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July 26, 2024 15 mins
In this special episode of the Smarticle Podcast, the team celebrates Larry's last day in radio after a remarkable 20-year career. Friends, family, and colleagues come together to share heartfelt stories, laugh over fond memories, and roast Larry with love. From humorous tales about radio mishaps to touching tributes, this episode captures the essence of Larry’s impact on those around him. Tune in for a mixture of laughs, nostalgia, and a bit of trivia as Larry embarks on a new chapter in his life.   00:00 Introduction and Special Announcement 00:40 Larry's Last Day Reflections 01:06 Surprise Office Visit 02:02 Farewell Messages and Memories 04:01 Larry's Radio Career Highlights 10:11 Trivia and Fun Moments 13:06 Final Words and Goodbyes   SF to vote on $390M infrastructure bond, police pay increas   smarticlepodcast@gmail.com  

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(00:17):
Welcome to the Smarticle Podcast.
This is a very special episode today.
This is Larry's last day in radio.
We normally do our God talk Fridayson Friday, but I thought after 20
years that we should give Larrythe good send off that he deserves.
We're going to stillkeep doing the podcast.
So don't worry about that, but youwill not be able to hear Larry giving
the drive time report any longer.

(00:39):
So on with the show.
Wow.
This.
Yeah, we're doing this.
This is your last day recording.
I was just telling a story about how youblame me for when you puked all over your
comforter and walked through class andtold Karen that it was my fault after
you stole silverware from my house.
I am speechless.
I was not expecting this.
I don't think I'm ever surprised.
Surprise.

(01:00):
Wow.
Oh my God.
And by the way, this isgoing out tomorrow, Lawrence.
Um, my, my kid, everybodyjust visited me in the office.
The Karen surprised me withall the kids and everybody and
like it's such a delicate weirdlike honestly It's so weird.
My boss was so weird to my kids andKaren's like this is so it's like so

(01:21):
weird There's like beyond weird today.
It's like a last day at the Elks LodgeIt's like being at the Elks Lodge Well,
Larry welcome to the smarticle podcastthis is your last day at Elks Lodge The
company after 22 years and literallyevery, every day this week, you've
basically almost started weeping on me.
And I was like, Hey, you know,there are people that actually

(01:43):
care about you, Lawrence.
And so I decided to text yourwife who, by the way, did not
know it was your last day.
She's like, what?
She's like, I better, I would say,Hey, you think we could do a call
with everybody that, that matters.
And so everybody that'shere pulled it together.
Literally there were meetings scheduled.
Golf was in the golf simulator.
With his headset on making deals andhe jumped off to get on this call So I

(02:07):
wanted to talk a little bit about youLarry You're gonna have a chance to
reminisce on your time and go for it.
Hold on, you know, this is great EverybodyI love is here except for our biggest fan
my 87 year old mom, but go ahead Brandonscrew my mom What did I what did I say?
What did I say?
I would have brought Pat on I actuallythought about it, but I was afraid
that I would have to spend an hourtrying to teach her how to use the

(02:28):
internet Good point So, Pat, hey, we'resorry you're not here for the show,
but we know you're here in spirit.
Larry's Frosted Tipsare looking really good.
You got a Guy Fieri lookgoing for you today, buddy.
It's solid.
Okay, wow.
How do we start this?
There's so many peopleI love on this call.
I think we're just going to pitch it in.
Anybody want to start with Listen,the deal, the reason we're doing

(02:51):
this Larry is because we love you.
We appreciate you.
We know it's the last day after80 years in the radio business.
I believe you started back when itwas run by insurance companies in
the Midwest and giant radio towers.
And this is it.
Now you're about ready to go be theassless chaps sheriff of San Francisco.
So, Larry, Larry's going to hisfirst day at work wearing like

(03:11):
one of those gay cowboy outfits.
That's how he's rockingin on the first day.
But with a little cowboy hat,like the little blue one.
Big belt buckle, tiny cowboy hat.
So, Anybody want to start?
Anybody feel led tostart to, to talk to you?
Led!
I loved it!
I love that, you see that?
I used that on purpose!

(03:31):
Anybody feel led by the Spirit?
Hold on, does anybody mean tolead the lead with a prayer
of J Bez as we get started?
Can we, anybody?
Who's got a testimony?
Yeah!
God!
Do we cannot have yourterritory expanded, Larry?
Your territory is already a littleThis is a normal God Talk Friday.
This is gonna air tomorrow,Larry, on God Talk Friday.
So, technically this is a God Talk Friday.

(03:52):
I have an unspoken prayer request, Larry.
Two unspokens.
Two unspokens and a praise.
Larry, real question.
Are you over in the studios?
At iHeartRadio, iHeartMedia.
I am currently in iHeartMedia for thelast time, for the last 90 minutes.
Well, listen then, I just want tooffer a tribute story to you in

(04:14):
the actual place where you are.
You are creative, you are innovative,you think outside the box, and the
way I most see that encapsulatedUh, is in your creative expression
at iHeartRadio over 20 years.
I would like for the first timeever to announce publicly that
Larry is in fact the author andcreator of No Flush Fridays.

