The Bill Moran Episode | Wease Family Circus | Ep 24

The Bill Moran Episode | Wease Family Circus | Ep 24

Radio is dying and Billy Moran isn't pretending otherwise. He started at 19 doing overnights in Poughkeepsie, spent 30 years on the air, and right now he's getting cut loose because the company that had him on 80 classic rock stations is going broke. This week he sits down with Wease and Jake at Captivate Studios, and it turns into two hours of the kind of stories only these two could tell. They get into why radio actually died (hint: it wasn't the talent), and Wease makes a prediction about the AI backlash and why kids are going to come crawling back to real, tangible, authentic media. Billy breaks down the difference between a businessman like Howard Stern and an entertainer like Wease, the guy whose listeners knew his kids' names and went through cancer and life right alongside him. Then the stories start: The time 5-year-old Sammy never made it to school on the bus, got found on DeWitt Road by a random couple, and Wease told them to just drop him back off because he wasn't cutting his workout short. Doreen is still not over it. The Montreal Comedy Festival road trip that ended at the Canadian border, where Billy got flagged, denied entry, and had to pay cash and do "rehabilitation" in Kingston while Wease and Jake cried laughing. Plus the Jack stack, the on-air fights defused with a John Hiatt song, the "Doreen or Michael Jackson crying" game, and the syndication seminar where Wease leaned over, said "that's too much work for the Wease," and walked out. They also get into Wease's health scare in Florida, the tequila-vape-joint combo right before a heart doctor visit, why vaping's been a gift after cancer, and Billy's wild pivot into mental health counseling, from group work to past life regression. Catch the Wease Show Reunion live July 17th at Comedy at the Carlson with Billy Moran, Cindy Pierce, BJ, and secret guests. T-shirt restock that night. Shoutout to our sponsors: Electric Car Corner on Route 96 in Farmington (we're broadcasting live out there July 24th), Cannabis Corner, and Salvatore's Pizza. Watch, subscribe, and share. New episodes weekly. Wease Family Circus. Google it, or tell Siri to take you to the Wease Family Circus. CHAPTERS * 00:00:00 Welcome and Billy Moran's Journey with Brother Wease * 00:02:15 The Death of Radio: Why iHeart and Odyssey Are Going Bankrupt * 00:04:44 Billy's Radio Origins and the Poughkeepsie Days * 00:06:10 Mark Myrard Gets Fired and the 13-Station Resume * 00:17:46 The Montreal Comedy Festival Road Trip Disaster * 00:20:56 Behind the Scenes: The Funniest Radio Moments Ever * 00:13:45 Sammy Gets Left on the Bus: The Full Story Teased * 00:23:30 Living Your Life On Air: The Authenticity That Made Wease King * 01:08:38 The Wease Departure: What Really Happened * 01:12:42 Billy's New Path: Mental Health Counseling and Grad School * 00:40:40 Social Media Haters and the Algorithm That Feeds Wease * 00:50:12 Electric Car Corner: Hybrids, Rivians, and the Dodge Charger * 00:58:20 Cannabis Corner: Vaping Before the Heart Doctor * 01:02:08 The Naked Ambulance Ride: Wease Passes Out in Florida * 00:33:17 World Cup Fever and Birthright Citizenship Irony * 00:55:13 Del Lago Poker and the Road Rage Mystery Woman * 00:57:27 The Amish Store and Souders Supermarket Discovery * 00:36:52 Bill Maher, Ranch Dressing, and Why America Is Actually Great * 01:17:38 Wrap Up: July 17th Reunion Show and Final Thoughts

