TTR Show 11-2: 🎙️ THIS TOWNE ROCKS – FUN, FOOD & FLASHBACKS! 🐰🎡

Easter memories, County Fair cravings, and a little Hollywood flair with actress Pam Grier spark the conversation on the next fun-filled edition of This Towne Rocks!

Join Curt Towne, Freddie Oca, Mike Cella, and MixMaster J as they reminisce about Easters gone by, swap stories, and talk about their all-time favorite fair foods 

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SPEAKER_01 0:00

And did you know that we missed Foxy Brown, Pam Greer, by this month? Oh! That's how far some weird is. Hey, it's uh Mike Sell along with the uh group, Freddie Oka, Kurt Town, Mixmaster Jay. We got uh Bobby and Hillary sitting in the corner there. Bobby's four-legged, so we don't expect too much response. Cute puppy. Cute puppy. Very cute puppy. And uh this is This Town Rocks. Yay! Believe it or not. Now we we record the show, and so we I I don't want to give away you know secrets, but we record the show ahead of the time that it plays, right? So dang it, man. We're we're actually a day before the concert, so we don't know what happened until after next week on Tuesday when we record again. It was amazing! It was fantastic. Lots and lots of people.

SPEAKER_02 0:48

I predict it'll be great. So I do have something we were talking about, Foxy Brown. Let me let me grab these for the boys. Here. Okay. We get presents, the Easter presents. Each of you get one of these.

SPEAKER_04 1:02

Oh boy.

unknown 1:03

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 1:04

And I want Mike to hang it up in the studio. Oh, it's a uh what it what is the uh look? It's got the logo, a record player?

SPEAKER_01 1:13

Oh man, it should be this problem. Yeah, man. Yeah, and she's not inappropriate. And and and she's playing something on vinyl. Actually, right, you should have put bearded vinyl on the buddy's a crew. I wanted to be a looter professional.

SPEAKER_04 1:29

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_01 1:30

That is tremendous. Pretty dope, pretty dope. Yeah, we may have to make that available.

SPEAKER_04 1:34

Wow. You know what? You know what?

SPEAKER_01 1:35

I bet she's a fan. She is. You need to email her. She was this close to being a fan. She's this close.

SPEAKER_02 1:42

Email her promoter and say, hey, is this going to be okay?

SPEAKER_01 1:44

Now, what size is uh that paper? Like 11 by 18?

SPEAKER_02 1:47

They say it is. Uh I tried to fit it in on my I had a frame and it doesn't the white show, so I don't know if you might have to get it special.

SPEAKER_01 1:54

But just uh for folks listening in, it's a uh it's a black and white edition with a color clay radio logo on it, and it's a uh 11 by 18. Pam Greer, Foxy Brown. She's got the the little pistol going there. She's got a record on the turntable. I mean, this is Foxy. I couldn't have said it better myself.

SPEAKER_02 2:14

I was hoping, I was hoping like I was like, man, I hope Mike's not gonna get mad about this, but I think it's awesome.

SPEAKER_01 2:19

Oh, I think it's great. Okay. We may blow it up and have like a two-footer. John, what do you think?

SPEAKER_00 2:25

Yeah, it's very nice.

SPEAKER_01 2:28

John's changing his decor at home to uh to match the poster. All right.

SPEAKER_05 2:32

This is awesome. Freddy, that is fantastic.

SPEAKER_01 2:34

It's one of the best presents I've gotten in a long time.

SPEAKER_02 2:37

Better than the vanilla ice t-shirt, huh?

SPEAKER_01 2:39

Oh, oh, that's up there. That's up there. That is uh certainly up there. All right, so uh this is the uh tease portion of the program, which is uh supposed to be you know where we let you know what's happening. But since Kurt's already done the concert, which by the way was great, even though we won't see it. Even though we won't see it until uh a couple of days from now. That's all right. Um we thought it was fantastic. So but um we still have uh you know dad for the day a joke, so we're gonna we're gonna do that. Song of the day, you guys will do that. Uh we'll talk a little bit about uh what uh everybody's excited about uh in terms of f fair foods.

SPEAKER_03 3:11

Ooh.

SPEAKER_01 3:11

Fair foods are always the best. Yummy, right? So we'll we'll talk there. We got some folks that uh entered the contest and they they told us what kind of food they liked at the fair. So we'll we'll go over that a little bit. Uh but first, Freddie is who are you trying to text there? I'm not texting. I'm looking up something. He's he's he's test driving a joke, a dad joke, to make sure it's funny.

SPEAKER_02 3:30

I'm multitasking.

SPEAKER_01 3:31

All right, go ahead.

SPEAKER_02 3:31

And uh and I have one too, which I'm very proud of. You want me to start off with the one I think is the best one, or do you want me to work my way up to the best one?

SPEAKER_01 3:37

Work your way up.

SPEAKER_02 3:38

Okay. What do marshmallows hang? I mean, I'm sorry, let me back up. Who do marshmallows hang out with at Easter? They're peeps. All right, I'm working my way up, guys.

SPEAKER_03 3:53

You're awesome.

SPEAKER_02 3:55

Crowd love that one. Only get them once a year. What is the Easter bunny's favorite drink? Favorite drink? I don't know. Hopscotch.

SPEAKER_01 4:08

Okay. Last one.

SPEAKER_02 4:09

No, I have two.

SPEAKER_01 4:11

Like I said, last one.

SPEAKER_02 4:13

I'm right. I'll do the last one. What do you call a line of rabbits hopping backwards? That's a good question. A receding hairline.

