TD&L Donkey Show Podcast for Wednesday - Memory Lane

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Let me know when you're ready.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
I bet that's a good start.

Speaker 3 (00:07):
This is Tanner, Drew and Laura's Donkey Show, Donkey Show.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Hi kidd us, thank you for checking out Tanner, Drew
and Laura's Donkey Joe podcasto heard online at one of
five nine dot com, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you
listen to podcasts. I'm Tanner Drew's here, Laura's here, Courts here,
Marcus is here, the whole gang's here. Ah. I just
it's so funny to me when I think about it

(00:36):
like that. We get to work with Court because for
years I've known of you for since I was Jesus
a kid, just because if you were on the radio
on KOFO. But when we were in Eugene, we really
wanted to be on KOFO, and we were always shipped
on Court and fat Boy, which is a it was
a great show, but we just we never said that
on the air, well.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
Because there was no This wasn't a viable option over
here where we were at. It was some other jukebox.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yeah, the Brew wasn't. Well, it might have been. It
might have been in its baby mode.

Speaker 5 (01:01):
The River, I think was it the River at the
time there for a little while, but there was like
it was like a classic hits kind of a thing.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
It was smooth jazz for a while.

Speaker 5 (01:08):
It's the jazz thing. Yeah, there was a bunch of
things for a while.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Actually found the imaging for one of five nine smooth
Jazz in the system or somewhere here in the building,
and I've been meaning to play it, so I got
to dig it up because it's one O five nine.
One O five nine was remember that song I'm more
than a bud in a.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
Phoney ratchet or that Superman song The River or whatever.
Used to play that song, and I had a guilty
pleasure about it. So I remember I'd be in town
visiting family and like on this river or whatever the
hell it was called, trying to find enough phone a rat.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
I remember when when I was working for Z one hundred,
this signal one of five nine was just a rotator
of a radio. Every year it changed. It was Star
one O five nine for a while, Danny Bonaducci and
some lady was in the morning.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Smooth jazz. Isn't that usually? Non? I'm like, who put
that on it?

Speaker 5 (02:02):
Well, I mean no, Sometimes there's there's some there's some
smooth jazz stations that actually do really well.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
I think they were thinking they were going to get
that work scene.

Speaker 5 (02:08):
That's the whole idea.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
They like it.

Speaker 5 (02:09):
If you're if you're doing smooth jazz, you're trying to
try to get in some some lobby somewhere.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah, And it's now every every lot I go into,
it's usually K one of three or the Eagle, which
is also our station, and then I flip them to
our one to five, nine to brew. I'll actually do
that sometimes if I'm in Target or Walmart. Oh, sure,
I'll do that.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
I used to do that all the time. I always
do it in rental cars, not necessarily like if I'm
if I'm borrowing a car or something like that.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Make their preset, yeah, or all of the precepts.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Every single one.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
I get offended when I get into a rental car
and ours isn't on the precept on there. The last
car was in it was, but the one before that
it was like on the third page or something really
deep changelous. But I like when I get in a
rental car and like, uh, you know, it's already there.
At one Big John sent me a text message the
other day. I think it was Big John. Somebody send

(02:57):
me a message. Oh it was not. It was my
friend Alley. She sent me a message. She said, I
just picked my car from the shop and they were
clearly listening to the radio station because they changed her
radio to one of five nine the Brew.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
She's like, normally I don't have it all.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Yeah, I'll listen to you, but these greasy people.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
But it's always fun when you're in an uber too
and they've got it all right.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
It's weird like music. It's happened once when like I
was in an uber and then like a commercial, like
a Comcast commercial came on. I never people don't never
say anything. They never make the two. But it's weird
for me.

Speaker 5 (03:29):
I've had that same situation where I just I just
kind of braced myself way. But it never happens. Nobody
ever says that.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
The best part was when we were doing the Donkey
Show in Eugene and we'd go on vacation or just
take the day off whatever, and we'd run a best
of just like we would hear. I'd be at a
stop like because the show down there, the smaller city,
the show down there, like look and everyone had it on.
At one point. I was at a stoplight one day
during the summer and everyone had their windows down and
someone had the show cranked up, and I looked over
and they just were laughing their asses. And it felt

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so good because they had no idea that I was
sitting there looking at him and and uh. And then
he looked at me and gave me the finger for
looking at him.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
Weird, bro, Why don't you mind your own business?

Speaker 1 (04:06):
But it was It's cool to see that happen. I love.

