This was fun.
Every weekday morning, we listen to KZOK. Danny loves it, listened to it for years before he met me. When he told me that he listened to a morning radio show, I sort of flinched. Was it going to be incendiary political discussion, or stupid fart jokes? Could I stand that much talking in the early morning?
He convinced me after one listen. Bob, Spike, and Joe — plus assorted characters like Arik the Director and Kaci (and now Maura) the newsgirl — have been friends for over a decade, and their conversations about the news, music, and comedy are lively and comfortable. They’re smart. They’re involved in the world. And sometimes there are fart jokes.
They’re funny. For some reason, I can relate to them. The way they think of things is how I think of things. I don’t always agree with them, or all of them, but they make me think, and they’re good people.
They care about people. Look at all the times they have gone to Africa, into little villages that most people have never heard of, much less knowing where the country is.
And you hear about Bob’s sons, Joe’s daughter, Spike’s daughters. You feel like they’re family. Dropping in on the morning, you hear bits of what’s going on. They don’t divulge a lot about their families, but when they do talk, they make you feel like you’re part of it.
It’s a great way to start the morning. I feel like I’m walking naked through the day if I haven’t heard part of their show.
Their bantering makes for good listening as we read the paper and drink our coffee.
Yesterday morning, they were talking about pork, how ridiculous they found it that people were suddenly afraid of eating pork. Downtown Joe decided to take the pork pledge, to eat pork every day for a week to show that you can eat pork and still be healthy. (you know, that flu thing.) So we called in, laughing, saying we have a blog about pork, called Pork Knife and Spoon. You could try some recipes.
Instead, they asked us to come in the next day, with some pork, and be their guests. So we did.
Danny butterflied another pork tenderloin from SeaBreeze farms, made some chorizo with their ground pork, and roasted it last night. This morning, we woke up early (not really a problem, since we have a baby) and hopped on a ferry to make it to the KZOK studios.
We had a fabulous time with the crew, standing in the studio as comedians came in, singers auditioned, and the guys bantered in that small space. Our Little Bean was particularly delighted with Spike, with whom she flirted for the entire hour.
But our favorite moment was watching Downtown Joe (shown here) diving into the pork tenderloin, drizzled with cherry preserves. He posed for this photo, and then took a bite. “Oh yeah,” he moaned. “That’s the good stuff.”
They’ve asked us to come back next week, on May 5th, for what they are calling Cinco de Puerco.
Life is never boring around here.
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