SPEAKER_01 4:25

That's all I have, folks. Very good. I don't know. That was that was pretty pretty good groaner. We might uh uh I'm a little hesitant about doing mine, but all right, here it is. Uh what do Easter bunnies helpers get for making a basket? I don't know either. Two points, just like everybody else. Yeah, maybe Mike, you should open. I thought, you know, with the basketball time going on. That's good stuff. All right. So uh fair food coming up. Also, Easter traditions. We'll talk a little bit about that, right? Because Easter's uh coming up uh in a day or two when this uh program airs. It'd be good Friday when this Good Friday is correct. Yeah, so uh we'll uh get to those and more. So we're back and uh we'll do all that for you here on Clay Radio. Stay with us. This town rocks. All right, uh, we are back here and this town rocks. Uh Kurt Town, hey, hey, hey, Freddie Oka, salutations, Nick's Master J. Greetings, four-legged Bobby, hey, hey, puppy puppy and his mom. Hey, uh, thanks for joining us. Uh, this is gonna be an outstanding program. I can tell already, everybody's in a uh good mood and moving forward here today, so that's good. And one of the things we have to do, first of all, is we have to uh salute our buddy Freddie Oka. Fredder. Because it's his birthday.

SPEAKER_03 5:41

Birthday!

SPEAKER_01 5:42

Oh Lord. Right happy birthday.

SPEAKER_04 5:44

And and my baby girl promises birthday.

SPEAKER_01 5:46

Happy birthday, promise. That's right.

SPEAKER_02 5:48

We share the same birthdays, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:50

Very nice. So we do want a little uh little birthday song for Freddie. Do we want to kick in? Yes, of course. All right, well, let's go. Three, two, one. Happy birthday to you.

SPEAKER_00 6:03

Happy birthday to you.

SPEAKER_03 6:06

Happy birthday, dear Freddy.

SPEAKER_04 6:10

Happy birthday to you and many more. Woo! Thank you, boys.

SPEAKER_01 6:16

Thank you. And we can go into like you know how the kids do. You know, how old are you? Well, 51!

SPEAKER_04 6:24

Well, at his last birthday party, we went 50 laps around the ring. If we keep this up much longer, we're not gonna be able to make it, Freddy.

unknown 6:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:33

I got I got it, I took advantage of it too, because uh our anniversary is on April 6th. Well, that's like on a I think it's a Tuesday or Wednesday. So we're going to uh happy anniversary. Thank you. Yeah. We're gonna stay at uh she likes the beach views and all that stuff, and I really don't care about it, but whatever. Yeah, I know. We're gonna be around Margaritaville at the beach this weekend.

SPEAKER_04 6:56

So that's cool, so we know where to meet you. Yeah, come on by.

SPEAKER_01 6:59

Freddie will be there uh hand signing autographs from the uh Pam Greer collection. Absolutely. Drinks on me, boys. All right, sure. Your wife will be happy about that. All right. So uh as uh we've been talking about on this program for a number of weeks uh that uh Kurt is uh gonna appear at the uh opening of the county fair. That's right. I was trying to remember which the 40th Clay County Fair. Yes, it was amazing. Forty, okay. Forty. That was a good age, 40. Um better than 51. Most definitely. Most definitely. But uh so we we've talked about the fair and and uh hopefully uh things uh went well. I know they they did, but we we record this show before that, so uh we just have to talk about the affair and remind you that it's uh opening up and there's gonna be all kinds of uh other good entertainment after you guys set the tone for the uh the concerts.

SPEAKER_04 7:56

We were rocking like docking.

SPEAKER_01 7:58

There you go. And so uh so we know that uh that went well, but we're gonna wish you well soon getting people completely totally turned around.

SPEAKER_04 8:07

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 8:08

Jennifer's gonna be on my shoulders, I told you.

SPEAKER_04 8:09

I know that's gonna be great. I'll know you're gonna be able to get around.

SPEAKER_01 8:11

I'm ready, I'm stretched out and ready to go. Now, which which poster do you want him to hold up? The Pam Greer poster over the top?

SPEAKER_04 8:18

Sure. Which would get your attention on stage? Well, I I have to say, if I see Jennifer on his shoulders, that's gonna get my attention. And if she holds up the Pam Greer poster, that would be even better.

SPEAKER_02 8:29

That is a that is a good photo op, actually. It'd be better to get like your reaction and have her in the back, like shooting it from behind and then seeing your face.

SPEAKER_04 8:39

That would be awesome. Does she listen to the show?

SPEAKER_02 8:43

She does. She's waiting for a work to your mother again from mom.

SPEAKER_04 8:49

Truly, really doesn't catch it very often. She's at work and then whatever, so you know.

SPEAKER_02 8:55

Well, I don't know what it is about women, though. She'll she'll say she's gonna take a shower, but she's in there for like two hours. I'm like, so she's listening to in a show, she's listening to the show in front of the mirror for like an hour, and then she goes takes a shower for an hour. Yeah, is this what he's really doing on those Tuesdays? I'm like, what time is it now? It's nine? I got to eleven to join you to come to sleep. So two hours.

SPEAKER_01 9:22

Yeah, I was gonna say, you bet you might go easy on the criticism of your wife.

SPEAKER_02 9:26

Yeah, you may not make 52. Uh, she's fine.

SPEAKER_01 9:30

She's put out with me this long. Yeah. All right. So uh we all know that the uh one of the big attractions at the fair is food, right? Oh, yeah. Fair food. So one of the things that we did in a just recently completed contest where we asked people to name their favorite fair foods, is they sent that stuff to us. So I've been able to call the Facebook posts and bring them to us, and uh we'll let them set the tone for which foods we talk about, and then we'll talk about our favorite foods. Is that good? Sounds great. All right, so uh a guy that uh is uh friends of the program from the very first day, right? John Reinheimer.