Speaker 4 (04:08):
One thing I loved about those old afternoon days is
there's a vibe about. And there's great things about doing
mornings too, but there's a vibe about when people turn
the show on at two or three or even four
o'clock and they can smell the end of the work day.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Like there was a vibe laugh on the way home.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
Yeah, and I mean we and we we were partying,
like we had a fridge full of beer, we had liquor,
we had guess we were I mean it was bud.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Light was a sponsor of the show, so the whole
room was bud Light.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (04:36):
Yeah, No, afternoons, you definitely get people calling in who
were already faded. They started partying at noon.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
And the characters make themselves. So yeah, My point was
is that it's funny to me to know that, like
our shows have kind of merged, because Court's with us
every day now. He's the program director for the radio station.
He got his he's got his come up ins finally.
Mm hm No, that's that's bad. Come up ins are bad.

Speaker 5 (04:57):
You're right. Oh no, I got no, I got my
cump for stupid job.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yeah, you got an upgrade, That's what I meant. And
you know push in and yeah, yeah, push ups. You
know the push up. Yeah, you went up up. I
don't know that has painted.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
But his job titled it's his email signature is much
more impressive.

Speaker 5 (05:15):
Exactly, I got a new email signature.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
It's cool to me to think that, like our shows,
you know, just kind of came together, like the Power Rangers.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Yeah it is. I mean, this industry is just so
small and it's getting small is.

Speaker 5 (05:28):
The word you're looking for.

Speaker 4 (05:29):
It is weird though, because it's like two different worlds
because you know, forever we were on in Eugene and
it was like we were in a fish bowl and
nobody we felt like nobody once you got to Portland
could even hear us. But that's so far in the
rear view mirror now that it's almost I've almost known
you personally for ten years.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
That's insane.

Speaker 4 (05:46):
Yeah, I mean we're a couple of years away from
I moved here ten years ago in November.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
We're old. We're all old. Well, we're also cockroaches, and
it's hard to we we seem to, we do seem
to be able to vibe. Like Drew and I have
survived in Marcus. You know, are you still there? Is
he still there?

Speaker 5 (06:05):
I'm still here, but in radio terms, I'm dead. So
don't forget you.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
But you have a podcast and that's it. Yeah, Well
you're the and people ask about all the time, and
you remember, Jimmy, I'm still a hero. But it is like, yeah,
we uh. I remember when Drew and I were in Eugene,
we must have had a dozen program directors or half
a dozen, so I don't know how many. Yeah, and
everyone came in thought their ship didn't stink and talk
shit about the last guy. Then they would get fired

(06:29):
and the same thing would happen again. And I just
got used to just smiling and nodding, thinking to myself, TikTok.

Speaker 4 (06:35):
Motherfucker, this too shall pass. Yeah whatever, But you're like
a rash court. You just don't go away.

Speaker 5 (06:40):
Well, yeah, they'll they'll fire me, and then they'll they'll
bring me back because they fired everybody else. We're like,
oh crap, we should get that other guy back.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
How many times has a company fired you and rehired you?
Because I feel like that's happened a lot.

Speaker 5 (06:53):
Twice, I guess because I got let go from Kufo.
I went from Kufo to Beat, which is like a
chick rock station. I remember that that station folded and
they're like, okay, you have to go away. They fired
me for that, and then eventually they brought me back
and put me back on Kufo. So that was the
first time that happened. The second time it was with.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
Those with us. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it happened. Sometimes they
realized it made a mistake and you deserve better. Or
sometimes they've got nothing else and they have to go.

Speaker 5 (07:18):
No, that's true, that's one. What it was is like
we could get somebody else and it cost a lot more,
or we could get this guy who will do it
for nothing.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
Honestly, I'm a little nervous because I was always told
even in college, it's like, if you haven't been fired,
you're not doing it right. Yes, and I have not
been fired almost fourteen.

Speaker 4 (07:34):
Years, because you know, I are a goodie two shoes
and no.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
But I feel like there are so many times, like
the first my first well not my first real radio gig,
because I guess that was West Virginia, I prefer to forget.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
About we're talking about Cricket Hopper.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
And Cricket Hopper so far, Sophia Winters was my rock
name and Cricket was my country made.

Speaker 5 (07:59):
Wait Sophia Like yeah, like that, Laura Hall is not
a good enough radio name.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
When I was in college, when I worked at w
QM ME the they were like, they were like, you
have to come up with a fake name.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
And I was like, I don't know, it's good. I
think they changed my name because it sucks. My real
name is terrible.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
Well, but I don't know what my first day, They're like,
pick a radio name, and I was like, I don't know,
Sophia Winters and.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
It's just came out. Yeah, it just it just stuck.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
And then it was like could workshop star radio personality
because everyone's like, wow, it sounds like an adult star
and I'm like, I work at a Christian radio station.
But it's fine. So then so when I moved to
West Virginia, I just kept the name. And then when
I moved to Spokane, Michael Lacrosse, who's our boss now,
he hired me to work in Spokane for a hot

(08:55):
era for a c CHR station that was just doomed
from the.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
Star and it's like you're perfect.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
Yeah, It's like come on over, it's going to be great.
And then you could tell pretty quickly that that was
not going anywhere. So before he moved to LA he
moved me to the classic rock station so that I
wouldn't get the acts. God bless him, and I feel
like if I was going to get fired, that was
going to be the moment. But I was just like saved.

