Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: W v UA f m Tuscaloosa.
[00:00:10] Speaker B: That was blowback by spiritual camp. Welcome back to 90.7, the morning show.
Great. Every single time. Now we're back with our special, special guest, Marissa Luna. And just while we've been off air, we're just having all sorts of crazy discussions, but now we're bringing it back, and we'd like to incorporate you into the morning show lore by having you be a part of the go for watch.
[00:00:45] Speaker A: Go for watch. Go for watch.
[00:00:47] Speaker B: Now go for watch. For all of you listening out there is when we talk about the latest happenings of the campus gopher. And we have a lot of important stuff to get to later today, so we'll keep it short. Today's gopher watch was meant to air last week, but was not able to. So keep it simple. Super Bowl Sunday, I'm doing this real tough workout. You know, the ridgecrest south hill.
So my workout is going to sprint all the way up my workout for the day after the 8th one, I was feeling exactly like the noises you all just made, right? Internally, I was just like, but I finished. I do the 9th one, I do the 10th one. I finish up the hill, right? And I'm walking, and I just see that there's just a gopher looking at me. First time I had seen him in a hot months. In months.
[00:01:40] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:01:40] Speaker B: Right. And this was Super Bowl Sunday. And so at first, I thought it was a sign of how the game would go, so I assumed it meant the Chiefs were going to win. And they did win. I expected them to.
[00:01:49] Speaker A: The gopher told him.
[00:01:50] Speaker B: Well, that's what I thought. That's not what the gopher was telling me. He was there because of my workout, but I didn't know he was watching. So then a few weeks later, the run UA, we had a race down in gulf shores. It was an amazing experience. We stayed right off the beach and on the way out to get in because we carpooled. Right. So on my way, leaving ridgecrest south to get to the student center parking lot, I see the gopher again right as I'm leaving. So I see him while I'm working out and training for the race. I see him right before I'm about to leave for the race. The race, yeah.
And then we get to Gulf shores. We drive down. It's all amazing. And then I get the course for the five k. I was doing the five k, and the way it was done was really weird, is you ran out and then ran back the exact way you came. It wasn't a loop like the other races were, and the turnaround point was at Gopher Tortoise creek.
[00:02:38] Speaker C: Wow.
[00:02:38] Speaker B: Gopher tortoises are a type of tortoise, but still, it had gopher in the name. And so then I get there. I'm just trying to run a time in under 20 minutes, but I finish in about 18 and a half minutes.
It was the gopher he was watching over there.
[00:02:54] Speaker A: He was urging you on, and it.
[00:02:55] Speaker B: Was like, it's a cheering you on. The beginning, middle, end. Like gopher at the beginning, the middle, and then the gopher toning.
[00:03:01] Speaker A: It's not the tortoise and the hair. It's the tortoise and the gopher.
[00:03:03] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:03:04] Speaker B: So I have not seen the gopher since to thank him, but I know he's out there and has my back.
[00:03:09] Speaker A: He's in your heart.
[00:03:10] Speaker C: He's kind of stalking a little bit.
[00:03:13] Speaker A: He's watching him.
[00:03:14] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:03:14] Speaker B: If you want to find a gopher, you just got to keep an eye out outside, and outside is where the weather is. I think it's time for the weather report.
Weather report.
[00:03:29] Speaker A: Weather report. Weather report. Weather report.
[00:03:32] Speaker B: Weather report. Weather report. Weather report. Weather report. Do not distort the weather report. Weather report. Weather report. Weather report. Weather report. Weather report. Weather report. All right, good morning, Tuscaloosa. It's 62 degrees and partly cloudy with a high of 73 and a low of 58. You can expect it to be cloudy all day until the late afternoon around two, three p. M. When the sun will be coming back out. The air quality right now is at 25, which is good. The wind is 8 miles an hour. It's 21 miles an hour. Gusts, and it's 62 degrees on the weather report. Weather report. Weather report. Weather report. Weather report. Weather report. Weather report. Weather report.
[00:04:18] Speaker A: Weather report.
[00:04:19] Speaker B: Weather report.
[00:04:20] Speaker A: Weather report.
[00:04:21] Speaker B: Weather report.
Whether the weather's good or bad, we've always got something to make you glad on 90.7, the morning show.
[00:04:28] Speaker A: I remember that phrase. We did that last year, too, because.
[00:04:32] Speaker B: That'S when we usually lead to the daily affirmation, which I think that we have a good one today.
I will ignore what the weather app says about there being no precipitation today because I went out this morning with no rain jacket, and it was kind of rainy. So my affirmations, I will remember a rain jacket. I will remember an umbrella. I will be ready for the day.
[00:05:00] Speaker A: Don't straighten your hair, ladies.
[00:05:02] Speaker C: No.
[00:05:02] Speaker A: That's all I can say. Not today.
[00:05:05] Speaker B: Now, that's some good word of advice for today. All right, we're going to take it back to the music, and then coming up next, we'll have our interview with our guest, Marissa Luna.
We need a soundboard. We need a soundboard. We talked about this last week. We need a soundboard.
[00:05:22] Speaker A: It's just me. I'm the soundboard.
[00:05:24] Speaker B: All right, well, we'll come back to the music with rest by Ghost Orchard. We'll see you soon on 90.7, the morning show.
Man, the soundboard, it's just working.
[00:06:05] Speaker A: It's working.
[00:06:06] Speaker B: We're here with what we've promised you. Our amazing interview.
[00:06:12] Speaker A: Celebrity guest.
[00:06:13] Speaker B: Celebrity.
[00:06:14] Speaker C: I don't know if I'd say that.
[00:06:16] Speaker B: I mean, one could easily make the argument that within the University of Alabama.
[00:06:20] Speaker C: Yeah, within the University of Alabama, for sure.
[00:06:22] Speaker A: A campus celebrity.
[00:06:24] Speaker B: And then you might as well just round up to Alabama's like, it's a whole state that's influenced. So if you make it in Alabama, you can make it anywhere.
[00:06:32] Speaker A: To be fair, you opened for Maddie and you opened up, didn't you? Open up.
[00:06:39] Speaker C: Yolanda Adams.
