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b'Tony Perkins on being back on air with Donnie Simpson and what happens when you make listeners laugh~\\n\\n"Here\\u2019s what Donnie has said for many, many years. When we used to work together, one of the things that he liked about it and I liked about it and the listeners liked about it was we could make each other laugh. We worked with a news guy at KYS who we just lost last week, unfortunately, John Irving, who also could make us laugh. That\\u2019s infectious. It\\u2019s infectious in the room and it\\u2019s infectious to the audience. Now, we will have that again. "\\n\\nTony Perkins - 2x Emmy Award Winner, Radio and TV Broadcaster with Andy Ockershausen in studio interview\\n\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tThis is Andy Ockershausen and this is Our Town with the at one time the premiere weathercaster in the city of Washington. A very, very, very dear friend who shall always be known to me as\\n Tony Perkins, morning weatherman. Tony, welcome to Our Town.\\nTony Perkins:\\tThank you very much, I\'m very happy to be here. This is an honor, really, this really is. To sit here and talk to you and to Janice, this is great.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tTony, you flatter us and we are trying to do something for Our Town, which was almost lost as names and dates of people that we had a chance to talk to because they sort of disappeared from daily action, like Mark Russell, a name like that, an artist, various people. We consider Our Town to be everything within 100 miles of our signal. We don\'t have a signal anymore.\\nTony Perkins:\\tWell, now we\'re signal-less and with a podcast there\'s no, it\'s not 100 miles, it\'s worldwide.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tAnywhere.\\nTony Perkins:\\tYou can say you have international followers.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tI like to have people I can call in California and tell them and say, "You got to listen," and tell them how to get it because they can, like you say. Janice is the one who discovered podcasting and put me on it, but who discovered Tony Perkins. I recall ABC discovered you for a while.\\nDonnie Simpson and Tony Perkins Meet at The Comedy Caf\\xe9 and The Rest is History\\nTony Perkins:\\tWell, yes, they did for a while, boy, but who discovered me? That\'s a great question. Okay, I\'ve got a couple of answers to that. When I started doing all of this that I do, it began in earnest in the early \'80s and I was doing stand-up comedy. I\'d had a couple of little radio jobs. One of my first jobs was for Cathy Hughes at WOL and now I work for her again, which is amazing but-\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tFourth and H, I remember it well. \\nTony Perkins:\\tYeah, that\'s right, absolutely right, absolutely right. I had a couple of early radio jobs but I did stand-up comedy, and I met two people who were key to everything else that happened for me. First, Donnie Simpson.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tA legend.\\nTony Perkins:\\tA legend, dear friend who I\'m now back with at Majic 102.3.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tWe\'ll get into that later.\\nTony Perkins:\\tYeah, but a friend of mine, a guy named Jeff Newman who worked with Donnie and I went to college with, Donnie was looking for a comedian to work on his show to write lines and a producer. Jeff said, "Well, you should meet my friend Tony, he\'s a comedian, he\'s really great and I think you would hit it off." \\n\\tDonnie came to the comedy club, it was The Comedy Caf\\xe9, doesn\'t exist anymore, came down on a Saturday night, saw my set. It was one of the best sets I\'d ever had, luckily.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tJackpot.\\nTony Perkins:\\tJackpot. And he hired me on the spot. What\'s cool about that is, he said, "You\'re the guy. I want you to come in and I want you to work for me." I said, "I would love to because I\'m a fan but I\'m booked. I\'m doing comedy and I\'ve got three months of bookings." He said, "I\'ll wait." Now, you know, that\'s amazing.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tWell, he deferred to you because he knew you had to do that. If you make a commitment you stick to it.\\nTony Perkins:\\tAbsolutely right, absolutely right. That was very cool and that was the beginning,'