WEBVTT - 12-22-25 Gary Jeff in for Willie 0:00:01.400 --> 0:00:05.080 In for the True Time Marconi Award winning and Surefire 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:09.840 National Radio Hall of Fame and ductee Gary Jeff Walker, 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:16.000 sitting in for the great Bill Cunningham Seasons. Greetings, happy holidays, 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:23.439 and happy birthday to me today sixty five. I didn't 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:26.480 think I was going to make it the forty Merry 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:31.480 Christmas on this December twenty second, twenty twenty five. 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:34.760 How you do one. 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:39.199 I'm having my birthday party on the air today in 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:41.800 the middle of Bill Clayton, in the middle of Willie's show. 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:45.280 I'm having my birthday party today because I knew no 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:48.120 one else would throw me a birthday party, and my 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:51.600 wife maybe, and she did over the weekend. And thanks 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:53.960 to everybody who came out to the bar on Saturday. 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:57.040 We have a gathering a gaggle of friends who are 0:00:57.040 --> 0:00:59.639 going to join us in the next three hours here 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:03.840 in Sea Studio. And yes, because of breaking news events, 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:07.280 the regular host of this show is coming in on 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:10.560 his day off, or will at least be on the 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:17.240 telephone to talk about developments in a very very specific 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:24.000 and very important local criminal case, legal issues. 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:26.240 That we'll. 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:34.800 Ring hopefully very very well. Anyway, I'll save that for 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:39.199 later on the developments that have happened in a very 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:45.360 famous murder case that has been overturned by the local prosecutor. 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:48.559 Someone's been let out of jail. But among the many 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:52.720 friends and guests on today's show, My Birthday Show, one 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:56.080 of my favorite folks in the entire world, author Peter 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:58.400 Bronson joins us for a few minutes to tell you 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:03.160 about a special Christmas deal for you on his latest book, 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:07.040 and just to say hi, Peter, Good afternoon, Welcome to 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:08.280 the Bill Cunningham Show. 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:09.800 On Gary Jeff's birthday. 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:13.800 Hey, happy birthday, Gary Jeff. Good to be with you 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:14.680 on your birthday. 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:15.600 It's great to have you. 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:18.440 And as someone who is so close to Christmas with 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:21.320 a birthday as I am on January two. 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:23.399 Oh yeah, I really enjoy. 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:27.320 This joke I saw, which is well, did you hear 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:32.720 what the wise men said to Jesus? No, they said, 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:39.440 just to be clear, these gifts are also for your birthday. 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:44.520 We all had to deal with that growing up, didn't we. Well, 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:47.120 you know my parent I got to be honest with you, Peter, 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:51.679 My parents were really good about that. They would get 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:54.160 me a specific birthday gift. They got me a specific 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:56.720 Christmas gift. By the time we got to Christmas morning, 0:02:57.000 --> 0:03:01.040 I felt guilty forgetting all these gifts, but you know, 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:04.440 it was always it was the one big present was well, 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:07.600 that's both Birthday and Christmas, because that's a big yea. 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:13.440 So you've you've got to give for anybody listening who's 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:18.080 interested in your latest book, which is the Magical History 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:22.600 to Her five short stories about incredible Cincinnati history that 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:25.760 Peter Bronson writes about. So well, so tell us what 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:29.320 folks can expect if they would like to get your 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:30.000 latest Peter. 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:34.200 Okay, Well, the quickest way you can get it go 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:37.160 to any of the local bookstores, because we're getting pretty 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:40.680 close to the mailing deadline for Christmas, and we can't 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:43.720 be absolutely sure that something that ships today would get 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:47.440 there in time, but it's probably likely, and in fact, 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:50.840 this week, starting today, I'm going to run a promotion 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:54.640 on my website, which is Chili dog press dot com 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:59.120 for free priority mail shipping. Now that is two day shipping, 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:01.839 so that could get there on time if people order 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:07.520 today and tomorrow. Also local bookstores and Amazon, as everyone knows, 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:09.800 they are hard to beat when it comes to practically 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:13.880 overnight delivery. If that's what you want, So lots of 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:16.400 options out there, but the best one. If you want 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:18.200 to sign copy in the next two days, go to 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:20.640 my website chilidogpress. 