August 28, 2025 • 35 mins
Aristotle Jones is back on the show to talk about the local music scene, the Italian Heritage Festival and the best songs to match with football teams this season.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Good morning and welcome in everybody. This is the Morning
Spiel presented by Royal Water Treatment. I want to three
to three WKMZ. Great to be here with you, folks,
and we've got a good show lined up for you today.
It's a local Arts Thursday. We're gonna have Aristotle Jones
with us for the entire show today. That is right,
We're going to get to your news and sports headlines
that Aristotle Jones is going to jump on with us
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for the entirety of today's show, which I'm very excited about.
That's I think that's going to be fantastic. Aristotle, of course,
one of my all time favorite recurring guests, and we
didn't have him one last week because we had our
buddy Adam from Mountain Stage on and it wasn't he
fun to talk to. He was great, But Aristotle back
with us this week. Hopefully he'll be okay with us
(01:03):
squeezing him for a week, but he'll be back today
and then Jason Young, we be back next week and
we'll continue on with our local arts carousel as we
always do, taking a look at what's going on around
the state of West Virginia and particularly around north central
West Virginia. And there's gonna be some great arts on
display this weekend in Clarksburg. By the way, the Italian
Heritage Festival coming up. All right, Hey, on that note,
(01:23):
let's go ahead and get to our first breaks. Like
I said, I'm not joking. We're gonna keep him for
basically the whole show today. We're gonna have some fun.
This is the Morning Spiel presented by Royal Water Treatment.
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Speaker 2 (01:43):
This is the Morning Spiel presented by Royal Water Treatment
on one O three three WKMZ. Good morning, Welcome back
in Alex Weederspiel here with you, and it's Thursday and
we're a week behind because we had a special guest
last week, and we thank Jason. I'm sorry, we thank
uh Amy Comer for setting that one up. Normally, when
it's Robinson Grand related, it's Jason, but Amy Comer actually
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set it up for us. We'll we'll, we'll talk about
it a little bit with our our current guest, Aristotle
Jones is back with us, the Appalachian soul Man, here
to steer the ship of local arts Thursday.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
What's up, man, oh man, I'm just hearing about I'm
curious to see why I got bumped last week.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
It's a good one, it's a good see. Now now
I'm disappointed. Now, I know you don't you don't listen
on Thursdays when you're not on That's that's you know,
that's disappointing.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Well, you know, I got to check it out on podcasts.
That's what I do. I would just have to go
back and listen.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah no, yeah, so it's.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Not just appointment listening, but it's on demand.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
That is true. Appreciate that that is true. No, So
it was it was actually it was. It was really
cool and it was you know, Mountain Stage was in
was in Clarksburg last week, and I got a chance
to sit down at well sit down in a very
digital sense, with Adam Harris, the executive producer of Mountain Stage,
and we had we had a great chat. Yeah, we
had a really good chat. You were missed. You were missed,
(03:00):
and I even I reminded the listeners that you'd be
back this week for what it's worth.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
There you go. I know when people tuned in and
they heard Adam's voice, they were thinking, oh, yeah, this
is much better.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Boy short selling yourself there, man. I mean, don't get
me wrong. We had a good chat. We had a
really good chat. I encourage folks to go listen to
it if they haven't heard it yet. You know, Mountain
Stage is a really is a really cool program. I mean,
it's just the fact that it's in West Virginia. I
think sometimes people forget how cool it is, how lucky
we are to have a program like that that's promoting
not just artists who are well outside sort of the
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pop mainstream, but you know, they do really great work
for local artists as well.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Oh absolutely well, just the fact that it proposes a
different perspective on our appreciation for music who visits the state.
You know, I think a lot of folks get a
glimpse inside of what's going on in West Virginia. They
have preconceived notions, and then they see us in a
show like Mountain Stage. That might be the only time
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that they get a chance to actually hear real West
Virginians doing what West Virginians do. So I can totally
respect everything that Mountain Stage brings to the table. And
they tour around and I think I know several of
the producers and associate producers that work for Mountain Stage.
And the cool thing about it, it just was an
idea one day and folks started putting it together and
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it's gone from just an idea a couple of West
Virginians have to being an internationally known broadcast. It's got
over forty years worth of history and legacy to it,
and you're absolutely right about what they do for the
regional artists as well.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yeah, sometimes it can really be just that organic, And
that's how I like to That's how I like to
think about Sounds Good to Me. It was just an
organic thing that came together one day, and in forty years,
sounds Good to Me is going to be is going
to be an institution.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
You know, we've done some amazing things. We were blessed
to have the Sounds Good Festival for the first three
years where we were able to bring some of the
artists that were on the show to the stage Dot
Pow Type Park. And we also have some really good news.
I've been partnering up with Pileton Park to take on
and curate that Johnny Johnson Festival for next year, and
so we'll be you'll hear a lot of the artists
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that you've heard on Sounds Good to Me, you'll see
them on stages of Johnny Johnson Festival Polton Park in Fairmont. Also,
you know, I've had a chance to work through Robinson
Grand with them when we did the Born and Brad
Music and put some of the artists that you've heard
on Sounds Good to Me on the stage at the
Robinson Grand in that setting with that beautiful theater and
the beautiful stage there, and it's just great to be
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able to see it in action. And I got to
give a shout out to all of the listeners because
not only do you find me when I'm out performing
and tell me that you're listening to the show, but
I've noticed and heard from other artists out there that
are performing that folks have come up to them and said, hey,
you know, I heard you on the radio and they
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get excited. So that the attendance is growing, the engagement
is growing, and that's all because of the fan base here.
You guys are chomping at the bit ready to hear
some live music from West Virginia and check it out.
You're doing and your good job and showing up. That
sounds good to.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Me, very nice. Hey, what what's what's the latest that
sounds good to me?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
As far as this weekend sounds good to me? Is
a real treat. With football season right around the corner,
we are gonna focus on some WVU inspired either fight
songs or you know, parodies or or just hype songs
you know that that have come up along the way
over the course of the last several decades. I'm talking
to Jim Mitouga, who's our guests, and I don't know
(06:27):
if you've heard the the parody of Rocky Top that
he does, you know, good old Morgantown. So you put
that together a few years back. And so now that
Rich rides back and everybody's talking about the Mountaineers having
a Hard Edge. We're gonna debut his newest song, Hard
Edge Rich. Now this is a It's actually a very
interesting conversation because not only is he following in his
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own footsteps of making a parody song or a hype
song for the Mountaineers or for Morgantown, he's used I'm
gonna say it AI, use AI to compare it, to
use his own voice in his own previous recordings to
help him finish this next song. So we have a
really interesting discussion on how AI could be integrated into
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some of the musical projects that people are coming up with.
And it really I wasn't expecting it to take that turn.
I know you and I we talked about AI in
the past, but you know, once this came to the
table in this scenario, it seemed like a fun and
topical way to kind of broach the subject. And I'll
tell you what, it changed my perspective a little bit.
But also, you know, I think you got to listen
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to it to see exactly what we're saying.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
And I will say I am not fundamentally opposed to
AI in the sense that like if if if people
who are you know, passionate musicians. And again, I don't
really have a good example for this, but artists in
general have a legitimate means or reason for using AI,
whatever that might be. For like, I don't I'm not
going to say. I'm not going to say, like, maybe
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if they want to use it to like look up
and see, like is this like, am I you know
how close are my lyrics to another song?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Like?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Is this plagiarism or is this just borrow? Like what
I mean, I can't really think of of what a
good example would be, but I don't have an issue
with artists choosing to use it if there's a reason
for it. I think my issue is the idea of like,
and we talked about this so I won't get too
far into it again, but the idea of just outright mimicry,
where it's just like, hey, we're gonna come up with
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this fake band on Spotify. That's like what if my
morning jacket was made by a robot? And and go
from there. You know, I think that's where I agree.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
I agree with you. This was a kind of an
interesting hybrid where I never I never really thought about it,
And this was an artist Jim himself you know, who
had used his own material as source material, and so
it was just kind of like him but Ai, and
I was like, well, that's an interesting way to put it,
you know, versus like someone who of course might want
to be like here's a new Tailor Swift song, or
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like you said, here's a song that's inspired by this
song that does this. But also I think it was
interesting because his whole craft that have been kind of
the parody realm, kind of like weird Ale. So at
the end of the day, I think Ai does that
really well, yeah, it's one of those interesting things. And
he goes, well, I'm not trying to make a million dollars,
not trying to fool anybody or make him think that's
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my song. He goes, it's just a fun song to
celebrate the mountaineers that when people hear while they're walking
around tailgating, you know, they're having their red solo cup
and there's singing along. It's just a song that's out there.
