May 30, 2025 • 8 mins
Tony is in to review male names and tell us: are they gay?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's today Ryan in the Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
We're getting a little silly in the studio right now
because our good friend Tony just came in and let.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Me tell you behind the scenes what just happened.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Tony's telling us because he travels a lot for work,
but then he also travels for concerts. You just saw
Katie Perry and Vegas. You're gonna go see Gaga and Vegas.
And Bailey turns him and goes, what's it like being
God's favorite?
Speaker 1 (00:21):
And Tony started laughing so hard and goes, I almost
just sparted. He's laughing at Bailly's joke, but he was.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
He almost started laughed because he was laughing at the joke,
and I was like, what is happening right now?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
You know they say like women after they give birth
the lofty, Yeah, I just like fart a lot.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Since you've given birth. Yeah. So anyways, our good buddy
Tony welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
If you're wondering who Tony is, who said he almost
just sparted?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
He is a friend of the show.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I met Tony when I worked at the Minnesota Timberwolves
on their hype squad, the Action Pack.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Tony still works with them. Were you at the playoff games.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Yeah, I was on the one that we won. That
was good. At least you're at that one. Yeah, the
other one's not so much.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
So the season's done with But y'all, are you still
going to do some events with them over the summertime?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Hopefully?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Like we do a lot of parades with mister Crunch.
Crunch will go take us all over Minnesota, will do
parades and do a lot of fun stuff. So hope
to see out the summer at some prates.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Say huh hi.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
But Tony came to me a couple of weeks ago
and was like, I have an idea for the show,
and I go tell me because I don't want to
work you.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
So Tony came up with this idea called is it
a gay name or not? So we're going to play
a fun little game right now.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Tony's going to talk about some male names and he
will tell you why that's a gay name or it
is not.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
All right, what do you got today?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Here we go, gay name or straight name? Everyone in
the room. You tell me. We're guessing. Okay, your guests first,
and then I'll tell you Andy.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
Andy is a straight name, as.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Straightest of straight names, right, Andy is a straight guy.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
He's a baseball player. He's got doe eyes, right.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I think that most of the andys I know do
have doe eyes.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
See he's nice, sweet. Everybody likes Andy. Yeah, what about it?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Andrew though?
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Andrew? Yeah, an get you anytime. It's the full name.
They're just so greedy the whole names. That makes them
a sassy gay Okay Andrew geez. Okay. How about this
name Ross?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
No, I would say it straight because.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
It's like it's like Ross, yeahs.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
It is?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
It is a straight one.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Okay, Ross is gay? You guys? Ross is gay? Okay,
straight people.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
First of all, y'all think brunch is fun and cool
mimosas on Sunday. Gay's invented that his name is Ross. Okay, yes, Brunch.
He is drunk, it's Sunday. He's having a good time.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Is he passed out by three pm?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Orbably? Oh my god? Because he's like all ninety pounds
of him.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
He's skinny.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Okay, that's, you know, very different.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Who I thought Ross was My friend Danielle's boyfriends name
is Ross.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
I should probably tell her, ye let her know. Okay,
this is Tony.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
He's playing a little game called is it a gay
name or a straight name?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
And you can text us.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Into if you would have Tony to say, yeahither you
have a gay or straight name?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Yeah? Can I straight?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I call in and we can woweah fun, Okay, what
Joe jo Joe?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Is Joe so gay?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
No Joseph straight man?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I think Joe's a straight man too, just because it's
so short of a name, because I think, like I
think most Joe's are Joseph's, and it's like Joseph.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
That's how I feel. Whereas it's Joe.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Joe in my mind is like he listens, he's straight.
First of all, let's say he's straight. Joe straight listens
to Metallica, plays the drums.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Joe wee gosh, he's a rack at.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
The saloon he is.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I don't know what he just put in his nose,
but it ain't ain't legal.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
I can tell you that I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
That's the salon.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Yes about Pat?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Pat is so straight.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
I know so many pets who are the straightest dudes ever. Yeah,
Pat straight?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
But Pat for a woman is gay?