Speaker 5 (09:24):
So were you, Sophia Winters when you went to the
top forty station or And.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
Then when I moved to kkz X and Spokane, that's
when I changed my name to Laura.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
And then he went back to being because.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yeah, because I was like this is I can't.

Speaker 4 (09:37):
I wish we would have given the options of cricket
and Sophia, so we could have tried them all out.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
Sophia cricket.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
Yeah, thus far at Cricket, Sophia, and Laura, we've all
stood the test of time.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yeah, and you got a good last name. Her last
name sounds like a name like Laura Hall, sounds made up,
but it's not. It's the most generic that I wanted
to be, you know, like one like Adam West. You
know how many Adam West's on TV or radio. I
mean it's there's like a thousand Adam West.

Speaker 5 (10:04):
We have one on on the But that's my point,
is it just.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
It sounds good, It's easy to consume, easy to remember.
And yeah, oh it's not the Adam West, but some
fucking guy on the radio amount of West.

Speaker 4 (10:13):
Well I know them kind of No, you don't you
know the name, but just deal with me here. I
am random with a nice name.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
And then maybe when you see that, like I don't
know how like they do ratings differently now, but maybe
someone just sees Adam West circles that and gets a
rating point and even if people don't don't list her,
it's Adam West.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
Yeah, somewhere one of the Adam West. I.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
Yeah, there was a bunch of names I was going
like toying with before I chose Tanner because they wanted to.
They threw out a lot of shitty names, and I
didn't want to have a name forever that they picked.
So I really was like grinding trying to figure out
a name.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
And I like, you could have been stuck with a
name like Cricket.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
Well, Tucker isn't too far off, So that was one
of the ideas of Tucker. I'm so grateful that I
didn't know with Tucker. But then like Dewey was another
name I wanted to go with because I like to
from Scream. I thought it was a cool name, and
I'm glad I didn't do that. And then I said
I like to. I go, oh, you know, I really
love full House and DJ Tanner. You know that'd be

(11:08):
kind of funny DJ on the radio, DJ Tanner, And
they go, how about just you drop the dj R?
But I can spin disc if you want me to
spin them, and yeah, one p D Tommy Austin. Uh,
like for like a week, one of they call me
fu face And every time they talked, they talked to me,
they would bleep it, and I'm like, I'd rather stay
off the air whole career on that.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
Also, I feel like that's just a recipe for disaster,
because you know, one of those times, I mean.

Speaker 4 (11:40):
I can only imagine an upper management goes to that
boss is like, so what was your where was your
headspace when you name them?

Speaker 1 (11:47):
Well, funny, I was like, I'd rather not be on
the radio. That's my name exactly. So so we took
like a month to figure it out, and then once
they figured it out, that was allowed to screw They're
radio waves up. But yeah, I'm glad it was not
like Tanner Winters Tanner Summer, Tanner Summer, Tanner Autumn, Tanner Summer,

(12:13):
Tanner Spring Spring. Sounds okay, yeah, not bad.

Speaker 4 (12:18):
When they tried to change my name, it was actually
a guy who's in upper management in this company now
and he when I met them, they were like, yeah,
come in and hang out on the show. Here are
the two guys that hang out with me.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
Now.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
Uh, this is oh I remember, this is Boner and
this is Cooch. And I was like, you.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
Don't get to pick my name.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
And I'm looking at and I'm.

Speaker 4 (12:39):
Looking at him, and I'm like, oh God, here it
comes and some and it's a stupid name, but by
the grace of God, they went with Drewskie, and.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
So I was like, okay, I'll take it immediately.

Speaker 4 (12:53):
And what's crazy is for at least ten years after that,
that name Drewski was attached to every hand that I had.
So when I would be in a group email with
friends who were gonna go to Vegas or whatever, It's like,
who's this drew.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
Ski guy, I'm the radio goober at what At one point,
wasn't it Drew and then Ski in parentheses? No, I
don't think. I mean they might have written it out that.

Speaker 4 (13:15):
I feel like I saw Drewski was just the name,
kind of like that guy who's now famous with that
name on the internet.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
That's how it was spelled d r e W s K. I. Well,
we came up.

