August 24, 2025 • 17 mins
A Sit Down With Mad Mike Colvin - Mole N' Friends Classic
The beginning of COVID brought us many Hardships but we brought some levity by having Mole's mentor/friend, and Hudson Valley Hero ...the late ,great Madd Mike Colvin...and his daughter Bryce lol
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The beginning of COVID brought us many Hardships but we brought some levity by having Mole's mentor/friend, and Hudson Valley Hero ...the late ,great Madd Mike Colvin...and his daughter Bryce lol
catch all the randomness at www.digitalzoneent.com
brought to you as always by Prince Nana Coffee ... copy and paste the link https://princenanacoffee.com/?ref=MOLE then use promo code "MoleWin" at checkout for a nice lil' discount
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Hey man, let you know that.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Then to be found on handcat, Spotify, I zoom by
on radio wherever.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Yeah, worried. Okay, all right, let's try this take two.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Huh all right, why don't you bring your letters over
to show Marshall on the zoom.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Yeah, show me once again. This is matter by Covid
and his daughter Bryce. And uh, you know we're taking
two on this one. We had a little bit fuck up,
but we're back on track here. So again I couldn't
hear anything you said before, So let's let's go back.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
How have you guys been doing.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
I know you said Mahonies was opening back up for
outside dining.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, we're opening for outside dining today.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Oh no, takeout today, and then outside dining Tuesday, as
per womo's guidelines.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Right, and then you know, we still have to go
through phase three and four.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
But the biggest problem with me being a DJ slash
karaoke host is that by definition, I need crowds of
fifty or more, right, so I have to wait until
that before I'm working again.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
But you know, we're getting through.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
I'm taking advantage of the time to spend more time
with this little nugget here and she's my my yard
my official yard work assistant. What are we going to
do today after the zoom call, Brice?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Yeah, you do? What are we gonna do? What did
daddy get delivered today? Huh mulch.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
You know we got three years of must delivered today.
That's that project. And my in laws have a lake house.
So my wife, who is also an entertainer, she's a musician,
sings with Lucky House. Right, so she hasn't had any
gigs March fourteenth either, So she's gonna take Bryce up
to the lake near Turning Stone. Okay, and that's going
to allow me to to do what I have to
(02:09):
do around here without anybody, uh you know, in the way.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Right right right? I got you nice? Well, so what
do you what are your like? What?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
He besides doing yard working and then being a daddy
and a supervisor to Toddler?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
What what are you doing for fun these days?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Bro?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
I've just been binging everything I never thought I would
get to see. I have completed Shit's Creek, which I
strongly recommend.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I even got a wife into it.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Uh, by blinders, I'm barreling through succession right now. I
did the entire ten seasons of curb your enthusiasm. Oh wow,
which is also tiger king because you kind of have to.
I'm not you know, I wasn't really a fan, and
I was like, let me see what all the hubbubb
is about.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
We did that, uh.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
And and uh and getting caught up on reading, listening
to music. You know, I've got We're in my man
cave right now, and I've still got a vinyl collection
that exceeds five hundred LPs. So I grabbed my uh,
my late father's digital wireless headphones every night and throw
an album or two on and uh and do my thing. So,
(03:21):
you know, getting through it. Just waiting for the world
to read to reboot is really what I'm doing. Yeah,
hewing the nonsense from the safety of my phone and computer.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I hear you on that one.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
You remember from my days on the air with Coop.
You can see the PDH logo in the background. Oh yeah,
I still got my What's funny about that, Marshall, is
that was never implemented during our time on the air. Really,
we're cleaning out the garage basically, which was code for
let's throw out all of this stuff from when Cooper
(03:54):
might be were here Anthony Verano, who's found it and
text me said, hey, I found this vinyl, this vinyl
sign promoting your show that they're going to make me
throw out. You want to come by and get it?