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Where is the lie? Where's the lie?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I don't Yeah, you're right, Okay, we do have some
tix coming in. I want you to ask. Someone said,
is Nigel gay?
Speaker 6 (04:52):
No?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I think Nigel's straight, But I think he's like, he's smart, sophisticated.
He would never be out of bri I'm drunk. Oh
my god, my name is Nigel, and I don't do
things like that. Nigel is very smart. He's straight. You're
its Oxford shirts. He has a glass, he has glasses.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Yeah, Nigel is straight.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Okay, right, I love that.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
I mean maybe he could just be a smart gay man.
He could be, because Nigel to me seems like somebody
who would wear very tailored like fashion and be like
a fashion TikTok and he's be like, yeah, my name
is Nigel. And maybe he's like, you know, does the
side ie thing all the time.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
I feel that, I feel that I can feel he.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Okay, So Nigel is We can agree that Nigel's sophisticated.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yes, Nigel's a fluid name.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Nigel is only Nigel Thornberry. To me, I never watched
The Wild thorn Berries.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
That's all I can think of me.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I think Nigel thorn Berry character, he's the dada on
the Wild thorn Berries. Yes, the kid is like a
wild animal. Yes, Okay, we do some people on the phone,
we're gonna ask. It looks like, first up, we have
Steven Steven's on the phone. Steven, are you wondering if
you have a gay or straight name? According to Tony, Yeah, okay,
(06:08):
oh I alred you.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Tell Steven's gay, Steven said. Steven said, uh, yes, I
need to know that.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Stephen.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Are you gay? I'm not not yet, not yet. Day
you were wrong you but you answered, You're like, go ahead,
go ahead.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Oh, I'll just say ninety percent of people pretty much
just assume I'm gay. It's it's not even funny. I
don't know. Growing up, it's I've kind of accepted it
where it's yeah, no I'm not, but most people think
I am. Same Stevens, including my fiance when you first met.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Me, same Stevens.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Yeah, but no, no, not gay.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Well, Steven, embrace that now because everybody loves a gay guy.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Everybody everybody loves a gay guy. So keep going.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
He says he learned that Helen.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Stephen. I'm glad you called it. I think you're an
amazing human being. But you're straight. Sounds good. I love that.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Okay, up next, I'm not going to have him say
anything yet, because I don't want you to hear their voice.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Oh that's good.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
But up next. The person's name is Larry, Larry. What
do you think Larry? Do you think Larry is a
gayer as straight name? And then I'll put him on
the phone.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
All right, I think Larry is straight. I think he's
a plumber. I think he his name is Larry. Larry
is a plumber.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
That is straight.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
He's forty five and he has a beer keg in
his basement and drinks beer like every night.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Larry.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
When's the last time you met at Larry? Like my age?
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Right under thirty exactly.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
All right, we do have Larry on the phone.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Hi, Larry, hy Larry, tell us a little bit about
it yourself.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Are you gay.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
By far?
Speaker 1 (07:49):
No?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Do you fit the stereotype that Tony just said that
you're like a forty five year old man who has
a beer keg in his basement.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
I'm seven, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
So that's close cool slumber than you. It has to
do with water in a home.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
So, and I'm a stoner, not a drug you're.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
ESU stoner.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Yes, I have a question for Larry, Larry, what is
what is Larry short for Larry Old.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
What is that Laurence Lawrence by Lawrence though no, I've
been called Larry ever since I was a baby.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
And he went by Lawrence, he would be.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Larry the Stoner. I love you man. You're a good time.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Oh my gosh, Larry, thanks for calling it, and you
have a great day.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
You you go smoke some more weird all right.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
That's gonna do it for okay name or straight name
with a beautiful friend, Tony. We play that this every
once in a while, so we'll have Tony back in
again soon to play call in if you would like
It's today Ryan in the Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
We're getting a little silly in the studio right now
because our good friend Tony just came in and let.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Me tell you behind the scenes what just happened.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Tony's telling us because he travels a lot for work,
but then he also travels for concerts. You just saw
Katie Perry and Vegas. You're gonna go see Gaga and Vegas.
