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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Uncle Henry Show, weekday afternoons from five till seven.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I don't own a computer. I own a radio. This
an't owning a radio count anymore, doesn't own any radio
matter anymore. I'm listening to you on the radio, you idiot.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
The Uncle Henry Show. Proud to be on the radio,
still on the radio. Thank you for listening to The
Uncle Henry Show today. We're very excited to have a
special guest in the studio with me in town this
week for a limited engagement. Michael Stewart, longtime mobile radio
(01:25):
personality Michael Stewart. Michael, welcome back to the Uncle Henry Show.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Uncle Henry. It's a thrill to be back here with you,
my friend who man.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
By the way, you can look at Michael Stewart on
the Uncle Henery Show YouTube channel. We've got the show
live on YouTube. Michael Stewart Years at wabb When did
you start at WABB and Mobile?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Officially January fifth, nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
You know the date, January fifth, nineteen eighty four, and
then you were there until the what mid nineties?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I left there in eighty eight and then came back
again in ninety one and left in ninety five.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Wow. Okay, so a couple of stretches there.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
He would always bring you back, you know, no matter what.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
So yes, he always was good at bringing people back. Now,
Michael Stewart, he was known as Michael Stewart on WABB.
He was also before that known as Marathon Mike. That's right,
been a guest on this show a few times and
on my other shows. You were in town, Tell the
listeners why you're in town.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Well, this week, I'm in town because of the celebration
of life for a buddy of both of ours, Tim Camp.
Tim Camp was the engineer at WABB, the radio station
right that I started at way back in the early
in the early eighties, nineteen eighty four, and he passed
away several months ago, and they're doing a celebration of life.
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So I said, you know what, I'm coming to town
to go pay respects to my buddy and see uncle
Henry Glad.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Always always so much fun to see you, and I
want to thank you for reaching out to me and
get together with me and my wife before we're going
to see each other at the celebration of life for
Tim Camp tomorrow evening. Now, listener, we're going to just
walk down memory Lane with Michael Stewart here for this
hour talking about some of his old adventures in mobile
radio and maybe some of his adventures in other towns
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in radio. Because you may find it to be an
adventuresome type of career. I know that those of us
in the business have felt it's adventuresome. Also, before we're
out of time in this hour, we'll save it for
the next half hour. Michael was in town during the
pandemic or toward the end of the pandemic about four
years ago, and you had a speaking role in that
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de Niro movie that's right, about my father, and you
were in a scene with him, that's correct. So we
will get into that. We'll find out what it was
like to be with de Niro in our area as
we as we go through this hour here on the
Uncle Henry Show. Now, before we start talking about any specifics,
how did you I know you went to high school,
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Citronell High School. How did you end up getting into radio?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
You know, in high school, I had a lot of
friends who would say, hey, you know, because I was
very outgoing, talkative, and they said, hey, will you come
DJ my little party? And they had like, you know,
I don't know if we even had cassette players back
then or whatever, but long before DVDs, and yes, for sure,
we just had albums in forty five's and then so
and then I started working at the local skating rink
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in Citronelle. When I graduated high school. I was doing
some clubs around Mobile and even a skating rink out
on Shelton Beach Skate World, Okay, and we had a
guest DJ from WABB He did the night show at
that time, and his name was Tim Livingston, and they
came out and did a live broadcast at the skating rink.
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So he was out there broadcasting live for a couple
of hours, and you know, I had to do my
thing as a DJ and stuff, and Tim, at the
end of it came up and he goes, hey, you're
a You're kind of funny. I was like, oh, I'm sorry,
and so he uh, he said, I do a guest
DJ thing, and he invited me down and it was
on a Thursday. It was in December. It was like
the second week of de Member of nineteen eighty three,
and I was like only on the air for like
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an hour, and he would hand me a card he'd
go read this, you know, and I sounded probably like
Mickey Mouse, Oh everybody, you know and so But when
I walked out of there, man, I was in I
remember standing in the parking lot. I want to keep
doing that, And so I started calling Leslie Fram from
Leslie and Houndog Shop.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Program director of WABB.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah, she was the boss lady, and they said that's
who you need. So I started calling her and left
a few messages, and about three weeks later, after the holiday,
she reached out to me and brought me in as
a part timer to be on the air from six
am to nine am, and then I would run the
Casey Casem's American Top forty from nine to one o'clock
and then shortly after that I would come back and
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do Rick D's Top forty show from five to ten.
