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The Day Static was on ROCK 108 (again)
The Rock 108 Morning Show with Brian Marshall · Thu Dec 22, 2022
803 on the Rock what a way morning show Brian Marshall joined by somebody who came home for the first time since COVID and Somebody whose hair once you took off your hat.
I didn't recognize you Dude, it's great to see you static.
Hello.
How's it going Marshall?
How you doing man?
I'm doing great.
It's a wonderful day.
We're getting to 47 the high today and
What the hell has you back here?
Is it family?
It is family.
You know, Thanksgiving, get to come home, eat way too much, you know, and then go to Chicago and have some good old fashioned Thanksgiving raviolis.
Everybody has those, right?
Getting on a radio station you haven't been on before?
Well, I guess the one time for like the 420 music.
Yeah, I've
been been a calling on this radio station before, but to be sitting in Rock 108 Studios is a little, a little different for me.
It's like, it's not.
I'm not gonna quite say going behind enemy lines,
but you know, you've been so far removed
from that.
You might as well be on our side now.
Might as well, might as well.
So
I heard just from the promo, best rock radio station in America.
Congratulations.
I'm here to help bring you down.
I'm excited to find out what you've been doing over the last couple of years.
We'll get into that here in just a few.
Right now it's cold from CrossFit on Rock 108.
I figured Thanksgiving week somebody's returning back home.
I figured I'd invite him to sit down in the chair across from me.
Good morning static.
Good morning, Brian.
How are
you doing?
Doing well.
Do you have any plans for Thanksgiving?
Sitting back at the house.
That's about it.
Sitting back at the house.
Are you at
least going to eat too much?
Probably.
It's actually Hot Take Tuesday.
You let into it.
It's like you're still back in radio or something.
The Hot Take Tuesday today is like, look, did your family ever take you out on the walk after the meal was done?
Take you out on the walk.
Yeah, you had to go walking after the meal.
Let's go walk as a
family.
My family always fell asleep watching football on the couch.
Perfect.
So, no, we didn't go, okay, now we got to go Jazzercise or something.
Yeah.
So for Hot Take Tuesday, I got this up on the Rockaway Facebook page.
No.
I don't want to take a walk after the Thanksgiving meal.
I will enjoy my food coma right here.
Thank
Exactly.
Get the meat sweats and just get it over
Did you guys have any particular dishes that you were down with at the static
household?
Um, what was cool was my grandma, she was Italian.
So we'd always have, uh, Thanksgiving and Christmas raviolis or Italian beef.
So like that I didn't know it was.
Different than other people until I was talking to my friend Doug who is from the band Freak label.
Oh, yeah Lost
Nation as well and Lost Nation.
Yes, and I was like, yeah, I'm gonna go to my grandma's for Thanksgiving has some raviolis and some turkey is like wait wait wait wait wait raviolis You have raviolis for Thanksgiving like yeah, don't you?
That's incredible turns out he's Irish.
So he had some potato dish.
No, of
course
Pa Callahan just walking around with a potato dish.
Oh, yeah,
that's
That's awesome.
And
some sausage and gravy.
Pa Callahan makes a bad sausage and gravy.
So with the ravioli, go with this real quick.
Handmade, everything that she
did.
Handmade.
And it was handmade for a long time then.
She actually got older.
She started to cheat on the noodles.
She made them with wonton wrappers at then.
They were still good.
The meat and the stuffing inside was all still homemade.
But you know, the noodles became a lot of work.
That's incredible.
You've recognized the voice at static who had been somewhere else on the radio dial and you and I became friends.
I would say through all the shows that we went to over the course of the years, but I think it all started back.
It was a, it was an unsigned band show outside of tornadoes.
Okay.
Twist and metal.
That's probably or something like that.
You remember better than I do.
But the fact is, is I just have a shirt.
That's all
did.
Did it say 10 ton halo on it?
I think it does have 10 ton halo on that freak label
some.
probably lost nation as well.
