Erica and Mark The Phone Call

Todays Call was recorded 11 3 26   Erica starts with an ebarassing story... Lets call it Badunkadank! Erica vs, a 2012 Laz - Z Boy. Airport runways layovers where Mark spent over 8 hours on the Tarmac at Houston and almost had to witness a alternative lifestyle movie and ended up worse at a airport Motel 6 sharing a parking lot with a strip club and checkin in after midnight. The Bermuda Tria...

Todays Phone Call was recorded 10 27 26 Was Erica a scalper?? Did Mark have dreams of being a rock star?? Record stores once doubled as a head shop (for tobacco use only) Was Spencers a gateway for teens? Erica;s Donnie Iris story Top 10 most expensive things you will buy. And if you dislike America what country can you retire to? 

Todays Phone Call was recorded 10 20 26   Some the phone call spent too much time talking western Pennsylvania sports and the history of the Steelers... Don't worry Mark did not talk about Eastern Pennsylvania sports and Philly... A lot of radio talk including Erica making a bold statement of willingness to work for Mark's ex Cumulus and the restructure...The call talks early internet and rad...

Todays Call was recorded 10 13 26   On todays Phone Call Erica's latest operation...the dentist edition... Radio Talk it;s Rocktober with Rollvember on deck... zany consultant fun which had almost every rock station doing the same thing over and over again. Mark runs into a rock star in New Orleans but, who is he ..He did say he wasn't anyone famous today..hmm? Oktoberfest fun as Mark may hav...

Todays Phone Call was recorded 10 6 26   On todays call the first hurricane of the season is brewing and it may be heading straight to Marks house.. Will he remain in the bubble. They keep blaming the boy (El Nino) for the lack of hurricanes so Mark hasn't pushed the panic button just yet..The two talk south beach drink prices, unaliving alone, our dads departure with no warning as they kept...

Todays Phone Call was recorded 9 29 26   On todays call  Erica and Mark decided to see if anyone even listens to the call. The checked the Podcast Playground's You Tube channel and found one phone call had one listen.. So they decided to double up and go back to weekly / weakly calls just for that one listener. Also on todays call Marks 10k IRS issue from the old night club drug days, ra...

This Phone Call was recorded 9 16 26   On todays call Mark is still on Island Time as his retirement took him to Edisto Island/Beach in South Carolina. (worth checking out). Besides Marks trip Erica and Mark talked dividing assets in a will and what famous people did with their money. Bob and Sherry a AC / Hot AC syndicated morning show they have competed against is taking their show off radi...

Todays Phone Call was recorded 9.1. 26   On todays call is Mark vs Chat Gpt ... Is it possible to frustrate Chat GPT? Apparently Mark did planning or over planning a trip to the Humans Society... Mark and his wife welcome Aslan to their home. Erica and Mark discuss radio contesting and if you never knew this you may have been what radio people called a prize pig... A new Space Port being buil...

Todays Phone Call was recored 8 18 26 On todays call we couldn't go without talking about our former occupation..The radio BUSINESS and how it is treating our friends... Marks former station now has 1 employee, when he retired it had 4 which was sad enough. Back when they started one station would have at least 15. Mark's intern from the 90s is now an OM for 3 different radio markets and lives hou...

Today's Phone Call was recorded 8 4 26 On the phone call to two no longer employed radio personalities (retired by choice) discussed saving radio..Is it possible to bring it back to the way it was? Which brought them to the shameless internet radio station plugs of their own. Will Radio Hab be back? Will it be called The Dorm? Will My Tune Radio be able to break free from all the other rock staion...

Todays Phone Call was recorded 07 21 26   On todays phone call more things are coming out about Erica's and Mark's past. Believe or not Mark was a collection agent for the bad check division of Winn Dixie.  True, and his alias at that job Bruce Diamond . They talk radio and radio consultant talk, radio stories and just how small of a business is radio? Plus, is Nashville as magical city...

Todays Phone Call was recorded 7.7.27 On todays Phone Call Radio Talk as Mark has gifted in a verbal contract the rights to  The Dorm as a radio station name. Will Erica sign her 30 year old internet radio station back on? We also talk pnhone scams and how a scam on Marks brother which included calling him put the two communicating via a phone call after years od silence. Erica is trying to g...

