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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcoming to the show w FSB's I want to get
this right, Roger, is it, Susan.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You're so close Susan and Susanna and you're just covering
Roger Thovi.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Any don't worry, don't worry, Susannan. Okay, So Roger is
with a Channel three eyewitness news. I see here it
says you started there in twenty fifteen. But hold up,
I think I feel like you just got promoted to
mornings like this past year.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yeah, it was as time goes by so quickly, but yeah,
I do mornings. You can see me all the time
basically though. Yeah, but now I'm out running around in
the morning and I'm seeing you at events all of
a sudden, like a celebrity mini golf turn that we played,
yeah this past week. That's how I knew that I
made a big once I was facing off with Pens
on the mini golf court.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Well, you best at us. We allows the showing by
iHeart this year. We did a lot and we were
the reigning champs for like four you. Hey, I carried
my weight. I feel good. I got a hole in one.
Adam Rivers blew it for us.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Oh yeah, Well everybody knows Oudam rivers. I mean he
comes up small, Yeah, a big moment. I mean, I
don't want to hurt. I don't want to I don't
want to nail the guy, but I love it. That's
that's the reputation. But hey, I had a tough beat
though too. So there were two Channel three teams, one
in the morning, one in the afternoon. Okay, the second session,
so in by session we came in second. Not that Yeah,
the second session they replaced me with our morning anchor
(01:25):
Tracy McCain, and they won in that session. So of
course everybody's conclusion was the only problem was Roger. So
that was a tough beat for me, but it was
a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Absolutely, Now, Roger, when I approached you, when I saw
you there and I and I extended my my name
is Vinie'm from iHeart Radio. I talk about you on
my show all the time. You didn't arch and I
brow you didn't say what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Like?
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Why are you talking? Aren't you curious what I talk about?
Like why you would even come up on my silly
little show.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Oh stop a vase. First of all, it's not a
sad little show. I just you know I I did
just say, hey, everything's positive, right, and once you said yes,
and I just said, all right, I can I can roll.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I don't remember that part.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I will ask you, then, why are you always talking
about me on your show? Then I'd love to hear it.
I guess I'm a lightning lot.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
You are you are, But so meeting you in person
was really was really wild. So here's how it goes.
We got three it's a state of the art facility
obviously that the Vidi Penn Project takes place. And we've
got three TV sets. You know, I got each channel
on morning local news, we're live in local and that's
an important thing in this day and age, as you
(02:36):
well know. As a matter of fact. Oh that's right.
You're from Philly. Somebody told me you've been calling Connecticut
home for a while now. But it's important stuff. But
I started noticing you, I feel like, not that long ago,
couple months ago. Every morning the middle set there was
this guy and I started making comments. I'm like that
(02:56):
there's a new guy on WFSB. He looks like he
wants to knock somebody out. He's dead serious in the streets.
That so you became like a running I don't want
to see. But on the show, I'm like, my man
Roger on FSB looks like if somebody interferes with his
shot on the street today, they're going to catch a
(03:17):
right hook to the face.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
That's right, SI, that's very funny.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
So then I look across the mini calf thing and
I text my producer and I'm like, the dude, Roger
from FSB is here, and I've got to report back,
like the biggest smile, the nicest guy, biggest smile. Uh,
you know, man, maybe it's the stories that you're cutting.
You know, all the sets are are muted, and you
(03:43):
were just you were kind of a new face to me,
but you're you're obviously in the middle of some of
our grimmer stories. I think it gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, And you know what I mean, It's the crazy
thing about the morning is you get a little bit
of everything. So you have some mornings where you have
really serious stuff, some really grim stuff to report on,
and then other times you're at travelers kind of goofing
around wearing sunglasses, hanging out. I mean, that's kind of
the fun of the job, is that you never know
what any day is gonna bring Yeah right, I mean
(04:14):
so that that's kind of what it's all about for sure. Yeah,
but no, yeah, that was that was very funny. So
I love that you're always checking the uh monitors out. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Well, and I would say, I'm like, my man looks
like nobody better mess with him today, all right. And
then seeing you in the little mini golf thing, you
were the nicest most Oh, by suppose we were all
on our best behavior that day.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
We were, that's right, you know, I got look the
other cruise. I no messing with rog No, I'm all kidding.