[00:06:40] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:06:40] Speaker C: Walker Hayes.
[00:06:41] Speaker A: Yeah. The music hall of fame induction. Oh, yeah.
[00:06:44] Speaker C: The music hall of Fame induction.
[00:06:46] Speaker A: Yeah. It was Alabama Music hall of Fame.
[00:06:48] Speaker B: What was it like to open up for them?
[00:06:49] Speaker C: Oh, goodness.
I want to say it was a little bit intimidating because you're inspired by those people. You look up to them, and I know that they've had their success already, and although I have successes within my, like, I'm really looking for that big break, so it was intimidating. Especially Yolanda Adams, since she's won Grammys and she's performed at the Grammys, but every single one of them was just. They were so invested in who I was, what I wanted. They were so inspiring, and they were.
[00:07:17] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:07:17] Speaker C: Like, just keep going on it. You're gonna get that one song, and it's gonna happen.
[00:07:21] Speaker B: Were you reached out to for this? Is it something you had to reach out for? What's the process for your opening for these people?
[00:07:28] Speaker C: Luck. Honestly, a lot of it's luck. A lot of it is my family, actually. I have a really great family, great mother, and my mother has a boyfriend named Chris battles. And they are so invested in this. They've actually started picking up songwriting, which I think is awesome. It's kind of like, once you get into the music industry, you can't leave it. It's truly a love. And they've contacted people. We reach out. A lot of it's bugging people, seriously, like, emailing them, being like, I want to do this, I want to do this. I want to do this? I want to do this. I'm like, yeah, okay, fine, I'll let you do it. But I've had people reach out to me and given me great opportunities. And not only that, again, the Miss America organization. I've met so many people in this state being Miss Cabo Valley, miss University of Alabama, and they'll reach out to me, hey, I heard you can sing. Would you like to come sing at this event?
[00:08:16] Speaker A: That's so like, I remember you singing the national anthem for one of the basketball games. I was about to say that.
[00:08:22] Speaker C: I was like, that's an opportunity.
[00:08:24] Speaker B: Which game was that?
[00:08:25] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:08:25] Speaker C: Goodness.
[00:08:26] Speaker A: I know. I was working it. I was up above film.
[00:08:29] Speaker C: You know what game it was?
[00:08:30] Speaker A: I have no clue.
I'm going to be honest. I work a lot of basketball games.
[00:08:35] Speaker C: I think it was the women's basketball game.
[00:08:38] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:08:38] Speaker C: I think it was the first one.
[00:08:39] Speaker B: I haven't been to a bunch of basketball. I do have a good basketball story that we can save for later in the show. It's the Tennessee game. Yeah, we'll save it. I was upset, but I couldn't be upset because of a bunch of other stuff that happened.
[00:08:53] Speaker A: I don't know that I worked that one. If I don't work it, I don't watch it personally.
[00:08:57] Speaker B: That's fair, but bringing it back. So you talked about all this stuff to go through, just the tediousness bugging people, the work. What inspires you through all of it?
[00:09:09] Speaker C: I guess what inspires me is probably my younger self and a lot of other artists, too. I guess you definitely have to have the mindset to know that there's a lot of work that's going into it. And sometimes you release a song and it's going to flunk. You might think it's the best song, but it might not be what everybody else is looking for. And there's been times I've released a song that I didn't like, and it just sort of rocketed. Like, all the streams went up and people loved it. And I was like, really? That's the one you all would pick? And what inspires me is that as a young child, I started in theater. I was theater kid. I loved music, I loved singing, and I was not the best at sports. And I just knew that I had a calling for this. I just felt it, and it stuck with me forever since. So I guess my inspiration is really my younger self. And a lot of people are like, they kind of give up at a certain wayne. If it doesn't happen, and I'm like, I don't care if I'm 45. I'm still going to be doing this, and I'm going to make it happen one day.
[00:10:05] Speaker A: What you're saying is really reminding me of your song for the love of the game, actually.
[00:10:09] Speaker C: Yeah, definitely.
[00:10:10] Speaker A: Is that what it was about?
[00:10:11] Speaker C: That is what it's about. I think a lot of it. When I was recording that song, the whole entire emotion that I was given behind the microphone in the studio was that you have to push for the things you want, and sometimes you fall down, you get back up. There's been so many moments where I've been told, no, sorry. And it does suck when you walk out of those interview rooms, those auditions, and they're like, no, you're just not the right fit. And, you know, you have a lot to offer. You're just not what they're looking for. Everything's opinionated based. Everything. So, yeah, for the love of the game, it's just definitely about just having that drive and continuing to go, yeah.
[00:10:48] Speaker A: You got to do it for the love of the game.
[00:10:49] Speaker C: Yeah, definitely.
[00:10:50] Speaker B: You mentioned some of your inspirations being other artists. Do you want to talk about some of those artists that had the biggest influence on you?
[00:10:57] Speaker C: We talked about it when I got in here. Miley Cyrus is definitely one of them. I've been told all the time, like, you sound like her just talking to people. You sound like miley Cyrus a little bit. That was the first song I ever sang in public, a miley Cyrus song, the climb.
[00:11:11] Speaker A: Oh, that's such a good one.
[00:11:13] Speaker C: Right? The first time I ever was like, oh, I'm going to sing to my mom. And she's like, all right, what are you going to sing? I was like, the climb.
[00:11:20] Speaker A: That's such a good song, right? Honestly, that's one of my favorites. Me too.
[00:11:25] Speaker C: It's inspiring. It is. I've been listening to it since I was a kid, and I guess the only other artist I really love is Chris Stapleton. I can get behind any Chris Stapleton song.
[00:11:34] Speaker A: That's so fair.
[00:11:35] Speaker C: Yeah. And his voice, you just listen to him. You're like, oh, my. Like, he is truly gifted.
[00:11:40] Speaker A: Yeah. So is that where a lot of the musical side of things, like inspiration?
[00:11:44] Speaker C: Definitely. For sure. I think that's where a lot of it comes from. Definitely Chris Stapleton.
[00:11:48] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:11:49] Speaker C: He kind of has that RMB kind of country sound, and it's very raw, very authentic. So I love his sound. If I could be him, I would drop everything to be him while I.
