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Welcome to the Approach Shot , the

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golf show that's more laughs than links

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, more stories than strokes , more

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guffaws than golfers . Here

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are the hosts of the Approach Shot , John

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Ashton and Neil Michaels , and it

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is officially time for us , the

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Approach Shot .

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I am John Ashton .

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I'm Neil Michaels . Today is New Year's Eve . Boy

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, you really did have a memorable Christmas didn't

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you ?

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You think , a memorable Christmas . I can remember something

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, but no , you would think , to

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quote Barry Mantelow , just another New Year's Eve

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, that's right , that's right .

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Have you noticed that most of the music

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regarding New Year's is depressing

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? Oh yeah , Like Barry

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Mantelow's , it's just another New Year's

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Eve . Basically , the song is like don't worry

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about it , it's just a day . Yeah

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, nothing to it . And Fogelberg's Old Angzine

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. He meets his old lover in the grocery

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store and same old Angzine and they

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cry yeah , it's

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great music , but gosh

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, it makes you want to drink , which I guess

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that's the point . I guess

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that's it exactly . So

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you said last year , I believe

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on this very show . You

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said you had a bunch

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of New Year's resolutions and

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you weren't going to do any of them because you don't really believe

1:24

in them .

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Right .

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You're absolutely right , but you would have them .

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Well , you know you have to , because people

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always say what's your New Year's resolution ? And if you say

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nothing , they look at you

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like you're some sort of cretin , right ? So

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I always tell them . I mean , and I tell people , I

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told them when they asked me last year that this

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year I resolved to lose 10 pounds

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and I checked yesterday and

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I only have 14 left to go .

1:52

Very nice . Yeah

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, my wife had a New Year's resolution to lose

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225 pounds and I

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was like so , divorce me . And

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she's like , yeah , that's pretty much . That was the joke , yeah .

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How do you lose 150 pounds , ugly , sad

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and a divorce .

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Right .

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Gotcha . So what about

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this year ? Come on

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, I'm going to be

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here when it's necessary

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and I may actually

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research some of the guests we

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have .

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Well , that would be a huge step in the right direction . Change

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you

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know what ? Just for that , I'll double you a shallery

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.

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Alrighty , then .

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Yeah . So right

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before Christmas I went to I

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went back to the East Coast , as

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people have who are listening on a regular basis

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figured out . I live in San Diego and

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blah , blah , the weather's great , all

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that kind of stuff and my kids most of

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the time don't care about it , except this time of year . They really

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hate me when I say I left and it was 70 degrees

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, and they're like go back to 70 degrees

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. So when I got there it was 55 for

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the first three days and I'm thinking to myself this

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is John Ashton golf weather . It

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is 55 , go and get out there

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and play . And then it rained like

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hell . And then the day after that

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the winds came in and it was 39 degrees

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and blustery and I heard the words

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that no West coaster has ever heard

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, which is wind shall factor . That

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was like 31 and I'm

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driving to Dulles Airport and

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on the little car that I had rented

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, a little bling comes on and it says icy

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conditions possible ahead and

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I was like get me on that plane

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, other

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things you don't want to see , and hopefully

3:39

that plane knows the icy conditions , so exactly

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. Get the ice off and

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deice it and get me out of here . We won't talk

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about that anymore .

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I got one of the other day on my phone that just said

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black ice possible

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in road , wow .

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And of course you're looking at that and you hit a patch

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of black ice and you're done and it's like can I sue

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the company , the car company ? You

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distracted me . Well , when I was there

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, I gave my kids

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their Christmas gifts and there

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were a bunch from Amazon that they just opened up

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, but the one that really got them was

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their master classes

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. I had told you

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before that I was going to give one to my daughter and one

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to my son , but I didn't . I gave one to my

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son and one to his wife because

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his wife is an actress

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. So I thought , well , maybe she can

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join you in your class , your Helen Mirren

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class . So they were super

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excited . They were like what better

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than a year's worth of knowledge

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that I can use pretty much anytime

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I want to ? And I was like you got

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it . That's the spirit .

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And you don't want your daughter writing songs that sound like

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John Legend songs ?

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I don't , and she's already got songwriting

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abilities that well , no

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, let's . Let's face it , I was cheap , it was a buy

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one get one and I had to decide who to give

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it to , and that you know . The

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cool thing about the buy one get one

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is okay , I know who I'm giving

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this to . Now I have to figure

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out who gets the other one . That's not a bad

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position to be in , somebody else is going

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to get something really amazing .

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And you don't have to actually tell them that

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, hey , this is a class with Helen

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Mirren I'm giving you . You can say , hey , this

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is a class I'm giving you

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from masterclass . You

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can decide what class you want

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, what professor you want . There's

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over what 180 different ones to choose

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from .

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That's really interesting . I will check back

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with them and find out , because

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I didn't say you're taking a class with this

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and I said that there's an acting class available and

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a voiceover class available . But

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my son likes to cook . He may end up

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taking a cooking class , that's right , I

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mean .

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A lot of times people think I know everything there is to know

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about what my chosen profession is

5:48

Right , maybe I should branch

5:50

out into something else that I would enjoy .

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That's an excellent thought , and it is a great

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way to be able to learn something that's

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sort of been on your fringes for a while . Yeah

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, so here's my challenge

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to you , grumpy yes , since

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you didn't love Christmas and you're struggling

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with New Year's resolutions , how about this

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for a New Year's resolution ? Learn

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something new from one

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of masterclass's expert

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professors . I am doing that

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, but we should like encourage

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other people to do that .

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We should Sit back and think what

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is it that you would really really love to do ? You really

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love to cook ? Do you need to learn some business

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techniques ? You want to maybe know how to

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negotiate better ? Chris

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Voss is a teacher at masterclass

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. You want to learn how to write ? You

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got the great American novel in the back of your head , Just

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can't get it on paper . Whatever you want to do

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, you can go to masterclass . You

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can find the class , you can find the appropriate

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teacher and sign up for

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$10 a

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month .

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That's crazy . I still don't believe

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that . We've been reading

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that for five weeks now . And $10

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a month , $120 a year plus

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a free one , it's really $5

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a month when you break it down like that .

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Exactly . Membership start at $120

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a year for unlimited access to one-on-one classes

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. That's a good thing too . They're

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one-on-one classes and they're recorded . You can watch them whenever

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you feel like it and over 180

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masterclass instructors . So

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the buy one , get one . It's

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still going on . We can still hook you

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up . All you have to do is

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go to masterclasscom

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. Easy

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and all right . Two memberships

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for the price of one at masterclasscom . One

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more time for the slow ones in the audience , it's

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masterclasscom Offer

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terms apply .