SPEAKER_04 10:04

John Reinheimer, our buddy, our pal.

SPEAKER_01 10:06

And uh John says the uh best fair food is always the turkey legs. John going heavy for the uh the meat. Those things are big. No carbs, man. No carbs, no carbs.

SPEAKER_04 10:17

I think they're dinosaur legs or something, aren't they? Big giant ones.

SPEAKER_01 10:21

You would think a turkey with a leg that big would be able to protect itself.

SPEAKER_04 10:24

It'd be run faster. It'd be able to run faster than it did. Yeah, exactly. Jump in buildings.

SPEAKER_01 10:31

And if it, you know, somebody came close, it'd be like kicking them, get away.

SPEAKER_04 10:34

Oh my god, those are Bo Jackson thighs, man. Lord have mercy.

SPEAKER_01 10:38

But they are delicious. Ah does soak up a lot of ranch dressing with that. All right, so that that was good. So John, John, John John did a good one there. Um, and uh I think it's me, or it's probably short for uh Michelle is uh uh mainly go for the food. Can't pick one thing out though. Ah so she's just sample plates, the sample. Sample plates, yeah. So go throw Freddie, throw one out for yourself there.

SPEAKER_02 11:07

Well, I I like going to get the kettle corn because I can get that to go and I can eat it while I'm there. So you know how they have like the $4 bag, the $6 bag, the $10 bag? Well, I'm not sharing my $10 bag, so that's going home with me, and whatever we get there, that's what we're eating. So whatever is open there stays there. That's correct. The $10 bag goes home with me.

SPEAKER_01 11:26

So you go for the kettle corn. How about you, Kurt? What give me one of yours?

SPEAKER_04 11:30

I actually I like the corn dog with mustard, and and but ultimately what happens is I get tricked into funnel cake.

SPEAKER_03 11:41

And I don't want funnel cake. Tricked, huh? So you say tricked.

SPEAKER_04 11:46

Well, you know, I mean, if my daughter's with me, forget about it. It's funnel cake. It's funnel cake. You weren't tricked, you were you're you're getting funnel cake, meaning promises getting funnel cake. I get a piece. She's giving you the Indian burger. Come on. Yeah, oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:02

I was gonna say, if you couldn't tell the difference between a corn dog and funnel cake, then that would be an interesting trip around the fair with you. You like trying to test food in the dark? That's not funnel cake.

SPEAKER_03 12:18

Oh, man.

SPEAKER_01 12:19

Alright, so uh Nikki Glanville works down in Green Cove. Uh she's coming up this afternoon to pick up her ticket concert tickets. She's a winner. Funnel cake is her her favorite. Do you like the powdered sugar on it? Of course. Because I've seen it where they do the uh the funnel, it's like a funnel cake, but they uh they put like the marinara sauce on there with the parmesan cheese and stuff. Are you kidding? I haven't seen that.

SPEAKER_02 12:41

I've seen like the raspberry sauce. What? What? I've seen chocolate sauce on them too.

SPEAKER_04 12:47

Are you kidding? Well, chocolate, okay.

SPEAKER_01 12:49

Well, Tiffany Saunders, she says the donuts. The donuts! I stand right behind Tiffany on that one. The Amish donuts. Ooh.

SPEAKER_02 12:58

I haven't seen those. I want to try one of those.

SPEAKER_01 13:00

You gotta look at it. They usually have the spot right inside the front gate, off to the left. Okay. It's like you can't they want to be there because they, you know. I mean, the things are this big.

SPEAKER_04 13:09

Wow. Wow. Mike knows his donuts.

SPEAKER_01 13:14

Donuts. Donuts. Like Homer Simpson. Donuts don't! Uh uh, and uh look at Brooke Davies, who uh works with us, uh Impad Clay, she's the development director there. She had an entry and she said pretzel dogs.

SPEAKER_02 13:30

Ooh Pretzel dogs.

SPEAKER_04 13:32

There you go. You're combining your corn dog with a pretzel pretzel with a pretzel.

SPEAKER_02 13:35

So is it is it like a hot dog bun that's a pretzel? No, it is a bun or is it wrapped around like a corn dog? Usually wrapped around. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 13:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 13:43

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 13:44

You get that I don't need the dog. I just need the pretzel. Yeah. Correct. You like pretzel? Yes. Now, how do you take your pretzel?

SPEAKER_02 13:52

Just salt. Like the ancient salt. Aunt Annie's other one in them all.

SPEAKER_01 13:55

Antie Anne's.

SPEAKER_02 13:56

Yeah, that one. Man, those things get shredded. Boost up the insulin intake too.

SPEAKER_01 14:01

You know, you're putting mustard, nothing. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 14:03

That's straight. I'm just straight.

SPEAKER_01 14:05

Depending on what it is now. With the anti-annes, I don't even need the salt. I can go straight because it's anything to mess it up. Just the salt, baby. I'm a pretzel connoisseur.

SPEAKER_02 14:16

I don't like those ones that you get like at uh you go to like a like a high school game, they got those ones that are like the they say soft pretzels, but they're just the frozen ones. The frozen ones they heat up in the microwave, you're beating up other kids with them, cracking the head.

SPEAKER_01 14:30

That's so soft.

SPEAKER_02 14:32

Yeah, I just rather get a bag of hard pretzels.