So
I think getting defeat was at that one too.
I mean, all the bands that we were talking about, you happen to come out to that show and I, you know, we were sponsoring that particular, I think it was an unsigned and unleashed live or something like that.
And you came out and I was just like, man, that's cool that he doesn't see across, you know, being working at a different place.
He's like, he's just coming out to support the bands.
And I think that's where our friendship really started.
So
Exactly, man.
Without without music on a radio station, you have
NPR.
So I wanted to hear some stories and kind of find out what you've been doing.
It's shined on right now.
Ask it forward on rock.
That's a new one from Bush, more than machines on Rock108.
Brian Marshall, got my friend Static in here.
Some of you would know him.
He used to be on the radio somewhere else.
Somewhere.
Yeah, I don't remember.
Where was that again?
I don't remember.
You know, whatever works.
So when did you, when did you leave Cedar Rapids?
When did you go out to California?
About 10 years ago.
No kidding?
Yeah.
What brought you out to California?
Um, my brother was out there and then part of it was wanting to get out to coast and, and didn't necessarily happen, but to pursue like stand up and other things a little bit more.
Yeah.
And, uh, you know, some things, I didn't quite feel like I, that.
comedy scene there.
I didn't quite feel like I fit in with that whole the comedy scene as much as I did with the Cedar Rapids comedy scene.
And so it was a little bit different vibe and never quite found my niche or niche.
What
was there?
What kind of comedians were they out there in the Bay Area?
Well, there were some good ones, but a lot of them, you know, you had to worry way too much about being PC.
Oh, really?
Yeah, and especially now.
I don't even want to go on stage at this moment because I'd be canceled before I started.
Um, you know, I'd say something and then we'll be like, no, you can't refer to ladybugs like that.
They're, they're, they're like human bugs or I'm like, how can you define what a ladybug is?
Do you know what a ladybug is?
So you still got it, man.
Was it your chops?
Just doing your bits right here.
I just came off the top of my head.
I was like, oh, I got it.
I hope that's fly.
What was the thing that you missed the most about Eastern Iowa?
Cause you haven't been back here in a while.
Um, well, there's a, there's a few things like I miss like Midwestern food the way it's supposed to be.
Like, um,
say I want some chicken fried steak or country fried steak for breakfast or something
you know here there's like big chunks of sausage in the gravy and lots of sausage fat and stuff they try to do stuff healthy out there it's basically like you get the chunk of chicken fried steak breaded and then there's hardly any sausage in there so it's like you're eating chicken fried paste
you know taking the paste from like
You make flour and water makes paste or something
in like grade school.
So yeah, I don't like paste on my chicken.
Um, I miss, uh, believe it or not, I miss crunch berry day.
I would, uh, ruin everything about crunch berry day for you, but I've been sworn that I can't say it over the air.
So, okay.
Well, but it does.
Have you had, have you experienced a crunch berry day yet?
Not
since I've been back this time, but I've experienced many at Crunchberry days.
Other days, you know.
But your family hasn't yet.
Actually, the last time my wife was here, the first time she was in Iowa, she got to experience a crush.
Crunchberry day.
I was like, you're lucky.
You're here.
The day it smells good.
You didn't hear the day it smells like breakfast
or the, uh, the sewer, uh, when the, uh, this is the sewage treatment plants kicking up from the Southeast side.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's not as good of a day, but I got you.
Well, we've got a static in here.
He'll be hanging out here for the rest of the hour.
KCRG TV, nine first alert weather forecast up for you next 25 and Cedar Rapids.
in Iowa City, 23 Waterloo and Cedar Falls.
And we had made mention of it earlier as in relation to a band, but there's also a town in Iowa with the name lost nation currently at 25 degrees.
Hot take Tuesday on the rock.
What a white morning show.
Got it on the Facebook page now and static.
I'd mentioned this earlier.
No, I don't want to take a walk with a family after the Thanksgiving meal.
I would just like to sit here and have a Thanksgiving coma.
