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Good morning, everybody, and welcome in.
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This is the Morning Spiel presented by Royal Water Treatment
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
Alex Witerspiel here with you. Good to be here with
you as always, folks.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I wish I had I wish I had better stuff
for you today, I SHO had better stuff for you.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
No, I mean, don't get me wrong. The show is
going to be good. The show is going to be good.
I think the show, I.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Think it is gonna be really good. We're gonna chat
with Amy Komer from the Clarksburg CVB. She's the executive
director there, and we're gonna chat with her about what's
going on around Clarksburg, including a yacht rock show that's
coming up. Yacht Rock never not quite a genre of
music that I ever really got into, but I know
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people really dig it.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I know people really dig it.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
There is a there's a documentary actually about yacht rock
that I've been meeting to watch. Because if you're just
a fan of music in general, I'm told it will
it will, It'll tickle, It'll tickle some stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
It will, it will hit it will, it will hit.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
The nerve endings right, it'll uh what do they say,
we're runner the dopamine high.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
It'll get you.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
It'll get you your dopamine high. That said things that
will not get you your dopamine high.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Jaheim White and.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
And Bray are out for the season. So I know
we spent all of yesterday talking Mountain your Football. We're
not going to talk Mountain your Football at all today,
but I did just want to start and just say
if you thought the comments that I got yesterday on
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Speaker 2 (02:07):
My suspicion is.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Whether you want to live it, leave us you know
a message or not, You're more than welcome to. My
suspicion is things are just gonna get worse on that front.
The pessimism is going to continue significantly. How how can
you blame folks at the moment based on what we're
what we're seeing. And again, I I don't think I
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go as far as like the folks who are ready
to jump ship on Rod already, like take a pill, okay,
But at the same time, I get it because I
think I think Rod there's some self inflicted wounds with
the reference to a possible national championship, which I know
he wasn't referring to this season, but I think you
put a little extra pressure on yourself when you when
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you say that that part out loud, and I think
mentioning that in year one he didn't feel like he
could afford to three win year again, I just think
he put a little extra pressure on himself. And now
that pressure is going to have to be handled without
the team's best offensive player and number two wide receiver.
So that's fun and I'm sure that'll go over great.
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I'm not ready to jump ship on the season, but
it has the potential to spin off the rails pretty
easily here. So yeah, that's fun for everybody, right, We're
all excited about that. We'll take a break. This is
the Morning Spiel presented by Royal Water Treatment. I want
to three three wkms come back, hit your news in
sports headlines. Then we'll get to some yacht rock talk
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among other things, with Amy Comer coming up in the
main segment today on the show. Back here coming up
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Speaker 1 (04:02):
Improving the start to your day with a morning Spiel
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Speaker 3 (04:10):
Morning Spiel for Senday by Royal Water Treatment. I want
o three to three wk mz. Welcome back into the
show everybody. It is Tuesday, and if you can believe
it's been you know a little bit since the Italian
Heritage Festival like that, that just kind of flew by
and we have Amy Comer back from the Clarksburg CVB.
The executive director I got it right this time. I
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nailed it. That'll be I'll go like one for four,
like a like a like a like a middle average baseball,
like number seven hit, number seven hitter. I'll I'll get
it right one out of four times.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Amy, how are you?
Speaker 4 (04:44):
I'm well. I'm well, Alex, how are you?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I'm good.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
So I didn't get a chance to make it to
the to the festival that weekend. I'm gonna have to
live vicariously through you.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
So so how was it?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (04:55):
The weather weather was outstanding. I mean the weather was
just I mean, we couldn't have had better weather. The
acts were amazing. I got to meet Frankie Avalon.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
That seemed to be a highlight for a lot of people.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Like I mean, you know, and I'm fifty, so like,
I mean, you know, I was. I was watching his
movies on like classic channels, right, but my mom still
made me watch them because like she loved Frankie Avalon,
and I you know, the joy of having my office
(05:29):
Takeo taken over by the production people for the Italian
Herdage Festival is I get to meet the big Axe.
So like I got to hang out with Frankie Avalon
for an hour, and you know, he was just he
was just sitting there telling you know, just telling me
stories about like you know, the movie Whole Beach Blanket Bingo,
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try seeing that one three times fast. And he said
that they like they did like I don't know, maybe
twenty of those movies like the like around that premise.
And he said they filmed it in fifteen days.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Oh wow, yeah, he said.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
It wasn't like you know now where you know it
takes months and months to film these like movies, and
you know that all of his movies, he said they
took fifteen days. He said, you know, they had directors
that knew what they wanted and you know, they went
in and got it done. There was no fluff. So
(06:34):
I told him, I was crushed when I found out
that when he and then net Finchello were in a couple.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
So, you know, what I did not realize is how
much of his music has been used like in pop culture,
Like like, did you know that they had used one
of his songs in Dexter.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I had no idea.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Yeah, yeah, apparently in one of the season four episodes
of Dexter. And and so I have not seen Dexter,
my my my partner has, so I will have to
ask her. She wants to rewatch it too, so maybe
I'll maybe I'll actually give it a shot. I've seen
like the first two seasons, but apparently I haven't gotten
far enough to hear they use a Frankie Avalon song
uh in one of the episodes of season four. It's
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also in It's funny that it's used this way. It's
using in a horror movie ten clover Field Lane, which
was like a sort of sequel to clover Field if
you remember that one. Yeah, I thought that was I
thought that was interesting. Uh, Like it's it's a kind
of a funny juxtaposition, but also good for him because
when you make it to be like that big that
you're you're in these sort of a list series and
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and and and movies that your music's being used and
that's that's that's no small thing.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Well. Yeah, in Chad and I my my my partner
and I were talking about him doing like the guest
spots and uh, and we're still struggling. I think it's
the big cahuna. It was like it was kind of
a spin off of he and Annette's movie of like
his old movies, you know, where it was like a
(08:03):
bunch of kids hanging out of the beach. They were surfing,
and then you know they get into trouble and you know,
just kind of like it was like an eighties earlier
eighties or early nineties, like spent off, like you know,
kind of like a kind of like the Scream what
they did with the.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Scream right right, right right, they made.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
The spoofs of him, but you know, he even did that, like,
I mean, he's just I don't know, he was just
it was very fascinating just getting to talk to him
and listen, you know, hearing his stories and you know,
it was just it was and I did, of course
I got a picture with him, so that was cool too.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Well, yeah, you have to. I'm just it is really
funny by the way I'm going through this now. Did
you know he was on an episode of Full House? Yes,
I did not know that.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
That's really cool.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
I'm gonna I mean, I haven't seen that show in
about a million years, so I'm gonna have to go.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I'm gonna have to go check that out.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
He was also in I mean again you talk about
like it's it's so funny, like we only talked about
him two weeks ago. We were only just talking about
him as sort of the musician, like the acting. I
didn't even know he was in the movie Casino.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I had no idea. And I've seen Casino's great.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
It's a oh that's a he's and he plays himself though,
which is pretty classic. So that's that's great. I'm gonna
have to go back and rewatch now because it's been
a while. Maybe I didn't know who Frankie Avalon was
when I saw Casino, which probably means I was too
young to see Casino when I saw Casino. Probably what
that means. Uh, it's all right, it's all right. That
wasn't you know every I think I think we every
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parent knows that at some point their kid's gonna watch
something that they probably prefer they didn't at a certain age, right.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Oh yeah, yeah. Mine mine was for my son. Mine
was Transformers.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Oh wait, which one like the recent ones? Right?