And I did, and so it hangs in the cave
prominently now. To remind me of what I used to do, right,
I got, Yeah, I hear you, man, I got. I
(04:17):
would always say nobody ever went broke under estimating the
American public, which I believe was originally attributed to pt
P T.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Barnum.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
And you see the same idiotic Facebook post in my head,
it's like, you know, whether they're claiming that the coronavirus
is something that the Democratic left wing made up, which
I'm a member of that fund tribe.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
You know. My response to hum is, well, here's the thing.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
The guy in Kenya who gets shot looks at his
front door is not concerned whether or not our president
gets re elected in November. You know, it would be
one thing if it was only in the US, because
these people can't see beyond that.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
But it's a worldwide phenomenon.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
It's a worldwide problem, and unfortunately, the people that believe
such things are never going to see that part of it.
They just feel that everything is a conspiracy. I think
the saddest and I mean saddest thing that I've seen.
I don't think I saw any evidence till yesterday, the
day before. There's there's a group out there that is
(05:24):
convinced that the George Floyd video features crisis actors and
with stage and that he's alive and well like that.
There's actually people that think that that's the case by
Burrows to get the country to to go to war
in itself.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Not that we needed any help that's happening anyway, but people.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Are so unwilling to see the truth that even when
you present them with full safe evidence, they can't do it.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
They cannot do it.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
So, you know, my faith in humanity has been strict,
has been severely tested during the past three months, and
it gets worse every day. And I don't need to
go into detail about you know what uncharismatic leader is
UH is leading the charge, but it's it's a problem.
But I you know, I just I don't contribute to
(06:14):
the to the national discussion. I I just get frustrated
and shake my head and see what the latest thing
that my daughter's doing.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
By the way. So how is Bryce handling We told
her that it's uh that it's a bad right. What's
what's going on? Is it the bad cold? Bryce? Yeah,
she says that, you know, she knows what the bad cold.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
And she'll say, you know what, Daddy, when the bad
cold is over, can I go to the zoo or Daddy,
when the cold is over? I am playing.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
So she understands that part of it. She'll be joining me.
We're gonna actually do take.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Out from Mahony's later, and uh, they love her down there,
as does she them. So I told her, Mommy, will
put your ninja mask on and uh, you'll go down
there to pick up the foods. You can see all
your friends. But considering that she's just a little over three,
she's like, you know, three in a quarter. Uh, she's
been handling it well. Obviously, the zoom classroom doesn't compete
(07:19):
with the real thing. And at her age, the biggest
thing that she was getting out of school, outside of
toilet training, which she is perfectly potty training, this kid
is actually going to bed and.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Underwear and we couldn't be happier. But the biggest thing
she was getting out of that was the socialized nation.
But you cannot duplicate with a couple of screens. You know,
that doesn't.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
But she's smart as a whip, you know, she's uh uh.
My wife had a really cool idea because you know,
we we we homeschool electronically, as they said. So she
was like, why don't you see you get a hold
of Schoolhouse Rock?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Which we did. Rice Camerre, I got something to do
with you.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Uh So I've got the entire series of Schoolhouse Rock,
which originally started when I was a kid in the
early seventies.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
When they rebooted it in the eighties.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
And nineties, I remember when the yeah, yeah, so are
you ready for this?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yeah again, she's she.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Turned three in March. You're ready, yeah, price, what's eleven?
What's eleven times eight? What's twelve times eight? So that's
the result of schoolhouse Rock?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Thank you. That is great. That is awesome. But I
learned about a bill. She bill the bill? Right?
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Where does the bill live? Do you know where the
bill lives? At the up on Capitol Hill. He goes
to the house to get past. Yeah, she's picking up
on that. My devious plot to only exposure to songs
that were popular before I was born, continues over is
watched really scratchy transferred?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
They do?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
So, Yeah, she's getting through it. She almost immediately when
the world ended was she became my soo chef. Because
I do most of the cooking around here. My wife
has been up to her ears creating what we call
covid bears. Yes, she's a crocheer and she's made I
think thirty to this point, and those are in high demand,
(09:24):
to the point where she's not even posting her completions
anymore because every time she posts that she finished one,
she gets that many more orders and she just needs
a break. So spends morning, noon, and night working on
that and Bryce and I do the cooking and that's
a lot of fun. Like I said, she's my she's
my ever present assistant. Whatever I have to do until bedtime,
(09:46):
and it works out great.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
That is awesome.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Man. I'm glad to see you guys are actually uh
you know, uh making the most of your time together
these days, you know, because.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
They you know, you kind of have to believe me.
