The Cancelled Radio Guys
Chris and Costello - Things we couldn't do or say on the radio...Chris and Costello worked in big market radio together in another life, now they bring you a rather skewed version of what's happening...interviews, attitudes, and reviews all in an interesting and captivating way, somewhat irreverent.
That's what you should expect from an American radio icon (Chris Bailey) and a man who only has one name...and turned his back on Queen and country, Costello (He's from England).
The Cancelled Radio Guys
Bird Flu Man, The Orange Man, and Football
Episode 4 is here, and it’s a wild one! We’re talking about the bird flu making a comeback (should we start hoarding eggs?), the greatest boy bands of all time (and the ones that should’ve stayed in the ‘90s), and of course, football—because what’s a week without some NFL chaos? Oh, and he’s back in the headlines… you know, the Orange Man himself. Tune in for unfiltered banter, bad takes, and the kind of humor that’ll probably get us cancelled again.
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Eggs. You say, yeah, we know a guy at the Brown Egg Society. Right, that's what he is.
Speaker 2:We're going to ask him what came first the picking of the egg?
Speaker 1:Oh damn, there goes my first question. Okay, listen, we've got to call him and we're going to call him on this new fangled thing, so it should work.
Speaker 2:We're calling him on the Christian Costello bird flu hotline.
Speaker 1:Yes, exactly, and here we go.
Speaker 2:Somebody shoot me.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Come on, bird beak let's go Shut up.
Speaker 1:Okay, here we go. This, hopefully, will be Bill Bell Bill Bill Bill Bell.
Speaker 3:Well, damn, bell, bell. Well, damn, welcome to our voicemail system. You have reached the mailbox of one zero zero two at the tone. Please record your message. When you have finished recording, press pound or simply hang up.
Speaker 1:Oh no, Bill Bell. This is Chris and Costello from the original Canceled Radio Guys podcast and we were hoping to get a hold of you. I'm sure you're very busy with everybody trying to get a hold of you now. We tried last week. That's Chris making funny noises in the background. Maybe we'll try you a little later before we hang up. Let's see Shall we do that, Chris.
Speaker 2:I think I've contrasted the bird flu. Yeah, we'll try again.
Speaker 1:All right, well, we'll try you again, bill. Thanks, well, hopefully. Thank you Bye.
Speaker 3:If you are satisfied with your message.
Speaker 1:There you go.
Speaker 3:Well, that was exciting, wasn't it?
Speaker 2:Well, he's laid up with the bird flu man. What do you expect he might?
Speaker 1:be you never know.
Speaker 2:I'm sure he is.
Speaker 1:You know, we tried him last week, and just to refresh your memories because I know everybody was listening to the cancelled radio guys Until today, oh God.
Speaker 2:I can't even dial straight what is that thing Shut up. You haven't even dial straight what is that thing Shut up.
Speaker 1:You haven't even got a thing. And here's the guy who couldn't get an XLR cable to fit. It's too big. This is the first time in the life you've ever said that I'll bet.
Speaker 2:Exactly, that's right.
Speaker 1:Anyway, we did call Bill Bell, and then we got the same answer he wasn't there. So never mind Moving on.
Speaker 2:Get the bird food there. So never mind Moving on, it's okay. We're going to call Kansas City in a second, because I'm sure they got so used to winning the Super Bowl. I'm sure they all expect they're going to three-peat really easy. There's going to be a Mahomes party, a Kelsey and Taylor Swiftie party. They walked off like man. The worst sports in the world. We don't like to lose and we're not used to it. We're going to check the vibe in KC in a little bit though, but I got to tell you I saw someone watch something on the CW the other night. They just brought back all these old radio memories. They did a thing called some boy bands okay yeah which started in the 90s, and they kind of petered out around 2002. Were you still doing radio when the boy bands came out.
Speaker 1:I was in Vegas, yeah.