So and you know, sometimes it's funny you get that
mean face going because you don't want someone crashing your
your shot. I know you've experienced when in the stern
days when the the the assault on the media and
all that kind of stuff. So you know, yeah, don't know,
(04:58):
you need business a little bit.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yeah. Yeah. Uh so you're at the you're at the
anchor desk, right, your morning morning anchor.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yep, yep. I congratulations.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Well yeah, I mean that's the gig, right, I mean congratulations.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Yeah, No, it's it's been it's been a lot of fun,
and uh, you never know what each day is gonna bring. Yeah,
it's been great.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
How long have you been living in Connecticut?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Now, I've lived in Connecticut, Vinni, if you can believe
this since twenty fifteen.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Yeah, okay, so when you first you first came over,
you you've stayed over too. Yeah? Yeah, are you existing?
You're exacting all the relationships like does the governor know
you by name? And everybody knows you by name?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
You know what I think the governor does. The governor
is is very good with names and faces, and I've
interviewed enough times. Usually he does. Now well, I always wonder, though,
Vinnie is, like, you know, a guy was the governor,
he's gonna have he's gonna have staffers. So I almost
wonder sometimes if the staffers like, Okay, that's Roger from
Channel four. You know, like because I a buddy that
(06:00):
used to work for Bill Clinton, and he said that
he'd be at these events and he said Clinton was
the greatst names, but he said that he would be
the long line of people would come up and there'd
be two few people next to him, and part of
their job was say that's Tom Smith, He's from Travelers
or whatever. Yeah, So you never you never really know
(06:21):
but I've been around long enough that that he made me.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Nobody needs to tell him my name. He just starts
heading in the wrong in the other direction. I'm going
to tell you, lion. He just starts heading in the
other direction. But again we're on with Roger Susan and
from w FS speak, let's touch on the heat a
little bit before. I know you got to get back
to the desk looks and you know what, Roger, my
(06:47):
Central Air, you know what the bed Saturday night, my
house always only during only during heat waves and massive
losses at mini golf? Does this stuff happened? And my
birthdays tomorrow? So yeah, I'm throwing a huge self pity
party right now.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I heard the poem Vinny, I love the poem.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
By I'm very talented.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
It was very funny and then it was very touching.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
It Yeah it is Roger, you're my man. Put on TV,
you look like what do you do? You have a
problem when you hold bike on TV? You have this
look on your face like what are you looking at?
And it's like, well, yeah, right, you're a TV news anchor.
I'm looking at you.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
That's no. I mean you got the public pools, you
got I'm always where can I go for free?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
You know, I don't. I'm kind of a sheep skin.
I don't want to spell a lot of money. So
I mean, you got the pools, you got the library,
a lot of players, you can go hang out, Remember
to take care of them. Yeah, it's we'll get thrill it.
We'll get thrilled. It's gonna be hot, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah, when does it end?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
So all right? Today is gonna be brutal, Tomorrow is
going to be just as bad, maybe a little bit worse.
And then when is gonna be pretty hot? Too late
in the week. I think will be all right, but
it's probably the next Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday probably be pretty tough.
Oh man.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
And I'm in the thick of it. I don't even
know if I can get an HVAC guy to my
You know, they're probably jamming right now. And I've got we.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Got to send out for you alert. We got to
send out the Vin Penn signal.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
See see if it produces any results, I doubt, although
again I will reiterate, I got a hole in one
during the mini golf. I mean there were not a
lot of holding ones going down.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I gotta get did not. I did not get a
hole in one. That's probably why they're replacement three. That's tough. Yeah,
you'll get ahold one.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
You're out. I love it. But Roger, you're a blast.
I've been wanting to connect with you for a couple
of months and you wound up being a real character.
I hope you'll you'll come back on the show, become
a regular.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Absolutely video, Come on anytime, my friend.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
My man, Let's stay in touch.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Do you soon?
Speaker 1 (08:50):
All right? Everybody a w f sb's own Roger Sussanen
who he I'm glad he got what I would saying
because I would always look up at me like man
looks tip today he winds up being the nicest, nicest
guy in the world, just like people will often say,
look con any pad with a big smile on it,
so he looks like the nicest guy in the world.
(09:10):
And I hate everybody. I hate all of you. So
I mean, you can't judge a book, you truly at
fifty eight, I think it is true you can't judge
a book by its cover.