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Why is it that when you say I'm going to say this one

7:46

more time for the slow people in the audience , you'll always

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look right at me ? Masterclasscom

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Approach $10

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a month by one , get one . I

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got it , I got it John , and

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there's two . Ps and approach . I'm so excited

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about that and I'm so excited

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about our guests today , because we're going

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to give you a holiday gift by

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not doing an athlete , by not working

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with . This is one of those people who

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, when you and I get together at a

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cocktail party , we would pull her aside

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and we would talk old DJ

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stuff for the entire night

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. So that's what we're going to do today .

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Instead , we will be talking to a woman

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who suffers from the same disease that we have

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had all our lives , which

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is exercises today , ego problems

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.

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They call it ego DJitis . Christine

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Stone from SiriusXM Radio

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will be joining us shortly , and

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here's the funny part she's

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a crazy golf fanatic , even

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though she's a mostly classic

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rock DJ , so we'll be talking

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to her about music . We'll be talking to her about

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SiriusXM and we'll talk to her

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about golf when she joins

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us .

8:59

And that will happen immediately , if not

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sooner . Hang out , we'll be right back . We are the

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Approach Show .

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The Approach Show . The golf show that's more

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laughs than links .

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Nine-year veteran of Major League Baseball

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, Steve Psycho-Lion .

9:18

Is it the same thing ? When you're facing a fastball

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, it seems longer to get there than the minuscule

9:23

amount of time it actually takes to travel that

9:25

far .

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No no .

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Okay , then Download episode or two of the

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Approach Shot today at Apple Podcast

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, Spotify or wherever you download podcasts

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.

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And find us on the web at approachshotnet

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and thanks for hanging , thanks for coming

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back . We really appreciate the second part . We are the

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Approach Shot . I am John Ashton , I'm

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Neil .

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Michaels , are people going to come back

9:56

after the break and think

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I wonder if they're here ? Of

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course we're here , where else would we be ?

10:02

It's the magic of radio you talk to one

10:04

person Today the one was that

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came back and said hey , they knew me .

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I'm so glad that that one person did . Otherwise

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we'd be talking to each other , which we do way too much

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. Today we're also going to be talking

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with someone who is known as Stoner

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Stoney Bologna

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and the mother of rock

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. We just call her Christine because

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that's her name . Christine Stone from SiriusXM

10:27

. Welcome to the Approach Shot .

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John and Neil . Thank you so much . That's funny

10:31

, those nicknames are

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quite old . Are they ? Yeah , like Stoner

10:36

, that was before kids

10:38

. I mean , it's my last name

10:40

, of course , but it was also a lifestyle

10:43

. I was going to ask you that .

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So thanks for getting that out of the way , and

10:47

then the kids showed up and you had to explain it

10:49

, so we stopped calling you that I got you .

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Yeah , kids change everything .

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So where were you before SiriusXM became

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a thing ?

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Oh , I did the gamut around Connecticut

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radio . That's where I am now , Connecticut . So

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yeah , I worked at 95.9

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the Fox and I worked at

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95.1 I-95

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, HCN in Hartford , PLR

11:14

in New Haven , MRQ in Hartford

11:16

.

11:16

You started at WWCO in Waterbury

11:19

.

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I forgot to mention the first one . Yeah , I did .

11:23

I thought I would throw that in for you , in case any of those people were going to speak

11:25

to you .

11:25

That was a little AM station in Waterbury , Connecticut

11:28

. I took that job because

11:30

it was the midday show . Nobody

11:32

gets their first gig in radio doing

11:34

the midday . It's usually overnight . It

11:37

puts you in the graveyard . I was lucky to do

11:39

10 to 3 out in Waterbury

11:42

and that was only for like nine months , and then I went

11:44

to the Fox in Norwalk , connecticut

11:46

.

11:46

The 10 to 3 shift is the only

11:48

one that allows you to have a regular life

11:50

, because if you're doing mornings you're up at 4

11:52

o'clock . 5 o'clock in the morning you got to get to the station

11:55

, get prep , do all that . If you're doing 3 to 7

11:57

, then by time you're done , you do a

11:59

production shift afterward . You get home at 8 or 8.30

12:02

. So 10 to 3 gives you the chance

12:04

to get in at 9 and leave at 5 , and yet it's

12:06

not the sexy day part .

12:08

It's not . I guess

12:10

a lot of people aren't in

12:12

their cars for local stations

12:15

. Now it's Sirius

12:17

XM . It's

12:20

a nationwide platform , so

12:23

part of my shows are West Coast . So

12:26

yeah , I have to be mindful of that .

12:28

With Sirius XM since 2001,

12:31

. Was that at the very

12:33

beginning , or was Sirius XM around

12:35

for a few years before you came in ?

12:37

It's funny . Yeah , I started two

12:39

weeks before 9-11 and

12:42

that was super

12:44

bizarre . They used

12:46

to be called CD Radio

12:49

, which was back in the 90s and

12:51

it was doing unbelievably

12:53

well on Wall Street . And

12:56

then we actually went live

12:58

in February of 2002

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and XM

13:04

had already been broadcasting from Washington

13:06

DC at that time . In

13:09

2008 , we merged with

13:11

XM , so there's our new moniker

13:13

now , but it's not so new anymore .

13:16

Not at all . So did you ever have a real job

13:18

?

13:19

I had one job out of college

13:21

and that was a sales

13:23

rep for the Hertz Corporation

13:26

rental cars and I used

13:28

to do bookings for corporate

13:30

bookings , and

13:32

I did that for , I'm going to

13:34

say , four months and then I

13:36

got that radio job and I was gone . But

13:39

I took about a $10,000 pay cut

13:41

to do that because in 1989

13:44

, I think I was making $22,000

13:46

at Hertz but I was making $12.5

13:50

at that state and

13:53

we're probably one of the higher paid people on the air .

13:55

They used to entice people to come on the radio

13:57

and say you got a discjockey gig for you . It's

14:00

minimum wage and all the records you can carry home and people

14:02

used to take them because they wanted to do

14:04

that job . They were sick .

14:06

There is a lot of appeal . I

14:09

used to be married to a doctor and

14:12

we would go to gatherings , parties

14:14

, dinner parties , whatever . They would

14:16

ask us what we do and Neil would say

14:18

I'm a doctor and I would say

14:21

I'm a DJ . And they're like oh

14:23

a DJ . The guy just says live .