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Yeah? It was like when he was if he saw
it when he was.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Three, Yeah, that's oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Do you remember the movie The Truman Show.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Yeah, okay, so I think I was so my mom
was watching that and she had rented movie and we
in the house we lived in. It was before she
had bought a house. Was I guess the last house
that she rented before she was able to buy a house.
So this is going back into the late nineties. But
so I was about nine. I don't think I was
ten yet. So I'm like nine years old and I'm
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playing like a video game on the computer, and I mean,
this is really like kind of like kids do really funny,
like goofy things. And she's watching this movie and of course,
you know what, The Truman Show is like pretty trippy
for anyone.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
And so imagine at nine year old being like, what
if my whole life is TV?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
So I stopped playing video games and I just like
turned around in the computer chair and just started watching it.
And to her credit, she actually let me do it.
I'm not sure she should have, because I don't know
if a nine year old should be asking the question,
hey is this real? Yeah, I mean, not the best
question for that age, but.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Hey, well that and I'm sorry. I was just trying
to get over the fact that.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
You were nine, Like we had once upon a time
there was yeah, well yeah, yeah, I know, yeah, like
I was I was nine in the nineties.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
But no, I mean I did my bybe.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
It's funny you mentioned that because I just did the
South Harrison game a couple on Friday, the one that
got suspended with uh uh you're you get ready to gasp?
My color commentator is like fifteen years younger than me.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Yeah, I know one of my former students, and he
did a great job.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
By the way, did he did a phenomenal job. But yeah,
that's I'm going to start. I think I'm going to
start going through having those moments too.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
So yeah, wait until wait until your favorite songs become
like elevator music.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Oh no, oh no, I don't even want Okay, So
I've actually had a moment like that.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
And Choker were off topic. I love it. We're already
off topic.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
I actually had a moment like that.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Yeah. So when I was in college, there was a
band called The War on.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Drugs that was really big for Actually, I should rephrase that,
they're much bigger now than they ever were when I
was in college. They were like kind of grungey and
dingy and and their music was much dirtier and and
and I mean that sort of like in the production style.
And then you know, they're they're they're rock. I think
that's the basic. You know, they're they're kind of like
arena rock, and they they definitely weren't that in the
late two thousands when they were first coming up in
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the Philadelphi scene. I just I love their music.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
They're great. I've seen them before.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
They're they're they're really phenomenal, and their music is really
interesting and really eclectic and up and down the board.
But where things got started to get like like concerning
for me as I started hearing their music and car
commercials and I was.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Like, no, no.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
And I started hearing it like I'd be shopping in
Kroger and I'd hear it, be like, no, oh, they're
not hip anymore. Then that's that's that's like the first sign,
right isn't that the first sign?
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Oh? Yeah, that is the Actually that's the first sign
of the apocalypse.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I think, what was it for me?
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Did you have a moment like that where you were
like this band that I really like, I'm you know,
they're they're they're so good, they're so they're so hip,
they're so with it. Then you hear them in a grocery.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Do you do you have a similar one like that.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Oh, I mean, not not like edgy like that, but
I I knew that I had hit like you know,
middle age when I was in an elevator and literally
the elevator music, because you know how the elevator music
is very like kind of low key and sure, and
it's you know, it's always kind of jazzy or something,
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but it's always like old you know. I mean, it's
it's always something like, you know, unrecognizable. But I'm actually
standing in the elevator and I'm recognizing the elevator music.
It's the elevator music version of Oh, Papa, don't preach.
Oh no, I'm Madonna.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Yeah no, no, no, no, Yeah, that's that's it. That
But you know what that is because there was a
time we talked about this a couple of months ago
on the show. There was a time where she was
like the biggest, like she was the Taylor Swift of
her era. For for to translate this for younger audiences,
but Madonna was like the bit the biggest thing on
planet Earth for a period of time there and the
idea that you're than hearing her as as elevator music
(14:02):
like that, that level of ubiquity where she's just so
everywhere that it's that she's not really hip or edgy anymore,
and that that's oh man, Yeah, I feel that no,
we we.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
We this is well.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
I completely, I completely feel that it's the same, the
same idea you hear. And this is nothing against Kroger.
By the way, very very much enjoy Kroger. If you
ever want to sponsor the show, feel free to do it.
I'm just saying, if I hear a song, if I
hear a song in Kroger, I think I'm pretty confident
that song is not hip anymore.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I'm quite confident of that.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Or on an elevator, I'm not gonna have to I
don't get on a lot of elevators these days.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Next time I am, I'm gonna have to pay attention
to what's playing.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Yeah, I mean, it's not like you're gonna hear nine
inch nails. The negative.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
That would be that would be concerning to hear some
nine inch nails. Actually, I would be worried that we
were like in deep trouble at that point, that like
some something's about like we're actually in it, We're actually
in a movie and they're using like the director as like, well,
we're not gonna use Frankie Avalon in this scene.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
We're gonna use some nine inch hey.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
So so let's and so I wanted to make sure
we hit this because we got off topic and I
knew that would happen, but I spared some time in there.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
So there is a funny little uh.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
There's a big event coming up at the Clerksburg Amphitheater
and there is a a an entire world.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Of music that I'm unfamiliar with.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
And so when we talked earlier about you coming on
the show and you had mentioned about this event coming up,
I said.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I want you to sell me on yacht rock.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Sell me, first of all, tell the folks about the show,
but then sell me on yacht rock, because it's not
that I dislike it.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I've just never gotten into it. So then you're gonna
You're gonna sell me on yacht rock.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Oh well, okay, all right, you know you the only
way that I can air Okay. First of all, yacht
Rock is going to be at the Amphitheater at the
Clerksburg Amphitheater on the nineteenth. Tickets are on sale now
go to Clarksburg amp dot com. To get your tickets.