Speaker 5 (13:25):
With long right, the whole p diddy thing.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah, I've heard taught him. I heard that the other day.
He's caught up in the diddy thing where he like
he likes he like body slammed a girl. So hashtag
not that drew Ski exactly. Anyway, I don't know any
other the full details of the legend. But Marcus name,
you know, we always called a Marcus. But then like,
I think, I can't remember which. I think it was
Grand Theft Auto San Andreas. I think you're right, and

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you would walk by people, you walk by people on
the streets or hookers on the street. I remember you'd
walk by a hooker and she goes, man, who's this
bust or ass mark? And I and I think, I
don't know if I was playing with Marcus at the
time or if I just came in the next day
and said it, but.

Speaker 4 (14:04):
They would say that was like one of the key
phrases when he gave someone a bump, yeah, and.

Speaker 1 (14:07):
I go, man, buster ass marks. And then just like
we just started saying it on the air one day
it stuck and it's stuck and then and uh like
we would introduce him like that, mm hmm. And he
lived happily ever after.

Speaker 5 (14:19):
The first time I heard it, I was folded in half.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
I'm not going to lie to you.

Speaker 6 (14:23):
I was like, oh my god, that that sounds like
it's the one, like he really likes it. Drew really
likes It's probably stick And I didn't take more than
about a month to where it like, I don't. People
still will say it to me from time to time
out in public, you know, like the Ups guy. About
a week ago, I got a package and I walked

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outside and it had the little sticky note on it
and it just said Throb it on it, and I
was like, oh, that's cool. And he was just down
the block, and so I walked down and said hi
to him, and he called me buster ass Marcus. I
don't even hear it anymore. I just hear my name,
and it's I think today I got lucky there because
it's kind of fun and it's also still my name.
Like we were probably just inches away from me being

(15:05):
you know, taint or Gooch or something like.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
Bonner and coachs was coming back to the top. We
were running out of things. So yeah, ye that worked out.

Speaker 4 (15:12):
Frosty nuts, which the amount of hair on his nuts,
I doubt they're cold. That's all the hair from his
head is on his nuts.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
That's the joke about it, like you know, calling someone
cold tiny or something little dick.

Speaker 2 (15:26):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yes, Marcus still furry and still a little dictor so
but yeah, that's how we came up with his name
and Court's court.

Speaker 5 (15:34):
Yeah, that's that's my Actually.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
It sounds like a made up name, but it's not my.

Speaker 5 (15:38):
Actually, it's funny.

Speaker 1 (15:39):
My Web isn't your last name.

Speaker 5 (15:41):
No, Web's not my last name because my last name
is harder to pronounce.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
So I don't know your last name. Sounds like choking.
I can't. I couldn't even tell you really go grober,
gobl gobble. So it's so gullible.

Speaker 5 (15:56):
Court Goebel, exactly, yes, And you have to say it
like that's court Goebbel.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
I'm fall right, you're underthing some bullying. It actually doesn't
sound terrible Court Geobel.

Speaker 5 (16:05):
And really I should have just not had a last name,
because when they asked me to come up with a name,
I just blurted out, whatever, the same thing is my
mom's maiden name. I should have just I should have
just done court because there's at the time there was
no other courts. And and yesterday we were my wife
and I were getting starting the process of getting a will,

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and so we were talking to the guy over over
zoom and the guy like, saw my name is, like, hey, uh,
did you live across the street from a guy named
Eric Crosby. I'm like, yeah, I was my best friend
as a kid, and he's like, that's my cousin. And
it was just based on my my first name alone.
He just saw that first name and he's like, oh,
I know exactly who you.

Speaker 4 (16:42):
Are because it's spelled different than like, I'm going to
Court cr c R two.

Speaker 5 (16:46):
Yeah, So I should have just done Court like it
would have just made all the sense of the world.
Are a k just no, just see. Uh. The only
problem I ran to is like just a few years ago,
another court showed up on radio Court Johnson in Portland
and Portland.

Speaker 1 (17:02):
Cease and desist that I.

Speaker 5 (17:05):
Met him once and I wanted to punch him in
the throat he worked for He was on kink for
a while and then I think she suckscis now Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
He took that was your gig.

Speaker 5 (17:15):
Exactly, They picked the wrong one.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
Yeah exactly. Oh I heard about this Court guy. I
bet he's using your credentials. Was Courton Portland. They were
supposed to go to you, but they go to that guy. Exactly,
you're here stuck with us, exactly, Ashbery right now, Well
there it is. That's how all the names came to be.
I gotta comment on that real quick.

