April 27, 2017 • 16 mins
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The fifteen minute morning show podcast all the way, but first,
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(01:04):
on your on your podcasts show, Well, welcome to the podcast.
It is fifteen minutes more. It's a bonus. It's a
bonus on top of what we already did. Around the
table is Bethany, and there's Scary, and there's Dave Brody,
(01:29):
and there's Danielle. You know what other than Great Tea
and no other than Great Team, Scotty B not in
the room. This is the other than Bethany, the original
cast from twenty one years ago. All right, so, in
other words, has nothing to do with the original cast. Okay,
So if you took out Bethany and you brought in
Great Tea and Scotty B. This is our original twenty
(01:50):
one year old family. They're both here. You want to
bring them in or should we leave the mouth of
the room. You know, this would be a great an
opportunity for Bethany to ask us questions about our only
one years on the show? Do you hold on? Remember
the old studios where we used to throw food in
the back? What was that? What was that called videos? Videos?
(02:15):
We throw food in the back and they would video
it and then they'd have a huge party where we
would watch the video where Garrett has joined us. So
now it's not it's you have to leave. No, he
does not stop it alright, one, But Garrett has been
with the show since the very beginning, because he was
listening to us since the very beginning. He's not really
like old, You're like an outside old of the show.
(02:36):
But what I'm saying is we can let Bethany ask
us questions about our history, because even though Garrett hasn't
been with the show for twenty one years, he's been
a part of our show for it. Yeah, nineteen of them. Yeah,
so great, tea. What do you think the theme of
our show is today? I don't know. It's a lot
of people here, but what a most of the people
(02:56):
in this room have in common. Everybody's on the morning
showd Good Start, Good Start. I guess we're a big family. Well,
everyone who's been here for the entire twenty one years
is in this room. Yes, there we go together. And
Garrett has been listening for twenty one He's been with
the show almost twenty one years, since he was a baby. Cool.
He grew up on the show, so Beth and he's
(03:18):
really the only new schooler. Scotty b you've been here
for all twenty one years. All right, so go ahead
ask us questions about our twenty one years in services.
You remember the first time you met Danielle? Yes, I do.
Where daniel do you? I remember he was wasted. Where
was the first time you met Danielle? I think we
had met before, but I think the first time it
really registered with me was it was called the Madonna
(03:41):
Um Bedtime Betime Webster Hall, the Bedtime Story Show where
she had her album Bedtime Story and she read Bedtime
Stories on a bed. And I'm at daniel backstage and
had underwear on my head, and it was like handshake, Hi,
I'm Danielle High and Elvin No he said, yeah, the
cover up you and I go what? Yes? Okay. It
(04:03):
wasn't quite like well I got one? What about Scary
and Gregg t they're best friends? When you guys remember
the first day you guys met? Yes, I was already
working here. I was answering the phones for Elvis show
when he was on in the afternoon, and we had
these phone requesting banks where you actually people would call
into a phone number and I would sit there and say,
(04:23):
hi's one hundred, what song would you like to hear?
And can I date you? And all of a sudden,
Greg T is being escorted by the music director of
ZE one hundred. At the time, Greg T is wearing
a three piece suit with a double breasted jacket and
the vest and a vest, and I'm like, what the
hell is this guy? He would yeah, yeah, and he said,
(04:44):
this is Greg T. This is Greg at the time,
and he were just showing him around. You know, he's
being interviewed today, and that was your first day. Well,
you know, Mom always said, if you're gonna go for
an interview, you gotta try to make the best first
impression possible. Let's talk about how different our lives would be,
including you, Bethany, if Greg Tea had not been hired
that day, or if Scary hadn't been hired that day,
(05:06):
how different this whole world would be for us. Yeah,
it's true, it's uh yeah, I can't. I actually can't
imagine the show without you guys, without any like one person. Now,
Scotty is the most quiet on the show because he
does a lot of the producing, producing for the Z
one side. So you're not on the show a whole lot, right, So,
but you've been here as long as as the Core,
(05:29):
the Core family, that's right, since day one. So what
are your thoughts about being twenty one years on this show? Well,
I gotta be honest. I mean, I worked with Greg
t for probably eighteen of them. Give us your thoughts
and let's talk about what you did a great tea,
because that's a fascinating story. Yes it is. Well, I
mean it's first of all, it's amazing that we have
all been together for so long. It's just it's incredible
(05:51):
to me. I mean, there's no profession where people are
in the same you know, company for so long, let
alone all with the same people. And I think that's
the best part about it, because we truly are a family.