And that's how I got the name Marathon Mike. Pulling
a lot of shifts as a part timer and stuff.
But I still remember the first song I played at
six am that morning.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
What was the first song you played on WABB.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Naked Eyes when the Lights go out?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Okay, which to me means nothing. I have no memory
of that song.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Right, followed by the pointer sisters. I don't know, Neutrondy, but.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
That is how you got into radios, just by making
those phone calls. Now, you said before you got into radio,
you were a club DJ. Yeah, so what tell me?
Can you remember the names of the places and mobile
that you would play records?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yes, but not in uh in order like timeline. I
do remember places like well, I mean it first started.
I was singing in bands right before that, and so
my band we would play in places like Fandango's, Solomon's,
the Met remember all of those. You remember the Met
in Springdale mall, boy, that was the happening place. But
then as DJ would come back and do things like
(06:50):
remember Monte Carlo Adams, Yes, Adams vividly remember there on
the belt line, Yeah, Monte Carlo was placed. They had
jello wrestling. Some I would have to m see those things.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Oh no, wait a minute, all we're gonna stop right here.
You you were the master of ceremonies for jello wrestling.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Yeah, ladies only jello wrestling.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Ladies only jello wrestling. So this was a different time.
This is a different time in our in our society
and culture where we would have such a thing happened.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Oh yeah, so you were how old were you do you.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Think you were when you were m seeing the Master
of Ceremony for Jello wrest.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Like twenty one years old? Twenty one years old something
like that.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Now, how did this work? Was it? How was it
a Was there a pool a kiddie pool?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Yeah, they set up a type of pool and blockaded
from it, you know, from all the people, and then
they would do these wrestling things. And the very first
time we did it, I got pulled in and had
to go home and change and everything. And the bost
didn't like that.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
The first time you got pulled into the Jello rash,
I pulled in. And now who did the wrestling? Were
these people that were paid to wrestle or did the
people want to signed up.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
To win prizes? You? You know? It was almost like
a like a throwdown street fight or something.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
You know, Just where were these women wearing when they
dress when they wrestled in Jello They.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Would be in their bikinis, their bathing suits. And so
I was not thank goodness, but you know, but but
those were the days, and then you had I didn't
play there. But this is in the days of Studebaker's
I think Chantilly's. Yeah, uh, Gordon Supper Club, remember.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Yes, I did. Oh yeah, you know, I hadn't heard
that name. Probably said it was there. We went back.
We're going to be I don't know, we might. The
interview has already taken a turn. I did not imagine.
I didn't realize that you were involved in jello wrestling.
More on jello wrestling and other assorted topics as we continue,
are broadcast with Michael Stewart here on these Radio seven
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to ten wntim's Uncle Henry's Show. Back after the break.
It is five twenty here on the Uncle Henry Show.
Michael Stewart is the guest this hour. Mobile Radio personality
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back in the day, Michael Stewart on WABB. Also Marathon
mac on WABB. Now, before we get back to your
jello wrestling the nowadays, you're still doing media type work.
I hear your voice every day on Fox ten doing commercials.
So is that your main job now doing commercial production work?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yeah? You know, back in two thousand and eight, I
left a radio station, and you know you've mentioned some
other stations. So I worked here at Mobile. I worked
in Pensacola. I was in New Hampshire for a little while, Charleston,
South Carolina, Pensacola, Destin, and then Colorado Springs excuse me.
And then in eighty eight I left the radio station.
(10:03):
I thought, I don't I don't want to be in
the building at radio stations anymore. I want to do
what I do, which was audio commercials production director. I
would make all the commercials you'd hear on the air.
I love doing that and I took my part time
business full time in two thousand and eight and it's
been growing ever since. And so I do that for
(10:23):
radio stations across the country and some TV stations as well.
