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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, Uh got a chance just a second ago
to me. We're in Chicago. iHeart Studios. What a nice guy.
Adam Kurtz is the uh Colleen of Chicago, Colleen Grant,
our big boss in Detroit, the regional vice president or
regional president. I don't even know what they call these guys.

(00:20):
They got names all the time. They do like these
names sometimes where it makes me think I would like
to have a name, Like I figure this Hall of
Fame thing is really kind of cool. I think that
it now gives me the ability to be able to
be like a little ego maniac. I'm going to get
a little egomaniac right now and I never really feel
like I ever have. But I'm going to ask them
for a title. I want to be the president of

(00:44):
iHeart Mornings. What do you guys think about that? No?

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Does it have a ring to it? But then they're
going to give you more work to do? Right now?
You have a show?

Speaker 1 (00:54):
I want to No, no, no, I want like a I
want a title, though, I want to I want something.
I want something like I want to have like a
business card that I can drop in the fish bowl
at the Olive Garden and get something for it.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
Well, you know what I think you can do is
we have these fancy iHeart signatures on all of our
emails and you need to add should add hall of
Fame winner or Hall of Fame recip?

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, what do you? What do you put on it?
Hall of fame, hall of Fame?

Speaker 4 (01:20):
No, my title is I call myself a certified yepperan.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
D one ye What is it that in uh an
a rob does not like to be.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Called does not like to be called an influencer. She
likes to be called a content creator content.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
I like that. I like that. I'm going to have
a name like that. I got an email yesterday from
two people I had. I got it. I'm going to
be so crazy to say this to you, and I
feel like such an an a hole I was going
to swear. I got an email from the two biggest
bosses at the company yesterday that I didn't even know
what the hell they their titles were, Like, I know,

(01:55):
I knew that they were big bosses.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
You need the name.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yeah, So I got an email from Anne Marie. Is
it lakata l i c ata lakata? Is that how
you were pronouncing?

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Sure?

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Anne Marie Lakata and Bernie Weiss. They are both the
head people here at iHeart. Anne Marie wrote a really
really nice congratulatory email and put her and Bernie on there.
It was really nice, like, congratulations on your induction to
the Radio Hall of Fame. I can only imagine the

(02:29):
hours that you've put in over the years to truly
mark this hallmark moment. The iHeart family is applauding you
from all around the country. Send pics of tomorrow's events.
So obviously they're not coming to this thing. But Bernie
then wrote this is kind of funny. He goes, truly
awesome congrats. I hope that you're getting the award toward

(02:50):
the beginning of the night because the last time I
went to one of those events, it didn't end till
midnight with all the speeches.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
I was like, it starts at six pm.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
I know. I was like, are you kidding me? Midnight?

Speaker 2 (03:02):
I love you.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
I'm planning we're all going to be in a bar
spit faced at midnight, you know what I mean. By
the way, what's that all about.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Our boss, Colleen Grant just texted our group chat and said, hello,
president of iHeart Mornings.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
So you guys.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
I like it. Thank you, Cola, You're the best. I
don't even care if it sticks. I'll put it on
a business card, like I remember. So you want to
so my buddy Brad Yegger's coming tonight. He is, Yes, okay,
Brad Jeger's coming tonight, and Brad have him show you.
This My first job I ever had. I worked for
Jones Inner Cable, which I don't know if we had

(03:39):
Jones Inner Cable ever in Detroit, you know, if there
was ever Jones. But in Chicago area, that was the
cable company. And I worked for the local cable station,
Channel four, which was their channel. And on Channel four,
Gerard Grabowski, who actually does the games for the Chicago
Bulls and the White Sox, he's like the I don't
know if he's like one of the big producers or something.

