The Bobby Bones Show - Happy Holidays from the Takin A Walk Podcast celebrating Radio

Episode Date: December 20, 2022

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Listen to a slight change of plans on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Celebrating the holidays with the Taking a Walk podcast and celebrating our radio friends. It's a beautiful day in Central Park to take a walk with a friend, a radio broadcast legend, Mark Chernoff. Give me your best Scott Muni's story that typifies what a grand persona Mr. Muni was, Fats was. Well, it was just, it was really just truly amazing. Learning all the stuff I learned from him getting to spend the time. with him. He was a real character. He would tell stories that I really can't tell

about some of the record guys he hung out with and about the people he knew and just, you know, he and John Lennon had their last child. Tiffany was Scott's last kid.

And obviously John and Yoko had Sean. And they were at the same hospital at the same time. And the two of them, Scott would tell stories about, oh yeah, the two of you. You should see smoking in the hallway, waiting for the birth of our kids, because in those days, they didn't let the men in. So the kids were born, I think, on the same day or within a few hours. I don't know, the timing of the day.

But, you know, after John was assassinated, the way Scott remembered him was every day when he signed on, and those days he was doing two to five. It was always started the show with a couple of either Beatles tracks or John solo tracks. And, you know, I give Q104 the Rock Station, New York, a lot of credit. Maria Milito does the midday show, and Scott went for the last year that he was working, because N.E.W. had changed by then. He was over at Q104. And they still, to this day, remember Scott and play a couple of Beatles tracks. They do at noon every day. I love that.

Ken Dashow. Buzz, it's great to see you again. It brings back so many great memories of working with you. My first job, my friends were deletious. delivering pizza in Brooklyn getting $3 an hour. And at 19, I got my first radio job doing weekends at XL Country in Newton, New Jersey, which was 76 miles away. So in my 69 cutlass, whose spodometer had broken at a quarter of a million miles,

and burned about 50-50 gas and oil. I got $1.76 an hour for a five-hour show. So I don't know about these youngsters today, Buzz, but if you totaling gas tolls and if I bought a sandwich, I was pretty much losing $5 a show. But I'm 19 and I'm in. I'm on the air. I'm being paid to be a disc jockey.

I don't know anything about country music, but I'm cousin Ken and Excel country and I'm in. Please welcome Greg Hill. Buzz, great to see you. Yeah, thanks for taking a walk. I loved Larry Glick. I loved radio. I listened to WBCN. I was really into music. I was into the music that BCN played, not necessarily into the music that AAAF played at the time. And so I, we had a room off my house in Stowe where I grew up, which was like an old garage room, essentially. And I went out, I had paper route. I went out and saved all my paper route money, bought myself two turntables.

and I would go out and buy, I went to the Woolworth, which was in Maynard, every week, and bought the top 20, 45s, the songs that were popular, and I would go every day after school and legitimately do a radio show in that room, which no one was listening to. and it was a great place to make mistakes, figure out kind of what my, like, you know, what my style was going to be when nobody was listening. Yeah. And, you know, at times during my career,

there were only two or three more people listening. They were listening in the garage. The one, the only. Matt Siegel. Charles Laquadera. So do you remember the first time that you, you interviewed for a radio job. And where was that?

I never interviewed for a radio job. Never? No, I don't think so. Like when you got your first job? You didn't have to interview? No. My buddy owned a theater in Hollywood. And he had a part-time job as a disc jockey at KPPC in Pasadena, California.

And this was, I was in Hollywood. And he said, hey, Charles, do you want to come into the station with him? And I was doing some work with, I was writing a play at the time. I said, no, Dave, I'm really, he said, come on, take a break. Come on with me. So I went into the station with him. He was playing jazz. I was watching him, and he had me sit sitting at the console with him and do that stuff.

And he said, by the way, he said, they're looking for somebody to do a classical music piece called the Sunday Night Opera of the Air. Do you know anything about opera? And I said, yeah, I said, I like classical music. I said, I don't know, you know, that much about it. But he said, anyway, you should just brush up on your opera, and I'll tell them I've got something to do the thing. So I just went in one night, and the engineer showed me how to work the pots, I think they call them,

the sliders or whatever those were. Then I got a write-up in the Pasadena Star News by their music critic. He says something like, I still have a copy of it. Something like, you know, in this world of classical music, when the announcers are so proper. Along comes an aspiring actor named Charles Laquodera who talks like somebody you'd know on the street, somebody who finally, we have an ordinary human being,

you know, one of us. Anyway, he gave me a great write-up, and so there was that. And then the station I was working at changed from classical to rock and roll. That was when the underground stations took over all the classical station. Yep. Like up in San Francisco and Alabama.

in L.A., in Boston. So here I was now. The station that I was working for was a classical station changed to a rock and roll station and they kept me on because I was cheap labor. I was two bucks an hour.

So I didn't know that much about rock and roll. I didn't know that much about classical music. I was trying to be an actor. So I just mixed it up together. You know, mixed up. I'd play Rachmaninoff and just, you know, follow that with the Beatles or something like that. And then anyway,

I came from California, I came back here to my home in Milford to take a few weeks' break. And I heard this station called WBCN. I called him up, and I said, hey, you guys are great. What's going on to me? And he said, oh, you know, he asked me who I was. And I said, Charles Lundler, oh, you're the crazy pastor that plays rock and roll and classical music. He said, come on into the station. And BCN was looking for somebody because Peter Wolf,

was there, I guess, mid-morning DJ or night DJ, and he was leaving, and they needed somebody to replace him, so I lucked out when I got a job. I'm Richie Ballsbaugh. I started Kiss 1018 in Boston in 1978, the founder of Pyramid Radio. I've been in the radio business, or was in the radio business for a long time. I wanted Luther Van derrose more than anything for the Kiss concert. So I meet Luther, and Luther's got right away, he's got such attitude. So I said, Luther, look, what would it take for you to play the Kiss concert? And he said, I'll play a kid's concert if you get the Boston Pops to be my backup man. I went in the lobby and I called Keith Locker.

And he goes, when is the date of it? And I tell him, he goes, we'll do that. So I walked back to Luther with a phone and I hand the phone. Keith Lockhart saying they'll play the kids concert. Luther could not get out of it. Taking a walk with Buzz Night is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. When a group of women discover they've all dated the same prolific con artist, they take matters into their own hands. I vowed, I will be his last target.

He is not going to get away with this. He's going to get what he deserves. We always say that, trust your girlfriends. Listen to the girlfriends, trust me, babe, on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Eaglewood. Next guest, it's Will Ferrell. My dad gave me the best advice ever. He goes, just give it a shot.

But if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall and it doesn't feel fun anymore, it's okay to quit. If you saw it written down, it would not be an inspiration. It would not be on a calendar of, you know, the cat. Just hang in there. Yeah, it would not be. Right, it wouldn't be that. There's a lot of luck. Listen to Thanks, Dad, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

In 2023, Bachelor star Clayton Eckerd was accused of fathering twins. But the pregnancy appeared to be a hoax. You doctored this particular test twice in so much, correct? I doctored the test ones. It took an army of internet detectives to uncover a disturbing pattern. Two more men who'd been through the same thing. Greg, a lesbian. Michael Mancini.

My mind was blown. I'm Stephanie Young. This is Love Trapped. Laura, Scottsdale Police. As the season continues, Laura Owens finally faces consequences. Listen to Love Trapped podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. It's Financial Literacy Month, and the podcast, Eating While Broke, is bringing real conversations about money, growth, and building your future. This month, hear from top streamer, Zoe Spencer, and venture capitalist Lakeisha,

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