And w A LA is one of the ones that
I do a lot of stuff for. And then you know,
on top of that, I MC events and you know,
charity fundrais yellow rush those anymore. I think those those
got outlawed in the late eighties, I think.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
So. I follow Michael Stewart. We're friends on Facebook, of course,
and I always see you posting things where you're m
seeing things at church. Do you ever flash back to
the to the days where you were m saying all
kind of wild things?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Oh yeah, you know, you remember we'd go over the beach,
and they always had Hawaiian Tropics contests and things like that,
and it was just a people would come out in
their bikini and the crowd would yell and vote for
whoever they thought would be the one. Those were a
big thing. So I did a lot of those back
in the day. Like you said, you know, things in bars.
I mean, we had couples vegetable contests where they had
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to move vegetables across the room without using their hands
with each other.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
They kind of disgusting. This is disgusting the kind of
things that went on. You know, I'm glad, you know,
I think we I guess that those things don't happen
anymore because now all of the filth of the universes
on your phone it and people don't have to go
to a bar and have some guy throw some jello
into a kiddie pool. They can just pick up their
phone and look at their phone and there's that kind
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of filth on the phone. But look, before we go
any further in there our walk down memory Lane. The
reason that Michael Stewart is in town is he is
Inmobile for a celebration of life for the late Tim Camp.
Tim Camp who has been running the zoo for years
past away recently, but he worked with both of us
at WABB. He was a friend of yours. Ye now
(12:05):
tell me about your relationship with him, because you two
didn't you form a musical group or a musical duo together?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yeah, we did. It was more of Tim putting this together.
But you know, Tim being the engineer, we worked together
a lot, a lot of hours. He was very nice,
would show me things if I needed to know or ask.
And then one day he came to me and he says,
you know, because Tim was a musician and he was
on like the Voxtnes and several other bands and Warren
Wolf and people like that here in town. And he
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came to me, he says, you know, I've written some songs.
And he told me, he says, you know, my voice
isn't like the right voice for it. He said, but
would you be interested in singing because I used to
sing in bands and stuff. And I said yeah, And
we ended up doing like six or seven songs together
that Tim wrote. One of them I wrote, and then
the rest he wrote all of the lyrics, the music,
(12:55):
played it all on the on the keyboards and everything,
and drum programming, and one of those made it to
We're Gonna Go Way Back Now, the Harbinger album.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Uh it was the Harbinger newspaper, that's right.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
They put out They had an album with various bands
from around Mobile and Tim's song something You Told Me
was one of the cuts on said a cut number three.
I still remember that. I don't even remember this stuff.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
You know. I mentioned when Tim Camp passed away that
I thought he was a genius.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Oh yeah he was.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Here's another example. What happened to all those songs that
you that you worked on?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
You know, I still have them. The quality is not
what they would have been back then because they were
from you know, back in the day. They were on
reel to reel tapes, then they made it to cassettes,
then they finally made it to CDs, and then they
made it to you know, MP three's and now you're
MP three is the quality of what you started with
way back and so I still have those. In fact, Tim,
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one of Tim's daughters reached out to me and she said, listen.
She wrote me on Facebook and she said, when I
was a little girl, my dad would play this song
and we all loved it. Including my mom. We just
loved it and we listened to it all the time.
And she says, and it made it on that Harbinger album, which,
by the way, someone about a month ago found in
a thrift store and gave it to Tim's daughter, So, wow,
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this is your dad on here. And she said, we
loved that song. Didn't you used to sing it? And
that was me. It was called something you told me.
And so I shared with her all the other songs
that we had because I don't really you know, I
have no really reason to give those to anybody, but
I gave those to her for, you know, her to hear.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
What was he like to work with in that in
that particular way? That is a different that's different from
radio work when you two are working together on music.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Oh yeah, it was really different. He was he was
really in you know, Tim was a great engineer, always
in his element and when he was around that stuff.
But a different type of element puts people in a
different type of personality. It was a little more fun,
you know, we had some fun with that. But always
a perfectionist. Now let's do this again. Stop. Let's you
know that's not the word, it's this word. You know,
great director, producer and all that. So it was just
(15:02):
good times and we did that for several years. In fact,
he and Will Pendaris wrote the infamous Buck Naked record
that was pretty big. I didn't know he wrote that,
you did not, No, he wrote that he played it
and we I sang the lead on that one as well.
And then they're all the staff and they pressed that
on forty fives and those were in jukeboxes all around
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Mobile and like in some of the night back when
they had those in the places. And so yeah, that
was we had Buck Naked Nights out at the comedy
club over on I think. Wasn't that Government Street?