And I thought, well, you know, that's kind of how
I use AI too, when I want to hear something
funny that I don't really want to put a lot
of time into make there it is you know, but honestly,
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I also spend thousands of dollars in a music studio
hiring a musician, So it kind of goes back and forth.
But the conversation that we have is really really interesting
and it's provoked. It's provocative, so I would I would say,
take a listen to it. Sounds good to me. This
weekend is on Sunday morning at ten am right there
on WKMZ, but you can also listen to it on
other metro news platforms, and I think you'll learn something.
(09:59):
And you hear some really cool songs to get a
little nostalgia for WU football and a little bit of
excitement for the new head coach and and all the
things that are going on. You get to hear the
new song hard Edge Rich. So check it out and
let me know your opinions. You know, is is it
too much? AI? Is it not enough? AI? I guess
is it? Can there not be enough? AI? Who knows?
(10:19):
You know?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
I Uh, I'll give it a listen. I'm looking I'm
looking forward. That's an intriguing, intriguing concept. I know. We
also have, uh, we want to get to the we have.
We have kind of a fun little little game set
for the back half of our segment here. But so
before we do that, uh, local music coming up in
the region. I'm gonna let I'm gonna I'm gonna let
you just just just lay it all out there and
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then we're gonna get into the goofy stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
You know. I'm telling you what. While the weather is
still nice, it's kind of cool and off, you're gonna
have some of those hot days, but there's still gonna
be lots of fantastic live music outside. Hop out to
the Palatin Park this weekend. You can catch their concerts
here is still going on at Ruby and Theater in
downtown Morgantown. You get Maddie and Tay come into town.
It's a free concert. Downtown Fright Farm Mountains, Fifthfville, Pennsylvania House.
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Spooky Season is gonna be coming up, so get out
and catch their concert series. There's just so much going on.
We're transitioning from that fall to the or from the
summer to the fall. I would say, don't hesitate to
go to places like the Asylum and catch a live
show when they're doing their Haunted aside them coming up
next month. Also, Winding Jazz is coming up in Morgantown,
you can catch Adriane and Adrienne Michael Soul show. He's
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gonna be doing a great show at Wine and Jazz.
The Black Heritage Festival downtown, Clerk Squad's coming up. That's
gonna be amazing. The Italian Airge Festival is gonna have
live music, so there's no shortage of activities and places
to go catch bands. Not to mention our amazing music
venues like Tipsy T's, Davis and Brothers Music Hall on Morgantown.
Went you through Pleasant Street, you can still go catch
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music out of Tropics, out of Cheat Lake. You can
go over to the Copper House Grill or sorry, Brickside
Grill that's right there in Fairmount or down in Clarksburg,
and there's just tons of live music happening. And it
is that time of year where you can decide whether
you're going to still wear your jeans or you're gonna
wear your flanels. You can come out your summer gear.
Just be prepared for drastic weather changes for these outside
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summer shows.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Yeah, the Italian Heritage Festival is going to be number
one on everybody's mind, I think in Clarksburg this weekend
We've already done a fair bit on it on this
show as well, of course, And it's worth noting that
what a weekend for north central West Virginia. For Labor Day.
You get the start of high school football, which of
course is happening across the state. You get Mountain Your football,
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you get the Italian Heritage Festival. This is all wrapped
up into one big, one big fun weekend. So I
hope people are going to get set to enjoy it,
and they finally get some nice weather too.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
That's right. I mean it's been brutal. It's kind of
been off and on. Either we got like torrential rain
for like several weeks, and then we got like a
heat wave. And I think I woke up this morning
with like fifty degrees is when I was driving to work,
I didn't know it was.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yeah, it was cold to my house to dress here.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
This is all right, But I did not complain. I
just kind of took a deep breath and said, all right,
this is.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Brisk Yes, I like brisk. I will take that weather
in August. I am not going to complain, especially after this. Yeah, exactly.
That's that's my band name, brisk In August. Uh, that's
uh okay, Hey, let's let's let's dive into I like
the premise of this. So you pitched this to me,
and I think, I think it's a great idea. I
only really have one good one, but I think as
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we go along, I think we'll we'll come up with
a few more. But so and we go. I feel
like we have to start with the Mountaineers. But so,
h your your concept, this is this is all you.
The concept was theme songs to represent football teams this season,
and I love this. I have one for the New
York Jets, but I want to start with the Mountaineers.
(13:49):
And I'm gonna I'm gonna, I am going to put
the pressure on you because I'm gonna I'm gonna see
if I can think of what I can if I
can think of one while you're pitching me yours. What's
the theme song for West Virginia football this season?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
The theme song is It's a Beautiful Day. I tell
you what. We're gonna look forward and we're not talking
about the climb anymore. We're not talking about anything from
the past. We're looking forward. And since we're undefeated right now,
and since you know in the Big twelve. We just
have nothing but opportunity for Mountaineer fans. It's a beautiful
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day where we don't have to complain about anything. We
can just show up and tailgate and have a great time.
So that's my that's my theme for the Mountaineers this year.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Okay, I'm gonna go with I'm gonna go I'm gonna
go really off board with this one. I'm gonna go
with I'm gonna go with old ninety seven's And the
song is all Who Wander And of course it's it's
the famous literary quote all who wander are not lost,
and that's basically the spine of the song and the
chorus of the of the song. But all who wander
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are wandering wayward head Coach has returned to West Virginia's
return in his roots, So all who wander are not lost?
Speaker 3 (15:04):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Yeah, all right, let's let's bounce around a little bit.
We pick any team you want. I don't care NFL College,
but I'm gonna start with the New York Jets. And
this one really applies only to a very specific situation. Okay,
so this is this is the New York Jets and
the fact that the the the Aaron, the tumultuous Aaron
Rodgers situation that only culminated in eighteen total games, eighteen
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over two seasons. And it's got to be Taylor Swifts.
We are never getting back together? Oh yeah, I could
well because also think about it, that song is about
like a six month relationship, right, so it's kind of
it's kind of it's the same in a way, like
the way the Jets and Rogers broke up had real
Taylor Swift Jake Jillenhall vibes.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Yeah, you're right, Well, it just never seems like it fit.
I mean, I have one for the Jets too. Maybe
this is I want to pickle you too bad. But
in that similar thing theme of just making bad decisions
that seemed to go nowhere, I take nine inch nails
hurt for the trip, you know, Yeah, I mean, Jeff
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Stands are loyal and you know I want to test
you that.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Oh god, that that hurts.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Man.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
All right, so listen before we I want to do
the Steelers, but I want to get to the Falcons first,
because you're a Falcons fan. You one for the Falcons,
So for.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
The Falcons, you know, everybody's been talking about this, this
whole blunder, this quarterback blunder. We bought Kirk Cousins for
you know, a bunch of money, and then we hired
drafted Michael Pinnix, and they're like, what do you do
with Kirk Cousins. But I've always been a believer that
in this longer season, this eighteen games or seventeen game
season they got going on, you need a good backup.
So so my song for the Falcons is it takes
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two to make a thing go right by Rob Bass
and dj ez Rock. So it takes two.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Wow, that's pretty good. I don't really have one for
the Falcons. I was thinking. I was, I'm just thinking
about this. I don't really have one for uh, for Atlanta.
That's pretty good. That's a that's that's a deep cut.
I like, hey, let's do this. I got one for
the Steelers because because especially because of the Aaron Rodgers
part of this, and so I'm gonna go I'm gonna
go with some Johnny Cash here, and I'm gonna go
h some newer Johnny Cash. This is a posthumous Johnny
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Cash song, but it is a perfect fit for this one.
