His life has played out on the air since then, going from being a single guy against marriage and children to married with a young son. He is always running to the next gig. This will be his 3rd year co-hosting the event. Get ready to have some listening fun today, because Poolboy is in the house. Celebrity, I am not. You do it the way you want to do it. You are in the business. It's nice to be able to sit back and not be the guy pressing the buttons and just getting to sit back and talk. This is great.
I cannot be as good as Heather though, but I'm going to try. She's awesome. I listen to her, she's just charming. She is an amazing co-host. We've been together, working together now for 13 years. She's been there 18 years, so I'm very blessed to get to work with her.
We have a really good chemistry and it just — it makes my mornings fun. I mean, I look forward to going to work. I had to recently put together a grant for the Dreamland Ballroom and you have to do all this reading and writing and research. I hired somebody to help me, because I just could not do it. It was so awful. It was grueling. Quit once you find another job. There has been multiple times in my life I've wanted to quit a job I was at, but I would not quit that job until I had the other job lined up.
Then I would be ready to quit. When I got into radio, I was also bartending at the same time and I continued to do that for years after I got into radio, because I mean, radios — I mean, it can change. I mean, things can happen, or maybe I wouldn't like it or whatever. I was not able to let go of that one job until I felt secure in the next job.
I've always had two and three jobs for as long as I can remember. She said there's no great mystery to success. It's just working hard. If you're laying on the couch, you're not going to get the job you may want. All right, let me introduce you a little bit and tell people a little bit about you.
You are so genuinely fun and infectious that both the Arkansas Times and the Arkansas Democrat Gazette has voted you the best personality radio. That's awesome. That is amazing. I love listening to them. Thriller Thursday's. It's awesome. That is really, really, really cool. Look, you guys asked for this stuff, so I gave it to you. I just try to come up with things that I have done. Yeah, I entered a hotdog eating contest one year in honor of the 4th of July, Nathan's hotdog eating contest they do in Coney Island.
Because I thought that I could do something, but no. I mean, but four and a half I thought was a pretty dang good. I mean, that's —. From both ends. I mean, it was — Not just once. I mean, it was an all-day thing. I mean, I ruined myself. All night long. It was awful. It was a rough two days after that. Let's say, you're an Arkansan through and through, having graduated from Catholic High in Little Rock, University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, with a BA in communications and then tell me if I'm right, fresh out of college you applied for an internship at Alice it was hard?
Then I didn't really do anything with radio after that. I got out. I'm almost there. It's pretty exciting. Yeah, so graduated from there, I didn't do anything with radio, went into property management and some real estate there for a while, then I figured out that that's not really what I wanted to do.
I wasn't loving it. I wasn't happy. The girl I bartended with had a roommate and she sent my application into the radio station. She obviously wanted better for me than to be a bartender. No, it was good. No, absolutely. They ended up hiring me and it was or a part-time producer position. That's how I got my start. I worked year after year, I did anything that anybody would ever ask of me.
I accepted those jobs here and there around the radio station that weren't necessarily in my wheelhouse, but I learned to do them. I was always willing to learn from somebody else. It was around that I make myself more valuable. The more skills that I could pick up around the radio station, I felt the better; from running the board to work in the front desk to going on a sales call, to whatever it was, I was willing to learn, because I just felt that the more knowledge I had, the more valuable I became to the to the company.
Harder for them to fire me if I knew more stuff. It wasn't much, but it was a contract and I just — I kept at it, I kept at it and here it is 13 years later and I have my name on the morning show with a wonderful co-host and we're having an amazing time.
I remember when you were just a part-time guy who come on sometimes and they do live remotes with you from places. You're a married man now and we'll talk about that. Move on up the ladder. Keep moving. I mean, talk about right place, the right time. Me being familiar with the audience, I think helped and of course played a role in that. It was a real blow, but —. I was able to jump in and fill the shoes for the time being and luckily, it worked out. Heather and I have a chemistry, and so —.
He's so good. Let's just keep him. I'm not going to take that job. Always just get your foot in the door. Who's the man that owns Brooke House? Warren Buffett. Warren Buffett gave this speech to Harvard. I don't think that always people do it that way. I knew that going into the situation. I was not seasoned.