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Yeah? Yeah, absolutely absolutely there on it's on Government across
from I believe the police headquarters.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
That's right, exactly.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
So, So did you and Tim Camp go out during
this era and did you ever perform as a duo together?
Because I and I told you before we went on
the air that I remember saying Tim Camp and Michael
Stewart perform some of this music at Michael Stewart's wedding.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
And and the for the life of me, I do
not remember. You don't remember that, No, I don't you
don't remember that at all. That was the only time.
If that was if that, which I don't doubt that I.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Remember, and I remember you sang at your own wedding.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Well, then that was the only time I think we
ever performed live. Everything else was your wedding. Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
So wow, okay, how about that? I got to see
the only line performance of your duo. Y'all didn't y'all
didn't even have a name for your group.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yeah, we did, you did. I came up with I
toyed around with this, and he said, you know, we
couldn't come up with anything better, but you know, we
called we kind of called it duplex because like, you know,
like there's I don't know, man duplex, and he said, well,
I can't come up with anything better, so we just
kind of go with that duplex. It was an eighty
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sounding thing, you know.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Well, you know, you know, back in the day, listener,
I don't know that anybody younger than me is listening
right now, but if you are back in the day,
the letter X was exact. If you're hey, if you
had the letter X and the name, that's why so
many drugs have x's and z's in there. That was
that is the truth, Yes, speaking the truth, Yes, yes, yes,
So Duplex, I'm I got to see the I'm one
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of the few people that saw a live performance from
Duplex before the group broke broke up.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Yeah, And that marriage probably lasted about as long.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
As the group did, so it's well and that and
I think that's one of the few marriages that I
officiated as well. That's why I remember it so vivily,
as I had to be there as well as the officiant, Yes,
one of the officiants. Michael's that we have more. We're
gonna get into his h his encounters with Robert de
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Niro where we continue with Michael Stewart on The Uncle
Henry Show. After the news break, it says the Uncle
(18:04):
Henry Show, my guest this hour is Michael Stewart, longtime
mobile radio personality Michael Stewart who was on WABB in
the late eighties and the early nineties, also known as
Marathon Mike during part of his time at WABB. And
we're going to talk to him about this movie he
(18:25):
was in. But before we do that, I've received a
voicemail during this show. Let's listen to this voicemail that
just came in Okay, Uncle Henry.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
This guy you're having on, I remember him, Marathon Mike
Michael Stewart if he got in in nineteen eighty four,
then he got in just a few years after the
hippies had left wabb Just thought i'd point that out
to you.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
You have a good day, hey, thank you very much
for that. You're right there were back in the day.
Wabb Am was a big force and them their FM
was album rock where they played a lot of hippie music.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Yeah, they played the aar stuff. In fact, when they
were doing that, I think on Thursday nights they would
at midnight would play like an album, the whole album
of pick an album every Thursday night at midnight. I
think that style. So I guess the hippies were the
long hairs and long hairs back then, right.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Yes, indeed, Now do you Before we move on from this,
I just want to ask Michael this because I remember
listening as a radio file to ninety seven five FM
wabb when they were album Do you remember they had
these elaborate top of the hour stagers. Do you remember that?
Do you know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I think let's see, let's see if this is at
WABB ninety seven FM Mobile's one hundred thousand wide blowtorchs.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Yes, yes, I remember that. Well. The production was so
elaborate it just sounded like things were blowing up and
it just.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
You remember that. Yeah, Pete Stacker was the guy who's
who was the name? And early on John Chas Bapman
was our production that's the name. Sean Chapman would put
a lot of those together, and then after him, Chip Maples.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Okay, remember Chip, He worked in this building with us
back when this was a clear channel. So Michael Stewart,
he has also been an actor. We've talked on other
shows with Michael about different acting jobs that you've had
and people, for example, can find you on the ID channel.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Is that Ryan, Yeah, there's a show, a couple of
shows on there. One's called Swamp Murders and I think
another one was Nightmare next Door or you know those
show next Door. It's been a while, but yeah, those
are the shows where their re enactments from real crimes.
You know.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Okay, so you've you've done a lot of acting jobs,
but you a few years ago, about four years ago,
you came to our area to be in that Robert
de Niro movie, What's It Called Against?