Especially with Aaron Rodgers as the starting quarterback, right when
you think his career is coming to an end, and
and finally, after after months of not knowing what was
gonna happen. Uh, the song is Ain't no Grave by
Johnny Cash. Ain't no grave, because ain't no grave gonna
hold my body down. Apparently Aaron rodgers career just simply
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will not end.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
You know what I enjoyed about Aaron Rodgers right now
is his beard just keeps getting grayer and grayer and
look so old. But he's But I'm older than Aaron
Rodgers right now. But I think that Uh, are you
sure he looks at old? I don't look nearly that old.
Trust me, if you taught me a person, Yeah, Aaron Rodgers,
you might think you my grandfather would still be a stretch.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Wait wait, are you maybe you're underestimating how old Aaron
Rodgers or maybe I'm underestimating I always thought you were
closer to my age. Rogers is five years older than
he is. Forty one.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Yeah, I'm older. I'm older than Aaron Rodgers. Wow, he's
got more money.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
In a million years Aristotle. And you know, I like
someone could have put a gun to my head and said,
tell me who is older Aristotle or Aaron Rodgers? And
if the threat was that they were going to shoot,
I'd be dead.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
You know that comes up in conversation often, but putting
a gun to my head, no, who's older me? Or well?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Fair enough? Okay?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Any other run away from the Steelers too, because my
theme was since everybody seems to be on the hot
seat this year, and since Pittsburgh is the city of bridges,
my theme song for this Teelers just Bridge over Troubled Water.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Yeah, I like that. I like that. That's a good one.
That's a that's a real a good one. I've got
one for the Cleveland Browns, all right, give it to me.
How about how about Remy Zero's save Me, Somebody Save Me.
I can't do it. I'm not gonnave an attempt to
do it. It's it's like if Radiohead and you two
had a baby, that would be that'd be his voice.
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I can't possibly do that.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
So for the Browns, I use the I took the
the same approach he kind of did with Aaron Rodgers,
but I did it for Joe Flacco and I decided
that Brown's theme song is old man, this quarterback controversy, like,
oh man, look at mine. You know, yeah, those rookies
just want to play.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
That's really good coming back. That's really good.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
It's really good.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
All right, we got do we any others? I'm I'm
scrolling through right.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Now out here the Chiefs. Everybody's a hot on the
chief you know, Taylor and Travis.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Sure, congratulations guys.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
So the team the chief Since every time I watch
Chiefs game, the cameras are focused on the crowd. Their
song is have you seen her by the shy line?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Okay, all right, that's pretty good. All right, let me
let me let me throw one more out there. Let's
do the Detroit Lions, who have, as folks are probably aware,
have never won a Super Bowl. They've never even played
in a super Bowl. In fact, their only championships are
NFL championships. And you have to go all the way back.
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You gotta go. Let me see if I if I
have the year right in my head, I want to
say it was nineteen sixty, I might be thinking of
the Browns. No, it's even further back. It's nineteen fifty seven.
Is the last time the Detroit Lions won what was
then referred to as the NFL Championship. So we are
approaching seventy years for Detroit without a championship, and so
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for them, I present Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. The waiting.
That's so good because the waiting is the hardest part.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
The hardest part. Well, man, I tell you, I went
the opposite because I saw how much fun everyone was
having watching the Lions last year as they were getting
it all together, and it was just such a trend
that I decided that I was going to give them
a song that was a trend that that I'm not
sure if most people remember anymore, but it's the one
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that's watched me whip watch me nae. So that way
you can think back in the good times that you
had as a Detroit Lions fan while you were waiting.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Okay, that is pretty good. I will, I will, I
will give you I would not have It's not where
my brain would have gone. It's not where my brain
would have gone. I think I think I might be out,
you know, what would be fun. And of course we
don't have time to do this. I wonder how long
it would take us to do all thirty two or
or even like the whole Big Twelve, which admittedly the
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hardest part with the Big Twelve is nobody knows really
anything that's going on because every team has swapped out
so many players. No one knows Arizona State was picked
to finished last last year and they won.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
The whole thing I agree with you, like college football
to me is it's a little bit more fun because
any team has a chance now, you know, depending upon
how they've managed their nil. But honestly, like, yeah, it's
it's it's a bit rougher too, because you could have
a great team and then the next year just not
you know.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Yeah, you have no idea anymore.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
You just have no idea. So so it was like
fan bases. And then I encourage you that we were
talking about this when I was talking to Jim, but Twog,
We're like, just go to the games, have fun, and
quit taking it so seriously. I just enjoy the fact
that your team is playing. Especially for Mountaineer fans, we
have this bad habit of if we lose two or
three games, then all of a sudden, the tendance starts
to go down in the stadium, and you know, and
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folks are like, well, I'm gonna watch it home, just
get out and go to the games. It's a great atmosphere.
And I guarantee it's probably a playlist with all of
these songs we mentioned on there, and you're gonna you're
gonna see this music differently now. So for all the
w WVU fans out there and college football fans, get ready, man,
welcome to the jungle. That's what I would say.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
All right, Wait, I think I've got one. I think
I've got one for I've got one for the big twelves.
Okay for the big for the big twelve as a whole.
Tears for fears. Everybody wants to rule the world.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
That's great, right right, because that.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Kind of that's that's college football in a nutshell at
this point.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
That's great. I'm surprised. I think you nailed it right there.
Everybody wants to rule the world. This time of year.
Were running to circle back and see what what what
our current songs would be about halfway through the season,
See how that's a good idea.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
That's a good idea. So uh, sometime around Halloween, you.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Know, I think so too, man, I think this was
I didn't know how this was going to go out honestly,
I did not know. But you have some you know
your music.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Man, Well, okay, so listen, listen. I don't wanna, I
don't want to. I don't want to give away the
game here. But I have a lot of Spotify playlists.
So I'm like frantically scrolling through my playlists right now
and like, I just have so many because you got
to remember, you know, I I hosted like Trivia and
Bingo all those years. You got to make a lot
of playlists there.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
I feel like I may have told you this Aristotle,
and we're way off the beaten track here, but that's okay.
We got a few minutes. Uh, I feel like I
told you this, so I I have listened. I'm not
the most popular guy in the world. I'm not the
most unpopular guy in the world. I think like most people,
just like kind of an average dude. But the the
I think. Maybe the weirdest thing that I've ever said
in my life I said to my girlfriend, and I'm
(24:12):
going to say it to you now because it occurred,
well it occurred, and it occurred in front of her.
So so there had been two previous occasions where what occurred,
did not occur in front of her, and then there
was a third time where it did and I turned
to her and I said, that's the nicest thing anyone has
ever said to me. And it was someone came up
to me at one of these these bingo shows. Right
(24:33):
this sound, And I've actually stopped doing it because I'm
I'm so tight on time with high school sports and
everything else going on that I really could not afford
a night doing it anymore. But this was one of
my last shows. And older woman, not old, but just
older woman comes up and says, I just want you
to know. Our table was thinking about leaving and then
we heard you play Warren Zvon and we said this
(24:55):
is our guy, this is our guy. And then you
started playing Neil Young and then you like like like
it was just one one bop after another, and I
and I and she did not use the word bop.
I'm just I'm I'm transit. I'm translating this for the younger.
The younger audience that listens to the morning Siel. No,
it's exactly many. An old man is a bop after all.
But so so she says, that was like this, you know,
(25:17):
this is the best playlist I've ever heard on like
a trivia night or a Bingo night. And I was like,
so she walked away. I turned to my girlfriend and
I said, that is the nicest thing anyone has ever
said to me. And you you bear witness to it.
That was the nicest thing that anyone has ever said
to me, That you have the best trivia playlist. That
that that's happened to me three times, and I and
and that that sounds like a lot, except that I've
(25:38):
been hosting trivia and Bingo for almost a decade now,
so it probably means it. Probably there's a lot more
people who were.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Just like, probably, you're still probably above average. I don't
think many trivia compliments. It's usually the other Yeah, it's
usually they just keep walking.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
But so so that was good, you know that that
were right there for me, the best compliment I'd ever.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Written to say. If they have some theme songs for
their teams out there, you know, obviously like when you're
more partial to your team, you want to give them
a more positive song. But I bet any team could
have a song that was either positive or negative. So
you know, if they're up there on Twitter, if they're
out there on Facebook or something like, yeah, yeah, we
want to hear all about you know what, what's the
(26:20):
theme song that would go with your team? Looking for
optimism for this or looking ahead for this next football season?
What's gonna be the theme song that would you know?