We like most of each other for most part, you know,
I like you guys. We spend more, we really spend
more time with each other than we do with with
our actual families. You know, usually it's true our blood families. Yeah.
(06:13):
Well is now, I'm assuming you've brought everybody in here
to fire one of them. So if you had to
fire one person, you have to contractually obligated. If you
as to fire one person from the original cast, who
would you fire? I wouldn't. I can't answer that fed them.
I think we'd be fired already if you think about it.
He fired all the other ones. Give him a break.
(06:36):
So anyway, so Greg T used to be the quote
unquote street guy. We can I tell you the first
time I met you. You know how many stories can
we start at once? Well, I just want to but
I wanted to tell you it was so cool because
you know what, I don't know if everybody knows, you know,
I grew up, you know, fan girling over you because
you were doing the afternoon the portion of the radio station.
(06:57):
So you used to do this really cool thing on
fry Days where you launched everybody into the weekend. And
as a kid growing up, like I never heard anybody
do that kind of radio on Fridays. It was so cool.
So like when I got my driver's license, the first
thing I did on a Friday, my very first Friday
at age seventeen, was I got into the car and
I went and I sat in rush at rush hour
(07:19):
traffic on the highway so that I could crank it
up and listen to you launched us into the weekend.
And I wanted to look around and be like, Wow,
I'm driving a car, I'm in rush hour on Friday,
Like it was so cool. So going to the radio
station and like, remember they had a little peep hole
that you can look in the window and see the
DJ inside the booth. Like I remember looking at you
and I'm like, wow, that's the Elvis Durana right there.
(07:42):
Like I couldn't believe, like my eyes because you know,
as a as a person listening, you only could imagine
what the DJ looks like. So to actually go in
and see you and I'm like, what's it was so cool.
And then so then when I found out that you
were doing in the morning show and that you were
gonna be the head of the morning show and then
I could work with you, I was like, wow, somebody
pinched me, Like this is super freaking cool. So that's
(08:05):
my little he wishes he never came. He wishes never
admit me that that was a long time ago ago.
So great Tea used to be the street guy. Every day.
He would have to go to the streets of New
York or or the suburban parts of New York City
and do things like stunts like roll down hills in
in in bubble rap or you know breaking Yeah, we're
(08:27):
breaking into Martha Stewart's house or whatever every day. So
we didn't trust him to drive himself because he well,
he couldn't. He didn't know how to do He didn't
know how to maneuver streets. And you know what else
else When we first Hurtle on the show, no one
really cared. And all of a sudden, as we got
bigger and bigger and more popular, a lot of people,
right Scotty, people would come out all the time. So
(08:47):
he was our ambassador on the streets. Because we were
only a New York radio show. He was our ambassador
on the streets. So Scotty was his on his producer
slash driver. There was bailor out of jail on many occasions.
You actually bailed me out four times, four times. You
two have like a different relationship than I think anybody
else on the show because you have all of that
time spent in cars. Scotty would drive him everywhere bettany
(09:09):
and he would sleep, sleep, he would sleep, He would
sleep the entire time. He would wake up and do
his bit and go back to sleep. He wake up
and throw trash out the window. Well it started it
started going south at one time when he threw garbage
out the window, and I jammed on the brakes because
he never wore his seat belt either, and his head
hit the dash board, so he punched me. He punched me.