Speaker 1 (20:52):
About? About My Father?
Speaker 3 (20:54):
About my Father? So you got a speaking role in
a scene with somebody that even though a lot of
people listen to this station are disgusted with de Niro's
behavior and politics, he was considered one of the top
actors of the seventies, eighties, nineties and beyond.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Yeah, yeah, and you know, and I look at it,
it's like, despite whatever type of person they are, the
acting part itself, just like a musician if you're just
taken listen to their music and you're a fan and
you see their talent. De Niro is a great actor. Look,
he's been around for five decades, you know. And so
it's so.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Talk about working on that movie. Were you nervous to
talk in the movie? In a scene with de Niro
standing within arms reach?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Yeah, you know, driving down, I came down here to
Mobile and our base, our little where we had our
dressing rooms was the church up there was the Dauphin
Way Baptist Okay, and then we shot the scenes over
at the country club. And so they when we were waiting,
they would drive us over and so I rode over
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like on one of the days on set. I wrote
over with Kim Cattrell from Sex in the City and
told her, I said, hey, I remember the first time I,
you know, saw you in anything was Mannequin And she said, oh,
I almost forgot about that. So you remember Mannequin in
like nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Yeah, terrible, just a terrible movie. But she did fine.
You know, she survived by doing that, and you you
actually she's now riding around in cars with you.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
And so we get we get on scene, and I'm
a little nervous because it is my first big movie
like that. I've done some extra stuff. I've been in
TV shows, countless commercials, but this is the first time
with like these big people. And I had my lines
all learned everything. And then the couple hours before we shoot,
they send me a message saying we've changed the script.
(22:43):
Oh no, oh yeah and so h so you had
to kind of like fast learn it. And I thought,
what if I blow this in front of all these people, and.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
All, hey, before you talk about blowing it or if
you did or not, you're tell the listener what your
role was.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Okay. Towards the end of the film, there is a
a party. I think it's called a clam bake and
they the scene is there's an MC that comes out
and talking to everybody, and then one of the cast
people takes my microphone and takes over from that. So
I'm literally on the screen talking for maybe five seconds.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Okay, but you're the you're an MC. I am okay
with dennera there all right? Yeah, now tell us they
changed your lines right before you walked out to do
your life.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Yeah, they they shortened them actually. Oh man, So it's
amazing on these things. We do a lot of stuff
that don't make the film, a lot of it. We
I mean, I was gonna be able to say, I'm
the only guy that I know that did the chicken
dance next to Robert de Niro multiple times and it
never made the film.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Now y'all did a chicken dance?
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Yeah no, no, no, no, no, no, you know the whole Yeah. Yeah,
we had to do that. It was in the part
of the script, and that didn't make the film. I
guess it was a time and they got cut. But
I survived about five seconds and then you can see
me just kind of standing on the stage in a
lot of the other scenes. But it's all right. Towards
the end of the film.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
What was it like? What was he like? Because you
had a conversation with Kim Catroll, the actress, and she's
a big shot yep. Talk about any interaction you had
with de Niro? What was he like?
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Very to himself, he didn't come out in public very often.
He stayed in his dressing room, green room, all those things.
And then when he finally did, I just you know,
if I want to do something, I might as well
do it. So I walked up to him and I said, hey,
I just want to thank you for your years of work.
And I was actually an extra in your movie Last
Vegas back in twenty seventeen. And he wasn't that friendly
(24:43):
then in twenty seventeen, if you know what I mean.
And then and he said, oh, okay, thank you. And
I said, would you mind if I can get a selfie?
And he said, do I have to get up? And
I said absolutely not. And I squatted over and been
next to him, took a couple of pictures and that
was the most of our interaction right there.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Okay, So he was not gregarious.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
No, he's not an outgoing friendly guy.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Now.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Look, and part of this is I get it. You
imagine going your whole life, everywhere you went, everywhere. You
couldn't go to any place in the whole world without
people going, hey, that's Robert de Niro, or hey that's
Uncle Henry, you know. And so I get that.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
You probably get tired of.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Millions of people come up to you. So I get
why he wants to be away from all of that
when he's on set, because you've just got a lot
of adoring people. I was just being a fellow actor,
you know, even though we have a lot of different
experience and all this, you know, just to say thanks
and get a picture with him.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
And so now one of the people watching us on YouTube,
and my apologies for not seeing this question, but somebody
on YouTube watching the Unclaimer show on YouTube wanted to
know if you get royalties for that movie, are you
making money off that movie? Now?