Describe that right now?
Speaker 2 (26:30):
You can also yeah, we'll we'll post that on Facebook.
You can also email the show the Morningspiel at gmail
dot com if you if you don't feel like posting
it on Uh, I don't want to go public with it, Yeah,
if you don't want to go public with it on
the w K Facebook page. But but for what it's worth,
And while I agree with you, I think there's gonna
be a lot of there's gonna be a lot of
negativity as well. And I can think I'm I'm a
(26:51):
very optimistic Jets fan, Like I think I think they're
gonna be surprisingly good this year. I think they're gonna
win a surprising number of games.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
And I have I have staked my not really my reputation,
but I have staked my theoretical reputation on it. With
a couple of my friends, and one of them, who
is a Jets fan, is just so down on the
team this year. Now, granted, he was a big Aaron
Rodgers guy, so I get it. I'm the other way around.
I was never that crazy about Rogers to begin with.
So he's a big Aaron Rodgers guy. So he's really
down on the easily down on the whole concept of
(27:20):
the of the Jets right now. So I think for him,
it would it would probably be he would agree with
you on hurt. He would agree with you on hurt.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
He's a little bit less optimistic every time you have expectations.
He's just down heels from there. But if you if
you start low and you win a few games, like okay, good,
we're gonna do it. But I will say this about
the Jets, I think Justin Field is maybe the right
guy at the right time because he can get you
a first down. That's all you need. You just got
to keep getting first down. So even if he uses
(27:50):
his legs to get a first down, I think that'll
keep the Jets in the game. And plus, your defense
is like pretty tight right now. Man, I wouldn't worry
too much about the Jets. It's just kind of like, well,
he got the Patriots, the Dolphins, and the Bills. Yeah,
the Bills will be a bit dicey, but I'll tell
you what. My My song for the Bills was the
final Countdown by Europe Because if Josh Allen don't do
(28:11):
it this year, you can't just keep giving us dude awards. Man,
he's going to win a game, so to me, like
he's a good quarterback and he deserves a lot of
this praise. But I'm saying, come on, man, I can't
keep calling you the best if you ain't getting there.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
You're saying, I gotta, I gotta. I feel like there's
there's a good Bills one right on the right, on
the tip of my tongue, and I can't. I can't
grasp it. It's just it's not coming to me. It's
not coming to me.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Did you know this is a weird Buffalo trivia? So
Buffalo had what you call it. Rick James was from Buffalo.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Oh wow, I can't wait to see where this goes.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Okay, And so Rick James was draft dodging, so he
didn't want to go to the War, so he went
to Canada where he started a band with Noah, none
other than Neil Young. So then they went from Toronto
to Detroit, where they were signed to Motown. So did
you know that Rick James was in the band with
Neil Young and was signed to Motown with him?
Speaker 2 (29:10):
I had no idea that is. That is a wild story.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
It's true. I just watched a Rick James documentary and
I said, I can't wait to tell Alex. He just
has never heard this and I had never heard it.
And then they played the music. You just got to
check it out. I forgot what the band's name is.
But if you google Rick James's band with Neil Young,
you're a retreat.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
We're obviously doing that right now before I let you go,
Hold on, great, this completely throws the buffalo bills at it.
I'm telling you it's the super freak guy the Mina Birds.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
The Mina Birds.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
A Canadian R and B band formed in Toronto, Ontario
that was active from nineteen sixty four to nineteen sixty seven.
They never released an album.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Yes, do you know why they broke up? They broke
up because they started to get popular. People started to
know him, but then they found out Rick James was
a draft dodger.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Oh wow, I'm just.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Telling you, man, this is wild stuff. I'm just like,
where did that music. Nobody told me that Rick James
and no Young were in a band together. What in
the world, what's happening? But I figured, do it like that?
Speaker 2 (30:15):
I that's that's fantastic. James Ambrose Junior. I also did
not know. I had no idea that that was his
that was his real name.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
I didn't know, mister Truvia. I know all the truth.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Yeah, there's a there's a By the way, there's a
pretty long list. I don't recognize any of these other names.
There's a pretty long for for a band that never
released an album. There's a pretty long list of people
who were in this band, four of whom are dead,
one of which, of course, is Rick James. I don't
know who any of these people are, by the way,
I just I'm looking out there now. I've never heard
of outside of Neil Young and Rick James, I do
not know Goldie Mick John or John Raymond Goadsby does
(30:51):
appear to be somewhat well known. I just don't know.
Then there's Nick Saint Nicholas, a German Canadian musician who
was the Okay Okay, who is the bassist for Steppenwolf
in the late nineteen sixties.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Wow, and then together and.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Then oh and then okay, all right, all right, here
we go. Here's the last all right, So the rest
I'm only I've only got the ones who have links
on Wikipedia page or on to their own Wikipedia pages.
The rest of them are are are blanked out, so
they don't they obviously aren't very famous. It's yeah, right,
Bruce Palmer was in Buffalo this this might be the
original supergroup. But Bruce Palmer was in Buffalo Springfield. So
(31:29):
you had Neil Young, you had Buffalo Springfield, Rick James Steppenwolf.
Uh And actually.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Well the thing is they were all at Motown, so
then you had all the Funk brothers that were there.
You had like other Motown cats that were just like
helping them out. So just imagine like how all this
this time. It might have only been two weeks, who
knows how long this was, but they were there doing
this and somebody thought, man, this is a great idea.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
That's brilliant. And then and by the way, Goldie Goldie
Mick John was also Steppenwolf, So two Steppenwolf's a Buffalo Springfield.
And then Neil Young, who was in a whole bunch
of different bands and.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Would have stuck together, and Rick James would have been
proposing super Freak to to no young is. Hey, man,
I got this hit this bop as the kid would
call it.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
I this is this is interesting? What a what a?
What an absolute rabbit hole you have sent me down.
Now you're welcome, Thank you, thank.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
You for that.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
This is this is what I'm gonna be doing. I'll
tell you what. This is what I'm gonna be doing
later today I'm gonna be I'm supposed to be working
and instead I'm gonna be I'm gonna be doing this.
So Aristotle, thank you.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Man.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
I gotta let you go, but I want to remind
folks go check out. Sounds good to me. Always pumping
out fantastic stuff and sounds like a really fascinating conversation
with Jim mitouga uh set for this weekend and can
be heard if you're not you know, if you're not
a podcast type, which is fine, no, no no judgment.
You can hear it right here on WKMZ Sunday morning.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
That's right. Tune in and don't forget to visit Aristotle
Jones dot com. Shoot me a message if you want
to follow along and see we're I performing and you
can catch some new tunes videos and you know, I'd
just love to hear from you. So we'll check out
Aristotle Jones dot Go. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
It's my dream, it's my dream. This is this is
an actual dream of mine to know that folks listen
to my show and decided, you know what I'm gonna
I want to I want to connect with the sounds
good to me guy. That's my dream.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
It happens, It happens, folks, Folks come out and they
say they've heard it.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Oh, I fully believe. I fully believe folks listen to
your show and go, I want to connect with that guy.
I'm waiting to find out. Do they listen to my
show and go I want to connect with that guy.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
I want to wait till the kids are going. Did
you know the Aristotle Jones and Alex Weisp did a radio.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
That's right, the Super that's we were the original radio
show Super right, that's it. We're the Mina Birds.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
That's how they discovered the Mina Birds.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
I'm just saying, yeah, the Mina Birds of Thursday Morning
on w KMZ.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
That's our nickname. Were the Mina Birds. Of Thursday morning.
What's up?
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Yeah, that's great. All right. On that note, folks, we
got to go. The music is play. We can find
some Mina Birds music. There's gotta be some Mina Birds
music somewhere I don't know. Gonna go ahead and see
you tomorrow. Lots of sports talk tomorrow. We're gonna get
into some high school stuff, gonna get into the Mountaineers,
and of course we've got two hours of high school
football talk from seven to nine am coming up on
(34:18):
the Friday free for all. So it's gonna be a
whole big three hour sports block right here on the
morning Spill. Hopefully you'll come around for it, and maybe
you'll have some music recommendations for us based on what
you think your team is gonna do this year.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Those were all I was coming up with many of
those right off the cuffs. So folks, gotta go see
you tomorrow. Thanks again,
Ladies and gentlemen, grab your coffee and donuts, because it's
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The Athenians and topics discussed on the show do not
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head straight to the one o three to three WKMZ
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Good morning and welcome in everybody. This is the Morning
Spiel presented by Royal Water Treatment. I want to three
to three WKMZ. Great to be here with you, folks,
and we've got a good show lined up for you today.