I got out in the middle of the street and
I walked back and I just left. It was the
(09:29):
beginning of the end. Yeah, it was. It really was
that the protein. That was the Yeah he was That's
when I was going to the gym. I was all
hyped up in all kinds of men were popping, stackers
were stopping. Remember he bought the drugs out of some
guy's trunk in his neighborhood. Has worked together all during
the nineties when like f DA rules were very loose
about various vitamins and minerals, right, and they were that
(09:51):
day one of those months. Well, anyway, it was a
very dysfunctional relationship between Scotty and Great Teeth. Great Team
was just an asshole. You really were. You would you
would throw garbage onto the street and litterally, and of
course we had Not only was it bad enough he
was littering, but he was littering out of a truck
that had the Elvis Durand show logo on it, and
he used to pee and windshow wiper fluid bottles and
(10:14):
throw him out the window. And then he would have
to call into the hotline, and I would answer the
phone and have to get him ready to be on
the air. And half the time I have to tell
him what was going on because he was listening to
Howard in the van and he was listening to our show.
Howard was exciting. I asked me if I missed those days,
I really wonder how you lasted this long. I have
(10:36):
no idea myself, but here's my question. May ask a question. Yeah,
then we have to talk about how Brody worked here
for over a year for free. Is it easier now
or harder now? Because there's it is such a different landscape.
There are more people on the show. There were in
more cities. There's more to be aware of. It's about
the same, it's a it's a different show. Different for me,
(10:57):
It's easy. It's always been easy because I never really
did anything. I just kind of show up and everyone
else does the work and I go home. You know,
when we first started the show, it was Elvis and
Elliott in the morning, and Elliott had all the morning
show producer experience, so he basically set up the skeleton
for the show every day, and so I would just
kind of tag along. And then when he left, I
had to like step up to the plate and we
(11:17):
had to sink or swim. And I decided to do
the show a certain way and it worked. I actually
made some decisions for a while and it worked. But
now you know, I just say yes or no, have
an opinion, and go home. It's easy. And I used
to book the guests, all the guests for the show
back then, right, and I remember Elvin's he he didn't
want anybody on the show, and Elliott wanted everybody. He
(11:38):
would have people on this show that did the dumbest
ship and we were like, why did we book them?
Because Elliott wanted them. He he just wanted, like go
to some of the weird guests. They would just dumb,
like a foot doctor would be on for no reason,
like just dumb stuff. But we would have like five
guests in one day because he wanted all these games.
I hated it, and I would be at home. We
(12:00):
sent car service at the time, so I would be home.
And this was the time where you didn't have your
your emails on your phone and your everything on your phone,
so I would be in the middle of the night,
my phone would ring and it would be somebody who
needed a car service book or I would be shopping
and I'd have to go to a pay phone to
make sure that the car service was confirmed for tomorrow.
It was crazy. For Daniel, It's it was more difficult him.
(12:21):
So Brody was hired to work on our show as
a writer, and uh, we didn't have a budget. I
wouldn't use the word hired. As a matter of fact,
it was Elliott that brought David on board. I didn't
like David Brody. I didn't want him here. I had
no That is actually true. I had no I had
no use for you for me on the show. You
were here for Elliott. Well, the funny thing that you
(12:42):
say that, because the reason I'm here and the reason
I kept coming in the morning is because of you,
even though you may not. Yeah. So the short story
is I I had been writing song parodies for radio
stations around the country, and I thought, I listened to
Elvis and Elliott, they play parodies, I'm gonna send them
a cassette, And so I sent a cassette and I
left a voicemail message on Elliott's voicemail and I said, hey,
(13:05):
love the show. I love to add to the show.
Called me back. He called me the next day. Scary
called me two days later and wanted a demo. I
put it together. They said, come hang out in the studio.
They said, just stand in the corner. Don't talk. Elvis
doesn't like anyone talking in his studio. They scared me,
They said, don't just stand in the corner. So I
stood in the corner. Elvis saw me in the morning.
(13:27):
That's where you got your name. Yeah, guy in the
corner in the corner. So Elvis saw me in the morning,
came in a Scary studio. He says, oh, Brody, yeah,
we love the parodies you've been sending. Again, great work.
And then he walked out and I was like, he
seems really nice, and Scary goes, don't be fooled. Don't
talk in his studio. So I sat in the corner
and I I just listened to the show. And at
the time, I was writing jokes for Jay Leno. So
(13:48):
I was scribbling on a napkin some jokes and uh,
Elvis looked over and goes, Brodie, what are you doing
over there? And I was afraid to talk because he
they said, don't talk. I said, I'd straight and jokes
for Jay Leno. He says, let me let me see those.