(04:01):
Gerard Grabowski let me be and he let me title
myself sports director of Channel four. And Brad is bringing
my old business card.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Oh my god, that's so good, asked me.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
How old I was when this was the case. How
old I was eighteen? I just graduated high school. I
just graduated in Meris High School. Was going to go
to Columbia college. It was. I was did it as
an internship. I like basically applied for a job. I
thought when I was applying for a job, they were
going to send me out to do installs, like you know,
go in and be the cable guy going to your
house and putting call. And they basically said, no, we

(04:30):
have we got camera operator jobs. What do you want
to do? I said, I want to be on air.
I want to be in front of the mike. Girard goes,
you are go ahead. I covered high school.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Games and stuff that's amazing, seriously, So.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
I was like, my first opportunity to work.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
Was that the station that covered like the school board
meetings too.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
We did, but I was not the political guy, so
I was so I did all this. I just did
all the high school games. So I would do the
high school games. And it was funny because they wanted
me to do them by myself, and I couldn't figure
out how to do it by myself because I was
not good. I needed to, like, you know, I need
to have people around me. So I asked my buddy
Tom Barry It's dad. So me and and Tom Barrett
Senior would go to these games and we would go

(05:06):
and people watched. It was wild. We would have like
the local Orland Park Palist Park area used to watch us.
So it's pretty cool as a first, first little thing
in broadcasting. So I just want you to know as
a sports director. Now I'm the executive president of Morning Radio.
Thank you, Jay Towers better answered to me, you better
pick up my phone calls.

Speaker 5 (05:24):
Now.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
A couple of times I tried to call, he hasn't
picked up my phone calls.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
Do you what do you get tonight? By the way,
I meant to ask you this. Do you get a
like a jacket like the masters? I don't know, or
do you get a trophy or a plaque or what?

Speaker 1 (05:36):
So I do know this. After the show is over with,
I'm going and you guys are invited to. We'd love
for everybody to go and just see it. They have
a brand new Hall of Fame here Broadcast Television Radio
Hall of Fame in Chicago, and they are unveiling the
radio version of it with all the people that are there,
and they're going to show us what it's gonna be.

(05:57):
And again, when I was at Columbia College, I used
to go to the old radio Hall of Fame and
literally walk in there just to go see it. But
I don't know what they give you if when you
get this, I'm hoping a new car, I don't know,
just or something like that. A house, what do you think?

Speaker 6 (06:11):
Apartment?

Speaker 1 (06:11):
Apartment, a paper place, award like like, if I don't
share it with you, guys, are you going to be passed?

Speaker 4 (06:19):
No?

Speaker 6 (06:19):
You can have your flowers. It's fine. Yeah, everything, it's.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
A million dollars. I'm getting at you. Guys aren't going
to be sharing a room to night. If I get
a million.

Speaker 6 (06:30):
I can imagine what your little trophy is gonna look
like already? Is that is called the trophy? An award? Yeah?
I hope you'll have a Grammy with the little microphone?

Speaker 1 (06:37):
Is that you gonna be?

Speaker 6 (06:38):
That's what I think it's gonna look like.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Well, do me a favor when you take a picture tonight.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Oh my god, call him out? Please?

Speaker 1 (06:44):
Can you? Can you take a picture and have it
be that the picture is at least halfway decent of me?
Beyond lady, come in here. I want you to talk
about this too.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
There needs to be an intervention at this point with
Bianca because she and it is not just me. It
is not just you, it's Lydia, it's Anna Rob. She
only posts ugly photos or videos.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
It's amazing.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
I am convinced she looks good in them. Yeah, but
she is doing us dry.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
She doesn't. She doesn't.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
Every one last night was so I literally Lydia and
I go, we look like trolls, and Bianca looks beautiful.

Speaker 6 (07:27):
It doesn't care. She will take pictures and we'll all
be blinking and she'll look beautiful, so she'll post the photo. Yeah,
I'm not gonna lie.

Speaker 4 (07:34):
This has been one of my biggest struggles and my
flaws about myself. When I take pictures or group pictures,
I only look at myself. I actually don't look at
anybody else. I only see what I look like it
if I like it out.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
But your job is like you no offense to Joe
because I know he's a professional photographer, but you're the
Joe Maroon of our show when you're taking the pictures
for us.

