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Planet Mikey
"robert von" Discussed on Planet Mikey
"News being fake and all that stuff. But when you work at news places, you realize like how dumb a lot of the people who work in those are like all those guys in the people we worked with, they were idiots. Like most of them. Even when I worked at ABC News in Manhattan, like the people I worked with, they weren't that bright. You grow up. I grew up in wooburn. And I used to think like, you know, I didn't know anybody in TV, my parents were from Italy. Like, I used to be like, I don't know anything about TV. I had no idea. But when you get to that level, you expect a certain, you know, the level of excellence. But you don't get it. The cream of the crop. I remember I got an internship at the Boston Herald and I was like, wow, these people are gonna be so smart. And I show up and there was like a chain gang of like the guys that was just like a bunch of angry jerks, normal people. With talents. And then in the newsroom, even at ABC News, they were just idiots. It was just guys from The Bronx who were just dumb. I was so thankful that Eric was there because I was working with those people and expecting them to put together the show that I had to get out there and do it until Eric came along. I was like, when I knew what he got there, at least he totally got it. Right from the beginning and that it's going to be a feeder system. He feed me stuff that say and it's going to make me look better. You know, and make the show better. What happened with you, I don't mean to put you on the spot. That's all right. The stuff I like, I listen to every podcast. The stuff I like. 'cause I don't live in Boston. And I don't get to follow the drama of behind the scenes with the radio, you know, what happened with you at WEEI. Are you allowed to? Sure, I've shit all over all. How did you lose that spot? I mean, because the guy, what's his name, mutt? He's terrible. He sucks. Are you God? How did you lose that spot? I mean, I did it for 11 years. And then kirkman came along. He became a poison pill for the whole radio station. Mut was his little lapdog. His little grundle polisher. And he got to the point where he was convincing what could have my job. He started shitting on me on the radio. You know, I made enemies with minahan. And three weeks after I headed out with minute hand in the hallway, I said something about how you say, you know, you're an asshole, nobody likes you. And he said, I'm pretty sure my kids like me, and I said, give them time. And he hated me for that. And the next day he started shitting on me on the air. And then three weeks later, I was fired. Jesus, 'cause he had a little bit of some ratings in the morning and some power. But that was the end of my run there. You know, it's a small time thing. And I had a good run. I had 11 years there, and much screwed me. And so did admit to him, but that happens in radio. I never understood though, but like when you listen to that what was the shift is what? 7 to 11 something like 6 to ten. There used to be before you, it was Ted sarandis. Yes. Right. Now he was terrible. What? What is it that allows somebody like that longevity in that role? Okay, 'cause he adds nothing to surrender. Mutt adds nothing in that role. Like, what is it that what is the appeal in this market of, I never understood that. I grew up here. Yeah. And I spent 29 years here as a rabid sports fan. I know as much about sports as anybody else. Right. From woburn, I'm not some like, you know, I get it. I worked in sport, I get it. Ted sarandis is terrible or was. I think a lot of times in that slide. They just didn't want to make changes because the person was making a little bit a little enough money that they didn't, it didn't bother them. And back then, it was only one sports station. So the ratings were pretty good for anybody in that slot. That's what I mean though, but you could always do better. You could pay someone less and get a better product. You want to hear great Ted story? Yeah. I did a guest spot on his show when I was working at neck and as a matter of fact. And I went to his show at night and I sat there. And we were talking about something. And he's using his thumb. He's picking his nose. And talking to me, while he's talking to me he's picking his nose with his thumb and rolling them up and putting the boogers on a newspaper that was sitting in front of him. We did a half an hour segment. He must have had 6 boogers on there that he had rolled out of his nose and rolled up. And then I said, well, I want to do with those boogers. So the break happens, they go to a commercial. He picks up the newspaper, walks over to the garbage can, caps it into the garbage can so that he can put the newspaper back down there again. Use it for the next 6 boogers. Whatever. That would show prep. A teddy. Anyway, but you and I were starting in 92, right? And so here's some highlights. I