And Bailey turns him and goes, what's it like being
God's favorite?
Speaker 1 (00:21):
And Tony started laughing so hard and goes, I almost
just sparted. He's laughing at Bailly's joke, but he was.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
He almost started laughed because he was laughing at the joke,
and I was like, what is happening right now?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
You know they say like women after they give birth
the lofty, Yeah, I just like fart a lot.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Since you've given birth. Yeah. So anyways, our good buddy
Tony welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
If you're wondering who Tony is, who said he almost
just sparted?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
He is a friend of the show.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I met Tony when I worked at the Minnesota Timberwolves
on their hype squad, the Action Pack.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Tony still works with them. Were you at the playoff games.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Yeah, I was on the one that we won. That
was good. At least you're at that one. Yeah, the
other one's not so much.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
So the season's done with But y'all, are you still
going to do some events with them over the summertime?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Hopefully?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Like we do a lot of parades with mister Crunch.
Crunch will go take us all over Minnesota, will do
parades and do a lot of fun stuff. So hope
to see out the summer at some prates.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Say huh hi.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
But Tony came to me a couple of weeks ago
and was like, I have an idea for the show,
and I go tell me because I don't want to
work you.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
So Tony came up with this idea called is it
a gay name or not? So we're going to play
a fun little game right now.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Tony's going to talk about some male names and he
will tell you why that's a gay name or it
is not.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
All right, what do you got today?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Here we go, gay name or straight name? Everyone in
the room. You tell me. We're guessing. Okay, your guests first,
and then I'll tell you Andy.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
Andy is a straight name, as.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Straightest of straight names, right, Andy is a straight guy.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
He's a baseball player. He's got doe eyes, right.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I think that most of the andys I know do
have doe eyes.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
See he's nice, sweet. Everybody likes Andy. Yeah, what about it?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Andrew though?
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Andrew? Yeah, an get you anytime. It's the full name.
They're just so greedy the whole names. That makes them
a sassy gay Okay Andrew geez. Okay. How about this
name Ross?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
No, I would say it straight because.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
It's like it's like Ross, yeahs.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
It is?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
It is a straight one.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Okay, Ross is gay? You guys? Ross is gay? Okay,
straight people.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
First of all, y'all think brunch is fun and cool
mimosas on Sunday. Gay's invented that his name is Ross. Okay, yes, Brunch.
He is drunk, it's Sunday. He's having a good time.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Is he passed out by three pm?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Orbably? Oh my god? Because he's like all ninety pounds
of him.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
He's skinny.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Okay, that's, you know, very different.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Who I thought Ross was My friend Danielle's boyfriends name
is Ross.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
I should probably tell her, ye let her know. Okay,
this is Tony.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
He's playing a little game called is it a gay
name or a straight name?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
And you can text us.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Into if you would have Tony to say, yeahither you
have a gay or straight name?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Yeah? Can I straight?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I call in and we can woweah fun, Okay, what
Joe jo Joe?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Is Joe so gay?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
No Joseph straight man?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I think Joe's a straight man too, just because it's
so short of a name, because I think, like I
think most Joe's are Joseph's, and it's like Joseph.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
That's how I feel. Whereas it's Joe.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Joe in my mind is like he listens, he's straight.
First of all, let's say he's straight. Joe straight listens
to Metallica, plays the drums.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Joe wee gosh, he's a rack at.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
The saloon he is.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I don't know what he just put in his nose,
but it ain't ain't legal.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
I can tell you that I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
That's the salon.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Yes about Pat?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Pat is so straight.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
I know so many pets who are the straightest dudes ever. Yeah,
Pat straight?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
But Pat for a woman is gay?