If you know what yacht rock is. If you know,
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then you know. If you don't know, let me give
you a little bit of a tail tld R. It
is basically, you know how we're like we're all split
up like in ages like Millennials and baby boomers and
Gen Xers and you know that kind of thing. But
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it encompasses a huge amount of years, right, like especially
gen X, Like Gen X goes from like what like
nineteen sixty to like seventy, well seventy nine, right, so like.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Eight I think I think, I think you get one
year of the eighties.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Okay, yeah, so but like you know, but during that
massive amount of time that the music is so eclectic, right,
like you know what I mean, because you've got like
acid rock, you know, from from like the you know,
the Doors and Zeppelin and that kind of thing, and
(16:57):
then you know, then you've got like the disco, which, like,
let's face it, you can't get much more of a
swing than.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
That, right, Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
So yacht rock is it kind of narrows down that
you know that that that generation, it kind of narrows
down gen Xers in into like a specific group of
people that are like, you know, anywhere between forty I'll
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even go thirty five, like thirty five to like I
don't know, just say sixty. At this point, you know,
it really narrows it down to that group, that really
core group. And this is the music like you know,
Michael McDonald, you know, like like all of that real good,
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feel good music that was that was out in like
the late seventies and early eighties, and you know that
was after disco and after all of that, like after
disco died, which thank you, baby Jesus, Disco died, but
after Disco died, and before let's just not talk about
(18:20):
Mariah Carey, and before you get into like the hair
bands of the eighties, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Yeah, also sort of pre dating a little bit of
like like not like the ramones of the clash, like
the punk era as well.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Yeah no, no, this is like this this is actually
kind of during the punk.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Era, but like a response to punk.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Well, this is like this is like your this is
like what what your mom would have been listening to
if she wasn't listening to Frankie Avalon while you know that,
you know, so this is the songs that like we
grew up on and like you know anywhere that's maybe
thirty five is too young, about forty anywhere between like
(19:05):
forty and sixty, that twenty year gap and anybody that
you know in that twenty year gap. This is the
music we grew up on, right that, but before that
predates like the hairbands, and it's just like easy, you know,
it's just like you know, you think of like whenever
you think yacht rock. You know, of course obviously the
(19:27):
name yacht rock, you know, on a boat you're floating,
but you know, it's it's something that you know, you
download when you want to go on a road trip
or you know, you just you just want to you
just want to relax, like Michael McDonald's sailing.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
So no, no, nobody's nobody's going to be going and
head banging at the at the Clucksburg Campa Theater.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Was what you're telling.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
No head bang will no, there will be no like
no body slamming, no mash pit, no, nothing like that.
It's just gonna be it's gonna be like a very
mellow vibe, you know, like Doug always, you know, Superintendent
of Parks, always encourages people to come and tailgate prior
to the event, you know, and it just like you
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play the music out and you know, then wait for
the event to start and then go in and you know,
just make it a make it a big party, you know.
And with with this, with this group, it's it's so
eclectic and it's it has a At one time it
had an own station. It's on station on XM radio,
(20:38):
like you ot rock had its own station. So it's
it's just a it's it's a vibe.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Did you see the HBO documentary that they did. They
seem to be very, very fond. It was like a
love letter to love letter to yacht rock called I
think it was actually called yacht rock. You should check Yeah,
definitely check it out. I I I one of my
buddies who I would never have guessed, right, Like, he
has such a colectic music taste and he definitely likes
(21:06):
some some harder stuff, but at the same time, he also.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Enjoys the hot rock. He said the documentary was great,
that it was great.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Yeah, I definitely have to check that one out.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Yeah, I have not watched it yet. I can't I
can't say firsthand, but I can say secondhand. He thought
it was really good.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
So I mean, like it is, it's eclectic, it's it is,
it's very you know.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Well, and I think we all we could all use it.
We can all use a breather, right, Like that's what
it feels like. It just kind of feels like a breather.
So it is so all right, So wait one more time.
Remind folks when the concert is.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
It is September nineteenth at the Clarksburg Amphitheater. Make sure
you go to Clarksburg amp dot com to get your
tickets before they sell out, because this is one of
those shows that will probably sell out once they get
the word completely out about it. And it's it's just
going to be, you know, bring your friends, bring a grill,
(21:58):
come up and hang out, ol gate and then and
it's on a Friday, so no have to worry about
you don't have to worry about a WVU game. So it's, uh,
it'll be it's gonna be a great night, a great
night at the Amphitheater.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
And and folks, yeah, what's the website again? If if
anyone needs.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
More information, Clarksburg amp dot com.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
There it is Clarksburg Amp dot com all right, So
before I let you go, if I'm if I were gonna,
if you're gonna send me home with homework and I'm
gonna go listen, I'm gonna, you know, I'm gonna I'm
gonna pour myself a beer or or maybe maybe a.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Scotch, or maybe a bottle of wine. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
I don't drink as much as I used to, so
I'm honestly probably more likely to just have like a
gatorade or water. But let's just say, let's just say
I'm looking to relax and listen to you little yacht rock.
What's one album or one artist that I should give
a chance to, uh tonight when I get home. Oh wow,
And I'm put you on the spot.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
You really are man like, You're like you're putting me
like just oh.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
I don't like to grill. I don't like to I
don't like to ask tough questions about tough topics. I
like that tough questions about very very simple topics.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Yeah, but it's music, and you know, for me that's
always a tough topic because you know, you know how
passionate we get about music.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
I know we got to a pretty big we got
into a pretty big argument in here.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Oh we did it was good? That was that was good? No,
you know I loved that.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Yeah, it was all it was all good. It was
all good. We maybe maybe one day we actually have
to do that on air. Yeah. Uh see, I, like
I said, I just I keep thinking, Michael McDonald, that
that the whole sailing Christopher Cross. You know, it's like that. Yeah,
(23:43):
probably Christopher Cross. Try try a little Christopher Cross, which
so nice because he went to ab he went to Autison,
brought us so he was, Ah.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
I did not know that. I did not know.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Oh that's great. Oh yeah, all right, all right, that's it.
I'm do not write that down. That's that's Christopher Cross.
So I have, like I said, just a total section
of music that I have, and I know that.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
This this exists.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
It's like this is this is the world we live,
and there's so much music out there.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
I remember when I was a when I was a
college radio DJ.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
That was like the first thought I had the first
time I got exposed to all this all this very
different music from across all these different generations. And here
I was just this kid who just loved like classic rock.
That was like that was like my thing and I
I really didn't like a lot of modern music. And
I had just started to get into some pieces of
modern music. That's going back to two thousand and seven.
But I have this realization as a college radio DJ,
is just like there's there's just like a crazy amount
(24:32):
of music out there, like like you could never you
couldn't even listen to.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I don't even think you could listen to one percent
of all the music that is out there. There's so
much that is out there.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Wow, And it's there's music for every mood and that's
that's what's that's what's great about music. Like music absolutely
like not to be corny or anything, but music speaks
to the.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Soul anything you want to tease in preparation for your
return or you guys, still are you still cooking up stuff?