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:24.440 Dot com and it's free shipping courtesy of Peter Clause. 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:31.440 That's right, Priority mail, all right. It's the up priced shipping, 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:34.800 but maybe more likely to get there at time. 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:37.960 All right, fantastic, Peter. I wish you and your family 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:42.159 a very merry Christmas and thank you, and I definitely 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:44.640 will be contacting you on your birthday. I don't know 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:48.240 if you'll have a show on seven utter WLW that day, 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:52.880 but with you never you never know. This just dropped 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:55.600 into my lap. I got to tell you there was 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:58.680 no place I would rather be to celebrate my birthday 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:03.840 than working today in the seat of a man who 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:10.320 I Revere, who is the longest consecutive host on this 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:15.880 radio station, this great legendary radio station. Bill Cunningham's birthday 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:19.840 was just eleven days ago. Willie was seventy eight. I 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:25.400 believe not telling any tales that people don't know, but 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:31.440 I am the second longest serving host consecutively and one 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:33.960 of my favorite things to do here on seven hundred 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:36.760 WLW is wake you up on Saturday mornings with the 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:40.960 Saturday Morning Edition that if we're still we're still blessed 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:46.479 enough to be on the air. Come mid February, late February, 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:49.440 it'll be twenty nine years and it has been absolutely 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:56.600 my utter pleasure and a humble thank you to everybody 0:05:56.640 --> 0:06:00.240 who's let me stay on the air, including you. Take 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:04.040 a break and the party begins in a moment, Happy 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:10.440 sixty five to me. Sixty five years ago today, Leo 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:14.000 and Miriam Bragg had a son, their first one. They 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:18.159 named him Jeff, So I've been Jeff a lot longer 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:23.680 than I've been Gary. Jeff on the phone is my mother, 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:31.440 Miriam Bragg. Good morning Mom, Good morning son, Hi Dad, 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:35.760 Hi sir. I wanted to I just wanted to share 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:40.840 with the audience today on my birthday, how much you, 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:43.760 obviously both have meant to me in my life, and 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:47.760 how you didn't think it was necessarily a good idea 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:50.240 for me to devote my life to radio, and you 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:52.320 were probably right, and it's a little too late to 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:56.160 do the right thing now, but I in spite of that, 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:59.039 I wanted to thank you publicly for all of your 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:01.839 support and all of your love through all of these years. 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:07.480 I really did win the lottery. I won the birth 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:11.680 lottery by having you as parents. And I am just 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:15.800 so grateful, and I'm so happy that christ and I 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:18.760 will get to see you on Christmas Eve and Christmas 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:21.720 Day here in just a couple of days. And I 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:22.679 love you very much. 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:28.880 We love you too, Scents and where we're glad that 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:35.120 we had you, even though there's been times when we wondered, Yeah, 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:38.320 but you have turned out to be a good son 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:44.680 to you finally have grown up. And I'm sorry to 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:48.920 say that I cannot believe it's been sixty five years. 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:52.080 No, I can't even for sure. 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:54.600 Now I qualified streame diners. 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:59.239 Wow, so I'll get I'll get your thought. So if 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:02.440 we go anywhere, when we visit you anytime, we'll all 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:09.560 get the discount. Truly, that's right, right, Well, we can't wait. 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:13.640 We can't wait to see on Wednesday. Pray for safe 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:17.360 travels and we'll see you as say Mary Christmas in person. 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:21.320 Okay, So all right, thank you, we love you. 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:22.920 I love you, love you, guys. 