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CNN Live At Daybreak
"Talk of CNN"
Aired August 23, 2002 - 06:43 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Time for the "Talk of CNN." The guys at Atlanta's Fox 97.1 don't let much get past them, and they're serving up a couple of hot button issues for us this morning.
Randy and Spiff are live on the line for this morning's "Talk of CNN" -- good morning.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Good morning, Carol.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Good morning -- Carol.
COSTELLO: You know I have to ask you about Opie and Anthony and if you think they should have been fired?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, anyone with the name Opie should. I mean Spiff -- a man named Spiff, yes, well, I'm sorry.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Spiff. Exactly.
(LAUGHTER)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Speaking as disc jockeys, some of the many disc jockeys who have been fired, yes, I think they did deserve to get fired.
COSTELLO: Really?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, because chances are they'll get a bigger and better job. That always happens.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.
COSTELLO: Do you know they signed a $30 million deal?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's why we didn't go up there, not enough money.
(LAUGHTER)
COSTELLO: That's insane, though.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Isn't it, and that's like -- that's like almost CNN type money.
COSTELLO: Oh yes! Not for this crew on DAYBREAK, let me tell you.
(LAUGHTER)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You're talking about Tiger Woods' money there...
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. I mean absolutely.
COSTELLO: It's crazy. But do you think that shock jock dome has gone too far?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well in this case it might have, you know. Obviously the FCC, everyone looking at it pretty hard and you know.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're the guys who wear the white hats. We don't worry about that kind of thing, you know.
COSTELLO: Well do you feel any pressure to do crazy things?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Not with...
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hey, did you see -- if you've seen our ratings, we don't feel any pressure whatsoever.
(LAUGHTER)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, I -- no, not really. I mean our show is completely different. So you know we wear the white hats, we're talking to a lot of families out there, the kids are in the car so we do it completely differently, you know, so we don't feel pressure of having to do that.
COSTELLO: Oh good, so you're the white knights of radio. I like that.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Exactly.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's right.
COSTELLO: OK, let's talk about something you're talking about this morning, celebrities using fake names.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well we live in a big city and there's a lot of celebrities that come through town. They've got to stay someplace. They stay at hotels. They want that anonymity and they use different names.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, for example, Tiger Woods. He signs in a lot of times as B. Simpson.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Bart Simpson.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Just B. Simpson. Kevin...
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A lot of times in fact that is -- that is good strategy, but sometimes he gets...
COSTELLO: Go on. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, Kevin Costner, now he uses the name Frank Farmer. And that was the name from his character in "The Bodyguard." Isn't that odd?
COSTELLO: Yes, but...
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh yes!
COSTELLO: Well don't you think someone would figure that out, though?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You know some of the hardcore stalkers probably, but he still likes to do that.
Now Elton John from right here in Atlanta, he has a couple different names he likes to use. He uses -- and these are pretty funny -- Bobo Latrine (ph) and Sir Brian Big Bone (ph).
COSTELLO: Oh my goodness!
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You know I -- guy's got a great sense of humor apparently.
COSTELLO: Well let me ask you this question, what's the point of using a fake name? Surely Elton John is recognized when he walks into that hotel.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I guess it's once that you get into the hotel, get to your suite and the people find out you're in town doing a concert, they're probably trying to search you down.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's to make sure those shock jocks don't get your name and call you at 6:30 in the morning.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Exactly.
COSTELLO: Got you. Do you got any more for us?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We have Jimmy Buffett. He likes to use Ward Robe. Ward Robe.
COSTELLO: Oh come on!
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.
COSTELLO: Ward Robe.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Exactly. And...
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Here's our favorite. Here's our favorite. John Wayne Bobbit,...
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh my.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: ... he -- yes, he uses the name Les Johnson.
COSTELLO: Oh, but didn't he get...
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.
COSTELLO: ... more johnson?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, he might have.
(LAUGHTER)
COSTELLO: Oh I'm going to get fired. I'm in trouble.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, OK, (UNINTELLIGIBLE) good line in the morning.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You had a better line than we did.
(LAUGHTER)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh I'm writing this down. You're not...
COSTELLO: I'm turning into a shock jock, Chad.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Lookout, Carol, she's a -- Opie and Carol.
COSTELLO: I have to say goodbye to you now -- Randy.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK.
COSTELLO: It's just because I'm scared.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, OK, good luck.
COSTELLO: We'll check in with you again next Friday.
(LAUGHTER)
COSTELLO: Oh, Chad,...
CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: OK.
COSTELLO: ... help me.
MYERS: Yes.
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