[00:12:00] Speaker A: Was listening to your music. I was getting a lot of early 2000s, early or, like, late 90s vibes.
[00:12:07] Speaker C: Really?
[00:12:07] Speaker A: Country vibes. Yeah.
[00:12:09] Speaker C: See, I love the 2000.
[00:12:10] Speaker B: Great era for country music.
[00:12:11] Speaker C: Yeah, great era for country. That's like a big, like, carrie Underwood kind of.
[00:12:15] Speaker A: I love Carrie Underwood. Me too.
I don't listen to country music that often, but I will always listen to some Carrie Underwood.
[00:12:24] Speaker C: Carrie Underwood. Oh, for sure. If it's ever a karaoke night anywhere, I'm like, go to carrie Underwood.
[00:12:30] Speaker A: Yeah. Blown away. Blows me away.
[00:12:32] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, definitely.
[00:12:34] Speaker B: Is that your go to? Do you have a go to karaoke song?
[00:12:39] Speaker C: My go to karaoke songs are definitely, like Amy Winehouse. Like Valerie before he cheats.
[00:12:45] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:12:46] Speaker C: Cowboy Casanova. And then if I'm going to be okay, like, I'm going to sing a slower song, probably, like, love on the brain. Rihanna.
[00:12:52] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:12:52] Speaker C: Bring in some of that soul.
[00:12:54] Speaker A: Yeah. You probably dominate karaoke night with your friends.
[00:12:57] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, for sure.
They won't get up and sing after me. They're like, we only came here for you.
[00:13:01] Speaker A: You have to go last.
[00:13:03] Speaker C: I have to go last?
[00:13:04] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:13:05] Speaker B: I don't quite have the vocals to back it up like you do, but I do love karaoke.
[00:13:10] Speaker A: Do you have, like, a karaoke spot, or do you just kind of do it at home?
Yeah.
[00:13:15] Speaker C: My shower in my car.
[00:13:17] Speaker B: Classic.
[00:13:18] Speaker A: For sure.
[00:13:21] Speaker B: No matter big artists or music, everyone's still, like, listening in the shower.
[00:13:28] Speaker C: I don't think about it either, but my friends tell me, they're like, I feel like you just sing, like, random words at random moments. I think it's normal because I'm always around music people, so hearing that kind of stuff. But I realized that a lot of people are like, when I'm in the kitchen, I'm like, they're probably like, what is she doing?
[00:13:44] Speaker A: Is that not normal? Like, me and my roommate do that all the time.
[00:13:47] Speaker C: Is that normal?
[00:13:48] Speaker B: That's amazing.
[00:13:49] Speaker A: Literally, if me and my roommate hear, like, a phrase from a song, we start singing the song to each.
[00:13:54] Speaker C: Exactly.
[00:13:55] Speaker B: All right, so my co host, Christian, who was not able to make it today, possibly due to feral hogs. Possibly. We're big musical theater guys on 90.7, the morning show, we have our segment, musical theater watch.
And for that, some questions that I know he wanted to ask, and he wanted to know about your theater background, and I know he'd want to know what musical theater productions have you been in.
[00:14:23] Speaker C: Okay.
I think the first musical theater production I was in was Aladdin. I was a narrator, so I think that was fun because I wasn't actually, like a character. Kind of make my character kind of.
I think the next one I was in. Oh, goodness. The next one I was in was wizard of Oz, and I was Dorothy.
[00:14:42] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:14:42] Speaker C: That one was fun. Then I was in hello, Dolly, and I was just a dancer. I was everything. I was like a chef, a dancer.
[00:14:49] Speaker A: That was. That.
[00:14:49] Speaker B: That one's classic.
[00:14:50] Speaker C: All over the place.
Oh, goodness. And then I was in hairspray, and I was amber, actually.
Yeah, I just wore a blonde wig.
[00:14:59] Speaker A: Love that.
[00:15:01] Speaker B: That's so good. All those big names. We love hearing that.
We saw part of the research that summer, did all the scouring, scoured the Internet. Scoured the Internet. There was possibly some Broadway stuff going to happen.
[00:15:18] Speaker C: Yeah, there was ago.
[00:15:19] Speaker B: You want to talk about that?
[00:15:20] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:15:21] Speaker C: In 2020, I guess that's where I started off as a kid, I wrote songs, but at a young age. But it was theater. That was my love. That was my passion. That was my foot in the door. And I had the opportunity to audition for Dear Evan Hansen as Zoe. And they normally don't take you if you're under 18 years old, but they just kind of thought I had what they were looking for for that role. So I made it to the final cut, and they were like, all right, we're flying you out to New York, like, your last little few. And I think I had a really good opportunity.
And the day we were flying out was March 13, 2020.
We got called, and they were like, obviously, we've canceled auditions. Like, flights are not going out. The whole us is shut down due to Covid-19 I was really upset. I remember those first two weeks of COVID I was down. I was in the dumps. I was like, I had this huge opportunity.
And then, obviously, during COVID someone was like, you ever been in a studio? You ever recorded any songs of your own? I was like, no. And I came in, and I never went back to theater.
[00:16:25] Speaker A: Of course.
[00:16:25] Speaker C: I still love it. That's where I started off, but I started recording music. I was like, oh, this is it. This is what I really want to do.
[00:16:31] Speaker A: So, yeah, nice.
Where one door closes, another one opens, right?
[00:16:36] Speaker C: Yeah, exactly.
[00:16:37] Speaker B: Studio door, too. Can't go wrong with that. But you said your friends and other people say you sound like Miley Cyrus.
[00:16:44] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:16:45] Speaker B: So we're going to let all you listeners decide for yourselves. Up next, we have flowers by Miley Cyrus.
[00:16:52] Speaker C: Oh, my goodness.
[00:16:53] Speaker B: And we'll be back with you soon on 90.7, the morning show.
[00:17:00] Speaker A: Yamua FM, Tuscaloosa.
[00:17:16] Speaker B: And once again, we're back with our amazing, super special celebrity guest.
[00:17:21] Speaker C: Still here.