Speaker 6 (17:34):
It is funny how like I felt that too with
rival radio stations or with rival shows, where it's like
a hierarchy of the people on the show, and that's
the guy you're mad at. Like I was never mad at,
you know, Like you introduced me to Ikey a long
time ago from Vinnie and Icky Tanner, and.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
I always thought he was a cool guy.

Speaker 6 (17:52):
But like the third Mike, the producer on that show,
is like, I don't know who that guy is, but
I want to fuck hit him.

Speaker 5 (17:58):
I don't know what it was.

Speaker 6 (18:00):
It was levels like that, like you know, there's a
rivalry just built in there, and it's like that about rape, and.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
Well it's not like that as much anymore, Like you know,
we've got we had a direct we do have direct
competitors here in Portland, but we don't shot on him anymore.
And also I kind of like these guys like in reality.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
And that's the whole thing is that I feel like
we've all been in radio for long enough that we've
been through the cycles. So it's like that guy maybe
used to be somebody who worked with you or worked
in the company and your butts. Yeah, so it's like, well,
it's not so fun to shoot on somebody. You're actually
like buds.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
Right, Like Terry and Jeets. They're great dudes. You know.
I've met Jets only a couple of times. I think
at concerts. We've just bumped into each other. He's such
a flipping nice guy and he just got let go,
and I feel bad for him, and it bummed us out.
It bummed us out because it's just another another colleague
in radio getting let go. Fucking sucks.

Speaker 4 (18:51):
The tombstones on the side of the road don't make
anybody feel better.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
I sent him, I sent him a message and I said,
we hate that it happened. I hate seeing good talented
people get let go. Uh, he wrote back. I wanted
to have him on, but he doesn't have any bad
blood towards Terry, and I don't want to like have
him shit on Terry, right, And I don't want to
shop on anybody really, I just I don't know that
he'll do it, just because he's boys with.

Speaker 4 (19:13):
Terry and it's right after well, and also it's but
I'm gonna ask him and see what he says.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
But uh, yeah, it's you know, it sucks, and so
but I just uh I I, for one, I've never
shoted on Terry because he's always been kind to me,
been very nature.

Speaker 4 (19:28):
He invited me to go golfing the last three times
him and I haven't taken him up on it. But
it's hard to be like, yeah, yeah, what someone wants
to golfing.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
He's a super nice guy. Jeets is obviously a super
nice guy. So yeah, we just and that's just like
not fun on radio anymore. Like when I was younger,
I loved it. I love going there and talking shit
about the competitor, and that was kind.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
Of anybody was doing it. It was like fun.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
It was also like encouraged and and I feel like
listeners enjoyed it back then, but I feel like now
it's just tacky and comes off mean.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
Right, yeah, I mean, it's not negativity change in people's lives.

Speaker 4 (20:00):
Before it was like we just want to feel, and
now we felt a ton and we're like, okay, right.

Speaker 5 (20:05):
I never got into that, mostly because you're huge pussies
on our end, but but it's mostly like you're just
encouraging everybody to go listen to the other guy to
see if they're going to say something back. Yeah, because
I know that's exactly what the good like. I know
Marconi used to talk shit about us, Craig and you guys,
Dia boy and and I know all of his listener
as soon as they heard.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
Though, Yeah, that's what I was saying. I'm like, why
bring why even drop the name? You know, I just
pretend they don't exist.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
Another thing, I think the whole idea of it back
in the day was if you were losing, if your
station was losing, you would attack the other guys. You
could claw your way into their listening and then yeah,
you start chipping away at it. Because back in the day,
ratings were different. It was a diary market where it
was more of perception. When did reality is being talked about?

Speaker 2 (20:46):
When did Portland go to p PM, It's.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
Probably it's while we were in Eugene early two thousands,
late two thousands or early two is Eugene two book,
it's diary to Eugene's twook. Yeah, Portland's four yeah, m hmm,
but yeah, I feel like it was late two thousands
or early twenty tens.

Speaker 5 (21:04):
I think it's early twenty tens when we went to
PPM camera exactly.

Speaker 4 (21:08):
And it's also like when it's a you know, a
smaller group of people in the industry. Now, it's kind
of like any trade when you're a veteran of it,
it's like you have something in common with the Terry
and Jeets of the world. And the fact that you
both are you understand things the same way, just not
necessarily the right way, but the same way. So it's
kind of like it's a weird fraternity. Even though you

(21:28):
don't call them, you don't know them, but it is
that that's your it's not your colleague, but it's something
you look at.

Speaker 1 (21:34):
Him and it's like they understand you. You understand that, and
you go through.

Speaker 4 (21:37):
The same stuff day to day, right, and I think
with perspective, Yeah, and.

Speaker 5 (21:42):
I see that.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
I know Terry was upset too. I saw him post
something on his Facebook about it, and he was like,
I didn't see this coming. I didn't know what was happening.

