Above the bridge
Above the bridge
Episode 139 JIMMY "DA GEEK" BENDER (Radio producer KSSK & OC16 sports talent)
Jimmy Bender, better known as "Jimmy the Geek," graces the Above the Bridge podcast with his vibrant storytelling and unique insights into Hawaii's sports and entertainment scene. Known for his dual role as a radio personality and high school sports commentator, Jimmy takes us on a nostalgic journey from his early days at I-94 to his impactful presence on Spectrum OC16. Discover the story behind his catchy nickname and learn about the radio legends like Michael W Perry, who shaped his career. Join us to celebrate his enduring contributions and get a behind-the-scenes look at the world of Hawaii radio and sports.
Exploring the evolution of music technology and radio broadcasting, we chart the fascinating transition from physical media to digital formats. Jimmy shares how these changes have reshaped the industry and enhanced the experience for both DJs and listeners. Through amusing anecdotes, we revisit the cultural adjustments of moving to Hawaii and celebrate the power of music and laughter in bridging cultural gaps. Hear tales of local parody groups and iconic bands that have left a mark on the community, and dive into the vibrant culture that makes Hawaii's music scene so unique.
As we look towards the future of radio, we discuss its challenges in the era of streaming platforms and podcasts while highlighting the enduring appeal and personal connections of live radio. From celebrity encounters to thrilling high school sports coverage, Jimmy shares memorable moments, including encounters with TLC, the Marley brothers, and more. We wrap up with exciting discussions on young athletes rising to fame and the positive impact of supporting local sports. Join us for a lively conversation with Jimmy Bender that promises entertainment, inspiration, and a touch of nostalgia.
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Speaker 2:Lastly, I just want to thank everybody for tuning in. If you could like subscribe, leave a comment it matters on our youtube, our podcast platforms, whatever you can. You also can check out our website at atbpodcom. Thank you for your support and aloha. Okay, this week my guest is somebody I had. I was explaining to him earlier that he's on my bucket list of guests that I wanted for this year. Somebody I've been a fan of since I was pretty much a kid. He's been on the radio. You see him on the sidelines at every single high school sporting event that's covered by Spectrum OC16 Sports, and somebody that I really am a fan of Jimmy Bender. Jimmy the Geek B bender. What's up, man?
Speaker 2:are you how? You doing brother I'm doing good, bro. I'm super stoked to have you on and I appreciate the time being that. I know how busy you are and, yeah, I definitely appreciate you coming on awesome to be here, man yeah. So how's everything with you, man? It's been. Do you still go, uh, by the geek?
Speaker 1:yeah, on on the radio. I still use that.
Speaker 2:This on oc16 is jimmy bender okay, that's gonna be the title that's gonna stick with you forever, I guess forever and I knew that from the get-go.
Speaker 1:It was one of those things that just like people were like what did?
Speaker 2:you say well, you named yourself the geek, or like someone yeah, somebody gave it to me oh, how did that come about?
Speaker 1:so I don't know if you're old enough to remember. There was a sportscaster guy by the name of jimmy the greek, uh, back on cbs back in the day and he had gotten in trouble for making some racial comments. This is back in the late 80s, right? Um? And so the headline was in the paper when I'm in my boss's office and we're trying to come up with a radio name for me, and so there's the headline says jimmy the greek fired blah, blah. And my boss looks at me and he's like you should call yourself jimmy the geek.
Speaker 1:And you know, keep in mind I'm. I'm like 17, 18 years old, right out of high school, basically I weigh like a buck, 20, soaking wet, and I've got braces, and you know. So he throws that at me and I was kind of like no, how about? Uh? But you know, he, he, just he kept kind of like yeah, you should really do it, you should really do it. And so finally, a few weeks later, I just went on the air without saying anything to him and I used it and, like I said, the response that I started getting was like what? And I knew that we had something.
Speaker 2:So yeah, that's pretty cool. How did you get started in ringo? I think, if I can remember, you were with um daniel tucker and michael uh, what is it? Oh q sang, q sang, michael q sang. No, are you with those guys?
Speaker 1:No, I started at I-94.
Speaker 2:Oh they were 93 FMQ. That's right, right, Right, but that's what I grew up listening to right.
Speaker 1:I listened to them. But the way I got into radio is right out of high school I had to go get a job. My friend helped me get a job at a Hallmark store that was in the Davies Pacific Center downtown. At a Hallmark store that was in the Davies Pacific Center downtown and that's the same building I-94 was in right. So I would you know the DJs would come down and we'd talk story and eventually it kind of became like hey, do you want to come up and work with us? And I was like sure that's super cool.
Speaker 2:Were you in high school and when you were growing up were you like the class clown, center of attention, the guy making all the jokes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, kind of I've done voice impressions all my life and it was the voice impressions that kind of got their attention. They were like, hey, you should come up and do some of these on the radio with us. So I've kind of always been that. But I never in my wildest dreams thought I would do radio for a living. I thought I was going to go to college and whatever. And yeah, it just presented itself and I was like, yeah, I want to do this. So it worked out.
Speaker 2:Wow, that's super cool and it's been a couple of decades of your career and I've been a fan of you and I explained to you yesterday I I wanted to double check, but I remember my friends brought me to a local wrestling event. That's right jimmy the geek was uh one of the contestants in a.
Speaker 2:Jimmy the Geek was one of the contestants in a WWE local style wrestling match and I remember it clearly because you threw out T-shirts and I was one of the fans who caught it and it was a green Extreme Radio T-shirt and I wanted to know at first when I asked you I want to make sure that was you because I'm pretty, I pretty have a good memory, so I kind of remember it being you. But how did that come about? And that was that was a long time ago.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I can't remember the name of whether it was AZW or whatever the wrestling organization was, but when I was at Extreme Radio, they, they came to us wanting to do some promotions. So initially actually, uh, cutmaster spaz and one of the other djs at our station did a match, a tag team match, with two of the guys, and to promote it we had the guys come on the radio with us and you know, set it all up that they were gonna to beat me up in the studio, like I. Literally I had to call my wife and I had to tell her, no matter what anybody tells, you, don't worry, I'm okay. And sure enough, her dad had called her. Like, oh, I heard something happened to Jimmy on the radio, but she knew already because I had told her ahead of time.
