1/17/25 - Grandpa Plays Marshall's Marketplace

See there with walls come down on the rock 108 morning show Brian Marshall at 917 I've been talking about it through the show today that there is one guest one particular guest that I've never had on my show with me in my 16 year career at rock 108 I've had my mom on the show But I have never had my grandpa on the show grandpa.

Good morning to you

I'm doing well.

Thanks for waking up for us this morning to play a little Marshall's marketplace today.

Okay.

I have not played that before, but let's go.

So I want to introduce you to Russ.

Russ, this is my grandpa who lived in Eastern Iowa for quite some time.

And then we moved to Texas and grandpa has a background in radio.

Was the radio man on the USS Isherwood?

Oh, awesome.

He knows Morse code probably.

Oh, yes.

I've been a radio amateur for, well, I still got my license though.

I've known the code for years.

That's awesome.

Does grandpa have a name?

Grandpa Don.

Grandpa Don.

Grandpa, I am also a geezer and I want to know if everything hurts on your body like it does on mine all the time.

Everything hurts?

Oh, no, no, I don't, I don't hurt.

My oh my

god, you're a healthy geezer grandpa you do a couple of trips to the gym each week, don't you?

Grandpa

you're inspiring me to do something

Grandpa would you share the story that you shared with me just the other day?

that when you were in Louisville at the university, that you had worked in radio, but on the television side of things, you actually recorded somebody that became very famous.

Would you tell that story real quick?

Okay, I was a student at the University of Louisville, an engineering student.

So I worked for the station WAVE, and while I was working at the studio, I served as an audio board control for the broadcast.

And in some cases, I serve in the TV studio as a technician operating cameras and or the boom microphones.

On this one occasion, they set up a boxing ring.

They brought in an aspiring amateur boxer apparently attracted a lot of attention there in town.

And his name was Cassius Clay.

Oh my

God.

They put on a three-ring exhibition.

Did you say it was a one-camera shoot?

No, I think we had two cameras.

Okay.

As I watched Cassius working with this gentleman, he was clearly outclassing him, and there was a serious, getting serious punches in now, and Cassius didn't take too many, but the other guy was, he suffered.

quite a thing for me.

I don't think I've ever seen a live boxing match before or since I'm a boxing fan.

Do you remember what year this was?

It was in the mid fifties.

It was probably 55.

Oh my

gosh.

That's 1955.

Yeah.

Not 18, not 18.

We didn't think

so.

And Cassius Clay for those who don't know was from Louisville who then became Muhammad

Ali.

Well, we respect your early engineering knowledge, broadcast engineering knowledge.

That's very

cool.

Now, while we respect it, we will be putting Grandpa to the test in Marshall's Marketplace.

It is up next.

It's Marshall's Marketplace on The Rock 108 Morning

Show with your host, Brian Marshall.

I've kind of taken, kind of followed in his roots because of his radio.

Yeah.

And I think today,

He's gonna be taking you on in Marshall's Marketplace, Russ!

And

that time, Grandpa!

So three items from Facebook Marketplace, gentlemen.

Nothing will exceed $175.

Grandpa, I'll explain the items to both of you.

Russ, you'll take a crack at what you think this is listed for on Facebook Marketplace.

Grandpa, you come in and say higher or lower.

Alright.

Okay.

So here we go with the very first item.

It happens to be...

a Rockwell Collins Radio Company, the first 50 years book in great shape.

Rusty, you

I live right next to Collins Radio and Collins Aerospace here in Cedar Rapids.

And I think we're getting ready for war.

Oh, because my phone can't stay connected whenever on Collins.

They're they're sending out some weird RF right now.

And I'm scared.

All right.

OK, here we go.

This book for the first 50 years, I'm guessing they want

Twelve dollars

and fifty cents grandpa.

Twelve dollars fifty cents to you grandpa Don.

Higher or lower than that listed on Facebook marketplace.

Higher.

Higher.

Very confident and correct.

Twenty bucks.

Twenty bucks.

Twenty bucks.

All right.

Grandpa Leeds.

One to nothing.

Second item.

Happens to be a Muhammad Ali.

1976 Migo action figure.

Oh my god.

Uh, rest to you.

Um, it's funny.

It's, it's Muhammad Ali, but then in the picture, he, they have an old picture of Cassius Clay in the black and white photo up top, or it looks like about the years of Cassius Clay floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee, grandpa Don.

I'm saying they want $50 for this.

$50.

What do you think on this, grandpa?

Higher or lower than 50?

He's thinking lower than 50.

Unfortunately, that's incorrect.

$140 for this

Migo.

Nobody would pay that.

Even grandpa wouldn't pay that.

You guys are tied.

One

to one.

I already got a nice picture here.

Okay, go ahead.

Final item is a World War II US Army radio in Kenseth, the BC348, an American-made communications receiver which was mass produced during World War II.

BC 348 receiver part of the AN arc 8 system Ross.

What you thinking

grandpa?

I'm gonna describe this to you cuz you've probably seen them it has a You have one oh my god, so I don't even need to describe it to you It's a tunable crystal broadcast radio with CW DSL It's old I'm gonna say

The vacuum tubes.

It has

tubes, yeah.

What's the upper limit?

$175.

I'm saying they're looking for $125, Grandpa.

I

suppose I'd go a little bit higher, right?

Higher is your final answer?

I think so, yes.

Hire's correct!

You beat me, you bastard!

Wow!

What do you call my grandpa now?

Why'd you do it?

Grandpa, this one is listed for a hundred and fifty dollars and available now in Kansas, Iowa.

Good work, Donald.

You have a prize of ten thousand dollars.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

What

now?

No, no, I'm sorry.

All I have for him is a certificate suitable for framing say that he beat Russ in Marshall's Marketplace.

Oh

Any more guesses we gotta make?

No more.

One last question though.

Really?

Nothing hurts?

No wrists?

No back aches?

Nothing?

Knees?

No?

Nope.

So you got something to look forward to?

Or at least I do.

I wanna be like that!

I do go to a chiropractor.

There you go.

Grandpa, thank you so much for being on this program here today.

It meant a lot.

Well, nice to talk to my oldest grandson again.

I won't talk about your age, but he's just been a treat.

He just had a birthday, you

know.

Oh, yes, I understand.

Okay.

Grandpa, thanks again for being on the show.

I'll follow up with you here in a little bit.

Okay.

Okay.

An Eastern Iowa original.

This is no ordinary man.

Brian Marshall in the Rock 108 Morning

Show.