Still cooking up stuff in the Clarksburg kitchen.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
We're definitely still cooking up some stuff in the Clarksburg kitchen.
But you know, we do have some stuff happening. We've
gotta we gotta move happening. And then you know, there
there's there's another really big act at the Amphitheater in October,
So definitely check that one out and then the RG.
(25:19):
The RG is just throwing up some major major talents.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Aren't they killing it? They're killing it.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
They're really they've they've I actually, I'm you know, I'm
gonna tease this right now. And though this is always
dangerous to tease something that's not one hundred percent official yet,
I think I'm having both Jason and Aristotle on this
week for a little special local Arts Thursday where we've
decided we're gonna try and build a West Virginia super
group of talent.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
We we got talking about the traveling Willberries. We're like, well,
who would be the West Virginia equivalent, uh supergroup wise,
So probably shouldn't tease something I haven't one hundred percent confirmed,
but I'm gonna throw caution into the wind here and
say we're gonna we're gonna get we're gonna get it confirmed.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
But hey, I dig that. Yeah, And Jason, Jason Young
and I over at the Robinson Grand let me tell
you something. Those those gentlemen work their butts off. And
you know, not not just because he's my brother, but
(26:21):
you know Doug Comber from uh the Superintendent, and Joe Marple,
they've been like killing it at the Amphitheater. So when
it comes to like the the arts and culture part
of Clarksburg, you know, we we've definitely got that.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Hopefully they're going to get weather like we've because to me,
like the last couple of days after like Saturday was
was pretty miserable, right, Like I think Saturday was was
just like overcasting.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
It was awful and uh.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
And and Sunday was kind of was kind of mixed.
But uh but but I mean, actually Sunday was pretty
nice if I remember, No, Sunday was nice. That's right,
the days all running together this point, and then Monday
was Monday. Like, hopefully if you go out and you're
gonna go out and see the yacht rock show, hopefully
you get weather like this because I can. I can
definitely relax. I mean, it's not quite summer weather anymore,
but I can relax to weather like this when it's
(27:13):
like cold and gray and rainy, like I don't know,
man like at that point, then maybe you gotta throw
some nine inch nails on for me.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Get up, and that's when you have the mosh pit.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Yeah, exactly, exactly, all right, Amy, much appreciated. Thanks for
hanging out and thanks for selling me on yacht rock.
I will report back to you. I will report back
to you with my findings and Folks, if you want
to contribute to this discussion and if you have any
yacht rock recommendations for me, just email me The Morningspiel
at gmail dot com, The Morningspiel at gmail dot com
(27:43):
and go see the show coming up at the Clarksburg Amphitheater.
Amy will talk with you a couple of weeks.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Hey, yeah, I will be back.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
All right, we'll take a break back right after this
to wrap the show.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Never miss an episode. Recorded versions of The Morning Spiel
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Speaker 3 (28:01):
I'm told that we don't have to go home, but
we cannot stay here. There's this little show called talk
Line that's coming up at eight o'clock. That's okay, that's
all right, eight o'clock, ten o'clock, ten o'clock. Yeah, there
we go. Apologies, folks. I'm all I'm all flutter, I'm
all flutter. I'm all excited about about the yacht Rock
(28:23):
and I'm looking forward to checking it out.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
All right.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
On on that note, before we before we get out
of here for the day, take our own. We're not
We're not going into a lightning delay. This is our typical,
typical break. I don't know if you saw that South Harrison.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
We was.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
South Harrison kind of felt like the center of the
high school football universe last night.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
It was was wild.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
You know, I'm we have South Harrison and Lincoln broadcast cruise.
Joe Bricato from Metro News, is there, Zach Anderson from
w d TV, is there there a cup, couple of
Metro News reporters there?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Actually, there were a couple of Metro News folks there.
It was pretty cool. It's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Good game too, good second half. It was done in
fifty six minutes. It only took fifty six minutes to
get through almost an entire half of football. And I
truly tell you that is more than anything else, so indicative.
That is the South Harrison Way. Twenty to nineteen, your
final score. And we had some fun one.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
It was good.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
It was good to see it. Like I said, it's
kind of fun. It's kind of fun on a Monday.
It was Monday Night football on Sky one, O six five,
dot Com and the fby A rarity, to be sure,
but a welcome one. Regardless. All right, we are getting
ready to get out of here in just a moment.
But before we do, I thought it was interesting. So
(29:52):
I want to go back to a commentary from the
one and only Hopy Kerchful, and it's worth checking out
from late in August, right before West Virginia took on
arm You can Rich Rodriguez come home? That was a
big question wu fans, As he wrote, do not forget
(30:15):
or forgive easily. Rodriguez's inelegant departure for Michigan in two
thousand and seven left fans fuming. The one time favorite
Sun was cast out into a mountaineer nation nether world.
He spent the next seventeen years traveling the coaching world,
with stops at different six different schools. And the question
here is can Rich Rodriguez come home? Which we now
(30:38):
know objectively, we know objectively he did.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
He is home.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
But this is interesting, right, the way this has all
gone down so far, this is not your ideal This
is not your ideal situation here right, the way this
has all gone down makes you wonder, begs the question
if you will that Hoppy asked ken Rich Rodriguez come home?
(31:10):
He did in practicality? Now can he functionally? Can he
in actuality?
Speaker 2 (31:16):
It's a good question.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
That was from August twenty eighth, So that's gonna do
the quick math in my head. That's what eleven days ago,
the math in my head.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Twelve days ago, something like that. Go check it out.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Worth reading because obviously one, I'm much more inelegant in
describing it than the way Hoppy writes it, but also
because the question is more on my mind than ever
after what happened on Saturday. I'm not listen, I'm not
jumping ship. I wasn't sure it was the right hire
to begin with, but I also wasn't sure it was
(31:51):
the wrong hire, and I hate playing both sides. But basically,
the way I would describe it is I felt like
with the rod Hire, almost like ren Baker didn't have choice,
like he had to do it because it was the
best story.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
It was the best way to win in the nil era.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
But it comes with its own set of challenges, and
I think WU fans are going to have to learn
to navigate these because this is like nothing I think
we've ever seen before. And that's the strangest thing, considering
it's a guy that we saw for more.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Than half a decade, a decade and a half ago.
Gotta go, folks. We'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
We'll talk about more. So I think we might get
in some high school football talk tomorrow on the show.
In the meantime, this is the Morning Spiel presented by
Royal Water Treatment. I want to through three wkmz. They're
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a seventy two hour break for lightning. It'll be a
twenty three hour break, you know, because that's what we do.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
See it.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
Fed the silly.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Both starts
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, everybody, and welcome in.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
This is the Morning Spiel presented by Royal Water Treatment
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
Alex Witerspiel here with you. Good to be here with
you as always, folks.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I wish I had I wish I had better stuff
for you today, I SHO had better stuff for you.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
No, I mean, don't get me wrong. The show is
going to be good. The show is going to be good.
