March 21, 2025 • 33 mins
Today, we welcome Skeery from the ‘Big Show’, talk about how he got into radio, find out which guests he’s shocked have never been on the show and whether or not there’s anyone he hasn’t enjoyed meeting. Plus, we find out if Skeery enjoys reality television, get advice on how to stay in the media business for a long period of time, and what brought him to the ‘Elvis Duran Show’!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Guess what we gave the interns of podcast Wait we did?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
What?
Speaker 3 (00:05):
Whose idea was this?
Speaker 1 (00:06):
The Duran Clan.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Hi, I'm Dylan, I'm Leilani, I'm Ben, and I'm Stephanie
and where.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
And there's actually a fifth person with us today.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hi, I'm Scary.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
You're a new member of the Durand Clan.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I'm excited to be here. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
You're an intern for the next twenty minutes.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I'm in. I remember my intern days here.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Oh geez, how'd you get started here? At iHeart?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I did get started as a glorified intern. We had it. Well,
you guys get paid, right, Yeah? Interns here? Okay? Cool?
So it was kind of like an internship that got paid,
but it never ended. It was basically a uh it
was a reoccurring thing. There was no end in sight.
I would have had to leave here. So I started
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here when Elvis was on in the afternoons playing mut
music and I was answering phones back in the day, whoa,
all the request lines used to light up like crazy.
People used to call in to radio stations NonStop, especially
after school, and twenty lines and where I would say,
(01:17):
what's your song? Requests? One hundred I played for you,
and when I found somebody that was really cool, I
basically said hold on, and I told Elvis, hey got
a live one online six and then he would take
it from there. So I actually helped produce his afternoon show.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Wow, what was the what was the most requested song?
When they were starting out?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Like you want to it was mid nineties and we
were playing at the time. Z one hundred went into
a lot of alt rock. You know, we went away
from a lot of the the mainstream stuff that you hear,
but it was mainstream modern rock stuff. So it was
a lot of Pearl Jam and David Matthews and you know,
Hooty and the Blowfish and Nirvana, a lot of that.
(02:02):
That was a lot of the stuff being requested.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yeah, yeah, just saying, Okay, So I was recently watching
some old interviews. Who is like your favorite of the guests,
because you guys have a lot of guests very often,
and is there one that has like stuck out over
all the years? Are there a couple any really bad ones?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yeah? You want to know all that? Well, Listen, an
artist is always going to put their best foot forward
when they're with us, right because they're here promoting something
usually music, could be a book, could be a film
or whatever, and so they're basically, you know, they're going
(02:45):
to be on their best behavior because we have a
lot to give them. It's kind of like a an exchange,
right We are allowing them into our home and exposing
them to millions of impressions, right for lack of a
better word, and you know, they give us their time.
So to say that there was a bad person, I
(03:06):
would not say that. We've had, you know, interviews that
were all that awful because everyone's always on their relatively
best behavior when they're here, So I can't really speak
to that. You know, as far as the greatest God,
there are some people that when you're interviewing them, it's
(03:26):
more like a conversation. The people that people like a
Michael Boublet or an Enrique Iglesias that have come through
over the years that have just become our friends. You know,
Chris Martin from Coldplay, extremely personable. And then you got
artists that grew up listening to the show, like like
Lady Gaga, like Halsey, Charlie Pouth. These are people that
(03:50):
because we've been on for thirty years, they grew up
in the area and they you know, they talk about
the times. I'm sure you've seen the interviews before where
they say, I can't believe I'm here right now, I
can't believe. I mean, I'm hearing your voice. The Lady
Gaga moment is amazing because it was the first time
we really had like a major superstar in here who
(04:11):
was gushing over meeting us as much as we were
meeting her. It was it was crazy to think and
then we're like, wow, we've really reached the age where
we've been in people's lives long enough. That was about
it had to be about ten fifteen years at that
point for her, she where she was like excited that
her she's now making her debut on her childhood radio station.
(04:34):
She used to have her Gaga used to have her
mom record the show on cassette tape. And you know,
cassette cassettes have a finality to them, so the mom
would have to go into her room and flip the tape.
You have to record it, of course four cassettes, so
she could finish listening to the show when she came
home from school because she would miss the second half
of the show. Mind blowing, you know, all the way
(04:55):
to Timothy Shallomey, who you know you saw the interview.
We have clips of that, right. Timothy was like, Yeah,
I used to love the phone taps. I was to
listen on the bus every morning where my dad used
to drive me to school because he grew up in
New Jersey. So it's changed a lot. So yeah, So
a lot of these people give us their all because
they're genuinely excited to be here. Others who've never heard
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of us before are at least on their best behavior.
You know, I haven't answered your question because I haven't
really pointed out you know, it was a.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Good media trained answer.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
You guys know about media training.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Bad gus. Oh you know, no, that was good that
I just watched the Lady Gaga one that you were
talking about, yeah, on Wednesday, preparation for her big release today.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
What was your thoughts not not to turn the tables
in interview you but I don't know, it's just a
natural thing that comes to me. What were you thinking
when you saw that interview?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
It was really crazy to watch. It's always really crazy
to watch artists interviews who are like still so successful
and in their prime today have been in their prime
for so long, So like to see her interviewed all
those years ago and still be like doing it and
(06:12):
pedal to the medal to this day. It's kind of crazy.
And yeah, she was talking about the cassettes and how
she would record them and her parents would she would
literally be late to school. Her parents would be like, Gaga,
got it. Well, they wouldn't call her dog, but oh wait, Stephanie. Yeah,
but yeah it was crazy.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Great name.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yeah, it was wild.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
My stepmom's name is gil Stephanie's all great people.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Are named Stephanie and are from New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
There you go, all right, fair enough, not gonna argue
with that one. Stephanie for New Jersey.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
So, in the like thirty years of this show, has
there ever been a guess where you are not a guest,
but so to say, has there ever.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Been someone you were surprised?
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Like, has never come through the show where someone like
obviously over time, like you know, he kind of becomes members,
like hey, you know, got stuff the release. It's not like,
oh my god, we got to get someone in. But
has there ever been somewhere whe're like, hey, they've been
around for so long it surrobably, like has it just
never worked out or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I'm shocked that to this day in my career, I
have still never met Eminem.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yeah, Eminem when he was doing the slim shady stuff
when he came around in nineteen ninety nine, long before
you guys were born, right, too long, not too long,
but he basically you know, I know, he did a
little tour of radio stations when you know how My
Name Is came out and he was doing a lot
of tours of night shows, and I know he was
(07:39):
up here. Maybe Scotty Be might have gotten to meet hum,
but he was never interviewed by this morning show, which
I find.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Interesting, actually really shocking, because every time I'll hear of
it drops and everything, and sometimes like his voice is
not like, hey, it's Eminem, so like hearing that he's
actually never been interview about the show is actually kind
of surprising because I've heard his voice so many times
just for like pulling out like audio and stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Yeah, yeah, his he's that. That's probably from somewhere else
that he was interviewed on one of our stations, because
we have radio stations around the country right. Another one
would be Drake. Now, hold on, I met, I'm sure
we'll get the picture. Do you know do you know
what Drake did when he was a teenager? Before he
(08:20):
was I don't know if yet. He was basically called
Wheelchair Jimmy on De Grossi Junior High De Grassy High,
which was a long running PBS show and a Canadian show.
