Drew and Mike - Harris Poll on Royal Family

101.1 FM WRIF - From March 3, 1998 - Harris poll to england asking to remove the royal family

Drew and Mike - Classic with TC

101.1 FM WRIF - From September 1994 - OJ Simpson and the Detroit Free Press darkened pictures, Burt Renolyds, Dion Sanders, Marge at the tobacco festival throwing cigs to the kids.

Drew and Mike - Donut Shop Terrorism - Stevensblows

101.1 FM WRIF - From June 2005 - Donut shop Terrorism with Stevensblows and Lamarblows. It was a sad championship series, the Red Wings ended up losing four straight to the Devils. The guys still had fun however messing with the fine people of New Jersey.

Drew and Mike - Donut Shop Terrorism - Belfourblows

101.1 FM WRIF - From May 2005 - Donut shop Terrorism with Eddie Belfour Blows. A game of Stump Howard. Fun with Larry King and Steve Yzerman uses the oxygen chamber.

Bonus Donut Shop Terrorism: More Belfourblows, and Chris Cheliosblows.

Drew and Mike - Frank Tuner and WXYZ

101.1 FM WRIF - From 2006 - Frank Tuner tells the world how much Jesus has changed his life, live on the news on WXYZ channel 7.

Drew and Mike - Beatty Ticket Conspiracy

101.1 FM WRIF - March 2006 - Drew and Mike talk about Christine Beatty getting a pulled over for speeding. She asked the police officers:

“Do you know who the f*ck I am?”

The Mayor was outragged! How dare the police pull over his chief of staff. He went on th radio and called the traffic stop “The biggest piece of crap.” Drew and Mike even talk about how odd it was that the Mayor got so worked up over it and even hinted that they two might be sleeping around. The Mayor lost the case and the police were awarded a $25,000.00 settlement.

Drew and Mike - June 7, 2006

101.1 FM WRIF - From June 7, 2006 - 40 Minutes from Drew and Mike. The guys make a surprise call to Mark Cuban, they watch COPS. They also interview Lorenzo Lamas and play funny clips of Brandon Davis making fun of Lindsay Lohan and then some lady making fun of Brandon Davis for making fun of Lohan. Good times.

Drew and Mike - restaurant horror stories

101.1 FM WRIF - From 1994 - Drew and Mike talk about restaurant horror stories.

Drew Who?

The wizards at the WRIF are trying hard to erase Drew Lane. They are doing their best (which should say something) to rid their website of all mention of Drew.

Here is the new biography page. I understand they would remove Drew’s. No big deal there, but the guy who removed it forgot to delete Drew from Mike’s actual bio. Also the website for WRIF mornings is still wrif.com/dm. Shouldn’t they change it to just “m”? Or maybe if the web designer was clever he would make it wrif.com/mmm

They even erased Drew’s simpsonized picture from their picture page!

However, the internet archive caught it!

They even went through all the files and changed all references of Drew and Mike to The Morning Show, so you have this awkwardly written example (which appears all over the page).

Past Drew and Mike Show’s

I have virtually every Drew and Mike show from 2006 and 2007 (and a lot from the 90’s). I know a lot of you are going to be missing the old shows, so I will try my best to edit and upload some of my favorite moments here. Here is a funny clip of Drew and Mike interviewing Mike Babone. Sorry, it’s only the tail end, but it’s still funny.

note: Mike Babone is not a real person, only a character played by Philip Hersh.

The end of Drew and Mike (audio)

The Detroit Free Press is reporting Drew Lane’s 16 year relationship with WRIF is now over. Drew is said to be looking for a nationally syndicated show.

It’s very said day for us fans of the Drew and Mike show. I have listened to Drew and Mike almost every day since I was a freshman in High School, back in 1996. I was lucky enough to work with them for a few months in 2000 when I was an intern at WRIF while I was at school at Specs Howard School of Broadcast Arts.

Mike talks Drew’s Departure on the air today
Today, Mike W. Clark addressed Drew’s end at WRIF and also the tragic event’s surrounding the death of their good friend and WRIF general sales manger person Bob Kozaitis. The segament is over 40 minutes long and explains a lot.