And he looks it and he goes, looks at Elliot,
gives it Talliot and hell, he looks and he goes,
that's funny. He goes, all right, Brodie, you're gonna stay
in my studio. Get him scrap paper right now. You
write jokes for me while you're here. Right. He got
(14:09):
paid in scrap paper. We had no money for it.
So you worked for us for over a year here
in four months with the wife and kids. Yeah, my
wife said, this is what you love. Quit your job.
I'll support And before before Brody got to uh come
into the studio, the very first time that one of
his parodies aired was long before that, and it was
it was about the Green Bay Packers in the Super Bowl.
(14:32):
I'm liking the pack That was the name of the song.
I like it like that for a whole year with
that getting paid Now now, Garrett, we were doing a
promotion at Rab's Country Lanes, the bowling Alley on Staten Island,
and this little mousie kid came up to me and said, hey, mr,
I'm gonna come work for you. I said, oh, what's
your name? My name is Garrett, And I said, well,
(14:52):
how old you Garrett? He said, I want to be
an intern. And said, well how old are you? He said,
I'm in high school. I said, well, when you're in college,
you call me and you can come in turn on
our show. Took a picture with you. I thought it
was the coolest thing ever. I mean, it was on
the level of meeting Michael Jordan's Derek Jeter all. I
took the picture to high school. I went to an
all boys high school. I got made fun of so
(15:13):
hard because the station of choice. No, not at all
for high school boys. Yeah, not at all, but it was.
It was great. And that following summer after I met
you Elvis, I got to come hang out and just
watched the show as a as a fan, which was awesome.
And then I was going to prom out in Long Island.
Uh And as I'm sitting in traffic, there was traffic
(15:35):
because someone got pulled over. You know who got pulled over.
He was sitting in his green jeep was Greg t
And I noticed it because I just met Greg Tea
and he was getting pulled over by the cops. Underneath
the Arizona Bridge. Small little world here connect the teach
and every one of you. So there you go, a
little bit of the history of our show, Bethany, I
love that. Just a little bit, and we're still here.
A brief history. We're here twenty one years later, fifteen
(16:00):
in the Morning Show
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(01:04):
on your on your podcasts show, Well, welcome to the podcast.
It is fifteen minutes more. It's a bonus. It's a
bonus on top of what we already did. Around the
table is Bethany, and there's Scary, and there's Dave Brody,
(01:29):
and there's Danielle. You know what other than Great Tea
and no other than Great Team, Scotty B not in
the room. This is the other than Bethany, the original
cast from twenty one years ago. All right, so, in
other words, has nothing to do with the original cast. Okay,
So if you took out Bethany and you brought in
Great Tea and Scotty B. This is our original twenty
(01:50):
one year old family. They're both here. You want to
bring them in or should we leave the mouth of
the room. You know, this would be a great an
opportunity for Bethany to ask us questions about our only
one years on the show? Do you hold on? Remember
the old studios where we used to throw food in
the back? What was that? What was that called videos? Videos?
(02:15):
We throw food in the back and they would video
it and then they'd have a huge party where we
would watch the video where Garrett has joined us. So
now it's not it's you have to leave. No, he
does not stop it alright, one, But Garrett has been
with the show since the very beginning, because he was
listening to us since the very beginning. He's not really
like old, You're like an outside old of the show.
(02:36):
But what I'm saying is we can let Bethany ask
us questions about our history, because even though Garrett hasn't
been with the show for twenty one years, he's been
a part of our show for it. Yeah, nineteen of them. Yeah,
so great, tea. What do you think the theme of
our show is today? I don't know. It's a lot
of people here, but what a most of the people
(02:56):
in this room have in common. Everybody's on the morning
showd Good Start, Good Start. I guess we're a big family. Well,
everyone who's been here for the entire twenty one years
is in this room. Yes, there we go together. And
Garrett has been listening for twenty one He's been with
the show almost twenty one years, since he was a baby. Cool.
He grew up on the show, so Beth and he's
(03:18):
really the only new schooler. Scotty b you've been here
for all twenty one years. All right, so go ahead
ask us questions about our twenty one years in services.