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:26.800 Thanks. I am so I'm so lucky to have my 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:30.760 parents still. My dad's eighty nine, my mom's eighty eight, 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:34.680 and health challenges come along with that kind of age. 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:38.240 But you know what, they're still kicking and doing great. 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:41.160 In the studio today, we're gonna have random friends of 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:45.760 mine first and foremost. You hear him on Saturday Mornings 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:48.960 with the Gang from Ripley at Brookies. My friend, the 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:51.680 oil baron of Brown County, Doug Bonnson is here. 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:52.800 Hello, mister Bonnce. 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:57.880 Good afternoon, then, happy birthday. Yeah rats, congrats on your 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:00.880 buck eyes being in the National Championship A playoffs, and 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:04.240 you're gonna come help us root them on next Wednesday night. 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:07.480 On New Year's Eve. Yes, we will be there. Can't wait. 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:13.080 Major party, Yes, absolutely, And he doesn't even have police 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:17.480 monitoring the the roads between the basement and the and 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:22.320 the bathroom, so I should be saved very good. Also 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:25.559 joining us in the studio is a guy you yes, 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:29.040 don't shake your head. No, You're gonna be on the 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:31.640 air whether you like it or not. Okay, all right. 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:34.480 Dave from Harrison who tells the bad dad jokes on 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:38.599 Saturday Morning, has joined us. He brought cake and he 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:39.720 he heard me say. 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:43.559 Here, Jeff, there are no bad dad jokes. 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:49.079 You're right, just ones you shouldn't tell so anyway, he 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:52.040 heard me say that we had no drinks for the 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:55.400 program today, so he brought a cooler full of drinks. 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:59.880 Brother Ray Scott from Loveland, how. 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:00.560 Are you man? 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:03.760 Happy birthday by Hey, Hello to mom and dad too. 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:06.520 Your mom's bustials say, sounds so good, Gary, Jeff. 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:07.080 I know they do. 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:11.360 I mean that's where that voice comes from. My gueses. Yes, 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:16.800 we're inherited. We also have the triplets, well they're not triplets, 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:22.080 they're twins and three brothers, the Pasqually brothers. And it 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:25.160 has nothing to do with the pizza joint, which everybody 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:29.000 always asks when I say, oh, the Pisqually brothers are 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.600 here at the bar. Oh really good. Can they get 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:36.520 us a free pizza from next door? No, because Pisqually 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:40.080 in the in the terms of the pizza joint in 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:43.600 Newport and other places, has to do with a first name. 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:47.000 That Pisqually was a first name. But Pisqually is your 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:53.319 last name. The youngest brother, Paul, Hello sir, Happy birthday, Gary, Jeff, 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:57.760 and Merry Christmas to you. Thanks for having us down here. 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:00.240 This is fantasmic. Well, thanks for being had. Yeah, it's 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:02.600 great to see you in the studio today. What what 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:04.200 do you think of the digs? This is the first 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:08.640 time you've been here? Right, oh, second time now, no kidding, 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:10.839 and they let you back in the door anyway. 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:11.880 Amazing. 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:17.640 Paul always asked me some of the most like uncomfortable questions. 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:21.600 Do you have an uncomfortable question for me today? I 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:24.760 was not prepared to have an a It just came 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:31.080 naturally for you, it does, but ask me uncomfortable questions. Question, Yeah, 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:34.600 you're your older brothers are here. They have their birthday 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:38.680 in eight days, and it's oddly enough on the same 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:42.200 day since they're twins. Uh Rick and Ron pisqually have 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:46.320 joined us in good evening, Happy birthday morning, Merry Christmas. 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:50.240 And when you get down to Hendersonville, Tennessee, don't forget 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:53.000 to tell your parents they can take you to Kids 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:57.480 Eat Free on Tuesday. Well, now, I don't know now 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:01.040 that I'm a qualified senior, don't know if they're gonna 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:03.600 can I just walk in on my knees and maybe 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:08.200 they'll think I'm under twelve or something. Gary Jeff, Yeah, 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:09.800 we have a birthday card for you. 