You know, I'm gonna give you a history lesson.

We got some dumb-ass motherfuckers floating around this country.

Stop laughing.

And when I do, start fucking.

Also, y'all did some nasty-ass jokes on my ass, too.

Funny jokes and unfunny jokes come out of the same birth.

You fucking guys are unbelievable.

Why are you laughing?

Evening everybody.

Welcome to another episode of Why Are You Laving a history of comedy podcast.

And today I'm pleased to introduce to you the Ronan Fez Show, the history of the

Ronan Fess Show, part two, I guess, now that I think about it, the WNEW era.

And the reason we're talking about WNEW today is because my esteemed guest was a producer on that program. Now you know him from Boomer and Gio, I guess, the great Al Dukes. How are you about? Oh, hi. Thank you for having me on this podcast. I enjoy this podcast. It's one of my go-toes. So it's nice to be on here.

You've, uh, I think since the first run episode we did, you've messaged me and said very kind things about the program. So I love it. I really love it. You've jilted me into having you on. So I appreciate it. That's right. I tried to weasel my way in. I even had somebody at work the other day, a guy who was a sales guy at WNEW during the Ronan Fez ONA era. He's at FAN now and has been for many years. The other day he's taught me, he goes, there's a podcast where these guys talk about Opie and Anthony. They did a whole thing on Sex for Sam. I go, yeah, I think send it to me. it was you guys, which I heard already. Well, I like to hear that.

So thank you, buddy. Thank you for joining us. Al was a, I was a big part. It's funny because I was going to do just a W&E, I didn't want to focus on

Al specifically. And then when I was looking for clips, it was very Al heavy.

That was a big part of the WNW era.

So a lot of the clips are very Alcentric.

So it'll be good to get your thoughts on it.

And we can kind of go through their history, your history with them, all of that.

Yeah, I think that's one of the great things about Ron and Fez is that they really use their producers

and then move on from them, which is really probably a very smart thing to do.

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