Jason Bailey debuts Dec. 15 on Rock 100.5 morning show

Bailey chose to make his arrival very low key. "Good morning," he said. "My name is Jason Bailey with Southside Steve, Tim Andrews and all the million people in his head, Sebas, Brandi and five million interns that look like I've inherited. Let me start. I know some people are tuning in and wondering how the next three plus hours will go with a new guy in front. I don't want to harp on being the new guy."

Credit: Rodney Ho

Credit: Rodney Ho

He recounted

Colin Quinn

taking over for

Norm MacDonald

on "Saturday Night Live's" news desk "Weekend Update" job in January, 1998. MacDonald had been fired. Quinn used an analogy, Bailey said. "You go into your favorite bar and your local bartender isn't there. Where's Jeff? Jeff no longer works here. Hey, I'm Chris. You're thinking, 'Who's this idiot?' But you still want your drink, even if he doesn't mix your drink the same way. You like the bar. You don't feel like going to a different bar - just as long as they give me the drink. You just want to get drunk. I'm Chris. What can I get for you? I thought it was very clever. There you have it. That's all we have to do as far as my background."

Bailey said he's done these introductions before in new places, including 92.9/The Game last year, noting how awkward it can be. He compared getting let go at the Game over the summer as his "Shawshank Redemption" release, implying working with Game PD Terry Foxx and Co. there as a one-year prison sentence.

Credit: Rodney Ho

Credit: Rodney Ho

He got to keep Wachs' entire team and said everyone is "on the same page - I think."

"Southside" Steve Rickman, agreeable as always, said he and Bailey went drinking and "we have the soul mate thing going. You said all the right things. I made sure you were intoxicated.... I took advantage of you. I met your woman. She's hot. Check. You got kids. Cool. That means this guy is pretty well rounded."

Bailey said he has a fiance with two kids from a previous relationship: a 13-year-old boy and a nine-year-old girl. "Parenting is very new to me," he said. "It's an adventure every single freaking day when you have a kid."

The Sebas Report, which features Sebastian Davis plucking audio from various events around Atlanta, will remain. In fact, the first segment is Sebas talking to gloating Pittsburgh Steeler fans at the Georgia Dome Sunday.

Bailey admired how much Sebas works. "You get so much audio," he said, admirably. "I've never been part of a team that works so hard!... Hats off to you!" (Sebas during the 8 a.m. hour played audio from the Sandy Springs Gun Club, including a rather amusing Santa.)

Bailey's strangest first-hour comment at about 6:35 a.m.: rather than just looking at a woman in a sexual way per se (like Rickman), he said with women who have kids, he wonders what sexual position she was in when the kid was conceived.

At 6:50 a.m., Rickman brought in his "Steve MZ" segment about pop culture, something he's wanted to do a for a long time. He starts with Kim Kardashian possibly breaking up with Kanye West.

"This is what bothers me about this stuff," Bailey said. "You buy into the media hype train. You are the guy who sits in front of the television. This is odd. This is a chick thing."

"He's part 28-year-old unmarried nurse," Andrews said.

On Kim: "I think she's simple and a great fun body for a month or two. I think Kanye is getting tired of it."

He also said he likes "The Ellen DeGeneres Show "and Ashton Kutcher (Rickman struggled to say his name properly) implied that Charlie Sheen might show up on "Two and a Half Men."

Vivid is offering $1 million to Mama June and Sugar Bear to do porn. Rickman is disgusted.

And on a bit about Bill Cosby, Rickman tries to imitate Cosby but as Andrews (the voice man) said, he sounded like Grover from "Sesame Street." "The man of two voices," he mused, of Rickman.

Bailey said he's giving Rickman a chance to do this despite his lack of interest in junk pop culture. "I'm a team player," he said.

He promises new segments, as well as keeping some old ones. Two visitors forthcoming on day one: Brian Finneran from 680/The Fan to talk Falcons. At the 7 a.m. hour, Rickman's buddy John Rocker (now that Wachs is gone) visits the first show with his girlfriend Julie McGee.

Credit: Rodney Ho

Credit: Rodney Ho

"John is in my top four dudes," Rickman said, referencing a bracket he did earlier this year, behind only Jesse James Dupree and Finneran. He said they were friends with him going back to the 1990s when he was on the Braves. "My dad said always trust a man with a ponytail," Rocker said.

"After 16 years, I can see an attractive man sitting there," Rocker added, slamming Wachs vs. Bailey.

Bailey doesn't like bathroom humor but he had to ask Rocker where he did the No. 2 on "Survivor." He just found a random mango limb. Given the food deprivation, he said did say he did it only twice in 10 days and he normally does it three times a day. He lost 19 pounds in 10 days.

Earlier, Bailey on Facebook said he was not nervous: "I'm very relaxed and I know why. It's because my team is really that amazing. God's honest truth. I'm not worried about a thing because these guys and girls are that good. I'm in my element around them. Also, I've learned not to sweat what you can't control." He added: " Learning from my mistakes and using that knowledge to make a better product."

Credit: Rodney Ho

Credit: Rodney Ho

A new bit at 7:50 a.m. featured Sebas playing audio about three news bits and a caller can win prizes by selecting what it's about. One called came on saying "Peteetong," a reference I suspect has been retired since it was a Wachs-ism.

At the end of the show, Bailey said he had a good time, noting he came to Atlanta with a desire to work for Atlanta-based Cumulus Media. They use the same "wins" segment from the Regular Guys to close things out.

(The online stream of the show every 15 minutes, at the 0, 15, 30 and 45 minute points, gets cut off. For Bailey's first four stops, the feed jumped into an ad mid-sentence.)