01:01Biblical community, free will, wanting to be our brother's keeper,
01:09not forced worldly communism at the barrel of a gun and theft.
01:15At any rate, well, I'm holding up the notes here for those behind the scenes you can see.
01:22Joining to me today is Stuart Kellogg.
01:26And, of course, first thing, nothing to do with the cereal, right?
01:32Well, my line is, I'm related, but not enough to do me any good.
01:37Oh, okay.
01:39You go back about five generations, and I got an uncle there, and he and his brother started W.K. Kellogg Company.
01:48So, we're related, directly.
01:50Oh!
01:52That's why this show wasn't scripted.
01:55Oh, you could see, there goes Boo the Cat for behind-the-scenes video.
02:00Boo the Cat wanted to be part of this discussion, apparently, but now he got bored and left.
02:06There you go.
02:07I guess he prefers post.
02:11Oh, well, I was going to say, that's okay.
02:14It did do us good one time.
02:17Can I share that quick story?
02:18Sure, please do.
02:20So, not to brag, but I mention a lot.
02:22My daughter was Miss Mississippi in 2003.
02:25Okay.
02:26Cool!
02:26Yeah.
02:27So, prepping to go to Atlantic City, it was still there at the time.
02:31And we wrote to Kellogg and said, we want to make a cereal box, and they gave us permission.
02:39We made a Special K cereal box with her picture on it, with a crown, and they gave us a case of a special case.
02:46So, that was the one.
02:49Whoa!
02:51Oh, that is cool.
02:53I hope you didn't open all the boxes.
02:56Those would be collectors now.
02:57Yeah, no, the box, all those were just cereal.
03:01The one box, they allowed us to make ourselves.
03:04So, yeah, they gave us permission.
03:08Anyway, a little story I share with you, Joe.
03:12Yeah, at any rate, and now, who knows how many people, Alpha.
03:18But, hey, not only is this behind-the-scenes video, this is now behind-the-scenes into your life across the 25-plus audio platforms, too.
03:33Before we get to the retired local TV guy, and, of course, I'll give you shit about being with ABC, and students in action building pro-life leaders, let's do the proverbial, right, Christian show, pun intended, proverbial first question.
03:55Who the heck is Stuart Kellogg?
04:00We discussed it a little, but where were you born?
04:03Where were you raised?
04:05Where are you now?
04:06That sort of thing.
04:07Sounds good, Joe.
04:09So, one of four children born in Utica, New York.
04:12So, upstate New York, in between Rochester and, no, I'm sorry, in between Syracuse and Albany, the other way.
04:19Anyway, my dad was a salesman.
04:22We moved a lot.
04:23I moved after the first grade out of Utica, moved to Pennsylvania, Ohio, ended up on Long Island, about 30 miles east of New York City, went to high school there, and then went to college in Syracuse at the Newhouse School at Syracuse University.
04:38And during the last two years there, I was the weatherman at Channel 9.
04:43It's now SYR.
04:44It was called WNYS there.
04:46And here's a little thing.
04:48And one of my competitors was Al Roker.
04:51So, Al Roker was at the CBS, and we have stayed in contact.
04:56I can tell you a story about that in a little bit.
04:58But anyway, neat guy.
05:00But from there, I noticed something, Joe.
05:04I was selling, before I got into TV full-time, the last two years of school, I sold shoes in New York City one summer.
05:12So, you're part Al Bundy.
05:14A part of Al Bundy, except a higher level, Bergdorf Goodman, Fifth Avenue, okay?
05:22And I noticed something.
05:24Every woman who came in and every woman's daughter, if they were from the South, they were all gorgeous.
05:30There was just something.
05:32And I said, I love country music.
05:35Let's try the South.
05:35I'm sick of 110 inches of snow every winter.
05:38So, I moved from Syracuse to Mobile, Alabama.
05:42Okay.
05:43Interesting.
05:44And became a reporter at WKRG-TV.
05:47And on a story at a local high school, Theodore High School, I have to clarify.
05:54I say, I met my wife at high school.
05:56She was a teacher, not a student.
05:59She was a teacher.
06:00Very important, distinct clarification.
06:03Yes.
06:04Somebody asked me that the other day.
06:05I said, boy, I've never clarified that.
06:07So, from now on, there you go, Joe.
06:09You're the second.
06:10I've clarified.
06:11So, Beth and I married in the mid-80s.
06:14We left with our two children from Mobile and moved all over the country.
06:19I was a reporter and then got into, after doing weather, became a reporter and then got into news management and then station management.
06:26So, I worked at WWL, a wonderful station.
06:29I was assistant news director there.
06:30I became a consultant for a couple of years.
06:32You know what a consultant is, Joe?
06:34Oh, yeah.
06:35He's the one who rides in after the battle and bayonets the wounded.
06:40So, that was my job.
06:43Here's what you put it in.
06:44And then I worked at Oklahoma and Dallas.
06:45All right.
06:46I'm here to give advice.
06:47Whether it works or not, eh, whatever, as long as.
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