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:11.640 Oh, thank you very much, gentlemen. 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:15.959 We're also expecting the course of the next three hours 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:20.560 to have mister birthday Tuba. Last year he was here 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:25.959 in a similar setting on Willie's Show oddly enough, and 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:30.600 played when I'm sixty four on his birthday tube for me, 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:34.199 and I'm looking forward to that. And also joining us 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:39.840 today is the great Jim Lebarbara, the music Professor, and 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:42.959 he should be here almost any time now. In fact, 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:45.880 after the news break at twelve thirty, we'll be joined 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:49.520 by the prof who joins in every Saturday morning on 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:52.319 Rock and Roll Archaeology, which is one of our favorite 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:55.839 bits we do on the Saturday show. And it is 0:12:56.040 --> 0:13:00.920 his eighty fourth birthday today. He is exactly nineteen years 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:04.000 older than me. I didn't find this out until we'd 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:08.360 known each other for about five years and I just mentioned, oh, 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:11.400 you know, my birthday's coming up next week. Jim, oh really? 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:14.920 When he said the twenty second, he said, that's my birthday. 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:18.880 So we have been we have been kind of birthday 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:23.199 soulmates for a long time and both have had kind 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:27.160 of parallel careers, spending in our lives on the air, 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:30.840 on the radio, and some of the same interests in 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:36.880 music and people. He's a great people person well Thank you, 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:40.320 Pus squallys. You're welcome. It was great to have met 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:46.040 you six years ago. Remember that day, kind of what happened. 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:48.200 I walked in, Well, I listened to you on the 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:51.439 radio at work and always thought you were one of 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:56.480 my favorite guys at WLW hair So stopped in huddles 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:58.319 because you're always begging people to stop in, and. 0:13:58.320 --> 0:13:59.000 Why not begging? 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:00.800 I just didn't vite people. 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:02.240 Waiting in line outside. 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:06.320 Yeah, and got in there and I said, are you 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:08.640 carry Jeff Walker? And you looked at me and said, 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:09.960 are you the FBI? 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:15.960 Any anybody who comes and asks me that question, I 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:18.040 just make sure they're not a member of a three 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:23.520 letter agency of any kind, because you know, that's that's 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:26.040 the first thing you want to know when you when 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:28.240 you meet somebody you don't know and they ask, are 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:31.080 you Gary Jeff Walker? So brother Ron and I have 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:34.440 been going over there probably every week. So now it's 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:37.640 like a tradition, tradition. Thursday is Pisqually's day. 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:40.080 Paul join us when he retired a couple of years ago, 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:42.640 and uh yeah, so we see each other, see the 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:45.560 brother The brothers get together every one day a week, 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:46.840 have a couple. 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:50.120 Well, here's the question people always ask, especially as you 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:53.320 get close to sixty five, and if you're listening and 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:58.960 you know this, well, when you're going to retire, it's like, 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:04.080 but do you mean retire? And everybody that's got a 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:06.640 if you work in a job that's got a mandatory 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:10.320 retirement age of sixty five, tell them. And it's a ludicrous, 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:15.160 it's ridiculous. If you've got life in you, if you've 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:17.600 got ambition in you now, if you if you want 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:20.360 to just give up and go home and sit on 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:24.520 the couch and dive, that's your business. But my retirement 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:29.120 plan is death. I decided a long time ago. I'm 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:31.480 not I'm not going to take Social Security till the 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:35.840 last minute. I'm I'll be working at a bar or 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:38.360 slaving over a hot microphone until they tell me I 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:42.840 can't anymore. So, which I mean could be today twelve 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:46.400 thirty Gary Jeffin for Willie on the Birthday show, More 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:49.920 to Come and your phone calls always welcome. Five one, three, seven, four, nine, 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:53.640 seven thousand. Now, back in the day before I did talk, 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:57.480 I was a DJ, got a real life DJ in 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:03.520 the studio, A guy who started as a producer. Actually, 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:06.600 I remember this guy when he was helping me with 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:11.160 the original Night Caps. Karen Bland is in the studio. 