Speaker 1:But so we set that whole thing up, and so the next time they came to us then it was. Then they said, okay, jimmy, now you're gonna be the one that's gonna wrestle. And so I had to go. You know, ever beach they had like, uh, some backyard, they had a big ring set up there and we had to practice and everything. And that was a lot of fun, man, that was a lot of fun, that's super cool.
Speaker 2:I always lot of fun. That's super cool. I always wanted to do that, being a wrestling fan growing up, that was cool. Yeah, it was a legit organization. Back then I think we fought Judo Punk.
Speaker 1:I forget. That's the only guy I remember. Yeah, that sounds right, yeah, yeah yeah. The only thing I regret is I never went on the top rope.
Speaker 2:I only went up to the second rope well, you're pretty tall, so that's pretty high up. That's cool. I always wonder like the, the ring and stuff is reinforced by springs and stuff.
Speaker 1:It's not like you're not landing on solid ground yeah, it's bouncy right, and so that took some getting used to it. And even the ropes, I mean, you know they're a little, they're a little harder when you hit into them than you think. Um, but yeah, it's just it was. It was so much fun, man, yeah yeah, I couldn't do it now. I'm 55 and no, there's no way I could do that now, but you could be a wrestling manager.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's super cool. So you work for extreme. Back in the day, I remember a long time ago, there was something called radio free hawaii yeah, I remember radio free, yeah and I kind of like that station because there was no kind of genre it was targeting. It was you could listen to rock, yeah, r&b, rap, whatever, it was all on one station, but that kind of I mean it literally was.
Speaker 1:I mean you could hear Barry Manilow next to Metallica. That's kind kind of you know cause it was. It was literally based on whatever votes they got positive. I mean it was a very interesting concept. I just think it was at the time kind of hard to monetize it, I guess, and keep it going. But it was an interesting concept and it created a buzz.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, that was a cool, cool radio station. As you've been in radio for so many years, what do you see? The changes from back when you started to what it is now?
Speaker 1:So A that makes it so much easier. You know, before we used to have to like every hour you had to go and pull all your. When I first started it was called carts, which looked like you know, eight track tapes, right, so all the songs, all the commercials. So you had to pull your hour stack of music and commercials and you know, plug them in and play them, and you know, then it became CDs, so you had to go stack your cds. Um, but once everything was on computer, I mean everything's so much easier, you know, and and even for me, like as a production guy, editing stuff, you know, because you can see the waveform and so like, everything just became so much easier, yeah.
Speaker 2:I definitely, I definitely understand that, being in the club industry for all these years. I've watched our DJs carry milk crates of records to the books of CDs and now all they have now is a thumb drive and it's crazy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, these young DJs.
Speaker 2:I remember pulling up to world cafes and unloading the van within like three milk crates, with the hand truck and wheeling them yeah, yeah, these djs got it made and even even with software and video editing and obviously with the radio, it's been, it's been convenient and it takes away of of the learning process a lot, and I was talking to one of my guests who does video and it's like all the stuff that it took for you to learn how to do something now becomes a app on your iphone and you can do it right waiting in line at.
Speaker 2:Target.
Speaker 1:Well, you know, I mean you know from the DJ side. You know, you know all the controllers now that have a sync button to automatically try to beat match stuff, where before we had to listen and pitch it this way. I want to pitch it this way and you know, now it's just like push a button.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I want to pitch it this way, and you know, now it's just like push a button, yeah, so you grew up here in Hawaii or you kind of moved in from the mainland, yeah, so I was a military brat, right, so we lived all over. I grew up in Southern Cal as a young kid, then we went to Michigan and Kansas City and then my junior year is when we moved out here. So I did my junior year and my senior year at Palo Alto.
Speaker 2:Okay, all right, mustangs mustangs baby, yeah how was it moving here? I know you kind of explained how it was when you first moved here, adjusting to like the local style and how, how it is.
Speaker 1:I, you know, I really think it's just, you know, it's kind of like anything in life or or sports is a great analogy. It's a mindset thing, right, like I came here with a really open mind and kind of excited that like, oh my God, we have to live in Hawaii. You know, I was coming from you know two very cold places, michigan and in Kansas city. So I was like this is awesome, you know. So I think having that open mindset and, you know, being somebody who, I guess, you know, I always like to say like being a military brat, made me kind of a chameleon, because I lived around different people, different areas, you know. So I wasn't just in one click I learned to be around different people, different areas, you know so. So I, I wasn't just in one click, I learned to be around different people, and so I think that helped a lot too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, plus you're humorous, so everybody likes laughter.
Speaker 1:Laughter is a connection.
Speaker 2:Laughter and music, I always think is a good connection for people.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for sure yeah.
Speaker 2:So it didn't take you much time to adjust.
Speaker 1:Then it kind of yeah, I don't think so. Um, you know, obviously it was very different, but yeah, but again, you know, having having been in different places and and seeing how you know this dialect in california, this dialect in Michigan, this dialect in Kansas city, you know, you just kind of learn that every place is different and you just got to, you know, kind of embrace it.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's cool. Well, it works for you and you're considered a local boy and I know that you even had a group of local boy talent. I guess you guys, you guys, it's, you guys were like legit singers. Right, it was back in the day.
Speaker 1:No, I wouldn't go that far um, you know. I mean, we did rap stuff and um you know it started with original songs but then kind of the forte became doing parody stuff. Uh, after the first parody song we did was me so hungry and that kind of was like, okay, this is the direction we want to go, we want to do the parody thing.
Speaker 1:But but it was funny because you know it's three local boys and it's a holiday guy, a Filipino and a Japanese guy but it worked out I mean we had a lot of fun with that and that gave us an opportunity, you know, on top of the radio, to just kind of branch out and do other things yeah, I remember you guys had rice, rice gravy or something like that rice, rice, baby, yeah, yeah I remember that and, um, you guys are pretty popular and you guys are pretty popular and you guys got you explained to me yesterday you got to not tour or I guess maybe tour or do shows with one of my close friends, ronnie from BBC New Generation.