I I love what I do for a living. I
can't wait to get back to work. But you know,
there's worse people to be locked up with for three
months than my wife and daughters.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
So for that, I'm blessed. Like I you know, if
I was in an apartment, you know, with.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
No ability to go outside and do things like you know,
move three yards mult around like I'm doing after this
call or that kind of thing, I probably would have
gone out of my mind long ago.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
But she keeps me on my toes.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
There's plenty enough to do around the house that I
haven't run out of projects yet.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Well good, I hope you don't run out of projects,
and I hope you guys, you know, stay busy because honestly,
we really don't know how long this.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Is going to keep going for no.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
And the biggest fear that I have, and I started
out as a joke, but you know, obviously the protests
for the George Floyd killing are are necessary and warranted.
I mean, there's obviously some bad eggs in there, and
you know, the conspiracies are flying as to who's responsible
for what. But the biggest problem that I've seen with
it from the beginning is what is this going to
(11:03):
do in regards to coronavirus spikes in the communities that
these have happened in.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Right now, living with Kipsie.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
I was very happy to see that most of the
people that were marching a few days back did have
masks on.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Hopefully that the good.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
It should because the last thing I want is for
a rollback on the slow opening that we're experiencing because
it's summertime. You know, we need to be even if
you can't do everything that you did before, Like concerts
are there aren't going to be a reality probably next year,
organized sports, et cetera. You know, I need to be
able to take my family to a restaurant. I need
(11:39):
to be able to take my daughter to a zoo,
right and and that sort of you know, one of
the biggest things that we that we did as a
father daughter is just taking her to the grocery store.
She loves sitting in the cart and helping me pick
out things. And I can't do it because it's like,
you know, it's just frowned on, right, and I don't
want to even with the ask, I just don't want
(12:00):
to expose her to what, you know, what happens yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
I mean you touch anything. I missed that almost as
much as anything else out there, because like she's at
that age where Everything that she does is full of
wonder and excitement and something as mundane is just going
out to buy toilet paper and meat products has been
sorely missed by this kid for a couple of months.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Oh kid, Oh jeez, all right, Mikey, Well, I'm not
going to take up any more time, man, I really uh,
I do appreciate you doing this and putting up with
these internet crap.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
A guest, I know that my forties character is more
exciting and uh well you know instr news.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
There forties man got involved with what's that?
Speaker 3 (12:43):
No, no, no, keep going about forties, man, keep going.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
That was gonna ask you about forties. When did you
join the Morning Show? What year do you remember? Late
late no, early two thousand?
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Okay, so that was two years after the big nineteen
ninety eight season that the Yankees ad.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
You're familiar with the.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Yankees, yes, oh, yes, yes, most definitely. What we did
was we wrote it Coop and I wrote it over
the phone for the.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Most part.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
About the team, and at the time we wrote it
featuring the players that were on the squad.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Of course, Cheter being a big part of that.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Homer Bush nobody remembers, but he was like an integral
part of the song.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Anyway, Fido Petrocito a local musician who I believe is
going to be featured in a week or two on
that HBO show. I know this much is true. Really
he was the artist. Yeah, he was the artist to
put it to music and sang it for us. And
once the ninety eight season was finished, and you know,
the Yankees won their one hundred and twenty five games
and swept the series, et cetera, it was too good
(13:53):
just let lie with that one season. So I think
that we updated it for enough juice of that. So
what he came up with the idea of having it
on a timeless thing. Okay, so you go back through
the gates from like Babe Rutes time through today, which
at the time was still you know what, the year
two thousand.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Yeah, so he's never given up on it.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
And the latest incarnation I think even has references to
Aaron Judge.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
But he put it together with a big band and cut.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
A video and anything that refers to Yankees that that
were part of the team before nineteen sixty. Let's say,
so you got Yogi Berra, Phil Rizzuto, Gary Ruth et cetera,
Mickey Man, Gorodemaggio. Anything that is highlighted in that part
of the song, the video that he'd put together will
(14:45):
cut to forties man. I e me sitting in this
man cave with the Yankees back drop, clean, shaven, with
the fedora and suspended, pretending that I'm singing along flash.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
You know.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
So I know that, and I believe that the Yes
Network has shown interest in using it the Baseball Hall
of Fame, which unfortunately can't even have an induction ceremony