I never hosted a full morning show before. I was rather relatively new to everything. I was willing to do whatever I had to do to do the job. I was willing to prove myself. I knew that I had it in me. I knew that I could do good things with the opportunity, and so I did. I just took it and took it and run with it. I chose communications, because it was easy.
Look —. I'm not going to lie. I was looking forward — I mean, I'd been a Catholic. I had my hair cut a certain way, wore the khakis and ties for four years, hadn't seen a girl in four years.
I was ready to go to college and just live it up. I mean, of course I was interested in radio and television and acting and things like that and communications seemed like a natural fit for me. This is going to be a lot of me standing in front of classes and talking at and doing oral presentations and not writing and doing research and stuff like that.
I can do that all day long. I could stand up in a class and half hungover and give you an exam where they answer. It worked out. It worked out for me. All right, I love your honesty. All right, let's take a quick break. When we come back, Poolboy is going to tell us how he got his name and maybe he'll reveal his real name.
If you missed any part of the show, a podcast will be made available next week at flagandbanner. If you prefer to listen on iTunes or YouTube, you'll also find those links there. Lots of listening options. I'm speaking today with okay, I can't say local celebrity. How about radio personality, Poolboy from the morning show Heather and Poolboy on Alice You said my alarm goes off at At , the Heather and Poolboy show begins and we go from there.
Most people listen for about 10 or 15 minutes during their commute, my job is to make you laugh, get listeners into a good mood for work. You prepped for two hours before the show? I mean, everything happens.
Everything happens in Hollywood, in sports, just in your own community. To try to condense all that into four hours, but you're really not four hours with music and stuff in that. I mean, you've got to condense it down and find the best stuff to talk about for that day. I get up. First of all, I have to wake up. Getting there — I mean, that's all part of it. It's talking with the other jocks that are there in the stage, because we're a part of — we've got eight other radio stations in our building, and so there's other people that are there.
We're talking and we use them as sounding boards for topics, or something that might have happened to them. I'll use anything. I'll scour websites. I'll find delicious audio to use. That was good. They've got facial recognition for cancer patients, because if you smile you might get well and I loved that. That was a good one. The one about which way do you wipe, I mean, come on. Yeah, so I get there. The alarm clock goes off at It's really I just fast forward it 10 minutes, so I really got a built-in 10 minutes.
I think we're the only two in the building that do not drink coffee. I mean, there are guys there that crush it all day long. I mean, , in the afternoon they're still hitting cups of coffee.
That's my one thing I do in the morning and then it's water usually for the rest of the initiative. Some of the things you do this morning, I heard backstage Betty, I love how you give all these names for everything. Backstage Betty, last day Linda, the Miami Vice drink for cruise ships.
That's the fun part about the show is that while I do try to come up with — while the both of us try to come up with things to talk about for the day, it can change at the drop of a hat from a caller calling in and asking a question to something to my text into the show, or e-mails into the show. I mean, a comment can just steer the conversation in a totally different way.
I think the audience really appreciates that. You mentioned there that typically, somebody that's on their morning commute only has about 15 minutes, 10 to 15 minutes to listen to the show, because everybody's busy and everybody's got a different routine and it's getting up and it's getting the kids ready, or maybe it's not.
Maybe it's just getting yourself ready, or you and your husband get out the door or something, and so you get in your car and that's your time. We just want somebody to get to their destination in the morning with a laugh. We very rarely will talk about politics, or religion, or anything like that. We're all on this morning commute together and it's just like we're all friends riding in a car together and we're just trying to make the best of it and just want to laugh and just — Before you have to go to work and your grind.
We just want to get you there in a good mood. We're best friends in the car. We're all in the car together and we're best friends chit-chatting it up. That's a great way to think about it. I thought that was so funny, because my girlfriends and I all got together and we all sat around and said of all the people that you used to date, who would you go out with still?
Most of my male boyfriends are all dead. You're going to tell us how you got your name? I got two versions; one from you and one from Heather. When I went off to college, again I cleaned pools and why not? Why would you not clean pools at an apartment complex full of sorority girls? I mean, it was just —. It made sense. That was my job. That was on my resume, because that's all I had at that point. There wasn't much on my resume coming out of college and being a bartender and working some time and property management.
When I first got to the station, like I said, I was willing to do anything and everything. I was a gofer. I'd go do this, I'd go do that, somebody asked me to do something, I'd go.
