Guys: With Bryan Quinby - Guys: Episode 101 - Morning Radio Guys With Josh Gondleman

Episode Date: January 7, 2025

We had Josh Gondelman on the show this week to talk about the opposite of the podcaster, the Morning Radio Guy. We read some cool bios, we meet Free Beer and Hot Wings and we finally listen to a fake prep burger radio bit on a show out of Chicago! There is much more Chris at twitter.com/thecjs and of course https://www.patreon.com/notevenashow And for more Guys content, streams and SHOCKTOBER: a deep dive into shock jocks you can click patreon.com/guyspodcast twitter.com/murderxbryan and  https://bsky.app/profile/murderxbryan.bsky.social  Guys is on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/guys.pod Guys has a Post Office Box now! PO Box 10769 Columbus Ohio 43201

Welcome to guys, a podcast about guys. I'm Brian, your host, and I have with me my stunt boy, Chris James, hi Chris. Hi, you almost said hi stunt boy, but then you just immediately abandoned the nickname. And I kind of felt bad about calling you a stunt boy because I'm calling myself a stunt boy. I think I went for it,

because I did a morning zoo radio show with our friends from YKS and. I remember, I listened to the whole thing. Yeah, Jesse, it's called Good, Good Morning with Jesse and Mike. OK, no, it's not a plug. It's actually not available anywhere because Stitcher pre does not exist. And therefore you actually can't access that. So I'm not plugging it all.

I actually went by Ship Boy. I went by Ship Boy and I was like the stunt boy of it. And so I have no problem with that being that, that sort of character, you know? And our guest is Josh Gondelman. Hi, Josh. Hey, thanks for having me. I love that we've already gone to like the opposite ends

of the earth on this with 1 million fart sound effects. And a plug for something that is so underground it doesn't exist anymore. And actually get a story people have asked me, that reminds me someone sent me an email and I am supposed to send them the raw files because I have them still. What are you going to do with them? What do you mean? Well, DB talked about it. Anyway, I don't want to get into it. We're going to put them out somewhere, maybe to some for something.

I think it's pretty fun. It's like, yeah, we had like Longmont Potion Castle. We had Carl Tartt on. How's the best? Yeah, we had all kinds of fun. People on there was really fun. Yeah. Anyways, enough of these plugs. But that's plugging. That's kind of normal for the episode that we're doing here today. Plugs, you know, this is a lot of radio. Yeah.

Well, we're talking about morning radio guys. Now me and Chris have, uh, intimate knowledge of a lot of radio people. Like we, we, we've, we've done, what was it? Six episodes about sports talk radio. Yeah. We did March madness. Yeah. We've done like 20 episodes or 30, maybe even I think it's

like over 20 episodes of Shocktober now where we talked about shock docs. And this one is this one is like something I'm not, I'm not totally familiar with. And it's kind of got a hodgepodge of prep for this thing. because I did want to talk about fans of this stuff, which you would believe don't exist anymore. You know what I mean? Like to me, I don't know that they yeah, there maybe there was a time they existed, I guess like Opie and Anthony, like, yeah, but yeah, it really does feel like it's just something that's on in the car for people. And it doesn't have that same significance like podcasts now. That feels a bit self congratulatory.

Well, we are the real juice. Yeah, it is the real it is just for me personally, that's the way I feel about it. Like I'm a fan of a podcast versus a radio show. No, I think that it must so much must have migrated over there. And the people with the people who still listen to like true morning radio are the people that are like, why can't I get that thing that plugs the cassette into my car cassette player anymore? Let's me listen to my disc man. Yeah, it's weird too, because like they haven't adjusted at all to the new world from what I'm seeing because like they all do release their shows as a podcast, which I guess is smart but like then what I mean like you should change because podcasts don't lend themselves

to the kind of I'll read this guy this guy prospector right? He's in whereas I've heard of the prospector before. I believe process processor processor processor is on rock 107 and I think that is in Arizona Phoenix and I'm gonna read we're gonna read a lot of these these guys bios, right and this is about me Born in Scranton PA where I still live with my wonderful. Oh, this Pennsylvania. I fucked that up. Oh, yeah. It's going to be some time. But we don't know where.

No, he said he still lives. He said he still lives there because unless he's taking a long commute to Arizona, then we have a absolutely a flub from Brian. They're really unforgivable one to mix up the fucking hometown of Prospector. I let him off the hook. But, yikes, this is I'm thinking. Yeah, this is not really cool because like prospector. How long is prospector been around? Brian, I it does not say, but I think he like I want to show you that

his first broadcast was 1849. Yeah, it sounds like it, right? This is his. So there's no real pictures of him. And by the way, I'm getting advertised transformers because we did action figure guys a couple of weeks ago. I'm not a Transformers guy. OK, I have to explain that to Josh because I was embarrassed

as soon as I saw Optimus Prime. Mine are all mine, all sneakers and sweaters. That's it. And that I mean, I'm that guy. Brian, you're behind you on your camera is a bunch of Lego, though. So I don't know. You know, I mean, I feel so bad. This comes out like January, but like a few weeks ago or in December, November, late November, somebody asked me

somebody was like first time chatter on the Twitch stream. It's like, Brian, do you like Legos? And I just was like, yo, the fucking come on, man. We don't need to talk about the Legos. And Chris is like, he's the first time chatter. He may have never been here before. Yeah. Give him a chat. Talk to him about Legos. And in your defense, Brian, I was actively trying to derail the stream and force you into having a really tedious conversation about Lego with somebody. But yeah, you were quite rude to him. I think it's because a lot of the time people, you know, when they bring up Lego, they are a hair trigger. They're doing it to make fun of you. I am most of the time. There's no

real pictures of prospector on the site. That's how you know he's fucking really hot. But there are known for his voice, not for his looks. That's old school. That's old school. And back in the day, it was like this was a voice that you heard. It wasn't until the Grease Man came around in the mid 80s and he was so physically attractive that he had to showcase his looks. But before that it was like, yeah, you knew them as a voice.

Chris also found Man Cow attractive. So I said Man Cow had a hot phase. He's not overall attractive. I said we saw him in his hottest phase when we watched the DVD. That's all I was saying. He was kissing those ladies. Well, he'll be on a Patreon.

It's already on there, yeah. Yeah, you gotta find that. He's kissing some ladies. He's making out. We we discovered. Yeah, man Oh, he's pretty much the whole time. He's doing his show He's sort of making out with ladies who are just kind of hanging around in the studio with them babes, you know He's doing Josh. He's doing radio He is like on mic and he is not even talking about babes. No make it out Oh, he's like talking about the news and the news of the day and stuff He's doing regular kind of radio shock chalk stuff, but he's just sort of in between words

He's making out with babes like not in songs. He's just like kind of like Getting a quick make out in and going back. Yeah, like Bob Euker, you know, the Norm McDonald, Bob Euker story. Yeah, it's insane. It's so crazy to see it is one of the, the, the, the crazier things, because we've never seen man cow in his morning madhouse face. This was our first time and he's, he's edgy. I'll say, you know, man cow a little bit. Yeah, I know a little bit about him. Yeah. You never went on his show, though. You never want to never, never done his show. He's Chicago based. He's a Chicago guy.

But I think he would have probably been like he would have been on radio before you were really touring. I think in my mind, if I'm doing the timelines, I'm not really sure how long. But yeah, we're going to get into that, though, because Josh, thankfully, he has done some touring as a stand up comedian, which is obviously, I don't want to find one you were on. But, but yeah, that's the going to be the idea because Josh has done a lot of these morning radio shows. That's a huge thing. I think I have, I think I have one that you may have been on. Oh, interesting. Maybe I don't know it because I didn't search it, but it's a channel.

I'll just say have you been you've done Chicago, right? I've done Chicago. Have you been on the Fred show? I don't think so. Okay, I've done. There's one gosh I feel so bad blanking on his name because when I go through Chicago, I usually do morning TV which is like very it's like kind of the opposite of morning radio because it's so button down. And so like, this is for like, friendly people watching the TV at 11am. And then I do like late morning, early afternoon. And there's a dude who's so nice in Chicago, who's old, he's old friends with Jimmy Pardo and his name escapes me right now.

And he just like is so good to comics. And when I did that, I was like, oh, there's guys like this. Like, it's not just all the guys that are like, so how many fingers you could think you could fit up there? You're just like pointing at random crevices or whatever. Yeah. How many? Yeah. How many? How many could you do? Think you could, though?

Yeah. Oh, or guys that get little mouse hole in the woods. How many figures you get in that mouse hole? I think because we've talked to a lot of comics that have done radio about out. Sometimes you show up and the DJ is jealous of you for being. Oh yeah, for sure. And then he sandbags you for the rest of the year. Yeah, I've had it both ways too, where there's like a little, there's like a little, they're kind of trying to big time you, and then other times where they actually big time you and like truly don't care about what you're doing at all. It is like a wild genre.