14:27

It's like Right , you don't do much

14:29

. All you do is save people's lives , but

14:31

she plays on the radio , my wife and I

14:33

.

14:33

She's a critical care nurse and we have had

14:35

this discussion because I did

14:38

in Louisville especially . I did mornings most of my

14:40

career . But I did mornings here in Louisville

14:42

for 12 years and I'd sleep in two

14:44

shifts nine at night to three in the morning , and

14:46

then I'd get home around 11 , 11 , 30

14:48

and I'd sleep from like noon to four and

14:51

my wife would say you've got to do this , we've

14:53

got this , you should take it . And I said I got to take a nap

14:55

. You work four hours a day . What makes you

14:57

so tired ? I'm not explaining the prep . My

15:00

entire life is show prep . Everything

15:02

that happens in my life is going to make it on the radio

15:04

one way or the other . And she said , yeah

15:07

, but you make a mistake . Someone doesn't

15:09

laugh . I make a mistake , someone dies , I

15:12

go . I'm not saying I work harder than you , I'm

15:14

tired .

15:15

It's just two totally different animals

15:18

. I mean , I don't

15:20

think my ex-husband ever took my career

15:22

seriously . He might now , but it's

15:24

too late .

15:25

Yeah , too late , I don't know what to do next . I

15:28

remember working at an AM station

15:30

in Virginia and my co-host

15:33

we did mornings . My co-host was Gene Baxter

15:35

, who went on to become

15:38

the bean in Kevin and the bean on K-Rock in Los

15:40

Angeles . So he did

15:42

well and I'm here with John and

15:47

we worked for $90 a week because

15:50

the general manager said the morning

15:52

show pays $180 . If you guys

15:54

both want this , you split it . And

15:57

we looked at each other and we were like okay .

15:59

Well , everybody maintains that

16:01

they're not in this business to get rich . But

16:03

I mean , when you see Howard Stern and how well

16:05

he's done , you know I guess he is one in a

16:07

million really , and the rest of us are a dime

16:09

, a dozen .

16:12

Oh no , the bean made so much money that he

16:14

had his own island in , lived on his

16:16

own island in Puget

16:18

Sound , and I'm like didn't we

16:21

start together ? Shouldn't there be some kind of sharing

16:23

? Shouldn't there be something he

16:25

was like I don't know .

16:26

He was retroactive .

16:27

Right , I don't I'm sure . Who are

16:29

you again ?

16:31

So you can . You can appreciate this , being

16:33

a Connecticut native is

16:35

I went to high school and I moved from Boston

16:38

which is where I fell in love with radio to

16:41

New York City and I got a gig

16:43

. My dad was a minister and he got me a gig with the

16:45

it's , the council of churches of the city

16:47

of New York , department of radio and television . Okay

16:50

, that's pretty cool . But one day they gave

16:52

me a bunch of tapes because they did a

16:54

lot of public service programs on the New

16:56

York stations and they gave me three little

16:59

reels of tape and they said take this down to W

17:01

ABC and make sure the guy puts it together

17:03

correctly . So I did that . I trundled

17:05

on down the W ABC . I walked into

17:07

that production room , told the engineer what

17:09

to do , sat down and he looked at me and he said

17:12

would you like to go wait in the air studio ? Well , I

17:14

get this done .

17:16

Hey , that's . That's really where you want to be

17:18

right and the air .

17:20

I sat in with Dan England for 45

17:22

minutes . Yeah . That's

17:24

probably the best top 40 disc jockey

17:26

ever .

17:27

Love Dan . I grew up listening to Dan

17:29

.

17:29

Yes , he was . He was just phenomenal

17:32

and just it was a 1971 and just

17:34

sitting in that studio it was just like

17:36

, oh God , I got to do this when I get out

17:38

of here .

17:38

I remember those guys . Yeah , you get bitten by the bug

17:40

. I mean , who else was there ? Harry

17:42

Harrison ?

17:43

Harry Harrison was doing mornings , morning

17:46

there Wrote , wrote up , wrote up in the elevator

17:48

, wrote down on the elevator . With the cousin Brucey

17:50

.

17:51

Nice . He was with us for a while .

17:53

Yeah , he was yeah .

17:55

Speaking of you've done now

17:57

. You've been doing this for long enough . Your

17:59

niche is the classic rock niche

18:02

right off the top of your head . Give us , like your two

18:04

or three favorite acts , and why .

18:06

Well , I would have to say

18:08

Led Zeppelin first , because

18:11

they're just . I mean , there's so much a part

18:13

of my growing years . You

18:16

know my big brother Charles . He kind

18:19

of turned me on to them and I

18:21

just discovered they're genius

18:24

for myself eventually , and so

18:26

that's probably number one . I

18:28

mean , I love Steely Dan . You

18:31

couldn't get more different than Led Zeppelin , and Steely

18:33

Dan Right , exactly there it is . I

18:37

appreciate their musicianship and the

18:39

originality and uniqueness

18:41

of Steely Dan's music . And

18:43

then there's Rush , who I really

18:46

didn't like in the very beginning but

18:48

grew to absolutely love them

18:50

. Saw them on their farewell tour , I

18:53

guess it was . Three years later Neil

18:55

Peart was gone . So but that that's

18:58

meticulous progressive rock , and

19:01

they have a few hits and those probably are my favorites

19:03

. But the more I listen to , the deeper

19:05

ones from Rush . Again , meticulous

19:07

doesn't even come close to describing

19:09

what they have accomplished . And

19:12

I actually have a copy of Gettie Lee's new

19:14

memoir which I'm going to hunker

19:16

down with over the holidays .

19:18

Who had the most memorable

19:21

rock voice that you've

19:23

heard A singer .

19:25

I'm going to say Robert Plant and

19:27

maybe Ann Wilson of Hart .

19:28

Yeah there you go For me

19:30

, it's Freddie Mercury , it just .

19:32

That's that . Put him on my list as

19:34

well .

19:35

Okay , because I love

19:37

Freddie Mercury , love what he

19:39

such a great voice , yeah it was so different

19:42

when Queen came out and

19:44

I think you're my best friend was a first hit

19:46

. When they came out , everybody kind of listened

19:48

to it like , okay , this is , yeah , this is good

19:51

, but it wasn't rock opera at that

19:53

point . That was something that they had sort of made

19:55

a little more vanilla so the general public could listen

19:57

. And then the

19:59

rest came and by time Bohemian

20:02

Rhapsody came out . I think we all went

20:04

what are we listening to ? But

20:06

I love it it's . Is

20:08

it rock ? Is it pop ? Is it up ? What is this ? And

20:10

that's right . Do you

20:12

still get people requesting

20:14

a lot of Queen , doobie

20:16

Brothers , three Dog Night , chicago

20:18

, some of that ?