[00:17:23] Speaker B: And because we're regretting that choice, because you're still here and you haven't escaped yet, you're now going to play one of our favorite games we have for morning show guests.
And it's two truths and a lie, but with headlines. Okay, so you have to guess which one of these is the fake headline.
[00:17:42] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:17:43] Speaker B: And now you're allowed to ask clarifying questions for one of the headlines to try to scope it out. And I'll have to answer. And so if you're ready.
[00:17:54] Speaker C: Okay, let's go.
[00:17:55] Speaker B: Number one couple holds weding in Kentucky gas station disco bathroom.
[00:18:01] Speaker A: What?
[00:18:02] Speaker B: Two, General Mills urged to take the plastic out of cheerios.
Three, chocolate for dog synthesized in Newark lab.
Now you can ask for more information about one of them.
[00:18:18] Speaker A: I think I know which one it is, but I'm going to let Marissa answer.
[00:18:22] Speaker C: Can you read that dog one again?
[00:18:24] Speaker B: Chocolate for dog synthesized in Newark lab. Like a New York, New Jersey lab.
[00:18:32] Speaker C: So for the first one.
[00:18:34] Speaker B: For the first one.
[00:18:36] Speaker C: A disco bathroom.
[00:18:38] Speaker B: Yes, it's like a bathroom. And there's a button you can press and then the.
[00:18:41] Speaker C: In a gas station.
[00:18:42] Speaker B: In a gas station. It was actually a destination wedding they traveled to do. To do this.
[00:18:48] Speaker A: That's insane.
[00:18:50] Speaker C: And then read the second one more time.
[00:18:52] Speaker B: Second one. Oh. General Mill's urge to take the plastic out of curios.
[00:18:56] Speaker C: I feel like that one's like I could see that being real.
I've got to go with the first. What bathroom in a gas station has a disco?
[00:19:05] Speaker A: No minus. I'm saying the second is the fake one, personally.
[00:19:09] Speaker B: No, you are both wrong. Chocolate for dogs. Synthesize Newark lab made up.
You don't have to look hard on TikTok to find the disco bathrooms. Is this a real.
[00:19:21] Speaker C: I feel like they need to make chocolate for dogs. I feel like somebody would be invested to do that.
[00:19:25] Speaker A: Yeah, I knew about the disco bathroom. I know that's a thing. I've seen it on.
[00:19:31] Speaker C: I have not seen that.
[00:19:32] Speaker B: And then the plastic and cherries. Unsurre know. You always hear about the microplastics and stuff like that.
[00:19:36] Speaker C: Yeah, I figured that'd be real, but.
[00:19:38] Speaker A: I figured they're a mega corporation. There's no way they're actually listening to anybody telling them to what to do.
[00:19:43] Speaker B: They don't have to.
[00:19:44] Speaker A: Yeah, but they're being urged to.
[00:19:46] Speaker C: I would love to pull up to a gas station, though, and see people having a wedding with disco lights in the bathroom.
[00:19:50] Speaker A: I'd be like, okay, that's my kind of wedding, man.
[00:19:54] Speaker C: I'd be grabbing a snack getting out of there.
[00:19:57] Speaker B: All right, well, I join in. We enjoyed you playing that game with us. Which reminds me, it's time for our next segment, weekly game watch. And so what video games have you been playing recently?
[00:20:10] Speaker C: You take this one.
[00:20:11] Speaker A: You want me to take this?
[00:20:11] Speaker B: Take the lead with this one. We all have something to say here.
[00:20:14] Speaker A: I've been playing Balder skate three, personally won game of the year 2023. And it's so well deserved. Can I just say, like, that game deserved Game of the year. If any other game has ever deserved it.
[00:20:28] Speaker B: Can you tell us a bit about what the game is?
Little synopsis.
[00:20:33] Speaker A: For those who don't know, it's based off of the fifth edition of DND. Okay, okay. So everything is based off of the luck of the die, essentially, which you can kind of cheese it a little bit in some places.
So you can either make your own character or you can play as a character that they have already created. I would suggest playing as your own character first and then playing as a character. Right.
And then you just get to go on a little adventure, which you start off the game in a mind playership. So all of my stranger things fans, you can finally see what a mind flayer is supposed to look like. Not what I was expecting, personally.
And they put a little tadpole in your eyeball and if you don't get it out, you turn into a mind flayer. So the whole time you're trying to figure out how to get this little thing out of your head, and that's the gist of the adventure, which then you run into a bunch of evil guys that are like, we want to put tadpoles in everybody's head. That way we can control the world, essentially.
[00:21:43] Speaker B: Well, that's interesting premise. And not all games are console games. You also have your mobile games.
[00:21:52] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:21:53] Speaker A: Love mobile games.
[00:21:54] Speaker C: Crossy roads for sure. I don't play any games. Like, really, every now and then I'll pull out crossy roads in like, trivia crack. Trivia crack. Yeah, that one too.
[00:22:06] Speaker A: Love that game.
[00:22:07] Speaker C: I feel like that was like really big in middle school and they kind of got like, I never deleted them. All the apps I deleted, they just kind of stayed. So every now and then I'll scroll past and be like, you know what?
[00:22:16] Speaker A: So what's your high score?
[00:22:17] Speaker B: I was just about to ask.
[00:22:19] Speaker C: Oh, my goodness.
I think my high score is like, I think it's like 10,000.
[00:22:25] Speaker B: Really?
[00:22:25] Speaker A: Oh, my God.
[00:22:26] Speaker C: After all these years of playing it. And I'm a really fast texter, too. I can type up a whole paragraph within a second. So I'm pretty good at just getting that duck across the road.
[00:22:37] Speaker B: I'm trying to open up my crossy road right now to see what my record is.
[00:22:41] Speaker A: So what character do you play in Crossy road?
[00:22:43] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:22:44] Speaker A: Like, what's your little avatar thing?
[00:22:46] Speaker C: I kept it on the duck. Can you change it?
[00:22:49] Speaker B: Yeah, we have the whole coins.
[00:22:53] Speaker A: How many? I know you have. If you don't know, like, if you can't buy.
[00:22:57] Speaker B: Wait, because she can buy the whole catalog.
[00:23:01] Speaker C: I have 3000 coins.