Speaker 2:How was?
Speaker 1:that era, I think like.
Speaker 2:Forte was around then too Forte was it.
Speaker 1:Forte actually even came a little bit later than that.
Speaker 2:So you know.
Speaker 1:BBC was the big one back then. You know Ronnie, nito, maestro, tiff and Freddie.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And that was just so much fun. I mean you know you said we were popular. Uh, they were popular and and it was. It was so crazy to. You know we would hit all the high schools or or do like shows at malls or whatever, and just to see all the girls that would come out and scream me for them. And I mean you know I'm not old enough to have been around when the beatles, but everybody always compares stuff to that and and that was just like insanity.
Speaker 2:Everywhere we would go with them yeah, it's funny because my first ever encounter with bbc and ronnie, who's one of my closest friends, was he was on a poster in my sister's room. That was the first time I've ever seen ronnie and those guys are were super popular I, I did you did you get to do those castle park shows?
Speaker 1:um, we did a couple up there. I remember, like uh, who does? The guys that sang the robocop song, the sleaze boys, I think they did a show out there. Uh, and bbc was there, so we, because we were the same record label, right as as bbc, uh, the matt young thing. So us, uh that group, if you remember them. Oh, yeah, yeah yeah, so we all used to like go and tour all the schools and do stuff like that oh, that's super cool.
Speaker 2:I miss castle park. I always talk I always talk to my daughter about it and she's like why did they tear that place down? That was the tell me.
Speaker 1:Not castle park was the best thing on on the island as a young kid I mean it was, it was a cool spot and and like you know, being able to do the concerts there and stuff like that, you know the huge arcade, huge arcade which you know back in the 80s. You know kids don't understand now because video games are right near your house, but you know back in the 80s we were at the arcade nonstop.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Just dropping quarter. Dropping quarter, dropping quarter yeah.
Speaker 2:I was definitely a mall rat in Windermere Mall and Tilt was the Tilt and McDonald's that whole area yeah yeah, yeah yeah, windward Mall was my stopping grounds, man.
Speaker 1:That was the spot. We were always there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that Yellow Brick Road. I don't know if you remember Yellow Brick Road. Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And the one memory that sticks out in my head of Windward Mall is when they first opened the Cinnabons and how crowded it was. But the fact too that the smell because that's not a huge mall the smell it didn't matter what side of the mall you walked in from. You could smell it as soon as you walked in the mall. You're like, oh, cinnabons.
Speaker 2:That's true. Now they got the cookie corner. Trying to do that like yeah, it just walks. Yeah, that's right it's so weird I'm gonna age myself. But uh, when winward mall opened, I was at cnans and I was second grade and they had the grand opening and we got to go as a class and we went to the grand opening and we had a time capsule that they put in there and then they dug it out and I haven't heard what happened.
Speaker 2:But I don't know what, but I know, I know we did it. We gotta find out what happened to that thing. Yeah, it'd be kind of cool. I, I know our class made a tape, a cassette. Cassette right right right, really aging myself.
Speaker 1:Oh no.
Speaker 2:I had a guy.
Speaker 1:I mean speaking of Three Local Boys. I had a guy come up to me the other day we were doing we had All For One in the music hall at the radio station.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:And a guy came up to me with the original Three Local Boys album on cassette and had me autograph it and I was like, oh my God, I can't believe you still have this thing. And he said, yeah, he actually still has a player that can play it.
Speaker 2:Oh that's sick, that is insane. Do you have any of that stuff?
Speaker 1:I think I still have at least one of all of them. Yeah, um, yeah, yeah, I have it somewhere. Um, but yeah, because that's all. The three local boys stuff was only on cassette. We never did cds for the three local boys, so it's all. All of it was only on cassette. So even if you have it, you know most people don't even have anything to play it on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly, you ever let your kids watch or listen to some of that stuff yeah, yeah, they've heard all of it.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, you know, and they kind of you know like, okay, yeah, it's hard to impress kids, I know. But I, they taught me a term recently that I guess the kids use nowadays, which is you know, either mom lore or dad lore, and it's when you find out something about your parents that blows your mind. And I I learned that, uh, because my youngest son said it to me when I told him um, they know glenn maderos, but they know gl Medeiros because they know his kids.
Speaker 1:Lyric and Chord worked at the Sumner Fund that they used to go to. So they know Lyric and Chord really well. So they know Glenn as Uncle Glenn. And so when I told my youngest son that I actually came out at Brown Bags and did the Bobby Brown rap on she ain't worth it for glenn my son was just like dad lord like they can't picture their dad doing stuff like that right man, they, they don't have brown bags anymore, do they?
Speaker 1:uh, no, I know it was going on a few years back it was. It was, uh, somebody had bought it from the radio station. Remember I 94 was brown bags for years. Yeah, somebody had bought it and and was doing it as like a TV show on OC 16, but I think even that's gone now. So yeah, there's not, there's nothing. That was such a huge deal back in the day. Yeah, I remember seeing Capena first.
Speaker 2:I was like who's this holly guy singing falsetto? I think I was like eighth grade or something. I was like these guys are good they're good and then they just blew up. I remember that we had a little situation with Brown Bags. I played football for Damien. I played football for Damien and one of the DJs was talking trash about our football team at the time. I think it could have been Rory Wilde. I might be wrong. I forget what it was, but he came later on in the year.
Speaker 1:He came to our school for brown bags.
Speaker 2:Oh, we may or may not have.
Speaker 1:Uh took it out on his car for all the the shit that he was telling us allegedly I think, the statute of limitations is up, so you're fine yeah, yeah, his antenna may have looked like a heartbeat, that's funny yeah, but brown bags are super cool.
Speaker 2:I remember that, that and it was the local talent and then the every winners from the school had it like it was like the the big final. Yeah, the big one yeah, yeah, so that's.
