Newsboys's Phil Joel

Our Famous Friday Show kicks off with a couple clips from yesterday’s convo with Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty (just to bring Joe Harnett—aka the hardest working producer in Philadelphia radio between 4pm-5pm—who was out of the office yesterday, up to speed on what he missed). The podcast of the full interview is available at wfil.com (just like this one). Next up, Phil Joel of the Newsboys checks in from North Carolina—having just completed a sound check for tonight’s WinterJam tour date—to chat up the Newsboys UNITED album, tour, and contest WFIL has on our home page (you could win a trip for 2 to the Chicago area to see Newsboys UNITED in concert next month). Phil also gets into his brand new book, Redwoods & Whales, which releases on April 16. Phil tells the story of his unexpected encounter with a beached whale, as well as with giant redwoods in California, his writings about that growing into what eventually became Redwoods & Whales. On a related note, Phil was given the green light by his publisher to give away the first five chapters of the book to anyone who’d like it. Simply text the word “BOOK” to 82149 to receive them. Brian Smith, Manager of Broadcasting & Media Services for the Philadelphia Flyers also joins the show for a segment to talk the Flyers’ playoff hopes and the announcement this week that the team will participate in the 2019 Global Series this fall. This includes playing the team’s first-ever regular season game outside North America in the Flyers’ 52+ year history as they open the 2019-2020 season in the Czech Republic v the Chicago Blackhawks. A brief but fun “Now THAT’s Punny” segment caps off the program today.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.