SPEAKER_01 14:34

I need those. Well, here's uh uh Ashley Fridge. She says, definitely the nighttime Amish donut. I hope she likes them at night. That way people can't see you eating this huge donut. Stand over in the corner in the dark. Just eat it.

SPEAKER_02 14:49

Don't guilty pleasure. That's a good name for a donut, closet donut.

SPEAKER_01 14:55

The closet donut. All right. Hey, uh our own Christina Cooper said a thing, and she said her favorite fair food is the pickle pizza. It's by the entrance to the arena. Hands down the best, she thinks. The pickle pizza. I don't know about all that. Yeah, I don't I don't like a lot of stuff on my pizza, so I'd have to see that up close before I decide.

SPEAKER_02 15:18

Me too, but you know what? The girls got me trying one time. It's not bad. It's not bad. Uh maybe I'll venture out to pickles.

SPEAKER_04 15:24

All right.

SPEAKER_02 15:26

I definitely won't.

SPEAKER_01 15:27

We'll throw out one more. Um This is your buddy, right? Kenneth Rosell?

SPEAKER_00 15:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:32

And he says, oversized corn dog or beef tips with mashed potatoes. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:38

That sounds like a winner.

SPEAKER_01 15:40

That's a good one if you're looking for something more substantial. Yeah, my wife likes the beef tips there.

SPEAKER_02 15:44

Yeah, truly likes beef tips. Yeah. I'm a big fan of the uh fried Oreos. Fried Oreos?

SPEAKER_01 15:49

I had one, yeah. Yeah, we got those here. Somebody's somebody on the list is uh Oh, I messed it up. I'm sorry. No, no, you're good. Okay. You're good. This is just free forming. Free forming. Walking the aisles, trying to remember what's there. Uh we gotta take a time out at this point in time, but we got more about fair foods and we've got uh Easter on the horizon. That's right. So we'll find out a little bit about uh everybody's favorite Easter story.

SPEAKER_04 16:13

Yeah, it is Good Friday at the hearing, so hey, that's awesome.

SPEAKER_01 16:17

It's appropriate. Praise Jesus. All right, so uh Hallelujah. Freddie, Kirk, Mike, John, Bobby, Hillary, everybody's here. Everybody. That's right. There you go. All right, so we'll uh take a time out, be right back. Stay with us here on Clay Radio.

SPEAKER_00 16:32

This is Little Duff coming at you.

SPEAKER_03 16:34

You better be tuning in to this town rock. It's not on Mondays, it's not on Tuesdays, it's not on Thursdays, or even Wednesdays, and I know that wasn't right. But it's on Fridays at noon and 9 p.m. And then Sundays at 7.

SPEAKER_00 16:49

This town rocks, baby. Don't you miss it? Let me tell you, brother, there's four things that the hoaxer wants all its hocomaniacs to do. That's stay your prayers, mind your parents, take your vitamins and tune in to listen to the boys, give you some knowledge. Don't miss the show, brother, or the 24-inch python are gonna strangle you if don't tune in.

SPEAKER_01 17:16

Yeah, that is uh the Pam Greer theme that uh signifies we're open for business.

SPEAKER_04 17:21

You laugh, but one day Pam Greer's gonna walk through this door during that introduction. I'm gonna go hallelujah.

SPEAKER_01 17:27

She's already walked through the door, sir.

SPEAKER_04 17:29

That's right. Three times. Three times.

SPEAKER_01 17:31

Freddie Oka's uh come up with a uh nice poster, Clay Radio logo there, Pam Greer standing there from one of the uh the movies that she did during the 70s. Very professionally done. Yeah, very professionally done. That's good stuff. We will have that up on the uh Facebook posts. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 17:50

He's gotta tell the story about he's gotta tell the story about the poster.

SPEAKER_01 17:54

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:54

Oh, well, I went in there to get it printed off, and there was this young girl there, and she's like, Who is this? I was like, I was like, Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_04 18:03

She's the boss.

SPEAKER_02 18:04

I said that's Foxy Brown. She goes, the rapper? I said, No. No, you're in the wrong, the wrong decade there. Yeah, yeah. This is Pam Greer. And then the, I guess the supervisor, he goes, Are you printing off a picture of Pam Greer? And I was like, Yes, sir. He goes, Foxy Brown. I'm gonna get me a copy. He thought you're in trouble there for a second. He was a he was it was pretty cool.

SPEAKER_01 18:28

Yeah, pretty cool. That's awesome. That's good. Well, thank you, Freddie. That's a nice Easter gift. We're definitely gonna post that uh with the Facebook post about this uh particular show uh on Clay Radio, so keep an eye out for that. You'll see it. Just want to put smiles on y'all's face. Yeah, that was great. Are you kidding?

SPEAKER_04 18:42

I like how she has her hand on the gun and says, You will like this show.

SPEAKER_01 18:46

It's a revolver, right? I don't have the picture in front of me.

SPEAKER_04 18:49

So it's a revolver.

SPEAKER_01 18:50

Pearl hand pearl handle, too. That's right. She means business. Jeez, I really sorry that we missed out on seeing her in Pensacola. Oh, man. She missed out. We were that close to being in Pensacola. What if we did the meet and greet and we brought this to her side? That would be fantastic. That would be great. That would be outstanding. We got to get that on the agenda.

SPEAKER_03 19:09

Oh, I love it.