The interesting part is, is P1 nation is kind of, they were like, no, they're not going to fight me on this one.
Clear some space on the floor.
And yes, I'll take a pillow too, says Nick.
And don't even
bother wiping the drool.
You know, just, that's part of Thanksgiving.
If you don't drool on your favorite shirt.
That's
right, man.
You didn't need enough.
Tracy Joe.
Um, people take walks on Thanksgiving.
Food coma football.
Matt's is the same here.
Monica says football is not played on sidewalks.
That is true.
But nowadays, I guess if you really want to be health conscious, you can take your phone with you and watch football and walk and then just pass out in a park somewhere.
Excuse me, sir.
What are you doing here?
I can't believe you still have the poster up on your wall.
I know.
I don't know.
Your big dirt to maniac.
That's what you are.
Honestly, I haven't heard that song since before I left for California.
Slim Biscuit rolling on rock.
What a white, Brian Marshall static in here today.
Next.
No, let's find out what we can do with that.
Maybe.
We'll
see what happens.
No double shots of limp biscuit.
Unless this is my plot to bring you down from the number one radio station in America.
Well, it's not going to be happening with limp biscuit.
We can play behind blue eyes.
Then that might happen.
Yeah.
You agree with me on that.
I'm like, I don't know.
There's something about bands that for like limp biscuit has had some big songs of their own that are original.
Yeah.
But when
bands have songs that are main, like that they're mostly known for as covers.
Yeah.
It's just, I don't know.
It's almost cheapening to that band.
And she like, I don't know.
I'm trying not to make fun of bands like I used to on my old radio station,
but I know you want to say it.
I can see it in your eyes.
Which band?
I'm gonna let you say it.
I'm fine over here.
I'm just going to sit down.
Come on.
Okay.
Five finger pad on the back.
There we go.
I knew
that
was coming.
I knew it was coming.
But yeah, even going, but limb biscuit spark that because well, obviously the first big hit was a cover.
Sure.
Yes.
With faith.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And then they hit the downfall was behind blue eyes.
So cover and cover,
between, why is it been long enough?
Is that why they're back?
And then things are good.
They just go out there and they do their greatest hits.
Why can't Nickelback get that same, the same cred?
I think maybe in a long enough time they might be, but Nickelback got shoved down everybody's throats for so long.
I mean, they had a song called something in your mouth.
Of course they
did.
All right.
Let me get to sports while it's sad.
I have to recover over there.
Rock 108.
Hey you on Rock 108.
Static.
Did it sound like that there was some sort of gong or bell in there or something like that?
I swear I heard something.
But do you remember back in the day when almost each disturb song had a different sound effect on their like vocal sound effect on their first CD?
Yeah.
Like where it's like
Oh, there's one on this
one too.
I was like, each song, you didn't even need to know the name of the song.
You just had to be like, you know, one, the monkey song or something.
Have
you seen the YouTube video?
It's like every disturbed song ever.
I have to show you.
Okay.
I'll have to check that out.
All right.
I'll show you in 30 minutes commercial free coming up.
We've got the news with Beth Maliki and after that, some 10 years and falling in reverse rip tide on rock 108 Russ.
Good morning.
I gotta turn that one on.
How about that morning?
I want to introduce you to somebody.
This is static.
Who used to be on in radio, just not this particular state.
Can I go way back?
Yeah, 12 minutes.
Yeah, you
know, you can multiply that or divide it however you want to.
But yeah, we were boys from back in that minute.
Stan, how many days do you think is the max for staying as a guest in someone's home since you're doing that right now?
Are you talking family?
Are you talking friends?
Anyone.
I don't know.
Let's go with carry the one.
We'll go with four.
Okay.
Russ, what do you think?
Way too many.
You
think?
Yeah, I'm gonna go half that.
Two days you're out.
Static you were right for
he
is carrying the one man.
That's what makes a difference According to his new survey the answer is four days because 49% of people said that that's the cutoff because Hosting messes with your sleep right if you're
hosting
everything.