I'm remembering something, and you got to correct me if I'm wrong here, because I remember, I've known you just from online and stuff, Josh. Yeah, likewise. I think you're a very funny guy. And I remember when I started to know you online, I was like, where do I recognize the name from? And it was from a show that I had seen a long time ago.

And it was, Brian, get ready for this. Wait, I think I know what you're gonna say. Oh, you know, it was Scorch. Hell yeah, it was Scorch. Scorch! Kingdom of Nakedness! The kingdom militia of... Yeah, that is absolutely, the Naked Militia.

Yeah, that is a wild, you did Scorches. For anyone who, old ONA fans and just like people who are fans of really wild sort of morning radio guys. That is like a crazy public access show. Yeah. How did you end up getting getting on score? I just wish I remembered who I wish I remember who like brought me in. I truly knew nothing about it.

The other thing to what you have to what what people listening to have to realize, and I think they probably do, is when you're like, oh, this guy named Scorch has a public access show. You're like, okay, sounds about right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And you're also like, I mean, I would go and do it a million. I mean, we'll do it now even knowing them, but like, that would be the kind of thing I would want to go do. Sure. And they just did like a regular standup set. It was probably 15 years ago. And like, I still like, ONA fans will bring it up to everyone.

So I'll be like, I don't know. But I think that it was like me. And then the other guest was like a very sick child. Oh yeah. I remember that. I remember that. I remember the Opie and Anthony listening to, oh yeah, crazy. What a remember that opiate Anthony listening to crazy. What a crazy that is.

That is absolutely wild. And yet and there was not really. And was there like what type of a studio audience did he have? Because they always talked about on L.A. about how there was nobody there. And it was it was like a little audience, but I was not shocked by how, you know, I was. It wasn't that it's just situations where I'm like, oh, there's nobody here. And this I was like, OK,, you know, I wasn't. It wasn't that. It's just situations where I'm like, oh, there's nobody here.

And this I was like, okay, there are a few people here. But I was also like, I'm so used to doing at that point in my career, especially gigs where there just weren't people that I'm sure if there had been like 15 people, I would have been like sick. Well, there was a couple of Scorch heads out there for sure. Yeah, I just that is that is wild to Scorch. I believe Scorch is out there for sure. Yeah, I just that is that is wild to Scorch. I believe Scorch is still doing morning radio. Yes, to this day as well.

Manch Vegas. Yeah, Manchester. Is he still I thought he had moved away for some reason. Oh, maybe he did. I think he might have gone back. But somebody maybe the listener could fill us in on if Scorch is still going. I think he is. Last I checked, he was still doing a morning radio show. Well, it's so funny that I was on cause I, it is the, the only time I think about it too, is when Opie and Anthony fans, you know,

we'll be, we'll want to like rip on me or, or sometimes people just be like, Oh, that was that you want scorch? And I was like, I don't know, man. It's, it's like a pretty funny coincidence that that was like an episode that they really laid into. That's funny. Yeah. Because it's more people like more people. You did this thing that probably, you know, no, not very many people. I want good people, maybe total.

Yeah. And then these guys that had a larger audience played you a larger engaged audience too. Because that's something we always talk about with radio is that like the audience, there's like five shows where the audiences are engaged with the show. You know what I mean? Like most shows are just like, this is the guy that's on when I get up and he's on the radio station that plays the Metallica songs I like, and that's like the whole thing. You know, I always thought that you didn't, I thought that you weren't like really made fun of that much.

Maybe I'm remembering it wrong. I mean, I guess probably just- No, they made fun of Scorch. I never heard this segment. The fact that you were on Scorch, they probably felt the need to like, probably like slag you off a little bit, but it was definitely, the focus was on Scorch.

And I definitely, when I listened to it, I didn't even before I knew you or anything like that. I definitely felt like this poor guy, you know? Yeah, that's how they framed it more than anything was like they felt bad. Yeah, it was a pretty wild. Yeah. And it was like, truly, I was like, it's one of those things where you're just like, I don't know what this is. I'm going to show up. I'll like be pleasant to do my job and then go home.

And then it like years later, I was like, oh, this became a thing. Yeah, you're on our podcast and we're talking about 2024, almost 2025. It's hilarious, especially because I bet some of the people that have that heard that on ONA are like completely unaware of anything I've ever done before since. Yeah, yeah, you're the scorch guy. Yeah. Well, Prospector says, Luckily, I never moved on to serious property crimes or other offenses when I was 13 rock 107 signed on the air, signed on the air, my friends, I became obsessed. We would constantly bother the DJs to play us songs by AC DC or Iron Maiden.

My how the tables have turned rock 107. They just stopped playing. I think he's saying now I'm the one that plays the song. But anybody in the whole world that knows even the smallest bit about radio knows that he's not picking the song. Right. Like, that's the one thing they we all know. Even the people that are just kind of popping in is like, these guys don't pick the songs because if these guys pick the songs, they might play a different song.

Like sometimes, you know, like I will read some. I found out that people review radio stations on Yale. That rules. It's crazy. But we will look into some of those so he goes rock 107 ran a daring DJ contest now this is going to tell you why we don't see a picture of them rock 107 ran a quote daring DJ contest in the summer of 1982 the idea was that's okay so he's a bit of an older gentleman you think be a bit of an older gentleman. It might be a bit of an older gentleman. That is kind of cool how they'll sorry if they'll have contests like that

for people to come on the radio. Josh, please continue. I was just going to say the caricature, like the little kind of New Yorker Wall Street Journal style sketch of him on the website, I would say looks he has kind of a RFK Junior vibe to it. Yeah, he doesn't look, it looks like, yeah, he's got blonde hair, like really blonde hair, which I bet is gray. I think it might have gone gray.

I think it might have gone gray at this point, if he started in early 1980s. But it is, I just wanted to just get back to that. It is cool how they'll allow people to come on, just a regular person come on and host a radio program. I think it can make for some pretty cool radio. What do you think about that, Brian? Brian hosted.

I wish it never happened. Brian, he went on the radio when he was younger. Let's just say he was also a cable guy. The cool thing about him though is most cable guys that show up late, he actually would show up early, right, Brian? I dry. Yeah, he set the line. That was his first ever line on the radio.

He tried to sound cool and her being like, I heard you show up early and he's like, I try. Yeah, we listened to it at the at the first ever live show. It was really a lot of fun. That's what made me want to do. Podcasting, which is crazy, if you heard it, it's wild. Like it's wild to think that. Well, he goes, when I'm not on the air,

I can be found watching my beloved Los Angeles Rams, New York Yankees, or New York Rangers on TV. Strange taste. I don't know about that. I don't know that you can do that. I don't know you can cheer for an LA and a New York team. Live in Pennsylvania. Yeah. Where is that coming from? I'd be born in Pennsylvania. Yeah. Where is that coming from?

I was going to say, because even like the Rams were in St. Louis. Yeah. But that's a theory. Okay. What's your theory, Brian? A lot of radio guys like a team that they're not supposed to like, because it generates content.

The callers will call in and be a little bit outraged about their love for it. Obviously, I have another theory. LA and New York are the two biggest radio markets trying to curry favor with some of the executives in those cities. Let's meet another show. This show has come up often on our show, but we don't know anything about them. Chris, you're going to love this. The free beer and hot wings show is a radio show out of I believe Virginia.

I've never what do you mean it comes up often? We've talked about how there there is a show called free beer and hot. Oh, we've just mentioned we just kind of say it because that's crazy that there's a name of a show called Free Beer and Hot Wings. And so I have some stuff from Free Beer and Hot Wings. I'm gonna give you a little picture. Where is it based out of? I believe this is a Virginia show, but it's syndicated. I believe that this is like.

It's syndicated all over the country. These shows are like kind of hard. But it's not that hard. I mean, it's your whole job over the country. These shows are like kind of hard, but it's not that hard. I mean, it's your whole job is just to forget this information. Out it. I don't think so. So this is free beer and hot wings. Yeah. Can one of the listeners look up where they're based out of?

It's Virginia, man. I sorry. Grand Rapids, Michigan. I'm sorry. I was wrong. Grand Rapids, Michigan. Okay. No worries. Grand Rapids, Michigan. It doesn't really matter, but you know, where did the name come from instead of calling the show the Greg and Chris show, which by all estimations would have been the most boring sounding radio show in the world. Listen, I think he's's I think he's right.

What about me and Opie doing a show? Megan Chris show. It is spelled Opie style. It's G.R.E.G.G. Wow. And is Chris the age Chris? Yeah. C.H.R.I.S. I don't know, man.