It was a Canadian show, I believe that PBS aired
here in America. And he grew up on the show
(08:42):
and he got shot and the bullet paralyzed him and
he was in a wheelchair. So his name was Jimmy
on the show. Google this wheelchair.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Jimmy and.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Drake is a team. So I there was the I
guess it was a new season of De Grassi coming out,
and it was Drake Aubrey right. And then a couple
of other people from the show came to New Jersey
to Jersey Gardens and I hosted hundreds of screaming teenagers
(09:17):
to watch the debut episode of the new season of
De Grassi. And the surprise was, we have some stars
from the show, and at the time they only knew
him as Jimmy from the show politically correct Realchair Jimmy's
here anyway. So he was there and I met him
as a teenager, and I have a picture of the
two of us, and he was wearing a Stewie T
(09:39):
shirt family guy and he looked so young, so do I.
And this was like the early two thousands, like two
thousand and three. Outside of that moment, he has never
come up here for an interview with the Elvis Durand
Morning Show, never had him up, So that would be
an interesting one. So Eminem Drake to answer belong winded
and answer your question. Are some people that come to
(10:01):
mind right away?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Also, Drake's down the hall, you know, at the breakfast club,
like right now, Well, he's always here, he works here.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
What huh Drake? Yeah, Eli, Oh, oh, there's a there's
a guy who works on the breakfast club who looks
exactly like Drake, and he loves Drake so much so
that he's he's actually shaped his beard to look like Drake. Yeah.
I know what you're talking about. That's very funny. So yeah,
So that that's to answer your question. What else he got?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
What?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Come on? Hit me with everything?
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I have something?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Oh so I know you as the person who had
the best Halloween costume of this past year. So my
question is, would you ever or have you ever been
Theodore from Alvin and the Chipmunks.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I've never been Theodore. I think you should wait, were Theodore?
Speaker 4 (10:48):
He was a care bear?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Wish we have a peg?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Wait? Was I a care bear? Was the ones?
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:57):
But that didn't take any creativity. I jumped into pajamas
and I'm.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
But that photo is one of my favorite photos ever.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Really, yes, I didn't think it made such an imprint and.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Your personality just goes with it.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Okay, fair enough.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
So I feel like Theodore is next in line.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Theodore. Now why Theodore? I mean because Alvin and Simon
and Theodore are the three chipmunks, right, Yeah?
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Is he the green one? Yes?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
No, I think he's the tall blue one that Simon
Simon me he's a short, stocky one.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
But Alvin is the one who gets cute and nice
and like wattles around.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Wattles. Basically, I should be a penguin.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
I'm not saying you battle around, Okay, Yeah, I'm just
saying like Theodore's presence and your presence are kind of similar. Okaya,
like the aura, you know my favorite I do you
guys have a favorite chipmunk.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Yeah, I have a favorite. I don't know if she's
giving me flowers here or she's trying.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Yeah, it's the flowers about the vase, you know.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Okay, I've got a question. I've got a question.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
From being on radio for so long, has anyone ever
recognized your voice out and about in public?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (12:15):
What is like the weirdest experience.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Going shopping in a mall, like a clothing store where
it's just because loud places, people can hear voices all
the time whatever. But if I ask, if I ask
somebody for help on something, I'll just use my regular
everyday voice and it'll take a few minutes to kick in.
And then they're like, your voice sounds so familiar. So
(12:43):
there's that. So that has happened before quite a bit.
And then a lot of times if people like recognize
me from somewhere over the years, they'll a lot of
times if they can't place it, they're like, where did
you go to school? They think that they know me
from college or something. You look familiar. I know you
from somewhere and they can't place it. And then there
(13:06):
are some people that just go like they just know
right away. Those are the Diehard.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Yeah, yeah, but of course, yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
It happens a lot, mainly in the New York City area,
Jersey Long Island, the suburbs of Westchester, but occasionally it's
happened to me in Philly. It's happened to me a
little bit, quite a bit in South Florida because we've
been on Q and O two for several years, and
we've been on Miami why one hundred since two thousand
and six. Wow, yeah, so people know from there?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Interesting? Wow.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Circling back, where did you go to school?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Well, I went to the school in Brooklyn. I went
to Mark Twain Intermediate School, Edward On Morrow High School.
Those are Brooklyn schools, and then I went to Brooklyn College.
And I got to say going to Brooklyn, Everyone's like,
why are you going to a school where you don't
like dorm anywhere or join a frat And I'm like, well,
I'll tell you. Staying home and commuting back and forth
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to college every day allowed me to get this job.
In my junior year, I was able to carry a
full load of classes, and on the days that I
weren't doing classes, I would come here. So it would
have played out completely different it definitely would have I
might not even be here right now. Wow, if I
would have waited till my end of my senior year,
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after going away to school and then coming home and
then starting my career, because by that point it would
have been too late because Elvis had already moved from
afternoons to mornings by the time I was graduating college,
so there might have been other people in place. I
might have just been getting my start. The fact that
I had a one year year and a half had
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start before Elvis went to mornings. That was true for
myself and Danielle and Greg t who used to work here.
The three of us were all graduating college same year
at the same time in nineteen ninety six, and we
had all been here since ninety five, so we had
been here for a year and change. And then we
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just luckily fell into place when they moved Elvis to
the morning show and we were all there with him.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Wow, that really worked out.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
Geez.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
It is meeting, it is networking. It is it is
about knowing you know about media and knowing you know
learning all about it, but it's also being at the
right place at the right time as well. The climbing
has to be there, so you know, it's chemistry, it's networking,
but it's timing. Timing is important. You could have two
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of them but not one, and then you're you don't
have that job.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
So if it's meant to be I think.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
Building off of that, I suppose, since we are technically
a college show, if you have anyone getting into radio
nowadays like us, what would you recommend them to do?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Have be multifaceted, have multiple talents and things. It's not
just about radio listen. I mean, I'll be straight up.
When I came here, I took TV courses and radio courses.
I gravitated toward radio. I helped rebuild the college radio
station at Brooklyn College who WBCR Radio Baby Brooklyn College forever.
(16:21):
We had funds, but no one was spending them. So
I had to get involved in the politics of it
and making sure we were able to spend all that
money on the equipment, hiring a professional engineer. I helped
in my four years build that station from ashes WO.