this year because of COVID and some other organizations. So
once that is a reality and releasable to the public,
(15:20):
you'll be getting your own copy to do with what
you will.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Dude, that's awesome. That's forties Man's big news. Oh Man'
so awesome. I can't wait. I really can't. This is
gonna be awesome. I'm very excited about that. It's a
really cool project.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
And that's the kind of stuff I've been doing, you know,
outside of binging TV and knowing the lawn.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
I'm the family archivist. Okay, So.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Years ago, when my grandfather was dying, I took his
home movies, which he had hours and hours and hours
of dating back to the fifties, got those digitally transferred
through Grace Note Films, run by a good friend of mine,
Todd Gougelberger, and they're just like compilations of random home
movies in no particular order. Well, anyway, every now and again,
(16:07):
I'll put themes to him, like I did a Christmas
montage that runs like an.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Hour a few years back.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
And I lost my dad a year ago August, so
this will be the first Father's Day that I'm spending
without him. So I went through meticulously through all these
home videos and took out every clip from when he
was a teenager through the end of the home video era,
the home movie era in the early elies. So on
Father's Day, I'm gonna putting up a tribute to him
(16:33):
with a bunch of his favorite songs, and it's just
him being a dork.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
You know, But that's my dad, right.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
That's another one of those things that I wouldn't have
had time to do if I was living my normal life.
There is some positive to it, you know, But all
I can say is that I hope that the next
time I talk to you is because I'm squeezing it
in between gigs because I really want to get back
to gigs and you too, Yes, and I wish you
in Zane the best and I'll I'll rejoin you as
(17:01):
soon as it makes sense to Yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
No, we're we're we're anxiously waiting to return to forties man.
And anytime you just want to get on talk Like
I said that, you're let's just talk.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I'm cool, you know to have you on, man, Thank you.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Again, Sure you got it, no problem.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Thanks, Mikey, love you brother. I Mikey, and I gotta scam.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Yeah, hey you what the will do to be dot
your camera and life and share subscribe website www digital
zone dot com on social media. He Dan and Mulling
Dang podcast on Ramling Dness on Twitter Digital Zone and
and I'll be on once a month.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I'm forties man kid, and I gotta scram
Hey man, let you know that.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Then to be found on handcat, Spotify, I zoom by
on radio wherever.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Yeah, worried. Okay, all right, let's try this take two.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Huh all right, why don't you bring your letters over
to show Marshall on the zoom.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Yeah, show me once again. This is matter by Covid
and his daughter Bryce. And uh, you know we're taking
two on this one. We had a little bit fuck up,
but we're back on track here. So again I couldn't
hear anything you said before, So let's let's go back.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
How have you guys been doing.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
I know you said Mahonies was opening back up for
outside dining.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, we're opening for outside dining today.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Oh no, takeout today, and then outside dining Tuesday, as
per womo's guidelines.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Right, and then you know, we still have to go
through phase three and four.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
But the biggest problem with me being a DJ slash
karaoke host is that by definition, I need crowds of
fifty or more, right, so I have to wait until
that before I'm working again.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
But you know, we're getting through.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
I'm taking advantage of the time to spend more time
with this little nugget here and she's my my yard
my official yard work assistant. What are we going to
do today after the zoom call, Brice?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Yeah, you do? What are we gonna do? What did
daddy get delivered today? Huh mulch.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
You know we got three years of must delivered today.
That's that project. And my in laws have a lake house.
So my wife, who is also an entertainer, she's a musician,
sings with Lucky House. Right, so she hasn't had any
gigs March fourteenth either, So she's gonna take Bryce up
to the lake near Turning Stone. Okay, and that's going
to allow me to to do what I have to
(02:09):
do around here without anybody, uh you know, in the way.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Right right right? I got you nice? Well, so what
do you what are your like? What?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
He besides doing yard working and then being a daddy
and a supervisor to Toddler?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
What what are you doing for fun these days?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Bro?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
I've just been binging everything I never thought I would
get to see. I have completed Shit's Creek, which I
strongly recommend.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I even got a wife into it.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Uh, by blinders, I'm barreling through succession right now. I
did the entire ten seasons of curb your enthusiasm. Oh wow,
which is also tiger king because you kind of have to.