20:20

I love all those bands on

20:22

classic rewind . We

20:25

focus more on the 80s , late 70s

20:27

, 80s and very early 90s , so

20:30

a lot of it is you know , you too

20:32

, and Tom Petty , boston . But

20:35

yeah , I mean that's , that's

20:37

what they're tuning in for and

20:40

, you know , since I'm on social media , that

20:42

is the best way to communicate with them . Yeah , I

20:44

mean , I love to play requests . I

20:46

just have to make sure it hasn't been played already

20:49

or somebody else has it coming

20:51

up later on in the day , because we don't want to

20:53

kill it . you know Exactly .

20:55

I know .

20:55

I got , I got spoiled . Living in New York City . I

20:59

took 34 consecutive Mondays off my senior year of

21:01

high school . A buddy of mine

21:03

and I we go around on Sunday and collect the

21:06

$5.50 for the good seats

21:08

at the Fillmore and stand

21:10

online at the box office until it opened on

21:12

Monday at noon and

21:14

buy the tickets for everybody for the show that was coming up a month

21:16

down the road . That was , that was our job

21:18

, and so I saw everybody there

21:20

saw the Almond Brothers .

21:22

I imagine I was there .

21:23

The Almond Brothers Humble Pie when they recorded their album . I was there

21:25

for Emerson Lake and Palmer's

21:27

first ever American concert that Bill Graham actually came

21:30

to introduce them . This is marvelous , but

21:32

my first concert that I ever went to was at Madison Square Garden . My

21:36

mother made me wear a suit coat and a tie Okay , Cause she was

21:38

like the fashion police and it was a concert , but

21:41

it was a cat mother in the all night news boys

21:44

buddy Miles Express and the Jimi

21:46

Hendrix experience . Wow , wow , that's

21:49

the first one ever . And I was sitting here

21:51

with 30,000 people at Madison Square Garden , the

21:53

only one wearing a damn well , Jimmy had a tie

21:55

, but it was tied around his head . Did you do

21:58

that ? No , I didn't do that . I should have

22:00

done that , but I didn't do that . Look , mom , I'm wearing a tie .

22:02

I'm gonna say John , I bet that jacket

22:04

and tie came off pretty quickly getting

22:06

in there .

22:06

Yeah , it did , Don't

22:09

tell mom okay .

22:11

Yeah , I won't . That's fantastic

22:13

, though , to have that as your first concert

22:15

at the Garden Wow , yeah .

22:17

Christie . What's the difference to a

22:19

listener who might not be as radio

22:21

geeky as we are between

22:23

Spectrum Classic Rewind

22:26

and the other classic hits , serious

22:28

Channels ?

22:29

Okay , so this . Well , I'll start

22:31

with Classic Vinyl , which I presume

22:34

you're asking about .

22:35

Yeah .

22:36

And then Classic Rewind . There's

22:38

so much rock and roll , there's so much classic

22:40

rock that we did

22:42

deem it necessary to have two channels

22:45

to cover both of them . Vinyl

22:47

, which is on 26 , is

22:49

all the wood stocky

22:51

stuff early Beatles , early Stones

22:53

, early who you know early 60s

22:56

up until the mid

22:58

to late 70s , and that's where Classic

23:00

Rewind takes over into the 80s

23:03

a lot of 80s , and then early , early

23:05

90s , and then on the Spectrum we

23:08

play anything we want . Basically

23:10

, we play

23:13

music from the 60s , 70s , 80s , 90s

23:16

, 2000s , 2000s , teens

23:18

and 20s . Now , that , really

23:20

, that's why we call ourselves the Spectrum , Right

23:23

, yeah , it's interesting .

23:25

I mean , I have Serious XM

23:27

and you guys are 25

23:29

, 26 . And so I cheat . Instead of

23:31

giving you two stations , on my button , I hit

23:33

25 and then just turn the thing . Turn it back , turn it

23:35

. And between

23:37

those two and Yacht Rock Radio

23:39

and Watercolors . I'm good , I don't need anything

23:42

else .

23:42

Yacht Rock is awesome , isn't it ?

23:44

I think the great thing about Yacht Rock is how they

23:46

take , how they don't take themselves seriously at

23:48

all the whole .

23:50

No , right down to the host of the channel

23:52

, who is one of our production

23:55

guys , but he just has that great snobby

23:57

voice , you know .

23:59

The first to pull the third voice

24:01

from McGilligan's Island .

24:02

Exactly .

24:05

We're not just Steely Dan cuts

24:07

. Okay , we mostly are Steely Dan

24:09

.

24:10

Yes , I know the Doobie

24:12

Brothers . That's a great channel . I love

24:14

that .

24:15

Indeed , every once in a while I

24:17

cheat and I go back to the 60s

24:20

on six , just because I love

24:22

listening to like shotgun , shotgun , tom

24:25

, and all those guys I mean .

24:27

I was in the past . I gotta tell you , John , the 60s

24:29

is no longer on channel six . That's now

24:31

.

24:32

I mean I think it's on channel seven 73 , I think . Yeah

24:35

that's how you know he's a fan , but the 60s on

24:37

73 just doesn't have the same ring to it . I'm sorry

24:39

.

24:39

It doesn't . I mean 60

24:42

. Channel six is now Pop Rocks , which

24:44

is a great channel . Deep Tracks

24:46

is another one that went up

24:48

the dial to 308

24:51

, I think and you know who was

24:53

on Deep Tracks Jim

24:55

Ladd , legendary DJ out of .

24:57

Los Angeles . Oh , he just passed away

24:59

too , didn't he ? He did , he was on Deep Tracks

25:01

live .

25:02

So yeah , that was shocking and surprising . I

25:05

think I filled in for him once when I was a part timer

25:07

on Deep Tracks .

25:09

But yeah legendary guy .

25:11

And then the doors reached out on their

25:13

Twitter and a couple other

25:15

you know heritage rock bands saying

25:17

how sorry they were that Jim had passed

25:19

. So he was close to some pretty

25:22

famous people .

25:24

Well , in those days too , when you had you know well

25:26

, wne , wfm in New York , alos

25:28

in Los Angeles .

25:30

ALOS in Los Angeles yeah .