SPEAKER_01 19:10

All right. Well, thanks for uh joining us. Uh it is uh the uh show that airs on Good Friday. Yes. Even though we record it early. That's okay. It's okay. Uh and we've got Freddie Oka, of course, and uh Kurt Town here. And uh we've been sort of talking about fair foods. We'll do that for a little bit longer period of time. Now, somebody had uh a good one. It was uh what? The Oreo. Who had fried Oreo Freddy? You like that? Yes. Let's see, we got a couple of those here. Karen Hamilton, fried Oreos. Carol's good people. Man, she's right there with you.

SPEAKER_02 19:39

She knows what's up.

SPEAKER_01 19:41

Now, the fried Oreo, do they coat that or is it just go in just as the Oreo? Do they put chocolate over? No, no, I don't think it's just the Oreo, yeah. Yeah, just the Oreo. You can pretty much do that, I guess, with any cookie.

SPEAKER_04 19:51

Well, here in the South, we'll fry anything.

SPEAKER_01 19:54

Yeah, that's true. This is true. That's true. All right, so what else? Uh well, Tiffany Saunders likes the donuts. Who else? Did not get to somebody here. Man, the donuts are running away. Donuts are running away with this issue. Turkey leg, another turkey leg. Fair corn dogs are the best. All right. So you got that. Um funnel cake or uh Lindsay Heiser. She says choosing one food is so hard that uh she's a sucker for anything sweet like ice cream or funnel cake or candy apples. We haven't talked about the candy apple. Oh, candy apples. Those are the classics. Yeah, good stuff. Amish uh donuts. Michelle Reeves uh sent that one in. Pretzel dog. My buddy Mike Frangos sent that in. Likes the pretzel dog. So next time he has a birthday, might give him a pretzel dog on a stick or something.

SPEAKER_05 20:36

Oh my steak.

SPEAKER_02 20:37

Are you guys candy apple guys? Or are you caramel apple guys?

SPEAKER_04 20:41

Well, you know, I definitely caramel? Caroline knows it's usually a dentist office sponsoring it, so I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_02 20:49

I've seen the caramel ones with uh the peanuts on the outside of it, too.

SPEAKER_01 20:52

Yeah, those are the ones I like. Yeah. I'm not I'm not a big candy apple person.

SPEAKER_02 20:56

I mean someone buys it for me, I'll eat it, but I don't go out on my way to buy it.

SPEAKER_01 21:00

And then of course you have uh you have the pizza guys out there. Anybody like the fair fair food pizzas? Never tried a pizza from the fair. It's actually pretty good. Okay. Of course, uh I'm not I'm not a uh pizza slob or pizza snob. If it's pizza, if it's got sauce and cheese and a crust, I'm in.

SPEAKER_02 21:19

What's the place over here in downtown uh Greencoffe? It's pretty good. DeFontana? D Fontana. Yeah, that would I won I go in there uh a couple of times. It's pretty good.

SPEAKER_01 21:27

We we won't delve too far into the pizza discussion here today, but we should do a top ten pizza thing. In fact, they just had uh in my uh old stomping grounds in Connecticut, they just had a uh pizza war.

SPEAKER_05 21:38

Pizza War.

SPEAKER_01 21:38

It was a fundraiser and uh it went over really well. We may examine that.

SPEAKER_04 21:42

Well, we I just want to set the precedence right now for the future pizza discussion that anchovy pizzas are the best.

SPEAKER_02 21:50

Not according to that look on Freddie's face. I can just smell the bad smell by you saying it.

SPEAKER_01 21:56

I can't smell it.

SPEAKER_02 21:57

It's it's it's it's

SPEAKER_01 22:00

Sounds like it's coming from his stomach.

SPEAKER_02 22:03

I wonder if they make frozen anchovy pizzas. The store, you know? Like the box, the ones you get from the store? I I don't think so.

SPEAKER_00 22:10

I mean it. Could you imagine that?

SPEAKER_02 22:12

Fish has been in there for like three months, frozen. It's frozen.

SPEAKER_01 22:15

You wouldn't be able to get it into that flat box with all those.

SPEAKER_04 22:18

It's preserved.

SPEAKER_01 22:18

Nor do I want fish swimming around on top of your pizza. Isn't it looking at you when you open it up? All right. Well, I I get we did enough on the fair food, right? Enough. I'm sure we've missed uh probably somebody's favorite, but good luck if you're going to the fair, have plenty of it because it doesn't come back until next year. That's right. Although, again, there are restaurants that are fair foods. That's all I have. It's like going to a fair. They got the you know all the things on the menu. So that's insane.

SPEAKER_02 22:46

You must be talking about Sonic. I feel like Sonic's the fair food of fast food there.

SPEAKER_01 22:53

Yeah, that's that's a good one for you. I like that. All right. All right, so uh Easter is here. Yay! Son of a gun came snuck up on us. That was quick. Of course, if you're uh celebrating with Good Friday today, you might be off from work. And if this is the way that you've uh chosen to spend your time off from work by listening to us, we thank you. Hard to believe, but we thank you anyway. That's right. All right, so some global traditions for Easter. Of course, here in the US, the uh president hosts an egg roll on the White House lawn. Squirrel the eggs all around, right? Yeah. In France, in some areas, church bells stop ringing until Easter when they drop chocolate eggs for the kids. So you won't hear any bells. Yeah, now and Easter, you won't hear any bells ringing in France. Wow. I suppose they had some like holiday or something that came up where they needed to ring the bell. I guess I guess they could always override the tradition. I suppose. How about Poland, known for creating intricate egg designs and smingus dingus, a day of fun, playful water fights? Sorry, I tried to hold it as long as I could. I don't make this stuff up.

SPEAKER_02 23:57

Smingus dingus. That's not fair. You can laugh silently in my candy.