I think the show, I.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Think it is gonna be really good. We're gonna chat
with Amy Komer from the Clarksburg CVB. She's the executive
director there, and we're gonna chat with her about what's
going on around Clarksburg, including a yacht rock show that's
coming up. Yacht Rock never not quite a genre of
music that I ever really got into, but I know
(01:04):
people really dig it.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I know people really dig it.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
There is a there's a documentary actually about yacht rock
that I've been meeting to watch. Because if you're just
a fan of music in general, I'm told it will
it will, It'll tickle, It'll tickle some stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
It will, it will hit it will, it will hit.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
The nerve endings right, it'll uh what do they say,
we're runner the dopamine high.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
It'll get you.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
It'll get you your dopamine high. That said things that
will not get you your dopamine high.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Jaheim White and.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
And Bray are out for the season. So I know
we spent all of yesterday talking Mountain your Football. We're
not going to talk Mountain your Football at all today,
but I did just want to start and just say
if you thought the comments that I got yesterday on
the show were brutal, and I suspect seeing as you
(01:59):
guys left them, and you can check those out at
The Morning Spiel at gmail dot com. The Morning Spiel
at gmail dot com.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
My suspicion is.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Whether you want to live it, leave us you know
a message or not, You're more than welcome to. My
suspicion is things are just gonna get worse on that front.
The pessimism is going to continue significantly. How how can
you blame folks at the moment based on what we're
what we're seeing. And again, I I don't think I
(02:36):
go as far as like the folks who are ready
to jump ship on Rod already, like take a pill, okay,
But at the same time, I get it because I
think I think Rod there's some self inflicted wounds with
the reference to a possible national championship, which I know
he wasn't referring to this season, but I think you
put a little extra pressure on yourself when you when
(02:57):
you say that that part out loud, and I think
mentioning that in year one he didn't feel like he
could afford to three win year again, I just think
he put a little extra pressure on himself. And now
that pressure is going to have to be handled without
the team's best offensive player and number two wide receiver.
So that's fun and I'm sure that'll go over great.
(03:20):
I'm not ready to jump ship on the season, but
it has the potential to spin off the rails pretty
easily here. So yeah, that's fun for everybody, right, We're
all excited about that. We'll take a break. This is
the Morning Spiel presented by Royal Water Treatment. I want
to three three wkms come back, hit your news in
sports headlines. Then we'll get to some yacht rock talk
(03:40):
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Speaker 1 (04:02):
Improving the start to your day with a morning Spiel
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Speaker 3 (04:10):
Morning Spiel for Senday by Royal Water Treatment. I want
o three to three wk mz. Welcome back into the
show everybody. It is Tuesday, and if you can believe
it's been you know a little bit since the Italian
Heritage Festival like that, that just kind of flew by
and we have Amy Comer back from the Clarksburg CVB.
The executive director I got it right this time. I
(04:31):
nailed it. That'll be I'll go like one for four,
like a like a like a like a middle average baseball,
like number seven hit, number seven hitter. I'll I'll get
it right one out of four times.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Amy, how are you?
Speaker 4 (04:44):
I'm well. I'm well, Alex, how are you?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I'm good.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
So I didn't get a chance to make it to
the to the festival that weekend. I'm gonna have to
live vicariously through you.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
So so how was it?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (04:55):
The weather weather was outstanding. I mean the weather was
just I mean, we couldn't have had better weather. The
acts were amazing. I got to meet Frankie Avalon.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
That seemed to be a highlight for a lot of people.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Like I mean, you know, and I'm fifty, so like,
I mean, you know, I was. I was watching his
movies on like classic channels, right, but my mom still
made me watch them because like she loved Frankie Avalon,
and I you know, the joy of having my office
(05:29):
Takeo taken over by the production people for the Italian
Herdage Festival is I get to meet the big Axe.
So like I got to hang out with Frankie Avalon
for an hour, and you know, he was just he
was just sitting there telling you know, just telling me
stories about like you know, the movie Whole Beach Blanket Bingo,
(05:53):
try seeing that one three times fast. And he said
that they like they did like I don't know, maybe
twenty of those movies like the like around that premise.
And he said they filmed it in fifteen days.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Oh wow, yeah, he said.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
It wasn't like you know now where you know it
takes months and months to film these like movies, and
you know that all of his movies, he said they
took fifteen days. He said, you know, they had directors
that knew what they wanted and you know, they went
in and got it done. There was no fluff. So
(06:34):
I told him, I was crushed when I found out
that when he and then net Finchello were in a couple.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
So, you know, what I did not realize is how
much of his music has been used like in pop culture,
Like like, did you know that they had used one
of his songs in Dexter.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I had no idea.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Yeah, yeah, apparently in one of the season four episodes
of Dexter. And and so I have not seen Dexter,
my my my partner has, so I will have to
ask her. She wants to rewatch it too, so maybe
I'll maybe I'll actually give it a shot. I've seen
like the first two seasons, but apparently I haven't gotten
far enough to hear they use a Frankie Avalon song
uh in one of the episodes of season four. It's
(07:15):
also in It's funny that it's used this way. It's
using in a horror movie ten clover Field Lane, which
was like a sort of sequel to clover Field if
you remember that one. Yeah, I thought that was I
thought that was interesting. Uh, Like it's it's a kind
of a funny juxtaposition, but also good for him because
when you make it to be like that big that
you're you're in these sort of a list series and
(07:36):
and and and movies that your music's being used and
that's that's that's no small thing.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Well. Yeah, in Chad and I my my my partner
and I were talking about him doing like the guest
spots and uh, and we're still struggling. I think it's
the big cahuna. It was like it was kind of
a spin off of he and Annette's movie of like
his old movies, you know, where it was like a
(08:03):
bunch of kids hanging out of the beach. They were surfing,
and then you know they get into trouble and you know,
just kind of like it was like an eighties earlier
eighties or early nineties, like spent off, like you know,
kind of like a kind of like the Scream what
they did with the.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Scream right right, right right, they made.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
The spoofs of him, but you know, he even did that, like,
I mean, he's just I don't know, he was just
it was very fascinating just getting to talk to him
and listen, you know, hearing his stories and you know,
it was just it was and I did, of course
I got a picture with him, so that was cool too.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Well, yeah, you have to. I'm just it is really
funny by the way I'm going through this now. Did
you know he was on an episode of Full House? Yes,
I did not know that.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
That's really cool.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
I'm gonna I mean, I haven't seen that show in
about a million years, so I'm gonna have to go.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I'm gonna have to go check that out.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
He was also in I mean again you talk about
like it's it's so funny, like we only talked about
him two weeks ago. We were only just talking about
him as sort of the musician, like the acting. I
didn't even know he was in the movie Casino.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I had no idea. And I've seen Casino's great.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
It's a oh that's a he's and he plays himself though,
which is pretty classic. So that's that's great. I'm gonna
have to go back and rewatch now because it's been
a while. Maybe I didn't know who Frankie Avalon was
when I saw Casino, which probably means I was too
young to see Casino when I saw Casino. Probably what
that means. Uh, it's all right, it's all right. That
wasn't you know every I think I think we every
(09:32):
parent knows that at some point their kid's gonna watch
something that they probably prefer they didn't at a certain age, right.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Oh yeah, yeah. Mine mine was for my son. Mine
was Transformers.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Oh wait, which one like the recent ones? Right?
