WEBVTT - 4-3-26 Sloan: The Jack Crumley Exit Interview 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:03.720 Do you want to be an American? It's only here seven. 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:07.520 I love doing these self serving things right here, these 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:12.480 self service serving things today are my friend and our 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:16.000 news director of the last twenty something thousand years. Jack 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:21.320 Crumley is scheduled to die, So he will. Yeah, it's 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:24.760 on the schedule, Jack Crumbley won. This is his exit interview. 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:27.479 So after how many years your news director here? Since 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:29.880 twenty nineteen when Jeff Henderson took over for the late 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:33.279 Jeff Henderson. Now he's about to be the late Jack Crumley. Wow, 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:35.760 that's been that long. And you've been there for twenty 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:38.400 something years, and so you're leaving for greener pastures. I'm 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:40.760 not sure what BUCkies you're going to work at. Maybe 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:44.159 the one in you brites, I'm not sure. But yeah, 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:47.199 And every time someone leaves of prominence, and I would say, 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:49.479 you're fairly prominent here at this radio station. Well, I've 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:52.320 been a voice on the station for such a long time. 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:56.680 In wanting out, my goal here than the segment is 0:00:56.680 --> 0:00:58.279 to you to tell stories. So by the end of it, 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:00.440 you don't leave on your own, you're actually fired. So 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:02.520 to have someone from management come in and go, okay, 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:05.320 you're out. This is like an HR hat yeah yeah yeah. 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:08.000 But also the so you but because if we do that, 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:10.360 then you get on climate for a couple of days. 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:11.080 Start your nerd. 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:12.520 It sounds like a win win, sounds like a win 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:16.560 for everybody here too, So in your tenure. So first, 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:18.520 how did you you ended up at LW. You were 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:19.720 in Toledo and you came down here. 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:21.240 I was in Toledo and I came down here, and 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:24.039 I have you to thank for that. Twenty years ago, 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:28.440 in October of six, I had been up in Toledo 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:33.360 doing airborne traffic Wow, back at a time when broadcast 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:36.040 companies thought spending money on a little airplane flying around 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:38.240 in Toledo for traffic reports was money wells. 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:38.600 Sure, sure. 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:40.560 And then on top of that they realized, well, wait a minute, Toledo, 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:41.479 there's no traffic here. 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:43.319 Which is why then we all got laid off. Correct. 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:46.280 And I knew a guy, one of the guys that 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:48.240 I knew up in Toledo by the name of Jeremy 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:52.440 Baumhauer let me know about you down here, and that 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:54.640 there was an opening in the newsroom, and that is 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:55.640 how I got my foot in the door. 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:57.120 And I will always be grateful to thank you. I 0:01:57.200 --> 0:01:58.520 appreciate that. I just it was luck. 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:00.000 I knew I was gonna ask that because I get 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:01.960 a commercial for me made me look like a good 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:04.240 guy for a change anyway, So too, I'm just surprised 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:05.880 you're dumb enough to hang around that long. 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:07.280 So it was fun long be. 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:09.120 Prom it was we have a good time, fun, We 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:11.359 have a good The funniest story was though you had 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:14.160 just started at l W and I was doing nine 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:16.920 to midnight, I was doing two to ten, and I 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:20.920 get this phone call going, hey, are you watching the 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:22.520 Sopranos finale this weekend? 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:25.720 That's right, that's how I last It was the that 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:28.600 was the last season of that show. And I had 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.320 someone who was taping it for me and mailing me 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:34.000 a videotape because I didn't have HBO when I moved 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:37.160 down here. Yeah, and I and I didn't want to 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:38.840 miss the finale. It was going to be the biggest 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:41.280 thing in the woods. And so yeah, you you and 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:43.080 your wife were nice enough to have me over at 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:44.800 your house to watch that finale live. 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:45.079 Yeah. 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:47.000 Yeah, well i'd like it was the big screen, which 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:50.040 was like probably forty inches back then. Yeah, and the 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:52.160 funniest do you tell the stories. We're sitting there watching it, 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:54.600 and if you don't know how Sopranos ends, it's a 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:55.919 really weird ending to the show. 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:57.680 It's a very abrupt cut to black. 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:01.480 Yeah, they're they're playing Journey Don't Stop Believing, and they 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:04.440 just stopped the song and TQ as black. We're all 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:06.640 look at It's like, ooh, I'm looking at the remote 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:08.800 yelling at my wife. Well, you thought she did something. 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:10.520 You shot off the. 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:13.720 Couch like someone had blasted you within like an ejector seat, 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:16.080 and you were running for the TV because the immediate 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:19.160 assumption was that something had gone wrong technologically, so you're 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:21.000 running for the TV to try to make an adjustment. 