25:32

Was it the underground FM station

25:34

? And was it KMET in San Francisco

25:36

and that the other one ? I

25:38

think anyhow those were legendary . I

25:41

mean , without those stations , most of the rock bands

25:43

that are legendary rock bands probably would never

25:45

have gotten off the ground , Right yeah

25:48

.

25:49

I mean , but that was before the days of Paola

25:51

, I think .

25:52

Oh yeah , or in between

25:54

.

25:55

Or in between . Yeah , they

25:57

do have a digital millennium

26:00

act which we all

26:02

have to acknowledge and sign off on , which

26:04

is to say that you cannot

26:07

tease a song coming

26:09

up by title and

26:11

artist . You can say artist

26:13

or title , but you can't say both

26:16

. Gosh forbid . Someone , would you

26:18

know , hit record on something and

26:20

get the whole recording . You know

26:23

from the radio .

26:24

Because when you say what a fool believes is

26:26

coming up , do you think it's something

26:28

other than the Dubbe's version ?

26:31

No , I mean like I'm going to play stairway to heaven

26:33

in a few minutes . I mean I think everyone would know .

26:36

It's the cool and the gang version Right

26:38

.

26:42

When you tease something coming up by artist and

26:44

maybe a time reference

26:46

to the song or something , I just sit there and I say

26:48

, okay , she's going to play that

26:50

. Well , that's the whole idea , yeah .

26:54

It keeps you hanging on . For the most part , yeah , keeps you

26:56

coming back .

26:56

Speaking of coming back , we want to come back and talk

26:58

to you about your love for golf and

27:01

the fact that you think your game is , to

27:03

quote you , meh yeah

27:06

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27:06

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That didn't take long , it didn't hurt , we're back . We got

28:34

the approach shot . I'm Sean Ashton .

28:37

I'm Neil Michaels and Christine Stone is talking about

28:39

teases and about what's

28:41

coming up next and stuff . I feel like we could

28:43

just leave and she could take this over , and just we would

28:45

. We could just sit here and just let her go

28:47

.

28:48

Likewise , you guys can totally have my show

28:50

.

28:52

She's on vacation . That's right

28:54

. You know where to find us , how

28:57

many people work there .

28:59

I'm going to say we have about 800

29:01

employees in our New York office

29:03

and then we have Washington

29:05

DC studios , we

29:08

have Nashville studios , los

29:10

Angeles , miami Los

29:12

Angeles is our number two operations

29:15

. That's pretty big place . I think

29:17

we have studios in Detroit . There's

29:20

probably a few that are small .

29:21

Can't forget the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame .

29:24

We do have a studio there . Yeah , we

29:26

have had a long time relationship with the Rock Hall in

29:28

Cleveland . It's a great relationship . We

29:31

were at the Rock Hall Induction at the Barclay Center

29:33

in Brooklyn back in November and

29:36

they both came on the air and talked

29:38

and said they both listened to my shows

29:40

.

29:41

I was like , wow , really , that's so

29:44

cool , you do have a tendency

29:46

to talk as if and

29:48

I know it is because you do know

29:50

these people , that you've met them and

29:53

you have stories and things that

29:55

you know , because that's one of

29:57

the whole atmosphere of being

29:59

on the radio is people expect you to know people

30:01

and to have done things .

30:03

I mean , you know , I was backstage with Hart- Wow

30:06

, but you still haven't forgotten it and

30:08

drank scotch with the average white band

30:10

and you know just things like that

30:12

.

30:13

But the stories you tell are just great you recently

30:15

did some interviews with people like

30:17

I .

30:18

just I had read that you went to a

30:20

big festival and met a

30:22

bunch of people . Ice Cube or Ice Tea Is

30:25

it Ice Cube ?

30:27

Oh yeah , probably thinking

30:29

of the Rock Hall Inductions , and

30:32

I think my first guest was Tom Morello

30:34

of Rage Against the Machine , and

30:37

then we had LL Cool J , carrie

30:39

Underwood , cheryl Crowe , peter

30:41

Frampton , chris Stapleton

30:43

. There's a few others . I can't recall again

30:46

off the top of my head , but it's usually on my social

30:48

media , instagram or Twitter

30:51

. Slash X .

30:53

That's kind of the reason that people

30:55

do what John just mentioned . You

30:57

interviewed all of those people you know country

31:00

music , hip hop , rock

31:02

and so suddenly you've

31:04

got this depth to you .

31:07

So when somebody wants to talk to you because they

31:09

want to get those pieces of that , I

31:11

learned a lot about rap that

31:13

night Because

31:15

I've never been much of a listener

31:18

or a fan . I certainly

31:20

have heard of these people , but

31:23

you know it was their 50th anniversary

31:26

of the first hip hop record . That

31:28

was an enormous milestone and

31:31

I think a lot of people didn't even know it's been around

31:33

since 1973 , you know

31:35

.

31:36

What do they consider the first hip hop record ? Is it

31:38

the Sugar ?

31:38

Hill Gang . You know no

31:41

, the first no the first public

31:43

enemy . Unfortunately the song

31:45

that was considered the first

31:48

hip hop slash talking

31:50

song like that was Rapture

31:52

by Blondie .

31:53

Okay , I was going to say Rapture from Blondie

31:56

, but I don't know if that's it because that was

31:58

late 70s and

32:00

if they had their 50th anniversary . That's why I say

32:02

it was kind of like an underground movement for

32:04

many , many of the early years , I think

32:06

.

32:07

Because , you're right , sugar Hill Gang was the first

32:09

, I think , crossover big

32:11

one . Yeah , there was also

32:13

.

32:14

But that was 78 , 79 soon .

32:17

Oh , well then . Yeah , so there had to

32:19

have been something . Maybe they just didn't cross over

32:21

and it was there , and we weren't playing it on

32:23

top 40 radio at that point , because it

32:25

had .

32:26

So exactly I mean . But for them

32:29

to forge ahead 50 years later , I think it's

32:31

pretty cool .

32:32

Pretty remarkable .

32:33

So let me ask you , Christine , what's a nice girl

32:36

from Connecticut ? How'd you get involved

32:38

in playing golf ? There's only like

32:40

six months a year to play golf in Connecticut

32:42

.

32:43

Yeah , it's a drag . I really hope to change

32:45

that at some point . Well , when I first

32:47

got married , we used to play

32:49

a lot of tennis and then

32:51

my then husband blew

32:53

out consecutive knees

32:56

, torn ACLs , so

32:58

tennis was really off of the

33:00

menu , so to speak . So

33:03

we started taking some golf lessons and

33:06

Tiger Woods was still

33:08

an amateur at the open that year

33:10

and we sucked , god

33:12

, we sucked . For the first two

33:15

years we just basically spent

33:17

most of our time at the range , because

33:19

you can't get out there and hack

33:21

and have groups behind you and

33:23

it's just nerve-wracking . So

33:26

we've been a lot of range time .