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Yeah, you know, so they pay you for the days
that you work anytime you do anything from the screen
Actors guild sag after they have rules and guidelines and
pay so depending on how long your part is, if
you speak, if you don't speak, and they see you,
can they recognize you all that, there's a pay grade
per day, and so I made money for the days
that I was on set, and then you get royalties anytime.
(26:16):
And it took a while because here here's an interesting thing.
I got the the audition came in September of twenty
twenty one. We shot the scene the second week of October,
almost yeah to this month in twenty twenty one. The
movie didn't come out until May of twenty twenty three,
so it was like a year and a half where
you just kind of sit and wait and go on
about your life and almost forget. Oh yeah, that's right,
(26:38):
that's coming out finally, And so then shortly after that,
probably about three or four months after that, I got some checks.
And then about every three or four months, maybe three
times four times a year, I'll get some checks from that,
and they get smaller as they go, obviously because it's
getting older. But it just came out on Netflix last
week and it was at number two on Netflix, and
(27:01):
I think it's still in the top ten. So I'm
getting a lot of my friends l text and right
and saying I just saw you on TV.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
So so now are these are these great checks? I mean,
could you pay the power bill with these checks?
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Yeah, Yeah, I paid plenty of power bills with them.
I had one where it was kind of funny. It
was like maybe like a what did I tell you?
It was like seven or seven seven dollars? Seven dollars.
I had a seven dollars check one time that didn't
pay anything. That bought me a coffee. Depends on where
you go, but yeah, I mean it's if that's good,
you do well when you have national sag. I did
(27:36):
a commercial one time, I'll tell you this, back in
probably twenty ten for BMW and I probably made I
don't know, maybe about ten grand on that one. Oh wow, yeah,
and that's nice. Yeah, And did another one it was
over the year, you know, over the year they pay it,
and another one probably close to the same thing on
that one, you know, you had that. You see why
(27:56):
actors keep doing what they do over and over. Like
by the time one movie comes out, they've already filmed
two other ones, and they know because you're going to
continue to get royalties for as long as royalties are
hat you know, through those products.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
But you got picked to be in a BMW commercial. Yeah,
you know that's uh, that's a great brand to be
uh to be better than many others.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Congratulations, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Congratulations. All right, we have more, we have our remaining moments,
Our final segment with Michael Stewart coming up after the
break here on News Radio seven to ten wntm's Uncle
Henry Show, Got Forget. You can listen back to episodes
as podcasts. Podcast available on the iHeartRadio app or at
(28:39):
NewsRadio seven ten dot com. Uncle Henry's Show. News headlines
coming up in ten minutes. Michael Stewart is here as
guest Michael Stuart. You may have heard him years ago
(29:02):
on WABB as Michael Stewart or is Marathon Mike. And
if you watch Fox ten, I know you can hear
his voice on there every day doing TV commercials.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Yeah, there's a lot a lot of them there.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
The Handsome Supertext is one of them. Because I used
to do those spots and uh, and then one day
I turned on TV and I've been replaced by Michael Stewart. Stop. Yes,
I know nothing, I know, you know nothing I know,
but but I didn't lose anything to that, so I
don't think that I lost anything there. So just uh,
you can hear Michael all the time on TV Now
(29:37):
we were talking in the last segment about your your roles,
uh in movies about my father. People can see that
now on Netflix, you with de Niro and Kim Cattrall
and others. Now I've gone to IMDb dot com and
I'm on your Michael Stewart page.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Yeah. See, that's the big page where you want people
to go and visit and you can see pictures and
clips and find out all the different things I've done.
Not everything I've done on there, because a lot of
the commercial work doesn't go on there. I've done gosh,
like I said, hundreds of commercials and several TV shows.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Well, let's say, I see about my father. I see
something called Keys to the City. What is that?