We had the money, though luckily it's sitting there and
no one was using it, which was foolish. And then
I was on that college radio station. We helped build
(16:42):
an infrastructure. That station is thriving today from grants from
other people who saw what we did back then and
they built on that. So Brooklyn College Radio was doing
really well. So I had those so we had that
situation going, and then I was working here at the
same time. All that built into just needing to know
(17:03):
about audio and radio and editing. That's all I needed
to know. But what's come along since then? I mean
there was no I mean literally when I got here,
there was one computer for the entire radio station, and
it was in a neutral area. It was called the
Z one hundred Cybercenter, and that it was one a
(17:25):
singular Macintosh, old school mac and we would take turns
going on it. We all got email addresses and like
what's an email? Like, we learned about having an email address.
So we were just kind of like in the infant
stages of that. And then and then about a year
later after computers were starting to like really take shape,
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and then pro tools was invented. Pro tools changed my
life because they we used to edit on Physically. Do
you ever see those reels? Those two That's how I
used to edit anything. And you used to have to
like listen for the edit and with like a little
grease pencil market and then forward it and then get
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another and listen by sound where the edit was. And
and then you take a little like a razor blade
and you'd cut the two parts. And you would literally
take the tape and throw it on the floor, so
all the edits were on the floor. That's what they
talk about cutting room floor for video and audio editing.
And then we'd have to tape it together with literal tape,
and that's how you made your edits. And then that
(18:30):
was how I learned. And then a year later into
the job, they wheeled the reel to reel out. I'm like,
where are you guys going with my editing machine and
they're like, hold on, we're reeling something out. They wheel
another machine in and it was basically a Mac with
Pro Tools on it, black and white, and I'm like,
what's that. They're like, this is this is the wave
of the future pun intended wave in the future. I said,
(18:54):
this is pro They're like, this is Pro Tools and
I'm like, I don't know how to use this, and
they're like, on the job training, and they trained me
how to use pro Tools. So I learned how to
edit digitally. I went from an analog editing to digital
editing on and this is maybe doing the weeds for
all you guys and everyone watching and listening. But I
learned editing on the job. So to answer your question,
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another long winded question. Answer. Now, my advice is you
can't just know one aspect. People who just want to
be like, well, I'm an influencer and i know how
to talk to a camera and I'm cool. It's about
having the personality. It's about being real, being unapologetically you.
All that stuff is known. That's what's going to sell, right,
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But it's also about being prominent in other skills, and
it's basically a collective of what all you guys are
doing here right like the digital audio, the video, I
mean video like having you know, making reels like in
real time, having like Deanna Franz's on the Switcher, knowing
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video and audio, and and then knowing how to do editorial,
having to write a story for a quick headline whatever
that will capture people's attention. You need to have all
of those skills because now you know, if you're a
if you're lucky enough to be a music DJ outside
of mornings, you're doing everything yourself. You may have a
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one person producing you, maybe nobody, So you got to
have the camera set up. You've got to be doing
everything all at once and being on the radio and
in real time making sure you don't mess up. Because
that's the one difference between a podcast and radio, right
is radio is live. Yeah, there's no edits. You're in
(20:40):
real time. So if you choose, so choose, you know
that could be that could be frightening for a lot
of people to go live, right, but then you go
live on Instagram and TikTok all the time, so should
be no problem. So yeah, to answer your question, you
need to learn it all and do it all.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
I'm pro college radio stations. I'm a part of mine.
I know you're a part of yours.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Yeah, go to college radio.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Hey, College Radio Day is coming up in April. So
I love college.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Radio, I really did, and I weapon was there for
four years. I support it. I think it's so important
if you want to get into this industry or anything
industry adjacent, you know, because the industry is obviously all
things audio. It's not just radio, but it's the whole broadcast.
And I will tell you you need that in your life.
You need to be part of that. You know what
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scares me is when people come to me sometime like, hey,
they seem like, you guys have a lot of fun
in the morning, you're hanging out. I love that. I
want to do that. And they may be well into
their thirties in a different career, not again, not being ages,
but they may be in a different career and watch
down a different path completely and they don't have those skills. Oh,
but I know how to talk, you know, I could
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just sit in front of a microphone, which may be okay,
know there may be positions out there for color commentary
or having that, but I think you need to have
kind of started down that path from the beginning. And
I don't have the heart to tell them that it
may be fifteen years too late. You guys are doing
it at the right time. Theodora of you, Oh my god,
(22:19):
I mean my Theodore Era. I love it. I'm living
Theodore Era.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
Which what's his divining feature? Like he's like the Alto
in their three part harmony.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Like, well, oka, wait, I think we need to cast
Elvis as one of the chipmunks.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Also, oh, he's Alvas Simon.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
I want everyone to know if you google Theodore, is
the first thing that comes up the chipmunk.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
Oh yeah, this Theodore in generally Yeah, just the word
Theodore like rose.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Oh well then.
Speaker 6 (22:58):
Scary in Jesus.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
It's my cheeks. My cheeks are giving Theodora.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
I got one last question, sure, so kind of circling
back on a few things as you've talked about, you
know how you got started with cutting tape literally by hand.
You talked about getting your start with Brooklyn College. I'm
curious talking about getting that path start and what made
you decide from that early age right in college, I
want to do radio. I want to be on the earth,
like just be involved.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Yeah, okay, it's very simple. Radio live. I wanted to
get into live radio now again, podcasting aside, because that's
come along now, you know. And I do a podcast,
the Brooklyn Boys podcast, and that that podcast is awesome,
But that's recorded format, right, that's pre recorded and all that.
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We don't do any edits, by the way, on the
Brooklyn Boys, we try and do it live as if
we're and then we just take that and then it's
but it's still pre recorded. What got me into radio,
live radio was the fact that it was live and
we would talking to local area, the local area I
grew up in. I grew up in Brooklyn, and so
the Tri State area, the radio station I grew up
on and with. It was such an honor to work
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here because I wanted to be able to not only
talk about things that were local to each neighborhood, but
getting response in real time. If you think about it,
TV doesn't really offer that. There's nothing that offers a
real time, complete feedback loop. What do I mean by that?
I'm sorrying to sound like a professor. Nothing like real
(24:34):
time when you are live in the moment and you
have a message you're putting out there. It could be whatever,
but there's reaction to the message, whether it be the
a text, via talkback or a phone call, and then
taking that person and either processing what they're saying and
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changing your message or going down a different paths or
having that person, you know, jump into the conversation. Isn't
that One thing that would be awesome about podcast would
be people hearing this and then all of a sudden
we go to a caller, yeah, and then they're responding
to what we're saying. Radio has that very intimate relationship
(25:15):
with the listener that other media does not provide because
even with a live let's call it a news show
or live like the Today Show, right, no offense, no
shade to the Today Show. But they're talking at a
camera and even though it's live, they're only getting that's
one way feedback. There's no feedback loop. It's not feedback
(25:38):
coming back at them because it's TV. Now, yeah, they
can some stations that some people have incorporated, Oh yeah,
we can put this question out there, tell us way
how you feel, text us, and then they'll do like
the results of the poll. That's like kind of toward
what we do. But nothing matches live radio. That's why
(25:58):
I got into radio, because that's radio. I think names
something else aside from a TikTok live or Instagram live
that has that complete feedback loop. There is nothing else.