33:28

And then you just kept playing and playing

33:31

, and now would you say that on

33:33

a scale of 1 to 10 , what would you say

33:35

? Your level of crazy about golf is .

33:38

Well , me personally , I mean , it's something that I've

33:40

always wanted to

33:42

have a huge presence in my

33:44

life . I can

33:46

tell you honestly , having kids really

33:48

digs into that golf time , and

33:50

I always used to be such a snob when

33:53

I had kids . I was a 17 handicap

33:55

, which is bogey golf . Basically

33:57

, I think I had an 84

33:59

, my all-time low , which I

34:02

was perfectly content with , but I was never

34:04

reached that again and

34:06

got further and further away

34:08

from it as I was in the throes of parenthood

34:10

. So they're older now

34:12

and I really want to try to get

34:15

back into it . You know , what is

34:17

the issue now is flexibility

34:19

and strength , and

34:22

so I feel like I have to get into training just

34:24

to play golf , but I'm happy to do it .

34:27

Sounds like an excuse . Christine , that sounded

34:29

like an excuse .

34:31

It might be an excuse , but

34:34

I'll tell you both . It's

34:36

a valid reason . I was a hands-on

34:38

mom and

34:41

so they were just too little to

34:43

leave them for six hours

34:46

. Yeah exactly .

34:47

That is on the cover of Motherhood Magazine

34:50

, by the way , is my golf

34:52

game suffered because of my kids ? It's

34:55

a headline right on top of Motherhood Magazine .

34:57

Yeah , could have been by me .

34:59

Yeah , it's recurring scene .

35:01

It sounded like it was actually , since

35:04

my kids were born , I think my lowest score

35:06

was probably a 91 , which

35:09

again doesn't feel terrible , but

35:11

it's not 84 .

35:13

The average score is 105, . If it makes

35:15

you feel any better , Well , that's where I'm at now .

35:17

Okay .

35:18

That's cool . Just as

35:20

an aside , the PGA

35:23

championship this year is being played

35:25

here in Louisville , Kentucky , where I happen to reside

35:27

.

35:28

Oh really .

35:29

At the Valhalla Golf Course .

35:31

Will you be going ?

35:32

Yes , I will be covering . I have

35:34

media credentials .

35:36

Good , get me through . You better

35:38

be there , john .

35:39

Yeah . So take

35:41

a couple of days off , bring your clubs

35:44

, come on down , we'll play some golf .

35:46

Only if I've practiced . When is it ?

35:48

May , I think second weekend in May

35:50

, I think so you'll have three or four weeks

35:52

of decent weather by then .

35:54

Yeah , it's Kentucky . It

35:56

gets warm in February here .

35:59

Oh , okay , that's nice .

36:00

I have some relatives in Florence which is that's

36:03

officially Cincinnati , but that's okay .

36:05

It is , we always say , cincinnati

36:07

, but technically they live in Florence . But

36:10

it doesn't really get nice in New England

36:12

until June .

36:14

Yeah , I know , I grew up in Maine , in Boston , oh

36:16

, so you know . Then

36:19

I finally my morning gig

36:21

in Charleston , south Carolina , when

36:24

the head of the city golf courses

36:26

was a fan . And he heard

36:28

me say something about golf and he called me up

36:30

and he says , john , you play golf . I said yeah and

36:33

he says anytime man , give me a call . So I'd get off

36:35

the air at 10 , do a little production

36:37

till 1030 . I was on the first tee by

36:39

11 .

36:40

I'd play three four days a week .

36:42

I was getting good the three years I was in Charleston

36:44

man . Isn't it funny how suddenly the nap schedule

36:46

changed when he had a chance to play golf .

36:49

Oh , yeah , nap . I don't need

36:51

those stinking naps .

36:54

No , not at all . I would make that

36:56

same sacrifice .

36:57

Hey , not only are you a fan , but didn't

37:00

you also , didn't you

37:02

appear on PGA

37:04

Tour Radio on SiriusXM ?

37:06

Yeah , I was with John McGinnis

37:09

and Brian Ktrek a couple

37:11

times this past year or last

37:13

year , I should say . It was spring

37:16

, april and May of

37:18

2023 . They were

37:20

so nice , they were funny and

37:22

I only had , like you know , 10 minutes

37:25

with them , but it was , it was

37:27

fun . We were talking about the open in Los

37:29

Angeles and Ricky Fowler and you

37:31

know he was charging with a 63 the

37:33

first day and I was rooting for

37:35

him the whole time .

37:37

That's what I saw on either your

37:39

social media or somewhere that you know it was a big

37:42

headline was that you were really rooting

37:44

for Ricky Fowler and I thought , was

37:47

it just that he was the kind of guy

37:49

you can relate to ?

37:50

Yeah well , I mean , liv has really changed how

37:52

I feel about a lot of the players

37:54

. You know I used to like

37:57

Brooks for a few minutes and

37:59

then he just got entirely too cocky

38:01

for me . Same with Dustin Johnson

38:03

, and now John Rahm

38:06

is going . I mean , that just boils

38:08

down to good old fashioned greed in

38:11

my view . I guess you could really

38:13

point the finger at Greg

38:15

Norman . I mean , I think he is the one who opened

38:18

this whole box or can

38:20

of worms . You know , it's just another business

38:22

venture for him and I can see

38:24

why it's appealing obviously the money , but

38:27

other than that it's pretty empty . There's no tradition

38:29

involved . You don't see a thousand

38:31

people in the you know , at the driving

38:34

range watching Tiger Woods hit

38:36

practice balls like they did last week

38:38

. I loved that PNC championship

38:41

. I thought that was .

38:42

I'm waiting for Charlie to grow up . Man that's

38:44

, I'm going to be Charlie's number one fan

38:46

.

38:48

Yeah , he's got a lot of his younger dad

38:50

traits in him and just watch

38:52

them swing .

38:54

They are their carbon copies of each other . He's

38:56

a carbon copy of dad .

38:58

He needs to watch his cockiness because

39:00

I can already see it flourishing . But

39:03

I like the humble players like Victor

39:05

Hovland Very subtle , that guy

39:07

made the cut , I think , at

39:09

every tournament this past year .

39:11

Yeah , Every time he played made the cut

39:13

.