Yes guests don't sleep well either We feel like we have to go to bed and wake up at the same time as the hosts even though like in your case your jet lagged
Yes, yeah, so you know, you gotta you gotta get used to the time zone changes and stuff like that.
So I don't know Guests and fish I guess they stink after a while
Russ you go to your brother's house.
How long could you stay there?
I've never been more than three days.
Yeah, it's quick, isn't it?
Yeah, cuz you want to get back into your routine.
Yeah, but then aren't you
You're going from your parents' house here in Iowa, you're going out to Illinois, right?
So, well, yeah, so going from my mom's, I actually stay at my brother's the next couple nights and go into Illinois, and then back here, then back home.
A little family couch surfing, huh?
Exactly, you know.
I don't want to stay more than four days.
No,
I got you.
Well, to have you not oversee, you're welcome here on rock 108.
Thank you for joining us to get me out.
I think I have to.
Cause we've got another guest coming in.
I don't know.
I think he'd be good with the other guy.
Oh, you think?
Yeah, I do.
All right.
Make this really fun.
I
think the other guest is used to having a lot of people in the studio too.
Isn't he?
Well, him being a part of a lot of studios.
Stuttering John from the Howard Stern show, he's got a.
comedy show coming up, so we'll find out more about that.
I'm gonna bow out of this because I have to admit, I never listened to Howard.
What?
Never listened to Howard.
Really?
Nope.
I just was not on the Howard train.
I've seen more of Howard on YouTube now that he's posting his little interview segments.
Yeah.
And I think as an interviewer, he's fantastic.
But when he was doing Howard back in the day,
He kind of angered me because every morning show I tried to hire at that time thought they were
I
that.
And they couldn't do Howard.
They were just angry bastards.
And they didn't get that there was a humorous aspect to Howard that offset the anger.
And it was a very specific set of skills that Howard had that everybody tried to duplicate and did nothing but piss me off.
It's the
same thing with like ranting comedy too.
There's a fine line.
Like if you're ranting and are funny, that's one thing.
But if you're ranting and just an
angry.
Right.
You
know, the parallel, and I'm going to go there, is what's his name, the political talk show guy that died recently?
He was the number one Republican.
Oh, Rush Limbaugh.
Rush Limbaugh.
Sorry.
Rush, nobody got the fact that Rush was also very funny, so they tried to duplicate that, but they did it just on the anger, and nobody wanted to hear it.
Rush was also an entertainer, and I'll put
that out there too,
so.
But that's what Howard is as well.
I'm interested to learn more from stuttering John who surprise, surprise is in today.
So static.
Why don't you stick around?
Russ
he's bowing out.
I'll stick around, man.
Well, this has been a fun Rockaway morning show already today.
It has been fly.
Leafs on the way plus seven, Mary three, Queens of the Stone age.
No one knows.
Rock 108 morning, Brian Marshall, along with static as a guest today.
How's it going, Brian?
Good to have you here.
And Russ.
No stuttering John.
Uh, just a quick little story.
So he was supposed to be in tomorrow.
Yeah.
He's in, he was supposed to be in tomorrow.
We're going to do a nine o'clock.
We're going to hang out the entire time.
We're going to promote it today.
Uh, James shows up with stuttering John.
I thought we were running today and which is fine.
So I walk out front and I said, okay, stuttering John, you know, Hey, nice to meet you.
It was excited to meet him.
John goes, can we do this tomorrow?
We'll do that tomorrow.
So this whole thing was just a big tease and publicity buildings done for tomorrow mostly just
for
you Yeah,
yeah, you know what I applaud this because they're now getting two days worth of promotion.
Exactly.
Yeah We're
talking about them
today.
Yeah So and static you were kind of starting to talk to Russ about how we had interacted not only as radio DJs and different stations in the market But when you had stepped over to the lumber yard
That was an interesting time.