[00:23:03] Speaker B: Oh, yes.
Part of the game is you get coins to get new characters.
[00:23:07] Speaker C: I didn't know you could change the character. Yeah, I just hop on there and.
[00:23:10] Speaker A: I just start playing.
[00:23:11] Speaker C: I'm like, okay, go.
I know you get, like, the little treasure box and you, like, press someone pops out.
[00:23:19] Speaker B: I'm holding up crossy road in front of you guys so that everyone listening can see what I'm doing.
[00:23:24] Speaker C: Yeah, but I just play the duck. I kind of like the duck, though.
[00:23:28] Speaker B: Is it a duck?
[00:23:28] Speaker A: I thought it was a chicken.
[00:23:30] Speaker C: Oh, it's a chicken. I don't know what it is. Chicken, duck.
[00:23:33] Speaker B: Well, it's because. Why did the chicken cross the, you.
[00:23:35] Speaker A: Know, I've seen a chicken cross the road.
[00:23:38] Speaker B: Really?
[00:23:39] Speaker A: Columbus, Georgia. Man, what a wild place. Yeah, what a wild place that is. I live right next to, like, that's where I'm from and stuff. We went there, like, one time. I don't even remember what for. And I just was looking out the window in the backseat because I was real little at the time. And I see a chicken and it's crossing like a freeway, and I'm like, crossing road, iowa.
[00:24:01] Speaker C: Chicken cross the road. I know of chickens being on the loose, though.
[00:24:04] Speaker B: Oh, wow.
[00:24:05] Speaker C: People losing their chickens, their pet chickens.
[00:24:07] Speaker A: That's so easy to do, though. Yeah. Chickens are crazy.
[00:24:11] Speaker B: They are insane. But it's not a chicken. But on my walk here, when I cross, eat the road when you cross. I saw, like, a big bird of prey on Bryce lawn. Some sort of falcon, I think. Could have been a red tailed hawk. Looks similar enough.
[00:24:26] Speaker A: Did it have a red tail?
[00:24:28] Speaker B: It was hard to tell because it flew away. But I actually really felt bad for it because I kind of walked kind of close. I didn't want to get too close. Right.
[00:24:35] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:24:35] Speaker B: In terms of, I didn't want to scare it and I didn't want it to hurt me.
And I'm like. And it's like, oh, it's cool. He's just sitting there on the ground. And then I realized that, oh, that's a squirrel. He had just got a squirrel. And then I must have scared him off, and then he flew away. And I'm like, oh, I didn't mean to separate you. You earned that squirrel, dude. Go back for it.
[00:24:52] Speaker A: That reminds me of whenever I was in Vatican City, like, early in the morning, nobody's there because we got there at the crack of dawn, so that way we could explore Rome that day. Right?
Like, we're getting our morning coffee and.
[00:25:08] Speaker B: Like, like you do in.
[00:25:13] Speaker A: I'm like, I'm not a huge fan of croissants, personally, so I'm just kind of going to take whatever they give.
[00:25:18] Speaker C: No, I love croissants. The fresh market.
One time, my mom, it was the best grilled cheese I've ever had my life. She made a grilled cheese, but with a croissant.
[00:25:28] Speaker A: Back to the story.
I watched as everybody else is getting their stuff. This seagull come down onto a dead rat, grab it and fly off with it.
[00:25:39] Speaker B: Well, seagull eat anything?
[00:25:40] Speaker A: Well, yeah, but it's the middle of Vatican City. That's not what I'm expecting to see.
This is the holiest of holy, and I'm just watching the circle of life happen.
I'm like, okay. And then I turn right back around.
[00:25:54] Speaker B: And I eat my croissant. That's some sort of experience. You saw a sign of some sort.
[00:25:59] Speaker A: I don't know what it was telling me. I honestly am kind of scared to know.
[00:26:03] Speaker B: But honestly, you want to skip past this, like, croissant slander? Because I have a giant croissant jelly cat that lives in my room. Okay, but that's different since he's the big one. I named him koalasal.
[00:26:18] Speaker C: Oh, my gosh.
[00:26:23] Speaker A: I'm not slandering anything. I'm just saying it's not for me. It's too sweet.
[00:26:28] Speaker C: It's sweet.
[00:26:29] Speaker B: I don't know. They're like buttery bread.
Just bread.
[00:26:35] Speaker A: It's so sweet.
[00:26:36] Speaker B: Like a soft bread.
[00:26:37] Speaker A: It's so sweet.
[00:26:38] Speaker C: Like bread with a crunchy.
[00:26:40] Speaker A: It's like every time I've ever had.
[00:26:43] Speaker B: A croissant, it's so the. Get a Starbucks croissant, ask them to warm it up. It'll be buttery and savory. It's not going to be sweet.
[00:26:50] Speaker A: Yeah. Okay. I agree with that.
If I'm going to have bread, though, I'd rather just have bread. Like, my favorite bread is longhorn bread.
[00:26:59] Speaker B: Those, like, baguettes that you can get at the grocery store that you just need to pop in the oven for a little bit, and then they're just amazing. And they're, like, soft and the crunchy outside.
[00:27:08] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:27:09] Speaker C: Bread eater. Unless I'm at, like, Texas roadhouse, I.
[00:27:12] Speaker A: Love bread so much, I could be a medieval peasant, the way I eat bread. Yeah.
[00:27:17] Speaker B: Do you ever just have your roll and you're, like, nibbling on it and pretending like it's your ration?
[00:27:22] Speaker A: Sometimes. My girl dinner, going back to that phrase, girl dinner for me is three slices of bread stacked on top of each other.
[00:27:31] Speaker B: That is really good.
[00:27:32] Speaker A: I call it a bread sandwich.
[00:27:33] Speaker B: Yeah, the bread witch.
[00:27:35] Speaker A: Yeah. Because sometimes I just don't feel like doing anything, and bread just sounds so good and it fills you up just enough where you can go to sleep.
[00:27:43] Speaker B: I actually had my own girl dinner the other day with fud stripes and some beef jerky.
[00:27:48] Speaker A: Yeah. Sometimes you have to do that.