Welcoming to the show w FSB's I want to get
this right, Roger, is it, Susan.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You're so close Susan and Susanna and you're just covering
Roger Thovi.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Any don't worry, don't worry, Susannan. Okay, So Roger is
with a Channel three eyewitness news. I see here it
says you started there in twenty fifteen. But hold up,
I think I feel like you just got promoted to
mornings like this past year.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yeah, it was as time goes by so quickly, but yeah,
I do mornings. You can see me all the time
basically though. Yeah, but now I'm out running around in
the morning and I'm seeing you at events all of
a sudden, like a celebrity mini golf turn that we played,
yeah this past week. That's how I knew that I
made a big once I was facing off with Pens
on the mini golf court.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Well, you best at us. We allows the showing by
iHeart this year. We did a lot and we were
the reigning champs for like four you. Hey, I carried
my weight. I feel good. I got a hole in one.
Adam Rivers blew it for us.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Oh yeah, Well everybody knows Oudam rivers. I mean he
comes up small, Yeah, a big moment. I mean, I
don't want to hurt. I don't want to I don't
want to nail the guy, but I love it. That's
that's the reputation. But hey, I had a tough beat
though too. So there were two Channel three teams, one
in the morning, one in the afternoon. Okay, the second session,
so in by session we came in second. Not that Yeah,
the second session they replaced me with our morning anchor
(01:25):
Tracy McCain, and they won in that session. So of
course everybody's conclusion was the only problem was Roger. So
that was a tough beat for me, but it was
a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Absolutely, Now, Roger, when I approached you, when I saw
you there and I and I extended my my name
is Vinie'm from iHeart Radio. I talk about you on
my show all the time. You didn't arch and I
brow you didn't say what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Like?
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Why are you talking? Aren't you curious what I talk about?
Like why you would even come up on my silly
little show.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Oh stop a vase. First of all, it's not a
sad little show. I just you know I I did
just say, hey, everything's positive, right, and once you said yes,
and I just said, all right, I can I can roll.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I don't remember that part.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I will ask you, then, why are you always talking
about me on your show? Then I'd love to hear it.
I guess I'm a lightning lot.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
You are you are, But so meeting you in person
was really was really wild. So here's how it goes.
We got three it's a state of the art facility
obviously that the Vidi Penn Project takes place. And we've
got three TV sets. You know, I got each channel
on morning local news, we're live in local and that's
an important thing in this day and age, as you
(02:36):
well know. As a matter of fact. Oh that's right.
You're from Philly. Somebody told me you've been calling Connecticut
home for a while now. But it's important stuff. But
I started noticing you, I feel like, not that long ago,
couple months ago. Every morning the middle set there was
this guy and I started making comments. I'm like that
(02:56):
there's a new guy on WFSB. He looks like he
wants to knock somebody out. He's dead serious in the streets.
That so you became like a running I don't want
to see. But on the show, I'm like, my man
Roger on FSB looks like if somebody interferes with his
shot on the street today, they're going to catch a
(03:17):
right hook to the face.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
That's right, SI, that's very funny.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
So then I look across the mini calf thing and
I text my producer and I'm like, the dude, Roger
from FSB is here, and I've got to report back,
like the biggest smile, the nicest guy, biggest smile. Uh,
you know, man, maybe it's the stories that you're cutting.
You know, all the sets are are muted, and you
(03:43):
were just you were kind of a new face to me,
but you're you're obviously in the middle of some of
our grimmer stories. I think it gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, And you know what I mean, It's the crazy
thing about the morning is you get a little bit
of everything. So you have some mornings where you have
really serious stuff, some really grim stuff to report on,
and then other times you're at travelers kind of goofing
around wearing sunglasses, hanging out. I mean, that's kind of
the fun of the job, is that you never know
what any day is gonna bring Yeah right, I mean
(04:14):
so that that's kind of what it's all about for sure. Yeah,
but no, yeah, that was that was very funny. So
I love that you're always checking the uh monitors out. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Well, and I would say, I'm like, my man looks
like nobody better mess with him today, all right. And
then seeing you in the little mini golf thing, you
were the nicest most Oh, by suppose we were all
on our best behavior that day.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
We were, that's right, you know, I got look the
other cruise. I no messing with rog No, I'm all kidding.