Speaker 2:It just dominated man. It made me think of the time when I had the New Kids on the Block. I guess they were younger than Backstreet Boys and stuff. I don't think they traveled all over Europe like the Backstreet Boys did and like some of the other bands did. That's where they got their start. By the time they came back home they were pretty monstrous and they had their hits and they just took off from there. But new kids in the block were in town for a concert. I said all right, so I had them on the show. They didn't come in because they were tired.
Speaker 2:It was just a phone-in with each of the guys and I was talking to Donnie Wahlberg at the moment. I just said you know, hey, guys, enjoy this, because in two years from now he's going to be a new kid too. So you just need to really enjoy it, make your money and just have great memories and have a good time. And all I did was piss him off. He goes what do you mean? New kid too? I said, well, look, you're young. It's not going to last forever. That's the next big thing will come around. We're going to be like the Beatles. We're going to be forever.
Speaker 2:I saw him going. He's getting pissed. I went no, you're not. Yeah, we are, he goes. You going to the show tonight? I go no, why would I go to your show? I'm not your audience. Okay, we're sending a lot of young girls your way who you'd rather have anyway are going to the show. You meet me outside the venue tonight and I'll show you how we're going to be around for hours. What are you going to do? Beat the crap out of me. I went oh, no, you come out of the studio then. No, you come to the bus. No, you come to the studio. I thought he was kidding. I don't know what happened. He was not kidding, he wanted to beat the shit out of me.
Speaker 1:Oh, we could have sold tickets for I thought it was funny.
Speaker 2:All of a sudden my phone started flicking like a Christmas tree. So I'm answering the calls coming in live and these guys call and go. Will you pick it on Saturday before you leave? I?
Speaker 1:hope he beats the shit out of you. I'll give you odds on that man. I'll give you 30 to 1.
Speaker 2:It was like it's not just up at the time I'm going to get beat up by a 15-year-old probably.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, jeez. Oh well, only you could piss off the new kids on the block.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm going to see he's not going to remember that, but then again he may, because coming up in June the new kids start a residency here.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's right, they are, aren't?
Speaker 2:they Through a connection. I know one of the other new kids. I'm going to the show, okay, because it's adults now. Right, screaming teenagers are middle-aged, haggie women. I mean beautiful women.
Speaker 1:Yeah, beautiful women, beautiful women screaming, yeah, hold on.
Speaker 2:Anyway, I get to go, steve and June, and go backstage, so I'll mention it down and see if he remembers what happened. I hope he doesn't, because then he may want to beat the shit out of me again. I'm like, oh, come on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, look at my foot. Yeah, you want to beat the shit out of an old cripple? Sure, go ahead.
Speaker 2:Here I am. I'll kick his foot up your ass and see how far I get. I got the right stuff on my left leg. I got the right stuff, baby it's good Baby oh oh, oh Baby.
Speaker 1:Baby.
Speaker 2:They probably had the worst songs of any boy band. I mean, I think Backstreet Boys and 98 Degrees had the best songs and they still play today on some music channels, especially on Soundlight and SiriusXM. I don't hear any new kids' songs they're like, but they tour some music channels, especially on satellite, on SiriusXM. I don't hear any new kids songs, but they tour every summer and they tour with the Backstreet Boys.
Speaker 1:Sometimes it's pure nostalgia is all it is. It's not that they've done anything new.
Speaker 2:Still dancing the same. The songs are there. They've made some other stuff, I don't know. All the groups were so young then and semi-attractive, are now old and fat.
Speaker 1:Unattractive. Well, you know, we all age in different ways, don't we? Yeah, we do as I age.
Speaker 2:I get darker. As you age, you get biggier.
Speaker 1:I get a bigger beak. You know your nose never stops growing and neither do your ears. Did you know that?
Speaker 2:Well, again, when you get older, you know, those ears get bigger and your face drops, and so the ears and nose take on a new, separate life of their own.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what I hear.
Speaker 2:And some people they get monstrous. They're going like I've got to call my plastic surgeon.