(04:41):
He would go to the second floor and gointo the stall and would take a deuce
and then would clean himself up andsave the toilet paper and go flush it in
another stall and not flush the first one.
So he would just leave a floater behindon the, not even on his floor, on the
other people's floor in the studio.

(05:02):
So for the tens and tensof followers of this show.
Who are associated with iHeartMedia.
It was Larry Olsen for 20 years.
In the men's room, on the secondfloor, with the lead pipe.
I don't know why it makes me giggleso much thinking that DJ Lex was gonna

(05:23):
walk into the stall for his regularat 7 and just see my giant poo.
I don't know why thatmakes me laugh so much.
Just crawl around the bowl.
Yeah, exactly.
Soft serving.
It's like, why is that so funny?
Why is that so funny?
Did you ever reveal this to DJ Lex?
I didn't, but I feel sobad every time I see him.

(05:48):
You're gonna have to tag DJ Lex, likeTwitter X, TikTok, FaceTime, you're gonna
tag him in the show notes on this one.
DJ Lex, best deuces for you.
I mean, Larry, you were so committed,you were so faithful to that joke.
Weekly, for over, I mean, for decades.

(06:11):
I can't believe your commitment.
You are such a committed,faithful, loyal man.
Okay, and I just want to double down onthat because we moved to a new building
where they got the, they got the laserso that when your butt comes off the
seat like you, it automatically flushes.
I put, I would cover over the laserfor the first, I covered over the laser

(06:33):
so you could still get to know us.
Through technical advancements.
Any advancement tape has lots of uses.
In the annals of iHeartMedia, thestory, the mystery of the secret
shitter has been floating out thereliterally and proverbially for the last
20 years and it's finally been outed.

(06:54):
You're like, who shot, who shot JFK dude?
We've just, your brother inlaw just outed you on the show.
What are they going to do, fire me?
What are they going to do?
This is the grassy knoll moment.
This is it right here.
Hey Doble, I've got afavorite radio moment.
Alright.
Alright.
I was waking up, half awake.
I hear Olsen's voice doing the traffic.

(07:15):
And in a super, like, highlyenunciated, uh, tone, he says that a
box truck had jackknifed on the 80.
Now, I don't think box trucks jackknife.
And also you're not allowedto say the 80 in the Bay Area.
That's an LA thing.

(07:38):
Everything was going wrong, but Ijust love that that little moment
right there when he's talking aboutthis box truck jackknifing on the 80.
You know, did you like, do you likethat more or being out with me in
public when we're ordering food?
You're like, Hey, myfriend's a big time radio DJ.
What do you like more?
I got a celebrity.
This is my celebrity friend.

(08:00):
Not celebrity.
Larry does butcher at least 10words a show or he'll, he'll say
something that I'm like, Whoa,that, what does that word even mean?
I think we know what you're trying to say.
But anybody else have one aboutLarry Olson and his radio career?
Yeah, I want to say, um, Larry,Ryan Seacrest can just suck it.

(08:25):
I really wish that the entire worldgot to enjoy you in the way that they
have followed Ryan Seacrest's career.
Because if people, I just really, I'mso grateful that we get to see you
and I do think of there are a lot ofpeople on planet earth who just really,

(08:47):
really see you, but you are so special.
And, um, I.
I know you've compared yourself to Mr.
Seacrest over the years,and you're just far more.
You're just far more than him.
Far more than he could ever be.
Way more plastic surgery.
This is, honestly, this islike the warm and friendly

(09:08):
version of the Tom Brady roast.
It's like the cuddleversion of the Tom Brady.
So much better.
Kelly, you're the best!
I can't believe it!
That Ryan Seacrest, he doesn'thave a spitzer like you.
He's got nothing except lots of money.
Other than Maddie's!
Hey, I know this show is about articles,and the article I'd like to submit

(09:28):
for this podcast is, uh, the Axios.
Article from this morning whereLondon Breed says she's increasing
officers salaries to $400,000 Olston.
I'm not voting for it the right time.
I'm not voting for it.
You love London Breed.
As of today.
I'm not voting for it.
You're gonna be suckling at that SanFrancisco government very soon, Larry, and

(09:51):
it is gonna be Golden and London Breed.
It's a picture of LondonBreed suckling you.
I don't know if you know this,if you've seen my new, uh, uh,
signature, but it's Blue Lives Matter.
I'm very pro Blue Lives now.
I don't know if you know this.
Yeah, man.
Thin blue line, baby.
You are, you are for sale.
That's for sure.
Dude.
Thin blue line.

