This is a copy of an interview I did for the Maine Campus. It is part of a series I am going to be doing on DJs at the WMEB, the campus radio station.
WMEB Spot: Mike & Mike
Kegan Zema
Mike Maberry and Mike Moody, both third-year history students at the University of Maine, host the weekly radio talk show "Late Night with Mike and Mike," Wednesdays from 10 to 11p.m. I sat down with them to discuss their program.
MC: What made you guys first want to get a radio show?
Moody: I think it was born out of a lot of very long discussions at York Commons, back when it was open all the time. And we just thought, "Hey, let's do this on the radio."
Maberry: Yeah, I think that's exactly how it started. I know Mike had prior experience at his high school and I had always wanted to try. I had done a little stuff on my own and I had volunteered some time at a local radio station.
MC: Do you discuss politics, whatever is on your mind or what exactly do you discuss on your show?
Maberry: Well, the last two shows have been whatever the hell we want to say. Whatever's on our mind at the time, I guess you could say. But we're hoping that we'll start to get guests again. I think that's the biggest part of our show.
Moody: Yeah, we've got some guests lined up for this week. Should be exciting. Shed some light on the inner workings of Student Government. We have acting student government president, James Lyons - a friend of the program.
MC: Who is the most interesting guest you've had in the past?
Moody: [chuckling] Probably the last time we had James Lyons or the time we had Dillon Bates. He's a member of the student senate, very interesting guy. We had him on with Travis Hall just after he had lost his bid for Orono Town Council, but we had [Travis] on to talk about that.
Maberry: And talked [with Travis] about the smoking ban on campus, which we will actually be going over again with the chairperson of the Tobacco-Free Campus Committee, Lauri Sidelko.
MC: How does your show offer a different perspective than similar talk shows?
Maberry: Both of us have very differing, varying political ideologies - very differing ideas about humanity and life in general, I think. And we may not agree on a lot of things...
MC: But it makes for good conversation?
Maberry: It does, and we're pretty good friends because of it.
MC: Do you guys get in debates pretty often on your show?
Moody: We like to not throw any punches in the studio, so we get all of the physical fighting out of the way before hand. And all of the yelling - we like to try and avoid yelling on the radio.
MC: Do you have any stories from your show you'd like to share?
Moody: The last time that James Lyons on our show, the three of us were sitting in the on-air studio - two history majors [Maberry and Moody] and one political science major [Lyons] - and we were trying to figure out who Al Gore's running mate in the 2000 election was. And between the three of us, we couldn't figure out with any certainty who it was. We got a call and I took the call while Mike and James filled time. [The caller] informed me that it was [Joe] Lieberman. So I thank him for calling us and letting us know, and then I whisper to Mike, "It was Lieberman." And Mike just freaks out because he thinks Joe Lieberman has just called our radio program.
Maberry: I just heard, "It's Lieberman" and I thought oh my god, Joe Lieberman is listening on a college campus radio station. I panicked.
"Late Night with Mike and Mike," part of the complete WMEB lineup, can be heard on 91.9 FM, online at wmeb.fm and on channel 20 of campus television.