I kind of like the sound of that. That kind of sounds like some good radio to me. When I was growing, I grew up just outside Boston and I believe Opie and Anthony were based there. Like I know they were syndicated. At a time they were. At a time they were, yeah. They got fired from the radio station in Boston because on April Fool's Day, the prank they did was they were just like, everybody, maybe it wasn't even April Fool's Day. They're like, the mayor is dead. The mayor died. Yeah, that's one of their

they played it. Yeah, that's that's a good they've been fired a few times. The sex in the church sex or Sam, where they people were having sex in public and people had sex in a church that got them fired. But yeah, that was a very famous

one. The mayor is dead. Yeah, pretty good prank in my opinion. It's like such a cold blooded. Yeah, it's a really cold blooded prank. It's kind of I don't know how the what kind of how was the mayor though? Is she just like a normal guy? He was kind of beloved. He was the guy, you know, maybe that's not he was just like such a character.

He was like a pretty good mayor, I guess. Like, I don't you know, I can't vouch for his politics writ large. He passed away probably 10 years ago, but he was like pretty beloved by people. It wasn't like I'm hated figure. Yes. No, no, no, no. He was not like a reviled guy. He was like a goofball.

He would always say people's names wrong. Like he, during the late nineties home run chase, he, I think said like Mike McGuire and Sam. Oh, yeah. I just like the words, right? People loved it. So they were just like the mayor is dead. That was I listened to it and it's really bad. Like all they had to do is say we're just fucking around.

Yeah, and they probably wouldn't have been in trouble, but the actual radio sucks. I didn't I don't think I've ever played it on Shocktober because I it and was like, eh, whatever. You know what I mean? Like it was them, they would play a Pearl Jam song and then they'd come back and be like, add a detail to it. And, uh, you know, it's weird because they said they knew they were fired when CNN picked it up. Well, here's a little bit about the host here. Greg free beer. Daniels is his name. He was one of the founding members of the show

since its inception in March of 1997. Free Beer sets most of the bits up for the show. Free Beer is known for many verbal screw ups, a vast sports knowledge, and occasionally laughing like Ricky Ricardo from old episodes of I Love Lucy. So this guy's, oh, he's a flubber. He is, Free Beer flubs. So I'm not oh he's a flubber. He is free beer flubs.

So I'm not not surprising. You know what I mean? The guys probably in my opinion from the based on his name I'm going to guess that this guy may be half in the bag when he's recording some of these uh you know broadcasts. Well free beer. In 1997 the show. So this is one of the newer morning radio Institute. You're right. It is. It is. This is this is like some young dudes like doing their new kids on the block. Yeah, all the other that got like prospector is like it. The easy kids, you know, and they're like 58 years old. Hot wings. The other founding member of the show grew up in Detroit area doing unathletic things with his friends, such as riding bikes, playing army and swamps.

These guys write these themselves. That's why I wanted to read them because it is, there's something so great about seeing the brand through their eye, their brand, through their eyes, like what, what they think the audience sees when they hear hot wings talk. Yeah. This is the kind of guy that they believe that the audience envisions when he's telling his stories is this guy who's like, and by the way, it's pretty athletic to ride bikes, but I don't know if he's making a joke there. It really is hard to tell sort of which angle he's trying to even joke from. But, but yeah, the, I don't know, man. I don't know. It's hard. I think if your name's hot wings, I think it's hard to like, be like a respectable guy, or whatever

in society. And I think at this point, you got to go by you know, your Christian name. Chris, Chris Michael. Yeah, Chris Michaels, or whatever. That's weird because that's my friend's name. So that fucks me up. They call each other free beer and hot wings, by the way, on the radio. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He'll be like, hey, free beer. And I was going to ask. So that's the names they actually are going by. So do you think somebody would see them out at the grocery store

and they're a fan and they'd say, hey, hot wings. Yeah, for sure. Unless they're trying to rattle them the way people do with like, oh, gosh, who is it? The the wrestler that people always call Brian would know Brian would know. Brian, he he it's Brian who calls their their real name. I don't know the taker take.

I actually do not know. Hot wings hates a great many things. Now we're going to get into some stuff. Oh hell yeah. Including but not limited to geese, which he has referred to as the terrorists of bird. Wait, what? What? He hates geese. Yeah. Canada geese. Well, probably. Well, they are in grand Rapids, Michigan. So they might see some can I be talking about Canada geese? Well, probably. Well, they are in Grand Rapids, Michigan, so they might see some Canada geese. You might be talking about Canada geese because they are the aggressive ones. I encounter them every single day. They are on the river.

I see them. I hate those geese. They are a little bit aggressive, but honestly, you got to know how to live with them and just kind of respect their space and stuff. And then- Do you agree with hot wings? Hot wings should do a bit together about it. Do I agree with hot wings? You should do a bit together about it. Do I agree with hot wings?

Yeah. Yeah. No, I think me and hot wings might we wouldn't see eye to eye on this. We might have a little bit of friendly back and forth on this. Hey, this could be the whole this could be the whole first hour of the show. Save it for the show. Call in and say whether you think you see terrorists. Yes, our geese terrorists.

We want to hear from you. Of course, we, you know, Chrissy over here doesn't think that they are. But Hot Wings is of the mind. And then and then just every now and then like this guy, Hot Wings, doesn't know what he's talking about. You know, I need a name. Can you guys give me a naked lady? Chris Naked Lady James, it does lie with free beer and hot wings. Yeah. Okay. So I'm naked lady. I do feel like it's misleading. Well, so it's hot wings. Yeah, he doesn't have a hot one. He's good.

If you heard if you hear someone's name, how about naked ladies? That's okay. That's good. That's better because there's no sort of like, you know, thought that I myself am a naked lady, you know? I think that's right. Yeah. Naked ladies. Hot wings in his name. Goose wings. Yeah. But not let so the next thing. This is a crazy one guy. Prepare people who don't put their shopping carts away. That's what he hates that. He hates that. Oh my god. Oh my god. That's that's so annoying. Like they have they have a system where they'll put a little loony in there. But I'll tell you why you can just buy a little thing on Amazon. There's a little tip for everyone. Buy a little thing on Amazon. It's a little plastic little thing that you can stick in the grocery and then you can just get it for free and then you can leave it wherever the fuck you want.

That's what I do. I just leave it. I'm like, I don't need that fucking quarter. You know what I do? I go to Walmart. It's a dollar at Walmart in Canada. Um, but I'll go there and I'll say, Oh, excuse me, sir. I first seem to have forgotten a loony today. That's what they're called here. Uh, and, and then the guy will do it for me. He has one of those things. Little does he know I'm doing that so I can fucking leave it wherever I want. You're evil.

Hot wings. You and hot wings are gonna hate each other. They could call you the loony on the radio. Yeah, I could go by the loony. I do put, just to be clear, I do put them back. I do put them back. He hates people who put bumper stickers on cars. He also believes that the number of kind of weird.

That's like kind of a radio thing. I know. I know. Hey, hey, we don't want no bumper stickers out there. I guess they don't have them maybe but like normally that's a famously a thing that radio shows have bumper stickers. It's helpful for the radio show. I think people he goes, he goes, he believes that the number of

stickers on someone's car is directly proportional to how bad the driver is. He's oddly knowledgeable about trees, which is something he picked up from a who wears black socks and dress shoes with short shorts. And that's a tendency to singe his hair around gas grill. Hot wings believes he can tell time just by looking at the sun. He likes home improvement, knows just enough to be a pain in his own ass. Taking on product projects that seem easy, but end up taking them weeks to complete. Okay.

Yeah. No, I've, I think we all know a guy like hot wings. Well, here's the, here's like these descriptions and I don't want to, you know, I don't know anything bad about these guys, except for these bios are like descriptions of the normalist guys. I've ever heard of like the bio could just be like picture, like some guy. Yep. Just a guy. He lives in like the bio could just be like picture like some guy. Yep. Just a guy.

He lives in like the Midwest or whatever, you know, just a guy or he lives in like Canada or just a guy, you know, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, the last part he goes hot wings is divorced and anxiously awaits a hot wealthy woman to come along and provide him with really good pizzas with a garage full of cool cars.

Wait, he wants pizzas? He doesn't want hot wings? He could have been pizza! He could go buy things! Maybe though, in his defense, I feel like when your name is Hot Wings, you might get sort of like, people are always getting you hot wings and every time so you might get sick of them after a while and it might be nice to have a pizza. Hot Wings also has two sons who are awesome, but still young enough that he could take them in a fight if he needed to.

if he needed to. Okay, so he is he can do child. He's like, I can chew child abuse and I'm divorced. Hey, my name is hot. I'm related facts, but they're all in there. Yeah, I could kick the shit out of my kids and I'm divorced. I'm hot wings. I love hot wings, man. Well, he sounds like a very normal divorced guy.