Speaker 4 (21:49):
Because that's the first thing they think is the sabotage.

Speaker 3 (21:52):
Right.

Speaker 5 (21:52):
It's a huge bummer for him because now he has
to like himself from them.

Speaker 1 (21:56):
That's their note, cos I just think he's a solo.
It was him and Jeets. Yeah, man, I don't ever
hear it because we're you know, we're doing our show right, yeah. Yeah,
But like I just that's just you know, being in
here by myself, I could see the depression washing over
me quickly, because that's kind of this was fun about.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
My legally different vibe.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
I'm engaged with people, like you know, with my friends.
I'm doing what I love to do with my friends,
And if I were just in here by myself, I'd
be like what am I? What the fuck is happening?
What am I doing?

Speaker 2 (22:26):
If it's a completely different scenario, because.

Speaker 4 (22:27):
When you're in a conversation in here and the phones
are going and everything's going, and you're you don't think
about it as in like work day. I always hated
being younger and in other jobs and just counting minutes
like what am I? Am I making like nine cents
a minute? Like you start to break it down because
you hate it. Like the right kind of job is
in a group setting where you kind of come out

(22:48):
of it like it was a drug bender or something
and you're like, whoa, yeah, we pulled that off again,
Like that's the fun of it, finding a way through it.

Speaker 1 (22:55):
But why do you think we survived court being in
radio so long? Howhy do you think Drew and I
have managed to Oh, I mean if you say it's
Laura saving you right at the end for three years.

Speaker 5 (23:04):
Yeah, No, No, it's I mean, it's just that there's like,
don't say that. No, it's just that there haven't been
any other options. So I'm sure it's fair. Eventually we'll
find something.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
Exactly, we're the cheap shoes.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
The price is right.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
Like, like the running joke is Metallica is still looking
for a singer because James was like just supposed to
be the fill in guy and he just.

Speaker 4 (23:23):
Yeah, stuck exactly, you're here because you were here exactly.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
Well take it. I'll take that. Then that's how I
pay for my Netflix.

Speaker 4 (23:31):
We're actually actively having meetings about your replacements.

Speaker 6 (23:34):
So no, that makes that quote that Lars orch or
about Lars Riz from James Hetfield so much more gravitational.
When the British reporter asks James Hetfield, is Lars Lwritz
the best drummer in the world, James Hetfield says, Lars
Lorriz isn't the best drummer in Metallica.

Speaker 5 (23:51):
And I didn't know that you would get larger.

Speaker 6 (23:53):
That James Hetfield was just a stand in, Like, you
got to have some balls to say that about one
of the founders of the band if you weren't supposed
to be the guy.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
And you're not wrong, man. I was listening to it.
I don't know if it was a new Metallica song yesterday,
but came on the radio and it was fucking the
drums are so awful.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
Yeah, but I mean that's kind of been the thing
with Metallica always is that Lars.

Speaker 1 (24:12):
The droning of it. It's just like, from what I understand,
he doesn't practice ever. He just plays when he's on stage,
and I think that's terrible because as a drummer, you
got to I mean, he probably like warms up a
little bit and stuff, but I'm talking about like, really, okay,
I can't do this paradidtal I'm gonna figure it out.
I'm not gonna move my from my drums until I
figured out. I guess he doesn't do that.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
Yeah, Well, I mean it doesn't matter. People he makes
bootkou Bucks. Non practicing, you just.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
Think you'd be, you know, practice your craft.

Speaker 5 (24:37):
He's also blazed out of his mind. I interviewed him
once and it was like in his like they had
the drums set up backstage, not that he was using them,
but they were set up, and when I walked in
the room, you could the only thing more powerful than
the scent of weed was the scent of cologne. He

(24:57):
just could doused himself in cologne.

Speaker 1 (24:59):
Will able to you can't smell my.

Speaker 5 (25:01):
Bowl to wave, hit me the cologne and.

Speaker 4 (25:06):
We could take I can't handle brute and bong hits
is a tough combo.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
Yeah, but I don't get it. You know, he's just
one drummer. I'm just like, wow, But I guess he
owns fifty percent of Metallic or like the majority of it.
So and they're a billion dollar brain and that's why
it's like they probably could have replaced him easily, but
he fucking is you know, yeah, owns the label.

Speaker 4 (25:26):
Would play some drummers, not this drummer, because he's figured
that out.

Speaker 1 (25:30):
But it would be I've always thought about what would
Metallica sound like with a with a top with the
tom what's his name, Lou.

Speaker 5 (25:37):
Collind or Danny Kerrey or something.

