Chapter 1: What milestones did Boomer achieve at WFAN?
Sometimes you get a phone call that you'd like to take that kind of piques your interest. And so I saw Al put this on the board. And Stephen Newark kicks off the 9 o'clock hour Boomer NGO program. Good morning, Steve. How are you?
Good morning, boys. Boom, welcome back. And boom, I want to start off by congratulating you on your longest tenure with the WFAN Morning Show.
Yeah.
Unfortunately, your buddy Craig doesn't, you know, feel the same way. So I was hoping Jerry maybe pulled the audio for you. No, I wasn't.
All right, so Steve, hang on a second. I think Eddie does have the audio.
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Chapter 2: How did Craig Carton influence Boomer's career?
Go ahead, Eddie.
I've done more shows with Boomer than any other person on the planet. Still, there's a chance Greg will surpass me a couple years from now. But for the moment, I'm that guy.
And I think if we're going to acknowledge that Boomer has now done more shows than anyone else on WFN in the morning, surpassed Imus, whatever the number is, in the spirit of WFN, because I've been asked by a lot of people, what do you think about that? I have one word and one word only. Compiler.
Compiler.
That's pretty good. I actually like it. Steve, thanks for tipping us off. That's what I am doing. I am compiling. I'm sitting here every freaking day. Oh, that was funny. Yeah, no, it's fine. Most days. I didn't know whether he was or Craig said something else that was going to be a little bit more spicy. No, that was funny. Because I had definitely a lot to come back with.
Did you think when you signed on, you'd still be doing this in 20... Honestly, you'd still be doing this 20 years later, essentially?
I don't think people... Well, I know for a fact that people here at the radio station didn't think Craig and I would last six months, let alone 10 years. So you're stepping into... And I tried to explain this to Craig many times.
I said, Craig, we're stepping into a spot where a guy sat for so long and had so many allies that were still in the building that we were going to end up working with, like Eddie, like when we started with Carlin and Lou Ruffino was over here. We had Tracy Burgess. All those people were still attached. uh, to the IMAS group.
And I, you know, genuinely liked everybody, but, uh, you know, Craig used to tell me, he goes, you know, we have to, we have to do this. We have to make it our show. And in order to do that, you have to have your people that are going to be loyal to what we're trying to do. You know, and I, I didn't think that way when we first started, cause Craig was the, you know, the radio professional.
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Chapter 3: What does being a 'compiler' mean in broadcasting?
Yeah. But I often, I often tell people that, you know, it took me about six to eight weeks to really understand what he was doing. Oh no, I know that. Because he is a, he's a showman and the four hours behind the microphone for him is like a four hour standup comedian show.
Now he'll get into some other, you know, interesting stuff and he'll certainly talk sports and doesn't want to get too deep into the woods with that because he wants to be more entertaining. Right. Which is certainly something that he is. And the guy, I actually think that C-Mac and he sound great together. Yeah.
And I'm not BSing about that because I thought he and Evan, that was hard because Evan had to change his entire, who he was when he was with Joe. So serious about baseball, always talking about baseball, very few laughs. You know what I mean? And Craig was going to be a totally different dynamic that ultimately worked too, but I think even better with C-Mac.
The beauty of C-Mac is they work together. So I think they had that relationship from the second time he was here. So I do think that works. Would you not agree that Eddie dropping the swollen testicles? On you was, I'm serious. Okay. Was like, I don't want to say a turning point, but like a moment that you can go back to where.
It was the electric play of the year.
For real though, because at that point, Eddie, tell me if I'm wrong. You weren't dropping things like that at that point. Specifically, you weren't dropping boomer sounds.
No, but he was not pleased with me, you sir. But after you got positive feedback about it, then it was game on.
I will say that, yes, it took a little bit of time for me to...
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Chapter 4: Did Boomer expect to still be in radio after 20 years?
not take myself so seriously.
I have swollen testicles.
Yeah, thank you very much.
There were swollen testicles back to 2008, right?
Yeah, and there was a lot of stuff that was going on around that. In the beginning, I'll be honest, I was a little uncomfortable with.
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Chapter 5: What challenges did Boomer face when starting with Craig?
But then the more he lost it, and I'll never forget the time where I said, okay, this is where we are. And this is when, and if I recollect, it's my recollection now, you got to remind me if I'm a little off here. When Craig... goes into Chernoff, and he says, I'm going to do the Susan Waldman impression. And Chernoff told him, no, you're not doing it. Is that accurate?
I don't remember that.
All right, so I felt like that was really accurate. And I remember Craig getting really angry, saying, when we hit number one, you can't tell me what to do. Do you remember that? Yes. All right, so this was all in lieu of all that.
Because Chernoff, I don't think, thought that would happen. I said, Mark, I don't think thought that would happen.
No, this is the way this is happening. These guys are not going to outrate Imus. There's no way that's going to happen. And when the ratings came out and we were number one and it wasn't even close. It was on. I mean, he came right out of the gate with the goodness gracious. He's in George Steinbrenner's box.
I fell off my chair laughing so hard that that, to me, that was the moment where I said, okay, this is going to be one hell of a ride.
I had two moments very early on where I was sort of testing how you were. There was a caller who called up very early on and he said, hey, man, I got the Jets' greatest plays in NFL history. Boomer's not on any of these. I was like, all right, let me put that guy through and see how that goes. And you laughed about it. Then there was the guy from way back who called you bougie.
It was the first time I even heard that term. Man, Boomer's so bougie. And then that, like you enjoyed that. I was like, all right, so Boomer can take the callers, give them a hard time.
Yeah, I can take the callers. Yeah, sure, whatever. I don't care. Yeah, but that's the thing. And then to have, and I've said this before, then to have Gio sit in a chair, and then Gio, like Craig was gone for three and a half months, right? Three and a half years. from September of 17 to November of 2020.
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Chapter 6: How did Boomer and Craig's dynamic evolve over the years?
I just know, you just know, you feel it. You know, how much longer can you go, you know, getting up every day, doing, you know. And that's why when I started, I had like five different jobs on top of this. Sure. And I tried to handle all of that as long as I could until it just got to be too much.
Right. Think about that, too. Talking about these different lives. You also had the Monday night football and Westwood won for how long? That was what, 15 years? 19. 19 years. You had the NFL today for 20 years? 22. 22 years.
Yeah.
A hell of a resume you got there. Have you ever gone into AI and said, write my resume? No. You should. It's fun. I did it the other day. Oh, you did? Yeah, it's neat. It's kind of cool. Because it takes all the information that's online and it puts it in year-by-year context. It's really cool to see. You should. New York, Maryland, the NFL. Wow. And all this other stuff.
Pretty cool. And then I can mail that out and see if I can get a job on LinkedIn or something. Is that the way it works? I suppose. I'm not really sure, but I suppose. Hell of a run, sir.
I'm not boo-booing it, but you are a compiler, as Greg said. Oh, that's nice.
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