I mean you know what the Twitch is like that? Right?
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Twitch is a great example of a live. You know,
someone's gaming, or they're they're talking, or they're they're mixing,
and then you got everyone like all that the chat,
the sub you know on the side there. That's great,
that's cool, that's that's a great that's the closest that
modern any modern technology gets to live radio. This is awesome.
(26:34):
So what have you guys done on this podcast so far?
Speaker 6 (26:38):
Yap, that's literally and traders were talking about reality TV
a lot.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Okay, so this is a departure. Now you have developed
an audience that has been accustomed to that this is different,
this is not so they may not like this. This
could be your guests.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
I think they love this.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
Yeah, well, it gets to keep with our theme. Do
you have any reality TV show as you watch.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Let's see, I mean not not really now Real Housewives
in New Jersey occasionally.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Yeah, we're the two that don't want I don't watch anything.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Yeah, I love Dolores. Yeah, no, we actually once again
examples of people like like Melissa Gorga, Joe Gorga big
fans of our show. Joe listens still every day in
his truck on his way to the construction site. So
I've I've actually gotten to know them before, I've gotten
to know the show. I've actually watched episodes after. Don't
tell them that. Oh, well, too late right now. But
(27:34):
like like Dolores and you know, back in the day
it was Caroline Manzo Albi, I know Albi. I'm friends
with Albi, but I know knew all these people and
learned got to know them as people before I ever
watched any of their shows, so I would I've not
jaded at all. But then again, you know, then I
pop it on and see what's going on and see
what the storylines. So now I'm kind of like, oh, yeah,
(27:55):
you know fair Weather but other reality. Let's see what
qualifies his reality me. I used to watch Summer House,
yeah a little bit. Uh and that was a yeah
that was done in the Hampton's right, Yeah, yeah, because
I like take a look at things like Jersey Shore.
I mean back in the day, back in the right
now you know, oh yeah Jersey Shore. Okay, but yeah,
(28:18):
I don't really watch the new ones. You know you
still do it?
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Yeah, they got a new cast, right, it's like family vacation. Yes,
oh yeah, that's why.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
We also love to talk about what's been going on
in the work life in the office. So it's like
you're like a funny office moment of.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
The week of the week.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Well, I know there's plenty, but like, is there like one,
like guy.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Favorite person here at the office?
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Oh my god, start drama.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Yeah, let's start drama.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
I'm gonna spill tea. I will say that the funniest
woman to me week with it's always the unplanned things.
And it was the morning they discovered those rotten strawberries.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Oh god, that was.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Someone a listener was so great. This woman, Kathleen brought
up strawberries and blueberries for me for my birthday because
I couldn't eat, you know, I was on a diet whatever,
but we had some that day. But she brought so many.
Scotty said, oh, put this in my refrigerator. So Scotty
he put it in his refrigerator and then went on
(29:21):
vacation for you and that day. Now here we are
a month later and we brought the strawberries out. Elvis
brought them out on the air to show everybody. Look
what's been sitting in the refrigerator for over a month.
And when he lifted it up and he turned it sideways,
the disgusting Your mouth is on the floor. You didn't
see this video.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
I was there when this happened live again.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
It seeped out the side and landed on Elvis's crotch
like disgusting, gross like ranted strawberry liquid and blueberry liquid.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
It was.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
It was and there was live on the AIRD once again,
a live unedited air moment, and they were filming this.
The clip is up. Deanna did a great job on it.
You should see this, and we were all going crazy.
It was disgusting. Everything had white, white fuzz on the berries.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
You thought it was white chocolate.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I said, yeah, is that white chocolate?
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Yeah, it's like, you know, this is is a brown
Some of them were brown, some of them had white fuzz.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
Right.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Gross. So that was my favorite funniest moment of the week. Yeah,
on air, But what about off air? What's going on
with you guys? How are you guys liking this as
an internship? So I guess in a sentence, what were
your expectations going in versus how they the reality of it? Now.
Speaker 6 (30:37):
I didn't realize we would be on the air this much,
or that they would hand us a podcast, like I'm
a big fan of culture Last Culturistas, And when they
got syndicated to iHeart, it was like a big deal.
And then like second day here they're like, you guys
have an iHeart radio podcast. I'm like, oh my god,
Like I'm employed by the same people as less culturist
does that.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Like, I'm an iHeart.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
Radio podcaster honestly, so from my dad's like kind of
doctrinating me with radio stuff, you with sports radio. And
I've actually been in the iHeart building over the summer
where I actually met Gandhi and everything. So it was
like cool to see the ability. To me when I was
coming here, I was like, oh, I get to like
it's gonna be kind of really cool. I get to
see everything. And now actually being here and like seeing
what the actual day to day task like doing iHeart
(31:18):
and everything just with Elvis andever. I just it's definitely
nothing I would have said I expected. I had no
idea what to expect from the beginning. It means, honestly
just been every days and I guess had a new experience.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
That's awesome. Same.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
I mean, I feel like I didn't know what to expect,
Like I really had no idea what it was going
to be like to work here, because obviously you listen
to the show and it's like so fun and all
of that, but then I'm like, what's it like behind
the scenes, Like is it more serious and it's not.
Speaker 6 (31:49):
Do you guys actually all just are friends? Like I
was gagged by that. Yeah, that it's like it's not
like a job half the time. It's like, you guys
just hang out.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
You can't fake this. This is yeah, I mean this.
We are We are real people. We are who we are,
and you know, and I think that if there was
any animosity or we really not friends, I think that
you would sense that over the air, you know, on
the radio. You can't fake it.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
And I think the fact that we are genuine here,
we are turning our own horn. I think that that's
why it works, and it's what why it's worked for
so long. We all get along and there's great chemistry.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
Well, thank you so much for joining us as our
first ever guests on this podcast.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
It's pleasure to be here.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
Yay, Yes, I kind of you have a better guest.
You've been the one I've been hoping to have on
the show the Boat, like for our podcast. So when
they said, oh, you guys are interviewing with Harry, I
was very excited.
Speaker 6 (32:39):
Yeah, you are first, our first idea to bring on
for sure.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
God, thank you so much. I appreciate you guys so much,
traveled so far. Wow, pay the congestion fee to get
in here. Oh nine dollars. See you guys.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
Anyways, I'm Dylan, my instagram is Dylan Too. Two two one.
Speaker 6 (33:03):
I'm Leilani and my instagram is Leilani J Petau.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
I'm Ben and my instagram is Ben Pfeiffer with an
extra R at the end.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
I'm Stephanie and my instagram is Steph Lane with two
e's and an underscore.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
I'm Scary Jones s K E E R Y Jones
and I have to follow all of you. I think
I follow Ben.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Yeah, and I follow because we met at American Dream.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Yes we did, and I have to follow you dying.
Yes we follow each other.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
No we don't, but you gotta you gotta Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Got you?
Speaker 5 (33:28):
Thank you, Scary Yeah, I think I got the Scary follow.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
It's complete internship.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Complete team follow back babies.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Yes, and with our fifth member, we're
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Yeah.