Speaker 1:you know, one of the things that really like kind of helped launch our careers for alumni and myself when we were partnering together was that we did all the Brown bank shows at the schools, so not only the schools on Oahu, we did all the neighbor Island stuff. So you know we were constantly out and about, so that that kind of helped us and we got to perform, you know, as three local boys or whatever, at the Brown Bank shows too. So, um, you know, I think that really was just a big boost for us to always be in front of that audience. Uh, you know that was going to buy our stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh man. Imagine if there was a social media presence back then, how much bigger you guys would have been well, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I I feel like it's a, it's a blessing sometimes if there wasn't social media back, oh yeah I agree too I might, may have way more evidence.
Speaker 2:Yeah, definitely agree with that. It's different.
Speaker 1:Well, big side of it, right yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Well, you're still in radio and I got to talk to you a little bit yesterday. You got. You're currently part of the KSSK morning show. And like I explained to you yesterday, it was the show that my dad would listen to, taking me to school every morning. So I was on board with Perry and Price every morning and it was my way to school every morning, and now you're a part of it. Price is no longer there and you kind of Right. And Michael W Perry is Like the iconic Iconic Radio guy in Hawaii.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, think about it. They started that show in 1983, so it's been Almost 42 years that that show has been going on. And, like you said, I mean I was the same way when we first moved here. It's been almost 42 years that that show has been going on. And, like you said, I mean I was the same way when we first moved here. My dad would listen to Perry and price and you know I'm a teenager, I'm like I don't want to listen to this, I don't. You know, I want to look at the Michael Q saying and you know I wouldn't even call into Michael Q saying that's how much I love. I would call in and do silly voices, and so you know, it's kind of that thing where I was like that's my dad's thing, I don't want to listen to the kid. And now I'm there, Right. So it's just, it's such a weird kind of surreal type of thing for me to be like I'm working with this dude.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's, he's, yeah, he must be up there. Yeah, he must be up there, right? I mean, they've been 40 years.
Speaker 1:But he's still like you said. I mean, he's an icon and he's just a consummate professional when it comes to radio. So much fun to work with.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I can imagine. You guys must have some stories. I think yeah it's good fun. Yeah, I think they had uh back in the day. They would do a Sunday show at the Hanohano room.
Speaker 1:Uh, the Saturday. Yeah, they would do it on.
Speaker 1:Saturday and see back back then they used to do it every week. So think about that. They were, they were working, you know the five days a week. You know doing the the five days a week, you know doing the morning show. Then they were doing the Saturday show and I mean that's just crazy. You know, now now the Saturday show is really more like just a special occasion thing, like a Mother's Day or Valentine's or Thanksgiving, christmas. You know, it's not, it's not the every week thing, because that's just too much.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's too much.
Speaker 2:I read on your Instagram. Instagram you're the producer of the show.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, so that's my official title, right is, I'm the producer. So you know, mike's in one room in his studio and then I'm in the other room and basically you know, as a producer, my job is just to make sure that everything is right there, ready for him. So, like I said before, we had to pull the the cards or the cds. Now it's just, it's all in a computer. So I just got to stack and make sure the songs, the commercials, whatever is all there and ready to go so he can just focus on doing the show.
Speaker 2:Yeah, must be fun, is it? Is it stressful or you're already?
Speaker 1:I mean, it's live radio, right. You never know what's going to happen. So so it can you know, and there's a lot of sometimes oh, you know we talk too long. I got to move some stuff around, but you know, like you said, though, it's fun, you know, it's a great, it's a great crew that we got with Mike and Mandy who's been doing our news now for almost a year. Just just so much fun, you know. So so, even waking up at three in the morning, it doesn't really bother me that much.
Speaker 2:I guess it's something to get used to. I think with radio now, where do you see it going in the future, because a lot of streaming platforms are coming out? I know a few uh close friends of mine that were radio djs that got let go recently right and it's, I know it's. It's an industry that's not as strong as it used to be because of the streaming platforms, but where do you see radio going in the future?
Speaker 1:Interestingly, though I mean the numbers still say that we're one of the most listened to things. So people are still listening. Like you know we haven't lost audience. Like you know we haven't lost audience. But but I think you know, you know it definitely is one of those things where you have to learn to adapt, you have to learn to do new things. You know podcasts are obviously the big thing nowadays and our company where even just you know, taking part of your radio show and putting it on a podcast or a segment that people can listen to later if they can't listen to right, then you know, it's just things of that nature. But again, you know, what it boils down to with radio is the live aspect of it is having somebody there that you know, like a Michael W Perry that you think of is.
Speaker 1:I've known this guy for 40 something years. You know, I trust him. You know, 15 years ago, when all the streaming stuff started, everybody's like, oh, radio is going to be done. No, I think we'll be fine. I think it just needs to kind of adapt a little bit.
Speaker 2:Okay, radio stations that were locally based have outsourced to a mainland show, I think the woody show before it was um, who was it? Mike? Oh, what was it? Scotty b, scotty b and hudson, yeah, yeah, and then and that's, you know that's.
Speaker 1:That's one of the natures of radio itself too, is you know? I mean Seacrest was one to Seacrest, you know, was syndicated all across the country. Elvis Duran, howard Stern, you know all of the guys like that. You know it's. It's. If it's a big enough name that companies are comfortable with putting it in a different market even though they're not from there, they'll do it. But again, to me the guys like Mike Perry are invaluable. The guys like Rory Wilde, who's been doing this for years, they're invaluable because they're from here and they're tapped into everything that's going on here.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and the audience resonates with that, definitely.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2:I don't want to ask you and I always get a little starstruck but have you got to meet certain celebrities where, because I know you, I mean you, you guys, you just met all for one this past couple days ago, but hundreds of them. For the amount of time you've been in radio, you must have met a lot of celebrities and artists, which one stood out to you the most, that you were like like fanboyed out right um.
Speaker 1:One of the first ones I remember was meeting TLC when they were here for a show at the Blaisdell and when I and I were.
Speaker 2:Wait, sorry, I think I went to that show, it was.
Speaker 1:TLC.