Speaker 1 (30:16):
That was a movie about some people in Atlanta, and
I played a radio guy interviewing somebody.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Okay, so Keys to the City. I see you on
the TV show Your Worst Nightmare, where you play Officer
Davis Matthews on Your Worst Nightmare, that's it. I see
you in Swamp Murders. You play a couple of roles,
Officer Corey Davidson, and then you also played Detective Short.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Yeah, those are two different episodes, so it's like they
I guess they didn't think that people would recognize me
a couple of years apart.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
But now I see you were in something called The
Worst Love Story Ever? What is that?
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Don't even waste? I mean, I mean, yeah. It was
a short film by a friend of mine in my
local area. It's a local production and it's kind of
taken away. It's gonna be one of those things I
think when people look at back at twenty years from
now ago. It was so I don't want to see
the word bad that it was good. You know that
it's turned into a cult thing. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Okay, all right, well let's see what else you were
in the TV series start Up. You played the part
of Tony. You know, I don't even remember you were in.
In twenty twelve, you were in something called Shades.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Yes, that's a short film where.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
You played the popcorn Man.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
That's right. Yeah. That was the story of a guy
who had these shades and he put them on and
he could see the true aura of somebody take him off,
and he saw, you know how they looked everybody else.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
So he looked at you as you were.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
I was a chef, like off, I was a popcorn
guy in the park. When he put the shades on,
I was a chef.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Okay, all right, all this is all the Michael Stewart
IMDb dot com page. Yeah, so, do you have any
acting projects coming up?
Speaker 1 (32:03):
I am currently not doing anything. I am in the ballet,
though I also play. Every year, I played Drosselmeyer in
The Nutcracker for the Georgia Academy of Dance, and it's
a wonderful company and a wonderful production. Every year. They've
been doing it for thirty something years. Be my sixth year.
I've done multiple ballets with him in the spring, but
(32:26):
every Christmas we do the Nutcracker. I didn't probably wondering
Am I wearing tights? That's the question. No, well, no,
I didn't wonder that.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
But I wanted to know if you dance, I mean,
are you dancing and prancing around?
Speaker 1 (32:37):
I am not dancing as a ballet dancer. There are
some mystical moves and things that I can still do it,
you know. Yeah, so I do those, but it's more
of an acting thing than it is dancing, which is
why if I had to dance in ballet, I wouldn't
be at them for sure.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
All Right, So anyway, we're almost out of time, and
Michael Stewart was here because tomorrow night he is going
with a lot of us to the Tim Camp celebration
of life. Any before we're out of time? Is there
anything about Tim Camp that you can share?
Speaker 1 (33:12):
The first story Tim ever shared with me was when
a DJ by the name of wild Bill Hooper had
hid under the console and had a long tube going
under the ground into the newsroom and into the board,
you know, the mixer board, and he had a windex
to our a bottle and he put a little hole
(33:33):
in it and stuck a cigarette on the end of
that tube, so when you squished that bottle, it would
smoke the cigarette and send the smoke up the tube,
and it went in there while David Page, I don't
even remember that. I remember he was reading the news
and all of a sudden the board, the board started smoking, so.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
He wait a minute. So wild Bill created an elaborate
Rube Goldberg type device. It was to get smoke into
a radio control board.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
And David thought it was on fire, so while he
was live on the air, he threw his coffee on
the board to put it out. And that was the
story I remember Tim can't shared that story with me,
and how like you know, it costs a lot of money.
He had to replace all these parts and they were
so mad at Bill and just you know, but man,
you're talking about brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, practical joke on that one.
(34:19):
That was so hilarious.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
So that was a story that Tim told you.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Oh yeah, yeah, I remember he shared that with me
one time. That was hilarious. And so you can tell
he's he's had a lot of he had a lot
of good stuff in his in his days in the radio,
you know, back in the days of mom and pop.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
You know, exactly. All right, we're we're at a time
aside from your IMDb, do you have a website or
or anything you'd like people to.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Go to Audio MSP dot com. You'll see a lot
of my stuff there. Uh same thing on Facebook and Instagram.
Michael Stewart Productions and uh so and stop by and
thank you so much for letting me be here.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Man, Always a pleasure to see you always Audio ms
that's it, Audio MSP dot com, Michael Stewart, thank you
for coming in again on the Uncle Henry Show.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Thank you, I love you, My brother thank you, love
Speaker 3 (35:09):
You too, and there's more Uncle Henry Show coming up
after the news break, Fox on Set