Shannon In The Morning Big Show Daily Podcast

Gene Ferrara, a great friend of The Big Show and of JMAC Project Management Consultants delivers his heartfelt story and a major donation for Blythedale Children's Hospital. 

Rob Thomas called into The Big Show to talk about life, Blythedale, and his new album Something About Christmas Time. 

The Vice-President of Partnership Marketing for Macy’s Jordan Dabby joined Scott & Patty to preview the 45th Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks show! 

Here's EVERYTHING you need to know about the big event1

The show airs Sunday at 8pm on NBC-4, the fireworks show will begin around 9:25pm. The Fireworks will be launched from five barges on the East River in Midtown from East 23rd to East 42nd Streets. The east river is the best place to see the fireworks in person this year. 

65,000 ariel shells & effects will be launched including triple linking rainbows, blue jellyfish with crackling tentacles and red, white and blue waterfalls!

Performances by The Jonas Brothers with Marshmello, Coldplay, Blake Shelton, Reba McEntyre & One Republic. For the first time in Macy's Fireworks broadcast history, a drone light show will be featured when the Jonas Brothers' perform. 350 drones will honor Team USA as they prepare to depart for the Tokyo Olympic games!

The fireworks musical score includes Tori Kelly performing the Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic “You’ll Never Walk Alone” from the musical Carousel & The United States Army Field Band & Soldier’s Chorus.

You can also listen to the musical score on our sister station 1010 WINS via the Audacy app!

Go to www.Macys.com/Fireworks for more info!

Photo: Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/Getty Images for Macy's

Considering he began his music career as a high schooler backing up Lionel Richie, Richard Marx has MANY stories to tell! 

Lucky for us, he's decided to put his best stories all together in one place! "Stories To Tell: A Memoir" comes out July 6th and includes stories about his early days with Lionel, being the first person to see "Xanadu" while sitting on Olivia Newton-John's couch, working with *NSYNC, Kenny Rogers, Barba Streisand and so much more. 

Richard checked in with Scott & Patty to preview some of the stories and reminisce! 

“STORIES TO TELL: A MEMOIR” is available for pre-order at Amazon.com & comes out July 6th. "STORIES TO TELL: GREATEST HITS AND MORE” is available for pre-order at Amazon, iTunes & Apple Music and comes out everywhere this Friday July 2nd.

Brad Blanks did a deep dive with TMZ's Harvey Levin about UFO's this morning on the big show! 

Harvey is promoting the all-new one-hour TMZ special  “TMZ Investigates: UFOs: The Pentagon Proof” airing tonight, June 29th on FOX-5! 

TMZ will analyze the U.S. Government’s Official Response to UFO Conversations from an Investigative Standpoint, Interviewing Key Players and Showing Entirely New Footage of UFOs from the Deck of a USS Naval Ship. 

Listen to big show reaction to all this UFO talk! 

Brad Blanks took some time this morning to talk to comedian and actor Maz Jobrani! 

Maz was part of the strong ensamble cast of "Superior Donuts" which ran for two seasons on CBS-TV and also starred Judd Hirsch, David Koechner, Jermaine Fowler and Katie Segal! 

The veteran comedian talked to Brad about performing stand up again to an audience and of course vaccine rules!

Get your tickets to see Maz at Carolines on Broadway this Thursday June 24th through June 26th at www.carolines.com. 

Big show junior reporter Harvey Blanks is back! Brad's son was originally tasked to go to the new Harry Potter superstore in NYC but the line was too long! 

Instead Harv delved into the new Disney+ show "Loki" starring Tom Hiddleston & Owen Wilson, and it should make all MCU fans happy! 

The premiere episode of "Loki" is streaming now on Disney+

It's the end of the road for Dennis DeYoung. The former Styx frontman is releasing his final studio album "26 East:Volume 2" June 11th and called into the big show to talk about it! 

"It's me waving goodbye to all the fans, thanking them" Dennis explains to why he split the album into two volumes. Although this is his last album, Dennis tells Scott & Patty "i'm not saying i won't record a song once in a while, but no more albums for me Scott, that's it." 

Dennis knows the old way of doing things is over, and agrees with Billy Joel retiring from making albums a long time ago. 

"The music business the way it's structured now" Dennis says, "people don't care about albums the way they used to it's fruitless to try and make a bunch of them."

So why did he make a farewell album? 

"Making albums is a little bit of a, it's like climbing up a hill that's just too damn high" he admits. "But i did it, i'm pleased with it, it's coming out and people then can go 'yea we love this guy' or they can go... 'Billie Eilish is available!'"

See the video for the album's first single "Isle of Misanthrope" and pre order 26 East: Volume 2 at www.DennisDeyoung.com.

It's a reopening 15 months in the making! Caroline's legendary comedy club is finally reopening for the first time since COVID-19 shut down the city in March of 2020. Donnell Rawlings from "Chapelle's Show" is the first comedian to take the stage all this Memorial Day Weekend! Go to www.Carolines.com for tickets! 

Brad Blanks talked to Colleen Wilson and Melissa Curtis, the perky duo behind the the Netflix show PET STARS! 

Yes, Colleen & Melissa are hollywood agents for your pet! They also give a fun interview, take a listen!