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Episode 12: The Steeple People

The Podcaster's Warehouse

June 2, 2026 · 1 hr 14 min

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Today, we are joined by extraordinary jazz singer (and now rock singer): Sarah Partridge. Oh, yeah... she's also married to Gary Stein (so there's that). It's an amazing interview for anyone who appreciates the art of music. We have episode two of our amazing serial with Sal and Junior... and Tony is HIGH (?), Plus: Macca, Gary's political machine, and the Broadway lottery.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Hey there boys and girls on today's episode if you gotta be kidding me.

[SPEAKER_04]: Gary, it says here, you have a picture of me high.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, yes, but it's not what you're thinking.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, I hope not.

[SPEAKER_04]: Now also, Gary has been elected to public office.

[SPEAKER_04]: Is this true?

[SPEAKER_04]: It is true and it costs a lot of money.

[SPEAKER_04]: And special guests, singer Sarah Partrich, she is the lead singer of the Fantastic Band, Midtown Direct and Wait a Minute says here also, she's married to you.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, that costs a lot of money too.

[SPEAKER_04]: You want the next step or so, I don't have to be gonna be, too.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, here we go.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's you gotta be kidding me.

[SPEAKER_03]: With Tony Perkins and Gary stuff.

[SPEAKER_03]: No, they're not related.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's just good friends.

[SPEAKER_03]: And now, here's Tony and Gary.

[SPEAKER_04]: Boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to episode 12 of You Gotta Be kidding me.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm Tony Perkins.

[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, I just wanted to take the steam right out of you.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, well, I don't know.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_06]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_06]: I said it before I said my own name.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I just, I don't know what it is about wanting to mess with you.

[SPEAKER_06]: Even when we're not doing a podcast.

[SPEAKER_06]: Right.

[SPEAKER_06]: Well, that's true.

[SPEAKER_06]: What is that?

[SPEAKER_06]: What do you think?

[SPEAKER_04]: You have to be professional.

[SPEAKER_06]: It's, you know, now, we're going to start now.

[SPEAKER_04]: Right, right, this late-drunk shirt, right?

[SPEAKER_04]: But, you know, the whole of the old thing about in radio, and I guess in podcasting, dead air, oh, you can't have dead air.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, which actually podcasting is kind of changed it, because people are now used to, you know, natural conversations in the old days of radio, which I actually kind of miss, you know, was, all right, it was the latest from a, give me a,

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, yeah, that was far enough, I need to, I can't give me a song, give me a song.

[SPEAKER_04]: Feels like the first time.

[SPEAKER_04]: Very good, go ahead.

[SPEAKER_04]: All right, that was far enough.

[SPEAKER_04]: Feels like the first time you're listening to A, B, C, radio, 115, 15 after one, coming up next.

[SPEAKER_04]: We've got the latest by Bruce Springsteet and the East Creek band.

[SPEAKER_06]: You know, but that was the very beginning of AI.

[SPEAKER_06]: because none of you guys sounded real.

[SPEAKER_06]: Nobody would have said it, but we liked it.

[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, here we listen to Cousin Brousy.

[SPEAKER_06]: Do you know what I mean?

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, you used to, yeah.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I used to listen to Cousin Brousy.

[SPEAKER_04]: I actually have a fantasy.

[SPEAKER_04]: I would love, I can tell it.

[SPEAKER_04]: Can you tell it here?

[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, I can tell it.

[SPEAKER_04]: All right.

[SPEAKER_04]: We're going to bring Rob in early because I want his opinion on this as well.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think a radio station that today decided to do radio like they used to do it in the 60s and early 70s where it was the DJs talking up the records you had.

[SPEAKER_04]: Jamie, I guess.

[SPEAKER_04]: I would listen to that.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think that would be successful.

[SPEAKER_04]: What do you think, Gary?

[SPEAKER_06]: I think you and some and maybe some of Rob's best friends.

[SPEAKER_06]: But no, I like it.