Todays Phone Call was recorded 6 24 26 On todays call we try to figure out just "How old is Mark?" As a normal everyday trip to Aldi's for one item takes him 15 minutes at self check out... Erica's Apple TV review, Will there be zero gravity in August? Missing and suicidal scientists? and radio talk with a large purge in one companuy and two others finding out how they can change FCC rules to make...

Todays Phone Call was recorded 06.09.26 On todays Phone call Erica Mark go back to their college days as they went to the same "DJ" school that called themself a college both 10k in debt when they left. More radio talk as Mark said he was actually fired from a live read spot and Erica took a eye glasses place live spot when she had perfect vision and wore fake glasses when Mark has been wearing gl...

Todays Phone Call was recorded 05 27 26 On todays Mandatory Phone Call of Friendship we remember Jane a fury member of Ericas family. Marks asks why a Pride Flag wallpaper is consider an upgrade on his cellphone.. Mark read an article about the latest update and was quick to notice certain brand loyalist are quick to remind people in charge that wallpaper is not an upgrade on their phone. Mark did...

Todays Phone Call was recorded 5 12 26 On their 100th recorded Phone Call the mandatory weekly phone call has now bi-monthly (no pun intended) or as Erica calls it our summer hours.. On todays call is Mark pregnant? Is Erica thinking about moving to Viet Nam? Erica's shameless un-paid plug for Velotric E Bikes (they should call the Podcast Plyaground and join our family)  Phil Collins, Reddit...

This Phone Call was recorded 4 28 26   On todays call Erica and Mark talk Miami Vice and the radio people we knew who were actually in the show with talking parts. Both loved the show and Mark re-watched / binge watched it last year. (He also watches Nash Bridges) Man Crush? The 2 traded old radio stories about the people they hung out with in Macon who were real cool for being famous musicia...

Todays Phone Call was recorded 4 21 26 On todays Mandatory Phone Call of Friendship Mark shares the news of a radio DJs passing... Bob of The Bob and Tom Show out of Indy... As syndiction was becoming popular and eveyone wanted Stern money local morning shows were being replaced by shows like B&T... Erica and Mark talk about the show and remembering the cease and desist they recieved by the B&...

Todays Phone Call was recorded on 4 14 26 On Todays Mandatory Phone Call of Friendship Erica has a new book featuring an "actual" interview with a gray that took place in 1947... Mark and his non compliance with technologhy spent the entire phone call chatting with Go Daddy on his SSL issues with his radio stations web site. Of course it cost him $130 because of his imaptience and fortunately that...

This Phone Call was recorded 4 8 26 On todays call Erica and Mark ponder if Pink Floyd was right and there really isn't a dark side of the moon... Did they really go again or for the first time?? Then a suicide pod, Gen Z slang quiz, hybrid and ev tax and a call to Erica I mean Apple support

Todays Call Was Recorded 3 31 26 On todays call ... well any call those two were AOR ... All over the road... More CERN talk and the conspiracy theory of the Mandella Effect... AI and the Asian simulated "friend" as Erica was practicing her Japanese is she getting close to ruling out all people for a AI pal? ... Where you can get vintage radio station T-shirts for radio nerds... Looking for lost D...

Todays Phone Call was recorded 3 25 26 Todays Phone Call Erica and Mark have concert stories as Mark saw Plant's new band Saving Grace and Erica saw Wide Spread Panic... Comparing concert T shirts and discusing concert behaviors that do not change even thought the audience is getting older... We also talk radio demos, record reps, Technology vs the elderly and stuck people, Nascar, Formula One and...

This Phone Call was recorded 3 17 26 No Luck of the Irish for Mark as Erica went down too many rabbit holes this week... Is there such thing as too much YouTube?? From crystals in her ears to UFOs and "special" government projects discussed in movies?? Could the new Spielberg movie be the answer to Close Encounters? Mark will never know because he has never seen Close Encounters.. No you heard rig...

This Phone Call was recorded 3 11 26 On todays call Marks old station 96 K rock get a face lift with some new old faces.... as new owners take over and old employees are back. Erica had a long week explaining to his daughter about long distance calls and operators who help make the connection...We also find out the best drinking locations, the smartest animals and more on todays call...

This Phone Call was recorded 3 3 26   On todays call Erica couldn't wait to jump on Mark about his party affilation after Mark brought up the Tampa Airport putting a ban on pajamas... Although TIA like other governmental departments have hired smart asses to handle their social media accounts and sometimes they like to troll... Mark finally convinced her he wasn't weird abojut it he was just...