Speaker 1:We used to have a friend called Chaz who had the biggest schnoz and he was only 30-something.
Speaker 2:He did. Do you have a picture of him? How big is that thing now?
Speaker 1:Well, I think it takes up part of Dallas, probably so.
Speaker 2:I went to the doctor's office and he was one of the other doctors that was there, not my doctor. For God's sake, I'd never be able to look at him with a straight face, had the biggest nose. His nose was like it was put into a meat grinder. It was all hot, marked and big. I'm just going what the hell happened to him.
Speaker 2:He's not my guy so I don't have a chance to ask him. My God, it's called a strawberry nose. My guys don't have a chance to ask him, but my God, it's called a strawberry nose. It was big, full of tacky scar.
Speaker 1:It was just like Exactly what it's called. In fact, prince even wrote a song about it Strawberry nose. Everyone can see it, strawberry nose.
Speaker 2:It was more like a meat grinder nose man. It was just like it's all chopped up. It's just like man, you're in the field, man, go do something about that. We're going to look at that with patience, I mean we're going to trust you.
Speaker 1:Well, hey, you know what you know, what this, I think, is really interesting. We just had the Super Bowl, right yeah, which was interesting. Did you know that our wonderful commander-in-chief, orange Shit-Gibbon for another name, mr Trump who went there, made a big deal about it, fell asleep during the first half and left halfway?
Speaker 2:Well, you left at halftime just because the whole entourage would get out of there. He waited until the end. Everyone's got to sit there and wait. They can't leave until he leaves first. So he was kind of doing a favor. The game was over at halftime anyway, to be honest.
Speaker 1:The.
Speaker 2:Thing he's going on about. They showed his face on the screen. He was saluting what they were doing.
Speaker 1:That's what they got.
Speaker 2:This huge roar of applause went up. I went okay, well. Roar of applause went up. I went okay, well, and he just loved that. That's why we talk about. When they showed Taylor Swift, they booed the crap out of her because it was really more of a Philly crowd and she's there to support the Chiefs. Of course they're going to boo her. She made a funny claim. She had a good time about it. Travis Kelsey said afterwards he saw what happened. He said my heart went out there. I could tell she was hurt by it. I was crushed for her. I used to protect her, but I couldn't do anything about it. I'm going lighten up. It's just a football thing.
Speaker 3:She's from.
Speaker 2:Pennsylvania, who used to cheer for the Eagles. So she meets, you know, Kelsey Boyd, and now, of course, going to cheer for the Chiefs. That's why they booed him because he switched allegiances, because his boyfriend's a Chief.
Speaker 1:I see, oh, all right, okay, poor thing, otherwise Taylor doesn't get booed. You know that this is true. Well, let's see Taylor.
Speaker 2:Thank you. Thank you, stop on, cue A chump. A normal scenario, he's just so busy dismantling the government he didn't have time for a football game. I was surprised he was there.
Speaker 1:This is a good point. Yeah, he just looked. Okay, well, just destroy it until I come back. Just keep axing everything and everybody.
Speaker 2:Department of Education. We don't need that. We need the kids grew up. They're stupid.
Speaker 1:Here's a point and not that we like to get into politics, but this is kind of, if you're going to say that, but this is kind of, if you're going to say that I'm going to make everything great for everybody, everybody's going to have a good job, everybody's going to have food on the table, everybody's going to afford cable, et cetera, et cetera, except for those that I'm going to fire, I'm sorry, guys, there'll be no Social Security and there'll be no unemployment for you.
Speaker 2:Unemployment's been going down every month. The new job rate's been going up every month. Now do you watch? Next couple of months it's going to start to reverse. I would imagine Unemployment will go up, new jobs will go down. One of the things he ran on an office, if you remember, he said it was the economy stupid. He said you know he's going to fix that. No more high-ag price. He said no, bullshit. They're worse than before they are. He's going to build the economy and he's going to build jobs Bullshit.