Drew’s Response to the above audio of Mike Clark

Drew called and spoke with the Free Press and had this to say:

“I understand them trying to have their success, and I wish them well but why do they want to make me look like a jackass after what I’ve been through?”

“I have been telling Mike Clark since 2004 that I wanted to move to afternoon drive. In January, I made one final request to move, thinking the pressure of the current situation” — doing the show without Lane — “might have changed his mind. He thought it would be more work.”

“In 2004, Clark and I agreed we were going to move to afternoons in 2005. He changed his mind after I spent thousands recording our material and getting it out of the building. To suggest this is such a shock is mind-boggling. In 2005, 2006 and 2007, I worked without a contract to try to keep the show together, thinking that was more important than the day part.”

“I have expressed that to two members who are in the show right now and expressed it to multiple Greater Media executives,” said Lane. “I desperately tried to get them to make this announcement in January” but encountered delays. “They kept trying to say they wanted to find me a new job or something new to do. I kept asking them to make the announcement, and it was ludicrous.”

“I find it very sad. I worked there a long time. I fought for raises for everyone on the show on their behalf … I offered to go on the show (today) to challenge what they were saying and they never called back,” Lane said. “If nothing else, if would have made great radio. Who would tune that out?”

“It is so sad after 16 years of such great success that your life changes when your fiancee gets cancer, which forced me to make some major life changes and you get a big boot … as you go out the door.

“I can’t wait to get in front of a microphone and start talking again about the things Detroit people want to hear about. I just want to thank all the listeners who enjoyed what I did and the rest of the show did,” Lane said. “I thought the four people on the show with me were the best in the market in what they did. And there are a lot of talented salespeople who worked hard to sell a show that was controversial.”

My Time at the WRIF
I have nothing but good things to say about Drew and Mike as well as the producers, Marc and Mike. I was hired on the spot by Marc after only one meeting with him. I would get to the station every morning at around four o’clock in the morning to start working on TV clips from the night before. Back before tivo, we all came in with a tapes to edit the funny drops you heard each morning on the show.

Drew was always the first person in each morning and he would give me a list of all the clips he wanted pulled from his tape and I would go and edit them out and place them in WRIF’s computer system for them to use during the show. 

Drew was one of the nicest and funniest guys I’ve ever met. I never once saw him raise his voice or get mad when something he wanted messed up or didn’t go as planned (much different then other radio guys I’ve worked with like Ed Tyll for example).  Mike Clark was the exact same way. What impressed me most about him was his ability to take an interest in us interns. He may come off as a real scatter brain sometimes but he’s nothing like that in actuality.

Future of the Show

The future of the Drew and Mike Show has a lot of possibilities. Mike Clark is funny and talented enough to keep tucking on as the new leader of the show. My guess would be either Mike and Marc stay on as co-hosts or perhaps just Marc. I can very easily see it becoming the Mike and Marc show. They have wonderful chemistry and it would make a seamless transition (with Mike Walters moving on as the sole producer).

The Drew Lane Show

I have the same feelings about Drew.  He will be a success in whatever he does - he’s extremely gifted and could be very popular at a sports station, perhaps it could be the shot in the arm WDFN needs right now - that is if they ever choose to move to FM (which has been long rumored).

Drew and Mike - Stump Howard

101.1 FM WRIF - From 1993 - Drew and Mike talk to TC and play “stump Howard.”

Drew and Mike - 06/16/06

An hour of Drew and Mike from June 16, 2006. The guys talk about the Detroit Tigers amazing season as well as Sean Casey.

Drew and Mike - Drew calls in Sick

101.1 FM WRIF - From September 2007 -It was in late September of 2007 when Drew first stopped coming into work at the RIFF, he actually called in sick. Here is his answering messages the guys played at the time. It was only a week or so later did we hear about Tess. He has not came into work since.

Listen here.

Drew and Mike - News and Celebrity Numbers

101.1 FM WRIF - From August 2, 2006 - Drew and Mike talk about how the news is going crazy over the heat. Also, Drew and Mike call celebrity phone numbers (and speak to Vice President Al Gore). Which leads to him playing an hilarious interview Harvey Levin has with Paris Hilton.