Mike and Mike to Guest Star on Guiding Light

ESPN Radio's morning hosts Mike Greenburg and Mike Golic of "Mike & Mike in the Morning" will be making an appearance on "Guiding Light" in February. They have discussed the show on air in the past following former NFL star Mark “Roc Hoover” Schlereth's appearances on the show. Here in a transcript from their latest discussion which took place yesterday.

Greeny: We are going down there Friday to tape our episode of Guiding Light. I’m told it will air on February 20th, so we’ll remind you if you want to see Mike and Mike on Guiding Light. But, here are the characters they wrote for us. We’re not playing ourselves. I assumed we’d play ourselves.
Golic: No we’re not. One thing I’m excited about: I immediately searched “wardrobe” for what I was going to have to put on, and I get to wear what I wear on the show here. So, it works out pretty well.
Greeny: Let me guess: A golf shirt and jeans.
Golic: Yep. It was either that or a thong; their choice.
Mark: Or a mumu.
Greeny: But it’s pretty cold in New York this week.
Golic: A who-who?
Greeny: So we’re shooting this thing Friday right after the show, and here’s the characters they’ve given us. We play brothers, Greg and Elliott. I’m Greg, you’re Elliott.
Golic: I’m Elliott!
Greeny: In our scene, the brothers, Greg and Elliott, have a run-in with the town minister, Josh Lewis, and his ex-wife Reva. It seems that one of the minister’s sermons inspired both Greg and Elliott’s wives to leave them for each other.
Golic: Yes! We’re both married, but our wives leave us…
Greeny: …for each other…
Golic: …and hook up.
Greeny: Now, let’s make it very clear. We have nothing to do with this. They wrote this for us. They have us playing brothers…
Golic: Brothers. Let me tell you what: talk about brothers from a different mother! Are you kidding me?
Mark: You know it’s sad when the two of you are such bad husbands that you drive your wives to each other.
Golic: And, we get in a fight! We get in a fight with a minister and his ex-wife over this.
Greeny: In stereotypical Mike and Mike fashion, it says, “Elliott (Golic) reacts with broodish anger, while Greg (Greeny) is depressed.” This is what they wrote for us!
Golic: You know what? We got the script…
Greeny: I’ve got a lot of lines!
Golic: …and there are a lot of lines. There’s a lot of memorization here. Did you have a lot of lines?
Mark: Well, yeah. I don’t know if I had this many lines, but you guys are professionals!
Golic: Do they have a teleprompter, or do you have to memorize this stuff?
Mark: You have to memorize.
Golic: Will I have an assistant there holding cue cards or telling me what the lines are?
Mark: Listen, here’s my advice. I’m like you. One thing about being an analyst in this business is, we don’t memorize anything. We’re just completely, 100% off-the-cuff.
Golic: Concise information analysis.
Mark: Exactly. In this stuff, you’ve got to kind of memorize it, but here’s the deal: as long as I’m on the general gist of things, that’s good enough.
Golic: It doesn’t have to be word-for-word?
Mark: Not word-for-word.
Golic: And they’re okay with that?
Mark: Get the gist of it, the feel of it, and move forward.
Golic: The thing I like about our scene - and I’m not going to give anything away - but there is a physical confrontation. Whoo! I get to beat someone’s butt, I think.
Greeny: I think it’s a woman. Don’t you beat up the woman?
Golic: I’m not beating up a woman!
Greeny: Doncha get into it with the woman? I just started reading it yesterday briefly.
Golic: I get into it with the minister.
Greeny: You’re going to beat up a man of the cloth?
Golic: You don’t do a whole lot.
Greeny: I just sit there and mope.
Golic: I get in his grill.
Mark: You get to play to your strengths, Greeny! Sit around and mope.
Golic: Yeah. This is just like him around the house.