00:00our actual anniversary date which is May 4th may the 4th be with you 1996 when we showed up
00:08on the new sports weekend after the sports jam yeah which is Earl Forsey and Dan Daly had a show
00:17and I remember being nervous I remember having you know I'd prepared like an outline for the show
00:24and then Jason swerved and maybe we planned it I don't really remember but I remember the first
00:29topic was the Kentucky Derby because the Derby was coming on yeah like a half hour later and I just
00:35remember us making jokes about the horses in the in the field like the names of the horses because we
00:40knew nothing about it how appropriate too I mean I don't want to distract we can talk about it later
00:43but what an unbelievable Derby it was on Sunday um but yeah I remember that I don't think it can
00:49be
00:50overstated how uh how big a deal it was for us to kind of make our debut on radio on
00:58this iconic
00:59station uh just a massive station that I know a lot of us listen to uh and I remember like
01:05hearing
01:06Earl and like Earl was kind of an idol of ours because he worked at TEM which was you know
01:11the
01:12the uh the original sports station in town that had just started I don't know what did what did TEM
01:17debut 1990 or something like that probably in the early 90s if I had I'm just guessing I don't yeah
01:22I
01:23don't know so let's say five or six years or so you know you'd listen to to Earl and all
01:26in all those
01:27guys and to hear him and then that we were going to come on after and it was our first
01:32time ever
01:32doing it live on radio we piled into that small studio yeah because Earl and Dan Daly I almost feel
01:41like remember Jason used to sit in that little side studio yeah because we couldn't all fit in
01:46yeah I feel like those two guys were using the two studios and then we piled into that one studio
01:52with Jim McClure running the board on those first shows yeah really really special time uh we were
01:59super excited about it and I got to give you know it's not said enough how much credit you got
02:04to
02:04give Jeremy Coleman and Jimmy um for believing in us and and just pushing us I'll never forget they
02:11just they just said give us more give us more give us all you got and we'll reign you in
02:15and they really wanted us to just go for it and we did and it was fun huge risk by
02:22them I mean
02:22this is a huge massive station in the top 10 market and they're they're giving well complete
02:27unknowns a real shot now the truth is it was on the weekends yeah right so you don't have as
02:32big
02:32an audience but yeah for sure I mean they didn't say all right guys we like you but you get
02:36you know
02:37you got to go to Salisbury you got to go work at Salisbury for a year or two and then
02:40hit us up
02:41after you guys refine your skills they're like no make all your mistakes here throw you in the
02:45deep end right at the beginning you know it's like think of guys that like made their major league
02:50debut in the big leagues that's kind of what it felt like generally doesn't happen that way yeah
02:54no it's fun because we were all 25 years old yeah I think I was still 24 but I was
03:01we were 24 25 years
03:02old radiophile yeah we got that shot and and they had started the sports weekend because they had just
03:09bought the rights to the Redskins so it was WJFK Howard Stern in the mornings Don and Mike in the
03:14afternoons they had G Gordon Liddy they had the grease man but they started this weekend and the
03:19sports weekend format it was all traditional except for us radio insider it was Larry Michael with Charles
03:26Mann it was Earl Forsey with Dan Daly who wrote for the Washington Times and then four knuckleheads
03:32they said just go and that's what we did I thought Dan Daly was so talented too but I think
03:37honestly he was so sort of annoyed by us and our youth I think we drove him out of the
03:43business
03:44I'm not kidding I don't know I don't I think he just got annoyed by it by the attention it's
03:48very
03:48possible that we got and he was so talented I really liked him but I think he I don't well
03:55he
03:56quit radio when we got offered the full-time job that's what I'm saying I think we straight up quit
04:00radio and the funny thing about Dan Daly I'll say it now I used to feel uncomfortable saying it is
04:04he never hung around after his show except for the one show when we had stripper come in
04:11well I'm not saying that I said it but it happened he definitely was resented us um and it's a
04:22shame
04:22because I always enjoyed him I thought he was a really smart funny guy um and we liked all those
04:27guys I mean the coach at some point the coach joined coach I think was on Sundays yeah we were
04:32part of the Saturday sports weekend and eventually we expanded to Sundays he was always supportive
04:36and that was a guy that I was semi starstruck by because I mean he was on the team he
04:41was a big
04:42name Kevin Kiley yeah we grew up listening to them yeah what's funny about Jason missing this show is
04:49if you look at the first five or six shows that we ever did on the weekends I think cakes
04:55maybe missed
04:56one I think EB missed two because he got married it was on my honeymoon he was on his honeymoon
05:01was that in within the first month I don't know like the first the first month or two I mean
05:06I