So normal. That's like no. I don't mean that even as an insult. It's just like there is no need for a bio when the facts are like, I like watching a good movie, but not a bad one, but sometimes a bad one. When I'm when I'm hungry, I'll head to the restaurant, get myself some food. I can tolerate a little clutter, but if things get really messy,

I'll tidy up before company comes. Well, here's some free beer and hot wings. We're going to listen to it. Who's this on screen? Believe this is free beer. He's a nerd. What the hell? I didn't expect him to be a nerd. You know what I mean? I was expecting

this guy's name was Free Beer. I was expecting him to be this absolute party animal looking guy. He kind of looks like the caricature of Prospector. He's got a giant head. He's got a Prospector look. I have a forehead too so I can say that. But this guy's got a giant one. He's also got prospector look. So I am a girl that I had forehead too, so I can say that, but this guy's got a giant

one. He's also got a radio voice. I had a crush on all through school. That was a good friend. I was on and I did not believe that I would ever get out, but I wanted to get out. Okay. So he's in the friend zone. I'm sorry.

I, I, I clicked a button. He said I was in the friend zone. I couldn't get out, but I thought I could get out. Oh, that's a nightmare. A nightmare for every man. Every man hates to be in the friend zone. And are we seeing hot wings? That's hot wings. Hot wings. Hot wings is not disappointing with his look. He does look the way he's pretty handsome, but he's also he looks like hot wings. You know, he looks like a cool dude who, you know, would do drugs with you. If you pulled drugs out, he would be like, I'll try some of those drugs. You wouldn't even ask what they are or whatever, you know.

I'm looking for a nice lady that'll put me in the calzone. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. I I'm going to bed and I hear my mom talking to somebody downstairs. I am nude in my room and then I hear the door opening and it's her like what and she goes. I told your mom that I wanted to come up and wake you up because she said you were in bed. I'm like why would my mom let that happen? Doesn't she know what I do in here? She checked behind the

mattress. Good lord. What's what's he's an old man. Is he he's he's telling an old story. Yeah. Yeah. He's telling an old story. Now, we're about to get. Yes, we're about to get to a legendary riff here in a minute. And that's why I wanted to play this. So this is like, it's a famous one or just, well, this is, this is one they posted. And I feel the riff is pretty nuts. Okay. So then we go and we're hanging out outside.

Are you still naked? No, I mean, you lived in a rural area. Here we go and we were hanging out outside. Are you still naked? No, I got to rescue Jackass. I mean, you lived in a rural area. So here we go. This is the riff. Put your overalls on. Was it washing day for Ma? Yeah, I had to go get my clothes off the clothes line in the backyard.

Where's my spare gunny sack? Some of them were still on the beaten rock for getting them clean in the stream that went by in the back. He is he knows it's not a good one. He knows it's not a strong riff, and that's why he's getting kind of up in the beaten rock. And you also you can feel him be a little defensive too, much like me when Scorch is brought up. We're like trying to have a good time, but I'm like, Oh, somewhere deep down inside.

There's something about this I haven't addressed. Oh, yeah, I didn't mean to do that. I was no, no, no. You didn't. I think truly not defensive that I'm it is fun to talk about. But I'm like, Oh, those guys are really mean to me online sometimes. Oh, I trust me. I know people are quite often mean to me online as well.

I experienced it. But yeah, this this I think you're right about this guy being a bit defensive too. Like he's kind of making the jokes with them, but he's kind of like, huh? Yeah, yeah, that's right. But because also, I don't know, that stuff seems kind of reasonable for like, it doesn't seem like over the top, like if you're in a rural setting. People use clotheslines everywhere.

People use clotheslines. Yeah. You rub drying your clothes with the air instead of using electricity and it's like, I don't know. I mean, I hang dry. I hang dry some things, of course. I hang dry almost all my shirts. Yeah. And my pants. I mean, I hang. They did. I hang dry some things. I hang dry almost all my shirts. Yeah. I mean, I just wash some jackets and I obviously hung dry the jackets.

You know, the other thing I really drives my shorts because it's like it was a rain jacket. I'm what I mean, a dryer rain jacket. It literally gets wet every single day and hang dries itself. You're a hillbilly. Here's some more riffing. Here's some more riffing. Here's some more riffing. Backyard. The crick.

The crick. Yeah, it was a crick. And also that was my beaten rock when we weren't doing laundry there. But anyway, all right. So you're standing there with an apple basket on his pants. And what then happened? I can picture it. So then we're walking around outside. It's cool. So now they're walking today. He's wearing

an apple basket as pants. That was hot wings who did hot wings is like free beer. You're such a hill Jack. Yeah. You're such a you're such an absolute, you know, hill. What? You're a hill person, which by the way, he's yeah, he's not. I don't think I mean, and I guess is that supposed to be the joke? I'm not really I don't know these guys well enough. Yeah, that's the joke. I don't know. Yeah. And he wants to tell this story. So bad. I know. I know. It's painful how bad he wants to tell this story that he knows where it's going. And'm sure in his mind like this is a very funny story and Then everybody on the show is doing everything they can to put roadblocks

unknowingly Really shitty thing to do We have somebody was trying to tell what their smoothie was as well to be doing something like that but I would also say that I would also say that this is very, very similar. Beer, beer, beer, beer, beer, beer, beer. This is very similar to what happens to Brian a lot of shows, honestly, as he's trying to get to the content and be specifically me a lot of the time are actively stopping him from getting to the stuff and derailing it all the time depending on who the guest

is to sometimes it gets out of control. So I think Brian kind of feels for free beer here. I do. Pee-ness. Like free beer. Is that a lot of Lego behind you? Who do you think I should date? Alan or Joel? And I'm like, what are you doing here? That's not what I named my balls. And then so she was... That lady's cheese is her name. Is her name not... No, it isn't. I promise her name is cheese.

Nah, come on, man. I could show you... The people on this show are free Beer, Hot Wings, and Cheese. And Steve. Poor Steve. Do you think Steve was not granted a nickname or do you think he was like, no? He turned it down. He turned it down and gave him a bunch and he said, no, no, I would imagine in this world, it is a great insult to be called simply Steve

I would think that like yeah, he's maybe is he the newest one on the show as you maybe he has Producers, I guess they could call producers Steve. No, no, that's not the way or that that sucks for him He's that I guess they're trying to basically say you are not an on-air guy really You're a producer who comes on Mike sometimes. You're not one of the food family, you know, no matter how many times. Yeah. No matter how many times you call yourself potato nuts, it's not going to. Yeah, it's not sticking, Steve. They're aggressively.

Here's a good risk. Here's one more good hot free beer and hot wings. Riff, I think you guys are going to really like. Yeah, we can't hear it. I know. Cause everybody you hear from that's like, I got these huge knockers are just like these suck. My wife is working hard to de romanticize them at our house.

Sometimes when I'm paying attention to hers, she'll say things like it's cute. How into a bags of fat you are and that really sucks the joy out of that as fast as possible. Yeah, that is. I mean, I'm sorry to hear that. It sounds like you might have intimacy issues with your wife, potentially. But yeah, I mean, I don't know what your relationship is to the breast,

because I do know some people who have sort of a strange relationship with suckling on them, and maybe that sort of makes her uneasy. Josh, just a quick question for you. Any point in your life, you ever sucked on a titty for three hours? Three hours? Yeah. Listen, it's such an exaggeration. Yeah. Anyways, anyways, doesn't that mean that nobody would do three hours? No, Brian sucked on did that. Brian used to do that exclusively.

He would do that. He would when I was 60, he would suck on the titty instead of doing sex, and then he would go home and finish himself off. Okay. So I'm just saying that my only point is that if free beer is like a little bit too obsessed in that sort of way that maybe she's like, I need to dissuade him from being, you know, going so hard at it. So I'm going to start trying to, you know, we're going to watch wicked. Yeah, we do literally anything other than suck on my titties.

Free beer. Boobs are romanticized. Because everybody you hear from that's like, I got the... Who is this lady? Let me see if it's cheese. She might be an intern. I think this is a different lady than the lady they showed. Unless she's dyed her hair blonde.

Maybe she wasn't up close before, but I think... Wait, let me see. Because she might be actually cheese. So Kelly is cheese and then this is Maitland. Maitland. So it doesn't have a name. No food name. Yeah, she's kind of in the Steve zone.

Yeah, that's that's everybody's trying to get out of the Steve zone. These not a good sign when it comes time for, you know, rehires and all that stuff. If you do not have a food name, if they're if they're doing the contract negotiations and you find yourself without a food name. Yeah, I would say start looking for another job. I honestly believe Maitland is hired because she has a young person's name. You know what I mean? Yeah, like the rest of them have, but Brian, they just give someone a young person's name.