Speaker 4 (07:55):
I know I've so I've done this a couple of
times already. Lydia will call me out and she'll make
me delete post sometimes if she.

Speaker 6 (08:00):
Looks fad in it.

Speaker 4 (08:01):
So yesterday I did ask Lydia and I was like, hey,
can I post this picture? And she's like, why do
it look so bad in it? But she's like, Beka
posted it anyways, So I posted it. I didn't know
you didn't like it. I thought you look cute. I
think they looked good in it.

Speaker 6 (08:13):
Yeah, Ko, you just thought you looked good. Let's be real.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
Here's the other thing she does.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
And I don't know if you notice this, so Bianca,
and you're doing an incredible job, truly. I can't you
know Negate that she edits every single War of the
Roses video that you see on there, Every video comes
from Bianca. Why is it that when the camera is
on me, the clips you choose of me, it's like
me rubbing my nose or I'm applying to yodorant or

(08:41):
I'm like, I go, why do you choose that?

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Like, honestly, because you do have I think you.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
Look bad in it. Anna, Rob was sleeping in one
of them.

Speaker 4 (08:52):
I know, look at how other people are looking in
these videos. I kind of just kind of randomized the
switcher and if you're doing other things, I feel like
people like to.

Speaker 6 (08:59):
See the things. Yeah, okay, let me get the buy
in the scene of what you're doing.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
I was scratching in my ear the other day and
I'm like, oh, yep, it's.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (09:10):
I never had this issue because I've never I'm not
putting in bed clips of myself on the radio, but
I actually make sure I do look I look good.

Speaker 6 (09:17):
That's really bad. I'm so sorry, guys. I'm so sorry.
Even the cover photos. You guys don't even know. No
videos on the cover photos.

Speaker 4 (09:25):
If it's a topic video and you don't find a
good still of yourself, you will put one of me
with a double chin.

Speaker 6 (09:32):
No, I know, I don't do that. Yes, you do.
I think the cover photos are great. The funny thing is,
why does she want me to choke her?

Speaker 1 (09:38):
The funny thing is KP used to do this.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
Oh, I had to have a talk with k K
was the worst.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
Worse at showing at showing the worst pictures of me,
Like I would literally me like there would be me
with my hand scratching my butthole and it would be
like a great picture of KP. You guys, you guys
do have.

Speaker 6 (09:57):
Can we look at this?

Speaker 1 (09:58):
You know what I'm gonna do now that I can
control the sound, I'm gonna turn your mic halfway down,
so you can't. Are you there? Are you? Okay? I'm
going on go ahead.

Speaker 6 (10:06):
Look at this. This doesn't look bad. This looks cute.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
Anna's listening. Anna's listening and she's sending pictures. Yes, okay,
Well why is Anna sleeping?

Speaker 6 (10:17):
That's not my problem?

Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yeah? Why is Anna and not on the air with
us right now at the station? Anna, if you're listening,
you could be at the station working with Zach Zach?
Is there a microphone available there? I think there are
four extra ones available. Yeah, hold on, Gary, what's up? Gar?

Speaker 4 (10:31):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (10:31):
I lost Gary for a second. Gary's gonna comment he has.

Speaker 4 (10:34):
Well, No, guys, I'm looking at the thumbnails. Everyone looks great. Honestly,
I think I do a great job.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
Who's the person that does this? You know? Chelsea says
I do this in our relationship. She says that I
whenever I'll take a picture, that I will post the
picture that's great of me, and I won't look at
her and see that she doesn't look good. I think
that maybe, in some cases, like you said, we might
critique ourselves a little bit harsher than others. Yeah, but
I've seen some mone actually.

Speaker 4 (11:00):
Have a rule for myself and I will give this
rule to anyone who wants to post a picture of
me if it's my page. As long as I like
the picture and I think I look good at it,
I'll post it. If you could post whatever you want
on your page, But if it's not on your page,
you don't have to say what I post.