Speaker 2:Boyz II Men at MC Hammer.
Speaker 1:Was that the? One yeah that was the one. Okay, go ahead. So Lanai and I were doing some kind of TV show thing and so we recorded a segment with them, not even backstage, outside the back part of the arena there, but you know, left Eye was still there and the one thing I remember is she gave me one of her condoms. Remember she would put the condoms in the safety pin.
Speaker 1:She gave me one. I don't know what happened to it, but that was one of those things I was like, oh my God, left Eye gave me her condom. But the other one that, like you know, you're right. Right, we met a lot of people and and people are cool, but the one that really made me fan boy was, uh, when I was working at fm 100, um damian, junior gong marley, and, uh, his brother, um julian, had come to town and getting to meet them because it's like you're Bob's kids. I was like, oh my God, you guys are Bob's kids. That's insane.
Speaker 1:And then I remember the show was at the Shell that night and we were sitting backstage, but kind of like on the side. So we're like looking direct line from the side at Julian while he was performing and I swear to God, it was like he became Bob, like you looked at him and it's like, and the way he was performing, I was like that's exactly all the videos I've seen of Bob and how he was. Oh my God, he's like channeling his dad. So yeah, that was the moment. That was really just kind of surreal.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's cool. I know they say it's never good to meet your heroes or celebrities that you have. What were some of the negative ones? That you got? Like celebrity you got to meet and I was like, oh man, that guy's a douche. Wish I never met him um, did I say it?
Speaker 1:I think I told some people. Maybe I can't say this, um. So one of the first ones that I got to meet was new kids on the block, but this was before they blew up. Okay, um, I think they were doing a show at aloha tower. So I get a call at like 10 or 11 o'clock at night and somebody says you need to come down to the station because we need you to help produce something for this music group. I'm like, ok, I didn't know what was going on. I show up and I don't. I don't really know who they are. I think please don't go, girl, maybe you just come out.
Speaker 2:Oh OK.
Speaker 1:So I kind of knew who, but you know I didn't really know much. So they just wanted me to put together the tape on reel to reel that they were going to use as their show tape. So I just had to splice some songs together for them and I just remember, like Danny was not very cool. And even the next time we met him, we opened for them. Three local boys opened for new kids at the Blaisdell Like about three years later, I think it was, and he was not very cool.
Speaker 2:So I was like oh, sorry, bro, but I'm Jimmy the geek, the geek man, don't you know?
Speaker 1:I wasn't thinking that. I was thinking like um, you're not the star of the group yeah, you're the background everybody loves joey and and jordan and danny, they're not. Or I mean donnie, they're not worried about you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're not the Justin Timberlake.
Speaker 1:That's funny, you ain't the guy.
Speaker 2:You should be the nice.
Speaker 1:You're not going to have a solo career.
Speaker 2:Man, not only are you doing radio and I touched on it earlier but you are big time in high school sports and I am blown away for one with the production OC16 does on these sporting events for these high school athletes. And my daughter goes to leisure don she, she's in high school and she plays volleyball.
Speaker 2:She, she only played, but their varsity was showcased in one of these, um, one of one of the one of the games and the production trailers. And they we get pick up your kid early and they're gonna have this blocked off. I'm like it's oc60 and when I got there you guys had two trailers. You it was a, it was it. That gym turned into a, a production, it I was. I had no idea how much goes into those shows, but it makes sense, cause they are well done.
Speaker 1:I and that's the thing I mean. You know, cause we don't. We don't have professional sports here. Yeah, we do have some college stuff, but you know high school sports in Hawaii because everybody knows somebody. You know, at any given time you have a niece, a cousin, a whatever that somehow you have a connection to a certain school and a sport and so people will want to watch. But yeah, you know, from from day one, back in 1989, when you know mitzi lejano said let's do this.
Speaker 1:Um, it's been all about, you know, making it the best that it can be, and so you know that's why you see the production value. You see guys like felipe ojastro, who, I mean, my god, that guy is the. I mean, he's only 30 something, but he's the goat, right, I mean he. Nobody does their homework better, nobody. You know no disrespect to anybody else that does this, but you know cause. I know guys like Kanoa Lehi are awesome too, but but Felipe is at like practices every day talking to the kids or he just knows everything and, and so that's why it has become such a a cool thing. And you know, now there's felipe stickers everywhere you go and all that head on a poster and stuff.
Speaker 2:That's right. Yeah, I'm I'm definitely a fan of that guy. He, yeah, blows me away with his knowledge of the athletes, and be able to do play-by-play and call those games in multiple sports and not miss a beat that's mind-blowing. Like you could be good at one sport, and that's cool, but he's good at all of them. So are you, though, and your sideline presence is always appreciated, and it brings more action to the game and what you're watching, and I like what you said, though, like how a lot of people can watch these high school sports. Like for me, I I graduated from damien I get to watch them play and hear from them, and and the stuff we never had before.
Speaker 1:But how did you?
Speaker 2:get stuck with that job. That seems like the coolest job ever.
Speaker 1:And so, you know, kind of like my radio career, another thing that kind of you know just came to me. You know it wasn't anything I was pursuing, but when did I start 2015. So what happened was OC had started doing what they call X cast, so they could, you know, do multiple games in one night. And because they were doing multiple games, they needed another sideline reporter.
Speaker 2:Jen Boniza was the sideline reporter back then oh, that's right, that was a long time ago.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they needed another one. So Dave Vinton and I were already friends. He would come on the radio show and talk about oc60 sports, so he knew I was a sports fan and so he just, uh, reached out to me and said, hey, look, you know, we're doing this thing. We need sideline reporter.
Speaker 1:Um, you know, how would you feel about you know, doing something like that? I'm like, yeah, that sounds pretty cool and sure enough, it's pretty cool. Um, so, yeah, I just, I just jumped right into it and you know again, like, for me, I'm not, I'm not Felipe, I don't, I don't know as much as he does, but I'm a fan of, of all the sports and I just love the excitement that the kids have for it. Right, I mean, you, you see it, with the interviews, the kids are always, you know, just having such a good time. You know saying some, some crazy things, but you know it's stuff that's awesome because, you know, pro athletes, or maybe even college athletes, are, you know, a little more reserved and they have their cliches. They're going to say, but the kids are just like, oh, I just seen green grass and I went wrong.