Music Stories w/ Bruce Pilato | Wease Family Circus | Ep 23

Bruce Pilato has been in the room for damn near every moment that matters in rock and roll, and he did it all without ever leaving upstate New York. Three of the four Beatles on tape. 400 photos he owns outright. 1,100 celebrity interviews. This week Wease and Jake sit down at Captivate Studios with the legendary music journalist, ELP manager, and Rochester Music Hall of Fame producer for two hours of stories most people only wish they could tell. Bruce's dad gave him two rules at 18: stay in upstate New York where every band warms up before New York and LA, and never take a salary so you own your tapes and photos forever. He listened. That one call built an entire career. Inside this one: Bruce was at the Beverly Hilton the night Whitney Houston died, hours before Clive Davis's pre-Grammy party. What Clive did next, and how Jennifer Hudson ended up singing "I Will Always Love You" that night. The Drake story. Jake's brother Sammy told Bruce to write about some kid off Degrassi back in 2010. Bruce landed one of Drake's first major features after catching a sold-out Carrier Dome show and not understanding how a guy he'd never heard of filled the building. An hour alone with George Harrison that became Bruce's first USA Today cover, and how a kid's drawing of a race car broke the ice. Little Richard breaking down in tears on camera over a chandelier he bought his mama, plus the John Lennon story Richard told him that you have to hear to believe. Led Zeppelin at the Rochester War Memorial on September 11, 1971, the night of the Attica prison riot, and how Bruce ended up five feet from Jimmy Page. Plus the truth about the ELP live show that isn't a hologram, Steven Tyler on a pogo stick at FAO Schwarz, Jimi Hendrix recording Joni Mitchell in a Canadian coffee house in 1968, and Bruce's book "The Feedback: One Man's Journey." If you love rock and roll from back when it meant something, this is the one. Shoutout to our sponsors: Electric Car Corner out on Route 96 in Farmington, and The Contractor Store in Greece. Watch, subscribe, and share. New episodes weekly. Wease Family Circus. Google it, or tell Siri to take you to the Wease Family Circus. CHAPTERS * 00:00:00 Welcome and Bruce Pilato's Journey into Music Journalism * 00:01:46 Meeting the Legends: From Jimi Hendrix to Led Zeppelin * 00:18:53 The Drake Interview: How Jake Got Backstage at the Carrier Dome * 00:09:34 Emerson Lake and Palmer: The LED Wall Tour Innovation * 00:16:20 Greg Lake's Emotional Exit and the Tommy Mule Incident * 00:25:25 The Fillmore East Era and Bill Graham's Genius * 00:28:07 Electric Car Corner: Saving Money and the Environment * 00:31:15 Clive Davis and Whitney Houston's Tragic Death * 00:43:54 George Harrison: The Best Beatles Interview * 00:49:12 Little Richard's Makeup Meltdown and Beatles Stories * 00:53:39 Led Zeppelin at the War Memorial: Front Row to Backstage * 00:40:31 The Book Project: Feedback and 1,100 Celebrity Interviews * 01:09:20 Rochester Jazz Fest, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Steven Tyler on a Pogo Stick

The One Where Wease Gets Too Stoned on Camera | Wease Family Circus | EP 22

The whole family broadcasting from inside the weed shop on Clifford Ave, right next to Savoia's Bakery, for the one-year block party. Wease, Doreen, Lucy, and Jake. Fifty grand in production gear sitting next to Grateful Dead bongs and glow-in-the-dark ashtrays. Jake brought 38 and a half cables when he needed 39 and a half. Couldn't go live at first. Then built a full studio inside a dispensary anyway. Doreen got attacked by a dog this morning. Second time walking Stevie. A chocolate lab came flying off a porch and went for Stevie's neck. Doreen tripped, fell flat on the concrete. Wease screaming get up. No hearing aids in, heard nothing. The dog kept coming. Her arm hurts, her head hurts, adrenaline wore off hours later. Wease kept patting her, you're okay, you're okay. Lucy says that's what they're supposed to say. Eddie Barron's in the room. His nephew is Wembanyama's shooting coach. Eddie cheered for the Knicks anyway and wouldn't tell him. Whole family in Knicks gear. The flight back from Florida with Stevie. Middle seat filled up with Catherine from the VA in Buffalo. Loved Stevie, helped the whole flight. Wease wanted to buy Stevie a seat. Doreen said no, we'll get lucky. They did. Tommy Turner died. Tommy Corvette. Spina bifida. A decade in Monroe Community Hospital. Wrote a children's book from his bed. Doctors said he'd be lucky to see five. Made it to 53. Allie the budtender brings the goods. Sherb Cream Pie. Cherry Apple. Creamsicle Sunset. Wease thought there was actual pie in the container, took him half an hour to open it. Then he smelled it. Woo-wee. Lucy tells the one about smuggling a bong into ninth-grade summer school. Named it Blue. Walked it in every day. Last day, the teacher goes I always wondered what was in that backpack. Then the vapes. Lemon Fresh. Two-gram live resin disposable. 400 hits. Wease takes one. Oh God I'm scared. Uh oh. Jake says we're 50 minutes in, so if you fade out. Wease says I'm in trouble. The Estée Lauder guy died at 56 from facial filler. Not Botox, filler. Doreen does Botox. Lucy calls it a neurotoxin. We're pro-Botox over here. Wease goes off on the NFL rigging conspiracy. Two people on Facebook positive it's rigged, claim everyone signed NDAs. Wease says you gotta be a complete idiot, nobody can ever explain how. The NBA would print money sending the Knicks back to New York for game six. That's not rigging. That's business. Kyle walks in with a tattoo of Wease on his back. Full Rochester sleeve. Susan B. Anthony. Genesee logo. Flower city. Wease's face right in the middle. Love you forever. Lucy doesn't even have a tattoo of her dad. Wease says best production in America. Jake says there's plenty of people in this town more capable, but yeah, fifty grand in gear, none of it from what we spent to start this. All from the company. SPONSORS The Contractor Store. Vetted pros. No cocaine. No bamboozle. thecontractorstore.com Cannabis Corner. Clifford Ave next to Savoia's Bakery. Where Wease gets his herb. It's nice to be important. But it's more important to be nice. CHAPTERS * 00:00:00 Welcome to Cannabis Corner: Live from the Block Party * 00:03:16 Lucy's Dog Attack Story: Stevie Gets Jumped * 00:07:51 Eddie Barron's Nephew: Coaching Wembanyama on the Spurs * 00:12:41 Knicks Playoff Magic: The 0.4 Percent Comeback * 00:14:39 Are Sports Rigged? The Facebook Argument * 00:16:56 Hair Salons and Scalp Massages: Wease's New Obsession * 00:19:42 Marshawn Lynch in Euphoria and Bills Memories * 00:21:03 Stevie the Travel Dog: Flying Like a Rock Star * 00:23:02 Cannabis Corner Product Showcase: Vapes and Flower * 00:26:58 Electric Car Corner Preview and Ted Boylan Coincidence * 00:32:22 Seminole Police and Casino Life in Florida * 00:34:02 Product Deep Dive: Rhythm Vapes and Rosin Cartridges * 00:40:23 Jake's High School Bong Story: Bringing Blue to Summer School * 00:43:28 AI Naked Pictures and Teenage Bullying Crisis * 00:48:30 Wease Gets Too Stoned: The Vape Hit That Changed Everything * 00:54:15 Estee Lauder Executive Dies from Facial Filler * 00:57:46 Jake's Production Skills and The Contractor Store Plug * 01:00:53 Kyle's Wease Tattoo: A Rochester Legend Forever