I'm not you know, I wasn't really a fan, and
I was like, let me see what all the hubbubb
is about.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
We did that, uh.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
And and uh and getting caught up on reading, listening
to music. You know, I've got We're in my man
cave right now, and I've still got a vinyl collection
that exceeds five hundred LPs. So I grabbed my uh,
my late father's digital wireless headphones every night and throw
an album or two on and uh and do my thing. So,
(03:21):
you know, getting through it. Just waiting for the world
to read to reboot is really what I'm doing. Yeah,
hewing the nonsense from the safety of my phone and computer.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I hear you on that one.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
You remember from my days on the air with Coop.
You can see the PDH logo in the background. Oh yeah,
I still got my What's funny about that, Marshall, is
that was never implemented during our time on the air. Really,
we're cleaning out the garage basically, which was code for
let's throw out all of this stuff from when Cooper
(03:54):
might be were here Anthony Verano, who's found it and
text me said, hey, I found this vinyl, this vinyl
sign promoting your show that they're going to make me
throw out. You want to come by and get it?
And I did, and so it hangs in the cave
prominently now. To remind me of what I used to do, right,
I got, Yeah, I hear you, man, I got. I
(04:17):
would always say nobody ever went broke under estimating the
American public, which I believe was originally attributed to pt
P T.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Barnum.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
And you see the same idiotic Facebook post in my head,
it's like, you know, whether they're claiming that the coronavirus
is something that the Democratic left wing made up, which
I'm a member of that fund tribe.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
You know. My response to hum is, well, here's the thing.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
The guy in Kenya who gets shot looks at his
front door is not concerned whether or not our president
gets re elected in November. You know, it would be
one thing if it was only in the US, because
these people can't see beyond that.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
But it's a worldwide phenomenon.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
It's a worldwide problem, and unfortunately, the people that believe
such things are never going to see that part of it.
They just feel that everything is a conspiracy. I think
the saddest and I mean saddest thing that I've seen.
I don't think I saw any evidence till yesterday, the
day before. There's there's a group out there that is
(05:24):
convinced that the George Floyd video features crisis actors and
with stage and that he's alive and well like that.
There's actually people that think that that's the case by
Burrows to get the country to to go to war
in itself.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Not that we needed any help that's happening anyway, but people.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Are so unwilling to see the truth that even when
you present them with full safe evidence, they can't do it.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
They cannot do it.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
So, you know, my faith in humanity has been strict,
has been severely tested during the past three months, and
it gets worse every day. And I don't need to
go into detail about you know what uncharismatic leader is
UH is leading the charge, but it's it's a problem.
But I you know, I just I don't contribute to
(06:14):
the to the national discussion. I I just get frustrated
and shake my head and see what the latest thing
that my daughter's doing.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
By the way. So how is Bryce handling We told
her that it's uh that it's a bad right. What's
what's going on? Is it the bad cold? Bryce? Yeah,
she says that, you know, she knows what the bad cold.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
And she'll say, you know what, Daddy, when the bad
cold is over, can I go to the zoo or Daddy,
when the cold is over? I am playing.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
So she understands that part of it. She'll be joining me.
We're gonna actually do take.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Out from Mahony's later, and uh, they love her down there,
as does she them. So I told her, Mommy, will
put your ninja mask on and uh, you'll go down
there to pick up the foods. You can see all
your friends. But considering that she's just a little over three,
she's like, you know, three in a quarter. Uh, she's
been handling it well. Obviously, the zoom classroom doesn't compete
(07:19):
with the real thing. And at her age, the biggest
thing that she was getting out of school, outside of
toilet training, which she is perfectly potty training, this kid
is actually going to bed and.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Underwear and we couldn't be happier. But the biggest thing
she was getting out of that was the socialized nation.
