Emilio Sparks - The Charlie Rose of Hip Hop

Hey what’s happenin…not literally cause I’m not that interested, its just a greeting (ok, focus). So my name is Joe Montanino, or Joe “So” Delicious or just plain ole “SCUNGE” or “the BIG Scunge” or any of its other derivatives, depending upon which life facet you know me from.

I am currently a low-level professional wrestler and…I wouldn’t necessarily say “comedian” per se because I haven’t done stand up in quite some time but I do have a hand in several comedic fields of what I suppose you would call “entertainment”.

For those of you who are here on the site and are frequent visitors and connoisseurs of all things Sparks, some of you may or may not already actually know who I am. I am oft referred to as “Scunge” or “That He-Man standing behind Emilio” or “The Pete Rose of Hip Hop (cause allowing me to pick tracks is always a gamble)” or any of the the fun albeit creepy nicknames that’ve been bestowed upon me.

Now a little background on my connection to Emilio Sparks, we were peripheral pals for some time, then as a gag I was brought along for a promotional spot for his first mix tape dressed as Captain America playing his “bodyguard” so that people would be fooled and believe he was actually a somebody. I guess he enjoyed that, so I was brought in as a guest sit in on his previous podcast “The Dego Cast” in what turned out to be the final episode which has been 100% phantomed and will probably never be heard. Gambling on my “comedic talent; visa vi wit and timing and ability to speak humorously and improv banter” (that’s all in quotations cause I’d have some set a balls to call what I do “talent”); I was brought in as a guest co-host onto The Emilio Sparks Experience radio program (which of course could be heard every Tuesday 10pm-2am on WSIA 88.9fm or streamed live on wsia.fm). Apparently doing a “bang up job”, I was brought in again…and again…and again…and a years worth of agains til today when I’ve pretty much become a staple of the program and later a member of the new, more streamlined version of the podcast; the selfishly clever titled “Emilio Sparks Experience”.

As I’ve been able to add my own voice and ideas to the programs, the idea has been broached to me by Emilio that I should contribute something more other than leaving the room when there’s a musical guest present (I know nothing of music). So he suggested, why not start my own blog on the website.”Great idea!” I said, as I have a whole slew of ideas bouncin around my muscled head….Problem is I have no computer…and am shockingly lazy so the ideas been kinda back burnered for weeks into months but Ima try to actually bang out some of these things of a semi regular basis.

Now the topics I’m gonna cover here and the length at which I’m gonna do it are gonna be quite varied as they’re coming from the labyrinth that is my cerebellum. I’ll be force feeding you my opinions on a whole buncha stuff like movies, wrestling, life frustrations, comics, sports, quantum teleportation, the “Rocky” movies…all sortsa cool shit.

So I hope you enjoyed the introductory origin story of “Scunge Says…” and I’ll look forward to having you read more of this occasionally lucid rambling of nonsense. Well…that’s it. I’m gonna go to bed now. Take care then. Good…I…um…later (I’m socially awkward and don’t know how to end conversations, just bare with me, I’ll get it).

Editors Note: Joe does not own a computer, this blog post was done on Joe’s Black Berry. Joe own’s a Captain America costume.