Speaker 2:Yup, local boys, they don't hold back. They is what they is.
Speaker 1:Shout out to shout out to Kauai for that one.
Speaker 2:Just see green grass.
Speaker 1:Why may I?
Speaker 2:Those guys beat my Damien team in the. I know, bro, that that running back he looked like a man.
Speaker 1:Those guys beat my.
Speaker 2:Damien team in the. I know, yeah, oh, bro that that running back he looked like a man. Somebody had to check his birth certificate. He had a full beard. Six kids in the stands.
Speaker 1:There was a. There was a kid. He plays basketball over here now at Maryknoll, but when he was a freshman we first saw him. He was over on Maui as a freshman. This dude had a full beard and was, like you know, 6'5" and you're just like what.
Speaker 2:Yo, like full-sleeved tats. I was like wow, what are these kids Right? It's cool to see, though, though, and how has it been on the sidelines? I always wanted to know. Okay, you're you have clips here and there of throughout the game, but what are you doing when you're not, because you're not on camera the whole time? So are you in a mingling? Are you watching the games? And what are you doing when the camera's not on you?
Speaker 1:Yeah, a little bit of everything. I mean, I'll talk story with some of the people there just to see you know what's going on or if there's any. You know things you know that I can talk about. But I also, you know, because I do a highlight package in the post game show, so I've got to be watching, for you know certain plays that I've got to tell the truck, okay, I want the replay of this one, I want the replay of that one, um, but I mean, it is a bottom line, is I'm watching sports, you know, and it's a job yeah, yeah, so yeah it.
Speaker 1:It really is. I mean that that's one of the things you know. People always say to me, like, how can you do radio? And that it's because they're both fun.
Speaker 2:Right, that's the bottom line for me yep, it seems fun and you always have that positive energy and that fun aspect of of what you're doing and it definitely resonates with the Hawaii community and everybody watches it there's everybody.
Speaker 1:I hope so, man. Yeah, like I said, you know, we're just there having fun and we want to make sure the kids are having fun, so yeah, you guys are busy because, as a fan I watched.
Speaker 2:I remember a month I think it was in November where you guys had state high school football playoffs, girls volleyball, high school state playoffs all at the same time and you guys are banging out a couple of games in a row every single day. I'm thinking like wow for one. How do you guys even decipher everything? But it's like one after another. It got busy at some point.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and we're in that right now with the winter sports, so soccer tournaments, basketball tournaments when they hit the postseason it gets kind of crowded, but again it's only for like a week or a week and a half at a time. So just punch through, let's do all these games and usually postseason games those are some of the most fun. I mean, you see some really good action. So, yeah, you just push through it and enjoy it for what it is.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I watched. One of my close friends, alika Kosner, is the head coach for Milani. Shout out to them for winning the OIA last weekend.
Speaker 1:That's right, yeah.
Speaker 2:How was that game? Because that was a close game and it ended kind of with a weird situation where the goalie kind of punched the guy in the head On accident it looked like it was, but it was a hard hit punched the guy in the head on accident.
Speaker 1:It looked it looked like it was, but it was a hard hit. Prior to that he had kind of made a little flub too, where he came running out of the box you know where the goalie can't touch the ball and almost touched it like he was. Just he was just a little too amped up when the game got. You know, to that point I think, and so that in that moment you know he's just going up trying to punch the ball and. But you know, that's the thing about sports man, you just never know what's going to happen in those moments.
Speaker 1:And soccer is one of those games. I was talking to the coaches. It really is. You know, it's just a matter of inches where the ball lands and gets on the guy's left foot versus his right foot so he can take a solid shot, and it completely changes the game. So you know, that was obviously a huge moment because it created the walk-off. You know, uh, penalty kick for mililani. But you know, both of those games that night were were unbelievable. The d2 one as well was a 2-1 game and you know where, um uh, who scored two goals in a matter of five minutes, but in the last 10 minutes of the game they were down one nil for most of the game and all of a sudden boom and boom and like, yeah, oh, they win and they were late, too right.
Speaker 2:That's why everything was pushed back.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's right. Yeah, their boss was like an hour and a half late, so, yeah, that was a very interesting night yeah, but yeah that that Campbell um Milani game was super cool I was happy of the outcome because that's my good friend and I was glad he won.
Speaker 2:But I was also happy Campbell gets a spot in the state tournament and it was unfortunate how it ended because, like you said, the goalie was highly intense and made a mistake. But when you get a yellow card you got to leave the game. So they had the backup goalie in for the penalty kick and I was like, oh, that sucks to be that dude. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:It's the double whammy, right, like you give up up the penalty kick, but you also get sent out for that one play, but that's the only play that really mattered at that point. So yeah, and that's really. That is why I love life sports, because anything can happen yeah, well being that you've been doing it for so long.
Speaker 2:What games and sport were you so amped up like, oh, I can't wait for this one. And what games were those like?
Speaker 1:Well, I, you know, I'm a baseball dude, so you know, baseball season, softball season, is always my favorite. But you know, that being said, football championships are always so good here in Hawaii. You know, and especially you know, we had Kahuku, had that three-peat run going, and then St Louis beat them. And remember last year's game that they won. The three-peat with Mililani was a close game too, and then this year the one with St Louis was, you know, it's down to the wire, and those are the games you want to see when it's championship night yeah, definitely you don't want championship to be like 50 to 14.
Speaker 2:You know you want it to be close, yeah yeah, unless it's the niners and they're in the super bowl and they're winning by that much, then I'm cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh yeah, I don't think we'll ever be in the super bowl, so I don't have to worry about that you guys had a decent season this year.
Speaker 2:I mean you started off, I don't know. Yeah, bears, I don't know. I remember walter peyton in the uh, refrigerator perry years. Those are, those are the hades but you're a baseball guy are you still? Are you a Cubs fan or?