Speaker 1:And you know what Bill Bell would have told us? Just that, and it's all because they can't figure out. They just haven't been able to figure out exactly what the shortage is. Is it just eggs? Is it eggs over easy? Is it boiled eggs that are short? I'm worried. Is it an omelette? Is it boiled eggs that are short?
Speaker 2:I'm worried.
Speaker 1:Is it an omelette? Is it omelette eggs it could be or is it those eggs that you get in a carton? Or is it the chicken, the egg whites?
Speaker 2:only I don't know. You want to try them again. I want to talk to the egg white. I want to talk to Mr.
Speaker 1:Birdfoot. All right, let's try them again. Yeah, shall we? This will be fun.
Speaker 2:This is going to be Washington County. I'll make a phone call. There he goes, looking that way. I am looking down for his phone. I am looking down. Oh yeah, look at this way.
Speaker 1:Maybe get that way, here we go, got it right here, ha-ha. So there, right. Okay, now then, mr Bell, mr Bell, mr.
Speaker 2:Birdman.
Speaker 1:Bill Birdflew Birdman Indeed. That would be interesting. That phone ring on your rotary phone there. Let's see, didn't go. Come on, bill.
Speaker 3:Be in, just for us. Welcome to our voicemail system. You have reached the mailbox One At the tone, at the tone.
Speaker 1:We give up because we're not going to leave another message. Should we go over to Kansas City whilst we have all this here?
Speaker 2:Yeah, let's go pick on Kansas City. Real good, because they've been winning. Mahomes is still a great quarterback, so he had a bad game, the worst game ever. They had his number.
Speaker 1:You know they must have done.
Speaker 2:I mean, it's quite phenomenal really if you think about it, of course it happened in the Super Bowl to him, but he's going to come back better and stronger because he's that type of competitor. But I want to get the mood of Kansas City, so we're going to call Joe's Kansas City Pit Barbecue one of the most popular places to get barbecue in Kansas City, the place where Coach Andy Reid goes to get his barbecue.
Speaker 1:Oh he does. Perhaps he'd be there.
Speaker 2:He could be there. It could be the President's out drinking a fifth. I mean, we don't know. It's one thing to lose a game, but it's one thing to get your ass spanked like that Holy crap.
Speaker 1:Yeah, really that is very bad.
Speaker 2:I'm sure Kansas City were getting ready for the big three-peat parade.
Speaker 1:They're going this ain't going to happen?
Speaker 2:What happened to you guys?
Speaker 1:You know what? The same thing happened to the UNLV running Rebels basketball team. They went for a three-peat and didn't get it.
Speaker 2:Tough thing to do, man. Tough thing to do. Who would have thought in the year 2025 it would be so damn difficult to make a phone call?
Speaker 1:Here we go, joe's Barbecue.
Speaker 3:Thank you for calling Joe's Kansas City Barbecue in Kansas City. Press 1 for a team member to take your order.
Speaker 1:Pick one, pick one, all right.
Speaker 3:That was an invalid entry. Pick one, anyone, it's was an invalid entry.
Speaker 1:Pick one, any one.
Speaker 2:It's the big one number on the phone. You kept picking the wrong number. It said pick one.
Speaker 1:I did, I picked one. You said one, so I picked one One. What Number? Number one.
Speaker 2:We'll try one more time. Thank you for spending some time with Chris and Costello, the original cast of Radio Guys. We're sorry, we know this is your last time listening and doing this, so thanks for giving us a shot. We're bleeding in mass numbers now Don't blame it, it's okay. Bye-bye, see you, see you, see you, bye-bye there, enjoyed having you as a listener for the short time we did.
Speaker 1:It was real, but it was good.
Speaker 2:It wasn't real good. Come on.
Speaker 1:Well, I guess Hi how you doing.
Speaker 2:It's Chris and Castello. You're live on our podcast right now. How's everybody in Kansas City?
Speaker 1:Hello, can you hear us?