39:13

And he doesn't flaunt it and you know

39:15

he's , he's , he's anti-live

39:18

. So

39:21

I'm pro Victor Hovland you know , there's there's history

39:23

with the PGA .

39:24

Anyway , just one quick question before how

39:26

tall is that tree behind you ?

39:29

That's a 10 footer 10 footer .

39:31

Okay , okay .

39:32

We have some high ceilings here , so go

39:34

big or go home .

39:35

For people who are watching on YouTube , it kind of looks

39:37

like you have a 50s

39:39

hairdo , it's . It's right behind you

39:41

. So it's you've got your hair and then you've got the

39:44

tree coming right out the top of your head and it's beautiful

39:46

.

39:46

It looks like a March Simpson thing with the tree behind

39:48

you . Sorry , exactly .

39:51

I am trying to bring the beehive back .

39:54

You could pull it off . Really , you

39:57

could totally pull it off . It's because of my job

39:59

.

40:00

I've just . I've gone through years

40:02

of trying to wear my hair down and

40:04

then I take the headphones off and I've got this

40:06

kink , you know . So

40:08

I just put it up and it's pretty

40:11

much been up for at least the last

40:13

20 years .

40:14

We used to . You know people who call

40:16

people who sleep on their head and wake

40:18

up and bed head . Yes

40:20

. In radio where I grew up

40:23

, when you would take the headphones off because they were the big

40:25

cans , we would call it can head , because

40:27

your hair would just be mashed in at the sides

40:29

and then straight at the top with the right , right

40:31

across the top , where the , where the top .

40:33

Correct .

40:34

That's , that's four double A's man

40:37

.

40:39

I want to do something we've never done on this show

40:41

. We need to go into

40:43

the next segment , which is the six

40:45

pack , which is where we fire

40:48

off six questions at you . Boom

40:50

, boom , boom . We want the very first answer that comes to mind

40:53

. Don't think about it , all that kind of stuff , but

40:55

I want you to take us out

40:57

to break and then take

41:00

just take it , kristine .

41:02

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And , just as Christine said , the approach shot is

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right back . Here we are , I'm John . It makes

42:20

me wonder why we're here .

42:21

You guys are having fun , obviously , and you're

42:23

playing commercials , so you're making a little money .

42:25

That's good we are making as little money

42:27

as possible . I'm Neil Michaels

42:30

, and Christine Stone is with

42:32

us today from SiriusXM , but she's

42:34

also a voiceover artist , so

42:36

if you are a company out there that is looking

42:38

for a phenomenal female

42:41

voice , ChristineStoneMediacom

42:45

, go there . Listen to her reels , including

42:48

the incredible promos

42:50

you did for the Yankee broadcasts

42:53

. I was like damn , I hate the

42:55

Yankees and I'd listen .

42:58

Well , I only did the promos

43:01

for those games

43:03

, but their own staff at WFAM

43:06

, they would carry the games and

43:08

do the color commentary and all that . But I just

43:10

did the voiceovers for the promotion

43:13

of those games and that was a fun time

43:15

. That was only for a few years , but I

43:17

got to work with Mark Chernoff

43:19

, who used to be Howard Stern's boss

43:21

a million years ago , in those new

43:24

studios that they have in Lower Manhattan

43:26

. So that was like a train ride to New

43:28

York and then a subway back

43:30

up to SiriusXM . That was busy

43:33

. I wouldn't want to do that anymore now .

43:36

Well , now you could do it from home , probably , correct

43:38

?

43:39

All right , you guys voice track . Where do you do

43:41

the stuff live ?

43:41

There's both . Actually , I tend

43:44

to do my shows pretty much close to live

43:46

, every day , monday through Friday . If

43:48

I want a weekend off , I can do that

43:50

. I can do the weekend shows in advance . But

43:53

being at home , sometimes people

43:55

die . So

43:57

when Rico Kasich of the Cars died

43:59

, I was on the air five minutes

44:01

later with the story and Eddie

44:04

Money and Jeff Beck

44:06

I mean . So that is one of the benefits

44:08

of being at home is you can just jump

44:10

on the air whenever .

44:12

Enough chit chat . Let's fire off some

44:14

six pack at you . We're going to give you six questions

44:16

. We're going to fire them off at you . We want you to give you the very

44:19

first thought that comes to mind . If not , we'll go

44:21

because we're too cheap to buy a

44:23

buzzer , and that

44:25

will mean come on , christine , we're catching

44:27

you , let's go . You ready , I

44:30

guess ? All right . Question one

44:32

if you could have a beer and talk music

44:35

with anyone in history , who

44:37

would it be and why ?

44:38

Oh , jimmy Page for sure . Just

44:42

would I love hearing him orate first

44:44

of all . And he's

44:46

not afraid to just tell story

44:48

after story , and I think if I asked

44:51

him you know how did you come up with the title

44:53

for this song or that song ? He would remember

44:55

and give me a succinct to answer

44:57

. He's a really , really well

45:00

spoken .

45:01

Love it . See how easy that was . You're

45:03

worried about this segment .

45:04

I feel like it's going to get harder Probably

45:06

right .

45:07

Question two you have some very cool nicknames

45:09

, as we've already talked about Stoner , Stony , Bologna

45:12

, which you're going to have to tell us where that came from . Who

45:14

has the coolest nickname in golf ?

45:17

Oh wow , Do they

45:19

have nicknames ? I mean probably

45:21

amongst themselves . I

45:23

just always call everybody by their real

45:26

name and I guess it would be lefty

45:28

would be Phil Mickelson and

45:30

I'm a lefty . Even though I play righty , I am

45:33

left handed .

45:35

So they did that to you . That's

45:37

funny , he's right handed .

45:39

I'm sorry , there's the golden bear .

45:40

There it is , but

45:43

but still is right handed normally

45:45

.

45:46

but he learned how to play golf by me by

45:49

mirroring his dad .

45:51

he stood in front of his dad and just mimicked everything

45:53

his dad did , and so he was doing it all left handed

45:55

.

45:56

See . So if you're not a fan of Bill Mickelson

45:58

, you could be like . Even your nickname is a lie

46:00

.

46:03

Thank you , john . You know I didn't . I didn't know that

46:05

Phil was actually right handed . That's incredible

46:08

, it is . There was a time

46:10

when I was probably like 11

46:12

or 12 , I could have played either way

46:14

, but didn't have any left handed clubs

46:16

, so I just went with the right hand and

46:18

now there's no other way for me to do it .

