shook up the morning drivetime landscape with the duo’s willingness to say and do almost anything.
, but the delay made Thompson worry that all the successes and eventual failures, all the lore and legend of their show was endangered. “I would run up on something like Mark and Brian playing the brass,” Thompson says of a bit the duo used often on the show. “I would play the trombone, Brian would play the trumpet. We played it badly and it was really funny and we were well-known for it.
Sometimes that was benign, he says. Like the vividness of the “god-awful wallpaper that we had in the control room in Montgomery ,” Thompson says. “I could literally see it as I was opening up those memories. And the joyous times, the wonderful times. The self-involved times. Those were just wonderful to open up and go back.”
The memory of getting booed by thousands of fans at an annual event where Mark and Brian had been cheered for years also hurt, though now also angered him, he says. Thompson says he’d never considered writing a tell-all that might reveal the kinds of tensions that arise in any relationship. “But I felt this was the time to tell it,” he says. “And the way to tell it. I talked about what it was like to go through. How I fixed it.
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