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:24.240 Michelle's screaming at the top of her lungs, and then 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:27.000 after like ten seconds, the credits started to rolling. You're like, oh, 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:28.639 that was on purpose, and it was I will always room. 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:30.520 Yeah, that was very funny. We looked at You're like, oh, 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:32.760 that was kind of dumb. It's gonna gone in the 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:35.560 middle of the show. That's but technology was that iffy 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:37.680 back in the day. You don't know what's going on. 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:40.120 The sheer terror that the show cut out right at 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:41.120 the end, we lost our. 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:42.920 Mind and that was like one of the most controversial 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:45.880 endings to achieve show probably in history, indeed, I think 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:48.320 for the end of the Sopranos. In your ten yearde news, 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:50.440 what are the most memorable stories news stories you remember? 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:53.280 Most memorable news stories you know? Early on when I 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:57.760 was here is when Cincinnati was in the aftermath of 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:01.480 the whole Marcus Faisal case, which, as you recall, was 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:05.840 a little boy who I believe had autism and was 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:11.360 being fostered, and the people who were fostering him ultimately 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:15.640 were charged with killing him after they had lied about 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:17.960 the fact that he had run away. And I remember 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:20.640 hearing stories before I got here, of people out in 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:22.120 the community, like doing searches. 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:23.360 It was a big public thing. 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:25.440 We got to find this kid, right and then come 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:28.200 to find out he had been very tragically he was 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:31.719 he was gone, and all the uproar of the trial, 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:36.080 Liz Carroll's trial, and then the that was I mean, 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:37.560 that was that was the biggest story of the year 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:38.920 here for like three or four years. 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:40.880 Yeah, that was two thousand and August of two thousand 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:41.200 and six. 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:43.680 I remember, I remember that it was such a horrible 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:46.280 story because they took his remains and burned him and 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:48.000 they locked him in a closet so they could go 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:48.680 to a family room. 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.720 And it was August. It was just a nightmare, and 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:52.120 they had a. 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:53.760 Fan in there, and they thought that, you know, I 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:55.680 just came back, well eve him in there like a 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:58.320 I don't know, like a like a cat, like I 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:00.080 will leave the food out or something. Just thought in 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:03.480 the closet, a poor baby. Just just horrible circumstances. One 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:05.520 of the worst stories I've ever heard. But I remember 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:09.400 vividly at the time because the the foster mom was 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:13.159 on camera at Juli's Park, and normally when there's a 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:15.279 family member we're looking for, you know, okay, we gotta 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.560 we gotta find him, and he's missing, and there were 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:22.280 nobody behind her normally like you see police officers and prosecuted, 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:24.600 like people will stand behind you. And like we watching 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:26.599 that press com was like, man, something's missing here, and 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:28.280 somebody in the room put their finger and go, yeah, 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:30.000 there's no police standing about it. When you when you 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:32.280 stand up by yourself, yeah you know that she was 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:35.359 the suspect. And that was like literally a day after 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:38.200 that happened. But of course they're both buried underneath the 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:39.919 jail right now as well, well you should be. And 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:42.120 there was another woman involved who was like the girlfriend, 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:43.480 right and it was crazy just. 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.760 Just she was the one that flipped and took the 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:46.280 plea deal. 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:48.760 Crazy horri It seems like, you know, because you're kind 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:51.400 of a news junkie, that Cincinnati and I we always 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:53.560 joke about this, but we have the most bizarre thing. 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:55.599 Like I don't think any other city has the weird 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:58.360 stories that we have happen like they do here. 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:01.080 There's there are a lot of unique headlines that come 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:03.640 out of this town that are rooted in like the 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:06.560 history of the city and like it's there, whether you're 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:10.200 talking about like shocking tragedies or just sort of weird quirks. 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:10.600 Uh. 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:12.720 Yeah, there's a lot of this to this listen, Cincinnati's 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:14.080 got a ton of personality. 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:14.200 It really does. 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:17.200 We have like the weirdest and it's a horrorle another 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:20.440 horrible story, but the right the hint and the hinting thing. 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:23.320 Oh gosh, the kid gets shot, the dad goes and 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:25.680 runs over a deputy. To me, I don't know where 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:27.760 else in the world that happens, but Cincinnati Ohio and 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:30.279 it's not. Sometimes they're laughable, Like we had to stretch. 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:32.599 Remember when cows are getting loose all the time. 