I mean, they're calling one of the girls cheese. Well, her last name is Cheeseboro. I see. OK, so she comes by her food name, honest. I don't know that I believe that you don't. Well, why would somebody make themselves? Well, I guess you're coming into free beer and hot wings. You're like, I get it. Yeah. Hey, sir.

She's trying to game the system, I think. She's like, yeah, she's like, she knows she's not going to earn her cheese name on merit or her food name. So she comes in and she's like, no, no, it's actually part of my last name. It's what I used to be called as a kid. They would call me like rightfully rifling through the refrigerator before the interview. Rebecca Salad dressing.

10. Yeah, yeah salad dressing. 10. Steve's like, fuck, why didn't I think of that? Yeah. You know, Steve chips or something. Steve chips. It's chips. You came up with chips and I came up with dill pickle of flavor of chips. Hi. These huge knockers are just like these suck. My wife

is working hard to Oh, okay. So we listened to the whole thing. Let's go to some comments. Okay. See, so do they have an active? Like, are they a big show? I Yes, they are syndicated all over the country. They're as big as a show can be. I did find out through looking at Bob and Tom's. I don't think they're as big as a show can be.

I just want to pick a fight here, but I think there's a possibility it could be bigger than free beer at all. It's no you come where nobody can. I'm sorry. No, go ahead. I'm still trying to find these shows all have we're talking about shows that like have not kind of achieved or not going to modernize all right.

This is all very morning radio, but you hear something like the Breakfast Club, right? And you're like, oh, there is you can make that transition, right? Like that feels both very radio and like very relevant to the way it like drives discourse and maybe it's because it's in a big market. But like this feels like the thing about like the analytic cards with too many bumper stickers feels like you're doing like radio radio. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And it also feels like it does seem like, like with,

with something like the breakfast club, they're not doing it. Like I think the thing that makes a lot of these old style is there's two kinds of types of this radio. And one is like, two kind of types of this radio. And one is like, one is guy radio. Well, that's what free beer and hot wings are. That's right. That's, that's just like, they're, they only have one demographic they're going after and it's guys like 18 to 50 something or something.

And like, then you have the like zoo morning zoo, it'll be on a station often time called like kiss FM or something and that is for women and that's like the two kinds of terrestrial radio Yeah that exist and neither one of them are modernized like I was reading about The good it's funny. There's a show called Dave and Jimmy here in Columbus And I I was kind of looking into them a little bit, but there wasn't a lot of like interesting stuff, but the one thing I did find that, that like really showed me kind of like what radio still is, is that instead of doing or where radio, the

state of radio is that like Dave and Jimmy did, did a parody songs for years. Like I, I used to hear their parody songs and I would laugh. They do a song about the news, the people on the news or like, you know, just Columbus shit, this shit that people here would know. And, uh, I got to look it in and they have stopped making parody songs and they've instead started doing AI there. They're like, the bit is that they're having AI make parody songs. And then people can shit on them or like them. And it's like, that's just a guy that doesn't want to write

parody songs. Nothing because there's no talent involved, but it does maybe drive a little bit more discourse because people can call in and say, this sucks and this guy doesn't have any currency in it. You know what I mean? I didn't do anything. I just said the word. It's like a social experiment.

It's kind of like a cool social experiment. It's just like, oh, like how do, it's like I'm doing a kind of a cool thing where it's like, how do people react if I don't do any work and don't put anything into the stuff that I'm doing? And it's like, yeah, it's doing. It's a little better for me. I have some more free time to do stuff.

But on the other hand, you also get to see, how do the human condition react to something like that? Yeah. It feels like AI is made for this, where it's like, okay, I have to go on the radio for three hours, five days a week, and I need something to talk about and ask the listeners about. So I'm just going to make a robot shit

out some shit. And then I'm going to make them talk about that instead of like, right, doing something that is like even even a parody sign, I wouldn't call it like the most vulnerable form of art. Something vulnerable being like, I think this is funny. I'm going to put on the radio and then people are going to call in and be like, that ruled or like, not your best work, bro. Yeah. Yeah. You got to deal with that. Totally. You're like putting yourself out there. I think that you're absolutely right. It's so right for AI because before AI came along,

they were using the best version of that that they could, which is prep burger services, which is just one individual creates something and puts it into the sort of public sphere, and then they all use it. And just like, you know, same thing. They're not willing to come up with something on their own, or they can't come up with enough stuff on their own. So, yeah, of course they're going to embrace AI.

I fucking hate. Hate it. I hate it. Becoming so much. Yeah, it's definitely becoming like their way, but they're still using prep services. I do have a very obvious prep burger bit that we can get to here in a minute. I just want to read some of these comments on this fun bags thing or fat bags. Mike says I enjoy fat bags, low carb bags, zero

calorie bags and family size. But I'm not sure I get the joke. I don't either really. He likes all different types of titties. No, I get that I guess but like low calorie what smaller ones he's saying because I don't know that you want to refer to them as low calorie just sort of makes low carb. Oh, low calorie. Zero calorie. Just your carb actually makes less carb. Oh, low carb. Zero calorie just feels like- Low carb actually makes less sense.

Yeah, less sense. And zero calories just kind of, I don't know what that would look like in a breast. I would think that you'd want to have, there'd be, you know, fat is in the breast. I don't know how it works. I'm not, but it just, to me, it doesn't, I don't want to hear, I don't want zero calorie breasts. And then Andy replies and goes, I'm more into the snack pack, but I wouldn't turn a meal down.

Well, what that when I don't know either. I think he likes small breasts, but we turn away large breasts. Right. He says that to women like all the time. He's like, I wouldn't like pack. I wouldn't use snack pack. I wouldn't. I just personally wouldn't use snack pack. Sam, none of the things that have been said are anything that I would say. I wouldn't say that.

I'm responding to the original thing. Definitely. But I would I would especially not say snack pack. Austin says, I don't think any man or woman has ever looked at a pair of fat bags and gotten upset. I think we should rename them to mood improvement bags. Ah, it's a bit clunky. It's just as far as saying it, like mood.

I don't even know if that's true. Does everyone love, I mean, I like them, personally. I've listened, I like titties. I can't say I don't. Well, people would call me out on that if I said that. Yeah, of course. You're on the record as being obsessed with how you a flip flopper. Oh, yeah. You would lose votes. Kit says, yeah, it's all fun and games until somebody gets two black eyes

just looking at a pair of triple H size man gobblers. What this is this feels OK. So this feels very, very 90s in like and feels frozen in amber like they in 1993. They took the the Jurassic Park mosquito out of amber and then they put this bit into the same amber because it's like that feels so 90s of just calling boobs like hubba hubba machines or whatever.

Yeah, yeah, the the man gobblers like I don't know man gobblers is again I guess like they're so big that they swallow you up in them but again like man gobblers it just you know gobbling is absolutely sucking it suck out one everyone is chewing it's more chewing nobody if you're gobbling is absolutely sucking it. Suck it. What everyone doing? More chewing. No, but if you're gobbling, if you're like a cock gobbler or whatever, you're you're gobbling the car. And we all know that you can't call them a man gobbler referring to the press. It's not a good it sounds too much like goblin as well.

I just I don't I don't like it as a description. But yeah, also, I just they're also they're always going to be kind of soft too. So I don't know how you're going to get a black eye from them. From man gobblers? Yeah. They would have to strike you with such force. Yeah. You would need more torque than anyone would want to judge. I would think it would hurt because you've got all the bones and stuff in your face.

It would be probably painful on the nipple and the, and the area, the breast of the, of the person as well. I told you, we get some prep burger stuff in here. Uh, our, our buddy, John Gabras told us that he used to do this and it's very obvious that this is not real and at least the Fred show from Chicago put some he puts a little bit of like he tries to get it realistic. So here we go. Hello. Hi, is this Chloe? Yes. Hi Chloe. Good morning. My name is Fred. I'm calling from the Fred show the morning radio show and I do have to tell you that we are on the radio right now. And I would need your permission to continue with the calls. Okay, if we chat for just a second, you can hang up anytime.

Oh, sure. Yeah. So what we learned, Josh, I can sing that line in front of the mirror for like 45 minutes before. So one of the things we've learned, Josh, and to the listeners out there that maybe aren't on the patron, haven't heard like shocktober and stuff is John Gabris used to do this for part of his job. They get a hold of improv groups. And then you are a radio caller.

Oh, interesting. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You call in and it'll be two people. And oftentimes it's somebody cheating on somebody or some dating situation that is off. This is dating situation that I saw, but it's very obvious that everybody doing this is scripted. And it's wild. So here we go.

Thank you very much. We're calling on behalf of a guy who reached out to us. His name is Patrick. I guess you guys matched on one of the apps and maybe you guys were messaging for a while. Do you remember this guy? Oh, yeah. I don't know if I wanna talk about that on the radio.