[SPEAKER_04]: Hey there boys and girls on today's episode if you gotta be kidding me. [SPEAKER_04]: Gary, it says here, you have a picture of me high. [SPEAKER_04]: Yes, yes, but it's not what you're thinking. [SPEAKER_04]: Okay, I hope not. [SPEAKER_04]: Now also, Gary has been elected to public office. [SPEAKER_04]: Is this true? [SPEAKER_04]: It is true and it costs a lot of money. [SPEAKER_04]: And special guests, singer Sarah Partrich, she is the lead singer of the Fantastic Band, Midtown Direct and Wait a Minute says here also, she's married to you. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, that costs a lot of money too. [SPEAKER_04]: You want the next step or so, I don't have to be gonna be, too. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, here we go. [SPEAKER_03]: It's you gotta be kidding me. [SPEAKER_03]: With Tony Perkins and Gary stuff. [SPEAKER_03]: No, they're not related. [SPEAKER_03]: It's just good friends. [SPEAKER_03]: And now, here's Tony and Gary. [SPEAKER_04]: Boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to episode 12 of You Gotta Be kidding me. [SPEAKER_04]: I'm Tony Perkins. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, I just wanted to take the steam right out of you. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, well, I don't know. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_06]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_06]: I said it before I said my own name. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I just, I don't know what it is about wanting to mess with you. [SPEAKER_06]: Even when we're not doing a podcast. [SPEAKER_06]: Right. [SPEAKER_06]: Well, that's true. [SPEAKER_06]: What is that? [SPEAKER_06]: What do you think? [SPEAKER_04]: You have to be professional. [SPEAKER_06]: It's, you know, now, we're going to start now. [SPEAKER_04]: Right, right, this late-drunk shirt, right? [SPEAKER_04]: But, you know, the whole of the old thing about in radio, and I guess in podcasting, dead air, oh, you can't have dead air. [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, which actually podcasting is kind of changed it, because people are now used to, you know, natural conversations in the old days of radio, which I actually kind of miss, you know, was, all right, it was the latest from a, give me a, [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, yeah, that was far enough, I need to, I can't give me a song, give me a song. [SPEAKER_04]: Feels like the first time. [SPEAKER_04]: Very good, go ahead. [SPEAKER_04]: All right, that was far enough. [SPEAKER_04]: Feels like the first time you're listening to A, B, C, radio, 115, 15 after one, coming up next. [SPEAKER_04]: We've got the latest by Bruce Springsteet and the East Creek band. [SPEAKER_06]: You know, but that was the very beginning of AI. [SPEAKER_06]: because none of you guys sounded real. [SPEAKER_06]: Nobody would have said it, but we liked it. [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, here we listen to Cousin Brousy. [SPEAKER_06]: Do you know what I mean? [SPEAKER_04]: Well, you used to, yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I used to listen to Cousin Brousy. [SPEAKER_04]: I actually have a fantasy. [SPEAKER_04]: I would love, I can tell it. [SPEAKER_04]: Can you tell it here? [SPEAKER_04]: Yes, I can tell it. [SPEAKER_04]: All right. [SPEAKER_04]: We're going to bring Rob in early because I want his opinion on this as well. [SPEAKER_04]: I think a radio station that today decided to do radio like they used to do it in the 60s and early 70s where it was the DJs talking up the records you had. [SPEAKER_04]: Jamie, I guess. [SPEAKER_04]: I would listen to that. [SPEAKER_04]: I think that would be successful. [SPEAKER_04]: What do you think, Gary? [SPEAKER_06]: I think you and some and maybe some of Rob's best friends. [SPEAKER_06]: But no, I like it. [SPEAKER_06]: I like it, but you know, I think it appeals to us because we're older older boomers. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, yeah, I also don't think that [SPEAKER_06]: Last week, last week, I gave Rob a very hard time because he wore a TMOS hat and right now he's wearing. [SPEAKER_06]: I don't know why he's wearing a top hat, since you got to be kidding me, maybe because we're old time. [SPEAKER_00]: No, no, it's because I have a part time job on a life size monopoly board. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm a token. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's what I do. [SPEAKER_06]: Where are you designed by Milton Bradford? [SPEAKER_06]: My wife. [SPEAKER_00]: As far as that, that is my favorite type of radio, the boss jock, like WPGC was the one I always think of for the 1960s. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, exactly. [SPEAKER_00]: And before that, harm more, the best, but I don't think people's ears are attuned to that anymore. [SPEAKER_00]: And if I can just bid really inside radio for a second, the way they do ratings now for radio is enough. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_00]: Goodbye. [SPEAKER_00]: It's been nice. [SPEAKER_00]: Very, very nice. [SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no [SPEAKER_00]: They wanted, they wanted to have something that you were looking forward to and there was FOMO back then because in seven minutes, you're going to hear the new record from Buffalo's Springfield or whatever. [SPEAKER_00]: But now because of the way the ratings are gathered, it's not doing anything so outrageous that people are going to change the channel. [SPEAKER_06]: So it's maintaining that again. [SPEAKER_06]: Sure. [SPEAKER_00]: The hip bone connected to the knee bone. [SPEAKER_06]: I have a serious, I have a serious question for you. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: that other show that you do. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's pretty good. [SPEAKER_06]: So Michael Mera. [SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_06]: Mera. [SPEAKER_06]: Look. [SPEAKER_06]: Michael Mera. [SPEAKER_06]: Yes. [SPEAKER_06]: Michael Mera. [SPEAKER_06]: Michael Michael Mera. [SPEAKER_06]: Michael Mera gives us a lot of grief about being old timing. [SPEAKER_06]: Sure. [SPEAKER_06]: What you guys are describing is very old timing, but I would think that it would really, really appeal to him. [SPEAKER_00]: So what do you think? [SPEAKER_00]: I, I, he likes it and he's good at it. [SPEAKER_00]: Um, he is an excellent, disjockey at talking up records and stuff like that. [SPEAKER_00]: Um, I occasionally have done, and I'm about to bring it back on our own website is Rob Radio, which is really just sort of a rip off of 1960s radio, where I get to play whatever I want and talk up all the records and play jingles and everything, and it's a lot of fun. [SPEAKER_00]: But I also think it's, it's not an everyday thing, it's maybe a once a week thing. [SPEAKER_00]: It's an occasional thing. [SPEAKER_00]: It's almost weary some to listen to it over and over. [SPEAKER_00]: No, because it is, it moves so fast. [SPEAKER_00]: It does. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: But you're right. [SPEAKER_00]: I think it's the art behind it that broadcast was appreciate. [SPEAKER_04]: Right. [SPEAKER_04]: And now that I think about it, I think both of you are right. [SPEAKER_04]: It's, you know, because I grew up with it, it would be like, oh, that would be cool to hear again. [SPEAKER_04]: Younger people would not tolerate it. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: Because you're talking over part of the song, right up to the vocal. [SPEAKER_04]: you know, they don't want that, uh, uh, let's on Old Soul Radio. [SPEAKER_04]: My dad was a districtian, WOLW, W-O-K in in Washington, D-C. On Old Soul, not Old Souls as an Old Soul. [SPEAKER_04]: Yes, exactly. [SPEAKER_04]: We know they should be right now. [SPEAKER_04]: On Soul Radio, Arnold. [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, right. [SPEAKER_04]: Um, the jocks would sometimes talk during the records, answering what the singer was singing. [SPEAKER_04]: So like if it was smoking in the Americas, [SPEAKER_04]: baby baby. [SPEAKER_04]: Tell me about us, okay. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: You know, they have a lot of crap. [SPEAKER_04]: Let her know how you feel, spark. [SPEAKER_04]: people would not like that now it's very, very different. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and you know, Wolfman Jack was a big one for talking over the music. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah, but that's the Wolfman. [SPEAKER_00]: He was his own thing. [SPEAKER_06]: So it's also look, we grew up with it. [SPEAKER_06]: So it's nostalgic and wonderful to us, but the people you're talking about wanting to have this appeal to. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: They didn't grow up with it, so they don't have the feeling for it that we have. [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I actually, you know, in sort of in the same vein, before I, I duck away, is that they announced this week that they're rebuilding and revamping at Disney world, the carousel of progress. [SPEAKER_00]: And they're going to move because it used to go back to like the turn of the century, 1900, but they're saying no one's going to Disney anymore that remembers 1900. [SPEAKER_00]: where as when Disney opened they did so now the new carousel of progress which will be closed for like a year is going to start in the 60s then they're going to do the 80s and they're going to end that in the future but they're just trying because you know Walt loved to tell stories through nostalgia and if you can't remember this stuff in the first place it's useless so that's what they're going to do down there so it's sort of in the same vein [SPEAKER_04]: very interesting. [SPEAKER_06]: It really is, but Tony Robbs not coming back again for this show. [SPEAKER_06]: No, besides, he's way too heavy. [SPEAKER_06]: He used up all of his chips. [SPEAKER_06]: Thank you, Rob. [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm back to buy. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to go by Redding Railroad. [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for the hat. [SPEAKER_04]: Thank you for suggesting the hat. [SPEAKER_04]: I didn't like the hat. [SPEAKER_04]: I'd like him to not have to make those and sell them. [SPEAKER_04]: All right. [SPEAKER_04]: We've already taken a detour. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I have something that I would like to do here because you see that all this time I've been living with a green green screen behind me. [SPEAKER_06]: Yes, and that's not what we're really going to do with this screen today Tony. [SPEAKER_06]: Okay. [SPEAKER_06]: I'm going to put you don't know about this. [SPEAKER_06]: I think our our listening and viewing audience already knows we throw things at each other. [SPEAKER_06]: Yes, you are going to have to describe what we're seeing. [SPEAKER_06]: until I will help you, just tell the story, but you have to begin this and talk about what this was. [SPEAKER_06]: It's not as clear as I would like it to be, but it's clear enough for you to possibly feel like you're having a panic attack. [SPEAKER_04]: Okay, I'm scared. [SPEAKER_06]: You should be. [SPEAKER_04]: All right, there we go. [SPEAKER_06]: Are you ready? [SPEAKER_06]: I'm going to duck away for a minute. [SPEAKER_04]: Okay, putting putting an image up on the green screen. [SPEAKER_04]: I have no idea what he's going to put what is oh, oh, yes, oh, yes, this one. [SPEAKER_06]: We are looking at me going like save me. [SPEAKER_06]: Why did you get me into this, but this is looking at the guys going save me. [SPEAKER_06]: What are we looking to tell me. [SPEAKER_04]: can not believe you have these pictures. [SPEAKER_04]: Okay, this goes back to Good Morning America days once again, when I was the weathercaster and Gary, it was my producer. [SPEAKER_04]: We did, was this one of the jobs? [SPEAKER_06]: It was, it was a job swap. [SPEAKER_06]: Can I say something, first of all? [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, you know, I think we kind of originated that and now people do it all the time. [SPEAKER_06]: I think you're right, I never saw anybody do it. [SPEAKER_06]: And I think it always won. [SPE

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