Speaker 1 (25:39):
Yeah, one of these yeah, exact frotool, you know, one
of these guys who can just they're they're like an
octopus with their limbs. You know, I would like to
hear what it sound like.

Speaker 6 (25:48):
I think Dave Portnoy for is It Mike Sorry the Best? Yeah, yeah,
and and also Avenged Sevenfold. He's played in a few
of those, like Dream Theater, you know, didn't get a
lot of radio plays, kind of a little more niche medal.
But when he played for Avenge Sevenfold, it was like,
this guy is perfect for radio metal. He does really

(26:08):
cool stuff, but not too over the time. It's like simple,
it's simple, just really tight. It's simple, that tight and solid.
Art tries to do that, but it's boring and dumb.
And then he also like I can't remember it was
it Saint Anger when he took over the production of
the drums and he made his snare sound like a
trash can lid.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
It was so bad.

Speaker 6 (26:29):
The first time we played it on the air, I
remember it was we debuted, I think Carl debuted on
the show right before the Donkey Show, and we spent
the whole first hour just ripping it apart. It was
the biggest in the world. I couldn't believe that. I
couldn't believe that song was released that one.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
It was embarrassing. All the drums are distorted.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
I got a question about State Anger because it was
notoriously just so bad on Italica put it out. Has
it built up any cred now? Has it become almost
like a cult classic because everyone was like, oh, it's
so bad, and then ten twenty years later you're like,
you know what, Actually it was pretty good.

Speaker 5 (27:02):
I think people may have liked the song, but they
still complain about the drum that that that single snare
like people just hate problem. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
Yeah, I'm trying to see what songs are on that album.
I'm looking at the track list.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
I don't think some kind of Monster one, No, that's one, wouldn't.

Speaker 5 (27:20):
Yeah, yes, some kind of monster? I think was the
was the hit off quote unquote hit off of that.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
So Anger a song on the album?

Speaker 5 (27:28):
Boy, it may have been, didn't they wasn't that?

Speaker 1 (27:33):
He's here's the track list. Here's the track list for
said Anger. It's Frantic, Send Anger, some kind of Monster,
Dirty Widow, Invisible My World, Shoot Me Again, Sweet Sweet
Amber one live, which is just like the live version
of that Purify.

Speaker 5 (27:47):
Yeah, I don't, yeah, Frantic Frantic also all within My Hands, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
Uh, all within my hands? Is that? That's where they
got the name for their foundation.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
I don't think this is the album I'm talking about
with the drums being distorted. Remember yes is it?

Speaker 5 (28:00):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (28:00):
It is? Yes?

Speaker 5 (28:00):
Anger and fran Frantic were the two okay singles, but
neither one of them did much of anything.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
Well when you just play a trash candlet.

Speaker 6 (28:12):
It's not the first time Lars has made gravitational decisions
for this band as far as the production is concerned.
He removed the baseline from I think the entire album
of Injustice for All on the first release, like he
didn't like it, went in and basically paid somebody to
not be on the album, and that caused a huge
rift in the band if I remember correctly. He's just

(28:32):
kind of a fucking problem. And you don't see drummers
being that dude. They sit back and just take it
whatever it is.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
He's kind of a no, he's kind of a drama
queen too. Have you seen the clip of they're in
the studio talking about an album or a song. A
producer accidentally rolls his chair onto his foot, which he's barefoot,
and I guess it rolls onto his toe and he
acts like a child. Let me play this clip for you.
I think we got it.

Speaker 5 (28:58):
Let me tell you something that we got fixed drum lives.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
Don't fucking ever do that again. Ever.

Speaker 5 (29:04):
Put some shoulder. You shouldn't put your butt under his wheel. Okay,
now can I show you the flaw in the drumming?

Speaker 1 (29:14):
Oh man? They were really quick to shut him out.

Speaker 2 (29:19):
Yeah, like what a what a bummer? Though he rolls
over to tell you that your drums suck and rolls
over your toe. Lars starts bitching and he's like, put
some shoes on, and by the way, are you gonna
let me tell you why your drums suck?

Speaker 1 (29:33):
Don't ever do that again. He didn't do it on purpose.
Don't let me register that so I don't accidentally do
it next time. Suck yourself. It was a mistake, dude,
I'm sorry. Put shoes on.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
Some damn shoes.

Speaker 1 (29:44):
Is the workplace? I'd be so grossed out, But it's Lars,
so he could do what he wants.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
But yeah, whatever, man, why are you walking around barefoot?

Speaker 1 (29:51):
More creative? When I've got my.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
Feet out, I want to be grounded. I hate you
on the ground on my souls.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
I like to band nothing more a lot. Uh Yeah,
when they perform, they like the whole band performs barefoot,
and I want to punch them in the face. They're
fucking like they're so into like look at me, look
at me. When they're on stage, the singer never wears
a shirt or shoes. It's always just jeans, that's it.
And they just look like fucking boners. I just don't
want to see him.