You don't want to talk. Come on. We got to just sing some friends here. This sounds like a story. Well, I'll explain to you that Patrick reached out to us. Time for some exposition. Yeah, time to set this bit up proper now. And I love that they kind of have written in the bit,

like she's like, I don't want to talk about on the radio, but they don't really have like a sort of a good, oh, come on. You know, that's kind of like the thing that they have to, you know, there's no reason for her to be drawn out by this. Nobody even tried to talk her into it. It was just, Oh, come on. And let me tell you this too. I have another of these and they start out with the It was just, oh, come on. And let me tell you this too. I have another of these and they start out with the girl being like, oh, I don't want to talk about this.

It's almost like porn coded, right? Of like the audience wants the, the, in this flavor of it, the audience wants the person to be a little reluctant, right? And then they want to be like coaxed into it. Yeah, it's true. It makes it seem real to people who might think this stuff like I've never. It's like a very I've never done this before. Like, is this going to be OK? Yeah, yeah. On the radio, I'm right out in front of everyone like this. I feel kind of exposed right now.

And I come on. Yeah. You can even say that just your first name. Like nobody would know who you are. I get first name and voice speaking. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But the reality of it is, I guess you would just somebody calls you on since you're on the radio, this guy you matched with and you had this like bad interaction with called us and they want to talk about it.

You just hang up. Everybody's got to hang up the phone. Yeah, you hang up the phone immediately. You send a message to that guy. What the fuck are you doing? Leave me alone, please. This is crazy. I don't want to be on the radio.

You know, when I was when I was young and I would be listening to the radio before school or whatever on the on the drive in, there were prank calls were such a big part of it. And they were so mean. Like the pranks were just like people to you know, if they weren't fake that it was unbelievable that people would do this because it was every single one would be like, hey, is this is this Karen? She'd be like, uh-huh.

Who's this? You're like, I'm calling from the police. Your son's been decapitated. Well, the thing about that is Josh. It's illegal to do prank calls on the radio. Depends on the year. It depends on the year. Yeah, it depends on when there was a year where they changed the rules and then everyone after that is fake. And it's like, was a pretty early. It's a long time ago that in the eighties, no, nineties, nineties, sometime in the nineties. But they bought you can actually kind of track it

weirdly to when Howard Stern's prank calls were all to like public access shows or to like other entertainment forms that are interesting. Asking for phone calls. Yeah, it wasn't like the premise of like you need to get a release before you start talking to them. Yeah, sometimes you can just call somebody on their cell phone too and then put it up on your YouTube channel and nobody really cares that much.

They might even throw you in jail for that. But I don't know, whatever. It might be hard for you to get over. And I'm not even, I like a good specific prank. Like Chris, your work is so- I appreciate it. I'm not, yeah, no, I think that it's, pranks are mean and so if you're not targeting people I appreciate it. I'm not. Yeah, no, I think that it's incredible.

Pranks are mean. And so if you're not targeting people that you don't like, then it's weird to do them. And yeah, I hate the idea of the pranks against the public and stuff and people who are like... And it was such a prominent form. I mean, maybe it still is, but it was so... It's on YouTube now. It's like those YouTube pranks that are going out. Like it's a different form of it now. They it still is, but it was so on YouTube now. It's like those YouTube prank. Oh, yeah. You know, like it's a different form of another going out and it's even worse. You know, they're like doing these horrible things to people who are just

walking around in everyday life. That's why the best it's like, Hey, what do you do? And I'm like, Oh, I'm a YouTube prank show. Like, if I say that to people, people like, Oh, so you're like one of the worst guys in the whole world. And yeah, which is not true. I'm you, you know, one of those guys that crouches behind an old lady and then a big other guy pushes her into a lake or something. No, I don't do the lake prank anymore. No. Yeah, it's it's funny. I called Herschel Walker recently, for example, you know, to find out if he knows

how to say the president's name. I called him on his cell phone and he got mad at me. That's kind of prank. I do. It's all right. I mean, like you pick and you pick targets that are like public hypocrites or assholes. And you're not just like someone calls your show and is like, can you call my wife and say that her husband's been cheating on her with a dog? Well, that's the war of the roses is the famous one of the roses.

This is that. This is what this is basically. This is close. This is modern war of the roses. Okay. Yeah, because they don't really deliver flowers anymore. It used to be Josh, where the roses like, hey, you have these flower delivery. Who do you want to give it to?

Then the guy would be like, I want to give it to my mistress. And then and then they'd be like, excuse me. The wife would be on the line, which is just like it's the it's the dumbest idea. And the fact that it gained so much traction that it became like the most famous radio bit in the history of radio is so fucking like telling of how bad and like how low the bar is for content on morning radio, you know, I mean, I'll say that in 2016, I went to the inauguration, we went to the inauguration on the street. We didn't talk to one fucking person because the only thing I kept saying is I don't want to bring anybody into my world. You know what I mean?

Like, I don't want to bring somebody into my world and then make them live in my world for a few minutes and a goof on them or whatever. Sure. For they don't know what the fuck they're talking. They don't know what I'm talking about. You know what I mean? They don't know who I am. So we bought all this equipment and then just walked around with it and didn't use it at all. And it happened a few times where it's like, we'll talk to some people on the street. I just can't do it. I would never, I, I, I remember a bit. Well, remember I listened to it a lot when,

when they had Gilbert Godfrey do that in a lot when when they had Gilbert Godfrey do that in New York. Howard Stern had Gilbert Godfrey dress as Dracula and do his Dracula voice and then ask people stuff on the street. And the stuff he was saying was fucking insane because he's Gilbert Godfrey. Yeah, it was the 90s. And I just that and I was like, uh, man, I don't know. I, that's not something I think I have in me. You can't even really talk to people without a camp. Like you don't really interact with people that well, even when there's no camera on. He had matched with you and he thought, uh, you said you were texting or talking or something and things were going really well and then you've now you know disappeared before there could be a date and he kind of

wants to know why so he's asking us to find out so you can say whatever you want. Well thank you for setting that up. Okay so yeah now I'll go I'll say it on the radio now but my intimate details of my like you know yeah yeah okay now that you set it up like that. And also a guy that was messaging back and forth with a woman, she doesn't want to meet up. And he's like, I know where to go for restitution. First of all, we don't need restitution.

But like I know where I'll go to get to the bottom of this. The radio, the French. Oh, it's like, honestly, I don't know. I when I used to be on the dating apps, I'm in a relationship, obviously. But when I was on the dating apps, I also am in a relationship. Yeah. Oh, congratulations. They've been married for a long time. Yeah. That's so you never even use that.

You never even use the apps, right? Josh, did you heard you? But you've been for a long time, both of you. So I do have experience on the apps. And I know that anytime a girl would sort of stop talking to me, I would contact my local radio show. You find her information first off.

I mean, I know that you guys have a law enforcement like database. You get to call up Judge Fred, who's the judge, jury and executioner of yes. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, come on, talking about your love life on the radio. Kind of odd. Excuse me. Why? I agree with I agree with that. It is. It would be odd to do that. She's right. The camera's on a woman's face and she's doing like the... A light Jim Halperding is the expression. I mean, I'm not going to force you, but we'd love to know what it is that you're unwilling to

share with us. And he gave us permission. I mean, he asked us to do this. You actually don't need the permission of a guy. A woman wants to talk to, to call that woman and make her divulge it with details on the radio. That's like, I think the conceit must be here that the stuff's going to be because he already knows what it's going to be. And it's a pre-written bid is that this stuff is embarrassing about him. Right. Right. Right.. Now he's trying to say, but it doesn't make any sense to us because we don't know any of the information, but because it's a pre written bit and they know the information, they're sort of like addressing it that way. Yep. Right. Like it's okay for

you to say this thing about him. He said, do your worst essentially. Yeah. But it's honestly, it comes off different. It comes off as he gave us permission to call you and he gave you permission to talk about it. Like it comes off like they're saying that rather than he gave us permission. You're fine. You can say whatever it was that happened. So wait till you hear what happened. It didn't sound like everything was great. So what happened? Yeah can say whatever it was that happened. So wait till you hear what happened and sound like everything was great. So what happened? Yeah, no, it was, uh, well, I mean,

it was fine at first. Um, you know, we met Patrick on the apps and honestly I was, I was super excited cause I mean, he's hot. Um, but and things got flirty and we switched over to text and I I did send him You know a couple of kind of Sexy selfies, but you know nothing looking too crazy. Okay. All right All right. That's fine. You know, hey Thank you for your permission. The radio.