46:20

All right . Question three this is the hard one . Siriusxm

46:23

has just given you , Christine , the

46:25

chance to put together a classic rock

46:27

concert with any three

46:29

living and touring

46:31

bands . Who is the opening

46:34

act , who comes on next and

46:36

who's the headliner ?

46:38

Wow , that's an excellent

46:40

question . I would probably

46:42

put Red Hot Chili Peppers

46:44

and then Foo Fighters and

46:47

then the Eagles .

46:49

Wow , I'd go to that show . Hell

46:52

yes , I'd go to that show .

46:54

Yeah , but he'd want to be calmed , Christine .

46:56

Well , of course .

46:58

And probably have backstage passes .

47:00

Of course , have you seen the Eagles ? I

47:02

don't go to a show unless I can go backstage .

47:05

I have never seen the Eagles

47:07

, though I've had tickets twice .

47:09

I've only seen them once . They were fantastic

47:11

. That was 2019 before .

47:14

I was going to say are they as great ? Because their farewell

47:16

tours have now gone on for five years . Are

47:20

they still sounding as good ?

47:22

Tight as ever . It's unbelievable

47:24

. They're a little slow getting up in the morning

47:26

, but who isn't ? They

47:28

get up there and they are just tight

47:31

. It's amazing , love it .

47:33

Love it All right . Question four the approach shot

47:35

. The approach just showed up and

47:37

bestowed upon you the power to change

47:40

one rule in

47:42

golf . What would you change

47:44

?

47:45

Oh boy , I don't know , it

47:48

would probably have to be the drop

47:51

in place . I'm sorry , scratch

47:53

, that I would want to be able to

47:55

ground my club in a bumper Nice

47:58

.

48:02

There you go . I thought for sure she was

48:04

going to say have men wear shorts . I'm

48:08

waiting for that .

48:10

Sometimes these guys are broiling out there at

48:13

these tournaments for four days and I

48:15

do feel for them . They can

48:17

go to live and wear shorts , of course . I

48:20

think they should be able to wear shorts .

48:22

There's one rule I've tried to get the USG8 to

48:24

change and they didn't even think it was funny , but I told

48:26

them that I think $4 is enough of a

48:28

penalty for a lost ball . You really

48:31

shouldn't have to take a stroke too .

48:32

There's out of bounds and there's lateral hazards

48:34

.

48:35

We had a former Miss America

48:38

on a friend of John's Heather , French Henry

48:40

, and she said she thought all men should

48:42

have to wear speedos when they play .

48:46

It could be a chafing issue .

48:51

I'm sure that's exactly what we were thinking . I

48:55

feel like I've kind of asked you this , but question

48:57

five give me the best male

48:59

classic rock voice ever

49:01

and the best female classic

49:03

rock voice ever .

49:05

Right , it's got to be Robert Plant and

49:08

Ann Wilson of .

49:09

Harden , no question . I could

49:11

argue Freddie Mercury . I could even argue

49:14

Michael McDonald . I could argue some guys

49:16

, but I don't think anybody could touch

49:18

Ann Wilson .

49:19

She's amazing . I just did an artist confidential

49:22

with her in New York recently and

49:24

she was easy to talk to

49:26

and her voice sounds great . I

49:29

think she's 72 , 73

49:31

, but she's still beautiful

49:34

and her voice is still amazing

49:36

. That was a career

49:38

high point for me , for sure .

49:40

Yeah , I heard that that was a great thing

49:42

you did with her . That was great , I enjoyed it immensely

49:44

, oh , thank you .

49:45

Thank you , john , I loved it .

49:48

That should have been question five B , which was

49:50

who have you interviewed ? That was

49:52

the highlight of your career . Let's

49:55

go ahead and back up on that . Who would other

49:57

than her ? Who would it be ?

50:00

Well , I interviewed Robert Plant once

50:02

. He was kind of full of himself . I'm

50:04

sorry , I mean I guess he has a right to be

50:07

, but I

50:09

found it a little off-putting like , come on , man

50:11

, who the hell do you think you are ? I got a picture

50:13

with him . He was very nice . I asked him

50:15

what he did behind the scenes

50:18

when Jimmy Page was in the middle

50:20

of a guitar solo

50:23

, or if they were doing Moby

50:25

Dick with John Bonham on drums for 15

50:27

minutes . What were you doing backstage , robert

50:29

? And he turns and he looks at me and he says Falaishio

50:33

, oh geez , I know I was like

50:35

, did what ?

50:39

The thing you're receiving . Did you get

50:41

him to clarify ? I did I didn't

50:43

answer that .

50:44

Oh , okay , is this reciprocal . I

50:50

kind of laughed it off , but I thought that was shocking

50:53

, shocking .

50:55

All right In question six , and we asked this of every

50:57

guest we have on the show , since we

50:59

are the approach shot . Christine

51:02

Stone , in your approach to life

51:04

, what one rule do you live by ?

51:06

In my approach to life .

51:08

To life . What one rule do

51:10

you live by ?

51:11

We're getting deep here . Well

51:13

, yeah , and for

51:15

me , I just

51:18

keep moving forward . I don't like

51:20

to look back . I

51:23

mean I'll take a peek once in a while , but I don't stare

51:25

. And

51:28

you just got to keep busy . Life

51:31

can be whatever you want it to be , but

51:33

to sit around and wait for it to come to you , it's

51:36

not going to happen . So you got to get out

51:38

there and go for what you want .

51:40

Love it . Christine , you are off

51:42

the hot seat . Well done on

51:45

the six pack and a half .

51:47

That's a good segment . That's very good . You

51:50

guys almost stumped me on a couple there .

51:52

I like when you say that's a good question . That

51:54

makes us feel good , it feeds the ego , makes me want

51:57

to do it again .

51:57

Oh wait , we'll do that we're all

51:59

radio geeks and you guys are

52:01

doing a great job . This is a great show .

52:04

Thank you Appreciate it . Well spread the

52:06

word and we will do the same . Yes , indeed .

52:08

Thank you guys . John and Neil , I appreciate your time

52:10

.

52:10

It's fun , absolutely . You too . We'll

52:13

be listening for you every day on Sirius XM

52:15

on Spectrum , and we'll

52:18

just love on you . We're

52:21

both classic rock geeks , so we're just going to love

52:23

you on Classic Rewind too .

52:25

You guys play the music both I listen to

52:27

growing up and the stuff I played on the radio .

52:29

Thank you guys . Happy holidays and

52:31

happy New Year .

52:32

Thank you .

52:33

Thank you too .

52:34

Thank you very much .

52:34

Thank you , Steenstone . Thanks for joining us

52:36

on the Approach Shot .

52:37

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