So and you know, sometimes it's funny you get that
mean face going because you don't want someone crashing your
your shot. I know you've experienced when in the stern
days when the the the assault on the media and
all that kind of stuff. So you know, yeah, don't know,
(04:58):
you need business a little bit.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yeah. Yeah. Uh so you're at the you're at the
anchor desk, right, your morning morning anchor.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yep, yep. I congratulations.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Well yeah, I mean that's the gig, right, I mean congratulations.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Yeah, No, it's it's been it's been a lot of fun,
and uh, you never know what each day is gonna bring. Yeah,
it's been great.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
How long have you been living in Connecticut?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Now, I've lived in Connecticut, Vinni, if you can believe
this since twenty fifteen.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Yeah, okay, so when you first you first came over,
you you've stayed over too. Yeah? Yeah, are you existing?
You're exacting all the relationships like does the governor know
you by name? And everybody knows you by name?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
You know what I think the governor does. The governor
is is very good with names and faces, and I've
interviewed enough times. Usually he does. Now well, I always wonder, though,
Vinnie is, like, you know, a guy was the governor,
he's gonna have he's gonna have staffers. So I almost
wonder sometimes if the staffers like, Okay, that's Roger from
Channel four. You know, like because I a buddy that
(06:00):
used to work for Bill Clinton, and he said that
he'd be at these events and he said Clinton was
the greatst names, but he said that he would be
the long line of people would come up and there'd
be two few people next to him, and part of
their job was say that's Tom Smith, He's from Travelers
or whatever. Yeah, So you never you never really know
(06:21):
but I've been around long enough that that he made me.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Nobody needs to tell him my name. He just starts
heading in the wrong in the other direction. I'm going
to tell you, lion. He just starts heading in the
other direction. But again we're on with Roger Susan and
from w FS speak, let's touch on the heat a
little bit before. I know you got to get back
to the desk looks and you know what, Roger, my
(06:47):
Central Air, you know what the bed Saturday night, my
house always only during only during heat waves and massive
losses at mini golf? Does this stuff happened? And my
birthdays tomorrow? So yeah, I'm throwing a huge self pity
party right now.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I heard the poem Vinny, I love the poem.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
By I'm very talented.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
It was very funny and then it was very touching.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
It Yeah it is Roger, you're my man. Put on TV,
you look like what do you do? You have a
problem when you hold bike on TV? You have this
look on your face like what are you looking at?
And it's like, well, yeah, right, you're a TV news anchor.
I'm looking at you.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
That's no. I mean you got the public pools, you
got I'm always where can I go for free?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
You know, I don't. I'm kind of a sheep skin.
I don't want to spell a lot of money. So
I mean, you got the pools, you got the library,
a lot of players, you can go hang out, Remember
to take care of them. Yeah, it's we'll get thrill it.
We'll get thrilled. It's gonna be hot, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah, when does it end?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
So all right? Today is gonna be brutal, Tomorrow is
going to be just as bad, maybe a little bit worse.
And then when is gonna be pretty hot? Too late
in the week. I think will be all right, but
it's probably the next Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday probably be pretty tough.
Oh man.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
And I'm in the thick of it. I don't even
know if I can get an HVAC guy to my
You know, they're probably jamming right now. And I've got we.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Got to send out for you alert. We got to
send out the Vin Penn signal.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
See see if it produces any results, I doubt, although
again I will reiterate, I got a hole in one
during the mini golf. I mean there were not a
lot of holding ones going down.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I gotta get did not. I did not get a
hole in one. That's probably why they're replacement three. That's tough. Yeah,
you'll get ahold one.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
You're out. I love it. But Roger, you're a blast.
I've been wanting to connect with you for a couple
of months and you wound up being a real character.
I hope you'll you'll come back on the show, become
a regular.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Absolutely video, Come on anytime, my friend.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
My man, Let's stay in touch.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Do you soon?
Speaker 1 (08:50):
All right? Everybody a w f sb's own Roger Sussanen
who he I'm glad he got what I would saying
because I would always look up at me like man
looks tip today he winds up being the nicest, nicest
guy in the world, just like people will often say,
look con any pad with a big smile on it,
so he looks like the nicest guy in the world.
(09:10):
And I hate everybody. I hate all of you. So
I mean, you can't judge a book, you truly at
fifty eight, I think it is true you can't judge
a book by its cover.
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