Guess what we gave the interns of podcast Wait we did?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
What?
Speaker 3 (00:05):
Whose idea was this?
Speaker 1 (00:06):
The Duran Clan.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Hi, I'm Dylan, I'm Leilani, I'm Ben, and I'm Stephanie
and where.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
And there's actually a fifth person with us today.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hi, I'm Scary.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
You're a new member of the Durand Clan.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I'm excited to be here. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
You're an intern for the next twenty minutes.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I'm in. I remember my intern days here.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Oh geez, how'd you get started here? At iHeart?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I did get started as a glorified intern. We had it. Well,
you guys get paid, right, Yeah? Interns here? Okay? Cool?
So it was kind of like an internship that got paid,
but it never ended. It was basically a uh it
was a reoccurring thing. There was no end in sight.
I would have had to leave here. So I started
(00:55):
here when Elvis was on in the afternoons playing mut
music and I was answering phones back in the day, whoa,
all the request lines used to light up like crazy.
People used to call in to radio stations NonStop, especially
after school, and twenty lines and where I would say,
(01:17):
what's your song? Requests? One hundred I played for you,
and when I found somebody that was really cool, I
basically said hold on, and I told Elvis, hey got
a live one online six and then he would take
it from there. So I actually helped produce his afternoon show.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Wow, what was the what was the most requested song?
When they were starting out?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Like you want to it was mid nineties and we
were playing at the time. Z one hundred went into
a lot of alt rock. You know, we went away
from a lot of the the mainstream stuff that you hear,
but it was mainstream modern rock stuff. So it was
a lot of Pearl Jam and David Matthews and you know,
Hooty and the Blowfish and Nirvana, a lot of that.
(02:02):
That was a lot of the stuff being requested.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yeah, yeah, just saying, Okay, So I was recently watching
some old interviews. Who is like your favorite of the guests,
because you guys have a lot of guests very often,
and is there one that has like stuck out over
all the years? Are there a couple any really bad ones?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yeah? You want to know all that? Well, Listen, an
artist is always going to put their best foot forward
when they're with us, right because they're here promoting something
usually music, could be a book, could be a film
or whatever, and so they're basically, you know, they're going
(02:45):
to be on their best behavior because we have a
lot to give them. It's kind of like a an exchange,
right We are allowing them into our home and exposing
them to millions of impressions, right for lack of a
better word, and you know, they give us their time.
So to say that there was a bad person, I
(03:06):
would not say that. We've had, you know, interviews that
were all that awful because everyone's always on their relatively
best behavior when they're here, So I can't really speak
to that. You know, as far as the greatest God,
there are some people that when you're interviewing them, it's
(03:26):
more like a conversation. The people that people like a
Michael Boublet or an Enrique Iglesias that have come through
over the years that have just become our friends. You know,
Chris Martin from Coldplay, extremely personable. And then you got
artists that grew up listening to the show, like like
Lady Gaga, like Halsey, Charlie Pouth. These are people that
(03:50):
because we've been on for thirty years, they grew up
in the area and they you know, they talk about
the times. I'm sure you've seen the interviews before where
they say, I can't believe I'm here right now, I
can't believe. I mean, I'm hearing your voice. The Lady
Gaga moment is amazing because it was the first time
we really had like a major superstar in here who
(04:11):
was gushing over meeting us as much as we were
meeting her. It was it was crazy to think and
then we're like, wow, we've really reached the age where
we've been in people's lives long enough. That was about
it had to be about ten fifteen years at that
point for her, she where she was like excited that
her she's now making her debut on her childhood radio station.
(04:34):
She used to have her Gaga used to have her
mom record the show on cassette tape. And you know,
cassette cassettes have a finality to them, so the mom
would have to go into her room and flip the tape.
You have to record it, of course four cassettes, so
she could finish listening to the show when she came
home from school because she would miss the second half
of the show. Mind blowing, you know, all the way
(04:55):
to Timothy Shallomey, who you know you saw the interview.
We have clips of that, right. Timothy was like, Yeah,
I used to love the phone taps. I was to
listen on the bus every morning where my dad used
to drive me to school because he grew up in
New Jersey. So it's changed a lot. So yeah, So
a lot of these people give us their all because
they're genuinely excited to be here. Others who've never heard
(05:15):
of us before are at least on their best behavior.
You know, I haven't answered your question because I haven't
really pointed out you know, it was a.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Good media trained answer.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
You guys know about media training.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Bad gus. Oh you know, no, that was good that
I just watched the Lady Gaga one that you were
talking about, yeah, on Wednesday, preparation for her big release today.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
What was your thoughts not not to turn the tables
in interview you but I don't know, it's just a
natural thing that comes to me. What were you thinking
when you saw that interview?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
It was really crazy to watch. It's always really crazy
to watch artists interviews who are like still so successful
and in their prime today have been in their prime
for so long, So like to see her interviewed all
those years ago and still be like doing it and
(06:12):
pedal to the medal to this day. It's kind of crazy.
And yeah, she was talking about the cassettes and how
she would record them and her parents would she would
literally be late to school. Her parents would be like, Gaga,
got it. Well, they wouldn't call her dog, but oh wait, Stephanie. Yeah,
but yeah it was crazy.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Great name.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yeah, it was wild.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
My stepmom's name is gil Stephanie's all great people.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Are named Stephanie and are from New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
There you go, all right, fair enough, not gonna argue
with that one. Stephanie for New Jersey.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
So, in the like thirty years of this show, has
there ever been a guess where you are not a guest,
but so to say, has there ever.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Been someone you were surprised?
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Like, has never come through the show where someone like
obviously over time, like you know, he kind of becomes members,
like hey, you know, got stuff the release. It's not like,
oh my god, we got to get someone in. But
has there ever been somewhere whe're like, hey, they've been
around for so long it surrobably, like has it just
never worked out or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I'm shocked that to this day in my career, I
have still never met Eminem.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yeah, Eminem when he was doing the slim shady stuff
when he came around in nineteen ninety nine, long before
you guys were born, right, too long, not too long,
but he basically you know, I know, he did a
little tour of radio stations when you know how My
Name Is came out and he was doing a lot
of tours of night shows, and I know he was
(07:39):
up here. Maybe Scotty Be might have gotten to meet hum,
but he was never interviewed by this morning show, which
I find.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Interesting, actually really shocking, because every time I'll hear of
it drops and everything, and sometimes like his voice is
not like, hey, it's Eminem, so like hearing that he's
actually never been interview about the show is actually kind
of surprising because I've heard his voice so many times
just for like pulling out like audio and stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Yeah, yeah, his he's that. That's probably from somewhere else
that he was interviewed on one of our stations, because
we have radio stations around the country right. Another one
would be Drake. Now, hold on, I met, I'm sure
we'll get the picture. Do you know do you know
what Drake did when he was a teenager? Before he
(08:20):
was I don't know if yet. He was basically called
Wheelchair Jimmy on De Grossi Junior High De Grassy High,
which was a long running PBS show and a Canadian show.