And we were doing amateur nights on the second and fourth Fridays of the month, myself and Mike Thomas.
Let's clear that up.
We were holding microphones, not like shutting clothes.
That'd be a different party.
I was doing when Ed was there.
Well, maybe
you and Ed or Bill, but that's funny.
That could be a different
party right there.
So now that you have seen how the sausage is made with a strip club, have you been back to one?
Um, not frequently, but I have been back.
Yes.
Okay.
Is there any tips that you can provide to people about, uh, if they're going to go into this trip club?
Um,
So if you do go, don't be, don't be that guy, you know, don't be no hands.
What's that?
No hands.
So
you should be an amputee
when you go in.
Keep the hands off the girls.
Oh, that.
I thought you saw me make the hand quotes
I know they can't see my hands.
I've done radio, but I'm Italian.
So I talk with my hands.
Jesus.
With all this cancel culture going
on.
So how you'd be more sensitive.
How did you get involved in working at the strip club as one of the DJs?
I knew Gus.
Okay.
And I needed some extra.
I think
you need some ecstasy.
Is that what you're gonna say?
No,
no, I needed some extra money.
Okay.
Just like
anybody who goes to the strip clubs
find employment.
How much did they pay you for a night?
It wasn't actually paid by Lumberyard.
It was paid by the girls at work.
So basically
a bad night, it was a bad night for everybody.
If it was a good night, it was a good night for everybody, you know?
So the more they made, the more you helped them make, the more they'd be willing to tip you out.
So you're basically one of the girls.
In a way, yeah, except for, you know, I just had the sound pretty.
That's
great.
So you and Tray was another one of the DJs that was running.
I knew Tray as well.
So who would pull down more?
You or Tray?
Oh, Tray would definitely make me.
He had the best, he was there the longest.
He had the best chefs and, you know, he had the most experience out of two.
He was definitely, he's definitely a good DJ.
I
got
you.
Yeah, okay.
Uh, Ross, you give us your best intro.
Oh, yes, please.
Oh, God, I can't even remember like the names right now.
But I
heard her name is Desiree Desiree there.
Actually, there wasn't.
I'm sure there was.
All right.
Coming up to the stage next, we got another lovely lady for you coming down.
So like, get on up there.
Get those dollars out.
And yeah, I probably can't say most of the things that I said at the strip club on the air.
So I'll leave it
right there.
Russ, did you ever renounce for a strip club?
Of course I have.
Really?
Yeah.
Which one was yours?
Which one was mine?
Yeah, which strip club did you announce?
The gold club in Baltimore.
Oh, OK.
And would you run a shift or what would you do?
No, I had the, I was part owner of a rock club next door and we shared the same back hallway.
Yeah.
And on nights when their DJ didn't show up, I'd volunteer and say, I'll do it.
And I'd go over and just introduce the girls.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the main stage.
Interesting.
Would you
do an 80-20 front sell?
Desiree!
She gets to a lot of strip clubs.
I'm trying to remember the one that, uh, there was so many that, uh, that we had that came through, but they hated amateur night because amateur night was taking money away from them.
Amateur night was taking money away from him and I'm sorry to burst the bubble a lot of people a lot of them weren't amateurs It was also the audition
to get into the
club right some of them.
What they haven't worked at that club So in essence, they were amateurs to that club.
There
were some that were amateurs,
please There were some that were amateurs.
There's no doubt about that There's some girls I go out got a little liquored up and like I can do this
And then there's some that are like, okay, I want to work at this club, so I'm going to come do this.
Another myth busted.
None of them were working their way through college.
Oh, what?
Why am I learning all of this today?
Sorry to burst your bubble.
What's your segment that was on the way up here, Brain Busters
or something like that?
Yeah,
Brian's
Brain
Buster.
Yeah, these could be answers, like how many strippers are actually working their way through college?
0.25% it sounds like.
That's probably close to right.
Maybe 1%, but you know, a lot of them are trying to support their, their, their babies,
right?