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:36.200 Two pops a moo and another pop shout out to uh, 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:37.760 the former Rachel Murray. 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:40.200 Rachel Murray, two pops a moo and another shot was 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:42.680 her teas before this is the then thirty report. I'm 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:46.640 Rachel Murray, what the hell Cole's got loose on the 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:48.839 interstate and that it was a stretch where that was 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:53.320 happening often, like every few months, Like I don't know something. 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:54.800 That overturn or I can't believe. We didn't have a 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:57.240 we didn't have a sounder. That was just live stock loose. 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:00.200 Yeah, yeah, yeah, we had I remember like I was 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:05.040 re loose at at what the Home Days and Chevy 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:07.040 It we had a tractor trailer full of pigs that 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:09.160 got loose, and it was just it was this weird 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:10.920 thing that was going on, although no one could figure 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:13.400 out why it was. Uh. And then for a stretch 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:15.880 we had like before they fixed it was a litle tunnel. 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:17.920 It would be shut down every couple of minutes. I 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:20.720 felt like because some idiot would be would be driving 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:23.120 around and you know, roll through the tunnel and block 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:24.880 it for a day and a half. And yeah, we 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:27.040 just got weird stories here. And it's a good news town. 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:28.720 I think it's a great news town. It's a great 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:31.000 town for it's a great town period. But it's a 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:33.640 great news as you grew up in Cleveland, just outside 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:35.480 of Cleveland is where I grew up, and yeah, moved 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:37.280 here twenty years ago, and this is this is very 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:39.440 much home. Yeah, And I think everyone who moves to 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:42.240 Cincinnati goes and not everyone, of course, but yourself is like, 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:44.360 this is home now, this is home, this will always 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:44.640 be home. 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:46.160 I felt, and I felt that way the minute I 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:48.960 got here. I was not very happy in Toledo, and 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:50.880 getting to move out of there and come here was 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:53.360 what I felt to be at the time, and even 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:54.600 still was a big upgrade. 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:56.800 For Yeah, yeah, exactly. It's just there's a there's a 0:07:56.800 --> 0:07:59.760 great sense here at the station. There's a lot of 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.160 town to people here. There's some untalented people. Let's start 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:04.480 with them. That's part of the exit. This is the 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:06.520 exit interview for Jack Crumley. Here. This is the last 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:08.440 day at seven. Who's the worst person you know that 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:12.400 works in this building? There is no worst person I 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:15.040 get at that's fine. I know, but I know, I 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:17.200 know You're probably gonna say Matt Reese, and I'd agree 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:17.360 with you. 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:19.760 Oh, come on, that's that's one of the best. He's 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:21.720 out there right now, producer stores doing stuff. 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:24.520 I heard him the other day and it was a 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:27.520 couple of we always will have like a text chain going, 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:30.680 and he started with like, yesterday, okay, Pam BONDI gets fired. 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:33.120 We've got a war. We got all the stuff gone, 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:35.800 and like the first it's it's a what four minute newscast. 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:37.520 The first three minutes we're all about, well, we're going 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:40.480 to pray the steps, and then tomorrow's good Friday. I 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:42.120 think you really had to sit down and talk with him, 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:44.520 because if I flipped over to the to the Catholic station, 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:46.680 they did more news than he did. Listen like that 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:48.680 was even the lead for the Catholic station. It is 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:51.960 always the policy to lead local. We want local as 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:54.280 our bread and butter, and praying the steps is a 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:57.160 century old tradition. We talked about just a minute ago, 0:08:57.320 --> 0:09:00.560 how much personality and history this city has. The steps 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:01.840 is a big thing. Well, are you going to miss 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:06.040 most I'm gonna miss you a lot. Well that's not true. 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:07.760 Well I know, but even what do I bring to 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:09.960 the table. I'm talking about your news like news wise, 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:11.360 who back in the news room. 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:13.520 I mean, listen, I you know you talk about when 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:15.079 you're when you're at work and the sort of the 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:17.320 day to day grind of doing things, whether that means 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.280 putting together a schedule or finding stories or getting people 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:22.360 on the phone or writing a newscast like all that 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:26.880 sort of fades off into into the distance, and the 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:29.959 important stuff is the people. You know, seeing Brian and 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:33.040 Rick in here every morning, and and and Sandy, and 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:35.760 you know, maybe somebody given Matt a hard time about 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:39.360 something and Matt giving it right back. It's it's it's 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:41.240 a really wonderful crew here. And I am going to 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:41.760 miss the people. 