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Speaker 1: A little segment we'd like to call caller Roulette. Usually

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Speaker 1: we screen the calls that we take. We don't take

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Speaker 1: very many live calls from the people that are listening

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Speaker 1: to the show. It was a very irresponsible segment actually

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Speaker 1: of a radio show to do.

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Speaker 2: Right, considering we've got everything to lose and based on

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Speaker 2: the calls we normally get hardly nothing to gain.

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Speaker 3: The last time we did call a.

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Speaker 2: Roulette was when Nige was on vacation and Chris Hammer

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Speaker 2: was here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, great job.

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Speaker 2: We had a great run. Every call was great, and

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Speaker 2: then Charles called in.

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Speaker 4: Oh Charles, I'm sorry I missed that, and I may

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Speaker 4: have snapped at Charles, and I kind of felt bad

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Speaker 4: afterwards because all he was doing was bitching and moaning

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Speaker 4: and then, you know, stumbling through something, and I did

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Speaker 4: not want to end the year like that, so I

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Speaker 4: yelled at Charles, and I kind of feel bad about it,

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Speaker 4: Actually I don't.

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Speaker 2: But we took another call afterwards and we had a

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Speaker 2: great end of the year. Okay, this is the first

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Speaker 2: time we've done it in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 3: So pressure's on these callers.

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Speaker 2: I want to get off onto a great first step

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 5: Here do it.

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Speaker 2: Eric is up first. Eric, Welcome to the Hammer in

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Speaker 2: Nigel Show what you got man?

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Speaker 6: Okay, well, hopefully we get started on a good note

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Speaker 6: here in twenty twenty six. There is an institution down

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Speaker 6: in Vincen's Indiana and a professor there by the name

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Speaker 6: of Virgil Franklin, and he is a voice doppelganger for Nigel.

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Speaker 6: So I'm gonna need you to look him up. Be

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Speaker 6: awesome to get him on the show. Have a conversation

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Speaker 6: with me.

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Speaker 3: Okay, now listen, I gotta be honest with you, Eric.

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Speaker 2: If I'm going to Vincenn's, I'm not going to look

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Speaker 2: up the Nigel dappelganger. I'm going to the Ponderosa, one

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Speaker 2: of the last.

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Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, how did you forget one of.

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Speaker 3: The last Ponderosa's in existence? And Vincen's Indiana. Scoot, Let's

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Speaker 3: go see the Nigel doppelganger.

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Speaker 2: Only if we go to Ponderosa, you and I can

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Speaker 2: have a mandate Nige.

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Speaker 3: We'll go down there.

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Speaker 2: Maybe we'll stop off in Tara Hote and go to

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Speaker 2: the casino and then head back to Indy. Eric, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Victor is up next. Victor what's happening? Go ahead, Victor.

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Speaker 7: Hey, I just want to say Rob Kendall is a tool.

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Speaker 6: He screams too much and he sounds like an idiot.

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Speaker 3: All right, Hey, we're off and running right now. Clip

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Speaker 3: that and send it to Rob Allison. That's got to

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Speaker 3: be a promo for the Kendall and Casey show.

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Speaker 1: Right, He's gonna want to play that tomorrow at some point. Uh.

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Speaker 3: I believe this is Drake for America. Drake, how are you?

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Speaker 7: What's going on?

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Speaker 6: Guys?

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Speaker 5: How are we doing?

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Speaker 8: Hope everyone's doing good, being good, making good choices, but

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Speaker 8: always remember bad decisions.

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Speaker 7: Well, they make the best stories, don't they?

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Speaker 6: Don't they? Mister Hammer? Don't you agree what goes on

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Speaker 6: in Vegas stays in Vegas or sometimes leaks out.

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Speaker 3: Oh no, some of that stuff comes back with you.

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Speaker 2: Man, I've been to Vegas a number of times to

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Speaker 2: say some of that stuff can come back nice.

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Speaker 6: Well, I hope you ever have it a good New Year.

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Speaker 8: I however, I gotta tell you I'm going through some

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Speaker 8: WIBC withdrawals. I'm really hoping you can at least answer

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Speaker 8: me this question. Are we going to have a night

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Speaker 8: with WIBC in twenty twenty six, please say that.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, so that's up to the promotional team here.

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Speaker 3: I got to be honest with you.

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Speaker 2: As a gambling man, my money says no, because here's

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Speaker 2: here's the real reality, all right, the behind the scenes

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Speaker 2: of this event. It costs an awful lot to put on,

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Speaker 2: and it's so time consuming for management and the digital

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Speaker 2: people because every show, we've got so much stuff we

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Speaker 2: want on the screens and music and video, and it takes.

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Speaker 3: A lot of time.

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Speaker 2: And there's like a million damn stations that we're partnered

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Speaker 2: with now. I just don't think they've got the time

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Speaker 2: to pull out all.

