-Guys, welcome back
to "Goatee Talk."
-Yeah.
-I'm here with Ryan Seacrest
-I looked in the mirror
and said, "Finally."
-Yeah.
-Finally.
-You found your look.
-Finally I can grow it out
you know.
-You found your move.
-Yep.
-Thank you.
That's a little Wolfman Jack-y
-It is a little Wolfman Jack-y
-Dude, I've got to congratulat
you on two things.
[ Laughter ]
-I'm just chafed.
[ Laughter ]
-Wax, there you go.
Perfect.
Two things I want to
congratulate you on.
-Yes, sir.
-First of all, the Emmy win.
-Thank you, that's so great.
-You won an Emmy
for hosting "Live with
Kelly and Ryan."
[ Cheering ]
-Very exciting, thank you, yes
-You do a great job over there
-She carries it.
She carries it, she's the best
and we are very happy.
We are very excited about it
man, yeah.
-You guys are such a great team.
Oh, that's awesome, dude.
That's the best.
-She's great. Yeah, yeah.
-And then you also -- this i
a really big deal.
You're inducted into
the Radio Hall of Fame.
That is an amazing thing.
-That's --
[ Cheering ]
-Thank you.
-I really -- I know -- I fee
like that means a lot to you
-It does mean a lot.
I started in radio
when I was a high school
teenager.
And, to get inducted, the thin
is the fans have --
the listeners had to vote,
and I really wanted to win it,
you know?
-Of course.
-So, we were on the air
talking about getting votes,
and we said, "Look,
we know you're all busy.
So, if you send us your emai
address, we'll forward
the emails to the Hall of Fame
and we'll also send you
a personalized thank-you.
I will shoot those after
the radio show."
-So you're voting for them
They don't have to do any work
-Yeah, they have no work.
And it worked.
It paid off. And then
I realized a great thing.
It was sort of meant to be
because I've met a lot of people
like you, but I had never me
somebody else that's being
inducted that night,
and that's Dr. Ruth.
And so, finally
I'll get a chance
to ask her some questions.
[ Light laughter ]
-I mean, you're going to ask
Dr. Ruth questions
about...
-Well, why not?
[ Laughter ]
-I mean, I guess, why not?
I mean, you're there.
-Yeah.
-When is this?
-You have questions of your own?
-Yeah.
[ Laughter ]
What is it?
-Yeah.
-When will it happen for me?
That's what I want to ask her.
-But it's --
I'm excited about that.
-Oh, that's -- here's
a picture of you
when you were 15 right there
-Yeah, that's Star 94 Atlanta,
WSTR.
-Look at that.
-94.1, today's best music.
Playing all the hits.
-Today's best music.
-Today's best music.
Home of Steve McCoy
in the morning.
-Ah. Were you -- were you
on the air at this point, or no?
-This -- uh, yeah, I was doing
the weekend shift at this point.
And this was the company jacke
that they -- you know,
after you do a couple of hours
they give you that.
-Oh, that's a big deal.
-That's a -- yeah.
-You don't want to take
that sucker off.
-I used to ask to drive the va
home and park it in my drivewa
over the weekends 'cause
it looked cool with the logo
You know, the kids in the
neighborhood would drive by --
-That's the greatest.
I love that.
And those are the cartridges
that you would plug in --
-Yeah, those are the carts
You pull those out -- those ar
the songs and the commercials.
You have to pull those out
and stack them up
and then put them
into the machine.
-Do you miss that part
of the thing? 'Cause I --
-No, that was a lot of labor
a lot of work.
-It was?
-And now you drag a mouse
and hit play.
-Did you have records when you
did that? No records?
-No, no records, but we di
have reel-to-reel tape
that I'd have to splice.
So, there would be --
if you had a phone call
and you wanted to record
a phone call, you'd tape i
on a reel-to-reel, and the
if you wanted to edit it,
you'd have to splice it,
and tape it together,
and then play it back.
-Wow, no way.
-Yeah.
-So you learned how to do
all that stuff?
-That's how old I am.
-No, no, it's not --
No, it's not --
No, that's the fun of radio.
-Yeah. It's hands on.
-You never know all the stuf
that goes into it.
I mean, I have friends
that worked in radio for years
and they said the one thin
that haunts them --
they still have nightmares
about it -- is dead air.
-Dead air.
-I just -- wow, that's weird
I know, it's like, I feel like
I'm a mentalist.
-[ Shushing ]
-Yeah.
-I can't stop --
-Can't shush --
No, even -- like, if a song --
if I'm in the car and a song
starts to fade, and it's almos
out, I start to panic
and call into the radio statio
saying, "It's almost over.
-What's the next record?
What's the next song?
-Get the cart.
What's next? Yeah.
-Yeah, and what would you do
Like, say a song had ended
and you didn't have
the next song?
-I would turn on the mic, and
would take calls or something,
and vamp until I could get
the next song on.
-And so, you'd just talk t
them, and just --
-Try to --
"Hi, how are you.
Where are you calling from
That's great.
What are you up to this weekend?
What are you doing this morning?
And here's Michael Bolton.
[ Laughter ]
-"And here's Michael Bolton.
-Like that, yeah.
That was big.
That was hot back in the day
-Another congratulations
is I heard that you --
you busted one of the
Kardashians' toilets.
[ Laughter ]
-Well, it was unintentional.
I took the drive to Calabasas.
I was invited to --
This is embarrassing, but I wa
invited to a big party of theirs
with all of the family,
all the sisters were there
-Yeah, what --
-And I had had a lot to ea
that day, and I had to go
to the bathroom when I got in,
and there's this robot.
Have you seen --
the robot, you know, toilets
with all the buttons.
-Oh.
-They have all kinds of --
-I'm jealous I don't have one,
but I've seen them.
-Well, they have one
and there's all kinds
of options.
-The lid comes up
before you get in.
-Lid comes up --
-"Welcome."
Yeah, like --
[ Laughter ]
-And you're sitting there and as
you're -- you -- I was seated,
and as I was seated I was
looking at the menu of options
The things you -- the things you
can do when you're finished.
And so --
[ Laughter ]
-And so I -- I chose one.
-Yeah.
-And I pressed it, and the water
level began to rise
underneath me.
[ Laughter ]
And I thought, "Oh, God,
I better hit the other button.
So, and it began to rise
even more.
And now I'm faced with one o
life's great challenges
and choices, what do I do?
Do I call Kim, Khloe, or Kris,
and say, "Help"?
Or do I press the other --
the third button?
[ Laughter ]
And risk it overflowing
or closing?
I hit the button, and the li
closed perfectly,
and I got out, went back
to the party,
and I never told them
about that.
[ Laughter ]
So if they're watching --
-So you let someone else
walk in?
-Someone -- one of the other
sisters had to deal with that.
[ Laughter ]
-They're finding out
right now.