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:43.360 I will say this, and I think it's probably to 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:45.560 anyone listening in their workplace, it's the same thing. After 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:47.960 a while, you realize it's like, yeah, you maybe maybe 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:50.640 you love your fortunate love what you do, maybe you 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:52.800 love who you work for, maybe not whatever, but it's 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:53.600 always it's the people. 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:56.000 It's not the job. Always, it's always the people. And 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:56.880 it's it's hilarious. 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:59.520 So you can never recapture that moment if you leave 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:01.880 or if you're or you know, whatever it might be. 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:02.960 It's it's really hard to do that. 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:05.199 But that's what you cherishes, the people and the memories 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:07.760 and and the camaraderie and things like that. What is 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:11.160 the funniest thing you ever remember happening off the air? Oh, 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:12.880 my gosh, off the I'm gonna put you on the 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:15.400 spot here, oh boy, because there's lots of lots of 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:17.800 stuff I said, you know would be a great podcast. 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:19.480 Is the stuff that happens off the air that you're 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:23.120 not allowed to talk about on here. Yeah, but then 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:25.720 but often we talk about the stuff on the air 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:27.800 and that that happens behind the scenes. 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:29.320 But there's always some funny stuff. 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:33.880 Boy, you know, the back when having video, like you know, 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:37.160 before we really had uh phones that had video cameras 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:38.679 on them and we're taking it like back when video 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:42.360 was kind of a novelty still. Yah, I remember there 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:45.319 was a prank that got pulled. It ended up being 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:47.240 on the air because it was a part of a promotion. 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:50.440 But like there was footage of like William Seig getting 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:53.240 into a fight in the hallway which led to like 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:55.720 some kind of suspension because somebody was going on vacation. 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:58.920 Was Darryl was a big fan of doing goofs like 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:00.800 that to mess with people. And somebody was in a 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:02.760 hallway shooting a video and then like all of a sudden, 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:05.360 you saw this ruckus in the background and that led 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:07.480 to something else, and you know, stuff like that was 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:08.080 always really fun. 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:10.160 Yeah, the funniest thing is and and Jack Crumley's here. 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:11.800 I was gonna say, you know, the late Jack Crumley, 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:14.360 and I made a mistake because last time I did 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:16.160 it was Bill Cunningham when he fell off the chair 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:18.719 on a Sunday night showing Oh my god, it's hilarious, 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:20.959 and I was goofing on the air about it about him, 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:22.920 you know, the late Bill Cunningham and a head injury 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:24.959 and close head injury, and as he died, literally died 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:28.000 behind the mic in the Inquirer it Cincinnati com had 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:31.200 actually wrote a story about Bill Cunningham not dying, like 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:33.440 I've never I've never remember a story coming out where 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:36.920 somebody's written not an O what was the opposite of 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:37.520 an obituary. 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:40.839 I don't know, a birth announcement. I suppose it is. 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:43.280 Yeah, it was like Bill Cunningham is not dead, right, 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:45.400 and then tomorrow we'll have another person who's also nice. 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:47.160 Back in the day, Willie used to kill off the 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:49.679 truck and Bosoll all the time, like he'd be late 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:52.599 or something on Bozo's dead, long lived the Bozo and U. 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:54.760 Now it's like we take everything so serious. I think 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:57.040 it's something else that's changed. We take everything today so 0:11:57.200 --> 0:12:00.360 seriously when it comes to news and talk, right, it's like, 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:03.600 you know, I don't know why we are And even 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:05.800 in real life, like social media, everything is you know, 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:08.040 we just had April fools Day, remember April Fol's jokes 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:10.640 for some of it really good people are afraid to 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:11.520 do that stuff anymore. 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:14.520 Well, and uh yeah, listen, I mean you can be 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.559 professional and you can have it's possible to be professional 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:20.760 and have fun. But I mean, I don't know, people 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:23.840 get when it's written down. When something's on the Internet, 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:25.720 that's the same thing as writing it down and then 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:28.640 it's there forever. And the idea of say it, forget it, 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:31.280 write it, regret it is still kind of a thing. 