It's a local Arts Thursday. We're gonna have Aristotle Jones
with us for the entire show today. That is right,
We're going to get to your news and sports headlines
that Aristotle Jones is going to jump on with us
(00:43):
for the entirety of today's show, which I'm very excited about.
That's I think that's going to be fantastic. Aristotle, of course,
one of my all time favorite recurring guests, and we
didn't have him one last week because we had our
buddy Adam from Mountain Stage on and it wasn't he
fun to talk to. He was great, But Aristotle back
with us this week. Hopefully he'll be okay with us
(01:03):
squeezing him for a week, but he'll be back today
and then Jason Young, we be back next week and
we'll continue on with our local arts carousel as we
always do, taking a look at what's going on around
the state of West Virginia and particularly around north central
West Virginia. And there's gonna be some great arts on
display this weekend in Clarksburg. By the way, the Italian
Heritage Festival coming up. All right, Hey, on that note,
(01:23):
let's go ahead and get to our first breaks. Like
I said, I'm not joking. We're gonna keep him for
basically the whole show today. We're gonna have some fun.
This is the Morning Spiel presented by Royal Water Treatment.
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Speaker 1 (01:36):
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Speaker 2 (01:43):
This is the Morning Spiel presented by Royal Water Treatment
on one O three three WKMZ. Good morning, Welcome back
in Alex Weederspiel here with you, and it's Thursday and
we're a week behind because we had a special guest
last week, and we thank Jason. I'm sorry, we thank
uh Amy Comer for setting that one up. Normally, when
it's Robinson Grand related, it's Jason, but Amy Comer actually
(02:05):
set it up for us. We'll we'll, we'll talk about
it a little bit with our our current guest, Aristotle
Jones is back with us, the Appalachian soul Man, here
to steer the ship of local arts Thursday.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
What's up, man, oh man, I'm just hearing about I'm
curious to see why I got bumped last week.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
It's a good one, it's a good see. Now now
I'm disappointed. Now, I know you don't you don't listen
on Thursdays when you're not on That's that's you know,
that's disappointing.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Well, you know, I got to check it out on podcasts.
That's what I do. I would just have to go
back and listen.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah no, yeah, so it's.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Not just appointment listening, but it's on demand.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
That is true. Appreciate that that is true. No, So
it was it was actually it was. It was really
cool and it was you know, Mountain Stage was in
was in Clarksburg last week, and I got a chance
to sit down at well sit down in a very
digital sense, with Adam Harris, the executive producer of Mountain Stage,
and we had we had a great chat. Yeah, we
had a really good chat. You were missed. You were missed,
(03:00):
and I even I reminded the listeners that you'd be
back this week for what it's worth.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
There you go. I know when people tuned in and
they heard Adam's voice, they were thinking, oh, yeah, this
is much better.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Boy short selling yourself there, man. I mean, don't get
me wrong. We had a good chat. We had a
really good chat. I encourage folks to go listen to
it if they haven't heard it yet. You know, Mountain
Stage is a really is a really cool program. I mean,
it's just the fact that it's in West Virginia. I
think sometimes people forget how cool it is, how lucky
we are to have a program like that that's promoting
not just artists who are well outside sort of the
(03:34):
pop mainstream, but you know, they do really great work
for local artists as well.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Oh absolutely well, just the fact that it proposes a
different perspective on our appreciation for music who visits the state.
You know, I think a lot of folks get a
glimpse inside of what's going on in West Virginia. They
have preconceived notions, and then they see us in a
show like Mountain Stage. That might be the only time
(03:58):
that they get a chance to actually hear real West
Virginians doing what West Virginians do. So I can totally
respect everything that Mountain Stage brings to the table. And
they tour around and I think I know several of
the producers and associate producers that work for Mountain Stage.
And the cool thing about it, it just was an
idea one day and folks started putting it together and
(04:20):
it's gone from just an idea a couple of West
Virginians have to being an internationally known broadcast. It's got
over forty years worth of history and legacy to it,
and you're absolutely right about what they do for the
regional artists as well.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yeah, sometimes it can really be just that organic, And
that's how I like to That's how I like to
think about Sounds Good to Me. It was just an
organic thing that came together one day, and in forty years,
sounds Good to Me is going to be is going
to be an institution.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
You know, we've done some amazing things. We were blessed
to have the Sounds Good Festival for the first three
years where we were able to bring some of the
artists that were on the show to the stage Dot
Pow Type Park. And we also have some really good news.
I've been partnering up with Pileton Park to take on
and curate that Johnny Johnson Festival for next year, and
so we'll be you'll hear a lot of the artists
(05:09):
that you've heard on Sounds Good to Me, you'll see
them on stages of Johnny Johnson Festival Polton Park in Fairmont. Also,
you know, I've had a chance to work through Robinson
Grand with them when we did the Born and Brad
Music and put some of the artists that you've heard
on Sounds Good to Me on the stage at the
Robinson Grand in that setting with that beautiful theater and
the beautiful stage there, and it's just great to be
(05:30):
able to see it in action. And I got to
give a shout out to all of the listeners because
not only do you find me when I'm out performing
and tell me that you're listening to the show, but
I've noticed and heard from other artists out there that
are performing that folks have come up to them and said, hey,
you know, I heard you on the radio and they
(05:50):
get excited. So that the attendance is growing, the engagement
is growing, and that's all because of the fan base here.
You guys are chomping at the bit ready to hear
some live music from West Virginia and check it out.
You're doing and your good job and showing up. That
sounds good to.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Me, very nice. Hey, what what's what's the latest that
sounds good to me?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
As far as this weekend sounds good to me? Is
a real treat. With football season right around the corner,
we are gonna focus on some WVU inspired either fight
songs or you know, parodies or or just hype songs
you know that that have come up along the way
over the course of the last several decades. I'm talking
to Jim Mitouga, who's our guests, and I don't know
(06:27):
if you've heard the the parody of Rocky Top that
he does, you know, good old Morgantown. So you put
that together a few years back. And so now that
Rich rides back and everybody's talking about the Mountaineers having
a Hard Edge. We're gonna debut his newest song, Hard
Edge Rich. Now this is a It's actually a very
interesting conversation because not only is he following in his
(06:50):
own footsteps of making a parody song or a hype
song for the Mountaineers or for Morgantown, he's used I'm
gonna say it AI, use AI to compare it, to
use his own voice in his own previous recordings to
help him finish this next song. So we have a
really interesting discussion on how AI could be integrated into
(07:11):
some of the musical projects that people are coming up with.
And it really I wasn't expecting it to take that turn.
I know you and I we talked about AI in
the past, but you know, once this came to the
table in this scenario, it seemed like a fun and
topical way to kind of broach the subject. And I'll
tell you what, it changed my perspective a little bit.
But also, you know, I think you got to listen
(07:33):
to it to see exactly what we're saying.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
And I will say I am not fundamentally opposed to
AI in the sense that like if if if people
who are you know, passionate musicians. And again, I don't
really have a good example for this, but artists in
general have a legitimate means or reason for using AI,
whatever that might be. For like, I don't I'm not
going to say. I'm not going to say, like, maybe
(07:56):
if they want to use it to like look up
and see, like is this like, am I you know
how close are my lyrics to another song?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Like?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Is this plagiarism or is this just borrow? Like what
I mean, I can't really think of of what a
good example would be, but I don't have an issue
with artists choosing to use it if there's a reason
for it. I think my issue is the idea of like,
and we talked about this so I won't get too
far into it again, but the idea of just outright mimicry,
where it's just like, hey, we're gonna come up with
(08:23):
this fake band on Spotify. That's like what if my
morning jacket was made by a robot? And and go
from there. You know, I think that's where I agree.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
I agree with you. This was a kind of an
interesting hybrid where I never I never really thought about it,
And this was an artist Jim himself you know, who
had used his own material as source material, and so
it was just kind of like him but Ai, and
I was like, well, that's an interesting way to put it,
you know, versus like someone who of course might want
to be like here's a new Tailor Swift song, or
(08:52):
like you said, here's a song that's inspired by this
song that does this. But also I think it was
interesting because his whole craft that have been kind of
the parody realm, kind of like weird Ale. So at
the end of the day, I think Ai does that
really well, yeah, it's one of those interesting things. And
he goes, well, I'm not trying to make a million dollars,
not trying to fool anybody or make him think that's
(09:15):
my song. He goes, it's just a fun song to
celebrate the mountaineers that when people hear while they're walking
around tailgating, you know, they're having their red solo cup
and there's singing along. It's just a song that's out there.