It was a Canadian show, I believe that PBS aired
here in America. And he grew up on the show
(08:42):
and he got shot and the bullet paralyzed him and
he was in a wheelchair. So his name was Jimmy
on the show. Google this wheelchair.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Jimmy and.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Drake is a team. So I there was the I
guess it was a new season of De Grassi coming out,
and it was Drake Aubrey right. And then a couple
of other people from the show came to New Jersey
to Jersey Gardens and I hosted hundreds of screaming teenagers
(09:17):
to watch the debut episode of the new season of
De Grassi. And the surprise was, we have some stars
from the show, and at the time they only knew
him as Jimmy from the show politically correct Realchair Jimmy's
here anyway. So he was there and I met him
as a teenager, and I have a picture of the
two of us, and he was wearing a Stewie T
(09:39):
shirt family guy and he looked so young, so do I.
And this was like the early two thousands, like two
thousand and three. Outside of that moment, he has never
come up here for an interview with the Elvis Durand
Morning Show, never had him up, So that would be
an interesting one. So Eminem Drake to answer belong winded
and answer your question. Are some people that come to
(10:01):
mind right away?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Also, Drake's down the hall, you know, at the breakfast club,
like right now, Well, he's always here, he works here.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
What huh Drake? Yeah, Eli, Oh, oh, there's a there's
a guy who works on the breakfast club who looks
exactly like Drake, and he loves Drake so much so
that he's he's actually shaped his beard to look like Drake. Yeah.
I know what you're talking about. That's very funny. So yeah,
So that that's to answer your question. What else he got?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
What?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Come on? Hit me with everything?
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I have something?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Oh so I know you as the person who had
the best Halloween costume of this past year. So my
question is, would you ever or have you ever been
Theodore from Alvin and the Chipmunks.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I've never been Theodore. I think you should wait, were Theodore?
Speaker 4 (10:48):
He was a care bear?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Wish we have a peg?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Wait? Was I a care bear? Was the ones?
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:57):
But that didn't take any creativity. I jumped into pajamas
and I'm.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
But that photo is one of my favorite photos ever.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Really, yes, I didn't think it made such an imprint and.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Your personality just goes with it.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Okay, fair enough.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
So I feel like Theodore is next in line.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Theodore. Now why Theodore? I mean because Alvin and Simon
and Theodore are the three chipmunks, right, Yeah?
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Is he the green one? Yes?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
No, I think he's the tall blue one that Simon
Simon me he's a short, stocky one.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
But Alvin is the one who gets cute and nice
and like wattles around.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Wattles. Basically, I should be a penguin.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
I'm not saying you battle around, Okay, Yeah, I'm just
saying like Theodore's presence and your presence are kind of similar. Okaya,
like the aura, you know my favorite I do you
guys have a favorite chipmunk.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Yeah, I have a favorite. I don't know if she's
giving me flowers here or she's trying.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Yeah, it's the flowers about the vase, you know.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Okay, I've got a question. I've got a question.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
From being on radio for so long, has anyone ever
recognized your voice out and about in public?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (12:15):
What is like the weirdest experience.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Going shopping in a mall, like a clothing store where
it's just because loud places, people can hear voices all
the time whatever. But if I ask, if I ask
somebody for help on something, I'll just use my regular
everyday voice and it'll take a few minutes to kick in.
And then they're like, your voice sounds so familiar. So
(12:43):
there's that. So that has happened before quite a bit.
And then a lot of times if people like recognize
me from somewhere over the years, they'll a lot of
times if they can't place it, they're like, where did
you go to school? They think that they know me
from college or something. You look familiar. I know you
from somewhere and they can't place it. And then there
(13:06):
are some people that just go like they just know
right away. Those are the Diehard.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Yeah, yeah, but of course, yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
It happens a lot, mainly in the New York City area,
Jersey Long Island, the suburbs of Westchester, but occasionally it's
happened to me in Philly. It's happened to me a
little bit, quite a bit in South Florida because we've
been on Q and O two for several years, and
we've been on Miami why one hundred since two thousand
and six. Wow, yeah, so people know from there?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Interesting? Wow.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Circling back, where did you go to school?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Well, I went to the school in Brooklyn. I went
to Mark Twain Intermediate School, Edward On Morrow High School.
Those are Brooklyn schools, and then I went to Brooklyn College.
And I got to say going to Brooklyn, Everyone's like,
why are you going to a school where you don't
like dorm anywhere or join a frat And I'm like, well,
I'll tell you. Staying home and commuting back and forth
(14:01):
to college every day allowed me to get this job.
In my junior year, I was able to carry a
full load of classes, and on the days that I
weren't doing classes, I would come here. So it would
have played out completely different it definitely would have I
might not even be here right now. Wow, if I
would have waited till my end of my senior year,
(14:24):
after going away to school and then coming home and
then starting my career, because by that point it would
have been too late because Elvis had already moved from
afternoons to mornings by the time I was graduating college,
so there might have been other people in place. I
might have just been getting my start. The fact that
I had a one year year and a half had
(14:47):
start before Elvis went to mornings. That was true for
myself and Danielle and Greg t who used to work here.
The three of us were all graduating college same year
at the same time in nineteen ninety six, and we
had all been here since ninety five, so we had
been here for a year and change. And then we
(15:09):
just luckily fell into place when they moved Elvis to
the morning show and we were all there with him.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Wow, that really worked out.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
Geez.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
It is meeting, it is networking. It is it is
about knowing you know about media and knowing you know
learning all about it, but it's also being at the
right place at the right time as well. The climbing
has to be there, so you know, it's chemistry, it's networking,
but it's timing. Timing is important. You could have two
(15:38):
of them but not one, and then you're you don't
have that job.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
So if it's meant to be I think.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
Building off of that, I suppose, since we are technically
a college show, if you have anyone getting into radio
nowadays like us, what would you recommend them to do?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Have be multifaceted, have multiple talents and things. It's not
just about radio listen. I mean, I'll be straight up.
When I came here, I took TV courses and radio courses.
I gravitated toward radio. I helped rebuild the college radio
station at Brooklyn College who WBCR Radio Baby Brooklyn College forever.
(16:21):
We had funds, but no one was spending them. So
I had to get involved in the politics of it
and making sure we were able to spend all that
money on the equipment, hiring a professional engineer. I helped
in my four years build that station from ashes WO.
We had the money, though luckily it's sitting there and
no one was using it, which was foolish. And then
I was on that college radio station. We helped build
(16:42):
an infrastructure. That station is thriving today from grants from
other people who saw what we did back then and
they built on that. So Brooklyn College Radio was doing
really well. So I had those so we had that
situation going, and then I was working here at the
same time. All that built into just needing to know
(17:03):
about audio and radio and editing. That's all I needed
to know. But what's come along since then? I mean
there was no I mean literally when I got here,
there was one computer for the entire radio station, and
it was in a neutral area. It was called the
Z one hundred Cybercenter, and that it was one a
(17:25):
singular Macintosh, old school mac and we would take turns
going on it. We all got email addresses and like
what's an email? Like, we learned about having an email address.
