Radio Voices, GEDs, Bad Parents & Ozzy Osbourne's Fave Horror Movie

5.12.23
Who's got the better radio voice? Stuck OR Gunner?
Plus, graduation shoutouts, Stuck gets his GED and BAD parents.
Also, Stuck and Ozzy Osbourne have something in common that's VERY weird.
NEW pods every Friday! Next week (5/19) we'll talk to Def Leppard's Phil Collen and Vivian Campbell!

Episode Transcript

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They've been thrown off bar stools,thrown out of ballparks, and thrown straight
out of school, get kicked outof school. Stuck in Gunner. Hey,
welcome to another edition of the Stucka Gunner Podcast. New one out
every Friday. And I want tothrow something out. This is Gunner by
the way. I'm the one withthe good boys. Oh no, you

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know, I do a lot ofbroadcasting around the country, you know,
you know, one of those guys. It's out of market, as they
say, you know, And I'venoticed that in every market that I'm in,
my voice is the best. Okay, I'm talking about Chicago too.
I'm in Chicago. I'm on theair all the time in the best voice
in Chicago. All right, Yeah, I think I'm gonna lead with that
on my website, best voice inChicago. Keep in mind, everybody that

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Don has struggled with the drinking problemfor the last forty five years. So
would you hear him say I'm thebest. The odds are he's drunk.
So there's a very good possibility thatyou're not a professional unless you're around a
round ten am in the morning,you know. All right, So this
is the deal, and that's andthat's when you're getting up at ninety five.

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Here's how my day goes. WhenI'm in a drinking spell and you
get up about nine in the morning, before you even go to the bathroom,
before you even urinate, right outof bed. Yeah, you take
a swig out of the Scotch battle. Thank you very much. Good for
you, Good for you. Butthis is what I wanted to say.
Even when you listen to the Stuckand Gunner podcast, if you stream us

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on the iHeartRadio app, you canleave a comment right there on the podcast
page if you use the red talkbackMike. So, now, last week,
during my day job, graduations arehappening all over the country. A
guy actually got this to me.This is from the talk back Mike.
Give it a listen. Graduation shoutout to my daughter Jane. I can't

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believe thank graduated you. There yougo. That's it. Thanks a lot,
Dad, Thanks for nothing, anddon't drink. I don't know if
that's a I don't know if that'sa good message bad message. Hey,
daughter, I can't believe they graduatedyou. It's bad. It's bad.
I can't they graduated you. Yeah, I mean, you know, so

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look, I'm no England was major. But him telling his daughter that he
can't believe they graduated her. Idon't think this guy should be trying to
insult anybody on their English. Yeah, h, congratulations, I graduated you.
So let me let me ask you. Because I, of course am
a scholar and a gentleman. Igraduated Butler University. I was awarded a

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I was awarded an academic scholarship.I had three quarters of my tuition paid
by Butler as long as I kepta three point two five or above.
So big party when I got outof school. This is what I want
to know. Don when you getyour geed, do your parents throw you
a party. They did not throwme a party, and I did get
a GED. I left high schoolwhen I was sixteen to be full time

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in a band. We played sixnights a week at six hours a night
nineteen seventy nine. So I wasmaking three hundred and fifty dollars a week.
And at the time my dad waslike, okay, all right,
that'll work because I wasn't doing anythingin school anyway, you know. But
then you finally, when you're eighteen, you go get your g ED.
They did not throw me any kindof a party because our family was not

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strong on education. My dad wentto college, got himself an associating business
because he had to take over thefamily business. Mom was a homemaker but
ended up working for the Credit Unionover there for Ford Motor Company on the
East Side. It wasn't a strongeducational focus for us. However, I
went out and did a lot ofpartying with my geed. I actually took
it out to one of the gigsthat I was doing later that week I

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graduated. Here we go, man, Yeah, and it just it reminded
me. You know, I didn'tknow if I liked it or not.
But in the end I found myselfdoing mornings with you on X one oh
three. And I have a geed. You have all the accolades from school.
Tom Griswold is an Ivy League Englishliterature major. Yeah, and all

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three of us are doing the samething. So while while you guys were
in college, I was out gettingan education. So you guys just spending
four under thousand dollars with your collegeeducation if you would have had to pay
for it in all three of yourdaughter's college education, how what are we
talking here? A million about amillion. Well, no, no,
back in my day, it wasn'tmuch five hundred thousand. Now you're talking

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about together all together, three kidsthrough college. I'm probably closer to like
one hundred and seventy five one hundredand ninety five thousand dollars that we had
to spent. I thought it wouldbe more than that. No, no,
no, well we'll see and lookat me. You know, I
was making three fifty a week giggingat the holiday so well, you know
you have you guys were in school. I was out getting an education.

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The Stuck family has a doctorate insarosis. That's what your family is good
at. Wow, well, nofamily, No family in Hancock County has
harder livers than the entire Stuck family. Rock Solid Unity Hospital Community Hospital on

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the east side there at sixteenth andRitter, they have a they have a
wing and in the in the laboratorythere, they've got like fifteen stuck livers
underglass in the water. You know, it's a research. How do these
guys live to eighty five years olddrinking like this? That liver in their
body? It doesn't make any sense. Now, don't they have a jar
there with your father's brain in itthat says abnormal, like young Frankenstein.