The Book Episode: Marshall Fine on Writing Wease's Wild Stories | Wease Family Circus | EP. 21

Marshall Fine walks into the Circus. The guy who wrote the book. Film critic, author, the man who spent two years pulling stories out of Wease and his old friends and turned it into Addie's with Wease. Wease was mad about how Marshall wrote it. Until he wasn't. Until he got that Marshall had to write it in Wease's voice, because it's Wease's story, told the way Wease tells it. All the detours, all the chaos, all the stuff you'd never think to ask about. Jake built an AI index of every story in the book. Show prep on demand. One click and you're in the spider tattoo story. Or Miss Gay Rochester. Or the repo man who wouldn't turn the boat around for five grand. Or the time Wease's dad got him kidnapped. Marshall talks process. The themes. The stories that didn't make it. Why he was so locked in on Wease's father. How you take a life that chaotic and find the throughline. Then it goes everywhere. The Knicks comeback. Down 29. Doreen smacking Wease every missed free throw. 0.04% chance of winning. OG Anunoby tips it in with seconds left. Larry David and Seinfeld losing their minds courtside. Taylor Swift catching heat for being too into it. Wease defending her. The pro Palestine guy who went after Seinfeld. Said Jerry's nobody now. Marshall and Wease break down why that's insane. Seinfeld is timeless. The Knicks ran George and Jerry in a taxi on the jumbotron before the game. Man's not irrelevant. Marshall's Grateful Dead Knicks shirt. Same one for the Bills. The Yankees. The Twins. 40 years in New York, started in Minnesota, Gannett in Rochester, a year in Marin, then Westchester in '87. The 1984 article Marshall wrote about Wease. An old friend mailed it to him last week. Paper's disintegrating. The plaque's in his office. Pit bulls. Two recent attacks. One in Geneva bit a cop. Another turned on its own owner. Wease goes off. Jake and Marshall defend the breed. It's the owners. It's the training. Doreen brings up the baby. Wease says those people killed that baby. The remora that lives in a manta ray's asshole. Seven documented cases. Swims so far in you only see the tip of the tail. The whole family loses it. Marshall brings up the Mark Wahlberg movie where a fish swims up his dick. Balls Up on Netflix. The whole thing builds to that one gag. Movie talk. The Sheep Detectives, Hugh Jackman, very cute, not for kids under seven unless you want the death conversation. Company Retreat, the Jury Duty people, one guy doesn't know everyone's an actor. The Other Guys still holds up. Project Hail Mary, Marshall says 45 minutes too long, Doreen loved it. Mrs. Maisel. Jake calls the kitchen table scenes some of the best TV ever made. Marshall didn't watch it. Jake's stunned. The Bear. Marshall quit after two episodes, his kids dragged him back, now they're hooked. The Comeback with Lisa Kudrow, Marshall's pick, a reality TV spoof across 20 years. Welcome to Wrexham. Reynolds and McElhenney buy a dead last Welsh team and promote them three years straight. Jake says greatest sports story ever. Marshall says reality TV. Jake says documentary. It's a biopic of a town. The World Cup. US plays Australia tonight. Soccer just passed baseball in America. Was 69th, now third. Marshall says media figured out they could monetize it. Jake says any kid can play. You just need shin pads. Marshall's son got hooked on cricket by the West Asian families in his neighborhood. SPONSORS: Cannabis Corner 1 Year Block Party. June 20, 2 to 8 p.m. Wease Family Circus live. Free food, DJ, vendors. Clifford Ave next to Savoia Bakery. The Contractor Store. Vetted pros. No cocaine. No bamboozle. thecontractorstore.com. Electric Car Corner. Previously enjoyed electric cars. Route 96. Save money, drive green. It's nice to be important. But it's more important to be nice.