So we were just kind of like in the infant
stages of that. And then and then about a year
later after computers were starting to like really take shape,
(17:47):
and then pro tools was invented. Pro tools changed my
life because they we used to edit on Physically. Do
you ever see those reels? Those two That's how I
used to edit anything. And you used to have to
like listen for the edit and with like a little
grease pencil market and then forward it and then get
(18:09):
another and listen by sound where the edit was. And
and then you take a little like a razor blade
and you'd cut the two parts. And you would literally
take the tape and throw it on the floor, so
all the edits were on the floor. That's what they
talk about cutting room floor for video and audio editing.
And then we'd have to tape it together with literal tape,
and that's how you made your edits. And then that
(18:30):
was how I learned. And then a year later into
the job, they wheeled the reel to reel out. I'm like,
where are you guys going with my editing machine and
they're like, hold on, we're reeling something out. They wheel
another machine in and it was basically a Mac with
Pro Tools on it, black and white, and I'm like,
what's that. They're like, this is this is the wave
of the future pun intended wave in the future. I said,
(18:54):
this is pro They're like, this is Pro Tools and
I'm like, I don't know how to use this, and
they're like, on the job training, and they trained me
how to use pro Tools. So I learned how to
edit digitally. I went from an analog editing to digital
editing on and this is maybe doing the weeds for
all you guys and everyone watching and listening. But I
learned editing on the job. So to answer your question,
(19:15):
another long winded question. Answer. Now, my advice is you
can't just know one aspect. People who just want to
be like, well, I'm an influencer and i know how
to talk to a camera and I'm cool. It's about
having the personality. It's about being real, being unapologetically you.
All that stuff is known. That's what's going to sell, right,
(19:36):
But it's also about being prominent in other skills, and
it's basically a collective of what all you guys are
doing here right like the digital audio, the video, I
mean video like having you know, making reels like in
real time, having like Deanna Franz's on the Switcher, knowing
(19:57):
video and audio, and and then knowing how to do editorial,
having to write a story for a quick headline whatever
that will capture people's attention. You need to have all
of those skills because now you know, if you're a
if you're lucky enough to be a music DJ outside
of mornings, you're doing everything yourself. You may have a
(20:20):
one person producing you, maybe nobody, So you got to
have the camera set up. You've got to be doing
everything all at once and being on the radio and
in real time making sure you don't mess up. Because
that's the one difference between a podcast and radio, right
is radio is live. Yeah, there's no edits. You're in
(20:40):
real time. So if you choose, so choose, you know
that could be that could be frightening for a lot
of people to go live, right, but then you go
live on Instagram and TikTok all the time, so should
be no problem. So yeah, to answer your question, you
need to learn it all and do it all.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
I'm pro college radio stations. I'm a part of mine.
I know you're a part of yours.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Yeah, go to college radio.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Hey, College Radio Day is coming up in April. So
I love college.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Radio, I really did, and I weapon was there for
four years. I support it. I think it's so important
if you want to get into this industry or anything
industry adjacent, you know, because the industry is obviously all
things audio. It's not just radio, but it's the whole broadcast.
And I will tell you you need that in your life.
You need to be part of that. You know what
(21:36):
scares me is when people come to me sometime like, hey,
they seem like, you guys have a lot of fun
in the morning, you're hanging out. I love that. I
want to do that. And they may be well into
their thirties in a different career, not again, not being ages,
but they may be in a different career and watch
down a different path completely and they don't have those skills. Oh,
but I know how to talk, you know, I could
(21:56):
just sit in front of a microphone, which may be okay,
know there may be positions out there for color commentary
or having that, but I think you need to have
kind of started down that path from the beginning. And
I don't have the heart to tell them that it
may be fifteen years too late. You guys are doing
it at the right time. Theodora of you, Oh my god,
(22:19):
I mean my Theodore Era. I love it. I'm living
Theodore Era.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
Which what's his divining feature? Like he's like the Alto
in their three part harmony.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Like, well, oka, wait, I think we need to cast
Elvis as one of the chipmunks.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Also, oh, he's Alvas Simon.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
I want everyone to know if you google Theodore, is
the first thing that comes up the chipmunk.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
Oh yeah, this Theodore in generally Yeah, just the word
Theodore like rose.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Oh well then.
Speaker 6 (22:58):
Scary in Jesus.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
It's my cheeks. My cheeks are giving Theodora.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
I got one last question, sure, so kind of circling
back on a few things as you've talked about, you
know how you got started with cutting tape literally by hand.
You talked about getting your start with Brooklyn College. I'm
curious talking about getting that path start and what made
you decide from that early age right in college, I
want to do radio. I want to be on the earth,
like just be involved.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Yeah, okay, it's very simple. Radio live. I wanted to
get into live radio now again, podcasting aside, because that's
come along now, you know. And I do a podcast,
the Brooklyn Boys podcast, and that that podcast is awesome,
But that's recorded format, right, that's pre recorded and all that.
(23:47):
We don't do any edits, by the way, on the
Brooklyn Boys, we try and do it live as if
we're and then we just take that and then it's
but it's still pre recorded. What got me into radio,
live radio was the fact that it was live and
we would talking to local area, the local area I
grew up in. I grew up in Brooklyn, and so
the Tri State area, the radio station I grew up
on and with. It was such an honor to work
(24:10):
here because I wanted to be able to not only
talk about things that were local to each neighborhood, but
getting response in real time. If you think about it,
TV doesn't really offer that. There's nothing that offers a
real time, complete feedback loop. What do I mean by that?
I'm sorrying to sound like a professor. Nothing like real
(24:34):
time when you are live in the moment and you
have a message you're putting out there. It could be whatever,
but there's reaction to the message, whether it be the
a text, via talkback or a phone call, and then
taking that person and either processing what they're saying and
(24:55):
changing your message or going down a different paths or
having that person, you know, jump into the conversation. Isn't
that One thing that would be awesome about podcast would
be people hearing this and then all of a sudden
we go to a caller, yeah, and then they're responding
to what we're saying. Radio has that very intimate relationship
(25:15):
with the listener that other media does not provide because
even with a live let's call it a news show
or live like the Today Show, right, no offense, no
shade to the Today Show. But they're talking at a
camera and even though it's live, they're only getting that's
one way feedback. There's no feedback loop. It's not feedback
(25:38):
coming back at them because it's TV. Now, yeah, they
can some stations that some people have incorporated, Oh yeah,
we can put this question out there, tell us way
how you feel, text us, and then they'll do like
the results of the poll. That's like kind of toward
what we do. But nothing matches live radio. That's why
(25:58):
I got into radio, because that's radio. I think names
something else aside from a TikTok live or Instagram live
that has that complete feedback loop. There is nothing else.
I mean you know what the Twitch is like that? Right?