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The world could use a little bitof my dad's attitude. I'm telling you
what I believe. I just reada story. I just read a story
this morning about how younger men arenow more mentally stable because they've become able
to get closer with other males bromances, not that not a homosexual thing,

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but bromances. They are able toopen up to each other about their feelings,
and in turn, everybody's mentally healthier. That's what the study says.
You know, they're sitting around havingkeish and they were sitting in their pink
shirts at a coffee shop talking toeach other about their feelings. That's why,
that's why we keep my dad's brainunderglass. He would take these guys,

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grab him by the shoulders and justshake him and put them in front
of a mirror and go look atwhat do you look at yourself? Well,
what have you done? Can't dothat? Oh that's funny, that's
funny. All right, Well,let's go ahead and move on. I
wanted to talk a little bit aboutsomething that you and Ozzy Osbourne have in
common. In nineteen seventy four orthereabouts. You both went to the movie

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theater, not together, obviously youwere a child, kind of a child.
You went to the movie theater andyou both were scared to death by
the movie The Exorcist. Isn't thatcorrect? It's absolutely true. My parents
take a what would I and sowhat was that nineteen I would have been
eleven years old, and your parentstake you to a movie, The Exorcist,

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which features let Jesus blank you andvomiting and you know all this stuff.
That movie still today, if I'malone at home, watch two o'clock
in the morning and all the lightsare off and I'm flipping through and it's
on, I don't watch it.Yeah, it still makes me scared,
like a little kid to see it. And it was a movie that horrified

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even adults. Oh yeah, thenRobert Plant said it about you know,
the song remains the same in themovies that they were doing back then.
You know, people in that era, that nineteen seventy four era, believe
that Robert Plant could fly, believethat Jimmy Page could fly. You know,
it was a different time, andthey actually believe that the little girl
Lenda Blair, who you and Imet if you remember a long time ago
it on certain Wanted House appearance thatwe did for one hundred dollars each.

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She was there. She was makingmore talent fee than we did. But
that movie scared me to death andit still does today. Well, did
you hear the Ausi story? SoBlack Sabbath, Black Sabbath, nineteen seventy
four, This came out this week. He did an interview nineteen seventy four,
Black Sabbathist in Philly, looking tokill some time. They all go
to the movie theater. They hadheard about the movie. They had no

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idea what it was about because they'reyou know, they're so high and drunk.
They see the movie and it frightensthem so much as young adults,
and they're like, man, Ican't get it out of my head.
After they saw The Exorcist, theywent into another theater to watch The Staying
with Paul Newman and Robert Redford,just to kind of cleanse their palette.

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Yeah, kind of put put anotherweight on the counterbalance to even yourself out.
Now, I tell you what thatis. Another notch on the accolade
page for the Exorcist. The Exorcistscared black Sabbath. Yeah, how do
you scare freaking black Sabbath? Right? Right? That's true though, absolutely
true, absolutely horrifying movie. They'renot going to make another one like it.

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It is. You know, that'snumber one in horror movies and then
everything else, and you know there'sa better movie like The Shining things like
that, but nothing will ever touchthe Exorcist. I wonder how The Exorcist
comes across to people who are nowmaybe they're twenty years old. Well,
you know what, I think it'sstill I really don't think so. I
saw that within the last year,and I think it kind of holds up

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pretty well. But I want togive you another horrifying movie. Same situation
that you described. I was homealone, all of my daughters and my
wife they were out of town andChick McGee, one of our friends from
the Bob and Tom Show. Chicktold me watch the movie Frailty with Bill
Paxton and Matthew McConaughey. It willscare the crap out of you. So

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I'm like, whatever, you know, I turn it on, dude.
I was looking over my shoulder thewhole night. It scared the crap out
of me. So Frailty. Ithink it's two thousand and three. If
you've seen it, let us know. Or if you've got a horror movie
that scares the hell out of you. Some of the conjuring movies are that
way. Let us know with thatred talkback Mike on the iHeart Radio app

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because we'd love to throw you onthe podcast. Oh, by the way,
we have some We have some audiofrom your father don He from beyond
beyond the grave. He's proud ofyou and your Geed. I can't believe
they graduated here. There you go, so congratulations. I can't believe they
graduated here. Hey, let metell you something about that Geed. I

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didn't crack a book from the ageof fourteen. Probably I was sleeping class,
you know, the whole nine yards. I got a C plus or
a B minus on that overall Geedtest you walk in there. It's English,
it's math. I really got badgrades on the math. But all
in all, after not cracking abook for so many years, I got
I think a B minus and herabove average grade. So how about that

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just shows you where my IQ is. Yeah, no, see, I
think when when somebody gets all laughsor all eyes as in idiot. I
think they give you a tifferent theygive you a different version of the GEED.
Just just let like, do yourecall do you recall complicated math like
this? What is two plus two? What is the answer? Don that