You remember the first time you met Danielle? Yes, I do.
Where daniel do you? I remember he was wasted. Where
was the first time you met Danielle? I think we
had met before, but I think the first time it
really registered with me was it was called the Madonna
(03:41):
Um Bedtime Betime Webster Hall, the Bedtime Story Show where
she had her album Bedtime Story and she read Bedtime
Stories on a bed. And I'm at daniel backstage and
had underwear on my head, and it was like handshake, Hi,
I'm Danielle High and Elvin No he said, yeah, the
cover up you and I go what? Yes? Okay. It
(04:03):
wasn't quite like well I got one? What about Scary
and Gregg t they're best friends? When you guys remember
the first day you guys met? Yes, I was already
working here. I was answering the phones for Elvis show
when he was on in the afternoon, and we had
these phone requesting banks where you actually people would call
into a phone number and I would sit there and say,
(04:23):
hi's one hundred, what song would you like to hear?
And can I date you? And all of a sudden,
Greg T is being escorted by the music director of
ZE one hundred. At the time, Greg T is wearing
a three piece suit with a double breasted jacket and
the vest and a vest, and I'm like, what the
hell is this guy? He would yeah, yeah, and he said,
(04:44):
this is Greg T. This is Greg at the time,
and he were just showing him around. You know, he's
being interviewed today, and that was your first day. Well,
you know, Mom always said, if you're gonna go for
an interview, you gotta try to make the best first
impression possible. Let's talk about how different our lives would be,
including you, Bethany, if Greg Tea had not been hired
that day, or if Scary hadn't been hired that day,
(05:06):
how different this whole world would be for us. Yeah,
it's true, it's uh yeah, I can't. I actually can't
imagine the show without you guys, without any like one person. Now,
Scotty is the most quiet on the show because he
does a lot of the producing, producing for the Z
one side. So you're not on the show a whole lot, right, So,
but you've been here as long as as the Core,
(05:29):
the Core family, that's right, since day one. So what
are your thoughts about being twenty one years on this show? Well,
I gotta be honest. I mean, I worked with Greg
t for probably eighteen of them. Give us your thoughts
and let's talk about what you did a great tea,
because that's a fascinating story. Yes it is. Well, I
mean it's first of all, it's amazing that we have
all been together for so long. It's just it's incredible
(05:51):
to me. I mean, there's no profession where people are
in the same you know, company for so long, let
alone all with the same people. And I think that's
the best part about it, because we truly are a family.
We like most of each other for most part, you know,
I like you guys. We spend more, we really spend
more time with each other than we do with with
our actual families. You know, usually it's true our blood families. Yeah.
(06:13):
Well is now, I'm assuming you've brought everybody in here
to fire one of them. So if you had to
fire one person, you have to contractually obligated. If you
as to fire one person from the original cast, who
would you fire? I wouldn't. I can't answer that fed them.
I think we'd be fired already if you think about it.
He fired all the other ones. Give him a break.
(06:36):
So anyway, so Greg T used to be the quote
unquote street guy. We can I tell you the first
time I met you. You know how many stories can
we start at once? Well, I just want to but
I wanted to tell you it was so cool because
you know what, I don't know if everybody knows, you know,
I grew up, you know, fan girling over you because
you were doing the afternoon the portion of the radio station.
(06:57):
So you used to do this really cool thing on
fry Days where you launched everybody into the weekend. And
as a kid growing up, like I never heard anybody
do that kind of radio on Fridays. It was so cool.
So like when I got my driver's license, the first
thing I did on a Friday, my very first Friday
at age seventeen, was I got into the car and
I went and I sat in rush at rush hour
(07:19):
traffic on the highway so that I could crank it
up and listen to you launched us into the weekend.
And I wanted to look around and be like, Wow,
I'm driving a car, I'm in rush hour on Friday,
Like it was so cool. So going to the radio
station and like, remember they had a little peep hole
that you can look in the window and see the
DJ inside the booth. Like I remember looking at you
and I'm like, wow, that's the Elvis Durana right there.