SPEAKER_01 24:07

Hey. You tell me if that's not down there to the bottom now.

SPEAKER_04 24:10

We just chipped off a few of those IQ points.

SPEAKER_01 24:13

Right, it's got the pipe in between the two.

SPEAKER_04 24:15

Smingus dingus.

SPEAKER_02 24:17

I'm glad you brought that to the show.

SPEAKER_04 24:19

That's the word of the day.

SPEAKER_02 24:21

That is the word of the day. Smingus dingus.

SPEAKER_01 24:25

That's an insult, right? Sounds like an insult. And then and how about Australia? The Easter bilby has become a popular alternative to the Easter bunny to raise awareness for the endangered native animal. So it's the bilby, the Eastern Bilby instead of the bunny. Okay. What is the Easter bilbi? I don't know what a bilby is. I'm gonna look it up. I'm gonna look that up and let you know. We've got to save them. Maybe you could look that up at home. Surprise everybody and say, I'm very worldly this Easter. And in Australia, they're trying to save the Eastern Bilby. Mm-hmm. Oh my god. It sounds to me it's gotta be like a furry bunny or some kind of thing like that. Something furry. All right. Alright, so uh let's uh talk uh Easter stories, right? Because uh Freddie, you said you had one with the for like three days we stopped. Don't tell us, wait for the show. I can't wait.

SPEAKER_02 25:15

This is a current one. The current uh we have the the job that I have, I have we have to do events for holidays. And so we hosted an Easter egg hunt on Friday. And so uh the Easter egg hunt starts at 5 30. It's about 5 29, 5 30, right close to that time. And there's like 200 kids lined up around where we're gonna have all the stuff lined up. And the parking lot you can see from where we're having the event. And there's a family out there, and they're got like three little ones in, so we're waiting for them. And this guy comes up to me and he's dead face. He's so mad, he's like, uh, what time does the Easter egg hunt start? I said, Well, it starts at 5 30. He goes, Well, we have a hundred people hundred and fifty people here waiting. We need to get this going on show on the road. And I, well, there's a family out there in the parking lot. Uh, I'm gonna wait for those three little ones, you know, to come up and uh so they can they can participate. Uh well, uh I don't understand. This is so unprofessional. I was like, I said, you know what sounds unprofessional is you'd not want to wait for kids to come do Easter, huh? And he's a grown man, he's like in his third mid-30s, and so it got kind of quiet, and there's like a bunch of families around, and I've been there for a long time, so they all know me. And the guy and there's a guy to my left, and he goes, Lighten up, Francis. And the residents lost their mind. They were cracking up. So I just kind of walked away and I giggled and I kept on laughing, and I brought thought that story was well worth telling because uh I just can't imagine a middle-aged guy getting so mad about an Easter egg hunt starting two minutes late.

SPEAKER_04 26:42

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 26:43

You know, I can see if it's Disney World, you're waiting to get in the in the in the music park or something, but an Easter egg hunt for your kid?

SPEAKER_04 26:48

Yeah, man. Come on, man.

SPEAKER_01 26:50

I love the guy that throws out the the the uh line from stripes. From stripes back in when was that 70s, 80s? Yeah, 80s.

SPEAKER_03 26:58

Lighten up Francis. That's right.

SPEAKER_02 26:59

It was hilarious. It was like, you know, you have uh someone's talking to you, there's that pause, and then somebody blurted out. It was funny.

SPEAKER_01 27:05

That's awesome. So funny. Good stuff. All right. Well, we're gonna take time out here and uh we'll let Francis lighten up and then we'll continue with some more Easter stories. Freddie Oka's here. Kurt Town is here, the Biggs Master doing his thing.

SPEAKER_05 27:18

Hey.

SPEAKER_01 27:18

And he's got a few more minutes before he turns into a pumpkin, and we've got to ship him away for the day, but that's okay. Uh Mike Zella here, and thanks uh for you being there. If you want to get a hold of us, you can do so. Kurt, how do they do that for you?

SPEAKER_04 27:30

The Kurttownband.com.

SPEAKER_01 27:32

All right, Freddy Oka.

SPEAKER_02 27:33

Bearded vinyl on Instagram and Facebook.

SPEAKER_01 27:36

And uh Clay Radio at Clayradio Online at gmail.com. More with us uh here on this edition of This Town Rocks coming up after this. And that is uh the song that plays before every segment of the uh Kurt Town Extravaganza. Hey, uh Kurttown, Freddie Oka, Mike Sella here, and this is This Town Rocks uh program that discusses uh topics wide and far. To glowing reviews. To glowing reviews. Did you know three or four a week?

SPEAKER_02 28:05

Did you know? Did you notice what Mike said? What's that? Extravaganza.

SPEAKER_04 28:08

Oh, very good. I noticed it.

SPEAKER_01 28:11

I noticed it. Try to slide that in there. Well, we've uh talked a little bit about fair foods, and we found out that uh folks uh like the pretzels, like the corn dogs, like the funnel cakes. Pretty much the large turkey legs were uh also on the list. What you don't want to do is get some guy that's uh eaten a large turkey leg mad at you because he might hit you with the turkey leg. That thing's a like a dangerous weapon. But uh, we are here, and this is the uh the program that uh gives you an opportunity to uh sample a little bit about popular culture, about music. Pam Greer. Well, sometimes it's unpopular culture as well. I can't do much about that. All right, so we we heard from Freddie and Francis about the guy that was trying to rain all over his uh Easter egg parade. How about you, Kurt? You got something you can relate to us, uh sort of West Sidish? You mean like a Easter story? Easter story? Like where you guys on the West Side like beat up the bunny or something?