[00:27:50] Speaker B: Shout out to Keebler. Fud stripes.
[00:27:52] Speaker C: Keebler's been making dinners like y'all just like, you grab the snacks and eat them. Or are you sitting there, like, cooking this up?
[00:28:00] Speaker B: Well, no. If you're cooking, it's not a girl dinner.
[00:28:04] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:28:05] Speaker C: You're just grabing this out of the fridge.
[00:28:07] Speaker B: It's just what you have.
[00:28:09] Speaker C: I'm not really a girl dinner person. I'm not cooking, though. It's more like.
[00:28:13] Speaker B: No, no.
[00:28:14] Speaker A: I remember one time getting off like a double header from softball. I was so tired that night. I literally crawl up the three flights of stairs to my apartment, go into the house. I'm like, jake to my roommate. Can I please just have some of your sandwich bread? And he's like, yeah, that's fine. So I take three slices of bread, I lay on the couch. I just eat it right there. And then I have to crawl off the couch to my bed to go to bed because I'm so tired. Like, girl dinner is when you're tired or you don't feel good.
[00:28:47] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, that's just being resourceful with the stuff you have.
[00:28:51] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:28:51] Speaker B: All right, well, we're going to bring it back to the music, and then we'll be back with some of your favorite 90.7 the morning show segments. We'll see you all in a little bit.
[00:29:09] Speaker A: WVUA FM, tuscaloosa.
Welcome back to 90.7, the capstone, the morning show.
We swapped places on you there.
[00:29:28] Speaker B: I wasn't ready for that. I was about to tell the listeners that was one of my favorites. Teeth by tummy ache.
All right, so it's the last morning show before spring break, so I think it's only natural we talk about what are our spring break plans?
[00:29:44] Speaker A: Do you have anything to start us off?
[00:29:46] Speaker C: I'm going to Orange Beach, Alabama. We got a house down there. We're all staying for free, not charging anybody.
[00:29:53] Speaker A: Love that.
[00:29:54] Speaker C: Got a boat, a sea do. I'm just hoping that it's sunny and that it's warm.
[00:29:59] Speaker B: I just want that good weather. I am going to Florida to stay with my girlfriend's family, and I'm very excited about it. They're coming to pick us up on Friday. So my spring break really starts Friday because that's my birthday and we'll be spending it in the car going to Florida.
[00:30:16] Speaker A: Happy early birthday.
[00:30:17] Speaker B: Yeah. But Friday is also on the morning show. We like to talk about what the day is today, but instead I'm going to shift it to Friday one because it's my birthday. But that day is also International Women's Day.
And I looked it up. I could not find a single one holiday that encapsures more people than International Women's Day because I just imagine that counts every woman. And I looked up, like Christmas, I looked up, there's more women than there are christians. I looked up everything I could.
[00:30:48] Speaker A: Well, women are half the population.
[00:30:51] Speaker B: I think they're a little more than half. Back when I googled it, I think they're more than half. And so it's me versus all the women.
Very overshadowed on my own birthday here. 98.7.
[00:31:06] Speaker A: What I'm hearing is Andrew's not an ally.
[00:31:09] Speaker B: I am an ally. I am an ally because march is women's, like, month. And I'm all for March being women's month.
[00:31:15] Speaker A: My month.
[00:31:15] Speaker B: Just let me have my day.
No. Okay. I don't consider march my month, but I've always. Because my birthday has always been around this time of year and the way the school system works. So my birthday has always been right before or during spring break. So I always get that whole. The whole week's always mine.
[00:31:30] Speaker A: It's your birth week.
[00:31:31] Speaker B: It's the birth week. Yeah.
[00:31:33] Speaker A: Trina Vega moment.
[00:31:37] Speaker B: And what are you doing this summer?
[00:31:39] Speaker A: I'm going to New Orleans for the first time ever. I've never been. I'm excited to go on a ghost tour with my mom.
[00:31:45] Speaker B: That's cool.
[00:31:46] Speaker A: And I am excited for Beignets from Cafe Dumont.
[00:31:50] Speaker B: My mom went on a trip and I hope she's listening right now to New Orleans. And we always got on her for not bringing us back beignets. And it was like, where are beignets? And we asked her that for so long afterwards, and we still bring it up sometimes.
[00:32:05] Speaker A: I love beignets so much. Me and my mom know how to make them. Like, I love them that much.
[00:32:10] Speaker C: Yeah, me too.
[00:32:11] Speaker A: Yeah.
I'm so sad that Mo bay beignet closed down, like that day. That day I was close. It was so bad. Sobbing.
[00:32:20] Speaker B: I loved when we had all the Mardi gras food at fresh food and they had beignets. They were okay.
[00:32:26] Speaker A: They were like, very.
[00:32:28] Speaker B: I like the crawfish. Those are fun.
[00:32:31] Speaker A: But, I mean, I'm excited. I've never been to new Orleans. It'll be an experience.
[00:32:35] Speaker C: Oh, definitely.
[00:32:36] Speaker A: I love haunted locations and ghost things.
[00:32:40] Speaker B: Like the dome of Reese Pfeiffer.
[00:32:42] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:32:43] Speaker A: I'm so excited to go on a ghost tour there.
[00:32:47] Speaker B: All right, well, looks like we all have some great spring breaks lined up.
[00:32:51] Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
[00:32:54] Speaker B: Well, that's later, but take it back to the now. And it's that special time of the week. It is Weezer Wednesday.
So now we're going to take it to this day in Weezer history back on March 6, 2021, of the last days of the before times of the before times of the before times. And Weezer was featured on the hit tv series Carpool Karaoke. Oh, imagine you go from carpool karaoke with Weezer. A week later, country shut down. Coincidence? I think not.
[00:33:32] Speaker A: Did Carpool karaoke do this to us?
[00:33:35] Speaker B: They didn't do anything to stop it, at the very least. Yeah, that's complicit.
[00:33:39] Speaker A: How dare they?
[00:33:40] Speaker B: And that's what they say. A bystander doesn't do anything just as bad as the bully. I remember being told that. So I don't know. Weezer has something to.
[00:33:47] Speaker A: I think we answer for this.