(07:42):
Like I couldn't believe, like my eyes because you know,
as a as a person listening, you only could imagine
what the DJ looks like. So to actually go in
and see you and I'm like, what's it was so cool.
And then so then when I found out that you
were doing in the morning show and that you were
gonna be the head of the morning show and then
I could work with you, I was like, wow, somebody
pinched me, Like this is super freaking cool. So that's
(08:05):
my little he wishes he never came. He wishes never
admit me that that was a long time ago ago.
So great Tea used to be the street guy. Every day.
He would have to go to the streets of New
York or or the suburban parts of New York City
and do things like stunts like roll down hills in
in in bubble rap or you know breaking Yeah, we're
(08:27):
breaking into Martha Stewart's house or whatever every day. So
we didn't trust him to drive himself because he well,
he couldn't. He didn't know how to do He didn't
know how to maneuver streets. And you know what else
else When we first Hurtle on the show, no one
really cared. And all of a sudden, as we got
bigger and bigger and more popular, a lot of people,
right Scotty, people would come out all the time. So
(08:47):
he was our ambassador on the streets. Because we were
only a New York radio show. He was our ambassador
on the streets. So Scotty was his on his producer
slash driver. There was bailor out of jail on many occasions.
You actually bailed me out four times, four times. You
two have like a different relationship than I think anybody
else on the show because you have all of that
time spent in cars. Scotty would drive him everywhere bettany
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and he would sleep, sleep, he would sleep, He would
sleep the entire time. He would wake up and do
his bit and go back to sleep. He wake up
and throw trash out the window. Well it started it
started going south at one time when he threw garbage
out the window, and I jammed on the brakes because
he never wore his seat belt either, and his head
hit the dash board, so he punched me. He punched me.
I got out in the middle of the street and
I walked back and I just left. It was the
(09:29):
beginning of the end. Yeah, it was. It really was
that the protein. That was the Yeah he was That's
when I was going to the gym. I was all
hyped up in all kinds of men were popping, stackers
were stopping. Remember he bought the drugs out of some
guy's trunk in his neighborhood. Has worked together all during
the nineties when like f DA rules were very loose
about various vitamins and minerals, right, and they were that
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day one of those months. Well, anyway, it was a
very dysfunctional relationship between Scotty and Great Teeth. Great Team
was just an asshole. You really were. You would you
would throw garbage onto the street and litterally, and of
course we had Not only was it bad enough he
was littering, but he was littering out of a truck
that had the Elvis Durand show logo on it, and
he used to pee and windshow wiper fluid bottles and
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throw him out the window. And then he would have
to call into the hotline, and I would answer the
phone and have to get him ready to be on
the air. And half the time I have to tell
him what was going on because he was listening to
Howard in the van and he was listening to our show.
Howard was exciting. I asked me if I missed those days,
I really wonder how you lasted this long. I have
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no idea myself, but here's my question. May ask a question. Yeah,
then we have to talk about how Brody worked here
for over a year for free. Is it easier now
or harder now? Because there's it is such a different landscape.
There are more people on the show. There were in
more cities. There's more to be aware of. It's about
the same, it's a it's a different show. Different for me,
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It's easy. It's always been easy because I never really
did anything. I just kind of show up and everyone
else does the work and I go home. You know,
when we first started the show, it was Elvis and
Elliott in the morning, and Elliott had all the morning
show producer experience, so he basically set up the skeleton
for the show every day, and so I would just
kind of tag along. And then when he left, I
had to like step up to the plate and we
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had to sink or swim. And I decided to do
the show a certain way and it worked. I actually
made some decisions for a while and it worked. But
now you know, I just say yes or no, have
an opinion, and go home. It's easy. And I used
to book the guests, all the guests for the show
back then, right, and I remember Elvin's he he didn't
want anybody on the show, and Elliott wanted everybody. He
(11:38):
would have people on this show that did the dumbest
ship and we were like, why did we book them?
Because Elliott wanted them. He he just wanted, like go
to some of the weird guests. They would just dumb,
like a foot doctor would be on for no reason,
like just dumb stuff. But we would have like five
guests in one day because he wanted all these games.
I hated it, and I would be at home. We
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sent car service at the time, so I would be home.