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:13.840 Good evening, sir, Good, Happy birthday, Gary, Jeff? What am 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:16.040 I saying? Good evening, It's twelve thirty nine. It's a 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:18.680 bill cumming here. Well, used to being on nine midnight, 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:21.160 that's true, That's probably why it is. So what have 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:24.560 you been doing with yourself? Nothing? Working since so since 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:29.520 so many many years ago when you were when you 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:33.080 were slaving me, and then you were like, look, why 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:36.000 is this guy such a hard guy to work with? 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:39.400 Those good times I was bands and studios. 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:41.640 I was very difficult to work with, wasn't i? 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:43.960 Yeah, but that made me the man of Hawaiium today. 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:44.960 That's right. 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:48.240 Adversity only makes you strong exactly. So what are you 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:50.480 doing these days? I know that you're doing some stuff 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:52.800 for you still doing some stuff for the beat, for 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:53.280 the beat. 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:56.080 I'm still with Mogger. I'm on the beat every Friday 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:59.000 and Saturday. All right, two am, all right? 0:16:59.480 --> 0:16:59.760 Cool? 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:03.360 I'm still producing, still producing mo show weekdays three to six. 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:05.280 Yeah. He's a hard ass too, isn't he? 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:08.760 How did I stuck with two of the hardest people. 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:11.800 It's amazing, must be my love. 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:15.800 Listen, Merry Christmas, brother thanks for stopping by. 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:16.840 Thank you very much. 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:20.320 And speaking of happy birthdays, look who just came in 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:25.240 the other birthday, boy day, December twenty second, the one 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:28.600 and only music professor Jim Lebarbara has entered the studio. 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:30.560 Same aids. We're both the same age, and. 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:33.399 We are in the presence of true radio greatness. A 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:34.359 guy you know. 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:36.239 I mentioned at the top of this show that not 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:39.400 only has Bill Cunningham won two Marconi Awards, not one, 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:45.520 but two, and he is a surefire candidate for National 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:46.600 Radio Hall of Fame. 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:48.119 Is he in already? 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:50.919 I don't know. He ought to be in. If he's not, 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:54.080 you ought to be in the National Radio Hall of Fame, 0:17:55.280 --> 0:18:00.800 no question. Thank you. You got a bunch of fans here, Brothers. 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:07.600 Doug Bonnson from Ripley, Ray Scott Dave from Harrison is here. 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:13.000 And as he mentioned earlier, there are no bad dad jokes. 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:16.640 We'd like to collectively say hello to Tony Rosiello and 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:20.680 Joe Cina at the Fratelli Unedi. Very nice and the 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:23.920 breakfast they were on Friday, and it was we were 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:29.440 welcomed as guests of Tony's and very kind, very generous. 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:32.679 What a wonderful gathering. Can you explain that? Just in 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:33.240 a nutshell? 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:36.960 For thirty five years and way way back, I was 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:39.240 a guest speaker at one and then I wrote my book, 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:41.359 and then I was a guest speaker at another, and 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:44.040 then they went to some Italian singers and I went 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:46.720 and did another talk on that, and then twenty fifteen 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:48.720 I was the man of the Year, the Italian Man 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:49.200 of the Year. 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:50.719 It was a big one. It really is. 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:53.280 And I've got a little statue of the little thing 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:54.560 in the frame and everything at home. 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:55.199 That's for you. 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:57.040 I got to tell you were talking about your mom, 0:18:57.240 --> 0:18:59.520 your mom and dah and I brought back memories my 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:03.040 when I got into radio, I'm sure because I was 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:06.600 a pre med student in college and flunk by and camp. 