SPEAKER_04 29:09

No, we didn't beat up no bunny. The bunny's a giver.

SPEAKER_01 29:13

Put the bunny in one of those uh those uh go-karts that used to crash into trees and stuff.

SPEAKER_04 29:17

Yeah, exactly. Oh my god. Well, I I as far as a funny, you know, Easter story, I guess I could I could tell that. But uh so my brother and I, this is back in the 19 somethings.

SPEAKER_01 29:31

Last century.

SPEAKER_04 29:33

Talking about feeling old. Oh my god. Oh man, my my I have to say this. So my daughter was born in 2000, and my my son was born in 1994, and she didn't mean anything by this whatsoever. We're at the dinner table, and she asked my son, she goes, she goes, uh, Shelton, um, weren't you born in the nineteen way back in the nineteen hundreds? She didn't mean anything by it. She was like seven. And he was like, Yeah way back in the nineteen hundreds. But uh yeah, pretty ta uh whoo ha. So anyway, so my brother and I, back in the nineteen somethings, we uh my uh our grandfather decided he was gonna we were gonna go to Easter service, you know, because that's what you do. And uh we lived on Taylor Field, which is uh right down the street where I truly grew up. And so um on Taylorfield Road in Jacksonville, Florida. And so uh anyway, he decided he was gonna take us down and buy us an Easter suit and cowboy boots. So the boot barn was awesome. My brother and I practically you couldn't pull them cowboy boots off of us. However, we did get some pretty wild suits. I will say this, okay? Now, it may have been 1970 something. I'm not sure that because I'm only 26, three-quarters, eight, sixteenths and a half with a smidgen, so my math may be off a little.

SPEAKER_05 30:57

Excuse me, I'm sorry, I was I was sneezing.

SPEAKER_04 31:00

But I will say the guy with another birthday here. That's right. But I will say this, I will say this. We had some very pastel looking suits that were polyester with the big collars. And, you know, I can't be undone. My brother had baby blue. And so my grandfather picked out canary yellow for me.

SPEAKER_01 31:26

Your brother got the better at that. I know I got a canary yellow. I'd much rather be in the the baby blue than the uh canary yellow.

SPEAKER_04 31:32

But I got canary yellow, I never forget this. I got canary yellow, right? And and he got me like this brown long sleeve shirt, right? Canary yellow, brown long sleeve shirt. And it had them giant collars. They're itching my neck. And uh styling. Styling styling and woo, profile. Anyway, so if you but it gets better. It gets better. My brother wanted a hat. So now we we wanted cowboy hats, but you know, we already broke the bank with a new suit and a new cowboy boot suite. We had to settle. So my our grandfather decided that he was gonna give us Budweiser beer hats. I mean, this makes more sense. Yes, it makes more sense. He had like, you know, like the paper boy hat kind of thing, you know, on it was a Budweiser, you know, one of those free promotional deals. And I was looking at him like, I don't want that hat. So I didn't wear the hat. But my brother and I have this really awesome picture of us on a horse, and uh, we're styling and profiling. Yes, styling and profiling, and Mike's got his Budweiser hat on because you know, he he likes he likes Budweiser, so you know, even you know, even as a child, he was like, I'll take that. And um, I still don't have a taste for beer, but anyway, he he had his Budweiser hat, proud, loud and proud. We had our cowboy boots on, our polyester, canary yellow and baby powder blue suits. And my mom, God bless her, my mom saw us, and she just shook her head because you know, what do you do?

SPEAKER_02 33:03

I do have a question.

SPEAKER_04 33:05

Now that's pretty awesome, man. It is. I'm telling you right now, we could have we could have easily joined in on a dumber and dumber movie and fit right on in, man. It was great. You're ahead of your time. Ahead of our time.

SPEAKER_02 33:16

Where is said picture?

SPEAKER_04 33:17

Uh it's somewhere in one of them photo books that we got.

SPEAKER_02 33:20

Is your mom gonna be at the show Thursday?

SPEAKER_04 33:23

I don't think so. Man, let's put a special request in.

SPEAKER_02 33:26

My wheels are turning. She lives all the way in Yuli. You know I like to print posters out. That actually I would pay for it.

SPEAKER_04 33:37

We have to have a special contest winner. I'll get Mike and I see.

SPEAKER_02 33:42

Oh, well, everybody's gonna be a winner of big posters.

SPEAKER_04 33:46

Oh man, that'd be the golden ticket.

SPEAKER_01 33:50

That is funny, yeah. I just yeah, I can't imagine that picture. That'd be tremendous. Of course, yeah, you would have made it better if you put the Budweiser hat on. Well, you're gonna take it without the Budweiser hat.

SPEAKER_04 34:02

That's good. Yeah, he was representing.

SPEAKER_01 34:04

Well, I guess I'll throw my uh Easter story in. It was uh uh scarring moment, as a matter of fact. I was working for a uh station in New Haven and I was doing uh little afternoon talk show, and so they they tell me, like on that Friday, we're having the Easter thing over the weekend on Saturday, so we need you to be the MC. Go out there and announce it and you know, start the egg hunt and all this other stuff. So, okay, fine. Well, it wasn't my first choice, that's for darn sure, but you're you do what you're told. So I go out there and there's thousands of people. I mean, there were estimates of like maybe four or five thousand people with you know the kids, because this is a pretty powerful station. At the time it was 960 on the dial, and it had, you know, uh pretty good wattage. So there was a good following, and so there was a bunch of people there. Like I say, they estimated there's meh between th 3500 and 4,000 people, maybe as much as 5,000.