[00:33:49] Speaker B: 90.7 of the morning show is officially coming after Weezer.
[00:33:52] Speaker A: Wait, was this when James Corden was still.
[00:33:54] Speaker B: Probably. It was probably.
[00:33:55] Speaker A: No, this is not on Weezer. This is on James Corden. I hate that.
[00:34:00] Speaker B: We love hating on James Corden on 90.7, the morning show.
[00:34:04] Speaker A: Oh, goodness. What do he do to you all?
[00:34:06] Speaker B: Oh, he's just a terrible person in real life.
[00:34:08] Speaker C: Oh, real life?
[00:34:08] Speaker B: Yeah, it's, like, entitled.
[00:34:10] Speaker A: Yeah. And he's just annoying.
[00:34:12] Speaker B: I don't find him funny.
[00:34:13] Speaker A: No. How did he get where the artist. Funny?
[00:34:17] Speaker C: Like, the artists that come on and do the like. I love those moments of.
[00:34:23] Speaker A: That's fine. But James Corden himself like, how did he get to where he is? He should not be as successful as an actor.
[00:34:30] Speaker B: Wasn't he a movie?
[00:34:31] Speaker A: He was an indian actor.
[00:34:32] Speaker B: He's just this lowest common denominator. Kind of like safe.
[00:34:36] Speaker A: He shows up everywhere for no reason.
[00:34:39] Speaker B: Not as much anymore.
[00:34:40] Speaker C: Jimmy Fallon.
[00:34:41] Speaker B: I do love him.
[00:34:42] Speaker A: Jimmy Fallon's okay.
[00:34:43] Speaker B: He's not as good as Jimmy Fallon, but they occupy the same headspace. Jimmy Fallon, you can have your opinions on him, but Jimmy Fallon's funnier. He's forced to do the late night show style of comedy, but he can be funny.
[00:34:56] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:34:57] Speaker B: Jim Corns is not.
[00:34:58] Speaker A: He's not. And he's in cats. He's in into the woods. Any big name thing that is supposed to be good, he comes in and ruins it. In my.
[00:35:11] Speaker B: You know, at least he didn't ruin the emoji movie. He was just one of the most terrible things.
[00:35:17] Speaker A: Never watched the emoji movie either.
[00:35:19] Speaker B: No, me neither. But Sony talks about it. Sony animations did release the emoji movie and enter the Spider verse. Like, back to back. Yeah, I think it's important people remember that.
[00:35:28] Speaker A: Yeah, but into the spiderverse, you can't be into the spiderverse.
[00:35:33] Speaker B: Yeah, I think across the spiderverse was better.
[00:35:35] Speaker A: Okay, see, what about beyond the spiderverse?
[00:35:40] Speaker B: What are we going to talk about? I went into the future to watch it. It's really good.
[00:35:45] Speaker A: I'm really excited for that movie, actually.
[00:35:47] Speaker B: All right. And we're really excited to bring it back to the music to celebrate Weezer Wednesday, we have island in the sun.
[00:35:55] Speaker A: Yeah.
WVUA FM, Tuscaloosa.
[00:36:14] Speaker B: And we're here with our latest crimson white story, the Crimson Whites, where we get all our news and views. Summer, do you want to tell us about that story?
[00:36:22] Speaker A: Shout out cdubs. Love them. That's what we called it back in my day, really, when I was on the morning show a whole year ago.
But UA students and faculty demonstrate in support of diversity, equity and inclusion.
[00:36:41] Speaker B: Dei is a big topic.
[00:36:43] Speaker A: Yeah. Personally, I love Dei.
[00:36:45] Speaker B: We love Dei in 90.7, the morning show.
[00:36:49] Speaker A: But apparently during the demonstration organized by the Queer Student Association, Hispanic Latino association, black faculty and staff, ambassadors, and other individual students, people chalked the walkways on the quad, chanted and gathered to share individual stories.
Nearly 200 people were in attendance, according to the QSA's instagram.
The demonstration was done in coordination with similar efforts at the University of Huntsville, Alabama in Huntsville, UAB and Auburn at Montgomery. Not the actual Auburn. I don't know if that happened, but the actual University of Auburn was not mentioned in the article.
[00:37:29] Speaker B: Okay, well, we don't, like, know at all.
[00:37:33] Speaker A: It wouldn't surprise me if they didn't, though, being from there, that place is a cesspool.
[00:37:46] Speaker B: So we have the deI.
Big topic. Won't get too much into it on 90.7 in the morning.
[00:37:53] Speaker A: If you want more, you need to read the article.
[00:37:54] Speaker B: Yeah, you want to read the article? We're not just going to read the whole article to you. We want to get you interested. Read it yourself. Check out the C Dubs, as they call it, as the old people call it. Yeah.
Back during the cambrian explosion, they were calling it the Cdubs.
[00:38:11] Speaker A: I love the cambrian explosion. That was such a wacky time for elbow.
[00:38:15] Speaker B: I love isopods. They've survived them all. You know. Isopods? Fun fact, they survived, like, every single major extinction event, including the 2008 financial.
[00:38:26] Speaker A: Crisis, including but not limited to, including.
[00:38:28] Speaker B: But not limited to the 2008 financial class.
[00:38:30] Speaker A: Did you know, speaking of things, surviving sharks are older than trees. I love that fact. I love sharks.
[00:38:38] Speaker B: I know, they're just like, have you seen the picture of the shark? It has the little bucktooth smile.
You've seen all the pictures.
[00:38:46] Speaker A: I love sharks so much. I have a shark phone case.
[00:38:50] Speaker B: Are sharks your favorite animal?
[00:38:51] Speaker A: So very much.
[00:38:52] Speaker B: Okay, why don't you hold up your shark phone case to the microphone so.
[00:38:55] Speaker A: Everyone can see it? I don't think I've ever missed a season of shark Week.
[00:38:59] Speaker B: Really? I swear, it's never the same week. I swear. There's like three shark weeks a year and no one's keeping track?
[00:39:05] Speaker A: No, there's only one.
[00:39:06] Speaker B: I love the Sonic shark week.
[00:39:09] Speaker A: What?
[00:39:10] Speaker B: Sonic has a special slushy, and it has the little bit, the red bits, and it has the gummy sharks.