People I think fondly referred to me as Station B word. Then I as Heather and I worked together more and more, she was snapping her fingers ordering me to do this and that for her.
I'd feed her grapes or fan her with a palm leaf, or something like that. You can tell everybody what your real name is, or is that a secret? Because you've been called Poolboy so much, everybody thinks of you as Poolboy. Whatever you're seeing on my Facebook page is just what's there. I have nothing to do with it. Yanked it away from me, or I can't get access to it unless I give them social security number and my photo on the —. I'm dying to know why now.
I'll DJ. I have a partner, Johnny Jackson, he's on the air right after Heather and I in the morning and we'll do weddings, parties, fundraisers. I'll do weekend stuff, Friday, Saturday nights if I've got the time, or need, or want.
Can I say that? That's a bride, this is the day that she's thought about her entire life and this day's got to be perfect. If you want it to be a party, well I want you to make it a party and I want to help make it a party and I want to help make it great. I want to give everybody what they want and I want people — I want to get butts out of the seats, I want people dancing, throwing drinks back.
If you don't do that, that's cool too, whatever. It's fun and I enjoy it and I like to make that day be amazing. He is the most sensitive guy there now. You are really sensitive. Right now, I want you to tell us your on-air contest for your tattoo and how it happened.
It's been a while since I've gotten one. I mean, it's been probably — it's probably been three years since I lost my last bet. Shown off, the older principal beat me and I ended up having to get a rocket tattoo and it's now on my forearm, or my bicep.
I mean, I love Catholic High. It doesn't bother me. The one that bothers my mom is the unicorn in rays of sunshine dancing on a cloud that is on my right butt cheek.
That's not her favorite. My favorite I think is Little Caesar that I have on the inside of my arm. That's probably my favorite. We were losing in this. Pizza, pizza guy. I mean, I've gone into the restaurant wearing tank tops and everything and just flexing, but nothing, nothing. Not even a crazy bread, right? When we come back, we're going to continue our conversation with Poolboy. He's going to tell us some of those favorite stories.
One of which is the story of your first date with your wife and how you asked your wife to marry you and then we'll hear a little bit about being a dad and your son and we'll get DJ tips on how to get started in the business. If you missed any part of the show, a podcast will be made available next week on flagandbanner.
If you prefer to listen on iTunes or YouTube, you'll find those links there as well. We'll be right back. I'm speaking today with radio personality Poolboy from the morning show Heather and Poolboy on Alice I would just love to. I love dancing. That's how we met. At first, I thought she had a little RBF. Then I don't know, the more and more we worked together and worked on this committee together, we got to know each other.
Then I asked her out and she said no, or had something come up. Describe a typical morning: When the alarm goes off at a. I throw on something comfortable, eat a little breakfast and drive to the station to begin the show at 6 a. For the next four hours, it's like hanging out with a group of friends talking over coffee or in my case a Diet Coke. How do you spend the rest of the day?
The day consists of a lot of Nick Jr. I'm home usually by 11 a. Then, we are usually rushing to get somewhere because Conor takes piano, plays football and is a boy scout. Dinner's usually ready around p. If I have a work related event to attend that day or evening, my husband Chad picks up the slack and gets it all done.
We are a great team. What do you love most about your job? The laughter we produce in others and in ourselves. So many times people tell me that they wouldn't be able to get through the daily grind of traffic without our goofy banter. Or that we helped them get through a rough patch in their marriage, or maybe we comforted them through a death in the family with our stories.
What do you love most about living and working in central Arkansas? I really enjoy Little Rock; it feels just like home. Some of the nicest, most generous people I've ever come across live here. What would listeners be surprised to know about you? I would be surprised if anyone was surprised to know anything about me. We are so transparent on the show. I've probably told too many details about my life. Do you get recognized a lot in public a lot? It's always fun and a positive experience.
I really enjoy the fact that people find us approachable and treat us like family. Do your children listen to you on the radio? My oldest listens to me on his way to school, but it's a short drive, so he doesn't get much of the show.
However, they are featured on the show quite often. Sometimes I take a recorder home and capture some of the craziness and sweetness that they create and we play it on the show for everyone's entertainment. They are too much fun and they provide a lot of material.
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