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HomeMy WebLinkAboutScott DeLucia Talks Welfare Cadillac Transcription, WTAW First 100 YearsProject HOLD WTAW Interview Scott DeLucia | Former WTAW Program Director Tom Turbiville | WTAW Radio Host Daniel Hayes | Transcriber Transcript 00:00:00 Dick Bolin (DB) Here's the latest news from the Associated Press. Anytime now, the big- 00:00:03 Speaker 2 WTAW will join new businesses from across the Brazos Valley. 00:00:07 Speaker 3 Aggies win 74-72. Here's your ride. 00:00:12 Speaker 4 16.20 WTAW. 00:00:15 Tom Turbiville (TT) This is WTAW The First 100 Years. I'm Tom Turbiville. Talk radio on WTAW got started almost by accident, according to Scott DeLucia. 00:00:26 Scott DeLucia (SD) Bob Bick came here from Ruidoso, New Mexico, and he played a song by Guy Drake called Welfare Cadillac. And he basically talked about people who are going to pick up their welfare check driving a Cadillac. And Bob Bick made an offhanded comment about, yeah, man, that's the last thing we need is people who can afford Cadillacs getting welfare checks. The phones exploded. He had 45 minutes left in his air shift, and I don't know that he played another record that day. Clearly, people were willing to voice their outrage about that song and what it meant to the point that we went and got a machine. It would record your voice. Watkins hit it on the head. He said, listen, this is what we do. We'll put them on the air. I think we started at 1:15 and went till 2 o'clock with TalkBack Live, but th en people could call in anytime they wanted and record that message, and we would play those back. That became a premier spot. While we enjoy entertaining people, selling advertising and what it's all about, you could go back and look up when Guy Drake's Welfare Cadillac came out and know when we started talk radio in Bryan- College Station, Texas. 00:01:32 TT Well, that year was 1970, and here is just a clip. 00:01:36 Guy Drake (GD) Well, I've never worked much. In fact, I've been poor all my life. I guess all I really own is 10 kids and a wife. This house is a live-in mine, but it's really a shack. But I always managed somehow to drive me a brand new Cadillac. 00:01:51 TT And they called it Talk Back and a fascinating part of the history of WTAW. The first 100 years.