And this was the time where you didn't have your
your emails on your phone and your everything on your phone,
so I would be in the middle of the night,
my phone would ring and it would be somebody who
needed a car service book or I would be shopping
and I'd have to go to a pay phone to
make sure that the car service was confirmed for tomorrow.
It was crazy. For Daniel, It's it was more difficult him.
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So Brody was hired to work on our show as
a writer, and uh, we didn't have a budget. I
wouldn't use the word hired. As a matter of fact,
it was Elliott that brought David on board. I didn't
like David Brody. I didn't want him here. I had
no That is actually true. I had no I had
no use for you for me on the show. You
were here for Elliott. Well, the funny thing that you
(12:42):
say that, because the reason I'm here and the reason
I kept coming in the morning is because of you,
even though you may not. Yeah. So the short story
is I I had been writing song parodies for radio
stations around the country, and I thought, I listened to
Elvis and Elliott, they play parodies, I'm gonna send them
a cassette, And so I sent a cassette and I
left a voicemail message on Elliott's voicemail and I said, hey,
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love the show. I love to add to the show.
Called me back. He called me the next day. Scary
called me two days later and wanted a demo. I
put it together. They said, come hang out in the studio.
They said, just stand in the corner. Don't talk. Elvis
doesn't like anyone talking in his studio. They scared me,
They said, don't just stand in the corner. So I
stood in the corner. Elvis saw me in the morning.
(13:27):
That's where you got your name. Yeah, guy in the
corner in the corner. So Elvis saw me in the morning,
came in a Scary studio. He says, oh, Brody, yeah,
we love the parodies you've been sending. Again, great work.
And then he walked out and I was like, he
seems really nice, and Scary goes, don't be fooled. Don't
talk in his studio. So I sat in the corner
and I I just listened to the show. And at
the time, I was writing jokes for Jay Leno. So
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I was scribbling on a napkin some jokes and uh,
Elvis looked over and goes, Brodie, what are you doing
over there? And I was afraid to talk because he
they said, don't talk. I said, I'd straight and jokes
for Jay Leno. He says, let me let me see those.
And he looks it and he goes, looks at Elliot,
gives it Talliot and hell, he looks and he goes,
that's funny. He goes, all right, Brodie, you're gonna stay
in my studio. Get him scrap paper right now. You
write jokes for me while you're here. Right. He got
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paid in scrap paper. We had no money for it.
So you worked for us for over a year here
in four months with the wife and kids. Yeah, my
wife said, this is what you love. Quit your job.
I'll support And before before Brody got to uh come
into the studio, the very first time that one of
his parodies aired was long before that, and it was
it was about the Green Bay Packers in the Super Bowl.
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I'm liking the pack That was the name of the song.
I like it like that for a whole year with
that getting paid Now now, Garrett, we were doing a
promotion at Rab's Country Lanes, the bowling Alley on Staten Island,
and this little mousie kid came up to me and said, hey, mr,
I'm gonna come work for you. I said, oh, what's
your name? My name is Garrett, And I said, well,
(14:52):
how old you Garrett? He said, I want to be
an intern. And said, well how old are you? He said,
I'm in high school. I said, well, when you're in college,
you call me and you can come in turn on
our show. Took a picture with you. I thought it
was the coolest thing ever. I mean, it was on
the level of meeting Michael Jordan's Derek Jeter all. I
took the picture to high school. I went to an
all boys high school. I got made fun of so
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hard because the station of choice. No, not at all
for high school boys. Yeah, not at all, but it was.
It was great. And that following summer after I met
you Elvis, I got to come hang out and just
watched the show as a as a fan, which was awesome.
And then I was going to prom out in Long Island.
Uh And as I'm sitting in traffic, there was traffic
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because someone got pulled over. You know who got pulled over.
He was sitting in his green jeep was Greg t
And I noticed it because I just met Greg Tea
and he was getting pulled over by the cops. Underneath
the Arizona Bridge. Small little world here connect the teach
and every one of you. So there you go, a
little bit of the history of our show, Bethany, I
love that. Just a little bit, and we're still here.
A brief history. We're here twenty one years later, fifteen
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