Speaker 3:Can I help you?
Speaker 1:This is Chris and Cast. We're doing a podcast.
Speaker 2:We're live. We're going to check the vibe of Kansas City. Are you guys doing?
Speaker 1:okay, we just need a quick couple of questions for you. Of course it's going to be in celebration of the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2:I don't suppose you have any. Are you guys doing okay there in Kansas City? Are you okay? Are you depressed?
Speaker 3:I'm sorry You're cutting in and out oh.
Speaker 1:All right, well, I'll try Ask me that again.
Speaker 2:Are you depressed?
Speaker 1:Are you depressed? I have to think about that one. Are you depressed? Do you have much chicken left over after the celebrations? That probably haven't happened.
Speaker 3:I mean, we have chicken.
Speaker 1:I bet you do. You've got a lot left, don't you?
Speaker 3:Are you guys trying to order something?
Speaker 1:No, we're trying to have a little bit of fun on the air. We'd like to, but we're in two different parts of the country. Oh, I think she might have hung up. Did you hang up on us? Of course you did.
Speaker 2:I wouldn't blame her. Well, once you couldn't.
Speaker 1:Oh well, so it goes. Well, I must make an order. Can you order to South Carolina? Can you order to Denver?
Speaker 2:I'm going to take one of these right here. Hang on, I'm going to take one of these.
Speaker 1:Uh-oh, he's taking pills now.
Speaker 2:I'm going to crack this over my head. He has an egg. Ladies and gentlemen, you just got to fit in line with the way things have been going today. I'm just going to crack this son of a bitch over my head Sitting and running in yellow yucky, don't do that.
Speaker 1:You might get it on your new microphone.
Speaker 2:The woman in Kansas City can't hear me, can't hear you too. Well, obviously you don't need to order any barbecue, they're busy. How come she can't hear me? Okay?
Speaker 1:I don't know. It must be your microphone.
Speaker 2:I don't know, it must be your microphone. I don't know. I don't know what the hell is going on.
Speaker 1:I could have turned you up a bit more, perhaps, maybe I don't know.
Speaker 3:Oh well, never mind she wasn't paying attention.
Speaker 1:That's what the thing of it is. She's like sleepy Trump. She's probably eating a belly full of chicken because they've got so much left over. It's just like sleepy Trump.
Speaker 2:It's not chicken, it's a barbecue place. Man, what is barbecue? Old pork, oh, barbecue. Pork, pork, pork, chicken, chicken, chicken, ribs, brisket, brisket, brisket, oh, all right. Okay, do they have chicken? Probably.
Speaker 1:Was. Ladies and gentlemen, it is at this point that you probably give up and hang up. I am, so what wonderful things are we going to do next week?
Speaker 2:I would just like to. Could you play the funeral music? I would just like to put this show to death and apologize for it. I mean, you are a funeral music, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Well, that was an abortion. Anyway, even that didn't work. Oh, kelsey, fix it for us please. Kelsey is our new producer and we're very happy to have her here, because now we know that people listen and that's great.
Speaker 2:She was our producer until today. I think she's going to be fine. She'll probably go.
Speaker 1:oh dear God, no Guys, just do it again, will you?
Speaker 2:She's going how the hell am I going to salvage any damn thing from this disaster? Maybe we should change. It's not my mind. If you can, you are the woman of the year already. I'll name you in February for that title.
Speaker 1:Hey, there you go, it's Chesney month. February is Chesney's month.
Speaker 2:We got to go, so go ahead. Who gets to squeal this week? Oh, bill, the bird flu man of the Wisconsin. He didn't answer the damn phone. Squeal it, beale. Go ahead and squeal. Take that chicken beak right up the kazoo, take it, boop, boop, boop. Take your bird flu, take it right up there.
Speaker 1:We'll see you next week at the canceled radio guys, which we're going to be at this rate.
Speaker 2:I'm joining another show.
Speaker 1:Me too.