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Speaker 1: We're going to do a lot more individual show stuff

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Speaker 1: like Hammery Night. You're going to be out on the

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Speaker 1: road a lot more. Right now, somebody in the.

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Speaker 2: YouTube chat brought up the cruise or the trip to Vegas,

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Speaker 2: which is still something that I I think is in play,

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Speaker 2: But the amount of legal stuff that goes into that

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Speaker 2: is what makes it takes so long to finalize, because

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Speaker 2: like a cruise, for example, somebody gets drunk, falls.

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Speaker 3: Overboard, we can't be held liable for that.

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Speaker 2: Somebody goes to Vegas, makes a bad decision, gets handsy

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Speaker 2: gets arrested.

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Speaker 3: Or whatnot, We're not liable for that.

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Speaker 2: So lawyers have made fun trips a pain in the

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Speaker 2: butt for companies and media members.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 2: You know there was a radio station in Indie number

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Speaker 2: of years ago that had a big promotion where everybody

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Speaker 2: goes to a hotel and you check in, we have

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Speaker 2: a big party. Somebody was sexually assaulted and I believe

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Speaker 2: the station was held liable.

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Speaker 6: Wow.

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Speaker 3: Even though the.

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Speaker 2: Host and everything didn't do anything wrong, their guests had

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Speaker 2: an issue. So when I say there's legal stuff, that's

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Speaker 2: what we're talking about. But trust me, I'm working the

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Speaker 2: salespeople every minute I can get for a cruise or

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Speaker 2: a trip to Vegas or something.

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Speaker 3: Let's go to Ben Ben. Welcome to the Hammer and

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Speaker 3: Nigel Show.

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Speaker 5: Hey, I hope you guys are hope you guys are

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Speaker 5: doing good. Earlier, you guys were talking about the increase

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Speaker 5: in the Indiana graduation rates and somebody who works in education,

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Speaker 5: I wanted to provide some context because you guys are

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Speaker 5: totally right.

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Speaker 7: I don't know necessarily about.

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Speaker 5: All the money, but there's a lot a lot of

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Speaker 5: new policies like no zero policies like even if the

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Speaker 5: student turns in nothing. There's a lot of administrations out

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Speaker 5: there that manday the teacher gives them a fifty percent

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Speaker 5: on an assignment. He if they turn nothing in. That

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Speaker 5: is bushing these graduation rates higher, even though the learning might.

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Speaker 7: Not be as high.

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Speaker 3: Now if you're just tuning in.

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Speaker 2: This is in regards to the report that Indiana Department

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Speaker 2: of Education put out, and they're kind of doing a

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Speaker 2: victory lap that it's a record number of high schools

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Speaker 2: that graduated this year. It's up from the record a

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Speaker 2: year ago, and the last three years are the most

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Speaker 2: high school seniors by percentage that's ever graduated.

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Speaker 3: And Nige and I were being a little cynical with

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Speaker 3: the numbers, just a tad.

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Speaker 1: Are the students elevating or are we making it easier

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Speaker 1: to graduate?

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Speaker 3: Sir?

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Speaker 8: On the phone, it's yeah, I yeah, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, I want to believe that the students are elevating.

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Speaker 1: I want to believe that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I want to believe that too, But I also

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Speaker 5: see a lot of policies that you know, and I

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Speaker 5: mean teachers go back and forth, like in the industry

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Speaker 5: will debate. I'm like, well, is this a good policy?

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Speaker 5: You're not, But honestly, I think it inflates graduation rates

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Speaker 5: more than it helps. I mean I didn't get that

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Speaker 5: policy and no way.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, right on either, Ben. We appreciate you, man, Alison.

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Speaker 2: We got one more, right, we got another Eric standing

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Speaker 2: by Eric, Welcome to the Hammer and Nigel Show.

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Speaker 7: Hey guys, two things real quick one both both and

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Speaker 7: and a good old beefy farts and we'll see you Friday, guys.

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Speaker 2: Right on, come on downtown. Eric, we'll see you at

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Speaker 2: Coaches Tavern.

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Speaker 3: Right, brother, what the hell both?

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Speaker 1: I remember at one point you going on the air

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Speaker 1: and say people say instead of the word both. People

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Speaker 1: say both with.

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Speaker 2: An elm peeve of mine, man, Like you'll hear professional

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Speaker 2: broadcasters and listen, I'll slip up and say something.

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Speaker 3: Wrong from time to time. I'm a bit of a hic.

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Speaker 2: But you'll see, like professional state of the art studio

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Speaker 2: produced hosts say both, there's no L in the word

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Speaker 2: both B O T H. Both of us went to

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Speaker 2: the store. Not both both of us went to the store. Ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: All right, it's a good run, all right, I feel

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Speaker 2: good about it. That's a note. We're gonna the high

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Speaker 2: notice the beefy fart and both call I feel good

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Speaker 2: about that, though, first round of Caller Roulette twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: six in the books