Speaker 6 (11:13):
Do you get that?

Speaker 1 (11:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (11:14):
I get that?

Speaker 4 (11:14):
So Pet the Morning post on your page. You can
post whatever you want. If I look bad at it,
who cares. It's your page. If it's my page, ILL
will post whatever I want.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
Okay, But we're talking about the More in the Morning page,
So that's all of our pages.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
I'm taking a picture of you right now. There you go.
We're gonna post it. We're gonna post this right now.

Speaker 6 (11:33):
And you guys are gonna clock me all right.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (11:35):
But honestly, that's the best thing I love running the
social media because.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
If there's anything wrong, you can control it.

Speaker 4 (11:40):
Yes, that's my favorite part of my my job. And honestly,
if you guys want to run social media, go for it.
And you guys can make yourself look great.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
We're gonna pick We're gonna find every picture, every picture
we can of Uh. I think it's getting with boogers hanging
out of her nose. What's the worst what's the worst
picture that you've ever had posted of you?

Speaker 6 (11:59):
The one of in the hospital after my allergic reaction.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
You were also in for that reason, Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 4 (12:06):
And I didn't post that one on purpose because I
thought it looked bad, and then you guys forced me to.

Speaker 6 (12:10):
I've got my personal share mine.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
I hate that she does is she posts pictures or
videos of me and literally I look like the freaking
michelin Man or I've got I got bigger tea's than
you know, the Kardashians.

Speaker 3 (12:23):
Well, so you were about to say me, weren't you?

Speaker 1 (12:26):
Honestly, even even when I wear spanks, I have met.

Speaker 6 (12:30):
Well, it's light. It's the light blue shirt you have
and a white shirt.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
Yeah, I know as well.

Speaker 6 (12:34):
You know what, Well, you look looks good today and
the camera looks skinny to look look at me?

Speaker 1 (12:40):
What's up? Ben? Hi?

Speaker 5 (12:42):
Hey, you were talking earlier about the zoom calls with
the courthouses. You got to look up the video where
the guy does the zoom call and he's driving, Yes
of license.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
Yes, that's one of all the best ones come from Detroit. Yeah,
there all great.

Speaker 5 (13:02):
Shannon, his mom and is so hard right now. It's funny.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
What what do you mean? What does that mean?

Speaker 5 (13:07):
She's vomiting her right now, like scolding her about the
pictures and stuff about the moto in the morning.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
I like that she's done it and I'm dadding her.
I don't know what that means, but I I like
she's she's posted all these crappy pictures of us, Ben.
I don't know if she knows this reacting. I don't
know if Beyonca knows this. Bianca is like our marketing,
you know, person like she's supposed to make us look
good to people, like you're supposed to do. You're supposed

(13:34):
to photo shop, You're supposed to do all that stuff
to us. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (13:39):
AYI also, haven't you look like at Victory's secret supermodel?

Speaker 1 (13:42):
Okay yeah, yeah, okay, okay. You know she tries, she
tries to mess with us all the time. I'm telling you,
I think she's secretly you know what. I think she's
secretly working for Free Baron Hot Wings and Blaine Fowler.
I think she's I think she's she's got those guys
in their ears saying make mon.

Speaker 6 (14:02):
I want to know other photo. I've never done you dirty.
I've done Anna Shan and Lydia.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
Yank Ben, thanks buddy, thank you you. Well half the
time any video of somebody for the show, They're not
paying attention at all. You mean, I'm giving a speech
in the moment that I'm giving a speech about how
I feel uneasy lately, I'm kind of going through this
emotional time. I'm tearful and Amazon her phone basically ordering

(14:26):
door Dash, you know what I mean, which, by the way, Anna,
what the hell you do in ordering DoorDash? Well, while
I'm doing this, I'm you know.

Speaker 6 (14:33):
So, I think this is a team effort. We all
need to shape up our act.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
Yes, pay attention, and you pay attention, Okay, please, all right,
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