Shannon In The Morning Big Show Daily Podcast

He’s a distinguished attorney who served as the 4th U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security from 2013 to 2017 under President Obama, and he has a lot to say about the Coronavirus!

Jeh Johnson checked in to talk about security issues and trends he’s seen since the coronavirus arrived in New York and the preventative measures he thinks will get us back on the right track.

“We’re going to need a very careful plan for getting back to normal” Jeh says, “we can’t go back to the way we were right away.”

Born in New York City and now residing in Montclair, New Jersey, Jeh is a big fan of one of the big show hosts.

“I’m President of the Patty Steele fan club” he proudly exclaims!

Brad Blanks caught up with writer/director Alan Yang on Zoom, his new movie out on Netflix is called TIGERTAIL, but it’s causing some confusion because people are mistaking it to be part of the Joe Exotic 'Tiger King' series which is also on Netflix!

Alan has been a good sport about the confusion, but his movie is a sad coming of age family film that would go well at Sundance, Brad got a bit emotional watching it.

If you don't know the name Alan Yang, he worked on Parks and Rec, created Master of None with Aziz Ansari and just did Bill Simmons podcast.

GRAMMY award winning singer and songwriter Jim Peterik has sold over 30 million records with the Ides of March, 38 Special and Survivor! He checked in to the big show to share stories and tell us about a new song he just created that was inspired by recent world events.

Jim told us the great story of Sylvester Stallone calling you to write a song for Rocky 3, and he thought it was a prank! He also told us about his journey with the Ides of March, and how he found himself out on the road with bands like Led Zeppelin as a high school kid!

Jim has released a new song for these challenging times called “Empty Arena.” It’s available for purchase and/or stream at iTunes, Amazon & Spotify. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the MusiCares Foundation.

Jim received a Grammy for the triple platinum “Eye Of The Tiger”. He also wrote “The Search is Over” and “Burning Heart” among many others for Survivor.

Jim has written 18 TOP 10 hits, including: “Hold On Loosely,” “Caught Up In You,” “Rocking Into The Night,” “Fantasy Girl.” Peterik penned songs have sold 30 MILLION copies worldwide.

Jim formed his first band, The Ides Of March, while in high school. The group’s single “Vehicle” hit #2 on the Billboard chart.

As we continue to check in on friends of the big show, we got a call back from Gavin DeGraw who's holed up safely in Nashville with his awesome rescue dog Buddy!

Gavin will be part of the tribute “CMT Giants, Kenny Rogers: A Benefit for MusiCares” April 8th at 8pm on CMT hosted by Rita Wilson.

Dolly Parton Jennifer Nettles, Lady Antebellum, Lionel Richie, Michael McDonald, Rascal Flatts and many others will perform remotely!

Text KENNYCARES to 41444 during the broadcast to contribute to the COVID-19 relief fund to help struggling musicians, half of the funds will go to the Nashville country community.

Gavin co-hosts the “HOW MEN THINK PODCAST,” sharing men’s views on relationships & more and he co-owns NASHVILLE UNDERGROUND - a 40,000 square foot bar, restaurant event space with his brother Joey located in the heart of downtown Nashville on historic lower Broadway.

We saw Brad’s impressive homemade greenhouse last week during his quest to grow vegetables while sheltering at home.

He learned it from a guy on Youtube who we discovered might have been missing for months with no digital contact!

We assigned the case to Brad to find out what happened to the missing gardener, James Prigioni of Tom’s River, New Jersey and here’s what happened…

Dr. Oz was kind enough to give us some time to go over a wide variety of topics related to Covid 19.

Dr. Oz continues to air new episodes of "The Dr. Oz Show" remotely from his home weekdays at 1pm on FOX-5!

Bob Saget checked in from California this morning to talk about a big event happening this weekend that's designed to help stand-up comedians who are out of work and struggling because of the coronavirus.

Bob will be part of “Laugh Aid,” taking place Saturday night April 4th at 7pm.

The 4-Hour Live stream includes appearances by Ray Romano, Jimmy Fallon, Jim Gafigan, Howie Mandel, Nikki Glaser, Bill Burr, Marc Maron, Patton Oswalt & many more.

All profits go to Comedy Gives Back's COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund.

Twitter, Comedy Central's YouTube channel, Facebook and the Laugh Lounge App will stream the content all at the same time.

Bob also talked about his shelter at home situation with his family scattered all over the country and how the world right now feels similar to the stories his family told him about the great depression.

EMMY award winning broadcaster and former host of the iconic “Jerry Springer Show” for 27 seasons Jerry Springer checked in from his home this morning!

Nowadays he dons a robe in the “Judge Jerry!” show!

Today we talked about everything from being called an icon, his legendary show closing line "Take care of yourself, and each other," politics and Judge Jerry! 

Catch new episodes of “Judge Jerry” weekdays at 2PM on PIX-11. It was just renewed for season 2! It airs right after reruns of “The Jerry Springer Show.”

He also hosts a podcast at www.JERRYSPRINGER.COM

Funny guy Kevin Nealon checked in this morning to talk about season 4 of his CBS show with Matt LeBlanc "Man With a Plan" and to talk about his YouTube show "Hiking With Kevin."

Louie Louie checked in to give an update on his status and how his teacher wife Rosanna is handling things. Sue checked in to tell us her husband Joe has become a cat sitter for her mom's friend Carolyn and Brad checked in with updates!

We miss each other!

Since being forced to shelter in place the entire big show is split up, so we checked in on each other this morning including our rhyming afternoon drive DJ Broadway Bill Lee!

Listen to the Big Show status update podcast....