[00:39:16] Speaker A: When you said Sonic shark, I was thinking the hedgehog. I was like, wait a minute. Where does Sonic the hedgehog have a shark week? This is something I want.
[00:39:25] Speaker B: You haven't been watching Sonic the hedgehog.
[00:39:27] Speaker A: I want to see Sonic the hedgehog.
[00:39:29] Speaker B: Talk about sharks. My Sonic Oc is a shark. Didn't you know?
[00:39:32] Speaker A: I did not know that.
[00:39:33] Speaker B: I made that up.
[00:39:34] Speaker A: I know you did.
I was like, that combines two of the best things in the world. Sharks and Sonic the Hedgehog.
[00:39:42] Speaker B: It's an untapped potential.
[00:39:43] Speaker A: That's an untapped market right there.
[00:39:46] Speaker B: There's like no one making quality Sharks quality sonic fan stuff.
If only there was an ongoing series of sonic fan fiction.
[00:39:59] Speaker A: Do you know the longest fan fiction in the world?
As of the time that I'm thinking of this.
[00:40:05] Speaker B: And don't tell me it's sonic too.
[00:40:07] Speaker A: No good. As of the time that I read, this is a loudhouse fan fiction.
[00:40:12] Speaker B: Really?
[00:40:13] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't know exactly how long it is, but it's a lot.
[00:40:21] Speaker B: Were you ever into fan fiction with any of the fandoms you were in? I never was.
[00:40:24] Speaker A: I never really got into fan fiction. I've read a couple.
[00:40:28] Speaker B: That's a rabbit hole.
[00:40:29] Speaker A: I've read a couple just because my friends were really into fan fiction.
[00:40:34] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. But that's different.
[00:40:35] Speaker A: Yeah. So I wanted to see what the hullabaloo was about. Right.
So I read a couple and I just never really understood it. I got why people did it, but at the same time I was like, the story is the story. The story is over.
I understand now more, but I was a kid that was very literal.
[00:40:58] Speaker B: Yes, it's canon.
[00:41:00] Speaker A: Yeah. You have to stick to the canon. And so it would really bother me. Plus the grammar a lot of times would bother me.
[00:41:06] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. If they don't talk like the way they talked.
[00:41:10] Speaker A: Yeah. Because that's what would get me is like, sometimes I would read a sentence, I'm like, that character would never say that, ever. I understand this is like a high school au or something, but my little bloobo would never say that.
If you know what a bloorbo is, you know what a bloobo is. So I'm not answering what that is.
[00:41:30] Speaker B: Okay. I didn't want to ask Cdubs. That made me think of what was the old morning show like when you were a part of it? I don't know.
What's different?
[00:41:44] Speaker A: I don't know. I was with Ian Schwartz and, shoot, I forget the other guy's name.
[00:41:49] Speaker B: Noah.
[00:41:50] Speaker A: Noah would come on occasionally when we had guests and, you know, we would do good news, we would do weather.
It was kind of chill, really. It was really laid back. We'd just kind of sit in here and talk and hang out. Really. That's the thing.
[00:42:11] Speaker B: Because there used to be three morning shows. Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
[00:42:13] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:42:14] Speaker B: Now it's only Wednesday, so we got to pack more in, I think.
[00:42:17] Speaker A: I would love to, but nobody wants to do a morning show.
[00:42:22] Speaker B: I can only do it so many times. I'm not doing it on Friday.
[00:42:25] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:42:26] Speaker B: I don't even have time, which I.
[00:42:27] Speaker A: Don'T think we would do it on Fridays because we have something new coming. But that's a sports thing that I don't want to get into.
That ain't my department.
[00:42:38] Speaker B: Well, but what if the listeners are excited to hear about something new on 90.7 the capstone, it's still in the works. Still in the works. Okay, hopefully we'll have some new Friday content for you all coming up.
[00:42:50] Speaker A: Yeah, and hopefully, if I can find people a Monday morning show, I'd rather not get up this early every day.
[00:42:59] Speaker B: No, because Monday is like my day where I don't have to do much.
[00:43:02] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:43:02] Speaker B: Though my class is right at the wreck, so it's like, not inconvenient.
[00:43:07] Speaker A: I'm hearing that you can be convinced.
[00:43:11] Speaker B: It might take some convincing.
[00:43:14] Speaker A: A donut here and there.
[00:43:17] Speaker B: I get donuts.
All right. That's my payment for doing this.
I'm the best volunteer morning show host.
[00:43:26] Speaker A: You are.
[00:43:27] Speaker B: 90.7 the Capstone.
[00:43:29] Speaker A: Anyway, we should get back to the music.
[00:43:30] Speaker B: We're going to get back to.
[00:43:31] Speaker A: We went off on a tangent.
[00:43:33] Speaker B: A few tangents, really.
[00:43:34] Speaker A: That reminds me of my time.
[00:43:36] Speaker B: Whenever you're on a tangent, sometimes you need to watch out and get back to what you're supposed to be doing. So we have watch out by Gomorevi.
[00:43:45] Speaker A: Um, w v UA f m Tuscaloosa.
[00:44:02] Speaker B: All right, welcome back to 97 90.7 the morning show. We want to thank all of you listeners out there on your radios or on the tune in app for listening to us this morning.
[00:44:15] Speaker A: Be sure to go check out Miss Marissa Luna.
[00:44:18] Speaker B: Oh, yes.
[00:44:19] Speaker A: For spending her time with us this morning. She didn't have to do that.
[00:44:22] Speaker B: She did not have to. And we were so excited to have her have her on. She's since left to Traverse Bryce Lawn, and we can only hope that she's avoided the feral hogs because I want her to survive, to keep making music.
[00:44:38] Speaker A: Yeah, her music's actually really good. I enjoyed it.
[00:44:40] Speaker B: It's really good.
[00:44:41] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:44:42] Speaker B: So we hope all of you guys have a great day. We hope that the morning show was a good way to start your day. And we will see you guys back after spring break. I've been Andrew and I'm summer and this was 90.7 the morning show.
[00:44:59] Speaker A: My bell, Tuscaloosa.