Today's
years trying
to put their child through college, maybe, but 940
new rock on the way for royal bliss called black rhino plus theory of a dead man.
You probably heard this one on the stage, bad girlfriend.
Oh, bless.
That's a name you should know.
Static.
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
Black rhino on rock 108.
So Russ, you said you wanted to bring it up.
You wanted to say where he was from?
Well, I'm just, I said, have you mentioned that he used to work for Care and Aid?
You're like, well, I alluded to the fact he worked for another radio station in the market.
And I'm saying, you could say he worked for Care and Aid.
I mean, James Larson from Care and Aid just brought.
Just starting John here.
Yeah, and they're gonna be done tomorrow.
You didn't have to stutter
to say that.
Was that intentionally stuttering John?
I
was controlling my own stutter.
And then we have Boston Mike.
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make fun of you.
We have Boston Mike from The Fox.
It's like everybody from all the other radio stations really want to be here.
Yeah, that's right.
Just saying.
And
you've claimed that
chair for the last two hours.
That's pretty good.
I have been.
My butt mold is permanently in this
chair
now.
So whoever comes and sits in it, well, you gotta treat.
You
gotta sit down in the static seat.
That's incredible.
I appreciate you being here and taking time out of your family vacation and coming all the way from the West coast to hang out for a little while.
Yeah, man.
It's fun.
And I'll tell you this too.
Like I'm not like blowing smoke or anything like that.
The radio stations out here are like.
They're all, somebody commented about a static trying to make, uh, make rock one way more alt rock
line or something like whoever that was.
All the stations, like there's one classic rock station in the Bay Area.
There's like three or four, like.
And then there's like the hip hop pop station and stuff, but nothing, nothing that I actually really enjoy listening to.
So I find myself listening to sports radio more.
So, well,
now there's a station out there that took over that's all sports betting.
So you can get in on that.
There you go.
There you go.
And we've got today's double shot lunch.
Rush, I'm going to take a look.
Doesn't look like static pick this one out.
I think you just called me rush rush.
Yeah, sorry pretty sure maybe
Shaman's harvest is on here.
That's a Boston bomb.
I cannot say that band's name properly Shaman's harvest.
They're just so bad band from
st.
Louis that Actually, I had their first single dragonfly played It was the first time that they'd ever had their song played at a strip club was at the lumberyard.
Oh, yeah Dragonfly
Played that on a strip club.
Yes.
That just doesn't feel right to me.
I don't know why
the band wanted.
We took them to the strip club.
I said,
I said, Trey, can you put on dragonfly for us?
He's like, sure.
And I was waiting for him to sing along with it.
And those who would do that would sing along with a lot of them
over the mic.
Yeah, he just like starts singing on the mic and then like when I was working to we banter back and forth
and like say things
we can't say on the radio.
So this is 10 years removed and we're calling him out on this, but he would sing to saliva.
Yeah, he would sing to slipknot, wait and bleed.
Yeah.
And what was the other one that he was big on?
Limpisk, it wasn't he?
Because he
kind of.
Trace gonna hate this.
I've been into a strip club in years.
Is metal still the music of choice or have they gone hip
hop?
It's mainly hip hop, but you'll get some that will dance to like rock and metal.
Sometimes the DJ actually has to be like, okay, I need you to dance to this.
Like to break up the monotony.
Right.
Cause you can only listen to a song that talks about an ice cream paint job so many
times
before it's like, Jesus Christ.
Just put it on mute and let them dance,
you know,
but
there's another song with an acronym starts with the word or the letter W. So, you know, there you go.
I still think cherry pie is one of the best strip club songs ever.
That's what you should do for a double shot
lunch.
I have you should do it again.
Leading right into Thanksgiving.
All the best metal strip songs today on the double shot.
Right.
You don't have that now, but we do have ACDC coming up static.
Thanks so much for hanging out.
Thanks for having me.
It's been a blast and 30 minutes commercial free with Lincoln Park to