But you cannot duplicate with a couple of screens. You know,
that doesn't.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
But she's smart as a whip, you know, she's uh uh.
My wife had a really cool idea because you know,
we we we homeschool electronically, as they said. So she
was like, why don't you see you get a hold
of Schoolhouse Rock?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Which we did. Rice Camerre, I got something to do
with you.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Uh So I've got the entire series of Schoolhouse Rock,
which originally started when I was a kid in the
early seventies.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
When they rebooted it in the eighties.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
And nineties, I remember when the yeah, yeah, so are
you ready for this?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yeah again, she's she.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Turned three in March. You're ready, yeah, price, what's eleven?
What's eleven times eight? What's twelve times eight? So that's
the result of schoolhouse Rock?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Thank you. That is great. That is awesome. But I
learned about a bill. She bill the bill? Right?
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Where does the bill live? Do you know where the
bill lives? At the up on Capitol Hill. He goes
to the house to get past. Yeah, she's picking up
on that. My devious plot to only exposure to songs
that were popular before I was born, continues over is
watched really scratchy transferred?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
They do?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
So, Yeah, she's getting through it. She almost immediately when
the world ended was she became my soo chef. Because
I do most of the cooking around here. My wife
has been up to her ears creating what we call
covid bears. Yes, she's a crocheer and she's made I
think thirty to this point, and those are in high demand,
(09:24):
to the point where she's not even posting her completions
anymore because every time she posts that she finished one,
she gets that many more orders and she just needs
a break. So spends morning, noon, and night working on
that and Bryce and I do the cooking and that's
a lot of fun. Like I said, she's my she's
my ever present assistant. Whatever I have to do until bedtime,
(09:46):
and it works out great.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
That is awesome.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Man. I'm glad to see you guys are actually uh
you know, uh making the most of your time together
these days, you know, because.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
They you know, you kind of have to believe me.
I I love what I do for a living. I
can't wait to get back to work. But you know,
there's worse people to be locked up with for three
months than my wife and daughters.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
So for that, I'm blessed. Like I you know, if
I was in an apartment, you know, with.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
No ability to go outside and do things like you know,
move three yards mult around like I'm doing after this
call or that kind of thing, I probably would have
gone out of my mind long ago.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
But she keeps me on my toes.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
There's plenty enough to do around the house that I
haven't run out of projects yet.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Well good, I hope you don't run out of projects,
and I hope you guys, you know, stay busy because honestly,
we really don't know how long this.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Is going to keep going for no.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
And the biggest fear that I have, and I started
out as a joke, but you know, obviously the protests
for the George Floyd killing are are necessary and warranted.
I mean, there's obviously some bad eggs in there, and
you know, the conspiracies are flying as to who's responsible
for what. But the biggest problem that I've seen with
it from the beginning is what is this going to
(11:03):
do in regards to coronavirus spikes in the communities that
these have happened in.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Right now, living with Kipsie.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
I was very happy to see that most of the
people that were marching a few days back did have
masks on.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Hopefully that the good.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
It should because the last thing I want is for
a rollback on the slow opening that we're experiencing because
it's summertime. You know, we need to be even if
you can't do everything that you did before, Like concerts
are there aren't going to be a reality probably next year,
organized sports, et cetera. You know, I need to be
able to take my family to a restaurant. I need
(11:39):
to be able to take my daughter to a zoo,
right and and that sort of you know, one of
the biggest things that we that we did as a
father daughter is just taking her to the grocery store.
She loves sitting in the cart and helping me pick
out things. And I can't do it because it's like,
you know, it's just frowned on, right, and I don't
want to even with the ask, I just don't want
(12:00):
to expose her to what, you know, what happens yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
I mean you touch anything. I missed that almost as
much as anything else out there, because like she's at
that age where Everything that she does is full of
wonder and excitement and something as mundane is just going
out to buy toilet paper and meat products has been
sorely missed by this kid for a couple of months.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Oh kid, Oh jeez, all right, Mikey, Well, I'm not
going to take up any more time, man, I really uh,
I do appreciate you doing this and putting up with
these internet crap.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
A guest, I know that my forties character is more
exciting and uh well you know instr news.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
There forties man got involved with what's that?