Speaker 1:yeah, yeah, oh. So. So my, my dad, is from northern Illinois, so we were just kind of born and raised, as you know, even though we didn't live in in that area growing up because we're military, but that's what my dad, you know, instilled in us was Cubs and Bears that's super cool.
Speaker 2:I was blessed a few years ago. My daughter had a national volleyball tournament in chicago and I got to go to the iconic wrigley field to watch the clubs play the phillies and nothing better man oh man, you walk in there and it's, that's chicken skin it's a vibe oh it's, I was. It was like the. The nostalgic aspect of that, that um stadium was just something you can't explain. Walking in there just being like whoa, this is wrigley field, like this is it, see, seeing it, and being there it was. It was cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was what I love is, you know, I I've been to games at wrigley where you know we win by 10. I've been to games at wrigley where we lose by 10. What I love about wrigley is the fans are the same, no matter what the score is. They stay all the way through the game. They don't leave. The energy is there, it's. It's just a different atmosphere because, you know, we lived in arizona for 12 years.
Speaker 1:We used to go to diamondbacks games that's like you know, people show up in the second inning and leave in the seventh, just like they do in la right, and I'm like, no, you guys, you guys don't get it. This is not what it's about yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 2:and with um, with sports here in Hawaii, like you said, we don't have the luxury of watching pro sports, so watching these young kids is pretty awesome. And of course, the college. But I think for college the way Hawaii is is more kind of in tune to volleyball, because they're winning more.
Speaker 1:I would agree. I mean you know, you think about on a regular basis what our volleyball teams are able to put inside an arena versus most other colleges across the nation. I mean it's, it's a whole different animal. But you're right too, it helps it that they win championships, right, I mean that's, and the arena is nice. I mean you know, look, the biggest problem and you know I do a sports show too, uh, a couple days a week. You know, on our, on our sister stations and we talk about a lot. You know, the biggest problem for UH football. I love Timmy chain and I, I, I truly believe that that he was a great guy for that job Because of his history with the program, his offensive mindset. I just love the culture he tries to do with the Brotherhood. But for me you've got that stadium. That's just not a real stadium, right? Yeah?
Speaker 2:I mean, I played on it in high school, it's just not a real stadium, right?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, I played on it in high school. It's just difficult, yeah, it's just so difficult to get anything going until they can build a new stadium.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So got to get that done.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I agree, and they can't even agree to anything. They didn't even tear down the old one yet. And the rail literally stops at the stadium.
Speaker 1:It's not even open so you know just little things like that. I mean I, I obviously know, you know the nil thing too yeah, I was just gonna say you know it's hard for a college like hawaii to compete with some of the bigger schools in that. I get that. But at the same time we're not doing ourselves any favors by having such a small, rinky-dink little facility right now to watch the games.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I agree, and I think, like you said, with the NIL deals it makes it kind of hard for Hawaii players to stay in Hawaii and with the transfer portal it makes it easy for anybody. To me, it kind of is killing the sport. I mean, you see, kids go to three different colleges. It's not about the school or the loyalty to the program or the nostalgic value of playing where your dad played or anything like that. It's about where can I get the most money now and where can I portal out to. And it is what it is and I think it kind of changed the dynamic of college sports. I do think the kids should get compensated. They're the ones putting their life on the line. But there could have been better ways to do it where you still have the pride of the school and the aspect of where it's something that you're backing, not just I'm playing for this team because I can get paid here.
Speaker 2:I mean NFL teams can't even do that. You cannot jump from team to team every year. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Unless you have a free agency. You can ask for it. You're not going to get it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I mean it's a blessing for some people like Gabriel. After his injury he was able to figure it out and now he's going to be somewhere next year, hopefully. But for UH it's going to be somewhere next year, hopefully it. But for uh it's going to be rough, especially for our football team, because our nil deals is not going to be like how, yeah, but I don't know. It is what it is.
Speaker 2:My, my one of my good friends, chris brown, is one of the um coaches there he he brings a lot of kids from where he used to coach at Bishop Gorman, so he has a good kind of vein from some of those kids to come here and play, at least for the start of their college career.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and we've seen more starting to stay home or come back home from other places through the portal, so that's a good sign.
Speaker 2:So we'll see where it goes from there yeah, I want to ask you what was some of the top players that you got to meet through oc16 when they're in high school that now are doing big things?
Speaker 1:well, the biggest one would be right. Yeah, um, we were there for the championship game. Um, when, when he won it and I got to interview him and it was it, was it even a full year? It might not even been a full year later, oh, maybe just over a year that he won the national championship with Alabama as a freshman yeah right. So it was like, oh my god, that's, that's the guy that just last year was at Aloha Stadium.
Speaker 2:And I had him on the sideline, that's right.
Speaker 1:I interviewed him after the game and yeah, so Tua was a big one. And obviously Dylan Gabriel you mentioned Dylan, I mean because he was playing as a freshman. So we had him on OC from as a freshman, we had him on OC16 from as a freshman. How many times did I interview that kid winning Impact Player Awards? Oh, yeah, yeah. Just a bunch of them. Man, it's a and in all the sports too, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's cool. It's cool to see and yeah, I mean you kind of followed their career Like Tua. I remember that that national championship game he he was brought in to take out Jalen Hurts who's playing for the Superbowl, and he came in and just dropped some dimes and then he was the guy after.
Speaker 1:Yep, that's crazy. Yeah, that's one of the things that was was cool when I first started with osc 16. When we started that summer we started doing um cal ripken baseball, uh, which is you?
Speaker 1:know the 12 news, and then we started doing the 10 years, like a couple years later. But so young kids playing baseball, you know, in the state tournaments out here and we got high level baseball out here at the at the youth levels. I'm telling you it's, it's good stuff that we have. And so to see those kids too, you know, from those first years, you know, and you got some of the kids that were on the little league world series team, that were part of all of that, but just to see them grow up and be in high school and you know some of them have even graduated high school already you know that's kind of a trip too to see them from that young up to that level.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I didn't even think of that. That's cool, I didn't realize you guys did like Little League or Cal Ripken League, at least.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, did like literally well, cal ripken league at least.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah we started doing it the same year I started, so 2015. Yeah, you guys weren't the ones doing the trans pack volleyball this past. What two weeks ago?