And I thought, well, you know, that's kind of how
I use AI too, when I want to hear something
funny that I don't really want to put a lot
of time into make there it is you know, but honestly,
(09:36):
I also spend thousands of dollars in a music studio
hiring a musician, So it kind of goes back and forth.
But the conversation that we have is really really interesting
and it's provoked. It's provocative, so I would I would say,
take a listen to it. Sounds good to me. This
weekend is on Sunday morning at ten am right there
on WKMZ, but you can also listen to it on
other metro news platforms, and I think you'll learn something.
(09:59):
And you hear some really cool songs to get a
little nostalgia for WU football and a little bit of
excitement for the new head coach and and all the
things that are going on. You get to hear the
new song hard Edge Rich. So check it out and
let me know your opinions. You know, is is it
too much? AI? Is it not enough? AI? I guess
is it? Can there not be enough? AI? Who knows?
(10:19):
You know?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
I Uh, I'll give it a listen. I'm looking I'm
looking forward. That's an intriguing, intriguing concept. I know. We
also have, uh, we want to get to the we have.
We have kind of a fun little little game set
for the back half of our segment here. But so
before we do that, uh, local music coming up in
the region. I'm gonna let I'm gonna I'm gonna let
you just just just lay it all out there and
(10:42):
then we're gonna get into the goofy stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
You know. I'm telling you what. While the weather is
still nice, it's kind of cool and off, you're gonna
have some of those hot days, but there's still gonna
be lots of fantastic live music outside. Hop out to
the Palatin Park this weekend. You can catch their concerts
here is still going on at Ruby and Theater in
downtown Morgantown. You get Maddie and Tay come into town.
It's a free concert. Downtown Fright Farm Mountains, Fifthfville, Pennsylvania House.
(11:08):
Spooky Season is gonna be coming up, so get out
and catch their concert series. There's just so much going on.
We're transitioning from that fall to the or from the
summer to the fall. I would say, don't hesitate to
go to places like the Asylum and catch a live
show when they're doing their Haunted aside them coming up
next month. Also, Winding Jazz is coming up in Morgantown,
you can catch Adriane and Adrienne Michael Soul show. He's
(11:32):
gonna be doing a great show at Wine and Jazz.
The Black Heritage Festival downtown, Clerk Squad's coming up. That's
gonna be amazing. The Italian Airge Festival is gonna have
live music, so there's no shortage of activities and places
to go catch bands. Not to mention our amazing music
venues like Tipsy T's, Davis and Brothers Music Hall on Morgantown.
Went you through Pleasant Street, you can still go catch
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music out of Tropics, out of Cheat Lake. You can
go over to the Copper House Grill or sorry, Brickside
Grill that's right there in Fairmount or down in Clarksburg,
and there's just tons of live music happening. And it
is that time of year where you can decide whether
you're going to still wear your jeans or you're gonna
wear your flanels. You can come out your summer gear.
Just be prepared for drastic weather changes for these outside
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summer shows.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Yeah, the Italian Heritage Festival is going to be number
one on everybody's mind, I think in Clarksburg this weekend
We've already done a fair bit on it on this
show as well, of course, And it's worth noting that
what a weekend for north central West Virginia. For Labor Day.
You get the start of high school football, which of
course is happening across the state. You get Mountain Your football,
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you get the Italian Heritage Festival. This is all wrapped
up into one big, one big fun weekend. So I
hope people are going to get set to enjoy it,
and they finally get some nice weather too.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
That's right. I mean it's been brutal. It's kind of
been off and on. Either we got like torrential rain
for like several weeks, and then we got like a
heat wave. And I think I woke up this morning
with like fifty degrees is when I was driving to work,
I didn't know it was.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yeah, it was cold to my house to dress here.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
This is all right, But I did not complain. I
just kind of took a deep breath and said, all right,
this is.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Brisk Yes, I like brisk. I will take that weather
in August. I am not going to complain, especially after this. Yeah, exactly.
That's that's my band name, brisk In August. Uh, that's
uh okay, Hey, let's let's let's dive into I like
the premise of this. So you pitched this to me,
and I think, I think it's a great idea. I
only really have one good one, but I think as
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we go along, I think we'll we'll come up with
a few more. But so and we go. I feel
like we have to start with the Mountaineers. But so,
h your your concept, this is this is all you.
The concept was theme songs to represent football teams this season,
and I love this. I have one for the New
York Jets, but I want to start with the Mountaineers.
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And I'm gonna I'm gonna, I am going to put
the pressure on you because I'm gonna I'm gonna see
if I can think of what I can if I
can think of one while you're pitching me yours. What's
the theme song for West Virginia football this season?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
The theme song is It's a Beautiful Day. I tell
you what. We're gonna look forward and we're not talking
about the climb anymore. We're not talking about anything from
the past. We're looking forward. And since we're undefeated right now,
and since you know in the Big twelve. We just
have nothing but opportunity for Mountaineer fans. It's a beautiful
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day where we don't have to complain about anything. We
can just show up and tailgate and have a great time.
So that's my that's my theme for the Mountaineers this year.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Okay, I'm gonna go with I'm gonna go I'm gonna
go really off board with this one. I'm gonna go
with I'm gonna go with old ninety seven's And the
song is all Who Wander And of course it's it's
the famous literary quote all who wander are not lost,
and that's basically the spine of the song and the
chorus of the of the song. But all who wander
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are wandering wayward head Coach has returned to West Virginia's
return in his roots, So all who wander are not lost?
Speaker 3 (15:04):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Yeah, all right, let's let's bounce around a little bit.
We pick any team you want. I don't care NFL College,
but I'm gonna start with the New York Jets. And
this one really applies only to a very specific situation. Okay,
so this is this is the New York Jets and
the fact that the the the Aaron, the tumultuous Aaron
Rodgers situation that only culminated in eighteen total games, eighteen
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over two seasons. And it's got to be Taylor Swifts.
We are never getting back together? Oh yeah, I could
well because also think about it, that song is about
like a six month relationship, right, so it's kind of
it's kind of it's the same in a way, like
the way the Jets and Rogers broke up had real
Taylor Swift Jake Jillenhall vibes.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Yeah, you're right, Well, it just never seems like it fit.
I mean, I have one for the Jets too. Maybe
this is I want to pickle you too bad. But
in that similar thing theme of just making bad decisions
that seemed to go nowhere, I take nine inch nails
hurt for the trip, you know, Yeah, I mean, Jeff
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Stands are loyal and you know I want to test
you that.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Oh god, that that hurts.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Man.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
All right, so listen before we I want to do
the Steelers, but I want to get to the Falcons first,
because you're a Falcons fan. You one for the Falcons,
So for.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
The Falcons, you know, everybody's been talking about this, this
whole blunder, this quarterback blunder. We bought Kirk Cousins for
you know, a bunch of money, and then we hired
drafted Michael Pinnix, and they're like, what do you do
with Kirk Cousins. But I've always been a believer that
in this longer season, this eighteen games or seventeen game
season they got going on, you need a good backup.
So so my song for the Falcons is it takes
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two to make a thing go right by Rob Bass
and dj ez Rock. So it takes two.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Wow, that's pretty good. I don't really have one for
the Falcons. I was thinking. I was, I'm just thinking
about this. I don't really have one for uh, for Atlanta.
That's pretty good. That's a that's that's a deep cut.
I like, hey, let's do this. I got one for
the Steelers because because especially because of the Aaron Rodgers
part of this, and so I'm gonna go I'm gonna
go with some Johnny Cash here, and I'm gonna go
h some newer Johnny Cash. This is a posthumous Johnny
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Cash song, but it is a perfect fit for this one.
