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Home My WebLink AboutJoe Monroe Iron Man Transcript, WTAW First 100 YearsProject HOLD WTAW Interview Scott DeLucia | Former WTAW Morning Co-Host of Joe Monroe Tom Turbiville | WTAW Radio Host Laura Quezada | Transcriber 00:00:00 Dick Bolin (DB) College Station, Texas, April 24th, 1947, Dick Bolin talking. Here's the latest news from the Associated Press… [Unintelligible news broadcaster speaking] 00:00:11 Speaker 2 Aggies win 74-72! Here's your right… 00:00:16 Speaker 3 …1620 WTAW. ------------------------------- 00:00:19 Tom Turbiville (TT) This is WTAW, the First 100 Years, I'm Tom Turbiville. You've heard me speak of Joe Monroe on this series, a longtime morning host at WTAW. And as his former co-host Scott DeLucia tells us, an Iron Man. 00:00:35 Scott DeLucia (SD) Joe unfortunately suffered a stroke, and he had to go down to Houston because we didn't have adequate care, uh, here. And so, he was gone for a while, and I did the show alone. But he came back and was going to be able to s-- be here, but he had to be hospitalized in the Bryan Medical Center. And—so we brought what's called a Marti Transmitter, which was a remote transmitter and-- and put it in his hospital room. So, he would turn on this Marti Transmitter in his hospital room at 5 minutes till 6. “Can you hear me? I can hear you”; and that's how we would communicate. I probably called him on the phone maybe when I needed to about things, but I didn't very often, and we just did the show. Joe was a pro; Joe was 50 years old when he did this. Joe knew to shut up and listen to me. More importantly, I had to learn to shut up and listen to Joe. You'd learn the cadence of somebody's voice. You learn the pattern of speech that a person had. And so, as a result, for months we did the show with him in the hospital and me at the studio. And eventually he was able to move back into the studio, but that transformed really the way that-- that I did radio and the way that, uh, that he did radio. 00:01:46 (TT) Joe Monroe passed away in 1980, as an icon of WTAW. The First 100 Years.