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Yeah? It was like when he was if he saw
it when he was.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Three, Yeah, that's oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Do you remember the movie The Truman Show.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Yeah, okay, so I think I was so my mom
was watching that and she had rented movie and we
in the house we lived in. It was before she
had bought a house. Was I guess the last house
that she rented before she was able to buy a house.
So this is going back into the late nineties. But
so I was about nine. I don't think I was
ten yet. So I'm like nine years old and I'm
(10:20):
playing like a video game on the computer, and I mean,
this is really like kind of like kids do really funny,
like goofy things. And she's watching this movie and of course,
you know what, The Truman Show is like pretty trippy
for anyone.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
And so imagine at nine year old being like, what
if my whole life is TV?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
So I stopped playing video games and I just like
turned around in the computer chair and just started watching it.
And to her credit, she actually let me do it.
I'm not sure she should have, because I don't know
if a nine year old should be asking the question,
hey is this real? Yeah, I mean, not the best
question for that age, but.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Hey, well that and I'm sorry. I was just trying
to get over the fact that.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
You were nine, Like we had once upon a time
there was yeah, well yeah, yeah, I know, yeah, like
I was I was nine in the nineties.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
But no, I mean I did my bybe.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
It's funny you mentioned that because I just did the
South Harrison game a couple on Friday, the one that
got suspended with uh uh you're you get ready to gasp?
My color commentator is like fifteen years younger than me.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Yeah, I know one of my former students, and he
did a great job.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
By the way, did he did a phenomenal job. But yeah,
that's I'm going to start. I think I'm going to
start going through having those moments too.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
So yeah, wait until wait until your favorite songs become
like elevator music.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Oh no, oh no, I don't even want Okay, So
I've actually had a moment like that.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
And Choker were off topic. I love it. We're already
off topic.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
I actually had a moment like that.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Yeah. So when I was in college, there was a
band called The War on.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Drugs that was really big for Actually, I should rephrase that,
they're much bigger now than they ever were when I
was in college. They were like kind of grungey and
dingy and and their music was much dirtier and and
and I mean that sort of like in the production style.
And then you know, they're they're they're rock. I think
that's the basic. You know, they're they're kind of like
arena rock, and they they definitely weren't that in the
late two thousands when they were first coming up in
(12:14):
the Philadelphi scene. I just I love their music.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
They're great. I've seen them before.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
They're they're they're really phenomenal, and their music is really
interesting and really eclectic and up and down the board.
But where things got started to get like like concerning
for me as I started hearing their music and car
commercials and I was.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Like, no, no.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
And I started hearing it like I'd be shopping in
Kroger and I'd hear it, be like, no, oh, they're
not hip anymore. Then that's that's that's like the first sign,
right isn't that the first sign?
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Oh? Yeah, that is the Actually that's the first sign
of the apocalypse.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I think, what was it for me?
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Did you have a moment like that where you were
like this band that I really like, I'm you know,
they're they're they're so good, they're so they're so hip,
they're so with it. Then you hear them in a grocery.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Do you do you have a similar one like that.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Oh, I mean, not not like edgy like that, but
I I knew that I had hit like you know,
middle age when I was in an elevator and literally
the elevator music, because you know how the elevator music
is very like kind of low key and sure, and
it's you know, it's always kind of jazzy or something,
(13:19):
but it's always like old you know. I mean, it's
it's always something like, you know, unrecognizable. But I'm actually
standing in the elevator and I'm recognizing the elevator music.
It's the elevator music version of Oh, Papa, don't preach.
Oh no, I'm Madonna.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Yeah no, no, no, no, Yeah, that's that's it. That
But you know what that is because there was a
time we talked about this a couple of months ago
on the show. There was a time where she was
like the biggest, like she was the Taylor Swift of
her era. For for to translate this for younger audiences,
but Madonna was like the bit the biggest thing on
planet Earth for a period of time there and the
idea that you're than hearing her as as elevator music
(14:02):
like that, that level of ubiquity where she's just so
everywhere that it's that she's not really hip or edgy anymore,
and that that's oh man, Yeah, I feel that no,
we we.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
We this is well.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
I completely, I completely feel that it's the same, the
same idea you hear. And this is nothing against Kroger.
By the way, very very much enjoy Kroger. If you
ever want to sponsor the show, feel free to do it.
I'm just saying, if I hear a song, if I
hear a song in Kroger, I think I'm pretty confident
that song is not hip anymore.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I'm quite confident of that.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Or on an elevator, I'm not gonna have to I
don't get on a lot of elevators these days.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Next time I am, I'm gonna have to pay attention
to what's playing.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Yeah, I mean, it's not like you're gonna hear nine
inch nails. The negative.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
That would be that would be concerning to hear some
nine inch nails. Actually, I would be worried that we
were like in deep trouble at that point, that like
some something's about like we're actually in it, We're actually
in a movie and they're using like the director as like, well,
we're not gonna use Frankie Avalon in this scene.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
We're gonna use some nine inch hey.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
So so let's and so I wanted to make sure
we hit this because we got off topic and I
knew that would happen, but I spared some time in there.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
So there is a funny little uh.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
There's a big event coming up at the Clerksburg Amphitheater
and there is a a an entire world.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Of music that I'm unfamiliar with.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
And so when we talked earlier about you coming on
the show and you had mentioned about this event coming up,
I said.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I want you to sell me on yacht rock.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Sell me, first of all, tell the folks about the show,
but then sell me on yacht rock, because it's not
that I dislike it.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I've just never gotten into it. So then you're gonna
You're gonna sell me on yacht rock.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Oh well, okay, all right, you know you the only
way that I can air Okay. First of all, yacht
Rock is going to be at the Amphitheater at the
Clerksburg Amphitheater on the nineteenth. Tickets are on sale now
go to Clarksburg amp dot com. To get your tickets.