Wease Buried a Burger King Bag and Called It a Funeral | Wease Family Circus | EP 20

Wease buried a Burger King bag in the backyard and called it a funeral. Lucy's hamster died while the family was in Florida, so Wease threw the whole cage in the garbage. Lucy wanted a real burial. So they stuffed a Burger King bag in the ground, held a full ceremony, and mourned a Whopper wrapper. Nibbles the hamster got fast food last rites. Full house this week. Wease, Doreen, Lucy, and Jake all in the room. Bruno Mars in Toronto. A fire alarm at 5 a.m. Two hours outside in the cold. Eleven flights of stairs. The trip almost ruined before it started. Tommy Turner died. Tommy Corvette. Spina bifida. A decade in Monroe Community Hospital. Wrote a children's book from his bed. Doctors said he'd be lucky to see five. He made it to 53. The Sabres season. Jake cried multiple times this year. Game seven was the most exhilarating emotional roller coaster of his life. Montreal got destroyed by Carolina. Buffalo would have played them tougher. Everyone knows it. Welcome to Wrexham. Ryan Reynolds bought a dead last Welsh soccer team and promoted them three straight years. Jake calls it the greatest sports story in the history of sports. AI is getting scary. Doreen and her friend used AI to drop six hot single guys into a kitchen photo and sent it to the Portugal yoga group. Then they did it again with refrigerator repairmen. Mike Amalfi thought the guys were real. The surprise debate. Wease hates surprises. Knowing you're going to Vegas beats being surprised with Vegas because you get to look forward to it. Then the story of Carrie the nanny popping out of a box. The baby deer saga. Jake found a baby deer crying in Lexi's yard. The dog thought it was its mom. The next day there was one in Jake's own backyard. Mom came back at dusk and took it. Riley thinks Wease is Mimi's dad. She's known him her whole life. These grandkids don't know anything. Bentonville, Arkansas. Bike capital of America. The Waltons built the whole town. Subsidized ice cream, a dollar a scoop. Jake says it tastes like money. The Contractor Store. After getting scammed by a coke head contractor, Wease is all in. Vetted pros. No cocaine. No bamboozle. thecontractorstore.com. Electric Car Corner. John from Cannabis Corner opened Electric Car Corner on Route 96. Previously enjoyed electric cars. Wease says hybrids charge themselves. Ronin turns off all the lights. Better than Jake. Better than Bianca. Wease tortured Jake and Lucy in Florida checking closets. Adam's closet light is always on. Radiant Mobile. The Christian cell phone company. Blocks porn, blocks LGBTQ content, blocks parts of Yale's website. 29 bucks a month. Same network as Trump's phone. Twins with two different fathers. Ultra rare. Two men, two eggs, days apart. Found out years later from a genealogy test. UPCOMING: Cannabis Corner 1 Year Block Party. June 20, 1 to 8 p.m. Wease Family Circus live podcast 4:30 to 6. Free food, DJ, vendors. Clifford Avenue next to Savoia Bakery. Books available for signing. Wease Show Reunion. July 17. Comedy at the Carlson, part of the Rochester Comedy Festival. BJ, Cindy Cummins, surprise guests. Proceeds to the Rochester Cancer Alliance. It's nice to be important. But it's more important to be nice. CHAPTERS * 00:00:00 Welcome and Bruno Mars Fire Alarm Drama * 00:03:02 Baby Deer Rescue: The Neighborhood Wildlife Encounter * 00:05:13 Tommy Corvette Tribute and Sabres Playoff Heartbreak * 00:09:58 Welcome to Wrexham: The Greatest Sports Story Ever * 00:28:09 Gay Pride Month Controversy and Taking a Stand * 00:38:40 The Contractor Store: Lessons from Getting Scammed * 00:44:10 Bentonville Arkansas: America's Bicycle Capital * 00:54:21 Electric Cars and Turning Off the Lights * 01:00:58 News Clippings: Christian Phone Service and Twin Daddies * 01:09:13 The Surprise Debate and Upcoming Shows