(10:11):
Larry, I know, uh, I knowwhat a huge LPGA fan you are.
So I, I, I've got a, I got a smalllittle trivia, uh, if it feels
like something that you do, becauseI know you're a big trivia guy.
Yeah, you're definitely, uh.
Paul Trudeau's place, uh, youknow, once a week doing trivia.
So my question is, I got five names.
You tell me if it's an LPGAplayer or somebody else.

(10:33):
Okay.
All right.
Uh, first name, Yuka Sasso.
Yuka Sasso is an LPGA player.
Yes.
She's number two on the money list.
Yeah.
Katie Britt.
Katie Britt is not an LPGA player.
That's correct.
She's a Senator from Alabama.
What about Kathleen Rubens?
Kathleen Rubens is not an LPGA player.
That's very good.

(10:54):
She's an astronaut.
What about Allie Ewing?
Allie Ewing is not an LPGA player.
She's number four on the money list.
Wise ass guests.
What about Maddie?
Maddie Fredrickson.
Maddie Fredrickson is a good one.
If you would have said a Koreanname, I would have gone with,
she is, but Maddie Fredrickson.

(11:16):
He's not an LPGA player.
That's right.
She's the Prime Minister of Denmark.
Very good.
Very good.
You know what?
Four out of five.
That was well done.
Uh, Mr.
Olsen, I say this to you all thetime, but like, you're one of my
favorite people, and you're probablythe only person on the planet that
I am 100 percent comfortable with.
Like, I have to pull exactlyzero punches when we hang out,

(11:38):
and that makes me so happy.
Uh, so I'm stoked for this new,uh, this new period of life, man.
This is a dumb jam.
Can I say, with the exact oppositeof this, that when we're hanging
out together, I'm so glad that thoseconversations are not recorded?
Ha ha ha!
Exactly!
Ha ha ha!
That's maybe a little inappropriate.
Wait, is Kirk in thekick and the balls group?

(12:00):
Of course, okay.
Yeah.
Oh, you have a ball massager whenit comes to Olsen Yeah, that's true.
It's a gentle.
It's a gentle tickling thatgoes on between the two of them.
It's more sensitive and touchingevery person on this Every person on
this call today, uh, we know that Ithink the golden boy listens, but the
rest of you, Goltz listened like twoyears ago, but nobody else listened.

(12:22):
And that's okay.
But every person that's on this callhas been named dropped by Larry Olsen.
I don't know if you guys know that,but Larry is the king of the name.
He's like, yeah, Goltz.
I'm like, dude, no one knowswho Goltz is other than you.
And he's like, well, KirkPeterson was playing golf with me.
I'm like, Dude, you can'tname drop somebody like that.
Larry's the king of the namedroppers, but I will say this.

(12:43):
If Keira Swisher can namedrop, Olsen can name drop.
Oh, that's true.
That's true.
Well, I It doesn't matterif nobody knows us.
We do a 15 minute show, and we're doing15 minutes today, Larry, with really 13.
You know why we do 13?
Because Larry Olsen believes that peoplecan only pay attention for 13 minutes.
I can only pay attention for 13 minutes.

(13:04):
I can only pay attention.
So, any last words from folks?
Oh, I got my last word.
Alright, here's my last one.
I'm gonna give it to you.
My last word is this.
I swear to you, I woke up this morningand I'm like, nobody is gonna care.
I'm gonna go to work, I'm gonna limpout early, and nobody is going to
care that I worked for 30, Threeyears on the radio and I cannot

(13:29):
believe you guys surprised me.
I i'm like i'm overwhelmed.
I want to cry but I don't want to frontcry in front of brandon You did you kind
of got mixed up yesterday I'm, not gonnalie You got a little the best part about
this is this is the first day that larryhasn't put his echo cancellation on You
guys can all hear in the background.
There's like this fuzzy noise.
That's larry That's the professionalbroadcaster that I work with on a daily

(13:52):
basis who cannot figure out how to use anytechnology You Okay, but here's the thing.
So thank you guys.
I'm like just overblown.
Here's my new thing going forward as asheriff my new Wardrobe, I'm going to
buttons when I was I'm no longer buttoningthe top I'm going to so there's my new

(14:12):
style going forward as a sheriff istwo buttons Someone's got to go she's
got busy things Kelly's more important.
My balls is back.
I don't know what happened to myballs, but they're back on the show.
Uh, any last words her balls,but yeah, it's just for a
different Different that's true.
That's a differentthat's a different show.
It's a different show brian.

(14:32):
It's an adult show.
Hey, uh, Anybody, last words for Larry?
I'm glad you were surprised, Larry.
Uh, you and I could stay on the callbecause we actually have to do some
work, but I want to let everybodygo, so I'll stop the recording.
I'm gonna miss.
It was like a cozy little blankethere in Larry on the radio.
I loved it.
I'm gonna miss you on the radio.
So good.
Wow.
Love you all, man.

(14:52):
That's, this is, uh, honestly,this is like the coolest thing.
Thank you so much, man.
I'm not crying because of Brett.
You should cry.
Alright, everybody.
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