SPEAKER_04 34:54

Was there a helicopter involved?

SPEAKER_01 34:55

No, no helicopter, and no, no, no throwing turkeys out of the helicopter, darn it. But that I wish the helicopter, by the time all is said and done, I wish uh the helicopter picked me up and took me out of there. So, anyway, so they uh they put all the stuff out in the field, right? And some of the uh eggs had just a little note in there that said, You won uh you know a remote control car or something. So they they they seeded the field, and some of the prizes are pretty good prizes, they didn't fit in the in the egg. So all the little kids are out there, and they probably had a a bag sponsored by a dentist or something, right? A little Easter bag to pick up the eggs. So, you know, everybody's getting like antsy and we're we're held up, somebody held us up from getting started on the time we're supposed to start, but you know, so everybody's like, you know, they're all and they they didn't separate the ages, so they had like from whatever age to like 11 or 12 or whatever. But they should have had like an older kids' division and a younger kids division. They definitely should have. So uh like I said, I'll never forget this. So I'm out there, hello, thanks for joining us. You know, 960 W E L I, great uh, you know, this is wonderful. And uh so uh I get to a point where I'm gonna give instructions. All right, so I'm gonna give you some instructions and then we'll get started. You know, don't do anything, don't go anywhere until you hear me say, go. That was the cardinal sin right there in that thing. They heard go, 5,000 kids with parents raced the field. I mean, just decimated the field.

SPEAKER_04 36:25

Oh my god, like locuses.

SPEAKER_01 36:27

Yeah, exactly. That's a great word for it. And and you know, the the adults were worse than the kids because the adults were like they had the kid by the hand and they were like hurdling other kids and and and dragging their kids, knocking kids down, you know. And of course, I was in the middle because I was talking to everybody in the middle, and I was just I I didn't know what to do. I froze. The only time my life I didn't know what to do. It was like I just stood there. Shock. The carnage. It was you know, it was a it was like Les Nesman when he was talking about the uh the turkeys getting thrown out of the oh the humanity. And uh yeah, and then people complaining afterwards, it was not a good uh not a good kind of uh promotion for the station, that's for sure.

SPEAKER_04 37:12

How dare you give us free stuff? You know, it's it's funny.

SPEAKER_02 37:15

We're we're uh I was asking my other buddy, he does he's over in Oakleaf, and uh I asked him, I said, Do you what do y'all do over there for egg hunts? Oh, he goes, Oh, we don't do egg hunts. I was like, that is one of the reasons why.

SPEAKER_01 37:27

Yeah, you gotta separate them in or they get trampled. Well, that was the last year that they did the egg hunt that way. Thankfully, somebody woke up and said, No, we're not doing that.

SPEAKER_02 37:36

It reminds you like the jaw scene where everybody is trying to get out of the water, you know, but they get trampled out of the water.

SPEAKER_01 37:42

That's pretty much what it was. I mean, the way the adults were dragging kids and using them as like you know, batting rams to knock other kids down so you could grab an egg.

SPEAKER_04 37:50

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 37:51

Oh my lord. Oh my god. Like I said, yeah. Like I said, I'm still scarred by the occasion. Somebody says uh, you know, Easter egg hunt, I start twitching. No, no, please don't make me announce it.

SPEAKER_02 38:04

I asked Jen about, I said, do you think it'd be a good idea? Like it'd be like a good April Fool's joke to do an Easter egg hunt with all black jelly beans.

SPEAKER_05 38:12

Oh that would be awesome.

SPEAKER_01 38:16

Black jelly beans for everybody.

SPEAKER_04 38:18

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 38:21

Well, we're uh running out of time on this program, boys, but uh the birthday boy, we've assigned him the task of picking the song of the day. Song of the day. So it's up to you, Fred.

SPEAKER_02 38:30

Yeah, I'm gonna pick Leon Bridges with Beyond.

SPEAKER_01 38:33

Okay. Awesome. Leon Bridges. What would you describe that song as what genre?

SPEAKER_02 38:39

Kind of uh country soul. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 38:41

I guess that's kind of the country soul. That's sort of unusual. Yes. I'm looking forward to hearing that though. Okay. Pretty good song. Kurt, great job last night. Thank you. We're gonna give that to you ahead of time.

SPEAKER_04 38:52

Don't make me take it back next week.

SPEAKER_01 38:55

Standing room only.

SPEAKER_04 38:57

That's right.

SPEAKER_01 38:58

Yeah, good luck with that. Uh being there and opening up the fair. I know you'll do well. Thank you. Freddie, any beat stuff coming up uh record-wise?

SPEAKER_02 39:05

Uh we'll have a show on April 11th, but we can talk about it next week.

SPEAKER_01 39:08

Yeah, next week. Okay. All right. And uh we'll uh look forward to uh next week's show. Thanks so much for uh being with us. It's uh This Town Rocks. You hear it on uh Fridays at uh noon and then again at nine PM and then again on Sundays at seven. And of course, uh congratulations to Freddie. He's got the throwbacks tracks now, the eighties uh show that uh he's doing with music, and he and the uh mixed master mixing it up.

SPEAKER_04 39:32

Mixing it up.

SPEAKER_01 39:32

Getting back to Francis time.

SPEAKER_04 39:34

Right.

SPEAKER_01 39:36

Man, that was epic. That was so epic. And that does it for us. Uh we'll talk to you again next week. Thanks for listening here on Clay Radio. This is This Town Rocks. Bye bye.