Especially with Aaron Rodgers as the starting quarterback, right when
you think his career is coming to an end, and
and finally, after after months of not knowing what was
gonna happen. Uh, the song is Ain't no Grave by
Johnny Cash. Ain't no grave, because ain't no grave gonna
hold my body down. Apparently Aaron rodgers career just simply
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will not end.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
You know what I enjoyed about Aaron Rodgers right now
is his beard just keeps getting grayer and grayer and
look so old. But he's But I'm older than Aaron
Rodgers right now. But I think that Uh, are you
sure he looks at old? I don't look nearly that old.
Trust me, if you taught me a person, Yeah, Aaron Rodgers,
you might think you my grandfather would still be a stretch.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Wait wait, are you maybe you're underestimating how old Aaron
Rodgers or maybe I'm underestimating I always thought you were
closer to my age. Rogers is five years older than
he is. Forty one.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Yeah, I'm older. I'm older than Aaron Rodgers. Wow, he's
got more money.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
In a million years Aristotle. And you know, I like
someone could have put a gun to my head and said,
tell me who is older Aristotle or Aaron Rodgers? And
if the threat was that they were going to shoot,
I'd be dead.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
You know that comes up in conversation often, but putting
a gun to my head, no, who's older me? Or well?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Fair enough? Okay?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Any other run away from the Steelers too, because my
theme was since everybody seems to be on the hot
seat this year, and since Pittsburgh is the city of bridges,
my theme song for this Teelers just Bridge over Troubled Water.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Yeah, I like that. I like that. That's a good one.
That's a that's a real a good one. I've got
one for the Cleveland Browns, all right, give it to me.
How about how about Remy Zero's save Me, Somebody Save Me.
I can't do it. I'm not gonnave an attempt to
do it. It's it's like if Radiohead and you two
had a baby, that would be that'd be his voice.
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I can't possibly do that.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
So for the Browns, I use the I took the
the same approach he kind of did with Aaron Rodgers,
but I did it for Joe Flacco and I decided
that Brown's theme song is old man, this quarterback controversy, like,
oh man, look at mine. You know, yeah, those rookies
just want to play.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
That's really good coming back. That's really good.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
It's really good.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
All right, we got do we any others? I'm I'm
scrolling through right.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Now out here the Chiefs. Everybody's a hot on the
chief you know, Taylor and Travis.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Sure, congratulations guys.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
So the team the chief Since every time I watch
Chiefs game, the cameras are focused on the crowd. Their
song is have you seen her by the shy line?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Okay, all right, that's pretty good. All right, let me
let me let me throw one more out there. Let's
do the Detroit Lions, who have, as folks are probably aware,
have never won a Super Bowl. They've never even played
in a super Bowl. In fact, their only championships are
NFL championships. And you have to go all the way back.
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You gotta go. Let me see if I if I
have the year right in my head, I want to
say it was nineteen sixty, I might be thinking of
the Browns. No, it's even further back. It's nineteen fifty seven.
Is the last time the Detroit Lions won what was
then referred to as the NFL Championship. So we are
approaching seventy years for Detroit without a championship, and so
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for them, I present Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. The waiting.
That's so good because the waiting is the hardest part.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
The hardest part. Well, man, I tell you, I went
the opposite because I saw how much fun everyone was
having watching the Lions last year as they were getting
it all together, and it was just such a trend
that I decided that I was going to give them
a song that was a trend that that I'm not
sure if most people remember anymore, but it's the one
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that's watched me whip watch me nae. So that way
you can think back in the good times that you
had as a Detroit Lions fan while you were waiting.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Okay, that is pretty good. I will, I will, I
will give you I would not have It's not where
my brain would have gone. It's not where my brain
would have gone. I think I think I might be out,
you know, what would be fun. And of course we
don't have time to do this. I wonder how long
it would take us to do all thirty two or
or even like the whole Big Twelve, which admittedly the
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hardest part with the Big Twelve is nobody knows really
anything that's going on because every team has swapped out
so many players. No one knows Arizona State was picked
to finished last last year and they won.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
The whole thing I agree with you, like college football
to me is it's a little bit more fun because
any team has a chance now, you know, depending upon
how they've managed their nil. But honestly, like, yeah, it's
it's it's a bit rougher too, because you could have
a great team and then the next year just not
you know.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Yeah, you have no idea anymore.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
You just have no idea. So so it was like
fan bases. And then I encourage you that we were
talking about this when I was talking to Jim, but Twog,
We're like, just go to the games, have fun, and
quit taking it so seriously. I just enjoy the fact
that your team is playing. Especially for Mountaineer fans, we
have this bad habit of if we lose two or
three games, then all of a sudden, the tendance starts
to go down in the stadium, and you know, and
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folks are like, well, I'm gonna watch it home, just
get out and go to the games. It's a great atmosphere.
And I guarantee it's probably a playlist with all of
these songs we mentioned on there, and you're gonna you're
gonna see this music differently now. So for all the
w WVU fans out there and college football fans, get ready, man,
welcome to the jungle. That's what I would say.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
All right, Wait, I think I've got one. I think
I've got one for I've got one for the big twelves.
Okay for the big for the big twelve as a whole.
Tears for fears. Everybody wants to rule the world.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
That's great, right right, because that.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Kind of that's that's college football in a nutshell at
this point.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
That's great. I'm surprised. I think you nailed it right there.
Everybody wants to rule the world. This time of year.
Were running to circle back and see what what what
our current songs would be about halfway through the season,
See how that's a good idea.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
That's a good idea. So uh, sometime around Halloween, you.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Know, I think so too, man, I think this was
I didn't know how this was going to go out honestly,
I did not know. But you have some you know
your music.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Man, Well, okay, so listen, listen. I don't wanna, I
don't want to. I don't want to give away the
game here. But I have a lot of Spotify playlists.
So I'm like frantically scrolling through my playlists right now
and like, I just have so many because you got
to remember, you know, I I hosted like Trivia and
Bingo all those years. You got to make a lot
of playlists there.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
I feel like I may have told you this Aristotle,
and we're way off the beaten track here, but that's okay.
We got a few minutes. Uh, I feel like I
told you this, so I I have listened. I'm not
the most popular guy in the world. I'm not the
most unpopular guy in the world. I think like most people,
just like kind of an average dude. But the the
I think. Maybe the weirdest thing that I've ever said
in my life I said to my girlfriend, and I'm
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going to say it to you now because it occurred,
well it occurred, and it occurred in front of her.
So so there had been two previous occasions where what occurred,
did not occur in front of her, and then there
was a third time where it did and I turned
to her and I said, that's the nicest thing anyone has
ever said to me. And it was someone came up
to me at one of these these bingo shows. Right
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this sound, And I've actually stopped doing it because I'm
I'm so tight on time with high school sports and
everything else going on that I really could not afford
a night doing it anymore. But this was one of
my last shows. And older woman, not old, but just
older woman comes up and says, I just want you
to know. Our table was thinking about leaving and then
we heard you play Warren Zvon and we said this
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is our guy, this is our guy. And then you
started playing Neil Young and then you like like like
it was just one one bop after another, and I
and I and she did not use the word bop.
I'm just I'm I'm transit. I'm translating this for the younger.
The younger audience that listens to the morning Siel. No,
it's exactly many. An old man is a bop after all.
But so so she says, that was like this, you know,
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this is the best playlist I've ever heard on like
a trivia night or a Bingo night. And I was like,
so she walked away. I turned to my girlfriend and
I said, that is the nicest thing anyone has ever
said to me. And you you bear witness to it.
That was the nicest thing that anyone has ever said
to me, That you have the best trivia playlist. That
that that's happened to me three times, and I and
and that that sounds like a lot, except that I've
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been hosting trivia and Bingo for almost a decade now,
so it probably means it. Probably there's a lot more
people who were.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Just like, probably, you're still probably above average. I don't
think many trivia compliments. It's usually the other Yeah, it's
usually they just keep walking.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
But so so that was good, you know that that
were right there for me, the best compliment I'd ever.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Written to say. If they have some theme songs for
their teams out there, you know, obviously like when you're
more partial to your team, you want to give them
a more positive song. But I bet any team could
have a song that was either positive or negative. So
you know, if they're up there on Twitter, if they're
out there on Facebook or something like, yeah, yeah, we
want to hear all about you know what, what's the
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theme song that would go with your team? Looking for
optimism for this or looking ahead for this next football season?
