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Soft Saving Era & iHeart Radio Music Awards!

March 26, 2026·43 min·4 clips

Michael's overly sweet rose card sparks a live radio debate on whether he's cheating on his wife.

It starts in promo traffic. The cold open moves through iHeart cross-promotion, from Serving Pancakes volleyball talk to a true-crime tease for Murder at City Hall. Then KISS FM snaps back into morning mode. A quick Josh Groban and Phantom joke clears the way for Ryan to take Jody's call about her grandson's graduation. Her problem is simple and heavy. The family hit a deadline, money got tight, and the costs kept stacking up. So she made cookies. She sold enough to buy the cap and gown, which makes the request feel less like a radio bit and more like a small act of grit. Then the bigger bill arrives. Grad night at Disneyland and prom together cost more than six hundred dollars, and she cannot cover it. Colton's story shifts the whole room. Jody says his father, her only son, had custody before they lost him at twenty-nine, when Colton was three. She is still carrying that loss. Fourteen years later, she says the heartache does not stop, even as the women around Colton keep doing what they can. Ryan lets that land. He hears the graduation ask, pauses, and tells her he is very sorry, that the story hurts his heart. That is the segment. Around it, the show keeps doing live-radio things: app plugs, podcast teasers, sports chatter, and music-interview promotion. The close stays busy with Formula One romance novels, No Grip promos, and Jay Shetty's Noah Khan clip about mental illness after the emotional call.

As heard by us

A loose radio hour that finally finds its center in one deeply human call.

The hour starts with light studio banter and a quick Josh Groban aside before settling into the live call with Jody in Colton. From there, it turns into a plain, hard story about trying to cover a grandson's graduation costs, right down to the cap and gown, after selling cookies…

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Stay for the graduation call about making cap-and-gown money by selling cookies.

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