Craig O'Neill
Craig O'Neill is a Little Rock broadcasting legend — a longtime radio morning host ("Morning Mayhem" on 103.7 The Buzz) and veteran THV11 (KTHV) evening news anchor.
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Sep 23, 2026
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we hand it out to the kids and give them the free copy, thanks to Baldwin and Shell, the kids just light up.
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And it's a coloring book, and I've been told by parents of kids who bring it home that they're coloring the pages in the book.
David BazzelHOST
Craig O'Neill on Morning Mayhem is brought to you by Genesis of Conway, the future of luxury today.
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I am now going to rival Roger and David with a list of, real quickly, of things I'm going to thanks to Genesis of Conway.
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First of all, tomorrow the storytelling panel for the Arkansas Excellence in Teaching Fellowship at the State Capitol.
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Friday, the 9/11 panel discussion, Standing Together, at Wildwood at 11:30 in advance of their musical, Come from Away, which is all based on the, an incredible event at 9/11.
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Saturday, the Southern Silk Stakes Embassy Suites for the Methodist Foundation, and on next Monday I'll be reading to Forest Heights Elementary.
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I had a sponsor one time that loved my show, was there for several years, and he said, "We were driving to Memphis and you played a song I didn't like, and I tuned over to Tommy and listened to Tommy, and listened to him all the way to West Memphis-
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David BazzelHOST
[upbeat music] Craig O'Neill on Morning Mayhem is brought to you by Genesis of Conway, the future of luxury today.
Craig O'NeillGUEST
I am now going to rival Roger and David with a list of, real quickly, of things I'm going to thanks to Genesis of Conway.
Craig O'NeillGUEST
First of all, tomorrow the storytelling panel for the Arkansas Excellence in Teaching Fellowship at the state capitol.
Craig O'NeillGUEST
Friday, the 9/11 panel discussion, Standing Together, at Wildwood at 11:30 in advance of their musical, Come from Away, which is all based on a, an incredible event at 9/11.
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Genesis of Conway presents Craig O'Neill each week when he joins Roger, Baz, and Justin on Morning Mayhem.
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When you guys were, uh, on your vacations, I asked Justin if he had ever invited you guys over to his house-
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Genesis of Conway, thank you for once again getting me on the road and on this tour.
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Genesis of Conway, thank you for once again getting me on the road and on this tour.
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Went to Jefferson Elementary and went to Ringgold Elementary, and I love this, David.
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You can go for the ring, or you can go for the gold, or you can go for both at Ringgold Elementary.
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Josh NeighborsHOST
Tell us about your experience and, uh, with her and, and your thoughts on her visit yesterday.
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Channel 11 called me to tell me the news, and because I'd done the interview with Dolly Parton.
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And when that happened, she came down to the governor's mansion for an interview, and I've, they selected me 'cause I've been working with them for over 12 years.
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Genesis of Conway, I love you for getting us, get the Reading Road Trip back on the road.
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Genesis of Conway, I love you for getting us, get the Reading Road Trip back on the road.
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Uh, you know, and, and, uh, I guess, you know, thinking about, uh, Silverfield, uh, it's just hard for me to say, having you back, Baz has been preaching about that, uh, for years, about having some of the old players come back, and which you would qualify for that as well.
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I wanna thank you for being so cooperative when I was doing sports on Channel 11.
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You were always game for anything, including a stupid skit at the end of our preseason special we did.
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I was gonna, uh, try to qualify it by saying that, you know, it depends on what I did before I took a shower.
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... their makeup cl- washcloth is dark because it's got makeup on it, and it's hard to get that off in the laundry.
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I'm putting my groceries in the car, and I hear, "Say hallelujah!" And I look up, and it's Houston Nutt.
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David BazzelHOST
Um, anything else real quick before we let you go? Thanks to Genesis the Runway.
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Just wanna say hello to Sovereignty, the Kentucky Derby winner, who was way back at a huge race in Saratoga and surprised the world and shocked the world, winning it by three lengths.
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It's a contemporary author that m- only parents and maybe kids in grade school would know, Drew DeWalt.
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He's an amazing illustrator and writer, and he was the inspiration for this book.
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But if you've just joined us, I debuted Craig O'Neill's children's book Toolishness, published by Baldwin & Sheldon, a construction company that has now a publishing firm- [laughs]
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Getting to read to children today at Project Transformation in Central Arkansas.
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It's a Methodist church-sponsored summer camp, and I'm getting to go read to the kids today.
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Getting to read to children today at Project Transformation in central Arkansas.
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It's a Methodist church-sponsored summer camp, and I'm getting to go read to the kids today.
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the people walking, volunteering, bringing water, bringing aid in whatever form they needed to bring, walking the neighborhoods, because man, that tornado obliterated several neighborhoods and parts of downtown.
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You know, exactly like you said, the way the community came together, um, it, it was just absolutely incredible.
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I saw a network, I saw a network reporter come into our live truck, and she leaned up against the wall and wiped away tears over what she was seeing, and that's Mena.
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In fact, I've already written in it before I came to the show, and every day I honor something that happened to me the day before and hand out the Sidney Award, which is his name.
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What if someone did play-by-play of your life? Example, what would it sound like if you visited, say, Genesis of Conway? There's the arrival.
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Look at the reaction on that face at seeing a dealership that is so luxurious.
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And here it comes, the big play, $8,000 off the price of that very same GV80.
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David BazzelHOST
And, Roger, you got a chance to sit with him at the former All-of-Fame – Nice guy, just a super nice
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Dennis, you don't remember me, but it was when you were at Mainline Sports Bar in Hot Springs at Oakland Racetrack a couple of years ago, and I was playing.
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I was doing trivia, and I sat down with you and another fella, and you made sure I asked you a question.
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Me and two other classmates went down to Mariana to do the Mariana Jonesboro game because the assignment was to do play-by-play for a high school game.
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Took an old reel-to-reel tape recorder, put it down beside me, started the reel-to-reel tape recorder, doing the play-by-play, not knowing that the take-up reel on the tape recorder was not moving because my leg was up against it.
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And when we were done, at the end of the game, we were knee-deep in tape that had been fed through the tape recorder and not taken up by the take-up reel.
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Craig O'NeillGUEST
Me and two other classmates went down to Mariana to do the Mariana-Jonesboro game because the assignment was to do play-by-play for a high school game.
Craig O'NeillGUEST
Took an old reel-to-reel tape recorder, put it down beside me, started the reel-to-reel tape recorder, doing the play-by-play, not knowing that the take-up reel on the tape recorder was not moving because my leg was up against it.
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And when we were done, at the end of the game, we were knee-deep in tape that had been fed
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You know those little red dots you used to buy at an office product store, the adhesive little red dots you'd put on documents and stuff? Sure.
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Well, they went out and bought those and put them on their driver's licenses or their IDs.
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So when they went to the airport, the people would look down at the ID and see that little red dot on their nose.
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And when the person at the airport would look up at them, Penn and Teller, they had put on clown noses to show that it was them.
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David BazzelHOST
Man, were they not big? What years do you think of when you think of Fleetwood Mac?
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