As WEEI began its slate of prime-hour programming on Tuesday morning with The Greg Hill Show, co-hosts Jermaine Wiggins and Courtney Cox were seated in the studio ready for the program. Conspicuously absent, however, was Greg Hill, who was nowhere to be found during the first segment of the show in discussing the University of Connecticut taking home its second consecutive NCAA Division I Men’s National Championship. Rather than sitting behind the glass, show producer Chris Curtis took the hosting chair and participated in the discussion with Wiggins and Cox instead.
Following a commercial break, the discussion continued surrounding UConn, specifically discussing their head coach Dan Hurley and whether or not he would remain with the university. In the middle of the conversation, Hill walked into the studio and took his position to explain what happened and why he was late.
“I wish I had a great excuse,” Hill said. “I watched the game, fell asleep, [and] I put my alarm on – I don’t know. Do you go through this when your alarm doesn’t go off; you can’t remember. Like I don’t remember whether I hit ‘Snooze’ or whether I awoke or not.”
In response, Wiggins assumed that Hill had probably hit the snooze button on the alarm. Hill also shared that he watched the National Championship Game between UConn and Purdue, which aired on TBS, TNT and truTV on Tuesday night. The problem expressed by Hill and other viewers on the East Coast, however, pertained to the scheduling of such a matchup.
“It would be helpful if the game started at a reasonable time,” Hill said, citing the 9:20 p.m. EST tip-off time for the National Championship Game. The contest took place from State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz., which is currently in Mountain Standard Time (MST). Courtney Cox sent a message to Hill this morning and thought upon seeing the text that he had to get up and go to work.
“Well remember, Greg, you have your days,” Wiggins said. “You must have a ton saved up of coming-in-late days that Ken [Laird] gave you.”
The show then moved back to its discussion on UConn and Hill decided to check the Twitch chat and text line. One message he received from a listener castigated him for still needing an alarm to wake up, imploring him to grow up. Hill then revealed that he stayed inside during the total solar eclipse because he did not care about it and stated that people have “real problems” if they drove to see it and found themselves in a traffic jam on the way back home.
“By some reports, there are hundreds of cases of people calling into their medical providers in the hours and moments after the eclipse to talk about how their eyes are killing them; their eyes are burning,” Hill said. “Did those people miss the announcement about not staring directly into the eclipse?”