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:33.319 Yeah yeah, And it just seems like the stay everyone's 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:35.920 just looking to get you too, But I'm not too 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:38.280 And you know, a lot of good memories of your 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:41.040 job too, But is it gotten harder to do news 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:44.360 because of the scrutiny that that everything because of the 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:47.400 filter of left and right and politics of course is 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:49.800 a big part of the of the station, even though 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:52.280 we're not at political station by any means, because there's 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:56.520 all other entertainment on there versus politics that in that 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:59.679 in this realm, it's you feel like people are scrutinizing 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:03.880 more listeners, especially or other media sources. Do you uh, yeah, 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:06.600 I don't think so. There's you know, because you're always 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:08.480 accused you're bias. Like I got an email yesterday from 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:10.600 saying I said, you know I was because I said, 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:12.800 you know the advantage of taking I ran out is 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:14.400 maybe you just got to wipe the slight clean every 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:16.079 ten years instead of boots on the ground, this is 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:18.280 what you do. And some have disagreed and said, you know, 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:21.200 typical boomer. But then I'll I'll tack Trump on something 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:23.240 and get the well, you're a liberal and disguised And 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:25.720 it's kind of funny because I don't remember any point 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:28.280 in history of like doing that, of just speaking your mind, 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:30.800 and it's like you must be part of some secret agenda, 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:31.240 you know what I mean. 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:32.760 And you guys in news know what I'm talking about. 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:35.560 Yeah, I mean, I think there maybe on a cultural level, 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:36.839 there is a bit of a rush to want to 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:39.840 put something in a category. We want to see something, 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:42.360 categorize it, and then move on to the next thing. 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:44.640 And people are maybe a little bit more complicated than that. 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:47.280 Sometimes it's not always as convenient as well, you fit 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:49.000 into this one category and that's what you are, and 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:51.520 then we move on. People are complicated. I don't know 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:54.040 that if the scrutiny is any worse, necessarily you might 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:56.280 get it from a new angle as far as the 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:58.640 Internet goes. But I mean, you know, going back twenty 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:00.320 years when I started here, the phone would ring, and 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:02.400 if somebody didn't like what they heard in a newscast, 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:04.200 they'd let you know about it, or you know, here's 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:06.040 something else I think you should check out. You know, 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:09.760 back in like eight when gas prices everyone was going crazy, 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:12.480 when gas was hitting like two fifty a gallon. I 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:14.760 remember answering a ton of calls from people that were 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:16.600 all upset about the price of gas and what are 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:18.120 you going to do about it? It's like, guys, it's 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:21.120 a global commodity. We live in a global. 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:23.680 Nothing you can do about it, right right? Yeah? 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:26.480 Jack Crumbley's on the show Jack cours Oar newsguy, news director, 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:28.680 and today is his last day and he's moving on 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:31.560 to something else. He will not disclose that. So the 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:34.400 speculation was that you're going to be the spokesperson for 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:38.640 the Amy Acton campaign or Tiger Wood's new limo driver. 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:41.000 I don't think he's hiring. I think that's something that's 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:42.000 a job he should have filled along. 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:43.080 I don't know. 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:46.720 It's what about can you pitch because and are you're 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:47.680 prone to blisters? 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:50.960 No? But you know, we had a great night with 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:53.400 the dart team last night. I am on a dart 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:55.760 team and we won ten to five. The Sticky Bandits 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:58.200 beat the Sticky Bandits. That's our team name, the Sticky Bandits. 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:00.760 We beat the Silverton Cafe read up ten to five 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:03.640 last night. So I'm actually here to announce that I 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:05.880 am joining the pro the pro To. There's a lot 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:08.880 of nil money and darts and I plan on. 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:11.160 It's kind of old news actually, because I heard seg 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:12.280 sportscast this morning. 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:13.000 He included in. 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:15.960 That that's sticky sticky fingers. 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:20.520 Jack probably and he got he threw up a bull's eye. 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:20.720 You know. 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:22.840 One of the best things, one of the best things 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:24.680 that Seg ever did when we were doing darts, you know, 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:26.720 because I would talk about what sort of I was 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:29.000 having with my dark people. And the one year when 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:30.920 the season was getting started, it was the first week 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:33.360 of the season and Seg got on with Willie and 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:35.440 the Stooge Report and talked about how well we're getting 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:38.880 ready for the darts Opening Day parade and they're they're 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:41.920 going to close down Montgomery Road in Norwood and bronson 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:44.960 Arroyal is going to be the Grand Marshall and like 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:48.240 so many guys from so many teams, week after we 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:50.640 kept saying, did you guys really do a parade? 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:53.120 It was like the eb N Fools Parade all over again. 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:54.720 It is, and once a while you'll do something like that. 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:58.160 Because speaking of final memory here too back in the day, 0:15:58.200 --> 0:15:59.960 because I was doing Nine to mid Night, you are 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:03.000 also I was ton in the same time, and you 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:04.640 can never do this anymore to show how long ago 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:06.520