We're kind of building up here to meeting in person. You know, the conversation got a little bit, I guess, flirty plus we'll call it elevated flirtation. Yeah. PG 13. All right. Okay. But then. All right. Okay. But then- Pull on up. Pull on up.

Yeah, not pull on up. Can you pause it for a second? Can you pause it? Ma'am, I just want to appreciate you telling this story in such a way that is really conducive for the radio and allowing these sort of pauses for laughs and riffs. And I love the way that you're telling it in a way that person definitely would explain something if they were asked this question, they wouldn't just tell you the thing right away. They would break it down in this radio friendly way.

Wait for half the exposition to be given by the radio. Yes, of course. Yeah. I sort of work in tandem with the person that they have never met before to deliver a really sort of solid, um, linear story. Yeah. Yes. Yes.

And you can tell that they told her that she needs to be reluctant because that makes the bit seem better. And she's just, I mean, I gotta say not good at coming off reluctant. Yeah. My opinion for it to be believable. I think she needs to be a little bit more reluctant to share. And there needs to be some in they need to entice there needs to be some reason why she would be willing

to do it. But I don't know. Even if them them going like, you know, he he's just been single for a while and feels like he keeps striking out on the apps. And you would really be doing a great kindness to him. Yeah. To say whatever it is, even if it's bad, he's ready to hear it. He wants to know the reason why so that he can prove we're doing a dating thing with it. Yeah, exactly. That gives an explanation. That is well written, Josh. Do you want me to put you in contact with this prep burger service? I would imagine that they, I don't know, they would think they would pay well for a very good idea if they're going to use it a million times.

But I know something's telling me. I bet it doesn't. Because the ideas are usually so they have to be, they can't be that spectacular because you have to be able to do like a hundred a year. Right. Yes. You're just like, Oh, I called another guy who, um, he said he was unmatching because he's an astronaut that's going to live on the moon or whatever. It's like another one of those. Yeah. Well, that's what Gabriel said.

He would sit, he would wake up in the morning and he would just do different radio shows all day as like wild guy. Yeah. They just sit there and like, he would do West Coast shows. He's in New York at the time. He would do West Coast shows and we just across the country. He would do like a bit tailored like where he's like, Oh yeah, I want to give it to my mistress. It can't be too good either. That's the key for another reason, because it can't be too good that it goes viral because if it goes viral, right, then someone in the other market will be like, what the fuck they're

doing? They'll realize that it's, you know, I think incredible at this. He's so, so funny and so good on his feet. Oh yeah. He would have been so good. It would be great to try to, if we could, if someone could ever track down like one of his calls you know I'm sure there's something that exists somewhere. Yeah sure yeah. Well let me ask you to send him pictures and videos of me with other men. Typical single guy behavior. So seems as though we got ourselves a single guy. Here we go. And I. So we went from pictures like flirty pictures of ourselves. Like, well, I wasn't texting Patrick, at least not on this side.

But you like that, Chris? So I like that one. I like that one because for a second there there I was like, wait, Fred, are you involved? It was send me pictures of you that are kind of flirty. Okay. Right. And then it transitions to send me material content of you and other men together. Yeah. Why are you saying it like that? Are you not familiar with this concept? You fucking idiot. Yeah. Yeah. The guy, the guy is a horny creep and he's looking for pornographic

material to masturbate to. I look at his face like he's like it's like he's he cannot believe that somebody would ever ask something like that. I mean, it's it's a horribly creepy thing to do, but it's like you surely understand why he's wrong to do. But also, okay, at this point, it's so with him spooling out so much of this information. At this point now, we're like, well, why is he calling her? Exactly. Exactly. No information at all has been divulged by the person on the phone.

Fred has been divulging every almost every bit of information. Hmm. Yeah. And then right. Yeah. I was in I mean, I was in shock. I didn't like was even I mean, I don't know what can you do once this? I don't know. Not everybody. Not everybody has that. But yeah, that's not a strong voice. That guy doesn't have a strong voice. He was like a producer or something like that. He was like, yeah. And he has like a wispy kind of voice and it didn't even really get in there.

I think that's he's a Steve, though. He's not a cheese, a free beer or a hot wing. That's weak. Go out and make it like what? I mean, yeah, I don't. Well, let me bring Patrick. I don't. I mean, I did. Yeah. what? Yeah, I don't Bring Patrick I don't I mean what if I did yeah, well, no I gotta I know this is so good. It's not going the way he wants. No, I got his hand up

He's like, nope. Nope. He's kind of doing it. Shut up. This is not your line my tempo Yeah, you are getting you're getting Fred Man out of his tempo. He talks in the... It threw me off, so it's still thinking about it. It just... Well, let me call you up. Patrick is here. I gotta mention that Patrick is here,

and I'm gonna bring him into the call. I'm very forgetful. Patrick, that is a... I have to bring him on. Laz thrown together, but you know, I didn't mention it. I'm forgetful. Like, oh, come on, man. Give some. Yeah, I'm trying to figure out like. I'm trying to figure out what they think the juice is coming from here, right? Because it's like they call this lady about a thing that is objectively not a thing. Right. Of like matched with a guy didn't want to meet up.

That's like totally OK. Happens a thousand times to people on apps all the all the time. Then they're like, and this guy was a creep. And you're like, and she's like, yeah, I guess he did this kind of thing that shocked me. And like, now we're going to confront you with this guy who was a creep. And it's like, well, why? He's in the wrong. And you knew it when you called her.

And guess what? We've got you guys to all expenses paid tickets. Hawaii, you're going to be going on a vacation with this guy like. Yeah, that's right. He's picking you up at your house. So we've just given him the address. Your address is kind of like it like it really is kind of fucked up. Yeah, if it was real, it was real. And it's definitely not really 100% not. Yeah, you can hear how fake this is.

Of course, if it's real, the Fred show is. Evil, they're wrong. They should they should be allowing this woman clearly did not want to continue to deal with this guy. They're almost like they're, they're aiding this stalking behavior. And they did. He did a thing, right? In this reality, in the Fred zone, Patrick did something that Fred knew about when he made the call. So it wasn't just like, I'm doing a favor for my man, Patrick, who's a sweetie, and he wants to know what went wrong. He's like, this guy was came on way too strong,

which we know because we said it. And now we're going to like put him back in touch with you. And it's like, yeah, why are we rooting for that? Yeah, it's weird. Fred is like the most in the wrong person in this. And I don't think Fred is doing it. Like the tone of it isn't like, I'm doing this fucked up shit. It's like a standard kind of turn the tables phone call.

It's because it's from Prep Burger. It's probably not the, this is probably like, they do it all around the country. They do this name sort of bit, but I hope not because yeah, this is what, and this is a scarier one than war of rote. The road, this, what I would assume is he had a choice of a few different things. And this one had the spicy, the spiciest content that he could get away with. So he went with this.

And I like to think maybe this is just the naive optimist in me that Fred wouldn't do this to real people, right? I think that is not. I think he would do it if it got him ratings. If it could get him into a bigger market. Are you kidding? I don't know anything about red. Fred I was the best.

Oh, he's in Chicago. He's a better slot though. Maybe he wants mornings or he is more Asian. He's mornings. Okay. So he's mornings on the pop station in Chicago. Okay. So this guy's doing well. The Fred show is doing well, but you can always get syndication. You can always like there is bigger. There is New York. New York is still a bigger market than Chicago. So Yorker LA, NewA., New York or L.A. are the two markets that you could go to that are bigger. So I would say, you know, as long as that's on the table for Fred, he would pretty much he'd bury his own family of it.

If it got him, you know, three hours on W.A.B.C. at New York. It's so tough because I want to I know from working in comedy for a long time. I have a lot of friends that are in radio and again podcasting is not that dissimilar that that really like try to be fun and entertaining and like human about it and be like I'm a person. I'm like a voice in your ears every morning for a few hours.

So like let's have a nice time together and then you get people that are doing calls, right? That are just calling like, your father's in jail and I need you to come to jail now, bring all your cash. Yeah, yeah. Well, there's a little major detail that we left out. One thing I guess, if you guys are exchanging pictures, fine. But you wanted pictures of her with other men?

I don't remember asking that. Okay, that is a real that is what I have been affectionately calling a no way. And then where did he get it? If not from you, Patrick, you told him that. Where did you get this guy's doing a no and it's wonderful. Really? We chose the text. Right. Remember, this is in text. This is this is this is in writing. I mean, I'm sure I did this.

Well, he has to act. Fluster, this is a yeah, yeah, yeah, he has to do that though. I get that is that's called what's called acting. Yeah, it's like when you're acting. It's like, oh, okay. If you want it to not be believable, you could do it like, I don't know. But then if you want to be believable, you go, ah, and then that wouldn't be in the acting script for someone to go.