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Twitch is a great example of a live. You know,
someone's gaming, or they're they're talking, or they're they're mixing,
and then you got everyone like all that the chat,
the sub you know on the side there. That's great,
that's cool, that's that's a great that's the closest that
modern any modern technology gets to live radio. This is awesome.
(26:34):
So what have you guys done on this podcast so far?
Speaker 6 (26:38):
Yap, that's literally and traders were talking about reality TV
a lot.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Okay, so this is a departure. Now you have developed
an audience that has been accustomed to that this is different,
this is not so they may not like this. This
could be your guests.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
I think they love this.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
Yeah, well, it gets to keep with our theme. Do
you have any reality TV show as you watch.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Let's see, I mean not not really now Real Housewives
in New Jersey occasionally.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Yeah, we're the two that don't want I don't watch anything.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Yeah, I love Dolores. Yeah, no, we actually once again
examples of people like like Melissa Gorga, Joe Gorga big
fans of our show. Joe listens still every day in
his truck on his way to the construction site. So
I've I've actually gotten to know them before, I've gotten
to know the show. I've actually watched episodes after. Don't
tell them that. Oh, well, too late right now. But
(27:34):
like like Dolores and you know, back in the day
it was Caroline Manzo Albi, I know Albi. I'm friends
with Albi, but I know knew all these people and
learned got to know them as people before I ever
watched any of their shows, so I would I've not
jaded at all. But then again, you know, then I
pop it on and see what's going on and see
what the storylines. So now I'm kind of like, oh, yeah,
(27:55):
you know fair Weather but other reality. Let's see what
qualifies his reality me. I used to watch Summer House,
yeah a little bit. Uh and that was a yeah
that was done in the Hampton's right, Yeah, yeah, because
I like take a look at things like Jersey Shore.
I mean back in the day, back in the right
now you know, oh yeah Jersey Shore. Okay, but yeah,
(28:18):
I don't really watch the new ones. You know you
still do it?
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Yeah, they got a new cast, right, it's like family vacation. Yes,
oh yeah, that's why.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
We also love to talk about what's been going on
in the work life in the office. So it's like
you're like a funny office moment of.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
The week of the week.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Well, I know there's plenty, but like, is there like one,
like guy.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Favorite person here at the office?
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Oh my god, start drama.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Yeah, let's start drama.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
I'm gonna spill tea. I will say that the funniest
woman to me week with it's always the unplanned things.
And it was the morning they discovered those rotten strawberries.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Oh god, that was.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Someone a listener was so great. This woman, Kathleen brought
up strawberries and blueberries for me for my birthday because
I couldn't eat, you know, I was on a diet whatever,
but we had some that day. But she brought so many.
Scotty said, oh, put this in my refrigerator. So Scotty
he put it in his refrigerator and then went on
(29:21):
vacation for you and that day. Now here we are
a month later and we brought the strawberries out. Elvis
brought them out on the air to show everybody. Look
what's been sitting in the refrigerator for over a month.
And when he lifted it up and he turned it sideways,
the disgusting Your mouth is on the floor. You didn't
see this video.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
I was there when this happened live again.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
It seeped out the side and landed on Elvis's crotch
like disgusting, gross like ranted strawberry liquid and blueberry liquid.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
It was.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
It was and there was live on the AIRD once again,
a live unedited air moment, and they were filming this.
The clip is up. Deanna did a great job on it.
You should see this, and we were all going crazy.
It was disgusting. Everything had white, white fuzz on the berries.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
You thought it was white chocolate.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I said, yeah, is that white chocolate?
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Yeah, it's like, you know, this is is a brown
Some of them were brown, some of them had white fuzz.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
Right.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Gross. So that was my favorite funniest moment of the week. Yeah,
on air, But what about off air? What's going on
with you guys? How are you guys liking this as
an internship? So I guess in a sentence, what were
your expectations going in versus how they the reality of it? Now.
Speaker 6 (30:37):
I didn't realize we would be on the air this much,
or that they would hand us a podcast, like I'm
a big fan of culture Last Culturistas, And when they
got syndicated to iHeart, it was like a big deal.
And then like second day here they're like, you guys
have an iHeart radio podcast. I'm like, oh my god,
Like I'm employed by the same people as less culturist
does that.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Like, I'm an iHeart.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
Radio podcaster honestly, so from my dad's like kind of
doctrinating me with radio stuff, you with sports radio. And
I've actually been in the iHeart building over the summer
where I actually met Gandhi and everything. So it was
like cool to see the ability. To me when I was
coming here, I was like, oh, I get to like
it's gonna be kind of really cool. I get to
see everything. And now actually being here and like seeing
what the actual day to day task like doing iHeart
(31:18):
and everything just with Elvis andever. I just it's definitely
nothing I would have said I expected. I had no
idea what to expect from the beginning. It means, honestly
just been every days and I guess had a new experience.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
That's awesome. Same.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
I mean, I feel like I didn't know what to expect,
Like I really had no idea what it was going
to be like to work here, because obviously you listen
to the show and it's like so fun and all
of that, but then I'm like, what's it like behind
the scenes, Like is it more serious and it's not.
Speaker 6 (31:49):
Do you guys actually all just are friends? Like I
was gagged by that. Yeah, that it's like it's not
like a job half the time. It's like, you guys
just hang out.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
You can't fake this. This is yeah, I mean this.
We are We are real people. We are who we are,
and you know, and I think that if there was
any animosity or we really not friends, I think that
you would sense that over the air, you know, on
the radio. You can't fake it.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
And I think the fact that we are genuine here,
we are turning our own horn. I think that that's
why it works, and it's what why it's worked for
so long. We all get along and there's great chemistry.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
Well, thank you so much for joining us as our
first ever guests on this podcast.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
It's pleasure to be here.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
Yay, Yes, I kind of you have a better guest.
You've been the one I've been hoping to have on
the show the Boat, like for our podcast. So when
they said, oh, you guys are interviewing with Harry, I
was very excited.
Speaker 6 (32:39):
Yeah, you are first, our first idea to bring on
for sure.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
God, thank you so much. I appreciate you guys so much,
traveled so far. Wow, pay the congestion fee to get
in here. Oh nine dollars. See you guys.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
Anyways, I'm Dylan, my instagram is Dylan Too. Two two one.
Speaker 6 (33:03):
I'm Leilani and my instagram is Leilani J Petau.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
I'm Ben and my instagram is Ben Pfeiffer with an
extra R at the end.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
I'm Stephanie and my instagram is Steph Lane with two
e's and an underscore.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
I'm Scary Jones s K E E R Y Jones
and I have to follow all of you. I think
I follow Ben.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Yeah, and I follow because we met at American Dream.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Yes we did, and I have to follow you dying.
Yes we follow each other.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
No we don't, but you gotta you gotta Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Got you?
Speaker 5 (33:28):
Thank you, Scary Yeah, I think I got the Scary follow.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
It's complete internship.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Complete team follow back babies.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Yes, and with our fifth member, we're
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Yeah.
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