If you know what yacht rock is. If you know,
(15:53):
then you know. If you don't know, let me give
you a little bit of a tail tld R. It
is basically, you know how we're like we're all split
up like in ages like Millennials and baby boomers and
Gen Xers and you know that kind of thing. But
(16:15):
it encompasses a huge amount of years, right, like especially
gen X, Like Gen X goes from like what like
nineteen sixty to like seventy, well seventy nine, right, so like.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Eight I think I think, I think you get one
year of the eighties.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Okay, yeah, so but like you know, but during that
massive amount of time that the music is so eclectic, right,
like you know what I mean, because you've got like
acid rock, you know, from from like the you know,
the Doors and Zeppelin and that kind of thing, and
(16:57):
then you know, then you've got like the disco, which, like,
let's face it, you can't get much more of a
swing than.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
That, right, Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
So yacht rock is it kind of narrows down that
you know that that that generation, it kind of narrows
down gen Xers in into like a specific group of
people that are like, you know, anywhere between forty I'll
(17:30):
even go thirty five, like thirty five to like I
don't know, just say sixty. At this point, you know,
it really narrows it down to that group, that really
core group. And this is the music like you know,
Michael McDonald, you know, like like all of that real good,
(17:54):
feel good music that was that was out in like
the late seventies and early eighties, and you know that
was after disco and after all of that, like after
disco died, which thank you, baby Jesus, Disco died, but
after Disco died, and before let's just not talk about
(18:20):
Mariah Carey, and before you get into like the hair
bands of the eighties, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Yeah, also sort of pre dating a little bit of
like like not like the ramones of the clash, like
the punk era as well.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Yeah no, no, this is like this this is actually
kind of during the punk.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Era, but like a response to punk.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Well, this is like this is like your this is
like what what your mom would have been listening to
if she wasn't listening to Frankie Avalon while you know that,
you know, so this is the songs that like we
grew up on and like you know anywhere that's maybe
thirty five is too young, about forty anywhere between like
(19:05):
forty and sixty, that twenty year gap and anybody that
you know in that twenty year gap. This is the
music we grew up on, right that, but before that
predates like the hairbands, and it's just like easy, you know,
it's just like you know, you think of like whenever
you think yacht rock. You know, of course obviously the
(19:27):
name yacht rock, you know, on a boat you're floating,
but you know, it's it's something that you know, you
download when you want to go on a road trip
or you know, you just you just want to you
just want to relax, like Michael McDonald's sailing.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
So no, no, nobody's nobody's going to be going and
head banging at the at the Clucksburg Campa Theater.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Was what you're telling.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
No head bang will no, there will be no like
no body slamming, no mash pit, no, nothing like that.
It's just gonna be it's gonna be like a very
mellow vibe, you know, like Doug always, you know, Superintendent
of Parks, always encourages people to come and tailgate prior
to the event, you know, and it just like you
(20:15):
play the music out and you know, then wait for
the event to start and then go in and you know,
just make it a make it a big party, you know.
And with with this, with this group, it's it's so
eclectic and it's it has a At one time it
had an own station. It's on station on XM radio,
(20:38):
like you ot rock had its own station. So it's
it's just a it's it's a vibe.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Did you see the HBO documentary that they did. They
seem to be very, very fond. It was like a
love letter to love letter to yacht rock called I
think it was actually called yacht rock. You should check Yeah,
definitely check it out. I I I one of my
buddies who I would never have guessed, right, Like, he
has such a colectic music taste and he definitely likes
(21:06):
some some harder stuff, but at the same time, he also.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Enjoys the hot rock. He said the documentary was great,
that it was great.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Yeah, I definitely have to check that one out.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Yeah, I have not watched it yet. I can't I
can't say firsthand, but I can say secondhand. He thought
it was really good.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
So I mean, like it is, it's eclectic, it's it is,
it's very you know.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Well, and I think we all we could all use it.
We can all use a breather, right, Like that's what
it feels like. It just kind of feels like a breather.
So it is so all right, So wait one more time.
Remind folks when the concert is.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
It is September nineteenth at the Clarksburg Amphitheater. Make sure
you go to Clarksburg amp dot com to get your
tickets before they sell out, because this is one of
those shows that will probably sell out once they get
the word completely out about it. And it's it's just
going to be, you know, bring your friends, bring a grill,
(21:58):
come up and hang out, ol gate and then and
it's on a Friday, so no have to worry about
you don't have to worry about a WVU game. So it's, uh,
it'll be it's gonna be a great night, a great
night at the Amphitheater.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
And and folks, yeah, what's the website again? If if
anyone needs.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
More information, Clarksburg amp dot com.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
There it is Clarksburg Amp dot com all right, So
before I let you go, if I'm if I were gonna,
if you're gonna send me home with homework and I'm
gonna go listen, I'm gonna, you know, I'm gonna I'm
gonna pour myself a beer or or maybe maybe a.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Scotch, or maybe a bottle of wine. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
I don't drink as much as I used to, so
I'm honestly probably more likely to just have like a
gatorade or water. But let's just say, let's just say
I'm looking to relax and listen to you little yacht rock.
What's one album or one artist that I should give
a chance to, uh tonight when I get home. Oh wow,
And I'm put you on the spot.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
You really are man like, You're like you're putting me
like just oh.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
I don't like to grill. I don't like to I
don't like to ask tough questions about tough topics. I
like that tough questions about very very simple topics.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Yeah, but it's music, and you know, for me that's
always a tough topic because you know, you know how
passionate we get about music.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
I know we got to a pretty big we got
into a pretty big argument in here.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Oh we did it was good? That was that was good? No,
you know I loved that.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Yeah, it was all it was all good. It was
all good. We maybe maybe one day we actually have
to do that on air. Yeah. Uh see, I, like
I said, I just I keep thinking, Michael McDonald, that
that the whole sailing Christopher Cross. You know, it's like that. Yeah,
(23:43):
probably Christopher Cross. Try try a little Christopher Cross, which
so nice because he went to ab he went to Autison,
brought us so he was, Ah.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
I did not know that. I did not know.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Oh that's great. Oh yeah, all right, all right, that's it.
I'm do not write that down. That's that's Christopher Cross.
So I have, like I said, just a total section
of music that I have, and I know that.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
This this exists.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
It's like this is this is the world we live,
and there's so much music out there.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
I remember when I was a when I was a
college radio DJ.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
That was like the first thought I had the first
time I got exposed to all this all this very
different music from across all these different generations. And here
I was just this kid who just loved like classic rock.
That was like that was like my thing and I
I really didn't like a lot of modern music. And
I had just started to get into some pieces of
modern music. That's going back to two thousand and seven.
But I have this realization as a college radio DJ,
is just like there's there's just like a crazy amount
(24:32):
of music out there, like like you could never you
couldn't even listen to.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I don't even think you could listen to one percent
of all the music that is out there. There's so
much that is out there.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Wow, And it's there's music for every mood and that's
that's what's that's what's great about music. Like music absolutely
like not to be corny or anything, but music speaks
to the.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Soul anything you want to tease in preparation for your
return or you guys, still are you still cooking up stuff?
