Frank & Friends Show 0024

Frank’s longtime friend Gene “Bean” Baxter is filling in for Kathryn Frady today. Bean’s podcast is “A Cup of Tea and a Chat with Allie and Bean,” which is found on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/allieandbean with a free weekly sampler on most major podcast apps including Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/A-Cup-of-Tea-and-a-Chat-Weekly-Sampler-Podcast/B08JJR7B6J For their 200th episode, Allie and Bean did a special livestream on YouTube. 

Frank and Bean are big fans of Regis Philbin. Frank admires that Regis had many shows that were canceled before starting “Live with Regis & Kathie Lee” when he was 57 years old. Bean mentions that Frank emcees many events in the Knoxville area. 

The Frank & Friends Show is a media sponsor of this year’s Akima Cabaret, a fun night of musical comedy, presented by the Akima Club of Knoxville. This year’s theme is “The Roaring ‘20s - When Decades Collide.” The Akima Cabaret  is at the Mill & Mine on February 18 and 19. Proceeds benefit dozens of area charities. Get your tickets before they’re gone at https://www.akimaclub.org 

February 12 was the 30th anniversary of the demise of the top-40 format on WAVA in Washington, the station where Frank and Bean first met as co-workers. David Edgar produced an hour-long farewell that the shares each year on social media. You can listen to WAVA’s final hour here: https://formatchangearchive.com/the-final-hour-of-1051-wava-washington-dc/ 

Frank and Bean produced a one-hour show called “The 25th Hour” that aired on WAVA each year when Daylight Saving Time ended and the clock changed from 2:00 a.m. back to 1:00 a.m. Bean wonders if anyone cares about all this inside radio talk. 

Frank will be a guest deejay on a show called “The Funhouse” on WUTK 90.3 The Rock at 8:00 pm. on Friday, February 25, 2022. You can listen online here: https://wutkradio.com/ Frank is worried that he can’t think of any cool songs to play on the show. The one song Frank thought of was “Ma Tit' Fille” by Buckwheat Zydeco. Bean suggests a few other Mardi Gras songs. 

Bean used to live in New Orleans and says that Mardi Gras is not just a bawdy celebration in the French Quarter. He says that Mardi Gras in the Garden District is family-friendly. A traditional Mardi Gras food is pancakes. Frank hopes that Bean will visit East Tennessee so they can go to some of the pancake restaurants in Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge.  

Bean is gratified by how many fans of the Kevin & Bean show followed him to his podcast. Frank meets fans who wondered what happened to him after he left the station that they listened to in middle school and high school. Frank has a fan who texts him almost every day about either LakeFM or East Tennessee PBS Scholars’ Bowl. 

Bean asks if working on Scholars’ Bowl helps Frank solve crossword puzzles. He also asks if Frank shares his crossword results like many people do with their Wordle scores. 

Bean is shocked that Frank pays for a crossword puzzle subscription because Frank would never pay when they would go out for a meal with co-workers on the Kevin & Bean show. 

Bean bought his house in New Orleans from Jay Thomas, who also did a radio show from that house. Frank worked as Jay’s radio producer for a short time at KPWR. 

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