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I missed? See? Yeah,you missed it right, So don't give
me you know, I gotta beminus in math on my GED. Yeah
it was. We've got three mathequations for you, three times one,
four times one, at five timesone? What are the answers? Make
fun of the GED? They hadstory problems too. And if you're in

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Hancock County and you have three chickensand you take a chicken away to eat
it later, how many chickens areleft story problems? Do see what I'm
saying? Yeah, I see whatyou're saying. All right, well let's
get to this. You wanted totalk about this, and uh, we'll
wrap up on this today because thisfootball game is going to be played in
the city where I was born innineteen sixty eight, The Indianapolis Colts are

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going to be playing in Frankfurt,Germany. I believe that's in November tenth
game against the Patriots. Yeah,I was born in Frankfurt, so oh
and by the way, shout outto a guy who won tickets this week
on the air on Q ninety five. Chad Woodburn was born in nineteen seventy
two in the same hospital. Hisdad was in the army as well,

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like my father, no kids,So like Barack Obama and you and what's
the guy's name? None of you, well three of you who had not
produced your birth certificate yet, sowe really don't know what you're about.
Does that mean you can't run forpresident? I've gone for president. No,
we are. We are naturalized citizens. We were born on an American

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military base, a facility, soI can run. So suspicious Gunner,
So suspicious Gunner. Yes, Schwarzeney, you're no, he cannot run.
He cannot run for president, allright, can't can't find your birth certificate
anywhere. It got lost in themail. Obama's this other guy. So

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anyway, there's a there's a bunchof teams playing over there in London.
I mean, the Jags are gonnasit over there for a party. They're
gonna be there for a couple ofweeks, playing in London. Yeah.
Yeah, we were kicking this thingaround earlier. I mean and my wife
started talking about this Colts versus Patsin Frankfurt. So we've not been to
Frankfort. We've never been there.You've been there, but we've never been

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there. Would you rather you've heardof the game? Would you rather?
Would you rather go see the Coltsversus the Pats, or let's just say,
in your case, Gunner, yourteam, would you rather see the
Bears versus whoever in Germany or Londonor on the other side of the world,
or if somebody else is paying forit? Would you rather go to
the Super Bowl this year no matterwho's playing the game? Well, I

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would. I would take the Germanygame for obvious reasons. I want to
go back to this. I wantto I want to go back to the
hospital where me and Chad Woodburn wereborn. Our mothers gave birth to us
in an old Nazi hospital. Therewere red inlaid swastikas inlaid in marble on
white walls, so both of ourmothers just let it go at that.

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Yeah, yeah, vol I usedto watch Hogan Zeros and root for Clink.
That's what That's what I did.Come on, Clink, get on
that. Yeah. Let little dopeople know that my father does have a
monocle, so don't make fun ofhim. Where's that around? I would

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like to go to Germany? AndI think a lot of football fans would.
You know, going to the SuperBowl can be a big pain in
the ass if your team is notin it, if you're not guaranteed your
team in it. I don't wantto go. I don't want anything to
do with that. I'd rather gosee my team in Europe. Now,
where are you guys at? Mywife immediately said, Colts in Germany?

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No question? Yeah me if somebodyelse is paying for it, Colts in
Germany, or I can go tothis year's Super Bowl. Man, I
can't really say I would go seethe Colts. I've always wanted to go
to a super Bowl. The superBowl is granted a gigantic pain in the
ask. Yeah, but I'm goingto go to one someday. And and

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I was, I was thinking,I'm leaning towards going to the super Bowl.
But the Colts, man and thePats and Frankfort it's a tough call.
I think I'm going to the superBowl, though. Well, I'll
tell you what, if it's onyour bucket list, and knowing you and
your mental capacities as I do.I would go to the super Bowl soon
because I think you couldn't forget thewhole experience in about five years. Oh

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that's the thing, I said,you know, there's nothing left. I
mean, I have nothing. Anyof it happened more or after, like
yesterday or day before yesterday. Igot forty eight hours in the rearview mirror,
and I have about forty eight hoursto seventy two hours ahead of me
where I'm keeping track of what's goingon on a life. Aside from that,
that's it. Whatever's happening for me. I just gotta stay focused right
here. You know, we weretalking off the air. I forgot to

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tell you something, and then Icouldn't remember it, and then I remembered
it, and before I told you, I forgot it again. That was
in a matter of fourteen seconds.Oh yeah, okay, Oh it's fun.
You know. I love doing radiowith you. It's like meeting you
for the first time over and overand over for you. We'll be right
back after this fourth commercial break.While Don remembers the answer, all right,

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all right, gang, well listen, thank you for stopping by.
We're gonna drop these every Friday,so you know, give us a follow.
If you got something to say,use that red talkback Mike on the
iHeartRadio app and we will get youconversation. We'll get you on the air
again. One final little piece ofaudio from Don's dad before we leave.
This was after Don got his gedI can't believe. Thank gladuated you there

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you go, so have a greatweek. Everybody stuck a Gunner podcast.
Talk to you next week.