Speaker 1:no, I think that was on like k5 I think oh, that's right, yeah, yeah yeah, but that's I.
Speaker 1:I've been a part of that, uh, several years, because I know Savan, I know Ed Chun, oh yeah, that is. That thing has blown up so big and the amount of teams that they bring in, not just from the mainland but from all over the world, I mean, they've got these international teams from Canadaada, mexico, china, just all over the place, and it's huge. That is such a cool tournament, so it was fun to be a part of it. You know, a few years ago I think, even before covid I that I was, I was doing some stuff with them, but yeah, so to see them get on tv for it too as well, that was awesome, yeah it was super cool and my, my daughter, got to play in the tournament, so our whole weekend was volleyball and that was insane it we played a team from guam, one from alaska.
Speaker 2:They had yeah, they had british columbia there. They had yeah, they, they said a total of over 400 teams and yes, it was the number I heard from the, from the tourism people.
Speaker 1:The number I heard was 25 000 people came in from out of town for that nice, that's good for the economy yeah exactly right, that's so. That's something that I think you know. Tourism officials are looking at this like let's keep growing this, let's make this something really big yeah and it, oh man, it's gonna be.
Speaker 2:It's gonna be even bigger next year. I think that whole girls well, it had boys too, but girls volleyball. I didn't even know what I was getting into until my daughter started, because as a as a guy. I had no idea how big club volleyball was and brah it the first convention tournament we went to like a couple years ago and I walked in there and I'm like this is not real and it was insane it's high?
Speaker 1:yeah, because the biggest impact is the ones in in the mainland. The convention centers are way more massive. I mean, they're just insane. But I'll tell you this right now, as somebody who's seen all the different sports club volleyball, you picked one of the most expensive.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, definitely. We're going to have a fundraiser this week. I'm going to sell my kidney. We're traveling twice this year we're going to Vegas and and um dallas that's right.
Speaker 1:I'm like, yeah, I'm slinging. That's why stevan and ed wanted to do trans. Specific is so that there wasn't a thing for the kids here to stay here and not have to do another travel to the mainland and spend way more money.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it's good because they have a lot of looks. They had a lot of scouts here. They had a lot of eyeballs on them because the women's collegiate level volleyball is not in season and everybody wants to come to Hawaii so they're going to come down here and check out the talent. Yeah, it was insane. I was like, yeah, especially the mainland tournaments, like our first one was Chicago and we went into that convention center and there were 160 courts and I'm thinking like wow this is insane.
Speaker 1:like yeah, let me know whenever you're selling Zippy's chili tickets, I'll help you out. I'll buy from you.
Speaker 2:We're going to be at Bellows on Sunday slinging huli huli Soy chicken. Last week we were slinging donuts on the side of the road, the Krispy. Kreme I promise you I'm going gonna sell my kidney next year for yeah, yeah, it's fun and it gets the, the girls team closer and it's good for them to work for something that they're gonna, you know. I mean, if you just pay for it, all the girls just pay for when they're playing, they're gonna, they're not gonna be thinking like, oh man, we gotta win.
Speaker 2:We just spent like three of our sundays out there in the hot sun like you earn it now you gotta win it like we're not here just to show up, but yeah, it's been cool, it's been fun. Well, man, we've been going for an hour and I know how busy you are, and it was a blessing. A blessing, and not so much that the games got cancelled today because of the weather, although, man, how different does a day make? It is sunny and blue skies today.
Speaker 1:And yesterday was monsoon season. Right, but today they're having to make up the games from yesterday so they can get to the semifinals and all that that we're planning to air on TV Right. So yeah. Yep Weather weather got them yeah that's super.
Speaker 2:I mean it was. It was a good blessing for me because you were able to come on my show and, yeah, I know your time is precious and I definitely appreciate it and any time and any time for precious and I definitely appreciate it and anytime, anytime for you.
Speaker 1:Right on, bro we know all the same people from the club days, bro, oh yeah, that's that's a good and bad Right.
Speaker 2:Right, they're still sucking me back in. We're about to do Eve, the new club at um Bala Moana, Like we're. They're they're asking us to do that. It used to be vintage cave yeah, vintage cave, yeah yeah yeah, uncle bo owns it yeah oh, okay, yeah no one wants to let artist group network have a peaceful bow out.
Speaker 1:They want us back every single time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like bro, I'm too old to be trying to do it these young kids in the club but whatever, we'll make it fun for them. If you ever want to guess dj, let me know oh my gosh, I haven't done that in so long jimmy the geek, live on the ones in twos you would trip out. Now, like I say you don't just bring a thumb drive, you don't even need yeah but uh, where can people find you on social media?
Speaker 1:uh, so my ig is at jimmy doug geek and facebook. I'm jimmy the geek bender, gotta have the whole thing in there. Um, and then catch me on the radio. I'm on with you know, perry and the posse, every weekday morning from five to 10 on 92, three KSSK and, of course, watch all the high school sports. As Felipe always says, support high school sports.
Speaker 2:I agree, that's definitely and for us, as always, you can find us on Instagram at above the bridge podcasts, on our YouTube above the bridge podcast, our website, atbpodcom, and my Instagram is thaddydaddyhi. Congrats to you on all your success, and to be in radio this long and to be doing that sports for Hawaii is huge and, yeah, props to you guys and, like I said, you are one of my bucket list guests that I wanted, so thank you again.
Speaker 1:I'll bring you a cassette. Then I'll bring a cassette.
Speaker 2:Oh, you got to sign it, bro. For sure, I'll show it to Ronnie. Yeah, right on, man Whoa, we're out. Shout out to the Artist Group Network. Oh wait, wait, shockers for the cameras.
Speaker 1:Right on, we're out.
Speaker 2:Shout out to the Artist Group Network Aloha Outro Music.
