant where Danielle's job to talk. Nobody asked Bethany
and Danielle how come they not grabbing sound effects, because
that's not their role. You wouldn't want me to, because
you I would. I keep thinking if you had me
run the board with we'd be off the air because
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I wouldn't. Okay, what the hell, Daniel, how long have
you been at the radio station? I listened to me
in college, I ran a great board. I read a
type board. But once I left college and I came here,
nobody asked me to do it, so I didn't stick
up stick to it. And then somebody once told me
don't learn to run the board, and I said why
because then they'll make you do it. So I said, okay,
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And I never left twenty two years. You've been here
for as long as I have, and and Brody and
and twenty two years, and you haven't. I think. I
think you started before Bill Clinton's second term as president.
So you still can't run the board right now, and
you come over here, you think you could. I think
you could do it. I think he could. But there's
nothing to do except I think she could do. My
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favorite is when Daniel is getting ready to do a
phone tap and she'll go listen, this guy's on a
lunch break. You gotta hurry. I gotta set the board up.
I go set the board up. I don't know. Do
you remember that daniel did that awesome phone tap and
then you go to listen to it. She didn't record
the call and I do phone taps together. We tag team.
He helps me be funny. So Garrett was Garrett put
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the board on. We didn't put your button. Look, so
maybe maybe you can call the guy back. And Fool said, scary.
When you take this home to edit it, you are
gonna love it. You is the best phone tap ever.
And I'm like, really, so I still think it's gonna
be funny. If we just played Danielle's reaction and we
don't play the other call to it, that would be funny.
Phone come back. Just Danielle was recorded. In fairness, I
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did that once, but I mean I just started. I was,
as some of you may know, I started doing the
prank phone calls before anyone else and then they caught
on him, and but he did him. So I was
doing him myself in the studio and I didn't know
how to I didn't know the button to push for something,
and I recorded a great prank phone call on a guy. Um.
I told him that he was gonna be He was
been in for jury duty. And I called him and
I said, you're gonna be sequested. You on a murder trial.
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And said, no, no, it's a it's a traffic thing.
I'm going I said, nope, we moved you up. You're
on a murder trial. You can be sequested for three months.
It's Jimmy the Weasel. Have you heard of him? No? Oh,
he killed seventy three people. And I had the guy.
I was terrified. It was great, and then I was like, yes,
this was great. It was so good, and I didn't
hit the record button. My favorite Danielle story and I
fulle for it. Every time she goes into the studio
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is about to record a phone call, and then she goes,
you dial the phone for me? Wait, and what I go?
I go? Sure? And then after I dial the phone,
I go and youll knows how to dial a phone.
I know a dollar phone, but I don't know how
to put them on hold without hanging up on each
of them. Like if I put one on hold every time,
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then I will go to put the other person on hold,
and then I'll hang up person. It's terrible. Just now
I was in their recording commercials and I'm like pushing
but and I, Josh, could you come and help me
to bring I don't know which buttons to push bring
full circle. This is why this show has three executive producers,
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because to handle everybody. In fact, maybe a fourth one
that's this one for everybody is out playing having a
great time. I go home at night and I take
everybody's phone taps and everybody who tries a phone tap,
and I edited down to a listenable length because sometimes
we get fifteen minutes of audio, and you know, because
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we don't know how long they hang off, they won't
answer the phone again. So all that stuff is cut out.
We should do a whole expose on on the phone
taps on one of these podcasts and talk about how
many fail and how many you know, how long it
takes to actually sometimes you have to do them over
two or three days because you can't get the person
back on the phone. I have one that was the
best one I've ever done, and it was about a
girl who was working at Hooters and I called to
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tell her that her uniform was in and her dad
answered the phone and I said, oh, he's like he
was amazing. He remembered scary. You remember this. He said
that if we played that phone tap then he would
come and basically kill us. Tried to give him money,
we tried everything, and he's listening and so this phone
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tap will never see the light of day. And it
was so just like, it'll be just like the one
that Broady did where he didn't hit the record button.
Never kill me. Yeah, that show, That minute Morning Show,