92.9 The Game hosts Steak Shapiro and Mike Bell held a long overdue reunion on the air on Tuesday, as the former co-hosts did a show together for the first time in over a decade.
Dating back to their days on 790 The Zone in Atlanta, Shapiro and Bell hosted together for eight years.
Now Shapiro co-hosts in the late mornings alongside Sandra Golden, while Bell works afternoon drive with Carl Dukes. Steak said he was excited to tack on a five hour show with Bell, filling in for Dukes.
“I am thrilled that you have welcomed me into your home,” Shapiro said. “This is your home.”
Remembering some of the past moments hosting together, Steak brought up Bell’s ability to come up with various bits that were used on the show.
“It would take him like eight hours, but the results were just spectacular,” Shapiro said. “I still know guys to this day that have the Bell’s Bits CD.”
Bell’s creative abilities were what helped him land the job to co-host with Steak. Shapiro remembered when Bell flew to Atlanta for the final interview, and Bell told Andrew Saltzman, who was the co-founder and president of 790 The Zone at the time and is now the executive vice president and chief revenue officer of the Atlanta Hawks, that he would kill for the job.
“Salsa goes, ‘What is it gonna take to get you here?’ I go, ‘Get me here, I’d shoot my kid’s sister for this job,'” Bell said.
Bell and Steak also remembered the time a Fulton County Sheriff’s Deputy served Bell with a lawsuit from his previous station in Fort Myers, Fla. while on the air. Bell was being sued for violating a noncompete clause in his contract.
“Apparently I was gonna be the example,” Bell said. “They were gonna enforce the contract on me.”
“That was a first, though,” Steak responded. “Being served papers on the air in that case. And the rest is history. Mike has been the top dog for a lot of years. So a lot of years together.”
