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weekday mornings
Funny Name, Funnier Show
Weekdays 5am - 10am
104.9 The Eagle now has the show everyone in Limaland has been talking about! Join Free Beer, Hot Wings, Eric Zane, and Producer Joe every weekday morning from 5am - 10am...
The show has a morning talk format featuring hosts Free Beer (Gregg Daniels) and Hot Wings (Chris Michels), the namesakes of this show, along with Eric Zane and Producer Joe. Joe serves as the call screener and is not part of the normal three-man discussion, but checks in throughout the show. The others talk about daily events, mixing in their own blend of humor and sarcasm, and Zane's board of obscure and absurd sound clips.
The show also occasionally features Dude Shadoway, who conducts interviews with various C and D-list celebrities, to the celebrities' disadvantage. Certain traits of these interviews include the repetition of the vague show identification (Power Stereo FM) at inopportune times, random awkward silences, deliberate confusion of words as well as confusion over the identity of the guest
SEGMENTS INCLUDE:
- Idiot of the Day, a daily segment profiling a person who has done something particularly stupid..
- What Hot Wings Thinks, a daily rant about things in the news.
- Name That Tune, a segment where Joe picks out some random music and plays each from the beginning, while Free Beer, Hot Wings, Zane, and two listeners compete to see who can name the tune and artist first. Joe's selection of music sometimes leads to ridicule from the others, such as the time he featured the song "Brand New Key" by Melanie. Melanie's music has since become a cliché on the show as listeners call to complain about hearing the song.
- What Can Joe Do?, a Wednesday segment where Joe is put up to unusual and often embarrassing tasks either inside the studio or in public. Some examples are walking through a car wash, licking a hobo's hand, and eating cookies baked with Ex-lax. One of his latest stunts was to run through a paintball gauntlet where about 80 people with high powered paintball guns shot at Joe. He was only wearing a T-shirt and a speedo.
- Sounds of the Game, a weekly segment during football season where suggestive-sounding clips from actual football commentary from the past week are played, out of context.
- Dumber Than Zane Trivia, a Thursday segment where Zane and a caller compete in a series of trivia questions. In late 2006, it went from $100 per week, to $250 per week, thanks to network wide sponser, Cat Footwear.
- Free Beer's Sportier Than Thou Challenge, a segment where Free Beer and a caller compete in a series of sports trivia questions.
- PA Pranks, a segment where Zane visits a store, calls the store while there, gives a suggestive name, and asks them to page this person to the front desk. Each year, around the time of the yearly March NCAA basketball tournament, the past year's PA Pranks are pitted against each other in an online tournament, where listeners can vote on the funniest prank.
- Wheel Of Bad Games, a daily segment in which listeners can call in to try and win in one of a number of games. No longer referred to as the "Wheel of Bad Games" as, after more than 4 years, listeners finally called them on the fact that they weren't really spinning the wheel; they played the same games on the same day every week.
- Most Important Interview Ever, an occasional and experimental segment, where Free Beer and Hot Wings use their real names on a fake show called "Light Rock and Classic Talk with Gregg & Chris." They have a "round table" discussion with (usually) two people: a real author/director/etc., and a fake person in the same line of work as the real person, played by Zane. The interview usually proceeds with Zane's character making outrageous statements, personal attacks on the other person, and generally trying to make the unsuspecting victim look stupid. Listeners who call in are allowed to participate, in contrast to Dude Shadoway's interviews.
Find more details by clicking on the AT Childrens Project link above |
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