05:06guess I got married July 6th yeah so I guess maybe two months in yeah maybe like I know that
05:11because
05:12cakes and I did a show with the coach right because it was just gonna be me and cakes so
05:17I don't know
05:17Jason was missing you were missing yeah rotating junkies and I don't think people also understand uh
05:23like when we did the show so the first thing that we did actually sort of like a week before
05:28is
05:29we did a demo for them so we went into this cramped little studio that later became our studio
05:34and we did a demo and they this is literally their quote I'm sure JP's got it in his book
05:39where he said
05:39well that didn't suck you guys want to come back and do it next week right and we're like sure
05:46and
05:46they were like live like yeah just do it live on here and so we did a demo and they
05:52just kept
05:53saying that wasn't terrible do you want to come back next week so it was really week to week right
05:58oh yeah there was nothing guaranteed nothing at all it was very tenuous I mean we could have
06:03blown it easily somehow I don't know how we could have cursed or something I don't know what we could
06:09have done um but they just kept saying come back come back come back uh to the point where we
06:16got
06:16kind of comfortable eventually you know they gave us some sort of terrible one-year contract um and
06:22eventually you know I'm sure JP's got well documented that we got the opportunity to work
06:26during the week but that first year of just working weekends we'd get to you know now now we get
06:32to
06:32the station 10 minutes before maybe five minutes before cakes is maybe here 20 minutes before we
06:37used to get there a couple hours before just go in the uh the little kitchen there and just prep
06:43remember that we just prep sure back in the day it was just anxiety just trying to see what the
06:49hell are we going to talk about I said this to my daughter who's uh you know transitioning into the
06:54professional workplace and you know she works for a major consulting firm and she has a major massive
07:00client that she works with on a daily basis and you know it's stressful and I said I can relate
07:05even
07:06though this job is bizarre I I can remember in the early years feeling what are we talking about
07:13tomorrow what are we gonna do we're gonna do another four-hour presentation tomorrow we just
07:19got through this one what are we gonna do tomorrow but those early shows were fun in this respect this
07:25is what we miss out doing the mornings there were a lot of live events happening so yeah that very
07:30first show like I said we were broadcasting during the Kentucky Derby and then Jason early on there
07:37were baseball games he had his little beeper they're in the uh I mean I don't remember the exact year
07:42the Mark McGuire Sammy Sosa he was definitely betting by the way but we were following all of
07:47that live right he's never changed we started like 15 or 16 yeah yeah so you know we had a
07:52gambling
07:53element from show one that said you know I remember doing that first show and feeling like it was
08:00special Eric's talked about this and in channel four piece I think you mentioned it um you know we
08:06started doing the tv show it was like okay we got something let's see what we can make of it
08:09but back then when we showed up and I'm 25 years old there's no way I would have thought I'd
08:15be here
08:1630 years later so we got to thank the listeners first and foremost if I go back to that first
08:20show I
08:21remember getting calls from a lot of pizza delivery drivers that carried us during the weekends I used
08:26to log everybody that called into the show so if it was like Joe from Centerville and then I'd give
08:30it
08:30to the bosses and hey we took 15 calls today and um we really appreciate it for all of you
08:36that have
08:37helped make this thing happen uh the mayor gave us the proclamation it's sports junkies day in DC
08:42it's 30 years of the junkies officially today we started on May 4th 1996 if you want to check out
08:49the piece on channel four I think it's going to run again here in a couple of minutes we'll play
08:53some
08:53of the audio when we come back if you were an early listener a legit early listener and listened on
09:00the
09:00weekends you can give us your memories 1-800-636-1067 that's when we played music underneath
09:07the show throughout the show so uh thank you to our guy Cole that did the intro for the show
09:12uh today I think Valdez is playing like hits from the 90s right from that yeah our rejoiners are going
09:18to be all throughout billboards top 100 from 1996 you know if you got if you have uh suggestions that
09:25you guys want to hear from 96 maybe a song well I just remember we played local h all the
09:29time
09:29what was hot in 96 look at the billboard and tell me which non-country and non-rap song you
09:36want me to
09:36play okay well these is local h in the machine because we played that over sure I can come back
09:41with that over also seven mary three yeah I was just saying that for seven mary three i love them
09:461-800-636-1067 is the number we will talk some nba playoffs in the show there were a bunch
09:54of game
09:55sevens over the weekend tim bond temp senior nba writer for es panel join us coming up at nine
10:00o'clock we're the junkies celebrating 30 years today don't go anywhere
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