Still cooking up stuff in the Clarksburg kitchen.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
We're definitely still cooking up some stuff in the Clarksburg kitchen.
But you know, we do have some stuff happening. We've
gotta we gotta move happening. And then you know, there
there's there's another really big act at the Amphitheater in October,
So definitely check that one out and then the RG.
(25:19):
The RG is just throwing up some major major talents.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Aren't they killing it? They're killing it.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
They're really they've they've I actually, I'm you know, I'm
gonna tease this right now. And though this is always
dangerous to tease something that's not one hundred percent official yet,
I think I'm having both Jason and Aristotle on this
week for a little special local Arts Thursday where we've
decided we're gonna try and build a West Virginia super
group of talent.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
We we got talking about the traveling Willberries. We're like, well,
who would be the West Virginia equivalent, uh supergroup wise,
So probably shouldn't tease something I haven't one hundred percent confirmed,
but I'm gonna throw caution into the wind here and
say we're gonna we're gonna get we're gonna get it confirmed.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
But hey, I dig that. Yeah, And Jason, Jason Young
and I over at the Robinson Grand let me tell
you something. Those those gentlemen work their butts off. And
you know, not not just because he's my brother, but
(26:21):
you know Doug Comber from uh the Superintendent, and Joe Marple,
they've been like killing it at the Amphitheater. So when
it comes to like the the arts and culture part
of Clarksburg, you know, we we've definitely got that.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Hopefully they're going to get weather like we've because to me,
like the last couple of days after like Saturday was
was pretty miserable, right, Like I think Saturday was was
just like overcasting.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
It was awful and uh.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
And and Sunday was kind of was kind of mixed.
But uh but but I mean, actually Sunday was pretty
nice if I remember, No, Sunday was nice. That's right,
the days all running together this point, and then Monday
was Monday. Like, hopefully if you go out and you're
gonna go out and see the yacht rock show, hopefully
you get weather like this because I can. I can
definitely relax. I mean, it's not quite summer weather anymore,
but I can relax to weather like this when it's
(27:13):
like cold and gray and rainy, like I don't know,
man like at that point, then maybe you gotta throw
some nine inch nails on for me.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Get up, and that's when you have the mosh pit.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Yeah, exactly, exactly, all right, Amy, much appreciated. Thanks for
hanging out and thanks for selling me on yacht rock.
I will report back to you. I will report back
to you with my findings and Folks, if you want
to contribute to this discussion and if you have any
yacht rock recommendations for me, just email me The Morningspiel
at gmail dot com, The Morningspiel at gmail dot com
(27:43):
and go see the show coming up at the Clarksburg Amphitheater.
Amy will talk with you a couple of weeks.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Hey, yeah, I will be back.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
All right, we'll take a break back right after this
to wrap the show.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Never miss an episode. Recorded versions of The Morning Spiel
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Speaker 3 (28:01):
I'm told that we don't have to go home, but
we cannot stay here. There's this little show called talk
Line that's coming up at eight o'clock. That's okay, that's
all right, eight o'clock, ten o'clock, ten o'clock. Yeah, there
we go. Apologies, folks. I'm all I'm all flutter, I'm
all flutter. I'm all excited about about the yacht Rock
(28:23):
and I'm looking forward to checking it out.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
All right.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
On on that note, before we before we get out
of here for the day, take our own. We're not
We're not going into a lightning delay. This is our typical,
typical break. I don't know if you saw that South Harrison.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
We was.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
South Harrison kind of felt like the center of the
high school football universe last night.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
It was was wild.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
You know, I'm we have South Harrison and Lincoln broadcast cruise.
Joe Bricato from Metro News, is there, Zach Anderson from
w d TV, is there there a cup, couple of
Metro News reporters there?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Actually, there were a couple of Metro News folks there.
It was pretty cool. It's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Good game too, good second half. It was done in
fifty six minutes. It only took fifty six minutes to
get through almost an entire half of football. And I
truly tell you that is more than anything else, so indicative.
That is the South Harrison Way. Twenty to nineteen, your
final score. And we had some fun one.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
It was good.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
It was good to see it. Like I said, it's
kind of fun. It's kind of fun on a Monday.
It was Monday Night football on Sky one, O six five,
dot Com and the fby A rarity, to be sure,
but a welcome one. Regardless. All right, we are getting
ready to get out of here in just a moment.
But before we do, I thought it was interesting. So
(29:52):
I want to go back to a commentary from the
one and only Hopy Kerchful, and it's worth checking out
from late in August, right before West Virginia took on
arm You can Rich Rodriguez come home? That was a
big question wu fans, As he wrote, do not forget
(30:15):
or forgive easily. Rodriguez's inelegant departure for Michigan in two
thousand and seven left fans fuming. The one time favorite
Sun was cast out into a mountaineer nation nether world.
He spent the next seventeen years traveling the coaching world,
with stops at different six different schools. And the question
here is can Rich Rodriguez come home? Which we now
(30:38):
know objectively, we know objectively he did.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
He is home.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
But this is interesting, right, the way this has all
gone down so far, this is not your ideal This
is not your ideal situation here right, the way this
has all gone down makes you wonder, begs the question
if you will that Hoppy asked ken Rich Rodriguez come home?
(31:10):
He did in practicality? Now can he functionally? Can he
in actuality?
Speaker 2 (31:16):
It's a good question.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
That was from August twenty eighth, So that's gonna do
the quick math in my head. That's what eleven days ago,
the math in my head.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Twelve days ago, something like that. Go check it out.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Worth reading because obviously one, I'm much more inelegant in
describing it than the way Hoppy writes it, but also
because the question is more on my mind than ever
after what happened on Saturday. I'm not listen, I'm not
jumping ship. I wasn't sure it was the right hire
to begin with, but I also wasn't sure it was
(31:51):
the wrong hire, and I hate playing both sides. But basically,
the way I would describe it is I felt like
with the rod Hire, almost like ren Baker didn't have choice,
like he had to do it because it was the
best story.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
It was the best way to win in the nil era.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
But it comes with its own set of challenges, and
I think WU fans are going to have to learn
to navigate these because this is like nothing I think
we've ever seen before. And that's the strangest thing, considering
it's a guy that we saw for more.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Than half a decade, a decade and a half ago.
Gotta go, folks. We'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
We'll talk about more. So I think we might get
in some high school football talk tomorrow on the show.
In the meantime, this is the Morning Spiel presented by
Royal Water Treatment. I want to through three wkmz. They're
playing us out, and I promise you it won't be
a seventy two hour break for lightning. It'll be a
twenty three hour break, you know, because that's what we do.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
See it.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
Fed the silly.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
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