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Where is the lie? Where's the lie?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I don't Yeah, you're right, Okay, we do have some
tix coming in. I want you to ask. Someone said,
is Nigel gay?
Speaker 6 (04:52):
No?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I think Nigel's straight, But I think he's like, he's smart, sophisticated.
He would never be out of bri I'm drunk. Oh
my god, my name is Nigel, and I don't do
things like that. Nigel is very smart. He's straight. You're
its Oxford shirts. He has a glass, he has glasses.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Yeah, Nigel is straight.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Okay, right, I love that.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
I mean maybe he could just be a smart gay man.
He could be, because Nigel to me seems like somebody
who would wear very tailored like fashion and be like
a fashion TikTok and he's be like, yeah, my name
is Nigel. And maybe he's like, you know, does the
side ie thing all the time.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
I feel that, I feel that I can feel he.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Okay, So Nigel is We can agree that Nigel's sophisticated.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yes, Nigel's a fluid name.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Nigel is only Nigel Thornberry. To me, I never watched
The Wild thorn Berries.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
That's all I can think of me.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I think Nigel thorn Berry character, he's the dada on
the Wild thorn Berries. Yes, the kid is like a
wild animal. Yes, Okay, we do some people on the phone,
we're gonna ask. It looks like, first up, we have
Steven Steven's on the phone. Steven, are you wondering if
you have a gay or straight name? According to Tony, Yeah, okay,
(06:08):
oh I alred you.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Tell Steven's gay, Steven said. Steven said, uh, yes, I
need to know that.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Stephen.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Are you gay? I'm not not yet, not yet. Day
you were wrong you but you answered, You're like, go ahead,
go ahead.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Oh, I'll just say ninety percent of people pretty much
just assume I'm gay. It's it's not even funny. I
don't know. Growing up, it's I've kind of accepted it
where it's yeah, no I'm not, but most people think
I am. Same Stevens, including my fiance when you first met.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Me, same Stevens.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Yeah, but no, no, not gay.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Well, Steven, embrace that now because everybody loves a gay guy.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Everybody everybody loves a gay guy. So keep going.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
He says he learned that Helen.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Stephen. I'm glad you called it. I think you're an
amazing human being. But you're straight. Sounds good. I love that.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Okay, up next, I'm not going to have him say
anything yet, because I don't want you to hear their voice.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Oh that's good.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
But up next. The person's name is Larry, Larry. What
do you think Larry? Do you think Larry is a
gayer as straight name? And then I'll put him on
the phone.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
All right, I think Larry is straight. I think he's
a plumber. I think he his name is Larry. Larry
is a plumber.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
That is straight.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
He's forty five and he has a beer keg in
his basement and drinks beer like every night.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Larry.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
When's the last time you met at Larry? Like my age?
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Right under thirty exactly.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
All right, we do have Larry on the phone.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Hi, Larry, hy Larry, tell us a little bit about
it yourself.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Are you gay.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
By far?
Speaker 1 (07:49):
No?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Do you fit the stereotype that Tony just said that
you're like a forty five year old man who has
a beer keg in his basement.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
I'm seven, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
So that's close cool slumber than you. It has to
do with water in a home.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
So, and I'm a stoner, not a drug you're.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
ESU stoner.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Yes, I have a question for Larry, Larry, what is
what is Larry short for Larry Old.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
What is that Laurence Lawrence by Lawrence though no, I've
been called Larry ever since I was a baby.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
And he went by Lawrence, he would be.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Larry the Stoner. I love you man. You're a good time.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Oh my gosh, Larry, thanks for calling it, and you
have a great day.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
You you go smoke some more weird all right.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
That's gonna do it for okay name or straight name
with a beautiful friend, Tony. We play that this every
once in a while, so we'll have Tony back in
again soon to play call in if you would like
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