Speaker 5 (30:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (30:16):
I hear the music all day, but pray they get
stuck in a cold venue.

Speaker 1 (30:20):
No, you promise no shirt. What do you do when
your show's in October?

Speaker 2 (30:23):
Rock?

Speaker 1 (30:23):
Those nip knobs? I don't get it.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
It's like an actual boner. It's like I would rather
not see you, just, you know, do your job. I
don't want to look at you, you know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (30:34):
Put on a little bow tie or something.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
Like that, bone tie, a little put Google eyes on
a boner. It'd be kind of funny. No, but there's
a guy does what. It's a guy in Bend. Do
you remember the Google especial. That's where it started.

Speaker 4 (30:50):
I would google my own dick before I do a
stop sign. No, you wouldn't, all right, you called it.

Speaker 1 (30:56):
All right, Marcus, Well, thanks for joining us today. Well,
I guess talk to you again to tomorrow and yeah,
good going down memory lane this morning, bang bong.

Speaker 4 (31:06):
I like to admit every once in a while that
we came at court hard. Oh well on the radio,
not in your room.

Speaker 5 (31:12):
Yeah yeah, I told you guys before we would get
calls from people saying, you know, Donkey show rules, and
we'd say who who? Yeah, seriously, we had no idea
exactly because your single couldn't get up the morning.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
So look, you could hear us in in uh in
parts of Portland, it just came in a little fuzzy,
and because we showed up like in Dead, like k
Fly showed up in Dead last in the ratings in Portland,
because it.

Speaker 4 (31:34):
Would just bleep like a dying heart at the very bottom.
But hey, in Salem, we've always had our Salem peeps and.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
We would pin those people against you. That was the plan.
So anything south of Woodburn, you're dead to that of you.
I just in all honestly though, Like I just saw
them fof up left and right, and it was frustrating
as a fan to watch it happen. I wanted to
be a part of the station. Because I felt like
we could have improved it. Yeah, it probably still be
on there today if it were ut quite.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
For Wow, probably you're probably I state to say it,
but he's probably right.

Speaker 4 (32:06):
But I do, I do take back some of the
things that I said about you, because I do think
you're pretty.

Speaker 1 (32:11):
Say, I don't even remember what we said. I'm sure
whatever it is, I think I just yet. I think
I just remember I called I think I I think
I called you Bland a lot on.

Speaker 4 (32:21):
It was just boring, I think is what we called him,
which is the worst thing you can say to someone
in But I wanted your job.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
You know, it's like we can't say you're doing a
great job. But also like I'm a radio nerd, so
I love you.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
Know.

Speaker 1 (32:32):
I thought I didn't think it was a bad show.
I just wasn't gonna say that on the radio. Sure,
I think you won in the end. You won me over,
you won him over.

Speaker 5 (32:38):
I know we clearly did not win because we got
you won us as people.

Speaker 2 (32:42):
Yeah, but you won because now you're the boss.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
Yeah, you're the head. Now clean up this studio.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
Now you're the fun police.

Speaker 1 (32:51):
No, I'm glad. We're very lucky to have somebody like you.
So that's as nice as I'm going to be. Marcus,
say something nice to Court.

Speaker 2 (32:59):
You know what.

Speaker 6 (33:00):
Court's always been super cool to me. And even though
I was a part of that show too, he obviously
had never heard of me either. But I think you're
a great guy.

Speaker 5 (33:08):
Actually you heard of him, like you were very famous
and portantly.

Speaker 6 (33:13):
No, but you know, I there was a there was
a chance that I was going to come to work
for you guys back over COVID, and Court was instrumental
in that, and I always appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (33:22):
Think you're a great dude.

Speaker 6 (33:23):
And I'm glad that you guys have all found your
way together because still being able to be a part
of it is like one of the favorite parts of
my day Tuesday through Thursday.

Speaker 5 (33:32):
So I just appreciate the whole lot of.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
You as love you.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
When you're too good for us and you don't even
bother to show yesterday.

Speaker 6 (33:39):
No call, no show in the podcast hell man, Yeah,
well I got you know, I got important shit going on,
you guys, come on, deadbeat Dad vibes.

Speaker 5 (33:47):
The reason why we didn't hire you back during COVID.

Speaker 1 (33:49):
Yeah, I can't answer a damn phone, all right, guys,
we love you. I'll see tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (33:57):
You've been listening to Tanner, Drew and Laura's Donkey than
heard daily at one O five nine the brew dot com.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
May God have mercy on all of our souls.