Ah, I mean, it wasn't, he doesn't recall. Yeah. We don't need to see all the text or are you saying you did do it? And now that you're being called out, you don't want to talk about it. Cause that's two different things. I mean, I might've done it, but I don't, I don't really recall anything like serious like that. So Patrick is the reason there's that random chair in the hotel room that faces the bed.

That's for Patrick. Okay, that was written ahead of time, for sure. He talks about the car. So he likes to watch. There's nothing wrong with that. Our friend Tom likes to do that. No, our friend Tom loves to do that. Not Tom who's been a guest, Sex Tom.

And not Sex Tom who owns Tom's Trips, the one who works for Tom's Trips, not the one who owns the Dallas Sex Club either. Well, let's take a look at a couple of Comments on this we got a little riffin. Let's watch a little like I know now. I have a question for you Josh What is have you what was like? What's the wildest like shock jock morning? Zoo style show that you did go on if you could, if you don't mind calling one out by name. We won't rip on it super hard, but just one that was like full, full on. I don't remember the name of the guy, so I don't know if he's still there or not.

And this is a comedy club that I love working at. But the most backfooted I've ever been on morning radio was I was I don't remember it. I think it was before I met my wife, but I had a long term girlfriend at the time and I was in Madison and the radio DJ asked he goes, so when you're out here on the road, when you're touring around, are you like, what do you do after you go to bed after the show? You out there getting a little squish. Oh, fuck.

What? Yeah. Getting a little squashed. Yeah. Oh, fuck. Yeah, that's like he might be a he might be a disciple of the grease man because that the grease man famously had all the names for it and stuff. You got a snarl ins when you're out on the road. And that's what a blow job is a snarl ins. And let's get this out.

I believe a fake comment. I believe that this is not a legitimate person. The very first comment is from Robert and it says, I'm like Patrick. I love seeing my GFs and a couple of my wives doing other men. It's a turn in. It's his turn. He has called turn in. It's his turn in. He goes, call me crazy. That's my reality.

I have stories. We don't have to call you crazy. There's a name for you. It's cuckold. You're a cuckold. Yeah, you're interested. Brian and I unfortunately know so much about this. And it's, yeah, you're interested.

You want your wife to be a hot wife. Hot wife lifestyle. Hot wife lifestyle. And the guys are bulls who have sex with her that's the that's what every single guy in the lifestyle is trying to get to and basically none of them will ever get there except for like eight and the rest of them are Despicable in the label guys you chase around with a frying pan. They're they're just such a absolute cancer on the pineapple lifestyle. But a few of them have elevated themselves to the position of bull.

So it's very common. It's a very common thing. You'll learn if you look into it in the comments, Jennifer replies and goes, you sound like my boyfriend, which is. So he's I believe he is again, he's a cuckold. And he goes, it's also like again in this world in this reality that is false that they've created the people that have the are the most in touch with their desire to

cuckold and be cuckolded have the least vocabulary for discussing it. If only there were a name for this thing that I want and can articulate in perfect detail and have experienced in the past. Yeah. Well, let's take a look here at the radio station that the Fred show was on W XRT. This is in Chicago, I believe. Yeah. Chicago, Illinois.

And we got some reviews. This is from Yelp. This is Yelp. So, yeah, what would cause you to ever do a Yelp review of a radio set? I guess we'll some reviews. This is from Yelp? This is Yelp. So yeah, what would cause you to ever do a Yelp review of a radio set? I guess we'll find out. Kurt says, four stars, Chicago's home for music lovers. I'm not quite sure what XRT stands for,

but they put out the jam. You can look it up, I'm sure. I don't think it stands for anything, it's call letters. It's call letters. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It's a radio thing. They don't have some of them get ones that are like, you know, W, whatever. And it's also a name. But that's just if you're lucky enough to get those, I guess. Right. Yeah.

Right. I also in San Antonio, Texas. Yeah. That's odd. So he's thinking that there's some sort of hidden message in there that he's not quite getting but he's okay With that still four stars I believe this is an extremely fake review because he goes This is mainly a classic rock station and the DJs are professional and knowledgeable about the music They seem to really know their stuff They play some deep tracks that you don't hear on other classic rock stations and have some good commentary.

Since it's classic rock, I guess I don't hear too many new songs. That's the trouble with classic rock. Can you imagine Michael here and Michael Nolan hearing him say that? Since it's classic rock, he goes, I've at least heard of nearly every artist on here. Some of the things they consider classic rock make me feel old. I like the fact that they don't have very many commercials on here, especially compared to other stations. I believe this is somebody at the station has just been, you know, you could just,

if you go home and nobody's, you know, he's like really not tech savvy. He's like, nobody's stopping you, Al, from going home, making an account there and just leaving a review and we can, you know, saying some favorable stuff. Well, like, so five stars? No, Icarus. Yeah, yeah. saying some favorable stuff. Well, like so five stars. No Icarus. Yeah. Have some shame. John says daft punk is two stars daft punk. Really?

WXRT used to be my favorite station, but I can barely stomach the setlist. They have they've sold out to corporate America America with WXRT used to be my favorite station, but I can barely stomach the setlist they have. They've sold out to corporate America, America with a K and are no longer Chicago's finest rock in my opinion. You cannot please everyone. Rip WXRT. Thank goodness for serious satellite radio. So, uh, that's nice.

Uh, Paul says not really a rock station, more like a light FM soft soft music station I do enjoy some of the Saturday morning flashback shows But that has been shortened and they don't even post the playlist anymore How can they be progressive when they don't ever play anything like ministry Marilyn Manson or goats? Good question smart gotta play the big three Marilyn Manson goat Ghost but that is an odd three. This review, that's a 2017 and mr. E says two stars XRT is really turning the crap and listening to it since almost day one have tolerated the changes, but now it's endless rep, repetitious junk. That's radio. That's radio.

That's radio, dude. You're a liar if you say you've been listening for a long time and you're now frustrated with the repetitiveness of the, that's how it's always been. This is odd. How many times a day do we have to hear that Leon Bridges tune, four?

Same with any number of other tunes. The repetitiousness overshadows the little bits of alternative, ref for finest rock between. I get it. Sorry, I get it. He, it's always been repetitive, but he used to like the songs they played all over and over again. Now he doesn't like them.

That's all he's gotten older. Uh, Dan D says, how about playing some rock and roll once in a while? Rory Gallagher, Johnny winter, Alvin Lee, Chuck Berry, the Mavericks, deep purple, Danny Gatton, UFO, Marshall Tucker, you know, feel right. Well, that's nice though. It's like, Hey, I'm not only going to give a couple, I'll give you a wide variety that you can choose from. Just play some of it for God's sake. Well, we, we have a lot more reviews, but I'm not going to read through them because

we're, we're about done and we're going to go ahead and I will have reviews from Yelp for a lot of radio station on guys plus. Yeah, I do have to go as well. It's Chris's fault. It's my fault. I will take full responsibility. Everyone the episode is now ending because I have to go somewhere. So I apologize.

He's going on vacation. Nobody is going to Hawaii. I'm not. I don't. I don't go on vacation. Nobody is going to Hawaii. I'm not. I don't. I don't go on vacation. I have a young baby and I you you go on vacation all the time. Famously, Brian, excuse me. No, I don't. When are you going on your next vacation? Be honest, Mark. OK, I don't believe you. Thank you, John.

No, we're looking at maybe doing like a little Pittsburgh thing. Yeah. When is that? December, it's already probably happened and this has gone out. It happens. It happened. Yes, because we're recording this in Brovember and it's coming out in Manuari. Yeah. Yes. Josh, do you have anything to plug? I have a newsletter called That's Marvelous.

That's joshgondelman.substack.com. I read it every Monday. I go on the road a bunch. I've got a tour date. I'm doing a show at SketchFest in San Francisco on January 25th, joshgondelman.com for all tour dates. And I should soon have a new, I'm like waiting for the news as we record this,

but should have a new stand-up special out soon called Positive Reinforcement. And if you follow me on social media at joshgondelman for the news as we record this, but should have a new standup special out soon called Positive Reinforcement. And if you follow me on social media at Josh Gondelman or the newsletter, you'll I'll I will be yelling my head off about it. Oh, yeah, that's fucking awesome. Is it a crowd work special? Oh, yeah, I just make the crowd insult me for an hour. Yeah, that's too. I'm I'm nowadays. I only reason is because nowadays I'm only watching crowd work. That's right. And I'm only doing it.

I work. But I one crowd work special tonight. Josh is super, super, super funny. So watch is that actually have a special coming out? Yeah. And all Chris is watching is kill Tony. Well, I'm watching a lot of kill Tony, but I got to go now. So don't get started on kill Tony. I can talk about hands. Kim has really gone downhill. He's really phoning in his minutes lately. All right, everyone. Thanks so much.

See you next week. Bye.