What's gonna be the theme song that would you know?
Describe that right now?
Speaker 2 (26:30):
You can also yeah, we'll we'll post that on Facebook.
You can also email the show the Morningspiel at gmail
dot com if you if you don't feel like posting
it on Uh, I don't want to go public with it, Yeah,
if you don't want to go public with it on
the w K Facebook page. But but for what it's worth,
And while I agree with you, I think there's gonna
be a lot of there's gonna be a lot of
negativity as well. And I can think I'm I'm a
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very optimistic Jets fan, Like I think I think they're
gonna be surprisingly good this year. I think they're gonna
win a surprising number of games.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
And I have I have staked my not really my reputation,
but I have staked my theoretical reputation on it. With
a couple of my friends, and one of them, who
is a Jets fan, is just so down on the
team this year. Now, granted, he was a big Aaron
Rodgers guy, so I get it. I'm the other way around.
I was never that crazy about Rogers to begin with.
So he's a big Aaron Rodgers guy. So he's really
down on the easily down on the whole concept of
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the of the Jets right now. So I think for him,
it would it would probably be he would agree with
you on hurt. He would agree with you on hurt.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
He's a little bit less optimistic every time you have expectations.
He's just down heels from there. But if you if
you start low and you win a few games, like okay, good,
we're gonna do it. But I will say this about
the Jets, I think Justin Field is maybe the right
guy at the right time because he can get you
a first down. That's all you need. You just got
to keep getting first down. So even if he uses
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his legs to get a first down, I think that'll
keep the Jets in the game. And plus, your defense
is like pretty tight right now. Man, I wouldn't worry
too much about the Jets. It's just kind of like, well,
he got the Patriots, the Dolphins, and the Bills. Yeah,
the Bills will be a bit dicey, but I'll tell
you what. My My song for the Bills was the
final Countdown by Europe Because if Josh Allen don't do
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it this year, you can't just keep giving us dude awards. Man,
he's going to win a game, so to me, like
he's a good quarterback and he deserves a lot of
this praise. But I'm saying, come on, man, I can't
keep calling you the best if you ain't getting there.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
You're saying, I gotta, I gotta. I feel like there's
there's a good Bills one right on the right, on
the tip of my tongue, and I can't. I can't
grasp it. It's just it's not coming to me. It's
not coming to me.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Did you know this is a weird Buffalo trivia? So
Buffalo had what you call it. Rick James was from Buffalo.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Oh wow, I can't wait to see where this goes.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Okay, And so Rick James was draft dodging, so he
didn't want to go to the War, so he went
to Canada where he started a band with Noah, none
other than Neil Young. So then they went from Toronto
to Detroit, where they were signed to Motown. So did
you know that Rick James was in the band with
Neil Young and was signed to Motown with him?
Speaker 2 (29:10):
I had no idea that is. That is a wild story.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
It's true. I just watched a Rick James documentary and
I said, I can't wait to tell Alex. He just
has never heard this and I had never heard it.
And then they played the music. You just got to
check it out. I forgot what the band's name is.
But if you google Rick James's band with Neil Young,
you're a retreat.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
We're obviously doing that right now before I let you go,
Hold on, great, this completely throws the buffalo bills at it.
I'm telling you it's the super freak guy the Mina Birds.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
The Mina Birds.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
A Canadian R and B band formed in Toronto, Ontario
that was active from nineteen sixty four to nineteen sixty seven.
They never released an album.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Yes, do you know why they broke up? They broke
up because they started to get popular. People started to
know him, but then they found out Rick James was
a draft dodger.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Oh wow, I'm just.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Telling you, man, this is wild stuff. I'm just like,
where did that music. Nobody told me that Rick James
and no Young were in a band together. What in
the world, what's happening? But I figured, do it like that?
Speaker 2 (30:15):
I that's that's fantastic. James Ambrose Junior. I also did
not know. I had no idea that that was his
that was his real name.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
I didn't know, mister Truvia. I know all the truth.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Yeah, there's a there's a By the way, there's a
pretty long list. I don't recognize any of these other names.
There's a pretty long for for a band that never
released an album. There's a pretty long list of people
who were in this band, four of whom are dead,
one of which, of course, is Rick James. I don't
know who any of these people are, by the way,
I just I'm looking out there now. I've never heard
of outside of Neil Young and Rick James, I do
not know Goldie Mick John or John Raymond Goadsby does
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appear to be somewhat well known. I just don't know.
Then there's Nick Saint Nicholas, a German Canadian musician who
was the Okay Okay, who is the bassist for Steppenwolf
in the late nineteen sixties.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Wow, and then together and.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Then oh and then okay, all right, all right, here
we go. Here's the last all right, So the rest
I'm only I've only got the ones who have links
on Wikipedia page or on to their own Wikipedia pages.
The rest of them are are are blanked out, so
they don't they obviously aren't very famous. It's yeah, right,
Bruce Palmer was in Buffalo this this might be the
original supergroup. But Bruce Palmer was in Buffalo Springfield. So
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you had Neil Young, you had Buffalo Springfield, Rick James Steppenwolf.
Uh And actually.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Well the thing is they were all at Motown, so
then you had all the Funk brothers that were there.
You had like other Motown cats that were just like
helping them out. So just imagine like how all this
this time. It might have only been two weeks, who
knows how long this was, but they were there doing
this and somebody thought, man, this is a great idea.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
That's brilliant. And then and by the way, Goldie Goldie
Mick John was also Steppenwolf, So two Steppenwolf's a Buffalo Springfield.
And then Neil Young, who was in a whole bunch
of different bands and.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Would have stuck together, and Rick James would have been
proposing super Freak to to no young is. Hey, man,
I got this hit this bop as the kid would
call it.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
I this is this is interesting? What a what a?
What an absolute rabbit hole you have sent me down.
Now you're welcome, Thank you, thank.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
You for that.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
This is this is what I'm gonna be doing. I'll
tell you what. This is what I'm gonna be doing
later today I'm gonna be I'm supposed to be working
and instead I'm gonna be I'm gonna be doing this.
So Aristotle, thank you.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Man.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
I gotta let you go, but I want to remind
folks go check out. Sounds good to me. Always pumping
out fantastic stuff and sounds like a really fascinating conversation
with Jim mitouga uh set for this weekend and can
be heard if you're not you know, if you're not
a podcast type, which is fine, no, no no judgment.
You can hear it right here on WKMZ Sunday morning.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
That's right. Tune in and don't forget to visit Aristotle
Jones dot com. Shoot me a message if you want
to follow along and see we're I performing and you
can catch some new tunes videos and you know, I'd
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Speaker 2 (33:10):
It's my dream, it's my dream. This is this is
an actual dream of mine to know that folks listen
to my show and decided, you know what I'm gonna
I want to I want to connect with the sounds
good to me guy. That's my dream.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
It happens, It happens, folks, Folks come out and they
say they've heard it.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Oh, I fully believe. I fully believe folks listen to
your show and go, I want to connect with that guy.
I'm waiting to find out. Do they listen to my
show and go I want to connect with that guy.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
I want to wait till the kids are going. Did
you know the Aristotle Jones and Alex Weisp did a radio.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
That's right, the Super that's we were the original radio
show Super right, that's it. We're the Mina Birds.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
That's how they discovered the Mina Birds.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
I'm just saying, yeah, the Mina Birds of Thursday Morning
on w KMZ.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
That's our nickname. Were the Mina Birds. Of Thursday morning.
What's up?
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Yeah, that's great. All right. On that note, folks, we
got to go. The music is play. We can find
some Mina Birds music. There's gotta be some Mina Birds
music somewhere I don't know. Gonna go ahead and see
you tomorrow. Lots of sports talk tomorrow. We're gonna get
into some high school stuff, gonna get into the Mountaineers,
and of course we've got two hours of high school
football talk from seven to nine am coming up on
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the Friday free for all. So it's gonna be a
whole big three hour sports block right here on the
morning Spill. Hopefully you'll come around for it, and maybe
you'll have some music recommendations for us based on what
you think your team is gonna do this year.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Those were all I was coming up with many of
those right off the cuffs. So folks, gotta go see
you tomorrow. Thanks again,
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