Speaker 3 (12:43):
No, no, no, keep going about forties, man, keep going.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
That was gonna ask you about forties. When did you
join the Morning Show? What year do you remember? Late
late no, early two thousand?
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Okay, so that was two years after the big nineteen
ninety eight season that the Yankees ad.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
You're familiar with the.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Yankees, yes, oh, yes, yes, most definitely. What we did
was we wrote it Coop and I wrote it over
the phone for the.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Most part.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
About the team, and at the time we wrote it
featuring the players that were on the squad.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Of course, Cheter being a big part of that.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Homer Bush nobody remembers, but he was like an integral
part of the song.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Anyway, Fido Petrocito a local musician who I believe is
going to be featured in a week or two on
that HBO show. I know this much is true. Really
he was the artist. Yeah, he was the artist to
put it to music and sang it for us. And
once the ninety eight season was finished, and you know,
the Yankees won their one hundred and twenty five games
and swept the series, et cetera, it was too good
(13:53):
just let lie with that one season. So I think
that we updated it for enough juice of that. So
what he came up with the idea of having it
on a timeless thing. Okay, so you go back through
the gates from like Babe Rutes time through today, which
at the time was still you know what, the year
two thousand.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Yeah, so he's never given up on it.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
And the latest incarnation I think even has references to
Aaron Judge.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
But he put it together with a big band and cut.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
A video and anything that refers to Yankees that that
were part of the team before nineteen sixty. Let's say,
so you got Yogi Berra, Phil Rizzuto, Gary Ruth et cetera,
Mickey Man, Gorodemaggio. Anything that is highlighted in that part
of the song, the video that he'd put together will
(14:45):
cut to forties man. I e me sitting in this
man cave with the Yankees back drop, clean, shaven, with
the fedora and suspended, pretending that I'm singing along flash.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
You know.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
So I know that, and I believe that the Yes
Network has shown interest in using it the Baseball Hall
of Fame, which unfortunately can't even have an induction ceremony
this year because of COVID and some other organizations. So
once that is a reality and releasable to the public,
(15:20):
you'll be getting your own copy to do with what
you will.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Dude, that's awesome. That's forties Man's big news. Oh Man'
so awesome. I can't wait. I really can't. This is
gonna be awesome. I'm very excited about that. It's a
really cool project.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
And that's the kind of stuff I've been doing, you know,
outside of binging TV and knowing the lawn.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
I'm the family archivist. Okay, So.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Years ago, when my grandfather was dying, I took his
home movies, which he had hours and hours and hours
of dating back to the fifties, got those digitally transferred
through Grace Note Films, run by a good friend of mine,
Todd Gougelberger, and they're just like compilations of random home
movies in no particular order. Well, anyway, every now and again,
(16:07):
I'll put themes to him, like I did a Christmas
montage that runs like an.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Hour a few years back.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
And I lost my dad a year ago August, so
this will be the first Father's Day that I'm spending
without him. So I went through meticulously through all these
home videos and took out every clip from when he
was a teenager through the end of the home video era,
the home movie era in the early elies. So on
Father's Day, I'm gonna putting up a tribute to him
(16:33):
with a bunch of his favorite songs, and it's just
him being a dork.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
You know, But that's my dad, right.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
That's another one of those things that I wouldn't have
had time to do if I was living my normal life.
There is some positive to it, you know, But all
I can say is that I hope that the next
time I talk to you is because I'm squeezing it
in between gigs because I really want to get back
to gigs and you too, Yes, and I wish you
in Zane the best and I'll I'll rejoin you as
(17:01):
soon as it makes sense to Yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
No, we're we're we're anxiously waiting to return to forties man.
And anytime you just want to get on talk Like
I said that, you're let's just talk.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I'm cool, you know to have you on, man, Thank you.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Again, Sure you got it, no problem.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Thanks, Mikey, love you brother. I Mikey, and I gotta scam.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Yeah, hey you what the will do to be dot
your camera and life and share subscribe website www digital
zone dot com on social media. He Dan and Mulling
Dang podcast on Ramling Dness on Twitter Digital Zone and
and I'll be on once a month.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I'm forties man kid, and I gotta scram
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