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:09.439 The first semessage, you're a real under achieve yeah. But 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:12.159 then I had a grad scholarship for religion and philosophy 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:14.320 at Boston University, so I was going to be a minister, 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:18.840 and I said, wow, you're achieve Yeah. So I'm on 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:21.000 my way to Boston and I take a radio job 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:23.280 to get this out of my system and it never leaves. 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:27.000 And so I know my parents were like, what is 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:29.760 he doing? And so I go to Cleveland. Now I'm 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:33.240 in Cleveland, and in nineteen sixty six, I'm making over 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:35.399 thirty seven thousand dollars a year. I mean, I'm on 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:37.160 top of the world. I want eighty dollars a week 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:40.960 to that. And I go home. I have the little Corvette, 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:43.880 the green Corvette, have the beard, you know, long hair. 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:46.000 The kid across the street comes over and I go, 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:48.520 wear flowers in your hair and I flashed the peace 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:51.320 sign and I go and my mother was furious with me. 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:53.560 What is wrong with you? What is wrong with you? 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:56.720 And I never thought that they were happy with what 0:19:56.800 --> 0:19:58.880 I was doing, even though I was making. My dad 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:00.440 wasn't making a hundred dollars a week. Is a truck 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:03.880 driver for Forest. And my dad got called. My dad 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:06.000 was in the emergency. I was in Cleveland now with 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:08.120 NVC with them became my se and I got called. 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:10.720 My dad was in intensive care and it was touch 0:20:10.760 --> 0:20:13.440 and go and I went home and uh, my dad 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:15.159 in the hospital, went to see him and he pushes 0:20:15.160 --> 0:20:17.480 the button, the emergency button. I'm thinking, oh my god, 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:20.080 and the nurse comes in and uh, he goes, this 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:22.600 is my son, Jimmy the disc jockey, the disc jockey 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:25.080 in Cleveland, and I started, I broke up in tears, 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:27.320 you know, because you know he was part of me, 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:29.680 really part of me. Finally is a big yeah, a big, 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:32.320 big deal. Like I said, the thing we did in 0:20:32.359 --> 0:20:35.880 Cleve uh in Annawm, Michigan to go up there with 0:20:35.880 --> 0:20:39.000 with Art the big part that was so good. 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:40.800 You know, we need to try and get in touch 0:20:40.800 --> 0:20:44.240 of Art Radio's best friend. Right now, have old radio 0:20:44.359 --> 0:20:47.160 Rick on the line, who's on the air with with 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:51.600 us every Saturday morning, uh, talking about reception reports. He 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:55.600 works on these wonderful antique radios. He worked on mine 0:20:55.600 --> 0:20:59.640 and Christas and it still sounds like my wife says 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:03.399 liquid Gold in nineteen forty one Filco. It's one of 0:21:03.800 --> 0:21:06.560 you know, if you care about material things, and I 0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:10.800 kind of do that thing. It's such a beautiful piece 0:21:11.000 --> 0:21:15.960 and it's such a great radio. Ricky, how are you, hey. 0:21:15.760 --> 0:21:18.000 I'm great, Gary, Jeff, happy birthday to you. 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:21.560 Thank you, thank you, sir, and hello to everyone there 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:26.040 and jim Learbarbara, please tell the story about the time 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:32.040 that the you received a lot of jukeboxes from a sale. 0:21:32.280 --> 0:21:35.200 Yeah, tell tell the jukebox story when you received a 0:21:35.240 --> 0:21:38.080 lot of jukeboxes from a sale. Oh I got. 0:21:39.000 --> 0:21:41.000 I went to buy one jukebox from a guy and 0:21:41.040 --> 0:21:44.800 then he had a garage full of jukeboxes and he said, 0:21:44.840 --> 0:21:46.959 you really would like to have all these jukeboxes when 0:21:47.000 --> 0:21:49.119 you and I said yeah, absolutely, I mean it was 0:21:49.160 --> 0:21:50.080 like a dream. 0:21:49.840 --> 0:21:50.040 You know. 0:21:50.480 --> 0:21:53.479 And he said, well, it's here as for one thousand dollars. 0:21:54.000 --> 0:21:56.679 I mean, just a whole garage full of jukeboxes. So 0:21:57.080 --> 0:21:59.160 I said, okay, but I have no way of getting 0:21:59.160 --> 0:22:00.679 the home. And he said, we got two boys and 0:22:00.720 --> 0:22:02.320 we can get the trucks and we'll drive them to 0:22:02.320 --> 0:22:04.479 your house. So I bought the one jukebox the ten 0:22:04.560 --> 0:22:06.360 fifteen Willers shirt. At that time, one hundred and twenty 0:22:06.400 --> 0:22:08.560 five dollars is all I paid for this, and its 0:22:08.600 --> 0:22:10.439 been a great deal. But I knew the guy. He 0:22:10.480 --> 0:22:12.760 had listened to me on the radio on WLW. This 0:22:12.880 --> 0:22:15.560 was in He was in Indiana with the shop and 0:22:15.640 --> 0:22:18.879 he was cleaning out of garage that he had, and 0:22:18.960 --> 0:22:21.120 all of a sudden, I get a truckload and I'm 0:22:21.119 --> 0:22:23.080 at home and I'm doing the afternoon show on W. 0:22:23.200 --> 0:22:26.159 I'm going here a WLW And the first truck comes around, 0:22:26.320 --> 0:22:28.439 and I didn't tell my wife. I didn't tell Sally, 0:22:28.680 --> 0:22:31.439 and I had the garage cleared out, and my wife 0:22:31.440 --> 0:22:34.000 starts crying. You said, you can't bring that in here. 0:22:34.040 --> 0:22:35.880 You can't bring those in here. You know, I don't 0:22:35.880 --> 0:22:37.440 know what's in there. There could be mice in there, 0:22:37.480 --> 0:22:40.359 you know. And she's crying and I'm calming her down, 0:22:40.480 --> 0:22:43.080