want you to comment on some of these really weird highlights. And there's a lot of them of weird things that happen. Do you remember the drunk midget wrestler from Maine? Who because we brought in all kinds. We had fat karaoke singers. I mean, we brought in anybody, really, literally anybody who would do the show. We brought them in. Do you remember the midget wrestler who was drunk? Who could twist his legs backwards and walk? Walk forwards, but with his feet turned behind him and he was red faced little redneck and was the night we had Tony Atlas on. Do you remember that? I remember Tony Atlas and I was a huge arms. Yeah, I remember Tony Atlas. Yeah, I don't remember the little person. Well, maybe this will refresh your memory. The little midget was about two foot three. We put them up on the desk in front of Tony Atlas, who was our guest, and, you know, Tony Atlas a huge gigantic guns on this guy, nice guy. The guy walks over in front of him and then he starts giving him shit and Tony Atlas is like saying, why don't you sit down and shut up? The guy says, why don't you go back and pick cotton? Oh. Do you remember that? And then they show my face, it's horrified. They show me, I'm like, and I thought Tony Atlas was gonna just squish this guy for the racist comment. He didn't. He just, he shrugged it off. But I'm thinking, you can't say that. This is the 90s, right? But he's walking across the desk. On top of the desk, we get people like that in old. You don't remember them? A barely. And they may have, I may have blacked that one out. I mean, 'cause that was Tony Atlas. Yeah, yeah, that's brutal. And the guy was from Maine. But he said he had the accent. You know, why don't you go pick Antonio just left? He didn't care about it. We had some bad guess. We had The Rock, though. We had The Rock before he was famous. Before he was famous, rocky Malik might have. Robert Vaughn was the man from uncle. Don't talk about the man from uncle. Is this the story? I love this. Great. This was great because I was a huge man from uncle. You were. Larry haber, the camera guy, who sounded like poo bear when you talk. Hello there. I wish I could have a jar of honey. This is exactly how we talk. We had him all set up. You and I set him up to bring out his man from uncle lunchbox and his album for Robert Vaughn to sign. At that time, Robert Vaughn was doing like a big time. Salomon, Mark E Salomon commercials and he was there on behalf of first alert fire detectors. And that's all he wanted to talk about that in this new movie. And all we want to talk about was man from uncle. Ilya. Right. So he comes out first thing he says to us is, now I don't want to talk about the man from Michael. I said, well, you know, in my mind, I'm going, well, it shows planned, it's live. It starts in ten minutes. And guess what? You did show prep. Guess what? So he comes out. First thing I say to him is so how's Elia? He looks at me with this look like, didn't I just tell you not to talk? He says, David McCallum is fine, and he indulged the question. And then here comes Larry haber with his fucking lunchbox. Hi, mister Voight. Can you sign this for me? So we're dying now, 'cause I know Robert von has never going to come back again. He's in town for an autograph show, right? Something like that? Yeah. So he we get up, we leave the interview. And we did the obligatory picture with.
KCRW
"robert von" Discussed on KCRW
"Support comes from center theater group presenting Matthew Borns Romeo and Juliet in virtual performances on the digital stage. This beautifully live captured dance theater production is a contemporary reimagining of Shakespeare's classic story that Broadway world says has moments so stunning You might just forget to breathe. Never before seen in Los Angeles and performed to a score by Prokofiev Streaming February 18 through 21st tickets at center theater Group Data work. Last week, I played two versions of the song won a cover from James Brown and another from music Soul child who will be joining the Angelo for his versus series just connecting some dots there, but Robert von Bobby Hebb Recorded Sonny and 1966, which would go on to become one of the most recorded and performed songs in history, even allowing Bobby had to open for the Beatles, and I just found an interesting fact on this wonderful song that's so positive and bright There's a quote in which he says it was dark when I started working on this song, and the sun was rising, and it was a different color. The sky was purple was purple. And at that moment I didn't realize how special this song would become. I thought that it was good and it would help, but I did not know how much the president had been assassinated. The very next day, my brother got killed. Everybody was feeling rather negative at that time, and I think we all needed a lift. Here it is. Sonny Bobby Hebb morning becomes eclectic. Runnin yesterday My life was filled with rain Sunny you smiled at me.